The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-08
Evening Chat
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Fishing"
The angling season is at its height
and daily meet groups of men with
rod and reel across shoulders, can OF
bait IN hand or crowded into automo-
biles loaded down with fishing tackle,
bait and AL kinds OF paraphernalia
starting on for day. or perhaps sew.
eral OF them, of fishing.
There must be something terribly
fascinating about this game Of fish.
ing for whenever you see a man who
Is q deyotee Of the angling art you
may make up your mind that he is no
half hearted follower but that he loves
the sport With his whole heart and
soul. On the other hand many men
have absolutely no love for 1t and
think II Is idle and waste Of good
time and energy.
y seems 70 be mainly mans sport,
too, as at least in this part of the
country we find few women who caro-
much for It,
Then 1t seems such long tiresome
time waiting for the bite" which
seems to come so rarely and sometimes
not at all. / never can see where the
pleasure comes in sitting for hours
perhaps in the hot sun on the bank OF
stream and waiting chance nibble'
at the bait attached to your line.
OF coures when the nibble comes
then there is excitement and plenty
OF II as all the pent up feeling of the
hours spent in waiting for bite as
serts itself and we almost have buck
fever" in trying to disengage the fish
from the hook.
always said that il ever caught
a fish would surely be humane
enough to cast 1t back again into the
water from which it was pulled, but
this proved to be an erroneous conclu.
sion for the first fish / caught was
taken from the hook, fried and eaten
along with bacon and bread as were
the other few that have caught in my
lifetime. The sport of the game
seemed to enter into me as saw my
first trophy dangling at the end of
my line and played the part of the
true sport and released him from the
book-into The pail awaiting him.
was one OF party of persons who
fished one time for bass. Artists of
the angling sport claim that there is
more sport in fishing for bass perhaps
than for any other fish. This fish
which frequents mountain streams is
very game and puts up stiff fight
when he becomes unwary enough to
accept the bait placed for him. He is
said to be very wise fish and to re-
fuse almost any bait placed for him
only lifting" when taken unaware by
bait which is usually small some
thing OF his own species. One of the
party of which was a member land
ed a particularly fine specimen o? the
bass family after hard struggle ana
that man was as proud as though he
had sunk gold mine or put over sue
cessfully million dollar deal and he
was the envy OF the other men of the
party who regarded him as quite y
hero.
] was in mans office recently and
occupying .ne most conspicuous place
on the walls of a handsomely furnish
ed room was large fish which he had
landed on fishing expedition artist
eally mounted on a wooden slab. ri
doubt II an associate or friend OF this
man ever comes into this office that
his attention is not called to this
trophy.
saw group OF men who are de-
voices of the art Of angling recountina
recent fishing experiences and plan.
ming new ones and never saw NOR.
rapt expressions on bunch of boys
faces that were planning some wild
west or Buffalo Bill scheme than were
depicted on the faces Of these men
They were not young men either in
one sense of the word as several Of
them had grown up boys Themselves
but they we're young when it came to
fishing.
One Of them proudly displayed ar
unusually handsome rod and reel
which he had recently purchased at no