Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02

had measured a line on a single pool Of It
ha was called to Europe on urgent business
He left his family behind, but they weren
fishermen. His son caught one sixteen
pound fish and his daughter a thirty.one-
FOUNDER. The net expenses of water lease
and trip made the forty-seven pounds OF
fresh salmon cost S1lI a pound.
Tarpon Come High.
Another expensive fish is the tarpon.
Every tarpon caught in Florida has easily
cost the angler from $500 to $500 And II
we count, as we should, the number of
visitors who fish for this great herring I'M
successfully, 1t is more nearly correct TO
say that every tarpon brought to shore
has earned 81 600 for the people of Florida.
Tarpon is only the show fish, too-put
into the front Of the Florida display by the
states artful window dresser. The great
mass of anglers is attracted by smaller
fish-an amazing variety of them In salt,
brackish and fresh water. They come high,
too The first fish caught by a northern
angler last winter was thirty-seven- pound
channel bass, taken after fishing three days.
Exclusive of railroad fares or hotel ex-
penses, the fish cost him as follows:
For naphtha launch, three days. s1S
For guide. three days. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
For grub etc, for guide and angler..... .
Total Observation-Disclosures. $40
But counting the railroad fare and ex-
penses on the way for himself, his wife and
$500 by the time that first Florida fish
gulped his hook.
1t isn't only the particular state that has
the fish within it's borders, that profits from
the anglers ardor. The men who hurry TO
the Florida keys, the wind-swept gulf, the
blue Pacific islands OF Catalina and the
rest and the forests and lakes leave golden
trails on the whole continent.
Painting vast fishes on the willing canvas
Of the wind, money becomes mere ore to
them. There is no more generous spend
thrift than the man who Is going fishing
Democratic Sport.
And yet the beauty Of the simple sport is
still that there is no chasm between the
angler who spends thousand dollars for
tarpon salmon and the poorer but not
at all humber sportsman who perches on
the edge of a stringpiece and fishes for
irchling tommy Gods, suckers or sinners.
When they meet the 1000 angler is every
bit as interested and respectful nearer OF
the stories of the perch fisherman as the
perch fisherman Is Of his. Angling, one or
the Oldest sports OF man. is still quite un-
exhausted of its mysteries. The barefooted
country boy may be joke of the news
papers; every barefooted country boy who
goes a-fshing Is still sure to have some new
thing to tell; and the graybeard who wit
messed the birth of the split bamboo rod
and ''1shed with Seth Green" has some
thing new to tell that he learned on his very
last trip
DOCK fishing, the least noble of all the
branches of the sport, Is by no means fg-
noble. Even the most cold-bIooded and
merciless statistics Of It would show 1t to
be sport Of wonderful achievements. The
dock fisherman OF the south yanks in great
channel and blue cats that go over score
of pounds and even over half-hundred
weight every day in the season, in some
place or another. The eager spirits who
cast into the sea from the steel ocean piers
Of the Atlantic bring In glittering warriors
of striped bass and red drum that weigh
anywhere from fifteen pounds to sixty
They harness bluefish whose flashing bodies
rocket out of the sea when they feel the
hook In a. noble archiug bounds a. ever