THE FISH HARVEST 1874

WEIDNER

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 8/1/2016 at 21:52:17

Dubuque Herald, Jan. 3, 1874

THE FISH HARVEST – The fishing in the waters of the Mississippi this winter is unequaled by that of any other season, we have records of this section of the river. The finest kinds of fresh water fish are being taken in great quantities with seine and hook. On Friday last week Mr. Ernest Weidner, a fishermen well known in Dubuque captured 50,000 pounds of fish at one haul of the seine a little above Lansing. The seine used, which was three hundred yards long, was drawn to the shore under the ice in a manner common to our fishermen, and it took five days to dip the fish out with hand-nets through holes in the ice. Mr. Weidner brought a car load of the fish to Dubuque on New Year’s Day, and will pack them on ice at Eagle Point to supply the market. The piscatorial sportsmen are having excellent luck taking Jack-Salmon or” Wall-eyed” pike, with the hook through the ice along the shores on the river in this city. One sportsman hooked 250 pounds of palatable game on New Year’s Day, the fish averaging 14 ounces to 10 pounds in weight.