BARBOUR COUNTY INDEX — NOVEMBER 21, 1906
NEW ORLEANS PARTY HAS EXCITING ADVENTURE ♢ SHOTS AROUSE THE GIANT ♢ Yacht Is Followed Sluggishly by Creature, and Bullets Fired Make Little Impression on the Monster
New Orleans.—The sensation in the fishing world recently was the experience four sportsmen had with a devil fish off Horn island.
During the week the big power yacht Jeanne, owned by Commodore Thomas Sully, with John P. Sullivan, Phil Werlein and Ned Rightor as guests, ran out to Horn island for a few days’ fishing. They had all the sport they wanted with mackerel and bull redfish, and early one Sunday morning started for the eastward pass of Deer island and Biloxi bay.
They had traveled possibly three or four miles from the island when, just ahead of the yacht they saw something on the surface of the sound which looked like a giant turtle. The course of the yacht was changed so as to overhaul this strange creature, and when the boat neared the fish the engines were slowed down and stopped.
The yacht came up close to the fish, which proved to be the largest devil fish ever seen in that section. During last summer a number of these monsters, sometimes called the blanket fish, have been seen, but they were not longer than five or six feet.
This monster measured in the neighborhood of 15 feet in length, and was fully seven or eight feet broad.
