Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-18
ADIRONDACK TROUT.
The Wonderful Performance Of One
Which a Literary Man Caught.

MT Charles dudley warner thus relates In
the atlantic Monthly, how he caught an Adj
rOndack trout:
At the very first cast l saw that the hour
had come. Three trout leaped into The air.
The danger of this maneuver all fishermen
understand; it is one of the commOneSt in the
wUOds-three heavy trout taking hold al once.
rushing in different directions, smash the
tackle into flinders. | evaded this catch and
threw again. L recall the moment. 4 hermit
thrush on the tip of balSam uttered his long.
liquid evening note. Happening to look over
my >houIder; | saw the peak OF Marcy CLEAN
rosy in the sky. q can't help il that Marcy is
fifty miles off, and cannot be seen from this
region: these incidental touches are always
used.) The hundred feet of silk SwiShed through
the air and the tall fly fell as lightly on the
water as three-cent piece (Which no slam
ming wi give the weight OF a tenn drops upon
the contribution plate. Instantly there was a
rush.. swirl: l struck; and Got him, by
-! Never mind what Luke said got him
by. Out on the fly! continued the irrever-
ent guide, but / told him to back water and
make for the center of the lake. The trout,
as soon as he felt the prick of the hook. was
off like shot. and took out the whole of the
line with a rapidity that made it smoke.
Give him the BUTT shouted Luke. Ii is
the usual remark in such an emergency.
gave him the butt, and, recognizing the fact
and my spirit, the trout at once sunk to the
bottom and skulked. 1t is the most dangerous
mood OF trout, for you cannot tell what he
Will do next. We reeled up little, and
waited five minutes for him to reflect. A
tightening of the line enraged him. and he
soon developed his tactics. Coming to the
surface. he made straight for the boat faster
than could reel in, and evidently with hos
tile intentions. Look out for him. cried
Luke, as he came flying in the air. evaded
him by dropping fiat in the bottom of the
boat, and when / picked my traps up he was
spinning across the lake as if he had a new
idea: but the line was Still fast. He did not
run far.
gave him the butt again, a thing he seemed
TO hate, even as gift; in moment the evil
minded fish, lashing the water in his rage,
was coming back again, making straight for
the boat as before. Luke, who was used to
these encounters, having read of them in the
writings OF travellers he had accompanied,
raised his paddle in self defence. The trout
left the water about ten feet from the boat
and came directly at me, with fiery eyes, his
Speckled sides flashing like meteor.
lodged as he whi>ked by with a vi
ciOuS slap of his biiurcated tail, and nearly
upset the boat. The line was. of course,
slack, and the danger was that he would en-
angle me about il and Carry away a leg
This was evidently his game, but | untangled
t, and only lost a breast but on or two by
he swiftly moving string The trout plunged
ntO the water with Kissing sound, and went
away again with all the line on the reel. More
butt. More Indignation on the part OF the
captive.
The contest had now been going on for half
an hour, and l was getting exhausted. We
had been back and forth across the lake, and
hat the trout would start up the inlet and
wreck us hl the bushes. But he had new
ancy, and began the execution of maneuver
which 1 had never read Of Instead of
coming straight toward me, he took a
large circle, swimming rapidly, and gradu-
ally contracting his orbit. / reeled in, and
kept my eye on him. Round and round he
went, narrowing his circle. I began to sus-
pect his game, which was to twist my head
off When he had reduced the radius of his
circle to about twenty five feet, he struck
tremendous pace through the water. 1t
would be false modesty in sportsman to say
pected. stepped to the bow, braeed myself,
and let the boat swing. Round went
The fish, and round we went like top.
l saw a line of Mount Marcys all
round the horizon, The rosy tint in the west
made broad bank of pink along the sky
above tree tops. The evening star was per-
feet circle OF light, hoop of gold in the
heavens. We reeled, and ahirled, and reeled,
and reeled, and whirled. | was willing TO give
the malicious beast butt, and line, and all,
if he would only 60 the othar way for a
change.
Wen l came to myself Luke was gazing the
trout at the bOat-Sde, After we got him and
dressed him he weighed three-quarters of a
pound.