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and are evidently eagerly waiting for the time 
when the cold drives the jumpers down into 
the lakes again. Surface baits and frogs are 
very effective in the autumn. 
I note with interest a recent letter from Mr. 
Burhans, of Southern Minnesota. The condi¬ 
tions in fishing of the southern part of the State 
and the northern part are very much different. 
Some of the best fishing is to be had in the 
Northern lakes from the end of the summer 
until it freezes up. In the fall the bass take 
most any bait with great avidity. 
During my vacation last summer, every morn¬ 
ing as 1 came down to the beach there would be 
the boat of our camp neighbors, being rowed 
back and forth, trolling for pickerel. Without 
barely stirring, the two men made their round 
of the upper end of the lake, one of them row¬ 
ing very slowly and the other pulling the line 
lightly back and forth. Occasionally the line 
was drawn in and again thrown out and the 
performance repeated. Thus they kept on dur- 
something that seemed to swim with great speed 
toward the bait and then stop. Once again the 
frog shot out, this time to one side of the weeds. 
Barely had I begun to retrieve line when I felt 
a sharp tug at the line, but not a catch. When 
I took the hook up I found that the frog had 
been bitten off in' the center. It was the work 
of a pickerel, 1 decided, but put on another frog, 
cast again and had a strike. I let out line grad¬ 
ually, and when I was sure that I had the fish, 
set the hook. Then for the first time the bass 
broke water and vainly sought to release it¬ 
self from the hook. 
When I had him near the net he gave a sudden 
flop and darted out into the lake at great speed, 
but was again brought in to make another at¬ 
tempt to escape before I succeeded in scoop¬ 
ing him in. I saw then that the hook was fas¬ 
tened in the bones of the jaw and so set that 
it took me some time to work it out. It weighed 
four and a half pounds. 
In fishing for croppie I found that they will 
Buchholz, Saxony, one of the best German ang¬ 
lers of my acquaintance, who fishes in the Black 
b orest, called my attention to this fact and 
showed me a beautiful brooch made from fish 
eyes. In inclose a few 'which I collected last 
year when fishing the Enz in the vicinity of 
Wildbad, Black .Forest. W. D. Coggeshall. 
[The eyes mentioned by Mr. Coggeshall aver¬ 
age 3/16-inch in diameter, are round and not un¬ 
like pearls in appearance. —Editor.] 
The Exception. 
Their teacher had been telling the pupils of 
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, “the water of 
which,” she explained, “is so extremely salty 
that no fish can live in it.” 
This statement proving too much for the credu¬ 
lity of Willie Parker, he rose with this ques¬ 
tion : 
“Beg pardon, Miss Smith, but can’t mackerel 
live in it?”—Plarper’s Weekly. 
SCENES IN CENTENNIAL PARK, SYDNEY. 
DR. MAITLAND BREAKING THE AUSTRALIAN RECORD. C. H. GORRICK CASTING A FLY Io6 FEET. 
ing the days we camped there. They seemed 
to regard it as the only sport worth while. When 
I went to the lakes this fall they were still whip¬ 
ping the waters of the lake as they had been 
in the summer. 
Bass fishing occupied my time almost com¬ 
pletely. Along the beach in the early morning 
I found them as they came up to feed, and as 
the lake was rather shallow I could even watch 
them seize the bait. Lightly fanning the water 
some four or five of them would circle about 
the bait and nibble at it, but if the frog moved 
it was sure to be nabbed instanter. 
At the big point the water was much deeper 
and here it was my good fortune to land several 
big ones. It is of the main one that I will write. 
It was caught when the evening shadows were 
beginning to darken the waters at the far end 
of the lake. There were several rocks lying 
in the water, and by standing on these I could 
cast at my leisure and be safe from any inter¬ 
ference. So with my rod in. hand I mounted 
the rock, and gauging the distance, cast to the 
edge of a bunch of weeds that grew on the 
water. As I reeled in, my attention was held by 
not go out of their way to snap up a bait; they 
seem to stay at a certain depth in the water, and 
if the bait is dropped in front of their noses 
they will take it. Around the middle of July 
.they are inactive and seem to stay in the depths. 
R. P. Lincoln. 
Fish Eyes. 
London, Sept. 30. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your interesting issue of the 18th inst. I was- 
much amused on reading a letter from E. L. 
Ewbank, Esq., from Hendersonville, N. C., re¬ 
garding a pearl in rainbow trout. It may interest 
your readers to know that what appears to be 
pearls are found in most fish—generally two 
pearls. If you will boil a trout or fry it care¬ 
fully with the eyes in the fish—these eyes when 
carefully picked out—and carefully dried in a 
napkin and then put away for a day or two 
they will have every appearance of being pearls 
which have been boiled. If the fish has been 
over boiled or over fried, the eyeballs will have 
a chalky appearance. I have seen these so-called 
pearls handsomely mounted. 
My friend, Carl Anton Rudolph, Esq., of 
Milwaukee Casting Club. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 18 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Following are the scores of the last 
contest held this season, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 
1909, the attendance being small on account of 
bad weather. M. A. Beck broke all previous 
records, casting 992/15 in the quarter-ounce 
contest: 
!4oz. 
V2OZ. 
M. A. 
Beck. 
. 99 2-15 
98 6-15 
A. F. 
Bingenheimer. 
. 98 
C. A. 
Rhine. 
. 9S 9-15 
97 6-15 
C. L. 
Tolfson. 
98 8-15 
PI. C. 
Mullen. 
97 14-15 
The averages for the season will be published 
next week. A. L. Stolz, Sec’y. 
A Big Swordfish. 
Word has been received from Honolulu of 
the capture there recently of an immense sword¬ 
fish, called by the native Hawaiians “A’u.” The 
fish was caught by Japanese fishermen, about 
eight miles off shore, and was one of the largest 
ever taken in those waters, being over 1,200 
pounds in weight with a sword over six feet 
in length. 
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