JUL,
THE. PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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over the spot, bat there was no response.
The surface of the water was as smooth
as a mirror, and I could see half a dozen
feet down, and not a sight of fish was
there. Just as I began to get discour
aged, a slight breeze sprung up and a
slight ripple ruffed the surface of the
lake. On it swept toward our position,
and just as it struck us my flies were
upon the water.
"I hardly knew what happened, it all
came so quickly; but suddenly there
was a thundering, splash, I struck un
consciously, and a moment later my line
was cutting the water and the reel click
ing like mad, as a mighty force look it
straight out into the lake. Twenty feet
it went and then I got control, and ten
minutes later two as handsomely marked
pound trout as one could wish to see
were floundering in the net. Things
looked interesting, and I made a. second
cast with confidence, and again the wa
ter boiled, and a little later three fish,
weighing a trifle under a pound, were
alongside of the rock and netted after
several attempts. Again I cast and
again the fish rose and so on until I
began to return the fish to the water be
cause we had no use for them.
"Just then it occurred to me that I'd
try a change of flies and see if there
wasn't a big one there, waiting for some
thing in the way of a delicacy. With
the breeze the sky had clouded and 1
thought that a much abused fly, a 'yel
low may,? might work. I had several
beauties in my book, for I pin my faith
on this lure when all others fail.
"Once or twice the fly glided across
the water and then suddenly a monstrous
fish le.iped clear out of the water, took
the fly and dove deep down into the lake.
Out went the line in spite of my efforts
to restraiu it straight down into that
bottomless lake, forty, fifty, 'Sixty,
seventy feet. It seemed that the fish
would never stop, but at last I turned
him, and he made a bee line for shore,
then came to tiie surface a hundred feet
away, broke and dove again, sounding
and refusing to budge for a few minutes.
"Gradually I managed to draw in the
line, and get the fish closer, but it was
a hard fought and uncertain battle lor
half an hour. At the end of that time
he was breaking water with some fre
quency, and twenty minutes later he
came up along side the big rock belly
up, stone dead. He had died game and
the guide lifted him out safely of the
.water by the gills.
"He was a beautiful speckled trout.
Five pounds and four ounces he weighed
that day on the little pocket scales
which we carried, and he hasn't grown
an ounce since, contrary to the usual
custom. I've a birch bark outline of the
beast in my study, which will bear this
' out. r
"We stayed our week out there, and
had good sport all the trout we wanted
every day but most of them weighing
from a pound to a pound and a half, with
one three-pounder and another a trifle
smaller.
"I've fished a good deal for twenty
seasons, and I have gone in many times
since after the same sport in the same
place, but I have never seen the trout
before or since when they rose in triples
and doubles at every cast, and when
they could be caught in endless num
bers. I've caught my share of big ones
on the fly, but most of them weighed
less than three pounds, and I shall re
member that day's sport at Little Ding
ley as long as life and memory last."
AT THE II ill V i III).
House is Comfortably Tilled and Xcw
fluents Ileitis: Welcomed.
There are few departures at The Har
vard and new guests are coming to enjoy
May. The house is comfortably filled
and will be for some weeks to come.
AMONG TIIE GUESTS.
Mrs. Otto Wagner, and Otto Wagner,
Jr., New York City, are spending some
weeks here.
Mrs. B. S. Edwards, Miss Helen Ed
wards, and Miss Anne K, Edwards,
LaCrosse, Wis., made their second visit
of the season during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. II. D. Clark, Monticello,
N. Y., come for several weeks sojourn.
Rev. II. Stuyvesant, New York, is
among the weeks arrivals.
Recent guests include : Mr. and Mrs.
C. II. Harvey, Mrs. II. A. Harley, Miss
Gertrude Harley, and Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Brighara, Bridgeport, Conn.
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