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to hand lining with the spinner, we would have 
killed many more. As we had gone down after 
sport and not with a desire to kill unlimited 
numbers, we were satisfied. Not so with Sandy, 
however. 
“Now, if you’d only brought your friend along 
in July or August, when the real big fellows are 
running, you’d have had some sport worth 
while,” said he. “There isn’t one of these chaps 
over fifteen pounds; the whole six won't weigh 
more than seventy or seventy-five pounds.” 
On the way home my friend asked me if 
Sandy was joking, or if he was in earnest. I 
assured him that he was quite in earnest, and 
that it was not unusual to catch fish weighing 
twenty pounds or more in the gut. 
I would advise any of my readers who con¬ 
template spending a summer vacation in Nova 
Scotia, to spend a little time fishing for pollock 
with rod and line. 
Edmund F. L. Jenner. 
International Fishery Congress. 
The fourth International Fishery Congress 
will be held in Washington, D. C., Sept. 22 to 
26. As has been stated in these columns, dele¬ 
gates from many foreign countries, and from 
a number of scientific societies, angling clubs 
and associations, and the fishing industries of 
America will attend and take part in the pro¬ 
ceedings. 
Prizes will be given for the best papers on 
important investigations, discoveries and inven¬ 
tions related to the fisheries, aquiculture, ichthy¬ 
ology, fish pathology and related subjects dur¬ 
ing the past three years. These are all in gold, 
ranging from $50 to $200. Among the donors 
are the American Fisheries Society, the Ameri¬ 
can Museum of Natural History, the Forest and 
Stream Publishing Company, the Brooklyn In¬ 
stitute, the New York Aquarium, the New York 
Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, 
the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the New 
York Academy of Sciences and a number of 
corporations and individuals. 
The entertainment of the visitors and dele¬ 
gates will include little journeys to interesting 
places. The programme is as follows: 
Wednesday, Sept. 23.—Luncheon by the Ameri¬ 
can Fisheries Society, reception by the President 
of the United States at the White House and 
visit in evening to Library of Congress. 
Thursday, Sept. 24.—Luncheon at the New 
Willard Hotel by the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun 
Club and reception in evening by the Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor. 
Friday, Sept. 25.—A salmon luncheon by the 
Alaska Packers’ Association and a subscription 
banquet in the evening at which the foreign dele¬ 
gates will be guests of honor. 
Monday, Sept. 28.—Reception in the forenoon 
at the New York Aquarium, luncheon at the 
American Museum of Natural History and re¬ 
ception in the latter institution in the afternoon. 
Tuesday, Sept. 29.—Fall River steamer to Fall 
River, Mass., where the delegates will be met by 
the steamer of IT. C. Rowe & Co. and taken to 
the oyster grounds of Narragansett Bay. At 
noon the party will reach Wickford for the pur¬ 
pose of inspecting the lobster-rearing plant of 
the Rhode Island Fish Commission. Luncheon 
will be served on the houseboat Biophore, and 
the Governor of Rhode Island is expected to be 
present. In the evening the party will proceed 
to Newport where the night will be spent. 
Wednesday, Sept. 30.—By the United States 
Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk to Woods Hole, 
Mass., where the Government laboratories and 
marine hatchery will be inspected, thence to Bos¬ 
ton on Thursday, Oct. 1, where the day will be 
spent as guests of the T-Wharf Association and 
Boston Fish Bureau. The entertainment will in¬ 
clude a reception by the Governor and Mayor 
at the State House, visits to T-Wharf and 
Quincy Market Cold Storage Plant and Ameri¬ 
can Net and Twine Company, an automobile 
ride about the city and a boat trip and shore 
dinner at some nearby point on the bay. 
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3.—The dele¬ 
gates will be entertained by Gloucester Board 
of Trade and others. Visits to the curing and 
packing establishments will be made and the 
wharves and vessel yards inspected. A trip 
down the harbor on fishing schooners will give 
an opportunity to see the mackerel traps and 
witness a demonstration of purse seining. A 
buffet luncheon and shore supper will be given. 
Big Trout. 
Berlin, N. Y., Sept. 10 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The trout season just closed was an 
unusually good one and there are plenty of large 
fish still in the streams to replenish the stock. 
I know of several mighty fine trout in nearby 
pools which are too foxy for the average fisher¬ 
man. A friend from New York spent his vaca¬ 
tion with me, but although he believed himself 
to be a trout fisherman, packed up his kit in 
disgust some days before his leave of absence 
expired. We drove south to Stephentown and 
were fishing at a bridge over a small stream. 
