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there are none better for game fishes), are 

 to be protected if it is in the power of man 

 to do so. 



P. W. Roche, Mount Vernon, Ind. 



Why is it no salmon are seen, or caught, 

 in a pond which several years ago was 

 stocked with both land-locked salmon and 

 black bass, the salmon being the larger at 

 that time? What is the proper time of 

 year to fish for the salmon? What bait is 

 best? Is deep or shallow water best for the 

 fishing ground? 



Mrs. O. R. Hood, Abingdon, Mass. 



Experience has shown that it is never 

 safe to put black bass in the same pond, or 

 stream, with any other fish, if you want the 

 other fish to live. 



The life of a land-locked salmon is not 

 worth much when pitted against that of the 

 large-mouthed black bass. In the case men- 

 tioned it is impossible to tell just why the 

 salmon disappeared, without knowing more 

 about the conditions which exist there. 

 Granting that the physical conditions were 

 equally favorable to salmon and black bass, 

 which was probably not the case — then if 

 the salmon disappeared they were either 

 caught out, or the bass had something to 

 do with it. The bass could easily keep any 

 salmon that might be hatched in the pond, 

 from growing to any size. 



Don't put bass and salmon in the same 

 pond. It is hard on the salmon. 



A gentleman who has had much experi- 

 ence fishing for land-locked salmon, in 

 New England, says the last half of May, 

 and during June, is the best time to fish for 

 them. They take the fly readily; but are 

 also taken with live minnows or smelt. At 

 that season they rise to the surface readily 

 and can be found in shallow water. 



Editor Recreation: I enclose you a 

 newspaper clipping re a big salmon, caught 

 in the Columbia river, which will perhaps 

 interest your readers and give them an idea 

 of the size to which some of our salmon 

 grow. 



The largest salmon ever caught in the Columbia river 

 was delivered at a packing house at Astoria last week. It 

 was a royal chinook salmon and measured, from tip to tip, 4 

 feet 5^ inches. Its largest circumference was 3 feet, the 

 girth, close to the tail, being fully 1 foot. The spread of 

 the tail was 1 foot 4 inches, and the exact weight 81^ lbs. 

 The head, when severed from the body, weighed 8%lbs. On 

 being cooked and jpacked the fish filled 5^ dozen one-lb. 

 cans. 



Some prominent fish dealers tell me 

 larger salmon have been caught in these 

 waters, but the largest I have seen, weighed 

 only 78 pounds. What a shame that such 

 a grand specimen of the king of fishes 

 should be cut up and canned, instead of 

 being preserved, whole, for exhibition! 



tirely unlike the usual fish yarn, it is abso- 

 lutely true. The Yellowstone lake, in 

 shape", is similar to an open hand. On the 

 shore of what is known as the West Thumb 

 of the lake, is a small cone-shaped geyser, 

 which, like others, gives up its boiling 

 water. A wonderful feature of this geyser 

 is the fact that it is half covered by the ice- 

 cold waters of the lake. On the crest of 

 this wonderful little geyser I stood, fishing- 

 rod in hand, and, baiting the hook with a 

 grasshopper, threw my line into the icy 

 waters of the lake, hooked a 3 pound trout, 

 reeled it in, dressed it, and with the line in 

 hand dropped the fish into the-boiling gey- 

 ser, cooked it, and 3 of us ate the fish with- 

 out its having left the hook. It took just 

 6 minutes to cook the trout, and during 

 that time it was pulled out twice in order to 

 ascertain whether or not it was sufficiently 

 done. During the time consumed in catch- 

 ing the fish, dressing and cooking it, I did 

 not move 4 feet. 



L. M. E., Salt Lake, Utah. 



I noticed an article in Recreation com- 

 menting on a press despatch from Ashland, 

 Wis., regarding the fishing on the Brule. 

 It is said lumbermen are driving on this 

 stream. This is true, and they have driven 

 it for the last 8 years; but the lumbering is 

 on the lower part, below the clubhouse. 



I live about 11 miles from the head of 

 the Brule, on Ox creek, and have been 

 here 9 years. Ox creek is 9 miles North- 

 east of Gordon station. This stream is as 

 good as the Brule. Last spring we caught 

 trout that weighed 2^ pounds. A Y-2 pound 

 trout is thought a big fish, on the Brule. 



F. B., Gordon, Wis. * 



A paper published at Neenah, Wis., 

 says: Will Nelson and E. F. Taylor fished 

 yesterday on Lake Winnebago, and made 

 the largest catch ever reported by any 2 

 fishermen,* for one day's fishing, with the 

 spoon hook. The catch included pike, 

 black bass and silver bass, and numbered 

 in all 246 fish. Johnny Garvey and Cliff. 

 Lansing, in an afternoon's fishing of 3^2 

 hours succeeded in catching the modest 

 number of 77 of like species. Many other 

 large catches were reported by all out from 

 the Neenah mouth of the Fox, and South- 

 ward. 



A short fish story may be excusable, in 

 this connection, and while it may be en- 



Denver, Colo., May 28, '97. 

 Editor Recreation: I enclose a clipping 

 from the Denver Times, which may be of 

 interest to Recreation's many readers. 



Justice Hunt this morning found F. Oppenheim, propri- 

 etor of a restaurant, guilty of violating the new state game 

 law by selling fresh mountain trout and having it on the bill 

 of fare. The minimum fine allowed by the law, $25 in each 

 case, was assessed, but was remitted by the court on the 



*The reporter should have said " fish hogs" instead of 

 " fishermen." — Editor. 



