The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-29
IT WAS THREE TINES AND OUT.


Tho non. Jim Sweeney TELLS How Ills E.-
says In riso' ..iture We're Ioilcd.
$50, / don't fish any more, said the
Hon Jim Sweeney, the journalist states
man uf Luzcrne county, Pa. II have no
heart for fishing, owing to the way was
treated up in my county hy some of my
constituents when was In the Legislature
Thcra were lot of nice streams around
Hrg eton, but they had all been tishcd out,
and nobody would take an interest I'm hay
inc them restockcd So / went quietly to
worl. and stocked Laurel run at my own
expense with trout 1 kept the matter all
~ myself for l didn't want any one to
take advantage of what l had done before
/ hal u chance to enjoy some sport ON the
reiu enatcd stream myself Three years
afteg l put the fry IN the creek l iuvcsti-
gate and found that IL was alive with big
trout, and | rugged myself out with $40
wor d of now tackle and one nice day in
May took "a iaunt to the creek The first
thin l saw was a sign ON tree warning
every one to keep off those grounds under
penalty of the law. The stream was posted
its whole lcngth a big double listed ma
tive, who was on guard over the stream,
informed me that the creek and the land
along It had been leased by private parties,
anu Z ltufllcil lllbN bllHbuAn Nlt lIbut III
the stream were mine, If | venturcd to
catcl any Of them they would cost me at
least SO apiece. So | had to let others have
fun With my trout, and they've been hav-
ing it ever since, and I've never had a
chance TO kill even one.
"iho Nescopcck river was good stream
to stock with black bass, and rs l had been
knocked out Of my trout concluded that
would put the Nescopcck in shape to get
me some black bass fishing at some future
day. l stocked it just as / had stocked
Laurel run and kept that quiet too. There
had never been any bass i'm the river, and
found that mine were doing finely there.
when the stream was ready to be fishcd,
Istaited out to have a days sport with the
first black bass fishing ever known on the
Nesc Jpeck. On the way heard the news
that a big break had occurred in the upper
Lehi I'll coal mines, and that flood of sui
phur water from the mines was pouring
into the NescopeCk river When | got to
the river, the shores were lined by the hun
drcd and thousand with my black bass
great, big, lusty fellows they were too
and every living thing in the river was
killed. Not thing escaped the deadly
poison and there has never been any fish
ing there since.
Il remembered that soon after / had
stocked Laurel run with trout l had pro
cured some German carp to accommodate
constituent OF mine, who said he knew
pond where carp would thrive and some
day give great sport to fishermen who like
that sort of fishing. 1t is IA big drop from
trout and black bass to carp, but l fell
that | would like TO have some little re
turn for my efforts to enhance the pisca
torial interests of my district, SO l de
termincd to try the carp. They at lcas
were surely beyond the influence Of capita
and sulphur water My constituent TOLD
me that the carp had done so well that the
pond was full of them, and that one yarC
long was no rarity, and the beauty Of il
was, he said, that no one knew it but he
The POND was nine miles away. | hat
driven almost to it when we met IA man
knew. He had a wagon load of something
covered with straw l asked him wha
he was carting home.
" suckers, he replied the darn 'dos
biggest suckers ever saw, and where they
could have dropped from we can't maxi
out, FOR the last time we drawcd the ponC
of .our years ago there wasn't a sucke
in ID a foot long
"lhcn l learned that the people there
abouts were i'm the habit of drawing off
pom in that vicinity every three or fou
years to scoop out the suckers that live,
in II And that pond was the one l hat
stocked with carp, and this time they ha,
lanCed them gave up on the spot AM
have never had the heart to 60 fshin
sine. New York sun.