Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

Behold the fisherman:
He ariseth in the morning.
And disturbeth the whole household;
Mighty are his preparations.
He goeth forth with great hope
The day IL far spent. he returneth;
His breath smelleth Of strong drink and
The truth Is not in him."
He who will neither fish nor cut
bait" is said to be an undesirable
citizen"
Many great men besides Isaac WAL
ton and Grover Cleveland have been
fond of fishing. In fact our great
great forefathers were all fishermen.
This is proved by both sacred and pro-
fame history. Furthermore they fish
ed because there was profit in It," 1t
| afforded them food and refuge from
hard work.
Even as far back as 100000 years
ago. (see Evolution of the Ape.") many
of our Every best citizens" were In
this business. Provided with the
proper bait" etc. they were wont to
angle for the unsuspecting fish.
| AS time went on more artful ways
and means were devised whereby most
any kind of fish could be caught as
surely as any sucker.
| And man rejoiced at what he had
done and called It progress" He
found it would work upon land az
well as upon water He discarded his
hairy skin and hooked claws and put
on broadcloth and plug hat.
And so we find him today. still APP
plying with some qualifications what
he first learned at fishing. All these
ramifications we will not follow in this
article. We will handle that later un-
der the head of politics. evil now
speak only of fishing in the primitive
form as 1t followed In Custer coun.
ty.
There are white fish, reddish
squaw- fish. steel heads and all kind'
of trout and salmon, but very few
suckers in Custer county. For thi!
latter fish our streams are too swift.
The fish most characteristic of thi.
country is the bull-trout. He IL I
fighter and won't bite until he thinks
it pays. The bull trout comes up ever!
season from somewhere ION the out
side" About latter May he comes III
like he meant business and seems t
say to the smaller fish, git out Of M
way" He scales often four ant
sometimes seven pounds, but somehow
he seems much bigger than that, es
pecially to the excited fisherman. TIL
way to catch the bull-trout to best ad
vantage is to first catch some othe
; fish for bait. Put on good chunl
Of speckled trout for instance an
see that all your tackle is secure. The
> go softly to where the purling water
have formed deep and limpid poo
Whirl your line skillfully overhead
: so that the bail lights upon the waite
E with the effect of a saucy fish floppin
his tail. The bull-trout hears it an
gets busy though his natural cunnin
tells him to be careful With an ex
preston of hurried and heavy though
he rushes hither and thither All q
once it occurs to him that some othe
! fish may get there first. Then jump
ing headlopg he bites the bait, maxim
= the water boil and fighting like
whale. With bending pole you dra
him shoreward where he still fight
: and founders until you have lamme
: him with a club and placed him sc
curely in a sack.
From the waters of the upper Salmo
l have caught as much as so pounds {
built trout in single, sultry summe
afternoon. Once a big bull-trout ths
l had hooked. found a hole in my sacl
With heavy thud he Jumped into tn
water and Tipping goodbye with h
: tail he went down stream like a streal
six shooter. Later l saw bull-tro,
/" big that I couldn't land him with m
> tackle. so ! just snubbed his nose u
y against the bank and shot him with