TRUE FISH STORY
FARMER'S PET LANDED. ! This is a fish story, but its true j and is vouched for by the DunfermIine (Scotland) police. It concerns the fate of "Sally the trout." James Baird Young, a Bowhill \ miner recently staggered the local j angling community by declaring that ' he had caught a trout 30in long and j weighing 531b. To make sure that ; everybody believed him he displayed ; the trout in his cottage. window. This was his undoing, for the fish was a tame one which had been hand- j fed for years by a farmer and his chil- j dren, who kept it as a pet in a water- j filled quarry, and the exhibition of ! the fish by the miner solved the ' mystery of its disappearance. !
Later Young pleaded guilty to a contravention of a 300-years-old Act of Parliament which forbids the taking of fish from private water, and he was fined 15/-.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 3
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155TRUE FISH STORY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 3
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