The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-06-09
ST A ESM E1ll FISHERS.

ST A TESM EllN FISHERS.
SENATORS WHO ARE SKILLED.
ANGLERS.
Senator Frye Wears = Flannel Shirt:
S In the Maine WOODS Quays Goes After
Big Game Amusing Anecdotes and
Incidents. 5s5
There are many ell-knoWn states
men in Washington, writes corre-s
sspondent, who are ardent disciples Of
Izaak alton. The opportunities for
good fishing within a reasonable dis
tance Of the national capital are abun-
$dant. Two hours run in a parlor car
brings one to the home Of the vicious,
scoura ageous, small l-mouth black bass of
the Shenandoah and the Potomac.
5sss sThe Big Four among the congress
;sional fishermen are Senator Frye Of
Maine, the president pro tempore Of
the senate; Senator Davis OF Minneso-
TIA; Senator Gear Of Iowa, and Senator
Quay Of Pennsylvania hat they
don't know about fishing is not worth
learning and what they have not told
about fishing is not worth hearing.
Senator Frye is probably the most.
consistent sportsman Of the quartet.
He goes into camp in the Maine woods
every summer, wears a flannel shirt,
eats bacon and is glad to get it, and
leads the life of Woodsman. OF
course, he comes back to Washington:
all the better for it. s. He can cast a fly
with the best of them. He often slips
.aup the river during the sessions Of
congress and takes a try for some of
q the dainty sman mouth bass before
4 mentioned. Presiding over the senate
.of the United States hesis the soul OF
dignity. Seated in the stern Of big
batteau, rod in hand, an old straw hat
on his head and cont eminent on his
face, he looks another man, and then
b he doubtless is happiest.i
Senator Cushman Il. Davis Of Min
nesota is an ardent angler. Let any
body suggest fishing trip and he will
drop his cares as a schoolboy drops his
Il books to go a-sWimming. Treaties
\ and conventions are forgotten by the
honored head Of the committee on for
iteign relations, for the time, and he is
all impatience to wet q line. Senator
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when fishing. He has had great ex-
perience in the lakes Of Minnesota,
which abound in game fish. Whether
lit is the agile trout that rises to the
or the big pickereIst thatstakes the
bait on q troll, it Isl all one to him, and
every famous fishing water il his state
Il abounds with legends Of his skill. s.3
q. 4s.H Senator Quay Of Pennsyl lYania is adj
,dicted to deep-sea fishing. The habit
of angling contracted in the trout
streams OF Pennsyl lvania, has grown
pom him to such an extent that ordi-
nary sport does not satisfy his craving
any longer He needs must travel all
/ THE way to Florida and spend days
i seeking the fierce tarpon. He has a
charming little hunting lodge on the
Florida coast, and whenever he finds
1.-THE cares of craftsmanship or politics
4 depressing him he takes train and is
Y away for a week or two of sport. It is
Il a fearful and wonderful sight to see
the doughty senator from the Key
stone state standing braced in the boat.
battling with an immense tarpon, and
when he has landed his victim he
wears the look Of a copqueror at the
I close OF a battle. When times are too
busy to go to Florida he does not dis
dain to take a whirl with the bass of
& the country, and is ready any time for
an outing. s s 55s 4.
Senator Gear of Iowa is known to
every guide and boatman OF the upper
Potomac. In fact, there is one,famous
d spot in the river called Gears Hole,
4 after the Iowan. It is near an exclu-
4 sive, rod and gun club which the SEN
\ ator visits. One day he was being
roWed up the river and had tried all
the fishing holes with Indifferent sue
r cess. He directed the guide to row
& him to q certain place which he spied,
and after sounding the water, observ-
ing the lay Of the land, the character
Of the bottom and the drift Of the cur
/ rent, said there was good fishing there.
The old guide pooh h-poohed the idea
No one had ever thought of fishing
there. Butsthe senator insisted on try
ing and within an hour or two had
caught thirty nnagn niicent bass So
they called it Gears Hole. and it is
fshed every day in the season when
there are guests at the club house.
Speaker sHenders of the house Of
representatives is a fisherman after a
I fashion. The spirit is Filling, but the
flesh is weak. He has the instinct but
his wooden leg interferes, oshe sits on
I the Veranda Of the club house all day,
reading and smoking andstaking il the
orious ozone of the mountains chat
tirlgSWith the old guides and boatmen,
until the boy s, 2 as he calls the oth-S5