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

succeeded in hooking a perfect living whirl-
pool of a muscallonge, does not dlsdain TO
interest himself In taking the little wrig-
Cling catfish from the hook of some mother
~ old lady whose lines are cast in the mod
est places of the dock fisherman. Ana
she listens with honorable credulity TO his
tales, knowing surely that he VIII return the
compliment when she begins to speak OF the
| big ones that she and her old man have
hooked right there.
No man has ever succeeded in catching
even a fair proportion of all the different
kinds OF fish that are taken in North Amer
lea. One OF the greatest OF living American
anglers adopted the sensible principle long
ago that he would attend TO ordinary busi-
, ness only when IT didn't interfere with the
real business of life. which is fishing. He
has fished in the Adirondacks and the
Rockies, the Great Lakes and the streams
of Orange county, n. Y, that are so small
that the unobservant person would step
across them without knowing that they
were there. He has tried the rollers of the
Pacific and the CLASSY seas of the Florida
Keys.
My N.Y." said he the other day, chow I
do wish that l could have a day at the
ounantche In Lake ST. John. I've never
caught one: I simply must get up there
next week"
WHAT" asked one of the party. Haven't
you caught ounaniche yet?'
NO, sir. said the old sportsman. II
haven't begun to catch the different kinds
Of fish. Why. never took a yellow tall off
Catalina and / haven't ever hooked one OF
those big black bass in Florida where they
run up to fifteen pounds and more, and
never got a tuna or a zarracouta or a Suna-
pee trout Then want to take a fresh run
sea salmon in those pools above Bangor. in
Maine. That is something that / never
tried. Fish? Why. l don't know anything
about American fishing. really. Down in
Louisiana they fish in the woods around
the trees when the water Is high and get
monstrous buffaloes and catfish right in
among the bushes. / never tried that. And
l never got a chance to catch the big blue
sure going to nail one of those hundred
Founders they tell about. There's some
grand fishing for sheepshead On the Indian
river that is still to come to me.
They get pollock fishing from power
boats in Massachusetts bay that 1 want to
take In, and want to go OFF mackereling in
front of Martha's Vineyard. There's q place
up In Vermont where there are old salmon
trout that weigh a million pounds or there
about, and no man has ever been able to
hook one yet, and / want to see what can
do there some day. And ! know another
place in New Jersey that is simply full OF
small-mouthed black bass that will weigh
up to five pounds. and every ounce hot gin
ger, and yet they're never caught, because
can't let that opportunity go by.
Fish? Why, what have caught? Only
brook rainbow, golden and cutthroat trout.
black bass, pike. pfckerel. muscallonge.
grayling. salmon. salmon trout. perch, tar
pon una. skipjack, shark, channel bass,
striped bass. sea bass. blackhsh. bonitos.
snaprers and few other kinds That isn't
even respectable variety compared with
what this country holds. Maybe II live
thirty years longer and fish good and hard
and have good luck I'll be getting my record
somewhere near to where 1t ought to be"