FOREST AND STREAM 
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fastnesses of the grand, old Catskills, is a shim¬ 
mering body of water, not very deep, but of 
cold, clear water and covering an area of some 
twenty or thirty acres. Stocked with hundreds 
of thousands of trout fry about four years ago, 
the lake was posted until last season, and this 
year it has been a veritable Mecca for sportsmen 
of the rod and line. 
Along the rock-bound shores of Catskill Creek 
from the western boundary of Catskill village to 
a point a mile or so beyond historic Leeds, fish¬ 
ermen are snapping out many small-mouthed 
black bass and, while they are compelled to re¬ 
turn them to the water, the indications, they de¬ 
clare, for a great bass season are better than 
usual—and the Catskill is a famous creek for 
bass, when one knows how to go after them. 
Dobson are numerous, and, even at this some¬ 
what early date, preceeding the opening of the 
season, the local 'fishermen are begining to lay 
in a good supply of them. But King Trout has 
the center of the stage in the Catskills this sea¬ 
son. They can be taken almost anywhere, and 
in almost any number. 
SMITH D. NIVER. 
PENNSYLVANIA CORRESPONDENCE. 
Hazleton, Pa., June 8.—Earl Stout and Fred 
Reed, of Renovo, while fishing at the head of 
Youngwomen’s Creek saw a mother bear with 
three grown cubs. The quartet was very 
peaceable and hurried off as soon as they saw the 
fishermen. 
June 8.—One of the finest strings of trout 
ever caught in this part of the state was that 
taken home by Brader Mausteller, of Grassmere, 
Columbia county. The string was topped by one 
that measured 22 1-4 inches and weighed exactly 
three pounds. He had 18 others, none of which 
was under 10 inches in length. 
Mausteller caught the big one with an ordinary 
pole and the trout jumped for a red worm. The 
strike came at the junction of two streams and 
for over 15 minutes Mausteller battled in the 
water with his catch before he finally got him 
ashore. 
June 9.—Charles Neiswinter, of Gordon, who 
three times a year whips the trout streams be¬ 
tween Gordon and Locust Gap, caught a twin 
trout about 12 1-2 inches long. They were 
grown together from the heads to the tails, look¬ 
ing very much like piscine Siamese Twins. There 
were two heads, two tails, and eight fins. This 
“fish story” can be verified by inquiry among 
Gordon people to whom Neiswinter showed the 
strange creation. 
June 9.—Hunters and fishermen of Hazleton 
are ready to lo.ck horns with the huckleberry 
pickers who they think know something of the 
destruction of vast areas of brufeh in Carbon 
county which were the field of much sport. 
Forest fires, which always improve the huckle¬ 
berry crop, have cleaned off many of the best 
hunting and fishing grounds and will spoil the 
sport for years to come. 
June 10.—Michael Berish, of Munson, sat smok¬ 
ing, while trout angling near Munson, when Code 
Davis, who was wading up stream, cautioned him 
that a large rattlesnake was coiled beside him. 
Berish leaped aside after which the two men 
caught the reptile with a forked stick and took 
it to Munson. It was adorned with 12 rattles 
and a button. 
J. W. KRAFT. 
MAINE CORRESPONDENCE. 
Portland, Me., June 12. 
Experienced fishermen who have visited Sebago 
Lake this spring say that the sport there has 
been much poorer than usual. Now they are 
looking for the return of the big salmon to the 
surface after their feeding on the small smelts 
that have re-entered the lake. 
There is always a season at this time of the 
year, when the smelts return-to the top of the 
water after spawning and the salmon always 
follow them wherever they go. As a result the 
salmon will frequently snap vioiously at the at¬ 
tractive spinners or the phantoms that are 
trolled by fishermen. 
The Cornwall spinner and the small, white 
bait took well during the opening of the fishing 
season at Sebago Lake as well as in other Maine 
waters. 
Automobile parties are reaching the more re¬ 
mote trout brooks where the big red-spots are to 
be located. There are a number of anglers in 
Portland, owners of automobiles, frequently to be 
seen with fishing rods jointed, and lines and 
hooks attached, heading for brooks or ponds 
back in the country. 
There are many who are unable to go out for 
the entire day, but by starting in an automobile 
at noon will be fishing in some stream 30 miles 
distant by early afternoon and be at home in time 
for their evening repast, which often times con¬ 
sists of brook trout. 
Grand Lake, Grand Lake Stream, the Range- 
leys, Moosehead and Belgrade lakes are giving 
up their finny prizes in large numbers and some 
rare sport is being enjoyed by those who are oc¬ 
cupying camps on the shores of these ponds. 
