Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — VIOLIN USED TO CATCH FISH [ARTICLE]

VIOLIN USED TO CATCH FISH

But It Is Not the Lure of Music That Lands Them —New Fish Yarn. Macon, Mo. —“They have a new wrinkle for catching fish at Elmer, and It is wonderful the luck they have.” Alva Willoughby, cireuit clerk, remarked, swapping experiences at the courthouse. “About fifteen of us pitched camp on a lake north of town and then set lines across zigzag, like German entaglements, you know. When all was ready the fiddler sat on a log and played ‘The Arkansaw Traveler’ and other classics. And you ought to have seen the fish come in! By noon we had more than the party could eat. They tell me they always take a fiddler along when they go fishing up there.” , “I see,” County Clerkk Sears said. “The music charms them, and they go blindly toward it and are caught on the-lines.” “Not exactly,” Willoughby replied. “You see, we put the musician at the other end of the lake and In paddling to get away from the noise the fish run- into the hooks.”