Chum

[gvanzant]

This is a true tale... In the early 1900's Jed Welsh was a guide around the June Lake area. He always returned the $5.00 fee he received from a customer if they didn't catch their limit of 25 trout. Copying the Paiute Indians he chummed the trout two days before his charter. He hung a dead rabbit from a tree limb that overhung the water. The rabbit was sliced in the belly so that Blow-fly maggots could multiply in the gut. Each morning of his trip he shook the tree branch and dumped maggots into the water. Soon he had every trout in June Lake under that tree branch. Needless to say he didn't have to return many fees.
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