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RECREATION. 



from time to time, practical articles teach- 

 ing the gentle art. 



I also thank Mr. T. R. Navarre, of Mon- 

 roe, Mich., for directing my attention to 

 the Hildesandt spinning baits by his arti- 

 cle on page 296 of the same issue. I am at 

 a loss to understand why the manufacturer 

 of the best artificial bait or lure I have ever 

 used does not advertise in the best maga- 

 zine for sportsmen now published, to wit, 

 Recreation. 



Miles E. Burlingame, Willett, N. Y. 



Herman Fogle and Austin Schrock, of. 

 Rockwood, Pa., built a fence across Buffalo 

 creek near that town. Then they diverted 

 the. stream so as to entrap large numbers 

 of fish in a box formed of wire netting. 

 When they had drawn off the water, they 

 would get into the box and kill the fish 

 with clubs. Constable F. B. Whiteman 

 heard of the operations of these vandals 

 and went after them. He got them, with 

 166 fish in their possession, and took them 

 before Justice David Gildner, who fined the 

 men $1,660. They were unable to raise the 

 money and have therefore gone to jail to 

 serve out the sentence at the rate of $1 a 

 day. It is not likely they will go into the 

 fish trapping business again when they get 

 out. — Editor. 



It may be of interest to you to know that 

 the people who kill an unreasonable number 

 of fish are beginning to fear you. I was in 

 Minneapolis recently and an insurance man 

 was telling me about some State agents of 

 insurance companies catching a large string 

 of pike in Cass lake last summer. The 

 catch was well into the hundreds. He said 

 you wrote the fellows, but they knew what 

 was coming, so they hedged ; they wrote 

 you about it, but put it in a good light. You 

 see, even if you were unable* to brand these 

 fellows, it has set them thinking. Probably 

 it is just as well this way, for they are all 

 good fellows, and undoubtedly have horse 

 sense enough to be good in the future. 

 E. E. Miller, St. Peter, Minn. 



Luther Showalter, of the Pottstown high school 

 faculty, and Harry Trumbauer, of Royersford, re- 

 turned Friday from Pike county with the larg- 

 est catch of trout ever brought to this city. There 

 were 100 trout in their baskets, none under 8 

 inches in length, and the largest measured 17^2 

 inches. — Pa. Paper. 



I wrote these 2 men asking for the facts 

 in the case. Trumbauer answered, but 

 evaded the question entirely. Showalter 

 made no response to my inquiry, so it is fair 

 to conclude that the published report is cor- 

 rect. Showalter's number in the fish hog 

 bok is 1,060 and Traumbauer's is 1,061. 

 — Editor. 



Otto Beranek and Frank Faulkner, of 

 New Haven, Conn., went fishing with 

 dynamite. They were caught in the act 

 and arraigned before Justice S. J. Scriber, 

 who fined Beranek $50 and Faulkner $25. 

 It is unfortunate that Justice Scriber had 

 not read the opinion of Judge Smith, of 

 Helena, Mont., who fined a man $400 for 

 dynamiting. In the course of his remarks 

 Judge Smith said that a man who used 

 dynamite to kill fish should properly be 

 termed a fish hog. It is, therefore, in order 

 to enter Beranek and Faulkner in the fish 

 hog register under the numbers 1,062 and 

 1,063, respectively. — Editor. 



A correspondent, writing from Mallet's Bay, Lake 

 Champlain, town of Colchester, Vt., to the Osh- 

 kosh Northwestern, says he is enjoying camp life 

 on a beautiful bay of that lake; that his party 

 consists of himself, his sister and her husband 

 and 4 children, and that they have had some great 

 fishing. "The fishing," he says, "is all anyone 

 can desire." It seems even good enough to sat- 

 isfy a fish hog. In 6 days the party caught and 

 killed 384 pounds of game fish, but as long as the 

 fish hog had a good time, nobody is expected to 

 complain. 



The fish hog should be run out of the coun- 

 try. — Milwaukee Free Press. 



The writer of the foregoing has learned 

 his lesson from Recreation. — Editor. 



When you wish to catch bass, either by 

 trolling or casting, go to the Rideau lakes, 

 Westport, Canada. They are there, in great 

 .numbers, both large and small mouth. I 

 fished about an hour and got 8 bass, that 

 weighed 15 pounds. The largest weighed 

 3 pounds and the others 7 and 12 pounds; 

 but anglers frequently take from those lakes 

 bass weighing 4 to 5 pounds each. What 

 we called wall-eyed pike and they call pick- 

 erel are also plentiful and 'large. 



James S. Clark, New York City. 



In the office of A. A. Dayton, on State 

 street, is a mounted small mouth black bass 

 which he caught in the St. Lawrence river 

 last summer, off Grindstone island. The 

 bass weighed 4^ pounds, is 20 inches long, 

 and is said to be one of the largest, if not 

 the record catch of last season in that part 

 of the river. S. A., Albany, N. Y. 



There is little game or good fishing here. 

 Every stream around here is fairly alive 

 with carp, but there are no bass or game 

 fishes of any kind. I should like to hear 

 from other readers on the carp. 



Alex. Moore, Anderson, Ind. 



My friend, Charles H. Miller, of 430 

 West Eighteenth street, New York City, 

 caught 8 large weakfish on the flood tide 

 at Woodmere, L. I., one day last Septem- 

 ber. O. F., Jersey City, N. J. 



