Word: trout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Mr. Borah [TIME, June 27] should not get excited over trout and worms, as there will be far more suckers caught with guile and salve...
...Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President's prize catch weighed one and seven...
Idaho, as piscator, at Washington, scoffed at President Coolidge catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "They must have been imbecile trout. My interpretation is that the President must have caught not trout, but catfish. I never heard of catching a trout with a worm. Those South Dakota trout must be so elated over the President's coming to their state that they joined in the welcoming procession." Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, as piscator, said of President Coolidge's method of catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "Any trout that would bite on a worm...
...American brook trout when President Coolidge takes himself and his retinue on a vacation. Equipped with hip boots and a fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...
...baiters who spend their energies in endeavoring to get a rise out of him. An adept in the game of political angling, both as baiter and baited, finds a real recreation in dealing with a tribe whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that the a worm are far more palatable than the big fish in the governmental swim...