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every trip and just get tired of pulling them in. We'd have maybe 20 or 30 fish out on the bank and when the workers would shut down when their shift was over, they would come by and pick up the fish and take them home." Otto Shultz (Meeker, Colo.) recalled using daredevils to catch Colorado squawfish in the White River. "Oh yeah, I fished a lot with hardware," Shultz said. "We caught squawfish on hardware, you bet. Primarily red and white spoons, daredevil type. I caught a number on probably an inch-and-a-half Five-Of-Diamonds, that seemed to catch the squawfish. I don't remember ever catching a squawfish on a fly." While Shultz didn't remember Colorado squawfish being caught with flies, Dinosaur National Monument Ranger Glade Ross remembered that when he worked as a rafting guide for Bus Hatch between 1957 and 1965, a fellow guide used flyfishing gear to catch Colorado squawfish in the Yampa River. "George Wilkins went after them with the fly rod at Hardings Hole," Ross said. "I guess that's one of the spawning grounds up there. He'd never eat them, just catch them and turn 'em loose. He was actually fishing for them." In an unpublished essay titled "Fishing for the Endangered Species," Chuck Mack (Craig, Colo.) wrote ,about using lures to catch the Colorado squawfish in Browns Park in the early 1950s: "I'm glad we took Jim (Falerez) with us because by accident he taught me how to catch the Colorado squawfish on hardware. I had never used anything but bait. Fact is, I never took any fishing lures to the Green River. Jim had a big red-and-white daredevil he decided to try. He went out on a sandbar and was fishing in fair- ly fast moving water. His first Photo courtesy of Chuck Mack cast he landed a big squawfish, Chuck Mack and child then he proceeded to land two or Wc Itl has tr I n g.e rh 0 f three more before he hooked one o orado squawfls . b' h h' I' d Ig enoug to snap IS me an take his lure. After that incident, I started taking my tackle box, and occasionally I would fish with lures, always with good results on squawfish. They were the only fish in the Green that would take a lure." The Colorado squawfish's sporting qualities proved so engaging to mem- bers of a sportsmen club in Green River, Wyo., that they sent a specimen to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to be analyzed, according to Ted Cook (Green River, Wyo.). "Well this Colorado fish was always called the whitefish," Cook said. "I can't think of what this fella's name was, he was president at that time of the sportsmens' club. Whether he caught the fish or not I don't know, but I know he sent it to Laramie to get analyzed and find out what it was and it came back with Sporting qualities of the endan- gered fish 9