St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-18
FISH STORIES.


like fish after you have caught and de-
voured it? Time only increases the size of it,
until it would swamp an ordinary boat after
il has been caught for week. Why will
those WICKED little fish insist upon biting
better on Sunday than on week days! l
wonder if they have ever heard about the
better the day. the better the deed. " To what
awful place will our young men deserve to
lbe sent by the END of the seaso IL if they coll.
tinue to ashland to explain what they
caught? If a man were to catch fly he
would say, Il caught fiy,'' but if he caught
a fish ne would say. II caught nine fish. y
Can no one explain why dead fish multi
plies so much faster than any other dead
object? l am the only honest fisher person
that | am acquainted with. l am sure |
would not endavor to conceal the fact. if /
returned from fishing excursion empty
handed. Dut-ahem II always catch some
thing. Itmay be only cold or perhaps only
pickerel from the nearest fish stand ~or
scolding when l return home. but reiterate.
l always catch something when l go fishing.
-
do not know of any creature that causes
more uDpermissible language to be used than
small perch. They seem, to have been es-
pecially manufactured to cause man to
forget his former Sunday school lessons;
What is more provoking than to sit on a hard
board for an hour. with your eye glued to
bobbing boDber, occasionally getting little
nibble at your bait, and finally to jerk up
your line. feeling sure you have whale, only
to see rascally little perch skip away. and
your hook staring emptily at you? That
nice, fat worm you so carefully put on has
been gone for how long only that nasty little
perch knows. If you do catch the little mis-
chief, you are too conscientious to keep such
a very small fish: so back into the water he
goes. If he had the slightest notion of what
is honorable he would wiggle his little fins,
and start for home to warn his relatives
away from your preserves. But he was en-
dowed with SO much greed that no room was
left for honor IN his fshy composition, so
back he comes again, and that long suffering
fisherman may catch the same little fiend
any number of times, until his patience and
his arm are tired out and the perch is put
into the bottom of the boat to meet well
deserved end.
l saw a party of young men fishing in
White Bear last week. They had couple of
young ladies in the boat with them, who were
not fishing. but were intent OH two interest
ing-looking novels. I called from shore for
information regarding their haul. I'VE have
caught ten.'' responded one of the novel
readers; whereupon shout of aston shment
and incredibly went up. Only one fish was
to be found in the boat and yet she insisted
that she saw one landed every time she
looked up from her book, and had counted
ten. Some feared she had sunstroke, others
that she had imbibed too much lake water or
81 GcI,r
which all fishers are overcome sooner or
later. At last the argument grew so heated.
and the fire station being so remote. one of
the boys confessed. 1t was the young man
whom we all knew took a great interest in
the aforesaid young lady. He sheepishly
confessed that he wished her to think him
marvel of genius in everything he attempted
from reading Arab to fishing. So every.time
he had seen her glance up he had triumph
antly landed this same fish at his lady loves
feet; then when she again became absorbed
in her tale he would quietly put it on his
hook again, drop it over the side of the boat
and wait for another glance from those dark
eyes that were the cause of all his trouble.
~
/ can'timagine why men should ever OBJ
ject to taking females fishing with them. If
you only pick out girls that are meek enough
you will have most efficient help. They cam
be taught to bait your hook. remove the
trophies OF your skill, dig angle worms, row
the boat and in several other ways make
themselves remarkably useful If they rebel.
when requested to put Il fresh worm on your
hook, say you will do 1t yourself" aud in
reaching for the worm manage to make the
boat ship a little water; you will soon have
them subdued; they will do almost anything
if you win only keep the boat from rocking.
l do not assert that all girls can be made thus
useful on fishing trip, but the dociie ones
can. | think girls prefer putting minnOW
on the hook; worms are not appeiizing. and
the agonized manner in which the poor little
froggies grab the hook is heart rending.
~
We went on a fishing trip last week;we
had a competent Instructor with us and we
intended learning to fish scientifically. Our
instructor said it was more sportsman like TO
''play'' fish, Our friend in the stern seat
caught an unassuming little croppie and
proceeded to play this fierce specimen
from the briny deep. Yon might just as we'll
try to play" log as croppie. Mr.. Croppie
gave one astonished and disguised look at
his captor. winKed at croppie friend below
and calmly slipped of the hook with nice
fat worm breakfast in his bill We could
hear the echo of his derisive laughter as he
left for parts unknown. Don't playa crop
pie, you idiot" yelled our flatter
ing instructor from the bow, ALWAYS
Jerk them in Certainly" answered the
gentleman in the stern, seating himself dis
consolately and proceeding to bait his hook
Then he threw his line over the side of the
No. ND hOb tad
the seat with shout and jerked his pole
with both hands. Snap went his pole and
into the lake. head foremost, went our
amateur fisher. After we had rescued the
Tuning, foaming sputtering remains of our
friend, one smart member of our party, who
never seemed able to understand that there
is a TIME when silence is golden, solicitously
inquired of the bedrsggled FISHERMAN,
where had he been?'' where have l
peen," sneered that irate individual ''been
walking around on the bottom CT the lake
pinning signs on the different fish down
there, SO the n ext time will know when I
catch croppie and when l catch bass
49,
What becomes of all the articles lost in the
lakes? White Bear must be paved with
rings, brooches. knives, eyeglasses, watches,
money. etc. Wouldn't it pay for syndicate
to drain it off next winter and gather up the
jeweIry? 1t must be very convenient for the
turtles to have so many rings contributed
gratuitously. They never have to buy wed.
ding rings; just dive down and take their
choice.
Last week party went out for days out
ing at lake near bv. The girls were enthusi-
astic fishers. All the boys wanted was to
have quiet day in the country. TO lounge
around and smoke They bought the best
cigars and tobacco, put the lunch in a nice
boat, rowed about FIVE miles from anywhere
filed their pipes, slowed themselves
comfortably in the bottom of the
boat. and prepared to thoroughly enjoy
life "Give us light, Jimmie" Jimmie
obediently put his hand into his pocket, then
into another pocket. and in another and
yet another. Then the other boys went
through the same antics, but gradually a
look of blank despair oerspread these
hitherto joyous countenances. Five miles
from shore and nary match in the crowd
1t was quite too much for them. This is not
a dictionary, so will not record the words
that were spoken. 1t is enough to know that
the language they used frightened all the fish
away from their vicinity. Some of the ex-
cay f0 tha