Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
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Fisherman Gets Sig String Of Trout
Where None Were Expected

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Where None Were Expected
All Cross Mills has been fishing
in Cold brook for the last ten days,
saws the New York Times Nobody
ever fshed there before within the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant, but
ten days ago Joel White, who has a
cottage on Charleston beach, came
down from Providence and started to
fish the tiny stream.
For Cold brook is only about 200
yards long and its greatest width is
about four feet. 1t runs out Of the
mill pond under the Post road and
through meadow into the salt pond,
Nobody ever heard Of anything but
srnelts and eel being caught in Cold
brook. Consequently when joel
White came down the Post road with
a light bamboo rod and a can of an
gleworms and dropped his hook into
Cold brock there were few remarks
not calculated to inspire the angler
with brotherly love toward the critic.
But Joel White only grinned and
kept on fishing. He's been coming
to Charlestown beach for good
many years. and is reckoned as one of
the townspeople. Therefore all felt
perfectly free to speak their minds
regarding his piscatorial doings.
John Greene came down the road
from the post Office just as White let
down the hook for the first time.
"What We fshin' fer, Joel?" he
asked. "SuckersI"
"I'm fishing for anything thatll
bite replied White Didn't know
but there might be a trout or SO in
the brook-water's good and cold"
yep" admitted Greene, eva
ter's good 'n'cold in the sody foun-
tain up to Hoxsie's store, but | don't
spose y'd find many trout there. ]
don't s'pose-gosh! We got strike.
sure 'noughr'
A strike it was, albeit gentle one,
and in few seconds White landed
trout that would weigh possibly a
quarter Of a pound.
Glow about it?" he queried. with
a grin. whats that you were saw
ing about fishing in a soda foun-
tain?p Fs-FSa~let
White fshed the 200 yards Of Cold
brook in an hour and half and he
got the most amazing string Of trout
caught in the town in 80 wears.
There were only 10 of them. but they
weighed over Is pounds. The largest
one balanced the scales at two and
three-quarter pounds, and the re-.
ran all the way down To a quarter Of
a pound.
White took the string up to Prov
idence, where he had their pictures
taken with his own. Afterward there
was a royal fish dinner at the Uni
versity club, -,,- "-
That's why all Cross Mills has
been fishing in Cold brook for the
last ten days. Half dozen good
ones were caught after Joel Whites
exploit, one of them about the size
of his largest. There are various the
cries as to how the fish got into Cold
brook. That most generally accept
ed holds that they must have come
from Kenyon's pond. James Ken
yon, Providence lumber merchant.
stocked his artificial pond two or
three years ago, and is thought the |
.rout must lave come through his
lam into The salt pond, through The
alt water, and up Cold brook. |
This theory gains weight from the
'act that Kenyon's pond was fsbed |
'ecently with practically no results. |
Another party hold, that trout |
viii not enter salt water under any |
circumstances, However that may !
De, Joel Whites catch is The wonder |
IF the season in Cross Mills.