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Show Fiends Dynamite Fish Is Report Gunnison sportsmen returning from Fishlake Monday, report every evidence evi-dence that some scoundrel or scoundrels scoun-drels are continuing the nefarious work of using dynamite in the lake. Thousands of fish, it is said, line the banks of the lake shore, having been washed in by the waves, and sportsmen sports-men are not only derived of having good fishing, but the stench arising from the putrid and decaying fish, makes it mighty disagreeable. Experts, who are familiar with the action of dynamite or other explosives on fish, made a close examination of the dead fish and every indication points to the dead fish as being the victims of "unprincipled" sportsmen.1 The examination of many of the dead fish showed the flesh on top of the I fish torn from , the bones, which results re-sults only When a fierce explosion is j placed in the waters where fish live, j Other evidence, it is reported, has j been uncovered tending to establish I the fact that the lake has, upon see-Ifral see-Ifral occasions, !ecn dynamited, den-It den-It roying thousands of fish. Whether or not the matU-r has been ! brought' i' the attention of the -head ; of thes&ite fish and game drpart-j drpart-j ment, is not known, but with the game wardens at the famous resort, it seems some action should be taken to protect the few fLsh that are yet in the lake. |