April lo, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
581 
these contentments induce many to choose their 
places for pleasure for their summer recrea¬ 
tion and health.” 
While my experience with the needle points 
has been almost exclusively in angling for 
brook trout, I see no reason why they cannot 
be used successfully in taking black bass, pro¬ 
vided the hooks are made of larger size on the 
same principle, and the same arguments hold 
good for their use in taking bass as with trout. 
The laws of the State of New York now limit 
the size of black bass to ten inches, and many 
anglers are in favor of increasing this to twelve 
inches, as shown by the agreement of the guides 
on the St. Lawrence River. Under this rule 
many more bass will be caught than can be 
retained, and unless the fish are returned to 
the water uninjured, the law is of no value. It 
will be claimed by many that the bass are more 
hardy than the trout and will stand a greater 
That the anglers of this country can aid in 
the conservation of our natural resources there 
can be no question, and in what way, may I ask, 
can they do their part more effectually than by 
returning to the waters uninjured all the small 
fish that come to hand, and which in another 
year, if not destroyed, will gladden the heart 
of the true sportsman? 
Chester K, Green, 
Medicine for i\nglers. 
Rochester, N. Y., March 30.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: At this season, when we are all 
beginning to shake with the first attacks of the 
angling fever, when our tackle is all in readi¬ 
ness, and we are waiting impatiently for the law 
and the weather to permit us to go forth to 
the brooks, we need some medicine to quiet 
the nerves. And even after the season has 
The Paris Casting Tournament. 
Paris, France, March 30.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I send you the results of the fly-cast¬ 
ing tournament which we organized at the Bois 
de Boulogne, and of which I sent you the pro¬ 
gramme recently. Unfortunately we had very 
bad weather, wind and rain. The tournament 
was held at the pigeon shooting grounds, and 
was open only to amateurs. The results: 
Salmon fly-casting, 18-foot rods: 
Feet. 
\V. M. Plevins. 147 
Mr. MacDonald .131 
D. E. C. Muir_ 
Feet. 
.137 
Salmon, rear obstacle: 
D. E. C. Muir. 106 
W. M. Plevins. 98 
Mr. MacDonald . 
. 96 
Trout fly-casting: 
D. E. C. Muir. 95 
R. D. Flughes . 92 
\V. M. Plevins... 
. 89 
Bait-casting, 2j/2-ounce 
weights, total 
of five 
casts: 
THE WILLOWEMOC, IN SULLIVAN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 
From photographs by William J. Ehrich. 
amount of handling without injury, which is 
undoubtedly true, but the larger hook with the 
correspondingly larger barb many times in¬ 
flicts an ugly wound, and if much force is re¬ 
quired to remove the hook, the gills are liable 
to be torn, resulting in the death of the fish. 
Where can these hooks be obtained? “Aye, 
there’s the rub.” The only good ones I have 
ever seen were those turned by hand, made 
from sewing needles, and while they are not 
difficult to make in this way, I am constrained 
to say that if the anglers demanded them they 
would soon be produced by the tackle dealers. 
The most important points consist in making 
the bend deep and having them properly tem¬ 
pered. I will venture the assertion that if the 
rank and file of trout anglers once came to 
know the beauties of fishing with the needle- 
pointed hooks they would use them forevei 
after. The needle points are no experiment; 
they have been tried and not found wanting, 
the fine keen point penetrates much more reaa- 
ily than the hook with the barb, and when 
withdrawn come away clean and smooth with¬ 
out lacerating the flesh or dislocating the bones 
of the jaw. If the reader has ever had the mis¬ 
fortune to become impaled on the barbed hook, 
he will appreciate the truth of this assertion. 
opened—since most of us cannot go fishing 
every day and all day during its early weeks— 
it will be well for us to take doses of this med¬ 
icine from time to time, until the weather has 
grown warm and we have had plenty of fishing. 
The remedy that I take—and I believe there 
is no better—is to read daily, if I can, one or 
more chapters out of those most delightful 
angling books, Fred Mather’s “Men I Flave 
Fished With,” and “My Angling Friends.” Such 
truth and feeling as Mr. Mather has put into 
these sketches I have found in no other angling 
books. Here we have true stories of angling, 
and true stories about anglers by an angler. 
Mr. Mather’s simple directness, his fidelity of 
description and his keen enjoyment of the sub¬ 
ject on which he writes make these books in¬ 
imitable—the best reading for anglers of which 
I have any knowledge. Brown Hackle. 
REDUCE THE CARES 
of housekeeping. One decidedly practical way 
is to use Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated 
Milk in all cooking where milk or cream is 
required. Results will be more satisfactory 
than with most “fresh” milk. The conven¬ 
ience and economy will please you. Dilute 
Peerless Milk with water to any desired rich¬ 
ness.— Adv. 
M. Decantelle . 8S9 2 
Dr. Jahan . G79 2 
Dry-fly casting at 15, 
Points. 
M. Bougie . 155 
M. Seutin . 150 
M. de la Preugne... 652 5 
35 and 50 feet: 
Points. 
D. E. C. Muir. 150 
Trout fly, s^-ounce 
D. E. C. Muir. 92 
M. Seutin . 82 
Trout fly, accuracy: 
M. Brick . 340 
L. Bougie . 310 
rods, distance: 
R. D. Hughes. 79 
R. D. Hughes. 300 
Bait-casting, j 4 -ounce 
casts: 
Feet. 
Leonard Crossle .550 10 
W. M. Plevins. 473 6 
weights, total of five 
Feet. 
M. Seutin. 445 9 
M. de la Preugne... 443 9 
Henry de France. 
[The Fishing Gazette states that Wilfred M. 
Plevins, who is well known in New York, made 
a cast of 152J4 feet, using a spliced greenheart 
salmon rod 19 feet 7 inches long. This was 
made in a trial for distance after the regular 
events had been finished. — Editor.] 
All the hsh lazvs of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
