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RECREATION. 



A GOOD PLACE TO GO FOR TROUT. 



Fishing through the ice has begun on 

 Elk lake. Mr. Norman Hawley captured 

 an 8 pound Mackinaw trout to-day. Mr. 

 Hawley is the captain of the steamer 

 "Marie." He pilots fishing parties around 

 and through the numerous lakes near this 

 place? If any angler wishes to enjoy a 

 week or more fishing for black bass, 

 muskalonge or brook trout, let him visit 

 this place during June. We have a grand 

 inland waterway. Leaving Elk Rapids 

 for Bellaire on Intermediate river the 

 steamer passes through 5 rivers and 5 

 lakes on the route, and such fishing! 

 While the steamer is passing up Torch 

 river one can take up a position on the 

 hurricane deck or the prow and see rainbow 

 trout, speckled trout, Mackinaw trout, bass 

 and pickerel darting in every direction. 

 The water is so clear the bottom of the river 

 is visible throughout its entire length. 

 Near where Torch river leaves Torch 

 lake, .Rapid river flows in, the greatest 

 trout stream in Michigan. There are 

 many rainbow and brook trout in Torch 

 lake, and at certain times they 'run up 

 Rapid river in schools. One man from 

 Traverse City caught 40 pounds of trout 

 in one half day at this place. Of course 

 he is a fish hog. He always fishes for 

 count. There are a few such in this 

 country. 



Brown Hackle, Elk Rapids, Mich. 



NIBBLES. 



One morning in May I was fishing in the 

 beautiful and rapid Cedar river. I had 

 fished down from Stover, 5 miles from 

 Bellaire, and had caught 10 trout, 8 to 

 10 inches long. Just below the outlet 

 of Intermediate river there is a stave mill. 

 On the mill dock one of my friends was 

 standing, and I went out to show him my 

 catch. I was 10 years old at that time 

 and, naturally, more than proud of my 10 

 fish. While talking I cast my line from 

 the dock, though without the least expecta- 

 tion of hooking anything. I went on 

 talking. Suddenly my line ran out until 

 the reel was almost bare. It took me 10 

 minutes to win back as many yards. 

 By that time all the mill hands were watch- 

 ing the fight and yelling instructions. 

 I was too excited to pay much attention 

 to what they told me. At last my big 

 trout tired and I got him in. He weighed 

 3 pounds, one ounce; the largest trout 

 ever caught in Cedar river. 



/ Charles Cross, Bellaire, Mich. 



as Lake Webb. In that lake are found land- 

 locked salmon, brook trout and black bass, 

 besides great numbers of pickerel. Fishing 

 during May and June is unexcelled, and 

 through July and August bass and pickerel 

 are taken in any quantity. Though 12 

 miles from a railroad, access to this ideal 

 resort is readily had by stages in about 2 

 hours' time from the station. Between 30 

 and 40 summer cottages have been built in 

 the last few years for the accommodation 

 of visitors. The scenery is the finest in the 

 State of Maine. Deer and bear are nu- 

 merous. Guides can be procured at any 

 time in the fishing or hunting seasons. Any 

 one wishing a place to spend a vacation, 

 whether sportsmen or not, will make no 

 mistake in coming to Weld. Good board 

 can be found at hotels or farmhouses. 

 Lester L. Jones, Weld, Me. 



For many years the sloughs below Warsaw, 111., 

 were famous fishing grounds, and they would have 

 remained so until the present day but for the great 

 mistake the fish commissioners made in stocking our 

 waters with German carp, which destroy the spawn 

 of game fishes, and render the water so muddy at 

 times that bass or crappie cannot see the bait. 



Twenty years ago I saw 90 black bass taken by 3 

 men at Brandy Bend, 6 miles below Warsaw, in the 

 afternoon of one day and the forenoon of the next, 

 and all caught with spoon hooks. Many of these 

 fish weighed 2, 3 and 4 pounds. Good catches have 

 been made at the same point during the last 2 years. 

 The publisher of the Constitution- Democrat and 

 I have taken, the past season, with rod and line, 281 

 black bass and 678 crappie. Illinois paper. 



The writer of the above has a colossal 

 nerve to charge the disappearance of game 

 fishes in Illinois waters to the German 

 carp. In his own statement he acquits the 

 carp and convicts himself, the editor of 

 the Constitution-Democrat and a lot of 

 other swine, of the crime of having de- 

 stroyed the game fishes of those streams. — 

 Editor. 



The town of Weld, in which I live, is 

 situated among the hills and mountains of 

 Northwestern Maine. Near it lies a sheet 

 of water, 6 miles lonjj and n r A wide, known 



William West of Papillion, Neb., was 

 convicted in December last of fishing in the 

 Platte river with hoop nets in violation of 

 law and was fined $20 and costs. When 

 West was arrested he put up a big bluff 

 about shooting the officers, but the 

 cowards who steal fish from the public 

 in violation of law have not courage 

 enough to fight, and West proved no ex- 

 ception to the rule. 



The clipping from which the above 

 information is obtained was sent me by 

 R. C. Barton, of |Papilion,who adds, "Wil- 

 liam Childers, another fisherman, got into 

 the same fix. The State Fish Commission- 

 ers came down the river in a boat, found 

 Childer's nets, burnt 22 of them and turned 

 loose about 1,200 pounds of fish that were 

 confined in fish boxes. The Commis- 

 sioners gave him 2 weeks in which to 

 leave the State or be prosecuted. Chil- 

 ders got out in preference to being cinclied.'! 



