People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — A Record Breaker. [ARTICLE]

A Record Breaker.

More fish were caught in the Iroquois here Sunday than has ever been the luck of our local anglers to see heretofore. The suckers and red-horse were spawning below the dam at Starr’s ice-house and were lying on the shallow shoals in countless numbers. The fish are not very gamy cr much on the bite, but the fishers tried other means besides the usual bait. They attached several hooks to their line, weighted it well, and proceeded to hook them, which was an easy task, the fish almost covering the bottom of the riven* so numerous w r ere they. Some heavy catches were made, Harry Wiltshire being well up on the notch with a clean score of 33. By ten o’clock probably fifty people were congregated there enjoying the sport, while perhaps as many more were lookerson. The snap was of short duration however. The river rose

in the night and most of the finney tribe had vacated by morning passing over the dam.