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Historical accounts of upper basin endangered fish 26 horse, its hooked in like this and comes clear down the side of the horse and damn near reaches the ground." The Washington Post newspaper printed an article May 5, 1935, that refer- enced stories about 60- to 80-pound white fish (Colorado squawfish) in the Yampa River. Two paragraphs in the article written by Jean M. F. Dubois read: "At the mouth of Johnson Draw the stream was as calm as a peaceful lake and deep. We speculated as to the fish there. We had been told of a large white fish weighing from 60 to 80 pounds that frequented deep pools. It was the story that an entire cottontail rab- bit was used for bait. Many were the tales of this game fish which was to be found in this part of the Yampa and in the Green River nearby. "Several times we fished. In great hopes, but we had no luck. The stream was low and the schools must have moved farther down the river to the deeper waters of the Green. However, I did bring back several heads and a skin as proof to the outer world that these fish actually exist. In fact, one head came from a fish that weighed at least 40 pounds." How big was that fish? Many of the stories the seniors told about big Colorado squawfish leave one wondering about how big the fish actually were. Bill Allen, (Browns Park, Utah) recalled a story about a huge Colorado squawfish scaring one of his neighbors. "I heard the story about Bob Teeter and Jes Taylor," Allen said. "They had a big flood at Red Creek, it raised 7 feet. They said it come down and then big fish were just rolling on top of the water, you know. Bob Teeter said they had caught some of them whitefish and canned them, but he said one come up there and when it rolled over he said he was going to grab but it was so big it scared him, he let it go. He didn't even try to take a hold of it." Allen recalled other large Colorado squawfish caught in Browns Park: "They caught some pretty good sized ones, but mine are about the biggest I know of. They talked about that. It was a 15-pounder and a 20-pounder. I was working there on the bridge for Stanley Crouse. We ate them. The one, I got a pretty good-sized fist and we cut the head off, and you could stick that right in his mouth without even touching it. He was pretty good size. There was two kinds of those whitefish. One was a little shorter and blockier and his head was a little bigger. He was kind of more heavy set, you'd call it. The others were slim- mer and longer and their head tapered a little bit, but they looked like the same fish. There was a little difference in their head and in their nose." Carl Williams (Green River, Wyo.) recalled the large Colorado squawfish heads collected by a famed area angler, Harry Murphy. "Well the only one that I knew, and I wish that I, that, he would have still lived here or his family because he kept the skeleton the heads of all of'em," he said. "And like I said some of those heads were tremendous, and when they opened up I say some of those heads were at least 6 inches in length back to the gills." Qtho Ayers (Paradox, Colo.) gauged the size of Colorado squawfish swim- ming in the Dolores River in a unique way. "I've seen them big enough to shoot