24 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
The four of us continued our efforts to exterminate the species of 
fish known as steelhead until the sun began to sink behind the Coast 
Range and we were aware that we must stop. Tired? Yes, but in a 
way that makes you love every one and feel that you were glad to be 
alive. I was elected official counter and as the last steelhead was 
placed in the sack I called out seventy-three. These fish ranged in 
weight from one to twelve pounds. 
Upon our arrival in town we emptied the sacks of fish on the 
street and invited all our friends and passersby to help themselves. 
For several days we were kept busy receiving thanks from the 
recipients of these beautiful fish. 
Thus was I initiated to the sport of winter fishing in Rogue River 
and when conditions are right I expect to repeat the performance. 

DEER, FISH AND BIRDS ABOUND 
By E. J. Wricut, Portland, Oregon. 
While certain portions of Oregon seem to be well advertised for 
the amount of game contained therein, and consequently visited by 
hunareds of eager sportsmen and lovers of nature every year, there 
are places in this Oregon of ours so rich in scenic beauty, so full of 
the wonders of nature, so teeming with game, places of which we hear 
little or nothing, that the wonder of it is how has it all escaped us? 
Big Lake should be the mecca of those ambitious sportsmen who 
would find new worlds to conquer. This body of water is in the 
extreme eastern end of Linn County, four miles west of the summit 
of Cascade Range, which is the dividing line between Linn and Crook 
Counties, as well as between the Deschutes and Santiam National 
Forest Reserve. Big Lake is three miles long and a mile across at its 

Big Lake, situated in the extreme eastern part of Linn ‘County, Oregon, three miles 
from summit of Mt. Washington. 
