Oct. 21, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
617 
Cottontails Increasing. 
Theresa, N. Y., Oct. 12. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I came here last Saturday for my 
regular annual shoting and probably a little fish¬ 
ing, as in getting to good shooting grounds we 
go some six miles in a boat on Indian River, and 
as the black bass and pickerel (lake pike) fishing 
is good now, I might as well combine the two 
sports. By the way, on Monday I saw a twelve- 
pound pickerel that was caught in Red Lake and 
it was a beauty, short and plump like the 42^2- 
pound mascalonge, of which you published a 
photograph thirteen years ago this month (1898). 
Two other pickerel were taken the same as the 
twelve-pound one, weighing six and seven pounds 
each. 
As usual the first morning after arriving here 
I take the gun and go for a little tramp to the 
small piece of woods within forty rods of where 
I am now writing and within the village limits 
where I often put up a grouse. 
So on Monday morning I started out, but in¬ 
stead of grouse I found a speckled hen with a 
dozen half grown chickens. I saw nothing in 
the game line until half a mile from the village 
where I killed the largest cottontail rabbit I ever 
secured. It weighed on the post office scales 
four pounds. I did not see a sign of grouse 
when back near the village. I started another 
rabbit, but he got in the rocks within a rod of 
me. 
In my boyhood days there were no cottontails 
here. There were plenty of hares (Lepus ameri- 
canus ) that we called rabbits. They are disap¬ 
pearing as the cottontails increase. 
J. L. Davison. 
Louisiana State Exhibit. 
An exhibition of the fish and game of Louisi¬ 
ana will be one of the striking features of that 
State’s exhibit at the Chicago Land Show, Nov. 
18-Dec. 9. The machinery of the State Govern¬ 
ment is behind this movement, and the Gov¬ 
ernor has named a Louisiana State exhibit com¬ 
mission to carry out the plan on an elaborate 
scale. The fish and game will be supplied by 
the Louisiana State Game and Fish Commis¬ 
sion, and is expected to prove of great interest 
at the Sunset Inn. All of these great fellows 
were battled to the beach through the surf. On 
Sept. 16 a delegation from the Asbury Park Fish¬ 
ing Club took the hotel by storm, re-enforcing 
a strong advance party of scouts who had previ¬ 
ously gathered. Mine host Applegate resigned 
gracefully and did not again recover his hotel 
until the last day of the month. Among the 
notable fish was a six-pound spotted sea trout 
beached by Mr. Rothacker, of Philadelphia. 
I inclose a few photographs snatched from 
- From left to right—Mr. Sahdala with a 29-pounder. One of Mr. Rothacker’s “small” fish. Mr. Wisenfeld's 
35-pounder. 
A Sample of California Justice. 
Capitola, Cal., Oct. 4.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I read the article on “Samples of Con¬ 
necticut Justice” by A. B. C. in the Sept. 30 
issue of Forest and Stream with great interest. 
Perhaps A. B. C. and some of the readers of 
Forest and Stream would like a sample of 
Santa Cruz county, California, justice for com¬ 
parison, and will say that on Aug. 21 I arrested 
one Antonio Zametti, an Italian, on a charge of 
hunting without a hunting license, and having 
in his possession a non-game bird, a sickle-billed 
thrasher. 
I took the defendant before Justice of the 
Peace Alexander Luttrell, of Davenport, where 
he entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced 
by the justice to pay a fine of $25 for hunting 
without a license and $50 for killing a non-game 
bird. Walter R. Welch. 
to sportsmen generally. It will embrace many 
live specimens, including alligators, diamond- 
back terrapin, ducks and birds. There will be 
specimens of Louisiana’s game animals and all 
game fish, and the commission will demonstrate 
the methods of hunting and fishing through 
lectures and lantern slides. Full information 
concerning the game laws of the State, open 
and closed seasons, and other data of value to 
sportsmen will be supplied by well informed at¬ 
tendants. 
A Surf-Fishing Vacation. 
Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: This season has proved a splendid one 
for channel bass at Barnegat City, N. J., as wit¬ 
ness the appended list copied from the score book 
the joyous excitement. Following is the score, 
Sept. 16 to 29 inciusive, in pounds: 
Mrs. Robt. Wiechert. 
28 
Robt. Wiechert . 
40 
29 
29 
27 
22 
30 
28 
25 
F. K. Skidmore. 
29% 
24 
25 
26 
28 
32 
32 
24 
28 
13 
25 
28 
391/2 3iy 2 26 
24 
29 
30 
23 
30 
Mrs. J. P. Hoffman... 
26 
34 
fames Buchanan . 
18 
25 
28 
30 
36 
34 
38 
David VV. Edwards_ 
23 
YVm. A. Robinson. 
25 
Alex. Guy . 
19% 
Assad J. Sahdala. 
42 
29 
24% 
27 
B Wiesenfeld . 
25% 
22% 35 
38 
24 
30 
34 
Hoffman Allen . 
13 
38 
34. 
26 
19 
27 
Jas. M. Gentle. 
27 
34 
20 
36 
29 
Wm. < luy . 
22 
28 
37% 
26% 
1. F. Seger. 
36 
25 
25 
33 
38 
22 
T. P. Hoffman. 
34 
38 
28 
35 
26 
Chas. T. Schukraft_ 
27 
27 
30 
28% 
G. W. Fenimore. 
30 
20 
R. H. Corson. 
28 
34 
29 
30 
Geo. H. Rothacker_ 
29 
36 
25 
29 
II. W. Gilbert. 
32 
G. W. Schoening. 
18 
26 
27 
28 
30 
Frank P. lohnson. 
34 
34 
A. M. Zabriskie. 
29 
C. L. Woodruff. 
32 
Ira A. Strickland. 
35 
About half the fish were released in good con¬ 
dition. Switch Reel. 
The Tuna Club Tournament. 
Avalon, Cal., Oct. 5.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The list of winners of prizes in the 
Tuna Club's summer tournament follows: 
Tuna.—C. B. Stocton, Los Angeles; weight of 
fish, 170 pounds. Frank Kelly, Goshen, Ind.; 
weight of fish, 1091-2 pounds. G. E. Gunn, Salt 
Lake City; weight of fish, 12^/2 pounds. W. C. 
Bochen, New York; weight of fish, 113% pounds. 
Mrs. F. A. Walton, Los Angeles; weight of fish, 
6)4 pounds. 
