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[MAY U, 1889, 



form as provided bv law. It shall further he the duty of such 

 game wardens, or one of them, upon receiving information that 

 any such law bus been violate", to immediately cause a thorough 

 investigation to be made of such compiaint and to cause proceed- 

 ings to r»e instituted if the pro.vf at hand will warrant a convic- 

 tion. For which pmpose and for all purposes of this chapter as 

 aforesaid, and in the apprehending or sf curing of any person or 

 persons for the violation of any of the trame. tish or bird laws of 

 this State, and for the purpose of confiscating any nets, snares, 

 traps or other contrivances of any kind, or of anv dog or ferret 

 used in violation rf any of I he game, fish or bird laws of this 

 State, they and every sheriff, coroner and constable may call to 

 their aid such persons or power of the county as they miay deem 

 necessary, and it shall bo the duty of every sheriff, coioner or 

 constable of any county of this State, whenever required by such 

 game wardens or anv of their deputies to forthwith assist them 

 in the execution nf process and the confiscation of any contriv- 

 ance or animal used in the violaM >n of said law. Said game war- 

 dens and toe said deputy gam- wardens shall have the power, 

 and it shall he their duty, to take and confiscate any and all nets, 

 snares, traps, fi-rrets. dog or dogs and every other means and 

 contrivance whatsoever, used in the viola tion of any of the game, 

 fish or bird laws of this Si ate. Any and all such property, means 

 or contrivance or animals taken and confiscated as aforesaid, 

 shall, upon the conviction of the offender, be destroyed or killed 

 by such game warren or his deputies or the sheriff, coroner or 

 constable of any county, bv and under the direction of such jus- 

 tice of the peace, police magistrate or court before whom or in 

 which the conviction mav be had. 



Sec. 3. Sec. 4, of Chapter 456, of the laws of 1887, is hereby 

 amended * * * so that said section, when amended, shall real 

 as follows: Sec. 4. Such game wardens shall have an annual 

 salary of $605 each, payable monthly out of the Stale treasury, 

 and actual disbursements while traveling in the line of dutV: 

 such disbursements 'O be audited by the Secretary of State arid 

 paid out of the State treasury as other salaries and disbursements 

 are paid, upon sworn vouchers and receipts as other accounts are 

 audited, and a Is > necessary priming and stationery and postage; 

 and in no case shall a same warden appointed under this act re- 

 ceive a sum in excess of Sx'50 per year for disbursements, while 

 travel ng m the line of duty and for printing, stationery and 

 postage 



Sec 4. Any justice of the peace or other magistrate upon re- 

 ceiving proof of the probable cause for the believing in the. con- 

 cealment of any game, fish or bird during any of the periods pro- 

 hibited by auy of the laws of this State, shall issue his search 

 warrant and cause search to be made in any house, market, boat, 

 car or other building and for that end may cause any apartment, 

 chest, box. locker, crate, barrel or other device to be" broken open 

 and tue contents examined. 



Sec. 5. Tnis act shall take effect and be in force from and after 

 its passage and publication. 



Approved April 16, 1S89. 



>8. 



"That reminds me." 

 268. 



NOT long since that genial sportsman and expert 

 angler Dan D. of Newton Falls, O., was made the 

 victim of a practical joke that afforded much amusement 

 to those in the secret, and an allusion thereto was a 

 corker on Dan whenever lie got off a good one, as is his 

 custom, on some one else. Dan is an inveterate joker 

 and enthusiastic fisherman, and during the season his 

 leisure time is spent in angling for bass in the waters of 

 the Mahoning River, or in convenient lakes and ponds 

 not too far removed from his place of business, and fre- 

 quently he goes into camp for a week or two during hot 

 weather fur a more thorough enjoyment of outdorr 

 sport, and like a true sportsman he takes his wife and 

 daughter along on such occasions. 



When bass were "off their feed" or taking bait gin- 

 gerly, in order to have a nice fresh fish for breakfast, 

 Dan would occasionally put on an extra large and lively 

 minnow just at the close of day, and with long bamboo 

 rod equipped with reel and float, make a cast at some 

 favorable spot on the river, and then securely fastening 

 his rod, but in a position to allow the line to run off the 

 reel under pressure of the drag, retire to his peaceful 

 slumbers; and not infrequently in the early morning he 

 would thus secure a prize. A friend, unknown to Dan, 

 saw him thus set his trap one evening, and, after Dan had 

 withdrawn to the shades of private life, reeled up the 

 line, and taking off the minnow, fastened the hook into 

 the ring at the larger end of a large tin funnel, and then 

 taking it down into the current let out the full extent of 

 line, and adjusted the rod in position as Dan had left it. 



