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ing complacently at his foolishness he gave an 
exclamation, then a mighty pull, and hung a 
large trout up in the nearest tree. 
My listlessness was gone in an instant and 
I soon had a half-pounder lying on the cool 
moss beside me. Then the Corporal hooked 
his mate, and warned by experience and my¬ 
self, landed him with less energy and more 
safety. In about three hours our baskets were 
filled with trout averaging about half a pound, 
an unusual size so near the headwaters of the 
brooks where they are generally quite small. 
They, did not bite rapidly, but steadily, and when 
we left for the day they were doing as well as 
ever. 
The next day we tried the head of a still 
water where the narrow brook above poured 
noisily into it over a rock bed and bubbles floated 
out on the darker water. Here we had lively 
work. The fish bit greedily, but they were 
smaller than on the previous day. We caught 
all we wanted at one place, but we could not 
resist the temptation of taking a few larger 
ones from our old ground. Although we had 
very little rain during the month, and it was 
generally believed there was no good fishing on 
that account, we never failed to have the most 
delicious trout—and plenty of them—during our 
only too short stay in the woods. F. L. B. 
The Anglers’ Club of New York. 
New York City, April 20.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: It has been decided by the club to 
hold regular weekly contests at The Pool, One 
Hundredth street and Central Park West, on 
Thursday afternoons at 3130 o’clock. The 
events will be the same as we will have in the 
international tournament in the fall and it will 
give the members an opportunity to get into 
good shape before that time. We want all our 
members to come to these contests. They will 
all be handicap events. Prizes will be cups to 
the winners and they are now ready. The fol¬ 
lowing is the list of scheduled events: 
■ April 29.—Distance bait, quarter-ounce; dis¬ 
tance bait, half-ounce. 
May 6.—Distance fly, salmon fly. 
May 13..—Accuracy fly, dry-fly accuracy. 
May 20.—Five-ounce distance fly, two and a 
half-ounce surf casting. 
May 27.—Quarter-ounce accuracy bait, half¬ 
ounce accuracy bait. 
June 3.—Distance bait, quarter-ounce; dis¬ 
tance bait, half-ounce. 
June 10.—Distance fly, salmon fly. 
June 17.—Accuracy fly, dry-fly accuracy. 
June 24.—Five-ounce distance fly, two and a 
half-ounce surf casting. 
July I.— Quarter-ounce accuracy bait, half¬ 
ounce accuracy bait. 
July 8.—Distance bait, quarter-ounce; distance 
bait, half-ounce. 
July 15.—Distance fly, salmon fly. 
Members are requested to try to be on hand 
whenever they can. 
The Tournament Committee. 
The third international fly- and bait-casting 
tournament will be held under the auspices of 
the Anglers’ Club of New York on Aug. 19, 20 
and 21 next in Van Cortlandt Park, New York 
city. Permission has been obtained from Com¬ 
missioner Berry of the Borough of the Bronx 
to build casting platforms on Van Cortlandt 
Lake during the week of the tournament, and 
the various committees are perfecting plans to 
make this tournament a thorough success. 
Three full days will be devoted to the cast¬ 
ing, so that there need not be constant hurry 
and confusion in running off the different 
events. For the first time in a national tourna¬ 
ment, distance casting with five-ounce fly-rods 
and surf-casting will be featured, but in the surf 
event lighter lines than usual will be allowed. 
If a line will lift a ten-pound weight a foot off 
the ground, it may be used, and this will prob¬ 
ably mean that braided silk lines, which run 
more smoothly off the reel, will replace the 
twisted linen lines generally employed. 
Commissioner Berry intends' to give the club 
the use of the lockers in the skating pavilion in 
the park during the big tournament, so that* 
visitors may have a safe place in which to store 
their equipments. It is probable that head¬ 
quarters will be established at some hotel in the 
theater district in the city, so that it will be 
central to all railways and carlines. 
A Rare Sea Fish. 
Palm Beach, Fla., April 24. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: I am sending you a photograph 
of a very peculiar fish caught here recently. 
The fish was taken in a net by. some fisherman 
just off the ocean pier. It measures exactly 
THE SPECIMEN, PHOTOGRAPHED ON A TABLE. 
seven feet long and weighed 108 pounds. Frank 
Belden, of Palm Beach, who is an expert on 
mounting fish, has it in charge, and although he 
has mounted almost every variety of fish, has 
failed to give this one a name. The most 
peculiar feature of this fish is the immense eye, 
which measures over four inches across. 
