

PISH AND FISHING. 



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Sand as Deuel appears to have displayed 

 on this occasion. — Editor. 



HE MAY BE FORGIVEN. 



Last spring, before the fishing season 

 opened, one of our boys got anxious to 

 try his hand. He sneaked down to the 

 river, got in a secluded place and com- 

 menced to fish. Someone seeing the boy 

 with pole and line, notified the fish warden, 

 who went in search of him. In the mean- 

 time the boy had caught a 5 pound pick- 

 erel, had put him on a string and fastened 

 him in the water so he would keep alive 

 till the boy was ready to go home. The 

 warden came on to the boy and asked him 

 what he was doing there. 



"Fishing for suckers," replied the boy. 



Our fish commissioner has decided that 

 suckers are not a game fish, hence can 

 be caught at any time. The fish warden 

 looked down, saw the pickerel on the 

 string and asked the boy what he was 

 doing with that. The boy replied that 

 the blamed thing bothered his bait so much 

 he just tied him up. 



D. E. Packard, Belmont, Iowa. 



I do not approve of fishing for anything 

 in close season, not even suckers; but 1 

 should not blame the boy if he had tied 

 up all the pickerel in the river, for they are 

 detestable pirates at best. — Editor. 



A POSSIBLE CASE. 

 Enclosed please find clipping from the 

 Literary Digest of June 23d. There may 

 be no danger of such an establishment 

 moving to this country, but should this 

 take place, would it be a case of pearls 

 before swine or pearls after swine? Per- 

 haps, swine after pearls would be a bet- 

 ter way of expressing it. There are plenty 

 of hogs of all nationalities in this section. 

 We need no more. 



S. H. Vandergrift, Pittsburg, Pa. 



The clipping referred to is as follows: 



M. Leuret, the French manufacturer of arti- 

 ficial pearls from fish scales, says he will come to 

 the United States and erect works as soon as he 

 hears of a locality where the right kind of scales 

 can be had in large quantities. It is suggested 

 that a suitable place might be found on the St. 

 Lawrence river, among the Thousand islands. 

 The scales should be small and have a silver 

 sheen. The brighter they are the higher price 

 they will command. The scales should be re- 

 moved while the fish are alive if possible. Twenty- 

 five thousand pounds of these scales can be used 

 in a year. It is anticipated that twice that 

 quantity may be used in a few years. — Tribune. 



We will not borrow trouble about M. 

 Leuret, but it is to be hoped he may never 

 find the right location in this country. — 

 Editor. 



You have had dealings with such hogs be- 

 fore. Roast them hard., 



W. W. Mackey, Franklin, Pa. 



The clipping referred to is as follows: 



John Michel, Harry Best, Dennis Smith and Arthur 

 fesper, of Allegheny county, had a hearing before Alder- 

 man McVay this afternoon, charged with dynamiting fish 

 in French creek. The defendants were held for trial at 

 court in the sum of $100 each. They were unable ot furnish 

 bail for a hearing and were compelled to spend Sunday in 

 ail. 



I am delighted that the dynamiters were 

 caught. It would have been better for the 

 cause of game protection if one of their 

 cartridges had exploded when the hogs 

 were well bunched, but as this did not hap- 

 pen, you are fortunate in the fact that they 

 were apprehended and locked up. I earn- 

 estly hope they may be convicted in the 

 criminal court and that they may be sent 

 to jail for at least 5 years each. — Editor. 



WYOMING FISHING. 



In July I was one of a party trout fish- 

 ing on the Little Big Horn river in Wyo- 

 ming. We found the fishing good. Trout 

 caught weighed J^ to 1^ pounds. Any 

 reader of Recreation desiring good fish- 

 ing can catch any number of trout by go- 

 ing to Parkman, Wyoming, and there get- 

 ting ^conveyance to take him to John 

 Taylor's house. He will furnish horses 

 to take party up the Little Horn as far 

 as anyone would like to go. He also fur- 

 nishes board and lodging at reasonable 

 rates. 



July is a close month for all kinds of 

 game, but later there are plenty of moun- 

 tain grouse, deer, bear, occasionally an elk. 

 and, to make it exciting, a rattlesnake by 

 the way. Two friends and I, going up the 

 mountain one day, killed one with 14 rattles 

 and a button. Will you kindly tell me 

 how old the snake was? 



John Bohn, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



TOO EASY ON THEM. 

 Please find enclosed a clipping from the 

 Franklin Evening News of recent date. 



ANOTHER WARNING TO DYNAMITERS. 



W. H. Upchurch and family, and the Mexicans belong- 

 ing to his section gang, went down the river fishing. They 

 fished that evening with little success and early next 

 morning Mr. Upchurch found one of the Mexicans had a 

 stick of dynamite, Mr. Upchurch took it and said he 

 would touch it off, throw it into a hole near by and see if 

 they could catch some fish by that means. He fixed the 

 cap in place, waded out to a sand bar in the middle o f the 

 river, attached the fuse and wasjust in the act of pitching 

 the stick into the stream when it exploded in his hand. It 

 tore the hand off above the wrist and mashed kis chest 

 into a pulp. Jim Wright, who was sitting several feet 

 away, was badly Injured by the shock. — Texas paper. 



These lessons are hard on the victims 

 and their friends, but what better fate does 

 a man deserve who resorts to such heath- 

 enish methods of getting fish? If you 

 monkey with the buzz saw you must ex- 

 pect to get ripped open sooner or later.— 

 Editor. 



