Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — Hooked a Mighty Bass [ARTICLE]

Hooked a Mighty Bass

According to the Delphi Herald, Lewis Gnstavel hooked a black bass in the Tippecanoe river below Monticello Monday which measured 22| inches “from tip to tip” whatever that is in fish physiology, find weighed 7 pounds and 6 ounces. It is thought to be the biggest black bass ever landed in these ’ere parts. It is stated further that some years ago tha Cincinnati Rod and Gun Club offered a reward of 1100 for such a fish weighing over 6 pounds oanght by hook and line in Ohio or Indiana; but was , in too big a hurry to get his teeth into the big fish to waste any time on such a trifling matter as SIOO, and had the fish cleaned and cook- . ed at once. He and the big bass ‘ had been having it back and forth in that spot in the river for two , years, and Gustavel had lots of old scores to settle. But perhaps the whole thing is a fish story. We shall be convinced that it is unless we hear in a day or two that E. B. Sellers is sick-a-bed with disappointment because it wasn’t him instead of Gustavel that hooked the monster bass.