Word: trout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action. From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service...
...disease known as detour" he said. Near Medford, wading the chilly "Rogue River at dawn, the Nominee obtained no reaction to his trout flies. "No luck" he said. "Let's go where there are some fish." ¶ In Burlingame, Calif., thejustice-of-the-peace waived a warrant, issued in 1925, for the arrest of Herbert Clark Hoover. Charge: motoring with glaring headlights. ¶In West Branch, Iowa, a Mrs. Addie Clark showed a newsgatherer a scrawled schoolday note in her album: "To Addie: "Let your days be days of peas, "Slip along as slick as greese...
President Coolidge put in an appearance at his offices in the Superior, Wis., high school. He was brown and fatter. He had no news. He soon returned to Brule and for the next two days Superior had nothing better to talk about than "Old Mountain," a legendary trout of monster proportions (35 Ibs. and up) which is supposed to live where the Presidential flies are now dropping. On the President's second office visit, he received some St. Paul and Minneapolis businessmen who felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line...
...uses dry flies and worms. He catches about fifty-fifty with the two baits. He fishes in the lakes and in the river and he catches the trout both places. He doesn't talk very much, just when necessary. He never gets at all excited when he takes a good fish. He's fine that...
...lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...