The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-07

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"No. I dunt nsh any uur. said the
Hon Jim ~uonri, The journalist states
man of LufDfno county, IA y have no
heart fof fishing uulnu tu the way ! was
trlaird up boz my county ny sumo ~ my
constituents whru ! wn4 ln che leflslatur,
TheIo wcrc Dot ~ nioo streams anlund
linzlcion but thcy had an lson nahDtl out
and nuhndY would take an Interest ln hny
Ing them r'stocktd 30 went quirfiy a.
work aud stocked iaun.l run At my own
sxpenso with tnut Kept the matter all
20 myself. for ] didn't want ANY unr 10
take advantage of what had dome lofUp
] had a chance to enjoy some sport on the
rluycnaiod stram myaf rhru years
after put tho Try In tho crsk I invcsti
Rntod and found that it was alive with big
truut, aud ] uGgod myself out with $40
wufth uf new tackle and one nice day in
May tpuk jaunt b the crtk The first
thing ! saw was a sign un a trie warning
every one To- kecp on thuso grounds undcr
penalty " the law. The str'nm was posted
IT. whole length. a big. double nst.d mn
tive, who was un Fuani over the .tf,nin,
Informed me that tho crrk and the land
along II had b,,'n loa-ed by private parties,
and learned that, although tho trout In
the stream were mime II vcnturd to
catch any uf them they would cost me az
least 81 apiece - had to let others have
fun with my trout, and they've bocn hay
ing II ever slnce, and I've never had a
chance 10 Kill even one.
THE Ncscupcck rvcr was good str'am
to stock with black bass, and ~ had b,on
knocked out Of my trout / concluded that
| would put the Nesoopcck Ia shape t. get
me some black bass fishing at some future
day. l stocked It just as | had stocked
Laurel run and kept that quiet too. Their,
had never bccn any hass IN the river, aud
found that mine worv doing finely there.
When the stream was ready Ia be- nshod.
started out 10 have day sport with the
first black bass fishing ever known on the
Ncscopeck ON the way | heard The new )
that "A big break had occurred In the upper
Lehigh coal mines, and TINT flood Of sui.
phur water from the mines was pouring
Into the Nescopcck river. When / got e.
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.
II remembered that soon after had
stocked Laurel run with trout had pro
cured some German carp TO accommodate
u constituent Of mine, who said he know
pond where carp would thrive and some
day give great sport to fishermen who like
that sort Of fishing. II Is big drop from
trout and black bass to carp, but / felt
that would like to have some little ".
turn for my efforts to enhance the pisca.
torial interests Of my district, 30 | de
termincd TO try the carp They at least
were surely beyond the influence Of capital
and sulphur water. My constituent told
me that tho carp had done 80 well that tho
pond was full Of them and that one "a yard
long was no rarity, and the beauty Of IL
was, he said, that no one knew 1t but he.
The pond was nine miles away. / had
driven almost TO it when we met a man |
knew. He had wagon load Of something
covered with straw. I asked him what
he was carting home.
Suckers, lac 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 drawcd the pond
of, four years ago, there wasn't "a sucker
In 1t n foot long
"Then learned that the people there
abouts were In the habit Of drawing of 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. l gave up ON the spot and
have never had the heart to go fishing
since. New York Sun.