The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-07-24
Trout Fishing In The Atlantic.

The fisherman who pursues his favorite
sport on land with rod and line, knows
not the excitement and enjoyment of a
mornings pull from the waters of our
Eastern sea. Yet. he would find i'll those
heavy brinv waters Il close kin of the
coveted dwcllcrs in the country brooks
long, shiny, sparkling fish, glisteningin
the blue waters far below-thc sea trout.
1t is this fish that we shall attempt to
catch today.
The sportsman that goes with us needs
no leggings, rod or reel. Indeed, the first
thing is to divcst oneself of shoes and
stockings, not necessary preparation
but an advisable one. A few short pulls
at the boat brings it 10 the waters edge
and with one man at the oars, and
another at the stern to push us off, we
nov watch the breakers for our chance.
The opportunity when given must be
used at once. There is no hesitation
| with the seamen, but at the word we are
| oil with gradually increasing speed
toward the oncoming waves. The oars
men strain every nerve in order to pass
the line of breakers before VIC are caught
i'll them. The boat gives tremendous
| Jump, soon another and we are safe with
| out.
! About mile from shore we drop anchor.
| Our lines are soon ready and the crabs.
which form our bait. being put on the
| hooks, and thrown in the pound sinkers
over the side of the boat and unwind
fifteen or twenty wards of line, allowing
| our hooks almost to touch bottom. 1t
is not long before we have Il catch and n
| fine trout, weighing between five and
| eight pounds is landed. Our luck con-
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are kept busy lowering and hauling up
our lines almost every time with a
spccklcd trout glistening and shining in
! the sun. When we get no more bites we
! haul up the anchor and move half mile
further out, where we again tempt the
various inhabitants of the ocean. We
catch a skate, a fish with body spread
! out four-lke fashion, tapering into n
small round tail, the whole covered with
| priykly "thorns," that arc very sharp
and poisonous to anyone allowing him.
self to he scratched by them.
Now. have not mentioned thing
about being what they call sea sick. 4"
In fact, prefer not to bring anything of
the kind up again and hope you will try
| for yourself if very DESTROYS to know the
meaning of that term, for it means q lot
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small representative uf the man eating
tribe, a real shark. Though not large
ptill it is u shark and the unpleasant
| association that 90 with that word
causes slight tremor of fear. 1t may
not lie SO pleasant fishing while that cold
blnndcd animal is inside the boat with
! one.
But my desire to get its hide is greater
than the apprehension that it will get
mine, and manage to keep it for that
purpose. That hide afterward proved
to h. almost impcrvious and for a long
time it withstood the teeth and united
strength of MANY of the best bone mas
ticating dogs of the neighborhood.
When at length we draw up the anchor
and start for shore, we find that the
steadily rising wind has heightened the
waves and hence, higher losses and deeper
scoops over the surface of the deep.
While waiting to find where the seas are
breaking, tn my hcwildermcnt, we find
the outcoming wave, about six feet in
height, directly behind and fairly upon us.
As it rushes past and over our little boat,
the man in the stern who can do nothing
more than hold tight and take it" gets