New Britain herald., 1927-05-14
Hook, Line and dSinker

ably the best week Of tho year as far as results have shown. The warm rains. combined with the muggy weather. have made condi- tions ideal for the pursuit of George H. Brook Trout. and we for one are confident that fish have been caught pretty steadily throughout the week.
 The coming of the midges and mosquitoes have opened up the fly fishing field to those who prefer the feathered barbs to the barn. yard hackle. although most Con- necticut brooks are 80 surrounded by brush that most of the feather f]inging activities have been con- fined to ponds.
 You chaps would do well to keep your eye on Harold Percival Dyken, once before mentioned in this col umn. This wary boy has. somewhere up his sleeve, what must be a won derful brook or pond. with evidence pointing to the latter speculation. A couple of weeks ago he brought in a IT inch trout which he claimed was caught Somewhere in Ken sington." This week he toted home a 15 inch beauty which he claims was caught in the same place. They haven't been single fish either: liar oid's creel is usually pretty we'll filled with nine and ten inchers. It's getting so now that he can't leave town without having a bunch deavor to locate that mythical l place. So far he has managed to dodge them and we are lacking ex- act information as to just where these big fellows dwell. We have one wild guess which we are going to try out this afternoon but we'll be wearing false whiskers 50 don't try to trail us.
 A new means of changing ones luck has been introduced by Her man Wells of this city. Hcrman's luck, since the opening of tho sea- son, has not set tho world ahre. Herman's pride and joy has been his long flowing moustache and the reasonable deduction arrived at by the disappointed fisherman was that something drastic must be done to change his luck. Result: Oft comes the moustache. Herman's friends have told him that he looks positively naked without the adorn- ment but the determined rod wield- CT has not swerved from his pur- pose and the upper lip still re- mains without its foliage.
 of coming from Reservoir Number 1 came to us from talkative oc- cupant of | barber's chair tho other day. He escaped before VIC could get the father out of our mouth to find out who he was but the details included a pickerel which measured 31 inches and weighed four pounds, caught with worms in the reservoir on Tuesday evening. That's nice pickerel, men. Reports from the shore show slackening of the flat fish run and the beginning of the white perch invasion. One Sunday Captain AL fred Griswold, Rudy Zimmerman. Al Schultz, Miss Eleanor Zimmer- man and Miss Carrie Froeba jour- neyed to Clinton Beach and took out 5s white perch. The salt water fishing season doesn't really open taking fiddler crabs off the hooks , but reports tell us that there are plenty of thrills connected with shaking out the perch. They run from eight to IS inches with an occasional 20 incher grabbing the 1 hook.
 1 Louis Schwartz and Larry Ed wardson tried the Coppermine brook last weekend and got Is nice trout between them. Let 1t be said in all modesty that we were the ones who taught Larry how to ! string Up 8 rod and now the un- grateful cuss threatens to beat us at our own game. Why. even the day he started his campaign against brook trout, he beat us with S2 dace to our measly IS. but VIC rounded things up by catching a real honest -to-Joe trout four inch infant that had to be thrown back, but trout for all that.
 Thursday afternoon we were treated to an afternoons fishing as the guest of Jack Vance at the Natchaug Game Clubs Stonehouse brook above Wtllimantic. We had lot of fun with the little ones. which crowded the brook so that 'we had to scare them away to get our bait in the water. It WIS an eventful afternoon: we nearly stepped on black snake biz enough