Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Fish Trapped in Tomato Can. [ARTICLE]

Fish Trapped in Tomato Can.

Early in November Allen Wlffin of Blairsville, N. Y., filled a tomato can nearly full of worms and w*t to the lake to 'fish for pike. He anchored his rowboat near Lone'Bar and proceeded to fish. , ' e Late In the afternoon Wiffin placed his catch In a bag, picked up the cao, which has half-full of angleworms, and threw it into the water. He says that when the can struck the water a large fish jumped out, hit the can with its tail, and the can filled with water and sank,? A few days later Wlffin again went to the fake to fish. He anchored his boat 50 rods from shore and had fished for nearly an hour when be discovered a tin can floating on the water. The peculiar motion of the can attracted ‘ his attention, he says, and he rowed the boat to it, and with a landing net scooped the can into the boat. Great was his surprise, he says, . when he raised the can from the water to see a large fish with its head In the can.