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Show OUANANICHC riBHINO. NolM (rum the H,rllni flnli. YTIir .Hie AnUri llchr. Kly fishing I on now at the sporting clubs on Long Island and at other places throughout tho state. At tho Mouth Hide Sportsmen's Clnli, at Oak-dale, Oak-dale, the trout are lustier and more combative than In some seasons, and there la every prospect that more flih will be landed than In 1890, when 16,-000 16,-000 trout, weighing C.600 pounds, wero caught. Tho same story of good catches la reported from the trout preserve pre-serve nt other parte of Long lelind There are io many fish In tho ponds nnd brooks that, since the rations of chopped liver have been stopped, the will rise to any lure offered, from a calmon fly lo n red rag. and fly fishing I not the art It should be Whoever tries for trout In the open water that still are left on Long Island, however, will rind It take all that one knows nbout fly casting and fly tying to brlnit n fair string to the landing net. In theae wgtera tho fish are few and very wary Unless the fly fisherman la proof against many disappointments and trials he will be tempted to bait wl'h worm, tbe way the country boys do. At the Tuiedo Club the trout fishing la up to the mark, but the auananlche are not taking the fly aa quickly aa they did lost season. The Tuiedo hatcheries are equal to any In the country, and the club's water alway teem with Irout. Kroin tr.e day when they are turned out ni flngerllnga, the trout have to forage for themielves, and they are gam from gills to tall. Tho stint to each member's baakst on the brooks la fifty or on the lake twenty-flve, for here the flah run larger, lar-ger, and any skillful angler may get hla quota In a couple of hours. The first ousnsnlche, the genuine "land-locked salmon, were obtained from the United Rules hatchery In Maine epme five yeara ago, but they have since been hatrhed out at Tuiedo from tho spawn of the first specimens. The deep pools of ths large lake at Tittedo have afforded af-forded to the ouananlche the cool retreats re-treats they require to thrive In the hot aummer of tbla latitude, which varies va-ries so greatly from their nsttre habit, ata In Mains and Canada, and thoy have grown to great site and strength, sometimes some-times touching the five nnd six pound mark. This year the ouananlche have tbe clubmen guessing The lake over the deep pools seems to be alive with them, for, as the angler whip the waters wa-ters with their casts, glimpses of glesmlng bodies and of dorsal or caudal cau-dal fin may be seen on every side, as tbe salmon rush to and fro to feed on the I meet life, but the artificial lines are Ignored, It makes no difference what Dies are used, from Jock Bcott to coachman, for, when a flah haa occasionally oc-casionally deigned tn .'se. It has been at a different pattern each time. During Dur-ing the cold epell last week, which with the high wind, temporarily clear-oil clear-oil the lake of the hovering Insects and flies, the ouananlche went at the hook In spirited style, The Tuiedo men hope that they will no longer have to lie awake o' nlghta thinking out new flies to try for the ouananlche In the morning |