Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — GIGANTIC CATFISH [ARTICLE]

GIGANTIC CATFISH

Caught at Logansport—Fishermen Jump in River After It—Weighed 37% lbs. Logansport, Ind., May 31. Billy Moore and Frank Tam, Logansport men w r ho are camping along the Wabash river, five miles west of the city, caught a Mississippi catfish which weighed 37% pounds. The fish was on their trot line, and both young men plunged into the water, which was only about three feet deep, and grappled with the fish. They struggled in the water for ten minutes, but the men finally pulled the fish to' shore.