The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-29
FISH YARNS BACKWARD
Usual Crop of Fairy Tales Miss
ing This Year.
THE LATEST TRUE STORY
Brought Up From Browns Lake by
Hugh Wilson-A Place Where
Fish Fight for Chance
to Get Hooked.

Butte fishermen have been backward
with their stories this year, and the
public has not been convulsed or over
come by the usual fish stories that
previously set the world on edge. Sew
eral weeks ago party of Butte men
returned from Deer Lodge with a kit
of salt mackerel, which was distributed
among friends of the party. Some
thing of a josh went with each mack
erel, however. The latest true story
is that brought UP from Browns lake
by Hugh Wilson of the Butte hotel,
who went down there with his wife
and few friends of the family. Mr..
Wilson's business in town permitted
him to remain away but day or two.
He was away long enough, however,
to catch a fish story, which he gave to
his friends after this fashion,:
Never saw better fishing anywhere.
No trouble to bag a million a day. All
sizes and brands and designs and ages.
They're so thick that they don't get
along we'll together and they fight des-
perately. | threw my hook into a
place where they were holding some
kind of convention. They were
wrangling over some question or other
and they were SO absorbed they didn't
notice my hook circulating among
them. A dozen or more of them en-
gagged in a rough and tumble, and my
hook caught one big fellow under the
ribs AS soon as the others saw that
he was snagged they didn't do a thing
to him. He finally grabbed one of
them by the left lin and this one in
turn nabbed anothers tail. Then the
strain began to tell on my line. l
called to Jack Noyes to come and help
me. The pole was bent like a wagon
bow. / dropped it and grabbed the
line. See that hand? 1t looks like
something hot had run through It,,
doesn't it? Well, ! tugged and pulled
and got excited, but l landed EN-.
Sure, | got 'em. / pulled them out on
the grass and they were still fighting
a three-cornered scrap. When l
dropped the pole the big end of 1t fell
into the water and when Jack pulled
it out there were four big trout hang
ing onto the reel. 1t beats anything
| ever saw, [ believe. Why, just be-
fore ] left a gust of wind blew one OF
the ladies' baskets into the lake, and
1t sank. Moves got a pole and finally
dra gged it out. 1t came up full of
trout, each one of them weighing
pound"
Several weeks ago there was sorrow
in a west side household-little john
ME had lost his, kitten. He loved the
little gray cat, because he accidentally
cut it's tail off with his mothers scis-
sors one day and he had nursed the
sufferer back to good health again
The cause of the anguish a few weeks
ago was the sudden disappearance OF
the pet Lingo Yesterday johnnie
and his sister went out to Columbia
gardens and in the course of the stroll
they saw the Zoo 1t was all very fine
| and Johnnie could think of nothing
| half so grand. He saw the kangaroo
| the badger, the fox, the eagle and the
vari-colored rabbits and pigs. Wher
| he saw the wild cat he threw up his
| hands and cried for joy. The kind
| faced cat looked so homelike-it was
of course the lost Lingo, and Johnnie
| straightway went after the cat.
See, sister, it is Lingo's bob tail. He
| is growed lots, and amt he glad to see
me? Come, Lingo, Lingo" and he
| thrust his little hand into the big iror
| barred cage before his sister could
| reach him. He would not be persuad
| ed to understand that 1t was not his
Lingo but wild cat. He couldn't SCI