Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-21

Our NnluNN iilcuNNs MI Olit = MfAl
and Mr.. stanley Waterloo. have invited
us to 20 fishing with them Beginning
In moro infancy with The articles but
glitlcring minnow. We have worked our
way up aud along the ascending scale,
thousands upon thousands Of pumpkin
seeds. dnce. porch. bulihcads. cells, pike.
mckcrol and bass falling victim 90 our
incompatible art. We have been I'M.
portuned To write book about angling;
publishers have come 10 Ms and besought
ms with tears IN their eyes 10 give the
world thew hof it Of Our knowledge
But We have resisted these temptations
for ihc reason that. knowing that ou1
proficiency Is a giit rather than an nc
complement. we believe that the truo
fisherman IL born. not made
Some who have scrutiuized our meth.
OILS aiaort that the secret Of our unpar.
allelcd succcss &c due largely 10 ;hc fact
that we Invariably spit upon our bait
Others maintain that we catch fish b..
cause we never swear aud others still
imputo our slcccas to the circumstance
that under no circum. tauccs whatever
will we 10 fishing on a Sunday. There
are those, We repeat. who honestly lay
our success TO these secret causes but
they are all in griUvous cfror
Our remarkable accomplishments DO
not depend at nll upon those trivial
thinFs. wp catch lsh simply because
we were born with tlmt subtle. iudefn.
ahln gcpius for catching iish which can.
not he comwrhonlcd save couuuiully
or by the mysterious process Of horpdity
The question which urises Is whether
Il would hs righteous Of Us 10 prostitute
this noble genius To tho ends which
Mussrs. Road and Waterloo suggest
Would II not Do criminal waste Of time
Tor us to devote from Nix to eight hours
u day 10 that lnckndaisical fOolHg which
those misguided friends ~ ours call fish.
mg2 Il strikes us that we could be- much
better employed than at tho question.
able sport Of doddering about IN nn awl.
ward yawl in pursuit Of cmaciatod perch
aud nuurnsthonir piclercL When We
fsh We want 10 fish. and we ara not con.
tont with oadAycrous lillipuuan PROV.
we demand heroic game.
Messrs. Read and Waterloo are very
clever gontlonien. but they have yet To
learn that just a. rolling stone gath.
en- no moss, 40 rowing angler comprc
hends no game These two amateur
sp1iismen no sooner got into q boat and
cast their lines than they nro filed with
tho absurd conviction that the best hsh.
ing Is 20 bo found "a mile away, undor
distant bank, yet no sooner Is this Car
OF spot reached than they nrc possessed
Of another and more yioloni conviction
that a attn moro desirable angling spot
Is the rushcs against the farther shore
OF the lake. And So from ono locality
TO another they must be transported
never content TO try the present waters,
but always goaded on by The Insane
hope u finding enormous success else
where.
Lifo Is full OF this spirit Of Impotence
nnd unrest, and that 10 why there aru 80
few fish caught As for Us. it conionts
us TO push ont from shore. drop the
anchor and cast our line; no worry, no
fretiing, no labor-simply oquanimity
and rcposc and success. What swccter
thing Is there to b. pruciiced or imagined
than this sport AS we pursue II; We lie
In the bottom OF the boat, our head phi.
lowed upon q cushion at tho bow, u
green umbrella foreloHds the nrdor Of
the sun, and with coinponionnblc book
the hours tre bcguilcd. The humble
but seryiccablo bob apprise- rs when Il
Is time for action. Oh, this T. fishing
that Is indeed i.hingl Why toll hither
and thither over tho RULED expanse
when fruiiion comes easier with rcsposc.
The vorlesi clod can row and sweat, bu.
only genius can philosophizo and catch
fish. -Eugene Fold In Chicago Nows.