A true fish tale: How a railroad crash boosted Nebraska's fishing stock in the late 1800s - Omaha World-Herald
A true fish tale: How a railroad crash boosted Nebraska's fishing stock in the late 1800s - Omaha World-Herald A true fish tale: How a railroad crash boosted Nebraska's fishing stock in the late 1800s - Omaha World-Herald Posted: 10 May 2020 12:00 AM PDT Salmon caught in the Platte and Missouri Rivers? Black bass and pickerel in the Elkhorn? This fish story that dates to 1873 has largely been lost to the annals of time, and how it happened almost defies logic — what are the chances? — but trust us, it is true. For almost a decade some of the best freshwater fishing anywhere in the country was in eastern Nebraska's waterways. What made for an angler's delight were a rainy spell, a railroad trestle collapse between Elkhorn and Waterloo and an aquarium car on a Union Pacific train bound for California. That's right. An aquarium car. Our yarn starts in 1873, when the California Fish Commiss