Duckabush, all three flowing into Hood Canal; 
the Green River and the Snoqualmie, there is 
'opportunity for all who have the time and in¬ 
clination to enjoy fine sport. The list might be 
extended almost indefinitely. 
Local anglers do not go far from Seattle 
early in the season. They try Lake Washington, 
j which simply means a ride of a few minutes 
on a street car, or if they are a little more 
ambitious may go out to Renton and “hike” 
; over the hill to Swan Lake. For many years 
Cedar River, reached by car line, has been one 
11of the favorite streams for etfrly bait-fishing, and 
sometimes good luck may be had by following 
Black River down from the mouth of Cedar to 
the White River. In the Duwamish many large 
Dolly Varden trout are caught in the early 
•months of fishing. 
Local fishermen who know the lay of the land 
usually try the Green River on the first day of 
the season. Follow the Green River up for 
several miles from Auburn and you will have 
no trouble getting into Suise Creek, from which 
some of the finest strings ever seen in any 
State have been taken. Squak Slough is one 
of the best places for early fishing, with either 
bait or fly. 
If you want to start the season right, it be¬ 
hooves you to go over your tackle carefully. 
See that your rods are newly varnished. If the 
windings have become loose, wind them over 
"again. Look to the ferrules. If they are loose, 
use cement. Do not go out with a rod, the 
. guides of which are not to your liking. If the 
rod is crooked, it means either that you did 
not purchase a good one, or that you did not 
take proper care of it.' It is worth while to 
purchase good tackle. Prices have been reduced 
fully 15 per cent, in recent years, so that a man 
with moderate means may have good rods, reels 
and lines. Automatic reels are getting to be 
the favorites in this part of the country. What 
is known as the take-apart is also much in de¬ 
mand. For fly-casting get a silk enamel line. 
: You will not get along with less than 25 yards, 
and you will not need more than 50. For bait- 
firhing the raw silk casting line is the thing. It 
is not oiled or enameled. You want about 150 
feet. Pennell single gut hooks are the best. 
Other good hooks are the Carlisle, Sneck, Kirby 
and Limerick. There is no end to the different 
| kinds of flies that may be had, but the truth of 
I the matter that a good supply of the following 
well known varieties are all that is required: 
Brown, black and gray-hackles; professor, royal- 
coachman, cow-dung, black-gnat, Gov. Alvord, 
1 grizzly-king, queen-of-the-water, Rube-Wood, 
J white-miller and Parmachenee-belle. 
At the present time the conditions are favor¬ 
able for good sport. Game Warden Rief has 
been looking into the matter and reports that 
the law has been well observed this year. The 
1 streams are not too high, and the weather has 
been cold enough to keep snow water out of the 
| currents. Portus Baxter. 
Antwerp Hunting and Fishing Exposition. 
j The organizing committees of the Antwerp 
; International Hunting and Fishing Congress 
j have lately had meetings at the Ministry of 
f Agriculture at Brussels. The hunting congress, 
of which Count de Ribaucourt, president of the 
Belgian Federation of Hunting Associations, is 
! president, will take place June 17 and 18. The 
\ fishing congress, under the presidency of Mr. 
; Hamman, president of the Government Com¬ 
mission of Marine Fisheries, will be opened 
June 24 and 25. On the occasion of these con¬ 
gresses large meetings will be held at Antwerp, 
1 at the rooms of the Royal Zoological Society, at 
i which questions of very high interest to sports¬ 
men will be discussed. In hunting matters the 
1 ever-active question of the protection of birds 
: will receive much attention, while in fishing mat- 
! ters one subject to be examined will be poison¬ 
ing by oysters. 
Day by day the success of the exposition be- 
: comes more assured. Russia has just announced 
. that she will be represented, and bas engaged a 
| ' ar ge space which will no doubt be very at- 
1 tractive. 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Trout Fishing in North Carolina. 
Hendersonville, N. C., March 22.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Yesterday morning I went 
fishing armed with a steel rod and a can of 
worms, a light Greenheart five ounce fly-rod, 
and an ample supply of flies, creel and landing 
net; also a leather coat in case of rain. I took 
the train for Green River, nine miles south of 
here. My purpose was to try fly-fishing first 
thoroughly, though I had never known trout 
caught here with flies earlier than April. 
I assembled my little five ounce rod at Jones’ 
Milldam and having a six foot leader with royal 
coachman, brown hackle with yellow body and a 
yellow may, began just under the dam. Several 
times trout (rainbow trout) rose, but each time 
missed the flies. It was getting on to 10 A. M., 
so I moved on lower down the stream to where 
the mill race enters the river. Here again I 
had the same ill luck, only pricking the fish and 
leaving them to go still further down stream. 
My next venture was just under a rock cliff 
and here I unwisely let my flies get on the water 
while I jumped from rock to rock, and in the 
act of doing so lost a nice fish. I then settled 
down to careful fishing and very soon got my 
reward and had a rainbow over twelve inches, 
well hooked on the royal coachman, the leading- 
fly, No. 8. He fought well, leaping several times 
well out of the water in his efforts to escape, 
but finally was dipped out in my landing net. 
Finding no others willing to take my flies 
here I went down stream, crossing the railroad 
and going down a mountain side an angle of 
forty-five degrees to> a deep pool. I stepped out 
on a large rock and cast on this beautiful water, 
only to see the flash of a fish’s sides as he rose 
nearly to the flies and went back to the depths 
below again refusing to rise for any flies. So 
I went some one hundred feet up stream and 
again began, and soon had my second fish in 
the creel and lost another. Many promising- 
pools were whipped as I went between the 
mountain sides down the stream, stopping at 
John’s pool at last. This pool is always stocked 
with trout, but never a rise; so I lay by the 
little rod, assembled the steel rod, put on a 
tempting supply of worms, cast out into the 
pool, washed my hands and sat down for my 
lunch, eating with one hand while handling my 
rod with the other; but those rainbows were not 
willing to be caught. So I put up the steel rod 
and left to go further down stream. 
