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Show Fish Policy All Wrong Says Scribe By Robert Crooks ton Sunday was the opening day of the season for catching game fish, and the canyon was literally lined with fishermen of all ages and sex. . We do not know of anyone making a count of the number of fishermen or of the fish caught, so one guess is about as good as another. It is a safe estimate to say that 600 people caught 2 small fish each on logan river. This river is one of the very finest far fish if someone would take a little interest. inter-est. The river and all its tributaries tribu-taries covers approximately 75 miles. Remeirjber what was said a moment mo-ment ago about someone, anyone taking a little interest. We have had a sportsman's association as-sociation far many years and naturally na-turally enough Mr. Average Citizen Citi-zen expects this group to take care of the fish and game. We will tell you how the game is neglected some other time, just: now we will talk about fish. This writer was a member of the association as-sociation for several years, we hadj only one meeting each year fori general members. Instead of making mak-ing this a strictly business meeting meet-ing for members only and discuss j nothing but local p:xblems with a' view of devising ways and means to improve our play ground cne time was usually monopolized by , some one who knew very little of our local problems. But the members themselves were to blame for this, they were content to sit quietly through ths; meeting and say nothing until they were out on the street, thenj each one was fairly bubbling overj with ideas of what should be! done. One thing that should be done now is to close the river for about : three years and give these little : fish a chance to grow. We closed the shooting on deer and elk for 15 years and with ; very good results. The law requir- ing fish-ladders at dams is not : enforced. There is no ladder at all at the Hyrum dam and the one at the state dam is so poorly construct- ; ed that even a flying fish could not get over. The law forbidding the sale of game fish is not respected. ; If the business and professional . men wouia quit Duymg iisn, ine fellows who fish every day all summer would have to engage in some other line. The little fish raised in the warm, quiet ponds at the hatchery hatch-ery should be turned loose late in the summer when the river is ' not so cold or swift. And each sportsman should take it upon himself to arrest and prosecute pro-secute the fellows who fill their basket with the little fish. The most disgusting thing of all is the absence of a fish ladder at the H;- rum dam. It is tiia nature of the irout to go up stream each spring ind the deep hole at the base of that dam makes a perfect per-fect trap, where the large trout are taken out and sent to distant parts instead of putting them all up in the deep water of our own streams. |