1'ISH AN/) FISHING. 



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Recreation will soon have to enlarge 

 its branding corral if the shipments of swine 

 keep coming in at this rate. — EDITOR. 



IN MARYLAND WATERS. 



The present fishing season is said, by the 

 knights of the angle, to be the best Mary- 

 land waters have had for several years. As 

 a result of the efforts of the Maryland 

 Game and Fish Protective Association 

 seining and trot-line fishing, for bass, has 

 been broken up, in the Potomac river; and 

 the sportsmen are having good times there, 

 whenever the water is clear enough to fish. 

 Bass are also being caught in large num- 

 bers in the Susquehanna river. 



In this stream rockfish, or striped bass, 

 are also biting well, the average catch being 

 40 to 90 to a boat, in a day. The fish run 

 from 4 to 16 pounds. The waters for these 

 fish are above Port Deposit; trolling with 

 eel-tail bait is the popular method. The 

 rockfish are so plentiful on the seining 

 grounds that the fishermen are not making 

 any money, the supply being greater than 

 the demand. 



At Kent Island Narrows peeler crabs 

 are used for bait, and rock weighing from 

 4 to 25 pounds are being caught. 



Perch are plentiful at Betterton, just be- 

 low the Sassafras river, in Kent county. 

 Mr. E. A. Maull reports that 10 fishermen 

 caught 1,500 perch and rock, in 4 days, at 

 Betterton. 



Fishing is also good at Fort Carroll, but 

 citizens can only fish there after securing 

 a permit from the United States engineer's 

 office. Perch and rock feed about the fort. 

 The largest rock caught there, this season, 

 weighed 3s pounds. 



August and September are the best 

 months for fishing. Persons who have 

 fished at the capes, at the mouth of Chesa- 

 peake bay, have had grand sport with big 

 bluefish, trout, drumfish, and occasionally 

 a shark. At slack water sea trout can be 

 caught as fast as the fisherman can handle 

 them. 



Shooters predict that there will be great 

 numbers of ducks on the Susquehanna flats 

 this fall. They base their prediction on the 

 fact of there being so great a run of rock- 

 fish in the river. They do not attempt to 

 explain the connection between the run of 

 fish and the flight of ducks; but say it al- 

 ways follows that there are plenty of ducks 

 after a big run of fish. 



Frederick City (Md.) " News." 



' M ( llearj ■ o\ AntigO, and Mr Todd, 

 of Texas, caught nearly hxj pike in le than 

 half a day. 



J. C. Smith and Chas. Roetner, of Clin- 



tonville, took about 200 pound-, of pike and 

 perch, oil Pelican lake. 



T. F. Kane, Chicago, caught 100 wall- 

 eyed pike and several pickerel and black 

 bass at Pelican lake. 



Robert Kanns, C. J. Mae- S I'. Morse 

 and C. Drumm, of Kaukauna, caught 40 

 juke, 5 pickerel, 6 black bass, one 15 pound 

 and one i2'/ d pound muskalonge, and 50 

 perch. 



E. P. Reynolds, of Antigo, caught one 12 

 pound muskalonge, 5 wall-eyed pike and 1 

 perch. 



Chas. Roemer and J. C. Smith, of Clin- 

 tonville, Wis., caught 44 pike, bass and 

 pickerel. 



During a month's stay at Pelican lake, Dr. 

 E. C. Williams and W. H. Sterling, of 

 Chicago, caught 48 muskalonge, averaging 

 about 13 pounds each in weight. 



Mr. Harry Burt and H. French, of Rhine- 

 lander, caught, in the Manitowish waters, in 

 3 days, 14 muskalonge and 40 pike, all good 

 sized. 



On Tuesday July 13, A. Mehlman and 

 Herman Lindner, of Oshkosh, went to Lake 

 Poygan and in a few hours hooked 17 black 

 bass and any number of pike, pickerel and 

 sun fish. 



A recent day's catch at Green lake is re- 

 ported thus: 



Bryant of New York, 29 pickerel; Brooks 

 of Chicago, 29 pickerel: G. W. Matthor of 

 Chicago, 50 pickerel: Follensbee, of New 

 Orleans, 19 pickerel, and many small 

 catches were made, of 5 to 15 pickerel. 



WISCONSIN NOTES. 



John Waite and A. J. Hawes, 2 guides on 

 Pelican lake, secured for the month, for the 

 parties they guided, a total of 63 muska- 

 longe weighing 716 pounds. In addition to 

 this they caught many smaller fish. 



A HOG ATTACKS THE PERCH. 



Editor Recreation: The following was 

 taken from a leading city daily: " Dr. Fred 

 H. Evans of the Chester Board of Health, 

 with 3 lady companions, caught 260 perch, 

 with hooks and lines, in the Delaware river, 

 on Wednesday." In looking over this pa- 

 per these " fish swine " thus came to my 

 notice, and I cannot content myself until 

 I express my opinion of them in Recrea- 

 tion. 



What a shame to have to allow such men 

 to run at large! They should be branded, 

 and turned in a corral, to root like other 

 hog?. The doctor should have been ar- 

 rested as soon as he came ashore with his 

 perch. What about our future supply of 

 fish if such hoggishness is allowed to go 

 unpunished. Suppose every angler should 

 go out and catch 200 or 300 perch a day. 

 How long would the supply last? 



