4 
July ii, 1908.] 
Pennsylvania Fish Distribution. 
Waynesburg, Pa., July 2.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Some months ago several parties here 
made application to the Pennsylvania State 
hatcheries for black bass fry to re-stock our 
B streams—natural small-mouth black bass streams. 
After several months’ delay we asked our 
representative Mr. Rush and Senator D. S. 
Walton to make inquiries of the State superin¬ 
tendent. Mr. Rush went personally and had an 
I interview with W. E. Meehan, State superin¬ 
tendent, who promised to attend to the matter. 
A few days ago we received a notice from 
Conneaut Lake. Pa., saying: “In accordance 
with your application on tile at this station I 
will on the 29th day of June forward to you 011c 
can containing black bass fry, etc.” 
Together with a friend who is very much in¬ 
terested in matters of the kind, we went to the 
station to receive the black bass fry addressed 
to J. T. Rogers who signed the application. 
There were five cans, one for J. T. Rogers, one 
each for Chas. Church, John Hoge, Mr. Throck¬ 
morton and H. C. Sayer. 
In the can addressed to Mr. Roger we found 
six fish about two inches in length that resem¬ 
bled our sunfish in shape, six others about 
seven-eighths inches long that may have been 
pike, but surely not black bass, and five tad¬ 
poles with legs just forming. We examined 
the other cans and found them to contain about 
the same kind of fish. One can had only seven 
in it. In all the five cans there were not over 
fifty or sixty all told and containing not one 
black bass, big or small-mouth, in all the cans. 
Some years ago they sent us a large can with 
a very generous supply of what they called 
salmon-trout. They were released in our stream, 
as the boys thought they would make good feed 
for our bass, and they probably did, as they 
were never heard of again. 
We are anxious to know what has been the 
experience of others who have sent applications 
for fry to the State hatcheries of Pennsylvania. 
W. L. Allison. 
Light Tackle for Sea Fish. 
Pasadena, Cal., June 17.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of June 13 I have read 
an article on weakfish by L. A. Camacho who 
advocates light tackle for these fine game fish, 
and he says that with a seven-ounce rod and a 
No. 9 line—if one is careful—one may take a 
“six-pound, or over, fish.” 
This is certainly a good move in the right 
direction and Mr. Camacho may be interested 
in knowing that the Tuna, Light Tackle and 
other clubs of California are all making along 
this line of angling reform, trying to induce 
anglers to “fish fair,” use light rods, the lightest 
< lines, etc. 
The tackle Mr. Camacho suggests for six or 
seven-pound weakfish is a little heavier than we 
use as a rule in the Tuna and Light Tackle 
clubs for game fishes up to fifty pounds. Last 
week Mr. Alfred Beebe, of the Tuna Club, took 
a 150-pound black sea bass on a nine-ounce rod 
and nine-thread line, and this week he took the 
record yellowtail, a 48-pounder with his nine- 
ounce rod and nine-thread line. The yellowtail, 
I might add, is the hardest fighting fish of these 
/ waters. 
For fish of six or ten pounds (as game as the 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Eastern weakfish) we use short trout or black 
bass rods eight or nine feet and a six-thread 
line known to the trade as “Catalina Three-Six 
Club Cuttyhunk line.” 
As these lines are being written I have just 
landed a number of yellowtail over eighteen 
pounds with a six-thread line of the make de¬ 
scribed made at Asaway, R. I., where, Mr. 
Crandall tells me, they have a building 700 feet 
long so that the lines can be made in single piece. 
The Tuna Club has just launched Mr. Potter’s 
adjunct club, the Three-Six, the flag of which 
was shown in the Forest and Stream last week. 
There are but six members in this club. The 
rod is a six or more foot split bamboo weighing 
six ounces, the line a six-thread, and to qualify 
for membership we were obliged to take an 
eighteen-pound yellowtail. My first one weighed 
just i8 r 4 and I brought him to the gaff in about 
one hour, being a little nervous possibly and 
not wishing to disgrace myself, and after tak¬ 
ing a number I am inclined to say that this 
tackle (six-ounce rod, six-thread line) is just 
the thing for the California weakfish of thirty 
or fifty pounds ( Cynoscion nobilis), the proto¬ 
type of the Eastern fish, though attaining a 
weight of eighty pounds and known here as the 
white sea bass, but generally the same as Mr. 
Camacho’s six-pounder. 
I well know the charms of the sport Mr. 
Camacho describes, being an old New Yorker, 
and on my last day at them I used an eight- 
ounce split bamboo black bass rod about 9J2 feet 
long, the reel holding about 300 feet of No. 6 
line, and the reelseat rigged above the grip and 
used on top of the butt. With this tackle I took 
weakfish as I remember it up to six, eight or 
more pounds, and had that elysium popularly 
known as the “time of my life,” and I commend 
it to Mr. Camacho while thanking him for the 
pleasure his paper gave me, reminding me as 
it did of fishing days around New York Bay 
when Fred Mather was alive. 
Chas. F. Holder. 
Springfield Fly and Bait-Casting Club. 
