The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-09-19
! FLYiNG-FIsA roR BLACK BASS.

So, girls and boys, let us go a-flshing fol-
black bass. A good brook or rivulet is close
BY almost any country house or town. A
short drive or walk takes us to where we
can hear the bubble and murmur, and SEE
the pure 'Fater ripping and cleaning among
The shining stones. The big plane-trees
Iometimes called sycamores, lean over the
crooks current, aud there is woodsy fra
GRANGE and freshness in the ain. Birds sing
overhead aud round about in the thickets.
We walk cautiously along the brook-side
until we find a place where tho water Il
dashing merrily among big stones and whirl-
ing in shining circles, frothed with clots Of
snowy foam. This is promising place foi
a cast. Let us try, Give way, boys, and
let one of the girls have thefirst cast. Now!
SEQ her take the fly miner left hand, iiehth
between the thumb and forefnger, her beau.
aful slender rod held almost vertically in
her right hand. She waves the rod back
ward over her left shoulder at the same
time loosing the fly, then she whipsthe rod
forward with a.sslight whirl TO the right,
mac away spins the fly. But IL falls some
what short. Quickly and deity she slips
few feet more of line from the reel, grace
fully whirls the rod backward again, and,
as the line straightens behind her, she casts
as before. Again and again she does this,
lengthening the line little at each cast,
until, at last, the gay fly falls lightly among
the shining waves close by little whirlpool
Splash! What a fine fish leaps upl You
see his scales CLEAN and his fins flash Us he
hips" himself almost bodily above the
water and seizes the fly. And what does
my little lady do with the rod She quickly
strikes'-that is, she gives a short, sharp
jerk with her right hand, and the fight
begins. The rod is bent like whip; whiz
goes the cliek-reel as the strong fish pull off
yard after yard of the line. Hold him back
quick! Now, as our little girl changes the
rod from her right hand to her left, in order
20 manage the reel, the fish makes a big
!unge and turns n somersault clear out OF
The water. The hook is an extra good one
or 1t would have broken under that strain.
We all look ON with tremulous excitemen,
rs the bass falls back again into the swirline
current and begins 20 dart this way and
that, making the line sing and whirl. Now
our determined little angler begins to force
the fight. She turns the butt of the rod
more forward, thus raising the tip, and begins
TO steadily turn the reel-crank with her right
hand. See the slender rod bend almost
double! Hurry, boys, -some one of YOU.
get the landing net and be ready to dip
up the game! As the line is shortened. the
bass is drawn nearer and nearer and nearer
to the grassy bank There his priclly
dorsal lin cuts the water, Now get the land
ing net under him. Good he is ours. and
he weighs full pound and aquarter. That
was well-managed campaign on the part
of onr young lady. Which one of the boy
can beat it
You may think that it would be very
easy task to manage fish weighing no more
than pound and n half but when IA live
and stubborn bass of that size is ut the end
of ten or twelve yards of line, and your rod
Is aslimber as whip, the thing isn't so easy
after all. l have seen grown men fail in
the undertaking Maurice Thompson, in
Work dad Play Department" IF So Niaa-
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