The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-20


and so are little apt to attract the fish 4
unless it be close enough TO distinguish /
the legs and wings.
Above price is the fat grasshopper (
an inch and a half long which has q |
dull brown back and yellowish belly, /
with reddish spots showing when its /
wings open More than once the cred |
it of fame of the true born angler had 1
been rescued from peril by two or three /
of these godsends caught under an old /
straw hat after a breathless chase in !
a nearby meadow.
They were hooked securely just back |
of the wings and let down gently from |
some bluff above dark pool, the an
'gler meanwhile securely hidden. and as
they touch the water and their pinions
buzzed there came a savage upward
rush from far below and the cleft
water foaAled and the loud reel sang
its saga of war. In late July. when
the heat plupges downward shafts and
the cicada drones on the bark, n
those two first golden weeks of Au-
gust, the month which the French re-
publicans called Fructidor, the grass
hopper is the thing.
There is the field N )use now. On
days when all is lost save honor the
field mouse will decOy the oldest, big
gest and wiseGt of bass or trout, be-
cause it is delicious, attracts the eyes
of every denizen of the pool from the
turtle under the decayed log on the
bottom to the little minnow swimming
close to bank, and is easily overtaken.
S-ot many field mice fall TO the lot of
bass or trout and they value them ae-
| cordingly. This little animal may be
found and captured by him who knows
| how and values it according to its
merit.
Tt lives close by a fence, or near the
roots of some old tree. In going down
the corn rows, if the grass be specially
! thick and tangled by stalk, it viii
/ be well TO examine it.
When the mouse IS started 1t VIII
show much less activity than the house
mouse, viii run only little way and
/ may stop in the open. Its small facul-
/ ties seem to be paralyzed by fright
and it may be picked, up with the hand.
If the hook be put ~.-h.ly through
| the skin of the back and it be dropped
gently upon the water it will swim
desperately for shore, making slow
| progress, however, and the tiny circles
| from its struggles will go all over the
| surface.
There never was a field mouse yet
on any sort of day which safely made
the passage of a trout pool and in
| variably the fish which takes the hook
will be one of the largest and most
| savage of its kind. This fish seems
to say TO the smaller fellows: stand
back Minnows and frogs are good
enough for you when I am not hum
CRY, but this tidDit is mine"
| There are men. fat and gray, VINO,
when they hear the call of the jocund
! woods, leave their sons and sons-in-law
to run the business and go after the
fishes from early May until late Octo-
Der. These are the men who find out
things about natural bats and some
times keep them secret until they are
1 hafv- ral h. IAV1f
Fat and gray as they are, they have
been known on fruitless days in mas
cent June to climb tall trees and risk
! their necks far out on limbs exploring
squirrel nests. The two-inch squirrel
is almost as good as the field mouse.
All fish which see it know that it has
1 no business in the water, and believe
chance and will get out unless stopped.
light dipnet with a five-foot cane
| handle is just as good q butterfly net
as ever was made and the true-borI
] angler knows how TO use it. Many
| butterflies and moths are attractive
both to trout and bass, and will cause
them to strike when coarse foods viii
not tempt them
The dipnet is good for grasshoppers
and it is also good for the small greer
tree frog which will atsometimes act
well when the water frogs are worth
less.
There are certain stones along the
banks under which one may find he'll
GRANTEES without fault and others
which have nothing under them. The
helgramite is an old standby, but il
not so good as some other forms.
There are fat stones, too, which liz
half in and half out of the water, and
. they are lurking places for erayfish
The appetite of the bass for crayfisf
, I {c fax
will refuse to take the crayfish ant
then there will come day when they
; are eager for nothing else.
II is not good practice to detach tht
claws of the crayfish or to use only
the tail. The HISS is used to seem.
the miniature lobster and to catching
and eating il when it had all its mem
A bers, and is in nowise afraid of TIL
! claws or horny body
The crayfish is seized tail first, it
/ habit of darting backward facilitating
this operation, and it should be hocke,
so that the tail may be attached with
5 out hindrance from the line.
Larvae. white grubs from rotten logs
: cocoOnS from leaves and tree trunks
5 | large flies, mosquito hawks, musSels
: and various kinds of fish flies hav
their uses. Each is good III a certain
} / water at a certain time.
I Dead trunks in the pine slashing
/, / contain white horn billed grubS caile
: sawyers, and often bass and trout vii
( take them when earth worms are nose
4 / contemptuously aside
= In most of the lakes in the north
4 small slender perch like an inama
I ture bass in build, which has scarIe
! fms. If the two rear ventral fms b
taken off, leaving a strip of white ski
E two inches long attached to them, the
= viii prove 4 killing bait for bass o.
some afternoons when nothing els
! seems 10 avail.
Y Occasions are rare when fish will bit
7 at nothing at all. 1t is the provinc
q OF the angler to keep trying ther
p with all of the things within his knowl
edge, and if he has the learning an
h patience and industry, the chances ar
Q that he will III his creel While othe
a men 90 hshless 10 bed
. Even in the manner of attaching nat
ural bats there is a distinct art Al
4 most as much depends upon this q
T upon the manner of casting or sti
. fishing.
n The bait should in all instances /
8 fastened so that IL viii present a ma
: uraI appearance when in the water, an
! its appearance in water is often the II
a verse of its appearance in air Thing
: which swim, such as minnOwg an
Y frogs, should be permitted to swim
= and for this purpose should be, so IA
as is possible, left unhampered- The