This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whyman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2009.3 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho July 15, 1893 A monster Sturgeon, 8 feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was captured in the wasteway of the log pond at the Washoe sawmill, on Wednesday evening, by Mr. W. H. Whyman, in rather a peculiar manner. He first discovered the fish in shallow water and seeing only its back, mistook it for a large eel, which he attempted to drag out with a log hook. The fish immediately took to deeper water in the wasteway just below the railroad crossing, where it was captured by slipping a noose over its tail, when several of the employees at the mill assisted in landing it. My Whyman is perhaps the only man on record who is such an expert with the lariat as to use it in catching fish. He will doubtless receive a proposition to travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.