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ST. LOUIS FLY AND BAIT CASTING CLUB. 
August ioth, 1914. 
The St. Louis Fly and Bait Casting Club held 
its regular Tournament Sunday, August 9th., 
there was a 20 mile wind blowing from the South 
and East. The following scores were made: 
y 2 oz. accuracy, scores per cent., won by Schloeman. 
Schloeman ' 97-9 Wimmer 96.7 
Heilman 98.8 Mardorf 96. 
Heyman 97-6 Solomon 94-9 
Werner 97-4 Ashton 91. -2 
Steinmesch 96.9 
y 2 oz. distance, average five casts, scores in feet, won 
by Heilman. 
Heilman 147 feet Solomon 84 3-5 feet 
Mardorf 124 “ Wimmer 80 4-5 
Steinmesch no 2-5 “ Heyman 46 2-5 
Schloeman 90 3-5 “ Werner 17 1*5 
!4 oz. fishing tackle, scores per cent., won by Wimmer. 
Wimmer 98 5-10 Solomon 94 8-10 
Mardorf 98 1-10 
oz. fishing tackle, distance, average five casts, 
scores in feet, won by Wimmer. 
Wimmer 122 1-5 feet Mardorf no 4-5 feet 
Steinmesch 1x5 “ Solomon 61 2-5 
Fly accuracy, scores per cent, won by Steinmesch. 
Steinmesch 98 7-13 Heilman 98 5 -I 5 
Fly distance, scores in feet, won by Heilman. 
Heilman no feet Steinmesch 73 feet 
H. J. STEINMESCH, Secretary. 
TROUTING IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
Hendersonville, N. C., July 14th, 1914- 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
For the past several years I have been going 
to Grimshawe’s for a day or so brook trout fish¬ 
ing. 
There is something about brook trout most 
attractive to me. The surroundings, the beauti¬ 
ful mountains, covered to the water’s edge with 
ferns, shrubs, trees and flowers, the clear water, 
tumbling over the rocks, and then the trout hid 
away under rocks, logs and overhanging 
branches. The very song of the waters: Yes, the 
mountain streams have a song always for those 
who are appreciative! 
So I went to Lake Foxaway on the last day 
of June and on the 1st inst. I left on the mail 
buggy at 1:30 P. M. for Grimshawe’s. 
A down pour of rain came on before we reached 
Cashier’s Valley, sixteen miles south of the lake, 
and I could not persuade the mail driver to take 
me further that day. And the next morning 
again a long delay, so that I only succeeded in 
getting away from the valley at 10 A. M. Thurs¬ 
day, the 2d inst. reaching Grimshawe’s at the base 
of Old Whitesides Mountain at 11 A. M. I had 
lost the afternoon’s fishing of the day before, 
and the morning’s fishing the day of arrival, and 
I was to leave on Saturday. 
Well, while dinner was being prepared I went 
out and took several trout, enough for supper. 
I to'ok a number of nice ones after dinner. Fri¬ 
day I was up and ate my breakfast by 5 o’clock 
and then I went through the woods some dis¬ 
tance to the “Cork screw falls,” and began fish¬ 
ing up strea-m with varying luck till mid-day 
when the heel of my left shoe came off, and not 
knowing it, I had a “nasty fall.” In stepping 
from one rock to another, thinking I was 
secured by hob-nailed heel, I slipped off and went 
down, and striking my left knee (fortunately 
not the cap, but inside) and getting a nice duck¬ 
ing. The ducking I did not mind—I was already 
vet to my waist—and I did not know till later 
in the afternoon I was a bit hurt- I came in 
tc lunch at 1 P. M., and went out again at 2 P. M., 
and it was only late in the afternoon wben I 
found I was getting quite lame. I fished rougher 
places after 2 P. M., than in fore-noon. 
At bed time I was completely hors du combat. 
I find it hard still to go up and down stairs. 
Yes, I caught some trout—52 of the spreck- 
led beauties that went in my creel, little ones of 
course returned to the water very carefully. T 
fished alone. I don’t get lonely in these wilds— 
there is too much to interest the true angler 
even though the trout don’t rise to the fly at 
every likely spot. 
When my knee gets easy I expect to have an¬ 
other “good time wading after trout.” 
ERNEST L. EWBANK. 
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 
Frank Russell, while fishing in the Rockmere 
eddy with an artificial plug bait, caught two black 
bass simultaneously. One weighed two and a 
half pounds and the other one and a half pounds. 
Russell last season took two big ones the same 
way. He uses a plug device, the fish catching on 
the hooks located on the opposite side of the ar¬ 
rangement to which pendant hooks are attached. 
Bass take the side hooks invariably, while wall¬ 
eyed pike bite on the end hooks. 
Benjamin Phillips, Jr., deputy sheriff of Lacka¬ 
wanna county, is the first man in that section to 
get a hunter’s license. Although last year 7,000 
were issued in the county. Treasurer Schlager has 
only secured 5,000 for this season. 
