1SS 
THE DRUM. 
in the rare sport uf angling, and has spent a good part of the 
summer at Shantz’s Hotel, Macomb’s Dam, fishing with va- 
ried success for basso and blue-fish, day before yesterday,* 
(Thursday,) struck one of the monsters of the deep that 
sometimes visit that vicinity. On the first pull he thought 
that he had struck bottom, but his reel soon began to whiz, 
and his lino to run with great rapidity. Finding nearly all 
his line, 300 feet, run out, he took up his anchor-stone, and 
away went the boat down the river about a mile; he then 
managed so as to make a tack, and up the river they went 
again, and down and up again for two hours and a half, until 
finally his majesty was got into shallow water, and a seizure 
made under the gills, but ho slipped grasp and made a sud- 
den lurch, taking rod and line, and floored himself on the 
grass about twenty yards from the boat. The gentleman, 
who is a muscular man, succeeded with some difficulty in 
getting him into the boat, when he proved to be a drum of 
tho largest size, and on weighing at the hotel weighed a little 
over seventy pounds. This is believed to bo tho largest fish 
ever taken with rod and reel. The hooks were ordinary 
busse hooks, with a yard leader on double silk-worm gut, 
purchased at Brown’s, a few days since, in Fulton street, near 
our office. A fish of the same kind was taken last summer 
in the Kills, by Mr. Michaels, weighing over forty pounds, 
and one by Mr. Keese, a few years ago, weighing over fifty 
pounds; but this caps the climax, and Mr. R. deserves a 
great deal of credit for his perseverance in this extraordinary 
feat.” 
* August, 1844. 