Below John’s pool there is a drift and a small 
island. On each side of this little island I 
creeled a nice rainbow. So I began my return 
trip. Twice I lost fish by the trout getting away 
with the fly, snapping it off close to the stem 
of the hook, and yet another escaped because of 
my careless winding of reel just before getting 
him into the net. 
Finally I got my last, and a good one, just 
where I began under Jones’ Milldam. In all 
I creeled just seven, but all nice trout and all 
caught in the heat of the day. The early morn¬ 
ing and late afternoon hours—say four in all— 
are worth all the rest of the day many times 
over. A pleasant day and beautiful stream, the 
rough and rushing water dashing over the rocks, 
the whole of nature alive! Do I like fishing 
alone? Yes; most certainly; but I like a com¬ 
rade if so be he, too, a true and tried fisherman. 
One not afraid of the wilds and who can be 
quiet and careful and not rush to see if he can¬ 
not get to the promising pools first. The fish 
are very frequent between these pools, and the 
careful fisherman knows j ust where they are 
likely to be. North Carolina has some of the 
wildest, most beautiful, clearest, and most charm¬ 
ing streams in Uncle Sam’s domain, and the old 
man is stocking the streams and the fishing is 
great. Ernest L. Ewbank. 
Marstoni Trout. 
Westmount, P. Q., March to.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: In one of vour February numbers 
I notice a reference to Marstoni trout as sur¬ 
face feeders. Mr. Chambers is right in conclud¬ 
ing that they will rise to the fly; while I think 
they are really ground feeders, yet I have taken 
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a few during every month of the fishing season 
on the fly, in one of the lakes of the Anglo and 
American Fishing Club, situated in the county 
of Rimouski, Province of Quebec. They spawn 
during December and evidently follow the fonti- 
nalis to their spawning beds, as at the end of 
September they can sometimes be taken in great 
numbers near the shore. They are fierce fighters 
and a three-quarter pound Marstoni may easily 
be mistaken for a lively two pound fontinalis 
until brought to net. 
I have never seen them come out of the water 
to the fly like the fontinalis, but take the fly as 
they rush past, and then you will hear the reel 
not sing but scream as they take out the line. 
The largest I have seen was about i )4 pounds. 
I had a novel experience with them on one 
occasion late in November. On clearing the 
snow off the ice over one of the spawning beds 
and covering my head with a coat to look 
through the ice, I discovered a large number of 
Marstoni trout feeding on the eggs of the fonti¬ 
nalis, poking among the gravel as chickens might 
do in a barn yard and picking up the eggs, which 
were evidently ground in the mouth to remove 
the covering, which was ejected from the side 
of the mouth and the picking resumed. The 
destruction of ova from this cause must be enor¬ 
mous, but as it has always been thus and there 
is plenty left it is evidently all right. A hole 
was cut in the ice and some of them taken, 
using a scrap of ham for bait, which they took 
the moment it was lowered near them. Their 
colors were then at their brightest and they re¬ 
sembled a length of scarlet ribbon while being 
drawn through the hole. R. Sampson. 
California Game and Fish Laws. 
Among the changes in the game and fish 
laws of California, made at the second session 
of the Legislature, are the following: 
Making the trout open season May 1—Nov. 
15 inclusive; prohibiting the capture of steelhead 
trout save with hook and line; extending the 
open season for salmon; making a day limit of 
50 black bass, which can only be taken with 
hook and line; making a close season for two 
years on golden trout; placing a five-inch limit 
on salmon and trout, and prohibiting the ship¬ 
ment outside the State of same; making a four- 
year close season for Sacramento perch. 
A nonresident tax of $10 and an alien tax of 
$25 for hunting game. 
The open season for wild ducks was length¬ 
ened, the dates being Oct. 1—Feb. 15 inclusive; 
bag limit, 35 per day instead of 50. 
Protecting grouse and sage hens until Sept. 
I, 1909. 
Shortening the dove season to the dates July 
15—Oct. 15 inclusive, and prohibiting sale.^ 
Making the tree squirrel open season Sept 1 
—Jan. 1 inclusive and prohibiting sale. 
Protecting robins at all times. 
Lengthening the open season for deer at the 
beginning but cutting a fortnight off the end, 
the dates being July 15—Oct. 1; two bucks per 
season per man, does and fawns protected; pro¬ 
hibiting hounding, but permitting the use of a 
dog in trailing a wounded buck. 
Early in March Captain Lamsden, of the Gov¬ 
ernment fish hatchery at Baird, and \V. H. 
Shebley, of the State hatchery at Sisson, suc¬ 
ceeded in taking about a million eggs from rain¬ 
bow trout in the Shasta River in California, and 
it is likely, from the favorable conditions then 
obtaining, that they secured a very large num¬ 
ber of eggs. Last year very few eggs were se¬ 
cured because of high water during the spawn¬ 
ing season. 
The salt water anglers of California are dis¬ 
appointed over the failure of the Legislature to 
give the striped bass adequate protection, and 
fears are expressed that the passing of these fish 
will only be a matter of a comparatively short 
time. Polluting and over-fishing the striped bass 
waters are too common, and those who should 
take an interest in the subject are apathetic. 
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