The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-22

caught one last summer and sold it
to hotel here that weighed II
pounds 4 ounces. While we can catch
some in the ponds and lakes with
minnows for bait, when we want to
get good supply we take a motor
boat, towing a skiff behind, and go IL
miles up the south fork of the ST
Lucie river, run of an hour and a
half to the fresh water of the river
above tidal salt water, tie the motor
boat to the bank and fish from the
sklII, one man handling the skiff, one
IN the bow and one in the stern of the
sklff casting with long cane poles and
long lines, with a hook at the lower
END. to which is hooked a piece of a
SAT- pork rind about three inches long.
Witn us lower end split to show like
the legs of frog swimming. when If
Is dragged through the water.
LAST tuesday morning three of us
lS!t STUART IN motor boat towing nv
sni1l at o O'Clock, and we tied up the
~ Doat and began fishing from
and the other two did the FISHING A.
the third cast of the stern man he
idhoeo four pound bass, and we
tnen made rule to turn loose ali
pass caught less than one foot long,
| and in this manner we fished The
| river for four miles, to the head of the
open river, where fallen trees STONED
the way, and there we went ashore
! polled coffee and broiled bass. fried
potatoes and onions together. and
with dozen big ripe tomatoes and a
oozen oranges, we had a feast After
a good smoke of three pipefuls for
eacn one, we fished back to the motor
boat, catching eight large blue gill
sunnsh. OF a weight of about one and
one-half pounds, like the largest ones
we used to get at Lake View. the first
| rev years of the Lake View club and
bass after bass, but our largest one
was only five FOUNDER. Our tota1
eaten was thirty-one bass that we
saved, besides those cooked for din
ner, out we had counted thirty-five
that were thrown back, because we
| thought them under a foot in length
and our eight blue gills, about sixty.
flve pounds total weight of fish saved
mat we placed on the fronds of palm
IN the bottom of the skiff and covered
over with the leaves of the saw
palmetto, and then we came home
stopping at Palm City, where we gave
a large pail of fish to the owner of the
motor boat and big supply to eacf
OF TWO or three friends; thence home
to Stuart, with enough for the us,
OF our families and the families O.
half dozen friends
Now, friend Mac. 1 have given vol
fuu account of this one days bas
1lshlng, because 1t can be repeated an!
and every day of the year. on the sam,
water, and if you ever can find tim,
to come down here, or if you or an,
of our old time mutual friends, ar
passing through Stuart, up or dow
the east coast of the peninsuIar o
Florida, if they will stop off for a da-
or longer, and come to my law office
across the street from the depot, l will
try and take them on the same triI
we took, and if it so should be tina
business will prevent my being one o
the party l will place them in tn
hands of my fishing partners. who, 70
my sake, will take them the route
and give them the best days fishin
for bass they ever enjoyed, and far be
yond the fondest dream visions O
bass fishing they ever imagined.
/ AS ever yours,
| w. F. RIGHTMIRE.