Aug. i6, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
207 
inches, “of which the writer is one.’’ The new 
county seat is located on Intermediate River, 
about midway between Grass below and Inter¬ 
mediate lakes above. The river is a rather shal¬ 
low, winding, narrow stream, in places scarcely 
five yards wide, is perhaps four miles long, and 
connects the two lakes. The site of the town— 
a huge square blocked out of the heavy woods— 
was still covered with the fallen trees, lying as 
felled by the choppers, while a fire that had re¬ 
cently swept through them made it as cheerless 
and desolate looking a place as could well be 
imagined. Six months before it was a first class 
howling wilderness, but at the time we crept 
wearily up its one imaginary street at the lower 
end of the clearing, it contained fifteen un¬ 
painted wooden houses and a saw-mill—that in¬ 
satiate, screaming fiend whose appetite will only 
be appeased—and at no distant day—when it has 
devoured the last vestige of the noble forests 
of Northern Michigan and dried up its streams 
till there will not be water enough in them to 
swim a water beetle. We found the people 
clever and neighborly, and full of hope and plans 
for the future. It is really a pretty location for 
a small town, and we believe Bellaire has a 
future ahead of it. We arrived about noon and 
found the hack had preceded us only a few 
minutes. Of course Cutler was not there to 
meet us as promised, and we spent nearly an 
hour looking around the place. Looked at the 
river, a mere thread through the woods, bought 
some lumber at the mill to make a fish box, camp 
table, etc., made a good many ill-natured re¬ 
marks about Cutler, and finally, when our pati¬ 
ence was worn out waiting for him, concluded 
to go up the river as far as the lake at least, 
hunt a camp for the night, and lay for that Post¬ 
master’s scalp in the morning. We were told 
“Green’s landing” was only about eighty rods 
up the river, from which point our P. M. walked 
twice a week to swap mails, and for this we 
started, the wagon following with the traps. 
Luckily we met the subject of our remarks a 
short distance out of town with two of his 
sons, one of them carrying a well-flattened mail 
pouch. The introduction was brief: “I suppose 
this is Mr. Cutler?” “Yes.” “Well, here’s your 
fishing party. Shake. Where are your boats?” 
“Up the river at the landing, about eighty rods.” 
(We found eighty rods to be the only appreci¬ 
able distance in this neck o’ woods.) Then we 
went for that landing again. 
At the head of wagon navigation a trail led 
down to the water and that landing, which was 
a spot at the water’s edge devoid enough of 
overhanging “bresh,” as the camp boy expressed 
it, to allow a skiff to get to the bank. 
At this point is the head of the rapids, 
eighty rods long, more or less. 
The river, through the rapids, is shallow, 
in places barely deep enough to float a light skiff, 
and runs like a mill race, which feature no 
doubt had something to do with the P. M. pre¬ 
ferring to walk from the landing down and back. 
Three narrow, flat-bottomed boats were to 
transport us and our luggage up the river and 
lake somewhere to a camp. We loaded part of 
the things into them, and the Cutler boys and 
the writer, to whom powers were given as to 
locating, started, leaving the rest to smoke and 
wait till we came back for another load. 
Trouble for the writer began right at the 
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Asbury Park Fishing Club. 
“It isn’t all of fishing to fish” quoth our 
reporter, who covered the casting tournament of 
the Asbury Park Fishing Club last week. And 
when he said those profound words, he rolled 
’em round in his mouth like, he says, they cuddle 
Apple Jack on the Jersey coast. The trap editor, 
an unsentimental, unpiscatorialized non-student 
of Walton, innocently asked, “What else is there 
to it?” 
The reporter hesitated to answer, lest he 
show anger, so he counted ten. Why, if you 
Upper group shows some casters taken at tournaments. 
Lower, Joe Cawthorn with his big catch. 
knew that bunch of Waltonians in Asbury, you 
wouldn't think such a question; much less ask 
it. There’s real manhood for you; then there’s 
science and exercise, fresh air, sociability and, 
well—and—Apple Jack. Ever been introduced to 
Jersey Apple Jack? No! Well, no wonder you 
have the temerity to ask, “What’s to fishin’ but 
fish.” Why, fishin’ is Apple Jack, and Apple 
Jack is fishin’ diluted with conversation. Ever 
heard Hartie or Joe or Bob or Scotty, Win or 
Bill, Captain or Sam or Ben or any of those 
chaps tell a story? No! Well, of course you 
don’t know “what’s to fishin’ but fish,” and our 
trap editor “went empty away” while our fishing 
reporter tried to recall the names of those he 
liked best in the bunch of casters and to hook 
their faces up with the scores they made in order 
to identify them in the photograph focused 
through Apple Jack. (See accompanying print.) 
