Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — Guncotton as Bait. [ARTICLE]

Guncotton as Bait.

A part of the equipment of some cavalrymen just returned to France from a few days’ furlough in England is a fishing-rod and several varieties of floats. But there are others whq prefer to fish for the pot in more sudden and ruthless manner. Their method is very different. They operate in those parts of the, canals where roach and dace are thought—not always with reason —to be numerous. The final attack, as in all modern aggressive operations, is opened by the expenditure of explosives. But in this case the expenditure is not great. A small wad of guncotton neatly exploded under water is enough to account for all the fish within a considerable radius; and a few moments after the discharge the undersides of the roach and dace appear fin the surface. The idea was suggested by the accidental havoc wrought among the fish bya certain Jack Johnson.