Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1908 — Great Catches in the Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

Great Catches in the Kankakee.

The Ashing season on the Kankakee river has opened, and reports of great catches are heard. Wednesday a Chicago woman landed fourteen pickerel in an hour, the total oatch weighing seventy-two, pounds eight ounces. Northern fishermen aie organizing to prevent violations of the game and Ash law, and have expressed their intention to prosecute all offenders.