Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-13

OF Lebanon, hang out over the Oanks
and are backed by dense forest of pins
and tamarack. Ten miles are passed anC
we reach our camp ground, and in lesa
time than it takes to tell it,
CAMP "sILE" HUMPHREY
is in full blast. The boys scatter. Some
are after trout, others ducks; some are
cutting fish poles, others making thing:
comfortable for the night; all are busy
Soon a shout is heard down the stream
and Charley Whiting sends back word
that he has caught the first trout! The
fishermen return with nice mess Of
speckIed beauties for supper, and our
bully cook is soon in his element, as are
also every hungry mothers son of us.
Song and story vile away the hours un.
til the stars look down upon US, and
then the days Journey is lost in dream
land.
Sept. 3O.-Our party now prepare
for sport. Some go up the stream
others 90 down-all for the same OBJ
iect-Trout!
Tn company with our guido we des
cended the Brule six miles, and found il
to be the most beautiful stream we ever
saw. Two miles from camp we make q
portage round what the Indians call the
Key. 1t is charming cascade, and is
the first fall of a series on the Brule,
between camp and Lake Superior. Leav-
ing the Key we soon enter a beautiful
lake half a mile in length, and then pass
through two other and larger ones, more
grand if anything, than the first. Leay-
ing the lakes behind we soon enter a
wide swift stream, full of deep holes,
and having clear sandy bottom. Here
we throw out our lines, and are soon
busy pulling in the trout. We move
stealthiIy from place to place, taking them
in rs fast as we wish. Soon our guides
quick eye discovers hole that literally
swarms with large fish. We cast in our
line-the bait is taken, and struggle
commences. 1T last his troutship is
safely landed in the canoe, and we sur
yey our prize with pleasure and astonish-
ment. II IS a Twenty-Five tnch fVe
Founder !
Night inda Us at camp, where we
compare notes with our comrades. All
had good report to make. An exami-
nation showed that the trout caugh aver
aged half pound each, and among
them the following specimens /: One
twenty two inches long, five FOUNDER
one twenty-one inches long, Al pounds
one Is inches long. another twelve, and
so on down to common sized trout.
Another night in camp and another
days fishing follows, with the usual num-
Der of pleasing incidents. Evening finds
us at supper, tired and hungry. Trout
to the right of us, trout to the left Of
us-trout "till you can't resin frying
pan and out. One beauty measures 10
inches, another Is, ana down the scale
to quarter FOUNDER.
We wish here to observe that our fam
lily is large,-twelye hungry men. Here
is what we make way with at q single
meal !: A 80 quart camp kettle filled
with trout chowder; twenty-five fried
trout; 2 roast muskrat; three broiled
squirrels; three loayes of hot bread; fried
pork: one peck of potatoes; tea, and
things to mix mot much provender--
providing person don't care what be
says. Supper over we prepare to spend
our last night on the Brals. We wish
we had the descriptive powers of Bay
ard Taylor to paint the scene; but we
have not--and no less light should at
tempt it, Suffice it that we made things
liyely-if not more so.
The second day of October, after eat
ing hearty breakfast consisting of fifty
fried trout with things to fill in betE cen,
we started on the home march.
The return was filed to Overlooking
with fun an6 " Incidents" but we have
already exceeded the space allotted for
this article, and must omit them. Four
days travel and we are all at home again,
each one telling his own story Of the
Brule Expedition; and we take pleasure
in presenting to our readers the above
narrative as ours. s. ). +.