Wm. Dietsch. 
Mr. Dietsch’s letter and the photograph of 
the specimen were sent to Dr. Barton W. Ever- 
mann, assistant in charge of scientific inquiry 
of the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington who, 
in reply, said the photograph is evidently one 
of a species of deep sea fish of the genus 
Trachypterns, probably Trachypterus gryphurus. 
“The photograph,’’ he adds, “does not show 
the characters sufficiently well to enable me to 
be absolutely sure of the specific identification. 
Whatever species of Trachypterus it is, the find 
is a very interesting one, because no specimen 
of that genus has hitherto been recorded from 
any point on our coast. If it is Trachypterus 
gryphurus, it is the second specimen which has 
ever been recorded, so far as I am able to de¬ 
termine at this moment. One was obtained by 
Lowe in Madeira in June, 1845. Lowe says that 
this specimen ‘was scarcely quite dead when I 
first saw it, and was in the most perfect state 
of preservation. Another Trachypterus had 
occurred in June, 1844, and was probably the 
same species, but the example was unfortu¬ 
nately thrown away by the person to whom it 
had been missent without my seeing it. It was 
said to have been about three feet long. The 
whole body is pure bright silver, appearing as 
if frosted, from the fine granulations of the 
surface. The fins are of a delicate scarlet or 
vermilion, the lower point or angle of the caudal 
being tipped, and the hinder end of the dorsal 
edged with black. On the sides are three black¬ 
ish oval or elliptic spots. This example was 
twenty-five inches long exclusive of the caudal 
fin, which resembles a bat’s or griffon’s wing 
and is erected in a fan-like manner, the lower 
lobe or portion being suppressed or undevel¬ 
oped, and only indicated by the presence of five 
short spinules or abortive rays.’ ” 
Mr. Dietsch has been asked to send the speci¬ 
men to the Bureau of Fisheries for identifica¬ 
tion, and possibly it may then be placed in the 
National Museum, as the owner’s permission 
to do this has been asked. 
Delaware River Regulations. 
After two different Legislatures in New Jer¬ 
sey and Pennsylvania had appointed special 
legislative commissions to frame uniform fish 
laws for the Delaware River and after four 
years’ work the two Legislatures have enacted 
concurrent acts, which are now in the hands of 
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, and Gover¬ 
nor Fort of New Jersey. The two acts agree 
word for word and contain twenty-one sections 
exclusive of the enacted clauses. The laws gov¬ 
erning the fishing in the Delaware River are 
contained in two acts, one governing the river 
from Marcus Hook to Trenton Falls and the 
second from Trenton Falls to Port Jervis, N. 
Y. The two acts are identical, excepting that 
gill nets and parallel nets, which are allowed in 
the lower river, are prohibited in the upper 
river. The new acts provide briefly the desig¬ 
nation of certain fish as game fish, which in¬ 
clude black bass and all its family with the 
exception of striped bass, sunfish and certain 
fish designated as bait fish, with all other fish 
described as food fish without being named. 
Wall-eyed pike, pickerel, yellow and white perch 
are included among the game fish. The game 
fish season opens June 15 and closes Nov. 30. 
A single rod with not more than three hooks, 
a burr hook being described as one hook, are 
all that are allowed for fishing for game fish, 
though a handline with the same type of hook 
may also be used at the same time. The shad 
season opens March i and closes June 10. Haul 
seines, 25^ inch mesh; gill nets in the lower 
river, inches; parallel nets, 3^ inches; 
sturgeon nets, mesh 13 inches. Size of black 
bass, 9 inches; calico bass, yellow perch, white 
bass, rock bass and white perch, 6 inches. Fyke 
nets, 30 inches in diameter at opening of funnel, 
may be used for carp, catfish, suckers and eels 
throughout the year, excepting the months of 
June; parallel nets for carp only are barred 
from June i to Aug. 31, inclusive. The catch¬ 
ing of striped bass over 20 pounds or less than 
10 inches in length is forbidden. The pollu¬ 
tion of the river is forbidden. All nets must pay 
a license fee in the State of the resident owner. 
These are the principal provisions of the new 
Delaware River clause. 
