Is that the story I seem to remember reading about where some monster fish died (aged 18 or threabouts?) and just prior to some lavish internment was 'kidnapped' complete with coffin? I don't remember exactly where the $10,000 came in - was there a reward for its recovery? but I know when it was found it was too, er, slippery to bury!

OK, now shoot me ~ it's something else much more abstruse, isn't it?!