The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-10

To me the hum of trade was stilled
Id let my thoughts so wandering far
! To where life's happier glories are;
| I'd whistled like a boy once more,
And even stretched full length on
shore
To watch the white clouds sail the
blue,
The very way fused to do.
They laughed when I came home at
night
And said I didn't get bite.
They seemed to think my luck was
bad,
They couldn't guess the fun I'd had
And couldn't know that all that day
Id been a free man blithe and gay,
And tho of fish Id landed none
Id caught the joys for which I'd gony.
l am reproducing the foregoing d
liehtful little poem by the poet laure
ate Of PiscOtOria. because it I,
minds me so very fOrcibly Of VIVA
has happened to all of the Dips VIII
have been so valiantly trying to q
their duty during the past week.
Moon, Tide and Weather Wrong.
Report that the moon and tide hay,
been wrong and the weather has been
as punk as punk could be for fishing.
cant account for the fact there were
fewer fish creeled last week than have
been any week since the season
opened.
But come to think about it, I should
say that the reasons given above
should be sufficient to deter any we'll
hammered yellowmOuth from entering
upon the Great Adventure OF taking
a lure-wrOng moon, wrong tide, punk
weather conditions.
I've written it any number of times,
but it will bear repea ting: Yellow
mouths. you know, are very dis
eliminating about the phase of the
moon and the stage of the tide and
the condition of the weather, when
they condescend to impale themselves
upon a hook bedecked lure.
Not a Violation of Confidence Of Vel
lowrouths.
Nor is it a violation of any Of the
ethics of the devotce of the pscatO-
rial art. or for that matter the con-
tidence of a yellOwmouth, in a con-
firmed habitue of the places whore
yclloWmOuths are wont to assemble
when conditions are right, to say that
the habits of the yellowmOuths are
predicated upon instinct, rather than
highly .sensitized intelligence. In
other words. Of course if a yellow
mouth were human. he'd probably be
different and then, Of course he'd
be insulted at being referred to as I'M
intelligent
Some Humans Minus Instinct OF Vel
Iownouths.
But TO tell the truth. in my ram
bles through the piscatorial realm,
I've come in contact with some hu-
mans who were minus even the in
stinct of the yellowmouth, to say
nothing of the intelligence of humans.
For instance, there are any num-
Der of humans-'tw ould be a sacri-
lege to call them Fishing Dips-who
persist, week in and week out in
trying to circumvent the mandates of
nature to the yellowmouth, by pooh
pooling the theory of tide conditions,
moon phazes and the wather having
any bearing upon their creels of fish.
But of course all of these pay the
penalty for their indiscretion in the
loss Of their time and the paucity
of their creels. SO l should worry
about them!
Dips Who Knew Better
With very few exceptions, the
real honest-to- goodness Dips, in
which are included such piscatorial
artists as Bride Bell. Pee Wee
Day. "Reinie Reinschmdt. Fuzzy"
Allen Ames, Uncle Dan" Shepard,
Doc" Hutchinson. Frank Padcrick.
Doc" Smith. Count" Haynes. spell
binder Charlie" Abbott 'Evinrude"
Aiken. Biz" Duncan, sport Kup-
friau, Liver" Roberts, "NVindburner''
he who chases "ad" con-
tracts for The Journal in successful
with his competitor.
Ham" Russell, "Parson" Owens,
"Abbie" Pohlman. Jake" Beibig-
hauscr, Big Chris" Hartman, "SIen-
der Kid" Forum, or his brother-ln-