The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-01
SOME FISHING YARNS.
Murrey Casts His Fly for Nbout by
erythinE lie Desires.

Name keeping motel IN AaCt- So-1- 20
you chapters about the people and ~ -
possibilities OF fun mp in that direction
Tom Murrey rlconteur. author. news
paper man, and stew-pan scientist. was
doing the talking.
Perhaps it was the fishing which held
most in esteem. Splendid fishing up there;
magnificent. / instituted some new fan
eled dy fishing up i'm Maine this summer
Let me tell you about IT.
Until toward dinner time. OF course.
would FISH in the regular old fashioned
way: that is, for fish But the innovation
was This: Toward dusk, when it was 700
dark 20 do the ordinary work with roo siu
reel I frequently turned in ana fsheu Iof
swallows from the front pOrch OF the no
tel Fifty Of these birds would De curing
the air about the hotel ny hunting IN lne
dusk Of the evening. I'd get on the tron5
porch with a good. light colored ny anu
cast for swallows. Throw it right out into
the air and one would grab IT, caught
hundreds Of swallows that way.
Bats used to come around pretty thlck
for some reason, and J. u fly hsh Ior DatS
/ have caught twenty tflts between udIk
and bed time Talk about game; you ought
20 get a bat or a swallow on your book
once. Trout and black lass aren I IN II
with them. OF course you have 10 be care
ful and not let them run Ots too much me
on YOU. or they viii get tangled IN a tret
or take a half hitch with your line aDo-i
a chimney.
Il did an unusually skiufrHl piece of fly
casting this summer The h,alyards on the
hotel flag pole got loose in some iashloh
and ran clear up to the top OF the pole
what sailors would call the main truck.
There was no way to get II down. me poIe
was too slender to CLIMB after the rope. ~
looked as if we would nave 10 lahe the
pole down to get the haSyard, or else close
the game altogether and qult hylng our
flag I didn't want to 40 eluner, 1 was
bound to fly the nations emNem, anu
didn't want to 20 TO the trouble of taking
down the flag pole. ,,,.., a..
you know / am very skrltm az ny
casting and. Withal. fertile in eXpedlents.
] brought out my fishing tackle, ana, al
though IL was full sixty ttSt 10 the KNOT
on the halyards, which shoWeq on the
under side of the fagpole cap. cast for
il and fastened hook III II the htth
cast. After that of course, IL was easy.
] reeled in on my line, ana DIousat me
halyards along with ii. our nag fOated
that day just the same, thanks 10 my
-'eThere was one thing this summer
which happened to mortity me. You know
/ am a great entomOlOgist; pretend TO
know all about the habits of every insect
that buzzes in these parts We MADE a
study of bugs, as well as of fish, My Oh
servations have led me to certain con-
illusions. Ordinarily, l am right, But
every now and then something viii hap
pen to disgustingly contradict me. This
is how il was in this instance.
There was a party from the west stop
ping at the hotel, and he wanted me 10
teach him how to fish with flies. l gladly
undertook his instruction. one morning
we arose and started for the river. MY
idea was to get a hew bass, ana TO give
my fish student a lesson or so In hy-cast-
ing ! thought ! might as well enighten
him bit, too, on bugs as we went along,
and put him up to a trick or two.
Did you notice what sort of bugs were
about this morning. / asked as we
sauntered down to the river
/" DO you mean up at the hotel" he
mo i replied with some asperity, 4
don't mean up at the hotel; there are
hot al Il int flaE
to ask was, have you nQticed what sort
of flies or bugs are about this morning?'
mo, he answered, why. what's that
got to do with fishing?"
{" That's exactly the point I said.
Take your black bass or your trout, or
any OF the fish that rise to flies. and
they are the greatest bugoiogists on earth,
or rather In the water. They know what
sort of flies are out to-dey OF any other
day And that Is the food they are after.
Now as we came out 1 noticed any num-
Der of these yellow butterflies about.
That means that this is yellow fly day,
and you can bet the bass all know It.
If you want to catch bass to-day you
want to use a yellow fly.
Then | went on and explained to my
as against all other fashions, was that
low, vulgar fish, cat fish and mud pouts,
and KINDRED plebeanss would not rise to a
. Rising to flies Is confined entirely I
said to the fish aristDcrats Black bass
/ take It the gamiest fish we meets pc
CuliarlY susceptible 10 HES. by coming
yourself TO flies, you naturally go step
further and contine yourself to bass, or
if you are on a trout stream to trout
You don't catch mullet one moment
and a mud pout the next, and get all
tangled up with a channel catfish the
next and so go on the entire day catch
ing lot of low, worthless fish.
II said all this to emphasize the beauty
as we'll as the Importance of fiy-tishing,
and to impress upon my apprentice the
necessity of avoiding angle worms and
| pieces Of liver, and similar Vulgarities in
| the way of bait. / must say he seemed
very much enlightened, and We're it not
/ for what followed I've no doubt l would
now stand high in his estimation as a
being yellow fly day, when we arrived
! at the river l tied on saffron colored in
| sect and then showed my scholar how
/ to cast it. He made one or two pretty
| good bluffs. About the third cast, Just
4 as the yellow bait fioated down to the
water an animal suddenly lifted its head
/ above the surface and grabbed it. What
ever it was, it then settled solemnly back
| into the mud ana never moved. In the
| first gust of amazement my scholar did
not make the slightest effort to bring in
:" What do you think it wasp he in.
| quired of me.
~ don't know. I replied he's got
| your hook in his mouth, SO pull him in
I" oh, I'm going TO pun him in, he re.
! piled. but I'd like to settle his identity
before l yank him. He looked to me IN
| the face like q third party man. and vel
\ you said nothing but bass would rise
u to a fly
i That looks as if ! was mistaken this
time / said. but whatever it is. lift it
| and let's take look at it
so my fish student gave a yank that
bent the pole almost double Whatever
had hold of the hook never so much as
budged. I took the rod from him and
tried it. 1t was If he had got rise from
q coal scuttle.
AT last we went deliberately to work
and laying the rod on the bank, took
hold of the line. which was a very strong
one. and by main strength, began &c
pull in our prey. He came slow, and
hung back, and from first to last Il was
like leading baulky mule. We got him
out on the bank at last however and
what do you think he was? A mud tur.
tie the size of a tub. That's right; sim
ply common, low-fiung, swapping tur-
tie. Now, who ever heard OF a bird like
that rising to a fly?
There was one thing peculiar about
the turtle. Over on one side of his shell
on what you might call his cornerstone
was carved This turtle was erected ia:
A. D. Ny student and 1 read the in,
scTiption with establishment
dent
aft added somewhat n my dice,,s+ t.ta,