Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-02
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW
Anticipation.

Anticipation
| This year we're going into the viii
derness. Fourteen miles from nowhere.
Away from the excursion crowds, to a
| lake where a steamboat whistle has
never been heard. Going where no sail
/ boat has ever SKINNED across the wa
| ter, frightening the bass and pike out
| Of years growth. And the boarding
house up on a hill, only u hundred yards
from the lake. the place where they
| put the food all on the table at one
time and you help yourself, to agree
with fsherman's appetite. Why. last
year party of three went out and in
one day caught 1879 pounds of wall
eyed pike in one forenoon. The next
day the same party landed forty-two
black bass not one of them weighing
Hess than two pounds and a musca-
lunge. Well, If I told you that the
weighed forty three pounds you'd think
it was a fish story"
"And fourteen miles from there is a
Like that has not even got wagon
road to it. Probably no. twenty men
fish in it during the year It's fact
that frogs have about died out around
this lake. You see these fool frogs,
never having had any experience
around this lake, jump into the water
Just as they would at Okoboji. but
that's the end of them. Not frog ever
gets out of this lake alive. a shoal of
bass pike and pickerel START for him as
| soon as he strikes the water and the
consequence is that no frogs are left to
perpetuate the species Same way with
minnows-all gone. Not fish under
| five pounds lives in this body of water.
| And they are getting bigger every year,
for the reason that the big fish must
have something to live OF. You'll have
to camp out and bring along your own
grub and bait Not a house within
| FIVE miles of this lake.
| "Now about tackle. Don't use any
thing but steel rod. Any kind of wood
lin fish pole will get broken the first
day. Get a big reed and test your line
with a sudden Jerk with forty pound
weight hitched to it. Use nothing but
Handicapped hooks with strong wire
Header, otherwise you'll lose your whole
outfit on the first strike Take along
a landing net at least eighteen inches
deep or you will kick yourselves into
the lake after losing two or three eight
pound black bass. If you use weed
LESS hook, a spoon or trcktail get the
best and strongest to lie had for the
money. You can't ship home to your
friends by express only twenty five
pounds week according to the law.
but when you come home you can bring
with you all you please, so advise you
to take along telescope grip and the
Iday before you quit YOU can catch 500
pounds. and two of you can check 1t as
baggage, and we In the office can all
have fish when you return.
you'll have to hire a liverynlan to
take you out to the lake fourteen miles
from the station. probably charge you
SIS. and the board will be different from
the Pilgrims. but you'll come to your
feed the next day after YOU get there.
Beds are good. soap ard water plenty
and clean towels. Better take along a
safety razor. Mosquitoes? Well, they
were rather troublesome. but the land
Ilord builds smudge fire every night
north of the house. and that drives
them out of your bedroom. l was there
two years ago and am going again this
years If can get away. Better buy
some frogs in Minneap polls and take
along. Hope you'll have nice time. y