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NEWS, NOTES & 
COMMENT FROM 
FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
City Point, Fla., August 3, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have read several articles in Forest and 
Stream concerning fishing in Florida waters, but 
I don’t think there can be enough said about 
;the opportunities there are here for the angler. 
The large mouthed black bass, especially, are 
plentiful in the St. Johns River. 
Four of us made a trip to Buck Island for a 
•day’s fishing recently. Two of us fished for 
"bream and perch, and our pardners rigged up 
>their bacon skins and fished for bass. We only 
tfished about five hours, but we had plenty for our¬ 
selves, gave away many along the road home and 
sold forty-three pounds of bass and forty pounds 
•of bream and perch to the Three Palms Fisheries. 
We made a small catch even then, compared to 
■what others have done since. 
Four men fishing with a hook and line here 
;are making good money selling the bass they 
•catch at four and one-half cents a pound. They 
Eave caught several specimens weighing over 
•twelve pounds. 
If one tires of fresh water fishing they can 
rgo across to Oceanus Beach and try their skill 
;at surf fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. To reach 
the beach you can go down the Indian River, 
••around the point of Merritt’s Island and up the 
Banana River, or across the Indian River to 
■Georgiana, walking a short distance across the 
island and crossing the Banana River to the 
'beach. The last way is much shorter, and takes 
;you close to the home of the Thousand Island 
Club. 
The peninsula at Oceanus is very narrow and 
the Banana River is very shallow at this point. 
The flats abound in mullet that are easily caught 
in a cast net, and so a person need never worry 
about not having bait. 
At present there is a movement on foot to 
'bridge both the Indian and Banana Rivers. If 
this is done it will open to the deep sea angler 
and the tourist a new paradise of pleasure. 
•Oceanus Beach is said, by many who have been 
to other beaches along the coast, to be as good 
as any of the rest and far superior to most. 
It is comparatively level and has practically no 
•undertow. It is but a short distance south of 
Canaveral Light House and is protected in 
stormy weather by Cape Canaveral and its out¬ 
lying reefs. 
I have taken several sea bass from the surf 
but no extra large ones. I have had my hooks 
straightened for me several times, but being an 
amateur, and fishing with a hand line besides, I 
was of course unable to land the big ones. 
The small menhadden lay just outside the 
"breakers in large schools, and the tarpon and 
sharks, besides other fish, live off of them. I 
have seen tarpon that looked fully 8 and 9 feet 
long leap their length out of the sea when 
■chasing the smaller fish. It is my greatest wish 
that sometime I may be able to get out among 
them with a boat and hook one of the silver 
"beauties. 
At present there is little such attention paid 
to this beach as a fishing ground, but I believe 
in the future it will become a fisherman’s Mecca. 
K. Rimbey. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
CONTENTS 
For September, 1916 
On the Grand Cascapedia. 1127 
By S. H. Fitch 
A Tent That Made Good. 1130 
By Dr. George Parker Holden 
Go for Black Bass in September.. 1132 
By Black Bass 
Moose Hunting in Minnesota. . . . 1134 
By C. H. Lockwood 
Atlantic Tuna Time is Here. 1135 
By Leonard Iiulit 
A Fight With a Grizzly. 1136 
By Howard Morgan 
Growing Up With Bob-White. . . . 1137 
By Ripley 
Wild Life Along the River Pearl. . 1140 
By IV. E. Davidson 
The Vanishing Last Frontier. . . . 1142 
By R. J. Fraser 
Teach Her to Shoot. 1143 
By L. E. Eubanks 
Editorial Comment . 1144 
Natural History . 1145 
Family Life of the Ruffed Grouse. 1146 
By Charles S. West 
The Speed of Ducks. 1147 
By Edivard T. Martin 
The Real Southern California. . . . 1148 
By Theo. A. Aldrich 
Nessmuk’s Camp Fire. 1150 
Emptying the Capsized Canoe. ... 1151 
By J. F. Marshall 
Fish and Fishing. 1154 
“A Little Bit o’ Heaven”. 1156 
By J. B. Flume 
Spring Shooting Prohibited. 1158 
Trap Shooting . 1161 
How the Westy Hogans Got Its 
Name . 1162 
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STATUS OF MIGRATORY BIRD-LAW FIGHT. 
Winham, Mass., July 3, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your last issue Mr. Reiniger calls attention 
to the appalling menace that threatens our migra¬ 
tory bird laws. I refer to the organization of 
middle-west malcontents known as the Sports¬ 
men’s Protective Association. 
Too much prominence cannot be given to the 
underground work of this so-called “sports¬ 
men’s” league, but I wish here merely to call 
attention to Dr. Hornaday’s recent publication 
(Bui. No. 4, Permanent Wild Life Protection 
Fund) in which he exposes in his usual direct 
and forceful manner an effort to undermine 
Congress and the Biological Survey which we 
should all have been aware of long ago. This 
bulletin ought to be studied by all real sports¬ 
men; others may not be interested. 
I can only say here that the Audubon Societies 
are not slumbering quite as deeply as Mr. 
Reiniger supposes, although they have not used 
their influence as soon as they might, chiefly 
because the full extent of the danger was not 
realized till recently. 
This western league is trying to undo all the 
excellent legislation that the nation-wide cam¬ 
paign against spring shooting has accomplished. 
It represents a small, utterly selfish and danger¬ 
ous element that seeks to subordinate the will 
of the whole country to its own personal ends. 
J. C. Phillips. 
FOREST AND STREAM PAYS HIM. 
Middleboro, Mass., August 1, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Forest and Stream has been of more real 
value to me as an advertising medium in the past 
year than ever before—as a sportsman’s journal 
it has no superior. 
George W. Lorell. 
MONTANA SEASON SHOULD OPEN 
SOONER. 
Valier, Mont., August 18, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The hunting in this part of the country would 
be a great deal better if the season opened earlier, 
as more game is crippled up in the late storms, 
then later die, than there is killed all the rest of 
the season. All you have to do here if you want 
elk teeth is to just follow the tracks and one 
will find lots of them. 
Chick Grimsley (Guide). 
AN ENTHUSIASTIC FRIEND. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
First let me congratulate you on the bang up 
magazine that you put out in July—it’s a winner 
from cover to cover. While I am not a sub¬ 
scriber to your magazine, being a traveling man, 
I never miss buying it from the stands. 
I have always done considerable fly casting for 
trout, but articles on the Black Bass by “Black 
Bass,” and the gentle art of plug casting by G. L. 
Buguey were about enough to convert me. I 
noticed you have started an anglers query de¬ 
partment.—good stuff—I’m coming in with my 
ante soon if I take up with bait casting. 
Yours for more fish and fishing. 
E. E. Parker. 
