The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-17
our fishing u done outside OF a meat

our fishing i done outside Of meat
market.
In early summer, bass, pike and pick
erel will .strike the SPOON" and fly
fishing is always most successful in the
evening.
Batting with a frog is also good
plan in shallow water In deep water
still-6shing. live brook minnos.s t....4Ac
good bait. Black bass will bite at
angleworms occasionally. In trolling
for muskallonge. pike and bass. tbs
''spoon hook" is used. Pickerel bite
well at live bait. but strike viciously at
the spoon" early in the season Brook
trout bite at fiies. anglcworms or bits
Of salt pork.
For duck shooting wooden decoys are
set out near blind. which is generally
slight excavation covered with straw.
in which the hunter hides. and duck
caller is used to lure them down. Some
times it is a good plan to push about in
light boat and shoot the ducks as they
fly up from the marshes, or to resort to
pass" shooting from q blind as the
ducks fly along . narrow channel OF
from one lake to another.
Prairie chickens. quail. ruffled grouse,
woodcock and squirrels are commonly
shot with rifle. Deer are still-hunted
or hunted with dogs; geese are killed
from blinds or from pits dug in wheat
fields, which they frequent
To reach the natural preserves Of
larger game demands time and money.
Good deer hunting may be found about
Pike lake, 20 miles west Of Ashland,
while II miles still further west is the
Boise Brule, an excellent trout stream
Deer and antelope are common in
North Dakota, but buffaloes have en-.
tirely disappeared
The belief is prevalent that the larger
game have nearly disappeared from the
northwest. but anyone who will cx.
plore the source of the Mississippi, OF
the Big Hole Basin Of Montana, will
find moose, elk, deer, antelope, black
and grizzly bears and goats in grea,
numbers. In the Bad Lands about the
little Missouri river q few elk remain
but they are more abundant in the BIG
Horn mountains and in the Shoshone
mountains of northern Wyoming; bear
antelope and deer are all found in these
regions.
About Lake Pend D'Oreille larger
and smaller game are plentiful, and
the fishing in the cold lake waters is ex'
cellent Probably there is no better
elk field in this country than in the
Olympic or Coast Range mountains
Bears arc nearly always found on elk
fields; black bears are numerous in the
Red Lake country Of Northern Mime.
sofa.
The caribou are found principally il
northern Idaho and southern British
Columbia, and also in limited numbers
about the head waters of the Missis
sippi. There is no better place to hunt
both the Virginia and Mule deer than the
country about Miles City, Mont, going
out from the city distance of 80 mile.
north or south; and the excitement o,
the sport may be increased any monen,
by meeting q grizzly in any Of the
rougher sections Of country.
North park is favorite resort FOL
the Rocky mountain sheep. the meat o.
which is said to possess flavor superior
to that Of the elk or blaclS-tailed deer
The sheep grazes on the highest noun
tain pastures and gives an exciting
chase, as its enormous horns and bony
frontal enable it at any instant tx
throw itself into the deepest abyss out