The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-17
MANY FISHERS FOR TROUT.
They Have Bccn PatTOiing the Streams
for the Last Two bays.

They Have Bccn patrO1ing the streams
for the Last Two bays.
The trout season opened Wednesday,
on which day and yesterday not scores
but hundreds of Scranton fishermen
tried their luck along the streams north
and east of the city. Their success was
varied: many reported good catches.
but the more usual and reliable story
was one of swollen streams and poor
results.
Inquiries made by Tribune report
er at "a number of sporting goods stores
ELECTED the information that more fish
ermen have been out the past two days
than ever before in corresponding
period at the beginning of the season.
No particular streams seem to have
been reported as productive of the best
results, but on any one of them it was
said that one could not go mile with
out meeting from five to fifteen anglers.
To sift down mass of fishing re-
ports in order to get at the truth of the
numbers and appetite of the cautious
trout is a hard task. The stories are
various. Concerning one particular
stream one man says he never had bet
ter luck at the beginning of the sea-
son, while another angler from the
same stream says his luck wasn't
worth the trouble. Everything consid-
cred, 1t appears that the water is no
higher and no colder than Is usual at
this time of the year and that the luck
is correspondingly good or bad
SMALL STREAMS THE BEST.
The best catches seem to have been
made on the smaller streams. an un-
usual thing, as the trout do not like to
begin running into the spring tribu-
taries until after long spell of warm
weather. Their presence In the small
streams now, says an old Scranton Sir
/ Isaac. Is because of the chOked and
swollen condition of the larger bodies
of water, showing that most of the
snow water is out of the smaller
streams which Are beginning to be
more normal in volume and velocity.
On Wednesday Albert Turner. of the
West Side caught thirty nice ones in
the vicinity of Moscow, and Harry
SwartZ got thirty in the same region.
On Spring Brook Fred Snyder, of the
South Side. caught thirty-eight. Chas.
II. Miller lifted the same number out of
Roaring Brook, but they were not very
| large ones. Conflicting reports are
made of this stream, however. Deputy
Marshal Rohling and his father fished
it faithfully. but only caught few.
the largest Of which measured fourteen
and one-half inches.
Up at Hoadley's station, on the Erie
and Wyoming Valley road, BILLY"
Armenian. the famous Dunmore fisher
man, caught a fine mess. He met
eighteen men in one mile. Other big
and O'Brien from private waters.
POT FISHERMEN AT WORK.
1t has been reported from several
streams that the pot-fisherman got in
his work during Wednesday night, as
shown by the presence of many eel
racks and nets. This supposition Is
verified by the fact that three Scranton
markets had purchased big quantities
of trout before o'clock Wednesday
morning and there We're several ship
ments to the New York markets be-
fore noon on that day
From South Sterling, Wayne county.
letter was received here yesterday
saying that the fishing was never bet
ter in that region. Through invita-
tions from other points in Wayne cOun-
| ty and from Pike county the same ia
vorable information has been received.
The price charged for trout in the
markets does not indicate, however.
that the article is yet very plentiful
! For a mess Of few pounds, $l.1O per
pound was the average quotation at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
| Not until next week will there be
any great exodus of trouters for the
l.ehigh. as that stream is said to be
! too high for even the best of poor luck.
The angler who wants to use live bait
or the fly will have to wait awhile. The
/ temperature is all right, but the large
| amount of water and early season do
not yet warrant trial for the bigger
! fellows.