The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-05

.L!..E| [: FISHING
4 SPORT WHICH APPEALS Tc
M ~ N :, THO UsARDs. a
The Issue Between the kod and the
Pole-When Properly Pursued Thi.
Sport should Make a Man Better
and There Is No Reason Why H
Should Become a Preyarleator-
Statesmen Who Have Been, or Still
Are, Lovers Of lt-Born, Not Made
Bursting buds may herald the com
Ing Of spring 10 the poet, but Young
America looks for the fishing tackle Ia
the store window. it Is the sure sign
In a sporting.gooks establishment Ii
the city the window is filled with fins
rods and reels and nets and all tho;
is beauty and expense. In the coun
try store the front hooks and lines
and maybe one or two jointeI rods
while outside the front door, leaning
against tne house, Is bundle OF long
bamboo poles. Many an honest an
gler will get out the cigar box, with
It's lines and hooks; veterans OF mighty
contests In the deep. and so to the
woods, trusting In Providence to pro
vide the sapling that shall make the
fishing pole.
Anglers have been arbitrarily d.
vided into two classes--those who use
rods" and those who use poles
This is very wrong, for II THE two
shall meet on riverside. and II they
both snail be true 10 the sport, they
shall be comrades in the soul and nc
rules OF caste Shall keep them sepa.
rate. Fora long time the controversy
has wased, away from the pools and
rifles, whether the country boy, with
the alder pole, Is superior or inferior
as a sportsman to the city chap, with
his fine tackle. Robert B. Roosevelt,
an enthusiastic angler, said that the
testimony Of elderly gentlemen, 10 the
contrary notwithstanding, the best
tackle meant the best sport II The an.
sler knew his business. Eugene Field,
a confessed "lresidc fisherman cham.
pions the pole as against the rod. He
sang:
when ! invade plckerel hole,
Or seek trouting brook,
III take along an alder pole
And use limerick hook.
OF stylish tackle, fair 10 see,
Let modern sportsmen pirate,
But leave the modest bob TO me,
With angle worms for bait"
Makes a Man Better,
And this Is without reference 10
those expert anglers WHO think ~.
casting the beginning and the end Of
the sport. for in April even the speck.
led eau'y of the mountain brook will
not rise TO the lure Of a fly. hut must
tie tempted with y big. Juicy worm.
Fishing begins IN April In most Of the
fair dominiOnS Of the United .Statrs
and 1t 10 in April that everybody wants
TO 90, for then the trout anL the
black lass and the tooIhsome perch
VIII all bite Even II there be no fish
there wlil be air and voting leaves
and eond exercise and fine appetite,
a man comes home 4 better man. NOR.
ally and physically. Everybody knows
that elongated fish stories are moi
charGeable against ones morality.
His Sunday Bait.
Is 1t right TO so a.fishing on Sun.
day? There are many men and boys
and solhe girls who do. In the cities
where men and women cannot posi-.
bly, get away from work AMI indoors
and coal SCOT at any other time It
isn't looked upon as such a sinful
thing 10 to. But In the rural districts
the Sunday fisherman Is still taboocd.
In a little country town in Missouri
there is fisherman Of wide repute
named Harvey Morrow. Harvey Is
a good Methodist and wouldn't think
OF doing anything against the rules Of
his church, bat on a camping trlB
which lasts 4 month there will be Sun.
days, whether or no. Harvey was
restless on a certain aun,lay in camp.
and late in the afternoon was seen 10