Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Big Kankakee Cat Fish Catch. [ARTICLE]

Big Kankakee Cat Fish Catch.

NinTSopkins, John Rush, Fred McColly and ’Will~Ca§n. returned home Tuesday from their anuffft! week’s stay on the Kankakee. They caught considerable numbers of smaller kinds of fish with hook and line and large numbers of large channel cat on trot lines. Of these they brought back 29, weighing from sto 10 pounds each. They did not catch any pickerel, out Nim hooked one so large that it was nip and tuck whether Nim or the fish was the best man, but the fish finally got away because they had no landing net big enough to hold him.