The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-07-16
Trout Fishing-The Fly vs.. Worms

lou nave uuc UaSAet Vi Trout There,
said the Judge.
"Yes, sir, but I should have caught
more, only my bait gave out" said the
man.
"Bait! Bait! What, are you one of
those fellows that kill quart of angle
worms or peck of grubs to catch one
appreciate the nature of q trout any
more than an ape can literature" said
the Judge.
II mean to say that 1 caught these fish
with angle-wOrms for my bait, and I'd
like to know what that is to you?" said
the man.
Don't you know that it is unmanly
and vulgar to fish for trout in that way?
l would as soon eat carrion as a trout
caught with hook baited with angle
worms" said Fitzhugh.
"Who the deuce are YOU that goes
about telling folks what they should fish
with: Maybe you haven't read the
Declaration of Independence" said the
II am gentleman, sir, and you are
not. A man can't be a gentleman that
fishes for trout with angle worms"
"Is it any of your business what man
fishes with! You talk as though you
owned all the fish In this country. You
don't, though-Pve great mind to throw
you into the creek; but you are such an
ugly-lOOking cuss you'd scare all the fish
out of it. should like to thrash my cow
yard with you," said the man in q tower
ing passion.
" Attempt any violence upon me and
I'll make live bait of you in minute.
tell you it is my business what a man
fishes with. 1t is the business of all civ
ilized and Christianized people. Fishing
with angle-worms degenerates trout to q
common sucker-a crab-it battles
science-it teaches that splendid fish the
habits of common bull-head, that any
idiot can catch. Fishing with fly is fair
game between man and q trout; it gives
them both . chance to exercise their
skill"
"What odds does it make how YOU
catch . trout if you only get him!
catch fish because l like to eat them, :"
said the man.
"That's because you are nothing but q
cannibal. Fishing with fly is q fair
game between the man and q trout; it
gives them both q chance to exercise
their skill. A trout darting for fly re-
minds me of the swo0p of an eagle; there
is something daring and brilliant in his
movements; he charges ON his prey like
. hero, and If caught he dies gal
lantly, not sucking sinking angle worm
like . hungry lubber," said the Judge.
"See here, what's your namey BY
golly, you talk we'll. I'd like to hear
that over again. Tell q Teller your
NAME"
my name Is Fitzhugh-a name have
never disgraced, and never shall until l
am caught in the funkey business of
catching trout with angle-worms"
Are you Judge Fitzhugh, the man
that can catch trout with . buncOmb fly
ON his hook, where there amt any, just
as well as he can where there's plenty of
them?"
/" They call me Judge Fitzhugh."
5a Well, Tdhalf mind to thrash you just
now, you was SO COMPOUNDED sassy
They say you are the sassiest man in the
world, and believe it. Those shaggy
eyebrows, and those great black eyes,
and that black hair-well, guess l don't
want to get hold of you, SO let's be
friends. Judge, do you think / could
learn to catch trout with fiy?"
Eyes" said the Judge, amused Ut the
mans manner and words. "GO with me,
and I will give you lesson" They were
soon by the side Of one of those beauti-
full streams in Northern Steuben, that in
those days swarmed with the finest
trout. Soon Fitzhugh's line went whiz-
ring through the Dir, the swift-winged fly
alightins On the water full thirty feet
distant; the next moment . splendid
trout lay painting on the grass. The man
watched the Rktllfnllv.thrnvvn line with
it, darling insect, now alighting on the
edge Of swift-whirling eddy, now skip
ping over bright ripples, now floating on
the smooth current, then grating near 4
shclving r0ck like " strong swimmer in
his agony" tempting the silly tenants 81
the brook to spring at the glittering bait,
70 find himself caught full surely BY the
fatal snare.
The man fingered until Fftxhugh's
baaket was nearly filed, then, with ID
miratien glowing On his face, exclaimed
Judge, that's . big game between you
and those trout pretty one, too