| Show I 1 I 1 THE SPECKLED BEAM 41 1 I 1 sage remarks on brook trout fishing by david A curtis 00 IT ALL DEPENDS ON KNACK t fine teackle Is to cleasant to afave around but if lou you dont know how illow to uc use it the small lloy with ufa ul sapling g outdo yon you the roost most successful catch of brook trout I 1 evier ever bad had the luck to seo see was made by n lad ad not ilot more than sixteen yeara years of ago I 1 had bad been whipping a stream ull for tro tr o houra hours with less than indifferent luck when I 1 encountered the boy and the first triv in pulse was to laugh at his guint A dinall sapling trimmed down served hirn for 1 i I pole his line was a stout cord tied to the tte pole and tied to his book that was all I 1 0 I 1 had excepting worms tor for bait in tle le pride of my own youth I 1 gloried in to the be but t and most elaborate tackle that I 1 could afford far more elaborate than I 1 used in after yeara years and it seemed absurd to think of petting getting game garne fish especially trout with buch such an outfit aa as this youngster had bad it was in Cau castula tula on the northern northe rn shore of lake superior trout 1 rout were plenty eisaw enough of them but bad had not been able to induce one of them to take a fly yet jott I 1 ii I 1 t t I 1 ap I 1 I 1 J i 1 k I 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 0 11 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 so I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 r iv 7 THE TUE FISH WILL as I 1 came up to the boy he gave a peculiar twisting jerk to his primitive pole and actually a e landed a beautiful fish before it b had ad time to think whether to fight or or I 1 not for its I 1 ile if I 1 went back to camp that day ilay with the finest mess mews I 1 ever had bad but that indian boy caught every cv ery fish in it I 1 hey were cheap fiah fish too tor for the premium on the tile pur purchase chabe was a thorough understand jg of the fact that the prime necessity in angling for brook trout is knack 11 elaborate tackle is unquestionably a joy to the angler who knows how to band handle leit ft after your ish is struck there is excitement galore in playing him and the indian boy would have hail bad poor fun playing ii ft pound fish with no reel yet as I 1 bald mid he lie caught fish faster than anybody else I 1 ever saw it makes all the difference in the world whether you are out for fish or out for tun fun lie ile went for fiah fish and got I 1 them I 1 wa was s out for fun and got ery very little of it though I 1 bought his fish the whole science science of trout fishing after all consists of knack the lighter and more delicate the tackle the more the no cosmey for delicate handling and for meeting the mad rushes of the frightened fiah fish with pur pure skill lie ile is strong enough to break brak your line or even it hook book if you are clumsy enough to give him a square jerk at it and your only chance when he be if is fighting is to tire him out your angler will disdain the notion of fishing with worms tor for bait though it ia is a thing that many of them thein will do when they are alone ex president cleveland is baid said to hive have done it openly and ho he is counted a very expert fisherman doubtless fly fishing calla for more shill and is to IMS ile greatly for that reason dut only a few alic nare are needed 1 the he beginner will mill buy an as manyas many as hec ho can a I 1 usually not knowing which are the best and andin in deed this ia is a difficult thing to tell with oat out knowing the tile v water ater that is to be fished A sate safe rule and probably pro bibly the best Is to look closely at the flies files that are skimming imming ek the water and use a it luro lure that resembles tb them em aa ws closely as possible ble As tg the choice of tickle tackle it is like the spelling ling of weller which w aich as the immortal sam informed the court depended on the taste and fancy of the speller I 1 every very an gler has luts his choice and so long aa as bis his rig is I 1 light and strong he lie is not to be cased the object la ts to hindle bundle it p properly ro perly casting striking playing and landing all call for dexterity quickness delicate skill and accurate judgment without the knack one might better godown go down to the sea ea in ships and elsh for cod at tb this Is kime ime of the year when the season has just opened there are thousands of anglers at work iu in the brooks all over the country thone the that have ha e caught fish wib uil laugh at the notion of telling the beginner how to catch trout they will say and properly enough that the only way to learn is to go and catch them it is eni irely true that no one can learn how to angle by reading a book look any more than lie can learn imm how to swim swint in the same way yet there are rules or rather instructions that will aill be of service to him who w bo begins let him first learn how to cast his fly BO so that it will tall fall gently on the very spot I 1 desired this is on an opening cormany for many hours of practice on a lawn it is about all lie be I 1 can do in the way of preparation before be he I 1 actually begins fishing supposing bup posing him to I 1 I 1 have this skill he must study the fish and 1 I 1 its habits babit sand and probably pro bibly yin in this baudy he will willrose lose many and many a beauty that an I 1 older angler would land for the trout is wary and timorous above all other fish I 1 after he lie has bas dropped his fly where the t trout ro ut can easily emsily sm see it he must wait walt if b he e have luck the fish flab will rush and the I 1 instant be le feels the hook book will rush again then the aport sport begins the really difficult part of the science for if your I 1 fish by doubling or by circling some root or stone in the bed of the stream can foul your line ho he will do it and go tree free and on the other hand if you try to pull him in by main strength ho he will n ill go free this is where the skill comes coines liL enthat that can only bo be acquired by practice DAVID A cumis the pastime athletic club of st sib auls louts lias bas purchased for one of the finest athletic nth letic grounds in america jt it will be fitted tor for all appliances appliance sl tor for developing Illus muscle cle GP G P mills the famous english bicyclist I 1 who lias bas been kept from riding by oy a severe severo attack of rheumatism bas gone into train I 1 log ug again |
