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MANY FISH KILLED DURING WINTER. 
Reports from Deadwood, S. D., seem to indi¬ 
cate that many of the smaller streams within 
the Hills will not be attractive to the fishermen 
during the coming season. Owing to the low 
stage of the water in many of the smaller 
streams, ice was formed during the winter which 
went to the very creek bottom. As a result 
practically all the fish were killed. 
The streams within the Black Hills have been 
well stocked each year with fish supplied by the 
Federal fish hatchery at Spearfish, and efforts 
will be made to obtain fish for restocking the 
small streams as soon as any are available. 
TEXAS FISH STATION BILL FAVORED. 
Senator Sheppard’s bill appropriating $50,000 
for an additional Texas fish cultural station was 
favorably reported by the Senate Committee on 
Fisheries. “While there is already one fish cul¬ 
tural station at San Marcos,” said the report, 
“another station in Northern or Western Texas 
is needed and the appropriation is recommended.” 
The report of the committee gives the bill a good 
chance of passage at this session. 
MAINE LAKES FREE FROM ICE. 
Portland, Maine, May 13.—Maine lakes are 
clearing of ice now, but the weather for fishing is 
not as good as it was expected 'to be at this time 
of the year. Some good fishing is being enjoy¬ 
ed, however, by the sportsmen who are assembled 
at the various lakes. The ice left Grand Lake 
stream May 8 but the sportsmen there could 
not fish in the stream until 'the eleventh when 
the ice left the lake. This is a restriction that 
sportsmen rave against, for some of the finest 
trout and salmon in Maine are to be found in 
Grand Lake stream. Not in twenty-four years 
has the ice in the lake been so late in going out. 
In advices received from the Mount Kineo 
House, Moosehead Lake, the report is encour¬ 
aging, for the snow is disappearing rapidly and 
the ice is partly out, so that it is expected that 
steamers will be able to cross the lake by Satur¬ 
day the sixteenth. 
Some very good fishing is to be had at Sebago 
Lake now, and nearly all of the anglers who 
go out on the lake bring home a good catch of 
salmon or trout. Some of the largest salmon of 
the land-locked variety in Maine lakes are taken 
from Sebago every year. On Sunday May 10, 
William Wyman, of Woodfords, landed a hand¬ 
some sixteen pound salmon after a terrible 
struggle. Mr. Wyman earlier in the day had 
taken a three and a five pound salmon. 
The smelts are returning from their spawning 
beds in the brooks and rivers, and fishing is ex¬ 
pected to be unusually good in a very few days. 
Charles Sanborn, a guide in the employ of 
Charles K. Bispham of Philadelphia landed a 
handsome ten-pound salmon yesterday forenoon. 
The following are a few of the catches at 
Sebago Lake during the past few days: Miss 
Louise Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa., two salmon. 
4 pounds each; C. L. Marren, Lowell, Mass., 
five salmon, the largest 5 pounds; W. C. Hamil¬ 
ton, Fitchburg, Mass., one 6 and one 4 pounds; 
Dr. W. L. Shipman, Worcester, Mass., one 4V2; 
C. M. Cowdrey, Fitchburg, Mass., one 7 pounds; 
E. A. Vincellette, Leominister, Mass., took five, 
the largest being 7% pounds; Mr. Hardy of 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Fitchburg, Mass., one 5 and one 3V2 pounds; E. 
A. Guinsburg, New York City, three 3V2 pounds 
each; Miss Helena Sanborn, of East Baldwin, 
one, 3 pounds; A 1 Martin, East Sebago, one 
four-pounder; J. W. Farrell and F. W. Pierce 
of Haverhill took fifteen salmon, total weight 
being 50 pounds; Dr. Griffin, Malden, Mass., 
one 4 and one 5 pounds; Mr. Mullett, Malden, 
Mass., a 4 and 5 -pounder; Mrs. L. C. Spaulding, 
Rochester, N. Y., one 4 and one 5 pounds; H. 
C. Robinson, a two and four-pounder; H. C. 
Hill, Boston, Mass., one 6V2 pounds; Mrs. H. C. 
Hill, Boston, one 4 pound salmon; Frank Ver- 
rill, Portland, one 4 pounds; F. Mount, Portland, 
one five-pounder; L. Dole, Sebago Lake, 
one 6 pounds; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Ham¬ 
lin, one 5 and one 4 pounds; R. Cobb, Se¬ 
bago Lake, six salmon weighing from 2 to 4 
pounds; Byron Haskell, Westbrook, Me., one sal¬ 
mon, 4 pounds; Mrs. Haskell, one five-pounder. 
The fishing in Belgrade lakes is reported bet¬ 
ter than it has been for a number of years past 
and some of the returning fishermen state that 
it is better than ever before. The following are 
a few of the fish that have been taken from 
there the past week: Irving E. Kelley, Bel¬ 
grade, two trout, 3% and 5% pounds weight; 
Lester Perkins, Belgrade, three trout, 3 %, 2% 
and 4V2 pounds; Mr. Morrill, Belgrade, one 
seven-pound salmon; Tom Leavitt, Belgrade, one 
7% pound trout; William Collins, three trout, 
weight 1%, 3V2 and 5% pounds; Alger P. Farn- 
ham, Belgrade, one five-pound trout; Vernon 
Kelley, one 8% pounds. 
