FISH AND 
the bottle green ones with white bellies. 
Captain De Nyse, Bath Beach, Long Island, 
can probably supply them.—Ebiror, 
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SLAUGHTER NOT JUSTIFIED. 
G. C. Gridley returned home yesterday from 
Du Rivier, in the Nippissing district in Canada, 
where he has been trout fishing a week or more. 
He caught an abundance of fish, sending out 
about 200 pounds and bringing 100 pounds with 
him.—Utica, N. Y., Observer. 
Regarding this report Mr. Gridley writes: 
Whoever informed you of the number 
of pounds of trout recently caught by me 
in a week rather exaggerated it. Six or 7 
‘of us went into a club preserve about 180 
miles North of Ottawa, on the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad, crossing the Ottawa river 
at Deux Rivieres, and the entire party esti- 
mated that our catch during the 8 days 
would amount to nearly 400 pounds. We 
had to confine our fishing to about 2 hours 
each day, as we caught more trout than 
we knew what to do with. We sent them 
liberally to our friends and the club. 
G. C. Gridley, Watertown, N. Y. 
Well, what if it is a private preserve? 
Why slaughter fish, even if you do have 
the opportunity and own the land? That 
does not justify you in committing a slaugh- 
ter of fine game fishes. You and your 
friends could not have eaten 25 per cent. 
of the trout you say you caught in the time 
you were there. You may have shipped 
all the others home, but as the trout sea- 
son comes only in the hot weather, fhe 
chances are that a large number of those 
fish spoiled and were thrown away. You 
seem to have been fishing for a record. 
This ambition that haunts many men to 
make big records, go home and tell the 
local editor about it and. get their names 
in the paper is one of the causes of the 
trout streams all over the country having 
been cleaned out. If a man wants good 
trout fishing he must now go to Canada 
for it. That is probably the reason you and 
your friends bought or leased that land in 
Canada, and if you keep up the pace you 
have already started, you will soon clean 
that out, too—Ep1ror. 

PRISON TOO GOOD FOR THEM. 
Glen Morse, clerk of the Circuit Court 
of Outagamie county, Wis., and 5 or 6 other 
men were fishing in Evergreen brook, 
Shawano county, and caught 1,200 trout, 
ranging from 6 ounces to 2% pounds each, 
so these men told me, in 4 days’ fishing. 
Don’t you think they got more than their 
share? You might write Glen Morse or 
George Ames, of this city, for verification 
of this story. 
F. U. R., Appleton, Wis. 
I wrote as suggested and Mr. Ames 
replied: 
FISHING. 135 
I was trout fishing with a party of 7 on 
the Evergreen river, 20 miles North of 
Shawano. We fished 3 days and caught 
1,258 trout. Of that number about 125 
weighed a pound each and some a few 
ounces over a poung. 
George E. Ames, Appleton, Wis. 
It is a constant source of wonder to me 
that decent, Taw-abiding sportsmen allow 
such swine as you and your friends to raid 
their streams and clean them out every 
year. I wish you had run up against a 
bunch of farmers like those in Illinois, 
who turned out, burned the tents and the 
camp outfits of a lot of fish hogs who were 
raiding one of their lakes, and then ran 
the aforesaid out of the country. An ordi- 
nary prison is too good for any such outfit 
as you and your pals. You should be 
locked in a box car and dumped into the 
Milwaukee river. Your number in the fish 
hog register is 960; Glen Morse’s is 961, 
and if I knew the name of the swine who 
were with you, I would gladly label them 
also.—EDITorR. 

MAY BE A FISH LIE, 
While. in our county seat the other day 
met several local sportsmen. They 
seemed to have done more hunting and 
fishing than most business men find time 
for and I was impressed with their stories. 
One of them may be of interest to the read- 
ers Of RECREATION. 
Some time in June, 4 of the fellows, 
Frank Treat, Walter Hanscom and Lester 
Price, of San Andreas, and Alex. Smyth, 
of West Point, went to Blue creek on a 
fishing trip. Blue creek is one of the best 
trout streams in the Sierra Nevadas; not 
only is it full of fish, but they are of good 
size. 
The fishing was good from the start, and 
as the boys are all experts they had no 
trouble in catching all the fish they could 
use. The day before their return, as each 
had a circle of friends hungry for trout, 
they determined to get fish enough for 
everybody. 
It.must have been a great day, because at 
night 4 tired fishermen counted out 600 
trout, of an average size of 10 inches. 
When the townspeople saw this immense 
catch and were told it had been made in a 
day, many were incredulous, and openly 
accused the boys of netting the fish or of 
killing them with dynamite When shown 
the hook marks in every fish, their doubts 
vanished, and they could but congratulate 
the lucky ones 
E. B. Schaiffle, Valley Springs, Cal. 
If this story is true, these 4 men deserve 
to be sent to jail for at least 6 months each. 
—EDITor. 
