The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15
FISH, TURTLES AND CRABS.

The turbot lays IA, 900 600 eggs, not more than
one of which, on an average, lives to reach ma
turity
James Smith, of Clark's Harbor, N. S., caught
a fish and found in its stomach mouse, recently
swallowed.
sturgeon eight feet long and weighing 287
pounds was caught in the river near North Crom-
we'll, Conn, recently.
1t is said that two st. Adams boys went fish
ing, and caught big eel which had wrapped
itself around tin pail, In which were $3.50 IL
gold.
fish caught near Gloucester. Mass, was
about eight inches long and looked somewhat
like a miniature sperm whale with head re-
sembling an ANIMALS and true whales tail 1t
is mystery so the fishermen
On the island of Madagascar large white land
crabs are very common, and afford considerable
sport to good riders, who follow them on horse
back along the beach, and endeavor to kill them
with long poles, used as lances.
Dick Holman and Alexander James caught
forty pound catfish in a submerged hollow log in
a stream near New London, Mo. More than
1000 pounds of fish have been caught In this hol-
low log during the last three years
Harry L. Falk, swimming in the Conestoga
river, near Lancaster, Pa, saw q black bass
within arms length of him. He grabbed for it,
lucky enough to catch his fingers in the
gills, and swan ashore with a fine fish,
A hotel keeper at Washington, Ga, says tur-
ties head was cut off and thrown into the back
yard of his hotel. Twenty-four hours later il
caught chicken by the foot and held until
it's jaws were forced open by the hotel maa.
A fisherman at Port Eads La, landed what
is SAID to be the largest food FISH ever caught on
the American coast 1t was black sea bass or
jew fish. It measured seven feet nine inches in
length, and weighed 713 pounds. Its body was
as large as that of a horse.
An eleven and three-fourths pound lobster has
just been caught off Winthrop, Mass. 1t meas
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large claw eleven inches, and small claw ten and
three. fourths inches. 1t was remarkably
symmetrical lobster for one so old and large.
A Milwaukee man caught black bass weigh
ing three pounds in Okauchee lake, Wisconsin.
He cut open the bass from the gills downward
and then held it in the water q moment The
''split" fish sprapg away from its captor and
swan off, disappearing beneath the surface of
the water.
A Louisiana paper says that Miss Monte
Walmsley, of Natchitoches, in hunt on bayou
Pierre, killed two nine-foot slgators in single
day last week. One of the wounded monsters
showed fight and made rush for the boat but
the lady retained her GOODNESS, and shot him
through the head before he reached it.
Charles Wicks, Of Northport L. l., has tub
of water in his barn for watering horses. He
placed seven or eight big bulheads in it. The
barn is full of rats. which, when they thirsty
climb up on the edge to drink. No sooner does
a rat dip his nose under water than the bulheads
grab him, pull him down, drown him, and eat
him at their leisure.
At Yaquina bay, Oregon, the fishing is done
by Indians from canoes. They fish in about
one hundred and twenty Ave feet of water a
mile and half or so frem shore. They use no
bait, but have the shank of heir hooks covered
with block tin, the glitter OF which attracts the
fab, and the hook docs not reach the bottom
until 1t was seized by fish.
peculiar freak of nature is presented in the
result that attended the experiment of stocking
Lake Ontario with shad seven years ago. Mill
ions of them were Matched, but they were
dwarfs None of them grow to seven
inches long, and they are not fitsto eat They
propagate politically and have become choice
morsel of food for pickerel and bass.
Arthur Wills, of Bloomington, discovered
twelve pound turtle on the sidewalk during a
heavy thunderstorm. and thinks it must have
fallen from the clouds. It's head was almost
severed from its body. but it was still alive. 1t
does not look like an ordinary turtle. Mr. Wills
sent IL to Professor Forbes of the University of
Illinois, at Champaign, for Identification.
A porpoise was shot by sailor on board yes.
sci just outside the Galveston harbor. The yes
sci was stopped and the porpoise was secured by
stout moose around its tail and left hanging
over the ships SIDE head down in the water.
Within q few moments huge shark made a
rush for the porpoise and bit it in two, although