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best for bass fishing in clear water; late in 

 the evening if calm. 



Fred T. Bradley, Toledo, Ohio. 



ILLINOIS CANDIDATES FOR THE PEN. 



H. G. Dodds, of this place and H. J. 

 Puterbaugh, of Mackinaw, 111., claim to 

 have caught, in about 3 hours, 52 black 

 bass, that weighed over 160 pounds, and 

 would have caught as many more if they 

 had not run out of bait. How they could 

 feel proud of such a day's butchery is more 

 than I can see,. 



You have done much toward making our 

 people ideal sportsmen and aside from 

 these 2 men, who hunt and fish half their 

 time, there is no one here who would be 

 guilty of such conduct. I congratulate you 

 on your success and may you continue the 

 good work. 



B. F. Tucker, Morton, 111. 



On inquiry as to the accuracy of this 

 report, these men reply : 



Mr. H. G. Dodds and I did catch 52 

 black bass in 4 x /> hours, and in August last 

 Mr. H. G. Dodds' wife nd son, about 8 

 years old, my wife, my daughter, 14 years 

 old and I caught J$ black bass in less than 

 5 hours. We also caught at different times 

 50 to 100 pounds of pickerel and walleyed 

 pike in a short time. 



H. J. Puterbaugh, Mackinaw, 111. 



Mr. Puterbaugh, of Mackinaw, 111., and I 

 did catch 52 black bass in about 3 hours, 

 and would have caught more had our bait 

 not run out. 



H. G. Dodd, Morton, 111. 



You fellows waste your time by fishing 

 with one rod and one line and one hook 

 each. You are evidently not fishing for 

 fun, but for fame and for the pot. Here is 

 a bit of fame for you. 



You will hereafter be known to the 

 330,000 readers of Recreation as dirty, 

 contemptible swine and there is not a 

 decent man among all these readers who 

 would not like to see you both locked up 

 for 30 days in a high barred corral, with 

 a herd of 4 legged hogs. — Editor. 



A SHAMEFUL CONTEST. 



The trout fishing contest of the Knights of 

 Pythias ended at noon to-day. J. M. Blakeslee's 

 fishermen have the other side beaten so badly 

 that they might as well have kept their fish at 

 home. The total weight of the fish caught by 

 Blakeslee's party was 88^4 pounds, while the best 

 the others could do was 37 pounds. 



The scores of the individual fishermen were as 

 follows: 



JAY M. BLAKESLEE'S PARTY. 



Charles Cliffe, Ed. Gilbert, August Bauman and 



Jud Cameron 46 



Charles Hensel 10 



Tom Gunton 8?4 



T. M. Blakeslee iVa 



C. E. Taylor 3 l A 



Fred Curtis 1 1/ 2 



B. S. W. Finkle u 



Total 88^ 



A. w. rickerd's party. 



George W. Howard $y 2 



<E. R. McCoy and J. W. Hannen 1 



John Lamson i]/ 2 



Bert Miller, Dr. Moon and E. S. Williams... 8 



H. Monroe 3 



D. E. Wynkoop 414 



H. W. Cunningham 5 y 2 



T. W. Jarrett 9 



Total 37 



This evening the Knights of Pythias will eat 

 the trout and have a banquet at the expense of 

 A. W. Rickerd's side. — Traverse City (Mich.) 

 Evening Record. 



It seems that some of the Michigan herd 

 are still at large. It is humiliating to read 

 of members of so good an organization as 

 K. of P. indulging in a .fish-slaughtering 

 match like that recorded above. Evidentlv 

 there are 'no sportsmen in the Traverse 

 City lodge of the K. of P. — Editor. 



MOUNTING FISH HEADS. 



What is the best and easiest method bv 

 which an amateur can preserve a fish head? 

 Where can glass eyes for mounted fish be 

 bought? 



L. L. Harrington, Mill Village, Pa. 



ANSWER. 



The fish head should be carefully cleaned 

 from the inside, free of all flesh. When 

 the flesh has been scraped away, the head 

 should be thoroughly washed, then treated 

 on the inside at all points with arsenical 

 soap. After that the cavities which are 

 overlaid by skin should be filled with pot- 

 ter's clay to replace the flesh. The eyes 

 should be set in papier-mache. Wires to 

 support the head on a shield should be 

 fastened firmly into the back of the skull. 

 The head can then be fixed in position on a 

 board as it is intended to hang when ex- 

 hibited, the mouth opened properly and 

 held in position by strings and pins until 

 thoroughly dry. 



As soon as the head has been mounted 

 and set in position it should be given a 

 coat of white varnish to hold as much of 

 the color as possible. The varnish must, 

 of course, be thinned down with turpen- 

 tine, so it will not be too thick. It should 

 flow as freely as thin cream.. 



Glass eyes in endless variety can be had 

 from Fred Kaemofer, dealer in taxider- 

 mists' materials, 88 State street, Chicago, 

 111. — Editor. 



RIGHTLY PUNISHED. 

 Last summer my brother and I spent 

 some time in Clinton county. Up there the 

 law is not obeyed. The natives laughed at 

 us when we told them how many under 

 sized trout we threw back. Their reason 

 was, "The next person that comes along 

 will take the little ones." The people who 



