
FISH AND FISHING. 
These men were only gone 3 days, so 
they must have caught these fish in about 
one day. They are prominent men here 
and I think if you take the matter up 
with them and put the correspondence in 
print it will have a tendency to bring 
about good results, as this matter has 
been much talked of and many of our peo- 
ple are indignant at this exhibition of 
swinishness. 
Ee) Owosso, Mirch. 
I wrote Aten as follows: 
I am informed that you and a friend 
recently caught more than 400 trout in 
2 days. Will you kindly advise me if 
this report is correct? 
Wotrs, stinuly, 
Gur@Oe Sirelds: 
The above is true. We fished one day 
and part of 2 more. 
to eat while there and brought home 330. 
Yours respectfully, 
Wer Avben- 
I also inquired of Mr. Symes, and here 
is his answer: 
I am pleased to state that this is no fish 
story. We caught over 400 trout and 
brought home 330. We ate the others 
there. George B. Symes. 
Why should you be “pleased to state” 
it? You would be ashamed of it if you 
had been reading RECREATION for the 
past 5 years. You see by the above what 
your neighbors think of you, and all the 
sportsmen in the country will have the 
same contempt for you when they read 
your letters.—ED. 
SHINERS. 
Any person wishing to have a few days 
of good fishing at small cost, may do so 
by taking the boat at 8 p. m., reaching 
Milwaukee in time to catch a train on 
ime MVinrksest. —erailroad at, 6:20) a.m... 
which takes you to Lake Mills Station. 
The lake is about a mile from the station. 
You can get boats and bait from the 
man who keeps the boat-house. He is 
an obliging old man and will treat you 
squarely. The lake is fed mostly by 
springs and fish are plentiful. Black and 
rock bass and pickerel are the fish gen- 
erally caught. There are plenty of hotels 
within a quarter of a mile of the lake. 
A. H. Wichert, Chicago, III. 
Game Protector George Carver made a great haul 
this week in Blind Sodus bay north of this place. One 
brand new gill net was taken, measuring 1260 feet in 
length, which was stretched across the mouth of the 
bay, and three other gill nets were found, each 500 feet 
long. Further investigation revealed 2 trap nets, one 
of them being 12 feet square, with wings extending out 
130 feet in each direction, the other net being 8 feet 
square, with 75 foot wings, Allof the nets were full of 
Had all we wanted 
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fish. Over 4o pickerel, ranging in weight from 2 to 15 
pounds were found in the smallest gill net, while the 
trap nets were loaded down with fish. Mr, Carver said 
there were tully 1,coo pounds ot fish in the big trap net.— 
Red Creek, Vt., Herald. 
Also this: 
Game Protector Carver, of Lyons, captured 5 nets 
in the bay, ‘tuesday, and destroyed them. Four of 
them were trap nets, one being new and evidently the 
first time in use, and one large gill net.—Same paper, 
later date. 
Carver is a corker and should be pro- 
moted at once. 
Shell Lake, Wis., May 3.—Willard Tubbs of River 
Falls, Wis., was fined $54 tor violating the game laws 
by catching 45 trout the day before the season opened. 
—From Milwaukee Sentinel May 4th, 
One day last week 3 men from the glass works caught 
10 large trout in the bottom of the old canal with their 
hands, A small spring and shallow water enabled 
them to do this. County Detective Jcseph Rightnour 
was informed of this violation of the fish law and he 
at once notified the offenders, wno admitted the charge 
and paid a fine of $18. It was perfectly right. Now 
we hope some of the chaps who catch trout with nets 
will be pulled in likewise.—Keystune Gazette, Belle. 
fonte, Pa. 
Good! If all wardens will follow these 
examples and if all newspapers will com- 
mend them for doing so, there will be 
some hope of preserving the fish.—Eb. 
Herewith letter from agent of the 15th 
inst., reading as follows: “Fishing is quite 
good here, John Louisell, sportsmen’s 
guide of this place, in 5 or 6 hours, 
usually catches 10 to 15 pounds of brook 
trout. Louis Hokenson caught 6 pounds 
in 30 minutes last Thursday. 
Our rivers are the Paint, the Bush and 
the Ontonagon. Bush river is considered 
the best one, 5 miles East, Ontonagon 
river second, 4 miles West, and Paint riv- 
er runs within 50 feet of the railway sta- 
tion here. 
W. B. K., Elmwood, Mich. 
In June RECREATION W. Powell, of St. 
Lambert, Quebec, says a_ large-mouth 
bass weighing 5 pounds was caught in the 
St. Lawrence river. 
We do much better than that down 
here. On July 10, 18908, there was caught 
in a pond near Hampton park a large- 
mouth bass which weighed 634 pounds. It 
was probably the largest ever taken on 
Long Island. It was mounted and is 
now in our house in Hampton park. 
John F. Walton, Southampton, L. I. 
Oliver J. Townsend, of Penn Yan, N. 
Y., caught a 7 pound white fish while 
trolling for trout in Brandy bay, Keuka 
lake. Mr. Townsend was much sur- 
prised at his catch, as white fish have 
a before been known to take a spoon 
ait. 
Joseph T. Cox, M. D., Penn Yan, N. Y. 



