ANGLING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13105, 2 May 1908, Page 7

ANGLING NOTES.

THE END OF THE SEASON.

(Br "Ikon- .Bute.") If it can be arranged it is nice ibt> have pleasant recollections of the closing day of a season, and therefore it is a good plan to choose a well-known stream, whore trout of some kind aro. more or lees a. certainty. This year, from various causes, it Was harder than ; usual to select such a place, but finally tho choice foil upon the Ha© Hao to Moann. Big fellows could not be ex- ' -/; pected there, even pounders were im- -'."•; probable, but half-pounders seemed reasonably sure. Wo are told, "Better a sure sparrow than a passable partridge," and two o'clock on a sunny ' (i----afternoon saw the trial cast on what "■>? is know-as the Crossing Pool. ':;■•' It—l am''afraid of writing the' so- ;-f dreadfully-long 'name—might be de- . -;jf, scribed.as a'thread of water winding '• f•% rapidly in and out of a wildemessof .- 1 : /fy£S gorse and stones, but its small inhabl-./^ ; : tants axe- sporting and well-to-do, ondj' : there is seldom much, difficnllty in. per- : ■'■'.-J*&l suading them to take just one On this "closing rising cheerfully in anticipation'of Mho five Jong months during whi^;ibegr' would be abloto fe6d, / 'f < of eitwr 1 -—thisvbelongs to.meh--i*ni: March: ; brown.' appealed to '-.them'^a*^' SjMs once.. -The. crossing pool gave m©four; Wo weighed half a. the others were doubtful, anxious about breakfast on. the-ino>row>i,.; '&%&£ Afterwards I sougnt ■'dmpu^^m ( pool- to pool, ihere and takabJe fMi tha* .and many that could not : ed so. the fact of a. plentiful went back to, grow , 6eason_ . ...... .. '.". '.;■ >'•■' ■\ : ';--$. ';BhS,Mf*^si§ ■ A side stream, led ".01©. lagoon, flanked toy a row whose yellow .ai^umiiHstriGfeenvjli^Teii^ 1 fell softly intoth» crystal ever a zephyr stirred the air; Search' ing fo- stray insects among ifo-fi6&.\ ?;?!&§£ ing leaves cruised, a fish. thatj^axTSe^v^R^ig 1 the munoowß I had been -liauUn^oirfs^iifii|^ i,<aeemed;* leviathan. [.not sa>twent;jr-yawi ; the twiHoWB, and on essaying it. busliWmewhere in the rear claimlirf ;myi fly and -nearly broke- tho;rod. : Hiu*ily :"??oi another., fly, was tied. on. and %ytyffl again,}omry : "'to feel - 'another the f orwarjtl throw, •; This time /I^found;.^s§|| I had :oaught something alivo»i%aiiy^i : 4;;pl| .rate, for :a ■■> loud• bowl proceeded:fi»m wretched' boy -'who ;had'-- : watch, and feot 'hooked by the> was not hurt; tho hookpain*? jmyh*ifrsf;sM pricked him a sleeve, from wHcn:l':'. : anH" what, She;- called^aX soothed Ihim, b^:a^,'V!hm : look for ; tho monster. ttrbnit l»''WaslT»ffesipi louder '^h^^-\--- : '--<:K i : The.afternoon >was waiung walked am (towards the bridg«, r • was to v be met in"': .driven, home. >' ; " bidden -in ''tlie: gdrso' angler,;-who as liu^'-'eiwa^ ri hampered' by day ; .season/' : 'lt Was;:ivl<il^mt* ; suddenly' from under a .bank almost7-at4§cf|l ■ : my. foot, '•. and■■-■ .winged' way k steadi up/ tho' , ground..''• Amvod'«ttt3i9'^rid^^^ : -f^Sn'^ ■ .tied down 'to^' > the"vpool"aho^,^ fish"were showing: om S6S'» good sport > of the''kind' ; the afforded until' at" lev^^Tl^yf'iais^ytiX^^i •fied ; ..- . r,«y>:----\.{.-i : y l <?&&sm2gsis .'...The,,trQutautumn mist '60^0d..-6v«i^-;'U»v,'* : and occasionally ona aooopteel mylprof < feml "bonne boiiche," -boifc 4hey4^ocm : - ceased' to them. : Then quick^ ? veil over the surroundangs, sbar appeared. hills la 45i«^we^ f >; final cast, and reeled .BtcnrtT' r vaeue hope, destinied to that some misguided fish would ■and finishK'he season ;mcely--fifor mc; The bag did not bajj« dhonlder. but X. , at least. twenty, which,, if. wore gui to presootabl c, amd,: ,«B;jPepvjtf has it—so home. -- ■ ■■ '.;'■;,'V.;vV..',%''V.% : "-:-?lvt<|^^