The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

but you may have better success with
the gray hackle professor grizzly king or
| queen Of the water. also try the brown
| hackle but nine out OF every ten hsher-
men will stand by the coachman:
| The next question is to CONSIDER the
size of the fly you should use, In the
| Provo river you are not limited and can
use as large or as small as you wish, but
| eight or ten Is a good average l use
fish ] care for. II you want TO get the
| big ones in the Provo use large fly,
| about No. 2 or l.
The water in tho Provo is a Lrihe roily.
| and may be so on the opening day, In
this case. spinners will be the right Kind
of bait the Colorado spinner being the
best. Worms will also be tempting 10
the fish,
The best fly hook for Big Cottonwood
| Is about a No. 10 hook, although some
use as large as No. g. which may Go on
the first day. There are so many fisher
hooked so many times that it is hard TO
make the fish rise, and the fisherman
must bUng into play all the ingenuity
no trouble will be had 10 catch fish In
] Cottonwood canyon. In the valley. min
! nows Will be found good bait In this
| stream,
Mnl creek and Pareys are clear
enough for Gy fishing, in Mill creek the
| gray hacklc and professor are the favor
| lie flies tho first part OF the season. Get
the hacllle with yellow or peacock body:
1
| the head. and do not get larger ihan NO
| hooks for this stream Of you wish to-
| get plenty of rises.
| In Pariey's the Coachmsn is the lead
ing fly, with the gray and brown hackles
next. In This stream ! fish exclusively
| with tho coachmaD, while Al. Thornocrg.
who is one of the best fishermen to visit
that stream. seldom changes from the
| tackles. The smaller the fly in this creek
| the more fish you will catch and the
| man who uses larger than No, hook
! will seldom be seen with many fish after
the FIRST week of the open season.
| Chalk creek in the neighboIhood Of
Coalville. is clear, but the Weber river
Is high, roaring and muddy. Lost creek
Is also clear, and everybody who VIII
visit these streams on The opening VIII
the feathers we'll clipped. will be favor
itc for the opening although the smaller
flies are best TO make the fish rise.
When you tell a. man who has done
some, lishing with lies and who has made
| q failure, that IL is easy to catch trout
he only laughs and majority of them
believe that the average fisherman who
makes big catches: uses some kind OF
| dope.
There is one thing to remember in
trout fishing. II the fish sec you hrst
/ YOU might Just rs We'll pass on, ioT
man walks right up TO the bank OF n
stream and plunges right into the wyeer
rs If he was trying 10 scare the ." i,sn
| downstream into net. This man heNe,
| catches any fish, Keep out oCslsn' diio
YOU have solved the grcatesl ops.acie
in trout fishing. One OF tyo ulps 20 a
stream will make you fapliar WIN NC
| deep holes, the rifles, cte'L Approach the
stream so that the s'n. does not cast
your shadow into tlp water, Hide be-
hind grass, logs or.big boulders. or II
the stream is opcpstand away from The
Il banks and malsclSour casts. When the
| fish do not see pou lhey Immediately rush
10 the surface1o inspect anything which
4x,fg.. ,I ~
thrown my tthe water. brings the fish 10
lis noticsZ inst as quickly as "A hook II
is tho distinct OF the mountain trout
wate, and. when within n foot of the
obycG they can generally tell whether
toy were fooled or whether 1t is real
y. or bug of some kind
v 1t is harder to fish downstream than
w IS up Trout nrc invariably headed
against the flow and II you are cautious
you can wade oftentimes To within ten
or hltecn feet before they. see YOU go
ing upstrcQm, but coming downstream
the fish can see you for Iont, distance
and are always out OF sight. and after
you hsh for some time Won pcnerolI,,
come 10 the conclusion that there are no
ilsh IN The stream. when there may be |
thousands, In small streams do not wade |
up to the middle but romain as near
INC edge as you can, and entirely o,,t OF |
tho water If possible and YOU will meet
WIN much better success. and YOU VIII |
ais2 nelp the man who is behind you /
= A''' 'lIi''h Va NPui DlOtneFF who is n
nShlnE. Thero are aomc who go stumb-
ing down the streams spelling the fish |
ing; moi only for themselves, but for cg- |
orybody else.
Keeping out OF sight as said before
rs ,s t9e greatest point in front fishing
Casting comes next Get your tackle as
nght as possible, If you handle yoIr
hSh carefully, your tackle win not break. !
II Is possible 10 land six-pound trout |
WIN NO. cotton thread. Also il vou
aatempt 10 pun out a large 6sh when
using B small fly yoY VIII be disappnint-
cd The hurry 10 sA out big Gsh is re-
SpohSinlc Tor so many fish stories where
the big ones are lost.
Practice casting so that as Iittlo of
your linc as possible hits the water You |
WIZ soon become so proficient i'm Your
work thal you can strike The water with
the lone ny. 'i
The next point Is where TO cast your
der banks or in thu shadow OF rocks
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