The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-07
FISH AND FISHERMEN.
No Such Thing as Fisherman's Luck
Fish Made to Order.

Hall c. Green, III Pittsburg Dispatch.)
There's an old sport down here who
makes fish to order" was the rather
startling bit of information told me By
the boy Snapshot one day last week
while we were tied up above Bridge
port.
Makes emp"
We'll, 1 can't figure 1t out any other
way. He has two OF three nets and half
A dozen trot lines out-maybe 200 OF ESQ
hooks. He fishes for buffalo fsh-says
that he doesn't want anything else
and catches five or six day, weighing
all the way from seven or eight pounds
TO twenty-five. None of the other fish
ermen around here are getting any of
the big buffalo. This morning he went
over his lines about o'clock and came
back with two fine fish somewheres
near ten pounds apiece He showed EN-
to me when he put EN- in his fishbox
Along about half-past o'clock his wife
came down to his boat with his break
fast in basket and a customer who
wanted fish"
Only got a couple of buffalo he
said, and going to his box he gets 'em
out and sells 'em for so cents apiece.
The old woman took the money and
then waited for him to finish eating
When she was packing up the basket
ne said, Better give me a piece of that
money
&c No. she said. You don't need il
mite. 1 brought yo' over a poke of
tobacco.
"'AH right ne says. Only allus
have better luck wen I got piece O.
money in my clos
"Sut she didn't loosen up. just gath
ereo up her basket and went away
she hadn't been gone more than ten
minuteS before two campers rowed up
ana wanted a fish-needed one weigh
ing about fifteen pounds, they said"
NOthin doin' In the box, but if
you'll wait, I'll run my lines an see n
r. amt hooked suthin'.' he said Sure
enough. in about five minutes he was
back with a fine buffalo weighing some
Thing over sixteen pounds. He got q
dollar and a quarter for his fsh and
inside another hour he sold another one
much the same way-just took the or
DER and then went out and filled it,
You're having great luck this morn
ing, I said to him as he was tieing I'D
his johnboat 10 go home for dinner.
"Tain't luck as ketches fish, he
said. It's science. A lot o. these fish
e'men round here is luck fishermen, an
YOU seen wot they're ketchin'.'
In the afternoon the old lady was
down to the boat again with an order
for fish. for customers-wanted two
weighing about seven or eight pounds
apiece, she said Well. he got them
and took them when he went home to
supper. They were all the fish he got
when he went over the lines. too. vet 1
heard him tell man that if he wanted
a couple of big buffalo tomorrow morn
ing and would come around by 6 O'Clock
he could accommodate him Now, If he
doesn't make his fish to order, how
does he know ahead just what he'll
have and when?"
Later that evening 1 became better
acquainted with the fisherman. He
rowed up to the rear deck of the Tam
many Hall. where l was sitting in the
twilight. and asked permission to tie
got a couple of fish that l want to keep
alive" he said If I anchored the box
off'n my own fiat, some o. those fish
wolves ud go th'oo it foe mo'nin'."
Permission given. he made fast his
aquarium. remarking as he seated
himself on the gunwale and filing his
pipe, II know yo' folks amt fishe' men,
but yo're all right. I know bout yo'.
Yo' come down fom Pitt g, didn't
yo'?
He Beat the q sten,-
We talked river. shantyboat fishing
and other things, and then he told me
about his domestic affairs, and Incl
dentaliy explaining the peculiarities OF
his system that had so mystified Snap
shot in the morning. "yo' see, capsu.
it's this way: my wife's moughty fine
woman. but she's close. an amt Yo'
see, she comes fom the Dutch an I'm
Irish-leastwise 1 got Irish blood in me,