The Big Catch is a 1920 American short silent Western film released by the Universal Film Mfg. Co. (later to become Universal Pictures), written by Ford Beebe, directed by Leo D. Maloney and starring Hoot Gibson.

Plot

According to a film magazine, "Billy Reeves foreman of the Flying-M outfit, has an irresistible way with the ladies. His mates, jealous of his prowess and aiming to take him down a peg, are prompted by Slow Evans, Billy's pal, to take advantage of a column of matrimonial ads to fasten a man-hunting woman on Billy's trail. They frame a letter to the most formidable of the advertisers, a widow by the name of Schwartz, and they duplicate this letter to a number of others. Baron, the owner of the ranch, is expecting a woman buyer from a firm in Omaha, with whom Baron wants to do business. Billy is deputied to meet the buyer and be nice to her, but the boss does not want the boys to know.