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fish between area families. According to Siminoe, approximately one-third of the suckers caught were razorbacks. The group would use a 30-foot trammel net, which they would position with ropes across the flooded mouth of Kannah Creek, Siminoe said. ..... see Kannah here runs into the river and it would flood. The railroad had a bridge there and they could cross," Siminoe said. "One bunch on one side and one on the other and pull the seine into position with the ropes. Get up the creek a ways. The fish would come in there, good and deep. All the river used to back up perty near a quarter of a mile in here. "Every family would use so many of them, that's the way we'd divide them up. There used to be a lot of people living here on the creek. Now it's all deserted." Frequency of use Both rural and urban residents included the fish in their diets in varying degrees. In general, rural residents reported catching the endangered fish in con- junction with their ranch or farm chores, whereas urban residents usually caught the fish during an "outing." Rural resident fishing Katharine Rinker (Lily Park, Colo.) would leave baited setlines overnight in the Yampa River in the 1920s and 1930s. She'd check them in the morning or evening when working with the family's milk cows. "Well, there were eight kids in the family and we all sporadically fished," Rinker said. "The line was just a willow pole with a string and a hook on it. Stick it in the mud in the river bank and go back and check it when we turned the cows out or brought them in at night. Sometimes, if they seemed to be biting we'd go out and fish a while. Generally we just set the lines and check them." Browns Park rancher Bill Allen (Vernal, Utah) would "set a line" if he felt like eating fish. "We'd generally set a line or two and go down early every morning and check them and have fish to eat," he said. "We didn't set them unless we could eat them." Other seniors remembered catching Colorado squaw fish while irrigating. Eleen Williams (Dutch John, Utah) remembers carp and Colorado squawfish coming into the irrigation ditches during the late 1940s and early 1950s on their ranch along side the Green River near the old site of Linwood, that today is underneath the waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. "And when that irrigation, those ditches were all full in the spring, the carp used to come up the river and up the irrigation ditches to spawn and that was quite an event to go down there and take the .22 down and shoot them. Then we would watch you'd get a whitefish," Williams said. "We would bring a whitefish up, this friend of ours, Minnie Rasmussen, she loved fish, and they would catch couple of three for her, and she would soak them overnight in vinegar to take the mud taste out of them and then we would cook them. Most of the time we baked them because they was too big to fry. "We would cut off the best meat part of it you know and bake them. They tasted real fishy and of course there weren't many bones in them. But you always had to soak them in vinegar because they would have an awful mud Uses of endangered fish 19