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THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[June 24, 1893 
he throws himself out of the water. Well, the 
charm is broken, and as the fish seem inclined to 
take, let us dream no more, but to work. How sweet 
are such memories, and unalloyed with sorrows 
and regret which taint, alas, most other of life’s 
sweetest joys. Men who do not fi-sh may sneer 
at our enthusiasm for wliat they regard as dull 
and uninteresting, wanting in excitement, and 
demanding, as is commonly supposed, an un¬ 
bounded stock of patience. Well, cliaeun a son 
gout. Let us be content that we can appreciate 
the charm and revel in the aftertaste. 
Many such memories does the Teme afford 
me. I remember one red-letter day, or rather 
evening, when I think the fish were positively 
not responsible for their actions — so madly 
anxious were they to devour everything in the 
shape of a fly. The rise came on about half past 
seven, one evening about the end of June. It 
had been hot and glaring all day, and I had done 
very little. I had thought of going back before 
the evening. But for once my good genius in¬ 
spired me to stay. When they did begin, they 
simply took everything and everywhere. I had 
no notion there were so many trout in the river 
as the rises all round proved. For perhaps an 
hour 1 was simply hooking, playing, losing, and 
unhooking fish as fast as I could, jfy basket— 
a small one—was soon full, and then they were 
Ihrown up on the bank and left as I went on. 
Then they slackened off, and, although doubtless 
I might have caught more if I had stuck to it 
white the light lasted, I had had enough, and was 
dead tired, and so reeled up and collected the 
spoil, which filled a large landing net and all 
available pockets besides my basket. As I had 
a three mile walk home up hills and across fields, 
with not far short of twenty pounds of fish to 
carry, and had had nothing to eat since 9 a.m. 
in the morning but a packet of sandwiches, it 
took me all my time to get home. But such days 
are not to be looked for always. Indeed it has 
not been my fortune to drop on anything so good 
since. For one such day, how many can we 
count when everything went wrong and crooked, 
or when the fish would look at nothing, and that 
pleasantest of burdens on our backs was all too 
light, and the grip of the shoulder-strap much 
too easy to betoken a good day, as we turn our 
steps homeward in the twilight ? Echo answers 
“ How many 
Let me add a few words as to streams about 
Ludlow First, there is the Teme. I have spoken 
of the Ludford Park water. Between this and 
Tenbury the water is all private and strictly 
preserved down to the Swan Hotel water, which 
may be fished by staying at the hotel, and is, I 
believe, very good, at any rate for grayling later 
in the season. I have never fished it myself, 
although I went there, intending to stay a day or 
two, as I had no more time to spare, last summer, 
but the river came down so thick the morning 
following, that I packed up and left. 
^ Above Ludlow is the Ony, which flows into the 
Teme at Bromfield, while the Corve flows into the 
Teme just at Ludlow. Both are delightful little 
streams, with plenty of trout and grayling in 
them, but the litter probably predominates. 
Between Ludlow and Tenbury is the Ledwyche— 
full of trout, but with hardly any grayling, which 
is a good thing than otherwise, as the trout 
in it are very fine and numerous. Although 
a small stream, fish up to three-quarters of a 
pound, and frequently over, are quite common. 
The unfortunate part of it is, that, with one or 
two notable exceptions, where the fishing is looked 
after, it is terribly overgrown. I have myself 
hooked fish where there was not more than three 
or four yards to cast in, and had to laud 
him with the point of the rod sticking a foot or 
more up in hazel boughs and brambles, in immi¬ 
nent danger of having my rod and tackle broken, 
for the fish are good ones. Of course many are 
necessarily lost. The only comfort is that, unlike 
Teme trout, which take a lot of catching, those 
in the Ledwyche are, without exception, the 
easiest to catch and most unsophisticated that 
it is possible to imagine. Perhaps the diffi¬ 
culties of the water, which prevent you getting at 
them, may account for it, and in such places they 
are very seldom tried for. The Kyre is another 
nice little stream, while about Leominster are 
the Lugg and the Arrow; the former of these 
contains very good fish ; the latter I do not know. 
The whole district teams with streams and fish. 
Many of the pleasantest days of my life have been 
spent rod in hand on their banks; and, among 
my ambitions and aspirations, the hope of spend¬ 
ing many more is not the least. 
