July 14, 1906 .1 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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ON MINK CREEK-ONE OF UTAH’S TROUT WATERS. 
tiful sport with the big ones to him who will 
take the trouble to seek its banks. 
Utah also has two notable lakes which offer 
good sport: Fish Lake, in Sevier county, ac¬ 
cessible by rail, and Panguitch Lake, which is 
some 250 or 300 miles from Salt Lake City. This 
distance includes a stage ride of some sixty 
miles to the town of Panguitch, and a further 
ride of fifteen miles to the lake—an ideal spot 
for camp life. The ice cold waters have been 
stocked with natives; these now range from 
five to six pounds in weight, and fight like one 
possessed the minute they feel the prod of the 
barb. The only way one can keep within the 
law’s limit is to cast with barbless hooks and 
give his quarry a more liberal “run for his life 
or his money.” 
Utahans are coming to realize that good fish¬ 
ing is a State asset-—that well-stocked streams 
offer temptation to the stranger to linger within 
their midst, to spend his money in the State. 
This sentiment is abating lawless destruction of 
game fish. Eight of the largest towns in the 
State have their local fish and game protective 
associations, and there is a similar State asso¬ 
ciation with a large membership now in forma¬ 
tion. So keen and universal is the desire to 
protect the trout that every member is a volun¬ 
tary game and fish warden. The greatest source 
of fish destruction is by “shooting”; it is a 
hard task to apprehend the vandal who carries a 
stock of dynamite where he ought to wear his 
conscience—if he had one. Market-fishing is 
largely on the wane; private fish ponds have 
robbed the market fisherman of his avocation. 
Commissioner Sharp each year sells a portion 
of the State fry to private pond owners. These 
latter supply hotels, clubs, etc., and as the 
source is more certain than the market fisher¬ 
man, the latter has almost disappeared, leaving 
the real owners of the fish in the streams a 
better opportunity- to come into their own. 
There is no gainsaying that the Commissioner’s 
policy has caused considerable adverse criticism, 
many anglers claiming that the full hatch should 
be placed in the public streams. Mr. Sharp 
maintains, however, that by dividing up the fry 
as he does, he is educating the people up to a 
higher ideal, and if let alone for a short while, 
he will have sufficient fry for both public streams 
and private ponds. “At best,” says Mr. Sharp, 
“it is an expedient; but the best expedient that 
offers a depleted treasury.” Right or wrong, 
Mr. Sharp has the confidence of even his critics; 
“honest, but misguided,” is their way of putting 
it. However, he says if the Legislature will 
come to his aid with a little larger appropria¬ 
tion next session, he promises to demonstrate 
to the satisfaction of every public-spirited citi¬ 
zen that his plan will inure to the good of all. 
Gage. 
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A Clackamas River Salmon. 
Portland, Ore., June 21.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 inclose photograph of a Chinook 
salmon, which I took on a spoon in the Clacka¬ 
mas River. The Clackamas is about thirty-five 
miles from Portland, and is reached from the 
city by the electric railway. 
I have been a reader of Forest and Stream 
for years, and when I read of parties in the East 
going miles to capture a salmon, I thought per¬ 
haps it would be interesting to hear that we can 
take an electric car at 7:30 A. M. in Portland, 
have about eight hours’ fishing, and be home by 
7 :30 P. M.; and sometimes land a good salmon 
like the one in the photo. 
This salmon was taken by casting a spoon from 
the rocks on shore, and was brought to gaff in 
from forty to fifty minutes from the time it struck. 
The dimensions taken the same night (June 
10, 1906) were: Length, 41m.; girth, 21 (Tin.; 
weight, 26 pounds. J. E. Stockdale. 
Newfoundland Salmon. 
The Log Cabin, Newfoundland, June 22.—Dr. 
McCullough, who is staying here at the Log Cabin, 
has killed twenty-six salmon from June 4. He 
had never fished for salmon before in his life. 
Chas. E. Dodd. 
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