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Show OLDSTERS' FISHING TAKEN SERIOUSLY Idahoans take their fishing and hunting seriously and they certainly cer-tainly don't allow a little thing like a few years to interfere with their favorite recreation. This fact was substantiated recently re-cently by Owen W. Morris, director direc-tor of the state fish and game department, de-partment, who released a statement state-ment to the effect that 703 permits per-mits to hunt and fish had been issued so far this year to persons over 70. Of these, 37 were issued to women and 726 to men. Twenty-eight Twenty-eight permits have been issued this year to Spanish - American war veterans, who are also allow, ed to hunt and fish without a license. li-cense. Since the law was passed in 1935, 6197 permits have been issued is-sued to residents over 70 and 3575 have been granted Spanish American Amer-ican veterans. Although Civil war veterans are also entitled to hunt and fish withhout a license, there is no record of a permit hav. ing been issued to even one of them this year. The oldest person to receive a permit this year was Joe Gordon of Twin Falls a mere youth of 103 summers. According to David J. McClay, state director of fisheries, the warm water fish hatchery being built in conjunction with the migratory mi-gratory waterfowl refuge at Ha-german Ha-german will be in operation this fall. Large and small mouth black bass will be produced there for stocking waters unsuited to trout. One planting of channel catfish has already been made in the lower low-er Snake and lower Boise rivers, and more are to follow. Crappies perch and bluegills will also be stocked In non-trout waters, Ma-clay Ma-clay said. |
