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[Oct. 24, 1908. 
noon nap, and was considerably upset when I 
almost fell upon him. The Major is in full 
feather and the little sabres in his wings ring 
out sweetly as he flies away. This is the first 
woodcock I have seen near the Beaverkill. 
It was very hot on the stream, but presently 
I found a bit of water that was in shade. It 
seemed perfectly senseless to go on casting over 
the shallows in that glaring sunshine. I never 
caught a trout in this place in my life, but 
never mind, it was delightful to be out of the 
glare. By the way, beware of those stiff-winged 
flies that spin in the air behind you in the 
back cast, particularly when using fine gut. I 
had tried one of these the last thing on Satur¬ 
day and the cast had twisted badly. It was 
probably a chub, but something went off with 
nearly the whole of my leader in the still water 
at the tail of the pool. Well, I put up a fresh 
gut line with a midge-sized quill Gordon, 
ready on the end of it, and proceeded to cast 
a long line up stream—for more chubs, pre¬ 
sumably. Suddenly a big fish shot up from the 
bottom, a yard or more from the fly. I could 
see its whole broad side as it rose. A gentle 
strike, then a heavy drag at the rod, and the 
reel gave out line rapidly as the trout rushed 
away. I began to abuse myself. “What a fool 
you were to use a midge, a No. 12 hook would 
have held him much better. He will be sure to 
break that drawn gut. It is.ten years old and 
fine as a woman’s hair. Where the dickens did 
such a trout come from and what is it doing 
here?” 
But what a delightful bit of sport to come to 
a hopeless man in hopeless weather. Again and 
again I had the trout almost safe only to have 
it rush away strong as ever. The tiny hook 
was well home, but it was a great relief when 
I had that fish laid away in coarse grass. Of 
course I began again very carefully, although 
I expected nothing more in the way of sport. 
There seemed to be quite a lot of shy chubs 
in that pool. Now and then I hooked one. I 
would strike gently, then carelessly drop the 
rod to give them line. I wished to see if I 
could get rid of them on a slack line, but in 
every case had to reel them in. I imagined, you 
see, that I could differentiate the rises of trout 
and chubs and might have suffered for my non¬ 
sense, as you will see. Away off, near the top 
of the pool and close to the opposite shore, I 
had the chubbiest kind of a quiet chubby rise. 
I struck, then dropped the point of the rod, but 
away w T ent the line down the pool. I released 
the reel just in time. “What an awful chub 
that must be.” I waded down after the fish 
and presently it swung round in the shallow 
water, displaying the long clipper-built form of 
another big trout. I got him all right, but what 
a queer adventure. It was a well recognized 
poor place. Probably that was the reason the 
fish were there. Nobody had worked it care¬ 
fully as I happened to do. 
T heodore Gordon. 
Trout in Kashmir. 
Since the report for Sambat, 1963, was issued, 
great progress has been made, and the value of 
the information collected during the visit of the 
writer to England in 1906 has become more 
apparent, says the Asian. In the autumn of 
1907 visits were paid to the Wangat, the Kishen- 
gunga River and Burzil stream, the Gurai 
stream, the Marwar, Achibal, Lidder and Aroo 
rivers, as well as many of their tributaries when 
the water was practically at winter level, with 
the best possible results. With the knowledge 
so acquired it was possible to proceed with the 
stocking of these rivers at a higher elevation 
than would otherwise have been practicable. It 
was known that from 7,000 feet upward most of 
these rivers were frozen over at times during 
the winter, and that occasionally they were 
buried many feet under the snow. In such 
places, floating hatching boxes were useless and 
a new hatching box had to be designed which 
would require little or no attention, and which 
might lie under heavy snow without harm to its 
contents. Such a box was successfully designed, 
and in boxes made on this pattern the great bulk 
of the eyed ova put out was hatched and the 
fry escaped into the small streams without hav¬ 
ing to be handled or frightened in any way. It 
is believed that they are all doing well. 
The dispatches of eyed ova were as follows: 
Dec. 24, 1907, Kishengunga at Bardwan... .23,000 
Jan. 2, 1908, Lidder, Aroo.30,000 
Tannin .14,000 
6, “ Marwar above Portwari.17,000 
19, “ Wangat .34,000 
“ 28, “ Kishengunga, Bardwan .37,000 
“ 28, “ Erin abve Karrara .13,000 
Feb. 1, “ Achibal .55,000 
4, “ Wangat ..35,000 
“ 11, “ Lidder .49,000 
19, “ Vaishoo . 52,000 
Mar. 13, “ Wangat .39,000 
Put in fry ponds at Harwan.53,000 
Total .451,000 
High Hook Trophy. 
New York, Oct. 19. —Editor Forest and Stream: 
The “High Hook” silver trophy competition 
of the Uncle Sam Fishing Club, of Canarsie, 
for the season of 108, was won by Hermam 
Glade, the secretary, with, a weakfish weighing 
7J4 pounds, measuring 33m. in length. 
The following were some of the catches made 
by other members, all the fish being taken in 
Jamaica Bay on rod and reel: 
Dr. C. A. Lleller, 7 pounds; Richard Guiler, 
7 pounds; Wm. C. Winter, 6 j 4 pounds; August 
Braun, 6 pounds; W. Collier, 6 pounds; Emil 
Kieser, sV 4 pounds; Edw. M. Broadbelt, 5 1 / 2 
pounds; “Uncle Charlie,” 5^2 pounds. 
This was the first tournament held by the 
club, and the interest and friendly rivalry shown 
by the members have caused the club to offer a 
cup annually for the largest game fish caught by 
a member in the bay on rod and reel during 
each season. Herman Glade, Sec’y. 
Newark Club Contest. 
Newark, N. J., Oct. 17. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: A regular meeting of the Newark 
Bait- and Fly-Casting Club will be held Friday. 
Oct. 23, 1908, at Achtel-Stetter’s Hall, Broad 
street, Newark, N. J., at eight o’clock, when 
business of great importance will be acted upon. 
Each member is earnestly requested to attend 
this meeting. 
On Election Day, Nov. 3, a club tournament 
will be held with events as follows: 10 A. M.— 
Distance half-ounce bait. 11 A. M.—Distance 
trout fly. 1 P. M.—Accuracy fly. 2 P. M.— 
Accuracy half-ounce bait. 4 P. M.—Surf cast¬ 
ing, open to all. 
The first four events will be open to club 
members only. Fred T. Mapes, Sec’y. 
Adirondack Fishing. 
Blue Mountain Lake, Oct. 10.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Fishing for both brook and 
lake trout was fairly good early in the season, 
but the dry weather soon made fishing for 
brook trout a delusion, and a scant or wholly 
unrewarded weariness to the flesh. Even 
guides could not obtain enough brook trout to 
supply the table at some resorts. Restocking 
will be a widespread need next year. 
Juvenal. 
“Oho! This is the place where the big trout are, is it? Then this is the sort of ‘fly,’ I think.’’ 
From the Woodward Collection. 
