The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-13
TROUT FISHING.

TROUT FISHING.
eminently fitted for that purpose, as it
is one of the most beautiful spots on
earth. and the trout stream is a perfect
picture. 1t is shaded well, and therefore
very cool, yet it is not so full of snags
and dead logs as to consume library Of
fly books per mile.
Mr. Frank Chapman of Asheville and
John Fox, Jr., the delightful author of
1.-The Cumberland Vendetta, are along.
1t would please you to see two or three
literary giants out after bait on days
when the trout daes not rise to the fly,
but keeps his s1A1 at the bottom of the
poo.
Yesterday was grand sort Of day,
with low mutterings of thunder, just
such day as the true sport loves to go
forth, rod In hand, TO present his argu-
ments for the consideration Of his
speckled constituents. 1t was perfect
day for late summer fishing in the North
Carolina mountains. 1 caught 2S7 trout
and the seat of my second best pantses.
Kersbrook was so named by Mr.. Cush
ing and rises in the broad brow of
Craggv mountain. 1t is succession Of
silvcry cat2racts, Swallowed by huge
tulip trees and giant powders of mica
ceoUs granite upholstered with silken
moss Of pallid green. Below the melo-
dious cataract, where the frothy pool
eddies and Shirls about, bearing the
empty bur of the chestnut, or 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
wary Of the educated foe.
We are using today the grub of the
unmatched hornet for bait. never triep
that before, but it works well. You slid
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 inmates by
punging the whole nest into the creek.
Opening the beautiful structure, you
discover several combs like those of the
honeybee, only filled with the white or
pale sulphur colored grub of the yellow
jacket, or Little Mammoth Surprise
Package of the Blue Ridge.
/ gathered one of these hornets nests
once in an unguarded moment, watching
my chance to plug up the front door
just as no one was coming ill., But the
last one out suddenly thought of some
thing that he wanted to tell his wife
and came back while / 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 comparative
" short space of time. | dropped my
glasses and decided to abandon the IN
dertaking, but forgot TO fully complete
my plugging arrangements before 60
ing. Several of the Mamma Touch
menots, who had been on the nest. fol-
lowed me and terraced the top of my
head as we logged along together to-
ward Mobile.
Wa get the boys here to procure our
hornets nests now, as there is a popular
feeling engendered among the hornets
against us j do not mind seeing bear,
because / am so agile that can throw
an ordinary grizzly bear with such force
as TO crush his skull, but the Impatient
little typhoid jabber with the over
heated prong is so swift IN his move
ments that the average thought seems
TO be standing still as he passes by.
Mr.. Fox is very active man both
mentally and physically, and yet his
efforts in capturing the yellow jacket
sduab have been attended with only
moderate success and a tumor on the
brow, which indicates an oyerdevelop-
ment of spirituality.
We gave out word at the school
house on our way up the branch that
we would pay 20 cents apiece for hor-
nets nests in a good state of preserva-
ton, and that evening we had one end
OF the porch full of baby hornets for the
morrow.
carried a comb full of embryo hor-
nets all day in my hip pocket. but to-
ward evening the warmth Of nv person
had taken the place of the mamma hor-
net 10 such an extent that II full sized
pup hornets emerged from their little
shells and stunC me most bitterly. | did
not tell the other gentlemen about il,
but they noticed that i was sad, and
that even the broiled trout at eventide
and the low plunky plank of the banjo
at the cabin did not give me ioy. They
also noticed that | carried a large pil.
low around with me and sat ON il 20
Keep from taking cold on the dewy
earth.
This morning eight boys came to
where we were fishing. All of them had
large, beautiful welts over the eye, and
they said that they were committee
sent to demand an advance on the price
Of bait. 1told them that there was moth
ting TO arbitrate. but Mr.. Fox thought
best to acceoe 20 the demand Of the
committee SO we are paying. 40 cents