Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1920 — BIG BOYS SUDDENLY APPEAR. [ARTICLE]

BIG BOYS SUDDENLY APPEAR.

Lafayette, Ind., Aug. IS.—Local anglers who cast for bass in the Tippecanot river are wondering what has caused the sudden appearance of large numbers of unusually big fish in the waters of this popular stream. Within the last week bass have been caught there that are larger than any ever taken from the river in years past. The river is noted for its small mouth baas weighing from one pound to three pounds but the heavier big-mouth variety of bass has become abundant there.. La F. Jamison was the first to catch one of these fish. Bis catch weighed 5% pounds. He caught the fish with pork rind bait at Millers Bend, fifteen miles from Lafayette. Henry Schurman caught a six-pound fish of the same variety at Big Rock. Wallace Marshall then caught a seven-pound big-mouth bass at the Vawter clubhouse. Never before have such heavy baas been caught in the Tippecanoe.