Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-14
BROPHY- SMITH
 FISH STORIES
(By D. Faist Lyre)


 According to w. n. Brophy, who Is just back from northern Arizona. where he and Mark Smith have been fishing, the Arizona delegate is one of the greatest fishermen be has ever seen in action. Mir. Trophy realizes inc great service Mark Smith has per formed in congress and he is duly ap- preeiatiye of his ability as g states man and as a man of affairs, but he thinks that the characteristic of the Honorable Mark that most entities him to enduring fame is his cleyerness at fishing. From what Mir. Brophy said about Mir. Smith, Grover Cleve- land is only a four fiusher at fishing and Izaak Walton Is a rank novice.
 The beauty of Mark Smiths fishing is the system he employs. It is not that he catches so many more fish than other persons or fish so much larger, but it is the manner in which he does it.
 Wonderful Fish Hounds.
 For instance, when Mark Smith. the fisherman. goes after the fnny tribe he has with him his fish hounds. two of the most wonderfully trained dogs in the world. These dogs have the
 
 and vision of the grey hound, the gen. tility of the spaniel, the ''smartness' of the fox terrier, the faithfulness of the shepherd and the aggressive in stinct of ane bird dog. Under the training and development of Mir. Smith these fish hounds have become a distinct breed Save the litter oi puppies that arrived some weeks ago they are positively the only fish hounds in the world.
 The idea of the fish hounds is to bring about the largest possible catch Of fish with the least possible eXer- ton by the fisherman. The suggestion came to MT. Smith a number of years ago. He grew tired of sitting out on the bank of tie lake in the hot sun when just a few feet back of him were any number of great trees afford ing fine shade. Under these trees, too. were the dill pickles, the Uneeda biscuits. the bottle of Durkee's salad dressing. and the like, that such 8 thoroughbred fisherman as Mark Smith would bring along on such a trip and which, obviously, would not improve by being In the sun.
 How Fish Hounds Were Trained
 So the idea of getting two bright young unencumbered. uninfiuenced guileiess dogs and so training them that they could take care of the lines while he laid back in the shade among the dill pickles suggested itself to the honoTabfe Mark. Thus he set about on the task and being far more prof. cient as naturalist and breeder than most people give him credit for, in five years be has developed a distinct canine entity-the fish hound and has developed the breed to such an extent that to successfully fish all that is required of him Is to bait the hook; the fish hounds do all the rest. Tse developed this breed by crossing all the other breeds in that period, and ever was it steeped into the instinct of the puppies and the grown ups among the Smith dogs that fish and not the bird, the rabbit, the deer or any other animal was their natural prey. He trained them thus, in and out of season, and when it is remem- bered the patience and energy it re- quired during those five years to make fish hounds out of ordinary dogs no ,one will envy the honorable Mark that he can sit away back under the shade of the Juniper trees among the dill pickles and catch more fish than, the man on the bank iu the sun.
 MT. Brophy says it is one of the most wonderful sights in the world to see Marks fish hounds at work. He goes so far in his admiration of the delegates achievements in this line to say that his development of the fish hound breed of dogs is of much great CT and far more enduring importance than that of Luther Burbank in trans forming an Early Rose potato into a MarechaI Neil rose. He thinks future ages will come to look upon Mark Smith as wizard in animal breeding
 Hounds in Action.
 According to MT. Brophy it is at present only necessary for Mark to bait his hooks. On account of the barb in the hook and because the dog Is not as yet built so that he is permitted to put a wTiggling worm on a barbed hook. human exertion must be utilized to that extent. However. Mir Smith promises that in another generation of the fish hound he will be able to teresting features of Morenci by Mil. bait his hooks.
 After batting the two hooks and casting the line with cork attached out into the water Mr. Smith calls his two dogs Single and Statehood and assigns them to the two lines, each having one. All he does is to point at the eoris and the dogs understand. He then goes back in the shade to his dill pickles and his cigars and the like. Presently if the fish are biting you will hear either Single or State. hood give yelp, or both, if each has a bite and they win run of to the shade where Mark is basking. That is just to give the delegate warning that a fish is on the line. If he cares to come and take it of he may do so, but If he doesn't the Spaniel instinct oi the dog becomes uppermost and he swims out to the cork and retrieyes the line, fish and all. If the fish has not swallowed the hook the fish hound