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ANOTHER MICHIGAN. BUTCHER: 
Prosecuting Attorney Frank A. Rodgers returned yes- 
terday from a fishing trip on the Little Manistee and 
now claims to be the champion trout fisherman of Grand 
Rapids. He went to Canfield and fished 4 days, but 
his greatest catch was on the Fourth. He brought home 
178 trout and had them photographed. He claims he 
can produce affidavits to prove that he caught all the 
fish himself, He caught a 3-pound trout, several 2 
pounders and a lot over one pound. Mr. Rodgers 
stated yesterday he never saw so many fish in a river, 
nor saw them bite the way they did on the Fourth of 
July. He also thinks there are more fish in the Little 
Manistee river than in any other stream in Michigan. 
He has been fishing 4 times this year and his total catch 
is 428 fish.—_Grand Rapids, Mich., paper. 
Yours of the 17th inst. at hand inquir- 
ing in regard to my catch of trout, was 
duly received. The report that I caught 
178 trout in 4 days was not quite right. 
I caught 200 in 3% days, commencing on 
the morning of the 2d of July and stop- 
ing about noon on the 5th. The largest 
weighed 3 pounds, several 2 pounds and a 
large number over one pound. I fished 
in the Little Manistee river. 
If you make any mention of this in 
your magazine please send me 2 or 3 
copies. 
Frank A. Rodgers, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
It is strange that a lawyer, and especially 
one occupying the position of prosecuting 
attorney, should not know better than 
to slaughter trout at such a rate as this, in 
this day and age of the world. A number 
of your townsmen have sent me copies of 
the clipping shown above and have re- 
quested me to expose you. This shows 
the feeling among decent sportsmen re- 
garding such wholesale butchery, and 
the sooner you and eyeryone else learns 
of this public sentiment, the less necessity 
for me to use up space in RECREATION 
in exposing your kind of work. As I have 
frequently stated in these coltiimns, there 
is an unwritten law among sportsmen that 
no man should take more than 10 pounds 
of trout in one day, yet it would seem 
from your own statement that you took at 
least 100 pounds of fish in the 3 days. At © 
any rate you took 3 to 4 times as many as 
you should. Consequently you have 
placed yourself in the company of the 
herd of swine who are so rapidly deplet- 
ing all the good waters in the country. 
I trust this may be a salutary lesson to you 
and your kind, and that in future you will 
quit when you get enough. 
EDITOR: 

“Ves,” he said, “I love the sublime and 
beautiful.” 
“Oh, Mr. Bumbleton,” she _ replied 
through her blushes, “I had no idea when 
we started that you wished to get me out 
here for the purpose of making a confes- 
sion.” —Chicago Times-Herald. 

