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TJie Aniericati Angler 



missions supply hundreds of millions of puny- 

 fish atoms every year to feed their voracious 

 enemies, scaled, furred or feathered. 



Mr. Oswald, in a private letter, writes us : 



" Mr. Clarence Brown, of our club, caught on 

 the opening day nineteen trout weighing •]\ 

 pounds, and I caught one of 2^ pounds, so you 

 see we have a few trout in the Castalia waters." 



THE C.ASTALI.\ CLUB HOUSE. 



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Information Concerning State Fish. 



The Department of Fish Culture attached to 

 the New York State Fish Commission has is- 

 sued two valuable circulars for the informa- 

 tion of all who wish to obtain fish from the 

 Commission for planting purposes. We ap- 

 pend them in full : 



All persons who desire to obtain fish or fish 

 fry from the Fisheries, Game and Forest Com- 

 mission, for planting in public waters of the 

 State, for under no circumstances are fish fur- 

 nished by the State to be planted in private 

 waters, should apply to the Secretary of the 

 Commission at the office in Albany, for blanks 

 to be filled out for this purpose, at the same 

 time stating the kind or kinds of fish desired. 

 Three different blanks are furnished. Blanks 

 for trout fry, blanks for fish fry (including all 

 fish furnished by the Commission other than 

 trout and black bass), and blanks for black 

 bass. A separate blank must be filled for each 

 kind of fish applied for. All applications for 

 trout fry (including brook, brown, rainbow 

 and lake trout), white fish, ciscoes, Adirondack 

 frost fish and smelts, must be filed in the office 

 at Albany oner before February ist, each year. 



Applications for tom cods must be filed on 

 or before January ist. 



Pike-perch and mascalonge applications may 

 be filed as late as April ist, and applications 

 for black bass as late as May ist. 



Most of the species of the salmon family 

 reared by the State, spanw in the fall and are 

 hatched the following spring, and are ready 

 for delivery from March to May, depending 

 upon the season and the situation of the hatch- 

 ery. The spring spawning fishes, like the 

 mascalonge, pike-perch and black bass, may be 

 delivered in May and June. Applicants for 

 fish are notified in advance of the shipments of 

 fish assigned to them. Applications for fish 

 received after the dates fixed by the Commis- 

 sion for that purpose, must be rejected for that 

 year, as assignments once made are final. The 

 clerical work of filing applications and assign- 

 ing millions of fish is so great that it can not be 

 reviewed for reassignment before distribution 

 begins. 



By law, no fish, fish fry or spawn, other than 

 trout, salmon and frost fish, can be planted in 

 the waters of the Adirondack region, and the 

 penalty for violating the law is $500. The law 



