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casts and caught several before they took to deep water. Then I 
cast farther out and hooked the largest Eastern brook trout I ever 
caught. It measured nineteen inches long, seventeen inches around, 
and weighed 4% pounds. He sure made my reel sing, as the water 
was deep and he was full of fight. I also caught several smaller 
ones, but not having much time to spare I had to stop fishing and 
go back to camp, arriving at the resort at 11 A. M, 
I also made a trip to Ice Lake, which is about the same dis- 
tance up the west fork of the Wallowa River, and caught 43 Eastern 
brook trout, measuring from eight to fourteen inches. 
These lakes were stocked about four years ago by the State Fish 
and Game Commission. Fishermen going there and spending three 
or four days wili sure get more fish than they can handle. Grouse 
shooting is also very good in this locality. Pack outfits can be 
obtained from the resort management and accommodations at the 
resort are also very good. 
ANGLERS HOLD TOURNEY IN OREGON 
illiam C, Block and Charles P. Smith were the stars of the fly 
\ \ direction of the Multnomah Anglers’ Club. 
and bait casting tournament held in Portland recently under the 
In the accuracy bait casting, three-fourth ounce, Charles P. Smith 
was first with a mark of 97.6. This is the first accuracy test Mr. 
Smith has ever tried. W. F. Backus was second with 97.4, and 
W. C. Block third with 96.9. 
Block won the light tackle dry fly accuracy cast with a score 
of 99 13-15. W. F. Backus was second with 99 12-15 and W. E. 
Carlon third with 99 4-15. 
. The distance fly cast, heavy rod, was won by Block with a east 
of 88 feet, W. F. Backus second, 86 feet, and J. C. Morris, 60 feet. 
The accuracy bait casting consisted of casting at a 30-inch 
bullseye at 60 feet, 70, 80, 90 and 100 feet. Two casts are made 
from each distance. 
The light tackle dry fly accuracy test is made from cireles at 
20 feet, 2714 feet, 35, 421% and 50 feet. Three casts are made from 
each circle. 
DUCK’S NEST IN A YELLOW PINE TREE 
By COMMISSIONER C, F. STONE, Klamath Falls, Oregon 
T is not an uncommon thing for the average individual, or the 
I person of mediocre information on a given subject, to discover 
something that, to him, is a revelation, and yet to the initiated, 
it may appear to be the usual thing. All this rambling preliminary 
was inspired just the other day by the spectacle of a mallard duck’s 
nest in a yellow pine tree, about thirty feet from the ground. The 
tree stands at the edge of the public road about a half mile west 
of Pelican Bay Lodge, and many persons saw the duck daily during 
the sitting period. The eggs hatched on the 27th of this month, 
and in carrying the little ducks to a swamp a hundred yards away. 
the mother duck dropped one of the babies to its death in the road. 
The nest appears to be compactly constructed among a eluster of 
vertical branches growing from a large horizontal limb, and it is 
very probable that one of the small branches brushed the little hour- 
old duck from its mother’s back and caused the tragedy. 
