Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
WHERE FISHING COMES HIGH.
Salmon Beats That Cost Thousands of
Dollars a Season.

London Daily Mail.-"God never
made mere calm, quiet, innocent rec
reation than angling" wrote Izaak
Walton some 300 years ago. If the
philosopher could come to life again in
| this goth century country of preserved
waters he would probably hasten to
add expensive" to the list of adjec-
| tives.
The sportsman whose thoughts run
to trout streams Or salmon pools and
an infinite variety of taking flies will
tell you that angling is still "calm,
quiet innocent recreation" within the
reach of the poor mans purse; but
angling" means to him the patient
individual who may be seen on any of
the quiet reaches of the Thames. sit
ting on kitchen chair in the middle
of punt, with a rod. black bottle, a
dog, and paper bag, listlessly watch
ing float.
Or perhaps the quiet looking men
who may be seen by the sos and COS
sitting on soap boxes in the summer
time on the banks of the canals near
London, watching each others rods,
apparently ownerless, lying on the
banks. This is the poor mans Fishing
competition and there are many
worse ways of spending a holiday.
Fishing" to the same sportsman,
means something infinitely more excit-
ing and more difficult to obtain. A
beat on Scotch or Irish salmon river,
or the right to fish in small portion
I of a West-ccuntry trout stream in the
brief dry-fy season-that kind of fish
ing is fast becoming the monopoly of
| the rich.
The silver salmon" is misnomer.
/ The king of the British fish should be
at once rechristened the golden sal
mon,' for the man who takes beat
on a Scotch river nowadays may be
well excused for muttering that fish
cost me exactly so sovereigns." when
he lands 30-pounder or even grilse
A very wealthy English duke often
tells his friends a story against him.
self which serves to illustrate the ex-
penses and surprises of salmon fishing.
He took two beats on the Tweed
beats which had yielded over 200 sal
mon the previous season, and paid
e1,200 pounds for the autumn fishing.
The days passed, the river was low,
and not fish was killed.
/ Just before the time was up the duke
killed a grilse, a friend killed two 49,
Founders, and gillie landed fourth
fish 81 ate the grilse myself" said
the duke ut cost me $500, so /
didn't see why I shouldn't"
Trout fishing is still within the reach
of the man of moderate means. From
many Scotch, WEIGH and Irish inns
/ very good sport can be obtained for a
! trifiing addition to the hotel bill. In
the County Galway, for instance, good
trout fishing can be enjoyed for three
shillings per day; and in mary parts of
Scotland the hotel proprietors Guy up
the fishing rights of five or six lochs
and add trout fishing to their list of
attractions gratis.
Salmon fishing tickets" which are
still issued on few rivers in Ireland
and Scotland at a guinea a day, are
well enough for the man on short
holiday; and if he have luck he will do
well out of it, fer the rule with these
I''tickets' is that the market price of
the fish killed is deducted from the
guinea. Thus, one day he may pay a
guinea and another day two shillings-
but he must give up the fish when he
has landed it.
The prices of sporting estates afford
ing grouse shooting and salmon fishing
have bounded up in recent years until
they have reached sums out of all pro-
portion to the sport they afford. The
millionaire who wishes to entertain"
is said to be the cause of the inflated
sums now asked by owners CT even
third-rate shootings and fishings; but
feven then the millionaire is often a
lmuch-maligned person, and still more
often a much-deceiyed enc.
In a certain London bankers safe
ARE several papers yellow with age. The
letters are from an old client. who
about the year 1892 strongly objected
10 having to pay the sum of e3t0 a