Ellsworth American., 1914-08-12
FISHING.
m. Noble Sport Described by One Of
Unquestioned Experience.
From London It'd Bits.l

NEXT to tie plauoia' ~ Us carrieu on al
most entirely in sporting papers, but can
hs dome in streams and lakes.
The latter form OF fishing is known as
the empirical or experimental method.
Fishes are divided by science into two
families, edible and Incredible. Edible
ssbes are those that are landed.
Edible fishes weigh from one to three
opnces. Larger fish than this live in
literature and do not take the bait.
To 90 fishing successfully it is necessary
N have an outfit consisting of day off, a
hook and piece OF string.
There are innumerable varieties of bait,
such as worms, grasshoppers, beetles and
TOW torpedo boats, known as casting bats.
Casting is done by hurting the torpedo
boat violently into the water and hauling
If back till the fisher faints.
There are better bats such as lobster
pots and dynamite.
The noblest fishing is fly fishing. 1t is
the art OF throwing q miniature feather
duster on the water in the hope that 1t
will look like fly. Countless fishes in
stantly dart from all points Of the horizon
to look at it. Fly fishermen count these
fishes and report tine number minutely to
the sporting editor.
Even the smallest fishes reach enormous
weights. This is because the scales
carried by the fishes are not sufficiently
inspected.
The most disastrous mistake in fishing
is patience. II q fish does not bite in-
SANITY. the fisher should try another place
at once. After trying three places with
out success, the fisher will do best by bail
ing the place out with bucket.
The bait for general fishing is the worm.
This is a longitudinslly elongated tubular
insect. 1t is enormously plentiful over
the entire habitable globe except when it
is wanted for bait. Worms then cost one
cent per worm.
He is made into bait by being impaled
on the hook. This is not painful to the
worm. He is prevented only by lack OF
speech from expressing his delight.
The worm should be lowered into the
water kindly ana firmly. A fish will snap
1t up immediately This fish may be a
salmon, bullhead, Finnan haddie or tin
can.
As soon as the fish bites, he must be
played. Playing fish is the technical
term for yanking him in before he can
get away. II the fisher is using pole, ne
should lay it down and play the fish hand
over hand.
Some fishes are known as game fishes.
This is not because OF their flavor, but be-
cause they jump into the air when hooked
Many fishers refuse haughtily to fish for any
except game fishes. The best way to get a
game fish is to play him till he jumps and
then stun him with club.
The leading game fish OF the United
waited persons call this fish a trout. The
speckled beauty is speckled with YER
million, green, purple and blue spots over a
brown MORE and watered silk effect. 1t
ranges in size from two inches to monsters
OF three and four, and lives exclusively in
babbling brooks not less than one inch
deep. 1t is iished for with artificial flies
and caught with worms.
Builheads are more easily caught than
trout. This gives them much finer
flavor. The bullhead can be identified by
gripping him firmly. II 1t is a bullhead,
the fisher will fnd the fish nicely nailed
to his hand by handsome spines.
The bullhead has the openest smile OF
any game fish, except the sperm whale.
The sperm whale, however, is not true
game fish. LIE is an independent oil re-
inner, who was pushed into the sea when
Jshn d. Rockefeller was evoluted.
One sperm whale is considered fair
catch for one days fishing.
Fishers who would rather fish for num-
bers than quality usually devote them
selves to the eel. The eel is exceedingly
easy to catch, but not SO easy to uncatch.
ten inch eel swallows the hook and
sixty feet of line in the moment Of impact.
The fisher must jerk violently as soon as
the eel bites. lie will then discover the
eel looped handsomely around his neck
and tied with q sailors half-hitch.
somewhat more aristocratic sport is
salmon fishing.
The salmon is caught with pole that
has been sawed into three or more pieces
and put together again at an expense OF
not less than 500. The salmon fisher be-
with his pieced pole and continues casting
until sunset. A guide then wades into the
pool and gets the salmon with gaff- f-hook.
There is also salt water fishing.
Salt water fishing is not fishing for salt
maekerel as many unscientific thinkers
believe. Salt water fishers catch bluetish,
olackfish, whitefish, jewish, pollocks and
other nationalities.
The equipment for salt water fisher is
strong pole, one mile OF twine, meat
nook and a sidewheel steamer. The
steamer is to get seasck on.
?. lie very bes. way to fish is by trolling.
y y Is the favorite method Of fat men who
nsh for exercise. Trolling is done by sit
uhg In an easy chair in boat and being
towed around by friend. The troller
noids pole and line. At the end OF this
nne Is piece of machinery that revolves
swiftly il the rover is kept up to his work
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