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forest and stream 
Ohio Sportsmen Are Organizing 
Hope to Band Two Hundred Thousand Good Men and True, in an 
Effort Toward Better Shooting and Fishing 
THE SAD REFLECTION OF A FLORIDA 
FISHERMAN. 
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dawning, to work constantly until 10.30, except 
time taken to eat breakfast, strolling, and casting, 
with artificial lures and still-fishing with grayfish, 
sunfish and mullet minnows, with the luck to 
have one bass take a live sunfish minnow, drag 
it three feet and cast it out alive. Not another 
pretense of a bite was offered, although I could 
see the swirls and wakes of the swimming bass, 
and frequently got a glimpse of a dark form of 
large size moving through the water. 
On my return to Salerno, I met Fike, who 
cheerfully said to me, “Why didn’t you come to 
my house, on the side of the road before you got 
to the lake, and I would have gone along and 
showed you how to fish for bass, and catch them 
too, and any time you can come down again, let 
me have a line the day before and I will get the 
bait ready and go with you and show you how 
to catch the big mouths.” 
Alas! thus in two days ended my reputation as 
a bass fisherman, which in Kansas, was that of 
one of the best in the state, but I am perfectly 
willing to forget all I have ever learned about 
bass fishing, and as a beginner, take lessons of 
any one. If by doing so I can get one of these 
large monsters on a good hook, with light tackle, 
and if I can get one of over ten pounds, I will 
surely have its picter took to send to you. 
W. F. Rightmire. 
SALMON IN LAKE SUPERIOR. 
Toronto, Aug. 10th, 1915 - 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
On the 29th of last month I was traveling 
in a small steam tug along the north shore of 
Lake Superior, and when off the west side of 
Thunder Cape the owners of the tug lifted a 
pound net and took from it a moderate haul of 
fish, chiefly lake trout and suckers, but among 
the others was one fish which attracted the at¬ 
tention of all on board. It was a salmon, and 
the captain of the tug said that it was a steelhead 
salmon (Oncorhynchus nerkaf), similar to those 
in the Fraser and Columbia Rivers. It was a 
beautiful fish and weighed just eight pounds. 
In answer to my question as to how Pacific coast 
salmon came to be in Lake Superior, the captain 
informed me that some salmon fry had been 
brought from the Pacific coast ten or twelve 
years ago and had been put into the lake near 
both Duluth and Port Arthur. On several oc¬ 
casions he had caught some of these salmon in 
the vicinity of Thunder Cape, but this one was 
the first that he had caught this year, and was 
the largest that he had yet caught. 
J. B. Tyrrell. 
WHERE LARGE BASS ARE CAUGHT. 
Few fishermen around the vicinity of New 
York realize the remarkable weight attained by 
striped bass in the water convenient to this city. 
Every year a few large striped bass running 
from 10 to 40 pounds are taken along the Jersey 
coast. An angler two years ago at Elberon land¬ 
ed a monster that tipped the beam at 58J4 pounds. 
Montauk Point, L. I. is also an excellent place for 
large bass. Early fall is the best time for this 
sport, the fishing generally lasting well into Octo¬ 
ber. The favorite lure with most of these surf- 
casters is the head of a squid although bunches 
of blood worms and mullet and shedder crab, 
when it can be had. are favorites with others. 
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 6.—Undoubtedly the 
most significant and far reaching development 
in recent years in the campaign for the conserva¬ 
tion of fish and game in this state took place 
Wednesday, Sept. 1, at the meeting of the 
League of Ohio Sportsmen in Columbus when 
it was decided to open a crusade for the enlist¬ 
ment of 200,000 members throughout the state. 
The league is made up of 44 organizations 
throughout the state, in as many countries, the 
membership of these 44 organizations varying 
from 50 to 2,500, the latter being the member¬ 
ship of the Southwestern Ohio Fish and Game 
Protective Association with headquarters in Cin¬ 
cinnati. The Columbus organization has 1,500 
members, Springfield 1,800, Akron in the neigh¬ 
borhood of 1,200, Newark 300, Dayton 1,400, 
Canton 400, and all are men of influence in their 
several communities. The league decided to en¬ 
ter into non-partisan politics and to demand from 
every state and legislative candidate pledges that 
they will vote for measures backed by the league. 
Among the measures to be brought up at the 
next session of the legislature will be proposed 
joint hunting and fishing license; a short closed 
fishing season in the Spring and the proper prop¬ 
agation of fish and birds, especially quail and 
pheasants. The officers of the league elected are 
as follows: President, Roy McGregor, Spring- 
field; J. F. Atwood, Columbus, secretary; vice- 
president, M. J. Bangham, Cincinnati; Nelson L. 
