March 23, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
359 
Fishing Fever. 
If, as the poet says, the young man’s fancy 
turns to thoughts of love in the spring, perhaps 
it is equally true tliat those who are not quite so 
young as they once were begin to think of fishing 
when the warmth of the sun stirs their blood. 
They call it fishing fever, and -when two anglers 
meet, they say: “Have you got the fever?’’ and 
laugh heartily, knowing as they do that the 
answer is obvious. Other persons find solace in 
making verses on the bursting buds and the re¬ 
turning birds, and still others spoil their Sunday 
clothes wading in swampy places after pussy 
willows or searching for the odoriferous skunk 
cabbage which, once found, is left alone. 
Combining fishing fever and rhymes is beyond 
some of us, but not to two veteran anglers, as 
these extracts from letters attest. John D. 
Whish, for years secretary of the old Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, sent Col. John 
Wilkin, of Middletown, the following: 
“Time is coming when the ice will leave the 
brooks, and I s’pose you spend jmur Sundays 
fixing up your rods and hooks, testing leaders, 
mending waders and the Lord knows what be¬ 
sides, for a fellow must make ready while the 
chance with him abides. There are reels that 
he must oil, there are lines he must uncoil, there’s 
a creel that must be varnished so the wet grass 
will not spoil. There’s a flask to All with bait— 
that’s a task that will not wait ’til some morning 
when he oversleeps and fails to mee.t his mate. 
But I do not doubt you’ve done all these things 
and found them fun, and that you are fit and 
ready how to whip each foaming run. So I 
wish you grace to wait, if so hard should be 
our fate that the coming fishing season should 
not early be, but late. 
“All is well here, but that book, for by neither 
hook nor crook have I yet secured a copy, and 
no matter where I look everything seems sewed 
up tight, and there’s nothing yet in sight, but I 
have my jimmy with me and will use it, so good¬ 
night.’’ 
And the colonel replied: 
“Yours of the 27th came duly to hand, and 
I’m sorry that book you’ve failed to land; but 
keep your ‘jirqmy’ with you and pry with might 
and main, and no doubt that soon or later suc¬ 
cess will crown your efforts should you not be¬ 
come insane. 
“Yes, you’re right; I’ve hauled my tackle over. 
Likewise everything in sight, and now I am only 
waiting for the trout to begin to bite; but don’t 
you know my dear Whish that with ‘bait’ I rarely 
fish; I much prefer the fly, so mj^ flask I'll have 
to fill with good old apple, gin or rye. 
“Our camp, ‘The Pines,’ soon will be open 
wide. The latch string always out, never pulled 
inside; so on some fine May or June morning let 
a ‘Big Ben’ give you warning to come and with 
us a week or more abide. 
“This is not your first invite which with my 
pen I did indite. Can think of nothing more 
to write, so good-night.” 
TADPOLICE. 
I State a fact. In many bogs 
To see that there is peace. 
Among the lizards and the frogs, 
They have a tadpolice! 
—Woman’s Home Companion. 
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