The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25
As TO WIND-BOUND TROUT.

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AS TO WIND-BOUND TROUT.
Here's Another Man who Has Seen Ono. Though
Col. Cheney Says They Don't Exist.
my friend. Col. A. n. Cheney OF Glens Falls,
tho State Fish Culturist and authority on all
piscicultural matters, has had q good deal OF
funswith me at various.times because / have in
sisted that the trout of Lake Keuka are in the
habit Of becoming what the natives call wind
bound" said n New Yorker who.has spent much
timc in the Lake Keuka region. Col. Cheney
has held mo up to such ridicule in this matter
that | might just rs well not have seen that thir-
tccn-pound wind-bound trout in Lake Kcuka last
season and the ten.pounder of the season be-
fore, because / dare not tell any one about
them. This was the reason I did not go to that
region this season. l knew the chances were
that l would be confronted somewhere on the
lake by a big wind bound trout, cutting: up
capers on the surface. and who wants to see an
interesting thing like that and either have to keep
1t all to himself when he comes home or have
folks whose trust is in Col. Cheney think things
about him! so l am tickled all but to pieces to
have some one who mover heard Of a wind
knew, that the State Fish Cultnrist had de-
clared that there couldn't be such q thing, tell
about what he saw on Lake keuka.
In the early morning Lake Kcuka lies in tho
shadows OF the bordering hills as unrufiied as
u mountain spring, ana the unSuspeCtlnR person
that ! speak of writes to a friend that one morn
ping on the lake saw from the piazza the CLASSY
nor. A huI!drsI yards out in the lake a large
FISH thrashcd aqd. churned the water into vicious
the surface. II shot here and there on top OF
the water. It whirled this way and that.
from sight. aud then zane suddenly to the top
a.aln, emerfin- so quickly from below that 1t
| The nah RlStsnNi ike sil YER IA II fnrnad hFnph-
sides about in this strange manPuvrinS, and ii
was not difficult to see that it was an unusually
had ever seen or heard Of a lake trout's being
addicted to ncrobattc and gymnastic habits
the exhibition. It had been going on a minute
or more when a native came upon the scene,
Said somethine about It's being a wind:boHnd
trout He rowed out, gated the %gyrating fish,
and brought 1t in.
The big trout was still alive when 1t was
laid, moist and giistenirg. at full length on tho
piazza. IT was of extraordinary, breadth and
quickly showed what caused that fulness by
placing his hand on the trout's stomach and
toward it's head. S'Wini came from the troat's
mouth like a boy blowing, n willow whistle
That's ,h;a What the he person who is telling y nt
hand on the fish exhausted the great stock of
air il had aboard, and the :rout lay in true and
solid proportion, q magnificent specimen of its
eleven pounds.
hlltE. HchrlnE lIllS DE nHi slTunkely cap
tured. fish called a wind bound trout. the man
who is telling about it asked the native what g
wind-bound trout was.
one that is TOO smart TO give you a strike whom
you are trolling, and Is just foolish enough to
think 1t Is doing Il cunning thing by leaping out
OF the water and taking a somersault in the air
or a shoot through it OF TIVE or three feet, with
know he was there, but was up TO your little
game with the troll. This aSgrnvating old
Wlscncrc OF a trout doesn't know enough,
| though, to know that every time IL Jumps and
opens 1t. mouth. II GIlps down n few cubic
TmSS ose fishes 81 VIM i've intU ID, Down %Tni IN fhs deep oi Mafsr;
ana have a bladder made 10 fit the necessities
OF such a habitat. But every time the trout
OF air, and the first thing II knows 1t finds out
mat ~ can get up out Of the water with WIT" The
The upshot OF the whole business is that the
old chap !. did, 5p' and SN %ai,hSu sf'6 By ts sSfnpR = ITSELF
up and down against the wator It may at last
get the wind out and rnvc itself. the chances
in like this big fellow was. 1t Is almost al
Way. the big trout that nix themselves in this
way, the native sHld, and that's just what
I've told Col. Cheney more than once.
i've known fishermen, TO come upon, wind
rally grab an oar to whack the iiio out OF the
FISH: That is often a good thing for the trout,
AZ the blow frequently knocks tho wind out OF
happy as a lark.
II never went as far as that in telling Col.
Snv"vS aoout "inu-pouIuu oht III Laho Neuuhhl
but I'm not afraid to say now, that I
know 1t to be n fact. And ! will venture
from Lake Keuka that many "A fisherman has
made an easy prize OF a big wind hound front
and brought II home with u captivating tale
about the hard and exciting fight the fish gayo
him. and the struggle its captor had in at last
conqucring 1t and landing ii from a depth Of
800 feet or 80. And ] have always noticed
that these fishermen are the ones who pooh;
pooh there being such n thing as a wind;bopnd
trout. So ! am mighty glad some one else has
seen one and thought Il worth telling about.
The folks that, live, on Lake Kepka see so
about 'em. Col. Cheney ought to go over on
Lake Keuka and learn something about the
ways Of fish. But he hadn't better tell folks
there that in wind bound trout they, have been
hugBinB a delusion ever since old Steuben
was settled. They might mako fish bait OF
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