Sept. 18, 1909] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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stream, led by what seemed to me a fine large 
fish when, to my surprise, another small shoal 
of about twenty fish came swimming down. 
Now, one would think the two shoals would 
amalgamate, but they did nothing of the kind, 
for without even a moment’s hesitation each 
family kept on its way. 
I am quite sure, with regard to the family 
spondee, that they pair individually. 
The angler has tried again and again to land 
a fine specimen, but somehow luck has always 
seemed to be against him, and now, at the end 
of the season, he is beginning to lose heart. 
Once more with startling suddenness comes the 
cry of the reel as the line is rapidly dragged 
out. No disappointment this time. A big fish 
at last. Yard after yard must go and eighty 
or ninety-five gone before the first mad rush is 
checked, and then for the next fifteen minutes 
a keen struggle ensues, fear and hope filling his 
heart. Well is it now that his tackle stands to 
him—true as a friend in need. It is of the best 
that his own and brother anglers’ experience 
can suggest, and at last the fish is cleverly gaffed 
and triumphantly landed. He is filled with the 
joy of a successful sportsman. It gives a color 
to the face and a bright sparkle to the eye. As 
he rides home in the train the old lady, sitting 
in the corner, thinks what a fine thing the sea 
air must be for the complexion. All note his 
elated appearance and someone asks him, “Any 
luck?” He replies in polite monosyllables, for 
just now he does not want to be bored with 
tall stories that are almost sure to be told for 
his edification. At last he is home, home among 
those he cares for, and those who love him. 
The fish is carefully weighed. It is a good 
seventeen pounds. The largest dish (all too 
small) is requisitioned and he tells to an admir¬ 
ing and sympathetic circle of how he caught it. 
It is indeed a noble fish, its golden and bronze 
scales still wet and glistening with the salt spray. 
A noble and beautiful fish, taken in a legitimate 
manner, for a legitimate end. 
A Pearl in a Rainbow Troul. 
Hendersonville, N. C., Aug. 26 . — Editor 
Forest and Stream: I have caught many trout 
from time to time, but quite recently I brought 
in thirteen rainbow trout. That day I had to 
make four miles in fifty minutes to catch my 
train home, and so did not dress my fish, as I 
usually do, before bringing them home. They 
were turned over to a boy to clean on my re¬ 
turn home, and were served on the breakfast 
table the next morning. 
In one of them a son of mine found what 
seemed to be (or was before cooked) a perfect 
pearl. It was the size of a No. 1 buckshot. In 
the cooking, of course, it was ruined, and was 
white until much of it was shelled off, then 
rather a water color. What is the history of 
pearls found in fish? I must confess complete 
ignorance of pearls found in fish, and was 
under the impression that they were only in 
oysters, clams, etc. If this is a pearl, it was 
quite unfortunate I did not dress the fish as 
usual. Yet I may not have found it, had I 
done so. 
It is just as well that an angler carry his 
creel of fish home nicely dressed, anyhow; and 
if trout are in the habit of carrying their jewels 
along with them when feeding, it is also just 
as well that the angler protect himself against 
loss by dressing them himself. If these Green 
River rainbow trout are in the pearl business, 
I shall be more careful in the future in handling 
them. I will appreciate light on the subject. 
Ernest L. Ewbank. 
[It is assumed that the pearl was not in the 
stomach of the rainbow trout, as Mr. Ewbank 
says it was found after the fish had been 
cooked, and not while being cleaned. Hence 
the matter is more interesting than if the pearl 
had been in the trout’s stomach. Pearls are 
frequently found in the shells of mussels in 
fresh water, but it is not believed that rainbow 
trout eat mussels from choice in water contain¬ 
ing an abundance of their natural food, as in 
North Carolina.— Editor.] 
Atlantic Tuna. 
Annapolis Royal, N. S., Sept. 8.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Your readers may be in¬ 
terested in the following letter sent me lately 
by L. A. Petrie, of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, who 
knows the sporting world up there; 
“Mr. Griswold, the tuna fisherman, was here 
this year in his yacht. He had hold of several 
fish, but got none. Jack Ross stayed with one 
for seventeen hours and then had to cut the 
fish clear; it was still going strong. There were 
not so many tuna in Mira Bay as last year, the 
weather being bad.” 
I have only to add that, so far as I know, a 
big tuna has yet to be taken from the Atlantic 
with rod, line, reel apd hook. I went twice my¬ 
self to Sandy Cove, in Saint Mary’s Bay, and 
spent a week each time on the lookout, but 
though several fish were taken in the traps I 
got no chance to “hitch up” to one. 
Edward Breck. 
Anglers’ Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., Sept. 10. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Anglers’ Casting Club of Chicago 
will give an open to all casting contest at its 
grounds situated in the northeastern section of 
Douglass Park at 10 a. m. (sharp) on Sept. 26. 
All casters in Chicago and vicinity and else¬ 
where are cordially invited to attend and com¬ 
pete. There will be four events, viz.: quarter- 
ounce, accuracy and distance; halfounce, accu¬ 
racy and distance. There will be suitable trophies 
awarded for first, second and third place in each 
event. An entrance fee of $1 will entitle a caster 
to compete in the four events, but only one prize 
will be allowed each contestant. Take a West 
Twelfth street car to California avenue and walk 
thence to grounds. 
