The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
LOTS OF ADIRONDACK TROUT.
Bad Luck Last Year Should Be
Made Up This Spring.
s.a..:ss - Tempt the Fisherman ~ the
sporting Goods stsrcs-Preper way
10 Make . sHk lane Last Long-The
Csnyasbsck Ducks In Danger of Elk.
tinctiou OWING 70 Men. Fish and Their
Own Fony-A Came Dinner on tho
Cur Cosa-News ef the Trout n reams

SuH OOoN-NeWbW inc ITOut StTeume
The fishing season has opened. By the
middle OF May legal restriction on the taking
of trout will have been removed every.
wherr. Men may cast for bass a little
later.
Already the rods have been taken from
their cases, jointed and tested to see II
the frost 10 out Of them Old fishing boxes
have been unlocked and last years tackle
examined with disappearing eye. It Is
strange, but the outfit which was all right
in October and has not been used since
is no good In May.
The man wonders a. he surveys flies,
. spoons, bare hooks and smells how he
could ever have caught anything with
them. He gets out his fish scales and
ties one end Of silk line TO them. runs IL
out for $50 feet and tests whether II will
stand strain Of ten pounds.
II IL breaks he buys a new line or two;
IL 1t does not he says that IL Is rotten some
where and not to be tr,Isted-and he buys
a new line or two. Possibly he has only
three reels and Ia afraid Of them. but con-
siderations Of economy come TO him, and
he forbears to purchase another, saying
that he viii make them do somehow through
the season.
Instead he buys new rod, which he really
does need, since there Ia something the
matter with each Of the four which he put
away with considerable pride last fall.
He will get back to the old ones. the true
and tried friends Of rapid and lake. before
July, but just now he does need new one
all over.
The man in the sporting goods store
stands behind his counter and smiles a
greasy smile. for he hears the tread Of his
victim afar OF and knows what Is coming.
He has all OF the standard things which
have been proved worthy in strenuous
times past; he has also lot of new things
which must be tried hooks that are shocked
at such an angle and hooks that are not
shocked; gut smells OF new hues. designed
to blend perfectly with all sorts OF waters:
artificial lures which look like Nightmares,
but are warranted to charm bass from
the bottoms OF pools that run down almost
TO Tartaris; lines Of new colors and new
weartnGs, declared 10 be better than any
thing in silk yet dreamed OF by man; all
sorts OF devices for hooking feh. retrieving
Ash. killing fish, carrying nsh and scaling
and cleaning fish.
How h O man 20 20 into the woods along
trout streams or river. wherein the black
haas flashes his meteor way above the
pebbles. without sample Of each and every
one Of these seductive articles? The quee-
ton OF fiiee alone will keep him busy for
two weeks. for while he knows and loves
the Jock Scott and the Dusty Miller and
the Brown Moth and the Brown Hackle
and the Black Doctor. the hymakers have
been tying flies all winter while he slept
or went TO the theatre and che man in the
sporting goods shop flashes them before
his dazzled vision.
Some years ago q chap who had filed
himself with cold boiled lobster and hot
Welsh rabbit went to bed and had a bad
dream. When he got up In the morning
he tied fly called the Parmachenee Belle.
II is red. and blue and yellow and does not
look like any bug that scars or floats. but
sometimes takes both trout and bass.
The PaTmaobenee Belle Is a mild fly CON-
pared with some Of the glorious creations
OF this spring. Nothing is worth mention
unless it contains red, green, blue. yellow
brown, black. white, orange, pink and
gray
Many Of them have these huee with sew.
erai variations They are to be used. OF
course. on very dark days, and they are
bright enough 20 be OF service at night
So the man who has taken out his rod
and looked over his tackle-box In q disAatis-
fed way is. so TO speak. UP against II. or
rather he is up against the sporting goods
dealer. Two weeks hence his pocketbook
win look as II an elephant had stepped on
II, but he will lie in the woods, under ths
fresh green OF the branches. whipping the
aughing water and he will be happy. What
Is the bank account Of the sporting goods
man to him?