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FISH AND FISHING. 
Yes, and wise anglers will steer clear of 
Lansing. No real sportsman cares to 
fish where such swine as these have their 
_regular wallow, nor do true sportsmen 
care to employ notorious hogs like the 
Andersons to guide them. 
EDITOR. 

I SHOULD SAY IT WAS. 
Your letter of the 24th at hand, in- 
quiring about a catch of fish. My brother 
and 2 friends were the fishermen. The 
fish caught were trout, such as we get 
in the mountain streams flowing into 
the Walla Walla valley. This catch, as the 
paper reported it, was a trifle large, 549 
being the exact numb.: for the day and a 
half. 
The trout in this vicinity are no longer, 
if as large, as they were IO years ago. 
There is an Oregon law making it unlaw- 
ful to retain trout measuring under 5 
inches, and it would be a good plan for 
Washington to enact a similar law. In 
central Washington, at the head of Lake 
Chelan, trout fishing is all any one could 
wish. Both lake and mountain. species 
attain wonderful size. 
Robert L. Moore, Walla Walla, Wash. 
And you admit the catch was “a trifle 
large”! It was at least 5 times as large 
as it should have been. 
And the trout ro larger in your 
streams “than they were IO years ago?” 
The wonder is there are any left, of any 
wee when we. read of such slaughter as 
tnis. 
And you think Washington should pass 
a law to prohibit 1 e taking of trout under 
5 inches long! She should pass a law 
that would land fish hogs in jail every 
time they show themselves on a trout 
stream. EDITor. 

A BUFFALO SHOAT. 
pee Deuel, a clerk in the postoffice, yesterday had 
a day off. Hetookhis rod and reel dad jauctieyed to 
Lewiston to do a little fishing. He spent 4 hours 
between Lewiston and Queenston, and when he re- 
turned to town he had a basket containing 310 perch. 
The market price of perch is low.—Buffalo pager. 
Yours of the 8th inst. to hand, and con- 
tents noted. The report is true in re- 
gard to time spent fishing, also to number 
of fish caught, but they were not all perch, 
nor did I catch them all alone. My cousin 
and myself caught the fish, among 
which were about 15 rock bass. The fish- 
ing at this point is fine, the fish being 
very large and fine for the kind. We in- 
. tend going again in a few days, and when 
the bass season opens we expect to have 
some big “fish stories’? to tell. 
B. S. Deuel, 552 W. Utica St., Buffalo. 
291 
I hope you may never have another 
such story as this to tell but that you may 
take a hint from the caption of this 
item and in future quit when you make a 
decent catch. Remember there are others 
who would like to take a few fish occasion- 
ally, but that if a few such as you precede 
them they will stand a very poor show 
of getting any. EDITOR. 

NIBBLES. 
At Gogebic H. R. McCullough and J. 
B. Carlin recently caught 9 bass and 3 
pickerel, one of 5% pounds, one 2% 
pounds, and later F. M. Carlin caught 13 
bass, Fuller 3 bass and one 5% pound 
pickerel. 

Station Camp creek, about 20 miles 
from here, is one of the best fishing 
streams in Kentucky. A great number 
of bass, newlite and pike are caught an- 
nually. 
A. D. Miller, Richmond, Ky. 

Adolph Piister, Sheboygan, Wis., re- 
cently caught a 30 pound muscalonge and. 
Dr. E. C. Williams, Chicago, one weighing 
B. K., Pelican, Wis. 
-I5 pounds. 

Our game warden, Thomas Murray, re- 
cently arrested a violator of the fish law 
and the justice fined him $25 and costs. 
Howard Criss, Great Falls, Mont. 

H. R. McCullough, Chicago, recently 
caught a 3I-pound muscalonge near here. 
W.- BK. Pratt Jct., Wis. 

Marvin Hughitt, Jr. of Chicago, 
caught a 25-pound muscalonge June 17th. 
W. B., Pelican, Wis. 
Mother: “Johnny, you said you'd been 
to Sunday school. 
Johnny (with a far-away look): “Yes’m.” 
Mother: “How does it happen that your 
hands smell fishy?” 
Johnny: ‘“I—I—was readin’ that Bible 
story about Jonah an’ the whale.” 
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