TEE .\NGfJN(; SECTION AT THE 
WORLD’S FAIR. 
{Continued from fage 453 ) 
By a Correspondent in CuiCAtio. 
Saving the English exhibits already dealt with, 
what is there to be said about the angling section 
—sub-section is the correct term—at the World’s 
FairP Well, the best way to obtain an answer 
to this question is to make a tour of the Angling 
Annexe. Substantially the annex is circular— 
polygonal if you like. Take, then, the door 
entering from the main Fisheries Building, keep 
round to the right with little detours aside, and 
come back by the left to where you started. 
As you enter you come upon the very artistic 
stall which Forest and Stream has fitted up. Here 
are many pictures on angling subjects, among 
them an exhibit of quite particular interest. It 
is the largest tarpon ever caught with a rod and 
line. Beside him there lies the rod with which 
the great fish was landed. Great fish he certainly 
was, for he measured 7ft. Sin. and weighed 2051b. 
Need it be said he was caught in Florida, where 
the tarpon grows to the greatest size. It ought 
to be said that he was caught, not by a man—oh 
dear, no—but by a lady—Mrs. G. Stagg, of 
Kentucky. He was hooked in the Caloosahatchil 
river—poetical word if a trifle unmanageable at 
first—and it took Mrs. Stagg an hour and tw'entj'- 
five minutes to land him. 
Just under the monster tarpon stands a most 
interesting case of Kentucky fishing reels, which 
Dr. ilenshall has collected for the angling section. 
It is shown on the stall of Forest and Stream, and 
divides attention with the big tarpon. The case 
of reels shows the evolution of the modern fishing 
reel, beginning with the year 1810, and coming 
up to the present day. The earliest reel in the 
collection was made by George Snyder, of Paris, 
Kentucky, who was an enthusiastic fisherman, 
and the inventor of the first multiplying reel. 
Another remarkable reel, of date 1838 is of solid 
silver, the maker being J. F. Meeks, of Frankfort, 
Kentucky. Then come reels—about 1842-43—by 
J. W. Hardman, of Louisville, Kentucky. Hard¬ 
man improved upon the appearance of the multi¬ 
plying reel, making it more a thing of beauty 
than it had been. Again B. F. Meeks, of Frank¬ 
fort, brother to J. F. Meeks, improved further— 
1844—the appearance of the multiplying reel. 
So on up to the present day. 
Next to Che Forest and Stream stall is the one or¬ 
ganized by the Ameriean Angler, which is engaged 
in issuing an important work on the “ Fishes of 
North America that are taken on Hook and Line.” 
Mr. AV. C. Harris, editor of the American Angler, 
is the author, and the book may be said to be his 
life work. Here, again, many pictures referring to 
angling matters are on view. The Osgood Port¬ 
able Boat Company, of Battle Creek, Michigan, 
exhibit dainty boats in which folks may go fishing 
on stream or lake ; so do the Acme Folding Boat 
Company, of Maimisburg, Ohio, and St. Lawrence 
River Boat Company, of Clayton, New York. 
Mr. A. S. Comstock, of Evanston, Illinois, has 
set up the special tent which he makes for anglers 
and sportsmen, and the Gold Medal Camp Furni¬ 
ture Company, of Racine, AVisconsin, exhibits all 
sorts of camp furniture. More boats are shown 
in the space allotted to Messrs. Thomas Cane and 
Co., of Chicago. Mr. A. B. Fetterer, of Chicago, 
Mr. F. Rosathia, of Chicago, and Mr. Theodore 
AVihn, of Chicago, illustrate what may be called 
automatic fishing devices, that is, they show the 
several methods they have developed for fishing 
by automatic action. In each case the leading 
idea is a fixed anchor anchored well out in a lake 
or large stream ; a line with divers hooks at¬ 
tached runs out automatically to this anchor, and 
is pulled back to shore by the hand. Automatic 
angling, it is to be feared, is not very popular in 
America any more than in England, but that fact 
does not discount the ingenuity which has one 
time or another been shown in the way of de¬ 
vising automatic fishing tackle. 
A patent locking phire for rod joints is shown 
by !Nir. Thurston, of Concord, New Hampshire. 
