Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-15
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
Angler.

1.-THE angler who turns out of his bed
at an unseemly hour in the morning
in order to get to fishing by daylight
!, is following a rule as old as the art
of angling, but a false rule" said an
observant brother of the angler, accord
ing to the New York Sun.
"All game fish are night feeders.
This is particularly true Of trout and
| black bass. The fishermen of Lake
| Keuka, in this state, are we'll aware
of it and their biggest catches of the
biggest bass are made between dark
INT midnight.
anyone who has ever sat by some
| alder-skirted 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
rufTiing by a 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 tinlling
splash, and fading away in widening
ripples.
This movement Is quickly followed
by similar ones, here, there and yon-
| der, until the gathering darkness hides
them from his view; but the splash
and ~tinkling of them continuing tell
him that they are still disturbing the
sometime quiet of the pool.
"The listener, if 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 or
crawling into it. and that the trout
which had been lying low in the depths
of the pool had aroused to their royal
feeding time.
IL lie GOulu SEE vi ntdI Nldl was
| passing every other where along the
stream he would discover the sam
busy scene at every pool and reach OF
water. And if he should remain at the
side Of the stream until midnight he
would hear the musical commotion
continued.
"Then it would begin to gro Its
and less, until within IN hour only The
waters own music would be i,oa"l,
The time for feeding is past. tie tima
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 nc
tempting lure could induce them to
dash upon it.
"The person who has seen the trans
formation that takes place in a trout
pool at evening will sit in vain to see
it 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, an !
have demonstrated by years of close
observation.
so when / hear the angler crawling
out of his comfortable bed an hour or
so before day, and, regardless of
breakfast. or, at best, hastily gorging
a cold bite, hurrying away to be the
first on the brcols or lake. in the belief
that daybreak Is the time of all times
to catch fish. I smile and turn over,
enjoy an hour or two of that incom-
parable early morning sleep, get up
and eat a good breakfast, and go out
to deliver to the front or bass, which
are just then themselves getting mp,
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 it isn't the early angler that
catches the fish; so unless you have
TO 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
to fishing the fish will be ready for
theirs"