Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-21
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY FISHING.

That little Irish Cailin in her suld plaid shawl
Frank A. Fdhv in ". r. Tribune.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY FISHING.
The Costly Outft ola Poor Little Million.
aire.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
"Well, we strolled into the store and be-
gan to price things, when dapper little
fellow entered dressed in the height OF
fashion, and told the clerk that he was
going fishing this summer and wanted an
outfit.
"'Yss., sir said the smiling clerk, what
will you have?'
az don't know in the least, ! assure
you,' said the customer. i was told this
was the best place to come to aud suppose
you know your business. Put me up a
complete fishing outfit, and send it up to
my club and he threw down his card,
which bore the letters 'ir.' after the name
of a man whom even the clerk recognized
as able to buy out the whole establishment
with weeks income.
"' Yessir, yessir; said the clerk breath
lessly, Il know my business, of course, and
can give you the most complete outfit in
the world. If you'll just sit right down
there, sir, I'll bring you the goods and
you can choose what you like best.
Now we'll begin on the rods. That S
the first thing, of course. Here you are
for black bass. This is the best rod in the
anu IiO ulIStdht-tne Dest btleCl6u
split bamboo, mountings of German silver
aud hand made in every particular, fer.
rules absolutely waterproof, a waterproof
cushion of zylonite, adding great strength
to the joints, fine raised tieglides, three
pieces in all, two tips, eleven feet long and
ounces, and strong enough to land whale
It costs $25.
ga good rod like that merits a good
reel. This is a newly invented automatic
reel. Those who angle for fish requiring
long line will appreciate its good qualities,
particularly the rapidity with which 1t re-
covers the j" slack" often caused by the
eccentric movements OF gamey fish, In
deed, with this reel properly manipulated,
there can be no slack. BY simply touching
spring, the recovery is practically in
stantaneous. Another advantage Is that
he resistance of the spring Is just suffi-
cient to curb the fish without imperilling
MS loss by tearing out, and the adjusted
pressure will not only hold, but bring in u
ish of less than five or six pounds weight
rs speedily as any one could desire. 1t is
certainly an ingenious piece of mechanism,
and when one gets used to it, the old
fashioned reel must seem both slow and
cumbersome. In rubber and German
silver, with steel pivots it will cost you Sl2
II you think an automatic reel not sports.
nanlike enough, take this best balance
handle reel in the market, at $3l.'
"'Tll take both,' said the customer
,arelessly. !,
"'Now for hooks continued the clerk
with a satisfied grin. You can get lots of
,nelled hooks complete, at less cost than
he price of good gut alone, but don't let
hny one fool you like that. The best
Mariana gut costs more, of course. but if
you hook a fine fish and lose him through
buying cheap gut you deserve to. Three
lozen of these superior ones, assorted sizes
1T 60 cents dozen, will be sufficient, no
doubt.
ga strong enamelled silk level line. at
6 hundred yards, will give you four ex
ellent lines, enough to start with. A fish
hook extractor costs so cents minnow-
bucket, 81; a dozen extra quality double
gut bass flies, 81 a fly-book, morocco
.over, 81; a couple of double-gut minnow
yangs, 81 90; a couple of ordinary trolling
bait, 81; some helgramites, 81; frogs, 81 |;
phantom minnow, 81 landing net. - {;
sole- leather rod case, IS rod holder to
asten the rod to the gunwale of your boat
while trolling, 81 so, and a case with trays
md compartments to keep all these things
separate and in order, $780,
20 Is that all? asked the customer, as the
clerk paused to catch his wind.
+" That's a fair black bass outfit replied
he clerk, but now for the trout. rod,
same style and make as the other, only
lighter, with an extra tip, seven-ounces.
US ; case for it, 81 the same reels will do
or both rods lines, 100 yards, same quality
ss before only lighter, 81; extra fine gut
eaders, nine fGet long, 2hcents each, take
four, 81; hooks, three dozen at 35 cents,
,ay 81; tackle book, 81; bait box, 81 fold
ny trout bag, 81 drinking cup, 81; pocket
lask, leather covered, 50 assorted insects
On hooks, say a half dozen bees, grass
,oppers, ladybugs, etc., 50 so, and an as
sortment of lilies.
q. Now the fly question is the most
islicate one of all. Some fishermen like
)ne kind, some another. As you have had
40 experience, you probably have no
.hoice. / can't advise you very well, as l
lon't know In what waters you are going
o fish, said the clerk, rather puzzled over
his customer.
"The customer, in fact, had not displayed
any more interest in the splendid assort-
nent OF tackle that had been chosen for
iim than if they had been so many willow
rods AID bent pins. But as the clerk
seemed to need assistance here, he re-
marked: Give me half dozen Of each
Kind and I'll find out for myself which
ike best
"The clerk looked at him a moment and
seemed about to demonstrate, but thought
better of it, cast his eye over the widely
varying prices of flies per dozen, averaged
hem up at 81, and humming There may
90 one or two on you, but-picked Out
half a dozen of each of the following
varieties professor, red hackle, General
Hooker, Canada, red dun, red grouse
abbey, brown hackle, spider, oak, magpie
alder, coachman, gray haclile, cooper
thistle, yellow may, red spinner, black
mack ie, stone, widgeon, shoemaker, las
chance, grizzly king, brown ant, orange
lon, brown hen, yellow dollie, hawthorne
ibis, white miller, grannon, black gnat
gray dun, slver-brown, Montreal, lnsrct
brown, governor, wren tail, gray drake
gravel bed, turkey brown, cinnamon, blu'
bottle, imbrie, gray dollie, fern, silve
black.
WIs that allH' asked the customer
wearily.
That's complete outfit for bass ant
trout tishing replied the clerk, not bi
tired. For deep-sea fishing, you'll re
quire-' ,
fellow, with something approaching,
shudder. Il expect that fishing on DIR.
land will be sufficiently laborious. How
much does all this come to now|
".The Itotal is only Sls2sO,' replied tn
clerk glibly, as If he were accustomed I
selling such outfits every day OF his life.
"Well,' said the dapper youth, re
lsignedly, send them all up TO the club an'
perhaps, on second thought, you had bette
send the bill to the governor. It's by th
DOCTORS orders I'm going in for THIS sort
thing, you know.
"'By gum said Bill, who had watche
the entire transaction with GREATNESS inter
est, his eyes glittering as each marVe
lousy perfect and beautiful article wa
sorted out, how 1 envy that little cuss an
his ability to buy that daisy outfit withou
feeling ii. But FL bet you my bottol
idollar that I could pick out another OF
from off those same shelves for $50, all
with NV pockets full of worms, go into II
woods with young Moneybags ana pu
out "A cart load of fine fish under his yer
nose, where he could not land even chu
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