The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-07
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TUESDAY, M0RNiNG. NOV.7.l

GAnrR.@The present season has been
avery favorable one for those who de-
light In hunting and fishing. Game
and fish haye been unushhlly plenty.
Consequently large number, OF onr
citizans have been INDUCING i'm the
pleasures of the sportsman. Hunting
and fishing parties have been the order
of the day throughout the summer and
fall, and, rs yet, there seems 70 be no
abatement OF the ardor ofthose engaged
in the pursuit. The numerous hunting
parties have been remarkably success
full, and fine strings of bass and jack
have rewarded the efforts of the fisher
men. The squirrel family have had
occasion TO regret their appearance in
this neighborhoOd, as is attested by the
number OF tails exhibited as trophies of
3 theproWess of some ofthe mighty MINI
rods VINO have been engaged in the
aIaughteF. IL Is true that some i'll ma
tured people charge that some OF our
successful amateur sportsman do not
Kill their game in professional style,
with vtllalnous powder and lead, but
are in the habit of bringing down the
squirrels and birds, and decOying the
innocent hsh ashore, by q ffee use of
postal currency. OF course there is
not the slightest foundation in fact for
these regular roorbacks, which arc
originated by those who are Jealous and
spiteiul over the success Of skilled and
Sctentitic sPortsmen, whose veracity
Is unimpeachable, and who would not
BtOop to such mean Advantages over the
inhabitants Of the stream and the for
est. Our fishermen, particularly, are
too earnest and faithful disciples of the
Immortal Isaac Walton, 70 make their
captures in any other than a,legitimate
manner. Your true fisherman rises be-
times, breakfasts on hard tack and cold
Hitch, shoulders a pack which would
astonish a stubborn mule, and with a
flask of corn juice in his pocket, starts
for tho field of his operations. which,
having reached, he2lays aside his bur-
den, adjusts his line bats his hook and
wades in up to his waist, and becomes
obnoxious 10 all the surroundings. His
wrapt vision is conferred upon the spot
where his hook is supposed to be, and
nonght on earth can tempt him To
withdraw hisgRDe. He stands for hours
a monument of sublime patience;- he is
waiting for a bita! BnElet his elbow
once feel the delightful intellatiOns
aroused by a four pound bass taking the
bait, aud Youf VIII behold a chnnGed
being. His eye kfndles, the whole man
Is reused with II keen, eager but quiet
excitement he stands on tip toe.
At last his prey Is hooked end the line
goes kissing through the water at a rate
truly astonishing. All the skill of
the fishermen is now brought
Into reqnisitiOD until the fish is landed.
This successfully accomplished and the
bass secured, the flask is produced and
an inward application OF the contents
IS found necessary. In fnct, the pota-
lions must be frequent TO counterfeit
the effects of the water upon the sys-
tenn. Such Is the life of Wheeling fish
ermen, and they nre numerous class
and rapidly increasing. Our West Vir-
Sinin streams abound In the finest kinds
of fish, but unless the protection OF the
law is thrown around them, the reck less
and indisCriminnte manner in which
they are captured, without regard to
senson or method, must soon destroy
them. For some years past squirrels
have been scarce i'll this vicinity. This
year, however, there seems to have been
a large inCreRse in the number, as It is
an animal of migratory habits. We
suppose TINT the abundance of mast |
has attracted them from less favored To- |
enltties, and they are paying the pen-l
ulty of their rAshness in Yenturing so
near the numerous double-barrels |
which have been rusting in the closets |
of their Owuers, SOME of whom are |
skilled in the use of their weapons. |
while in the hands of others they are |
perfectly harmless. Some of these |
greenhorns, who imagined that they
werS regular Daniel Boons, have been |
on the war-pnth, but have only succeeds |
ed in burning large quantity of pow
der and making great deal OF noise, to
Tho greHt alarm of the people who re-
side in the vicinity of their operations.
Those parties go In companies of halfn
dozen or more, and ii by accident they
succeed in freeing some simple squirrel,
they at once surround the tree and keen
upu constant fusilale until. they scare
tito death, exhaust their ammunition,
or night puts an end to their nonsense.
We have seen such chaps aud witnessed
all and the sport Is excellent, the exer-
else healthful, and the season has been
all that the most earnest sportsman
could desire.
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