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good were such a thing possible. Our salmon 
rivers are mercilessly poached to the great detri¬ 
ment of those who engage in the legal net fish¬ 
ery. The salary paid the fish wardens is ludi- 
• crously small. If only the spear, the net, and 
deadliest of all, the dynamite cartridge, could 
be banished from our waters, there would be 
salmon enough for all the anglers who resort 
to them, both Nova Scotian and American. 
E. F. L. Jenner. 
California Fishing. 
San Francisco, Cal., July 18. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: Never in the history of the Cata 
lina Islands has the true spirit of sportsmanship 
reached such a fever heat as at the present time. 
The daily reports of tremendous catches around 
Clemente have fired the enthusiasm of all ang¬ 
lers in southern California and every steamer 
bound for the island carries a full complement 
of fishermen eager to take part in the great 
sport. Chief Forester Pinchot is there with a 
party of Washington officials, and they are try¬ 
ing their best to break all existing records. Mr. 
Pinchot himself has won a gold button from 
the Tuna Club by his capture of a 43/4-pound 
yellowtail, and Senator Flint is now the proud 
possessor of a silver button for a 33/4“P oun ^ 
fish that he has captured. 
W. W. Simpson, of England, has deposited 
: with the Light Tackle Club a magnificent signet 
ring, made by a native worker in gold in Madras, 
India, which will be awarded to the angler who 
exceeds his record of a 6oj4-pound yellowtail. 
Several enthusiasts have tried on the ring and 
declare that it is a perfect fit. If there is an¬ 
other “daddy yellowtail” in the vicinity of 
Clemente his life is worth but little. 
After an absence of many days, probably due 
to the blackening of the water of the bay from 
some mysterious cause, shoals of king salmon 
have again come close to the shore in Monterey 
Bay. Numbers of San Francisco business men 
are spending their week end holidays at Pacific 
Grove, and some lively fishing stories are to be 
heard in the offices. 
Fishing in the lake on the Matthewson ranch 
above Calabasas is excellent, and Mayor Harper, 
of Los Angeles, has made several trips there in 
his automobile with parties of friends and has 
caught some fine strings of bass. The lake was 
! artificially filled several years ago at an expense 
; of over $100,000 and stocked with bass, and 
1 these have multiplied so rapidly that the lake 
is well filled now with fish of good size. 
A. P. B. 
Recent Publications. 
Big Game at Sea, by Charles Frederic 
Holder. Cloth, 352 pages, illustrated, $2 
net. New York, The Outing Publishing Co. 
Readers of Forest and Stream who have de¬ 
rived pleasure from perusing the numerous 
papers from Prof. Holder’s pen that have ap¬ 
peared in these columns during recent years, 
will want copies of this book, to read and pre¬ 
serve with “The Log of a Sea Angler” and “Big 
Game Fishes of the United States,” by the same 
author. 
The book consists of a series of articles con¬ 
tributed by the author to the American and 
British sportsmen’s press at various times, to¬ 
gether with new matter of equal interest, and 
a number of excellent reproductions from photo¬ 
graphs, among them several pictures made at 
the Avalon (California) Zoological Station, of 
fishes in their native element. 
There is much in this work that is unusual 
in books on sea fishing. For example, chapters 
relate to the habits and capture of huge turtles, 
sea bats and crocodiles in Florida waters; the 
big fish of Catalina waters, etc. 
Captain Love, by Theodore Roberts, author of 
Red Feathers, etc. Cloth, 282 pages, $1.50. 
Boston, L. C. Page & Co. 
The scene of this story is laid in the olden 
times, when travelers to London town were 
often waylaid by footpads. Such an adventure 
befell the captain, who regained consciousness 
in a farm house to find that his companion was 
gone and that a blow on his own head had been 
followed by fever which left his memory a 
blank. He had been stripped, and there was 
nothing by which he might have identified him¬ 
self. When he was fully recovered he started 
toward London, and coming on a robber in the 
act of holding up a carriage, knocked him on 
the head. He exchanged clothing with the fel¬ 
low, took his horse and bag of gold, and made 
his way to town. His many adventures, ere he 
learned his own identity and found his friends, 
make a pleasing story. 
The Heart of the Red Firs, a novel by Ada 
Woodruff Anderson. Illustrated by Ch. 
Grunwald. Cloth, 313 pages, $1.50. Bos¬ 
ton, Little, Brown & Co. 
Mrs. Anderson is well known to magazine 
readers, but this, her first novel, is a story of 
the Puget Sound country—Seattle, Olympia and 
a settlement in the neighborhood of Mount 
Rainier—in the seventies, after the completion 
of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It is not his¬ 
torical, but chronicles conditions of that epoch 
now drawn to a close. 1 he Hudson Bay Com¬ 
pany, after its withdrawal from Fort Nisqually, 
left some interesting characters in these settle¬ 
ments, and it was Mrs. Anderson’s good fortune 
to remember them. 
ROUGHING IT 
soon grows tiresome unless the food is good. 
Good milk is one item indispensable to a cheer¬ 
ful camp, and Borden’s solves the problem. 
Eagle Brand Condensed Milk and Peerless 
Brand Evaporated Milk keep indefinitely, any¬ 
where, and fill every milk or eream require¬ 
ment.— Adv. 
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