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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. s, 1908. 
pionship medals. I have gone to the lake as 
early as 7 o'clock in the morning, practiced for 
an hour or so, and again in the evening from 
6 o’clock until dark, trying to perfect my cast¬ 
ing so as to enable me to be among the top 
notchers. At last I succeeded. I assure you 
that this was all done without any forethought 
for business interests, but merely as any thor¬ 
ough and conscientious member of a club should 
do. I do not believe in starting up a ladder and 
resting on the middle rung, when with a little 
work and perseverance it is possible to go higher. 
It seems a pity after all this interest and ap¬ 
preciation has been shown by one who has per¬ 
sonally helped in dozens, I may say hundreds, 
of cases to show to the brother sportsman the 
advantages obtained in tournament work, that 
he should be cast out and thrown aside as a 
rank professional. I coincide with Mr. Darling 
in reference to his remark that “it does not taste 
good and it disagrees with his digestion.” I 
certainly appreciate his feeling. 
I believe if the National Association of Scien¬ 
tific Angling Clubs at its next meeting will re¬ 
consider the article relating to professionals and 
look into the matter more thoroughly, it may 
find some way whereby such casters as Mr. 
Darling and myself, with a number of others, 
will be allowed to enjoy the same privileges as 
were long enjoyed before the formation of the 
National Association of Scientific Angling Clubs. 
J. B. Kenniff. 
[A number of anglers have expressed the hope 
that amateurs and trade representatives alike will 
give us their -opinions on this subject, as they 
are convinced the National Association and club 
rules need changing, in order to so adjust mat¬ 
ters that novices, expert amateurs and others 
will be encouraged to take part, at every oppor¬ 
tunity, in contests. Expressions of opinion are 
invited, and will be given space in these columns. 
—Editor.] 
Jud Smith—An Appreciation. 
Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 28.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: I was much pleased to recognize 
the face of my old friend and guide, Jud Smith, 
in Mr. Spaulding’s article on Brant Lake fish¬ 
ing boats in your issue of Nov. 14, and am 
sure that the compliment paid to Jud’s boats will 
be warmly appreciated throughout this part of 
the country. 
However well versed in the construction of 
boats Jud may be, that is one of the least of 
his varied accomplishments. 
He can handle a boat. No blue-blooded lady 
ever swung her trailing skirts through the mazes 
of a dance with more graceful certainty than 
the stern of Jud’s boat swings, with an angler 
in readiness, to just the right casting distance 
and at just the right angle, when some likely 
looking stump or rock peeps above the waters 
of that same Brant Lake. 
He can handle a fish. Let a big bass run in 
behind some big boulders in ten or twelve feet 
of water. Does Jud’s tackle break? No sir, 
Jud s archor, a chunk of lead, comes out of 
the bow and is dropped and dropped and drop¬ 
ped on that rock, Jud sputtering and scolding 
away, until the fish is driven out into open water. 
1 le knows all the big bass by name and the 
street number of their residences. It is likely 
he told Mr. Spaulding about McManus. Mc¬ 
Manus lives up by the big island, the fourth 
rock out toward Northwest Bay. I thought I 
had Mac one afternoon, but Jud said, “No, that’s 
only Four-Pound Frank.” So you can realize 
that Mac is some pumpkins. 
Jud is a great hunter. After we had scoured 
and scraped the woods around the lake for four 
days, Jud left me on a ledge, saying with an air 
of finality, “There, the deer ’ll come out of 
them bushes and head down through here to 
the brook. You want to stop it.” So, sure 
enough, I stopped it. It is not everybody who 
can settle a thing of that sort as easily as Jud 
can. 
Jud’s knowledge of matters and things is not 
confined to his immediate locality. He is con¬ 
scious of things going on at great distances 
from himself. Witness: We were hunting a 
few miles north of the lake one day and heard 
a dog about a mile or so across the valley, run¬ 
ning a rabbit. Everybody heard it; everybody 
but the old sunfish guide forgot about it. About 
a week later we were going into camp at 
Pharaoh Lake when a stranger approached us 
and inquired if we had seen anything of a black 
and tan dog that ran over in our direction about 
a week previous. 
“No,” said Jud, “we havn’t seen any black 
and tan dog, but we heard one go by t’other 
day,” which proves that Jud could tell the color 
of that dog a mile away in the woods with noth¬ 
ing but the dog’s bark to judge by. 
