THE 



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hills in his locality. In some in- 

 stances deer have come in and fed 

 from hay stacks. Sixteen head were 

 counted from the roadway ten miles 

 north of Silver Lake one day dur- 

 ing the latter part of February. 



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On February 23d, Mr. William La- 

 Sater reports that large numbers of 

 Canada geese have returned to the 

 Silver Lake country. They have 

 already begun to pair off. In the 

 Silver Lake and Paulina marshes 

 there are about four hundred swans. 



ter than for several years in the 



past. There is no question but that 



the liberation of a large number of 



fingerlings from the state hatcheries 



has shown splendid results in this as 



well as other streams. 

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W. F. Backus, Eay C. Winter, H. 

 Pollock, L. H. Dart and B. Went 

 returned recently from a fishing 

 trip along the Nehalem River. Their 

 catch consisted of fifteen steelheads 

 and seventy-five cut-throat trout 

 ranging from ten to fifteen inches. 



Mr. J. W. Donnelly came to Pais- 

 ley recently with fifty-six coyote 

 and twenty-one bob cat hides. This 

 was the result of his work in the 



hills north of Paisley. 



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On February 11th the first geese 

 of the season came to Warner Lake. 

 The migration is earlier this year 

 because there has not been so much 



ice. 



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On February 5th sixteen deer were 

 seen traveling south through the 

 south end of Drew's Valley. The 

 band no doubt had been living in 

 the mahogany thickets till they ran 

 out of feed and were compelled to 

 migrate. 



The records of the county clerk's 

 office for 1913 show that the fol- 

 lowing were the number of animals 

 on which bounties were paid: coy- 

 otes, 2860; bob cats, 502; cougar, 2. 



MULTNOMAH COUNTY. 



Many anglers report that winter 

 fishing in the Sandy has been bet- 



B. H. Miller, of the Honeyman 

 Hardware Company, caught a steel- 

 head trout on the Sandy River a 

 short way above Cottrell station 

 that measured thirty-seven inches. 

 It weighed, when dressed, a flat 

 seventeen pounds. Mr. Miller landed 

 this big fish on a number ten single 

 hook, using salmon eggs. 



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The first honor for the January 

 steelhead fishing went to L. A. 

 Mathisen, who took eight of the big 

 fellows during the month. Mr. 

 Mathisen is an ei*pert at still fish- 

 ing, and seems to know just where 



to locate the favorite resting places. 

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C. C. Harris and Geo. Woodward, 

 while fishing on the Sandy, grew 

 tired of casting for steelheads that 

 refused to strike, so they put on 

 small hooks and began lishing the 

 eddies for sea trout. In a few min- 

 utes each man hooked a big steel- 

 head, which, in each instance, calm- 

 ly straightened out the light trout 

 hooks and -went about their busi- 

 ness. 



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