April 23, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
659 
133 yearlings; September, 1905, after planting, 
143 yearlings. 
Fjord No. 3.—Circular. Two and one-half 
miles long by 1 mile broad. Bottom as No. 1. 
Number of hauls 33, with following results: 
September, 1904, before planting, 454 yearlings; 
September, 1905, after planting, 756 yearlings; 
September, 1906, after planting, 953 yearlings. 
The main results for the three fjords will be: 
No. 1 . 
Before 
Planting. 
Fry. 
,... 426 
After 
Planting. 
Fry. 
tl,328 
No. 2 . 
... 484 
$143 
No. 3 . 
■••• 454 
$855 
Total . 
,... 964 
2,326 
The increase amounts to 141 per cent. 
Figures taken from the fishery statistics for 
the Kristianiafjord, inside of Dribak, begun in 
1872, show an average catch of 75,761 cod in the 
period between 1872 and 1881, and of 58,476 be¬ 
tween 1882 and 1891. In 1892, when fry first 
were planted, the catch was 44,013. Since then 
there has been a steady increase, and last year 
the number caught was 114,013. The number of 
fry planted in the Kristianiafjord since 1892 is 
about 170,000,000, worth about 5,000 kroner, 
while the increase in the catch over and above 
what it was in 1892 is worth about 600,000 
kroner. 
On the west coast of Norway, where hatching 
has not been conducted, the cod is gradually 
disappearing from the fjords. 
^Average. 
A New Club Organized. 
Batavia, N. Y., April 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: About twenty-five of the sportsmen of 
Clifton Springs and vicinity met in the parlors 
of the Young Men’s Christian Association Tues¬ 
day evening for the purpose of perfecting the 
organization of a rod and gun club. 
R. E. Stratum was made chairman of the meet¬ 
ing and Harmon Tiffany secretary. The fol¬ 
lowing officers were elected for one year: Presi¬ 
dent, Frank S. Lapham; Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer, R. A. Brigg. A committee of three was 
also appointed by the chair for the purpose of 
drawing up a constitution to report at the next 
meeting. 
The organization starts out with a charter 
membership of nineteen and several others’ 
names will soon be added. The purpose is to 
protect game, fish and song birds, also to stock 
the streams with small fish. This name was 
adopted : Clifton Rod and Gun Club. 
C. W. Gardiner, Sec’y. 
Snub-Nosed Perch. 
New York City, April 3. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Correspondents of Forest and Stream 
have lately written of “snub-nosed perch,” but 
seem at a loss to know how to account for the 
deformity. As an offhand guess I would let 
suspicion rest upon the larval form of some para¬ 
site that enters the nostrils during the early de¬ 
velopmental stage of the perch and interferes 
with normal nutrition of the part. 
Robert T. Morris. 
All the fish laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
Fishing in California. 
Los Angeles, Cal., April 9.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Tuna Club, which now controls 
the sporting situation at Catalina Island, has 
ruled out several catches made upon tackle which 
appeared to conform to the letter of the rules, 
but proved stronger than is permissible when 
tested. 
Last fall Commodore Potter sent all dealers 
and line manufacturers notice that the two 
pounds per strand strain limit was to be en¬ 
forced. In the face of their warning some of 
the dealers sold lines made to defeat the spirit 
of the regulations, which were drawn to limit 
power and put a premium upon skill. As a re¬ 
sult several catches have been thrown out, in 
some cases without the angler’s knowing that 
he had an over-strong line. One man said he 
asked for 900 feet of six-thread line and wanted 
the best. What he got was the line that the 
committee had to condemn when they put it on 
the spring balance. 
Several yellowtail brought in for entry on the 
Three-Six books were disqualified when Secre¬ 
tary Tom Manning tested the lines, of which 
fifteen feet must be turned in with the fish. 
Some of these cases were innocent offenders. 
As boatmen often furnish the tackle, it is hard 
to be sure that the angler knew it was over¬ 
strong, as all he knows in many cases is what 
the boatman says. 
Yellowtail, white sea bass and numerous 
smaller fish are taken quite frequently on arti¬ 
ficial lures, spoons and imitation baits. Some 
very large fish have been brought in, including 
a 39/^-pound white sea bass taken by a Mr. 
Wilson, of Duluth, Minn., on nine-nine tackle. 
Several unusually large yellowtail also have been 
entered, and the winter tournament will show 
a very creditable entry list, comprising all the 
varieties taken in these waters excepting pos¬ 
sibly the yellowfin tuna and black sea bass. 
