The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-02
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WHERE CLERGYMEN ANGLE.
TWO TROUT STREAM ALMOST MONOP-
OLIzED BY PREA ACHERS
Turning to Fly Casting nfter Forty Years %
Bait Fishina-A Grent Flood that Hurt
the Fish--LIvely Grabbing for a Trout.

Bait Fishina-A Grent Flood that Hurt
the Fish--LIveIy Grabbing for Trout
MoRsToN, N. Y, May willwemock
Creek comes tumbling down from among the
Sullivan County hills to this place. and only
few miles away the Neversink River also
flows toward the Delaware Both have been
famous trout streams In their day. nor has the
goodness yet entirely gone ont from them. SO
think two parties OF preachers who are
whipping their waters with varying sue
cess. The one is from Brooklyn. They
went up the Wiwemock. and. after a
few days. crossed over TO the head waters OF the
Neversink. The other halls from New Jersey.
and is putting up at quiet farm house on the
Neversink above Woodbourne The preachers
seem TO like these two streams more than the
others Of the region. .
There are no hotels near tho fishing grounds,
no barroom blasphemy to offend their ears. and
in the quiet Of the mountains they enjoy
their recreations. their pipes. and their
prayers unmmolesled and nearly alone There
are parties OF them who havc been here
every season for these six yenrs back. One in
particular goes to Sturtevants. on the Willmem-
ock. for two weeks. and then to Herron's farm-
house. on the Neversink. for the latter being the
larger stream fishing does not begin there
80 soon as on the Mmemock. This party
used to angle with worms alone. but last sea-
son. as two OF them were working slowly down
stream with Indifferent success. spruce young
New Yorker overlook them whit ippnRt the stream
dainty with cast Of yellow may. Beaver
kill and white-winged coachmau flee and the
cergymen IN aghast leheld him taking out
quarter and balf-pounders from under their
very noses, 4 day or two Inter. Harry
bTItehard Of New York. VINO knows Know 90, q
in among them. and they reeled up their
lines aud looked on in astonishment as ne
NNs.sW. Ia lad mi hos
caSsnt the dy-hsSing fever, and Il
has ragged among them ever since.
with eight and ten ouuce fly rods. landing nets.
and the Ike. But they carried no worms;
henceforth they were hy. fishers.
/ nshed down stream with two of them Tor n
half Il day. To become an expert fly cas er after
having used bat for twenty-five ysnrs isn't lhe
work OF an hour or n season. The transition
The irresistable impulse to twch when rise
Is had IL most q ifll 'ult to overcome. Now. the
fly fisherman must not twitch. Anything like
diate confusion. The aies twist into the
leader. the leader taneles into the line.
and the line winds around the tip Of the
rod or entwincs Itself about the hend OF the an-
Stream the water knee deep. MS leader wound
twice about his neck. the tlil-hy las
middle one caught on. the rim OF
his hat and the third actively penetrating the
Heshy, part 81 his neck; lust PACK m 81 the right
ing his rod IN graceful snurls. isn't To be laughed
at. II you are close To- the victim. for to do sc
however. that hr shouldn't have twitched-
One OF the clergymen began the days spdft
with an episode. A three-quarter Of u pound
trout seiz q his ly and the angler lost his head.
The old fashioned way was to Lift
The FISH bodily from the wate5 and nd
| troutship high and dry on the bank that
sloped to the waters edge. The, hook
toward the stream. Out Of the river and
up the bank skipped the clergyman with the
sinnt he was paving the sand ana gravel
for the dancing fish. But the trout
| at full length, face downward. and an ava
| Mnrhe Of stones andsoil loosened by his etforts
Started, taki MN win IT, fupperty hop went
aud grab after grab did the PROSTATE
were to no purpose. The nsh maintain ID the
down the slope surrounded by the sand and
| pebbles. until. 18th Il grand splash. he alighted
| in the wnter and went all over under. Ordinary
| sinners would have emerged from the ruin
! with something OF an oath lingering upon their
| lips. This divine. however arose, shook him
| self and then eXclHimed:
NY stars. Whuta monsterl"
Again the suggestion WAS tenderly hroached
! that be shOullut have twitched. and we wnded
! fly from behind hall hidded rock. Then a
and was brought 10 tho landing wet.
deep. dark pool proved m easy victim. II is nm
excellent str"am in which 10 cist the hy. ,or tho
| winter floods clear the side OF brush and drift
wood. and the course is clear.
The cergymen improved with every cast. and
brought many tront to tne MT 3ui was DIM
sequence Wa had trout hanging from the limha
| OF "a" trees with Lines and leaders in u tancle.
| and some hne ones, regret to say. were siunR
| Tar of into the woods and lost in the UNDER
| brush. one OF them. a very large ono. fell in a
| pool OF siagnaut water. and us the preacher
| who had Gust him there WIS gone long time n
the search To recover II there l. ground for tha
| belief that he tried % mase Il bite once more.
The most astonishing feat Of the dav. how
ever, wns the uninteutlonHl capture Of q flsh by
! the .gravest preacher in the purity. He had q
him after recovering for cast AZ
| It struck the water on. OF these times trout
seized the hy. hooked hms H. and in anothei
nnnG from 2 n sling The opreaeher couldn't
tint he was tho victim Of M optical dclusien.
To make sure TINT the. tlsh was II reality no
landed him ON the shore. and there the preacher
and the trout were soon viewing each cthor
with mutual nsi1nlsnmn Mt.
The tront-nshine season in this region is az
is height. and hundreds ~ 81 ny ,cnst-rs afe
,hreshing tn" many streams. Tne hotels on tho
thai, entertain .sportsmen have their share
OF guests. On th" whoo. trout DO not seem 80
fairs great hood. which was ty mr the most
severe ever known N the Bcav"rklli. the
WEillmGmoek 9nL The f.y'rs'n either swspt
were aitprward found IN the fields that hai
dead in The sand that accumnnted in
the frcsh~t II happened iust after the
spawning season, ana thr spawning beds were
bly, destroyed. Yet thc fishing il this wear v1rv
good. Especially fine cut'Nas are daily
Al Clnryv.lle. ON t.. N'verslnk. Thrtrout arc
in very hne condition. TIN B"uyerkiI was
less giiH,Ied hv the flood hau tn" other streams.
and fishing there is quite So good AS ii has been
IN late years.