The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-04
TRIO UT SEASON OPENS.
Large Numbers Tried the Fishing on
Saturday With Good Results.

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| Saturday With Good Results.
The trouting season is on and lovers
of rod and reel all through Connecticut
will be right in their element for the
next few weeks. 1t opened on Satur-
| day with rush and all through the
weather observer had predicted rain, land
although at the times the weatherseemed
to back up his representation, it had no
effect upon the enthusiastic sportsmen
who in full rank numbers went out to
have try at their favorite sport And
In spite of reverse predictions the fish
| bit well, and their catches were quite
UP to the standard of preceding years.
That is according to general opinion.
| OF course there are some who shake
their heads mournfully and say to the
contrary, but most Of the fishermen are
of the opinion that the season has OPEN
ed unexpectedly well. The water was
colder than in preceding years and
there was still a great deal of snow
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poses the trout to bite or become frisky,
but in spite of this fact they seemed to
take bait tolerably well. and of course
the water is bound to get warmer from
now on. From New Haven the mem
bers of the different clubs went out in
considerably numbers Several of the
men1hHrG pf thn VOL al,
out ON Friday, took along a bountiful
supply of provisions and slept in their
club over night in order to be on hand
early in the morning to try the trout
with the rising of the sun, when, it is
thought, they are hungriests The pre-
serves of this club embrace the Foxon
river for several miles and those who
tried the farthest up the stream SEEM
ed to have the best luck. Two of the
1shermen, Frederick H. Benton and
David Fl. Clark took boat and fish
ed In the trout pond. Benton catching
thirteen weighing in and about six
pounds and Mr.. Clark catching three.
One that the former had ON his hook,
but failed to land is described as
beauty" weighing at least three
pounds. heavy tug came on the line
and the reel spun at lively rate. Play
ing with 1t in the usual manner he drew
1T in nearer and nearer to the boat. At
last after series of vain struggles it
appeared near the surface of the water
leaping and struggling in an excited
fashion and plainly big one The
lucky fisherman was just congratulate
Ing himself upon his prize to the envy
OF those on the bank, when at last
despairing tug for freedom by the trout
the hook broke and with a part Of it in
its mouth the beautiful fish disappear
ed, Others of the party who made fair
catches were Sherwood S. Thompson,
George Scranton and j. B. Robertson, 4
and p. Harris Weaver, the vessel own \
err Captain T. A. Gessner and Even
Mcintyre tried the fishing at Brooks 1
vale in Cheshire and met with very fair
success. Mr.. Gessner caught beauti-
full string of thirty and Mr. Mcintyre
about half that number, half of them
fair sized fish.
The well known members of the
1roquois club, Messrs. Lewis and May
cock, found the fishing on their pre-
serves in Mt Carmel unusually good
catching 40 Of the little creatures. Mr..
Lewis was greatly delighted with the
fishing for the first of the season.
A. B HendryX, the bird cage manu-
facturer left on Saturday for his stock
farm up in the Naugatuck Valley with
the determination of bringing back
some material proofs of his skill, and
reports from that region are awaited
with much eagerness.