Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 15, 1870
An infant was recently found in the stomach of a huge catfish caught in the Tennessee River, near Chattanooga.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 17, 1922
    A diver, working off the Australian coast, had an odd adventure. A 12-foot shark came nosing up to him, and as its rough hide might have damaged his suit, he held the point of his steel “jumper” toward the intruder. This seemed to be just what the shark wanted, and he rubbed himself against […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Niles, Mich., Oct. 3.-Arthur Gregg, youthful fisherman of Niles, accounted for four deeply lacerated toes by explaining that a 3-foot pike seized them as they dangled in the water from a boat in which he was fishing. He was pulling a bluegill in past by his bare foot when the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Milton, Fla., Nov. 22-W. F. Monroe is the boss fisherman of this section. He threw his casting rod into Clear Creek and began to haul it in when he got a “strike”. The work was a bit harder than usual. Four wriggling speckled trout were trying to get free when […]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 20, 1882
    Heading across the bay to St. Simon’s light, the man in charge of the wheel hailed Mr. Tift and directed his attention to something ahead of us. The object turned out to be a shark’s fin, so large as to be a matter of wonder to the sailors aboard. The boat happened to be […]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1878
    Rabbit hunting and fishing constitute the business of life now to the Piute warriors in Nevada, since the buffalo have traveled north, and the antelope is fast following them; and in the capture and killing of such deer he is exceedingly expert. His fishing tackle consists of a bit of light rope, weighted with […]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1912
Novel Exhibition With Trout is Given by an Expert to Uphold This Theory. Â Â Â Â An expert in fish culture, who believes that fish have memories, gave a novel exhibition to support his theory. Â Â Â Â In one of the enclosed pools at the hatchery under his charge there was a very large trout which always came […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 9, 1879
    Mr. James P. Simmons, of Redbone, district, had a narrow and peculiar escape the other day. He was fishing on the Flint River, and had attempted to swim across to get a batean from the opposite side. About half way over the stream he stopped on a root or tree to rest. After remaining […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 29, 1905
Whale Fights Several Swordfish and a Huge Shark-Conflick Witnessed by Many People. New York.-An exciting battle royal between a whale, several swordfish and a thrasher shark was witnessed by many passengers of an ocean liner which arrived in this port the other day from Liverpool. The fight lasted nearly an hour. The combatants were first […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 1, 1910
School of Shad Disturbs Water For Acres at Buck Roe. Three Hauls Made and Fully 15,000 Fish Are Taken From Nets-Best Catch On Record. Â Â Â Â Norfolk, March 30.-Rifflings which covered acres of water at Buck Roe beach on the Chesapeake, first surprised patient fishermen there and then astonished them as the disturbance reached their seines […]