The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-20
FISHERMAN BILL NYE.
HE LURES THE uNWARY TROUT
IN THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS
OF NORTH CAROLINA.

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Effective, Both Before and After Fish.
ing-Hard Work TO Sit Down--A Man
Who Knows it All.
Copyright. 1894. by Edgar W. Nye.l
KERsBRooK, BUNCoMBE COUNTY,
Craggy Mountain.
| am located here for the purpose of
inaugurating An educational campaign
against the evasive North American
trout. There ia II trout preserve here
OF 10, 900 acres unCer The management
OF Mr.. @. D. Cush n, ~ho allows me
to come here and frolic with the game,
knowing that I never could give need
less pain to a dumb brute. This huge
COB of preserves is o to be turned
over to a hunting and fishing club, and
it is eminently fitted for that purpose,
as it is one of the most beautiful spots
on earth, and the trout stream is a per-
feet picture. tits shaded well, and
therefore very cool, yet it is not so full
of snags and dead logs as to consume
a library of fly books per mile.
Mr.. Frank Chapman, of Asheville,
and John Fox, Jr., the delightful au-
thor of The Cumberland Vendetta, "
are along. 1t would please you to see
two or three literary giants out after
bait on days when the trout does not
rise to the fly, but keeps his seat at the
bottom of the pool.
Yesterday was a grand sort of day,
with low mutterings of thunder, just
such a day as the true sport loves to
go forth, rod in hand, to present his
arguments for the consideration of his
speckled constituents. 1t was a per
day for late summer fishing in the
North Carolina mountains. I caught
287 trout and the seat of my second
best panties.
Kersbrook was so named by MI.
Gushing and rises in the broad brow of
Craggy mountain. 1t is a succession
of silvery cataracts, Swallowed by huge
tulip trees and giant powders of mica
ceous granite upholstered with silken
moss of pallid green. Below the melo
dious cateract, where the frothy pool
eddies and whirls about, bearing the
empty bur of the chestnut, OF the red
fruit of the cucumber tree, in a shady
corner of the cool water, lies the alert
little boy trout, hungry, but conserva-
tive, gamy, fierce and venturesome, but
We ~ IF tho o6uoatn6 foo
We are using to day the grub of the
unmatched hornet for bait. l never
tried that before, but it works well.
You slide up to a large gray hornets
nest, and while the family are at tea in
the rear of their residence you plug up
the front entrance and drown the in
mates by plunging the whole nest into
the creek. Opening the beautiful struc
ture, you discover several combs like
those of the honey bee, only filed with
the white or pale sulphur colored grub
of the yellow jacket, or Little Nam
moth Surprise Package of the Blue
Ridge.
gathered one of these hornets nests
once in an unguarded moment, watch
ing my chance to plug up the front
door just as one was coming in. But
the last one suddenly thought of some
thing that he wanted to tell his wife
and came back while I was there. An
noyed evidently at something l had
said perhaps in a spirit of banter he
backed up against the bridge Of my
nose and closed one of my eyes in a
comparatively short space of time l
dropped my glasses and decided to
abandon the undertaking, but forgot
to fully complete my plugging arrange
ments before going. Several of the
Mamma Touchmenots, who had been
on the nest, followed me and terraced
the top of my head as we logged along
together toward Mobile.
We get the boys here to procure our
hornets nests now, as there is a popu
lar feeling engendered among the hor
nets against us. / do not mind seeing
a bear, because I am so agile that l can
throw an ordinary grizzly bear with
such force as to crush his skull, but
the impatient little typhoid jabber with
the ~Overheated prong is so swift in his
movements that the average thought
seems to be standing still as he passes
by.
Mr.. Fox is a very active man, both
mentally and physically, and yet his
efforts in capturing the yellow jacket
SQUAD have been attended with only
moderate success and a tumor on the
brow, which indicates an overdevelop
ment of spirituality.
We gave out word at the school house