Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

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 end of 900 feet of wire to the Detroit United railway trolley feed. Thousands of fish that swam within the electrical zone under the waters were electrocuted and floated to the top, where the men were waiting in a boat. The game warden heard about it, and the men were arrested and fined $11.45 each for unlawful fishing.