Show White Salmon or Big Bg Minnow Fish Described by Warden Fred Reynolds deputy warden war var varden den of the state fish and panic game department gives the follow follow- lug interesting account of at the white salmon or bi big minnow minnow min mm now fish which Is native Inthe In Inthe Inthe the Colorado and Gr Green e rivers The fish often refel cd to as the white salmon of the Green and Colorado rivers has long been more or loss less a n mystery fish The TIle white salmon Pty Pty- I lucius luclus Is the lamest lam larg est st fish of the thc minnow tribe found round anywhere Reports of this fish ish weighing up to 61 pounds I taken from the Green river In Utah have been made A number num ber of authentic records of these pound 40 minnows are arc prevalent At one time they were much more common than they seem to be now Why the decrease of this fish has long IonA puzzled Utah sportsmen but ItIs Itis it itIs Is noted and agreed by the fishermen who fish the Colorado Colo Cola rado ratio and Green rivers that during the last 20 years there has been a gradual decrease In the last three or four years on the other hand the large channel cat fish las las- seem to have Increased and have extended to the upper reaches of the Green and Colorado The Intrusion of ot this cat fish may be having an effect on the large minnow Sportsmen report finding quite a number of the minnows dead with large cat fish still partly swallowed It t appears that when the big Colorado river salmon attempts to o swallow the cat fish the big bull head extends his horns ana antl cannot be swallowed thus killing the fish that tried to tomake tomake tomake make a dinner of him |