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hatcheries in this state, but will have gone be¬ 
yond the fondest hopes of the state authorities. 
This is the opinion of superintendent, Charles 
0 . Haverford. During the season the hatchery 
has had more trout at its disposal than it could 
find streams in which to put the speckled 
beauties. The hatchery will cease distributing 
trout about the middle of June and will not 
again start until after the close of the trout 
season. July 15. Mr. Haverford stated that the 
best time to stock is during the close season 
as the trout then become acclimated before 
anglers start to fish. 
“A few days ago,” he said, “I put about two 
hundred trout in the Musconetcong river and 
the next day half of them had been caught by 
people who called themselves sportsmen. This 
is one of the best reasons for stocking during 
the closed season.” 
Mr. Haverford stated that in the 120 beds at 
present there are about 2,500,000 of the sal- 
monoid species. Most of these are trout but 
thousands of land-locked salmon have been 
hatched and have reached a length of two inches. 
In a few months these will be ready for propa¬ 
gation. Of the trout family there are the 
rainbow, steel-head, brook and brown trout. 
In addition to the trout, eight million yellow 
perch are being hatched. It is proposed to 
distribute these among the many lakes and 
large ponds of New Jersey. Many anglers would 
as soon land a 1 1-2 pound perch as they would 
a bass of the same size. I am one of those 
anglers. They possess the same amount of 
gameness coupled with more strength than the 
bass has at his command. 
The reports of anglers in all parts of the 
state show that there has been immediate results 
in the fish distributed. 
“Does no one ever try to steal the trout at 
night?” asked a visitor who observed that there 
seemed no protection for the fish. 
The superintendent puffed peacefully at his 
cigar for a moment and then in answer to the 
inquisitive one’s question called a large mastiff 
dog. The animal is quiet at day and in the 
sight of his master but he guards the trout 
zealously at night. 
The catch of the season at Mendham in 
trout was made to-day by John M. Young of 
Madison. He fished the mountain stream for 
about two miles and the result was sixteen trout 
that measured between nine and twelve inches. 
Mr. Young used both flies and bait. Al¬ 
though local anglers have had fair luck with the 
speckled beauties this year, this catch was the 
grand-daddy of them all. 
Anglers for Oswego bass, who formerly 
came from all parts of New Jersey to try their 
hands on this fish in Silver Lake, situated three 
miles west of Madison, N. J., will not again have 
this opportunity for several years to come. The 
reason for this is that this beautifully situa¬ 
ted body of water has been drained ostensibly 
at first for the purpose of fixing the dam and 
later on the claim that the water spread typhoid 
fever. 
None of these things happened, however, un¬ 
til the owner of the lake, S. B. Jenkins, tried un¬ 
successfully for two years to prohibit fishing 
after the waters had been stocked from the pub¬ 
lic coffers. 
The banks of the lake are thickly wooded, 
providing excellent shelter for the fish. Bass 
weighing five pounds have often been taken 
from the pond and others infinitely larger have 
been seen there. 
Besides bass, every other kind of fish imagin¬ 
able were caught by the boys when the gates of 
the lake were opened, without regard for size, 
limit or season. Spears were used in open day¬ 
light on all kinds of the finned tribe. 
As the fame of this lake, only a mile long, as 
a bass water, had spread abroad, it is reasonable 
to suppose that there will be general lamenta¬ 
tion at its loss for years to come. It was stocked 
by the state commission several years ago and 
it was only in the last three years that the best 
of bass fishing was had there J. T. SCARRY. 
PIKE FOR GREENWOOD LAKE. 
Greenwood Lake, June 10.—Game Warden 
Klein, of Passaic, completed his work of placing- 
50,000 one-inch wall-eyed pike at the Jerse3 r end 
of Greenwood Lake. 
The parties figuring in the photo are some 
of Greensburg’s leading business men, repre¬ 
senting such lines as newspapers, bankers, poli¬ 
ticians and retired and wealthy farmers. From 
left to right they read C. H. Ewing, John T. 
INDIANA BASS FISHING. 
The average angler does not realize that 
Southern Indiana affords ideal opportunities for 
the piscatorial artist. This part of the state has 
110 large lakes as has the northern section, but it 
is dotted with lakelets, which are literally alive 
with large and small-mouthed black bass, as well, 
as perch of several different varieties; some 
pickerel and salmon and catfish galore. 
In this section of the state also, are innumer¬ 
able streams, nearly all of them having either 
limestone or gravel bottoms and, in most every 
instance teeming with fish of almost all varieties, 
and all comparatively easy to reach by the en¬ 
thusiastic angler, as the county is literally a net¬ 
work of steam and interurban lines. 
The beauty spot of this section is McCoy’s Lake, 
situated about four miles east of Greensburg on 
the Big Four railroad. It is a beautiful body of 
water covering some forty acres of land, and 
from six to twenty-two feet in depth. It nestles 
between lofty wooded hills, covered with a dense 
growth of beech, elm and maple trees, the whole 
forming a scene reminding one of a Swiss or 
Scottish lakelet. Not long since the writer was 
a member of a fishing party to the lake. It com¬ 
prised representative business men of the city 
and, while not altogether able Waltonites, at least 
enthusiastic ones. It was on this expedition that 
Marsh Thomas, ex-county recorder, after a pretty 
exhibition of skill, landed a three and one-half 
pound bass of the small-mouth species. This 
mighty denizen of the McCoy deep, proved a 
fighter for sure and, after he had tried every 
prank of the bass family, in a terrific lunge, he 
cleft the air full three feet above the surface of 
the lake, his shining body reflecting at the in¬ 
stance of the sun’s rays, every color of the rain¬ 
bow. It was after what was seemingly an in¬ 
terminable length of time that he was reeled m 
and landed; conquered only after exhaustion had 
Meek, L. D. Braden, Curtis McCoy (owner of 
the lake grounds), J. E. Caskey (editor of News'), 
J. H. Christian (president of Union Trust Com¬ 
pany), Marsh Thomas (ex-county recorder), J. 
C. Meek and Dr. I. N. Sanders. 
so weakened him a fight no longer was possible. 
The McCoy Lake and resort was made possi¬ 
ble only last year by the spirit of the owner, who, 
a wealthy fanner, conceived the idea of placing- 
some forty acres of land under water, when oppor¬ 
tunity presented itself by a change of route by the 
Big Four railroad company. Threesides of the 
mammoth lake are natural, with the deserted fill of 
the steam road forming the main retaining wall 
for one end. A small amount of concrete work 
finished the natural basin for an expansive body 
of water. Mr. McCoy has stocked the place with 
various kinds of fish, and fed by a natural flow¬ 
ing stream, alive with this element, the place is 
conceded to be the best opportunity for the 
sportsman to get anything like a return for his 
endeavor of all sites in southeastern Indiana. 
Air. McCoy has never decided to turn the place 
into a park, though the surrounding grounds to 
the lake would form a most beautiful one. 
C. H. PARRISH. 
