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UCREFRP Catalog Number
7751
Author
Quartarone, F.
Title
Historical Accounts of Upper Colorado River Basin Endangered Fish.
USFW Year
1993.
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Denver, CO.
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<br />fly-fishing, you'd catch bonetails with flies." <br />Dale Stewart (Vernal, Utah), Max's brother, recalls the sporting character <br />of bony tail chubs: "They'd bite like trout. You would run into a school of them <br />and you could just throw your bait up, a worm or grasshopper or whatever, and <br />keep it moving, and they would strike and break the water like a rainbow trout. <br />It's really a thrill to get into a school of them." <br /> <br />Fishing, picnicking and camping <br />Angling for the endangered fish often was done in conjunction with pic- <br />nicking or camping. <br />Walt Simineo (Whitewater, Colo.) recalled going to the confluence of <br />Kannah Creek and the Gunnison River and having fish fries with about "eight or <br />10 fellas." The group would pack Dutch ovens on horseback to the confluence <br />to cook the fish. <br />Dick and Toni Sherwood, (White water, Colo.) would take a frying pan to <br />the river with them to cook their catch. When asked if they would eat roundtails <br />and bony tails, they responded: "We usually we ate those up before they could <br />..." started Toni before Dick interjected, "We had a skillet, and we'd eat them <br />right up on the river. You catch 'em, you eat them." <br />Verlyn Westwood (Moab, Utah) remembered Colorado River fish being <br />both a source of recreation and food for her family during the 1940s. <br />"We used to go fishing quite a lot. That was probably our main source of <br />recreation when we were kids. Of course I was a child during World War II and <br />meat was rationed, any fish that we caught we ate. We'd take my dad's war <br />truck and gather up the whole family and take them to the river. We went fishing <br />a lot. It was mostly for recreation that we did it. Sometimes we'd take a pan <br />along to the water and have supper down there." <br /> <br />Bronc riding with Colorado squawfish <br />A particularly humorous form of recreation the endangered fish provided <br />- bronc-riding - was recalled by two upper basin residents. <br />Othal Ayers (Paradox, Colo.) remembered the results of hanging a large <br />Colorado squawfish he caught from the Dolores River onto his saddle horn <br />around 1920: "One time I hooked one, and I hung it on my saddle, or over my <br />saddle horn, and crawled on and he flapped about then, and I had riding job to <br />stay on that horse. That horse was trying to buck him and me off. After the horse <br />got quieted down a little, I got it up and throwed it over my shoulders to keep <br />him from whipping my horse." <br />Cary Barber (Maybell, Colo.) didn't have as much luck as Ayers when he <br />tied a large Colorado squawfish to his saddle in the early , 50s. In the 1981 <br />March/April edition of Colorado Outdoors magazine, Barber is quoted as say- <br />mg: <br />"I was just a 17 -year-old cowboy, riding for the Lily Park Cattle <br />Company. Down the Yampa River at the lower end of Lily Park is <br />Deer Lodge Park, just above where the river started down the <br />canyon. In the Deer Lodge Park cabin, I found a heavy fish line <br />with big strong hooks about as thick as eight-penny nails. I caught a <br />fledgling blackbird, put it on the hook, used a piece of cottonwood <br />bark for a float and fished a deep hole. I got a real hard bite and <br /> <br />Sporting <br />qualities of <br />the endan- <br />gered fish <br /> <br />15 <br />
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