Lowell wrote today that they had “very good luck with the bull-heads” while fishing today on Lake Erie. They had a fish supper when they got back to Dunkirk. The bull-head is better known in the South as the catfish. This is a nineteenth century illustration of the whiskered fish, accessed through Wikimedia Commons.
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