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Show FISH LAKE TO BE -MECCA FOR ANGLERS Iticlifield "Nuts" Preparing for Opening Open-ing of the Sewson The opening of the season for angling ang-ling at Fish lake is a favorite topic for discussion this week with pisca- ' torialists who annually make tremendous tre-mendous showings in the playground of the Sevier valley. The Chicago convention, the war news from Verdun, Ver-dun, the condition of growing beets, are items of secondary interest to be discussed, and all thoughts are centered cen-tered upon the opening of the season sea-son when even tyros can extract from this nltitudinous lake monstrous Mackinaw's, titanic steelheads and rainbows, without undue prevarication. prevarica-tion. There are more than a dozen anglers In Richfield, wno make it a point to be at the lake at the opening open-ing of the season, and if they fail to bring back a story of preparedness and adventure it is an Indication that there is something disagreeably wrong In Denmark. The opening day of the angling I season Is next Thursday, June If). I Local fishermen are busy this week I with their tackle. They are straightening straight-ening out kinks In costly lines, burnishing bur-nishing steel rods, examining fly-books, fly-books, selecting "spinners," repairing repair-ing creels, testing the resiliency of bamboo rods, adjusting platform scales so that they will make accurate accur-ate weights, replenishing Jim Pepper flasks, excavating angle-worms, overhauling over-hauling bedding and searching for creaping insects, making estimates lor airtights. coffee and bacon, figuring figur-ing on what it will cost to spend a few days at the lake, resurrecting old and discarded habiliments and counting the time that must elapsi before they can venture into the high places and make camp on the shores of the most picturesque and beautiPil lake in Plah. Verily, HichtieM L-making L-making a showing of "nuts," an.! they are not all hazel-nuts, either. The grounds and resorts at the lake are said to be in fine condition at the present time and their managers mana-gers are making great preparations to care for a throng of visitors. Many who make the trip will patronize the resort hotels or lease a tent with hoard floor and Hove. while others to whom has come the call of the w il.l w ill make camp In primitive nt le and ftiUKKle up i lose to nature. At. way. Is the best wav. and no differ- nee how one concludes to eat. sie- and i;,iM on the lake shore It mal-'er mal-'er not a tinker's dam. Uiehfield will send a large deleg.l Ion of Insane fi-h'-rmen to the laV. "h!s year. Many will leave here two - -,.,. p , iiiut tli,. oncne- of the c e ison Iti order to studv cf' '(ions nnd make a cast which will Mil be a violation of the law T': ' ill be St rietlv I .Tlnissable at Co our of J - o a m., on Thursday. Pish lake, so say all reports. ,V'-tually ,V'-tually teems wlih coldblooded ver 'ebrates this season. llui;e Mackin toshes, goggle-eyed Hleelheads, corpll lent "natives" and eastern bro"k beauties lie In wait for anglers, and they are naid to be ravenously and avidly h'ingry. There in a monster trout for eery visitor If be can sue reed ill making the brute believe that it will look handsome In a creel, Pig atclies lire apprehended and the nng-'er nng-'er who returns to civ libit Ion without havijig c:'h day captured his limit will be the object of ridicule, travesty and scorn. find help the poor fish: Kichfiebl Heaper. |
