The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-09

~ vacations that really is a recrc
Ition and not a dissipation. II
IS true that an enthusiastic
->.ran will work almost inrossantly
AT inc art, and use more energy aud
perbaps get less sleep than he does
~hen Mt his regular business, yet he is
fetting the most refreshing vacation
or them all, lie is quite completely
forgetting his business and Just as
thoroughly reJuvenating all his men
The fisherman knows he can't rest
or recuPerate by letting his mind hi.
pernate while loafing in a hammock ;
and he Knows that traction to healthy
mlnd Is stagnation, and stagn alton is
form of death. The fisherman s va.
eation IS rot form of death but OF
IRE, and that ''more abundantly.N - we
hve IN our minds. and the mind must
Hamole 10 become rightly and regularly
The man that can carefully and ps
tiently whip trout stream all day
long, or troll a lake spinner from sun-
rise back to sunset is not the man who
needs vacation so that the boss can
discover his shortage, His is more prob
aDiy the business that is SO well regu-
lated as to get along without him for
time
Nor is it so much for rechargine b;s
mind with divine energy like the re.
Vlvlne or a weakened storage battery,
but rather that he NAV actually oet
so FAR away from his business. men
tally. as to become as "A little child -
again, so far as receiving new i'm
pulses, and broadening his mental hori-
Soh IS concerned. The man who cannot
40 inns, needs a vacation worst when
he has just returned from one.
"
A ND all this is simply to say, that
Ak the loafer, and the inefficient.
and the mentally inactive. are not
ls9ermen; to fish is too tedious and
trying for them. The angler lives in
great broad, active world of his own.
and for this reason a vacation for him
Is a vacation indeed; a vanouishine of
an his sense of limitation, and of all
ms cobwebs and cares
he knows quite we'll that wonderful
DIT of business sagacity called "deci
sion no parleying nor fitting and
tryine IN his life; he is all action AT
az times, and when the time comes for
MIN to 'choose ye this day whom Won
Will serve the swiftness of the citv
and Its lncessant swirl. OF the active
animated world of all,out-doors, the
man that can 60 fishing never hesi.
Iatesi TO give up his business is not to
THE man who has not learned to fish
- need not hesitate long this spring.
for by conservative estimate, there are
IN the streams of the state TO-DAY inst
forty trout of catchable size for every
mar, woman and child in the state.
With few left over for company. The
figures of the trout catchinps and
stream paintings by the state fish and
game commissioner and his men. re-
ssemoie comet figures for size; and the
Iish nave been so we'll distributed that
wherever YOU may be who read this.
you nave but to go to the nearest
stream In Utah, or the nearest fresh
lake, to get your full share.
But Will We novices get themiu has
peen INQUIRED; and some careful and
successful fishermen have replied an as
suring affirmative, provided we use
cur ordinary business. The streams are
stocked for the sportsman and not for
commercial purposes, vet they have
been so we'll filled that hundreds Of
novlces will come back from vacation
trips this summer with the credits of
a professional angler.
This spring has been colder than
usual ana flood waters in the streams
have been much less violent. SO that
the rish have had easy access to every
pool and every bend in every stream
IN the state; and since the trout have
been running for more than a
month, the good fishing" places have,
IN all reasonable probability, spread to
every nook in every stream
Any of the regular sporting goods
dealers can give good general advice
on the kind and quantity of tackle TO
buy, but herewith is given a few GEN
eral suggestions, from number NJ
the state s best fishermen, On what to
take and how to handle il. for the bene.,
fit of the beginner, And it is done
with the full realization that many
good fishermen may disagree in some
particular, though none will dispute
that the novice should have some
good general advice when he concludes
to spend few dollars for FISHING
tackle, and is determined TO learn to
fish.
A SOLID bamboo fishing rod from
"A 9l4 to 1ola feet long, of medium
weight. is desirable. The inexperienced
fisherman is apt TO break a Hsht.
weight pole. and a heavy one will he.
come tiresome aud unwieldy. An auto
matte reel is preferable TO the ordinary
multiplier. or geared crank reel though
ITS use must be learned bv some ex.
perience, and while IL has some de-
cided advantages. the beginner will
probably have enough TO learn with the
simpler reel.
Far up in the headwsters small