One phire is split with an indented circle at the 
top; the phire going into this has a circular 
hollow at the top. The indenture of the one sinks 
into the hollow circle of the other, and is there 
firmly held by a slipping ring. At the west end 
of the Angling Annexe a space is devoted to fishing 
pictures from different sources. One is an ex¬ 
cellent portrait of Reuben AVood, a well-known 
American angler, who once at a casting tourna¬ 
ment at the Welsh Harp, carried all before him. 
Messrs. AAwman and Erbe, of Rochester, N.Y., 
exhibit automatic reels ; Messrs. Meisselbach and 
Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, reels, and collap¬ 
sible landing-net frames ; and the Bristol Manu¬ 
facturing Co., of Bristol, Connecticut, steel fishing 
rods weighing from six to seven ounces upwards. 
The stand of Mr. Julius A^on Hofe, of Brooklyn, 
is devoted to reels, click and multiplying; and 
Messrs. A. B. Shipley and Son, of Philadelphia, 
have a general display of fishing tackle ; Messrs. 
Shipleys’ specialty is the Bethabara or, as it is 
called in England, the AVashaba rod; Mr. G. M. 
Skinner, of Clayton, N.Y., has an exhibit of fluted 
trolling spoons—nickel, silver, and gold-plated. 
The Natchang Silver Company’s stall, from 
AVillimantic, Connecticut, is interesting if only 
because they show machines at work weaving 
fishing lines ; specimens of some fifteen different 
sized braided lines are to be seen here. Similarly 
at the stall of the Waltonian Manufacturing Co., 
of Chicago, the dressing of artificial flies is 
illustrated. From morning until night several 
young ladies are engaged “ busking,” as rural 
anglers would say in Scotland, all sorts of flies. 
No better multiplying reels are perhaps made 
—so an enthusiastic admirer declared, anyhow— 
than those shown by Messrs. B. C. Wilman 
& Son, of Frankfort, Kentucky. They are in 
German silver and brass, look as handsome as 
possible, and have the appearance of inexhaust- 
able wear; in fact one of the reels in the case 
went through a fire which burned up a great 
hotel in St. Louis, was found among the debris, 
and is none the worse excepting that it has been 
temporarily discoloured. The exhibit of Mr. A. G. 
Benson, Philadelphia, is a combination gaff-hook 
and landing-net; and that of Mr. J. T. Bull, 
AVhitehal), New York, trolling spoons. It was 
the Bulls, of Whitehall, who made the first trolling 
spoon, which they show side by side with the 
latest spoons. It was actually made from an old 
spoon—a dessert-spoon it looks to have been. 
Messrs. A. G. Spalding and Brothers, New York, 
have on exhibit the Kosmic split bamboo rod, said 
to be equal to any rod made in America. Perhaps 
the Leonard rod is the only one better known or 
as widely used. A brook-trout of 91b was landed 
with a 6joz. Kosmic in 1892. The Henshall black 
bass rod is included in the Spalding collection. 
Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—■ 
four of the American states—have all exhibits 
in the angling sub-section. That is appropriate, 
because in each of them capital fishing is obtain¬ 
able, particularly in Wisconsin. Ohio has a 
picture gallery of the fishes found in the State ; 
so has M issouri, where the ill-looking garfish, with 
scales a quarter-of-an-inch thick, is to be found. 
The AATsconsiu State Fish Commission has an 
aquarium for live fishes, and a model of Nine 
Spring’s Trout Hatchery, which is situated in the 
State. Hatching apparatus and hatching in 
process are also to be seen by tho-^e interested in 
the matter. Pennsylvania has an aquarium where 
fish hatching is also carried on. Altogether the 
Angling Annexe is a place where one, be he much 
or little of an angler, may have a very pleasant 
and interesting time. 
(To be continued.) 
Dr N.vnsen’s Expedition. — Id was necessary 
that call the provisions taken for this expedition 
should keep good for at least seven years, and bo 
of the very highest quality of their kind. We 
understand that Messrs. Cadbury, of Bournville, 
have supplied about 15001b. weight of their cocoa 
essence and chocolate in hermetically sealed tins. 
A PERCH was observed at Kincardine O’Neil 
lately. Higher up the Dee it must have come 
from Loch Kinnord or Loch Davan, where perch, 
as well as pike of a large size, are numerous. 
These splendid fishing and most picturesque 
lochs are hard by Dinnet, where there is a hotel 
most comfortable and convenient for anglers to 
put up at. 
