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15 feet, cast 91 feet 1 inch—106 feet 1 inch, 3; 
H. K. Anderson, scratch, cast 101 feet 5 J 4 inches, 
4; J. Scoular, received 35 feet, cast 65 feet—100 
feet, 5. The points in the aggregate for the 
president’s trophy are: H. O. Chidgey, 4; J. 
Scoular, 1. The other placed competitors being 
A grades are ineligible. 
J. W. Bradshaw was honorable judge and 
states that he carefully measured and testifies 
to the correctness of the above recorded dis¬ 
tances. 
Mr. Gorrick adds that Dr. Maitland made an¬ 
other cast of over 128 feet, but this was not re¬ 
corded, as his fly touched the water in front 
during one of the three preliminary dry-fly casts 
between each scoring cast. 
The conditions of the dry-fly event were as 
follows: Rods of 11 feet or less, to weigh not 
more than ijjj ounces to the foot; single-hand 
casting; leaders, single gut, not less than 6 feet 
in length; longest cast to win. The competitor 
must keep his fly moving in the air, and make 
at least three false casts between each scoring 
cast. Upon the fly touching the water in front 
of the platform, it will be scored no cast. 
Without intending to detract in the slightest 
way from the remarkable casting done by Dr. 
Maitiand, which is the best record ever made 
anywhere under dry-fly rules, it must be said 
that the Australians are the first ones to prac¬ 
tice dry-fly casting for distance with heavy sin¬ 
gle-hand rods such as are used by them and by 
American casters in the ordinary fly-casting for 
distance without restrictions on length or weight 
of rod, line or leader. Distance dry-fly casting 
contests are practically unknown in England, so 
far as we know, and in America it was intro¬ 
duced only a short time ago, and has so far been 
restricted to light rods; in fact, in all of the 
accuracy-and-delicacy events, the dry-fly accu¬ 
racy events, and the dry-fly distance events cast 
during the past two years, the sJ^-ounce rod, 
9/4 to 10 feet long, has been used. There is a 
dry-fly accuracy event provided for in the Na¬ 
tional Association rules, with a limit of 8(4 
ounces and n l / 2 feet on rods, but last year (and 
this) this event was open to 5%-ounce rods 
only, and the distances to be cast at targets re¬ 
duced slightly. There is now only one event in 
which the Ska-ounce rod is used, the accuracy 
fly, and if this rod is to be permanently ex¬ 
cluded from the dry-fly accuracy event, then it 
should also be barred in the accuracy fly event, 
so that the number of rods necessary for com¬ 
peting in all regular events may be reduced by 
one. Fly-casters would then need only the fol¬ 
lowing rods in order to be prepared for all 
standard events: Salmon fly, 15 feet; heavy fly, 
1 1/4 feet or less; accuracy fly, accuracy-and-deli¬ 
cacy fly, dry-fly distance, dry-fly accuracy and 
distance 5 ounce, 5J4 ounces. 
Dr. Maitland’s record was made with a Leon¬ 
ard rod sent him about four years ago by Wm. 
Miffs & Son, of New York city. Its length is 
11 feet and it weighs 11 ounces scant. 
Minnesota Fishing. 
St. Paul, Minn., June 28. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: During the past week we have had 
some extremely warm weather and there has 
not been good fishing. Up to the 15th we had 
very good fishing for small-mouth bass on the 
upper Mississippi and in Lake St. Croix and the 
fishing for wall-eyes was good in Lake Tetonka. 
Charles Green, of Fremont, Neb., and I took 
eight pike from Lake Tetonka on the 18th, 
weighing thirty pounds even, the largest five 
and three-quarters. Six of these were caught 
on a spinner and two on a gold and silver 
spoon, with minnows on the trail hooks. The 
spinner is specially adapted to pike inasmuch 
as it has two or three changeable hooks of 
various sizes and the smaller ones that come 
with it are sure catchers for pike. I think that 
too many of us use large hooks for fish when 
smaller ones would be more effective. One of 
DR. H. L. MAITLAND. 
the best bass fishermen in the country uses very 
small hooks for bass, so small indeed that a lot 
of us would think him foolish on the small 
hook question. 
