FISH AND FISHING. 



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about 5 inches thick and while one boy cut 

 holes with the chisel, about 40 feet apart, 

 another took the axe and made tip-ups, 

 from limbs of trees; for we boys had never 

 seen the patent contrivances now on sale, 

 which hoist a flag when a fish is hooked. 

 We cut limbs about 2 feet long, which had 

 twigs nearly opposite. On one of these we 

 left the little branches and the other was 

 cut off to 3 inches. The line was made fast 

 to the main stem and led to the end of the 

 short twig, where a half-hitch held it. The 

 limb was laid across the hole and the weight 

 of the long twig on the ice balanced the 

 minnow, but a pull on the line raised the 

 signal by pulling the short twig down into 

 the water. 



The lines were baited by hooking a min- 

 now just below the dorsal fin, but not far 

 enough below to paralyze it by injuring the 

 backbone and so preventing its swimming. 

 The water was 10 to 30 feet deep, and we 

 let the minnows half-way down. Then we 

 skated around, to keep warm, until the sig- 

 nal came from some hole, that a fish had 

 struck. We had to see that our tip-ups 

 were not frozen fast, and that the minnows 

 were kept alive. All this gave us plenty of 

 exercise. 



On that particular day, which is as fresh 

 on memory's tin-type as if yesterday, we 

 took 17 pickerel, not pike, which averaged 

 over 3 pounds each. The lot weighed 56 

 pounds on the scales at Mat. Miller's 

 grocery. 



BASS AND PIKE IN MINNESOTA. 



I had caught the tarpon, jew-fish, jack- 

 fish, Spanish mackerel and other varieties 

 of fish, of the Gulf of Mexico, and was anxi- 

 ous to try the fresh water fish of the North. 

 My first opportunity came late this season. 

 I had business that called me to North Da- 

 kota and determined to stop a few days at 

 Alexandria, Minn. There I expected to 

 meet some of the members of the Chille- 

 cothe club, at their camp grounds on Lake 

 Carlos. I did not see them, as they had 

 returned home; but fortunately I had a let- 

 ter from Mr. John E. Wait, one of the 

 most active members, which put me in good 

 grace, on my arrival at their club grounds. 

 I had the use of their boats, nets, etc. I 

 remained there 4 days and had a royal good 

 time; catching wall eyed pike; small mouth 

 black and rock bass, pickerel, crappie and 

 other smaller varieties. In fact, I then 

 made up my mind to stop again on my re- 

 turn from North Dakota, which I did, and 

 stayed 5 days. Took my boat to Lake 

 Geneva, 2 miles from Alexandria and 

 rowed through into Lake L'Homme Dieu, 

 and on to Lake Carlos; fishing more or 

 less at the most favorable places. I did the 

 most of my fishing in Lake Carlos. It is 9 

 miles long, 2 miles wide and 150 feet deep, 

 and is the last of a chain of lakes. Did not 



fish for a record, but simply to catch what 

 I could use, and give to a few friends. The 

 last day of my stay I told my boatman 

 I wanted to fish that day for a record, to 

 tell my Texas friends, and he asked me 

 what kind of fish I wanted to catch. I an- 

 swered, " Wall eyed pike." We landed on 

 Pike Bar, and at night we had 52 pike, 1 

 gray bass, 8 pickerel and a few other fish. 



Alexandria is in Douglas County, Minn. 

 The county has about 200 lakes; some of 

 them quite large. On a number of them 

 are k>cated club houses. Later in the sea- 

 son, they have fine duck shooting. 



In North Dakota, in and around Stump 

 lake, I found good chicken and duck shoot- 

 ing, but as non-residents have to pay $25 

 for a permit, there have not been so many 

 hunters there as usual. I was so well sat- 

 isfied with my trip, I hope to be able to go 

 again next season. 



Levi Lingo, Denison, Texas. 



SUMMER DAYS ON THE CEDAR. 



Waterloo, la. 



Editor Recreation: R. S. Brown and 

 R. J. Nickols, with their families, and my 

 wife and I, have been on a 2 weeks' camp- 

 ing trip, down the Cedar river. We camped 

 in a large walnut grove, with a running 

 spring near by. 



Caught enough blue channel catfish, 

 crappies and big mouth bass, to supply the 

 camp. The fishing has been excellent this 

 fall, good strings of bass and pike being 

 taken all the time. 



We are not troubled with game hogs in 

 this section. A game and fish club here, 

 with a large membership, makes life a bur- 

 den to the pot and market hunters. Prairie 

 chicken shooting has been very good, 

 though no large bags were made. With 

 the warm weather, and the birds staying in 

 the corn fields, hunters have earned all they 

 got. Rabbits and fox squirrels are plenty, 

 and will afford fine sport for the boys. 

 There are many quail, all over the North- 

 ern part of the State, but sportsmen do not 

 bother them; would rather see them in- 

 crease, and hear again the familiar call of 

 " Bob White " throughout the land. 



N. W. Tieman. 



A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT. 



A Tallahassee correspondent of the " Citizen " says : 

 The fishermen in the East Coast country are highly 

 elated with the decision of Judge Minor S. Jones, at 

 Titusville, in the first case brought under the new fish 

 law. The law prohibits the catching of any fish between 

 June 15 and August 15 with net or seine, or any mullet 

 from November 15 to December 31. An offender. was 

 arrested in Brevard County, charged with having violated 

 the law by catching mullet. He was arraigned before 

 Judge Jones, who released the prisoner, claiming he had 

 violated no law, as he viewed it. — Indian River Advocate. 



A Florida correspondent sends me the 

 above clipping and adds: " By this Florida 

 judge's decision a mullet is no fish. Is that 

 so? Can you tell me what is a mullet? " 



