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you deserve a place in the fish hog book and 
shall have it. Your number is 1,005, and 
Bailey’s is 1,006.—EDITor. 

TOO MANY TROUT. 
Your letter of the 19th has been re- 
ceived. The report to which you refer is 
in the main correct. There were 3 friends 
with me. We left Chipman July 14th for 
the Gaspareau river, and began fishing 
Wednesday morning, July 15th. By Sat- 
urday noon, when our team returned for 
us, we had secured 70 dozen trout. We 
were fortunate in having a guide who could 
prepare them for the table, and who also 
understood curing trout as I never had 
seen them cured before. I am sure they 
would keep for weeks. The longest fish 
we took were about 13 inches; the great 
bulk of those we kept were probably Io 
inches. 
‘Frank Baird, Sussex, N. B. 
You say 4 of you caught 70 dozen trout 
in 3 days. This is an average of 70 trout 
a day to each man and, as I understand 
your statement, it is fair to assume that 
the trout would average % pound each or 
more; so it seems each of you caught 
over 35 pounds of trout a day for the 3 
days. This is clearly excessive and falls 
little short of slaughter. Any gentleman 
should be satisfied with 10 pounds of trout 
a day, no matter how abundant they may 
be; and the best type of the true sports- 
man quits when he gets enough, no matter 
how many fish or how much game may still 
be in sight——EbiTor. 

TROLLING HOOK. 
No. 720,435. Allen H. Smith, Tremont, La. 
Filed March 18, 1903. Serial No. 
148,387. 

Claim.—The combination with a tubular 
body having openings therein and slots cor-. 
responding to said openings, and a stem 
mounted to slide in the said tubular body, 
of a cup secured to the stem and located 
within the apertured and slotted portion of 
the body, the said cup being provided with 
slots at its open end, a cap for the open 
end of the cup, also secured to the stem 
and having corresponding slots therein, and 
RECREATION. 
fishhooks the shanks of vhich pass through 
the slots in the said tubular body, the inner 
ends of the shanks being pivoted within 
the said cup, extending out through the 
registering slots in the cup and its cap. 

NIBBLES. 
Do any fishes, when in their native 
haunts, make guttural noises? 
How can one tell the age of muskalonge ? 
A. W. Gregg, St. Paul, Minn. 
ANSWER, 
Many fishes give forth grunting sounds. 
It is impossible to name all that do so. All 
fishes of the genus Diabsis, commonly 
known as grunts, give forth grunting 
sounds when taken from the water. Of 
other fishes that do so, the following are a 
few: sea robin, Dactylopterus volitans; 
croaker, Micropogon undulatus; and drum, 
Pogonias. 
No observations have been made on the 
rate of growth of muskalonge.—EniTor. 

I was much interested in Dr. Adkins’ 
letter in October REcREATION, and I should 
like to add this. I have fully 20 different 
kinds of artificial baits, but I have dis- 
carded all of them for the Hildebrandt 
spinner. The spinners will catch bass when 
everything else fails. I was induced by a 
friend to try a Hildebrandt. The first day 
I landed a small mouth bass which weighed 
nearly 6 pounds, and a number of smaller 
ones. I ordeted one dozen spinners the 
same evening, and have used them all sea- 
son, always with success. I heartily rec- 
ommend them to every angler. RECREATION 
is the best magazine ever published. It is 
worth a dollar a copy. 
T. R. Navarre, Monroe, Mich. 

Trout fishing in the rivers and bass fish- 
ing in the lakes in North Idaho was never 
better than at the present time. Some large 
catches are being made in the Coeur d’ 
Alene river, where trout thrive. 
R. L. Brainard, Wardner, Idaho. 

We had good fishing here all last summer 
and quite a number of large bass and pike 
were caught. 
L. A. Jaeger, Independence, Iowa. 
A fishy old fisher named Fischer 
Fished fish from the edge of a fissure; 
A cod, with a grin, 
Pulled the fisherman in— _ 
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer. 
—Cincinnati Tribune. 
