Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-14

man, especially If we are not so successful, | "It is all luck anyhow" But the unsuccess- ful trout angler can hardly claim that cOnso. | lation. An interview which had with one | of the old enthusiastic trout fshera of the | Rockies will fairly indicate their views on the | subject. It was Saturday evening after my | first days attempt at trout fishing had | spent the whole afternoon. had used every means my ingenuity could suggest to induce the fastidious creatures to bite: tried the most beautiful hy in town. I caught live grssshoppers and bugs. would dsngle the tempting bait within an inch of their mouths. They wouldn't even condeecend to notice it,
 and my afternoons efforts were rewarded
 with not single nibbls. Said I to this gentleman during the course of our con
 versation about trout and trout fishing:
 cts all luck anyhow, isn't itf" "Lucki no
 luck, at all :" said he, tits all skill and you
 can't get that skill without practice. In the first place you have got to have the bait for I, "don't trout always eat fiesf" "Yes, they always eat flies, but they won't always eat the same kind of flies. They are a very dainty | 6sh. They may be very hungry for one kind of fly to-dLy and In another day or two you can't coax them to touch it. They want 6 change. An experienced trout fisher always I examines the stomach of the first trout he | catches to see what he has been eating. Then he will use that for bait" "But," said I, ''after you have your proper bait, where does | your skill of catching them come inF" f fThere's where the skill begins," said | he. Anybody can tell what kind of bait | to use, but you want to make your fy move over the water, ss it would be natural for that kind of hy to move. You can prsc- | rice ou that for years and always improve, II and the more you can make 1t move like the real fly the more trout you will catch. You | Ssant to make them believe that it is @ real ey. Some people will let the fly sink right | down in the water to the trout. A trout will
 never touch fiY under water unless he is
 very hungry. You can't catch them that
 way. They know that that is no live fy.
 Trout fishing is an art. There is always
 something to learn about 1t. No matter how
 much you have ished you can always im-
 prove" "As to its being matter of chance, II I continued he. s'I can conviuce you upon that point easy enough. There l was fellow hera from Leadville a year or
 two ago who offered to bet odds that hs
 could catch two to one with the best trout
 fishers in town. Some Of our best hshers | went out with him, and he caught five times | as many as the best nan we had. He knew just how to move his line, and when h. ! swept it across a hole where there was | trout he was sure to get him. whyl fooled
 away three whole days trying to catch |
 trout down there by my claimi He was
 fine onei He was about that long land h' | placed his hands about twenty inchei
 apart.) I couldn't coax him to bite, wouli throw the bait sometimes right In his moutl thought, and he would just move away a if to say "None of that in mine" We'll while 1 was there one day still trying | catch that fish, along came this Leadvill fellow. Said l.: "Won't you pleas catch tha. fsh for mel I've beel trying to get him for thrs , ! days" Said he, "Is there fish in that holef B I fie looked in and just gave the pole e whil I and flung the line on the water. He pulle
 | him out the first time he drew the line across
 He was a beauty. He weighed about thre pounds"
 Some of these large trout display very sul I pfising strength. IL was only few days a
 that one of our boys was down the river Ii ' | dulging in his favorite pastims. He pecan d absorbed in a novel which he brought alon e and fastened his pole to one of his hees or |. let the line dangle in the current, which
 very swift and deep at this time of ths yes A large trout took the fly, and before
 could recover himself he was literally drsgg,
 into the stream, and he was saved from beii
 drowned only by the liss breaking. A.