Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-03
New York
Letter

due to an impending vacation. !
learn that New York and its envi-
rons contains some Of the worlds
most avid fishing fans.
The stream fishermen, OF whom
there are many famous gentlemen
OF wealth, maintain exclusive CLUBS
and scores OF eminent executives
are high in the ranks Of tricky fly
casters. The Beaverkill and Will
lowemoc, in the Catskills. are the
particularly popular streams.
In one sports goods store, I
heard an interesting tale about a
club just outside Of Roscoe, New
York.
There is a guide who has become
famous for his knowledge OF good
pools and rifles. and whose Prov
eSs as a troutsman is widely talked
about among sportsmen. His name
Is Robbins, and not so many years
ago he was a wealthy and promin-
ent business man who had come 10
this club as a guest year upon
wear. Suddenly his fortune was
wiped K. He turned about for
something 10 do-and decided 10
think it over while fishing. He be-
came an expert guide. has a first
rate income-and Is happy.
Roscoe has one very special char
acter. however. about whom fish
stori.s are spun. He Is Frank Girls
void, and he never fishes. But he
likes TO believe all the stories he
hears about the big ones that got
away"
A few years ago. he decided 70
see that "big ones" could be found
in the stream. He has his own
trout farm on the side. When the
fish reach the length OF 10 inches
or better he puts them in the
stream "for the other boys"
Which reminds me that up IN
the Catskill belt there's another
trout fan who has private theories
about diet. For several years he's
been experimenting with special
menus which he believes will make
the trout larger and fatter. Few
fishermen agree with his theories,
but he goes on, season after sea-
son, providing the fish with rare
sea tid-bltS.
Gramercy Park. in mid-Manhat-
tan, has one of the most meticulouS
fishermen Of them all. In y OF
the handsome old early Gotham
mansions he ties his own flies and
will not accept the store variety.
He invents innumerable gadgets Tor
Turing the unwary trout.
But club fishing In the New
York belt is not within the means
of a working gent. Many Of them
ask from $1,000 upward for MEM
bership. and private preserves re-
ceive from $3.50 TO $500 for the
right to fish in certain territories.
The town milkman. I once was
told. makes a very neat income
from his vater-and no Joke in
tended
In and about Long Island. you'll
find such well-kn0Wn gents as
irwin cobb splashing about in the
club streams. owen Young generally
fishes in the Catskills.. Calvin
Coolidge. as the world knows, has
been loyal to his native Vermont
streams. Herbert Hoover has varied
his trout grounds according TO the
summer White House location.
Deep-sea fishermen are even more
prevalent. Hundreds Of little fish
mig boats make their way 10 spots
Off the Jersey coast where fish
gather around old wrecks. Montalk
Point has become one Of the few
sword fishing rendezvous. although
this is a particularly expensive
sport. Mere tyros. seeking snap
pers and flukes. try almost any in
let from Jamaica 70 the end Of
Long Island.
But whatever they're after. fish
Ing succeeds in getting thousands
avay from the city's cares for
week-ends.