Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-08

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they want all times Of the year.
There is but very little surface water that
makes into the creek, hence the volume Of
water is very even, and seldom roiley. The
FIRST settlers of the country found the creek
literally filled with trout of great size and
beauty, and il has remained 80 10 this day,
notwithstanding it has been almost CONSTANT
ly fished, night as well as day, from that
time TO this. The largest and finest Trout
are taken in the evening with large arti-
fetal white or gray miller. Dark nights,
the banks Of the creek in springs and summer
are often lined with fishermen, when they
reel in the speckled beauties, hand over
hand, and often carry them off by back loads
In this way they sometimes take them that
weigh four pounds each. The most ordinary
pupil of Sir Izaak can take them in the eve
ming, when in the mood of rising, with the
right miller, and with a small piece of angle
worm on the point Of the hook, TO induce
them TO hold 20 the hook till the novice can
make his witch TO hook them. But in the
daytime none can succeed but the expert.
The water is SO clear, and they are so shy
and so well educated, that it requires fifty
or sixty foot line, fine ten foot leader, and
very small flies, or hackles, and those must
be cast uponthe water so gently and life-like,
TO induce them to rise and take the fly, and
when they dotake it they discover the decep-
tion and spit it out so quick that but very
few are ever able to so cast the fly and to
jerk quick enough 10 hook them. The fish
ermen among the oldest inhabitants tell me
that at the least calculation there are 1000
pounds Of Trout taken from the creek year
ly, and yet they compute thenumber Of Trout
to-day at 1000 10 each rod Of the stream, or
800, 900 in the creek, of all sizes, from four
or five pounds 70 five inches in length. On
the 18th Of this month / took ITO fine Trout
in about three hours, with the fly, from the
creek, and put them into one of Mr.. Green's
ponds. The day was clear, and the water so
clear and transparent that had to fish with
q sixty foot line, which took the most of the
time to get the line out to this Tenth, and to
reel in the trout against the strong current
after being hooked.
The next day took eighty five splendid
fellows from one place, hardly moving from
my tracks. These facts show how plenty
they were, and how ready they are to take
the fly in winter. These trout were as fat,
active, and gamey as ever / saw them in
any other stream in May or June.
man and fy-thrower,. of Rochester, bought
this creek e year ago last fall, for the pur-
pose Of growing Trout artifcially, as well as
on an extensive scale. He has
since prepared ponds, races, hatching-house,
and hatching-boxes and troughs for 3,000,-
600 of spawns, which he expects to fill dur
ing the spawning season, which is, with him,
from the LIST of November to the LIST of
April. Last winter his two best months for
spawn were January and February, and he
expects they will be this year.
He has one pond only rs feet long, u
feet wide and 5 feet deep, that has 5000
Trout in it from inches TO 20 inches long
that will weigh from quarter of pound to
three pounds each, all as fat as seals, and as
beautiful as Trout can be. ali caught with
the fly, by his own hand, since he bought the
creek, and all can be seen now, any day, at
one view, by any one who will take the
trouble 10 call on him. Only think what
such Trout all in the eve at
once What gigantic and magnificent
aquarium
am certain that this is the largest and
finest exhibition of Trout in America, and,
probably, in the whole world. This alone
would well pay journey of any lover of Sir
Izaak from any part of the country to see.
But this is not all. He has another pond,
right by the side of this, 80 by so feet, which
contains 10000 beautiful Trout, mostly one
and two years old, from six to nine inches
long, all taken by his own skill as above.
He has still another pond, filed with last
springs fry, from three to five inches long.
II seems Incredible at first thought that
such vast number of large Trout should
live in so small a space, but it is all ac-
counted for and made plain, when one learns
that the water in the ponds are changed
every minute through the day by the large
current constantly pouring in upon them Of
this cold, pure spring water.
Some Of the Trout produced 6,000 spawn
each, and from that down to 200 according
to size. Last year Mr.. Green Matched as high
as 9S per cent in some instances-in others,
about so per cent. This year he expects to
hatch nearly all, as he has become master of
the business, and knows the right time to
take the spawn to insure perfect impregna-
ton. | could see the young Trout in al
most every egg that had been taken fifteen
days, with the naked eye, 50 that know his
success is perfect so far. With this con-
tinued succass he will very soon be able to
stock all the private streams and ponds in
the country with spawn and young Trout,
as well as to furnish tuns yearly for the table
of this, the most delicious and costly of all
the fnny tribe.
1t costs him but little TO feed his Trout
He tells me they get fully three-quarters of
their living from the insects las above) in
the water running through the ponds. He
thinks the Trout in his ponds, and in the
creek, devour fully GOO pounds Of these
various insects daily.
These facts show how profitable the culti-
walton Of Trout can be made with proper
water, and care, and also the ease with which
all the depopulated waters of the country
can be restocked.
The spawn can be transported from the
Sth to the 18th day after impregnation, in
glass bottles filed with water, by express to
any part of the country, with safety, ard will
nearly all hatch if distributed thinIy over
well prepared gravel beds in the stream near
the spring where the current is gentle, and
tho temperature remains from 400 to 46o
through the winter, and viii nearly all take
care of themselves after Matching, through
the spring and summer, and grow too from
three inches TO five inches in length by fall.
This is the easiest and cheapest way to stock
all streams and ponds wherethe temperature
and water will permit But where they
will not, then they must be stocked with
Trout.
An outlay of from S. 10 $500, in spawn,
and preparing the stream and gravel beds,
according to the amount any one may feel
to invest, will produce cores
ponding show in the early Spring Of young
Trout. Some of these young Trout will
spawn in the Fall, and all the Fall follow
ing, and with proper care in a few years
fully stock the stream or pond, and will pay
the owner and angler for all the expense
and trouble, in the very exciting sport of
taking them with the fly, as well as deli
cious meal daily. e UtEa.l
Well-impregnated spawn can be obtained
as low as SO per thousand.
The cheapest and best time to transport
Trout is while very small, or about the
time they commence feeding, say in March
or April. Then about 5000 can be carried
in barrul half or two-thirds filled with
water. They can be carried in this way
any distance by wagon or railroad. All the
care required is to keep the water cool, say
from so TO so degrees, and in constant mo-
ton to ill it with air as fast as the Trout ex-
haust it, or to change il often when standing
still Trout of this age can be had for $50
a thousand.
large Trout can be moved in the same
way Just as well, only much less number
in a barrel, say about IS one, two and three
year-olds. Trout of this age are worth $500
a thousand. =
With this information, any one can con-