Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-11-13 | Page 11 | Fishing Now Winter Sport in Minnesota

FISHING NOW I r. r WINTER SPORT IN MINNESOTA By D D. D D D. D MEREDITH United Pr Press Pre s Staff Correspondent ST ST. PAUL Nov 13 United Press The The gentle art of fishing no longer long long- er is a summer pastime but Is as aswell aswell aswell well a a. popular winter sport aport Take It tt from John J. J Joyce who has sold more fishing tackle than v r any other retail salesman in In the i world world world-there's there's theres no rest for the fish Up here in the north country the gentle zephyrs stir the trees in August and brisk flurries k whine in the snow capped pines In inI I December outdoor sports run the year round And fishing Is the king of sports 1 John Joyce known to o thousands Hof of or sportsmen from near and nd far Is popularly called Joycie Joycle because perhaps ho he wears a smile all the year around He sold fishing tackle rf but when your father was a boy retiring modestly behind the screen n of f a youthful countenance he does not confess to more than 40 j years rears ears of or service to followers of Isaac Walton Valton Wal Val x ton In the olden days when Joycie Jo Joined up with Kennedy Brothers Arm Arni company first dealers In arms a in the new northwest fishing tack tacks I. I 1 oon consisted of ot a a. string and a a. hoo hook J 04 Slight comprised the rod Tod TodI I of or those days dys t. t Now Jo Joycie cle handles a a. line Une of ot r fishing tackle the items of ot Which if It listed singly would make this story storyS S longer than the most weird fish M 4 story ever told His Ills stock Is p perr perhaps per per- r- r r haps the most complete of ot any 4 t- t tackle expert in the country countr for aa Joycle Joycie has kept up with and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps a bit ahead of or the times Old timers like to tell ten stories of ot big catches in the day days of oC the thel l i bent pin and shredded overall Vt rall cuff curt JI Jo Joycle Joycie told the United Press but butI butA fI A i I can tAn swear that fishermen of ot to- to to today today 4 day wh who know how to get em and where they are catch more fish tip than father ever knew existed et y Fishing now is a 0 science rather R than a pastime he said laid J Dry fly fishing is thu the new nev art i and all aU lovers of fishing are are- rapidly rapid rapid- 1 ly Iy coming corning to to It At M are I 1 b becoming Just as proficient at dry dr fly fishing as were the of old Incidentally Joycie Joycle Js is not a amade amade made fishing authority for Jn in his v veins runs the blood of Auld Scoty Scot Scot- y landA land Jand and J r A A fisherman today gets geh more lW kick out t of ot a strike on a fourt four four- t ft ounce fly rod with a tapered silk t. t line and tapered gut l leader altor shooting shoot shoot- i ing out of ot a soft sort floating dry fly than your father got out of ot a 0 t 1 pound haul with a a. little seine said Joyce j The stock of l carried today must run up near a a. thousand but butI butto butto I to be conservative W well we'll U say that It the lures available are upwards oC of half halt a n. thousand There are more than styles i of plugs and wobblers and I ca can can sh show w you 32 dry flies tiles for tor bass or 55 I. I dry fles ties for trout In addition there ares dozens of other types of urea ures tc many go good d and many bad bad i While Whits Joyce was stirring around 11 among among trays and boxes of varl- varl Gr t w c colored and myriad shaped flies and nd things Robert Bobert rt M. M Anderson Anderson of Stillwater Still Still- r 1 x 1 water started ted off on a story of rainbow fishing In the great Canadian Cad Canadian Ca Ca- 1 nadian n northwest rth vest An afternoons afternoon 1 d catch sounded ded like well like well like he A talking ab about income was s u taxes