The sun., 1895-01-06
TROUT FISHING IN THE SNOW.
The Man from idaho Spins . Rather En-.
thuslastlo Yarn About 1t.


The Man from idaho Spins . Rather En-
thuslnstio Yarn About 1t.
"Just packed away your fshin' tackle for the
winter, hey 2" and the red headed promoter for
the Nugget Valley Placer Mining Company
eyed the hardware drummer with evident pity.
Five or six fellow travellers had gathered by
the open fire in the smoking room of an uptown
hotel, and were talking fish and fishing.
why, out In our country" continued he Of
the ruddy poll, lighting his well -colored meer-
schaum with q twist of newspaper, 1--WE begin
to do some of our very pretticst and best trout
fishing along about the first OF January. All
through the summer months. after the first big
thaw of the year, the boys all have to hustle on
their claims, and no one has any time to fool
away with fishing rod. We"
Where is that in the South. Alabama or
Louisiana, may 1 ask?" interrupted the St.
Louis brewery man, who was nothing II not
exact as to localities, times, and persons.
I'm Idaho, the greatest State in the Union"
was the enthusiastic reply" greatest in mines,
in game. and in trout, too. She's young, Ida is,
but she's . screamer. AL last winter was
housed in with gang Of bright chaps In q we'll
built cabin in the Saw Tooth Mountains. We
were nestled in q snug little pocket at the foot
Of old Bald Peak. one of the highest points of
the range. The early part of the winter had
fined. An occasional forenoon's shooting
at stray elk or mountain sheep had been
our only interruption in the daily crib
bage and high-low-jack monotony Of the
camp. A Montana youngster named Rhodes
could s skis with srest sf and
the drifts had been unusually deep most of the
others had been unable TO tiOunder very far from
home. With the first week Of January came
bright, weather, again. There was thaw OF
t some tnree DAYS, length, Then sharp hlght; an9
says, Dick, / feel like eating fish for supper.
"a - Me- too, said and .i we strapped on on our = skis
River. branch Of the Boise. We We found @ fine
aud, feeling pretty lively, made the run OF near
ly five miles In eight minutes.
when We stopped at Cowl's Spring to dine.
III they can can hope they haven't any fallen
in my mad flight, which nearly threw me.
Early In the forenoon we got to Buville, the
OUT S lot % Of hsstIn fellows back Of II it. store
located, and all that, and nothing, is LETT there
now; A dozen or SO Of forsaken log cabins are
all that mark the site Of the settlement and 1t
rough @ table and bench, % and even p; the cot on on
which the miner used to snore. were in good
ssa % s SE
homelike, and after a hasty snack, and piing
together In corner OF the hut plenty of fresh
I'VE had not far to go, for the deserted camp
was on ridge Just above the creek, Away 70
old GraylocE, around the foot OF which creeps
the deep black Queens River. Down toward II,
through ros the long. narrow gorge tr"iled the
THE edges OF the river were fringed with
thick ice, and all the little bays and coves where
there was a slack current were entirely frozen
over. The banks were deeply crusted with
snow IN some places TO depth Of eight or ton
business to move around on these steep edges
with our clumsy skis and WELD u fishing rod at
thought / was In for an ico-water bath sure, but
saved myself by q lively scramble.
-, IT takes an old timer TO catch & good 900 string string
fails generally Is by working the runs and riffs
as he would In the spring aud summer months.
In sharp weather, however. they all gather in
biz ones viii iii lie hpddisd up together IN the e oen
tire OF an eddy like herd Of sheep In a norther
ssnT as. 70 keep SRns.s %sr It ADDS as @ S S
Sssf ,Sso. or pork to shs Sar,. hSSs to tempt
This red and white d, Of sourss, very SNOWY and
only pork bait and he landed more and bigger
ones than, l. He cut. the pork Into ribbon
long. The hook no Inserted in one end Of the
bait and this left an end 70 trail loosely In the
sUaia npars rn x 'S motion iSa TO
the pork minnow. and from the bank. wherever
II showed 1t appeared like real, silVery sinner.
I'VE would take twenty or more good nsh
from each deep hole, and when the short after
noon was done we had about nine dozen, weigh
ing from q half pound 70 two pounds, but none
OF them very plump. The hsh seem TO DO half
starved, and In very poor iesh, but for all that
they bite only the more greedily, and have the
same delicious havor, when brolled or fried as
the summer hsh. They do not make q very
game fight either. seem TO be sort OF numb, and
same trout we yanked up on the snow so easily
that day. four or nve months later would have
coming ashore.
"4hat evening when We got back mp the
! ridge TO our hut We found three more WORTHLESS
who had followed our trail later In the day,
The crowd got around the big hre, ate royal
supper, and then smoked and played cards till
bed time Three days We put In al this fun, and
when We started back for our real home We all
felt we'd done enough hshing 10 make up for
the .hAps who pack away their tackle At this
season don't know all thsy miss." and the pro-
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