Oct. 13, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
581 
Good Fishing —for Overalls. 
From the New York Times, Oct. 8. 
The Brownsville Independent Fishing Club 
held a political meeting yesterday afternoon in 
Ludwig’s Hall, the intention being to put for¬ 
ward a candidate for Fish Commissioner, or, in 
other words, to obtain a promise from either 
Mr. Hughes or Mr. Hearst that a member of 
the club would receive the appointment in con¬ 
sideration of having the support of the club 
members and their friends on Election Day. 
Dr. Louis Edelmuth, who was famous as a 
veterinary surgeon in the days of the old East 
New York car horse, presided. He said that the 
time had come for all good amateur fishermen 
to stick to the Gubernatorial candidate who 
would promise to “remedy the conditions in the 
bays and waters of the Empire State, so that 
a man might get a fish at least once in a while.” 
“Nowadays,” he continued, “we find in every 
stream about New York only a few fishes, where 
we should have millions. It isn’t the fault of the 
fish that we catch them no more; it is the fault 
of the system that allows oil to be poured into 
Jamaica Bay and other streams from oil works. 
Last Sunday I fished for eleven hours in oil 
that got into the bay from the gas company s 
plant of the Queens County Gas Company. 
Now, what do you suppose I caught?” 
“A cold,” suggested one man. 
“A sardine,” shouted another. 
“No,” replied Dr. Edelmuth, “I caught a pair 
of overalls on my line, and I wouldn’t have 
minded that so much if they had been new ones, 
but they were full of tar. Now, as a horse 
doctor, I know something about animals, and 
let me tell you a fish can’t live on tarred 
overalls.” 
“Vhich kind of bait did you use?” shouted 
Arndt, the East New York delicatessen man. 
“I used every kind of bait,” replied the chair¬ 
man. 
“In dot case you should have caught all sorts 
of clothing,” said the delicatessen man, laughing. 
“Well,” continued the horse doctor, “if a man 
spends eleven hours fishing and only catches 
one pair of tarry overalls, it’s time we should 
complain on the State of New York. I don’t 
mind waiting eleven hours for a bite, but I do 
object to overalls biting after I’ve waited.” 
“I once had a beer bottle bite on my hook,” 
remarked Sol Lipman, the treasurer, “i was 
fishing on Canarsie, und a party of men in an¬ 
other boat threw empty bottles out from their 
boat,'and I catched one.” 
“At Broad Shannel we catch only barrel 
hoops,” said a mild-looking member in the rear 
of the hall. “How is it ve got no barrel hoop 
inspectors in the State Fish Compartment.?” 
“In my opinion,” continued the chairman, “we 
should ask the State Fish Commission to stock 
the bay over again and arrest whoever throws 
oils overboard from factories.” 
“Well,” said Mr. Arndt, “vhy not ask der 
State Fish Commission to hatch out some hard 
shell crabs. We ain’t got no hard shell crabs 
in Yamaica Bay for putty near three years.” 
“I want bluefish in der bay,” remarked an¬ 
other member of the club. 
“I want weakfish,” suggested the vice-presi¬ 
dent. 
“I prefer to catch fluke,” chimed in a third 
member. 
“Any sort of fish will suit me,” resumed the 
chairman, “but it’s time to call a halt when we 
pay a dollar for shedder crab bait, and only 
catch tarry overalls. We must choose our own 
Fish Commissioner, too, if we want redress.” 
“I would redress if I could catch a new suit 
of clothes,” remarked the vice-president. “But 
what we must do is bait the politicians.” 
The club decided to submit a list of questions 
to Mr. Hearst and Mr. Hughes and demand 
that Dr. Edelmuth be made Fish Commissioner. 
The resolutions adopted reminded the candidates 
that there are 30,000 amateur fishermen in 
Greater New York. 
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A Hook in a Trout. 
