Garry Loc: Wellborn, Florida

53 years ago I met a fellow and his wife at a bar in Jacksonville Beach, Fl they were from Birmingham, Al, where he was a superintendent at Birmingham Steel. While we were talking it turned to fishing. He had never been salt water fishing and asked if I would take him. We got to the fish camp, south of St Augustine as day was breaking and the tide was coming in. We caught some nice Black Drum and a few other assorted fish, before the tide slacked. When the tide had been going out we moved to the mouth of a creek and he hooked into a monster fish. When he got it close to the boat he started to freak, he yelled "what is it? It's got fangs!!!" He almost threw my rod and reel in. I convinced him to bring it in, he did but didn't like it. It was the biggest trout I had ever seen but it wasn't colored like a trout. The last time we moved from one house on the farm to the other lots of my pictures were misplaced so I can't post the picture.

The Fish was silver all over with no spots save the Red Fish spots on it's tail and it's head was that of a trout.

The old man at the camp was excited to see it. He called it a Summer Trout. He said he had caught one about 30 years before and that was what an old man had called it, and he had never seen another until then.

It feed all five of us and it was sure enough good

Have you seen one? Do you know what it is?

Ralevenson

You probably ate the last one of its kind!

Ralevenson

You probably ate the last one of its kind!