I heard a thrashing in the water and stopped 
fishing to watch my friend. A pole was nailed 
across the front of the bridge near the water 
to prevent the passage of cattle and he had cast 
his line between that and the sill of the bridge. 
My chum’s face was red. His eyes stuck out. 
I called, “Don’t pull,” but he did pull and tried 
to haul a trout over the pole and of course the 
hook tore out. “He was as big as a red barn,” 
said he, “and when I saw him hanging there I 
got excited. Here’s where I quit until I get 
some sense.” and I could not coax him to go 
out with me again. 
I lost one big fish at Peterburgh last spring 
by trying to land him by main strength and 
profited by the lesson, so that when I hooked a 
monster at the dam, about three minutes’ walk 
from my house, I succeeded in coaxing him out 
of the water. He was close to fourteen inches 
in length. R. Saunderson. 
Fish Preserved in Paper. 
According to the London Daily Mail “interest¬ 
ing experiments in connection with the carriage 
of fish have recently been made (says a consular 
report just published by the Washington Bureau 
of Manufactures) by Alfred Goldes, president 
of the fishery section of the Brussels Chamber 
of Commerce. It is stated that soles, caught 
by Ostend boats off the Portuguese coasts, which 
were packed in a special vegetable paper, which 
costs little and takes up small space, were turned 
out after sixteen days in much better condition, 
both as regards freshness and flavor, than those 
packed in ice.” 
Fishing in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 10 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: San Francisco fishermen who wish 
to get a good taste of trout fishing and who do 
not care to take a long journey from the city, are 
finding splendid sport in the vicinity of Point 
Arenas. Although the fish taken there at this 
season of the year are small in size they are 
quite plentiful. The Eel River, a little'further 
north, is now giving up some splendid baskets 
of fish to anglers who are spending their vaca¬ 
tion there. The salmon of Eel River, although 
usually taken on a baited hook, will frequently 
rise to a fly, and old John Benn, the noted local 
angler who passed away about a year ago, caught 
large numbers of them by this means when he 
resided near the river. 
Fishing on the Truckee River is very good. 
Colonel Young, of the Fly-Casters' Club, has 
just returned from there and reports having ex¬ 
cellent sport while in the vicinity of Truckee. 
Fish and Game Warden Welch, of Santa Cruz 
county, is doing some excellent work in his dis¬ 
trict in the way of stocking streams and has 
just planted 24,000 trout fry in the headwaters 
of Aptos Creek. He figures on distributing 640,- 
000 fry in the different streams before the season 
for stocking is over. 
The work of restocking the streams in south¬ 
ern California will commence in November and 
about 700,000 fry will be set free in about twenty 
streams in that part of the State. An attempt 
is being made by the State Fish Commission to 
get a regulation fish car for the use of the 
southern portion of the State so that the fry 
can be brought from Sisson without loss. Most 
of the trout that have been placed in streams 
in this end of the State heretofore have been 
steelhead, but this winter the majority of young 
fish will be rainbow trout. Some of the streams 
will also be stocked with striped bass, a fish 
practically unknown in the South at present. 
David Starr Jordan and Prof. Charles F. 
Holder, of Stanford University, have jointly 
written a book entitled, “Fish Stories” and this 
will be ready for distribution in about two 
months. Several chapters of the book will be 
devoted to the fishing trip to San Clemente 
Island from which Prof. Holder recently re¬ 
turned. 
Fishing has been exceptionally good in the 
vicinity of San Francisco during the past two 
weeks, and anglers who have been making week¬ 
end trips to the mountain streams have been 
turning their attention to sea fishing along the 
coast and around the bay. At Sausalito and 
Tiburon rock cod are very plentiful, and at 
Point Bonita the seven-pounders are running 
thick. In Bolinas Bay the salmon are running 
well and trollers are having great sport there. 
The fishing interests of the State are becom¬ 
ing aroused at the rapid growth of private pre¬ 
serves made for the purpose of controlling the 
best fishing grounds for the use of a select few. 
and a large meeting of representative anglers 
was held in San Francisco recently to discuss 
the question. Committees were appointed and 
action taken toward the nomination of a promi¬ 
nent angler for the Legislature. Little by little 
the choice fishing grounds have been taken up 
by private preserves and clubs until it appeal 
that it will be but a matter of a few years until 
the poor angler will not have a first class stream 
