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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1912)
4 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL' 23, 1912." SPRING FISHING TO HAD NEAR PORTLAND. map fC7 X. hi hS J J An Hour or Two of Travel Takes the Local Exponent of Rod and Reel to Haunts of Finny Tribe Clackamas, Hardest Fished Stream on Coast, Continues to Yield Good Catches Trolling for Salmon in Willamette River. 1'tf y ' 4. .ST"" -v 1 ill j, 11 1 PORTLAND fishermen enjoy a novel privilege. AVlth but a single day of leisure t hand, or even with half a day, the local Ixaalc Walton la able to put In the day to Rood advantage on trout tream or aalmon pool. For after all the years of arduous flshinir. the (reams hereabouts continue holding up under the strain and yielding fine ratcht a. Although the fishing season has been legally open for the past month the rral angling and casting period Is Just starting towards Its xenith. In the nurse of the next month the sport will come to Its very best In a score of streams. It Is the Impending transi tion from bait Ashing to fly casting that rings out the full army of Portland's rxponents of rod and stream. With the average city dweller fishinx' trips are events to be dreamed of and realised once or twice In a year or a lecade. While love of rod and stream Is bred Into hundreds of thousands a majority of these find no indulgence In th- sport because of the busy swirl of metropolitan existence. And here In Portland Is the happy combination a great busy city with J trout streams In profusion close at hand. Tear after year these streams continue yielding their good catches. Occasionally the fisherman returns with empty creel but he generally Is encour. aged by a fair catch and during the sea. son Is certain of many exceptional takes if he persists. An hour of. travel from the heart of the city, for example, will take the fish erman to the , haunt of "minnows" weighing from five to So pounds. This "big game" fishing Is now excellent and Is getting better. The scene Is be low the Willamette Falls at Oregon City and the game Is the Spring run of salmon. These big. scrappy fellows take a spoon readily. And once yon hook one there Is half an hour or more of an animated struggle. Bis: Ciw" Flshlag. Every day scores of fishermen are enjoying .this splendid sport which never gives out during the season. The supply of salmon seems Inexhaustible. Now and then a fisherman returns from the Falls with nothing to show for his j ix HI.I1I1M m I I I m:ammmm nilff 1 1 II ..y 1 i 4' " A 1 ' -T 'M .i outing, but the average catch Is from one to half a dozen and when you consider . that the average fish there will run better than ten pounds you need not feel the day lost If you catch but one fish. It Is a common occurrence for the fisherman to catch more fish there than he can carry home. Those big fel lows, you see, run Into weight fast. You get one weighing 40 pounds, an other weighing 20 and a couple of more n the lS-pound class and you will need stout shoulders to tote away your catch. This big game fishing Is done mally from boats. Spoons are cast out and drawn up and down until a Chinook, Ms curiosity aroused, strikes It "like one dog biting another" as the fisher men say. Then commences the battle. The gamy fish Invariably takes one prodigious sheet across the river, leap ing several feet out of the water and shaking himself In the process. For the first ten minutes of play the fish fights with every ounce there Is In him, dart ing and thrusting, striking with his tall and dashing up and down. It is not until his splendid strength begins to wane that he" gives in to the Inevitable and the Instinct of self-preservation Is rendered nil. Slowly he Is brought up to the boat and as he catches a flash of his tormentors he puts his remain ins strength Into a final flurry. In the end he Is drawn up and "gaffed" and then lifted Into the boat. Comparatively few fishermen go In for this magnificent sport, however. It is the smaller fish of the trout streams that lure the majority.. There are half a hundred of these small streams within a radius of 25 miles of Portland and each stream is the favorite place of scores of fishermen. Tile Clackamas River is the hardest fished stream in Oregon, If not In the Northwest. You can strike the Clacka mas In a, run of 45 minutes by auto or streetcar, or you can travel for hours and even days up towards its source. Notwithstanding the inroads of tens of thousands of fishermen dufing tile past 50 years the Clackamas can be relied upon for good catches the yer around. It is particularly the standby of the bait fisherman, who