The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
MAKING OF A TROUT ANGLER.
PREACHER TELLS HOW HE FOUND
HIMSELF IN THE WOODS.

Gers IN casehing Fish -|Troat O Never
Hnnding Study-The Brock Another
Study advice From Oid Guides.
These are 0 few observations on the sub
jet OF trout from ono who has Just oen-
o!udsa q ten days Famhls along the purling
mountain streams OF b oerIain region OF
Pennaylvania.
Tho true lover Of trout fishing pasaes by
the average trout story In newspapers Of
magazines with - much disdain as the old
timer underneath the rock shows toward
q bungling cast Of a fly out Of eeason.
@Whers to Catch Trout" and How to Catch
Trout are q delusion and o snare and
such attempts arc painfully apparent.
They allure only tho ragged beginner and
amateur, as the young Try rise to almost
anything that hiLs the wafer, from Q dry
twig to q hsilsone.
The old feilows don't bulge. Time wac
when these storiee used to attract mo, but
l oan zee now they never did anything but
deceive.
The SUM of the whole matter Is this: No
man can DO taught how to fish for trout or
where to catch them. He has got TO educate
himself, slowly and patiently, and must
End out for himself the where, when and
how Of 1t all.
IT'S q task Of no mean undertaking n
hat Is the reason why, Of all the hundreds
OF men who fish for trout, there are very
few real trout fishermen. An occasional
bit Of advice may be OF service, but that Is
only Incidental. To illustrate:
My hrst trout eshing lr1p was to Q popular
trout resot, In Pennsylvania, visited usually
by large parties from new York and Phila-
delphia ON the opening day OF the season.
During the evening ! was much bewildsred
with the stories OF trout lore, The weather,
the flies. the prospects, the Vantage points
and comparisons OF reels, fly books, areeis,
rod n iines.
Inaa picked upa complete outfit for some-
thing less 20 and when 1 surveyed the
elaborate dlspiays OF my fellow guests l
put myself down as a AMI outs,aer. In
the morning l felt more so, tor never were
q set OF men 90 wonderfully fitted out with
rubber brooches, fishing coats, bolts and
hats. They talked OF various SECTIONS Of
brooks and runs 40 II they were the most
familiar spots In the word, while the ooun-
try erounu the house presented nothing but
q Wilderness 10 me.
had several kindly invitations to Join
certain parties, but refused all out of pure
tear Of making q show OF myself ana dis
paying my ignorance. / was not In their
oiass n uld not to ave 1t rubbe in
any moro than was absolutely necessary.
When the iast man mad gone 1 asked the
proprietor TO direct me 70 a stream that none
OF tno men would be nke,y to use, as l pre-
terred to go 1t atone. lcannot ten now hat
/ used or now / did 1t, but In ABOUT mai an
hour / brought out OF q pool ana lanoea on
the messy Lank my first mountain trout.
guess l kneeied over nim IN aumiration
fifteen or twenty minutes. l Will never
forget the first erect OF those briulant red
spots on the brown and greenisn sneen Of
those symnietr,cal sioes M the WONDERFUL
unlatnomapie blue OF those iarge, round
eyes. Ihe deep night like tne azure OF the
evening SKY renamed Gear tor a long time
aver he nad stopleo AasLlD8. l picked
rhouoaenurVn Ieaves 2liu lut Them In lne
brook anu nlaae q cooi, clean Deu tor hin
Ia we DUltUlA VI my Greel.
MAen / mad caught my sixth trout /
suaosuIy realized 1 was nunsiy enoLKn to
eat nAils. 1 o0ulo nAIoly Deneve uy eye s
wnen / found 1t was 4 o'viovK. lne uay
hao gone ike an hour.
LLuKIly L managed to get hack to the
hotel by Ozark. Vi oil the ia. W 1 nad caught
We larHesL trout, my uIsL one-nine lnen.s;
only Que mAn huu more. de had .aAsn
eisnt. lhe majority OF Lhe iiten called 1t
beginners luek, DuJ the oio guiue, VINO
ntsu lnere all We year, saAu:
mo, cir, lie likes tne Wouys."
As eaen yvtAr OF iisning rolled on I realised
more keeLlJ the uI.n unoe. y lag Lus old
g.iue's REMARK. he nau Ie. uelveo the
qualify OF ~nicn l was then DuL uuLy CON
sclUus--a ueep love tor tne wovus, and
wlJpour thai u mA never oan become q
true and genuine trout nsneriuan.
~ looms Vie very startLis LOint Of his
education along uroul Lures. he may not
fully realize " niinself tor several years,
put II III nas IL ne some Time Or otueg wakes
up 70 TIE tact That he u Ia IA oLass py himself
az compared wltn the niajoil.y OF hs nsn-
ing companions
Inele Ia u gulf between himself and
them wnlon olny they q Bulge. Talk
ls useless. He cannot bring them 70 him.
Great 10 nus Joy wnen ne tnas one who
has gone on before and who knows and
loves the wcods az be does, or psrhaps
better. Glauiy WILL ne Sit at his test,
though the man wear . ragged coat. that
he may Increase his knowledge of this
never ending study. Therein iiee It's faSci-
nation.
terrain men may fish for trout every
wear, may be- capaDie Of maaing. very good
uasvs anu have q knowl.ose Of tne tiIght
aud att IN Oh flies. They win nave q oerlain
amour. OF LUCK when LIE trout are hungry,
but pnere's an END TO IT,.
Il takes the man with the woods knowl.
edge 10 get the trout where and when OTHERS
fan. 1 KNOW q certain ~Uodsmau lianled
George VINO can follow the average good
trout fisherman down any brook and beat
him out two 70 one or more.
Several years ago George promised ne
a trip. 1 was delayed two weeks IA getilg
up and founo George away. l also fould
no naa been sending every amateur d her
man from the city up to the run to which
he had aRreed TO pilot mo-.
He came nome late that night and tdd d
to my disappointment Ivy saying he nau a
lob mat wouta keep hun from sCiAg with
me the following day but that he would go
the Gay after. l uidn't know George 80
we'll lnen and, somewhat nettied. 1 eaid /
had heard ho hal been sending a lot OF
ppupl. over 10 the stream in question.
ahInd frisnd,' he sad, Il uid IL a-pur-
pose. BY garry. there lint none OF EN-
Knows how 10 oalcn o trout except by mis-
take, an they've given the place such a bad
There's been thirty men up there this
auriag. but no real fisherman. III show