The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-29
SHAME KILLED THE MUSKY.
EXACT Tabs ABOUT s I. CROIX
HIsH By PERCY THE GUIDE.


IIsA BY IkRGY THE GUIDE.
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FiyISlp. Wis. July N--You can't tell MOTH
tnS about them nah. said Fergy the gVide Al
he made . fsherman's bend around a weedless
hook to take the place OF q No 8 Skinner that
had been broken IN the lhy-pads and now dan
sled from one OF the stems far out n the lake
Most times q muky's got more sense a. a man.
and that amt saying that some OF the men what
comes here from big towns is smart / have
knowed . musky In the Fiambeau River to get
mad at the red on the under side Of a No ospoon
and chaw II up like II was terbacker. I have
knowed EN- to come up within six inches Of It
As II whirfed through the water. look at It just
like q terrier looks at rat and then hit It, kerr
blip' Say. I seen men In the lumber camps that
weighed los pounds Apiece able to hit a blow
that would shake a hemlock from root to top.
but they couldn't hit Ike that musky. The
spoon'd fly twenty feet straight UP In the air
and maybe be going hard enough to pop itself
of the end Of the line unless the reel run slick.
Just below the six-mlc rapids one day a fish
e"
In my right hand Say. that oar weighed most
i've pounds and I hung to it, but he took it like
It belonged to him and went of up stream with
1t, dragging ~ behind himlike the tail OF a comic
-Four times I've knowed 'em to take tin cups
out'n my hands wen was drinking and every
time they was sugar and alcohol In the bottom
Of the CUP. That makes mo believe that all
what keeps . musky sober b that he can't git
ShA liCkor
One time, up IN Abe Munson's camp close to
the head OF The Flambeau. we catched ono In
the shausrs and kept him In . tank eet Into tho
river. II had holes bored In the side OF II 40
that me watsr would change. swede Pete
went down there ono day He was Just back
from Ffhe'd and red pfson was coming
nom every pore OF him. He had half q bottle
Lot and he poured IT inter the musky's Jaws
whsn he comes TO the top. Ike he alters did when
they wa somebody round Say. that fsh
DIDN'T weigh but sight pound -four ounces. but
you'd thought b. weighed . ton I'VE minutes
afeerward Ins STUN DIDN'T make him laugh.
nur frouc' a sne' nu veepy' nur 1eepy. IL
Just MADE MN usiy ana what he wanted was
nghe swede Peta being drunk. stuck his
hand mte me water thas was dashed inter soap
ssds ana LOST a finger right away. Then the
musky took 70 weaving about tho tank and
every now and then he'd stop and bite q chunk
outn the wood a big as q cake.
Pete had went away. but by the time he come
back with . club most one side Of the tank was
eat away and h another minute the fab would
s-bsen gonN
.Ay tank. 'Psts said. that 70 one dam tim
"a tief. DGmr
Tho musky DIDN'T say nothing. but he stuck
A. AAA AA~A -. eAh~s n.Ap- 81. 49, -
srfnnod Say, that underlip Of his stuck ont
Ike Q sore thumb and every tooth In his head
was shining. He give q slow fmperdsnt wtsele
with his tan and Just looked like . bulldog be-
fore he takes hold. The blood was running
down from Pete's hand where the finger was
gone. but he brought the club down on tho
muskys dxull. kerblashI He tried to bite the
stick. but missed 1t and It hit him asin. Then
he turned on his back and when Pete swatted
him across the belly he died. We weighed him
and he weighed what I told YOU.
80 ~, o.,ohsa H. 49,.
,ne man ~ns. oH n,I nm nun mo put nun IN
the tank was name Big Bm Gibbons He was
h.cs - o.mn rat nIah, 49, ,o,na :. 49,
70 ~. az M ~a 80. ~ es.ns
Svede didn't have but one hand. but II took
al nj. Rni could do W hsnd,. hin, snd sa wsn,
AZ Dx Dm couio 20 70 nahaie num- ano ne went
10 I IN ,h w' ssm ono . vsg TsIw's Su on su at that ans Knives Yves;
.o.~ 7 a,n.t bio uvse,,-Iuat lao norrd.
80 - o~ 90 pounus
suipped-and couldn't do nothing with some
Of the elefunts from the north woods ef I wasn't
a eo,ser from Goupsvfle. put gimme Tho
o.. III. - - mn u
other ieiers thumb In my mouth and my "
don't give a damn whether school take. in mr. lat,
W. - ,eo'
out ono time when Little Ole oleson and Big
Mike Mccartney gifts hung out Ashland way
IN. g,onnd ,b.v tor. m measrr.d tvaly. ,oo,
BY nine fest six inches. Say. you could .-buried
'sm in the hole.
-put thew .,n.t M ru.k,s. IN mi, .or,,-,
nus .ney VI no musA,es In this country
like what they "a up above here Always. Take
that st. CroiI districk. That river runs four
mile an hour and when it amt running four
and the bottoms rocky The folks there
u.a. . oonnar u.ra I'm. h.oou.. ~. esh Ia,
- I'ppoi "no nn'' oeeauso u nsn lay
deep and any other line would be cut to pieces
on the bottom; They ties q gang q hooks
they troas apd get right down to the pebbles.
When . nsh N.Y. a line like that II you haven't
got on buckskin mittens you lose q Joint OF
one OF your fingers. FOR IT cuts like 2 razor.
They used 70 be a musky IN Indian Bend OF
t hs ~ sis Sr %a. 's siSa nGGos : t couldn't J k snS 1,,,i say;
pear every man in the country tried him and
he put II al over EN- all tried him my
sell ana l lose forty-three feet fsur inches
o. the best copper wire that eyer come down
rom CANADA. Then a teller showed up that
wrote Tor one OF them Eastern magazines with
Of EN- that don't look like nothing. He had