Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Some Fisherman’s Luck. [ARTICLE]

Some Fisherman’s Luck.

Over 100,000 drum fish were caught at one haul of the seine at Chincoteague Island, Virginia. A salmon was caught recently in Columbia river, Oregon, weighing eighty aud one-half pounds. A small party from Northampton, fishing at Norwich Pond, caught eighty-two pounds of pickerel and perch. A fisherman claims to have caught a brook trout two feet long in one of the mountain streams of Pendleton county, West Virginia. While J. E. Hoilobaugh and his friend, of Juniata, Pa., were hunting frogs recently id the vicinity of Tuscarora, a four-pound bass jumped into the boat, striking Hoilobaugh a smart rap on the head. Two young ladies while rowing on the river near Indian Creek, Pa., were surprised to see a large pike jump into the boat. They killed it with an oar, when it was found to weigh fourteen and one halt pounds. Charles Parker saw a commotion on the water in a pond near Salem, N. Y., and, going to the spot, not only secured a twenty-two pound pickerel, but captured a fisn line in which it w r as entangled, and the hook still in its mouth. It had broken some fisherman’s line. The Charlestown (Va.) Free Press says: "A bass weighing one pound in 1880 was returned to the Potomac, near the Great Falls, with a small sleigh-bell fastened to his tail with a wire. A few’ day ago it was caught in the canal at with bell still attached to it. It weighed six pounds.”