The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-05
THREE HUNDRED POUND
STURGEON IS CAUGHT.
Indiana Harbor Man Lands
Biggest Fish Caught in
Years in Lake.
TAKES THREE MEN TO LIFT IT
Fishing In Harbor Waters Is Re-
markably Good This Season
Many Make Good Catches.

A monster sturgeon, the largest fish
taken out of Lake Michigan along the
Indiana coast in years. was captured
OF Indiana HarbOr yesterday afternoon.
The fish, which weighed almost 800
pounds, was caught by Joe MuchiOwsky
a fisherman, who lives at One Hundred
and Thfrfy-seventh and Cedar streets
and it took joe and his crew of three
men to carry the monster down the
street after they had landed him.
Many persons saw the immense fish
as it was being carried from the boat
to a meat market at Cedar and Guthrie
streets where it was taken for dress
ing.
At the Lake Shore Hotel where the
men carrying the sturgeon stopped en-
route to the butcher shop. crowd
gathered and the big catch was the
main topic of conversation in that VI
cinity for several hours.
Easy to Land.
The landing of the big prize was ac-
complished with less difficulty than
might at first be imagined. The
sturgeon is not a game fish and when
he feels the hook he will swim down
to bottom and lie there playing dead"
Yesterdays 800 FOUNDER was up to
this trick, and as the line to which he
was attached was no thicker than a
match, and the hook was but 2 num-
Der nine, the fishermen, who were out
about half mile from the canal In a
small boat, did not care to take
chances in pulling the fish in on the
| line This, they could tell by the
weight, meant certain loss, so ehey
adopted the method quite common in
fishing for sturgeon. and grappled for
the monster with a hooked pole.
| They located the immense body in
short order and once the hook was fas-
tened in his flesh they had small
difficulty in bringing their prize to the
| surface. Arrived there with few
! fops into the air, he landed in the boat
himself The small craft was almost
overturned in the process, but Much
rowsky and his three assistants righted
the boat and kept her steady until they
reached shore.
The fish measured seven feet in
| length and its exact weight was ESQ
pounds AS sturgeon sell in South
Water street, after dressing, at 81a
/ cents per pound, there will be quite
| a little bit for Muchrowsky in yes
| terday's fishing.
/ The main set line to which that
/ which caught the monster sturgeon
was attached, carried 5000 hooks and
as this was not the only prize landed
] by the fisherman in this set, Mulchrow-
| sky IS well satisfied.
Mayor DeBraie, City Attorney ]. D
Kennedy and TIMES reporter had
| gone down to the lake shore to visit
the United States survey boat Search
which it was thought was anchored
nearby, and happened to see the bis
fish as it was being carried ashore.
Both the afore named city officials
are willing to give their afidavits a.
to the truth of the size and dimension
of the big fish as specified herein, t.
all doubling Thomases
Fishing is Good.
Fishing in indiana waters has beel
particularly good of late and yester
days prize is not the only large mem
Der of the f1nny tribe landed With
the past few days. Twenty-Five bi
ones were caught last week, Muchrow
sky being the lucky fisherman in tn
cases of telve of them while othe
fishermen landed the remainder.
These big ones" ranged betwee
! 100 and 10 pounds, so it will be see
that yesterdays prize was far an
away the biggest of the lot