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Some Fishing Points. 
We have had favorable reports of the following fishing 
points as affording fishing worth going for. The name of 
hotel or person giving accommodations to sportsmen is 
added. Correspondence should be had in advance as to 
present conditions of water, etc. : 
. ' Trout. 
Orchard Lake House — Emmonsville. Sullivan county, 
N. Y. 
P. A. Purdy— Smithville Flats, N. Y. 
Maple Grove House — ^Long Eddy. Sullivan county, 
N. Y. 
Money's — Lake Pleasant, Hamilton county, N. Y. 
W. R. Bishop — Hammond. St. Lawrence county, N. Y. 
H. M. Sacey— White Lake, N. Y. 
Nat Locke — Indian Lake, N. Y. 
Mrs. E. Mead — Indian Lake, N. Y. 
American Hotel — Hackettstown, N. J. 
W. S. Emery — Eustis, Me. 
G. H. Gleason — Portage Lake, Me. 
W. L. Parsons — ^Dead River, Me. 
Billy Soule — Rangeley, Me. 
Debsconeag Fish and Game Club — Debsconeag, Me. 
Price Bros. — Canadensis, Monroe county, Pa. 
D. M. Crane — Canadensis. Monroe county, Pa. 
G. C. McKearn — Greely, Pike county, Pa. 
S. O. Cest— Spragueville, Pa. 
Caleb Ticknor & Son — Great Barrington. Mass. 
Hotel Weirs— The Weirs, N. Y. 
Geo. E. Armstrong — Perth, N. B. 
Black Bass. 
W. H. Leavitt — Charleston, Ont., Can. 
D. J. Dawson — Wolfe Island, Ont., Can. 
H. H. Gill— Henderson Harbor, N. Y. 
Silver Bay House— ^Silver Bay, N. Y, 
HenryfCbx— Maftituck, 'L: L' 
F. P. Terr.y— South Salett, WeStCttester county, N. Y. 
Beaman's Hotel — Poultney, Vt. 
S. R. Searey — Harbor, Me. 
D. Corkey — Harwockl, Ont., Can. 
Forrest House — Budd's Lake, N. J. 
C. J. Coon — Woodruff, Wis. 
John, Waterstowe— Greenwood Lake, N. Y. 
Salmon. i 
, W. H. Leavitt — Charleston, Ont., Can. 
' C. E. Dood — Spruce Brook, George Pond, Newfound- 
land. 
Norman Jenkins — Burnt Land Brook, N. B., Can. 
The Tuna Club. 
AvALON, Santa Citalina, Cal., May i. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: In consequence of the unqualified success 
of the rod and reel tournaments of the Tuna Club in 
former years, in the interest of a higher standard of sport 
and the protection of the game fishes of southern Cali- 
fornia, the club will give an open tovtrnament at Santa 
Catalina Island, Cal., from May i to Oct. i, 1901, inclu- 
sive. The object is to encourage the use of the rod 
and light tackle in taking the large game fishes of these 
waters, and in every way to elevate the sport to the highest 
standard. ' ^ 
The prizes are open to all men not professionals, special 
prizes being arranged for ladies. 
The only restrictions are the rules of the Tuna Cluhi 
that rods and reels must be- used and that rods must not 
be less than 6 feet 9 inches in length, the tip of which 
must weigh not more than 16 ounces. By the word tip is 
meant all that portion of the rod from reel seat to end of 
rod; the line must not exceed twenty-four thread or 
strand, and be capable of sustaining a dead weight of not 
more than 48 pounds. The drag known as the Rabbeth 
drag is barred. Each angler must bring his fish to gaff 
unaided, and the fish must be reeled in, a broken rod either 
before .or after gafiing the fish disqualifying the angler. 
The tournament is open to aKiateurs only ; professional 
fishermen, those engaged in allied industries, and mem- 
bers of their families being debarred, except as stated 
in special class I. 
Present Holders of Caps and Records. 
Lragest tuna: Col. C. P. Morehouse, 251 pounds, first; C. F. 
Holder, 183 pounds, second; H, St. A. Earlscliff, 180 pounds, third; 
F. V. Rider, 175 pounds, fourth. 
Black sea bass: F. S. Schenck, 384 pounds, first; T. S. Manning, 
370 pounds, second; T. S. Manning, 330 pounds, third; F. V. Rider, 
327 pounds, fourth. 
White sea bass: E. M. Boggs, 58 pounds, first; F. F. Garish, 56 
pounds, second; Mrs. F. V. Rider, 50 pounds, third. 