Bulkley, Columbus, treasurer; executive commit¬ 
tee, S. E. Rawlinson, Mt. Vernon; J. F. Camp¬ 
bell, Dayton; and E. N. Van Atta, Newark. 
A joint hunting and fishing license would ma¬ 
terially increase the revenues of the fish and 
game department of the state, the hunting li¬ 
cense bringing in $120,000 last season despite the 
temporary ban placed on hunting by the hoof 
and mouth disease throughout the country. 
The propagation of pheasants in the state is 
attracting the attention of many farmers and 
city men who desire to get out into the country. 
Chief Game Warden John C. Speaks is in re¬ 
ceipt of a number of inquiries regarding the sub¬ 
ject and declares it will not be many years be¬ 
fore the raising of pheasants in Ohio will be 
placed on a commercial business basis, as it is 
profitable if properly conducted. The birds bring 
good prices and are always in demand. 
General Speaks has been experimenting with 
the Mongolian pheasant at the London, Ohio, 
state hatchery, placing the eggs under the ordi¬ 
nary barnyard hen and thus far the experiment 
has been a success. He has sent out over 20,000 
Mongolian pheasants’ eggs in the past few 
months to various farmers throughout the state 
and declares the demand is growing by leaps 
and bounds. Reports to headquarters in Colum¬ 
bus, state that most of the eggs have been hatched 
out that the old hens take splendid care of 
the “chicks.” 
General Speaks, by the way, blazed a trail at 
the state fair here the first week in September 
that has brought him congratulations from all 
over the state. He has an exhibit of wild game 
birds, wild Mallard ducks, foxes, squirrels. 
possums, raccoons, deodorized skunks with their 
young and other animals of the field and for¬ 
est that surprised the state authorities by the 
great interest the exhibit attracted. Hundreds 
of people, especially children, crowded around 
the exhibit night and day, the fair being open 
at night, and the State Agricultural Board has 
been so impressed with the exhibit that it has 
decided to vastly enlarge upon it next year. The 
animals were in “dens” 10 by 3° feet, enclosed 
with wire netting. A large quantity of seines and 
nets captured by the wardens throughout the 
state was also exhibited; and a 42-year-old gander 
attracted any amount of comment. He strutted 
about just like any “young blade” but is so vi¬ 
cious that he has been kept by himself. Now a 
young gander hatched at the London hatchery 
from wild parents has been placed with him and 
his ugly temper seems to have been softened 
somewhat, perhaps because the youngster can 
take care of himself and “lick” his older com¬ 
panion if he is forced into a fight. 
The exhibit of stuffed fish from the state 
house also brought crowds, and next year it is 
the intention to build an aquarium and exhibit 
live fish. General Speaks wants to secure a 
pair of the more than 200 species of fish that 
inhabit the waters of Ohio for this exhibit and 
it is being planned to possibly make this display 
permanent as the fair grounds hereafter will 
be open the year round for the pleasure of the 
people of the state. 
PASSING OF A FAMOUS ANGLER. 
H. Cholmondeley Pennell, the famous English 
angling authority died August 22, in London. 
Mr. Pennell was one of the most distinguished 
figures in the world of fishing literature, and his 
death as the Field well says will come as a shock 
to many readers in various parts of the world 
There are very few names so universally familiar 
to anglers as his, and very few books on the sport 
have attained so wide a popularity as the two 
volumes in the Badminton Library of which he 
was the editor, and, in great part, the author. Nor 
are there many anglers who have done more to 
attract the notice and earn the gratitude of their 
fellows by designing and bringing into being 
various improvements in fishing tackle of dif¬ 
ferent kinds. Pennell was an all-round fisherman 
of wide experience, he had an extremely active 
mind, and he devoted a great deal of thought 
and time to experimenting with various parts of 
the angler’s equipment and making them more 
efficient. Especially, perhaps, was this noticeable 
in the matter of spinning flights for pike. The 
pages on this subject in the Badminton Library 
volume are extremely interesting and suggestive 
and show an attention to detail which is remark¬ 
able in a writer who had to cover so wide a field. 
Mr. Pennell was born in 1836. 
The United States Bureau of Fisheries for¬ 
warded from its hatchery in California to Kobe, 
Japan 100,000 rainbow trout eggs. The Japanese 
Government intend placing the fry in the waters 
of the province of Hiogo of which Kobe is the 
principal city. 
