TRUE FISH STORY
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This is a fish story, bur it is true and is vouched for by the DnnfremJiue fScotland) police. It eeiK-erns die fate of “Sailv the trout’ .
James Baird Young, a Bowhill miner ".recently staggered the local angling community by declaring that he had caught a trout 30in. long and weighing o?lb. To make sure that everybody believed him he displayed the trout in hi? cottage window. This was his undoing, for the fish was a tame cue which had been handfed for years by a farmer and hichildren, who kept it as a pet in a water-filled quarry, and the exhioition of the fish by the miner solved the mystery of it - disappearance.
Later Young pleaded guilty to a contravention of a 300-year-old Act of Parliament which forbid« the taking of fish from private water, and he was fined los.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 17 January 1933, Page 4
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149TRUE FISH STORY Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 17 January 1933, Page 4
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