Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-05-26
CATFISH.
How They Catch EN- in washoe Lake

How They Catch EN- i'm Wash0e Lake.
Last Sunday morning, bright and early,
Charlie Box, Hugh CARING and Welk 10th
rop left here, for two.days fishing trip to
Washoe Lake. They we're we'll supplied
with provisions, and also took along quart
or two Of snake. bite cure, thinking that
some one Of the party might possibly get
| bitten by an eel. The party reached the
lake about the middle of the afternoon,
making remarkably good time. Upon reach
ing the grounds the first matter to consider
was the securing of boat. After travelling
| some distance up and down the shore Welk
found a craft that he thought would do. In
the meantime CARING had spied two ducks
about half mile out in the lake, and he
suggested that they should 60 after them
| accordingly he and Welk jumped into the
boat and showed eff, leaving Box to attend
to the team and get supper. Box says he
did not pay much attention to the hunters,
being TOO busy getting something to deaf,
| we mean, until he heard splash and gut.
teral sound, and locking around he saw
Hugh with his gun rails in the air wading
ashore and splitting mud and seaweed from
his mouth. Welk was foundering about in
the mud up to his waist endeavOring to get
the water out of the boat and pull it ashore.
1t is needless to say that they did not get
the ducks; CARING, however, poured out
half dozen catfish from his gun barrels
when he reached shore. A rousing hre was
made and the boys thawed out and dried
their clothing, and then made up their minds
that place further up the lake would be
better adapted to their style Of fishing.
Accordingly the team was hitched up and
| they drove to place about mile this side
of the point where they had their first ex.
perience. Here the water in the lake is
very shallow for some distance out, and
CARING suggested, as they had no boat, to
drive the team into the lake and fish out of
the wagon. This seemed to be good plan,
and they started in to carry it out, but did
| not 60 more than dozen yards before the
| horses sank to their bellies in the mud and
the wagon went down to its bed. Here was
predicament; but the Colonel was equal
to the emergency, and jumping into the
out. But how were they to get the wagon
| out? Box scratched his head while and
finally struck plan. There was an old
windlass over shaft not far away, and
| rope was tied to the windlass. This rope
they secured, tied one end of it to the hind
| axle OF the wagon, hitched the horses to the
end on shore, and with long pull, strong
pull, and pull altogether they hauled the
vehicle cut of the mud, where it had sunk
| so deep that the box was full Of water and
| the water in the box contained about 100
fine catfish. To say the boys were surprised
at this haul would not express it, and seeing
they had done so we'll they made up their
minds to strike for home at once. The team
was again hitched up and start made on
the return trip, and Sunday morning those
who were up at six o'clock would have seen
the pilgrims returning, looking as though
they had not only met with the customary
6sherman's luck, but had got wet all over.
The fish, did you say!
Well, sir, don't you know, they put those
fish all in barley sack, and coming through
Virginia City they met Sine Frasier and
Philo Knapp going to Early Mass, and don't
yeu know when the fishers reached Dayton
they didn't have bloody fish.