SOME FAMOUS ANGLING CLUBS 



unless one wished to pay them, and such, money was used in the 

 purchase of cups, medals of gold and silver. The movement 

 took with the public, and business-men anglers gave prizes, until 

 the club had cups, medals and tackle enough to almost establish a 

 shop. 



In the meantime a munber of men of national reputation who 

 had served the public in conserving its natural resources, were 

 elected honorary members. Colonel Eoosevelt was then governor 

 of New York, and he was an early member ; later Dr. Gifford 

 Pinchot, U.S. Forester and professor of Forestry at Tale ; 

 Charles HaUock, the dean of American anglers, James E. Garfield, 

 Dr. Henry Van Dyke, J. K. L. Eoss, Dr. David Starr Jordan, 

 Dr. George F. Kunz, E. B. Marston, Prince d'Arenberg, and 

 many more.' 



The public supposed the Club was organized to catch tunas, 

 and so it was, and monsters were landed. But they were all 

 taken with rod and reel, and the men who caught them performed 

 such prodigies of valour that their battles were often telegraphed 

 all over the world. A friend told me that he read an account of 

 my capture of a tuna, which sunk the boat and might have 

 drowned us a mile or so offshore, in an Italian paper in Italy the 

 day following. The wonderful part of it to the Italians was that 

 the big fish was taken with a rod. 



A tournament was now organized, to last from May to October, 

 and prizes offered in the various classes. First came the tuna, 

 and the Club, which had taken as its motto ' The Protection of 

 the fishes of California for a higher development of the art of 

 angUng,' stated in a little book which it published and gave away, 

 that the members of the Club had decided that such and such 

 tackle was fair for the tuna and offered the general public the 

 following prizes for the largest fish of the season ; the second 

 and third largest, etc. Then followed the list which I copy from 

 the little book of 1912. The prizes have increased in number 

 in fourteen years : 



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