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RECREATION. 



were evidently not the eggs of that particular 

 trout but of some other fish. They had been 

 eaten by this trout, and were probably not 

 trout eggs at all. If the statement that the 

 eggs were found in the trout's stomach is a 

 mere slip, and if the eggs were really in the 

 ovaries of the trout, then we must know 

 more about the fish before coming to any 

 certain conclusion. Was the trout a speci- 

 men of the species native to the Platte river 

 (whose authorized scientific name is Salmo 

 clarkii stomias), or was it some introduced 

 species? 



Moreover, the exact date when this fish 

 was caught is not given. 



FASTIDIOUS GRILSE. 



The unusual fastidiousness manifested by 

 ouananiche in their selection of flies at 

 Grande Decharge 2 years ago, was equaled 

 this year by the grilse of Nova Scotia. 



Then one of our party, fishing with 2 

 flies on his leader, caught all of his fish on 

 a silver doctor. After replacing the other 

 fly with his only remaining silver doctor, 

 he generally caught 2 ouananiche at .each 

 cast, while the rest of us were catching noth- 

 ing. However, after an uncommonly large 

 fish had broken his line and carried off the 

 leader and the successful flies, his luck de- 

 serted him. 



This year we were at Milton, on the Liver- 

 pool, for our first attempt at grilse fishing. 

 The guide said they would rise to a grizzly 

 king, only, of which we happened to have 

 none and he only one. Borrowing it, a 

 fish was soon hooked, but too lightly to 

 hold. A little later another, weighing 4^2 

 pounds, took the fly and was gaffed. Short- 

 ly afterward a third was played for a few 

 minutes but succeeded in breaking the lead- 

 er and escaping with the fly in his jaw. 

 That ended the grilse-catching for that day, 

 although they rose once or twice to a pro- 

 fessor and a jock scott, without being 

 hooked. Meanwhile they aggravated us by 

 frequently rising to natural flies, or in sport, 

 and leaping clear out of the water. F. G. 



WISCONSIN FISH NOTES. 



The Minocqua dam which held the head 

 of water in Tomahawk lake was blown out 

 June 10th and the water soon went down. 

 This improved fishing to a great extent. 



Wm. La Salle and Dave Vaughan caught, 

 in iy 2 day's fishing in North Pelican lake, 

 8 muskalonge, 2 large black bass and 8 large 

 pike. W. D. Brown and Charles Mclndoe 

 caught in one afternoon and next forenoon 

 5 muskalonge, 9 pike and 4 large pickerel in 

 the same waters. 



Giles Coon, W. B. LaSalle and 3 people 

 from Stevens Point were fishing in the Man- 

 ifowish waters recently, and caught in 3 

 days 40 muskalonge, from 10 to 26 pounds, 

 and 45 large pike. 



J. J. Reardon and N. T. Baldwin caught 



15 trout at Deerbrook in one evening's fish- 

 ing. A few days later they were there again 

 and caught 21, morning and evening fish- 

 ing. They used flies only. 



Tomahawk: F. S. Sanford and A. B. Saf- 

 ford, of Chicago, brought in 40 pounds of 

 black bass, the result of an afternoon's catch. 



Woodruff: The following catch was made 

 by J. A. Hays, Mr. Rust and Mr. Bolle, of 

 Chicago, in 2 weeks' fishing: 



400 bass, average 4 pounds. 



300 pike, average 4 pounds. 



75 muskalonge, average 10 pounds. 



Rhinelander: W. B. Lasalle and H. O. 

 Connor, in 2 days' fishing at J. Ogden's re- 

 sort caught 8 muskies, 10 to 26 pounds, and 

 4 black bass. 



Oshkosh: J. H. Jenkins, and party of 4, 

 caught 33 black bass in an afternoon in Lake 

 Butte des Morts. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clark caught 24 large 

 mouth black bass in Lake Winnebago, the 

 largest weighing 5^2 pounds. 



Following is a list of fish catches of note 

 at Trout lake during week ending July 16th: 



H. McDonald, Covington, Ky., in 4 

 hours, 20 bass, average 3 pounds. 



J. S. Docke'ry, Louisville, Ky., 25 pounds 

 pike, 5 hours. 



C. M. Grath, Louisville, Ky., 17 pounds 

 pike, one day's fishing. 



M. Gillette, Chicago, 25 pounds bass, 4 

 hours. 



Mr. Williams, New York, 18 pounds 

 muskalonge and 40 pounds pike, one day. 



Williams and Smith, Chicago, 27 pounds 

 bass, 5 hours. 



Campbell and Patterson, 22 pounds bass, 

 4 hours. 



Tomahawk lake: W. T. Davis fished 10 

 days, caught 165 pounds of fish. Largest 

 day's catch, 25 pounds; largest musky, 24 

 pounds; largest pike, 11^2 pounds; largest 

 bass, 4 pounds. 



Green lake: A. D. Morris, of Chicago, 

 caught 26 pickerel. Piatt and Foster, St. 

 Louis, 40 pickerel, one 12, one 10, several 

 8 pounders. 



Great lake, July 12: George A. Gilbert, 

 Chicago, 25 pickerel. 



George E. Highley and J. F. Richards, 

 Chicago, 31 pickerel. 



Mrs. E. W. Heath, Chicago, 32 pickerel. 



I. A. Schoen, St. Louis, 24 pickerel, 1 bass. 



July 13: Two parties from St. Louis, 45 

 pickerel. 

 July 15: Mrs. Heath, Chicago, 25 pickerel. 

 John Maudlin, 14 pickerel. 



July 16: Mrs. Heath, Chicago, 32 pickerel. 



Neenah and Menasha: Mr. S. D. Ander- 

 son, of Chicago, who has been stopping at 

 the Roberts resort, caught 20 black bass in 

 about an hour. 



W. E. Ashton and party of 4 caught 45 

 pounds of bass in one day's fishing at 

 Tomahawk lake. A. T. Baldwin caught, in 

 Lake George, several muskalonge. C. C. 

 Bronson and family caught, at Tripp's Ma- 



