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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 4, 1909. 
Colorado Streams to be Restored. 
Denver, Colo., Aug. 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The new game law recently passed by 
the Legislature went into effect July 28. There 
are many new provisions. Coloradans may fish 
without license, but nonresidents must pay $2, 
but nonresident hunting licenses are reduced 
from $25 to $10. The deer season has been re¬ 
stricted, lasting from Oct. 1 to 10 inclusive; 
one person is entitled to only one deer, and 
that with horns, thus again protecting does and 
fawns. The open season for prairie chickens 
is from Oct. r to 20; sage hens, mountain and 
willow grouse, Sept. 10 to Oct. 10; ducks and 
geese, Sept. 10 to April 15; plover, curlew and 
shore birds, March 1 to April 15. Trout may 
be taken from May 25 to Nov. 30, allowing 
future Decoration Day crowds to angle with¬ 
out becoming lawbreakers as in the past. 
Twenty geese and twenty other birds is the 
limit of a day’s kill, but one person may have 
in his possession at one time 25 geese, 25 ducks 
and 25 other birds. 
T. J. Holland, game and fish commissioner 
of the State, is making big preparation for 
planting young trout this year. The State 
hatcheries now contain better than 7.000.000 
baby trout—native, brook and rainbow. The 
natives are to be placed in streams heretofore 
neglected, streams with plenty of water and 
supplying all the elements of fish life, but de¬ 
void of that life save in small degree. “These 
natives,” says Mr. Holland, “are going to be 
located at altitudes of 9,000 to 12,000 feet, where 
rainbows cannot live. Of course, I will not be 
able to cover every high-up stream this year, 
but that is the policy decided on, and in a short 
while, if this policy is not changed, the angler’s 
territory in this State will be doubled. As an 
example of what I mean to do, take the 
Tomiche, on the other side of Marshall Pass, 
where the Rio Grande crosses. It would afford 
fine territory for the enthusiastic angler, 
abounding in many beautiful pools and riffies. 
Its nearness to the Rio Grande road makes it 
easily accessible. This is only one of the many 
now almost barren streams that will be stocked 
with natives. Then, at the same time, I am go¬ 
ing to replenish the Fraser River and its tribu¬ 
taries on the Moffat road in the northwestern 
portion of the State. 
“With the brook trout and rainbows I shall 
stock the Platte and other streams at lower 
altitudes as in the past. Another feature of my 
coming campaign is to stock every lake in the 
State that can be reached by pack train. In 
many instances interested parties have already 
begun cutting out trails to hitherto unapproach¬ 
able lakes. Near Westcliff one of the ranchers 
there, Mr. Cassidy, and his neighbors have 
blazed a trail to a big lake affording the best 
conditions for lake trout life. This lake is 
large and is at an altitude of 11,000 feet. It 
contains no trout now. 
“Another thing I am going to do this fall is 
to stock a number of streams in which trout do 
not thrive, but which are capital bass streams. 
Take as an example the San Juan River, from 
Pagosa down. It contains no trout; nothing 
but squaw fish and suckers. We have arranged 
for young bass to come from the Nebraska 
hatcheries and in a few years there will be 
many streams in Colorado which will afford as 
fine bass fishing as may be found anywhere in 
the country. From Rifle to Grand Junction on 
the Grand River there are no trout, and the 
stream will not support them—nothing but 
squaw fish and suckers there now. That is to 
be stocked this season. In Routt county there 
are a number of streams of like nature, all ac¬ 
cessible by rail, which can be converted into 
the most splendid bass waters by the outlay of 
a little money. 
“We will be enabled to do much more work 
of this sort this year and in many to come be¬ 
cause of the fact that the game and fish fund 
is now available. This fund amounts to $9,000 
to $13,000 annually and comes directly from 
hunting and fishing licenses. Heretofore there 
has been much difference of opinion as to just 
what uses this fund might be put to. The last 
Legislature has defined its purpose, so that it 
can be used for no other purposes than those 
coming under the jurisdiction of this depart¬ 
ment. One of my predecessors was compelled 
to turn $13,000 into the general treasury, thus 
irrevocably losing it to the game and fish in¬ 
terests of the State. All this is changed now, 
and rightly, too. The difference this money 
will make in our game and fishing interests will 
be considerable this year and increases as time 
passes.” 
Mr. Holland says he will institute another 
change for the better this fall. That will be a 
systematic scheme of trapping wolves and 
coyotes in the mountains. In former years 
coyotes and wolves were only found on the 
plains, but the coming of man has driven them 
to the hills. As a result all kinds of game 
suffer at the fangs of these freebooters. Mr. 
