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Show Millions of Trout Escape Slaughter j They are back some were lucky, i some were not, and the likes of the I stories told, are just like those of the j hundreds of years past. Hardships, poisoning , hunger, trials, mosquito j bites, fiat tires, sore limbs, fish bites, I (but no snake bites) and a few fish j is the reports made by the many Isaak Waltons who went forth on the opening day. The editor positively knows of two who landed nice strings. Ira Overfelt and DaVid Whittenburg, knowing the shortage of the larder at the writer's home, very graciously came across and the family dined on the luscious trout. There will be no attempt to relate the excuses. Neither will there be any attempt to tell how "I nearly landed a whale," many of the stories told, if repeated would not give the paper a good name and then it might involve some who are considered above telling a questionable fish story. There was a party that ' went to Piute county. J. W. Jones, president of the Gunnison Lions club, accompanied accom-panied by Lions P. T. Henry, R. J. Parv, L. Ludvigson, L. J. Arnold and J. R. Howard, left Saturday for the famous Beaver Creek in Piute county. This little stream was non-productive. Mammoth Creek in Garfield county was next visited. This, too, proved to be Ashless, in so far as the Lions landing any. The Piute reservior was the last resort. Neither trout, sucker, carp, or chub would be tempted at the lucious bait, and as a result the fishermen failed to feast very extensively exten-sively onfish. The best luck reported by fishermen is made by Dr. Hagan, Ira Overfelt, C. M. dwards, Jule Duggins and Fred Jones. This gang invaded Daniels Canyon and when they returned the community catch was reported at 400. D. H. Whittenburg and Hart Sanders were among those at Fish-lake Fish-lake on the opening day. They returned return-ed with a nice string. R. C. Norman, according to his own story, caught four dandies at the lake, and a crowd of fellows went to the Town Reservoir returning the same day with some sixty dandy trout. But the real fishing was done close to the city limits. At Nine Mile reser-vior, reser-vior, and on the opening morning Arthur Johnson, paddeled in four beauties. On the morning following the opening, Miss Jauventa Thorpe, alone and without help, brought home a four-pounder. This record stands thus far unbroken and unchallenged. Generally sneaking the opening day I was not as favorable as in years gone i by, and this, perhaps accounts for ! the small catches made. As a rule, I Gunnison boasts of some of the best j fishermen in the world, but if they wont bite and if conditions are against the Waltons, the blame cannot be assigned to anything but ill luck. |