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Show First to Register in Local Association's As-sociation's Big Fish Contest Floyd Timmerman caught a fish no insignificant minnow, but a native trout no less than eighteen inches or two feet in lenegth. It weighed three pounds all but two ounces and bore the usual markings mark-ings of a trout, speckles, and fins and scales and other points of distinction. dis-tinction. Tim, as a scribe on the Standard Examiner; has for the past week or two been relating his prowess as a fisherman, but his tales were not carried out In practice and the sum total of his catch, until last evening, was a four inch minnow that was returned to the creek for future reference. With his catch of last night, however, Tim has firmly established estab-lished his reputation as a second Isaac Walton, and admiring friends point at him as ho walks along the street, and whisper "Three pound trout." Tim Isn't conceited regarding his catch, and were It not for the fnct that a fellow scribe was along at the time, the world would probably have never known how narrowly Tim escaped death In capturing the fish. Tim and the said fellow worker, were in a boat at Stillwater, above the dam at Pine-view. Shortly after aft-er starting the cruise, which had been planned Willi the view of making inroads on the finny tribe, Tim got a big bite. He was for jumping from the boat after the fish but contented himself with reeling in all but about six feet of his line. With the polo bent until un-til it resembled a horseshoe, Tim shouted excitedly for the oarsman to land the trout. With persua- .. : u t .l 11,. I .. 11 ... the fish a little room in which to battle and after a struggle wihch nearly tipped over the boat, landed land-ed the monster. In relating the incident at the Standard-Examiner office today Tim said, "You should have seen that trout's eyes bulge out when he saw who it was that had caught him." Incidentally, Tim is the .first fisherman to register his catch in tho Weber County Rod and Gun association contest. The rules of the contest have been arranged as follows, and Tim is against any one catching bigger fish with the same kind of bait. Rules Governing the Big Fish Contest. 1. Fisherman must be a member of the Weber County Rod and Gun association, associ-ation, and his name must be on the books of the secretary prior to catching catch-ing said fish. 2. FiBh must be a trout, caught in Ogden river or Its tributaries by the method described by law as angling, and during the lawful open season of IQOn TTach rrmfht In liotoVinrloc np rri. vate ponds are barred from this contest. con-test. 3. Fish may bo weighed at any house giving a prize for the said fish at the option of the fisherman witnessed by ai least three persons othar than tne fisherman. 4. Fisherman must file with secretary secre-tary of Weber County Rod and Gun association, as-sociation, the kind of trout, time of day, place, date, kind of bait, spoon or fly, and size of hook used to catch said fish. 5. Two prizes will be offered; one for the largest fish caught with bait, or spoon, and the other for the largest fish caught with artificial fly. In case of tie for either prize, prize will be jdlvlded by merchant donating same. 6. Any member found guilty of violating vio-lating any fish or game laws during the 1920 season will not be entitled to compete in this contesL Signed by Committee, SAM JOST, REN x ORU. J. O. READ. rrt |