The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24
Weather Is Right and Many
TOpekans Ready To Go.
Sporting Goods Stores Are Do
ing a Big Business.
POPULAR WATERS PICKED OUT
Luck of Angler Is Like That of
the Poker Player.
Some Fish Seem To Hunt Some
Mems Hooks.

! GaZOOkS, waldo! Get out tne nSn-
( ing tackle ami prepare a lunch, for
/ the much loved, much hated but ever
| popular weather man promises fine
weather for the next few days. II his
prediction comes true it will b" the
first fishing weather since the fishing
season started that it hasn't rained or
been so muddy that you couldn't tell
when you go to the creek. because it
was the same color as the ground.
And, Furthermore, the said weather.
man, after making divers observa-
lions and calculations, says il will not
be an extreme risk to leave home
without your overcoat.
Coin fishin' today"
yep. Are you?"
"Betcha-'ht don't rain
That's the most popular question
and most common answer in Topeka
this week If one may Judge by gen.
eral conversation overheard and Ques-
tions answered, a large part of the
population of the city will go fishing
in the next few weeks.
Sporting Goods in Demand
Sporting goods stores and other
stores selling fishing tackle ave been
doing a land office business the last
few days and the prospects look bad
lux ally u N41C AAlAAy LAAOc III Tic dO-
jacent streams that may chance to get
hungry.
The spirit seems to have seized per-
sons in all walks of life, from street
sweepers to state and federal officers,
from youth to old age, rich and poor
alike Natures methods of Iocomo-
ton. railroad trains, street cars and
automobiles will all be utilized in the
general exodus to the peace and quiet
of the country, it would SEEM The
| Wakarusa, Soldier creek. Mill creek,
I Mission creek. the Dragon aid even
the Kaw and the Shunganunga will
/ draw their quota of fishing parties.
| Wakarusa, Richland, Maple Hill, Bur-
lingame. Flat Rock, Valencia and
Rossville will be the principal Jump
ing Off places, altho no doubt some
will go farther to get to better
/ streams.
But by tomorrow highland this
might be taken as prophecy-the
population of fishdom will not be no
ticeably decreased over what it is
now. Some Of the "outers" will catch
fish. There are persons who are
lucky at fishing the same as there are
/ men who are lucky at poker, and it
seems the coveted inhabitants of the
water swim miles and miles to swaI-
/ low the hooks carefully baited and
cast by these chosen few. But there
will be far more who will return emp
ty handed. with the age-oId saying
that I'VE had a good time, anyway"
Then Hear Fish Stories.
Monday will be a great day. If on
that day the unsuSpecting fishes, great
and small might gather and listen to
the tales of the big ones that got away,
/ the finny inhabitants would surely live
/ in fear and trembling for months to
come Bass and croppie, carp and
| channel cat, will do well to take the
| tip and emigrate to a safer cline be-
| fore tomorrow morning.
The various kinds of bait hooks md
| lines have been almost a more impor-
: tant matter OF discussion than the
peace league or the stock market this
week Long and heated have been the
arguments over the best fishing holes
around Topeka The old patrons of
/ Silver Lake are loud in their waiIinRs
( over the fact that that body of water
1 has been drained to make room for
more crops. But it all comes to
/ naught, for leach, in turn. will chase
his favorite phantom" and afterwarc
regret that he didn't go somewhere
4 else.
| So get out the fishing tackle. Wal
/ do, and buy dimes worth of weinfes
for tomorrow's to be a fair day.