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RECREATION. 



shooting deer and having possession of -a redcoat; 

 case not settled. Deputy Stone and A. A. Lavalle, 

 of Shell Lake: One arrest for shooting ruffed 

 grouse and one for having possession of 6 sad- 

 dles of venison; cases not settled. Deputies M. 

 F. Carpenter, of Foud du Lac: Julius Waite, of 

 Appleton, and K. Knudson, of Winneconne: Ar- 

 rest of 10 fishermen on Lake Winnebago and 

 seizure of 24 miles of set lines, 3,400 feet of 

 sturgeon nets, 2,800 feet of gill nets, 12 spears 

 and 1,000 pounds of fish; case not settled. 



FOR ILLEGAL FISHING. 



Samuel P. Monroe, of Old Lyme, and Albert 

 T. Crittenden, of Westbrook, for illegal fishing 

 on a Saturday evening in the Connecticut river, 

 were brought before the superior court and pleaded 

 guilty. They were each fined $100 and costs, the 

 penalty prescribed for the offense. 



Monroe is a justice of the peace in the town 

 of Old Lyme, and was formerly a game warden. 

 He and Crittenden were caught by Constable 

 Bugbee, of East Hamden, violating the law for- 

 bidding the taking of shad from sundown on 

 Saturday until sundown on Sunday. They were 

 tried in the justice court, found guilty and took 

 appeals to the superior court. They were under 

 bonds of $150 each until the cases were called in 

 the superior court. Monroe submitted to the 

 court a petition that he was an honest and indus- 

 trious man. The petition was signed by a number 

 cf residents of Old Lyme. He has served several 

 times on the jury in the supreme court for New 

 London county. — Norwich, Conn., Paper. 



Justice, like death, loves a shining mark, 

 and surely ex-Justice and ex-Game Warden 

 Monroe is a good target for the blind god- 

 dess. I am glad she whacked him good 

 and hard, as well as his fellow law breaker. 

 — Editor. 



NIBBLES. 



The great interest with which I have read 

 your gun and ammunition department now 

 turns to fishing and tackle. June opens our 

 season for trout and I should like to tell 

 brother anglers of the flies I have used for 

 2 years. Several times this past season I 

 picked up exceptionally large trout from a 

 • stream which had been whipped to death 

 all day. Anglers I met on the stream, who 

 were out of certain flies and borrowed some 

 of the patterns I had, were much more suc- 

 cessful. These flies were tied by Howarth, 

 of Florrisant, Colo., and I never have seen 

 similar patterns from any other maker. I be- 

 lieve anyone who will try a few samples of 

 these flies will thank your magazine for 

 stating where they can be obtained. 



Colorado's 8-inch trout law is stocking 

 the streams with good, vigorous trout, of a 

 size it is a pleasure to catch. 



R. J. Rowen, Leadville, Colo. 



The Cleveland Plain Dealer reproduces 

 a photograph of a notorious fish hog who 

 lives in Conneaut, and whose other name 

 is E. F. Harrington. The picture shows 

 this fish butcher sitting alongside 7 large 

 muskalonge, which it is said he speared 

 through the ice on Chatauqua lake. The 



Plain Dealer lauds this brute as a hero. 

 If the reporter had known the contempt 

 which all decent anglers entertain for such 

 men, he would instead have branded him 

 as a disreputable slaughterer. Let us hope 

 that when Harrington reads this he may 

 change his mind as to whether he is a 

 great fisherman or simply a bristleback. 



A discouraged fisherman is Richard Trombley, 

 who is locked tip in the county jail on the 

 charge of violating the fish laws. Richard has 

 made his living by the fish taken from Lake St. 

 C.air; but now the hand of the law has taken 

 Richard by the collar. He was arraigned before 

 Justice Sellers February 25th. Deputy Game Warden 

 Fred Fisher saw a wagon driven by Tromblev stop in 

 the rear of Levy's store. Fred Fisher knew in 

 what business Trombley had been engaged for 

 some time, and he uncovered the wagon, with 

 startling results. In the wagon were 150 pounds 

 of black bass, known out of season as "No. 2 

 sturgeon." They had been taken by a spear, and 

 Richard was gathered in. In the police court 

 Trombley protested that he had bought the fish. 

 The court set his bail at $300. — Exchange. 



Served him right. — Editor. 



There are violators of the fish and game 

 laws here, some of them prominent men. 

 Many nets are used in this country and it 

 is no uncommon thing for people to go 

 spearing at night on our streams ; also on 

 the lakes. Several parties fish the year 

 around for the profit there is in it. One of 

 them tells he makes $1.50 to $2 a day. He 

 gets bass, blue gills and perch. There 

 should be a law to prohibit the sale of 

 fish taken from our small inland lakes. 

 C. A. Stone, Hillsdale, Mich. 



My grandfather owns a place at Bay 

 View, on Little Traverse bay, Mich. 

 One day my brother, Charles, went fishing 

 at the dock. He baited his hook and sat 

 down to fish near the end of the dock where 

 the water was about 10, feet deep. Soon he 

 got a hard bite. He had a good fight and 

 had to play the fish a long time. When he 

 landed it he found it was a bass that 

 weighed 2% pounds. Charles is 7 years old. 

 Horace Benton, Cleveland, Ohio. 



This is a good place to hunt foxes. A 

 friend" caught 19 last winter ; I caught 2 

 and one black bear. I live on the banks 

 of Pine river, the best trout stream in 

 Michigan. Of course they are rainbows, 

 but some call them brook trout. One was 

 taken that weighed 8^2 pounds. 



Chas. Garlets, Thorp, Mich. 



Will some reader of Recreation kindly 

 tell me where I can find reasonably good 

 black bass and pickerel fishing wijthin 50 

 miles of Philadedphia, either in Pennsyl- 

 vania or New Jersey? 



George Parnell, Philadelphia, Pa. 



