I herd a story when I was a kid & this is how it went. an old man sturgeon fishing in Oregon City uses a shark hook a baby sapling pig for bait Now i'm not sure of the time line but I think it was a few days he fished that rig. Then he hooked something big & he somehow attached his line to an empty 55 gal drum & let the fish drag it up & down the river a few days & went back with 1 or 2 draft horses & pulled the fish out the river by horse power. They put the monster on a 20" flatbed & had to have someone
keep the tail from dragging the ground by walking behind the flatbed. Some of the fine details may be a little off. It was 25 or so years ago!
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