Is especially busy at this early part of the fishing season. Blflr Fiah In Clackamas. Although the fisherman may meet an occasional day of hard luck In the Clackamas, It Is unusual to return therefrom with empty creel. The beauty of fishing in the Clackamas is that it Is the haunt of schools of big fish, and it Is not at all unusual to get into a likely pool only to have the one and two-pounders begin fighting for first place on the hook. It is not, to be sure, a stream where the unskilled man may go out and get a day's record catch. The old river has been so hard fished that the fish, especially the larger ones, become quite fastidious as to the bait they take. So the man who doesn't know how to drape his salmon eggs, disguise his leader and let his bait fall -with the water In a natural fashion, is reasonably certain of fail ure. It is not an uncommon sight to Bee two men fishing' side by side one with empty creel and the other with a fine take. Until late in the Summer bait fishing prevails on the Clackamas, which has an average width of some 50 yards. In its upper readies it passes through rugged country that is difficult of ac cess, and here some exceptional sport Is to be had fly fishing in August and September. Among the network of trout streams directly east of the citv are the Little Sandy, Salmon Hiver, Bull Run, Clear Creek, Deep Creek, Eagle Creek, John son Creek and the north fork of the Clackamas. West of Portland Is a num ber of splendid early trout streams. The water in these does not run off the icy mountains, and is of a temperature that admits of good catches much earlier than in the typical mountain streams. In the list is Scroggins Creek, Patton Creek on the Tualatin, Gales Creek and Dairy Creek. Small tributaries of the Columbia also afford much good sport easy of access. The best early fishing is on the Lower Columbia, the streams most fished being Scappoose Creek. Tide Creek, Clatskanie, Big Creek and the Necanicum. When you go into the topic of fishing in Oregon the field is a big one. No better fishing, perhaps, can be found any place on earth than in some of the unfrequented streams of this state. Every county has Its renowned trout streams, the most noted fishing places being the McKenzie River, out of Eu gene; the Deschutes, in Eastern Ore gon, and the Rogue River, in Southern Oregon. Dribs W 11 The, fiiiiiv mci Terse Tales From Humorous Pens THE SKCRKT OF JOl R.VILISM. They have an office boy on a New York newspaper or. they had one. rather, as the tenure or office boys on newspapers averages about two weeks who was the stairs despair, says the Hsrrlsburg Telegram. Not that this is distinguishing or definite, but this boy's llteralneas and stupidity were the lst words In thou, office boy arts. It was Kddy's duly to empty the ex changes from the large mall bags very morning, spread them and carry them upstairs to the exchange editor's room. Invariably he would lay them upside down, so the sclssors-and-paste man would have to turn them himself. -Why do you do that. KddleT" asked the exchange editor one day. his pa tience gone. "I ran't read the papers t.-iat way. Do you know why you have to bring these newspapers up here?" "Yes. sir." answered the truthful Ed die. -Well?" " '('4Ue Mr. Jones tells me to." "No. no! Good heavens! Do you know what newspapers are for? Do you know whv they are printed?" "Yes. air. To sell." They don't argue any mor with Ed die. They Just fired him. although the literary editor, who shared the room with the exchangv ed'tnr. maintains that Kddlea answer was the best of many possible ones. HI BM.I.AR ASD rOLLF.t-TIO!!. "Being a moral member of the com munity, naturally I deplore burglaries," said the church treasurer, according to the New York Times. "if I studied the welfare of the church alone I should encourage them, for, next to the burglars themselves, the people who prom most from an epidemic of amall robberies are the churches. "With pesce and safety reigning in a neighborhood, householders leave most of their money at home when they go to church, consequently they contribute In driblets, but iust let that ma in. cality become infested with burglars ana everybody takes his money to church and Increases his contributions proportionately." OIT OF THE MOITH1 OF BABES. Little Harold had just begun the study of music and a visitor asked how he was getting along. "All right," he replied, "only I have trouble with the sharks and flaps." Dollle But I don't want to wash my face, grandma. Grandma But you must. dear. When I was a little girl I always washed my face. Dollle Yes; and Just look at It now! "Mamma." said little Dorothy upon her return from