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Historical accounts of upper basin endangered fish 24 about 25 feet. And two of those squawfish came through, and I know a carp from a squawfish because I've seen 'em before, and the water was real clear and one of them was just absolutely huge and the other was I'd say 20 to 30 pounds. We got a good look at them, they were swimming through kind of heading toward where the water ... Sheep Creek comes in. They turned and headed back toward the open lake, and we never saw them again." Ted Cook (Green River, Wyo.) remembered stories from his brother-in-law about the Colorado squawfishes' size. "This Colorado salmon was a big fish," Cook said. "It was developed, the way I figure things, probably in the 'olden' days. I had a brother-in-law, he was born and raised here. He was born in 1895. Now he told me that there used to be a lot of them in the river. A lot different from what it was when I came around here and fished for them. He said that he never did weigh them, but he said he's caught them, and he's just stuck a willow through their mouth and put 'em over their shoulder, and they was dragging pretty near the ground, that make ' em about 4 feet long." Brigg Larsen(Moab, Utah) recalled hearing of old timers hooking fish onto their saddle horns and having the fishes' tails drag the on the ground. Don Hatch (Vernal, Utah) also heard stories about big Colorado squawfish caught from the Green River. "I know my family would say that they'd put their arm down their throat clear to their shoulders, down in their mouth," he said. "I seen a picture of one with the guy sitting on the horse holding the fish with his hand, while he's sit- ting on the horse and the tail is dragging down." Photo courtesy of Wendell Minkley Two large Colorado squawfish hang off a burro.