Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1919 — CATCH PROVED WORTH WHILE [ARTICLE]

CATCH PROVED WORTH WHILE

Remarkable Fish Not of Much Value as Food, but It Was Not a Total Loss. “Talk about fishin’.” says the old colonel. “I hive hooked all kinds, but never., until last Tuesday did I hook one of the ‘old settlers’ —one of the critters ♦hat helped to stake out the lake. Maybe be waren’t game! He ran under the boat, turned flip-flops and went through all of the stunts of the fish tribe. Well, after about two and one-half hours I landed him. He was about, four feet eight inches long and weighed 28 pounds and three ounces. Took him right oyer to the point to show him to the boys, and we decided we’d hold a little banquet the next night and eat the old cuss up. Well, when we sat down to table and I started to carve up that fish, do you know what? Anywhere I cut I struck right into a fish nook. He’d been hooked by everybody, and, had swallowed the hook. That fish was Just plumb full of tackle. I whittled and haggled away for a time, but finally gave it up for a bad job.” “What did you do with him T “Sold him for old iron.”—M. L. Granger, in Judge.