Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 6, 1907
Some time ago a northern golfer drove a ball a fine, low, skimming shot across a river. Just as the ball was nearly over a salmon leaped at the ball and caught it in its mouth. Such was the pace of the ball that it carried the salmon on to the river’s bank, where it […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1880
Among the inhabitants of the sea which, from their size or strength, have been termed “monarchs of the ocean,” are the saw-fish and the swordfish, which are formidable enemies to the whale; but it is not merely on their fellow-inhabitants of the deep that these powerful fishes exercise their terrible strength. Some singular instances are […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 30, 1882
One night last week, at a late hour, a gentleman of this city, who, as a matter of habit, rarely retires before midnight, had occasion at that “witching hour” to attend to the furnace fire before retiring. The wind was blowing almost a gale, and the rain was pouring down in torrents, and the night […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 27, 1908
Fisherman Anthony Dexter is knocked Out of Boat by Monster. Lucky Blow on the Head Kills it When Man is Almost Exhausted by Battle. Anthony Dexter, a member of the crew of the fishing schooner Eva and Mildred, and a 300 pound swordfish engaged in a battle for life in a twelve foot dory, and […]
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 17, 1907
Trout Killed with a Hammer Masked Lake Fishermen. “I wore a woolen mask when I caught that fish,” said the angler, pointing to a mounted specimen above the sideboard, “and the thermometer registered 12 degrees below zero at the time. It was lake Michigan. On the lakes the summer fishing will aggregate 130,000,000 pounds a […]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1907
Catching fish by electricity is the latest in the angling line. The old methods of Izaak Walton must retire to the verdant pines, only don’t let the game warden catch you fishing by electricity. Frank Sharrow, Lew Smith and Henry Cuehlke went to pine lake, thirty miles from Detroit, not long ago. They tied one […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1848
The journal of Commerce, speaking of a large haul of fish recently made in the East River, near N. Haven, states the number to have been two millions, while many estimated the number at three or four millions. This is no ordinary fish story, as some of the incredulous editor may suppose. It has been […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 14, 1847
In a quarter of the town of Hingham, known as Rockynook, there is a pond where a little girl not six years old, who resides near the bank, has tamed the fish to a remarkable degree. Gradually the fish learned to distinguish her footsteps, and darted to the edge whenever she approached; and now they […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, March 2, 1848
Plutarch tells a very amusing story of Mark Anthony, who was a keen angler. One day while Cleopatra and he were indulging in this sport, he was unusually unsuccessful. Hurt at this disappointment in the presence of his mistress, he gave secret orders to some of the fishermen to dive under water, and to fasten, […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, September 18, 1845
The Quincy Whig says that it is assured by a gentleman of veracity, that a cat-fish weighing two-hundred and two pounds, was caught from the steamboat Falcon, on her passage from Galena-and that on being opened a pig of lead weighing 70 pounds was found in its stomach; and what is still more singular, the […]