292 



RECREATION. 



•Captain, D. Fair... 216 



S. R. Sutton 56 



Elmer Hinckley 188 



Mark Folts 384 



J. H. Tozer 101 



Dr. Barringer 000 



E. Haynes 197 



W. H. Tobey 124 



John C Bolles 176 



George Gillett 72 



D. P. Wood y 2 58 



Capt. F. Thompson. 60 



G. F. Beach 227 



J. Saunders 184 



B. N. Hinckley 323 



C. Fox 112 



R. Meyer 212 



G. W. Case 124 



Grant Lee 00 



S. H. Howse 44 



S. A. Story 00 



D. P. Wood Vz 58 



1572 1429 



This gave the contest to Farr and his men by 

 143 points. A dinner was served at the club house 

 at the expense of the other fellows. 



—Naples (N. Y.) Paper. 



Thus we see that the swine are still at 

 large up the State. If there are any decent 

 sportsmen in Naples why don't they round 

 up these brutes and put them in the pound? 

 — Editor. 



MORE PENNSYLVANIA ROOTERS. 

 Herewith I enclose clipping from the Le- 

 high Register and Patriot, of Allentown, 

 Pa. I suggest that you enter tne names of 

 the parties in vour fish hog _ catalogue, 

 which I understand you are getting out. 

 C. W. Rice, Perth Amboy, N. J. 



L. A. Gardner, George Selbert and Charles 

 Arner, of Easton, who returned Thursday morn- 

 ing from a fishing trip to Monroe county, caught 

 242 trout. 



I wrote these men for confirmation of 

 the statement and received the following 

 reply : 



Two friends and I fished on the 15th and 

 16th of April, in the East Brodhead, Stony 

 run, Mill creek and Buch Hill and we 

 caught our limit, 150 trout,. 



L. A. Gardner^ Easton, Pa. 



There are dozens of decent sportsmen in 

 your State no one of whom would be guilty 

 of catching that number of fish in a day 

 new, even though the law does allow them 

 to take 50 each. — Editor. 



A GOOD FIGHTING WARDEN. 

 Our local warden, Mr. Joe Kline, has 

 had 14 convictions out of 17 arrests. One 

 conviction was for destroying a robin's 

 nest, $25 fine, and one was for gill netting 

 in one of our small lakes. That man was 

 fined $200 and costs, making a total of 

 $256. Mr. Kline is doing good work and 

 needs encouragement. The parties arrest- 

 ed always put up a strong, hot fight, but 

 Mr, Kline will win out. We need protec- 

 tion here for our fishes, as our lakes are 

 small. We have black bass and bluegills 

 and if they are given the rio-ht kind of 

 protection the fishing will again be good 

 in a few years. Fishing through the ice 

 has almost depleted the stock of bass, as 9 

 out of 10 fish caught here in that way are 

 females, and large ones at that. I have seen 



bass taken through the ice that would 

 weigh over 4 pounds and they were full 

 of spawn. 



E. R,., Ravenna, Ohio. 



NIBBLES. 



Every winter for the last 7 years it has 

 been my custom to spend 2 weeks to 3 

 months in Florida, and much of that time 

 has been spent fishing. I have never fished 

 in the inland waters of Florida; but I have 

 noticed every succeeding winter a progres- 

 sive deterioration of the salt water fishing 

 at the points I have visited, principally 

 Indian river and Sarasota bay, until now 

 legitimate sport is nearly ruined. . The 

 cause is apparent, namely, promiscuous and 

 unrestrained netting at all seasons of the 

 year, and the killing of all fish, great and 

 small, by stop nets and seines. The people 

 of Florida should wake up and procure 

 and enforce judicious legislation on this 

 subject, or soon there v/ill be no fish and 

 an important source of revenue will be 

 lost. M. D, Ewell, M.D., Chicago, 111. 



One Paul Steinberg, of Fountain City, 

 Wis., was recently arrested by Chief of Po- 

 lice Smith and Marshall Ruediger, of that 

 place, for fishing with a seine in the Miss- 

 issippi river in violation of the Wisconsin 

 State law. Steinberg was caught in the 

 act, was fined $50, and his seine, his boat 

 and his new Winchester rifle were confis- 

 cated. He probably took the gun with him 

 to shoot officers, but it would seem that 

 his courage failed him when Smith and 

 Ruediger descended on him. Steinberg 

 was unable to pay his fine and went to 

 jail to serve it out. He will have plenty 

 of time there to think it over. 



Last spring my brother, Dr. L. G. Ver- 

 rill, and I, while on a fishing trip, took an 

 albino pickerel 16 inches long. In shape he 

 was like any pickerel, but his scales were 

 pure white, with fins of a pink shade. He 

 was taken at Snows Falls, Me, We also 

 caught several ordinary pickerel. We saw 

 the albino before he struck for the hook, 

 which he missed the first time, but the sec- 

 ond cast brought him. He was fierce and 

 handled himself as quickly and actively as 

 the best of them. Do you or the readers 

 of Recreation know any reason for such a 

 freak? We are having it mounted. 



Alton J. Verrill, Oxford, Me. 



Kent, Ohio — The jury in the case of John 

 Ilanselmann, the Akron man charged with gill 

 netting at Stratton's lake, returned a verdict of 

 guilty. Justice Johnson fined the prisoner $200 

 and costs. — Cleveland (Ohio) Paper. 



