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fishing linesnrwver is going around town filing about that 14-pounder p°*.‘ kc a line and got away with‘J’torite Plug » • memento had ii4% cdrc^'^Dorothy and George BUeell could \ that story. They could make r distance between It was TH.I-1-ISSS long! Shrink to a T w,r “It was this long. TheyrSd put that fish on the fastest Sucing diet in the world and ‘hno it down to an ordinary 6-pound-two-ounces with just a fewW You see, they caught that fish ♦hat got away. It can now leave its L am status of occupying a plaque on someone’s wall, stuffed andhaughty—for it has made its way ignominiously into the Bissell refrigerator instead. Its place m posterity is gone.It was while the Bissells were returning from an unsuccessful fishing trip on Lake Beauclaire last Saturday evening that they ran into the fish that got away. Dorothy was trolling while her husband was idling disconsolately toward the Dora river. Suddenly, she called for him to stop—her line was tangled. Or something—it was acting qdfeer-lv, she said.She began to reel in gingerly anddiscovered her lure was caught in a\ tangle of fishing line — someoneI else’s line. She reeled in, caught theline, and began to haul it aboard—yards of it. And just as she wasabout to throw it out .because it! was taking too long, the line gaveI a jerk. Tightening her grip, she' continued pulling it in — againststrong resistance. And when it wasnear the boat, the healthy-lookingblack bass on the end of it beganto kick up a fuss about being twice\ disturbed by mankind.In the event there is more thanone going about with a story of theone which got away, this particularloser can identitfy it through theplug. It was an L. S.
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Mount Dora Topic
Mount Dora, Florida, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1950
Page 7
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