The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
Let's Go Fishing
PENCE HOOKS
WHOPPERS AT
LAKE WEBSTER
Other Good Catches Made
by Fishermen in Sugar
Creek.
BY LEFTY LEE


= Bob Pence again produced his
limit on Lake Webster over the
weekend, and as usual at this lake
they were whoppers. Pence has
been fishing this lake for long
time, and when he returns without
the fish, all other anglers stay off
of the lake, certain that it would
be useless to try.
Oliver w. Zoeller, his wife, and
Mrs. T. Smith of Indianapolis
turned in a real catch in Sugar
creek, between Cumberland and
Greenfield, taking five large mouth
bass that averaged better than two
pounds They also took a fine mess
of redeye and sunfsh, and carp
that passed the six-pound mark.
AS early as o'clock Sunday
morning, E. w. Berger and L. G..
Simmons Of the Chevrolet Motor
Car Company could be found cast
ing on White river, north of Broad
Ripple. The way we get it, the
boys we're Staying them, too.
The two Hildwein brothers from
South East street will swear by Blue
river from now on, as both returned
with their limit Sunday. The bass
were biting like Sunfish for them, on
live minnows, and they returned
twenty to the stream, after the limit
was caught.
Leo Becker, 3707 Hawthorne lane,
caught a twenty inch bass,
weighing Az pounds, at the Airing
ton tourist camp, thirty miles
southeast of the city, Sunday Beck
er was using a Shannon spinner
when he landed this big one.
The bass are biting slowly at Syl-
van lake, but the anglers are hav-
ing plenty of sport with bluegill,
crappie and perch, these fish biting
fast
The Elkhart river, one of the best
in the northern part of the state,
has failed the angler with the eX-
ception of a few spots. Flood con-
ditions in the spring are being
blamed for the poor sport.
Southern Indiana waters that are
giving the fisherman a good time
are Log, Big, Graham, Louis, Sand
and Big Lodge creeks and the
Muscatatuck river. Good catches
also are reported from Painter
creek.
The universal license law is being
observed, game Wardens from ali
parts of the state reporting all
anglers having the licenses in their
possession. During July, La Porte
county reported a sale of 1,139 Ii
cenSes, and the sale so far this
month also is heavy
A nonresident license in Indiana
can be obtained for 1925. This Ii
cense is good until Dec. 81, 1888
No short time license is issued in
this state.
Roy Phillips, using a Tom Thumb
bait on RacCoon creek. took three
bass weighing from one and one
half to two pounds. Phillips loves
to work this stream, and who can
blame him, as it is one of the best
in this part of the state.
La Grange county chapter of the
Izaak Walton league has produced
$4,000 blue gill fry in its pond this
season, and placed them in lakes of
that county.
A fish story from Warsaw tells of
huge trout landed by Barney Burt,
coach at Manchester college, in a
small creek near Atwood. After the
catch was made Deputy Sheriff Joe
RovenStein confessed that he has
been placing young trout in the
streams near Atwood for twenty
years.
RovenStein claims that some Of
these trout now are so large that
they readily can jump from ban>
to bank. and the cattle are afraid
to approach the water.
RovenStein has been keeping this
a deep secret, and now, with the dis
covery, can not enjoy mis- private
spot, for as soon as he so much
as looks at fishing rod a flock of
his cronies reach for their rods,
and are ready to trail him.