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FISH AND FISHING. 
matter all I could by paying out as the 
fish moved. Letting him have all he would 
take, I waited for him to thoroughly hook 
himself. At last I recovered the slack, gave 
a little yank and the trout was hooked. 
Oh, what a time I had then all alone, 
and on one leg at that! Back and forth, 
over and across; then to vary the per- 
formance the fish would jump clear out of 
water and do the whole thing all over; but 
the little steel rod, the silken thread, and 
the needle-like hook were too much for 
him. He yielded, but with poor grace. Full 
30 minutes elapsed from the time he first 
struck the hook until he floated into the 
shoal water and was hauled up on the 
grass, 
Then it was a matter of getting home and 
how I ever did it I don’t know. What my 
wife said I shall not tell, but the trout 
weighed a pound and a half. 
You should never plunk for a noble fish 
like a trout. Take him on a fly or let him 
stay in the water. Carve him as a dish 
fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass 
fit for hounds.—Ep1rTor. 

SALMON KILLED* BY BLACK BASS. 
Tacoma (Wash.)—Black bass are killing land- 
locked salmon by tens of thousands in American 
lake, South of Tacoma, With rows of dead fish 
making a white streak almost entirely around the 
lake, more fish are continuously swimming wear- 
ily ‘up to the beach to die. Their death appar- 
In every case 
their tails are missing, and often their sides have 
been gouged out. These fish are 12 to 15 inches 
long, being species of salmon. This being their 
spawning time, it is believed that the vicious 
black bass, plentiful in American lake, take ad- 
vantage of their weakened condition after spawn- 
ing to attack them. The salmon being too large 
to be swallowed whole, the black bass chop off 
their tails and as much of their bodies as they 
can manage. 
The mangled fish, suffering from their injuries 
and unable to hunt food, weaken and finally make 
for the beach. where they perish miserably while 
trying to escape their enemy. Residents near 
American lake say this remarkable occurrence 
been noticeable during December for 4 
years past, . 
I referred the foregoing to Dr. B. W. 
Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries, 
eee D. C., and he replies as fol- 
ows: 
I do not think there can be much in the 
story told in the enclosed clipping. It is 
more likely that the fish referred to, if 
really salmon, are simply dying, as all West 
coast salmon do, after spawning. These are 
mentioned as landlocked salmon, but as 
there are no landlocked salmon on that 
coast, as far as I know, that part of the 
story is probably mixed. There is a great 
deal of evidence to show that the black 
bass introduced into trout and salmon wa- 
ters of the Northwest do great damage to 
the young of the different Salmonide@ native 
to those waters; but that black bass would 
muskalonge 
472". 
seriously injure salmon or trout 12 to 15 
inches long is a little too fishy a story. 
I am not familiar with American lake, 
but I should not be surprised if the fish 
referred to are the small form of the blue- 
back salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). This 
species reaches a length of about a foot and 
spawns ordinarily in the small streams trib- 
utary to lakes in that region, late in the 
fall or early in the winter. 
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ON THE WEBER. 
My brother and I had long contemplated 
a fishing trip. We at last decided to go on 
the Weber river, and with 5 friends set out 
July 11. 
We were in camp the day after leaving 
Salt lake. Joe Vernon caught a mess of 
trout for supper, while the others pitched 
camp. After breakfast next morning we 
went to J. E. San, living just above where 
we were camped, to ask him to supply us 
with eggs and milk during our stay. 
The 3 boys in the party decided that night 
to be up early for the morning fishing. Get- 
ting out at 5 a. m., we walked a mile up 
stream and caught 20 fair sized mountain 
trout. Two days thereafter we just laid 
around camp and enjoyed ourselves. 
We fished off and on during the follow- 
ing week, keeping the camp supplied with 
fish enough for our needs. We could have 
caught hundreds of pounds if we had tried. 
One party, camped near us, caught and salt- 
ed down over 500 trout, about 150 pounds. 
One morning my brother and I got up 
and had breakfast about 4 a. m., and then 
went fishing. We returned with 30 trout, 
and we did not fish any more for 3 days. 
Game is abundant where we were; bear, 
deer, cougar, chickens, quails, trout and 
herring. 
F. H. Strickley, Salt Lake, Utah. 
SEND ME MEASUREMENTS. 
Professor H. M. Kinsley, of Hoboken, N. 
J., superintendent of schools of Hudson 
county, has sent me 2 photos of muskalonge 
which bear on their reverse sides these 
memoranda: 
“4 feet 1 inch long, 27 pounds weight, 
captured in the St. Lawrence river August 
15, 1903, at 11 a. m.; 4 feet 8 inches long, 
37. pounds weight, captured in the St. 
Lawrence river August 24, 1903, at 5.30 
I should be glad if anglers in general 
would send me careful and complete data 
as to length, girth and weight of all large 
fishes they may take. It is not usually ne- 
cessary to have photographs of such fishes, 
but such data as the foregoing are valuable 
and interesting. I am often asked what a 
will weigh which measures 
4 feet 6 inches in length, for instance. 
If those who are fortunate in landing big 

