Gossip Friday: The One That Got Away

From July 1934:

Clark Gable, screen actor, can talk about the “one that got away” and without danger.

Fishing off the Coronado Islands today from a live bait boat, with Garry Fleischman, Hollywood, a friend, Gable hooked a large barracuda. He had the fish within about 20 feet of the boat when suddenly there was a new tug on his line and it jerked toward nearby rocky cliffs.

Gable never saw “the one that got away,” but the bait tank attendant from his more lofty perch, reported it was a large sea lion which had taken Gable’s barracuda.