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FOREST AND STREAM 
Live Notes From The Field 
Being Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
MARION ROD AND GUN CLUB. 
Marion, Va., Oct. 16 , 1914 . 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
We have successfully organized the Marion 
Rod and Gun Club to promote trap shooting in 
this vicinity. Our membership is twenty-five, 
with the following officers: G. A. Collins, Presi¬ 
dent; G. H. Fudge, Vice-President; H. P. Gillis, 
Secretary; G. H. Miles, Treasurer; L. A. Am- 
sler, Field Captain. 
Will be glad to have you write our secretary 
concerning trophies you will have for 1915 ; 
also a supply of any literature or score pads, 
such as you usually furnish to clubs. 
L. A. AMSLER. 
CANADA GOOSE IN TELEPHONE WIRE. 
Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 17 , 1914 - 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. Anderson, County Farm Bureau manager, 
found a wild Canada goose caught in the tele¬ 
phone wires near Niagara Falls last week; he 
released it and it go. That is the largest bird 
I ever knew to be caught in telephone wires. 
J. L. DAVISON. 
FROM SUNNY CAROLINA. 
Hendersonville, N. C., October 14, 1914 - 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Like numbers of others of your readers I am 
very thoroughly enjoying the scores of articles 
from the “Old Guard.” Nessmuk always inter¬ 
ests me especially. He takes me into the woods 
with him, as it were, and makes you see with 
his eyes. Fishing days for this year in our 
mountainous country are about over. 
The prospects for game are excellent. Quail, 
or as we prefer down here to call them, par¬ 
tridges, are plentiful. Ruffed grouse, I am told 
are in greater numbers than for years past- 
Deer in certain sections are in numbers and 
there are some wild turkeys. 
A few weeks ago I took train for Lake Taxa- 
way, and thence went on mail buggy, fourteen 
miles to Cashier valley, at which point I was 
met by a friend who drove over from Highlands. 
We went on down to Grimshaws at the foot 
of Whitesides, Mountain. I say down, though 
Grimshaws is over 3000 feet above sea level, 
and Whitesides nearly 5000 feet, and the grand¬ 
est mountain I have seen in all the range. 
We have many peaks over 6000 ft., yet this is 
the grandest of them all. A great barrier of 
rock rising sheer from the valley of the Chat¬ 
tanooga river — for 1000 feet and more above 
the surrounding hilltop. We spent a night at 
Grimshaws and next afternoon drove over to 
Highlands, ten miles. A beautiful mountain 
drive all the way. Frost had fallen up there, 
and the varied character of the timber growth 
deciduous and conifer — gave many bright and 
green colors to the surroundings. As we drove 
from Cashier’s valley to Grimshaws the sun was 
just setting beyond old Whitesides, and the many 
colors of the sky were blended with all the 
beauties of the timber growth and shrubbery of 
the mountain above. It was beautiful and quite 
beyond my power to paint in words, and I doubt 
if a painter could have done justice to the 
beauties of the landscape as we then saw it. 
All the way up to Highlands was a constant 
changing view. This little town is 3800 ft. 
above sea level and is beautifully located. It is 
Our Two Western Guides. 
one of the highest located towns east of the 
Rockies. 
We drove some miles and tramped the woods, 
and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the 
time. Two nights I spent there at a delightful 
home kept by Mr. T. T. Hall, whose wife is a 
most excellent housekeeper. 
I left Highlands in the afternoon and again 
stopped for the night at Grimshaws. I had an 
hour till sunset, and so asked Mr. Alexander, 
who keeps the house, to loan me a joint rod 
and I would try to catch some trout for supper. 
He had none but got me a pole about eight feet 
long to which he had tied a line. With his aid 
I got this line off and as I had a reel and line, 
with flies I made myself, I got him to hold the 
pole while I bound the reel firmly to the butt. 
Then I tied rings of cord about two feet apart 
along it and to the top quite close, so it could 
not slip. Then with my line passed through 
these rings I was ready to attach my soaked 
leader which I did after I reached the stream, 
which is only a couple of hundred yards from 
the house—the Chatooga river. 
With this simple outfit I took ten trout, re¬ 
turning those undersized back to the water. I 
had more than enough for my supper and break¬ 
fast, and then some over which Mr. Alexander ap¬ 
preciated. These brook trout were my last catch 
for this season. 
I am still studying the rainbow trout here, and 
found trout this summer with eggs in them at 
a season when I supposed none would be found. 
I hope yet to make one more trial with them 
this month to see the result. 
ERNEST L. EWBANK. 
ATLANTIC TUNA CLUB OF BLOCK ISLAND 
CHARTERED. 
The Atlantic Tuna Club, the first organization 
of its kind ever formed in this section of the 
United States, was chartered at the office of 
Secretary of State (Rhode Island), J. Fred 
Parker. It will be located at Block Island. 
The club is organized after the famous tuna 
fishing organizations of Florida and California, 
where the playing of the tuna with rod and reel 
is regarded as the king of marine sports- 
Angling for the big fighting fish has only recently 
become popular off Block Island. 
The articles of association declare that the 
club is formed for the purpose of fostering and 
protecting the game fishes of the Atlantic coast; 
promoting rod and sea angling with the lightest 
possible tackle; and diffusing information and 
promoting social intercourse among the members. 
The incorporators are: Charles W. Willard of 
Westerly, A. J. Crandall of Ashaway, H. V. 
Foster of Bartlesville, Okla., Dr. Charles K. Still¬ 
man of Mystic, Conn., L. Dana Chapman of 
Boston, George L- Shepley of Providence, Fred¬ 
erick S. Doremus of New York, and Daniel B. 
Fearing of Newport. 
TWO WESTERN GUIDES. 
New York, October 23, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Enclosed are pictures of two western frontiers¬ 
men who are subscribers to Forest and Stream 
and one of them said that he was attracted to 
the paper by that yarn of mine of “Down and 
Around the Allagash,” because the paper would 
give him an idea of outings both east and west. 
I met them at the Aldrich ranch, Ishawooa, 
Wyoming. PALMER H. LANGDON. 