On the St. Croix River and Lake there has 
been some very fine small-mouth bass fishing 
as well as good catches of striped bass. The 
latter are just the size and shape of the aver¬ 
age small-mouth bass and resemble them in 
habits and otherwise. They rise readily to the 
fly when hungry and the water is not too warm 
but go into deep water and holes, where it is 
hard to get at them when the weather gets 
warm. 
Muskies are taking the bait well. Those who 
have gone into the upper part of the State and 
diligently fished the waters have been paid well 
for their efforts, as the returning Waltons all 
show good heads and skins. It is quite the 
thing to preserve the head of the muskie or skin 
him and stretch the hide over a smooth board 
to prove the fish story. 
Dogfish are being speared in all the Minnesota 
lakes where they abound. It is surprising how 
they will attack other fish and tackle as well. 
During the low water we are experiencing this 
spring it would be well for the State to take 
measure to exterminate a lot of these dirty rough 
fish in the waters where they have obtained the 
strongest hold. I hey will hit a hook or bait 
of any kind and give a splendid fight in the 
water, never leaping, but depending on their 
strength to break the light tackle which they 
seldom fail to accomplish, and then when the 
amateur gets them up to the boat they will open 
up their jaws, and the bait drops from their 
mouth without a chance of the rod handler 
to wreak his revenge. Amos Burhans. 
Landlocked Salmon in Lake Michigan. 
From Call J. McCarthy, of Chicago, we have 
received further data relating to the landlocked 
salmon which were taken early in the spring 
from Lake Michigan. He said: 
I tried very hard to get a specimen of the 
landlocked salmon after I heard from you, but 
it seems as if they work away from this locality 
after a visit of a couple of weeks. 
bor the past few years the fishermen on the 
lake got them in their gill nets for a period of 
two or three weeks and then they disappeared 
until the following season. 
"I here is no doubt whatever as to their being 
andlocked salmon. I have seen too many to be 
mistaken. Before hearing from you a man 
brought a basket of twenty-three fish into the 
store, and some of them ran up to eight pounds 
in weight. 
' Had I known at the time you would be in¬ 
terested, I would have gladly sent one on for 
verification. Another year if we are all alive, 
and they again show up, I surely will send some 
to Washington and have the matter thoroughly 
gone into.” 
Kansas City Bait and Fly-Casting Club. 
Kansas City, Mo., June 26.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Below are the scores made by our 
club members at Rock's Lake, June 25: 
W. 
E. 
U. 
c. 
t;. 
j. 
lY. 
T. 
E. 
C. 
G. 
L. 
Rock. 
r—jounce Accy—^ 
Regular. Re-entries. 
98.8 
G. 
McLean. 
98.3 
ir. 
Hosterman. 
.... 9S.6 
98.5 
E. 
Heite. 
98.7 
L. 
Robirds. 
9S.4 
C. 
Kerner. 
97.5 
F. 
Noland. 
99.4 
G. 
Jlollingsworth.... 
- 97.8 
98.6 
M. 
Meier. 
96.3 
H. 
I loyle. 
W. Woolworth. 
%-ounce 
Accy. 
98.2 
99.0 
95.6 
98.7 
98.G 
97.5 
98.0 
97.2 
98.0 
97.8 
94.3 
Mr. Noland established a new club record in 
the quarter-ounce, making this event in six de¬ 
merits. 
W. F. Stine and J. W. Bramhall, members of 
the club, returned last week from their trip to 
the Nipigon, where they had excellent sport. 
During their stay they took eleven brook trout 
weighing over five pounds apiece, and of this 
number four weighed over six pounds. Mr. 
Stine caught the largest fish, it being a beauti¬ 
ful trout weighing exactly 6)4 pounds, while Mr. 
Bramhall took one a quarter of a pound lighter 
or 6(4 pounds. 
Both of these fish are very handsomely 
mounted and are on exhibition in one of the 
sportsmen’s goods stores in this city. 
E. G. McLean. 
