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RECREA TION. 



North Pacific Railway Co., at Ukiah, Cal. 

 They were found among a lot of some 750,- 

 000 eggs of the " mykiss," or " cutthroat " 

 variety, from Lake Tahoe. Their charac- 

 teristics are entirely different from those of 

 the mykiss. They are of a bright golden hue 

 throughout, with fins of light yellow, 

 fringed with coal black, and have such fine 

 scales as to appear almost scaleless. The 

 head is wide and flat between the eyes, 

 which are unusually large and prominent. 

 The head recedes rapidly to a pointed nose, 

 giving the appearance of the mouth of a 

 water snake. From the gill casing to the 

 caudal fin, along the median line, runs a 

 pink stripe, which contrasts with the golden 

 color of the body, giving a brilliance of ap- 

 pearance which is striking. Mr. A. W. 

 Foster, president of the railway company, 

 is making arrangements to provide ponds 

 for the propagation of this new trout. The 

 fish will be a great addition to the varieties 

 now frequenting the waters of this State. 

 They have been christened Salmo aurocorpus 

 Fosterii. 



Alfred V. La Motte, Ukiah, Cal. 



IT MADE COFFRIN SICK. 



A Bradford, Vt., paper states that K. J. 

 Coffrin and Henry Allen recently returned 

 from a fishing trip to the Connecticut lakes, 

 and that, in 6 hours' fishing, these men with 

 3 guides caught between 1,600 and 1,700 

 trout. 



The editor says : " It was pull but as fast 

 as they could drop in, and the boys thor- 

 oughly enjoyed the sport. Coffrin inti- 

 mates he is sick of the sight of trout and, 

 having such a lead on all competitors that 

 there is no danger of their catching up, has 

 packed his fish-pole up for the remainder 

 of the season. There is a bet or 2 that the 

 pole doesn't remain packed." 



A subscriber, who sends me a marked 

 copy of this paper, characterizes these men 

 as " fish hogs of the most despicable type." 



Another reader, who sends me another 

 copy of the paper, requests me to " give 

 them a set of bristles, and turn them in your 

 pig pen." 



Thus Coffrin and Allen are advised as to 

 what their neighbors think of them. 



NOTES. 



Several years ago, in any of the creeks or 

 rivers in this neighborhood, the sportsman 

 could catch a good string of large bass. 

 Even then the fish hog was in his glory, 

 and, if he could catch no large fish, he could 

 readily secure a long string of fingerlings. 



This unlawful slaughter has not ceased, 

 and at the present time the same old " pork- 

 ers," with the addition of a few young 

 ones, are to be found at our streams utter- 

 ing grunts of satisfaction as they yank baby 

 bass from the water. 



The fish hog of this neighborhood is 



proof against reason and sarcasm, and will 

 probably survive his thinner-skinned breth- 

 ren of other localities. 



Still, I hope to see the utter extermination 

 of these animals, through the grand work of 

 Recreation. 



A. M. Bowman, Camp Hill, Pa. 



I had with some friends, in May, a pleas- 

 ant fortnight among the trout of the St. 

 Maurice region. John Wagner, J. W. Bur- 

 dick, of Albany, N. Y.; Waldo K. Chase, 

 and Dr. Swan, Boston, Mass.; Henry B. 

 Bates, George C. Wright, and Dr. Cox, of 

 New York ; A. W. Stevenson, George 

 Boulter, and I. Y. McCall, of Montreal, 

 and I constituted the party. Got into camp 

 at Wayagamack, and left just ajiead of the 

 flies. We had a most enjoyable trip. Nel- 

 son Cheney couldn't come, but he is now 

 on the Restigouche with J. W. Burdick. 

 Don't know how the Restigouche and 

 Matapedia are doing this season, but sal- 

 mon is already selling in Montreal for 15 

 cents a pound, and that indicates good net 

 catches, for the season is yet a little early. 



Dr. W. H. Drummond, Montreal, Que. 



Landlocked salmon will sometimes take 

 a fly. One afternoon in June, '94, at 

 Grand lake, Me., I caught 13 with a fly not 

 sunk J /i of an inch below the surface. They 

 weighed 3 to 5 pounds apiece. I used an 

 old fly I found in my book, that was just 

 their poison. I took 8 with it. The ninth 

 one wanted to show it to some friends and 



1 let him have it. I have tried to have some 

 tied like it, and only came " pretty near." 

 It was like the common little spotted but- 

 terfly, with a tail added. 



E. F. Robinson, Boston, Mass. 



On May 30th, with Boney Markelty, I 

 started for a stream, 7 miles North of here, 

 called Dead river. I used a Bristol steel, 

 10-oz. bass rod, and a Yawman & Erbe auto- 

 matic reel. I got 14 as nice trout as one 

 could wish. They weighed from y 2 to 



2 pounds. The Bristol and the automatic 

 do the work. I had never used either, but 

 bought them. We have plenty of good 

 fishing, and hundreds of deer. 



J. S. Mitchell, Negaunee, Mich. 



Have just returned from Pine lake, Wis., 

 where I found bass fishing poor. The 

 natives take bass by the bushel in early 

 spring. This sort of thing should be 

 stopped. The game warden seems to be 

 asleep in that region. Ten years ago Pine 

 lake was noted for its abundance of bass, 

 but fish hogs have greatly reduced the sup- 

 ply. I hope to see the lake restocked, and 

 protected in future. 



J. N. Rade, Chicago, 111. 



The San Francisco Chronicle, of July 

 31st, says Lee Gates, Fred Wooderson, Ed 



