Payette County ID Archives News.....Big Fish July 15, 1893
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Payette Independent July 15, 1893
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
July 15, 1893

A monster Sturgeon, 8 feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was captured in the 
wasteway of the log pond at the Washoe sawmill, on Wednesday evening, by Mr. W. 
H. Whyman, in rather a peculiar manner.  He first discovered the fish in 
shallow water and seeing only its back, mistook it for a large eel, which he 
attempted to drag out with a log hook.  The fish immediately took to deeper 
water in the wasteway just below the railroad crossing, where it was captured 
by slipping a noose over its tail, when several of the employees at the mill 
assisted in landing it.  My Whyman is perhaps the only man on record who is 
such an expert with the lariat as to use it in catching fish.  He will 
doubtless receive a proposition to travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.  


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