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RECREATION. 



more than 24 black bass of the. size per- 

 mitted by this article in any one day. 

 Where 2 or more persons are fishing or 

 angling from the same boat, the aggregate 

 number of bass taken, caught, killed or 

 possessed by the occupants of said boat in 

 any one day shall not exceed 36." 



No person, shall take, catch kill or possess 

 more than 24 black bass of the size per- 

 mitted /by this article in any one day. 

 Where 2 or more persons are fishing or 

 angling, from the same boat, the aggre- 

 gate number of bass taken, caught, killed 

 or possessed, by the occupants of said 

 boat in any one day, shall not exceed 36." 



A friend of mine having occasion to 

 show this section to a party of 4 bristlers, 

 states that they withdrew a pace and 

 seemed to be computing among themselves. 

 After putting off in his boat, he was sur- 

 prised to see 4 boats take to the water, 

 each containing J4 oi the aforementioned 

 party, each intent on taking if possible his 

 legal quota of 24 fish. My friend said, "For- 

 tunately for the fish and some other sports- 

 men, there was 'nothin' doinV Had they 

 all gone in one boat 36 fish would have 

 been the limit allowed them by law. Had 

 they gone in parties of 2 the catch could 

 have been 72 fish; but by the 4-boat game 

 a grand total of 96 might be taken and 

 still the men would not have infringed." 

 Their motto was "whole hog or none," 

 but there was "nothin' doin'." Dame Na- 

 ture dispenses as she sees fit, and like some 

 others of the gentler sex, she will have her 

 own way; to which I say God bless them 

 all. The bristlers' object was to stretch 

 the law to the full limit; but they were 

 defeated. Hawthorne. 



MR. KIRKBRIDE PROTESTS. 

 I read an article in January Rec- 

 reation stating that A. Wilson and I 

 caught 150 black bass, 137 rock bass, and 

 any number of perch at Lewiston reservoir. 

 I am the only Charles Kirkbride in this city 

 and I write this as a denial of everything 

 contained in that article. I wish you to 

 retract it. I have never fished in Lewis- 

 ton reservoir, and in all the fishing I have 

 ever done I have not caught one third that 

 number of fish, the sum total of all my 

 catches not exceeding 125 fish. I wish 

 you would say for me that this _ A. 

 Wilson, whoever he may be, is a dirty, 

 sneaking, contemptible liar, and that he 

 can, if he will make himself known, re- 

 ceive more than this at my hands, _ Please 

 tell me why you did not ask me if Wil- 

 son's statement was true before it was 

 published. 

 • Chas. W. Kirkbride, Findlay, Ohio. 



If I should attempt to verify every letter 

 that comes to me, in the way you suggest, 



I should have to employ at least 10 addi- 

 tional stenographers. That would be an 

 unnecessary expense. When a man writes, 

 as Mr. Wilson did, that a friend and him- 

 self did so and so, it is hardly reasonable 

 to expect me to write the friend and ask 

 him whether the other man told the truth. 

 You will see that in this case I doubted 

 the truth of the story and said so in plain 

 English. Still there are thousands of men 

 slaughtering fish and game at as disgrace- 

 ful a rate as Wilson states in his letter and 

 so I had good reason for printing his state- 

 ment, and for roasting him and his al- 

 leged friend. Inasmuch as you disclaim 

 any knowledge of Wilson you are not 

 damaged by the publication of his report 

 or my comment thereon. I earnestly hope 

 you may find the writer and that you will 

 give him what he deserves. Editor. 



NOVA SCOTIA SWINE. 



A few of us who are subscribers to and 

 admirers of Recreation feel that you 

 should be made aware of the manner in 

 which fish hogs are slaughtering the trout 

 in this part of the continent. With that 

 end in view I send you clippings from the 

 Telephone and the Telegraph, St. John, N. 

 B. The facts stated therein are, we think, 

 worthy of your able pen. We hope your 

 roasting fork is sharp and the fire hot. 

 B. R. W., Bear River, N. S. 



Following is the item referred to : 



R. W. Ambrose, of St. John, is in the city. 



He has just come from a fishing trip up the Liv- 

 erpool river, on which he was accompanied by 

 Mr. Snook, of the Klondike hotel, Liverpool, and 

 Mr. Wile, of Bridgewater. They captured over 

 700 trout. — Halifax Echo. 



I wrote these men as to the truth of this 

 report, and received the following answer: 



It is true that 2 friends and I caught 700 

 trout and one salmon in 8 days. 

 I have been going up the same river 

 15 years and our catch has always 

 been 300 to 700. We do not have to 

 do any bush tramping. We fish from 

 boats in a running river. 



A. L. Wile, Bridgewater, N. S. 



God must certainly have made that river 

 as a special trough for fish hogs and He 

 must give special care to restocking it 

 each year for their use. Otherwise it 

 would have been barren long ago. I wish 

 all the fish butchers in the world could be 

 banished to that region, in order that decent 

 men might have the other waters to them- 

 selves. — Editor. 



A BLACK LIST. 

 In compliance with your request I send 

 you a partial list of pot hunters and fish 

 hogs living in this vicinity. The first is 

 Albert Moon, a man over 70. He boasts 

 that he was employed by hide hunters in 



