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OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



NOTES FROM COUNTIES 



CURRY COUNTY. 



Deputy Game Warden Adams, sta- 

 tioned at Agness, Oregon, reports 

 that deer have wintered very well 

 in that part of the state, owing to 

 the large crop of acorns. 



Silver gray squirrels are on the 

 increase in that section. There were 

 more last winter than ever before. 

 Some complaint has been made that 

 these squirrels destroy a certain 

 amount of timber in some sections 

 by gnawing the bark and girdling 

 young pines. Evidence shows that 

 this is not done by squirrels. 



CROOK COUNTY. 



The Prineville Review says: Bud 

 Hinton, who has been trapping up 

 in the Paulina country during the 

 past four months came into town 

 Monday with the pelts he has col- 

 lected during the winter. So far he 

 has caught seventy coyotes and 

 thirty-three bobcats, for which he 

 received a bounty of $171, and the 

 State Board of Fish and Game Com- 

 missioners will pay an additional 

 bounty of one dollar on the first 

 of March for all bobcats killed 

 since October. His total bounty will 

 amount to the sum of $204, be- 

 sides what he gets for the furs, and 

 as they are all in their prime con- 

 dition, this will be no small amount. 



JACKSON COUNTY. 



Mr. A. S. Hubbard, of Ashland, 

 reports that during the winter there 

 were twenty-one panthers, about 200 

 bobcats and about the same num- 



ber of coyotes killed in Jackson 

 County. 



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Mr. Clyde Walker, of Gold Hill, 

 caught forty-four trout from eight 

 inches up a few days ago in Rogue 

 River. He was not gone more than 

 three hours. Most of the fish were 

 caught with a March Brown fly. 

 This shows that there is good fish- 

 ing in the Rogue in that locality. 



KLAMATH COUNTY. 



Fishing has been exceptionally 

 good in Link River during the past 

 month. This river is about a mile 

 long and connects Upper Klamath 

 Lake with Lake Ewauna and is 

 within the city limits of Klamath 

 Falls. The trout average from two 

 to five pounds, although some are 

 caught weighing as much as twelve 

 pounds. 



Parties returning from Spencer 

 Creek, eighteen miles from Klamath 

 Falls, report large catches of rain- 

 bow trout. While fishing is excep- 

 tionally good in Spencer Creek at 

 this time, the rainbows are in 

 spawning condition, and a female 

 that is caught at this season when 

 full of eggs is not good for food, 

 nor is the taking of the fish at this 

 season sportsmanlike. It is always 

 best to protect fish on their spawn- 

 ing ground and give them every op- 

 portunity to reproduce, either natur- 

 ally or artificially. 



LAKE COUNTY. 



Mr. William LaSater, of Silver 



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