Just why so many exaggerated fish stories are told, no one seems to positively know. Many of them are told, and it is not always the case that they are not, in part, at least, true, but they sound so big and out of tune with fishing episodes that they are usually unbelieved and looked upon as mere “fish stories.” It has grown to be an adage that a “fish story” is an untruth. The exaggerated fish story is accounted for by some in the fact that the fisherman operates in a realm of fascination and delight which leads him to such a degree of ecstasy that in relating his experiences he rather inadvertently tells the big yarn, and then refuses to withdraw or qualify it.
    Well, the fish story makes pretty good reading, anyway, even though the average reader always considers it an exaggeration of a greater or lesser degree. The following story was recently published in a Cheyenne paper:
    Brush creek, twenty-five miles northwest of Cheyenne and the smallest trout stream in the world, has produced another honest-to-goodness fish story. Superintendent Ira B. Fee of the Cheyenne schools, having long heard of the remarkable catches made in the stream, went there yesterday. He found a trickle of water about the magnitude of that from an old-fashioned pump. Sticking from the stream was a fin that suggested a shark. Fee gingerly dropped his hook into the trickle and let it float toward the fish, which, alarmed by the slight splash, started to turn around. The stream was too narrow, however, to permit the maneuver and the fish jammed its head against one bank and its tail against the other. At that instant the current carried Fee's hook against the trout's side and the educator gave an excited heave. The hook entered the trout’s skin and Fee dragged a three-pounder to the bank.
    Brush creek is the stream in which George S. Walker, now manager of the Western Typewriter Sales company in Denver, make a remarkable catch a few years ago. Walker hooked a trout so big that when he dragged it to the bank the water in the little pool in which it had lain subsided so far that seven other trout were left stranded. Walker did a Brodie on top of the flapping fish and captured all before the pool refilled. The eight fish weighed thirteen pounds.

From— The Ogden Standard. (Ogden City, Utah), 25 Aug. 1916. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.