THE 



OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



Two four-pronged bucks were kill- 

 ed at the mouth of the Salmonberry 

 River, August 28. 



LINCOLN. 



Large numbers of perch, flounders 

 and torn cod are being caught in 

 Yaquina Bay. The principal bait 

 used are clams and kelp worms. 

 There are several launches that take 

 parties out for deep sea fishing. 

 These boats go out from three to 

 fifteen miles. Quite a number of 

 rock cod and halibut are being 

 caught. 



UNION. 



H. P. Oliver, Earle Nuttey and 

 party have just returned from a ten 

 day's outing on Little Salmon River, 

 at the mouth of Butte Creek, where 

 they made a good catch of Rainbow 

 and Dolly Vardens. They brought 

 home sixty-five pounds of smoked 

 trout. Mr. Oliver reports that sal- 

 mon are running in the Little Sal- 

 mon and Grande Ronde Rivers. The 

 trout caught by this party averaged 

 9^> inches long. 



* * * 



Al Ray, of La Grande, caught 

 sixty-four trout in the Lostine River 

 on the 24th, the average length be- 

 ing 8% inches. 



* * * 



Lou Rayburn, of La Grande, made 

 a flying trip to Lostine last Mon- 

 day and caught fifteen fine trout 

 from the south fork of the Lostine 

 River. 



* * * 



Roll M. Baker and Jake Reiver, 

 of La Grande, made a trip to Beaver 



Creek on Sunday, August 24. Mr. 

 Reiver's fifty-seven. These were 

 Rainbows and Eastern Brook; the 

 average was nine inches in length. 

 * # * 



Parties camping on Catherine 

 Creek report usual catches of about 

 thirty-five trout, averaging about 

 8 1 /. inches. The catch on Catherine 

 Creek for the week ending August 

 30, has been about 700 trout and 

 something like fifty salmon. 

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Quite a number of bear have been 

 reported in the Blue Mountains about 

 the different sheep camps. 



WALLOWA. 



Prof. Anderson, of Whitman Col- 

 lege, and a party of friends from 

 Walla Walla, on August 25 drove to 

 Big Sheep Creek and back to Joseph 

 in their cars, and caught 322 trout, 

 using grasshoppers for bait. There 

 were sixteen persons in this party. 

 # * * 



Harry Nottingham, of Enterprise, 

 killed an eleven-point buck on Sheep 

 Creek on August 15. 



Fish planted in Aneroid Lake in 

 October have grown from finger- 

 lings to six to eight-inch trout. No 

 fish were in this lake heretofore. 



Chas. Oswald, of Summerville, 

 caught fifty-two ten-inch trout in 

 one day on Looking Glass and Wal- 

 lowa Rivers. 



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