Show gives lowdown low down on fish lake 0 0 0 0 0 no 1 looks hooks 1 twenty years ago reprinted from an article art icle by 0 J grimes in the silt salt lake tribune lt it a long lone hark back to the d days a 3 of the koo hirem spinner and tho thoe se thousands who visit fi fish h like lake anti and its two fine reports reo eldom think back to the days when the elk dee dec biar bi ar ari ard mountain lion inhibited inhabited the place now covered with fine cabins and lined line ime e with first fir t cla auto roads ant nd tho those thousands who take to the lake 1 in n regular reg ular motor motorboats boats or in rowboats row boats converted concerted to power by b the mere inere application cation of a motor do not top stop to think that the fish fi h in fish lake would mould not bite and thit he A ho a attempted to take the finny finn monter monsters sone some of ni reach thirty pounds with a hook and line was considered botre son whit loose in th upper store stor tho were the days day those thoe old days da shen when the koosharem Koo sharem spinner was mas in A t prime and he who tho could wield it tie the lest was tile the one w who ho came roina with hii pockets bulging with fish the hoo harem the koosharem Koo hoo sharem harem spinner let it br b known know lidid did not re resemble emble the modern spinner in the t rather it resembled a misshapen ba baseball bat or a piece of fractured scantling 4 true koosharem Koo sharem was a sap elm eim duo file fhe feet long or longer barl bark peeled and handle whittled to fit the hand of the mountain men who wrested rest d their living from the land and their fish fi sh from the waters water by typical heman he man method methot Ls and when the early earls fish lake trout wiser wi w i er li by far than their offspring nd their successors successor congregated in the small inlet streams stream to discuss affairs affair of fish dom the sturdy fisherman seized lub his koosharem Koo sharem and sn ackel good koosharem Koo sharem handlers handler got several fish each c mack so it did lot take man smacks to take as large a load of fish as one could carry over the long ion and tortuous trail litween bt bi meen tween the lake and toun tow n but 13 u t thop tho p were the old days day 1 gone r tie are the fish which cretu refused ed gone are the old F sharem gone is the old trail which meint meant more than al a lozen dozen miles of walking or ending a horse and in its place we have the modern modem fish lake fish lake with two first class resorts capable ca paIe of taking care of about persons at once m F fish it lake with aeral several hundred ideal mountain caum cadin on its shores shore fish lake where the fish bite and do it tw twenty enta four hour a oay aay and where a fish weighing less than wo two pounds is coni considered derel little more than an sized minnow fish lake where the chu chug of VO motorboats motor boats carev hundreds of angler to the place alices vi where here the fish bite best and carry them back again with their limit of beauties and an oer share hare of fun fish lake is a popular resort it is more than that it is th most popular fishing fi lung water in ane atte at te of utah A utah person could coula not b blamed for saying it ts is the most popular fish inz in place in the entire country th fish sh and game frame commissioner of utah is 13 willing to go on record as saying sayin that this boly body of water mater is the greatest fishing lake in the country and he bar anything or any place patrons the popularity of ane richfield resort richfield is the cloe closest cloet t town toan to the lake can easily bo be seen by a gl glance ance at tie the pioneer day crowd which visited it ed there four thousand per persons gorts representing almost everi ev er walk of life staving at the high claa cla resorts or sleeping on the ground ir IP tents or camps viti visited ted the lake on utah big holiday while this crowd is a little bisger bigger than usual the visitors 1 at ohp th lake can always be counted by the hundreds the reason for thi popi lanty of the place is simple first and foremost foremast mother natorp took a lot of the beauty he hc shaved from the desert stretches of he great reat southwest 1 anil and dumped it all in that 1 lake ake noar near richfield second mother nature made a body of water deep anfu enough h and larl carpe e enough to permit poi nut the growth of c cl ci i unlimited number of fish third mother nature sent ent a bev pioneers with ci to the area it a it best and it its to develop ev e op ag 13 permanent lin today ve have this ideal resort just i miles milea from silt I lake ike city it is not far removed from th main auto road from salt lake to lw lios angeles it is not far f r the road boin komg to the nort north h air I 1 ohp ka katibah kaihau tibal bryce ryce