Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-07-03
STORY IS
RELATED BY JUDGE
LEARNED TO FISH IN CORRE-
sPONDENcE SCHOOL - SMALL
TROUT BUTT INC. D. @. SIG
NAL HEARD.

Probate Judge W. H. Copp has
made good his boasts For days he
has been lodging invitations to go
fishing. There was a reason. He was
taking a correspondence course in fly
casting and not feeling proficient 10
make good his big talk of anglins
skill. he sidestepped. With the CON-
pletion of the course and the receipt of
lis final exam papers, credited with
100 per cent, he consented to accom-
pany a party composed of Messrs
Johnson, Horne, Haddock and Beckett
last Monday. They left for Cottonwood
at $3.50 and got back at $50. In talk
ing with a representative of the
Journal, Judge Copp said:
An Agreeable Limit.
1--WE all got the limit. We agreed
on that before coming back. That
Cottonwood is a difficult stream to
get to and the road is hard on
machine. Fishing is an easy matter
when you get to the creek. At first,
I was puzzled. On the diagram il said
to insert the hook in the worm where
it was marked ID" letting it come out
at &C." There was neither a I'd" nor
an sc" in the whole can. The second
cast I caught whopper. He weighed
three pounds. 1t was my first trout
Lost His Head.
u forgot about the instructions to
hold the pole gently but firmly and
quietly play my catch. I grabbed hold |
violently with both hands and yelled /
for help. one of the boys came run
ming and we gave that big fish a fight /
for life. We had him almost to the
surface when ne tore loose. The Cot
Lonwood is so lousy with trout that
when the hook slipped from my three
FOUNDER before it could reach the sur
ace-the smallest fraction of a second
"a little six-inch trout had swallowed
he fly The same thing happened
everal times. There wasn't anything
n the correspondence course about it,
nd it was a new one to me. OF
curse the big, strong fish are the
ind that get away. but we went out
etermined to get the limit and we
ure got tive sure did. I sent all
line over to Jerome by Bob Frazier
nth instructions to give them to some
f my friends there"
Answered C. D. @. Signal.
Fred W. Gooding ana Judge Stocks
,ger played the role of good Samari-
ms last Monday afternoon when on
eturning from the Gooding ranch, on
he Cottonwood trail. they found a
erelict automobile stranded about six
lilies out from Shoshone. Frantically
-aving distress signals from the nam
eek of the machine was a party of
fishermen composed of
[essrs Johnson, Haddock Horne
opp and Beckett OF course, the
ooding car was hitched to the John
N machine. and gave the party a
IT back to town. The anglers had
# Shoshone at about $3.50 intending
make a good catch in time for sup
r. but spent two hours viewing the
emery instead.
The other members of the fishing {
rty that went to Cottonwood Mon :
y with Probate Judge Copp caught 9
many fish as did that gentleman, g
d with less mental strain. since they 6
ere seasoned anglers and did not 9
We to rely on their recollection of a 9
ok of rules for methods of batting 9
e hook, heaving the line and towing Q
z catch ashore. Attorney Haddock's Q
scription of the Judges mental and 9
ysical paroxisms during the afore- .
ID process might be deemed highly 9
lgnified Pigments of an excited i'm 9
nation were it not for the fact that o
:. Johnson bears a reputation for q
mness, cool judgment and keen per- 9
,tion, not to mention veracity. How Q
n, the description given by Mr.. 9
ddock corroborates the narrative of o
Judge else we should not have .
olished the story. 9