Sunday school, "I learned a verse this morning." "What Is It dear?" asked her mother. "The Lord Is my sheepherder; he maketh me to lie down in green pastures and roll oer!" Chicago News. t'Ol LDNT TAI THE PACE. The Army and Navy Club In Wash ington is an exclusive organlxation. The clubhouse Is nicely decorated. On picture or which the members are proud and which they take every op portunity to bring to the attention or visitors Is a rather crude pen and ink drawing, obviously the work or an amateur. It depicts an officer seated before a deal table, standing in front of which Is a private soldier at salute. Beneath the picture Is the following Inscription: Tat. I hear that you have been drunk again." "Yis, sor." "Your conduct Is disgraceful. Why can't you drink like officers and gen tlemen V "Faith, sor. and if Oi did Oi'd be dead in a wake." Washington Star. Quips and Flings "She has an unusually sweet voice.' 'I don't see how the market for auto mobiles is kept up?" "Why, everybody wants one." "I know. But those who can afford to buy them are being killed In auto accidents." Satire. "I think the doctor Is about through with me. Told me my ailment Is prac tically cured." "What did you have?" "Three hundred dollars originally." Louisville Courier-Journal. V Ethel Bella told me that you told her that secret I told you not to tell her. - Madge She's a mean thing. I told her not to tell you. Ethel Well. I told her I wouldn't tell you she told me so don't tell her I did. Chicago Daily News. a "In chapter I he shoots at her five times. Ain't that grand?" "Yes; but them novels are misleading, Mayme. There ain't no earnest love like that In real life." Kansas City Journal. "That woman Is much better dressed than I am, although I go to a better dressmaker." "You would do better to have a less excellent cook." Pele Mele. straightening himself up, "self-respect Is wot ails me. I wouldn't do this fur no other man on earth." Chicago Tri bune. Musical Individual Have you seen Hansel and Gretel? Sporting Individual Yes; cleverest pair of monkeys I've ever seen. Lon don Opinion. "The girls declared they would rather dance than eat." "Weil." "Yet now they're kicking because we added two waltz numbers to the pro gramme and cut down the supper menu a little bit." Washington Herald. ( Among the Poets of the Daily Press "I mliould think." said th woman of uiiunuHiiy iwcfi vote?. tn nouse, you wnuia nave too mucn "Well, he ought to have with half I aelf-rospect to make your living by th young blades In town buying candy tx-KSinff." "I have here, madam, something that any child can manage." "No use for It. Haven't you some thing that can manage a child?" COME, JOCUND SPRING. Come Jocund Spring, with bud on bough With daffodil and gentle zephyr. With rich milk from the brindle cow And gladness in the skipping- heifer. With blossoms rare. And everywhere New hope for bird and beast and man; Come. Spring, and try As you go by To be as Jocund as you can. Come, Jocund Spring, with slop and mud. With rivers prone to go astray. With man and beast forced by the flood. To seek the treetops where they may; With frosts that kill And winds that chill And roaring rains that halt the plow; You sometimes leave Us cause to grieve. But, please, be Jocund, anyhow. Come, Jocund Spring, with burning piles Of rubbish In the filthy alleys, With hilltops wreathed In .misty smiles And wild streams gushing through the valleys, With buttercups, ' And gleeful pups That tumble, carefree, on the grass; !o doubt you 11 make Old people ache. Eut do be Jocund as you pass. Come, jocund Spring, with rioting Housecieanlng, striken end moving day. And all the other ills you bring To spread discomfort ana dismay, , With noses blue For people who i Get off to see the opening game; Brings chills and fogs, j Rain cats and, dogs. But please be Jocund Just tha same. Chicago Record-Herald. A FOOL SAID THIS. Once a time a fool said this. That man was born to woo below. Since this doctrine so amiss Is carried to and fro below. And for that fools are near and far, Now we no comfort know below, Oh ye, who eo shortsighted are. How long your ears must grow below. Joseph Viktor von Scheftel. USELESS. Oh, Young Lochinv'ar Is come out of the sky: Throughout the wldo border he first learned to fly. Since nobody else has that kind of a car. There's no use in chasing the young Lochinvar. Louisville Courier-Journal. THE MARTYR. The politician now appears Armed for the coming fray; He's overcome his modest fears. But says he's In to stay. He hates campaign publicity; Its very thought offends. But with a heart like this, you see. He can't refuse his friends. .- i . Lippincott's.
