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RECREATION. 



caught a German brown trout that weighed 

 4/4 pounds, and had presented it to the 

 proprietor of the hotel at Mt. Pleasant. 

 It was on exhibition for a week. He caught 

 it on a No. 10 Black Gnat at 8 in the even- 

 ing, and it was the largest trout taken 

 with a fly that season. 



The next morning at 5 o'clock I went 

 up stream to the Iron Bridge hole, about 

 a mile away. Cow Dung, Great Dun, Ab- 

 bey, and Brown Hen were the flies used. 

 My catch up to g o'clock was g Germans, 

 2 rainbow and 4 brook. Again my Queen 

 and King were failures. In the afternoon 

 at 3 I began using the Abbey, with 6 foot 

 leader, and leisurely making a 20 foot cast 

 over Duvall's rock at the edge of the 

 hole. Suddenly I got a strike that sent 

 a thrill up my spine. A big fellow was fast. 

 Assuring myself he was well hooked, I 

 reeled in while wading to the first rift. 

 Then I held a steady rod, allowing the 

 trout to do all the fighting. Up he rose, 

 and down he went, where he remained, 

 trying to get under the rock to my right. 

 Occasionally I gave him the reel, when the 

 strain appeared too great, and managed 

 to hold him. My excitement was intense. 

 for I did not want to lose him. Marshall 

 D. came up shouting, 



"Don't let him get under the rock. Get 

 him over the rift. Hold him steady. 

 Don't give any line or you'll lose him." 



In the excitement I nearly fell into the 

 hole, as my foot slipped on a slimy stone, 

 and how I ever recovered my nerve is 

 more than I can tell. 



Marshall was as much excited as I was, 



and jumped into the water, regardless of 

 wet feet. After fighting this trout 20 min- 

 utes I led him, all tired out, over the 

 rift into shallow water, where we had no 

 trouble in landing him. In the midst of all 

 this Frank came up stream with his camera 

 and caught us fair and square. The trout, 

 a German brown, weighed 2^ pounds, and 

 gave me a big fight. 



The Abbey has a red body, gray and 

 black striped wings, and 2 delicate, dotted 

 tail feathers. I had whipped in that hole 

 the day before, but without success. My 

 old friend claims the trout was simply 

 hungry, and that otherwise he would not 

 have taken the fly. I agree with him, but 



1 believe the delicate, dotted tail of the 

 Abbey tempted the fish's curiosity. 



We then went down to Jimmy Ives's 

 pool to try for another large trout. This 

 pool is about 30 feet wide, 60 feet long and 

 10 feet deep. Marshall D. claims there 

 are 30 to 40 large trout in it. We caught 



2 Germans there, 10 or 12 inches long, but 

 no more would rise. 



After supper we went to the docker hole 

 to try White Millers. Unfortunately, I had 

 but 3 Millers, on No. 8 hook, and they had 

 been used. It matters not how large the 

 trout were that rose to these, but it was 

 the last of the Millers, as they were 

 snapped off clean by the fish that struck; 

 and they were 2 to 4 pound trout. The 

 next time I will prepare myself with a 

 supply of Millers for evening fishing. 



The next morning we took the train for 

 home, our creels filled with choice trout 

 for our friends. 



MURDERED BEFORE IT COULD FLY. 



The enclosed photograph, taken by Mr. 

 C. W. Buchholz, is not sent you as an 

 exhibition of photographic art, but pictures 

 in a sickening manner the result of a law 

 that opened the duck season on Sept. 15th 

 instead of Oct. 1st as heretofore. 



Thousands of ducks unable to fly, most 

 of them with wings less developed than 

 the one shown here, were ruthlessly mur- 

 dered, some shot as they tried to rise, but 

 most of them killed with paddles and clubs. 



The law is condemned by every real 

 sportsman, and will undoubtedly be 

 changed, but the damage has been done 

 and continues. This picture should be a 

 warning to some of our alfalfa legislators. 



The law here was changed owing to the 

 efforts of a Rich county man, but it is only 

 fair to state that in his county the ducks 

 mature earlier and are nearly gone by 

 October 15th. However, it has been a 

 disgraceful experiment and has disgusted 

 the whole army of sportsmen. 



W. H. Sherman, Salt Lake, Utah. 



