FOREST AND STREAM 
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Live Notes From the Field 
TUXEDO FISHING NOTES. 
The fishing for steelhead trout and land-locked 
salmon at Tuxedo Park has been unusually 
good, and while there has not been as many fish 
recorded as for the same time last year, the 
average number taken per angler is greater. 
The cold, wet, windy weather experienced dur¬ 
ing the past spring lias discouraged many of the 
most ardent and persistent of the local anglers, 
and especially those who are in the habit of us¬ 
ing the artificial fly only. There has been only 
a few days when conditions for fly-fishing hav« 
been at all favorable, and these were so scat¬ 
tered and came so unexpectedly that there were 
usually few anglers ready to take advantage of 
them. Most of the big hatches of May-flies 
were on days when the heavy winds carried 
them away as fast as they burst the larval 
covering at the surface of the water. The trai¬ 
lers however have had good luck and nearly 
everyone has come in with heavy strings of 
good sized fish. About 1,000 steelhead, ouan- 
aniche and chinook salmon have been taken to 
date, of whidh 90 per cent, have been the land¬ 
locked salmon. The steelhead and chinook seem 
to bite more readily later in the season and Sep¬ 
tember often proves the best month for these two 
species. What few chinooks have been taken 
so far, have been beautiful, plump specimens 
and good scrappers but they have not come up 
to expectations in regard to size or numbers and 
it is most unlikely that any further planting of 
this fish shall be done at Tuxedo. 
A few good catches of bass and pickerel have 
been made in the lower lakes since the opening 
of the season, but as the bass are only just leav¬ 
ing their nests now they have not been biting 
as yet with any great freedom. Mr. E. N. Tail- 
er, Tuxedo’s oldest and most enthusiastic angler 
has proven himself the record breaker for num¬ 
bers taken this season. In 8 days fishing this 
veteran angler of over 84 years of age brought 
in more than a hundred salmon and steelhead 
trout, and in one afternoon’s try on the lower 
lake came back with sixteen fair sized pickerel 
The brook trout fishing on outside streams 
throughout Orange county has been generally 
good, and could we only have several season¬ 
able summers with ample rainfall, so that the 
streams would not dry up, it is probable that 
this section would furnish as good trout fishing 
as to be found anywhere within the State. 
W. M. KEIL. 
Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., June 15, ’14. 
The Governors of the Tuxedo Club take pleas¬ 
ure in advising the members that a series of 
silver cups, to be known as “Governors’ Cups,” 
will be given to members making records during 
the year 1914 in the following sports: 
Coasting. Fastest time made in competition on 
slide. 
Golf. Best 18-hole score, medal play. Score 
to be certified by a member or the professional. 
Fishing, Heaviest fish taken of Salmon 
family. 
Heaviest Bass. 
Weight of fish must be certified by superin¬ 
tendent of hatchery. 
Trotting. Fastest time for one mile in any 
Stated event. Horse to be driven by owner. 
Time to be certified by a member. 
Sailing. Fastest time around the four-mile 
course. Time to be certified by a member. 
Shooting. Best score—25 birds—unknown 
traps—unknown angles. Score to be certified by 
a member. 
Pool. Best run at continuous pool. Score to 
be certified by a member. 
Walking. Fastest time around Tuxedo Lake 
Time to be certified by a member. 
All entries are to- be made out on blanks 
which can be obtained at the Club desk and 
must be filed with the clerk. 
GOOD FISHING IN CANADA. 
Ottawa, Ontario, July 10, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
The tide of the United States sportsmen com¬ 
ing into Canada on their summer vacations is 
increasing daily. Members of camps and clubs 
located within the radius of which this city is 
the center are finding that Ottawa, the Beauti¬ 
ful, is a very pleasant stopping place for a day 
or two, either coming into camp or going out 
again, and the big Chateau Laurier is the head¬ 
quarters of prominent American visitors almost 
daily. 
American sportsmen are finding also that 
Ottawa is a modern city in every sense of the 
term, and a great deal of outfitting is done here 
by these visitors in order to avoid Customs ex¬ 
asperations and delay. Tourists at Algonquin 
Park usually try to put in a few days at Ottawa, 
and those who go up the Gatineau Valley or 
into the Laurentien Mountains also find it pleas¬ 
ant here. 
Reports of the trout fishing indicate that the 
season is one of the best ever known, and some 
very heavy catches of large wild trout are com¬ 
ing in daily. It will interest the gunner to know 
that the “partridge crop” this fall is going to be 
better than ever. The year 1914 ought to go 
into history as the best game season of the past 
decade. 
Explanation of the proposed changes in the 
regulations for the protection of migratory birds. 
Effective on or about October 1, 1914- 
Regulation No. 5 relative to shooting on the 
Mississippi and Missouri rivers is suspended for 
the season of 1914, thus affecting hunting in cer¬ 
tain sections of twelve States. The Advisory 
Board recommends that hunting on these rivers 
be permitted whenever the States prohibit the 
use of motorboats in hunting waterfowl. As 
this will require legislation by Illinois, Missouri, 
Nebraska, and one or two other States the re¬ 
gulation is suspended this year in order that the 
States may take action, if they so desire, at the 
next session of their respective legislatures which 
meet in January, 19x5 : 
Amendment of Regulations 8 and 9 relative 
to Waterfowl Seasons: 
Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma are placed 
together in a special group, and on account of 
the peculiar local conditions are given an open 
season equal to that of the entire United States, 
except two weeks at the beginning of the sea- 
