The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-28
YOU CATCH YOUR OWN FISH
Colorado Hotel Has Trout Stream in
the Dining-room.
After You Land sDeckIed beauty,
FOu Sit in Bower While
IL Is Cooked.

trout ilSLlAilS is a feature or the Dreak-
fast menu offered by one of the new.
large hotels of Colorado Crisp. brown.
mountain trout, caught fresh and served
with coffee and rolls, is an ideal meal for
the beginning of the day but when the
little, shiny, speckled creatures have been
landed successfully by your own fly, they
make a breakfast ft for the gods-and
what an appetite you have for theml
1t was a clever man who hit upon the
scheme whereby hotel patrons could en-
joy this divine breakfast, says the Pitts
burg Gazette-Times. He knew how it
would appeal to the men who each year
drift westward and eastward, stopping at
the Colorado resort. and so in the dining
room he introduced a genuine fountain
stream, which splashes and tumbles over
rocks and powders. making deep pools
here and there, where IUrk the members
e the inny tribe for which the human
appetite Graves.
When you see the cool. green spot and
the sparkling water. you cannot resist
the temptation 10 try your luck So you
provide yourself with O rod and line
quantities of which are close at hand to
meet just such wants and then you steal
up close 20 the darkest looking pool ana
drop in pour professor. II you have
never tried casting you may have a little
difficulty in tempting the trout with your
gayly coloTed fy, while if YOU are an
expert then your bro kfast is an assured
thing, In any event. ii doesn't take many
minutes TO land a beauty. for the pool is
kept pretty well stocked, and they do say
Ia that section of Colorado that every
day Is good day for fishing
When You have landed your speckIed
beauty or pair of beauties you sit near by
under bower Of palms and plants while
the freshly procured breakfast is con-
veyed to the kitchen and prepared. You
can fancy il getting brown and sweet and
tender under the expert handling of the
chef, while YOU listen 10 the silvery tiakle
of the tumbling water and eat an orange
or ripe, juicy slice Of pineapple.
Presently the fish is brought in resting
in a bed Of green. You recognize il by the
size and shape and coloring, and after the
first mouthful you are ready 10 say thar
never did you taste a more delicious trout.
and certainly fish was never done 40 bet
ter turn. You are proud enough of your
and the assistance given by
the chef There may be a little bit Of i'm
aginatiou tn this sentiment but that does
not detract from the flavor and delicacy
of the catch and its positive freshness.
Hundreds of men have hshed 10 good
purpose in this stream, some of them nav
ing never held a rod and fly before their
trial in the hotel pool On many mornings
patrons have watched with considerable
interest and fun the efforts of Wcii-knOwu
business men and statesmen who have
gathered around the stream, each deter
mined 10 land his fish first and 20 enjoy
his ideal breakfast before the envious eyes
Of the others There is usually an anus
ing spirit of competition among the fisher
men, but each IZaak Walton bent on cast
ing for his breakfast catches his trout or
goes trCutless.
It was in this hotel that President
gave his now historical cowboy
dinner when he made his Western pill
grimage to the haunts of the shaggy bear.
The men who We're his companions on that
hunting expedition were guests at the
hosiery. and though many of them had
been born and bred amid mountain
streams and the home Of trout, they en-
joyed the novel feature of The hotel and
1ompllmented the manager highly on his
clever idea ard the way it has been car
ried ont The water of the stream is from
a genuine mountain brook and every
thing about the pool is as true TO nature
as art and craft can make it,
AT a few other hotels In the country ef-
forts have been made TO introduce ante
breakfast fishing, but usually people are
too busy or too rushed to spend the time
10 catch the piece de resistance Of
morning meal. It may be. too that trout
are less plentiful and friendly. Colorado
IS the home of this species of the hnny
)nes, and this fact may nave something to
10 with the pleasure found in catching
your own trout out there.