County Treasurer Zimmerman will not give 
out licenses to hunters in Northumberland county 
until August 15, which he says is the legal time 
to hand them out. He has 5-°oo on file ready 
for that date. 
Immunity from hunters due to the bounties be¬ 
ing defaulted by many counties have allowed 
foxes to multiply in some counties to the point 
where they are a positive nuisance. Farmers in 
Armstrong county say that their chickens are 
being killed by the score. One set of eleven tur¬ 
keys were taken in one night from the farm of 
Willis Mateer by foxes. 
In Lackawanna county around Moosic the 
mountain line of the Moosic Trolley Company 
kills off the animals. Two rabbits and one fox 
went under the wheels this week. The glare of 
the headlights confuses the animals. 
This is also true on the Wilkes-Barre & Hazle¬ 
ton line, whose conductors and enginemen occa¬ 
sionally bring in a fox o-r wildcat killed on the 
rail in the wild sections of country through which 
the road passes. 
Northumberland county does not default on 
payments to those who shoot vermin. At the 
rate of $2 per scalp, the following cashed in pelts 
at the office of Dr. L. L. Rabb, county treasurer: 
J. H. Richard, two; James Platt, three; Mrs. 
George Dresher, three; D. W. Huntzelman. two; 
Daniel Bankus, one. 
In Northampton county. County Controller 
Young threatens to sue the state for the money 
to pay off the bounties on fox and weasel scalps. 
A. J. Andrews, of Walnutport, writes to Mr. 
Young, saying that many have certificates granted 
by him that they had slain vermin and they want 
their bounties. 
Sportsmen all along the route admired a big 
moose head that was shipped to W. H. Reifsny- 
der, secretary of the Pottstown Loyal Order of 
Moose. It will orament the lodge room. It came 
from Nebraska and is the finest specimen ever 
seen in this part of the state. The antlers are 
perfect and measure four feet across the head. 
The horns filled a crate four and a half feet 
square. 
Lewis Hartman, of Scranton, found the car¬ 
casses of four young pheasants inside a big 
blacksnake which he had killed with a cluib. No¬ 
ticing the swollen condition of the reptile he 
opened it and discovered the birds, which were 
unmutilated, even the feathers being unruffled. 
The Moosic trolley cars are killing many rat¬ 
tlers this summer. Daily big reptiles squirm 
across the rails and some are not fast enough 
to get out from under the wheels. 
William A. Kinzell, a Sunbury merchant, is 
under the care of a doctor from the bite of a 
snake which coiled around his arm while he was 
bathing in the Susquehanna River. 
The Hazleton Fish and Game Protective Asso¬ 
ciation finds the summer half gone with only 
fifteen rabbits “planted” in the woods around 
Hazleton, but the work will go on despite the 
difficulties encountered in obtaining stock. 
The prohibitory laws on interstate game ship¬ 
ments have made it hard to secure rabbits to put 
out for propagatory purposes. Licenses obtained 
from Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State 
Fish and Game Commission, to trap young rab¬ 
bits in other parts of the state, have not proven 
to be of much use because of the unpopularity 
which trappers in Bradford county incurred from 
their fellow hunters when they attempted to fill 
local orders. 
The association holds considerable funds as 
yet and will make another effort in the fall to get 
fresh rabbit stock to put out. Its officers say 
that investigation has shown that there will be 
a big stock of rabbits in the Hazleton section 
for fall shooting. The blizzards last winter prac¬ 
tically wiped out the quail in this section, but 
the pheasants are plentiful and will furnish good 
sport when the proper time for their hunting 
arrives. 
J. W. KRAFT. 
BEAR HUNTING ON CONTROLLER BAY. 
By Florance Barrett Willoughby. 
When springtime, very tardy, finally arrives in 
Alaska, the fancy of most young men in the 
north country, lightly turns to thoughts of bear 
hunting—love-making, perforce, being confined to 
those favored localities where the fair sex con¬ 
sents to dwell. 
With the simplest camping outfit imaginable 
they start off for a three or four-day hunting 
trip. At the end of that time when they return, 
each with a bear or two, no more attention is 
paid them than is customary when a duck hunter 
brings home a couple of birds. 
After living in Alaska 'for a year or so it makes 
one smile to witness the elaborate preparations 
of prospective bear hunters in the states and after 
reading the verbose accounts that sometimes ap¬ 
pear, descriptive of the slaying of one little black 
bear, one wonders at the matter-of-fact air with 
which an Alaskan can bring three huge brown 
bear skins into town. 
During the months of August and September, 
when salmon berries and wild strawberries are 
ripe in Alaska, bears are really too numerous for 
comfort, especially if one happens to be a woman 
aLone in a strawberry patch. These berry patches 
cover acres of flat, sandy country along the sea- 
coast and a bear is visible for quite a distance. 
Last summer (1913) as many as eight black ones 
were counted at one time in a strawberry patch 
just south of Controller Bay and any day it is 
possible to walk a mile from town in this vicinity 
and see bear tracks all over the trail. 
