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fish I landed with a fly was, as I have related, 

 so large that I could not get him into my south- 

 ern California creel; so I laid him on top and 

 had him photographed with savage exultation to 

 prove the yarn. 1 



1 Here are some of the names I copied from Costar's 

 Hall of Fame on the Rio de las Plumas in the county 

 of Feathers: 



Sam Wells, 2% Ibs.; George Gray, 2% Ibs.; C. L. 

 Leonard, salmon, 34 Ibs.; J. H. Hibbert, 2% Ibs.; R. S. 

 Starks, 8% Ibs.; C. L. Leonard, 7% Ibs.; C. F. Holder, 

 7% Ibs. (Oct. 5, 1907); Dr. J. E. Rodly, 2 Ibs.; F. W. 

 Frost, 5 Ibs.; J. F. Buckly, 10 Ibs.; C. L. Leonard, 4% 

 Ibs.; C. F. Carpenter, 3 Ibs.; H. M. Merritt, 6^ Ibs.; 

 J. A. Lansberger, 4% Ibs.; John Silva, 7% Ibs.; H. H. 

 Lockwood, 6 Ibs.; C. L. Leonard, 7 Ibs.; A. P. Costar, 4 

 Ibs.; H. W. Howard, 3% Ibs. 



