El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-20

- ~ ANGLER Is man WIZ
- fishes for sport; a fisher
man is a man who fishes
for fish" explained an angler. But
the angler viii have no sport unless
he catches some fish, and the fisher
man. can't catch. fish without having
sport" retorted the fisherman Then,
the month being May, both men went
a-fishing The dispute between the
two schools Of fish-killers may never
be ended, but the fact remains that
when the springtime greens the VII.
lows on the bank a large proportion %
the male population longs for try al
fisherman's luck Undoubtedly thls
longing is not limited to the spring
! time Some fish in Florida IN the
winter, some fish in Canada IL tne
autumn. some fish everywhere IN the
! summer. but it is only IN the spring
that everybody goes a-fish1nS.
IL an Honorable Sport.
Whether you be an ar1stocra.ic o.
gler whipping for trout with Je"ei -
i rod and dry fly. or whether you De
a farmers boy fishing for percn WlIh
| a hickory pole and n worm, you ar
of the Oldest and most honoraDle cram
Of snortsmen. Thousands Of years -
one of your ancestors tied thIn 81, ,.I
of bark to one end OF a curNsU -,
Of broken shell. covered the sheil WI"
| a piece of meat and cast II lhlo III,
! water. A fish swallowed 1t: a tug %
the bark string jeTked the sne,l - ~
wise In the fish's interior, and so .He
f;rst fisternoan caught the first fisn
and the first angler had the III
! snort That particular kind OF tacAte'
using gorge rather than a hum
still IS employed by primitive peoPi7'
In various parts Of the word :.
An angler, says the dictionary
one who trys' to capture flsn Oy
use of baited hook or angie Woi-
that came down from the Ayran DIN,
meaning a hook or a bend. That taxes
- bocI az far into the past as we
can 90 We know that angling was
fayorite sport Of the ancient arls-
tocraey of Egypt we remember tnae
Antony and Cleopatra had IlShl"5
match. we are told that Greek an
gler,s guide appeared in the year Ammo
Domino So, and that the first treatlse
on angling with artificial flles ap-
peared in Greek some 10 centuries
ago.
Leak walton was the high priest OF
the craft. but he had the experience
Of centuries behind him and he only
wrote down what millions OF 1lsher-
mon had felt before he was born-
youno as is this country Of ours, every
American angler ought to be PROUD
that the oldest fishing club IN tne
world belongs to us-the SchuylkllI
club CT Pennsylvania. which was
founded in 1882. the year Georse
Washin gton was born.
But It is not the ancient past nor
even the tale of IL hours asone. that
Il irnnortant. The brook. the river
the lake. they are there and sprlns
&c here. the tackle is ready AND only
slaves and sinners will not go a-Hsn-
ing. ,...o,.
II means a whole lot of different
things-to go a-fishing-out IL al"
,, and everywhere means 1un- ne w.
worships the art as we'll as enjoys the
SNORT of angling has known Tor
n,ontbs lust where he will cast MS
| firet Nv has known by the winter
nrac+ice in tournament fly-castiHs
inst how we'll he will cast-barrlng
trees overhead, has known Wnat mes
he would have in his book. what 1ous
in his kit and indeed. everything pu,
what he will catch. He spenuS Sili'.-
fortunes on his tackle. ne eIos 49,
continent to find his favorlte OrooH'
end he has a royal good time, winch
Is good for his health
Nv This man thinks. and says, that
.nvbodv who fishes with live oai1'
,,, ,iy frogs. grasshoppers or
,,-o-n,s IS a butcher He will deny
the title of angler and the glory OF
I! workmanship to every man VINO does
not fish with an artificial fly accoi"-
ing TO the rules OF the gaIne'
Fortunately. something more than
nina-tenths of the true anglers IN the
country do not know this. They never
hoard OF the artful angler who thinks
tbev are bloody butchers, and they
wouldn't care what he thought II they
had heard of him.
The Real Anglers
Some Of these are barefooted young
s+ers whose winter pampered ana
stocking whitened legs are piaEins
hockey from scholarly pursuits In the
bone that an afternoon on the banks
Of the creek will yield fish or two,
anv kind of fish This youthful sec
tion Of the great American angling
ar,nv is not finicky about tackle any
+bino from an alder berry switch fit
ted with a Irvine string ard bent pm
all the way up the grades to nam
boo pole and real store-oouSnt Ihe,
float and sinker. will suffice II lsn
even necessary that any fish be caught,
for these are angles who are out TOT
snort and who always find it.
Then there is the ebony-skinned pa
triarch of the plantation who knows
every cat hole in dozen miles. VINO
scorns to labor in the fields. and who
fishes both for sport and for fish, both
to kill time and 20 eat. Little he cares
II there be ignorant white men who
don't know that cat fish is the sweet
est fish that ever man put in his
mouth. little he cares II there be white
men who think it is great sport to
null ont an eight-ounce trout BE- cause
they never have had fight with an
eisht-pound blue cat little he cares
whether ne Is a fisherman or an an
gler a sportsman or butcher, he
knows his own game No man. white
or black. who has tasted channel cat
fish fried over a camp fire by the
rivers brink accompanied by ash
cake, will gainsay that negro fisher
mans right to claim a share in tho
joys Of angling
The Black Bass Enthusiast.
Not least among the disciples OF
Walton is the man who holds the black
bass to Ike the king of freshwater fish
Inch for inch ard ounce for ounce. he
is the gamest fish that swims." says
the black bass enthusiast He will
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