The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
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chat simllaf e~xteFtsnces IN fact " 10 .
a~ueH,ion worth sume Investigation Whe'het
Trout are not dofgeatlc Nv their hbl Ne. only
leaving ,hetr own dwelling pIsera once ,
year for the annual migration 4" The fa'u.
Ing grounds.
There " n little party u mon who s,er'
rear h-h a iittis lake INC @'rsam IN a."
Iaarentidea. ~ the north of this place.
who have foV soms years known o. art
had fights with. q hugs trout weose abiding
place was a deep kettle hole under a high
but narrow waterfall. IL grew TO b" the
custom for thOse who remained behind 20
inquire 81 returning fishermen, How dil
YOU leave tho old trout7" being certain -
tho fact that he would be angled for, seen
and felt. That he was unlikely 90 be taken
was a common belief,
This year a country lad was mot by tho
first visitor 10 the strcam, dragging "A tre-
mendous trout alongside. The Hnrlers'
---...,I.anN ,ra raalyaH Whan tho hHy
| aleefully described how he captured the
famous old ash-it weighed just under
thirteen pounds-with a worm set on a
y~illainous looking contrivance known az
an eagles claw. This IL a combination -
several great hooks set on a spring, 80 that
| directly the bait Ia touched they pounce
10 a circle into the mead OF the fish, mailing
It's escape impossible.
That particular trout had frequented the
same hole among the sharp edged rocks
for az least nine years. He had broken
scores Of hooks and lines in that time,
but had contrived TO rid himself OF them
all, though his tough old jaws showed
marks Of Wounds.
In the Gatineau country is a broken
down lumberer's dam on a pretty wen
Hsbed out trout stream, beneath which a
big speckled fellow has hidden for years.
OF late he has grown epicurean IN taste.
and will only rise at small May mes. he
can only be reached through a hole Two
feet square. between the rotting timbers,
and prefers his flies dry.
with a great splash he takes the o
down and under the dam. Probaoly ne
swims over and under one OF the sunken
beams two or three times to get a purchase
on the leader, for the result OF o strain upon
the tackle is always q broken line.
Every visitor to that stream knows OF
the big trout in the dam, but none who has
hshed for him imagines that he Will ever
be killed by fair means.
The cunning Of these old hermits is in
fact most surprising. There useo 70 De
one Of them who lay hidden year after year
beneath which the stream passed forming
bazua' or hiding water" About ten feet
below, where the little brook came INTO
sight again, a narrow ledge OF stone STOOD
up edgewise in midstream.
The old chap used to lie with his head
up stream, ready for any worm or grass
hopper which might float down. As soon
dash down the brook to below this stone,
around which he doubled, and went back
to his cool retreat. certain that the least
strain upon the line would fray it apart
against the sharp edges.
He was caught at last by an ingenious
youngster who used an E fiddle string
for a line and the bottom Joint OF a roc
for a pole, dragging out the clever old
cave dweller by main, strength.
lance from the T~emiscamingue Lake, q
guide led his employer back from the
magnifoently stocked stream they were
fishing to a little we'll shaded inlet. This
dozen feet away, behind which the sports
man was instructed to make a cast with a
short line from whore he stoed. Directly
he got the fly down-rather an awkward
business, by the way-a great splash an
| rntlnnal N afriln anH n fine fTnut on nA
down from between the roots OF the old
tree. straight towards him. OF course,
there was no playing Q large, powerful
fish that way, with the line doubled over
the stump, and it got off.
"He always do that way. that fellow,
every time" remarked the guide loyfully.
The angler made some rather biting re
marks about the imbecility of casting in hat
manner, when the danger was known,
which appeared to put the guide upon MS
mettle.
He must have worked most Of the night
making a dam across the stream aooye
angler early and led him to the scene of the
accident OF the night before, just as the
reoeding water left the hole at the stump
dry. A mud covered monster was w,rithing
with his ha 1t was the big trout which
had been acute enough to take advantage
Of the holes under the dead tree,
Not very far from this stream is a little
uSeSTteu Gearing anu nut, WHEREIN Nv tsi'N
set up their camp The original settler
had taken the trouble to sink a well, which
was accidentally discovered, and found
to be in good condition. Upon letting
down a pailfor water there wasa splashinE,
which alarmed the guido. A bla zing fam
beau OF birch bark was lowered and by its
light a beautiful trout, apparently some
thirty inches long, was eeen,
According to the guide, INC with HIM
agreed an old trapper encountered soon
after, this trout must have been carried
from the brook and put into The well TO keep
1t sweet, which lis n comm-n device in that
country. No one but the settler who sank
tho well would be likely to do such a thing,
and he had left the country some thirty
eight years before,
The trout WIS evidently a ged and seemed
to ha We some par sitical growth on one
side of the head, But he steadily refused
| all invitations TO lea We the well and is proha-
bly, there to this day. Since nothing can in
duoe him 10 bite. he may also be classed as
the wisest Of his kind, since he appreciates
to the full the value Of his one trick.
Ways OF Scotch Justice. EF7