

pounds, and are excellent pan fish. June 
and July are the best months for catching 
them. They swim in schools and afford fine 
sport. 
Three miles from here is “Bear Gulf 
Reservoir,” covering about 50 acres, and 
with an extreme depth of about 25 feet. The 
water is used by mills and factories, and 
every fall is drawn so low as to leave a sur- 
face of not over 1-2 acre with a depth of 
one or I 1-2 feet. Great numbers of fish are 
taken from this pond at all times, except 
during the low water stage. Then one may 
walk around it and not see a fish in the 
clear, shallow water. Yet when the winter 
and spring rains have refilled the pond 50 
to 100 bullheads may be taken by one rod, 
and pickerel and strawberry bass galore. 
What becomes of the fish when the 
water is low? 
To hunters we can offer squirrels, 
grouse, rabbits and hares in goodly num- 
bers. The latter especially are increasing 
rapidly, owing to the enforcement of the 
game laws. 
A. J. Wharton, Nichmondville, N. Y. 

NOTES. 
I have followed hunting and trapping a 
number of years and have had a good 
many funny experiences. Will tell you of 
one I had with a fellow I will call Jack. 
We were spearing on Elk lake, in the fall of 
’90, for Saginaw trout, and as the lake is 
very deep it was necessary to keep close 
to shore so the light from our jack would 
reflect on the bottom. 
I was doing the spearing and Jack was 
paddling the boat. I had speared a trout or 
2 when a muskrat dived from under the wil- 
lows and started to swim under the bow of 
the boat. I gave him a jab and pulled him 
into the boat. Just then I got sight of a fish; 
I shook the rat off the spear and told Jack 
to shove her ahead quick (meaning the 
boat). 
Well, I got the fish, forgot all about the 
rat, and was busy watching for another fish 
when all at once Jack gave a yell that made 
my hair stand, and jumped for the shore. 
The recoil nearly threw me out on the other 
side where the water was 50 feet deep. 
When I got straightened up, and looked 
around there sat the rat, on the seat and 
Jack was just pulling himself out of the 
water by a friendly willow. I laughed till 
Jack got mad and wanted to know what in 
h— I was laughing about. 
I went back and killed the rat, took the 
paddle, run ashore, got Jack and started 
for home: but Jack speared a fish that 
dressed 8%4 pounds and told me afterward 
that when he saw what a monster it was he 
came very near jumping out of the boat 
again, 
H. H., Jackson, Mich. 
FISH AND FISHING. 45 
Although late in the season, the fishing 
at San Diego still continues remarkably 
good. Some very large catches have been 
made off Coronado during the past month, 
consisting of yellow fin, Spanish mackerel, 
king fish, croakers, halibut and smelt. One 
party consisting of Maj. A. B. Taylor, UV. 
S. A., Wm. Van Auden, of New York, C. 
A. Kidder, of Boston, and Hon. Chas. S. 
Randall of New Bedford, Mass., brought 
in 237 fish in one day.. Another party from 
Hotel Del Coronado, brought in over 500 
fish of different varieties. These large 
catches of fish are not wasted, but are served 
at the hotel. To give you an idea of the 
vast quantities of fish taken off San Diego 
I record one day’s catch which is about 
an average. 
Yellow tail, 51; sea bass, 50; halibut, 
1,400 pounds; sand bass, 1,300 pounds; 
smelt, 140 pounds; herring, 850 pounds; 
lobsters, 300 pounds. 
On December 23, 2 Jew fish were taken 
off Coronado weighing 160 pounds each. 
One of the fish was hooked in the nose and 
required I 1-2 hours to land him. 
Aaice He Sat Diego, ‘Cal, 

I would like to ask who has met with 
instances similar to the following: Fish- 
ing for trout in a large, swift stream, I 
had a strike, and after the first short fight, 
there was no resistance. Reeling in, l 
found I had a pike, weighing nearly a 
pound, which had taken my live bait. 
his was new to me, to find trout and 
pike living together in the same stream, 
but later, I had another surprise. My com- 
panion had a good strike, and after play- 
ing it, brought a one-pound trout up 
stream, and as I was nearest the bank I 
netted it for him, when, in taking the hool< 
from its mouth, I found a 6 inch pike, par- 
tially digested, in the trout’s gullet, the 
pike being disgorged on my handling the 
fish. I would like to ask if it is a common 
thing to find the trout eating the pike, or if 
it is ever vice versa? If the pike ever eat 
the trout, it will explain why the stream I 
have reference to never seems to have any 
small fish in it, and the large ones are be- 
coming scarcer. “Septa.’ 

It is with pleasure I report two cases of 
violation of the game laws that were pun- 
ished. The first was that of a man living 
near Castella, who was fined $25 for killing 
deer in close season. The other was a 
youth living here who was arrested for 
catching fish during close season. He was 
not convicted, as it could not be proved 
it was a trout he caught. However, the 
arrest and trial had a salutory effect, not 
only on him but on all the boys in town. 
Both cases were the work of Deputy 
Game and Fish Commissioner W. S. Con- 

