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was chosen to go down and labor with 

 the little fellows. The bishop was selected 

 to do the talking, which he did with such 

 pathos and effect that the row of poor 

 little trembling sinners clutched their rods 

 and hung their heads for shame. 



Suddenly a cork out on Michigan's blue 

 waves bobbed ominously three lively 

 jerks, then disappeared, the line drew 

 taut, and the rod dipped. The unhappy 

 little Sabbath breaker saw all this; but 

 he stood in mortal awe of the good bishop, 

 and land a fish in front of him, after that 

 lecture, he dared not, if the fish pulled 

 him off his feet. The bishop saw. His 

 fluent discourse suddenly ceased and he 

 watched that cork with breathless interest. 

 As it sank out of sight he glanced at the 

 cowering boy. Then the line began to cut 

 pigeon wings through the shining water. 

 The bishop took one step forward, with 

 out-thrust arm, and shouted, "You got 

 a bite! You got a bite! Jerk, boy! Jerk!" 



G. S. P. 



CANADA NOT UNDER DIFFERENT CON- 

 DITIONS. 

 I do not agree with a correspondent in 

 Recreation who says we are under dif- 

 ferent conditions from our friends to the 

 South as regards fish and game protec- 

 tion. The only difference is that in the 

 United States the remedy has come rather 

 late, when forests and streams have been 

 almost depleted, while in Canada we ave 

 awakening to the importance of applying 

 a remedy before the game hogs and pot 

 hunters have polluted our waters and 

 forests to a far greater extent than saw- 

 mills, tanneries, factories, etc., have done. 

 The situation is bad enough with us, how- 

 ever. In the Rideau and Ottawa rivers, 

 tained 15 or 20 years ago. Now it is 

 did sport with gun and rod could be ob- 

 tained 15 or 20 years ago. Now it is 

 entirely different. Ten years ago in al- 

 most every trout lake within a circuit of 

 15 miles, excellent fishing was to be had; 

 to-day, in many of these waters, enough 

 could not be caught in a day to make a 

 meal for 3 or 4 people. Why? Because 

 enormous catches have been made, and 

 shipped to the hotels and markets. These 

 are plain facts and undeniable. I have 

 always favored a law limiting the catch 

 per day to each man, and I hope to see 

 it enacted. The same as regards the quan- 

 tity of game to be killed. 



E. Edmond Lemieux, Ottawa, Can. 



ANSWER. 



Stocking a lake with bass is a simple 

 matter if the lake is situated in a region 

 where the bass is indigenous. The only 

 thing necessary is to go to any stream or 

 water in the neighborhood which contains 

 bass, catch with a seine as many bass as 

 may be desired, put them in a tub of. 

 water or other large vessel, take them to 

 the lake and turn them loose in it. To 

 keep them from jumping out of the tub 

 cover it with an old gunny sack or some- 

 thing of the kind. Late in the fall is a 

 good time to make the plant, as the fish 

 are not so apt to die as in warm weather. 

 The large-mouthed black bass is best for 

 lakes, though in the cold lakes of Northern 

 Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, the 

 small-mouthed black bass does equally 

 well. In Lake Maxinkuckie the small- 

 mouthed seem even more abundant than 

 the other species. 



B. W. Evermann. 



CAN PROVE HIS CATCH. 

 My old pard and I were camping out on 

 one of the beautiful inland lakes in the 

 Northeastern part of the State. We had 

 fished faithfully all day, using all kinds of 

 bait, both natural and artificial. We had 

 worn the plating off from our spinners, 

 dragging them around the lake, but had 

 not landed one fish. It was getting dark, 

 so we suspended hostilities, thinking per- 

 haps the wind would change during the 

 night and give us better luck the next 

 day. When we arrived at the boat house 

 we baited 5 of our hooks with angle worms 

 and stuck the rods fast in the dock, with 

 the hooks in the water, as we supposed. 

 In the morning we went out to see what 

 luck the night had brought us. Our hooks 

 were at least 3 feet from the surface of 

 the water, and each hook had a fat bull- 

 head on it, hanging up there high and dry. 

 We figured out that those fish had got 

 up on the dock, climbed out on the poles 

 and slid down the lines to get the bait. 

 If anyone is skeptical or doubts this story 

 I can show him the lake. 



Frank Corlis, Dansville, N. Y. 



HOW TO STOCK WITH BLACK BASS. 

 Will you please tell me, through Recre- 

 ation, how to stock a lake with black 

 bass? 



H. L- Imus, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



NIBBLES. 

 The Rio Grande river, from its junction 

 with Willow creek, has for the past year 

 been filled with dead and dying trout, pre- 

 sumably killed by the poisonous water 

 which comes from the concentrators at 

 Creede. Last July, while camped just be- 

 low Wagon Wheel Gap, our party found 

 hundreds of trout floating down stream 

 dead or dying. I understand there are no 

 screens at the head of any of the irriga- 

 tion ditches below Del Norte. When the 

 ditches are closed millions of trout are left 

 without water, and are, eventually, thrown 



