The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-06
FISH FROM BUTTE
TO Be PLANTED
LOCAL ANGLERS WILL PLACE
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
TROUT WEDNESDAY.

on Wednesday morning the Mis-
souJa Anglers association VIII receive
a consignment of 100000 fish fry from
the Columbia Gardens hatchery In
Butte TO be planted In streams near
the city. The fish will all be native
trout. The anglers met last night In
Judge Bickford's office and discussed
the planting of the fish and 1t was
finally decided to plant two of the 20
cans in Pattee creek. two in Nine Mile.
four in the Blackfoot country in Twin
Creeks, and IL in the Bitter Root river
near Fort Missoula. The fry for Pat
tee creek will be placed In charge OF
T.. S. Lusk. the Nine Mile fry will
be taken care of by James Hartley.
Dave Graham and Dan McQuarrie viii
plant the fish in the Blackfoot and
Chick White will handle the Bitter
Root consignment. These men viii
meet the Butte local on Wednesday
morning and rush the fish TO their
destinations as fast as possible.
This Is the first of several summer
shipments Of fish fry that will he
planted by the local association. They
were secured from the Butte hatchery
through the influence of Judge Biok-
ford.
Fly Casting Contest.
The meeting of the club last night
was well attended and lot of busi-
ness was transacted despite the fact
that fish stories were many Plans
were laid by the fishermen for fly- !,
casting contest TO be held along me |
Missoula river near the city IN the
near future. President George Helm
bach was asked to look up and arrange
rules for the meet and as soon as the /
code has been laid down entries viii
be received. 1t Is planned to hold the I
contest from the south bank OF the
river in front of the Puget Sound
depot. The casting will be done with
ordinary lines and poles and with dry
files. A slight entry fee will probably
be required. The club plans to use the
fees for the purchase of prizes. all of
which will be in the form of rods. and
reels or other fishing apparatus.
The Banquet.
The annual banquet was also in
formally discussed and the president
and Secretary Frank McHaffie were
named as a committee of arrange
ments They are to arrange for all
of the details of the big fish feed
and to set date for II. Fishermen
from all parts of the state will be in
vited to attend and 1t is expected that
there will be several hundred anglers
in attendance. All of the members OF
the local club will devote a couple of
days before the banquet to catching
trout for the feed, and there is no dam
ger of the menu being changed at the
eleventh hour The men who make up
the club can all be counted on to de-
liver the goods.
Chick White precipitated an excited
discussion OF the use of the Rattle
snake as fishing stream. After con-
siderable debate 1t was decided by the
club that II the stream were stocked
any more above the reservoir dam the
crowds of fishermen would i'm time
become so great as to endanger the
purity OF the water. The stream Is
clean and pure now, the fishermen de-
cided. and IL ought to be kept so. No
more fish, then, will be planted In the
stream and arrangements will be made
IL possible for the removal of the fish
ladder on the dam in order that the
fish above may be thnned out and
the purity of the stream maintained
for once the attention of the fishermen
Is turned to other streams there will
be less pollution of the Rattlesnakes
water.