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Towed Twenty Miles By His Fish

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
September
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Clifton R. Scudder, who went to Catalina island a few weeks ago in company with Samuel Cupples, had a thrilling experience with a big tuna yesterday. He started flshing at 3 o'clock in the morning. At 7 o'clock the flsh struck his hook, and for sevén hours afterwards there was an almost even struggle for the masteT. The strike occurred near the little town of Avalon, Cal., and at 2 o'clock, when the flsh was finally brought to gaff, the boat had been towed fully twenty miles. The big fellow weighed 130 pounds, flfty pounds less than one caught a few days ago, but it was found to have been hooked in the back, which explained the vigorous and protracted flght it made. The time required to land this tuna exceeded by two hours

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News