March 26, 1898.] 
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Rockville, where the family live in summer, and I raise 
potatoes and other truck, and all the rest of the time 
my son and I have the house for our trapping head- 
quarters. My son, eighteen years old, likes trapping as 
well as I do; he is tending the traps down at Rock- 
ville now, and sends me in the catch every day, I got 
that mink from him to-day. It's a good one, 32in. at 
least." 
"Yes, you can stretch him to 34in. easy. I never saw 
anything like him, and I have trapped hundreds of mink," 
commented Warren Wing, who had come over from the 
Maine section. 
"They grow bigger here near Boston than I have found 
them anywhere else," said Stone. "The salt water 
may have something to do with it. Besides minks and 
muskrats at Rockville we get skunks (although no trap- 
per ought to make any account of the skunks he gets), 
an occasional fox who fastens himself into one of the 
traps, and coons and otters. There are more otters in 
this country than you'd think ; but people who do not trap 
know little about these things. Why, I had an argu- 
ment to-day with a man who said that beaver were 
exclusively cold countr}' animals, and he wanted to tell 
me that they could not be found in the South, although 
I myself have trapped them in Mississippi. I was going 
to write something about that for Forest and Stream. 
"Our outfit consists of six bear traps, Newhouse No. 5, 
for the Adirondacks* twenty-two otter traps, and 180 
traps, all of the same style, for mink, sable and skunk. 
We have four guns, a 10, a 16 and two 12-gauges; two 
tents and five boats; that is more boats than we need, 
but it is convenient to have them scattered along the 
river, and sometimes we can leave the boat and walk 
home, three miles, when it would be five or six to row 
around. 
"Yes, I am more interested in trapping now than I 
ever was before. Its fascination seems to grow on me. 
A man came up this morning and said: 'Hello, John, 
you here? I guess you are the only one left of all the 
tribe.' And I guess I am; I don't know of another 
regular trapper around this country. Of course the 
boys do something at it, but they don't amount to 
anything. As I said before, there is no money in the 
business; and then, you see, most men have not got 
sense to stop at the limit. They keep on piling up more 
money, when they might very well aflEord to knock off 
and go trapping." 
In the Lynn Fish and Game Protective Association's 
handsome display of trophies, central place is given to 
Dr. Gray's magnificent moose head. It has a spread of 
SBHin., with web of i6%in. There are 39 points. The 
moose was killed with a Winchester .30-30, in 1806, at 
Mt. Katahdin, Me. 
Among the trade exhibits &re those of Verner de 
Guise, who shows a full series of pheasants; Abbott M. 
Frazar, taxidermy; W. W. Hart & Co., taxidermy; Haz- 
ard Powder Co.; Hunter Arms Co.; Marlin Firearms 
Co.; C. B. Mather & Co^ hunting boats and canoes; 
Page Woven Wire Fence Co., who supply all the fenc- 
ing for the game parks; Parker Bros.; Peters Cartridge 
Co., with T. H. Keller in charge; Plymouth Rock Trout 
Co.; William Reed & Sons, WilHain R. Scott and Smith 
& Wesson. 
Fishing: ill the Ohio River. 
The winter months have passed and spring has come, 
and many an angler's heart is glad and eager to take 
advantage of the opportunity for an early spring fishing 
trip. The run of the Ohio River fish is as follows: Jack 
salmon first, now running; will be over by the last of 
the month, as it is a cold-water fish. Then follow the 
bass; these are the first fish you catch with pole and 
line, and are the first cold-water fish that run in the fall 
of the year. After the jack salmon and bass follow the 
shovel fish and chubs, running together. Catching chubs 
is very pretty fishing, and the first of the month you can 
see a thousand people, men, women and children, fish- 
ing for them along the river bank at the foot of Market 
street. They are clear of bone, and very fine eating, and 
about the size of a smelt, usualb'^ running 5 or 6in. in 
length. Then after the shovel fish and chubs follow the 
cat and perch, which are caught all the summer through. 
