Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1910 — Perry Gwin Has a Very Exciting Fishing Experience. [ARTICLE]

Perry Gwin Has a Very Exciting Fishing Experience.

Bringing home with them the biggest fish story of the season, John Matter, Ernest Wendt,, Robert Matter and Perry Gwin have returned from Tippecanoe Lake, where they were in camp for a few days. As a proof of the size of the fish they caught, they brought a fish head, the mouth of which easily accommodates a man’s fist. The fish was served in camp as a mess for the four nimrods. Robert Matter and Wendt were fishing from a boat in the grass a few yards from the shore when they received a strike. They realized at once that a fish of unusual size had swallowed their hook and that they would have a fight on their hands if they landed it without breaking the line. After tugging at the line for fully thirty minutes they succeeded in drawing the monster fish near their boat. Wendt was leaning from the boat to dip the fish in his net when the boat was overturned and both boys tumbled into the water with a splash. The water was over their head in depth, but fortunately both boys were good swimmers. Matter held on to the line while he fought in the water to reach the overturned boat, to which both boys clung until John Matter and Gwin came to their rescue in a second boat. The fish continued its fight and it was not until all four boys had taken turns in tugging at the line that it was finally worn out and brought close enough to permit it the be removed from the water. The fish, which was a bass, weighed about seven pounds. It was the biggest bass taken from the waters of the Tippecanoe in years. Besides hooking the big fish, the boys captured a groundhog while on their trip—Marion Daily Chronicle.