Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-08-01
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JUST FISH STORIES

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With a multitude of muskellunoe
to his credit, still w. O. Floino Of
chicago, who usually makes his
summers headquarters at The Ey-
erett, captured the big fellow" he
has been after for some moons and
days. His prize package caught
last Thursday from the chain of
lakes, weighed in at 1894 pounds
Displaying it at Larry's show
place it drew everysvisitor who low
ed record breaking fish. The
hight Mr.. Floing had with this
King of the Waters will 90 down
IN his book of fsh-happenings as
the one best bet Of his years as an
angler after class fish. Mr.. F. is
an ardent muskellunge angler and
has scores of the fish to his credit
But, the real honest-to-goodness
TACT IS that with all the number he
hooks, fights and subdues, he re-
turns nearly all Of them to their
natural habitat. Give us a sport
OF this variety and you see a man
who, while he pursues one bent in
llfe,s pleasures, never oversteps
the bounds of good sports
manship. His is an ideal method
OF practice which many more mus
ky hounds will do we'll to profit by.
Play your fish and then return
him to the home he came from.
Makes one more fish to be taken
by some other fellow and also
makes for cleaner, anticipating
fisherman. Take anticipation from
the game and what is it worth
1t isn't worth a tinkers darn and
will turn man into a game hog
and wife beaten. There you have
the extremes. Which will you be?
One of the class who believes in
giving rather than taking, or one
who takes and hogs it all. A
crude saying, but nevertheless it
hits the nail on the top. How
about it?
And now comes a story from
Planting Ground lake, that perfect
body of navigable and fishing wa
ter from the Lower Chain down
Clearwater and Three Lakes way.
While no affidavits are obtainable,
still the information given us is
rather reliable. Here it is: Last
week from Planting Ground,
Wayne Kingsbury of Oklahoma,
owner of wet" Graves old sum-
mer home, landed a black bass
from this lake which is claimed to
have weighed in at seven pounds.
And our information cannot be
doubted. With this sized fish, it
is a foregone conclusion that there
are other big bass in the lakes.
Trouble has been anglers never
spend the proper amount of time
whipping the hooks inhabited by
bass, but pull around a plug or
bunch of hardware so far away
from where a bass will bunk, that
he misses out on real, artistic
sport-that of whipping a small
plug or bass fly after the gamiest
fish that swims underneath the
top curtain of the lower and upper
chain of lakes. Most fellows i'm
agine that when bass is to be
taken or sought for, it must be
from some inland lake some guy
claims is a bass lake. What is
the matter with bass fishing right
under the auto bridge in Eagle
River? Remember the old cane pole
angler from Lawrenceville, H., who
several years ago dropped off the
fish train during July or Aug
ust, put his cane pole in action
and tipped the lure from the dock
right under the bridge and down
in front of the water works. He
usually landed some Of the whop-
pinest bass of the pink-eye. variety
you ever set eyes upon. Then he
would secure a frog, impale it up
on his hook and with his long cane
pole go into the bull pen" where
he would anchor his boat and pro-
coed to chew tobacco and fish. His
catch at the end of the day would
knock the eyes off of the ardent
bass guy who poked coolies of fun
at the antiquated outfit this old
bird used. But the old fellow
brought in the bass at that.
Big muskellunge this week, fel-
lows, and more have been caught
than we have records Of. The next
best fish to the Floing musky OF
1894 pounds was that taken near
St. German or the Wisconsin riv-
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