Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-14

feet from a boat and you can hear n foot
step in its bottom. There has been so much
OF these sort Of noises that the fsh in Cut
on will fight shy OF a boat. One can get
good fishing at times from the bank, but the
best way is to wade in, say up to ones
armpits or almost that far. l have been
very successful in that way-in fact, l have
caught good messes OF fish wading, while
people out in the boats have not been able
to get a strike. OF course, you can get FISH
from a boat, especially IL they are hungry,
but one is not at all as certain to get a
string as in the way l have mentioned"
Bill Simeral and DR.. Worley spent n couple
Of evenings on Cut of during the past
week, fishing in this way, and on each &C.
casion they got nice messes.
Fred Goodrich and Frederick Metz, ST.,
will go to Lake Quinnebaugh again during the
coming week. Mr.. Metz will stay a couple
of weeks, but Goodrich proposes to stay at
least a month. He will not only fish but do
a bit Of hunting just as soon as the season
opens.
Councilman Frank j. Burnley and Ed
Cudahy did a bit of fishing while they were
spending a couple Of weeks at Mackinac
straits recently. The straits are too deep
for fishing, but to the north some twenty
miles away among the islands, excellent
sport can be secured. Muscalonge is the
premier game fish Of the waters, but neither
the councilman nor Mr.. Cudahy tackled
them. They, however, managed to capture
some nice strings of pike and pickerel.
That's the part of the country for fish
eating says the councilman, the water is
about En Aaurnng and thn nch n In the
finest sort of condition. They are simply
delicious-beat anything that you can have
served to you in this or any other part of
the country"
William frankie, the fisherman, hunter
and sport of Valentine, has been in the city
during the last week. The trout streams
about his section of the country, he says,
are prolific with the great fish, and a visit
will repay any angler. He returned yester-
day, and with him went A. j. Emptage,
the local insurance man, who will spend
several days along the banks of the trout
streams. Mr.. Emptage is a recent immi-
grant from New York, and is an enthu-
siastic addition to the ranks of the fisher
men of this city.
Albert Edholm and Byron Hastings are
spending today at Mobiles lake, in dalliance
with bass and croppy.
This afternoon Senator John NJ. Thurston,
Federal Judge Munger and Henry Holman
leave in a special car for Idaho for a week
or ten days outing in the wilds. At Den
yer George II. Austin will join the party.
The crowd goes loaded with shells and fish
ing tackle, as the trip is a combination of
fishermen's and hunters jaunt. The party
will have their car sidetracked wherever
they run across game or good fishing, but
will spend the most of their time about
Shoshone, HALEY and Ketchum. They will
go into the Malad river country for grouse.
the closed season on which ends tomorrow.
They will fish in the Big and Little Wood
rivers.
IT'S strange how a fish will change its
bait" opines Fred Goodrich. I'm the early
part of the season bass in Lake Quinne-
baugh would strike at only minnows. Then
it was all the go with frogs. Now they
will snap at a green fly only. Fish is a
foxy creature at the best, and picks out the
best feed of the season and you have to
cater to that fastidious appetite of his.
Grasshoppers are here and / suppose Mr..
Bass imagines that that fine looking green
fly is a luscious grasshopper."
Country hunters are full of tales of the
luscious crop of prairie chicken that will
be offered for the delectation of Nebraska
hunters on the prairies Of the Antelope state
this season. There is an unusual quantity
of young birds and a fairly successful pro-
lection has been given them. The year
has been a great one for the young birds
There were no heavy rains or storms in the
spring, so that the nests in the
ravines and along the banks OF
the streams were not swept away
and the young chicks were not drowned
Oblivious of the danger that comes from a
residence on the bank Of a stream, that is
likely to boom at any time in the spring
the parent chickens will select for their nest
a clump of grass right on the bank. There
is a danger period of weeks while the eggs
are Matching, and the young are growing big
and strong enough to fly off to the high
lands, but this spring thiss stage in the lives
of the birds was passed with safety and the
result is a numberless quantity of chickens
Billy Hardin and NJ. c. Peters bagged {
nice bunch of plover and pigeons on the
bottoms across the river during the last
week