Outing . Poised on a rock, hid from the fishs gaze,His slender line the cautious angler downward from his shadowed nook,A pliant rod whose tip with graceful crookYields gently to the plummets chosen eager fish quick bites the flattering bait. Walton. Outing. Vol. XV. MARCH, 1890, No. 6. FISHING AND HUNTING IN THE JAKE down the family atlas and find the mapof Minnesota ; then discover somewhere inthe northeastern portion a small black spotlabeled Rush City. It is on the line of theSt. Paul and Duluth Railroad, and, geo-graphically speaking, is about the ce
Outing . Poised on a rock, hid from the fishs gaze,His slender line the cautious angler downward from his shadowed nook,A pliant rod whose tip with graceful crookYields gently to the plummets chosen eager fish quick bites the flattering bait. Walton. Outing. Vol. XV. MARCH, 1890, No. 6. FISHING AND HUNTING IN THE JAKE down the family atlas and find the mapof Minnesota ; then discover somewhere inthe northeastern portion a small black spotlabeled Rush City. It is on the line of theSt. Paul and Duluth Railroad, and, geo-graphically speaking, is about the centre ofone of the finest hunting and fishing groundsto be found from Maine to California. The lake region of Northern Minnesotawas first brought to the attention of thepeople of this country in the famous jour-nal kept by Lewis and Clarke, those daringmen who penetrated what was then an un-broken wilderness on their long and weary journey toOregon. Lewis and Clarke were not sent out by theGovernment for the purpose of discovering waters inwhich game fish could be found, and it is but naturalthat in their book the allusions should be somewhatmeagre to fishing other than that which promised suchan industrial development as was foreshadowed by thesalmon in the Columbia. There are, however, allusionsscattered through the work which form faint prop
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