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Show Sportsmen Optimists From the cane-and-pole angler of the rural ponds, rivers and small streams, to the fishermen who whip famous trout and salmon streams with the best of equipment, equip-ment, Americans by the millions will be fishing this year as they have for so many years but their numbers will be larger in 1949. Each year the increase in the number of anglers brings added wrinkles to the brows of state conservation con-servation directors, who worry lest the supply of fish and game ultimately ulti-mately fail all sportsmen. Of all the things that worry sportsmen, sports-men, that appears to be one that deters them not; for no matter how they gripe about lack of favorite fish or game, they are always back next season, trying harder than ever to "bring home the bacon" and were a statue ever carved to the world's one real optimist, it would have to be a composite figure fig-ure of a rabid American, clutching both rod and gun and with the light of determination and faith shining from his eyes, even if it were only reflected from the polished gun butt or the gleam of a new fishing reel. These Get Away At Beaufort, N. C, these email fish wiggle their way to safety through strands of Guthrie Guth-rie net a new selective type of net which brings np shrimps and usable fish and lets other types of sea life work its way back to freedom. The net is a snood-like attachment of oversize over-size mesh, hard-twine net interlaced inter-laced with soft twine strings attached at-tached to central part of regulation regula-tion shrimp net. A U.S. fishery biological laboratory expert estimated es-timated this net would save billions bil-lions of fish from destruction. Rough Fish Trapped Iowa is showing the way, somewhat, some-what, to other state conservation agencies through its program of trapping carp and buffalo and other rough fish, as a supplement to the tedious, expensive seining program now in effect. , Fourteen large fish traps on nine major lakes have been installed by the Iowa state conservation commission com-mission to trap rough fish. The traps are installed at the mouths of bays where fish enter to spawn. Although the spawning season was barely underway when this report re-port was made, large catches of carp and buffalo were recorded. . What Color Choice? The age-old controversy as to whether fish show a color preference prefer-ence in choice of lures is one that probably never will be settled to the general satisfaction of anglers. But the fact that black as an attractive at-tractive color is effective is coming from many sources. Certain it is that black plugs will take more fish on certain days and under certain water conditions than any J other color, and f the Louis Johnson 1 company, creators J I of the Johnson f "silver minnow," jk 1 has reported excel- i IrV len' results with J Vy its new all-black ssr spoon shown here. Tests of the spoon have disclosed dis-closed that it is particularly good both in early morning and late evening, and also for cloudy-day fishing. Apparently its hue gives it the appearance of a "silhouette" in the water because of lack of adequate light, and the tricky action of the lure adds sufficiently to the deception. decep-tion. Great Fishing Hole Idaho, where 6,500 streams and 1,763 lakes are draped over a mountain landscape, is fast becoming be-coming one of America's greatest fishing holes. More than 30,000 non-resident anglers joined some 170,000 Idaho citizens in luring the big ones during 1948. The general season this year will extend through October Oc-tober and the bag limit each day is 20 fish, or 10 pounds and one fish. One of Idaho's best bargains . is the 3 vacationist fishing permit. |