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Forest and Stream 
?WILL PRESENT 
FIFTY SILVER CUPS 
TO SUCCESSFUL ANGLERS 
The angler fortunate enough to capture the 
largest fish deserves a prize, and Forest and Stream 
will see that he (or she) gets it. There will be no 
red tape about the contest. This paper will place 
fifty handsome silver cups in as many public camps or 
summer hotels conducted for the angling fraternity in 
different sections of the country. 
The cup in each case will go to the person who 
catches the record fish during the season of 1914, as 
verified to Forest and Stream by the management" of 
the hotel or camp. ^ 
The contest is open to all, subscribers and non¬ 
subscribers as well. Where different varieties of fish 
are caught in the same section, the management of 
the camp or the hotel can determine to which variety 
the cup will be limited, or it may be that arrange¬ 
ments will be made later for cups to be given for 
different species of fish. ^_ 
More definite announcement of the contest will 
be made in an early issue, together with a list of sum¬ 
mer camps to which the cups have been consigned. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 22 Thames St., New York 
THE REIGN OF THE RAINBOW. 
The rainbow trout, saltno irideus, may be called 
one of the coming fish of America. In fact he 
has already arrived, and his progress from west 
to east is limited only by salt water. The rain¬ 
bow, if he does not exemplify the survival of the 
fittest, as indeed many claim that he does, at least 
illustrates the survival of the strongest, for he 
thrives with less difficulty than the equally beauti¬ 
ful saltno fontinalis, and acquires greater avoir¬ 
dupois at no sacrifice of fighting quality. 
In truth the worst that can be said of him is 
that he is inclined to drive out the speckled trout, 
just as the speckled trout in Michigan played 
havoc with the grayling. It is not at all unlikely 
that our larger bodies of fresh water will in time- 
become a surplus source of supply for rainbow 
trout, for they increase with any kind of rivers or 
streams to run up in spawning time, there is no 
occasion to worry over the permanence of their 
existence. Even in Newfoundland, as one of our 
correspondents pointed out a week or two ago, 
the rainbow is becoming the real game fish of the 
trout family. To what extent he will overrun 
Canada is uncertain, but in the passing enthusi¬ 
asm of the moment, it is to be hoped that fish- 
commissioners will not open to him the door of 
too wide habitat, if his coming means the disap¬ 
pearance of the beautiful native trout. 
NET FISHING EXCEPTED. 
Non-residents will not have to pay a license 
this year for pole and line fishing in Illinois, and 
keepers of fishing resorts are jubilant. The aboli¬ 
tion of the non-resident license, while it will re¬ 
sult in a great falling off of revenue for the 
fish and game departments of the state will result 
in a very material increase in the revenues of 
the resort keepers and they are responsible prin¬ 
cipally for having induced the last legislature 
to repeal or amend that section of the law. Net 
fishermen, whether resident or non-resident, are 
required to take out a $1.25 pole and line license. 
DISTRIBUTING TROUT FRY. 
Massachusetts fish and game commissioners 
have arranged for the distribution of 1,000,000 
trout fry in streams in Hampshire, Hampden, 
Worcester, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 
Bristol counties. At the same time 600,000 trout 
fry will be placed in waters in Berkshire and 
Franklin counties and the entire yield comes from 
the Sutton hatchery. All the streams where the 
fry is placed must be open to the disciples of 
Izaak Walton at large. Requests for the fry 
in the main come from private individuals and 
the only expense borne by the individuals is trans¬ 
portation from the railroad station. 
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