E. M. Town, Sec’y and Treas. 
Louisville Casting Club. 
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 7.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following scores were made in the 
first event of the Kansas City-Louisville half¬ 
ounce accuracy telegraphic Casting contest held 
on Sept. 5: 
Kansas City. 
Demerits. 
Rramhall .27 
Hollinsworth .22 
McLean .21 
Robirds .17 
W Hunt .34—121 
Louisville. 
Demerits. 
Richards . 22 
E Tafel . 27 
Mrs Spangler .32 
Talbott .33 
Callaway . 43—157 
D. J. Spangler, Sec’y. 
An Unsatisfactory Season. 
Berlin, N. Y., Sept. n. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The trout season just closed in Rens¬ 
selaer county has been the worst in many years, 
and the indications are that next year will be 
equally poor. Many streams are dry which had 
water in them at this time last year, although 
there have been frequent rains. The snowfall 
last winter was very light and the streams be¬ 
came low early in the season. Low water here 
is not the result of deforestation, as farms on 
the mountains have been abandoned and arc 
fast growing up to woods. The original settlers 
cleared off the hills and reaped a rich harvest 
from crops raised in the black woods soil, but 
cultivation allowed the rains to wash the soil 
down into the valley streams, leaving only rocks 
and gravel with a sparse covering of grass 
which now has been replaced by trees. 
The streams will have to be restocked, and it 
will require at least two years to restore any¬ 
thing like the old conditions. 
A muskrat does not seem calculated to cause 
a smile, yet one certainly made me laugh a few 
weeks ago. I crept softly up to a trout pool 
and made a cast. As the bait struck the water 
a muskrat rose, with the face partly turned to¬ 
ward me, and his startled look on discovering 
me, the water streaming down his face, made 
me think of the boy who had been discovered 
bathing by his mother and saw a whipping in 
the near future. Mr. Rat dove for his hole and 
I caught a fine trout which might have served 
him for a dinner. Rob Saunderson. 
San Francisco Fly-Casfing Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 5. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The results of the casting on Sept. 
4 follow. The wind was southwest, weather 
cloudy: 
Event No. 1, distance, feet: 
T. C. Kierulff. 
...ins 
E. A. Mocker. 
... 102 
L. G. Burpee. 
...91 
T. B. Kenniff. 
... 132 
Event No. 2, accuracy, per cent.: 
F. A. Webster. 
96.7 
G. C. Edwards. 
. 98.5 
L. G. Burpee. 
95.13 
T. B. Kenniff. 
. 99.3 
T. C. Kierulff. 
E. A. Mocker. 
99.3 
96.10 
C. G. Young. 
. 98.10 
Re-entry: 
F. A. Webster . 
L. G. Burpee . 
.96.12 
96.2 
E. A. Mocker. 
. 97.10 
Event No. 3, delicacy, per 
cent.: 
Accuracy. Delicacy. 
Net 
F. A. Webster. 
.. 98.11 97.5 
98.2 
L. G. Burpee. 
.. 96.5 95 
95.40 
T. C. Kierulff. 
.. 98.2 98 
98.4 
E. A. Mocker . 
.. OS OS 
98 
G. C. Edwards. 
.. 98.13 98 
98.26 
T. B. Kenniff . 
.. 9S.9 98 
98.18 
C. «G. Young . 
98.42 
Re-entries: 
E. A. Mocker. 
.. 97.11 97.5 
.. 96.11 96.5 
97.32 
T. C. Kierulff. 
96.32 
Event No. 4, lure 
casting, 
pet* cent.: 
F. A. Webster. 
. 95.6 
G. C. Edwards. 
.. 97.0 
L. G. Burpee . 
. 87.3 
1. B. Kenniff . 
.. os.o 
T. C. Kierulff. 
. 95.8 
C. G. Young. 
.. OS .2 
E. A. Mocker. 
. 98.3 
Event No. 1, distance, f^et 
T. B. Kenniff . 
.. 123 
E. A. Mocker. 
... 100 
T. C. Kierulff . 
.. 104 
C. H. Kierulff. 
... 94 
Event No. 2, accuracy, ner 
cent.: 
T. B. Kenniff. 
98.14 
T. C. Kierulff. 
. 98.12 
C. H. Kewell. 
98.10 
F. M. Haight. 
. 98.5 
C. G. Young. 
98.11 
E. A. Mocker. 
. 96.12 
Tames Watt . 
96 
C. H. Kierulff. 
..98 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
9S.13 
Re-entries: 
James Watt . 
98.5 
F. M. Haight. 
Event No. 3, delicacy, per 
cent.: 
Accuracy. Delicacy. 
Net 
F. B. Kenniff. 
98.56 
"C. H. Kewell. 
.. 96.10 94.5 
95.30 
C. G. Young. 
.. 98.14 98.10 
9S.43 
Tames Watt . 
.. 97.12 90.5 
94.4 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
.. 97.13 97.0 
97.26 
T. C. Kierulff. 
.. 98.12 98.0 
98.24 
F. M. Haight. 
93.48 
E. A. Mocker. 
.. 97.7 98.0 
97.44 
C. H. Kierulff. 
.. 96.14 98.5 
97.38 
Re-entries: 
Tames Watt . 
.. 96.9 95.5 
95.58 
F. M. Haight. 
.. 98.2 96.0 
97.4 
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