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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 28, 1911. 
The Joys of Cycling. 
The joys of cycling, are there any joys? 
Isn’t it mainly dusty roads and noise, 
And hoots and toots and b-r-r-s and such-like sound, 
And ceaseless strife of making wheels go round, 
And hurrying out from home with might and main, 
Then turning round and hurrying home again? 
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The Joys of Golfing. 
The joys of golfing, are there any joys? 
Providing mirth (and Cash) for caddie-boys, 
Chasing the rubber sphere from tee to green, 
And being badly bunkered in between. 
Lending itself to graceful hy-per-bole, 
Its end is peace—the club house: nineteenth hole. 
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The Joys of Shooting. 
The joys of shooting, are there any joys? 
Robbing some warbler of its equipoise. 
Trying to prove some after-dinner boast, 
You pot perchance a keeper—or your host. 
You mustn’t have the birds you’ve shot; instead 
They’re sent to market, one-and-three per head. 
—Robert Stanley in the Fishing Gazette. 
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The Joys of Fly-Casting. 
The joys of casting, are there any joys? 
Attempting to outcast the other boys, 
Flies lost, line tangled, wind always perverse, 
Does it train you to fish, or merely to curse? 
Some one else takes the trophy—you also cast; 
You must be a good loser, whether second or last. 
Humpback Salmon. 
Bar Harbor, Me., Oct. 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Can this be possible—a salmon 5 feet 
\ l / 2 inches long, weighing 154 y 2 pounds? The 
largest salmon I have ever seen was in Norway 
where one was taken on my water weighing 52 
pounds and just 5 feet long. I have no recol¬ 
lection of the girth, but possibly this Pacific sal¬ 
mon had greater girth, not sufficient, however, to 
treble the weight. 
Francis Burton Harrison. 
[The statement was made by our San Fran¬ 
cisco correspondent that a humpback salmon 
weighing 154 1 / 2 pounds had been taken near 
Anacortes, Wash. Its girth was said to be 39 
inches. Evidently the weight was 54H pounds, 
but even so, it was not a record—Atlantic and 
Pacific salmon both considered—since heavier fish 
have been taken on both sides of the Atlantic.— 
Editor.] 
Fishing in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 11. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Striped bass fishing has shown 
great improvement of late, and splendid sport 
is now being enjoyed in certain sections of the 
San Francisco Bay territory. A heavy run of 
fish has been reported from Rio Vista. In Napa 
Creek striped bass have, made their appearance 
in large numbers. Many large fish are being 
taken. 
William West, of Napa, on Sept. 26 , landed 
two striped bass with an aggregate weight of 
88’/2 pounds. One of these weighed 62^ pounds 
and is believed to be one of the largest striped 
bass ever taken with rod and line. It is the 
largest by several pounds that has ever been 
landed in this State by this means, although net 
fishermen have captured slightly larger fish. This 
bass had a length of 51 inches and measured 31 
inches in girth. The catch was made with a 
twelve-ounce rod, an eighteen thread linen line 
and a No. 6 spoon in Huachica slough, near the 
Santa Rosa drawbridge, and was landed b)' the 
veteran angler after a fight of more than forty 
minutes. Then Mr. West secured the 26-pounder. 
His companion, Dr. C. E. McCormick, of Napa, 
WM. WEST AND TWO LARGE STRIPED BASS. 
secured several small fish. Marcus Flichs, of 
Petaluma, also landed a 38-pound striped bass 
on the same day. 
Rock cod fishing has been splendid of late in 
the vicinity of Alcatraz Island and Sausalito. 
Dr. L. T. Crantz, of the California Anglers’ As¬ 
sociation, and three companions recently landed 
100 pounds of fine fish. 
Several anglers who have returned from Big 
Meadows and Feather River report that while 
fish are plentiful there, the abundance of natural 
food, notably grasshoppers, is making it difficult 
to secure satisfactory catches. The dam build¬ 
ing at Big Meadows is causing the North Fork 
of the Feather River to be fil ed with muddy 
water, and the sport on that stream is ’argely 
over for the season. At Cromberg large fish are 
being taken in the main river, but the smaller 
streams are low. 
