One of the biggest “fish stories” to come out of Vinton these days is the giant fiberglass walleye sitting in a city council member’s driveway.

And lots of people are stopping at Brian Parr’s house in Vinton to sneak a peek at the fish he’s calling “Wally the Walleye.”

Parr says he purchased the 20-foot-long fiberglass model from a Minnesota company. It’s the same company that’s produced other fiberglass displays for the city of Vinton.

He hopes to display it somewhere on city property along the Cedar River as a tribute to the walleye in the river and fishermen.

He’s actually trying to use Wally as part of a weathervane assembly that might qualify as the world’s largest.

He’s designing a mounting system that could put the 400-pound fiberglass fish at least 40 feet up in the air to show which way the wind is blowing.

With the OK of other council members, he hopes to install Wally sometime next month.