Holland is authority for the statement that our 
grouse, sage hens and chickens have almost dis¬ 
appeared through the depredations of the 
wolves and coyotes. He points to the fact 
that in many places where these birds have 
never been hunted by man they have neverthe¬ 
less nearly disappeared, thanks to wolves. 
His plan is to cut down the roster of game 
wardens to the minimum and spend their 
salaries in systematic trapping of the predatory 
varmints that live by waging war on game, 
birds. Dearborn. 
Fishing Near San Francisco. 
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 21 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Just why the quinnat salmon are 
not running in the bay at the present time is 
puzzling fishermen, for usually at this season 
of the year there is great sport with these fine 
game fish. So far there have been less than half 
a dozen taken, and of these four have been cap¬ 
tured by W. H. Campbell, of Sausalito. As the 
open season will end on Sept. 17, it would ap¬ 
pear as though local sportsmen would get but 
little sport of this kind this year. George M. 
Barnes, a veteran salmon fisherman, has been 
outside the heads two or three times a week 
for the past three months and has not been able 
to take a salmon yet. He states that the water 
outside is very muddy owing to the large volume 
of water that is coming down the Sacramento 
and San Joaquin, and believes that the fish are 
waiting for this to clear before attempting to 
come into the bay. 
Trout fishing continues to be excellent in the 
high sierras, and from no sections have there 
been complaints of low water this season. On 
many streams the water has just receded enough 
to make fishing at its prime. While fishermen 
on the Klamath and other rivers in Northern 
California send word that they are taking many 
large fish, it is noticed that on many streams the 
reverse is true. On the Truckee fishing is very 
good, but the fish are averaging a much smaller 
size than is usually the case. Fish there a pound 
in weight are scarce, and almost one-half of 
those taken have to be returned to the water on 
account of being too small. There is but little 
doing on any of the coast streams with the ex¬ 
ception of the Eel River and some of the streams 
close to the Oregon line. A few fishermen are 
still .trying to take steelhead trout in the White 
House Pool, but no fish have been taken there 
for some time. Black bass are quite plentiful in 
the salt water sloughs' and striped bass are mak¬ 
ing their appearance again, but no especially 
large fish have been taken yet. A. P. B. 
Enforcing Canadian Regulations. 
From Kingston Consul FI. D. Van Sant re¬ 
ports that American motor boat tourists visit¬ 
ing Ontario are cautioned to follow the new 
Canadian regulations, which materially affect the 
owners of gasolene launches and motor boats, 
and which the consul outlines: 
Along the artificial cuts of the Rideau canal 
anyone speeding faster than six miles an hour 
will be liable to a fine of $20 for every offense. 
When running at night, signal lights must be 
displayed. 
Licenses must be obtained by American fisher¬ 
men, and the rule limiting the day’s catch to 
eight black bass to a fisherman will be rigor¬ 
ously enforced. License notices are usually 
posted in the country stores, postoffices or pub¬ 
lic places, and Americans should look up the 
game or fish wardens on their arrival in Cana¬ 
dian waters and procure necessary permits. In 
the Bay of Quinte, Ontario, a small Canadian 
cruiser is to do duty in enforcing the laws. It 
is claimed that some yachts in past seasons took 
from sixty to one hundred and fifty bass in a 
day’s fishing, and the authorities are taking 
proper measures to stop this illegal fishing. 
Millwaukee Casting Club. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 23. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following scores were cast Aug. 
18: 
%-ounce. 
14-ounce. : 
C. A. Rhine. 
. 97 8-15 
9S 1-15 
A. Lahman . 
. 97 3-15 
98 8-15 ; 
M. A. Beck. 
. 98 1-15 
97 7-15 , 
A. L. Stolz .,. 
. 98 6-15 
98 9-15 
11. C. Mullen. 
. 98 6-15 
9S 14-15 , 
C. E. Tolfson. 
. 97 1-15 
1 
I. Dishington . 
. 98 12-15 
96 4-15 , 
A. F. Gates. 
. 98 2-15 
97 7-15 
G. C. Schoenlaub. 
. 97 5-15 
Mullen and Stolz tied in the half-ounce event; 
score, 986/15. H. C. Mullen won the quarter- 
ounce event; score, 9814/15. Highest cast this 
season in that event. 
The date of the State tournament at Racine ■ 
has been changed from Sept. 4 to Sept. II. 
There will be four bait events and one fly. The 
first contest will begin at 10:30 o’clock. 
We are very anxious that a large number of 
Milwaukee casters attend this meeting, because 
it was due to the large delegation of Racine 
casters that the Milwaukee meeting was a suc¬ 
cess. A. L. Stolz, Sec’y. 
