Object ID:
49.1
Object Name:
Fishing
Title:
Branyan with two Char
Date:
Oct. 1928
VE Exhibit Label 1:
Harold Branyan holding two Char. Label on back reads "White fish —— in Oct. —— full moon used white fish for bait and could get Char like this off Granite Point, deep water. We kept it so ————some & processed them in boiling water bath in wide mouth Kerr jars. We had smoked salmon when ——— underwear off color just dirty."
Standing on porch with water in the background
Standing on porch with water in the background
Provenance:
Letter from Harold Brayan re Cougar Gus
To Priest Lake Museum dated Dec 2, 2000.
Couple snapshots Fern G. took morning they left for Spokane in spring of 1928. The picture with Char, I've had salmon on G.N. diner; it was supreme, but Char, fresh out of Priest Lake was just as good. The trick to catching them a leader, of hay wire with a triple hook over mouth of the bait, a whole fish, push the leader through and out the vent. A char always took a whitefish, head first so when he swallowed the bait, the triple hook was imbedded. I tried it with salted whitefish, which were gutted and I sewed them up with Aunt Lydia's thread and it worked. We could get char any month of the year. You had to cut a large hole when ice was thick, the fishing was the best. Cutthroats were so plentiful in spring, when spinning Caribou and Lion Creek, were red with fish and in fall when whitefish ———the same creeks were silver with fish. In 1953 those streams they — in the 20s my first winter on the lake.
To Priest Lake Museum dated Dec 2, 2000.
Couple snapshots Fern G. took morning they left for Spokane in spring of 1928. The picture with Char, I've had salmon on G.N. diner; it was supreme, but Char, fresh out of Priest Lake was just as good. The trick to catching them a leader, of hay wire with a triple hook over mouth of the bait, a whole fish, push the leader through and out the vent. A char always took a whitefish, head first so when he swallowed the bait, the triple hook was imbedded. I tried it with salted whitefish, which were gutted and I sewed them up with Aunt Lydia's thread and it worked. We could get char any month of the year. You had to cut a large hole when ice was thick, the fishing was the best. Cutthroats were so plentiful in spring, when spinning Caribou and Lion Creek, were red with fish and in fall when whitefish ———the same creeks were silver with fish. In 1953 those streams they — in the 20s my first winter on the lake.
Subjects:
Search Terms:
Fishing
People:
Branyan, Harold
Geisinger, Fern
Geisinger, Fern
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Branyan w/ Char
Branyan w/ Char copy on back
Branyan w/ Char
Branyan w/ Char copy on back