Yellowtail: F. V. Rider, 41 pounds, first; F. F. Garish, 37 pounds, 
second; Mrs. H. W. Hoyt, 31% pounds, third. 
Prizes. 
Class A — Leaping Tuna. 
1. For exceeding the club record. Tuna Club gold medal and 
Banning cup. 
2. For the largest tuna of the season, presidency of the club 
and extra silver-mounted rod. 
3. For second largest tuna, silver-mounted rod, offered by James 
McDonald, Deposit, New York. 
4. For the smallest tuna, booby prize. 
5. To the angler taking first tuna of the season, silver-mounted 
rod. 
6. Special prize to angler taking first tuna between Jan. 1 and 
.\pril 31, silver-mounted rod. 
7. Special prize for largest tuna taken by a lady, silver-mounted 
ti:na rod. 
Class B — Black Sea Bass. 
1. For exceeding the club record, 384 pounds, Tufts-Lyon silver 
cup, Rider-Macomber gold medal and extra silver-mounted rod. 
2. For the largest black sea bass other than the above, silver- 
mounted rod. 
3. For smallest black sea bass of the season, booby prize. 
4. Special prize for largest black sea bass taken by a lady, silver- 
mounted rod. 
Class C — Open to Ladies — White Sea Bass. 
1. For the largest of the season, silver-mounted rod. 
2. For the second largest, gaff. 
Class D — Open to Ladies — Yellowtail. 
1. For largest fish of the season, John F. Francis gold medal 
and silver-mounted rod. 
2. For second largest fish, gaff. 
Class E — Open to Ladies— Albacore. 
1. For largest fish of the season, silver-mounted rod. 
Class F— Rock Bass. 
1. For the largest fish of the season, Vom HofQ Uije d(ry«. 
Class G — Sheepshead. 
3- For largest fish ot season, angler's pipe. 
Class H— Whitefish. 
1. For the largest fish of the season, gaff, 
Class I— Professional Boatmen. 
1. For the best equipped launch, three horse-power or oyer, for 
fishing purposes; rods, reels, lines and gaffs to be considered; 
silver-mounted rod. 
2. For the best equipped fishing boat, under three horse-power, 
or without engines; rods, reels, Imes and gaffs and general com- 
fort to be considered: silver-mounted rod . 
3. For the boatman of the angler taking the first tuna of the 
tournament season, silver-mounted rod. 
All catches made with a view of competing for prizes must be 
reported at once to some member of the weighing committee, and 
weighed in his presence and posted. No allowance will be made 
for shrinkage. Club scales must be used. 
Weighing Committee— F. S. Schenck, R. A. Eddy, E. L. Doran, 
T S. Manning, Frank V. Rider. 
During the tournament of the Tuna Club there will be exhibited 
by the Santa Catalina Aquarium and Zoological Station as com- 
plete a collection of the living game fishes of this region as 
possible, so that contesting anglers may see and observe the fish 
before taking them. The rock bass seen here are particularly com- 
mended to lovers of 8 and 10 ounce sglit bamboo rods. There will 
be shown also, if possible, all the ditterent live baits used bjf the 
members of the Tuna Club, including sardine, smelt, mackerel, 
crayfish, octopus, clams, sea worms, abalone, flyingfish, squid, etc. 
Seasons. 
Seasons fluctuate according to local conditions, wind, weather 
and food supply. , 
Leaping tuna (Thunnus thyunus). 22 to 250 pounds. May 15 to 
Aug. 15. Have been hooked in February. , 
Black sea bass (Stereolepis gigas), 20 to 400 pounds. March to 
December. Sometimes all the year. 
Albacore (Germo alalunga), 10 to 70 pounds. Nearly all the year. 
Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis), 15 to 60 pounds. March to January. 
Often all the year. 
and careful study to the work and proved a highly desira- 
ble official. His appointment is a good one. 
Deputy Game Warden James Latherman, of Wyoming, 
has found a waterfall 300 feet high in the Yellowstone 
Park. It is located in Box Canon, two and a half miles 
northwest of Hell's Half Acre. A heavy growth of tim- 
ber conceals the falls, which have been there all these 
years without being suspected. E. Hough. 
Hartford BuiLDtNG, Chicago, 111. 
Bonito (Scr'da chllieti~sjs)j 5 to 16 pounds. March to January. 
Cynoscion nobile), average 50 pounds. May 1 
to 
White sea bass (Cy 
Julv 35. 
IJarracuda (Sphyrmna argentea), Sip- to 15 pounds. Spring and 
summer. ' '. 
