The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-13
TROUT WORTH CATCHING.
Game Fellow Got Away With Line,
bit He was Caught Later.

'I'll tell you a tale Of how the big
| gest fish he ever caught didn't get
away" said returned vacationer yes
terday. I'D been fishing along a little
brook near Milford, Pa, for three ag-
gravating hours and had only hooked
four trout that measured up right 1t
was the meanest brook to fish you ever
saw. Brush and briars hung over 1t
from both sides so thickly that you
could not walk on either bank, and my
hobneils wouldn't stick on the slippery
rocks any too well. 1t was necessary
TO take the tip off nv rod and was
poking the stub with about twenty feet
of line out ahead Of me which the cur
rent carried safely down stream.
moved very cautiously so as not TO roll
the water, for you know that muddy
water is danger signal for the wary
trout. AS I advanced heard three of
those nasty rattlers shaking their tails.
and when luck was not improved had
about made up my mind to pull out and
wind up when
''Zing-g-g-g went my reel, and Just
ahead a trout broke water. The brief
glance had of him showed that he was
no piker TO be ladled on the measure.
I gave him all the line he wanted on
his first rush and then pushed the brake
on the reel. I took a few steps forward,
and for moment the fish was quiet,
and 1 made up my mind had lost him.
A turn or two of the reel handle dis
sipated that fear. however, and some
where below me-so far down stream
that 1 could not see for the overhang-
1 heard splash and knew that he had
broken water again. Then the line fell
Imply in the water and this time I
Irrarr h1 ma off -, Il
my best leader gone, together with
about four feet of line.
Luckily, I had silver topped flask
a misguided friend gave me last Christ
mas, along, and silently 1 drank TO the
gamely fellow who had won out. Reel
ing up, I started down stream, looking
for an opening to get out of the bed of
the brook, for had fisherman's bunch
that 1t would be of no use to fish any
longer, for had lost the king of them
all. Soon a COW wallOW appeared as
the stream widened, and a barbed wire
fence was stretched across the stream
to keep the cattle from going down the
brook. On this fence was hung board
sign with a notice thereon that fishing
and hunting were prohibited. / couldn't
help but smile as I thought of the sat
isfaction the poster would take if he
KNEW Oh my loss
'Wading to the bank, sat down and
proceeded to I'LL my pipe, when 1 noted
that the lower strand of the fence
seemed to be considerably more agi-
tated than the ripping current war
ranted. On close investigation I saw a
piece of line had caught on a barb, and
then it dawned upon me what had hap
pened. My trout had broken water just
at that point and as the leader and line
flew through the air in parting the end
had knotted nicely around the barb,
hating the fish in his mad rush.
Il lost no time in getting hold of the
line, and / slipped my landing net IN
der the tired fish before he knew what
was up. Let me tell you right now that
he was a daisy. He had taken the worm
way down, and / had to use the dis
gorger to free il. When I hung him up
he pulled the scales to two pounds and
two ounces-the biggest trout I ever
caught in a brook of that character I
packed him in fresh green grass, took
a nip on my own account and was just
moving hOmeward when a gruff farmer
appeared and ordered me off the place"
New York Press.
THE FIRST SLEEPING CAR.