FISH AND FISHING. 



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Decker, Harry Noel, and John Burns, of 

 Vacaville, caught 900 trout in one day on 

 the McCloud river, and that their catch for 

 the entire time of their stay was 1,500 trout. 

 The pound master at Vacaville should 

 round up these 5 men, brand them, and 

 keep them in the pound until such time as 

 they will promise to reform. 



Mr. Silas Chapman, Jr., arrived home this even- 

 ing, from his camp at the Rangeley Lakes, in 

 Maine. Mr. Chapman spends a fortnight, every 

 Tune, at the camp there, and returns refreshed. 

 'A letter from him dated last Monday evening 

 said he had already caught over 800 trout. In 

 those waters any trout under a pound doesn't 

 " count." — Hartford, Ct., Times. 



Over 800 pounds of trout, eh? Of course 

 Mr. Chapman wears bristles. No one 

 would doubt that for a moment, after read- 

 ing his " record." — Editor. 



" The Osborn boys now wear the medal for the 

 largest catch of trout this season. A party of 5 

 caught 800 fine trout in 2 days' fishing in the Lit- 

 tle South Poudre." — Loveland Register. Rings in 

 their noses are what they deserve. " A party of 

 5 " killing 800 trout in 2 days are hogs not " fish- 

 ermen."— Greeley (Col.) Tribune. 



Good ! If all local editors would roast 

 fish and game hogs in this way, instead of 

 patting them on the back as most editors do, 

 the herds would grow rapidly smaller. 



W. F. O'Neill and Clarence Foin believe they 

 hold the record for dove killing this season. They 

 claim to have slaughtered 584 birds in 9 hours 

 last Sunday. They hunted in the vicinity of Lone 

 Star. — Fresno (Cal.) Republican. 



" Slaughtered ! " That's right, Mr. Ed- 

 itor. You know a good word when you 

 see it. You should also have branded 

 O'Neill and Foin as game hogs, while you 

 were at it ; for that's the kind of stock they 

 are. 



Dr. W. H. H. Bull, of Elmhurst, Pa., 

 recently caught in Lake Worth, near that 

 place, a rainbow trout 32^2 inches in 

 length, which weighed 15 lbs. 14 oz. He is 

 having it mounted by G. P. Friant, an Elm- 

 hurst taxidermist. 



As nearly as I can recall, this is a record 

 breaker. Does any one know of a larger 

 rainbow than this having been caught? 



Will you or some of your readers give 

 me the address of one Dr. Harry Gove who 

 is an expert in the art of tying trout flies. 



M. L. Parker, 3025 Lyndale Avenue S., 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



Can any one give this information? If 

 the Doctor ties flies for the trade why does 

 he not advertise in Recreation? — Editor. 



19 inches long, and weighing 4 pounds. He 

 gave the rod a pretty good trial before I 

 landed him. 



J. A. Roberts, Springfield, Or. 



Have just returned from the Mackenzie 

 river. We had a pleasant trip, and caught 

 all the fish we needed, among them a dolly 

 varden weighing 11 pounds. I used the 

 Bristol steel rod, received as a premium 

 from Recreation. With it I caught a fish 



Frank Berry was killed while dynamiting 

 fish in a stream near Franklin, Pa. Of 

 course this was a sad shock to his friends. 

 It was also a valuable object lesson to men 

 who take such unfair means as this to pro- 

 cure fish. A man who engages in so dis- 

 reputable a means of killing fish deserves 

 the fate he would inflict on the fishes. 



During the weak-fish season I often visit 

 Staten Island sound. The fishing there is 

 being ruined by the Menhaden pirates, who 

 drag their nets all over the sound. This, 

 I think, is against the law. There is a legend 

 told by the residents, that once one of these 

 pirates was arrested, tried and fined $200. 

 DeWitt C. Pell, Newark, N. J. 



Ike ITungerford and Frank Hart had the pleas- 

 ure of surprising their friends with the longest 

 string of fish taken from the lake this year. The 

 string was 10 feet long and contained 300 fish. — • 

 Altamont (N. Y.) Enterprise. 



And it is safe to conclude the bristles on 

 these fellows' backs are as long as their 

 string of fish. 



A party from Brockton and Springfield, 

 Mass., caught at Pistol lake camp, Burling- 

 ton, Me., in 11 days, 11 salmon, 580 trout, 

 and 40 white perch. Many of the trout 

 were large, weighing 2 to 5^2 pounds each. 

 The party saw a number of deer, and one 

 moose. E. S. Page, Burlington, Me. 



A party of 4 gentlemen, with Will Ames as 

 chief fisherman, captured over 900 speckled beau- 

 ties in the Nanum, last Saturday and Sunday. — ■ 

 Ellensburg (Wash.) Localizer. 



" Gentlemen ! " Is that what you call 

 them? Well, I know thousands of sports- 

 men who call them Fish Hogs. — Editor. 



Please let me know if in 1895 one Sam 

 Farbel caught in Silver Lake, Wis., an 

 18^2-lb. pickerel. 



M. E. Smith, Chicago, 111. 



I have no knowledge of such a catch. 

 Does any one know about it? 



I fished a few days in the Susquehanna. 

 Caught 9 pickerel. Will take a camera along 

 next time, and send you a few hog pictures. 

 One fellow sent home over a bushel of 

 pickerel. 



Gus. A. Conradi, Bethlehem, Pa. 



Two brook trout were caught in the river 

 at Watersmeet, Mich., weighing respec- 

 tively, 2 pounds 9 ounces and 2 pounds 3 

 ounces. Bass fishing is good. 



Geo. Hall, Tomahawk,. Wis. 



