The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
THE ANGLERS

The fisherman has had his first taste
of his favorite sport All over the state
the old flies and the old leaders have
had their first bath since last year. the
old rod-the one that has passed
through so many memorable contests
with the Dolly Varden-has had its
first limbering up. For the past two
weeks fishing has been going or in
Western Montana streams Consider
ing the early season, the anglers saw
that trout are plentiful and that every
indica ton points to a good supply of
fish this year. In another month the
fishing season will be on in full blast.
Local dealers in fishing tackle report
a demand for their goods that is en-
tirely satisfactory. They are showing
some excellent new flies this year at
greatly reduced prices.
B. P Van Horne of Chico, Mont.
writes the American Angler as fol-
lows:
Il saw an article in The Angler about
different kinds of bait of the artificial
kind that had been got up by different
parties initiating things that fish go
for. and I think some of them may be
useful l have known men who told
me they had caught plenty of trout
with a red wooden rag, and | don't
doubt it. But 1 don't think any device
will ever be equal to the genuine live
article. l have used the minnow in
| fishing for pickerel and black bass and
| perch in the Susquehanna, and always
| put the hook through both lips, as in
| that way the bait lives the longest.
The longer you can keep the bait alive
| the better. and the fish generally take
| the minnow head first. / have got to
| study up a little in my Latin to I'M
derstand what you say in my article
you printed in February. 1t reminds
me of what my old teacher put in my
spelling book years ago. 1t was .stultus
est stulissmo. | inquired of a Latin
scholar and he told me it would make
me sick to know SO / tried no further.
If you want to play joke on me, do
it in Holland Dutch; then I may find
out what you mean by writing to some
of my friends in Amsterdam.
There is no doubt but we shall have
very high water this spring, as there is
| so much snow in the mountains; but
one benefit it will be, the large trout
from the Yellowstone are sure to come
up the small streams, and some of them
will find me ready to attend to them.
you write of trout changing color
have noticed in my experience that
where the stream runs in places where
the sun doesn't shine, the trout are
generally very dark in color and vice
versa when the sun shines on the water
I planted a lot of angle worms in my
garden last year, but have not trieC
them yet in fishing. Perhaps the trout
will have to be educated to take them
for I have understood from some of the
farmers along the Yellowstone tina
hens and turkeys won't eat corn be
cause they never saw any before"
AT the recent sale of the late Herr,
G. Coxs library in New York, the gen
of the collection, Walton and Cotton
"Compleat Angler" was sold to Charlie
Scribner's Sons for $3.50, the highes
price paid for any book at any sale thi
season. The book is in two volumes
} with the original memoirs and notes b.
Sir Harry Nicola. royal octave, pub
lished in London by William Pickering
! in 1886. and is extra illustrated wit
1,762 inserted plates, and extended t
seven volumes, beautifully bound b
Stikeman. in green crushed morocco
Each volume is in chamois-lined case
What a magnificent acquisition to
sportsman's library!