Show H n 00 What's Doing hi hiTOE In- In 7 m TOE E G L G-L OUTDO RS I Stan tan Taggart h By Noticed all aU the week weel end visitor tor torS millin milling about th the Stoddard hatchery grounds Restless fishermen flab fish ermen elmen ermen every one of em The local hatchery hatcher hands panda transplanted trans planted of their rainbows into Hyrum Reservoir last lut week They were marked fish eay ays Lee Rollins After puttIng putt putt- Ing them to sleep we clipped their right pelvic fins and the adipose fins fr from froni their backs When we placed em m back In Inthe Inthe inthe the water though they revived Instantly o 53 clipping There T ere are several combinations for for marking fish but this Is the one we weIsell used need for tot those Hyrum Reservoir trout Future creel checks there will now reveal how many of th e planted rainbows rainbows are are c caught this summer The S oS Stoddard t toll o d d a r d n o ha already planted plaited trout thin spring We WO like to plant em cm early Alt AIL This way they scatter cl r good get pet used to the the water t 4 make better bettor fish I and nd mako make more mOle e fishermen happy When first placed in a new now environment bite at anything As s time e passes they get smarter smarter though t and nd less leas apt alt t to b be taken easily Y e Veldon Verdon Bell and hll two sons can be bo found fishing somewhere somewhere some lome where along Wyoming's Salt River this week end The season In that state date opens toay today to to- day ay Earl Karl Spike Mecham Is the cowboy cow cow- boy bay who hid the horses when the local riding group was high In ht tho the mountains then mountains then suggested toLie to Lie Ills sad nad stranded friends that They must've strayed off oft some some- Spike slept one eye oyo open opeil there at the Johnson l. l Lakes kell that thaL night Then when everybody was asleep he crept up the moun mountainside mountainside with the horses and tied em In a patch of pines The desperate des dee Aerate erate souls were wore already organized organized organized or or- Into horse horse parties when the tho prank was finally Ul ills ills- I Earl Eart arr Spike Mecham Is le the Milton menace who phones phon up p his hll loving horse at 3 3 Inviting a.m.-Inviting am a.m. Inviting them to drop over ver to his hll ranch for break breaks fasti Earl Spike Mecham Is the character who caused a scare scar at Lost Creek cabins one night last summer The way I heard it it he was bedded down beside the cabin with cabin with one eye open as a always when ways when he ed to ha have v souse some fun with those steeping sleeping Inside the tite cabin Spike era crawled wl d up silently and scratched Its its front door with his fingernail Inside MAX Mecham ant and Cou Call lam U ou y- y What was vas one of of them said aid All was quiet again I aln and they tin finally ally drifted back to sleep Bleep Then more scratching sounds Wire were were heard Theres something som out out there Max whispered tolling rolling from his bunk and creeping across the room Max Max opened the front do door r ever ver I so w slowly and edged out Into the darkness only darkness only to be grabbed around the waist by that crazy Spike e. e Ar Another other night Mr Mecham tacked stacked some wet gunny gunnysacks lack out out- outside aide side the window of ot Helner lI frame cabin set cabin set fire to em then ran ran about crying tire fire I fire l I c Late Lat last night I received a rendering heart-rendering phone call from froma a starving Swedish emigrant nt With a heavy accent the poor soul related his plight how he lie had bad drifted into Morgan with Ills 1118 large hungry family and now couldn't find food rood for their tiny stomachs i Had io buy some fishing tackle he said but the clerk had told him there were no open fishing fist fish tag ing waters In la this area The starving ing Swede protested and the clerk had adr advised s him to call meMy me My y It Is hungry the tiller diler pled J In In crude broken English You mean to tell till me that I cant can't catch a fish or shoot hoot a deer dier to feed fed them I We W. came cae over here just juit a month ago cause ago cause we we heard I that this was was was-a a FREE FRE country i iu Now were we're not so 0 I tt ui I 91 Overcome with p pl offered d to meet the poe poo sE sEa At I Ia a Morgan City CUr phone booth and and and- Dont bother he ho said laid laugh laughIng ing Inc I z think it would be a better Idea for tor us ua both to hang up and go CO to to- bed Spike Mecham had truck struck t rue It Ita a again 1 One consolation thle gul gullible gist f lib lible I. I soul MU ul hadn't been ben hl hU only vl victim tl of the evening Using J i. i j c hi his hll telephone and aid d hie his perfect Swedish dialect dialect ol 01 Spike had pulled such luch pranks prank al ae hiring onas on ona as a dollar day cow eow i and adopting out a half half- dozen doxen of f his hll Imaginary e Sam Dunn sent us some fishing columns from the Alabama State J Journal Paragraph after para phara- paragraph graph they ramble on like so Five hours fl fishing provided the two of us a limit of 90 stripes 25 keeping size bass andover and aDd andover over drum We threw back several several bass and stripes stripe and quit with the tho fill fists fish hitting bitting on almost every Ivery cast At one oile time 21 straight cuts casts were made without with with- I out missing a fish l wr ty-wr I Have you considered writing about the Jack Murphy case cue Murphy was wu from Park City and was wu lodged In the Coalville jail Jali for some lome cr crime me-I'm me Im I'm not than sure lure what other than a quarrel over a mining claim was waa ins In Seems a bunch from Park the Park City train took it to It-to to Coalville bloke I the tho jail and took Murphy bafik to Park where they lynched him him him- and poor he ho In his hili red roil flannels flannels' If you you hav haven't nt heard eard of this this Before Be pe o. o fore tore you might look Into It IL Well be locally on a major scale any day now reports Leo Rollins bulbs Just for our schedule from depart u rs in Halt Lake e. e Hardscrabble Creek and Ind the Weber River will receive the first loads of nice fat fit rain rain- bows bow II I Ho lID hum they're still talking ab about ut it In this months month's of Shooting ShootIng Shoot Ing Ini Goods Goode a ti magazine for gun merchants there are i throe Ihrl paragraphs about the Kippen Kippen Kip Kip- pen clans clan's pound pound buck It was vas was the biggest buck in the history history his his- tory of ot Ogden deer contests the article points out i nig It Sandy Sandy Reser feser Reservoir roar voir sets seta right out in the open says Ray Bay Owens Owen's with only six sash inch high sagebrush ar around und Its Ita shores Theres There's no grass th the there re e and no wood for a tire fire So what ha happened r We got caught In an awful blizzard there last lut week week one one of the worst wont Ive I've ever ever seenI seen leen I caught three big trout while I II I WM was waa up lip there Ray says ays But they didn't have ho any fight in em at nt all V L. L Fred Kippen has ha f spent Silent the past st winter over on west side of the Great Salt Lake and and Walt Walt Wait a minute How W come they named it the GREAT Salt Lake anyhow The Dead Sea Is la saltier deader and of of- GREATER GREAT ER size sire Even Dan Valentine admits admit it It Why then dont don't we rename name our not not great eo great Utah Lake Clyde or Lake kou en or Anyway Fred K who's who spent his winter on the other side aIde of it was as in town yesterday and says say that the desert and nd Its 1111 springs springs' are dryer than the devil Freds Fred's gotta journey back bl out out tomorrow to help bring briD the sheared fresh red up into the mountains for the summer |