Then follow the bufifalo; they are mostb'- caught on trout 
lines, although you catch them with the rod freely at 
times. Most any kind of bait can be used. The follow- 
ing are considered best: Minnows, worms, crawfish and 
beef. Eugene B. Dye. 
Louisville, Kj' 
Salt- Water Fishermen^s League. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Pursuant to a call a number of enthusiastic salt-water 
fishermen gathered at Leggett's Hotel on March 20 to 
discuss forming an association for protecting salt-water 
game fish, and preserving the fishing waters, by helping 
to enforce the existing laws, and those that follow, 
against illegal practices. 
This organization, which promises to be tliq Strongest 
one of its kind, is called the Protective League of Salt- 
Water Fishermen. The following officers were elected; 
H. Taxter, President; A. H. Baer, Vice-President; C. 
S. Derby, Secretary; D. T. Riley, Treasurer. The Board 
of Directors are T. Biedinger, A. W- Andrews, J. H. 
Meetier, C. J. Fowler, J. Sullivan. 
All fishermen can join this league by paying the ttiein- 
bership fee of $1, which can be sent to the secretary. For 
further particulars address Charles S. Derby, Secretary, 
No. 27 Bridge street, New York city. C. S. D. 
Grand Rapids Fly-Casting;. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., March i.— The first tournament 
(open to the world) of the West Michigan Fly-Casting 
Association, under the auspices of the Game, Fish and 
Dog Protective Association, of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
will be held at Reed's Lake, near this city,, on June 8 
and 9, 
This will be something new in this section, and from 
present indications we will have a very large attendance. 
We have a large number of enthusiastic sportsmen in 
this city. 
The programme calls for fixed distance and accuracy 
fiy-castiug, accuracy bait casting, dry fly-casting for ac- 
curacy and delicacy, fly-casting for accuracy, bass 
fly-casting for distance and accuracy, long-distance 
fly-casting. Six championship medals will be awarded 
as first prizes, and additional merchandise prizes 
will be given. Full official programmes will be sent by 
Eber Rice, secretary, Grand Rapids. 
A Correction. 
An error which occurred in the advertisement of Mr. 
W. J. Cummins, of Bishop Auckland, Eng., who adver- 
tises fishing goods, demands correction. The copy from 
which the advertisement was set had been corrected in 
one or two places, and in being set the word "English" 
b}' mistake got into a line which should have read mere- 
ly: "Special quotations to dealers." The error is an un- 
fortunate one, as it is calculated to convey the impres.- 
sion that Mr. Cummins makes different prices to differ-- 
ent nationalities, which is not the case. As printed in 
this week's issue tlie advertisement reads as it should. 
Montana Wolves. 
Mr. Miles Taylor, whom I met many years ago out in 
Kansas, has for some time been the secretary for Senator 
Mantle, of Montana, and now writes me from Washing- 
ton that he anticipates a good trip in Montana again 
this year. He also sends me a few items of interest 
about that big State, among others a little cowboy story 
in Avhich we get a touch of the old times. In this case 
a rancher by name of Charles Bannatyne, of Brighton, 
while riding along with some friends saw three wolves 
which had been feeding at a carcass near the road. Ban- 
natyne told Oliver Valleaux, a cowpuncher, who was 
along, that he could not rope the wolves, and the latter 
thought he could. He roped the three in four throws of: 
the rope, which is pretty good work for any cowpuncher. 
Mr. Taylor hands me among other things a clipping 
showing the Montana wolf bounty for the month of 
February just past, which seems a bit startling. The 
total is $5,268, covering 1,537 coyotes and 219 gray 
wolves. Custer county sent in 225 coyotes and 53 grays, 
more than any other county. 
THE INDIAN CAMP FROM THE GALLERY, 
f hdto fpt the Forest and Stream by N. L. Stebbins. 
