New Britain herald., 1927-06-18
Hook, Zine andSinker

l ana then 50 over there on Satur. day afternoon and take out ten trout
 is, in our own opinion, good. Don't stop us. This is the first
 time this year that we have strained
 the buttons on our vest pushing out
 our chest and if our hat doesn't fit for the next two weeks. that's all right. too. We think we deserve it. It was hard earned victory. At times it was toss-up as to whether the mosquitoes. the trout or us would come out ahead. The mos quitoes got fiercer along towards sun-down: the trout grew hungrier; our worms grew scarcer and alto gether it was hear-breaking ex- perience. We got ten fish, ran out of worms and surrendered to the mosquitoes all at the same time. If we ever, at any time, made the statement that Patten Brook was
 too easy to fish for good sport, call
 us up and say We were cuckoo. The OCCP luAOs SotHOlACu NltH LIG IdCk of current for carrying the bait.
 combined with the midges and mos- quitoes. combined with the fact that
 it was HOT. tested our fishing a bil- ity to its breaking point.
 Tom Dolan-he's a policeman and
 not fireman such as we labelled him last week-dropped up to the
 office Monday morning to see us. It
 seems that Tom had caught his
 usual 20 trout the day before and
 wanted 10 dispel all doubts about the truth of his statements. We
 didn't happen to be in but he con-
 vinced the fellow who was talking
 to him go We are passing it along.
 Item: Tom Dolan caught 20 trout
 Sunday. It's getting to be a habit
 to pound out those words every
 week.
 Stories are floating down from
 Riverton to the effect that the state
 authorities are allowing all bass talk en from the waters up there to be
 kept. even if the calendar Is still
 pacing off June. and July is some distance away still. For some req son the powers that be want the bigmouths cleaned out of there and they have been lenient with the trout fishermen who have snagged bronze-backs by mistake. Just why this course is being taken hasn't been explained. but the idea has lured several local nimrods to that section of the state.
 The latest report from that branch of the Pennington river comes from Fred Monier who was up there Wednesday. Two trout and four or five bass constituted his DOT tion of the swimming element of the place. They all ran fairly sizeable the trout touching eight inches and the bass measuring about the same
 By the way. if you fellows enjoy good perch fishing. we heard of a place that sounds pretty nice if you'd care to take a chance on it. All the directions We can give you now are that the place is q quarry hole situated on the top of a hill on the right side of the river road little this side of Higganum. They say that they're running ten to fif- teen inches long.
 But wait a minute before you start packing up for the trip there's a catch to it. The last per- son who was up there tells us that he danged worms in front of big perches' noses for three hours on end and they refused to take 1t as anything but big joke. He's going Up there again soon armed with 1 everything in the fisherman's cata- logue and he hopes to reap a har- xest.
 That brings us to the question as l to whether or not perch are enthu- siasts of any form of artificial bait. excepting jiggers through the ice. but somebody tells us that they will take fly if one sinks it far enough | below the surface. We have noticed | flies and bugs in perch crops during cleaning operations but we repeat. we have never seen a perch take a . fly. Have any of you?
 The queerest home made lure we have ever seen was probably the most successful artificial bait We have witnessed in operation. The fellow who used the bait held records for consistent bass catching on a lake for a whole season- weather didn't make the slightest difference to him-he could always be depended upon to get his share. When the secret was unveiled it was found that he had used a red pom pon from one of his wife's hats and attached small section of cork and l triple gang hook on a swivel trail ing it. Every wife on the lake the next day was missing hats with pom pons on them.
 The black fish are biting steadily ,long the sound. several catches being reported in this city. The Jolly Roger club. minus Captain pulled out fifteen Sunday Ill pretty small but with plenty of ,punk. Al Schultz is leading in the up race but he Is threatened with ,eine displaced any day now.
 Reports on pickerel have been lisa appointins 50 far this year. Some. now We expected fairly decent ;ear but since the opening of the .ea am wa have heard nf very fAu, l