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\j. S. Commission, as he lives less than 8 

 miles from the lake. An old Scotchman 

 told me they were not found save in his 

 country. M. P. Dunham. 



Reynolds, bridge inspector for C. & N. \V. 

 Ry., and his brother, from Spokane, Wash., 

 took a [3 pound muskalonge and 25 fine 



pike. 



WISCONSIN NOTES. 



Fishing on Lake Winnebago has im- 

 proved greatly since the net fishing has 

 been stopped White bass are plentiful, 

 while at some points black bass are caught 

 in good numbers. 



Richard Harney, of Oshkosh, fishing on 

 Lake Winnebago caught 17 black bass. 

 The same day Anton Marheine took the 

 steamer to Island Park, on Lake Winne- 

 bago, and there took row boat to Black 

 Bird island where he caught 37 black bass. 



J. M. Eisner, 375 E. Division st. and A. 

 P. Rust, with Sprague, Warner & Co., 

 Chicago, caught 7 muskalonge in Alle- 

 quash lake, one weighing 20 pounds and one 

 I 3 I /2 pounds. 



G. W. Stauff, 661 Orchard st. and L. F. 

 Moeng, 346 Mohawk st., Chicago, caught 

 11 muskalonge, in Gresham lake, weight of 

 largest 22 pounds. The same men made 

 some big catches of wall-eyed pike. 



Hosea McFarland took a 10 pound pick- 

 erel in Lake Elizabeth, near Rockford, 111. 



Seventeen black bass, weighing 50 

 pounds, an average of 3 pounds each, were 

 taken from Duck lake, by F. C. Payne and 

 Lloyd Breck, in 2 hours' fishing, near 

 Watersmeet. 



Martin Johnson, of Tomahawk lake, 

 caught 3 muskalonge, weighing 41 pounds, 

 and 8 pike weighing 24 pounds. Mr. La- 

 Salle, of Rhinelander, caught a muskalonge 

 weighing 29 pounds, in the same lake. 



Mr. Chatterton, of Rhinelander, caught 

 40 bass, some weighing over 4 pounds each, 

 at the same place. 



A. F. Dod, of Chicago, caught 6 large 

 black bass, 24 pounds of pickerel and some 

 croppies, in one hour. The bass weighed 2 

 to Y? pounds each. E. Kentnor, St. Louis, 

 caught 8 good bass. 



Thos. F. Gane, of Chicago, caught a 

 muskalonge weighing 24 pounds, and 12 

 black bass, all in half a day; and on another 

 day 30 wall eyed pike. 



Dr. E. C. Williams and wife, and W. H. 

 Sterling and wife, of Chicago, caught, at 

 Pelican lake, during the month of June, 48 

 muskalonge weighing a total of 503 pounds. 



F. B. Miner, of Pelican Lake, caught 157 

 pike and bass July nth. H. J. Frick of An- 

 tigo landed a muskalonge weighing yj 

 pounds. A. J. McLain and Chas. Ede, of 

 Chicago, caught 17 pike in one hour. Mr. 



A CAR LOAD OF HOGS. 



Here is a bulletin that was sent out, in 

 August last, by the Passenger Department 

 of the Pennsylvania Railway, to the editors 

 of the newspapers along its line: 



" Superintendent Wilson Brown, of the 

 Camden and Amboy Division, P. R. R., 

 had a party of the division chiefs, as his 

 guests, on his private car at this place. 

 The party enjoyed a day's fishing on Bar- 

 negat bay, in the yacht Lenox, with Captain 

 Charles Bozarth, and caught 400 fish, the 

 largest number being caught by Thomas B. 

 Appleget, G. C. Bishop, John Ford, Wilson 

 Brown, Jr., C. E. Wiler, F. J. Potter, J. W. 

 Perry and G. Latrobe. 



" Prof. William R. Boswell, of Philadel- 

 phia, made a fine catch of 340 fish in 2 hours, 

 and would have caught many more, had 

 there been room in his boat for them. (!) 



" The finest catch of the season was made 

 by a party composed of T. N. Stokes, and 

 John H. Craven, of Philadelphia; J. M. 

 Howell and J. R. Bunting of Atlantic City, 

 and George H. Fry of Jenkintown, Pa., 

 who brought ashore 1,090 weak fish, the 

 product of 2 days' fishing." 



The exploit of these Railway officials is 

 one of the coldest blooded pieces of butch- 

 ery that has yet come to my knowledge. 

 These men should be interested in the 

 propagation and preservation of the fish 

 and game in their territory; but instead 

 they seem anxious to have them extermi- 

 nated. One of the editors, to whom this 

 bulletin was sent, referred it to me with the 

 explanation that he had not printed it, and 

 should not do so; as he did not wish to 

 honor these men in this way. Recreation 

 is, however, glad to give them a place in its 

 branding pen. — Editor. 



BROWN TROUT AND FLIES. 



Hon. A. N. Cheney. N. Y. State Fish 

 Culturist, replying to Mr. J. Elmer Pratt's 

 article in October Recreation on brown 

 trout in Michigan, says: 



The. brown trout certainly does rise to 

 the fly. Witness the dry fly fishing in 

 England — the highest form of fly fishing — 

 for this fish. It takes the fly, also, in this 

 country; but I have heard of cases where 

 the fish have been planted and have done 

 well, and yet would not take a fly. As 

 such instances have not come under my 

 personal observation, I cannot explain 

 why. Possibly the waters contain so much 

 food (and I have inclined to this explana- 

 tion in some cases, from what I have been 



