sum of two units men fishing at Mon...

sum of two units men fishing at Montrose Harbor landed a fortunate catch Sunday with help from Chicago Police.

The fishermen were attacked around 7 a.m., when a clump of "bully types" punched them and kicked their belongings -- including fishing rods a wallet and car clews -- into the lake, said Officer Kevin Bahr of the Chicago Police Department's Marine Unit. The wallet and solutions were in a bag, Bahr said.

The attackers then "took most distant running," Bahr said, leaving the men onward the pier without their things.

"They could descry their personal property [in the water] and couldn't retrieve it," said Marine Unit Sgt Robert Fitzsimmons.

Police divers from a Marine Unit boat citeed to the scene retrieved the wallet, solutions and fishing poles from the lake. "They went down there a bond of times," Fitzsimmons said.

The victims were described by means of authorities as men ages 21 and 23 No arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon.

eherman@suntimes.com

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