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Show HOW DID THE CATFISH find mm TO 0 ' ' BT W. J. SLOAN. Juat how many millioa catfish bar been takan from Utah laka and Ui Jordan lirar In the lact fifteen 9t twenty jearawlthjiook.. and lint p,oon. would haaard a gneaa. Jus, bow many ton of thia nan hare bean taken from Utah lake ia tela during tha laat tea or tfteen year area th aeinara could not tell, though they will admit that it would ran well up Into th thousand! of tone. f rival ponda, there are no eatflah In h slate of Utah, thua aearina out the ataument o' Mr. Williams. This tlsli does not seek the awlft runnfua atrtsms. prererrlng the slow, aluaa'all waters, aareeable to.lta natur. I'uy'thla reason, rea-son, despite tits (act that ana of ihc big flehlng at reams at tit elate, the Prove river, emptlee Into Ttah lake, nona of thea Aan are found In tha river above a mile or two from the lake: nor are any of tlim found In tha several mountain moun-tain at reams that pour their weiera Into th Jordan river. . . When that time of the year cone whirh the poet describee as: "When you're feeling sort of tired And you don't know what to do, ' Kind of feel you need the doctor. Find you reel f becoming blue. Get lo thinking you must be ailing, i'an't enjoy your apeilal dish. Drop your work and take m roaring Go away eomewhare and flah." I'aually juat at th tint of Ik vear when thia fever strikes a good many disciples of Isaak Walton ia rlt Lake fUjr and Yifinit th asaiesty ef th law says that he caa't catch trout or ban uatil June IS, and It ia thea that he weara off at leaat a part of hie fever, er at leaat allaya it a little by going eatflahing in I'tah lake nr In the J or dan river. From along in March antll the opening of the real lahing aeason in Utah there mar be eeea from ten to eloaa to a hundred lever of the rod and reel wending their way every Sunday toward the "narrowa," on Jordan river er Utah lake, while naay mora who do aot feel that they eaa mt m m rt h s n u aI a,, ! a t rin mtm though it ba Jbut l or ga to some aaarbv plaea of tha Jordan with the hope that among tha dar's catch thara will ha a few rfaU." Tha iah ia sever a game fish, from tha viewpoint of tha flshermaa, except whan ona undertakes to take it from tha hook whan, if aot careful, ha will likely receive soma painful jebe from tha sharp spinea adjoining tha fin, which, whan stiffened out, make a formidable for-midable waa no a ef defense of the fish, some of such cuts or j"b will often take weeks to heal. There ara over sixty varietiee of tha eatfiah known to eiiat, about twenty of which are found Ja the rivers and lakes ef the (Initod ft area. The commonest ia the homed pout, or bullhead, kaoww to seientista as patrarius; thia is the spa eie found ia I'tah waters. Thia species spe-cies is small, seldom trowing to a siie of over two or three pounds. In the waters of tha large rivers of tha east, ueh aa tha If iasivsippi, tha Miaeouri, tha Ohio and tha Tennessee, there is found another special known to eeiea-tiata eeiea-tiata by various names, bat commonly known as the "yellow" or "channel cat." This species has been caught over aix feat in length and weighing eloae to 200 pounds. Catches of thia spec tea in the large rivers of from 75 to 150 pounds ara common. . A few dava ago Cart R. Will la ma. Jamaa Wllltame (not brothers, no rala t.on. B1wani Tartar and the writer ae-eepiad ae-eepiad an Invitation from Repreeentatlve John H. Wool I on of Amertrn aTtira: to spend a few houra with him on lTtah laka ftehlng. It waa not tha flrat lime that any of the quartette had enjoyed thia sport and tha Invitation waa accepted. ac-cepted. Mr. W not ton and hla brother met tha party at the opot, and In a rta; took tham to tha ahoree of tha lake, ahout a mile and a half from A mar Iran fork. : Hare we hoarded a gasoline launch ewnH bv Mr. Wootlon and. after a delightful lake ride of a little over eeven inllee. arrive, at tha pumping plant which pump stater for lha varlotia ranala of Palt I -a It a county. Hera we ware greeted bv Mr. Knight, the man In rharge, who K In led out where the beat ftahing might aecuretl. For fear of . having aomeone dlaputa tha etatement. no ftaurea will be given of the numher nf flali caught, though we were aeaurM that our cairh waa a few hundred abort of the record for a dav'a flahlng by a party of four. However How-ever that may he. we were aatlafied, and resolved that at the flrat opportunity we would try It again. It should not be understood un-derstood from the foregoing that the only good fishing for thia class of hah la to be found at the pumping plant. Far from It. There le ecarcefv a piece along the shore of L'tah lake where Ash rmnnnt be culls hi In nlentv at anv aeason of the yer. and the name la true of many parts of the Jordan river. It haa been a common thing durfnt , the laat t wo or three inonthe for to or three men- to leave Salt I.ake CMij ui the morning and return at night with , more than I pattinda of these flah. rrom wheie and how did the r-aiflah , come to I'tah? It la not a nate f the mountain streams. It la dnuhtful If one in e thousand of thosp w ho haw raught this flah In thia atate could answer an-swer this question, and ao far as known, the hiaiorv of the catfish In t tab has never heen msde fMibJtc The following storv of the origin of the catfish In I'tah Is vn.jrhed for hr James Williams, a ran (dent of this atate for nearly forty years and a fisherman ho koa-iwa practically every atreatn In the aiate-. i "The Hr si eatflah, a ahtpment of aboit ie, it broiajrht to ftah hv Howard . Ranwtdae. then a resident of Salt I,ake t'liy. fruTj t'allf'irnia ahout iweniy-eight eara ago. Th- were planted In r-ni'ls at the old timer pla'-e, later the t'oiitv-trv t'oiitv-trv club, at Ninth Houth and Eleventh Kast. Wttlilu the nil year some f them wsre planted tn ronda on the Walker farm near East Botiniif'il Frui tifcaat ponds a year later abo rt fe were taken by m se I f . with the Intenilnn of piantlna Ihem In the ponds of th Hit! farm, located about a mile southeast of! what la now Wandamere. In transit from) the Walker farm to this city the tub containing the flah struck a leak, and b j th time the rig reached the hot sprina j north of Hita cllv there was no wilrr Wt It. No knowing that a catfish can live for howra without water, I t nought I that this trip had been in vain. f 'pinaced' up the ho in the tub. ecctjred i water from a well and lan -led In the r-lty with the flah as lively as though thv had never been without water. The fish were exhibited In a Main etrect store for a day or two and were then takn to j th H'll farm- A year or two later ev. eral of them were planted In the Jordan J river from tha Walker farm, as well aa ; fmm the Hill and Gilmer ponds. The nh. natursJiv. worked their way p the river until they reached I'tah lake, which haa since, bee their chief apawaing ground." ft U said that, with tha exception of L'Uo lake, Lha Jai&ato river aad a few |