. The American angler. Fishing. ' -x^vii/ i, ..%,^vKi^^%^i< '^•^'^^^^Ft "^ - ^p-Lx^'-rt'^t^i^. PRIVATE COTTAGE OF \V. N. HALDEMAN. 7}^ ounces. The reel held 200 yds. of No. 9 Cuttyhunk line, no leader, 2-0 Sproat hooks, and a sinker (necessary in the strong tideways) weighing two ounces. All the visiting anglers used the phantom minnow of different sizes, but our stock of them was soon ex- hausted, and we substituted a strip of the belly of the sheepshead, cut some- what minnow shape, and found it as efficacious as the more expensive lure. The casting being made single handed from
. The American angler. Fishing. ' -x^vii/ i, ..%,^vKi^^%^i< '^•^'^^^^Ft "^ - ^p-Lx^'-rt'^t^i^. PRIVATE COTTAGE OF \V. N. HALDEMAN. 7}^ ounces. The reel held 200 yds. of No. 9 Cuttyhunk line, no leader, 2-0 Sproat hooks, and a sinker (necessary in the strong tideways) weighing two ounces. All the visiting anglers used the phantom minnow of different sizes, but our stock of them was soon ex- hausted, and we substituted a strip of the belly of the sheepshead, cut some- what minnow shape, and found it as efficacious as the more expensive lure. The casting being made single handed from the reel, the bait was in constant motion, hence its attraction for the fish. Our painting camp was visited fre- quently by the anglers of the hotel, and the moiith of Gordon's Pass presented daily an animated scene. Sometimes a dozen rods were at work, handled by fishermen from every section of the United States and Canada, and Mr. Petrie was at no time without many specimens of fish at his feet. Some of the anglers essayed the artificial fly, large ones dressed in bright colors, but they were not as successful as the natu- ral bait. I used the feathers but on one occasion. When passing along the beach, about a mile south of our home cottage, I noticed a number of fair-sized fish, feeding near the edge of the water in the shallow pockets made by the tide which was nearly full. Rigging up a cast of flies—I happened to have my Kosmic fly rod with me—I threw the feathers among the fish and, although they were taken immediately, I failed to land a specimen, the flies being torn thread-like in every instance and the fish escaping. Curious to ascertain the species of these ravenous and muscular fellows, I stopped fishing and crawled stealthily to within a few feet of a large pocket and found the fish to be Spanish mackerel. It would have required a wire snell and leader to land Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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