Bhie perch (Medialuna) (Scorpis calif orniensis). All the year. 
Sheepshead (Trochocopus pulcher). AH the year. 
Rock bass, several kinds, 2 to 12 pounds. All the year. 
Halibut and flounder, all the year, . ' . 
Mackerel and swordfish. spring, atid summer. 
Whitefish all the year. , / 
He Took the Card. 
Editor Eorest and Stream : 
I was once presented with a card which made me an 
honored but unworthy member of a club of anglers which 
can probably boast of a larger membership than any club 
in this country; but I lost my membership, and this .is 
how I lost it : 
In the latter part of August some years ago a small 
part}' of us took the little steamer Varuna at Clayton on 
our way up the Bay of Quinte to Trenton. With our 
boats and oarsman we naturally attracted some notice, and 
received an immense amount of gratuitous information as 
to the best fishing grounds in the whole region. At last 
one person, who claimed to be an expert angler, strongly 
insisted that we should give up our trip to the Bay of 
Quinte and visit a lake some eight or ten miles from 
Trenton, and assured us that if we did so we would have 
the trip of our lives, and to convince us he told us the 
following storA'. in which he was corroborated by his two 
companions : 
He stated that the week before they had all visited this 
lake and that in just eighteen minittes from the time they 
began to fish they had caught three bass, weighing together 
18 pounds, 
"How long a time," I asked, "were you obliged to take 
in hooking and landing each fish?" 
"Exactly six minutes bj^ the watch." 
"And you landed them ?" - 1 
"In just eighteen' minutes." 
"And they weighed?" 
"Exactly 6 poimds each h\ the scales." 
"Large or small mouthed bass?" 
"Small, ,of course, and they are seldom taken in this 
lake weighing less than 6 pounds, although larger ones 
are -very often caught." ', 
I turned to my friend and said, '"Your story about' this 
wonderful lake has made this the saddest day of my life. 
I am one of the members of the largest club of anglers in 
this country, but I joined on the express condition that if 
at any time I met a person whose qualifications for mem- 
bership were sitperior to mine I would immediately trans- 
fer to him niy token of membership. From this moment 
my connection with this club ceases, and I now hand to 
you this card, which entitles you to full membership in 
my place." 
It read as follows : "This card entitles the holder to full 
membership in the Ananias Club." 
At first he was angry and his face flushed, but his com- 
panions jeered at him, and in a moment or two he dis- 
appeared and kept out of sight during the rest of the trip. 
J. S. Van Cleef. 
PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y., May 1. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Two men this week caught twenty-five fine bass one 
day on Cedar Lake, Indiana. Harry Gobel, of this city; 
George Murrell, of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, and 
others of our Chicago anglers, have made trips to this 
early bass water or others adjacent to Chicago, and they 
report fairly decent success. Mr. Murrell was on the Fox 
River this week, but did not have very good luck there. 
The trout season is a little late in Wisconsin, but some 
parties are going out this week, and a few very decent 
takes are reported from the lower portions of the State. 
I was talking with Mr. Mayer, of this city, who told 
me that last fall when he was out at the Sixty-fourth 
street pier he saw several bass caught by perch fishers 
along the pier. Investigation proved that there is a body 
of shallow water in the big lake there between the old 
World's Fair pier where the moving sidewalk was and the 
short pier south of there, in which space the bottom of 
the lake is covered with grass and weeds, making a very 
good lying ground for bass. He saw a good many bass 
jumping in this place, and thinks he could go out there 
and catch a nice string. It is near the mouth of the park 
lagoons, and it is known that there are a great many 
bass in these lagoons where they have been protected. 
These fish were seen last fall, and I have a notion to 
keep an eye on that bit of water myself for this summer's 
fishing. 
Governor Yates has reappointed Nat H. Cohen, of 
Urbana, to succeed himself as a member of the Illoinois 
State Fis^ Conijnissioii, Cohen has ^ven entliusiasn^ 
Minfc and Tro«t. 
