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FOREST AND STREAM 
May 17, 1913 
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Medal contest series: 
ble, weather fair. Scores : 
C. G. Young. 
E. A. Mocker... ■ 
]■'. A. Webster. 
C. H. Kewell. 
Geo. C. Edwards. 
1‘aul W. .Shattuck. 
J. F. Burgin. 
James Watt . 
C. H. Gardner. 
Stanley Forbes . 
J. B. Kenniff. 
"E. A. Mocker. 
*Janies Watt . 
Judges, Paul W. Shattuck, J. F. Burgin, F. 
O. Ritter. 
no 
St No. 
3 , held 
at Stow 
Lake, Saturday, April 26. 
Wind, varia- 
9S.44 
98.32 
98.50 
98.41 
99.90 
97.44 
97.52 
99.00 
98.29 
90.60 . 
98.32 
98.oO 
99.10 
99.30 
96.90 . 
74 
99.12 
98.24 
99.00 
98.42 
81 
99.44 
98.12 
99.00 
98.39 
96.80 . 
99.40 
98.24 
97.40 
98.20 
92.10 . 
.... 75 
9S.24 
98.20 
99.50 
97.,35 
92.70 . 
98.50 ..... 
97.40 
93.32 
97..30 
95.:ii 
97.80 . 
98.44 
99.12 
98.20 
98.49 
96.90 . 
82 
9940 
98 iso 
97..35 
99.50 . 
97.60 . 
A. Webster; Referee, C. G. Young; Clerk, E. 
iMedal contest series: 
ble, weather fair. Scores : 
C. G. Young. 
J. F. iUtrgin. 
E. A. Mocker. 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
Stanley Forbes.... 
C. H. Kewell . 
F. H. Keed. 
]■•. V. Bell. 
Paul M. Nippert.. 
James Watt . 
Samuel Wells .... 
C. A. Kierulft - 
C. H. Gardner. 
Austin Sperry .... 
*C. H. Kewell. 
*E. A. Mocker- 
*A Sperry . 
"Paul M. Nippert. 
*Re-entries. 
102 
itest No. 
3 , held 
at Stow 
Lake, Saturday, 
April 27. Wind 
varia- 
98.52 
98.39 
99.40 
99.80 
97.80 
98.48 
95.44 
99.20 
96.20 
94.90 
107.0 
84 
97.40 
97.44 
98.30 
98.70 
98.40 
99.19 
97.80 
99.00 
98.70 
94.20 
97.4 
98.24 
97.32 
98.00 
97.46 
96.70 
87.0 
73 
98.40 
97.24 
99.10 
98.17 
97.20 
64.0 
80 
Q7 •'>i 
97.39 
93.50 
98.13 
91.70 
98.28 
89.80 
98.20 
99.-28 
97.10 
99.19 
89.80 
57.0 
95.80 
97.00 
98.40 
97.40 
97.52 
96.70 
77.0 
9i 
96.32 
97.56 
y'f .50 
97.53 
96.00 
97.90 
100.0 
98.40 
94.36 
M.50 
95.43 
96.50 
67 
96.36 
97.44 
99i26 
98.32 
81.70 
97.24 
97.20 
99.40 
97.00 
97.10 
95.50 
• C. FI. Gardner, 150 ft.; long 
distance fly 
: Samuel 
Wells, 102ft. 
Watt, C. 
H. Kewell; Referee, C. 
G. Young; Clerk, E. 0 . 
Ritter. 
Notes from New Zealand 
By DRUMMOND SHARPE 
J UST at the time when anglers in older coun¬ 
tries are looking forward to months of sport, 
the New Zealand fishing season is getting- 
near its end; but we have received much to make 
us thankful, and have every reason to expect 
more of the same. The mid-season fishing has 
been first class right through, and the big mi¬ 
gratory trout are now coming up from the 
sea, so there is good hope of record specimens. 
I have seen thirty-pounders—have seen them 
weighed, and tested the scales afterward— 
though, sad to say, they were not caught by 
anv legitimate means. I think the bait employed 
in their capture was a rifle or spear, according 
to the manner of the back-blocks where they 
lived; but always in the last months of a New 
Zealand season, one goes down to a snow river, 
with an idea of some such prize as a reward for 
scientific effort. In a single year, the Pollock 
brothers landed six, weighing between twenty 
and thirty pounds each, from the Rangitata 
and Opihi; and at the present moment I am al¬ 
most on speaking terms with four great fish, 
who have taken up a temporary home under a 
traffic bridge. Doubtless, after a long sojourn 
in the South Pacific, they want to see a little 
life. 
