The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-12
BIG O LIE DEEP.
A Singular Fnct Made Plain " ho'
tom Trolling i'll A1iron-
dack waters.

"yVhat Il troll, heavily loaded SO IL
scould be drawn nearthe bottohn,'Noul
produce from some. of the A~dirondach
lakes which contain nothing but native
brook trout would undoubtedly sur
prise and delight the angler sad a
New York sportsman, according tolhe
Sun. ''Ihe great, big. fellows, such as
no fisherman will ever catch with ny
or other surface lure, if he should nsh
from now until doomsday, lie
in the. depths of those waters and no.
where else, except in the winter, when
they come nearer to the surface.
''The largest true brook trout OF
which there is authentic record OF the
killing in New York was taken from
White lake, in Sullivan county, before
that natural trout water was stockeo
with black bass and pickerel. That
trout weighed nine pounds and was
taken by Lewis Platt, on a loaded troll
in SO feet of water.
Fishing in the same way, Otto Gil
pin$killed a trout in White lake that
weighed seven pounds. and the late
!. Charles Fenno Hoffman captured a SIX
.spounder. .t4. tzs,
Trout weighing a pound and more
areafreely taken with the fly on Frank
lake, in the AdironGacks, and specl-
mems weighing three pounds have sue.
cumbed to the fly. No one ever sus'
peefed what monsters of their kind
lurked in the depths of3the lake, how
ever, until ~twoseasons or sc ago,when
a guest of the North Woods club went
fl fishing on a small Adirondack lake
which had long. been said to contain
brook trout. although no n ever
caught any of them by any of the rec
ognized methods of trout fishing. f"
'HsThen an old guide confided one day
to a visiting angler that he had caught
many a big one. in that lake through
the ice. This angler, acting on that
hint, weighted line with a quarter OF
ia pound Of lead, used a small, bright
Tbass troll, and trailed it nea thesbot-
tom of3theslake. The result was that
hc*landed.f four brilliant brook troutin
less than an hour. the smallest one of
which weighed four pounds. -. .
rs "a member of the North Woods club
%thereupon made the experiment in
Frank pond, and captured the biggest
brook trout on record since the TAX
ing of the Independently White lake,
years ago. This Frank pond trout
weighed, eightSand a half:pounds. ~ !
81 don't know whether or not this
method Of trout fishing has found
favor among the scientific anglers of
which the North Woods club consists,
but by no other means can the pis-
ratorial fpatriarchs of the wilderness
waters. be brought from their depths.
I; aa%Speaking Of big trout, the, true
spsckled trout Of the wilds, it isn't like
lyHthat there is another spot on the
ecoHItinent where they average so large
toAhe regularcatch7as'they doin Lake
Wayagamaek.;in!th the Canadianwilder=
ness, 100 miles north of Three. ~,&riyers;
A 1hree7pounderathere is:not regarded
q sSSslnere than AN ordinary catch Asnd
EiXKppo'uln ~ E are 2e:.! eaam N z *: rl.:-a AZ
Hrhe lake. is, 60 miles in: cireumferr
enae, dotted with islands, and indented
with many bays. Fly fishing is the
ruff early in the season, but later on
the lure is young Write fish: 1saw, one
cafrh offouf trout1frtom that lalze,l the
.fonr having been killed III quick, sue
ceSsion, and the weight Of each fish
was abovertive poundss2' > jss -