The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-07-03
BIG TROUT LIE DEEP.
4 Singular Fact Made Plain BY not
tom Trolling IN Adiron-
dack Waters.


~What troll, heavily leaued 50 It
could be drawn near the bottom, would
produce from some. of the Adirondack
lakes which contain nothing but native
brook trout would undoubtedly SUR
prise and delight the angler" said a
New York sportsman, according to the
Sun. "The great, big fellows, such as
40 fisherman win ever catch with ny
or other surface lure, if he should fish
from now until doomsday, lie far down
in the depths Of those waters and mo-
where else, except in the winter, when
they come nearer to the surface
"The largest true brook trout Of
which there is authentic record Of the
killing IN New York was taken from
White lake, in Sullivan county, before
that natural trout water was stocked
with black bass and pickerel. That
trout weighed nine pounds and was
taken by Lewis Platt, on loaded troll,
In 80 feet of water
Fishing in the same way, Otto Gill
pin killed a trout in White lake that
weighed seven pounds, and the late
Charles Fenno Hoffman captured a six
FOUNDER
"Trout weighing a pound and more
are freely taken with the fly on Frank
lake, in the Adirondacks, and speci-
mems weighing three pounds have sue
cumbed to the fly. No one ever sus-
pected what monsters of their kind
Iurked in the depths of the lake, how
ever, until two seasons or SO ago, when
q guest Of the North Woods club went
fishing on small Adirondack lake
which had long been said to contain
brook trout, although no one ever
caught any Of them by any Of the rec
ognized methods Of trout fishing.
"Then an old guide coniided one day
to visiting angler that he had caught
many big one in that lake through
the ice. This angler, acting on that
hint, weighted line with a quarter Of
! pound. Of lead, used a small, bright
bass troll, and trailed it near the bot
tom Of the lake. The result was that
he landed four brilliant'brook trout in
less than an hour, the smallest one Of
which weighed four pounds.
"a member Of the North Woods club
made the experiment in
Frank pond, and captured the biggest
brook trout on record since the tax
ng of the nine-pounder in White lake,
years ago This Frank pond trout
WEIGHED eight and a half pounds.
II don't know whether or not this
method Of trout fishing has found
'avor among the scientific anglers of
which the North Woods club consists,
1ut by no other means can the pis-
atorial patriarchs of the wilderness
be brought from their depths.
Speaking Of big trout, the true
ipeckled trout of hewilds, it isn'tlike-
Y that there is another spot on the
,3ntinent where they average so large
% the regular catch as they do in Lake
in the Canadian wilder
less. 100 miles north Of Three rivers.
! three-pounder there is not regarded
Is more than an ordinary catch, and
ix-pounders are common.
"The lake is 60 miles in circumfer-
nee, dotted with islands, and indented |
With many bays. Fly fishing is the
'ule early in the season, but later on
he lure is young white fish. saw one
atch Of four trout from Tint lake, the
our having been killed in quick sue
ession, and the weight Of each fish !
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