The sun., 1896-09-06
BIG 7ROUT ~ THE ADTRONDICkS.
The Best Catches or the Seasou just
Closed Round Cranberry Luke.

| The Best Catches or the SeasOu just
Closed Round Cranberry LIKE.
HAREwoop. y. y. Sept. 5.-I.ust Tuesday
| marked the close OF the fishing season in this
| State, and to-day rods and flies are AT dis
| count. IL has been an unusually fine year for
| trout. even i'll these famous fishing grounds
and some OF the cat hes have been phenouc
nal. A Few years ngo Cranberry Lake was
stocked with young FISH 10y a party of enthust-
astic fishermen from New York aud Syracuse.
and the result has been n rich harvest Charley
| Thomas. one OF TIE oldest gui.es in this re-
| gion, is the hero Of the season just ended.
There may be them that have got more fish
| into tine boat" said one Of the guides, while
| discussing the catches a few days ago. "but
| Charley has beat the band in pullin' out tho
whoppers. ] never seed ANYTHING like it, an
| I've been In these parts since was no bigger
| than chipmunk."
| Charlry's prize catch was taken from tho old
Besute spring hole up on the inle,. He was
camping with a party from Canton. abo 1t two
| mics below the spring hole. and Just at sun
Down one evening decided that there was big
| fellow waiting for him among the half sunkvn
| logs that line one side Of the famous fishing
ground. One OF the party who wasn't much OF
a fisherman wanted 10 go with him, and Char
| ley made W., his mind that he would catch
! something worth catching or know the reason
| Why. The two reached the spring hole little
before sundown, and the guide fixed up the
! Others line with an ordinary worm bait. then
he got out his fly book. put ON gray. red. ana
! brown one. and made a cast into an open spo.
that looked tempting. \ quarter-pound fish
took one Of the flies almost before the hook had
touched the water. but that wasn't what Char
ley wanted. He cast again. and was just trail
ing ih, leader alongside the biggest OF the sunk.
en logs when his companion CAV. a veil.
I've got one" he shouted. and It's bigger
than whale. Drop that pole OF yours aud lend
NE q hand or he'll get away"
but Just at that Instant something happened
that made the fisherman forget all about the
whale on the end Of his OWE line. A. the
grav fly SKINNED over the water just at the
edge OF the pool there was mighty swirr. and
a trout that looked longer than paddle leaped
clear out OF the water and seized the tiny hook
concealed by the tuft OF gray feathers. Then
the fish plunged back again with a rush and
n swirr which severely tested the light twelve
ounce rod. that bent almost double as the big
trout made straight for the dep,ls under the
sunken log. Then began a battle royal. The
fish. maddened by pain and the sudden check
darted hither and thither. now churn!ng she
mirror.likc surface OF the pool into n mass OF
foam. now throwing itself with undated
strength clear OF the water 10 IA with another
rush into the stream. making the lin" almost
lying still on the bottom OF the pool, gather
Ing fresh energy & for fresh struggle S1 with the
light through the rippli g water.
Presently the fish was Oft again. II was
nsinE its every ounce With : degree OF science
half hour it battied with Thomas, ana he,
old hsherman ms he was. had his hands full.
steady hand the guide drew him toward the
boat: there was a last faint whirr on the sur
tail and the biggest speckled beanty that has
ever come out Of the old Besnte spring hole
the guides compan ion let himself loose and
yelled until the fHint echo of his SHOUTS reached
down H. 81 stream Thomns ii.
TO the other pole. the hook of which had been
fastened In a log BY the trout that !hN tourist
and the prize Ash was WEIGHED ii tipped the
scales AT n trfe over five pounds
catch got about the hotel at the foot OF Gran:
berry Lake. there was great overhauling OF
in a radius OF ten miles who didn't believe that
there wasa bigger trout n the water about the
ssa Or to sas ers NE
VIII who began to air their IDEAS abon, trout Ash.
% ara hsIs .as ,nss Gn
since. II was TWO. inches long. and that Il
he wanted to. The result of, ali the talk was
that. before rundown on the dRy following the
sca,tored scat @ among ing ali the tishins grounds % with
In twelve miles OF the hotel.
from Syracuse. use belWean whom there her 'WTu,s %ns
great rivalry. Each boastcd that before he left
Ss SSd 90 he sod HSs s
the hote! that n tve-pound Gsh had heen land.
Cd Cd Oh . thc inls, one Of the tourists took one Of
Vow Sc" here Jim.' he sail. this win
MEYER ,%o do In The World There must @ hS NOR,
I've Sot SS I" rs, one E"c"v M % one at ' oms W
have the laugh on me II non't, for my friend
get back o I've "a" "eSer. e
up at the club that no one would get ahead OF
me me this snmm"r: and I've y reputation to sus.
Ave pounisr aud ri n axe II worth your while"
The, guide snid lie would do his hest. ana
Geek which hadn' been ilshcd much
Meantime the other syracuse tourist had
lie selected Brandy Brook as the l,lare where
he vas mpst likely 10 distinguish himself
no ii, s9a aa9 :Esr, to Ses pomss sl
pound trout lying around here, All care about
is 70 beat put that 9thsr fellow
4, look of satisfaction on his face. aud when
the other guests AT the house waited TO know
looked As II lac would give tho Besuie spring
hole @ = fellow " close shave; His 'rIepd looked
out another that Nigh! have been the twin
OF the arst one Seyera! small beir we're made
as 10 the weiYht Of The hsh and air OF scales
CharrOck CrecS catch was found 10 h" half an
ouhcs heavier Than the other, Each tourist
LETT careful instructions with his guide TO be-
careful about cleaning tho trout. One of tile
guests Thought the oloscness In weight Of the
hsh was suspicious. 81 he kept watch ot the
guides when they went down to the landing
10 do The dressing. When he returned 70 the
hotel he took the other tourists aside,
Look here said he. those fellow, have
been foolinR us, and we want to make them
pay m for ii. Each OF those trout weighed
nearly four pounds. bui good deal of that was
buckshot. One fellow had six bullets dowr hi.
trouts throat and the other had iammed In
hve. We want To tackle them after supper"
When cornered the fishermen owned up and
since then neither has said anything nhoni the
big catch he intended to make. or how he
proposes to teat the record made ly Thomas