Lighter Side  June 5th, 2000  Giants, Part 2  by Jerry Dennis
Thirty-inchers are extremely hard to come but, but you can't
believe how many twenty-inchers are caught. Literally: You can't
believe it. I've seen so many seventeen-inchers grow to twenty
that I've become skeptical of every report. Kelly Galloup, who
in his shop hears stories almost daily about twenty-inch trout
taken from area waters, automatically subtracts two or three
inches. He's been fishing the rivers around here all his live
and has caught more big trout than anyone I know. He understands
just how big a genuine twenty-incher is, and how rare.  Not that
they don't exist. They do, and probably in greater numbers than
most people suspect. The twenty-inch benchmark has taken on
quasi-mythical status on many waters, which is why so many
anglers chase small trout while harboring secret hope of the
unexpected whopper. According to that way of thinking, a large
trout is an anomaly, like an albino moose or a zucchini the size
of a couch. A lot of