Too much to swallow – the fish, not the story
Fishermen’s tales are usually too tall to swallow, and the following account of a frenzied struggle on a Dorset riverbank in May 1912 would be scarcely credible were it not for the stuffed and cased evidence, right.
The legendary angler, R.B. Marston, then editor of the Fishing Gazette, had just snared a small trou…