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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL' 23, 1912."
SPRING FISHING TO
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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.