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the lake water; so they finally threw up 

 their hands and marched ashore. The 

 officers then handcuffed them and took 

 them to court, where William was fined 

 $75 and Charles $25. William paid while 

 Charles went to jail to think it over. The 

 wardens captured a large seine and a 

 basket of fish with the pirates. Game 

 Warden Gratz took the fish and the seine 

 to Madison in a wagon, while Nelson made 

 the 2 prisoners row him across the lake in 

 a boat. Later the wardens visited the 

 rendezvous of the prisoners and burned 

 their house and boats. It is hoped the 

 Lawrence brothers will find some other 

 means of making a living than that of steal- 

 ing public property and selling it. 



A DAY ON THE GUNNISON. 



July 13, at 7 a. m., I left Cebolla. Colo- 

 rado, with rod and basket, walked up 

 stream one mile above Elk creek water 

 tank and there entered the rapid riffles oi 

 the Gunnison. For the first half mile I only 

 caught y 2 pound of trout. I felt, however, 

 that my best fishing ground was just ahead. 

 As I entered my favorite rifHe at the sec- 

 ond bend of the river above the tank I pre- 

 pared to tackle the large rainbow from 

 which I had received a strike on the pre- 

 vious day, not 4 feet from the same spot, 

 just below a large rock in a dark, heavy 

 riffle. I safely hooked the heavy weight 

 that had so shrewdly puzzled me the day 

 before.. He headed down stream, and when 

 the heavy drag of my Automatic persuaded 

 him to change his course I had only a few 

 feet of line remaining on the reel. The old 

 boy fought deep and strong as he steered 

 toward the deeper riffles among the rocks 

 and sulked for a rest. I pulled on the line 

 as hard as I dared and failed to move him. 

 Soon he headed toward me and came to 

 the quiet water, where he sighted his enemy 

 and made for the riffles again. I let him 

 have his own way and patiently waited till 

 he turned up at my feet completelv ex- 

 hausted. 



In another good rifHe, not far below, I 

 landed 2 rainbows a size smaller, and 

 continued luckily until my basket was filled 

 and its weight grew heavy on my shoulder. 

 I reached the hotel at 1.30 p. m. with i6^4 

 pounds of fish, the largest a 4^2 pounder. 



The Gunnison has proved a grand, beau- 

 tiful and most interesting stream to me. 



L. P. Ogg, Pueblo, Colo.. 



fish for a party of 26. The largest fish 

 caught was a 10 pound speckled pike, which 

 I had the pleasure of hooking and landing 

 easily with a Yawman & Erbe Combination 

 Automatic reel. One bass weighed about 

 3 pounds. We used for bait largely 

 shiners and 3 to 5 inch perch; also angle 

 worms, at which the smaller fish bit freely. 

 Bait is a troublesome question, minnows 

 rather scarce and hard to get, worms small 

 and scarce. 



The only ground we could conveniently 

 get to camp on was extremely rough, the 

 boat landing was shallow, and boats had 

 to be dragged ashore. This ground cost us 

 $5. All others wanted $1 a day for a camp 

 site. The most curious experience we had 

 was in regard to the boat. We were 

 charged $1 a day for one boat or a dozen 

 boats for one or a dozen weeks.. We want- 

 ed 6 boats for 3 weeks. We had 2 or 3 

 boats that 2 days' rental should buy. 



A man named Owens, on the North side 

 of the lake, has a good farm, with excel- 

 lent camping facilities and cottages. He 

 will permit respectable people to camp free ; 

 cottage rental, boats and produce reason- 

 able. I found him a gentleman and was 

 sorry we had not known him before we set 

 up camp. 



L. C. Hughes, New Castle Junction, Pa. 



CAMPING IN MICHIGAN. 

 Last summer I spent 2 weeks on Long 

 lake, 8 miles North of Alpena, Michigan.. 

 Fishing was our only sport, as all shooting 

 is out of season in August. Fishing was 

 only fair, consisting of spotted pike, bass, 

 rock bass and perch. Our catches were 

 small and we had only 6 or 7 messes of 



MASSACHUSETTS BRISTLEBACKS IN 

 MAINE. 



I enclose clipping from the Standard, 



which I hope may furnish meat for a line 



or 2 in Recreation. I am a reader of your 



magazine, and like to see the hogs roasted. 



S. W. Budd, New Bedford, Mass. 



The clipping referred to was : 



Walter H. Butterfield has been for a few days 

 at Dead river, Rangeley, Me., and has had excel- 

 lent luck fly fishing. In one day he and a friend 

 caught 87 trout, and another day "81. The largest 

 weighed 2y 2 pounds. 



To my inquiry as to the truth of the 

 report Mr. Butterfield replied: 



On 2 out of the 5 days we were in camp 

 at Black Brook we kept 160 trout. The 

 other 3 days we kept 41, making a total of 

 201 trout. Seventy-nine were caught the 

 last day, to take out from camp. There 

 were 5 people in camp, but my friend and 



1 were the only 2 that fished. The days we 

 made our largest catches we fished the 

 brooks, and most of the trout were small. 

 We saved only enough to supply the wants 

 of the camp. None of the fish were wasted. 

 Walter H. Butterfield, New Bedford, Mass. 



In the 2d paragraph of your letter, you 

 practically contradict what you say in the 

 1st. However, accepting your statement as 

 true, that you caught and kept 201 trout in 



2 days and 79 in another, you and your 

 friend appear to wear a good coat of bris- 

 tles. — Editor. 