Springfield, Ill., June 28. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Nine members of the Springfield Fly- 
and Bait-Casting Club were entered in their first 
local tournament for a silver loving cup pre 
sented to them by the president of the club. It 
was a handicap event and the cup was won by 
W. H. Hibbs. Following are their scores: 
Per cent. Per cent. 
Rickert.95 1-15 H'bbs . 95 7-15 
Maisenbacker .95 Maxon . 90 8-15 
Babcock . 81 9-15 Catlin . 76 9-15 
Hickox . 95 12-15 Clarke . 97 11-15 
Taintor . 66 10-15 
L. T. Babcock, Sec’y. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., June 29. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The scores of the participants in the 
contest of June 27, 1908, were as follows: 
34-ounce, 
Bait. 
Re-entry. 
Delicacy, 
Fly. 
Accuracy, 
Fly." 
D. F. 
Beatty. 98.6 
1. H. 
Bellows.... 97.7 
97. S 
98 14-30* 
92 
Dr. C. 
F. Brown. 96.1 
97 20-30 
96 1-5 
R. W. 
Crompton. 94.4 
94.3 
N. C. 
Heston.. . 97.4 
97 3-30 
95 2-5 
E. R. 
Letterman. 98.7 
92 2-5 
E. J. 
Lodeski.97.9 
94.2 
C. T. Loomis. 98.6 
98 3-30 
93 1-5 
E. L. 
Mason.98.2 
99.6 
F. N. 
Peet. 98.3 
98 29-30 
97 4-5 
E. A. 
Snell. 96.1 
92.8 
E. P. 
Sperry.97.1 
96.8 
97 14-30 
94 1-5 
♦On 
scored 
re-entry in the delicacy fly 
98 12-30. 
event, Mr. Bellows 
On June 13 F. N. Peet cast 109 feet in the 
6l 
salmon fly contest. This score did not reach the 
secretary’s hands until June 27. 
The team representing our club in the mid 
season inter-club contest will consist of: 
Average. Average. 
E. R. Letterman 98.475 O. J. I.oomis. 98.025 
D. F. Beatty. 98.325 F. N. Peet. 97.9 
E. L. Mason. 98.225 
The number of members completing their 
scores up to date is not sufficient to fill out the 
list of substitutes, consequently the selection of 
substitutes, if required, will be left in the hands 
of the captain. Geo. A. Davis, 
Secretary. 
Anglers’ Club of M assachusetts. 
Boston, Mass., June 27.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Three contests were held by members 
to-day, and the vicinity of the club’s platform 
on the Frog Pond on Boston Common was 
crowded by spectators, interested or merely 
curious. The scores follow: 
ACCURACY FLY-CASTING. 
Per C’t. 
Per C’t. 
Lawrence Chapman.. 96 
F. A. Niccolls, Jr.96 
Frederick 
Hill . 
.93% 
FIVE-OUNCE RODS, DISTANCE 
FLY. 
Feet. 
Feet. 
Lawrence Chapman.. 82 
F. A. Niccolls, Jr.... 75 
Frederick 
Hill .. 
.69 
DISTANCE FLY, 
UNLIMITED 
RODS. 
Feet. 
Feet. 
F. A. Niccolls, Jr.93 
Lawrence Chapman.. 90 
Frederick 
Hill .. 
. 80 
The club now has a membership of about 
sixty, two-thirds active. Dr. Frank M. Johnson 
is President, J. D. Clark, Vice-President; B. F. 
Cheney, Treasurer; Edward Everett, Secretary. 
Gray Drake. 
The Cincinnati Casting Club. 
Cincinnati, June 27. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The results of our club contest in 
one-half-ounce weight event, held to-day, are as 
follows: 
Latham . 
. 97 11-15 
Liston .. 
. 93.0 
Kellogg .... 
. 97.5 
1 .arnpe . 
. 92.9 
♦Wehle . 
. 97.4 
Crugar . 
. 90.14 
Walker . 
. 95.10 
Croesbeck ... 
. 91.7 
Could . 
. 93.11 
♦Visitor—Mr. O. C. Wehle, Illinois Bait-Casting Club, 
Chicago. 
Harry Walter Hutchins, Sec’y-Treas. 
New York’s Polluted Waters. 
The committee on the pollution of State 
waters of the New York Merchants’ Associa¬ 
tion, feeling that the pollution of the waters of 
Lake Champlain and of the upper Hudson River 
is now as bad as it ever has been, has made an 
appeal to Governor Plughes, asking that further 
efforts be made by the-State authorities to abate 
the nuisance. The discharge of mill waste and 
sewage into the waterways of the Hudson val¬ 
ley continues, and although more or less com¬ 
plaint of this is constantly being made by the 
residents along the river and the people who 
use the water, they still suffer without much 
hope of relief. The committee of the Mer¬ 
chants’ Association hopes that action can be 
taken against the offending mill owners under 
Section 6, of the Public Health laws. 
Such relief would be very welcome, but the 
trouble would seem to lie deeper than this, and 
it appears that there is call for radical and uni¬ 
form laws looking toward the purification of all 
such waters. 
All the fish laws of the United States and Can¬ 
ada, revised to date and noiv in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
