Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-07-07
FISH LATE RISERS.
ARE ADDICTED TO LATE SUP.
PERs AND MORNING EASE.
Trout, Bass and Other Game Fellows
Are More Easily Taken After
Dark-Points by an
Y Angler.

''The angler who turns out of his bed
at an unseemly hour in the morning
in order 70 get to fishing by daylight
is following a rule as old as the arr
OF angling, but a false rule, said ar
observant brother Of the angler, accord
ing to the New York Sun.
All game fish are night feeders
This is particularly true Of trout anc
black bass. The fishermen of Lake
Keuka. in this state. are well aware
of IL and their biggest catches of the
biggest bass are made between dark
and midnight
Anyone who has ever sat by some
alder-skrted pool on a trout stream
as night began to fall knows what a
lively change comes over its surface
with the passing Of day. He might
have sat there an hour or more, and
seen no disturbance Of the placid sur
face of the pool, save the occasional
rufiing by passing breeze.
"But with the darkening Of it by
the evening shades, what a trans
formation he sees! First a dubious
lifting Of the water near one edge Of
the pool, perhaps where the alders
hang lowest, that bullying bit Of sur
face instantly breaking into a tinkling
splash, and fading away in widening
nipples.
This movement IS quickly followed
by similar ones, here. there and yon-
Ger. until the gathering darkness hides
them from HIS view; but the splash
and tin5ling Of them continuing tell
him that they are still disturbing the
sometime quiet Of the pool
1.-The listener II a skilled angler,
would know what had brought about
this change In the aspect Of the pool
He would know that with the coming
Of evening the winged and creeping In
sects that appear only at night had left
their daytime hiding places and were
abroad. hosts Of them falling into or
aimlessly alighting on the water OF
crawling into it, and that the trout
which had been lying low in the depths
Of the pool had aroused 10 their royal
feeding time.
"If he could see or hear what was
passing every other where along the
stream he would discover the same
busy scene at every pool and reach Of
water And II he should remain at the
side Of the stream until midnight he
would hear the musical commouon
continued
"Then Il would begin to grow less
and less, until within an hour only the
waters own music would be heard.
The time for feeding Is past. the time
for rest and sleep has come. and the
trout have retired TO their haunts be-
meath the roots and rocks and over
hanging banks. surfeited, and no
tempting lure could induce them to
dash upon Il
1.-THE person who has seen the trans
formation that takes place In a trout
pool at evening will sit in vain to see
II disturbed again by trout rising to
passing food before eight o'clock next
morning. Game fish are rarely astir
before that hour in the morning, as |
have demonstrated by years OF close
observation
80 when hear the angler crawling
ont OF his comfortable bed an hour or
so before day, and, regardless Of
breakfast. or. al best hastily gorging
cold bite. hurrying away TO be the
FIRST on the brook or lake, in the belief
that daybreak Is the time Of all times
10 catch fish, smile and turn over.
enjoy an hour or two OF that incom-
parable early morning sleep. get up
and eat a good breakfast, and 60 out
TO deliver TO the trout or bass, which
are Just then themselves getting up,
the lure the like Of which they haven't
known that the early angler has been
vainly trying to give them for the past
three hours.
"The early bird may catch the worm,
but Il isn't the early angler that
catches the fish: so unless you have
10 get up early because your fishing
ground lies at a distance. stay abed
like other folks, take your regular
breakfast and then by the time you get
10 fishing the fish will be ready for
theirs