The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-04
STORIES OF ADIRONDACK GUIDES.
Yarns spun, Mainly About Fishing, mt the
Meeting at BooneNille.

Meeting at Bonneville.
UTICA, N. Y, Feb. 3.--The recent meeting
of the members OF the Browns Tract Guides
Association at Bonneville was one Of the merriest
gathering Of these men of the woods ever held
They had a fund Of good stories and after the
regular business Of the meeting had been vans
acted all Joined In a social session WIN en'hu'
siasm. The meeting Of the guides this year was
one Of the biggest ever held by them In 'he
association here are fifty three active and one nun
dred and fifty associate members. All the members
are not guides by any means. There are hotel men,
camp owners Of that part Of the woods and WHITING
sportsmen.
At the last meeting Of the association there
was "Nelse" Chandler Of white Lake Corners,
who had passed the greater part oi ms lie IN
the woods and who knows as much about the
habits Of the wild game in a minute as the books
will teach in a lifetime, "Nelsc' was accom-
panied by his neighbor and companion On many
n hunting excursion, "Hill" Stell, There are n
very few only who know more about the woods
than this same Stell, Milo Bull, Chick" Brown,
Charley Barrett, Ben Parsons, Dave Charbon-
neau and Bill Burke came down from Old Forge
and represented in a fair degree the different
stations in life that exis, in the membership
roll Of the ASSOCIATION. There were clso Garry
Riggs Turin, Dick" Gregg OF Bonneville, Robert
Roberts II Leydeu, who moved from ltemsen
he said because there Mere 81 many other Robert
Robertses that he never got his mail AZ it should
come. "Dany" Ainswor,h. father and son, from
big Moose. and Gus" Syphrrt, who makes his
home in the winter IN l%lerkimer, but who in the
summer is a fixture on Third Lake, Fulton Chain,
were among the number
After the dinner had been done away with and the
set speeches were over there followed a session
Of story telling. by way Of Introduction Charley
Barrett told a mild one. Charley IL one Of the
most mlld-mannercd men one will meet in the
woods in n summcis travel lie has u reputa-
ton for yeraCty among those who know him
and almost any Kind of a story that he might
chuoSe 10 tell would be received IN good fnith,
Charley said; Boys, ] once lost a trout Tint
weighed JUS, two pounds and eight ounces
How did you know the exact weight" asked
Gary Riggs,
II had been fishing on tn" stream that comes down
oil the mountain on the south side OF Third Lake
and came 10 a waterfall, | had been fishing
abpu, IN that spot, say twenty minutes, when !
felt a strike. We began the battle, the fish and
! and soon was In The middle Of the stream with
the water up To the tops Of my boots The hot
tom Of the stream was very rough and ! tried Ia
make for the shore, and AT the same time | tried
~ land that trout which WAS giving me u good
fight staggered, fell IN u hole and was nea rly
drowned IN n minute The lprs" line dropped
from my left hand and rolled of into a boiling
torrent was almost helpless rs the line br
came wound around my body and ! gained my
feet with considerable effort unwound the
line from me, but the fish had broken loose. lie
weighed Just two pounds and eight ounces
though.
Guess We will have TO take Your word for IT,"
was the shot fired by Ned Ball
I'm positive Of 1t, said Barrett, FOR two months
later ! was fishing on that same stream further
down, | hooked u fish aud he was a spunky
fighter, landed him though, and there was
the Identical fy IN his mouth that ] had lost on
the earlier ttip. That is how | know about his
weight
When Bin" Stell had finally been induced
TO say something he started of.
The greatest fishing ever saw was when they
drew the water of Horn Pond over near Jock 5
Lake. Horn Pond was considered to be the
strangest fishing grounds anywhere around.
about the only time that fish would bite was in
the spring when the Ice was breaking ~. Then
We used To catch some big fellows Why, | re-
member one spell there We caught fish, trout
at that, that weighed three pounds That was
great fishing, boys, but II Is no, IN ii with the
time they drew the water oil that pond You
see that pond finally became State property and
was mad" a storage reservoir There was a
time when the water got very low and II was necrs-
sary t" draw the watcr oil Horn Pond. \ few
Of US got around there to see the fun. We did
not look Tor any trout in the pond as none had
been caught lately aud We thought the fish had
run up into IN" streams But there was a sight
when the water went down For n time nothing
was To hc seen but the flow Of the water, but MS
II became lower aud lower We could sea fish Jump
up ont of the water and there seemed To- be plenty
of them We FASTENED down 10 the dam and
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went over IN" ie" boards that remained In the
I6m mere We're schools Of fish NJ nearly every
Description "" got "Mr fShing .taCkl" out and
We soon caught lHS Then the fn stopped, for
nr ilSh had passed To other waters and other
hsnrrnIrn. .
u" uUir l,iey dNnanlled IN" Twin Lakes,
c"nuUued bIl St'll was another time fish
were, numerous The Iwln Lakes We're in the
purchase ~ the cluh, which SUugh g. make it q
private preserve and the manager Of the club
gave u 'it thdt There would he No. more fishing
- those lakes Tor the natives that lived along
u" shore ana who had fSh"d there for many
years or some OF the nAtyes this was bread
ana butter. tn" fishing had always been very
good, ana som" great catches Of salmon trout
had been the result of the sport Well, one night
SnnltDndN put some dyn0mlt" in that lake and
touched II OIL. Talk about flying fish, why there
was never anything lne 1t before Fish and
pieces oi fish WEI" scattered along III" shores 81
thnS" Two lakes by that dynamite and there has
never been any fishing there since"
Milo ltull told Of an eX p-rl"nce he and his brother
had while they We're spraring pickcrcl in a pond
on his fathers farm, formed by the widening
ct The stream that flowed through the farm Milo
aud his brother were In the habit Of going out at
nlGnt ana SIfhTlnS some good sized fish with the
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