THE HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKIAN — SEPTEMBER 02, 1911
Captor of Thirty-Two Pound Carp Says He Saw It
Picking and Eating Strawberries
Fred Vosen, who lives near the Valley mill, has the champion fish story of the season, says the Springfield Republican. He captured a carp at the Lee Water company’s reservoir that weighed 32 pounds. Now, this part of the story is positively vouched for, but the surprising part follows.
Mr. Vosen says he was fishing and heard on the shore what he at first supposed was a muskrat. On investigating it proved to be a big carp. He watched the fish for some minutes, and states positively that along the shore strawberries hung over the water, varying in distance from four to ten inches from the surface, and he was surprised to see the big fish bobbing his head out of the water and grabbing the berries. He watched him repeat the operation half a dozen times. He then tried his bait, and succeeded in hooking the fish, and had to shoot I him before he could land him. Mr. Vosen was accompanied by several friends, who state that his story of the carp picking strawberries is true in every respect.
From— The Hopkinsville Kentuckian. (Hopkinsville, Ky.), 02 Sept. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
