Show 2 Piddling Fish Red Hot Hoi Sunburn Reward One Utah Head Fluff By DALE L L. MORGAN If your columnist had reached the age of discretion he would not have gone fishing Sunday He will not go into the painful details but the confession cannot be avoided that the only way the writer distinguished himself was wasby wasby wasby by catching two undersized fish and a painful sunburn Of these the sunburn lingers most vividly in memory There is this to be said however however however how how- ever Your columnist was not the only head fluff-head in the state As Asa a matter of fact the streams were lined three-deep three with fishermen and one had to hold his elbows into into into in in- to his ribs in the manner acceptable ble as subway etiquette even to get near the water so dense was the multitude This spinner of tales will have later opportunities to go fishing but as this is one of these terrific private confessions he hereby admits admits admits ad ad- mits that the fish of the state are areas areas areas as safe from his creel as though he were bound up in the maniacs maniac's cell ceU at the state asylum The truth is it is only a very unsophisticated unsophisticated un un- un- un sophisticated fish that finds a columnists columnist's columnists columnist's columnists columnist's col col- col- col type of angling interesting interesting interesting interest interest- ing and furthermore this one has long since become resigned to the fact that his principal mission in inthe inthe inthe the fish world is to serve as fool killer for the reckless scions of the finny family who will not heed their elders' elders good advice Your columnist column st should blush to admit it but on one fish a season is about his limit Not for him are the joys of singing reel and bending bending bending bend bend- ing rod to his lot fall faU the more subtle pleasures attendant upon falling into refrigerated mountain I brooks and having whole creeks flow in over the tops of his boots But the writer does not blush He has so many companions in misfortune Even here on the campus his brothers bond-brothers must be legion It should not be thought though that all the Joyous pleasures of angling are lost to this vast group of neer ne'er After all fish are not everything Streams abound with trees which snare flies in ways which surpass the highest animal cunning and then there are also sunken snags to engross the fisherman Sunken snags are one of the dispositions dis disc positions of a kindly providence If one cannot or to put it more Continued on page 6 12 2 Piddling Fish Heads Fluff 5 Due Continued from page 4 tactfully if one does not wish to catch fish innocent pleasures are provided without stint by shrewdly shrewd shrewd- ly placed snags One must first lodge his hook securely and then he can play to his hearts heart's content The snag never wearies as does the fish and if one gives his rod roda a little judicious shaking the vicious vicious vicious vic vic- ious fight of the snag anything anything anything any any- thing the fish can offer There is a great deal more to fishing than simply dunking a hook in the water Th There re is of course always a fascination to fishing fishing fishing fish fish- ing to the to-the the immediate and dramatic drama drama- tic action ever in prospect but over and above this is the return to the sun and the open sky to the hills and the meadows and the open streams Much that is banal has been been written about this but the basic truth endures In return for these pleasures the f fisherman sherman will suffer much Even the ravages of sunburn |