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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 2, 1910. 
friends were the offenders. It is the intention 
to drop that kind of warden for the future and 
appoint men who will know the law and wi 1 
not fear to enforce it; in fact, the secretary of 
the board has been authorized to prosecute all 
offenders upon receipt of sufficient evidence. In 
the future no warden will be allowed to act as 
guide. This practice in the past led to many 
abuses. Every -guide will have to be regularly 
licensed and wijl be held responsible for any 
breaches of the law by any party he is conduct¬ 
ing. Besides prosecuting the guilty parties the 
guide will also be prosecuted and will be de¬ 
prived of his license. It is hoped to get the 
pick of the present guides to act, so that they 
will be not only competent to do their work, 
but will also act as special game protectors and 
thus conserve their own best interests and those 
of all legitimate sportsmen. W. J. Carroll. 
Fishing on the Coast. 
San Francisco. Cal., March 19 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: There is little fishing being done 
in the -inity of San Francisco at the present 
time, bu preparations are being made for the 
commencement of the steelhead season that 
will open in most streams on April 1. In San 
Mateo and Santa Cruz counties the season will 
be closed until May 1, but in most other places 
the county laws coincide with the State regu¬ 
lations. From almost all of the coast streams 
good reports have come of the numbers of fish 
to be found, but heavy rains between now and 
the first of the month may put an effectual dam¬ 
per on fishing operations; in fact, at the present 
time the streams are rising, owing to the melt¬ 
ing of snow in the mountains, and the water in 
many of the streams is getting muddy. The 
best fishing for steelhead trout is secured in May 
and at that time the fish are in much better con¬ 
dition than they are earlier in the season-. 
Fishing for striped bass is still of a rather 
disappointing character, but on fine Sundays 
large crowds have been in the habit of visiting 
the favorite grounds in the hope that the fish 
would be running better. In San Antonio Creek 
net fishermen have been busy of late, and the 
deputy fish commissioners have been also, not 
less than a half a dozen arrests having been 
made there recently followed by convictions. 
The crab season opened on the first of the pres¬ 
ent month and a few days prior to the opening 
of the season a number of seizures were made 
both of nets and crabs. 
Tomcod anglers have been meeting with splen¬ 
did success around the bay during the past few 
weeks, and it is said that not in a great many 
years have these fish been as large and fat as 
they are at the present time. All kinds of small 
salt water fish have been in evidence of late, the 
best catches being of sea trout, rock cod and 
capazoni. Off the Tiburon bulkhead some fine 
catches of salt water eels have been made, sev¬ 
eral of these weighing three pounds and more. 
A. P. B. 
The Only Dry Place. 
A stingy angler was fishing on a Sottish loch 
on a pouring wet day. He had been consoling 
himself from his flask and forgetting his gillie. 
Presently he asked the gillie if there was a dry 
place in the boat on which to strike a match. 
“Ye might try my throat,” said the gillie. “It’s 
dry enough !”—Fishing Gazette. 
Paris Casting Tournament. 
The following are the principal results ob¬ 
tained in the various events at the second inter¬ 
national casting tournament held by the Casting 
Club of France, in Paris, on March 10, 12 and 
13. The approximate English equivalents are 
given in parentheses: 
march 10. 
Event 1.—Trout-Fly Casting: Distance; light 
rods; weight of rod not to exceed 5 ounces, with 
an allowance of three-quarter ounce for solid 
reel fittings. 
L. R. D. Hughes, 26.50m. (=86ft. ioin.). 
2. W. M. Plevins, 25.25m. (=82ft. 9m.). 
3. D. E. Campbell Muir, 23.0m. (=75ft. qin.). 
Event 2.—Trout-Fly Casting: Distance; open 
only to amateurs who have never cast a greater 
distance than 20 meters (=66ft. 6in.) in any 
previous tournament. 
1. M. Decantelle, 23.75m. (=77ft. ioin.). 
2. Perruche, 23.10m. (=75ft. 8in.). 
3. M. Canard, 19.50m. (=63ft. nin.). 
Event 3.—Light Bait-Casting: Accuracy, 15 
grammes (=p2 oz.). Three floating targets, 10 
feet 6 inches in diameter, with a 6-inch center 
and divided into five concentric zones 12 inches 
apart, were placed at distances of 66 feet 6 
inches, 83 feet and 100 feet from the casting 
platform. Competitors were allowed five casts 
at each distance. Each cast falling on the center 
or within the zone next to it counted ten points; 
9, 8, 7 and 6 points being allowed for the four 
remaining zones respectively. 
1. R. D. Hughes, 99 points. 
2. L. Bougie, 61 points. 
3. Vicomte de France, 41 points. 
All the competitors named cast overhead. 
Event 4.—Light Bait-Casting: Distance; 15 
grammes {—Yz oz.). Minimum length of rod five 
feet. Five casts allowed to each competitor. The 
highest aggregate of five casts to win. 
