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RECREATION. 



A VALUABLE WARDEN. 

 I intend to take a carload of adult fish, 

 not fish fry, to Cresco next fall and put 

 them in the Little Turkey river at that 

 place. I gather the adult fish from the 

 bayous of the Mississippi river and place 

 them in the interior waters of the State. 

 Almost daily I receive letters telling of the 

 great success of the enterprise, and saying 

 the lakes and rivers of Iowa have not af- 

 forded such good fishing for years as they 

 have this year. Mr. Young, the mayor of 

 Clear Lake, writes, "I have lived here 25 

 years and have never seen so many fish 

 caught in Clear lake any year as this year 

 since the law expired May 15th." A rigid 

 enforcement of the law of protection, the 

 stocking with adult fish in the fall of the 

 year and their spawning the following 

 spring before the law expires, will soon 

 bring Iowa's waters back to where they 

 were before the fish hog and market seiner 

 arrived. 



G. E. Delavan, 

 State Fish and Game Warden, Estherville, 

 la. 



PIKE COUNTY NOTES. 



Catfish, suckers, shiners and a few sun- 

 fish are stricken with a disease here in the 

 form of a fungus growth which blinds, dis- 

 ables and ultimately kills the fish. The 

 shores of the lakes in this part of Pike 

 county are strewn with dead and. decaying 

 fish as a result of the fungus growth. 



Black bass and pickerel seem to be im- 

 munes. Bass are on their nests and are 

 busy dividing their time between love-mak- 

 ing and fighting trespassers. 



The Laxawaxan and Delaware are re- 

 ported to be full of the good-for-nothing 

 German carp and some ignorant cuss has 

 planted the lakes with the same unweildy, 

 spawn-sucking nuisances. One of the back- 

 woodsmen caught a 17 pound carp in Big 

 Tink pond and had his wife cook it. He 

 declares the taste in his mouth has been 

 nauseous ever since he ate it. 



Trout are again making their homes in 

 the neighboring brooks. 



Dan Beard, Rowlands, Pa. 



STOP ILLEGAL FISHING. 

 We are stocking our streams with thou- 

 sands of trout each year, and doing what 

 we can to protect them, but we have fish 

 hogs here, as other places have, who claim 

 that when a trout is large enough to bite it 

 is large enough to save, who keep all they 

 catch, big and little, fish in and out of sea- 

 son, and not always with a hook and line. 

 We had less illegal fishing when we had a 

 game protector appointed in each town, 

 but that is done away with, and game war- 

 dens are few and far apart. I am glad to 

 see the old forest, fish and game commis- 

 sion go, and hope for better things from 



the new. I am glad we have a Governor 

 who has backbone enough to stand up for 

 what he thinks right and hope tu see him 

 re-elected. 



Recreation has come to me regularly 

 the past 5 years. It grows better each year. 

 I wish every angler and hunter could read 

 it, for they would become true sportsmen 

 if they did. 



A. W. Francis, De Ruyter, N. Y. 



SPEARING SHUT OFF. 



Deputy Game Warden Mark Craw returned 

 yesterday from Duck lake with 7 men caught 

 spearing bass in the lake near Interlochen. As 

 a result of this prize capture Tom Baker, 

 Charles Miller, Eber Calkins, Earl Cook, Hulbert 

 E. Brooks, Roy Ralston and Wm. Bailey were 

 arraigned in Justice Brown's court and paid $8.70 

 each, fines and costs. 



Sportsmen look on the spearing of bass at this 

 season of the year as the most flagrant violation 

 of the fish laws. There is no sport in spearing 

 the bass as they lie on the spawning beds in shal- 

 low water. If driven off they return at once 

 and the same course may be gone over again and 

 again in the same night and the game fish slaught- 

 ered. Deputy Craw should have the thanks of 

 all good sportsmen if he rigidly enforces this 

 part of the law, and his big haul Saturday night 

 may be followed by more unless this brutal spear- 

 ing is left seriously alone by the fish hogs. — 

 Daily Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. 



All honor to Deputy Craw, Justice 

 Brown and the editor of the Eagle. Their 

 fearlessness in enforcing the law and in 

 educating public sentiment will be approved 

 by every true sportsman in the country. — 

 Editor. 



A SHAMELESS JUDGE. 



In reply to my inquiry regarding a re- 

 ported catch of fish I received the follow- 

 ing letter : 



Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Yours of the 27th at hand. Judge Ed- 

 giner and I caught 152 trout on the open- 

 ing day, averaging 10 inches. We took 

 them in Pocono Creek. 



Geo. W. Fabee, Prop. Burnett House. 



"Judge" Edginer, eh? "Proprietor Bur- 

 nett House," eh? Surely this is a rare case. 

 That a judge of a court should befoul his 

 ermine by trailing it in the swine corral is a 

 pitiable spectacle. The proprietor of a ho- 

 tel, even a Raines law hotel in this city, 

 should be ashamed of having committed 

 such slaughter as you boast of. I trust no 

 other butcher may ever be arraigned be- 

 fore "Judge" Edginer, for the "Judge" 

 would undoubtedly pat him on the back 

 and say, "Go thy way in peace. We fish 

 hogs must stand together." — Editor. 



NIBBLES. 

 A number of prominent Chicago people 

 have recently returned from a few days' 

 fishing at Neenah, Wis. They report the 

 fishing excellent and a catch in 2 days' out- 

 ing of 147 bass, averaging 1V2 pounds; 250 

 pike, averaging 3^2 pounds, and one 





