 While the story is not inherently implausible, there is no near-contemporary evidence for it and modern scholars have been hesitant to accept it as historical.The revolt supposedly began as a dispute over a trout.The steward of Gómez Álvarez de Vizcaya, the town governor or "regidor", tried to requisition an especially fine-looking trout from a local fishmonger who had already promised to sell it to the shoemaker.