Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — 2,650 POUND FISH IS CAUGHT [ARTICLE]

2,650 POUND FISH IS CAUGHT

Monster With Back 20 Feet Broad Har pooned by Ex-Legislator. Elkhart, lnd„ Dec. 3—A dispatch from former Congressman C. G Conn of Elkhart, Ind., says that he captured a monster ray, weighing 2,650 pounds, recently. He is how cruising around Tiburon island. Gulf of California. The ray measured eighteen feet in length and twenty feet in width. Through the thickest part of its *»ody it was two feet nine inches: It was harpooned from a small rowboat, and the fight lasted nearly four hours.