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he’s a brother of the fin and always worthy of 
fair play. I am not quite sure but our mind 
rubs it on us a bit, and the pull is not all on the 
line, for when bass fishing we are always ex¬ 
pecting something big, but in trout angling we re 
surprised when a good big one is hooked. 1 
once got a four-pound trout that I think made 
as heavy a pull and as long a fight from the 
strike to the landing, as any four-pound small 
mouth that ever started the sweet singing of the 
reel. I’ll not argue with you bass lovers, “the 
song of the reel and the speckles in the creel” 
all hold me in so rapturous a mood that I can 
say to one, “Oh King,” to the other, “Thou 
Queen,” and as little things go, to the sunfish, 
“You’re a Prince” in sportiness and every inch a 
king, and I just like to see fair play to you, 
whether the Great Naturalist made you small to 
remain, or great in growing. Von. 
Our correspondent makes out a very good case 
for the little fish of boyhood angling days, and 
we are printing his communication with present 
and reminiscent satisfaction. If he will but look 
over a recent copy of Forest and Stream he will 
see that even the great Dr. Henshall himself, in 
a communication to this paper, took up the cause 
of the sunfish in an article dealing with the com¬ 
moner fishes and light tackle. No one knows 
what kind of a fighter a five-pound sunfish would 
be, for the reason that the little fellow never 
grows that large. We have an idea, however, 
that a five-pound sunfish would be, in disposition 
and otherwise, the fighting equivalent of any 
bass that ever swam.— Ed. 
CHANNEL BASS AT OCRACOKE, N. C. 
Raleigh, N. C., June 24, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
June 12, 1915, was the date of the happening. 
The night before, the power yacht “Spartan” left 
New Bern bound for Ocracoke. In the morning, 
three of the party, George Nicoll, of New Bern, 
Dan Richardson, of Dover, and Felix Harvey, of 
Kinston, elected to try for channel bass in the 
slues near Shell Castle. They anchored their 
skiff in about five feet of water, with a grass- 
grown bottom, and got their lines overboard about 
ten o’clock. By two o’clock—four hours later— 
they had boated twenty-eight fish of an aggregate 
weight of eight hundred and thirty-nine pounds, 
an average of practically thirty pounds per fish. 
No small ones were caught, and the largest 
weighed forty-six pounds. 
This is one of the greatest catches for three 
men, with rod and reel, on one tide, that I know 
of on this coast, considering the total weight of 
the catch and the average size of the fish. And, 
to cap the climax, a forty-seven pounder was 
landed the following morning. 
• H. H. Brimley. 
DR. SIMON AGAIN BREAKS WORLD’S 
CASTING RECORD 
Dr. Carleton Simon made another world’s 
record for four-ounce lead in the casting tour¬ 
nament of the Midland Beach Fishing Club held 
June 28 at Staten Island Fair Grounds, by cast- 
’ n g 354 feet 9 inches, eclipsing the previous 
record held by him of 349^ feet. This is the 
first time that anyone has officially cast over 350 
feet. His club members expected him to go 
even further than this, for in practice he has 
done 378, but the day was bad for casting and 
the grass wet, which made the dry lines quite 
sticky. The record cast was made in the Open 
Event for five average casts. The Finch Ban¬ 
ner now becomes the property of the Midland 
Beach Fishing Club, being given with the provis¬ 
ion that it shall be the property of such club 
whose member shall three times in succession 
break the world’s record. 
The summary of events is as follows: 
Class A, Club Event, Average of 5 Casts 
First, Dr. Carleton Simon, 319 ft. 
Second, William Paul, 245 ft. 6 in. 
E. E. Davis, 237 ft. 5 in. 
Class B, Average of 4 Casts. 
Fred Fech, 237 ft. 6 in. 
Henry Adrian, 217 ft. 4 in. 
Carl Durand, 181 ft. 
Class C, Average of 3 Casts, 
commodore B. M. Kurtz, 194 ft. 
F. M. Mayer, 189 ft. 3 in. 
C. H. Wells, 181 ft. 8 in. 
Fourth Event, Open Event, Best Average. 
First, Carleton Simon, Jr., 305 ft. 
Second, Le Roy Kurtz, 280 ft. 
Third, Fred Fech, 278 ft. 10 in. 
In this Event Dr Carleton Simon made 3^4 
feet 9 inches. 
Fifth Event, Open Event Longest Cast in Five. 
First, E. E. Davis, 342 ft. 6 in. 
Second, Dr. Carleton Simon, 339 ft. 6 in 
Third, John C. Clayton, 318 ft. 7 in. 
Sixth Event, Accuracy Stake Event. 
First, Carleton Simon, Jr. 
Second, Charles Le Clercq. 
Third, A. J. Sahdale. 
Sidney Rice, Secretary. 
June 27, 1915. 
Third, 
First, 
Second, 
Third, 
First, 
Second, 
Third, 
NATIONAL AMATEUR CASTING 
TOURNAMENT 
Chicago, June 24, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
For your information, and such publicity as 
you will be good enough to give, would say that 
the National Amateur Casting Association will 
hold its third annual bait and fly casting tourna¬ 
ment at Anglers’ Pool, Garfield Park, Chicago, on 
September 4 th, 5th and 6th. There will be eight 
events, viz, : Light Tackle Accuracy Fly, Light 
Tackle Accuracy Dry Fly, Light Tackle Distance 
Fly, Salmon Fly, Hobble Fly, Quarter Ounce Ac¬ 
curacy Bait, Half Ounce Accuracy Bait, Half 
Ounce Distance Bait. 
Trophies in each event as follows 1 
Amateur Championship (first place), Silver 
Cup. 
Second Place—Gold Medal. 
Third Place—Silver Medal. 
Fourth Place—Bronze Medal. 
Fifth Place—Gold Fly. 
Sixth Place—Silver Fish. 
There will also be a Bronze Cup Trophy in 
each of the four accuracy events for new mem¬ 
bers only. Assurances, both locally and from 
out of town, indicate the probability of this be¬ 
ing one of the most largely attended tournaments 
in the history of tournament casting. The rapid 
growth in popularity of a strictly amateur stand¬ 
ard in these tournaments adds materially to the 
chances for a pronounced Success. One of the 
two local amateur clubs has already doubled its 
membership this season. The other has largely 
increased its membership and enjoyed the dis¬ 
tinction last year of closing its season with more 
completed scores than were ever made by any 
club in the history of this particular pool—a 
period of over twenty years. Contestants and 
guests at the coming tournament can be assured 
of every comfort. The pool is ideal in every 
respect for the purposes of a tournament. Spa¬ 
cious locker rooms recently built by the Park 
authorities, provide comfort and shelter in the 
event of rain. There are shade trees » plenty 
and the best drinking water in the world. The 
pool is easy of access from the center of the 
city by both elevated and surface cars and is sit¬ 
uated in one of Chicago’s most beautiful parks— 
close to the largest conservatory in the United 
States, with its marvelous collection of plants 
and flowers. Charles F. Brown, 
Secretary, Nat’l Amateur Casting Assn. 
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