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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 them. 



