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in camp, but all had a most enjoyable time. 

 Next summer we shall go to Wagon Wheel 

 Gap. 



Chas. S. Glascoe, Pueblo, Colo. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Editor Recreation: On Sunday, July 

 4th, while the yacht Winona, Capt. Wett- 

 laufer, was lying at anchor in Crystal Beech 

 Bay, one of Buffalo's fashionable " summer 

 bed-rooms " — a remarkable catch — for 

 these waters — was made. Just off the stern 

 of the yacht, where she chanced to come to 

 anchor, lay a small section of abandoned 

 crib work. One of our party, lying over 

 the rail and looking down into the water in 

 a meditative, wished-he-was-not-there way 

 (we had had a tough sail out) exclaimed 

 "look at that fellow!" 



Everyone was at once alert, and all our 

 available tackle was pressed into service, 

 spinners — fake baits, real baits, all were 

 tried, but to no avail When we were about 

 giving up in despair, some one cried, 



" Try some of these Canadian flies." 

 Thousands of them were still sticking to the 

 hull of the yacht, and a few were fished off 

 and put on a hook 



That bait was a winner, for no sooner was 

 my line well straightened in the water than 

 the fish took the hook. A few minutes' 

 struggle and a well-groomed, well-fed 

 black bass was hanging from the scale. He 

 registered 4^4 pounds. Later in the day 

 our oil-stove reduced him to a delicious 

 meal for the 4 passengers C. A. A. 



My experience in trout and bass fishing 

 in New York, covering a period of 15 years, 

 is that you can settle on no particular fly 

 as being " always a killer." The nearest 

 approach to it is the " White Miller." 



Trout are as dainty in regard to diet as 

 an epicure. Some days they will rise to 

 brown hackle, readily; while on other days 

 you cannot get a wiggle of his tail for 

 either of them; but drop a Professor, Royal 

 Coach, Rube Wood, or Seth Green with- 

 in 20 feet of him and he will quickly churn 

 the water for you. Light or cloudy days 

 have much to do with trout being tempted 

 by flies. One mUst use common sense to 

 make a fair creel of trout. 



One particular fly can be depended on 

 almost any evening, bright or lowering, 

 and that is the plumb-bodied, white-winged 

 miller. Heaven's blessing on the man who 

 discovered it! 



E. T. Hotaling, Chicago, 111. 



A Houghton, Michigan, paper reports 

 the return of a trouting party composed of 

 Congressman C. D. Shelden, A. F. Rees, 

 J. R. Dee, W. D. Calverly, William Coach, 

 A. F. Leopold, John F. Harris, R. S. 

 Shelden and John Cameron. They left 



Houghton August 27th and fished in 4 

 streams between Jack Fish and Mazokama 

 bays, on the North shore of Lake Superior. 

 The total catch was 638 fish, weighing 321^ 

 pounds, or an average weight of about half 

 a pound. One lot of 24 trout dressed, 

 weighed 72 pounds, while the largest one 

 weighed 6 pounds. 



Several copies of this report have been 

 sent me, by as many different readers, with 

 requests that I rebuke these men; but as the 

 record stands they have done no wrong. 

 It appears the party was out a week. There 

 were 9 men and they caught 321 pounds of 

 fish. This is, of course, a large quantity to 

 be taken by one party; but it figures out 

 only 35^4 pounds to each man; or 6 pounds 

 a day, to each man. This is not excessive. 

 On the contrary it is moderate. 



St. Anthony, Idaho. 



Editor Recreation: A companion fish 

 to the one described in a late number of 

 Recreation, was recently caught here in 

 Idaho. Mr. Trude, a Chicago attorney, 

 was fishing at his place in Arangee, and 

 landed a trout weighing a little less than 3 

 pounds. In dressing the fish, there was 

 found in it two 40-82 cartridges, half a bar 

 of lead, and a few primers. Around its 

 body was a band about 2 inches wide, in 

 several colors, where it was supposed to 

 have been wearing a belt, which it had lost 

 off. It had no gun with it, but may have 

 laid it down, when it stopped to take a chew 

 of the bait. 



We have some very gamey fish here, and 

 this one is believed to have been hunting 

 some of the fellows who write fish stories 

 for Recreation. Anyone who doubts this 

 story, may write to Mr. Trude, or Mr. 

 Trude, Sr., of Chicago. Both gentlemen 

 are lawyers, and will not mind making one 

 affidavit, more or less. 



Geo. Winegar. 



I send you herewith a view of " Cedar 

 Island Lodge," my Brule river, Wis., trout 

 fishing preserve. I own 7 miles of the 

 river, and the Lodge is located on a small 

 island, in the river, about 8 miles South of 

 the N. P. Ry. A chain of ponds or small 

 lakes, really a series of springs, extends 

 parallel with the river, opposite to the 

 Island, about 1^2 miles and is connected 

 at one end with the river, through screens. 

 On one of these lakes I have a trout hatch- 

 ery of 3,000,000 eggs capacity, annually. W. 

 D. Oviatt, formerly of the N. Y. State 

 fish hatchery, is Supt. He is a nephew of 

 the late Seth Green. The lakes are now 

 filled with wild trout which weigh ^ to 3 

 pounds each. My hatchery is to keep up 

 the supply, and I turn the surplus hatch into 

 the Brule river, for the benefit of the broth- 

 erhood. H. C. Pierce, St. Louis, Mo. 