Cleveland, O., Oct. 2. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 am sending you herewith photograph 
of what I have been pleased to regard as a very 
interesting souvenir of my fishing trip this sum¬ 
mer, and thinking that you might desire to pub¬ 
lish an account o'f the same in your excellent 
magazine, I am sending you the information with 
reference to it for that purpose as follows: 
The photo, which is exactly of the dimensions 
of the hook and line taken, represents what is 
evidently a cod fish hook, and six inches of double 
mackerel hook and line found in a trout, 
actual size. 
mackerel cord attached, which was evidently set 
out at sea, probably in the neighborhood of the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, inasmuch as I took the 
hook from the belly of a 3-pound mackerel trout 
at Robinson’s pool on the Escuminac river, 
Province Quebec, Aug. 18. The only evidence of 
the presence of the hook was a small sore about 
the size of a BB shot, which oh examination 
disclosed the point of the hook. Some effort and 
strength were required to withdraw the hook, 
which we were however successful in doing by 
pressing back the hide so as to insure a better 
hold. After the hook and line were removed the 
trout was returned to the pool, apparently as 
well as ever, although I have since been informed 
by the guardian of the stream, that the fish was 
found dead about two weeks afterward, some 
three miles down the river. When taken the 
trout was extremely active, and I can only ac¬ 
count. for his death after the operation, as being 
due perhaps to our having injured him internally 
when the eye of the hook was drawn around in 
removing it. 
You will note from the photo that the hook had 
been in the trout a sufficient length of time so 
that it had nearly rusted through up near the 
eye; in fact, at one point it is no thicker than 
a fine piano wire, and it is the writer’s judgment, 
as well as others who have seen it, that it must 
have been in the fish for anywhere from eighteen 
months to two and a half or three years. 
A. E. Schafer. 
The New York Casting Tournament. 
In view of the fact that the tournament of the 
Anglers’ Club of New York is being held this 
week on Harlem Mere, in Central Park, the 
accompanying pictures may be of interest to 
anglers. They were made during the practice 
casting on the Pool last Saturday and show 
several of the prominent anglers of New York 
city. 
In mentioning the fact that Mr. John Enright, 
of Castleconnell, Ireland, would take part in 
this tournament, the London Fishing Gazette 
says that “it will be a case of greenheart against 
split cane,” and hopes Mr. J. J. Hardy will also 
come to New York to compete. It should be 
explained in this connection that a heated con¬ 
troversy has been carried on in the Fishing 
Gazette for several months on the respective 
merits of greenheart and split bamboo, and as 
our fly-casters employ the latter quite generally, 
and the British anglers are partial to greenheart. 
and Mr. Enright is one of its firmest advocates, 
the result of the salmon fly-casting event and 
the unlimited trout fly-casting event on Harlem 
Mere will be of great interest to anglers on both 
sides of the Atlantic. 
Mr. Enright cabled that he would arrive in 
New York city on Wednesday. Mr. Hardy has 
not been heard from, which is to be regretted, 
as it is certain that even he might learn some¬ 
thing of fly- and bait-casting in a visit to the 
country of split bamboo fly-rods. 
The Kalamazoo, Chicago and several other 
western clubs have promised to send representa¬ 
tives, and although this issue of Forest and 
Stream goes to press before the tournament takes 
place, it is quite certain the events will have 
large entry lists. 
Fishing Nofes. 
“John G. Hall, who drives the stage between 
the Berkshire hills and Winsted, was two hours 
late arriving here this morning, having spent that 
time scooping up speckled beauties stranded in 
pools and placing them further down stream, 
where there was water.” Thus wrote the Win¬ 
sted correspondent of the Boston Traveler. Mr. 
Hall deserves a gold medal. Many another man 
would have reported that the streams in drying 
up had left the trout stranded, and all hands 
would have gone to the spot, there to clean out 
all the helpless fish and carry them .home. 
During September the Nicollet and Le Sueur • 
Counties Game League planted a million black 
bass fry in Swan lake, Minnesota. Years ago 
this was a popular fishing resort, but when, two 
years ago, a large number of fry were placed in 
the lake, it was to replenish the supply, which 
had been almost exhausted. These fish have 
grown rapidly, and it is expected that Swan lake 
will in a few years recover its old popularity. 
Washington is one of the cities where small 
power boats are used extensively by anglers, and 
the indications are that the already large number 
of these boats used will be augmented next year 
by many new ones. Cruises down the Potomac 
to the best salt water fishing grounds are of 
daily occurrence among the owners of these 
handy little power boats. 
