HUNTING AND FISHING IN MONTANA 



Caught on the Square. But Not Necessarily on the Hook 



Fish and Wild Game Protection by Warden DeHart 



Addresses Billings Commercial Club at Luncheon -- 0. F. Goddard 



Wins "Fish Story" Prize 



Characterizing fish and wild game as among the most important of 

 Montana's natural resources and strongly advising against their wanton 

 destruction. J. L. DeHart, State Game Warden, addressed the Billings 

 Commercial Club yesterday at a "fish" luncheon, at which H. C. Crip- 

 pen presided. Other speakers included J. H. Brunson, Superintendent 

 of Fish Hatcheries of Montana; C. B. Roedel of Sheridan, Wyo. ; G. 

 Wingard, Red Lodge Commercial Club, and Judge George W. Pierson. 



A vaudevillian touch was added by the "fish story" contest, in 

 which O. F. Goddard, R. H. Fuhrmeister and George W. Swords par- 

 ticipated. Mr. Goddard carried off the honors and was presented with 

 an expensive automatic reel, donated by the J. Collins West Sporting 

 Goods Company. 



C. B. Roedel talked on ways of preventing fish from getting into 

 irrigation canals and ditches, and exhibited a screen of his own in- 

 vention on which patent is pending. 



J. H. Brunson spoke in favor of a closed season for trout, and de- 

 nounced the practice of fishing for trout in frozen over lakes during 

 the spawning season. 



Judge Pierson gave an interesting account of the life and works 

 of Isaak Walton. 



In his address on fish and game in Montana, Game Warden DeHart 

 said in part: 



"In the minds of those who have to do with the forestry, the fish 

 and game interests of this state; those that have given these subjects 

 careful and thoughtful study, each of them in itself seems to occupy 

 such a place in the make-up of the individual life of so many people 

 and are jointly so interwoven with each other and the general pros- 



