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minnow as the suns swarm by the hundred, 
suck the eyes out and otherwise mutilate 
the bait. Is there any way to get rid of 
this nuisance? 
GE: Proctor; Shottola, “Fa: 
ANSWER. 
One way of ridding your pond of sun- 
fish would be to drain it off and kill them, 
or to seine them out and kill them. In 
either case you would take other fish with 
the sunfish, but these could be put back 
into the water. Another method would 
be to advertise in Forest and Stream for a 
lot of fish hogs to come there and clean 
out your lake. That paper is the  of- 
ficial organ of the game and- fish 
hogs and devotes a large amount of its 
space to defending them from the attacks 
made on them by ReEcREATION. It would, 
therefore, seem a suitable medium for an 
ad of this kind. 
EDITOR. 

Your letter received. Your information 
is correct to a certain extent. Mr. H. M. 
Simmons, A. Schmidt, and I went to 
Goode’s lake, 5 miles from here, and in 3 
hours caught between 135 and 140 pounds 
of fish. All were gamey and the finest 
ever caught in Warren county. This is 
more fish than was ever taken in the same 
_ length of time, in this section. I should 
like to be your regular correspondent for 
this part of the state. 
Wm. Gulliver, Bowling Green, Ky. 
No, thank you. I don’t care for any 
of your kind of reports. No. “rec- 
ords” of big catches desired. But should 
you reform and in future limit your 
catches of fish to decent figures—say 10 
pounds a day to each man—then I should 
be glad to have brief reports of them.— 
EDITOR. 

H. H. Hazen’s article concerning the 
black water snake, reminds me that when 
about 12 yeazs old I was fishing in a small 
stream. Having caught a minnow about 
6 inches long, I strung it on a cord, which 
I tied to a stone. Then I went down 
stream, leaving the minnow. When I re- 
turned I found a large black water snake 
had swallowed the minnow and was held 
by the cord. I was afraid to go near the 
snake, but stood looking on. After 2 or 
3 minutes of slinging about he got loose 
and disappeared. 
John Nicholas, Coshocton, O. 

The fishing season closed in Indiana 
May Ist, and the following notice was is- 
sued by the fish commissioner: 
“‘The law prohibits fishing in any way by any device 
in May and June, and bayous and overflow ponds are 
considered streams. This is the law as I must enforce 
it. You will see that so long as hook and line fishing is 
permitted there can be no protection for the fish in the 
RECREATION. 
spawning season. Legitimate fishermen would not 
damage the fish with hooks and line, but men will use 
all kinds of rifles, wire snares and every device for 
capturing the fish and then claim they were caught 
with hook and line. To prohibit fishingin any way, 
shape or form in those months means protection, and 
that means propagation. hen sportsmen fully un- 
derstand the law, they will agree that it is better to 
forego legitimate fishing at that period than to have no 
protection whatever.” : 

We are enjoying fairly good trout fish- 
ing and some large catches are reported, 
among them one of 8 trout, weighing 8 
pounds, taken by our local warden, H. S. 
Ress. A brown trout was taken 2 miles 
from here which weighed 4%, and others- 
weighing from one to 2 pounds each. 
These trout were put in our streams about 
7 years ago by local fishermen, who have 
continued each year to put in from 3,000 
to 6,000 fry and yearlings. 
H. B. Ives, Canaan, Conn. 

The following scores were recently 
made at Gogebic, Mich.: Jure 22nd 
W. L. Porter caught one 5 pound 2 ounce 
bass; June 24th 9 bass; 25th W. L. Porter 
one 6 pound bass; J. B. Carlin one 434 
bass. Trout biting well. 
In Pelican lake, Wisconsin, on June 26th 
Dr. E. G.. Williams, ‘Chicago; caus it 2 
muskalonge, weighing 15 pounds apiece, 
and Mr. Schoenech, a Io pound muska- 
longe. : 
B., Gogebic, Mich. 

A friend and I were fishing for trout 
with bait in a small mountain stream. We 
were about 15 yards apart, when suddenly 
my friend shouted that he had a big one. 
Imagine my surprise when he landed 2 
trout, both on the same hook. The small- 
er trout had taken the bait, and the hook 
had passed through its gills and hooked 
another trout in the side. 
W. H. Gunter, Philipsburg, Pa. 

Last fall whiletrolling for pike on Oneida 
lake I pulled up during the day 3 nets. I 
cut and sunk them after releasing the fish 
which, if taken would have filled a big bar- 
rel. Several shots were fired at us from 
shore but as we were well out of range 
they fell short. I tried to find who the 
law-breakers were but was unsuccessful. 
E. W. Goodwin, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Will some one please inform me what 
baits should be used for the following fish: 
Pixe, while on the riffles; carp, sunfish, 
suckers. Can sunfish be caught with an 
artificial: fly? In clear water they grab at 
the baited hook instead of biting as in 
muddy water. 
H. F. P., Cincinnati, O. 