Jud is square; he is loyal; he has a wonder¬ 
ful grasp on facts. When it comes to facts 
about fishing, a forty-mule train could not ex¬ 
tract a fact from him unless he wished to give 
it up. And yet Jud’s deeds never lie. 
He has his own ways of fishing. If you are 
to get fish you must get them Jud’s way. He 
will have you fishing a dozen different ways 
when he is moving from one big fellow’s lair 
to another, and about the time you reach the 
right place you will be fishing Jud’s way and 
get the fish. But when the day is over you 
will not be able to tell which especial way is 
his. 
Jud is a rip-roaring artist, joyous and free, 
and the best boat in the Adirondacks is not as 
good in its way as dear old Jud is, any old way 
you take him. Switch Reel. 
New York Stale Fish Culture. 
In his report for 1907, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, 
New York State Fish Culturist, says in part: 
Gradually, but surely and steadily, the stations 
of the commission are becoming more effective 
through the faithful efforts of the foremen, sup¬ 
plemented by the active supervision of the com¬ 
missioner and his fish cultural staff. 
Negotiations were continued early in 1907 for 
the purchase of a tract of land belonging to the 
Bonneville estate and lying at the junction of 
the Kleine Kill and Roeliff Jansen Kill, about 
one mile south of Linlithgo. This property was 
finally secured by condemnation and, in addition 
to the adjoining land purchased from Thomas 
Miller, now forms the site intended for a hatch¬ 
ery and a series of ponds for the rearing of 
shad, black bass and other species. 
On March 27 the rainbow trout were begin¬ 
ning to run up Pleasant Valley stream from 
Keuka Lake. Thirty fish, ranging from 2 j 4 to 
4 pounds, had been taken and nearly all were 
females. This is the first season in several years 
that they have run up in any numbers. On Apri 
16 the trout had stopped ascending, and the last 
two taken were spawned out. The number of 
eggs secured was 60,000. On May 22 ten to 
fifteen thousand eggs remained to be hatched. 
Mr. Walters finds that the rainbow trout re¬ 
mains in Great River, Long Island, notwithstand¬ 
ing the fact that nothing prevents it from going 
to sea by way of Great South Bay. It does not 
appear to stray far from the river; occasionally 
one is caught at Islip or Bay Shore. 
Monstrosities are common enough in all trout 
hatcheries, but Foreman Winchester discovered 
one at the Adirondack hatchery which is unusual 
to say the least. It was a perfect triplet of 
heads all joined to one sac. 
Many attempts have been made to rear maska- 
longe to fingerling size, but none have succeeded 
on account of the cannibalism so characteristic 
of the young. The fry are liberated as soon as 
they are able to swim freely, and most of the 
product of the hatchery is placed in Chautauqua 
Lake. 
At Constantia the black bass are very irregular 
in their feeding habits. On some days they rush 
to the surface eagerly to receive the food thrown 
to them by the attendant, and they come into 
full view near the shore. On other days they 
feed but little or not at all. Live frogs will 
tempt them at any time. Grasshoppers and 
crickets are also taken, but not so readily as frogs. 
In Great River, Long Island, the Southside 
Sportsmen’s Club has established closed seasons 
for the striped bass during the period of hiber¬ 
nation and in the spawning season. It is be¬ 
lieved that in this way a colony of bass can be 
permanently established in the river. 
Many persons ask the commission where they 
may buy certain species of fish for stocking pri¬ 
vate waters, and such letters are always promptly 
and fully answered. 
Another series of inquiries relates to fish suit¬ 
able for controlling the growth of microscopic 
animal and vegetable life in ponds or reservoirs 
supplying water for towns and cities. For this 
general purpose the commission invariably 
recommends small fish which feed at the surface 
and which will destroy not only microscopic 
plants and animals, but alsb the swimming larvae 
of the mosquito. A fish of this kind is the fresh 
water killy, Fundulus diaphanus. 
Some difficulty and delay arises in shipping 
fish because the State has only one car, and 
when that is at one station it may be badly 
needed somewhere else. Another trouble is 
caused by occasional wrecks involving a lay up 
of the single fish car for repairs. It would seem 
to be necessary to have at least two cars for the 
State work. 
Fishing Tackle for Africa. 
Judging from an order we saw recently, it 
would seem that President Roosevelt’s African 
equipment will not include much in the way of 
fishing tackle. The order, which was filled by 
one of the tackle dealers in this city, was for 
lines, hooks, etc., such as one might carry in 
a pocket on the chance of finding fishing waters 
in out-of-the-way places. 
All the fish laws. of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozv in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
