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the officers ran for their team, jumped into 

 their wagon and started to drive away. 

 The farmers continued the firing and the 

 warden fired at one man at short range 

 and brought him down. At last accounts 

 this man was dying, and it is to be hoped 

 he is well planted by this time. Unfor- 

 tunately the wardens were unable to iden- 

 tify any of the law-breakers. They saw 

 the faces of those in the canoe by the torch- 

 light, but that was not strong enough to 

 enable the wardens to recognize the men. 

 The farmers have threatened for some time 

 past to make trouble for any warden who 

 might interfere with what they term their 

 rights. On the other hand, Warden Smith 

 is determined to break up this unlawful 

 fishing. It will be interesting to watch 

 the fight and see how it may come out. 



ently the big boar of the bunch, maj stick 

 his head in the drain while I broadcast his 

 record. — Editor. 



A WARDEN'S STRANGE DEFENSE. 

 Arthur Chase, Perley Stevens and I went 

 fishing September 10. While at the pond 

 Chase shot a duck. He was arrested by 

 Game Warden Arthur Salmon, of Maple, 

 Vt, and fined $10 and costs. After tne 

 case was settled I talked with the warden, 

 and, among other things, asked if he had 

 ever arrested anyone for taking undersized 

 trout. He replied that he had not, and 

 said any warden taking up such a case 

 would be kicked out of the county. He 

 added that he would not have bothered 

 Chase if the whole town had not been at 

 him for letting 2 fellows shoot ducks on 

 the same pond the previous week. 



D. R. Logan, 

 East Craftsbury, Vt. 



This is a strange line of defense for a 

 game warden to put up to cover an official 

 act, and I should like to know what War- 

 den Arthur Salmon has to say in explana- 

 tion of his strange argument, not to call 

 it by a harsher name. — Editor. 



WELCOME TO THE PEN. 

 In reply to an inquiry as to the truth of 

 an item lately printed in the Seattle 

 (Wash.) Times, I received the following: 



Your information is nearly correct. T. 

 Bowes, A. Van Epps and I caught over 

 2,000 trout in 3^2 days. The trout, which 

 were rainbow and cut-throat, were hooked 

 with flies in the Icicle river, on the Eastern 

 slope of the Cascade range. None of the 

 fish were wasted, but salted down and 

 given to friends. A. Van Epps has an ac- 

 knowledged record of 700 trout in one day, 

 caught in the same river. 



W. M. Inglis, Seattle, Wash. 



All right, Inglis. Step right into the fish 

 hog pen and take your companions with 

 you. You are welcome to the muckiest cor- 

 ner you can find. Van Epps, who is appar- 



NIBBLES. 



Should like to know if any readers of 

 Recreation have had trouble with the Bris- 

 tol steel rod. I bought one before going 

 away last summer. In pulling the line off 

 the reel it snapped the tip. It was bent 

 but little at the time of unreeling. I think 

 it must have been a defective rod. 



C. R. B., New York City. 



The tip undoubtedly had a flaw in it 

 which was overlooked by the workman 

 when putting the rod together, and by the 

 inspector. If you will report the case to 

 the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., they 

 will doubtless send you a new tip and make 

 no charge for it. — Editor. 



A subscriber at Victoria, British Colum- 

 bia, sent me a cut and an item clipped from 

 the Victoria Colonist. The item states that 

 John Longmaid, of Helena, Mont., caught 

 during his visit to Victoria 328 trout. I 

 hold Longmaid's acknowledgment of the 

 truth of the story; he adds that his best 

 day's catch was 29 fish, weighing in all 61 

 pounds. The cut mentioned shows a white- 

 bearded individual in a chesty pose beside a 

 lot of fish. It is written : "With age 

 cometh wisdom; and with grey hairs dis- 

 cretion." But there are exceptions. A dis- 

 creet old fish hog nowadays would not 

 send his picture to the papers. — Editor. 



A friend and I made a trip last summer 

 to Point Fortune, Quebec, 50 miles from 

 Montreal. While there we caught 35 fish, 

 mostly pike and bass. We hooked many 

 more, but threw them back, keeping no pike 

 under 12 inches and no bass under 7. We 

 saw an old Frenchman fishing. He had a 

 box full of fish, and all small ones he 

 caught he threw ashore. He said it was 

 bad luck to put them back in the water, 

 and got angry when we tried to argue with 

 him. We heard a fellow who had been to 

 St. Margaret boast that he had caught 250 

 trout in 2 days. G. M. Miller, 



Montreal, Can. 



That ad. put in Recreation a few years 

 ago has kept my cottages rented ever 

 since. I have built 2 more, and they are 

 rented, too ; so, for goodness' sake, don't 

 tell anybody I have any cottages to rent. 



There are some good fish left yet in 

 Lake George, but not every amateur can 

 catch them. Most of the large fish wear a 

 rich and varied collection of decorations 

 in the way of fancy spoons, flies, and all 

 that sort of thing, that they have captured 



