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when under the inliuence ol liquor.Cedar Lake, Indiana.The American Angler,About forty miles south-east of Chicago, in the north-west corner of Indiana, six miles from Crown Point, ami on the “Monon Route” of the Ixuisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, lies Cedar Lake, it ia a beautiful little sheet of water, about three miles long and one mile wide.One queer thing is spoken of in regard to it, that it has no known inlet, but lias an outlet called Cedar Creek, a stream a little larger than a medium-aisled spring branch, and which hows the year round. In that creek you catch your minnows, and in the lake you catch Croppies, called in the vernacular of Luke county, “Hoo-siers” speckled bass. You can aiso catch pickerel, a number having been taken this season weighing from one to eleven pounds, Black bass are also pretty numerous. Bullheads or channel cats are also caught, and some enjoy fishing on the bottom for the “slippery bulla” more than they do angling for higher game. Yellow perch are taken freely at times but are not very good.The day in June that we landed there, self and son, on the way home from Siou* rivers, Wisconsin, two gentlemen from Valpararaiso left. They had been there three days, and caught, with hook and line—how many did you say?—a round thousand croppies, weigh ing'froni a quarter pound to a pound and a half each. Half of them were thrown back in the lake, but there were witnesses to the catch. On the last day, in the afternoon, they went out with large minnows and fished in the sedge grass and lillies w hich line the shores, and brought in four black bass. YVe witnessed the weigh ing of the largest, and it pulled down just lour and a half pounds. The others went over three pounds each.We only fished a little in the afternoonand about five hours in the morning, and our catches were fifty-seven and eighty-two croppies. For bait we used live minnows, worms, ami pieces of fish. The latter seemed best, as the bait was easier put on, and we could catch more in a given time. Pieces of minnow and perch made capital bait.The fishing is done from little flat-bottomed skiffs, of which a number aie kept at the lake, and from sail-boats. Trolling is a favorite mode of fishing with the natives, and with^ one of those boats and a couple of ordinary small “spoons” or “whirlers,” they will frequently take over two hundred croppies in a*tiay, and occasionally fine pickerel, perch and afew bassThe Monon road has not been completed a year, and the lake waa unknown to the public before that time. Some few ardent anglers had invaded its quiet, but most of the fishing was done by the natives with seines. Now it is visited by hundreds, and on Sundays Chicago people flock there by train loads.Dr. George Hunter, of Chicago, has fitted up a stopping-place, built a little steam vacht,and has numerous row boats. Col. W. C. Binyon has a good country place on the other side of the lake, and there are also other accommodations.At the rate the fish are now being taken the stock will soon run out, unless Dr. Hunter and the railroad company take steps to re-stock it, and they cannot commence too soon. With about a thorn* sand fish a day, for several months in the year, taken out, and none put in, a sheet of water one by three miles will soon be exhausted.There are several other lakes within striking distance of the Cedar, where there is good bass fishing, but none where croppies can be taken out until one is ready to sing that old line, which will breed an Irish row at any time, “Croppies, lie down.” Jap.New Albany, Ind., July 27, 1882.
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, Aug 16, 1882
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