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Show Kgjt Clothing A light jacket is essential when fishing in the mountains, both in spring and summer. Early morning or late evening breezes are often very cool and the light leather jacket or poplin windbreaker is good the year 'round in high country. A slicker or plastic raincoat will come in handy for sudden rain squalls. Your list of accessories besides rod, reel, line, and hip boots should include a creel, landing net, bait box spinner-and-lure box, leader box, split shot, snelled hooks, jack-knife or small hunting knife, a fishing license and directions on how to get to your fishing spot. Waders of the waist-high variety are not essential for stream fishing in spring. Most bait fishing is done from shore. Lake fishing may call for waist-high waders. In all cases, cultivate a healthy respect for the water. Losing your footing is no fun and the water is uncomfortably cold and often dangerously swift. A pair or two of heavy wool socks in rubber boots when fishing in the spring will cushion the foot against uneven rocks. Wool socks also keep your feet warm despite the low temperature tem-perature of the water in which you may be wading. As a word of precaution, in the springtime it is a good ifiea to put a couple of blankets in the back of your car when starting out in the Rocky Mountains. These blankets, plus a couple of chocolate bars may prove to be life-savers if you get stuck in mud or snow. A coffee pot and a can of coffee under the back seat might be useful on such an occasion, too. Wear loose, comfortable trousers, a woolen shirt, a short fishing jacket jack-et with plenty of pockets and a felt hat when you start fishing. Remember Remem-ber a belt too . . . for holding up your boots. The bulge at the waistline waist-line may sustain your trousers but the extra tug of boots may cause you embarrassment in the end! AAA The hippopotamus differs from the rhinoteros in having four instead of three toes. AAA Surprise! It was a very unhappy landing for a large flock of Canada geese which stopped for a rest in Raleigh county one night a few days before the goose season opened. The incident in-cident was reported to the conservation con-servation commission by Conservation Conser-vation Officer Progresso Tocado. Instead of a placid pond, the honkers came down about 11 o'clock on the sheet metal roof of the machine ma-chine shop of the Winding Gulf Collieries at Riffe's Branch. Floodlights Flood-lights shining on the roof was believed be-lieved to have attracted the geese. Hearing a commotion of thumping, thump-ing, honking and hissing on the roof, Nightwatchman E. E. Rine-heart Rine-heart at first was startled. Then, realizing what was happening, he rushed outside amidst floundering geese and flapping wings, and turned off the lights. Soon the thumps on the roof stopped and Rineheart turned the lights back on. All but six of the geese promptly prompt-ly took off. The six appeared dazed and some were bloody but all but one soon staggered up and made takeoffs. The remaining one, still stunned, was captured. By morning morn-ing he had recovered his equilibrium equilib-rium and Rineheart carried him home and placed him in a chicken chick-en coop. Tocado was notified, came and examined the goose and found both wings apparently in working condition. Carrying the honker to the 600-acre lake at Flat Top, the officer placed him in the water to recuperate. Returning to the lake two days later to . check on his patient, Tocado found the latter apparently had resumed his southward south-ward flight. AAA The bald eagle was adoped as our national emblem by the Congress on June 20, 1782. AAA Hard to Beat A good split bamboo fly rod is a thing of beauty and personality. When you hold it in your hand it seems to say to you. "Let's go fishing!" It asks for a place on your team, and promises an eager participation that helps you capture cap-ture all the fun there is in fishing. The best rods are made from selected hard Tonkin cane, split with the gTain, heat-treated and straightened, milled to a mathematically mathe-matically eorrect- taper accurate to 11000 inch, and glued into the six-strip sections that make up the complete rod. These rds are sensitive as a bear's sere nose, powerful as an archer's bow. AAA Good Dry Flies Dry flies, as their name indicates are tied so they will float. They rausl be tied on light hooks and have hackle that is stiff and glossy. One must pay a good price for really good dry flies, for they rre expensive. expen-sive. If one wants the best and nothing else should do one must pay more, but results will more than compensate for the outlay. Poorly-tied Poorly-tied dry flies won't float properly and. consequently, won't catch as many fish as those properly tied. |