In their latest report the New Hampshire Fish Cr^m- 
missioners discuss a phase of droughts in relation to trout 
which has not been given the attention it deserves. They 
say: 
So far as relates to the propagation of food fish, and 
particularly those that furnish the best sport for the rod 
and reel — namely, the brook trout and landlocked sal- 
mon — we have had as great a degree of success as we 
could have asked for under the circumstances. Both of 
the two summers last passed have been seasons of un- 
paralleled drought, and trout streams all over the State, 
which had never before been known to fail, went en- 
tirely dry. The north part of the State, where the 
streams have their rise among the hills and mountains, 
and their headwaters fairly well protected by a growth of 
timber, suffered far less than the central and southern 
portions. Probably many, thousands of trout perished 
for want of living water, and in some of the brooks which 
did not run dry the fish were all driven into a very few 
pools, and became an easy prey to the boy or man who 
sE^w fit to drop them a line. Trappers say that mink nevef 
were so fat and slick , as they have been this fall, which 
is easily, accounted- for by the condition of the streams, 
which, were ■ so nearly dried as to render every fish left 
alive in them by the drou.ght an easy prey to this hiost 
voracious little animal. The mink is the only fish eater 
( four-footed) that will take more fish than he needs. He 
will fish industriously all day. eating what fish his stomach 
will hold, and dragging away and hiding the balance. And 
he never was known to go near the dead ones he has 
deposited around under various logs and stones, but re- 
peats to-day his work of yesterday. So that given such a 
season as the two last passed, and the number of fish 
destroyed by mink throughout the State is incalcuia!)!e. 
There would, in our opinion, be much greater sense shou-n 
in estabHshing a fair bounty on that most thorough little 
poacher than in keeping it on bears and wolves. Not- 
withstanding the reverses we have met with by rea 'on 
of the drought, we have had no disposition to abandon 
those streams which have in times past furnished so 
much good trout fishing. Last spring we restocked ih m 
with more fry than we had ever before put into them., and 
we propose to k;eep at them, hoping that the summers to 
come may not be so disastrous to our work as the two 
last passed. 
An Adirondack Troot String. 
Johnstown, N. Y., May 2. — I inclose clipping from 
Johnstown Republican of this date ; 
"Charles W. Rowles returned home from Canada Lake 
and vicinity last evening with a string of fish whicli has 
been looked upon with much admiration by the local 
anglers. He pulled seven trout from the Canada Lake 
Inlet which tipped the scales at 15 pounds, repre entiiig 
the largest sized trout that has been brought to this city 
in a long time." 
I saw the catch and can verify the statement as to size 
and weight. . They were all speckled brook trout, seven in 
number, and taken in an afternoon's fishing, and com- 
prised the whole catch and are the largest average that 
ever came in to our city for one afternoon's fishing. The 
season is backward and this is the first catch reported. 
C. M. P. 
Lobster Claws* 
Horse Cave, Ky. — Editor Forest and Stream: Some 
time since I chanced to find in a junk shop the claw of a 
lobster which measured 12^4 inches in a straight hne from 
point to heel, and about 5 inches broad in the widest part, 
it is in perfect condition and has the small claw attached 
with a string. I have not been able to get its history, and 
would be glad to know if any of your readers has ever 
seen a lobster claw to equal this one in size. E. C. H. 
[This is by no means a record claw. A 19-pound lob- 
ster from Eastport, Maine, had claws measuring 18 inches 
in length and 8 inches across ; and the lobster of 30 to 40 
pounds m.ust have had claws much larger. For years, ow- 
ing to overfishing, the size of lobsters has decreased.] 
The Boy with the Pole. 
We all know of the barefooted boy with the pole, and 
many of us have been so fortunate as to meet him. Mr. 
Stone writes of him appreciatively. For more than one 
amateur fisherman the boy has come to the rescue from 
utter defeat with some suggestion, or, in dire extrem'ty, 
with fish. We found the other day in the tackle cata- 
logue of Messrs. Wm. Mills & Son, of this city, two 1 itle 
pictures of the barefoot boy, which were so unstudied and 
true to nature that we asked permission to print them, and 
they come in very fith' with Mr. Stone's story. 
In the early days of Illinois a gentleman prospecting 
through the cottntr}^ found himself at nightfall near a 
little two-story log cabin. Having been granted the 
privilege of staying all night, he was shown to the attic, 
where he found a couple of hounds, who, as his host ex- 
plained, always slept there. As he was disrobing he gave 
a mighty sneeze, whereupon the two hounds gazed in- 
tently at each other a moment and then with one accord 
bolted out of the single window the room contained. The 
hostess, hearing the racket, appeared above and inquired 
the cause. "Why," said the guest, "I sneezed, and the 
hounds looked at each other a moment and then flew out 
the window." 
"Oh! that's it, is it? I'll tell you the reason they did 
that. I always whale 'em for sneezing aroitnd the house, 
so when you sneezed each thought the other one was the 
culprit and jumped out of the window to escape p^nislj- 
ment,"— St, Louis Post-Dispatch. 
