| Show T 7 YV j. j I t f Yf i 1 I T I t t c- c Frisky WANTED ONE SHILLELAGH SHILLELAGH SEE Fish SEE Flopping MR MILLER Fran Frantically Foils Foils Foils' Floyds Floyd's Fur Fi Fun I By JOHN MOONEY When a Utah angler swears next time hell he'll carry along a club for protection against the trout wiseacres wiseacres wise wiseacres wise wise- acres may scoff and pass of oft off this constructive tip as s one of the early season ef efforts of the fisherman to qualify for membership in the Ananias club But Floyd Miller of Salt Lake City vows hell he'll never again venture venture ven yen ture on the waters of the Scofield reservoir without some sort of shillelagh since his first excursion excursion excursion sion of at the season this week was spoiled by an trout It If seems Floyd Flord who tips the beam at about pounds had a premonition the big uns were biting when he carved a serviceable serviceable service service- able club to carry along for the mornings morning's fishing And It also seems that Floyd Flord was correct In his hunch since a source hitherto never known to tob tobe tobe b be wrong reports that the mornIng morning morning morn- morn Ing hours were spent pleasantly in pulling In the trout rapping them thorn on the noggin and stuffing them in the creel Returning to the boat after lunch the party discovered to Its consternation that some equally cautious but less ambitious anglers had copped the wooden wand presumably pre pre- for the same purpose as Miller and his fri friends had been using it for Much against their better judgment judgment judgment judg judg- ment the local heroes went back to their piscatorial pursuits sans club and it was only a short time I. I until disaster struck Floyd soon had a beauty flopping and struggling struggling gling in the bottom of the boat and I in m the excitement Miller too soon was flopping and struggling along the floor boards to disentangle the hook from his quarry's mouth Against all the rules of Izaak Walton and the code of field and stream the trout refused if tp surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render and in n the struggle succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- in snaking shaking the barb and implanting it In Millers' Millers hand hand- where It remained for two hours hours' until a doctor could be found who could file off the hook and pry it from beneath the fingernail Yep concluded Floyd when the worms worms' start turning so 10 that the fish are hooking and attempting to land the fisher- fisher I man then Its It's high time for us 1 lads to dust off the old skille- skille lagh Salt Lakers who marveled when Thomas C. C Main Mam recently showed pictures of grown full ducks being devoured by Canadian pike would be equally astounded by reports re received received re- re In Salt Lake City from L LAnderson Let Le LeAnderson Anderson stationed at the Mount Whitney state trout hatchery In California He writes An odd thing happened here at the hatchery In one of our rearing pens in which there are some large trout Frequently when birds skim over the ponds the trout jump for for- them May 29 a trout caught a a- a robin by the tall tail and one of ot the boys happened to o see the fish swimming with the bird in its mouth Because cause of ot the birds bird's outstretched outstretched outstretched out out- stretched wings the fish was prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented from swallowing his tidbit and the boys were able to get a net and free the robin Which may prompt so some e enterprising fly lly tyer to pattern a a bait colored like the I robin redbreast An unidentified angler brought I in a 17 pound pound s-pound mackinaw at Fish Fishlake Fishlake lake last week en end and that brought old timers timer to reminiscing over bl big fish which had been taken from those holes In the past 4 J One oldster recalled a ne gJ horn who came into can camp b bo w ing about the fish hed he'd which measured sev seven 5 J Derided for uch mentioning uth small catch wh when everyone eve e t- t was hauling in 12 and 14 Inch the rookie piped up Sure 1 you fellows measure Your from lip to tall tail while I mine between the eye eyt eyes II At this writing no seven se India Inch of this type have been taken If its f Fish lake but it still looks like ought to be at least o on a par 1939 for fish oddities u and I dotes if the first week wk c an I taken as any criterion |
