
FISH AND FISHING. 
pickerel averaged 2 pounds each, these men 
took 150 pounds of fish in one hour and 50 
minutes. Gee whiz! How they must have 
sweat and puffed and yanked to have 
pulled so many fish out of the water in 
that length of time. In order to take 75 
fish in 110 minutes, deducting the necessary 
time for detaching the hook from each and 
rebaiting and recasting, they could not have 
allowed any of the fish to run to feet after 
being hooked. The only sport these rooters 
could possibly have had must have been the 
mere slaughtering of fish. It must simply 
have been a case of hooking and yanking; 
but that is what the average bristleback 
considers real sport.—EDIror. 

WINTER FISHING. 
I had a day’s fishing on Bashan lake last 
Thanksgiving. We started early in the 
morning and after a 10 mile drive in the 
piercing cold we arived at the lake. We set 
out about 36 tips, getting them all in by 
8 a.m. They gave us all the employment 
we wanted. We would no sooner catch 
hold of the spud than a flag would go up. 
We had 13 good pickerel before we had our 
tips all in, and after that it was all we 
could do to handle them. 
We caught before 3 p. m. 178 of the finest 
pickerel we ever saw and 191 perch. Then 
our bait gave out, so we returned home. 
On arriving there we displayed our catch 
and weighed them on a Fairbanks’ scale. 
They footed up to exactly 513 pounds. We 
consider this exceptionally good luck at 
that early season. 
W. G. Reade, A. H. Baird, Middletown, 
Conn. 
Some readers may wonder why I do not 
rebuke these men. The reason is that I do 
not regard pickerel and perch as game 
fishes, and should be glad to see them all 
cleaned out of waters inhabited by better 
fishes.— EDITOR. 

NIBBLES. 
My home is in Ellisburg, Jefferson 
county, N. Y, A club there of which I am 
a member controls 1,800 acres of duck and 
pickerel marshes. Mr. F. Galliger has as 
much more land adjoining ours, and has 
established a summer resort with all equip- 
ments. The North branch of Big Sandy 
runs through his territory and affords ex- 
cellent black bass and pickeral fishing. To 
the South lie 10 miles of marshes and 
ponds. We leased our land to prevent non- 
residents from securing it, and in order 
that all our home people might have a 
place to hunt and fish. We bar none from 
our land, but outsiders who shoot or fish 
on it are required to pay $1 a day toward 
its maintenance. 
435 
Before leaving home last spring, I helped 
plant 10,000 brook trout in our waters. We 
now have 3 trout brooks stocked with 35,- 
000 fish. 
C. H. Noble, Ellisburg, N. Y. 

September was a banner month for an- 
glers on the Madison lakes. More large 
pickerel were caught than during any other 
month of the season. Robert Keyes landed 
one which measured 3 feet 8 inches and 
weighed over 20 pounds. Chas. Bryant 
caught a 12-pounder after a vigorous tussle. 
Both were taken from Lake Mendota. An- 
drew Hippemeyer in one day caught 2 
pickerel weighing 11 and 13 pounds respec- 
tively. A tew days previous he captured a 
black bass weighing 5 pounds and 14 ounces. 
They were caught in Lake Monona. Many 
more large fish were caught in both lakes 
while medium sized white bass, yellow bass 
and pickerel were taken in abundance. 
- Leo Bird, Madison, Wis. 

734,544. Trimming for Fishing Rods. 
James B. Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. Filed 
July 22, 1902. Serial No. 116,503. 
Claim.—1. A band for a fishing rod, 
formed of bendable metal and having on 
its inner face an integral rod-engaging 
means curved inwardly from opposite sides, 
as set forth. 
2. A band for a fishing rod, formed of 

bendable metal and provided with integral 
spurs curved inwardly from opposite sides 
to embed themselves in the rod. 

Tony Huss and I boarded the A. & S. C. 
train for Knappa, one day last summer, to 
take a shy at the trout. Arriving at that 
station at 9.30 we walked out to the farm 
of W. H. Twilight where we stopped for 
lunch. About 10 o’clock we went to the 
river and commenced fishing. In the course 
of the afternoon I caught 4 good sized sal- 
mon trout, and Mr. Huss caught 8. He got 
one steelhead salmon 33 inches long. It 
weighed 12% pounds. This made all the 
fish we needed, and having had fun erough 
to last us a long time, we returned to we 
city on the evening train. 
D. R. Blount, Astoria, Ore. 
A remarkable duck story comes from 
Nantes, France. Some fishermen were out 
at sea during a terrible thunderstorm, when 
suddenly a number of roasted ducks fell 
into their boat. The lightning had struck a 
flock and cooked the birds to a turn.—Ar- 
gonaut, 
