The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

insect pests from now on. DAYS
are warm and the nights cool. Even
in July there were nights when we
slept under four blankets. AS for
fishing, / can't see that these UNI
fish up here know
when to quit. Mornings and even
ings of the hottest days we caught
bass and pike and plenty of them.
How do you get here? We left
Chicago by train at 5 80 in the
evening. Arrived at Duluth around
8 a. M, walked a half block
across the tracks from the Omaha
and N. w. depot to the Union de-
pot, took an Ely train and was at
our destination about 1890. II
YOU want to get into the "bush'
at once you can check out at Ely
by 2 o'clock and be in camp that
evening.
Edward Taylor in the Chicago
Daily News also reported daily on
the trip and this is what he said:
Arvilla Lake, Quetico Park, Ont,
July 26.-The great bowlder upon
which | am perched marks the end
of a 2OO-year old trail that leads
from lake to lake in this forest
wilderness. 1t is an Indian trail,
and winds around giant rocks In a
virgin forest of pine, spruce and
hemlock. Here are the dense woods,
where the moose and deer hide.
From this hard perch look upon
a scene of surprising beauty, lake,
small where the water is deep and
exceeding clear, shores lined with
powders and acknowledgements pine,
which tower skyward; waters, mir
rorlike, reflect images Of rocks and
trees.
The honk of an auto horn has
never disturbed this virgin wilder
ness. To reach the depths of these
mighty solitudes on must travel
many miles by canoe. Then there
are portages to make from lake to
lake.
The guides are splendid fellows.
They carry pack on their backs
sometimes weighing ninety pounds,
and then add a siXty-pound canoe,
carried on their shoulders. The old
time guide who knew nothing save
woodlore seems to be passing away,
md in his place is new genera
ton of young men who love the
wilderness, but who realize that an
education is the ultimate thing
Many of these men study during
the winter time.
Bart Lake, Quetico National Park,
Ont, July 27.-An unusual expert
ence that makes good fishing
story happened to Tom Roberts, Sr.
| and his son, Tom, Jr., here the other
lay. 1t concerns a plymouth bass,
great northern pike and a fly rod
Little Tom was casting bass bug
ana hooked a nice bass. AS the
bass was fighting to get away it was
| seized by a northern pike about its
center. Away went the pike, hold
| ing the bass in its vicious mouth.
Tom, Jr. held on to the fly roc
yrimly while the pike rushed madly
about, trying to tear the bass fl on
| The hook. Several times the big
| bike opened its Jaws and let loosi
of the bass, but when Tommy null
e.. his catch through the water the
thief would dart forward and grail
the poor bass.
Finally Tommy worked the bass 81
49,. the boat that the pike swan
away and the badly lacerated bas
was lifted into the boat. 1t was
sad sight, its stomach and sides be
ing badly torn.
1t is estimated that pike weigh
ing five pounds or more will eat 1t
weight in other fish every two days
Figure this out, anglers, and neve
put back a live northern pike.
***
Bart Lake, Quetico National Park
Ont, July 2S.-Another fish stor
will not be amiss. 1t may sugges
similar experiences of your own.
II With nine-foot five-ounce fl
!, rod. a Joe WEIGH leader, ten poun
test, and a white and brown fly
hit the niftiest bunch of rushes an
| lily pads one could desire the othe
day. / had cast three times whe
; an enormous pike saw the fly, lear
J ed straight up in the tir, missed tn
: fly and hit the water like ton @
{ coal. No sooner had it touched tn
water than it turned like flash an
5 charged the lure like bullet.
$ Just as / lifted the fly from tn
r water the big pike hit the cano
e head or. 1t certainly Jared tn
n old canoe and gave me thrill.
r Later Bill Jamison wanted to fis
: certain shore line for bass.
d hooked a ten-pound northern pill
t and it was thirty minutes before tn
fish gave in enough to be brougl
e to the canoe. Six times Bill Jam
k son padded the canoe gack towal
s. the weed bed because the pike n;
e lowed the canoe out in the lake. 4
( it was hooked on a fly rod tackle
'e required more time to be tame
It put up the best fight of al
e northern pike | ever hooked.
S. Bart Lake, Quetico National Par
g Ont, July 27.-This morning we
n out to do some fly rod fishing, no
ID ing to hook few nice bass. j
wind blew the canoe around a roc
point and some fish rose to t
l., white miller fly. After thirty mi
ar utes of steady strain on the rod t
~ fish found refuge among t
g. branches of big submerged tree.
ds | looked down in the clear wat
err and there / saw a big valley
ke pike which must have weighed
a teen pounds. The fish had won
ig the leader around some big, stro
DIS branches and | had to break
leader to allow the pike to esca
cd Charlie REIN hooked whale Of
er pike last night and thought he =
ge hooked the prize bass because
us the great fight the fish put up.
gh Every afternoon at the sa
m hour a thunderstorm gets in
ed dS-dlyl work. After the thuH'
at md lightning have ragged for thi