The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
TROUT BITE FREELY
Local sportsmen Are Having Good
Sport Along the Northern
Wisconsin Streams.
Trout Season in Minnesota Opened
To-day-Bass May Be Caught
May 20.

The fishing season for all kinds Of fish
except bass opened to-day in Minnesota.
During the last two or three weeks, how
ever, number of Minneapolis anglers
have been taking trout from the streams
In northern Wisconsin, where the trout
season opens earlier than it does in Min
nesota, under the new law.
Among the local fishermen who are now
in Wisconsin in quest Of this species OF
the piscatorial family are George Odlum
and party, J. J. Barclay, H E. Partridge.
j. L. Smith, e. c. Smith, Judge c. B.
Elliott, E. c. Cook, George A., Scott, Pro-
lessor Cavanaugh, Harry Mabie, C. l..
Quinlan, Alfred Stickney, M. II. Coolidge.
M. H. Coolidge, Jr., Harry Tuttle, Fred
Ingerson and E. e. Webster.
| Reports from Wisconsin say that the
|tsport there is unusually good this spring.
The trout, the anglers say, are taking
anything in the form of bait that is Of
,fered them, and all the local anglers are
expected to bring back big catches.
|. The season for bass will open three days
earlier than usual this year. Under the
law bass may be taken from May 90 to
March 1 of the next year. The opening
| day was formerly June 1, but the change
was made to permit those who wished to
go out after bass on Memorial Day.
The upper peninsula of Michigan is a
| famous trout region, but there is a trite
| saying that BODIES i'll for the early fish
ernen. If the wind blows from the east
on Good Friday, the prevailing winds for
| the next forty days will be from the east,
and there will be no good fishing weather
| for those forty days. The wind blew
| east In Michigan on Good Friday just
past; since then there has been mix
| ture of good and bad weather, with indi-
cations that the weather will be badly
| mixed until at least May 20. This is sad
news for the fishermen who already have
/ prepared to cast their bait in the lakes
and streams in the upper peninsula.
| There Is no region in the country where
trout fishing is better than in the streams
and lakes of the upper peninsula, where
speckled trout are found in large num-
i bers. Thousands Of fry are planted in
i them yearly, brook trout being propagated
to much greater extent than any other
Michigan fish, The season closes Sept. 1.
! Nearly all Of the streams can be waded
easily, while the larger ones and the lakes
4 are fshed by means of boats and guides.
i Altho the species is less abundant than
the others, the rainbow trout is found in
great numbers in the northern rivers and
/ lakes The effort required to land a rain
bow trout is exciting for there isn't a
4 gamier fish in the salmon family.
1 There are hundreds of little creeks and
\ rivers -emptying into Lake Superior. They
I are full OF deep pools, small waterfalls
7 and other bits of water-loved by trout
and afford good fishing. Peculiar as it
may seem all the streams emptying into
T Lake Superior contain trout, but those
that do not debouch into the great lake
do not have trout. Just why this should
be so is not known definitely.
:: The Michigan fish commission from now
on will plant hundreds of thousands of
i brook and rainbow trout fry in the waters
in this part of the upper peninsula and
I several seasons hence trout fishing should
be ideal with catches that may be boosted
Il of as breaking all previous records.