A select few were on the lookout for Dan's debut next 

 morning, and followed him to witness operations. As 

 Dm approached the locality of the rod Ins spirits were 

 bouyant on observing the twitching of the line and the 

 springing of the rod, that indicated the action of a bass 

 of sonie pretensions. He took up the rod and commenced 

 carefully to reel in, when one of the conspirators ap- 



Eroached, and then another, and another, and congiatu 

 ited him on having hooked something worth handling 

 carefully. Dan asserted that he had at least a four-pound 

 bass in tow, and proceeded to show the group how an 

 expert would handle such in a strong current. He did so 

 skillfully, notwithstanding the fact that frequently the 

 current would send the funnel at full speed transversely 

 across and down with such force that Dan was fain to 

 "give him a little more rope," and then again "work him 

 up," until fully a half hour had passed and the catch was 

 within 30ft., and Dan had directed one of the party to be 

 in readiness with the landing net, when suddenly it took 

 a turn and a rise; and he discovered "what kind of a beast 

 the fish was," and the laugh was of course on Dan. It 

 was too good to keep, but never would have got into print 

 had not Dan in a moment of facetiousness given away the 

 facts in regard to the manner in which he and a friend 

 caught, with silver bait, from a more successful fisher- 

 man, the best string of bass that was brought into a camp 

 last year, and forgetting through lapse of time that he 

 was "in the same boat," figuratively and literally, and a 

 party tj the transaction, gave the friend full credit. The 

 friend, on being rallied in regard thereto, owned up, and 

 related to us the foregoing. Grey Eagle. 



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fen ntjd 



THE ANGLERS' TOURNAMENT. 



THE seventh annual anglers' tournament of the Na- 

 tional Rnd and Reel Association was held at Harlem 

 Mere in the Central Park, New York, on Thursday and 

 Friday last. On both days the sun was toiling away a 

 long way to the south of southeast before the first fly 

 raised bubbles upon- the surface of the wind-rippled 

 Mere, 



Perhaps city life is not conducive to early rising, or the 

 fishermen had to tramp in many a weary mile from the 

 remote woodsy rivulets and sequestered lakes where the 

 trout love to hide; but be that as it may, the only meet- 

 ing which took place on the grounds at 9 o'clock was 

 between your reporter and the secretary of the Associ- 

 ation, who until then had the field to himself and his 

 henchman, who was assisting him in laying out the line 

 of floats. 



The position of the platform on the east shore of the 

 Mere admitted of the line being laid out nearly due north 

 and south, but with vei-y little variation from that course, 

 and if the wind had been blowing anywhere north or 

 south of west, the line might have been so laid out as to 

 insure a favorable wind for extending the casting lines, 

 but the wind was due west, and was blowing pretty 

 strong too; still it came in puffs succeeded by momentary 

 lulls, leaving each contestant to hope that if he did his 

 best fortune might favor him with a propitious wind 

 eddy at the right moment. 



About half past nine the contestants and officers of the 

 Association began to put in an appearance, and after the 

 first cordial greetings had been exchanged, each in turn 

 proceeded to anathematize the wind, but it was all done 

 very genially and philosophically, as becomes the brother- 

 hood of the angle. This word genial is very properly 

 applicable to fishermen. One found evidences of it on all 

 hands as one after the other reached the ground and saw 

 the gladness of his own heart reflected in the beaming 

 countenances of his friends. In the younger men the 

 geniality of expression was sufficiently characteristic, al- 

 though its more pronounced phases were evanescent; lut 

 with the older fellows the genial look had become stereo- 

 typed; with use it had become second nature; the counte- 

 nances were but the reflection of the souls within, per- 

 fected by loDg culture of the angler's many virtues. Why, 

 there were two or three old boys at the tournament whom 

 we delicately foibear to name, whose faces fairly beamed 

 with geniality. Perhaps if we could penetrate the secret 

 of this sublime content with themselves and with things 

 as they are, we should find that not a little of it is due to 

 the simple faith with which the chronicles of their won- 

 derful fish stories has been received by all but a few con- 

 stitutionally incredulous people. Nature has her com- 

 pensations, and every man who reaches 60 years bears 

 on his countenance the stamp of the emotions he has 

 most indulged. 



There was a goodly but no' a numerous gathering— the 

 kind and courteous president of the Association, Henry P. 

