The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-04-03
Big Sandy Fish.

EDITOR NEws:-
BY your permission undertake
to give to numerous enquirers some
Information as 10 the kind Of fish
put into the river last fall by L. S.
Fish Commissioner.
They are called Graphic. This is
the name OF this species in the
Mississippi valley; Bachelor ia the
Ohio valley New Highland Camp
bolito In Kentucky aud Indiana !;
Loe Lite and Chlnquapin Perch
in the lower Mississippi. II is also
COMPOUNDED with the Calico Bass.
Tho Crapple is not often found
in tho Great Lake regions, but
Throughout the lower Mississippi
aud It's tributaries is very abund-
ant and its young swim in all the
muddy lagoons along the rivers
and great numbers OF them are
destroyed In the fall when these
streams dry up. Graphic Is the
best fish for stocking ponds and is
IN excellent pan fish, as nearly all
OF our Bluegrass farmers can tes-
tify. They are easily caught, bit.
Ing greedily at mlnnows or craw-
fish. VIII say here that have
caught several In Sandy and much
Larger ones than | ever saw taken
from the lakes and ponds OF Cen.
tral Kentucky. They have very
few bones, nearly all meat and Of
very excellent flavor.
The Graphic is not game like the
Wall.eyed Salmon, which was sent
here several years ago by U. $.
I Fish Commission.
Speaking Of game fish the "Sllver
I King aud Muskollonge OF the
north and northwest and the far.
famed tarpon OF the south saint in
Iie.p The last two Wall-oyed
caught was in December last, al
the Lock below Louisa. My bait
WAS a large sun perch. There is
peculiar electric.like sensation
when this fish strikes, and after
playing a fow moments | lfteC
them on top OF the Lock wall, the
fish holding on without swallow
Ing the bait. This holding on char
acterizes the English bull dog
gamoness.
They are very shy fish, like tn
mountain trout, and to take then
the fisherman has to be quiet an,
slip up on them like the hunte
Tor squirrels.
5 The Wull.eyed salmon is eros
: between the pickerel and pike
r Their color is nearly like the RAJ
b tlesnakes. They are a great fish t
+ stay at home, as 1t were. hav
@ never known OF any being caugh
five miles above OF i've mics D.
o low where they were released
r. salmonet at least twenty years ag
They are excellent hroilers and MI
y the negroes rabbit.
Is am now going TO tell you
'e two other fish which two irienC
l. and myself captured. Methinks
10 hear some one say, Now for
"scaloy one.n Nixey. They we
catfish and were taken from q hi
low log three miles above Louis
;. This was their home into viii
, they had gone to spawn or depo'
IA their eggs. Their weights were
y, and IS pounds, Thoroare scores
10 your readers who saw the fish.
~ would never again be party to su
- crime. | remember how un
ho death these fish fought for tn
=, home. They were not good
food and thousands OF young Il
,d were destroyed, The next fall
, n we were coming up the river {
Northup brought the late w
-or Reed Into the pilot house and
An asked what kinl of fish we had
.on Sandy and the Col. introduced l
am / told OF the capture of these |
and Mr.Reed laughed and doubt
Col. assured him that had not
aggerated. An hour after this
Reed came back and said, :"
t har PILOT, you told that fish tale
om straight that you have almost &C
PEELED me to believe it," !
,, him Billy Bowe used to tell OF
), dog "treeiug" ashland the l
:" landed. F.F
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