Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27

knew a trout weighing over three pounds
to r1se for fiy. The average is not above
one-half pound. The few large trout
caught in the Richardson waters don't rise
at fly. They are caught with live bait AT
A live minnow Is put upon large nook
with a strong line, and 1t Is tralled
along day after day behind q canoe,
the euide rowing. The big trout IS
NOT landed with a fancy fly rod. He
would break il into kindling wood as quick
as a locomotive would a broomstick. The
trout has to be drawn in by sheer strength
of the line, the same as goldfish or q olue-
fish. How do you suppose the biggest
trout ever caught in these waters tkangely
and Ricbardson) was obtained The one
shown in Boston in the fall OF 1850, mean.
weighed Over 10 Pounds.
The guide .jigged him up The trout
was on the spawning bed, where trout
is always as numb as a sucker. The guide,
IN some logs or in a canoe, directly over the
spawning bed and not over eight feet from
The trout. with the line in his hands, worked
The hook, baited with chunk OF trout
spawr. taken from trout Just killed, beside
the nose of the magnificent fish. He
snapped at it, and was hooked to line
strong enough to land halibut and was
.snaked up.
had as much to do with the landing or that
trout as did the rest OF the split bamoo
rods in the stores in Boston," Rare sport;
landing 1O-pound trout on the nine-ounce
rods Catch them with a fly If you can.
The days OF fly catching for these over.
grown trout are over. Open the NAV oil
one of them. What do you find? Min
noys, and minnows only. Flies or bugs
from the surface of the water? None.
II YOU imagine fishing for lake trout to
be all smooth sailing, you should have been
with us on trip last week to Richardson
lake. Without adventure except a pleas
ant ride by rail and magnificent excur-
sion by stage and buck board, we were
landed at the south arm of Richardson lake.
In camping at the narrows our trouble be-
gun. Black flies and mosquitoes, mosqul-
toes and black flies. They
swarmed from Every Inch of Ground.
Stir up the dried leaves, and million
black flies arose They meant blood, and
tbev drew blood, Put on tar and penny
royal!-yes, but they would 60 through 1t
in 20 minutes. We poured it on till we
cried tears of tar, and tar and oil oozed
from every pore. Our humble couch OF
spruce boughs, burlans and blankets smell
ed of tar strong enough to drive away any
but the ravenous wood mosquitoes, but they
did not mind it, We had a good tent. 1t
Gould be laced up-fy and mosquito
proof. We could smoke them out, and,
after the smoke had subsidized, enter our
selves. lace up the tent, and thus
Earn Immunity From the Horrid In.
sects
at night. No; not so fast. These pests
were only "smudged' down. They
hid in the boughs composing our bed; they
crept down close to the ground in the cor
ncrs of the tent-any way to escape the
smoke-and after we were asleep they arose
in a horrid buzzing, humming. ringing
body, and then Toasted upon our blood Vi
course we were awakened and built another
smudse and smoked the singing, biting
devils down again. We breathed smuige
until from our nostrils we blew black
smudge nearly all the next day. Our pray
or was ''Oh, il they would only let us alone
nights
The mosquitoes end flies drove us from
that camping ground.
We Suffered Four Nights.
In the day time We fled to the broad lake
in our canoe, where the wind drove away
our infiiCtors. We went to the Upper Dam
to escape the mosquitoes and flies. As soon
go to New England country inn to escape
bar-room loafers. They were there in full
force, but we-this we is not the editorial
we so lovingly fosteIed in the country
newspapers, but two Of US, afflicted with
the trouting craze-we escaped our enc
mics on the voyage up the lake on the lit
tie steamer.
Three youths from Brooklyn were at the
Upper Dam. We had met them on the
stage on their way in. They had read the
guide books.
They Were Armed to the Teeth
Winchester rifles of the most improved
pattern-their bodies ornamented with
cartridge belts stuck full. Not moose,
bear, or deer should escape them. They
had the sporting craze in its most malig-
nant form. They were going way into tho
forest where man never penetrated before.
A guide was hired who would take them
there, but he thought best to camp them
the first night at the Upper Dam. He
stabbed the boys in little she'd just below
the famous place of our difficult landing.
The shed-camp they called twas open
on one side.
The Mosquitoes and Flies Appreciated
This.
II had the lake in front and the woods be.
hind. The boys imagined the bears would
appreciate the woods; accordingly, they
lay on their arms and spruce boughs. They
tried mosquito netting, but the flies would
20 through it, They ate in camp with
their heads enveloped in netting, raising
and lowering the mask for each mouthful.
One would cut hole in his netting hood
for his knife and fork, but this would
never do, the flies found the aperture and
entered. The boys did not sleep much the
first night; mosquitoes and bears were too
plenty-mosquitoes and black flies in re-
ality-black bears in imagination. They
tried trouting next morning.
The Flies Tried Them.
They were a tender morsel for the flies.
The boys called for tar and pennyroyal.
They smeared their faces with il till it
wept in great dropSfrom their chins. They
asked their guide il the flies would bite
away in the forest He told them, with
a serious look. everywhere. They conclud-
ed they would not penetrate too far this
time; they would break up shed-camp,
they called it--and go home.
We caught trout? Yes some. which
weighed three-quarters of a pound. We
broke rods? Yes. We bruised our shins?
Yes. We had sport and and fun? Yes,
and no. We are ready to go through again
the same? No. not while the mosquitoes
and flies last.
He Soon Learned all About the Thing.
D,nrer Tribune.
A man, who failed to give his name,
met with very serious accident near
Bloomsbury, on the South Park road. He
was walking along the track toward
Denver when he picked up giant cap
one used to explode giant powder. AS
he had never before seen one it excited
his curiosity, and he began picking the
dust out with a pin. While thus en-
gagged the cap exploded, blowing off the
first two fingers and thumb Of the left