Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — FISHING POOR THIS SEASON. [ARTICLE]

FISHING POOR THIS SEASON.

Hebron News: Three years ago was the banner season for fishing in the Kankakee river. Fishermen who visited the river never came home dissatisfied unless it was that he had caught more fish than he cared for. For the past two years luck has been decidedly poor, and so far no signs of a good fishing season has been heard from this year. An occassional report comes from the Kankakee swamp, to the effect that large schools of carp and willow pike are seen in the low lands everywhere, but they are not jumping at the fishermen’s artificial minnows or any other attractive bait he may offer them,