Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-22
For the JOURNAL AND COURIER.

Sir Jzaac Walton has moro to answer for l fancy than he dreamed of in this world. It was an awful perversion when he lent big genius to setting forth to the world the art of angling-when with his facile pen he threw charm over this sport which remains bright and potent after o lapse of two hun dred years. And now in these last days noted clergyman has gi ven the world a most picturesque representation of the same sub ject, which many have read with delighted amusement. In view of all this, who could wholly refrain from the sport? Who. with three pound trouts leaping to seize the bait ere it touches the water" not singly, but by twos and thrses together-who would not go a-fshing? Alas, how many have been en- ticed by spotted trout poems to 8 persona endeavor and found therein not more, but far less truth than poetry? It is not just perhaps to press this responsibility upon any one, for the truth compels us to say that in this respect we love delusion, and, as we shall see, the pleasure of fishing is not SO much in the catching ill the trying. I know person intimately who never tires of the sport, whose experience throws a strong light on the question, In what consists the pleasure of fishing? Good fishing ground was not for a time accessible to him except for small fry. When the time came he re solved to try deep-sea fishing. A hundred miles brought him to Marblehead, Mass. An enthusiastic party chartered a vessel and they had fine time, but not many fish were caught The only salient feature of the cursion remembered is the superb chowder. After this he visited MT. Buel, of Whitehall, the pat tentee of the famous spoon hook. By him he was told that Lake Bombazine, in Vermont, was favorite resort of fishermen, and that pickerel of five and ten pounds were often taken there. He soon tried his lines there for two days in succession. A rock perch or two strengthened his line, causing him a sudden start, but together with his boatman they caught several nice pickerel.
 But not quite satisfied with his own suc- cess, and hearing exciting stories concerning l a lake on some mountain in Vermont. so i'm accessible and wild, and so infested with hor, rid snakes that few persons had ever seen 1t, and which of course would be full of fish, he resolved to visit it. With friend who ] had run away from his clients in New York l for @ few days, and guide, they started. ] The guides account of catching three picker 1 el there in twenty minutes which weighed l twenty seven pounds intensified their impa- tience for the sport. At length the noun | tain was climbed and the dark water seen
 in the abyss below. The battle with the snakes did not come off, as they did not ap- 1 l lines and catching-their breath for full two 1 hours. The sport at length grew dull, a | heavy, angry cloud seen to be slowly l coming up, but not fish As the cloud be-
 gan to mutter they turned upon the guide | ''What did you mean by telling that you
 minutes?" ''Every word true," said he.
 My lines had been set all day, but when I
 caught them it was done in twenty minutes y
 "That will do," sad the lawyer, ''now SC
 and get up the horses and be lively"
 The bays of Lake Champlain are noted fol | yielding good returns to fishermen. The
 next summer found him there equipped witt
 Buers spoons and having made the acquain l tance of Judge F.. who kindly offered to TOW
 the boat for trolling, he was successful in ac
 tually catching & fine half yard plckerel
 The next day also he caught a fish which wal
 much shorter, but very wide and thin
 Schroon Lake is situated little way south
 east of the Adirondack Mountains The re
 zion around the lake is described in a certai1
 book as wild and uninhabited and the lake
 over populated to that degree that fishing
 there was said to be an act of kindness, par
 ticularly to the fish left in the lake. To thi
 attractive spot, with a party of ladies ant
 other friends, he came in due time. But in
 stead of wilderness they were disappointed
 in finding a town hard by with streets, hotel
 and churches. The view from the lake north
 ward is surpassingly beautiful and compensa
 ted for all disappointments. In this lak
 they caught perhaps hundred, but they al
 could swim together in a bucket of water
 that is the fishes. This was far below thei
 expectations, nor did it amount to much work of benevolence.
 At another season he attempted to realiz the great desire of his heart in regions sti , further from home. The fine salmon whic , are served on the tables of the hotels in Sal atoga and Lake George he was told by tn landlords came from Montreal. Arrivin