Show DUCKS AND TROUT REPORTED 1 PLENTIFUL IN NEARBY HAUNTS BY JOHN JOlIN W. W rUST JUST at nt a 11 time when whon the local ports ports- 1 V tJ men cn arc aro busily engaged en in pa painting nUng decoys decos oiling guns Juni and shuddering at tho the price of or ammunition preparatory to the opening of or tho the duck ducle 5 season on next Sunday Sanda tho the trout aro arc suddenly sud- sud denly pos possessed Je lIed with with a most aston aston- appetite for tor artificial flies files The same report Is IR received c from l all l the tho I streams both far for and near Last Sundar Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day dar the tho writer fished the upper Provo river a few tew miles above the Murdock power dam dem and enjoyed b by far Car the best fishing ho he has had haa in years Tho The fish nearly all aU rainbows were to lo bo be found round in n great creat numbers in the shallow sunn sunny riffles riffles they having apparently apparently- left the deep shady pooLs pooL in which ch thC they hey have been heen hiding for lor tho the t two 00 months past punt While Whilo the they took the fly In a vcr very fo- fo r manner thc they were easily alarmed and small flies and light leaders lend lead ore ers were necessary to obtain tho the best results The Tho best fly fishing n can be bo looked 1 for Cor all during October arid and a part of Nov November The same condition c exists every cry y year r and is undoubtedly duo to the fact that there thero aro are very ery few tew anglers ang ang- lers upon the streams at this season and the further fact that tho the cool nights greatly diminish the amount of or Insect Ufo life upon tho the stream thereby reducing the competition for Cor the artificial tJ fly Next Sunda Sunday Is one of or tho the biggest days das of or tho the year car for the Utah sportsmen sportsmen sports sports- men nen as ns It marks the opening of oC tho the duck season And the indications aro are remarkably encouraging More water than usual a n superabundance of or duck feed three t times me as man many local birds as last year r e and no duck malady malndy to destroy tho the birds by the millions In I tho matter of or duck shooting Utah la is remarkably fortunate While thero there are arc I actually millions of or these birds hatched hero each ch year ear In the tho local marshes the tho main portion of or tho the great relt Intermountain Intermountain Inter Inter- mountain flight some of or which we wo are told toM nest as far ar north as tho Arctic circle stop here a week or so while on their Wa way south for tho the winter resting upon tho broad expanse of or the tho Great Salt lake lako and feeding In the surrounding marshes |