Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1908 — CAUGHT A MISSISSIPPI CATFISH. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT A MISSISSIPPI CATFISH.

A genuine Mississippi blue catfish was captured here Saturday, having been fooling around too near the dynamite in the river. J. C. Thornton made the capture, and also did most of the feasting on his four pound carcass. Local fishermen are authority for the statement that these fish rarely come to these waters, and this one is one of the very few that have been caught in the Iroquois. In their native waters they attain the great weight of sixty to seventy-five pounds.