1 he State distributing car will shortly be sent 
into the Feather River district and 304.000 trout 
fry wi’l be planted in Plumas county. Few of 
these streams or lakes have ever been stocked. 
owing to the fact that until the completion of 
the Western Pacific railroad, they were almost 
inaccessible. 
Deputy State Game Warden A. D. Ferguson, 
of Fresno, has been securing black bass in 
the sloughs and returning them to the river. 
The fish got into the sloughs in the summer when 
the water was high. 
Several members of the Fish and Game Com¬ 
mission recently visited Lake Tahoe to investi¬ 
gate conditions, and whi’e there met members 
of the Nevada Commission. It was agreed that 
it would be advantageous to have uniform laws 
in the Lake Tahoe and Truekee River section 
through which the boundary line passes. Efforts 
will be made to induce the Legislatures of the 
two States to make the needed changes. 
Golden Gate. 
The Anglers’ Casting Club of Chicago. 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 21 . — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Below are given the general averages 
for the season of 1911 made by members of the 
club. L. N. Place won the high average bar for 
accuracy events given by the club with a score 
of 98.88 per cent, average for the year, also 
winning a senior master bar. The other scores 
are as follows: 
Senior Master bar: 
Per C’t. Per C’t. 
E. M. Town .98.60 
Master bar: 
C. Nordholm .. 
. 98.48 
T. Nordholm . 
.. 98.11 
W. J. Tamison. 
. 9S.43 
Geo. Ames . 
.. 9S.01 
Geo. Chatt _ 
. 9S.22 
Expert bar: 
F. Kleinfeldt . 
. 97.94 
C. Lingenfelter ... 
.. 97.61 
H. Hokamp .. 
. 97.78 
M. Cooley . 
.. 97.57 
Renj Rurke ... 
. 97.70 
Proficient bar: 
F. Tohnson ... 
. 96.97 
F. Goenzle . 
.. 96.82 
S. F. Campbell 
. 96.87 
E. S. Gray . 
.. 94.60 
W. F. Maloney 
. 96.82 
Geo. Chatt 
won the 
high average half 
-ounce 
distance bar 
given by 
the club with a g 
;eneral 
average of 169.6 feet. 
The other scores 
are as 
follows: 
Feet. 
Feet. 
E. M. Town ... 
. 160.54 
W. Jamison . 
. 130.30 
T. Nordholm .. 
. 155.50 
Geo. Ames . 
. 124.68 
F. Kleinfeldt .. 
. 154.04 
M. II. Cooley . 
. 110.50 
C. Nordholm . 
. 150.78 
Quarter-ounce 
distance 
event, general averages as 
follows: 
F. M. Town_ 
. 134.16 
W. Tamison . 
. 126.48 
M. H. Cooley.. 
. 130.32 
C. fi. Lingenfelter. 
. 124.60 
F. Kleinfeldt .. 
. 129.06 
Geo. Chatt . 
. 86.14 
Mr. Lingenfelter had one score, made June 18, 
ot 159-5 feet average for five casts which I be¬ 
lieve is the world's record score for quarter- 
ounce distance event. In this event he cast 174 
feet 3 inches, which is also record for single 
cast with quarter-ounce weight. 
Six of our members completed all of the 
events. 
Seventeen members completed the accuracy 
events only, and some few of these would have 
had complete scores, but for the weather condi¬ 
tions, it having rained the final re-entry day. 
E. M. Town, Sec’y. 
New Publications. 
Fly Leaves from a Fisherman’s Diary, by Cap¬ 
tain G. E. Sharp. Cloth, 175 pages, illus¬ 
trated. New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 
The author fishes on club water, and his re¬ 
marks on the sport, or lack of it, are therefore 
somewhat tame; but his philosophy is of a better 
sort, and the recital of his days along the streams 
of England and Ireland is not without its charm. 