The chief and important bar to a successful 
campaign against these big migratory trout, is 
their undesirable possession of a most capricious 
appetite. When they feed at all, it is usually 
at night, and though I never saw a New 
Zealand thermometer mark more than one de¬ 
gree below, even a half inch by scale of autumn 
frost is not conducive to an angler’s comfort. 
I speak feelingly on the subject, for recently 
I stood in a river from dark to dawn, with a 
result of several eight- or ten-pounders among 
the rest, and a vivid recollection of numbed 
fingers. Night fishing is an eerie chilly busi¬ 
ness, and the hour before dawn seems longer 
than all the others put in one. Horrible to re¬ 
late, an evil black ten-pounder contained a tiny 
day-old kitten, which probably had been thrown 
into the river from a farm above. Here, per¬ 
haps, is a new “deadly bait,” but no, perish the 
thought, I could not angle with a kitten. 
Another curious incident occurred. A friend 
who fished with me hooked a trout, or thought 
he had, and this fish was supposed to be sulking 
obstinately near some willows; so, after a long 
time he gave me the rod, with many cautions to 
deal gently with his prize. Then he retired to 
warm himself upon the bank, and putting on a 
strong helping strain, something seemed to 
come toward me and then go back. It was a 
sullen sort of movement, but I was not pre¬ 
pared to say that it might not be an exceedingly 
big fish, and spent many moments in trying to 
make sure. Several times we managed to play 
the capture almost within stroke of gaff, but 
always it succeeded in escaping back under the 
branches, and my friend alternately was in a 
state of wild excitement and awful fear of losing 
his “record fish.” Presently dawn came, by 
which time I had got rather more than three- 
quarters wet, in vain attempts to use the gaff, 
so I forded the river lower down and went 
around by the willows. There I found a cord 
attached to the eel basket that had given us 
this exciting sport; and in spite of all my friend 
said to the contrary, it was a good hard working- 
basket of its kind, for besides our minno-,vs. it 
had already trapped a couple of big eels. 
Preparations for the deer stalking are pro¬ 
ceeding apace, a number of hunters having al¬ 
ready gone south to the Otago ranges. In 
each succeeding year stalkers are on the ground 
at an earlier date, and it is becoming usual to 
send a man on ahead to make a camp, as long 
as a month before it is likely to be wanted. 
Such a camp is supposed to give a right to the 
stalking over certain territory, and it would 
also follow that a man might occupy a favorite 
camping ground throughout the years; so in 
future a limit is to be set. Most New Zealand¬ 
ers might be very willing to undertake the job 
of seeing poor little old England through any 
little trouble with all the rest of the world; but 
among themselves, they have exceedingly 
definite ideas of equal rights, and on one oc¬ 
casion a match removed a standing camp from 
a district and led to ill feeling all round. How¬ 
ever, this matter is to be regulated, and many 
fine heads are reported both in the northern 
and southern hills. Two exceptionally big 
stags exist on the Makarozo run, where a 
twenty-pointer was shot a year ago. We are 
told that the ordinary shooting season will be 
opened for a month in various districts, and 
not at all in others. The different acclimatiza¬ 
tion societies will order this arrangement ac¬ 
cording to the quantity of game in their own 
part of the country. Licenses to shoot or trap 
opossums are being issued at a sovereign each. 
These animals have become extremely numer¬ 
ous, and are mischievous in orchards and 
gardens; now the trapper will take a hand. 
I was shown a sale note for seventy skins 
at a price of about three dollars each—twelve 
shillings and sixpence—so it seems probable that 
New Zealand- may soon develop a fur trade of 
its own kind. 
The Asbury Park Fishing Club. 
The seventh annual casting tournament of 
the Asbury Park Pishing Club will be held on 
Aug. 2, at the corner of Eighth and Park 
avenues, Asbury Park, N. J., from 8 m. to 
6 p. M. The program follows: 
Event No. i.—The bjest average of five 
casts in a lane thirty feet in width with three- 
ounce lead for club members only. 
Event. No. 2.—The best average of five casts 
in a lane thirty feet in width with a four-ounce 
lead, for club members only. 
Event No. 3.—Three casts at a stake 140 
feet from the starting line, nearest cast recorded, 
for club members only. 
Event No. 4.—The best average of five casts 
in a V-shaped court, said court to be thirty feet 
wide at 100 feet, 60 feet wide at 200 feet, and 
90 feet wide at 300 feet; three or four-ounce 
lead, open to all. 
Event No. 5.—The longest individual cast, 
five casts allowed each contestant, in open field; 
three or four-ounce lead, open to all. 
Event No. 6.—The best average of five casts 
in open field, three or four-ounce lead, open 
event for ladies. 
For further information applj' to J. C. Eng¬ 
lish, Chairman, 9 Embury avenue. Ocean Grove, 
N. J. 
In changing address, the old as well as the 
new should be given. 
