If You Doubt Dave, Maybe You'll Believe His Brother, the Sheriff: Dave Caught a White Shad in Fresh Water with a Hook, July 28, 1926

Fishermen Agog as a White Shad Takes the Hook

Kinston, July 28—Heber Worthington, sheriff of Lenor County, today said he understood it to be a fact that his brother, David Worthington, hooked a white shad while fishing in Moccason [Moccasin?] River July 24th. The story came here from the angler’s country home.

The reported catch was the most remarkable in the annals of fishing in this part of the country. It was surprising to followers of Walton here that a shad should bit a hook at all, much less in fresh water in the month of July. There are anglers here who have lived to the age of 70 or 80 years without hearing of a shad taking a hook before.

“This was a lazy shad that failed to back to the sound with its fellows in the spring,” the sheriff stated. “It was a young roe shad, I was told.”

Editor's Note: I don't fish but A.I. tells me that you don't catch a fish in fresh water with a hook in July.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, July 29, 1926

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