Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-14 | Page 10 | Fish Hatcheries Are Blessing to Many Empty Handed Anglers

Fish Hatcheries Are Blessing BlessingTo To Many ManT Empty Handed Anglers Average Izaak TalLon Fears Wife's Suspicion Unless lIe He Brings Home Several Fish By PAUL GALLICO NEW YORK April H 14 The streams hereabouts are full ot of S strangely re d-re cd parties going about molesting the fish Our trout sea sea- len is the only reason feBron I am not out getting my pants wet Is that our rod and gun and fish editor I Is so far away that h he cannot possibly drag ag me forth on the annual tour of t the streams ot of New York and New Jersey These tours tour are most Instructive I end illuminating and consist of along dirt a arid d macadam roads next to streams along which are hung sIgns every 20 or 30 feet Private Property Keep Off OLt No F h. h Ing Under Penalty of the Law No Do Not Fish Here This Property Posted by the Fishing Club This sort of thing goes on for hours until we finally come to a bit of free freewater ree water We then either wait in line for a few hours until the thc crowd fishIng fish fish- Ing It thins out or go down to the hatchery and buy some trout and go borne bome Fishing Trips I wed to think this business busine of buyIng buy buy- Ing fish at the fag end of a days day's fishing trIp was strictly a comic strip gag but I spent a day at Paradise Valley hatchery with Pop a a. couple of seasons ago and watched the disappointed fishermen roll up by the dozens to buy trout ThIs to me Is just Jost another evl deuce denie of the abject terror In which the average fisherman stands by his wife I did the matter at some lome length with Pop who is something of a Poncho lulls philosopher and Pop opined that from what he could gather ather from bits of conversation dropped here and amI there that It wasn't so 10 much t that t the boys were afraid of being kidded by bythe bythe the missus about coming home empty handed but that all fish InC ing trips were under uDder suspicion anyway and that a basketful of offish offish fish was a nIce piece of evidence to back up the story of the fish lag trip It u is very hard for lor some wives to realize realise that a man would rather t i j f V 7 a a- a I A. A stand up to hu his hips in hi ice water and pret pretend nd that he is a dry fly for three da days than mess around with a blonde from the road show Need More Fish The percentage ot of real men who will go home and gr greet t the little lady with a little belt alongside the jaw saying for no fish is very small and so 80 the hatcheries do a thrIving business on opening day and throughout the season as well weB There t Is only one small catch and that Is that all hatchery trout are ta tagged ged by law and must be sold with the little metal tags tags' affixed to the tails Pop never me how these tags are explained anyway but then most of at the fishermen never notice them and It Js Es Pops Pop's business to sell fish and not fish storIes I have been a trout fisherman fisher fisher- man for years Ive I've spent pent hun bun dred and hundreds of dollars dollar on traveling and equipment and have bave never caught z a. trout that wouldn't fit Into the ordinary size Ilze boneless sardine can let alone J one big enough to embalm and show my friends My skill at Imitating flight ht and landing of a summer ummer fly is 15 about or a par with my elephantine grace at sneaking two hundred and fifteen pounds on on tiptoes up a stream so as not to alarm the fish But you would think I would at least have ha caught one by accident by this time I 1 can only conclude that there arc not enough trout per capita In 11 the free waters of these United States