The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-08-14
FIsHED WITH A KITE.
Norm Holley Avoided
But Managed to Land the
Trout All Right.

-, oswepo. makes up his mind to
catch fish he catches EN-, salo JUN
Stewart, New Yorker, OF VINO"
the same might be sail, relates the
New York Sun. Emphatic trespass
not;ces 2o-foot board fences, ana
men with shotguns, may discourage
the ordinary, everyday fisherman
but Norm Holley never.
"a fellow-citizen of Norms VINO
doesn't love his neighbor as himself,
owns a nice bit of water thereaoou'
and he stocked it with trout. IL pc
came known in a few seasons tha'
the trout had thrived in that water
beyond all expectation. But when
anglers, big with hope and carrying
feathsred bait and bait in tin boxes
for the fish, and some in TASKS, TOT
themselves, went to that water u
oct some of those trout, they re-
turred home and were forced to 90
an unconventional thing for fisher
men.
"Ttey had to tell the truth. they
had been met not only with the pas
sive, though positive. presence OF many
trespass and Fishing Forbid signs
about that coveted trout haunt, but
with the active personality OF the
owner and those of sundry cold and
| unsyInpa thetic hired men more OF
less prepared to make good the as
serticn of undemonstrative painted
| signs
..Ncw Norm Holley had partlcu-
| larly fixed his heart on alliance with
the big trout in that water, and TINS
cruel sequestration of it hit him
hard. He cajoled the testy owner OF
the preserve; he pleaded with him.
he even offered price for the PRIV
lege. The obdurate proprietor OF the
| water and its contents was not to be
| moved.
".No living man but me- he de-
clared, is ever going to yank a trout
out o there without he gets load
O. shot or something, or feels the
clutch o. the law as tight as 1t can
be made to clutch
$50 Norm Holley went home and
| pondered. The result of his ponder
ing was that. he got up and tapped
| his forehead, smiled, and said:
".No living man but him. eh?' said
he. Now I'd just like to bet him
three dollars ag'in a cents worth o
catfish hooks on it,
"The next day folks saw Norm
Holly going through town carrying a
big kite, and to all inquiries as to
what in the world he was up to he
had but one reply.
"'Goin' fishin',' he said.
"Norm had devised light and
woodworking apparatus which he
fastened to the bottom of this kite
of his, and which supported fish line,
and gave it easy play under the ma
nipulation of Norm at the other end of
the line. Attached to this line were a
leader and a good trout hook, scientifi-
cally and alluringly baited-
Norm sat down on a stump outside
the fishing preserve land and sent his
kite up. When it was soaring above
the fenced-in trout water, he held it
there, and let his baited line, proper
iy loaded for the purpose, down into
| the water.
The movements Of the kite high in
the air gave the most skillful kind Of
play to the bait, and it wasn't long
before Norm, holding the fishline in
one hand while he handled the kite
string with the other, felt the thrill
of an unmistakably good trout bite
telegraphed him from the invisible wa
ter on the other side of the high fence,
and at least a hundred yards away.
"The angler instantly hooked his
fish. and after a loEg and stiff fight,
in which the manipulation of the kite
played a good part, he felt the trout
weakening. and at last he was able to
haul it up from the water until it hung
in sight in the air, just below the kite.
To wind in his kite, which scared with
the trout in it's clutch, so to speak,
like a triumphant osprey, and secure
his prize was simple task for this
angling genius.
THE trout was good two-pounder.
And there Norm Holley sat and fished
thus until he was able to come home
800 = No@SA "a tHC oiSSC>t tIOut ever
brought into the place and caught as
no trout had ever been caught before:
and all Norm would say as he passed
along with the trout and the kite.
was:
Il told you was goin' a-fishin'.'
The owner of the trout preserve
might have seen that kite floating over
his exclusive water, but If he did he
had no idea or thought as to what its
mission was there, and it was not until
Norm Holley had lifted out manv a
mess of those surprising fish by his
kite fishing-tackle that the man got
on to the thing, and then he took
measures that crushed the further use-
fitness of Norm's genius.
But Norm was content. He had had
unprecedented sport, and had Demon
strated the fact, think, that when he
made up his mind to catch fish he
caught EN-"
Waiting Game.
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