Nov. 17, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Perry D. Frazer.128 17-30 
Milton H. Smith...126 14-15 
Still another contest is being arranged, to be 
cast off at one or two meetings to be held dur¬ 
ing the present month, but the details have not 
as yet been decided on. It will probably be an 
accuracy contest at 60, 80 and 100 feet. 
In practice the following scores were made 
with half-ounce weights, distance only: 
P. D. Frazer.160 144 30 147 172 130 3-5 
M. H. Smith.140 135 131 92 133 127 1-5 
C. G. Levison.125% 125% 120 133 127 126 1-5 
Charles Stepath_156 158 35 40 147 107 1-5 
G. M. L. La Branche and Mr. Levison were 
using borrowed rods. The former cast 160 feet. 
Edward F. Todd, a novice at the overhead cast¬ 
ing, made some nice side casts .in a practice 
event limited to that style of casting, but the 
scores were not kept. 
Snelled Hooks in a Trout’s Stomach. 
Uncasville, Conn., NOv. io .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: With great pleasure I read the 
communication of E. A. Samuels in the number 
of Oct. 13. I have enjoyed reading his “Fish 
Chats” in many back numbers. I have been an 
almost continuous subscriber to your paper from 
the commencement and haye all the numbers laid 
away with possibly one or two- missing. I am 
more interested in fishing than in hunting and 
shooting, but in my younger days I enjoyed many 
days with the birds afield and a good dog— 
partridge, quail and woodcock, the latter my 
favorite bird. 
I noticed recently that some one reported odd 
catches on back casts in fishing. I once hooked 
a swallow and also several bats. 
In a recent number of Forest and Stream Mr. 
A. E. Schafer reported taking and opening a 
trout that had a cod hook and double mackerel 
cord inside of it. Sometimes fish are quite 
ravenous and will swallow almost anything they 
can get hold of that promises to appease hunger, 
Two or three years ago at Tipper Dam Pool, in 
the Rangeleys, I took with a fly a three-quarter 
pound trout that had three No. 4 bait hooks in 
its stomach, each of the double twisted snoods, 
four or five inches long, sticking out of its mouth. 
You may say this is a whopper, but I can pro¬ 
duce several reliable witnesses to the fact. The 
fish took the fly as greedily as if his stomach had 
been empty. 
Success be with you. A little more fishing 
matter than you have in some numbers would 
please me. R. N. Parish. 
Six Tarpon in Four Hours. 
To take six good sized tarpon in four hours, 
with rod and reel, is an achievement involving 
not only good lack and skill, but a generous re¬ 
serve of staying power. Such a feat stands to 
the credit of Plon. W. B. Shattuc, of Cincinnati. 
The catch was made at Indian Key, Fla., on 
April 16, 1906. The six fish weighed respec¬ 
tively 120, 100, 90, 75, 80 and 85 pounds. Our 
illustration shows the fish and their captor. To 
a member of the Forest and Stream staff, Gen. 
Shattuc writes of the experience and enticingly 
of his winter programme: “I beat the world’s 
record and do not want to do it again either. 
Too hard work. I have a nice yacht at Miami— 
the Buckeye. I live on her a part of the sea¬ 
son when the Royal Palm Hotel is closed. We 
go to Miami after Election and stay until June. 
My yacht stood the storm they had there recently. 
Come down and go out on fishing grounds with 
me and enjoy life. Go out every day, but Sun¬ 
day. 1 am too old to go after birds, but I have 
'a world of fun on the water.” 
The New York Sportsmen’s Show. 
Details have not as yet been arranged, but it 
is quite certain there will be fly- and bait-casting 
contests in Madison Square Garden during the 
Sportsman’s Show, next March, and that the 
programme will be an attractive one, with at 
least two contests each day. Enthusiastic 
anglers are on the committee, and they will en¬ 
deavor to please both the fly- and the bait- 
casters by arranging plenty of events of each 
sort. It is understood that the casting will be 
held on a large pool that will occupy much of 
the center space on the main floor, giving the 
contestants free swing to cast as far as they can. 
It may be that half-ounce weights can be used 
instead of the old-time soft rubber frogs, giving 
the contestants better opportunities to show just 
what they can do, but this is yet to be deter¬ 
mined. In case of the breaking of a line, the 
rubber frog would not injure any person it 
might happen to strike, whereas the wooden 
weights with lead tips might inflict a painful 
injury, although the chances of an accident of 
this nature occurring are remote, for the reason 
that a weight broken from a line during a cast 
nearly always goes high in the air, and falls in 
line with the intended cast, seldom going further 
forward than 100 feet. 
Not a “Mackerel Trout.” 
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 5 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have before me copy of Forest and 
Stream of Oct. 13, and in looking over the 
article about which I wrote you on Oct. 2, I 
note an error which it might be well to call atten¬ 
tion to in your next issue. Instead of saying a 
3-pound mackerel trout, I intended to say 
speckled trout. A. E. Schafer. 
The striped bass fishing has been fair in the 
Shrewsbury river, New Jersey, all through the 
autumn, and catches have been made every day. 
A number of nice fish have been taken from the 
bridge at the Highlands and from boats at var¬ 
ious places near and above Seabright. In the 
Raritan river the bass are still being taken now 
and then. 
\NGLING COMPETITION AT MALESHERl’ES, NEAR P 
(This photograph shows one of the prettiest parts of the river.) 