Dr. David Starr Jordan upset local anglers 
greatly a few days ago by declaring that steel- 
heads and rainbows were the 'same fish, answer¬ 
ing a query sent by a local sportsman. Now, 
this may be true. All trout fishers know the 
difference that environment makes in the same 
species, but I have not yet met a trout fisher¬ 
man who believes it. They have been in the 
habit of differentiating between them, fish the 
upper parts of the streams for rainbows and the 
lower reaches for the steelheads. Mouth, color¬ 
ing, habits, all differ in the fishes we have been 
used to calling rainbows and steelheads. Dr. 
Jordan has reversed himself on this matter, I 
believe. His previous works differentiate be¬ 
tween the two fishes. 
However this may be, the result has been 
“confusion worse confounded,” and the matter 
affords another instance of the error of draw¬ 
ing hairline distinctions in game laws which are 
to be followed by the expert as well as the in¬ 
experienced. 
The salmon marks upon the steelhead trout 
identify it to the trout fisherman, and there are 
other differences in shape of head that show 
even in the very small specimens. The two have 
been recognized as distinct for several years and 
Dr. Jordan’s verdict has brought the same situa¬ 
tion in fresh water that his inclusion of the 
albacore as a true tuna, and his change of view 
on the Japanese visitor that he taught us to call 
Japanese or yellow-finned albacore and thea yel¬ 
lowfin tuna, produced in Catalina angling circles. 
The trout matter serves to show that a uniform 
game law is most desirable, and to have such 
satisfactory to all in so big a State as California 
and throughout such an almost continental cli¬ 
matic range of conditions, seems virtually im¬ 
possible of achievement. 
Early trout fishing hereabouts is principally a 
bait proposition; in fact, the much-abused ground 
hackle is the best fly for these California trout 
at any time. Grasshoppers do very well in sum¬ 
mer, and there are times when they take a fly 
well enough, but on the whole the rainbow is, 
to my mind at least, a base imitation of the 
fontinalis trout, and this opinion is shared by 
that expert trout angler, Tom Potter. 
Edwin L. Hedderly. 
Trout on Barbless Hook. 
Hendersonville, N. C., April 13. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: For some years I have 
been very much interested in the rainbow trout 
of our section here in these mountain streams. 
On March 23 we planted 20,800 rainbow trout 
in Green River and on the 31st some thousands 
more in that stream, and also in Big Hungry 
Creek, a tributary of Green River, and a lot in 
other streams in this county. 
After taking charge of these fish on March 
23, I took my bait rod and with garden hackles 
fished from 10 o’clock a. m. to 1 p. m. with the 
result that I killed one female trout of nine or 
ten inches. 
After eating my lunch I dressed this trout 
and found some eight or ten eggs of the size 
of No. 2 shot that she had not yet expelled, thus 
showing that the spawning season—at least some 
years—extends in these mountain streams well 
into March. 
After lunch I assembled my little split bam¬ 
boo rod and whipped the nearby pool very thor¬ 
oughly, but got no rise there. Working quietly 
up the stream I soon saw a nice trout dash 
twice at the flies just under the surface of the 
water, and a little later on up the river I caught 
one. By the time I was called on to leave for 
my train I had killed eight nice trout with flies. 
Now, I made up my mind I would give them 
another trial, so on April 1 I took the train for 
Tuxedo, seven miles down the road, and then 
walked four miles up the road to strike the 
stream above dead water, and reaching it by 10 
a. m. I assembled the little fly-rod and stepped 
into the water. It was a bit cold (I wear no 
waders, simply an old suit), but I kept busy and 
did not suffer. The wind was blowing down 
stream as I waded up and cast on the water, 
thus kept a little bit stirred by the wind. I had 
fine sport, my largest trout being nearly fifteen 
inches and weighing one and a half pounds. 
After killing some twelve pounds or a little 
over, I left for my train. 
We End that the people are becoming more 
interested each year in the propagation and pro¬ 
tection of the trout. Now what did I catch these 
trout with ? I used the royal coachman, bee and 
Cahill, all tied on No. 10 barbless hooks. I use 
no flies but barbless, and know what I am talk¬ 
ing about when I say I want no better, and that 
I can catch more trout with them than any 
other, and I can return to the water all the little 
fish unhurt. Ernest L. Ewbank. 
