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SPORTSMAN 



LAKE. 



During the past month, fishing has 

 been excellent in the Chewaucan and 

 Sycan Eivers. In one afternoon's 

 fishing in the Sycan River, Charles 

 Weyburn, J. L. Taylor, and J. 0. 

 Miller of Sumner Lake caught 217 

 Dolly Varden trout. 



LANE. 



Mr. A. C. Dixon of Eugene re- 

 ports that in Mill Creek, which is 

 a branch of the Mohawk, a record 

 has been kept by parties who have 

 been fishing in the stream. In a 

 period of thirty days there were 

 as many as three thousand trout 

 caught, in a stretch of about four 

 miles of the creek. 



It would be very interesting if 

 parties would keep record of the 

 actual number of fish caught in any 

 stream, covering a specific period. 

 This would be valuable data to show 

 what the stream produces, and what 

 should be done toward restocking. 



LINN. 



Deer hunting is much more en- 

 couraging at present than in the 

 fore part of the season. Deer are 

 more abundant especially along the 

 Callapooia River. 



More deer are reported now than 

 at any time since the season opened. 

 They seem to be coming down from 

 the higher mountains. The best deer 

 shooting in many localities will be 

 from now on during the month of 



October. 



TILLAMOOK. 



The open season on wild pigeons 

 began September 1st. Many hunters 

 succeeded in getting the limit of ten 

 birds a day, and twenty in seven 

 consecutive days, showing that 

 pigeons were quite abundant in that 

 section of the country. 



The federal law which went into 

 effect October 1st closed the season 

 on pigeons till 1918, so hereafter 

 it is illegal to kill these birds. 



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Many salmon are now being caught 

 by trolling in the rivers about Tilla- 

 mook Bay. 



UNION. 



L. M. Hoyt, city water superintend- 

 ent of La Grande, and a party of 

 friends killed twenty-three grouse on 

 Rock Creek during the past week. 

 Both grouse and deer are ranging 

 further back in the mountains at this 

 season of the year. 



WALLOWA. 



The south fork of the Imnaha 

 River is a favorite stream for 

 Dolly Varden or bull trout. Mr. W. 

 E. Leffel of Joseph reports that he 

 and Mr. Flannery caught a hundred 

 bull trout in less than six hours, 

 using fish fins for bait. The aver- 

 age size of the fish was ten to 

 eleven inches. The largest was 

 twenty-two inches in length. 



On August 27th an eastern brook 

 trout was caught in Wallowa Lake, 

 which measured ten and a half 

 inches. This was likely one of the 

 fish that were planted in September, 

 1912. 



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