In Messalonskee Lake the following salmon 
have been taken: G. E. Rogers, Belgrade, one 
7% and one 10 pounds; E. H. Mosher, Belgrade, 
one 5% pounds; John Taylor, Oakland, one 13 
pounds; Fred Blake, Sidney, one 4 and one 6V2 
pounds. 
At Lake Auburn the fishing is improving daily, 
and the accompanying catches were made this 
week: Elmer Gerrish, Auburn, one 9% pound 
salmon; Dr. White, New York City, two 3 pound 
trout. The following parties from Lewiston 
and Auburn took salmon from the lake: George 
Ridley, one 4V2 pounds; Charles Moore, one 2V2 
pounds; James Tracey, one three-pounder; John 
Moore, two 2V2 and one 3 pounds; Mr. Hutchins, 
two 2 and two 2V2 pounds; George Drew, one 
three-pound salmon; Walter Hayford, one three- 
pounder; S. Nichols, one 2 pounds; John Briggs, 
two 3 and one 3% pounds; Mr. Burroughs, one 
two-pounder. 
At Green Lake near Bangor, Me., the catches 
were: E. Frazer, one six-pound salmon; F. E. 
Grace, one 7 pounds; D. Webster, two 8 pounds; 
C. Murphy, one 4V2 pounds; B. Higgins, 3 
pound trout; Mrs. Hawlor, one 2V2 pound trout. 
The above fishermen were all from Green Lake. 
William Wilson of Rumford Falls, two 4 pound 
salmon. 
Frank Sawyer, a prominent guide of East Se¬ 
bago, while fishing in Peabody Pond, took five 
redspot trout each weighing three pounds. 
DELAWARE NOTES. 
Wilmington, Delaware, June 10.—On May 
20 and 21, the annual planked shad dinner, 
shoot, trip to fishing grounds and shoot, 
was held by the Salem Rod, Gun and Yacht 
Club. Visitors from miles around accepted invi¬ 
tations and the affair was the largest in the his¬ 
tory of the organization. 
The visitors were conveyed on a trip to the 
club’s fishing grounds on May 20 and in the 
evening a dance was held. On Thursday, May 
21, ten special events were shot, the prize money 
being divided according to the Rose system. 
The officers of the club are: H. G. Hart, presi¬ 
dent; H. W. Bossier, recording secretary; Paul 
Erhardt, treasurer; William H. Harris, vice- 
president; L. D. Compton, financial secretary; 
Ernest Schubert, field captain. 
Twelve hundred Delaware sportsmen are elated 
over the announcement that the restriction 
against reed bird shooting in the state of 
peaches, as set forth in the Weeks-McLean bill 
in Congress, has been lifted. The Delawarians 
protested in a monster petition to the Delaware 
representatives in both houses against the prohi¬ 
bitory measure anent reed bird shooting. 
At a great mass meeting the opposition against 
the provisions of the bill were declared. At this 
meeting agents from the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture were present. It was declared by the Dela¬ 
warians that the states south of Delaware as far 
as Florida were not restricted. It was averred 
that reed bird shooting was practically the only 
hunting sport in Delaware; that the hunting of 
rabbits, squirrels and birds was not prolific. 
Under the provision of the bill as first framed 
ther was no open season for reed bird shooting 
in Delaware. The petition was circulated for 
about two weeks before it was sent to Washing¬ 
ton. At Washington, it was brought to the at¬ 
tention of Senators Willard Saulsbury and 
Henry A. du Pont and Congressman J. Franklin 
Brockson. 
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 
Greenville, Pa., June 10.—That the fishing sea¬ 
son in this section of the state will be the best 
for the past two or three seasons was made a 
fact several days ago when men were seen all 
along the banks of the Shenango river dipping 
for members of the “finny” tribe. 
Since the spring freshet here over 1,000 pounds 
of fish have been dipped from the river and it 
is said that fish have never been as plentiful in 
the Shenango as they are this season and many 
citizens in the city have been putting in their 
time along the banks of the river ever since 
the news leaked out. 
After the first of July it will be unlawful to 
sell or to wear or to have in possession aigrettes 
or the plumage of other wild birds that are na¬ 
tives of Pennsylvania. The state game commis¬ 
sion recently gave notice that the new aigrette 
law will be enforced from the above mentioned 
date. The act was passed by the legislature in 
1913 and ample time has been given for all con¬ 
cerned to comply with the terms. Outlawed 
plumage will be subject to confiscation and the 
offending persons to prosecution. 
H. B. Garrison, game and fish warden, has 
secured the promise of a large quantity of fish to 
be shipped within a short time from the Gov¬ 
ernment hatchery to be placed in the Shenango 
river. Some of these will be shipped as tiny min¬ 
nows and others will be large enough to fry. 
