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FOREST AND STREAM 
Fishing On Long Island 
A “Where To” Article Which Answers Hundreds of Letters We Have Received This Spring 
By A. L. Islander. 
Mooted, much mooted is the question—“Is 
there any good fishing on Long Island?” The 
negative “moot” comes from the angler who 
isn’t willing to fish a day and return with only 
the bottom of his creel covered, then go again 
and fill the creel—in other words he is like the 
man, who, when opportunity knocks at his door, 
looks around for some one to turn the door¬ 
knob. 
Long Island offers some excellent fishing for 
trout, black bass, pickerel, perch, sea bass, 
channel bass and lesser game fish, both fresh 
and salt water varieties. Trout being perhaps 
more aristocratic than bass among the finny 
tribe abiding in fresh water comes first. The 
late Grover Cleveland “immortalized” one Long 
Island stream; to be sure he cast within the con¬ 
fines of a private estate, but above and below 
Photo by J. W. Alker. 
Wild Ducks Wintering at Great Neck, L. 1. 
this estate, which has been yearly stocked with 
fingerling, opportunity is offered for good brook 
trout fishing. Orrowac Brook is the stream and 
the estate is that of Mr. Moffitt. It was here 
that the great President angler was wont to 
cast the fly and no one has ever said that Grover 
Cleveland complained of an empty creel or a 
dull day’s angling. Above and ’below this estate, 
especially below, the fishing is good. Islip is the 
nearest station on the Long Island Railroad, 
which, incidentally, is cinderless, and clean ’be¬ 
cause it is electrified. Farther on we come to 
Smithtown where a merry little stream skirts 
the village and sings “there are trout in here 
awaiting the coachman to drive him from his 
lair.” Between Patchogue and Holtsville a good 
creel is possible. If the angler be a man of 
leisure and, fairly well supplied with the goods 
that buy. he may join one of many clubs en¬ 
joying fishing privileges; Southside Club at 
Wading River being the most prominent. Bass 
fishing, real bass fishing, perch and pickerel is 
limited practically to one lake, but it’s a big one 
with room for all and a creel for all who know 
something of the gentle waltonian pastime. This 
lake, beautifully surrounded with trees of various 
kinds, is clear and cold and its inhabitants suffer 
not from flabbiness nor from the grub that finds 
its way along the back of the bass that lazily 
finns its weary way about shallow, warm ponds 
and rivers. Lake Wildwood or Wildwood Lake, 
a mile and a half from the village of 
Riverhead is the little know “pool” of which we 
tell. Frank Corwin, proprietor of the Riverhead 
House will engage Wallace Nesbit for you on a 
day’s notice and said Wallace is on speaking 
terms with at least the pool keeper in each of 
the choice locations on the lake. He will furnish 
live bait, if you prefer it to the fly, and boats. 
Many white perch running up to three quarters 
of a pound are to be lifted from this lake. In 
fishing this pond you must realize that there are 
days here, like elsewhere, when neither large nor 
small mouth black oass will yield to your ad¬ 
vances, either with fly, artificial or live bait, but 
when the humbler finny ones will give you a bit 
of outdoor recreation and a evening pan that 
lacks only the memory of the fight to make it the 
best ever. -- 
WAGNER, FISH COMMISSIONER. 
Among the appointments of Governor Tener 
of Pennsylvania recently was the following: “To 
be a member of the Fish Commission, Hans 
Wagner.” When Wagner is not looking after 
the welfare of the fishes of his native state he 
will play shortstop for the Pirates. 
PRAISES DUCK HUNTERS. 
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state game commission, says that hunters 
of Pennsylvania have given hearty support to the 
federal regulations which have cut out the spring 
duck shooting and that the majority of the 
sportsmen of the state in upholding the law 
have shown themselves to be “nature’s noble¬ 
men.” 
Commenting on the matter, Dr. Kalbfus said 
recently: 
“As to how Pennsylvania hunters have con¬ 
formed with the national regulation controlling 
spring shooting I would say, splendidly, and to 
a far greater degree than I considered possible, 
and I am more than ever satisfied that the ma¬ 
jority of sportsmen in this state are truly ‘Na¬ 
ture’s Noblemen.’ 
“I have contended for years that nine-tenths 
of our hunters would be willing to abide by any 
law giving protection to game and wild birds, no 
difference how drastic that law might appear to 
be, if they were convinved that such a provision 
was actually necessary to save from extinction 
any species of bird or animal, and that once sat¬ 
isfied of this condition these men would see to 
it that the other one-tenth of the men who hunt¬ 
ed also obeyed the law. I admit that many of 
our sportsmen are, figuratively speaking, ‘from 
Missouri,’ and must be shown before they be¬ 
lieve, and to my mind that is all right. I know 
from experience that it is poor policy to adopt 
every idea that may be suggested or to tie to 
the man who lacks the moral courage to stand 
in a reasonable way for the ideas he believes to 
be right. 
“Those drafting the national regulations ap¬ 
pear to think the elimination of all spring shoot¬ 
ing absolutely necessary, if our birds of this kind 
were to be saved from extinction, and a law to 
that effect was passed by Congress,. This nation¬ 
al law controls our state law and I believe there 
have been but few men in this state who know¬ 
ingly or wilfully violate this national law. My 
hat is off to the duck hunters of Pennsylvania, 
and I contend, too, that the manner and extent 
to which this law has been observed by the 
sportsmen of Pennsylvania entitles them to have 
every unfair provision of the national law strick¬ 
en from that regulation, so that they may en¬ 
joy every privilege given to the citizens of ad¬ 
joining states. I feel that the majority of our 
sportsmen are willing to put up their guns for¬ 
ever if they are shown that such action is neces¬ 
sary to preserve the birds.” 
FOR BREAKING FEDERAL LAW. 
A banker of Delmont, S. D., is the first man 
in South Dakota to be indicted on the charge of 
violating the new federal game law against 
spring shooting and he will appear in the federal 
court to plead to the charge. He will not be 
tried until the October term, if he pleads not 
guilty. Two other indictments charging similar 
offenses have been returned but have not been 
made public pending the arrest of the persons 
indicted. - 
AFTER OWNERS OF DEER-CHASING DOGS. 
Ebensburg, May 18.—Game wardens and 
watchers in the vicinity of Ebensburg, Pa., re¬ 
port that dogs have been bothering the deer re¬ 
cently turned loose in the woods thereabouts. A 
careful investigation of the reports by watchers 
showed that farmers and hunters have been 
keeping dogs which make a practice of chasing 
deer and running them for many miles at a time. 
Game Waren Rodgers, of Johnstown, spent 
several days in the woods and caught a number 
of dogs in the act of running the deer. Among 
the number were two dogs belonging 'to Austin 
Lloyd, of South Ebensburg. When Mr. Lloyd 
discovered that his dogs were among the offen¬ 
ders he shot them. Several arrests are expected 
to follow as a result of the investigation of Mr. 
Rodgers. --— 
TO STOP FISH POACHERS. 
Houston, Tex., May 20.—Col. W. G. Stenett, 
fish and game commissioner of Houston, Tex., 
is preparing to war on fish poachers who are 
catching fish and other water products out of 
the Houston Ship Channel and disposing of 
them illegally. A speedy launch is being con¬ 
structed at Port Lavaca for the use of 'the depu¬ 
ties and it is expected that the depredations can 
be stopped by a patrol 'being established in the 
channel. - 
SOWING WILD RICE. 
Under the general supervision of Game Warden 
Hedrick a systematic effort 'to install wild rice 
in the lakes and ponds in the eastern part of 
South Dakota is now under way. 
