The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-27
Let's Go Fishing
FISH HATCHERY
is COMPLETED
AT MONTICELLO
City Realizes That Sport
Draws Visitors: Many
Good Catches Made. :
BY LEFTY LEE
Times staff Writer

MOnJlCeLO, the CITY LndC enter
tains more fishermen than any
other city in the state, owing to
the fact that both Lake Freeman
and Lake Shafer are just south of
there, realizes that the lakes must
be well stocked TO retain their popu-
larity. So it just has completed its
own fish hatchery, in which game
hngerlings will be raised.
Two large pools, one 300 and the
other 900 feet around were made.
The pools are spring fed and num-
erous parent bass have already been
placed in them. Those in charge
hope TO place several thousand bass
in the lakes this fall.
Monticello business and profess
sional men and resort owners
planned and built the hatchery. pay
ing for the project by popular sub
scription.
ANY angler who catches a bass in
Big Barbee lake with a st1inger pin
in his mouth can return the same
to Jack Vending. Vending was
using the new patent keep 'em
alive stringer when something
happened and several bass he had
slipped off, taking the stringer pins
with them.
Tom johnson and Stanley Nor
gan were with Vending and they
took twenty bass in two days with
the Gigolo and Surf Oreno.
Fred Simon, detective chief, and
his son are enjoying themselves at
the Morgan inn, Barbee lake. A
few mornings ago they tried their
luck and the result was six fine bass.
P. G. Jefferson lost a whopper on
White river near Broad Ripple He
hooked him on a bucktail fly, but
after hard fight lost him. Esti-
mate, five pounds.
Three members of the fishing
colony on Lake Shafer, Kemp and
the Spangenberger brothers, have
their cottage complete and are
ready to go after the big ones. These
boys boast that the bass will suffer
now.
The two Bobs, Reagan and Jen-
kinS, were highly indignant when we
called them blue gill fishermen and
they promised to send pictures to
prove they really caught big ones.
too. This was more than week
ago and they still must be blue gill
anglers.
Charlie Aldrich, of the Van Camp
Hardware company, comes up with
the prize fish story of the week and
it concerns a snake. While fly fish
ing in Sugar creek, Aldrich saw a
water mocassin and tossed his fly
over it. The hook caught the snake
behind the head and for the next
three quarters of an hour a real
battle was waged. The snake finally
tore the hook loose and escaped.
And was Aldrich glad!
SportSmen who figure they must
go ITO Michigan or Wisconsin to
catch fish would do we'll to get the
new Indiana lake map at the En-
Roe company sporting goods store.
This map has more than 200 lakes
listed and should be in all fishing
kits.
John Kerner surely had loads of
fun on Allen lake with a fly triX
oreno, catching two two-pound bass,
two two and one-half pounds, one
four and one-half pounds and one
six pounds, fourteen ounces The big
one is headed for the Field and
Stream contest and we hope Kerner
takes a prize V~Sh it.
Walt Roeder and Charlie Ridlin
had contest on Raccoon creek,
which Roeder won by one redeye,
each angler taking two bass and
Roeder two redeye to Ridlin'S one.
The boys were using a Shimmy
wiggler.
And here comes news of some fine
catches made Saturday and Sunday
In Eel river, at Cataract falls.
Elmer Spencer, IA, cambridge,
Ind, caught three-pound channel
cat, with a steel fly rod, using min
nowS. George Westerhouse, 500
West Thirty second street. and Dick
Gill, GAS Congress street, landed
eleven channel cats, all more than
eighteen inches long. and Weighing
more than two pounds each, on
soft crawS.
Tom, Rogers of the Rogers Tire
and Battery Company caught four
channel cats, total weight twelve
pounds. and fifteen large crappies.
Frank and Parker James, Indian
apoliS, caught four bass and sixteen
redeyes Saturday. on helgromites.
Stanley Steel, another city angler,
hooked a three and one-half-pound
small mouth bass and several crap