FISH AND FISHING. 



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pie Grove resort, 9 black bass, weight 27 

 pounds. 



J. S. Bockee and David G. Bockee, Louis- 

 ville, Ky., fished 10 days at Trout lake, Lit- 

 tle John, Webb, Muskalonge, White Sand 

 and Olloquash lakes. Caught over 100 pike, 

 weighing from 2 to 9 pounds, 50 black bass, 

 one to 3 pounds, and 3 muskalonge. 



Fish catches for August 10: Swift party, 

 Chicago, 47 pickerel. 



Sherwood Forest party, 3 boats, from St. 

 Louis, 48 pickerel. 



Shaw, Chicago, 18 pickerel. 



Critchell, 2 boats, Chicago, 46 pickerel. 



Mrs. Upham, Chicago, 11 pickerel. 



Little, Chicago, 19 pickerel. 



August 13: Critchell, 2 boats, 42 pickerel. 



Davis, Chicago, 28 pickerel. 



Swift, Chicago, 14 pickerel. 



Eagle river: Mrs. A. McKinzie caught in 

 Cat Fish lake a 28 pound muskalonge. 



Mrs. Kayser, of Chicago, caught at Island 

 lake, 2 muskalonge, weighing 20 and 28 

 pounds. 



F. B. Laws, of Chicago, caught in 2 days, 

 at Spider lake, 6 fish weighing altogether 

 72 pounds. 



Milton Junction: Catches of fish, Lake 

 Koshkonong, N. Gottlieb and wife, Chica- 

 go, 63 fish, pickerel, black bass, and perch. 



C. Hull and L. A. Richardson, 83, same 

 varieties. 



Madison: One party caught 7 black bass, 

 9 yellow bass, average weight 4 pounds each, 

 and 2 pickerel, weighing 10 pounds each. 

 Another party made catch of 70 white bass, 

 average weight one pound each. 



Oshkosh: A party caught a pickerel 36 

 inches long, and another party brought in 

 a string of 24 black bass. 



Tomahawk lake: Mr. Hopkins and his 

 wife caught 58 pounds of bass and pike. 



Dousman: One man caught 7 pickerel 

 from 2 to 16 pounds. Several catches were 

 made of 10 to 25 white, black, and green 

 bass, and pickerel from 2 to 8 pounds. 



Pelican lake: Following are important 

 catches of fish up to July 6th: J. F. Bawes, 

 A. G. Jones, Chicago, in 2 hours, 31 black 

 bass. H. C. Gertz, Milwaukee, 9 pike, 2 

 bass, 2 pickerel, in 3 hours. Frank Shade, 

 Milwaukee, in 4 hours, 12 wall eyed pike. 

 H. Thein, Milwaukee, 2 muskalonge, 20 

 bass, pike and pickerel. F. Lippert and H. 

 Shaft, Fond du Lac, 3 muskalonge. G. 

 May, Chicago, 1 muskalonge, 33 pounds, ^ 

 one muskalonge 9 pounds. Fred. Green- 

 shade and wife, Highland Park, 30 pounds 

 fish. George Cournagey, Pelican, one mus- 

 kalonge, 22 pounds. W. Hough, Chicago, 

 one muskalonge, 10 pounds. K. E. Ball, 

 Jr., Chicago, one muskalonge, 13 pounds, 

 and one 9 pounds. G. S. Whitney, Chicago, 

 one muskalonge, 25 pounds. J. W. Fulton, 

 St. Louis, Mo., one muskalonge, 23 pounds 

 and one 7. A. Malwhen, Milwaukee, one 

 muskalonge and 8 pike. O. H. Munger, R. 



Reisse, W. A. Hough, J. F. More, J. H. 

 Harmon, T. L. DeWolf, each over 20 pounds 

 bass, pike and pickerel. G. J. Cline, W. J. 

 Kucker, Milwaukee, 60 pounds bass and 

 pi 1 -". E. M. Sheungel, Milwaukee, 10 pike, 



2 Dass, 1 pickerel, in 3 hours. Fred. Hay- 

 den, Jr., 13 pike, 3 bass, 1 pickerel. Dick 

 Thiele, 30 pounds fish. 



Catches at Green lake, July 7: Mrs. 

 Heath, Chicago, 21; Norton, Chicago, 25; 

 G. W. Mathews, Chicago, 24; E. A. Bush, 

 St. Louis, 22. 



W. T. Davis, of Chicago, caught, at Tom- 

 ahawk lake, a pike weighing 11^ pounds. 



Catches -made at Pelican, July 10th: J. W. 

 Fulton, Milwaukee, one muskalonge, 29 

 pounds; L. C. Kauldelka, Antigo, 8 pick- 

 erel, 2 pike, 1 bass; J. E. Langlos, one mus- 

 kalonge, 4 pike; Mrs. F. H. Devendorf, 

 Evansville, 6 pike, one pickerel, one muska- 

 longe. 



The following scores were made at Trout 

 lake: 



J. A. Kinney, Wilmette, 111., July 5, 16 

 black bass, 15 averaging 3 pounds each. 



Hugh MacDonald, Jr., Covington, Ky., 

 July 5 and 6, 19 black bass, 8 averaging 3 

 pounds each. 



H. B. McCullough, Cincinnati, O., 23 

 black bass, 19 wall eyed pike, and 15 muska- 

 longe, largest 13 pounds, 4^ days' fishing. 



Rhinelander: W. D. Brown and party 

 were at Meyer 2 days and caught 12 muska- 

 longe, 25 pike, 15 large black bass. 



MICHIGAN FISH NOTES. 

 Watersmeet: Two 3 pound black bass 

 were caught in Duck lake, one day last sea- 

 son, and another party of 2 made a catch of 

 15 black bass, average weight 2 pounds. In 



3 hours' fishing about 100 brook trout were 

 taken from the stream along the railroad 

 track, which runs through town, one weigh- 

 ing i^4 pound. Twenty-five black bass'were 

 caught at Duck lake by E. F. Duggan. 



Gogebic: June 26th James Carlin, Cincin- 

 nati, and Hans Nelson caught 2y brook 

 trout, weight 16 pounds, in half a day's fish- 

 ing at Trout brook. July 1st they caught 30 

 brook trout in Slate river, weight 19 pounds, 

 one-half day's fishing. H. L. Storey, E. H. 

 Storey, W. M. Pitken and A. M. Fuller 

 caught 18 bass, largest 5 pounds. Charles 

 Truax caught 24 trout in Slate river. 



H. E. Dick and 2 sons caught 9 black 

 bass, weighing 19 pounds. Mr. Withing- 

 ton, Janesville, caught a 5 pound bass. 



Fuller, of Chicago, caught 13 black bass, 

 18 pounds. 



J. L. McLain and J. H. Stover, of Wheel- 

 ing, W. Va., caught in Pelton creek 42 

 brook trout, weighing 18 pounds. 



Messrs. McLain and Storier, Wheeling, 

 W. Va., caught 24 brook trout, weighing 

 18 pounds. 



Charles Truax caught in Slate river 26 

 brook trout, 15 pounds. 