anti and zion in fact a arty going to zion or bryce br ace can h bap jp at fish lake by making a drive of le leva than a dozen miles off their regular chourp and miny many of the travelers who know the ropes route th m ches to fish lake on their journey to sec se mother natures different handiwork br bacr cp zion and grand cannons seven miles long fish like vz is a of water about seen een miles long and a mile and a half wide in places its depth is about 30 90 feet it is surrounded b mountains which are over oer feet high the lake it itself if is 9 asoo 1 feet aloe sea cea level an ideal elevation alei aaion it is high enough to be apart from the heat of summer it is not high hiffa enough to tax ta the nerves and the heart of the persons persona who iho come there to ret or to fish the two larget largest resorts rei orts are doc eastone East ons place lakeside and the resort these reo reports artz are class in everi ener way vay electric light etl ei and having modern modem conveniences they are on the take lake shore and boats bats boatmen guide etc are available av ai lable besides the hotels there are numerous cabin cabins s many of thee are owned b those who occupy them the them sell es for a certain part of the bear ear others are there to be rented for those who ho do not care borent to rent there is a ample in ale space pace for campin good roada encircle the lake ra d p iipp road connects the lake with the town of richfield anti and I 1 ir tro fi h lake rr unde antle tle te pe of the state fish a u kanie ame department anav back in about IRO 1940 uncle john sharp w wt carimi con misi i ner er then anti and it was under 1 q up that the first pastern brook trout were planted i e ake it was i t until MIG G homeier ho hov neier Neer that anyone wa was e to atch trout out of the lake we wi nok ngok and imp HIP pd p d 0 the present aih fish ana gme commissioner commissi lorer da dand id H wilsn the honors up artil thi this s IP H kon Koot harem spinner pinner aas ABS the p iglar aular legal and only wa to get a mess of fish from the take lake birot trout caught in 1906 in 1906 there wa was no road to the lake there was wai no cabin on it its shores there m was mas as not even een a boat on its waters aters madsen who had put a couple of boats on utah lake was hired by charle rd owner of the hotel be beanne aang that name to build a boat and get fret it to the lake li b hook or crook the boat xv s made ard the tripp trip to the take va historical hit six SIK borsi hor si were needed and it was ivas not uncommon for the parts part m ho were transporting the boat to have to snub a rope around a tree on the uphill sida of th road to keep the boat mason and horses from rolling down hill eventually the boat was transported to the take lake and like all good boats it floated thereupon Ther euDon madsen mr a brother and chae charles son ion and at present assistant manager of the hotel took to the water and the firt mess of fish were caught bv hook book and line charles gaard or charlie did not believe in doing things by halves and agreed that if frh fish lake was to get any place wit with ll 11 the kind of competition it was up against a grand ope opening rung must be arcange I and TO so it vas v wa as with a ten piece band anti and four spectators the three aard and madsen rainbow were planted in the lake in 1910 by madsen w who ho was then a game warden arden A the native trout have hae about disappeared from the lake but the rainbow the eastern brook the mackinaw and the breeds of salmon landlocked ant and siller ahrne in the cool waters of the lake the lake has an average ai erase temperature of about 48 degrees the streams which feed it ire are short anti ami consequently cold one stream jorgensen creek vt is longer than the ret re t and the waters are a little warmer manner when ullen they reach the lake in thecae theae thea e wat batth n the native trout tro had ben accustomed to boawn A he adgate was placed in ohp lake directly opposite th the e jorenson er inlet anil and it so happens t that the water ftp was being drawn aiom the laap while the fish were near ohp inlet A natural current established itself between the outlet and the jorgensen gen en inlet and each year fear the ra tives followed th current arid and left the lake V k game pre preserve jerve wild rame game onn nally inhabited the hills near the lake and in one two year period forty five bear were killed ly by one tie government hunter lynx coyote and all species of birds bird as well as great numbers of deer and elk were pre present ent the forest service arvice and the state are coop rating now in the protection of game on the area axil no hunting is allowed within fifteen julfs of the lale lake wild animal life is show howind ho winT iniz a marked marical increase under this protection |