| Show THE THE- t Eye Ants View J BY BY MA MAThis MAC C This is In the form fora of ot I well wells not oot necessarily a confession rather an an admission Its It's an admission of such gross and rank stupidity that It doesn't seem possible I can hold bold up my head bead around nice people I HAVE BEE BEEN N FISHING FOR TWO SUMMERS AND I HAVEN'T HAD A BITE For Vor many years I J read and and dreamed of ot the days when I could sit on the bank of a brawling mountain stream and fish for trout On tours of the west I J would park beside the rippling stream and imagine myself myself my my- self hauling hawing in my limit One of ot the strong points of appeal of ot this section was the Weber River Kiver Just a block from the house yet And so for tor two summers lye Ive been living my dream And I haven't caught any fish Not even one so small I had to throw It back hack I haven't had a a bite I haven't had bad a nibble All Ive I've had are black and blue spots on my mi sitter from a tumble into Hardscrabble Hardscrabble Hard Hard- scrabble Creek Well they cant can't say 01 Of Mac hasn't tried When every everyone one else elce fe s catching them on worms worm I he uses usei worms worm When he hears hear of a successful fly something like a Dr West Welt Red Rooster he herlea tries that When the grasshopper grasshoppers grass grass- hoppers hopper begin hopping gr grass he swItches twitches and he offers all colors and sires sizel size He lIe tries iries spitting on the bait He Ire rubs it with a rabbits rabbit's loot toot He lIe fishes it deep shallow behind be be- hind bind a rock under a log And what he gets is about a dozen new sets of equipment to replace those left on snags There Is a suspicion that the big ones nudge his hooks into snags so they can clean oft off the hook at their lei lel- sure lure Let 01 Ol Mac show up on one side of the river the fishermen flock to the other side they side they know the trout will be over there I J haven't seen it It but Ill I'll swear wear those fish sometimes climb up on the bank and hide bide under a weed just to watch the puny efforts They lie He there and giggle Meanwhile children still In diapers and sweet old people fishing from wheel 1 chairs chaIn snap snag em by the dozen Knowing s something 0 met h 1 n g ot of my my gross inability the game warden has been around twice Mac we dumped a couple thousand new Dew fish in your back yard fish in I hole to today ay If It you'll go o out tb there re and just hang bang an old ock In the water you'll do all right So I hang everything In the water any fish ever In nit 1 life Me e Not a nibble Somes Sometimes Some times Iu it t gets discouraging A few fishermen have hinted II a a true that I should spend more u 15 minutes minute at a time en en- t lI Mint ln In serious fishing Buta Out But 1 I Ila ia la a got tot time It If the fish 11 tong ong to bite in 16 lb minutes always ys say let em go hungry Doc boc Clements Clemente who k knows a now o w s e here all the fish are hiding and st exactly what they'll bite has angled several times in my vie vie- I have se seen leen n him catch important Important Im trout right under my nose nOlie while Im I'm going I 1 Recently he caught hIs bis limit of ot big ones right at our back door i S sat beside him and taught a worm to swim mm Nut Next morning I t early I 1 went out and un used d the same ame bait baJt Doc used In the ahe same bole Nothing happened for 10 minutes Then a three Itu k I 1 his hll head out of the water and i croaked Where Wheres Doc this j I morning I I |
