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NEWS, NOTES & 
COMMENT FROM 
FLY-FISHING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE. 
Montreal, July 6, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream-. 
Apropos of Louis Rhead’s interesting paper in 
your July issue and with special reference to the 
item on fly-fishing for bass. Last Saturday with 
a friend I spent on the water in the rapids of 
the St. Lawrerce a few miles above Montreal. 
We secured a basketful of small mouthed bass, 
all on the fly, mostly on the Parmachenee Belle, 
bass size, the same fly which we use for trout 
in the smaller size. The largest fish we killed 
weighed 2 54 pounds. E. W. Mudge. 
OWLS ESTABLISH A SANCTUARY. 
South Bend, Ind., July 11, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It is a pleasure to me to be able to announce, 
as the Supreme Secretary of the Order of Owls, 
that the organization, numbering three hundred 
thousand members, with twenty-one hundred 
lodges, the membership of which is well estab¬ 
lished in all States of the Union and in all Eng¬ 
lish speaking countries and provinces outside the 
United States, a year since determined to estab¬ 
lish an International Park, to be controlled by 
the Order, where recreation angling and game 
shooting could be furnished to its members. The 
park has now been established. 
The Order has purchased a large tract of 
land in central Vermont, one mile distant from 
the village of Gaysville. It is threaded by trout 
streams and lies in the center of the best deer 
shooting in North America. Grouse, rabbits, 
bear and other game are there in abundance. 
The organization will maintain this park per¬ 
manently. Within the present year the construc¬ 
tion of buildings thereon will be begun. 
Geo. D. Beroth, 
Supreme Secretary. 
ENJOYS IT THOUGH NEITHER AN ANGLER 
NOR HUNTER. 
New York City, July 13, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
First let me say I am not a fisherman or 
hunter for one reason only, I have not the time. 
However, I read the magazines that make a 
specialty of these sports. I happened across 
the July issue of your paper, and let me tell you 
right here, from the leaping fish on the cover 
to the last page with its covey of birds in Rem¬ 
ington’s advertisement, it takes one to the great 
outdoors. 
I was particularly interested in the Anglers’ 
query department; it seemed to me to be a very 
mine of information and in itself it would look 
to be the price of the paper. 
Eugene Elmore 
BIG BASS AT LAKE BONAPARTE. 
Bonaparte, N. Y., July 20, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The bass fishing is good at Lake Bonaparte 
this season, and several good catches have been 
made. 
The partridge have had a good season in this 
locality. Deer are on the increase. 
David Scanlin. 
OREST AND STREAM 
CONTENTS 
For August, 1916 
Season of the Prairie Chicken. . . . 1079 
By William Bruette 
In the Realm of the Field Trials. . . 1082 
By Rodney Random 
With the Geese and Brant of 
Pamlico . 1084 
By H. S. Humphrey 
The Striped Bass. 1086 
By Russell A. Bowen 
Surface Bait for Game Fish. 1086 
By Louis Rhcad 
Why and What Is the Surf Cast? . . 1088 
By Switch Reel 
Fishing for Black Bass During 
August . 1089 
By Black Bass 
Muscallonge on the French Broad. . 1090 
By Ernest L. Ewbank 
With the Redeyes of Little Black. . 1091 
By Wandering Walton 
The Kingfish and the King of Fish. 1092 
By Leonard Hulit 
The Absorbing Topic of Rods. 1093 
By Bait Caster 
Up and Down the Caucomgomoc. . 1094 
By Palmer H. Langdon 
Editorial Comment . 1095 
Natural History . 1096 
Plugs for Pluggers, Year 1916.... 1099 
By George L. Buguey 
Easy When You Know How. 1100 
By Frank E. Butler 
Nessmuk's Camp Fire. 1106 
Dreamin’ in th’ Den. 1110 
By W. Livingston Lamed 
Trapshooting . 1113 
The Western Handicap. 1114 
Canoeing . 1119 
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SALMON FISHING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 
St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 24, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
We are having ideal weather now, and many 
American visitors are now on the various 
streams, and their reports are very favorable. 
We are expecting more tourists this year than 
ever, and have made preparations. The num¬ 
ber of rivers wardened for the current year ex¬ 
ceeds 100. American anglers can get good sal¬ 
mon fishing in Newfoundland for the next three 
months. Intending visitors needing information 
about any special river should write Mr. Gower 
Rabbitts, Secretary Game and Inland Fisheries 
Board. He will give reliable information. 
Many rivers are over-crowded, while others 
equally as good have scarcely any visitors. 
A word of advice from the secretary would 
be valuable to any angler intending to visit the 
island. 
W. J. Carroll. 
THE BIGGEST DEER POPULATION IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 
Oakland, Oregon, June 30, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Curry County, Oregon, is the westernmost 
county in the United States and is one of the 
wildest and least explored. It is said to have 
more wild deer than any other county in the 
nation. Its deer population is estimated at 20,- 
000. Its human population is only 2,628. 
In this county is Cape Blanco, the windy head¬ 
land where this nation reaches farthest towards 
the sunset. In this county also is Lakeport, 
once a thriving town, now a ghost city in the 
wilderness, its good hotel still keeping its ap¬ 
pointments intact except for a few minor dis¬ 
arrangements, its register telling the history of 
the town’s sudden rise and fall in its multitudi¬ 
nous entries at first and dwindling till the clerk 
wrote, with original orthography but with un¬ 
mistakable meaning, “Not a dam sole.” 
Alfred Powers. 
GOOD GRAYLING FISHING. 
Hancock, Mich., June 21st, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Am inclosing check in answer to summons 
from Forest and Stream. Have enjoyed the 
grayling articles published from time to time 
this last year, as it has been my privilege to fish 
upon this Grayling stream and to make a splendid 
catch of the famous fish. A cousin of mine, 
Prof. C. H. Bryan, of the Soo Schools, jour¬ 
neyed with me to this stream some two summers 
ago, and the sport we had casting at Montreal 
into their pools made a day of fishing that we 
will never forget. It seemed to us that they 
struck the fly more quickly and more savagely 
than do the brook or rainbow trout. Mr. Bryan 
has fished the Au Sable, the Manistee, the Bear 
and many other trout streams, but he paid the 
Grayling the compliment of saying that the day 
had been one of the best sport that he had ever 
enjoyed. Best wishes to Forest and Stream. 
M. D. Roberts. 