Charles K. Bispham, of Philadelphia, camp 
owner at Sebago Lake, said Monday: “Some 
great salmon fishing may be expected in this 
lake at almost any time now. On account of the 
poor fishing that has been favoring the sports¬ 
men this past spring I believe some of the best 
salmon fishing that ever has been known in 
Sebago Lake will be had inside of a week.” 
FISH AND GAME IN MISSOURI. 
Kansas City, Mo., June 10.—Anglers and nimrods 
of Missouri expect to have a big year, banking 
on the reports of Deputy State Game Wardens 
Charles E. Baker and John G. Leslie, who have 
just completed a trip through the Ozark moun¬ 
tains, where they went in search of illegal fisher¬ 
men. They were on the Osage, Niagara, White, 
Elk and Niangua rivers. After the search for 
law-breaking anglers, they made a trip through 
several counties in the southern part of the state 
to investigate game conditions. 
They found no one breaking the fishing laws 
and discovered that the streams mentioned are 
well filled with bass, perch, croppie and channel 
cat. There are a few other varieties. They also 
discovered that these streams are being invaded 
this week by St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph 
and Joplin anglers, as the vacation season has 
just opened, and from now until the latter part 
of August there will be thousands of sportsmen 
casting in these mountain waters. 
The news that there is plenty of fishing is very 
welcome. About four years ago anglers became 
a bit discouraged because bass appeared to be 
getting scarce in the White and James rivers, the 
two best bass streams in the Ozark mountains. 
But the lull in fishing in the past few seasons 
has given time for the streams to become well 
stocked again and some big catches may be re¬ 
ported in the next few months. 
The game wardens report on game in the 
mountains is very encouraging. Mr. Leslie said: 
“I have been a game warden in the state for 
thirty years and never before have I seen so 
many fine grey and fox squirrels as this season. 
Camden and LeClede counties are filled with 
them. These counties are well filled with dense 
forests and it seemed to us that there was a 
squirrel in every tree. The season opens July 1 
and there will be much shooting of young ones, 
which are the best for eating about July 15. Fox 
squirrels in this region grow to be as large as 
cats. 
“In Camden county there is plenty of other 
game. Deer are a bit scarce, but we saw several. 
Wild turkey are what might be termed plentiful 
and wild turkey shooting will be fine sport in that 
region of the ‘Irish wilderness,’ as that section 
of the Ozarks is called. In counties near the 
Arkansas border turkey and deer are quite 
plentiful.” 
Sportsmen in this region are already planning 
on trips to the regions mentioned in October and 
November. It is understood that quail are more 
plentiful than in the past ten years. This is due 
to the fact that the law has been changed, lim¬ 
iting the sportsmen to a bag of ten per day and 
cutting the season down so that quail can be 
shot only in December. An effort will be made 
to have this law changed at the next session of 
the Legislature. Quail and wild turkey shooting 
is the main game bird shooting in the state, with* 
the exception, of course, of wild duck. 
EDWARD W. COCHRANE. 
PIKE AND PERCH FOR KAMPESKA, 
Watertown, S. D., June 10.—One million perch- 
pike minnows consigned to General C. H. 
Englesby from Federal fish hatcheries were re¬ 
received here by local sportsmen and planted in 
Lake Kampeska. The state game department has 
completed work on the removal of scavenger fish 
for the season. It estimates that 500 tons of 
buffalo, suckers and gar have been taken out of 
the lake. With this class of fish removed, the 
planting of game fish is expected to show fine 
results. 
WANTS ELK TAKEN BACK. 
Seattle, June 7.—State Game Warden L. H. 
Garwin had asked the Government to take back 
the herd of Montana elk, liberated in Snohomish 
county, the animals having become a nuisance 
because of their depredations on farms. 
BROOK TROUT FARM IS A MONEY MAKER. 
Wetmore, Mich., June 12.—A novelty in upper 
Michigan is a brook trout farm. It is a practical 
money-making industry. The farm is at Wet- 
more, Alger country, and is owned by William 
and Victor Cox, merchants. 
FINED FOR TAKING UNDERSIZED FISH. 
Hibbing, Minn., June 7.—Twelve alleged viola¬ 
tors of the fishing law have been taken into cus¬ 
tody by George Wood, a game warden. The ar¬ 
rests were made at Vermillion Lake. Eleven, 
including C. A. Carlson, and several foreigners 
charged with catching under-sized pike, were 
fined $10. 
