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caught twenty-eight trout weighing 

 forty pounds at the head of Link 

 River April 12th. The largest 

 weighed seven pounds. They used 

 both spoon hook and minnows with 

 success. 



LAKE COUNTY. 



Tom and Will Bernard caught a 

 hundred and thirty fine trout in 

 two days' fishing. The fish weigh- 

 ed from one to five pounds and 

 were caught with a spinner. 



LANE COUNTY. 



Dr. M. M. Bull and Mr. F. C. 

 Bean recently made an eight-mile 

 fishing cruise, starting ten miles 

 above Vida on the McKenzie River. 

 They caught forty rainbows or red- 

 sides, the longest fish being seven- 

 teen inches. 



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Several large catches of rainbows 

 or red-sides were reported from the 

 McKenzie River during April. But 

 it seems that the majority of fish 

 caught were females and full of 

 eggs. These fish should be pro- 

 tected until after the spawning sea- 

 son if the supply of trout is to be 

 kept up in the McKenzie. 



LINN COUNTY. 

 Mr. Raleigh Henderson recently 

 caught sixteen trout measuring from 

 twelve to sixteen inches fishing in 

 Cochran Creek. Angle worms were 

 used as bait. 



MULTNOMAH COUNTY. 



The Multnomah Anglers' Club re- 

 cently held their first casting tour- 

 nament on the new grounds; it was 



well attended. The results of the 

 tournament were as follows: 



In the long-distance bait-casting 

 with one-half ounce weight, W. C. 

 Block was the winner with A. E. 

 Burghduff a close second. In the 

 quarter-ounce distance casting, L. 

 W. Humphreys was first, Burgh- 

 duff taking second. Dr. E. C. 

 McFarland was winner in the ac- 

 curacy bait casting, with a score of 

 96 per cent, with W. C. Block and 

 L. W. Humphreys close for second 

 and third places. In the fly-casting 

 events, W. E. Carlon won the long- 

 distance casting with heavy rods, 

 with a cast of 90 feet, while W. F. 

 Backus was first in the distance 

 fly event with a light rod, 89 feet, 

 and also won the accuracy fly-cast- 

 ing, with a score of 99 per cent. In 

 the special dry fly event for the 

 prize rod donated by Mi. Wilson, 

 the winner was George Ray. 



The club plans to hold another 

 tournament about the third week 

 in May, the exact date to be an- 

 nounced later. 



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Walter Backus, the well-known 

 angler, says: 



<( There is no longer any doubt 

 as to whether light tackle will do 

 for catching salmon, as not only 

 does light tackle land the big fish, 

 but it also lands a large percent- 

 age of the strikes. Kitzmiller and 

 Beckett, who fished together several 

 days during the week, have a rec- 

 ord of landing fifteen fish out of 

 sixteen hooked, which is something 

 no heavy tackle man can boast of. 



"Another angler fishing with 

 light tackle in the swift water be- 



Pag-e nineteen 



