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RECREATION. 



NIBBLES. 

 Enclosed I send you clipping from the 

 Oil City Derrick. It served them right? 

 W. S. Beers, Petroleum Centre, Pa. 



Sisterville, W. Va. — While dynamiting fish at 

 the head of Russell Island, George Chambers and 

 Ed. Engemire lost their lives and Phil Roush lost 

 an eye and was so badly hurt otherwise that his 

 condition is critical. The men were in a skiff 

 when one of them carelessly threw a lighted match 

 among some dynamite sticks, causing an explosion, 

 with the above results. 



Occasionally a man works out his own 

 punishment. In many cases courts and offi- 

 cers of the law are unable to apprehend 

 dynamiters,. Many a stream and many a 

 lake in the country has been completely 

 cleared of fish by the use of this pest of 

 modern days. I am always glad, therefore, 

 when I hear that a man who has been 

 dynamiting fish has been blown out of the 

 water himself. I wish all such vandals 

 might share the fate of these men. — Editor. 



Can you inform me where some small 

 mouth black bass can be bought? What 

 would they cost per 1,000? We want to 

 stock a small lake, which is fed by springs. 

 George Schwartzkopf, Jr., Columbus, Ind. 



ANSWER. 



The easiest and best way to get small 

 mouth black bass for stocking a small body 

 of water is to seine them from some stream 

 in your neighborhood. This species is 

 doubtless common in the White river near 

 Columbus and in all its tributary streams. 

 Get permission from Mr. Sweeney, your 

 State Fish Commissioner and one of your 

 fellow-townsmen, to use a seine for this 

 purpose. Put the bass in a large tub of 

 cool water. You do not need more than 

 50 or 100. In fact, 25 will be ample. The 

 probability is, however, your pond is bet- 

 ter suited to the large mouth black bass, 

 which is the better pond fish. You can get 

 them in any of the bayous along the river. 

 — Editor. 



Where did these editors learn to roast 

 pork? Can any one guess? Certainly not 

 from the A. D. G. H. ; nor from any one 

 of half a dozen other alleged sportmen's 

 journals I could name. — Editor. 



A TROUT HOG. 



The trout season opened Wednesday, April 16, 

 and a few good catches are reported. George 

 Lambert took 105 out of Trout brook and others 

 filled their baskets from different streams. — 

 Downsville News. 



One reason there are no more trout in the 

 streams is because of hog fishermen. One of 

 them over in Delaware county took 105 speckled 

 trout out of Trout brook the 16th. — Oneonta Spy. 



Any man who will catch 105 trout in one day 

 is worse than a hog, for a hog does not want 

 more than he can hold. If the Deacon of the 

 Dairyman will visit his mirror he may see an 

 exception. There are a ' plenty more. — Unadilla 

 Times. 



A man who is so much lower than a hog that 

 he will take 105 trout, as scarce as they are, de- 

 serves lynching. — Deposit Courier. 



A party of fish hogs carried away from our 

 neighboring stream 350 trout in 2 days. The 

 Gazette force is exempt from all this, as suckers 

 and redfins have been their only catch so far. — 

 Delhi (N. Y.) Gazette. 



J. A. Cooper returned yesterday from a fish- 

 ing trip in Walker valley. He caught' nearly 400 

 trout. — California paper. 



To my inquiry as to the truth of this re- 

 port Mr. Cooper replied as follows 



April 15 I caught 160 trout, April 16, 171, 

 and the morning of the 17th 48; total 378. 



I fished in a branch of Russian river, in 

 Mendocum county and did not fish more 

 than 6 hours any of the days. The trout 

 were ordinary California brook trout, 5 to 



II inches long. I had many 8 to 10 inches. 



J. A. Cooper, San Francisco, Cal,. 



It appears from Mr. Cooper's letterhead 

 that he is one of the Commissioners of the 

 Supreme Court of the State of California. 

 By his own confession he disgraces himself 

 and the State he represents in his official 

 capacity by slaughtering trout. It is hoped 

 the sportsmen of California will see to it 

 that Mr. Cooper is retired to private life 

 at the first opportunity. — Editor. 



We have a small lake near here in which 

 there are large mouth black bass, but they 

 refuse to strike anything. I have tried 

 jackfish and flies; also artificial minnows; 

 but I have little success. Can you suggest 

 any tackle with which I can hook these 

 bass? What is the best bait for bream? 

 Our water is clear and is 3 to 4 feet deep. 

 A, Darder, Anniston, Ala. 



ANSWER. 



Anglers in the South sometimes have 

 good success using cockroaches when fish- 

 ing for large mouth black bass. Cock- 

 roaches are also good for bream. Try them. 

 Try also small live minnows, grasshoppers, 

 white grubs, and artificial frog. Moderate 

 flies of dark colors ought to prove effective. 

 — Editor. 



The enclosed item appeared in the Lin- 

 coln Evening Nezvs and is one of a num- 

 ber which prove the efficiency of our game 

 warden. 



A. R., Lincoln, Neb. 



Two desperate violators of the law were sur- 

 rounded by persistent deputy game wardens near 

 Papillion Saturday night and unceremoniously 

 thrown into prison. The heroes of the fray were 

 chief deputy game warden Simpkins, his faithful 

 deputy Nick Carter, and fish commissioner O'Brien. 



The officers not only captured the poachers 

 with several sacks filled with fish, but also gath- 

 ered in a wagon load of nets, hoops and other 

 paraphernalia. These were stacked up on the 

 bank of the creek and burned. The fish were all 

 liberated. 



