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Capt B. F. Reed and John Morris, on last Tuesday, . at the Ripple, caught nice strings of baas—two or three weighed In the neighborhood of three pounds 1 eaah.We took our first ban of the seasou at the Ripple, on last Tuesday. A helgamite was the seductive baitTarbutton, an attache of the .postoffice, one day last week caught 28 irogs out of the Souihtdde bayous, and he didn’t think It was a very good day lor flogging, either.George Wallace, George Anderson, Si Reynolds, Harmoning, and we kuow not bow many others known to fame, in the fore part of the week repaired to the elooe above Broad Rl*\» e dam but the fish were so badly frightened at tn-'r formidable appearance that they hid themselv t under the moss and grass and would not come out to be taken Two or three fool suckers and indolent cat-fish were all they .ecu red, until Billy Bacon, taking pi Ton them, pie-sented them with a fine bass or two, which he had taken on his trot line.The Sheriff PreBsly party did not 'make their appearance at Broad Ripple on last 8aiurday according to announcement, so that Billy saved his Bacon andthings.Charley Johnston and William Fiscus fished at the Ripple this week fiom Monday night till Wednesday night, both with line and pole and trot Hue—they caught between eighty and a hundred of all kind* —the largest being a channel cat that weighed nineKunds. They lost ten or twelve bass by putting their x in stagnant water—there were shiners in the box, and their dying spoiled the bass. vFrank Weaver and party, on Wednesday, went to Spring Mill Ford, but we have heard no report. Prom the fact that they stopped at a grocery on the way and purchased a c othes line or two, we are led to infer thacthey designed to do some tall fishing. Let's see. they use a clothes line to pull a seine, don’t thev?Thanks to Mr. Tarbutton for several magnificent bloody-me-nouns, otherwise irogs, one of which we verily Coelleve was the identical creature that in. the attempt to swell itself up to the tize of an ox, mad* Buch au ignoble failure of it—the swelling did not ail go down.* T» Bnrt nf a ftalri dAT at. th« Rinnlft on lut Wnf.
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Indianapolis People
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 02, 1877
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