SOME FAMOUS ANGLING CLUBS 



fornia, haYing the best interests of the anglers and the professional 

 fishermen at heart. 



All the American clubs show the advantage of organized- effort 

 to obtain just game laws and their enforcement, and were it 

 not for the laws and the sportsmanlike anglers, the fishes of lake, 

 stream and ocean would be wiped out of existence, so unreasoning 

 and souUess is the average class that purports to provide the 

 pubUc with its legal and lawful patrimony of the sea. 



The Asbury Park (N.J.) Fishing Club gives tournaments, and 

 the following are the records and awards for the season of 1911 : 



Striped Bass — First taken, Ed. J. Waters, 15 pounds ; largest, Horace 

 Butcher, 30 pounds, 4 ounces ; second largest, William Fenrich, 21 pounds, 

 4 ounces ; third largest, W. W. Scheffler, 18 pounds, 3 ounces ; greatest 

 number of fish taken, W. H. Schwartz, five fish ; largest amount of 

 pounds, James A. Mackintosh ; fourth largest, Ed. J Waters, 15 pounds ; 

 largest taken on a Seger rod, Wm. W. Scheffler, 18 poimds, 3 ounces ; 

 fifth largest, Gus Popkan, 14 pounds, 5 ounces ; largest taken in October, 

 Chas. 0. Perry, Jr., 6 pounds, 8 ounces ; the last taken during year, Geo. 

 C. Borden, 3 pounds, 13 ounces ; largest taken at night, Wm. W. Scheffler, 

 18 pounds, 3 ounces ; sixth largest, Wm. H. Schwartz, 14 pounds, 4 

 ounces ; for largest taken by member who has not caught any since 

 joining the club, Horace Butcher ; greatest aggregate weight, month 

 of June, W. W. Scheffler ; largest taken month of June, W. W. Scheffler ; 

 largest month of July, Wm. Fenrich, 21 pounds, 4 ounces ; largest month of 

 August, Horace Butcher, 30 pounds, 4 ounces ; largest month of Septem- 

 ber, Wm. H. Schwartz, 14 pounds, 4 ounces. 



Channel Bass — Largest, B. Weisenfeld, 40 pounds, 11 ounces ; second 

 largest, W. C. Glass, 39 pounds, 9 ounces ; greatest aggregate weight, 

 month of September, B. Weisenfeld, eight fish weighing 221 pounds, 2 

 ounces ; third largest, Robert Wiechert, 39 pounds, 3 ounces ; fourth 

 largest, A. Clayton, 34 pounds, 1 ounce ; fifth largest, Harry W. Metz, 33 

 pounds, 4 ounces ; sixth largest, John F. Seger, 33 pounds ; seventh largest, 

 Fred Wilkie, 32 pounds ; largest, month of September, B. Weisenfeld, 

 40 pounds 11 ounces. 



TuTM — Largest, Capt. H. H. Maddox, 44 pounds, 12 ounces ; second 

 largest, Jos. B. Cawthorn, 25 pounds, 2 ounces. 



Bluefish — First taken, H. K. Satow ; largest, W. Harry Scott, 

 3 pounds, 5 ounces ; largest aggregate weight, five fish, Jesse T. Meeker, 

 14 pounds, 10 ounces ; largest taken off shore, Capt. H. H. Maddox, 



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