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lived there would catch a 10 quart pail full 

 of 2 and 3 inch trout,. One time a city 

 man and his son went fishing and caught 

 several baskets of fingerlings. The game 

 warden happened to come along and asked 

 them, "What luck?" They opened their 

 baskets and were quickly pulled in. They 

 were fined $30 each". Served them right. 



In September, hounding was going on. 

 The game warden is a sleepy looking fel- 

 low and has not yet made an arrest. The 

 reason is his son has hounded, so if he 

 should make an arrest the hunters would 

 give his son away. The hunting and fishing 

 up there were good, but if the hounding 

 keeps up the deer will feel the result. 

 When the hunters hound up there they gen- 

 erally get their venison, but in still hunting 

 they can not always kill the game. I hear 

 they have a new game warden, and I hope 

 he will do some good. 



Recreation is a fine magazine and I hope 

 it may always prosper. 



F. S. Mathias, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



GRAY TROUT IN CHARLESTON LAKE. 



I noticed an article in your August num- 

 ber, page 185, entitled "Salmon Fishing in 

 Charleston Lake," and your footnote, in 

 which you state that the salmon referred to 

 is "probably Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar." 

 What the writer of that article calls salmon 

 are only the ordinary gray trout to be 

 found in nearly all Canadian lakes. I have 

 often fished in Charleston lake and caught 

 the fish referred to. The Atlantic salmon 

 has not for many years been caught farther 

 from the sea than Jacques Cartier river, a 

 few miles above Quebec, and it was never 

 to be found in any of the small Ontario 

 lakes, to which, in fact, it could eet no 

 access. By publishing this you will correct 

 an error. 



John L. Morris, Montreal, Canada, 



ANSWER. 



You are doubtless right in stating that 

 the fish in question is the ordinary gray 

 trout, or Mackinaw trout, Cristivomer na- 

 maycush. The use of the name salmon by 

 Mr. Geiger, the size of the fish, and my 

 failure to look up the exact geograohic lo- 

 cation of the lake mentioned led to the er- 

 ror in identification. — Editor. 



MISSISSIPPI ANGLERS BEING ROBBED. 

 I saw a reference in Recreation to the 

 Yellow Bushy river in Mississippi. There 

 is no such river; probably the Yallabusha 

 was meant. The Yallabusha and Talla- 

 hatchie bottoms are still full of bear, deer, 

 turkeys, wolves and panthers. The game 

 is hard to get at, however, because of the 

 density of undergrowth in the swamps. 

 There are 2 lakes Srvth of the bottoms, 

 known as North and South Horn lakes. I 

 camped there a while last summer. They 



offer no inducement to anglers, as the fish 

 are being rapidly seined out. A Memphis 

 man named Louis Fritz runs an immense 

 seine there and ships about 2,000 pounds 

 of fish daily. At least 500 weight of this 

 catch is of game fishes. Can not something 

 be done to squelch this hog? 



M. R. Williams, Memphis, Tenn. 



NIBBLES. 

 Two friends and I had a successful fish- 

 ing trip to Rainbow lake last summer, 

 where we stayed a week with 2 guides. 

 The fish bit tco fast at the bait, so we tried 

 trolling and got 3 good ones in an hour. 

 There are lots of fsh in the lake and it is 

 an excellent place to go. I am a subscriber 

 to Recreation and like the way you roast 

 the hogs. 



Robert Fohs, Millinocket, Maine. 



The United States Fish Commission re- 

 cently planted 10,000 rainbow trout in 

 streams along the lines of the Iron Moun- 

 tain Railway in Missouri. Among the 

 waters supplied are the Big river, near 

 Irondale, Missouri; the St. Francis river, 

 near Loughborough; and 2 tributaries of 

 the Black river. 



Fishing last season at Tomahawk and 

 other Northern Wisconsin lakes was the 

 poorest I ever experienced in any of my 

 15 consecutive trips. If those chaps really 

 caught 26 muskies in one day, I do not be- 

 lieve it was with hook and line, for fish 

 were not biting at tnat time. 



T. W. Harrington, Greencastle, Ind. 



Mr. F. W. Wakeman, of Paw Paw, 

 Mich,, county clerk of Van Buren county, 

 caught, in October last, a large mouth 

 bass that weighed 734 pounds. He used a 

 light bamboo rod and a small silk line. 

 The fish was the largest of its species 

 taken in that vicinity in years past. 



I enjoyed Lake Champlain much last 

 summer. Was at Thompson Point. We 

 caught all the fish we needed ; though, on 

 account of high water, the fishing was not 

 up to the usual mark. 



C. F. Langworthy, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. A. D. Wilson, of Philadelphia, is 

 said to have caught a brook trout at Notre 

 Dame du Lac, Quebec, in September last 

 which weighed J% pounds. 



If you wish to make a present to a man 

 or boy who is interested in shooting, fishing, 

 amateur photography, or nature study, give 

 him a year's subscription to Recreation. 

 Nothing you can possibly buy for $1 would 

 give him so much pleasure as 12 issues of 

 this magazine. Come early and avoid the 

 rush. 



