The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-04-15

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sailors all.
One cannot gaze at picture Hugh
! Garrabrant has been exhibiting this
week without the feeling that Hood
River must certainly be tisherman's
paradise. The photograph shows Chas.
| Foster and five handsome steeIheads
caught by him Sunday afternoon. The
largest fish was 80 inches and the IN
tire bunch weighed 30 pounds.
Mr.. Foster is getting into class by
/ himself this spring as a fisherman. He
has been landing fine fellows at fire.
uuent intervals during the past few
weeks. But five big fellows in one
afternoon places record to his credit
that he will doubtless keep f6t some
time.
Steelhead fishing was never better
here. The fish are running freely and
/ bite better than usual. The work of
/ the State Game and Fish Commission,
under the supervision of Commissioner
Duncan, in deepening the channel of
/ the Hood river where it enters the
Columbia, is responsible for the good
fishing.
Judge Derby's two little girls, Jes-
sica and Elizabeth Ann, but better
known to their many friends as pet"
and "Jim", are as lively and energetic
as any youngsters of their ages in the
northwest. And because Of their en-
terprisng turn of mind, they played a
good joke on their father last Sunday.
Judge Derby has a concrete lotus
pond in his back yard. One of these
little frogs, rather inconspicuous to the
eve but mOnstrOus to the ear when he
decides to sing on spring evening
had made his home in the pond. The
little croaker had succeeded in making
| himself we'll known in the immediate
vicinity of the Derby back yard. The
Derbys had not been aDle TO sleep dur
| ing concerts, nor had their nearest
neighbors, the Franz family, been able
to win Morpheus while OTpheus haunt
ed the region.
Sunday morning Judge Derby donned
a suit of old clothes, rolled up his
sleeves and proceeded to bail out the
pond. AS he was getting ready for the
/ task "Pete" and Jim" asked him
what he was going to do. ] am going
to catch a frog" he told them. Now
the youngsters were not going to let
their daddy get ahead of them. They
! knew where scores of the little frogs
might be found. They live in the
swampy fill at the west end of town
| just before Oak steet and Cascade ave
nue. intersect. Dozens of them may be
seen hopping in the gutter, having wan
dered away from the marshy field
"Pete" and Jim" got an old coffee
can and made haste up the street.
Judge Derby, after he had bailed out
all of the water, and it was 10 small
task, for the pond is pretty good
sized one, grappled in the muck in
which the lily bulbs are Imbedded until
he caught the frog. He dispatched the
little fellow, filled the pond and re-
turned to the house to smoke peaceful
pipeful.
But just about the time the tired
frog hunter had taken his seat and had
relaxed from his task, Jimmie" came
in and remarked with pride: Daddy,
caught bucketful Of frogs and we
put EN- in the lily pond" Instead of
a solo the Judge, his family and his
neighbors will be serenaded by a con-
tinuous chorus.
Paul Blowers and Clyde Arnold spent
Sunday on Hood river trout fishing.
W. B. Small, of the O-.W. R. & N.
freight station, spent Sunday on Lind
say creek, where he caught number
of trout.
Sol. j. Spear caught 20 nice trout on
Neal creek Sunday.
Arthur Howell and j. B. Hunt were
fishermen on Hood river Sunday.
Arthur Lofts and A. S. Keir were on
Neal creek fishing Sunday.
J. H. Fredricy and c. G. Nepple
spent Sunday on Hood river fishing.
MIR. Fredricy, it is stated, brought
home the fish and Mr.. Nepple the ex.
perience.