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bigger than 35 feet 1. w. 1.—will be of all kinds, 
sailing (which are not so bad), propellers, and 
what not; enough, at least, to change the 
rustic simplicity of the inhabitants to gruff, 
business like city manners. Enough to change 
the natural, though somewhat monotonous 
beauty of sea, sand and sky, to ugly forests 
of tall spars and clouds of black smoke. 
The screech of the propeller, as it plows 
through the bays, will frighten the jackfish and 
cause the silver king to seek waters untroubled 
with such horrid monsters. The snorting tug 
will drive the flamingo from his resting place 
on the sand bar and make the water turkey 
wonder why he was born. Countless engines 
will come plowing through chaparral, scaring 
the timid deer and savelina from their haunts. 
The picture is too touching; I cannot tell 
half the story. It makes my hand tremble, 
and my heart throb, and my eyes blur. 
old Aransas Pass, to be brought so low. 
Wii M. S. 
Dear 
San ANTONIO, Texas. 

Fishing at Bowling Green, Ky. 
Our fishing commences as soon as our river 
gets over its high horse, say in two or three 
weeks. My tackle is all ready, my boat 
pitched and calked, and I am impatient for the 
time when I can get out, but this 
weather is too rough yet. I have my pants 
reinforced with sheepskin, to keep my old 
bones from wearing away before the other 
parts of the machinery give out. 
We don’t have such fishing here as your 
contributors talk about, nor do we make such 
miraculous catches as some write about. Our 
game fish is the bronze-backed bass, but we 
have the jack (pike), the pike-peich and a 
bass with so many names that we don’t know 
what to call it. When we write about fish we 
call it ‘‘campbellite;” it is said that it was not 
known in Ohio tributaries until the canals 
from Lake Erie were let through to the Ohio. 
It is an excellent fish on the table, also game, 
and takes a live minnow. 
It scarcely ever gets over 2% lbs. in weight; 
is silvery white on sides and sometimes very 
mottled, and its habitat is in old tree tops in 
still pools. Whatisit? [It is the strawberry 
bass sometimes called calico bass. See cut 
page 118.—Ep.] Our mascalonge (?) sometimes 
weighs 50 tbs, but oftener only 30; our cat- 
fish grow to weigh (if left long enough to 
grow) occasionally 100 tbs., but our sport is 
north 
The American Angler 
black bass, or rather bronze bass, but we 
very rarely catch them weighing over 6 bbs. 
We can’t coax them to take a fly, but a live 
minnow or crayfish they take when hungry; 
our fish, like the rest Kentuckians, 
hardly ever get hungry, but are always 
thirsty. We have no trout in this part of the 
world, but some of our people talk and write 
of us 

about trout when meaning bass. CR By 
The Castalia Club. 
At the annual meeting of the Castalia 
Trout Club Company, held at their club house, 
Castalia, Ohio, March 15, 1895, the following 
officers and directors were elected for the en- 
suing year: Officers: John Zollinger, presi- 
dent; John S. Sweeney, vice president; A. C. 
Moss, treasurer; Clark T. Hasbrouck, secre- 
tary. Directors: John Zollinger, George J. 
Johnson, John S. Sweeney, Clark T. Has- 
brouck, A. C. Moss, Frank N. Beebe, John A. 
Waite. 
The beautiful new club house of the club 
has been formally opened, and the event 
marked also the opening of the fishing season, 
and the members will have some fairly good 
catches to report when they return to town. 
The new club building is constructed in the 
antique style, and a broad piazza nearly sur- 
rounds it. The third story, which is the 
upper one, is in one large room, used as a 
dormitory. The second floor includes suites of 
rooms beautifully furnished, and the lower 
floor is divided off into parlors, reception 
rooms, a tackle room and bath and storage 
rooms. ‘The building occupies a situation on 
a rise of ground overlooking the beautiful 
stream, over which runs an iron bridge con- 
necting the new building with the dining and 
living apartments on the other side. 
The indications are good for a successful 
fishing season. During the fall and winter 
the club has propagated over half a million 
young fry, and these will be put into the 
stream from time to time as they mature. The 
stream is now full of trout. 

We learn that there are a few shares for sale 
of the Grande Pointe Club, located on the cele- 
brated St. Clair flats. Price, $150.00. This 
is a rare opportunity to secure a proprietorship 
of a club located on one of the best black bass 
waters in the United States. Detailed infor- 
mation can be had by addressing Geo, H. 
Mackie, St. Clair, Mich. 
