The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07


HUI, Canada, May 1.-THE finest hy hsh-
ing 10 be found away from salmon waters
IL TO be had within fairly easy distance
Of this place. The season IL earlier than
anywhere else also, beginning on May /.
Owing TO the early beginning Of this
rather cold spring the streams and lakes
10 the north. where are some Of the finest
natural trout waters yot remaining, have
been free from ice for some time There
very little snow anywhere to chill the
waters and keep the trout lethargc.
But, as all anglers know. speolled trout
are not 10 DO befoolod into rising at the
artificial hy bsfore It il time for the genuine
article 10 appear. The eager hsbermsn will
DO compelled 10 content themselves with
bottom fishing for some weeks yet On the
brooks and streams where the brook trout
are found.
There are q few favored ones who happen
70 know that that Brobdin gnAgian among
fresh water trout, the namyoush, tuladi,
lJmEO or gray trout, rises most Eamely
70 certain flies for q short time In the early
part Of May. And any who have seen the
magnificent proportions this majestic FISH
reaches and have considered the power
which rests IN the huge forked tail and
broad spreading fms viii be ready to be-
lievs that when it has jumped at the other
end Of running tackle there is going to be
a fair amount Of Amusement for the
angler before he has the fab In his basket.
they tell q tale hereabouts Of o certain
NeStor among hshermen who had taken
q favored grandson 10 his lake early IN
the sprin Etime TO teach him casting before
the season began. The pair were prsotisln &
from the shore In the open water alongside
the slowly melting Toe.
Nothing was further from their thoughts
than that any fab in It's senses would look
at the flies thus early in the year, when not
q winged thing smaller than q bird had
made its appearance. The old expert had
Just made a grand cast and was bidding
his pupil note how lightly the fly kissed
the water, when there was tug at his
line.
Like the ensign Of the enemy came up
q tapping big tail and there was fight
on which lasted until, after several excur-
sions under the ice and long dive to the
bottom, where II had At Of the suli1s, an
eighteen pound gray trout came In on its
sids and was gated or Melted, at any rate
secured, with q forhed stick in the hands
Of the youngster.
The excitsment Of this unexpected event
vas too much for the aged sportsman, and
be had a paralytio stroke that night, from
which be did not recover for several months.
Since then other experiences have been
chronicled and there are now some sea-
soned anglers who would not dream Of
missing the early fly fishing for the big
lunge.
Il Is fishing that has TO be learned, how
ever for Il is not every one who can un-
dertake Il successfully. Salmon tackle,
or somsthing correspondingly heavy, Is
fiieS must be tried and changed until
IA found. Like all lake dwellers, the gray
trout Is likely TO be extremely capricious
about its diet.
It's fancy may range from big bright
things Of SCARLET and gold, evidently manu-
factured TO initiate some tropical hum
ming bird, to the tiny black gnAt. Or
again IL may be waiting for some special,
little known ny without which the days
II "a usually best TO begin with a good
sized standard ny. like the Palmer, the
Jock Scott OF the goodman, and after
three or four blank casts TO change until
everything In the book has been tried.
But when the right ny has been discovered
II will have to DO kept 20, for probably
nothing else will avail in that lake. 49,.
Men with this know edge, or intui-
tion, are hard to find, but II an expert
enced guide who has tried the spring
dy-hshing for the big trout can be had
bis advice will probably be well worth
paving for, simply as a eaving OF time. IL
win perhaps occasion some surprise 20
the fashionable angler TO fnd the guide