The caption to this photograph reads, "Black bass such as this are not frequently caught." It records the weight of the fish as 12 pounds, 1 ounce!
The young fisherman pictured is Walter Hunter, born 1900 to Abram and Ada Hunter of Winter Park. In 1893, Abram was elected Marshall of Winter Park; the following year he served both as Marshall and Tax Collector. Ada ran a private summer school in one room of the Knowles Public School the year her son was born. At age 16, Walter caught a six foot alligator in Lake Virginia that was added to the alligator and turtle zoo at the Standard Garage, bringing the inventory to a total of seven alligators and one turtle. In 1928 he married Evelyn Lambright of South Carolina. Hunter played professional baseball for several years. He died at age 42 in 1942 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he had gone for a minor operation.
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