The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-11-02
FREDRICY REGALES
GUN CLUB MEMBERS

The sensation of the annual Chin
Pheasant banquet of the Hood Rive
Gun Club. held Wednesday night o
last week at the Columbia Gorge Ho
tel, was a fishing story told by j. II
Fredricy, who declared that be ha,
never experienced greater thrill thar
when he unknowingly pulled the hairi
from the end of cougar s tail recent
ly, while angling in the West Fork Of
Hood river. Mr.. FTedricy said:
Il had been having poor luck. Re-
peatedly | had changed flies, all to nc
avail. was sweating in disgust.
That is, the upper portion of my anat-
omy was. My lower half was i'm
mersed in the stream. Suddenly felt
premonition of something. Actually
my hair raised. Then the sensation
passed, and started to put on another
fly. Ny attention was attracted to
something waving to and fro in the
reeds at my back on the river bank.
At the point the shore was mass of
rich grass and reeds. A brown tip ex-
tended just above the grasses. 1t at
tracted me, and on sudden impulse
jumped forward and grasped the NOV
ing brown tip.
Honestly, have never heard such
a yowl in my life. There was mighty
rush toward the dense wood further up
the stream, and | realized that | had
caught a cougar by the tail. | looked
into my clutched fingers, and there
had a lot of the hairy fur from the
giant cats caudal appendange. | was
scared stiff for about half a minute,
what would have hap
pened, had that cat rushed toward me
and the river instead of hiking off the
other way. Then ] laughed.
Il ended by taking a piece of red
flannel from my undershirt and weav- |
ing the hairs around it on trout hook. |
1t made very artistic fly, and it GER
tainly turned my luck. / filed my
creel with that fly made from the |
hairs of cougars tail. was ready |
to stow away the improvisation to
keep and bring back to town and show |
friends. thought, however. that |
would take one final cast. 1t was my
lndoing. A huge steelhead struck,
.ook my fly, leader and half the line
when he snagged them on tree root. "
Mr.. FIedricy was followed by Mark
4. Mayer, Mosier hunter and sports
nan. who expressed surprise that Mr..
fredricy hadn't caught cinnamon
)ear with his number eight trout hook.
"A man with so fertile an imagina-
ion, said Mr.. Mayer, might at least
AVE caught another cougar with such
,otent bait"
E. R. P0oley. president of the Gun
;lub, was POSTMASTER. Other speech
s were made by K. w. Kelly, Leslie
Butler and Howard S. DumboIton. the
after secretary of the club, who re-
orted that the organization now had
5 members. He also declared that
vote would be taken soon by the Gun
,lub on proposition of affiliation with
he Hood River Country Club. 1t is
roposed to remove the trap range to
ne latter organization's home in the {
ak Grove district.
Mr.. Butler recalled how about 10
ears ago he had released the first
lree cOops of China pheasants ever
zen here. Since that time he and
)me neighbors of the West Side or {
lard district have made game pre-
srves of their farms. 7
Although have released 73 dozen
the handsome birds, said Mr.. But /;
r, II have never yet shot a pleas
Members of the Gun Club were ac- /
'mpanied by their wives and sweet :
carts. During the banquet music was 4
Finished by Ford's orchestra. Fol- =
wing the dinner, the tables were :
cared, and dancing INDUCED. :