 Wells, with a score or more of vice-presidents and mem- 

 bers of committees, all decorated with ribbons of the As- 

 ssociation, and Mr. Poey being the most noticeable. As 

 the wind could not possibly be more unfavorable than it 

 was for the direction in which the measured line was ex- 

 tended from the platform south, the only course open to 

 the committee was to extend the line to'the north. This 

 was done, and although it made matters no better, it left 

 the officers of the Association in the enjoyment of the 

 satisfaction that they had done all that mortal could do, 

 in and about the premises. 



By 10 o'clock most of the competitors were on the 

 ground, but it was 10:30 before the entries were closed 

 for the first event, the single-handed fly-casting for 

 amateurs. 



The prizes were in each event: First, gold medal; second 

 and third, silver medals; fourth and fifth, bronze medals; 

 sixth, subscription to Forest and Stream or other 

 journal. 



Single-Handed Fly-Casting— Class A (Amateur).— 

 Judges: C. H. Mauri, Rev. H. L. Ztegenfuss; referee, 

 Capt. Wm. Dunning. Open to amateurs, under Rule 2. 

 Rods not to exceed lift. Gin. in length. Scale of points- 

 Distance actually cast, and accuracy, 40 points. (If a con- 

 testant cast 60ft. and is awarded 15 for accuracy, his 

 score will be 75: 



N. Cheney; C. R. Miller, referee. Open to all. See Rule 

 14. No limit as to rods. Distance only to count: 



Length 

 of rod. 

 Ft. In. 



P. C. Hewitt 10 05 



Jas. L. Breese 10 10 



g- Poey It 00 



W. E. Blackford 11 01 



*H. B. Lawrence 11 00 



Weight Distance 

 of rod. 

 Oz. 



m 



10 



cast. 



Accu- 





Feet. 



racy. 

 27 



Total. 



71 



100 



7t 



30 



94 



71 



19 



90 



71 



10 



81 



51 





54 



The wind was blowing strong and tolerably steady, but 

 not without occasional variation of a few points. At one 

 moment it would veer a little to the south, and afford an 

 opportunity to the contestant to extend his casting line, 

 the next minute it would veer to the northward, and 

 catching the half extended line, would cause it to fall in 

 a great circle with the tail fly within perhaps thirty feet 

 of the caster. The difficulty of recovering the line after 

 such a cast, and extending it backward to secure proper 

 vantage for the next cast is familiar to the initiated. It 

 was a mi>hap that fell not once, but frequently to each 

 contestant in turn, in this and s ubsequent contests, and in 

 their several modes of meeting the difficulty they afforded 

 fair tests of the measure of their experience. The least 

 experienced, recognizing that time was short, made 

 strenuous but vain efforts to recover their line, wasting 

 both time and effort without effect, while the more ex- 

 perienced either recovered their lines by a dexterous 

 twist, or failing, drew in the slack, and crept upward 

 again de novo. But on the whole the casting was very 

 good. The style of most of the contestants was high for 

 amateurs. P. C. Hewitt especially handled his rod with 

 skill and address. 



The ca-ting for accuracy was little better than a farce, 

 the wind occasionally catching a dropping tail fly and 

 whirling it from 5 to 10ft. aside, even to the extent of 

 baffling the eyes of the judges, who, losing sight of the 

 fly, would excitedly ask each other, "Where's that?" 

 But in spite of all this, and the element of chance in cast- 

 ing due to variations of the wind, the results reached 

 afforded a pretty fair test of their best work under favora- 

 ble conditions. 

 Salmon Fly-Casting,— Judges, John A, Roosevelt, A, i 



Length 



Weight 



Distance 



of r >d. 



of rod. 



caht. 



It. In. 



Oz. 



Ft. 





87 



112^ 



. lt>. 00 



37 



105 



. 18.C0 



37 



101 



. 18.00 



37 



97 





37 



94 





33 



86 



In this event Leonard took the lead, distinguishing 

 himself by the address with which he husbanded the 

 strength of his sinewy arm for the critical point of the 

 cast, instead of distributing it over the whole action. 

 Eggert was outclassed. The other contestants all got in 

 some very good work, in spite of baffling winds, but the 

 average of the casts was very low. Hardly one of them 

 came within 10ft. of his maximum half a dozen times in 

 the course of his allotted ten minutes. 



Minnow Casting for Black Bass —Judges: A. N. 

 Cheney, Jas. L Vallotton; John A. Roosevelt, referee. 

