Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-19
THE BsBEE REVIEW BsBEE ARIZONA FRIDAY MORNING. s 1907
TIME COME TO WRITE
 POETRY AND 60 FISHING
Young America Is Looking for Fishing Tackle to While
 Away Time.
tpy Frederic J. Hasklnl.

Bursting buds may herald the com ing of spring to the poet. but young America looks for the fishing tackle in the store window. It is the sure sign In a sporting goods establish ment in the city the window is filled with fine rods and reels and nets and all that is beauty and expense. In the country store there are hooks and lines and maybe one or two jointed rods, while outside the front door, leaning against the house, is bundle of long bamboo poles. Many an honest
 ngIer will get out the old cigar box with it's lines and hooks, veterans of mighty contests in the deep, and go to the woods, trusting in providence to provide the sapling that shall make the fishing pole.
 Anglers have been arbitrarily divid- ed into two classes-those who use rods" and those who use poles" !" This is very wrong, for if the two shall meet on a riverside, and if they both shall be true to the sport, they shall be comrades in the soul, and no rules of caste shall keep them separate. For long time the controversy has waged away from pools and riff1es, whether the country boy with the alder pole ii superior or inferior as a sportsman tt the city chap with his fine tackle Robert B. Roosevelt, an enthusiastic angler, said that the testimony of el- derly gentlemen to the contrary not withstanding, the best tackle meant the best sport if the angler knew his business. Eugene field, a confessed ~fireside fisherman" champions the pole as against the rod. He sang:
 When I invade a pickerel hole.
 Or seek a trouting brook,
 I'll take along an aldre pole
 And use a limerick hook.
 Of stylish tackle, fair to see,
 Let modern sportsmen prate, But leave the modeLt bob 10 me,
 With angle-wprms for bait.
 And this is without reference to those expert anglers who think fly casting the beginning and the end of the sport. for in April even the speck- led beauty of the mountain brook will not rise to the lure of fly, but must be tempted with a big juicy worm. Fishing begins in April in most of the fair dominions of the United States, and it is in April that everybody wants to go, for then the trout and the black bass and the toothsome perch will all bite. Even if there be no fish, there will be air and young leaves and good exercise and a fine apetite. A man comes home a better nan, morally and physically. Everybody knows that elongated fish stories are not chargeable against ones morality.
 Is it right to go a-fishing on Sun day? There are many men and boys and some girls, who do. In the cities where men and women cannot possi- bly get away from work and indoors and coal soot at any other time, 1t isn't looked upon as such a sinful thing to do. But in the rural districts the Sun day fisherman Is still tabooed. In a little country town in Missouri there is fisherman of wide repute named Harvey Morrow. Harvey is good Methodist and wouldn't think of doing anything against the rules of the church, but on camping trip, which lasts a month, there will be Sundays whether or no. Harvey was restless on a certain Sunday in camp, and late In the afternoon was seen to steal away up the river with a Sunday school magazine in his hand. The boys followed him and found him-oh, wicked man-actually fishing! They