292 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
DUCK AND GROUSE IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY 
By WARDEN C. W. LOUGHREY, of Tillamook, Oregon. 
Grouse are also plentiful. On my way down to the Trask River, in 
company with R. T. Driscoll, we saw five grouse in the south part 
of Tillamook City. Two of them alighted on a house and the other three 
in a spruce tree. Pigeons appear to be more plentiful this year on the 
tidelands, feeding on crabapples and on the dykes. The boys are ali 
getting their guns polished up ready for the duck and grouse season to 
open up. They expect to bag a large quantity of game birds. Owing 
to the birds being much more plentiful, hunting in the county will be 
unusually good. 
Considerable trolling has been done for jack salmon, with success, I 
have heard several cries of grouse on my travels in different parts of the 
county. Very few persons have gone deer hunting this far, and in con- 
sequence but few deer have been killed. On account of the new law the 
dog men are more careful about their dogs chasing deer, for fear of 
cetting into trouble. 
On my last trip down the Nehalem I met a logger who said he had 
made a trip to Onion Peak, where, much to his surprise, he ran across 
a band of elk, there being 15 or more in the band. 
Trout fishing on the north fork of the Nehalem River has been 
good. On my last trip up there I caught 20 of them, 15 being salmon 
trout and five cutthroat. These were all caught on a fly made by Bert 
Godfrey, of Seaside. One of them measured 20 inches. The fly they 
were taking was a gray hackle with red body, and I caught them all 
in one hole. Unfortunately, I broke the tip of my rod, otherwise I could 
have landed more. However, I had all that I cared for to carry on a 
forked stick, as I had no basket with me. 
Fred ©. Baker, president of the Tillamook Commercial Club, by 
previous agreement with the state game warden, received a number of 
crates of Chinese pheasants for the purpose of climatizing them before 
liberating them. He is taking good care of the birds and they are look- 
ing well. The birds will not be liberated until early in the spring. In 
previous years pheasants liberated here in the fall of the year have not 
done well, and it is thought that by climatizing the birds and earing for 
them in the winter and protecting the young birds from winter storms, 
they will do better in the spring. It is the intention to breed birds in 
the county, as some of the sportsmen have agreed to do this. 
D er: are very plentiful in all the bays of Tiliamook County. 
GAME ITEMS FROM CURRY COUNTY 
By WiARDEN JOHN F.. ADAMS, of Agness, Oregon. 
HE dry season is causing the hunters to have very poor luck in 
le getting the big bucks. The shortage of feed makes the deer about 
a month late in shedding into the blue. Most of the bucks are in 
poor condition, but as there is a big crop of acorns the animals will 
take on fat rapidly from now on. : 
Game birds are more plentiful this year than for a good many years 
past. The wild pigeons are increasing rapidly and are becoming a pest | 
to the farmers along the coast. 
Salmon trolling at the mouth of the Rogue River is at its best now 
and big catches are reported every day. 
