Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 17

Sierra IELD and STREAM By RAY CORLETT District Supervisor Nevada ish and Game Department White Crappies Hit Lures They're as Tasty as Trout Nevada Sialo Journal Thursday April 2d 1060 17 Legislature Approves Pay for Attorney: The state attorney general's office was criticized in the leg islature for its handling of the Mark Twain life insurance case Sen James I Gibson Hen derson said the office of At torney General Harvey Dicker son was guilty of of the three of ficials of the Mark Twain com pany who had been charged with embezzlement but were cleared by a jury in Reno The criticism came both dur ing a discussion in the Senate inance Committee and on the floor of the upper house It was over a bill to give $7500 to Stanley Brown who was the lawyer for one of the defen dants who said he was bank rupt Gibson said the forced this issue The money should come from the attorney gen eral's budget or his He said although the defen dants were acquitted their pro fessional reputations were de stroyed Under the law an attorney who defends an indigent client is entitled to only $300 in a non capital case The trial took more than eight weeks Sen James Slattery Reno said the trial ruined life since he had to give up his private practice during the interim Slattery said the attorney gen eral's office hired a private law yer for $13000 to help prosecute the case and still the state lost Sen Archie Pozzi Carson City said attorney general should try his own The bill was approved in the finance committee and then passed in the upper house 15 5 It now goes to Gov Paul Lax alt i Opponents of the bill said lt would open the door to similar claims from other attorneys They expressed fear they be flooded next session with sim ilar requests But proponents' said this was a special case White crappies have begun to hit well at Rye Patch Reservoir and just beginning to show up once in a while at Lahontan This fish is a long time favor ite of ours and hoping that the year will be a big one for crappies at Lahontan Rye Patch and Weber reser voirs our principal crappie fac tories Table qualities of this fish are excellent most people regard them as a far better eating fish than trout Their fighting qualities are excellent too The best way of preparing a crappie for the table is to fillet him just make a cut along the backbone on top from head clear to the tail and then do the same along the bottom Chop off head and tail and peel the skin away Now with a small bladed sharp knife cut the fillet on one side away from the ribs and backbone and pull free Repeat the process on the other side of the fish This will eliminate the need for scaling and removing the entrails You will have two white fillets nearly as big as the palm of your hand and they need only rinsing in cold water to be ready for frying Mam Bearings Stolen Again At Sparks Yard The Pittsburgh Dcs Moines Steel Co facility at 1635 Pitt man St Sparks certainly has no obligation to do but may be should keep an old box full of ball bearings around to hand out to kids What has happened several times in the past and what happened most recently is that thieves believed to be marble playing youngsters have en tered the company yards and made off with a number of de vices known as which are roller type devices used to slide sheet steel around the yards The main bearings on these devices each of which cost about $15 are supported by 20 one quarter inch ball bearings The little ball bearings make excellent for marble players The cost of supplying such to youngsters was most recently reported at $120 That was the loss estimated at the steel company Tuesday in the disappearance of 15 of the rollers In previous reports filed with police a large number of the rollers have been reported stolen and the loss to the com pany has been considerable Soviet Planner Zharskz Dies MOSCOW (UPI) Anatoli Zharskz deputy chief of the Soviet State Planning Commit tee died Tuesday the news agency Tass reported Wednes day He was 49 Of course you must catch your crappie before you fillet him Here are some ways of doing it: Thread a 2'2 inch minnow on a number 8 fine wire hook put a split shot 8 or 9 inches above fasten a bobber 4 feet or so above that and cast out with spinning gear Retrieve slowly so that your reel handle is bare ly turning over When you feel a very gentle strike just reel the fish on in If you try to set the hook tear it out of the soft cartilage of the crap mouth every time Another way is to use the same spinning outfit but substi tute a crappie jig streamer fly maribou fly or cork body pop ping bug for the minnow and eliminate the bobber' The jig will probably have enough weight to allow you to cast it properly but the popper bug streamer fly or maribou fly will require that you add a couple of split shot for weight Handle these lures about the same as minnows Cast out allow to sink nearly to the bottom and re trieve very slowly White blue or white and blue seem the best colors for the streamers or mari bou flies and black seems to be best for the popping bugs Or if you have a spin ning rod use any of these lures with your fly rod Of course you will not be able to handle as much weight and it will ac cordingly take longer for your lure to sink to the bottom The fly rod is a mite slower but maybe its use is a little more sporting A crappie bonanza will be wel come this year for most of our rivers and streams are too swollen and muddy with spring run off for either planting or fishing predict that rather catch and eat crappie than trout anyway Give it a try if you are not already an addict I IELD NOTES Lahontan Reservoir White catfish black bullheads white bass yellow perch smallmouth bass and now and then a white crappie Pyramid Still holding up a random check last weekend showed 65 fishermen with 111 keeper fish Perch fishing is picking up on the northwest side Rye Patch Bass and crap pies are hitting pretty well mostly on minnows Topaz Low on fishing pres sure and 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