Dec. 16, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
879 
What Are the Wild Waves Saying? 
Walter Brookins, one time a star aviator 
for the Wright brothers, announced last Sun¬ 
day at the Hotel Manhattan that he expects 
soon to fly a hydroplane of his own invention. 
He has solved the problem, so he says, of his 
seagoing winger in a combination motor boat 
and biplane. He expects to get a speed of 
75 or 80 miles an hour and the side lines will 
be built to conform to those of a racing water 
craft. 
The biplane will be placed over the deck, so 
that in case of rough sea it can readily be de¬ 
tached. The wings will be warped like those 
used on the Wright machines and will sit well 
forward on the boat. A propeller for aerial 
navigation will be placed in front, while the one 
for the water will be aft. The craft is designed 
to carry three or four persons. Brookins 
thinks that he has greatly simplified the con¬ 
struction of his motor aeroplane and by remov¬ 
ing the wings it can be converted into a speed 
boat. 
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ANGLER CAUGHT A STEER. 
Frank M. Schultz, an artist and angler living 
in Newark, N. J., has the distinction of being 
perhaps the only man who ever caught a full 
grown steer with a rod and reel. It happened 
in Florida, says the Sun. 
Mr. Schultz and his companion, R. D. Foster, 
had just left the wharf in front of George R. 
Shultz’s hotel at Punta Rassa, Fla., in a small 
motor boat, a mere skiff with an engine in it. 
They were on their way to the fishing pools up 
the river. 
The steamer Mildred, which plies between 
Punta Rassa and Key West, was at the cattle 
wharf near the hotel taking on a load of r^nge 
cattle from the pens for the regular Monday 
morning trip. Just as the little motor boat was 
abreast of the steamer a big black horned steer 
jumped over the runway with the agility of a 
stag and plunged into fifteen feet of water. 
He came up glistening in the sun and seemed 
dazed for a moment. Then he struck out 
against the tide, heading for the Gulf, two miles 
away. 
Schultz wanted to take the bull by the horns, 
but both Foster and the guide put up strenuous 
objections for fear that the animal would want 
to join the party in the boat. Schultz had his 
rod ready and his nerve with him. He watched 
his chance and cast about a dozen feet at the 
steer’s head. The line wrapped around one 
horn and the hook took hold in the knob be¬ 
tween the horns. 
The steer shook his head in vain as Schultz 
put on the strain. He was using a 12-thread 
linen line and a 7k2-ounce greenheart rod with a 
plain multiplying reel and thumb pad. He 
fought the steer for three-quarters of an hour 
while his negro guide deftly manipulated the 
boat and Foster sat in the pivoted chair making 
remarks as to the best way to land the ‘’catch.” 
Finally Mr. Schultz got the steer headed to¬ 
ward the beach, where two men belonging to 
the cattle outfit roped the scared and weary 
creature and got him into the corral, whence 
he was driven aboard the Mildred, having de¬ 
layed the sailing for more than an hour. 
Mr. Schultz accepted the congratulations of 
friends in a modest way, but there was the usual 
knot of jealous old anglers who pooh-poohed 
the feat and said that anybody could catch and 
land a steer, given the lucky opportunity. 
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