 Open to all. (See Rule 15.) Scores— Average distance 

 cast in feet. Accuracy 40 points. Casts for accuracy to 

 be made at a stake or mark, distant 60ct, A stand 12in. 

 high in front, 9in. in rear, and of suitable size was pro- 

 vided to be used at the option of the caster. The sinker 

 used weighed £oz. : 



Length Weight 



of Bod. of Rod. Distance. Accu- 

 Ft. Oz. Ft. I„. 



119 08 

 14« 03 

 144 05 

 112 03 

 132 04 



racy. 



Total 

 score. 



R. C. Leonard. 



to 



m> 10 



G. Poey 9 



Bii Av. 9.J" 10 

 99 00 

 83 Ot 

 81 04 

 89 03 

 103 01 



P. C. Hewitt. 



UO',0 



Did 

 not 

 cast. 



Weight Distauce. 

 of Rod. Cast. 



Oz. 

 10M 



ml 



4 



Ft. 



83 



I 



Ed. Eggert 8 8 Av. &3* 10 o fo* 10 



Leonard was the only one of the contestants who made 

 any good t-how, whether for distance or direction. His 

 best cast was 149ft. Excepting Poey the others appeared 

 all un practiced. 



Single-Handed Fly-Casting— Expert.— Judges: Fred 

 Mather, Dr. Geo. Trowbridge. Referee. Dr. S. M. Nash. 

 Open to all. Distance onlv to count. Rods not to exceed 

 lHft. in length. 



Length 

 of Rod. 

 Ft. In. 



P. C. Hewitt. 11 03 



It. C.Leonard 11 05 



T.B.Mills .....It 00 



Arch. Mitchell 11 00 



Ed. Eggert 11 08 



G. Poey 11 00 



The wind was very strong and puffy during this con- 

 test, so that the performance offered no fair criterion of 

 the relative merits of the contestants. This ended toe 

 programme for the firat day. 



The second day was all that the contestants could wish 

 for as regards the weather. It was almost a dead calm 

 at 9 o'clock, and throughout the day it never exceeded a 

 light breath. The direction was still nearly from due 

 west as on the preceding day. There was some delay in 

 getting to work as on the previous day, a delay in this 

 case partly due to time lost in the effort to draw out 

 amateurs for the opening event. The jousts of the first 

 day's event had disqualified most of the performers for 

 further appearance as amateurs, and there being but one 

 entry the worthy president, anxious to provide for the 

 greatest enjoyment of the greatest number, took counsel 

 with his officers and substituted an open-for-all contest, 

 as in the following programme: 



Single-Handed Fly-Casting.— Open to all. Judges: 

 E. G. Blackford, Hon. H. P. McGown; referee, Hon. 

 Daniel O'Reilly. Rods not to exceed ll^ft.: 



Length Weight Distance 

 of rod. of rod. cast 

 Oz. 



m 



Feet. 



Ft. In. 



R. C. Leonard 10 11 



P. C. Hewitt 11 00 30M 96" 



T. B. Mills 11 CO loi 90 



Jas. L. Breese 10 11 10^1 90 



R.B.Lawrence 1100 10 " 89 



W. E. Blackford U 00 10U 85 



Ed. Eggert It CO 10J.2 79 



G.Poey 11 00 8)1 79 



A. Mi-chell it) 11 m 78 



R. F. Maybew 11 08, 11% 68 



Casting off tit: J. L. Breese 96, T. B Milt-, 100. Eggert and Poey 

 agreed to decide theirs in black bass fly class. 



This event brought out ten competitors, six of whom 

 made a very creditable exhibition of their skill. Of these 

 Breese and Mills tied at 90ft., and in throwing off Breese 

 reached 96ft. and Mills 1001 1. A better test of skill would 

 have been afforded by limiting the leaders to 9ft. 

 With the light breeze on the quarter it was only rarely 

 and by chance that the 18ft, leaders could be extended. 



Early in this contest Judse Blackford's heart was 

 warmed and his eye kindled by the very creditable per- 

 formance of his son, who showed himself a worthy chip 

 of the old block, standing fourth in the order of casting. 

 He laid down his rod with a very respectable lead, but 

 there were strong casters to follow, and one by one the 

 judge saw the five medals disappear, but the more prac- 

 tically valuable prize of a year's subscription to Forest 

 "and Stream was saved from the general wreck of his 

 hopes. 



Single-Handed Fly-CASTiNG — Light Rod Contest.— 

 Judges: R. F. Mayhew, W. J. Cissird; C. H. Mauri, 

 referee. Open to all. R xls not exceeding ooz, in weight 



