Reno Sportsman Lands Finny Beauty After 25-Minute Struggle

After a 25-minute fight Jack Bell, Reno sportsman, took from the waters of the Truckee last evening a four-pound rainbow trout.

Bell made the catch above the dam up the river from the electric light bridge near the end of Riverside drive. He was using a No. 12 Beaver-kill fly at the time. Bell said he had known the big trout was in the pool, for it had risen for his fly several times within the past few weeks.

It was on his first cast of the evening, he said, that the monster fish struck, jerking the pole from his hands and running out 75 yards of line before its speed was checked.

The fish, brought into the Journal office last night, measured 20 inches in length and was 5 inches broad.