1. L. Bougie (overhead), total of five casts, 
207.14m. (=678ft. iiin.). 
2. M. Decantelle (overhead), total of five 
casts, 180m. (=59oft.). 
3. W. M. Plevins (overhead), total of five 
casts, 174m. (=57oft. 4m.). 
4. Vicomte de France (overhead), total of 
five casts, 171m. (=56oft. 6in.) ; best cast 48.35m. 
(—LS/fh) • 
5. M. Seutin (overhead), total of five casts, 
169m. (=553ft. 11 in.). 
Event 5.—Trout-Fly Casting: Distance; switch 
cast. 
1. D. E. Campbell Muir, 24m. (=78ft. gin.). 
2. J. Perruche, 22m. (=72ft. iin.). 
3. R. D. Hughes, 21.75m. (=71 ft. 4m.). 
march 12. 
Event 6. — Salmon - Fly Casting : Distance, 
switch cast. 
1. D. F. Campbell Muir, 38.20m. (=i25ft. 
2in.). 
2. Major Macdonald, 31.55m. (=io3ft. 5in.). 
3. R. D. Hughes, 31.50m. (=i03ft. 3m.). 
Event 7.—Medium Bait-Casting: Accuracy; 40 
grammes (—ij^oz.). A floating ring, 10 feet in 
diameter, was moored 100 feet from the casting 
platform. Each competitor was allowed a single 
cast at this distance. The ring was then moved 
10 feet further away, and so on until one com¬ 
petitor only succeeded in casting inside it. 
1. M. Decantelle. 
2. M. Wiesmann. 
3. R. D. Hughes. 
As the result of the first round, only three 
competitors were left in, and after three more 
rounds M. Decantelle was declared the winner. 
Event 8.-—Trout-Fly Casting: Accuracy. Three 
floating targets, 6 feet in diameter, with a center 
12 inches in diameter, and divided into five con¬ 
centric zones, each 6 inches wide, were moored 
at distances of 40, 50 and 60 feet, respectively. 
One hundred points were allowed for each cast 
in which the fly fell on the center of the target, 
and 95, 90. 85, 80 and 75 points respectively for 
the different zones. Three casts were allowed 
at each mark. 
1. M. Coltard, 345 points. 
2. W. M. Plevins, 310 points. 
3. M. Seutin and Major Macdonald each 275 
points. 
Event 9.—Medium Bait-Casting: Distance; 40 
grammes (— i l / 2 oz.). 
1. Vicomte de France (overhead), total of 
five casts, 248.31m. (=8l3ft. ioin.) ; longest cast, 
52.28m. (—171ft. 4m.). 
2. J. Perry (side swing), total of five casts, 
243.72m. (=799ft.) ; longest cast, 63.94m. (=209ft. 
6in.). 
3. M. Decantelle (side swing), total of five 
casts, 224.90m. (—-737ft. 2in.) ; longest cast, 61m. 
(=ri99ft. nin.). 
A special prize was given to J. T. Emery for 
the longest individual cast of 68.86m. (=225ft. 
ioin.). 
march 13. 
Event 10.—Trout-Fly Casting: Distance; length 
of rod not to exceed 11 feet 6 inches. 
1. R. D. Hughes, 30.50m. (=iooft.). 
2. M. Seutin, 28.75m. (=9qft. 3m.). 
3. W. M. Plevins, 25.25m. (=82ft. 9m.). 
Event 11—Heavy Bait-Casting: Distance; 75 
grammes (=2j/joz.). 
1. Vicomte de France (overhead), total of 
five casts, 201.50m. (=66oft. 6in.). 
2. D. E. Campbell Muir (side swing), total 
of three casts only, 168.50m. (=552ft. 4m.). . 
3. J. T. Emery (side swing), total of three 
casts only, 164.67m. (=539^. ioin.). 
A special prize was awarded to J. T. Emery 
for the longest individual cast of 75.50m. (=2q7ft. 
6in.). 
Event 12.—Salmon-Fly Casting : Distance. 
1. W. M. Plevins, 41.50m. (=i36ft.). 
2. D. E. Campbell Muir, 38.50m. (=i26ft. 2in.). 
3. Major Macdonald, 36.75m. (=i2oft. 6in.). 
-—Fishing Gazette. 
“ Snub-Nosed Perch.” 
Clinton, Mass., March 14.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I was much interested in the letter 
from Philip F. Schneider in your issue of March 
12 about “snub-nosed” perch, as he calls them. 
I have caught them many times in a river in > 
this neighborhood, but never heard of them 
being taken anywhere else. 
Nearly twenty years ago I caught them in the 
Nashua River in the town of Howard, Mass., 
and have caught them nearly every year since in 
the same stream. 
This river runs through an interva’e several 
miles in length and overflows its banks every 
spring, filling many pond holes or creeks. These 
ponds were evidently the bed of the river at one 
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