IS THIS A RECORD BREAKER. 



I send you herein a clipping from the 

 Minneapolis Times of a monster bass. 

 This is no joke, but a real, sure enough 

 black bass. I know the photographer 

 personally, and he told me he measured, 

 weighed and photographed the fish him- 

 'self. I tried to find out who caught the 

 bass, as they were caught illegally if 

 .taken in any Minnesota water; but al- 

 though the photographer talked with the 

 man who claimed to have caught the fish. 



Hennepin avenue, to his friends early 

 last week and were understood to have 

 been caught in Lake Minnetonka a week 

 ago to-day. The fish were weighed and 

 measured in the presence of The Times 

 staff photographer. The columns of The 

 Times/agaitist., which the fish were placed, 

 are , exactly 2% inches wide. It will be 

 seen that^he large fish covers more than 

 13 colurtins. — Minneapolis Times, Feb. 

 1 8th, 1900. 



he did not know his name. I have talked 

 with some old fishermen and they say 

 they never heard of a bass in the North- 

 west that weighed over S l / 2 pounds. 



H. B. Fletcher, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Black bass have frequently been caught 

 in Minnesota's lakes that weighed 4 or 5 

 pounds. One that tipped the scales at 8 

 pounds, as the smaller one of these did, 

 would be considered an abnormally large 

 fish. When it is compared with the one 

 alongside of it, however, it seems much 

 smaller. The big fellow weighed exactly 

 12^ pounds and was 27 inches long and 

 9 inches across the body. They were 

 shown by J. E. Rogers, "Tooze," of 516-18 



FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. 



I send you to-day photo of 2 black 

 bass which I have just finished mounting 

 for J. E. Rogers, of this city. I under- 

 stand they were caught in Lake Minne- 

 tonka. A 7 pound bass is considered very 

 large for this locality. The smaller one 

 in picture weighed 8 pounds, and the 

 larger one i2 x / 2 pounds. Included in the 

 picture is a postal card and a copy of 

 February Recreation, from which your 

 readers can figure out the exact size of 

 the fish. The i2]/ 2 pound fish is the record 

 for this locality, if not for the United 

 States. 



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