The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-12-04
1T WAS THREE TIMES AND OUT.
The Hon. Jim Sweeney Tells How His Es-
Gays In Pisc..4iture Were Foiled.

"No, l don't fish any morc,' said the
Hon. Jim Sweeney, the journalist states
man Of Luzernc county, Pa. II have no
heart for fishing owing to the way I was
treated up in my county by some Of my
/ constituents when was in the Legislature
| There were a lot OF nice streams around
/ IIazleton, but they had all been flshed out,
and nobody would take an interest in hav-
ing them restockcd. So l went quietly to
work and stocked Laurel run at my own
expense with trout. kept the matter all
10 myself, for l didn't want any one to
take advantage Of what had done before
] had chance to enjoy some sport ON the
rejuvenatcd stream myself. Three years
after put the fry in the creek / investi
gated and found that II was alive with big
trout, and | rugged myself out with S75
| worth OF new tackle and one nice day in
May took jaunt to the creek. The first
thing saw was sign on "a tree warning
| every one to keep of those grounds under
penalty Of the law. The stream was posted
its whole length. a big, double listed ma
tive, who was on guard over the stream,
! informed me that the creek and the land
along IL had been leased by private parties,
and learned that, although the trout in
the stream were mine, If l vcntured to
catch any of them they would cost me at
fun with my trout, and they've been hav-
ing it ever since, and I've never had a
chance to kill even one
The Nescopcck river was good stream
TO stock with black bass, and as 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 IL just as / had stocked
Laurel run and kept that quiet too. There
had never been any bass In the river and
found that mine were doing finely there
When the stream was ready to be flshed
started out to have u days sport with the
first black bass fishing ever known on the
Nescopeck. On the way l heard the news
that big break had occurred in the upper
Lchigh coal mines, and that flood of sui.
phur water from tho mines was pouring
into the Ncscopcck river When / got to
the river, the shores were lined by the hun.
dred 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 / 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 big drop from |
trout and black bass to carp, but / felt /
that would like to have some little re- |
turn for my efforts to enhance the pisca- |
torial interests of my district, so / de !
tcrmined to try the carp. They at least
were surely beyond the influence of capital
and sulphur water. My constituent told
me that the carp had done so well that the
pond was full of them, and that one a yard
long was no rarity, and the beauty of it
was, he said, that no one knew 1t but he.
The pond was nine miles away. had
driven almost to 1t when we met man l
knew. He had wagon load of something
covered with straw. / asked him what
he was carting home.
Suckers, he replied, the darn 'dest
biggest suckers ! ever saw, and where they
could have dropped from we can't make
out, for the last time we drawed the pond
of, four years ago, there wasn't sucker
in it foot long
Then learned that the people there
abouts were in the habit of drawing off a
pond in that vicinity every three or four
years to scoop out the suckers that lived
In it. And that pond was the one had
stocked with carp, and this time they had
landed them. gave up on the spot and
have never had the heart to go fishing
since. New York Sun.