“There must be something to fishing but 
fish,” quoth our yacht editor as he listened to 
the reporter, suppliantly hoping to be taken off 
the field trials and permanently assigned to the 
Asbury section of New Jersey with a desk in 
John Seger’s, and nothing to do but talk fishing 
and get better acquainted with A. J. and some 
other members of the club. 
Here follow the events and scores of the 
seventh annual casting tournament of the Asbury 
Park Fishing Club, held Aug. 2, 1913: 
Event No. 1.—For club members only: The 
best average of five casts in a lane thirty feet 
in width, with a three-ounce lead. Fee, fifty cents : 
Total Cast. 
Total Cast. 
Ft. 
In. 
Ft. 
In. 
1 . 
T Vogler .... 1042 
10 
5. 
W. J. Moran. 845 
4 
2 . 
H. 
G. Cole.. 1019 
8 
6 . 
Dr. W. Flavell 834 
1 
3. 
H. 
C. Rydell 865 
5 
7. 
Dr. Knecht... 821 
10 
4. 
D. 
McIntyre.. 860 
8 . 
Geo. Perry .. 819 
8 
Event No. 2.—For club members only: The 
best average of five casts in a lane thirty feet 
in width, with a four-ounce lead. Fee, fifty 
cents: 
Total Cast. 
Total Cast. 
Ft. 
In. 
Ft. In. 
1 . 
Dr. Knecht.. .1051 
8 
5. 
Tohn Vogler.. 
902 2 
2 . 
II. G. Cole...1036 
4 
6 . 
M. 
Stratton... 
876 8 
3. 
R. H. Corson.1027 
11 
7. 
II. 
K. Satow. 
874 7 
4. 
C. O. Perry.. 1013 
7 
8 . 
F. 
Johnson... 
874 7 
Event No. 3. 
—For 
club 
members 
only: 
Three casts at a stake 140 feet from the start¬ 
ing line, nearest cast recorded: 
Nearest Cast. Nearest Cast. 
Ft. 
In. 
Ft. 
In, 
l. 
J. E. Newman .. 
1 
4 H. W. Metz... 5 
7 
2 . 
F. Johnson .. .. 
11 
5. W. Schwartz.. 5 
8 
3. 
C. E. Young 1 
9M> 
6 . D. McIntyre. 6 
Event No. 4.—Open to all: The best aver¬ 
age of five casts in a V-shaped court, said court 
to be thirty feet wide at 100 feet, 60 feet wide 
at 200 feet, 90 feet wide at 300 feet; three or 
four-ounce leads. Fee, $1: 
Total Cast. Total Cast. 
Ft. In. Ft. In. 
1. J. Clayton_1399 7 6. John Vogler.1189 7 
2. Dr. C. Simon.1387 2 7. H. Kain ....1187 1 
3. B. Reimuller.1367 7 8. C. M. Day..1132 7 
4. W. J. Moran.1291 4 9. H. G. Cole..lG61 4 
5. R. H. Corson.1257 5 10. J. Newman..1034 9 
Event No. 5.—Open to all: The longest in¬ 
dividual cast, five casts allowed each contestant 
in open field; three or four-ounce leads. Fee, 
fifty cents: 
Longest Cast. Longest Cast. 
Ft. 
In. 
Ft. 
In. 
i. 
John Clayton. 298 
6 . 
John Vogler. 
281 
6 
2 . 
Dr. C. Simon 290 
6 
7. 
C. O. Perry.. 
269 
3 
3. 
B. Reimuller. 289 
9 
8 . 
N. Schoen... 
266 
11 
4. 
R. II. Corson 285 
9. 
J. Newman.. 
263 
5. 
C. M. Day... 281 
8 
10 . 
H. K. Satow 
261 
& 
Event No. 6.— 
-Open event for ladies 
The 
best average of five casts in open field, three or 
four-ounce leads. Fee, fifty cents: 
Total Cast. Total Cast. 
Ft. In. Ft. In. 
1. Mrs. Brewer.. 754 5 3. Mrs. Lensinger561 6 
2. Mrs. Cooper.. 720 5 4. Mrs. Fisher.. 552 6 
Special.—Best average events 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: 
1. R. H. Corson 5. W. J. Moran. 1 
2. John Vogler. 6. Dr. W. D. Knecht. 
3. C. M. Day. 7. Frank ohnson. 
4. H. G. Cole. 
Special.—Best average events 4 and 5: John 
Clayton, silver cup. 
The committee follows: J. C. English, 
Chairman, 9 Embury avenue, Ocean Grove, N. J.; 
H. I. Phillips, Secretary; James M. Gentle, A. W. 
Flavell, Winfield Scott, William Monroe, H. G. 
Cole, C. M. Day, Edward Shepard, John Vogler, 
R. C. Anderson, E. S. Johnson, William Desen- 
dorf, Dr. Knecht, Dr. W. W. Flavell, Samuel 
Metzgar, E. N. Dolbey, E. C. Burtis, Benjamin 
Everham, Charles O. Perry. 
