Show field Stream 9 by vemon vernon W shields last week the little bride of some years ago and I 1 gathered up some of my wild looking dayfly dry fly patterns and dashed upon the up per prove provo river to do a little dry fly fishing we fished above wood land and sunnybrook Sunny brook and stuart ranch area we found the dry fly fishing in these parts fairly good there was a big hatch of mayflies and cahiles out the wife used the light cahill while I 1 did pretty well with my own imitation of the spent wing mayfly my brother in law at whose cabin we stayed fished along with us using a bi visible fly I 1 he didn dian it get as many fish as I 1 11 did but he outclassed me as to size I 1 used a new type of dry fly oil that seems to have some pos this is a natural color glow luminous dry fly oil many insects give off a slight soft color ed luminous glow that quickly I 1 identifies d enl atif I 1 e th them em to trout this new fl fly y oil gives off some natural soft I 1 colored light as insects do I 1 found it quite effective I 1 also tried some of this new silicone fly oil word silicone means sand or mineral silicates silicones are mater eals built upon frameworks of sill cone and oxygen atoms similar to those exi in sand glass and mineral silicates in other words it is a chemical form of liquid sand or glass the advertisements on this silicone claim that it your flies are once treated with this stuff they will float indefinitely how ever in my opinion this stuff is absolutely worthless either that or they sold me water in a silicone bottle this silicone is an excellent water repellent but it is also heavier than water and once your fly breaks the surface tension of the water it will sink like a rock the old type dry fly oil is still the best outside of the new color glow fly oil the preparation old of wax dis alved in carbon tetrachloride is still the best after fishing the upper provo we decided to take a run up to the soapstone below mirror lake I 1 had heard that the fishing there was wag excellent well it turned out that we were darn sorry that we were ever up there the road from kamas up to soapstone and mirror lake is positively a disgrace to the U S forest service and the state of utah fact is there just isn t a road there anymore just a mass of jagged rocks from one end to the other anyone is foolish to take tak their car up in that region this ml fishing there was nothing to bra brag about there is a beaten trail better than the road on both sides of the river looks like an army had marched up and down the banks we caught a few fish but they were small I 1 turned a few nice ones over but the place has been fished to death and all your larger trout are pretty wary we were just leaving the forest camp when up drove shag and gail tate they planned on camp ing there and then taking their boat up to wish the lakes when I 1 asked shag how he liked the road he replied in unprintable words the junior sportsmen Sports mens s through the cooperation of the county game warden roy gar rard planted some more fish in settlement canyon last week A planting was also made in ophir creek on thursday july esth roy o 0 garrard and ross utah sportsmen s ass n planted a struck truck load of fish in south willow creek this is the first load of fish to be planted in south willow this year this makes a total of eight loads of fish that have been plant ed in the streams of tooele thoele coun colin ty up to date it is likely that we will get two or three more loads before the season closes duck stamps are now on sale at all post offices the fee will be one dollar instead of two con gress adjourned before the bill to raise the fee to two dollars could be passed I 1 have been advised that a bill is being drafted to sub nut mit to our next state legislature re quiring all the ther citizens of the state af of utah to register their firearms last year they tried to get et this same type of legislation through congress but through the united efforts of the sportsmen all thru the united states Is was thrown out the sportsmen of utah should be on the lookout for this legisla tion when it appears and should be prepared to vigorously oppose it |