THE 



OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



NOTES FROM COUNTIES 



BAKER COUNTY. 



Mr. J. D. Creech, of Halfway, 

 Oregon, reports that he saw three 

 bear out some time during the mid- 

 dle of January. They had not 

 ''holed up" at all. It was Mr. 

 Creech's intentions to take his dogs 

 and try his skill in bear hunting as 

 soon as he returned to Pine Valley. 



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The Panhandle Rod and Gun Club, 

 of Cornucopia and Halfway, held a 

 very enthusiastic meeting on Feb- 

 ruary 2nd. They are willing to 

 raise a fund to pay half of a man's 

 salary to keep violators from dyna- 

 miting Fish Lake, during the early 

 part of the season. Some parties in 

 that locality have made a practice 

 of shooting this lake during the 

 early part of the season for the past 

 three years. No one seems to know 

 positively who the violators are, but 

 have reason to think they come 

 from Homestead or Copperfield. 



CLACKAMAS COUNTY. 



Mr. Ben S. Patton, deputy game 

 warden at Estacada, reports that on 

 February 3d, 4th and 5th in the 

 South Fork, Fish Creek and Cold 

 Springs country, he saw consider- 

 able evidence that deer were being 

 molested by timber wolves. The 

 wolves in this locality have been 

 worse than usual during the past 

 winter, as there has been very little 

 snow and it has been hard to track 



them. 



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The new law permitting the catch- 



ing of trout over ten inches the year 

 round seems to meet with the gen- 

 eral approval of the Clackamas 

 County sportsmen, and there is not 

 as much trouble with fishermen 

 catching undersized fish as was ex- 

 pected. 



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The number of trout hatched and 

 liberated from the hatchery at River 

 Mill on the Clackamas this last 

 season will help the fishing greatly 

 in that locality. Old fishermen say 

 they never saw so many small trout 

 in the river before, all ranging 

 around four inches. Most of these 

 fish will be over the six-inch limit 

 by summer. 



CLATSOP COUNTY. 



Mr. Frank Patton, of the Astoria 

 Savings Bank, reports the most sat- 

 isfactory season for duck shooting 

 during the past twenty years. 



"We often had the limit by eight 

 o 'clock in the morning. At times 

 we had thousands of ducks resting 

 on our lake. There were but two 

 of us shooting and we bagged a 

 total of eight hundred and four 

 ducks for the season. This is an 

 average of twenty-nine for each day 

 we were out." 



DOUGLAS COUNTY. 



J. A. Dewey, Martin and Frank 

 Redfield, who live on upper Cow 

 Creek, have been very successful 

 with their trapping. They have 

 trapped five cougar, two bob cats 

 and one bear during the past season. 



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