Trout Hooked In Queer Places

.The story which E. Ldncoln Kellogg tells in Outing about a five pouud trout hooked foul makes trout ilshermen think of fish they have hooked in other places than the mouth. Mr. Kellogg went a-fishing in early spring in a stream near the foot of the Olynipic mountain, not far from Pugot sound. The water was cold and icy, being melted snow mostly, and the fish did not bite so freely as they would have done had it been later, when the suu had warmed things up. He had flshed all the morning, but without success, although hiscorupanionhadcaught a 10 incJi fish. "We fished till noon," he says, "using big and little flies, bright and dark ones, black, blue and brown, red, yellow and green ones, but to no avail. Af ter luncheon , we separated. Jack went up stream and I down. Pretty soon I carne to a favorable pool. The river carne dashing down over a long, steep riflie into a broad, boiling pool, with a big eddy up one side. I cast here and there for a few moments. Then there was a heavy splash out in the foani, and my reel began to buzz. I scrambled to the shore and raced dowu the stream, entirely unable to stop the fish's mad rush. He carne up the eddy, then went down again three times before I oould stop him. Then I got hirn into my sight, and Isaw thatl'd hooked him foul, and saw also how it was that his rushes had been so powerful. The hook had caught in his dorsal fin." When Mr. Kellogg managed to work the fish into a little cove from which he was able to throw it out, uot having any landing net or gaff, he found that it weighed five pounds. Fishermen know how a fish hooked in the side will pull, more especially in a current. They know further that no fish inakes so gcod a fight as one hooked in the tail flesh, where the hook will not readily pull out. More than one trout fisherman in t!v? Adirondackshas struck a fish and instanti' thought it was a monster - a four or oven six pounder, judging from the way it pulled, but at last, on gettiug the net under the fish, has found it to be a littlo fellow of a pound er less hooked in the mil. The place where fishermen like to hook their trout is down in the corner of the inouth where the two lips meet. This is a tough place, and a hook fastened there is better than one fastened anywhere clse for hold fast qualities. Big trout are seldom or uever takon when hooked in the lip, though one hooked in the tonguo fights in an up hill struggle. But in either of these places the trout does not make the figbt a tail hooked one does.