A SOMEWHAT REMARKABLE STORY. 



I was passing down Main street, in Rochester, New York, a few 

 days ago, said Mr. Palmer of the H. H. Warner Co., of that city, and my 

 attention was attracted by a large crowd in front of one of the prominent 

 restaurants ; edging my way into the crowd, I beheld a large washtub 

 filled with some of the finest specimens of black bass I had ever seen. A 

 placard informed the observer that these black bass had been caught by 

 Mr. John M. Ives, of our company, a day or so before in a creek fifteen 

 feet wide, near Oak Orchard, a country village, about forty miles from 

 Rochester. 



Being a lover of game fishing I stepped in to critically examine the 

 fish; after the closest scrutiny I failed to discover a single mark on any of 

 the fish that would indicate they had been caught with a fish hook, and I 



immed iately 

 mind that Mr. 

 friend of his 

 the fish in a 

 hastened over 

 establish m e n t 

 Ives, and our 

 was as f o 1 - 

 "Hello, 

 are pretty nice 



made up my 

 Ives or some 

 had caught 

 seine, and I 

 to the Warner 

 and met Mr. 

 conversation 

 lows : 



John, those 

 fish over thei-e 



in the window on Main street, and I am puzzled to know how you caught 

 them, for I cannot find a hook mark on them." 



" Well the fact is, I was rowing up the stream at night with a lantern 

 brightly burning on the seat before me ; I felt something strike the 

 bottom of the boat, and upon investigation found it to be a five-pound 

 bass. Before I could recover from my surprise another bass fell in the same 

 manner, and this strange phenomenon continued quite a while. You see 

 the fish were attracted by the bright light, and they jumped out of the 

 water at it, and fell m the boat." 



" This is all right John, but is it not remarkable that the fish did not 

 jump clear over the boat.?" 



" Not at all. You see I was rowing in the center of the stream and 

 the fish jumped in from both sides at the same time, striking their heads 

 together while over the boat, and fell in an insensible condition. They 

 kept up this strange proceeding until the oil in the lantern gave out, and 

 the light disappeared. I am well satisfied that I could have caught a great 

 many more if the light had lasted longer." 



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