136 RECREATION. 
UNSPORTSMANLIKE. caught 180 in one day’s fishing.—Yarmouth, 
The fishing party that went up to Big Bend N. 5S., Light. 
caught 150 bass, 14 catfish, and one eel. The 
arty was composed of Jim Mitchell, Tom Sharp, 
Maxiect Whorley, Bill Maupin and Alphonse Ep- 
pler. They are much elated over the catch.— 
Hinton, W. V., Mail. 
To my inquiry regarding the truth of this 
report I received the following reply: 
Four friends and I went on a fishing 
trip around Big Bend tunnel and were gone 
4 days. Two of these days the water was 
too muddy for us to fish. We only fished 
4 hours the first day and 7 hours the 
last day. We caught about 100 bass, and 
a few catfish on trot lines at night. We 
used live minnows for bait and fished 15 
miles of Greenbrier river. 
W. R. Maupin, Hinton, W. Va. 
It does not appear that you and your 
friends caught more than a_ reasonable 
number of fish, but you should all be hear- 
tily ashamed of the manner in which you 
took them. o real sportsman ever uses 
a trot line in these days. Neither does he 
set his rod over night. He fishes only in 
daylight, with a rod and line, and if he 
can not get fish in that way, he lets them 
stay in the water until some other time— 
EpiTor. 

MR. FEE PLEASE NOTE. 
David Cotton and Daniel Roy, in the employ 
of the Northern Pacific Railway, went to Battle 
lake Sunday on a fishing trip. They caught 138 
pike within 2 hours.—St. Paul Dispatch. 
Concerning this Mr. Roy writes: 
You have been correctly informed as to 
the number of fish caught and the length 
of time consumed in catching them by Mr. 
David Cotton and me in Otter Tail lake, 
near Battle lake, Minnesota. 
Daniel Roy, 
Northern Pacific Railway Co., St. Paul, 
Minn. 
It is fair to assume that the fish would 
average 2 pounds each and that you caught 
in all 278 pounds of pike in 2 hours.. Truly 
you have earned a place in RECREATION’S 
fish hog pen and you shall have it. 
Your brands read as follows: Daniel 
Roy, No. 962; David Cotton, No. 963. 
Mr. Fee, General Passenger Agent of 
vour road, is a firm friend of the cause of 
game and fish protection, and I trust that 
‘when he reads this he will give you a 
month off in midwinter, in order that you 
may have plenty of time to think over your 
cussedness.—EpITor. 

A SWINISH GUIDE. 
_ George W. Butler is satisfied that Nova Scotia 
is good enough for him at present. He with his 
brother, T. V. Butler, and James Goucher are 
trying to rid the streams of this country of trout, 
having caught 103 in an afternoon. Laves they 
I wrote Butler, asking if this was true, 
and he replied: 
The report is perfectly true. 
S. V. Butler, Hebron, N. S. 
It appears from portions of Butler’s let- 
ter which I have not printed that he poses 
as a. guide, and, like many others of his 
calling, he believes in making all he can 
out of the trout streams to-day, letting to- 
morrow take care of itself. At the rate at 
which he and his companions are hooking 
the trout, the supply will soon be ex- 
hausted. It may as well be so, for men of 
such swinish proclivities should be com- 
pelled to earn their living by plowing, dig- 
ging potatoes or some other equally hard 
work. S. V. Butler’s number in the fish 
hog book is 964; George W. Butler’s js 965, 
and James Goucher’s is 966.—EpITor. 

ALL THEY WANTED. 
The enclosed clipping is from the White 
Hall, Ill., Register. What is the use of 
the Government’s distributing game fishes as 
long as such brutes are running at large. 
Fishing in White Hall, Ill., West of Pegram, 
has been excellent. Mytinger and if E. 
Wyatt caught about roo black bass, weighing 
a pound to a pound and a half. 
Mytinger’s confession is: 
Mr. John Wyatt and I caught 100 black 
bass in 3 hours. We could have taken as 
many more, but we had all the bass we 
wanted for ourselves and friends. 
F. M. Mytinger, White Hall, Ill. 
I am surprised at your statement that 
you had all the bass you wanted. Men with 
such bristles as you and your friend seem 
to wear rarely quit until compelled by 
darkness, or the exhaustion of the supply, 
or some similar condition. Any gentleman 
who goes after bass quits when he gets Io 
or 15, but it seems to require about 50 to 
satisfy you and the other chap. 
Your number in the fish hog book is 
967, and John Wyatt’s is 968.—EprTor. 
DYNAMITER FINED. 
Surday, June 21, a gang of Italians was 
discovered dynamiting fish in Big Sandy 
creek. Marshal Gruber was informed and 
went for them. He succeeded in getting 5. 
Mayor Stands called on them for $25 and 
costs a man, or $148 for the bunch. They 
paid the fine. It was a good haul for Sun- 
day, but the wish is generally expressed 
that the whole gang, about a dozen, had 
been caught and fined $50 each. We once 
had good black bass fishing here and 
many a fine catch I have made, but dyna- 
mite has heen getting in its deadly work 
jor several years and, I am sorry to say, 
with no loss of life, except to the fish. 
Sandy, Waynesburg, O. 


