The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-16
FISH Triple
AND MEET FATE
{. II. CailisteF Tells Tale OF a
Big Catch.
LIQUIDS UNDO THESE TROUT
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WONDERFUL STORIES GROW OUT
OF OPENING OF SEASON.
LIQUIDS UNDO THESE TROUT

English poet OF the seventeenth een-
fury
How do fishes live i'm the sea-"
Shakespeare makes one OF his chaTac-
ters IN "Pericless inquire.
why, as men do a-land," another
answers,
All of which goes to show that even
in the age when trout Gies and j0mtGQ
bdmbOos were not considered neces-
sary adjuncts to an anglers outfit it
was known that both men and fish
have bad habits Also that fish, like
men, that tipple, have no liberty
Thereon lies "a tale which has Just
reached sporting circles in salt Lake
and which is creating no little interest
among the lly casters fraternity Three
men, well known i'm this city. started up
a creek not a great way removed from
Wasatch. at the beginning of the fish
ing season yesterday, after trout. They
had with them tackle, flies and liquid
bait eQough-weI it was enough. they
say, for three men. They found a fair
sized pool pretty Well locked i'm by
boulders. 1t looked good TO the three
fishermen.
They perched themselves and the IL
quid bait upon an Overhanging rock
ara waited for bites. But the bites
failed 10 materiaHze. They got res--
less. A toast was proposed. UnfSr-
tuuate6v for the recipient, il was never
drank. The bottle filed with the slim
alating juice Of rye slipped from the
hands Of the impatient cup bearers
and landed in the unsweetened water
below.
Trout Became Inebriated.
Possibly because they did not wish to
disappOint Mr.. Shakespeare. or Mr.
LOvelace, but more probably from GU
riosity, the speckled beauties quaffed
literally of this new beverage. How
different from mountain water, What
metropolitan smack These fishes
tippled literally. according to Revenue
Collector Z. II. Callister He declares
that in fifteen minutes there were at
least a score Of as badly intoxicated
finny inhabitants of Little Cottonwood
creek as ever dead and gone Mr.. Love
lace conceived of. The men, not hay
ing INDUCED, of course, had their wits
about them. Tt was an easy matter 60
net the drunken trout as they lay pant
ing for clear water along the sides of
the rocky edges.
And that is how three OF Salt Lakes
best known anglers explain how they
got the limit catch on the opening day
with water high and spirits low.
Other Parties Have Luck.
There were many other parties,
Ira b. Jones chaperoned a party Of
fishermen to Lagoon. They report few
bites and fewer fish, The distance from
the lake TO the bOwery is thought TO
have had an effect on their catch.
City Land and Water Commissioner
Benjamin David Luce drove Mayor
Richard =. Norris to the head OF Par
ley's yesterday, ostensIbly to see that
nobody violated the camping regul9-
tiOns, but really to steal fish, accord
ing to some sorrOwing fishermen who
returned late last night without
catch. The mayors conduct was eN-
emplary, according to reports, but g.
J., W. G.. b. d. Luce managed TO secure
several dozens of fish. according to
reliable information. His system con-
sisted I'm the main of dropping into each
camp along the creek, explaining that
the city had d new rule requiring lo
per cent of each catch to be turned
over to the land and water commits
siouer and taking the fish g. j. ana
w. G. Luce i'm an authorized statement
late last night said the highest catch
he heard of in Parley's was seven Hsn-
1t was the smallest opening day
turnout for several years past ne re-
ported.
Stephen Stanford declares he has re-
ceived and accepted an invitation TO go
TO a ranch on Weber river next sunday
10 fish His friends are surprised 10
learn that he viii fish on sunday
This Makes the Fish Laugh.
Jack L. MAY, chief clerk in the couu-
ty recorders Office, leaves tomorrow
for Cottonwood, where he VIII put I'm
a few days fishing. The fish i'm Cotton
wood canyon We're said TO be enJoylil
a hearty laugh last night
ATor0ni Heiner, state food and dairy
commissioner. left yesterday for Lost
creek to FISH a few days. He TOOK q
quantity OF bait warranted to contain
no deleterious substances likely TO pro-
duce unpleasant after effects
John Sharp, state hsh ana game
commits -0ner. has been doing little
fishing curing the past week at l ISL.
lake He has been gathering eggs 4'L
the state hatchery.
A party consisting or stephen H.
lynch T. H. Jacobs, Frank SWensOh
Or. FUerbeck and others. lett last
evening for Croydon, declaring IhsS
would do naught but fish while absent
However. the farmers of that nelgn-
borhood have been advised by the san
Lake police to lock their neh co0ps az
4 NJ. Rasmussen. clerk in the county
t,.aaeurer's Office. leaves today for Ea71
canyon to fish for a week.
The fishing season Tor noun a.
fro1Yf opened Yesterday ana lal ~ i---t
bars of anglers got up before dayllsliI
IN, started the day before to begin 90
baul i'm fish as soon as the sun rose on
me morning of the Is. The raliioau
ticket agents report that large num-
hers of fishermen repaired 10 OsuSll'
ParIey's. Provo and other canyons
armed with baskets. rods, reels, INES
hooks. flies. and bait Of all KINDS 10
lure the willy deniZens OF the IoIest
streams. The Short Line carried
large number Of fishermen up 10 MOT
gan City to fish along the Weber river,
Sprfne run between Tenth ana
Eleventh East streets. above the
batcheries. was opened up 10y Jonh
sharp. the state game warden yeStei-
d4v. and scores of men and boys. VINO
could not set away from town dNall5tl
themselves of the opportunity 70 Ilsll
for trout there. The place has petil
closed for the last four years, so ll.e
snort was fairly good Yesterday AZ
the rate the anglers are drawing ll5
trout out Of the wafer, the place wiz
be all hsked out before sunday bOth
flies and bait were used by the usnet-
men with about equal success
Most of the old fsherineh rename
at home yesterday, acting on the re-
ports from the various fishing locauJies
that TIE water Is high and rliy TINS
year That means no fly hanng ana
the old timers do not consider bait llsn-
ing as real sport. They would as soon
initiate the example of the small boy