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white sea bass and yellowtail. These trophies 
are to be duplicated for both competitions, sum¬ 
mer and winter. 
A fine lot of merchandise prizes are offered 
boatmen in the four classes that chiefly interest 
Catalina anglers. Three prizes are offered in 
each class for first, second and third largest 
fish. The boatmen are getting some much de¬ 
served recognition. . * - 
Albacore are running of good size now. Con¬ 
siderable sport is to be expected until the first 
general rain scatters the fish. Yellowtail are 
plentiful some days. 
The Three-Six tackle had an uncommonly 
good year of it. Sixty-seven or sixty-eight 
qualified upon the gear. I think sixty-eight was 
the total of the tuna weighed in. 
The Light Tackle Club has now become an 
adjunct of the Tuna Club similar to the Three- 
Six Club, both of which might more properly 
be called branches, or divisions, as qualifications 
in them is not necessarily a preliminary to mem¬ 
bership in the Tuna Club, nor does it give any 
right or title to the privileges of the parent or¬ 
ganization, a matter not clearly understood by 
some who have thought a twenty-pound albacore 
gave them the entre to every thing piscatorial 
at Catalina. 
The strength of lines is rigidly limited to two 
pounds’ breaking strain per strand, so line 
makers should take heed. 
Edwin L. Hedderly. 
A Singular Occurrence. 
A remarkable incident in the natural history 
of the salmon is reported from Sandside, Caith¬ 
ness, the property of Thomas Pilkington, in the 
Scottish Field for October. The estate is pro¬ 
vided with an elaborate hatchery, in connection 
with which several spacious ponds have been 
formed. In 1907 when spawning the fish, a male 
grilse, which had been deprived of its milt, was 
overlooked and left in one of the catch-pits. 
There it remained, apparently quite fit, and, to 
the surprise of everybody, was found, in the 
following year, to have developed the proper 
quantity of milt. The almost universal opinion 
has hitherto been that a kelt is incapable of 
again reproducing its species until it has visited 
the sea, but the Sandside case, the facts of which 
are quite beyond all doubt, will compel natural¬ 
ists to reconsider the question and slightly 
modify their views. 
It has been amply demonstrated that, without 
[returning to the sea, and feeding, the male sal¬ 
mon is able, not merely of living through so 
many months, but actually of discharging with 
perfect success the seasonal sexual functions. 
The ova fertilized by the milt in the second year 
latched quite normally. The catchpit in which 
he fish was accidentally impounded was only 
ibout twelve feet by six feet in dimensions. 
The water within the inclosure was seldom more 
han a foot in depth, there was very little of a 
tream and during the summer the water en- 
ered in the tiniest trickle. When the circum- 
tances came under the notice of W. L. Calder- 
/0 °d, inspector of salmon fisheries, he had the 
almon sent to Glasgow University for the pur- 
ose of undergoing an examination at the hands 
f Prof. Noel Paton. Prof. Paton found that 
ie muscle of the fish was extraordinarily poor 
l i fat, but not markedly deficient in proteins. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Fishes from Buggy. 
Sherman Baker, the veteran surf angler, has 
recently returned from a two weeks’ outing at 
Ocean Side, where this fisherman experienced 
the best surf fishing in his wide experience 
Mr. Baker used a horse and buggy to fish from, 
driving into the surf and casting, baiting and 
reeling in the fish entirely from the buggy. This 
is a novelty in surf fishing which might be 
easily followed'out with excellent results._Los 
Angeles Herald. 
Good Fishing. 
New Orleans, La., Nov. 3.—. Editor Forest 
and Stream: All the fishermen are reporting 
unusually good luck for this season of the year 
and many sheepshead, speckled trout (weakfish), 
Spanish mackerel and other fish are being 
caught. Many rod and line lovers are frequent¬ 
ing the fishing places at Chef Menteur, Lake 
ROY SHAVER BEACHING A 51'2-POUND CORBINA. 
Catherine, the Rigolets, Lookout, South and 
North Pass, Waveland and the bayous. The 
warm weather has made the fish bite actively. 
The local oyster business has diminished lately. 
This is on account of the hot wave which has 
reduced the demand. While shrimp are plenti¬ 
ful, still few are being sold, comparatively 
speaking. It is stated also that the general 
public is not calling for venison, shrimp, oys¬ 
ters, quail, etc., in the restaurants and the hotels 
to any large extent, or at least not so much as 
they usually do when cooler weather prevails. 
F. G. G. 
Rapid Growth of Salmon. 
It is said that a twenty-pound salmon, which 
was caught in Scotland not long ago, had at¬ 
tached to one of its fins a small silver plate 
marked “935B.” Upon inquiry it was found 
that this label had been put on the fish by the 
Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Associa¬ 
tion in December, 1907, in a river feeding the 
lake. The records show that it then weighed 
ten pounds, and thus in the space of eighteen 
months it had doubled its weight. 
Angling in Tasmania. 
It was winter in Tasmania in August, when 
the following notes on fishing matters appeared 
in the Hobart Mercury: 
While trout fishers have been waiting for the 
reopening of the season for angling for fresh¬ 
water fish, our sea angling friends in the estu¬ 
ary of the Derwent have been showing the 
Federal trawler Endeavor how to catch fish at 
the time of year when the sun neglects to shine 
long enough, and pleasantly enough, to make 
things quite comfortable. How to put in the 
winter for the trouter is a problem upon which 
much might be written. In countries where 
there is a good deal of fly-fishing, the tying of 
flies is an endless recreation, and quite as in¬ 
nocent as dressing dolls. In America they have 
inaugurated a new sport, which has come to 
stay, and is irreverently called by a lady of my 
own household “dry fishing.” That is to say, 
they have casting contests during the winter. 
Casts as to the length you can get a line out 
unweighted, but for a naked artificial fly, or 
casting a line weighted with so much lead. It 
is wonderful what can be done in that way. We 
may yet learn of a fishing line—cast far and 
straight, and with a nobby weight attached— 
as an instrument for civil war. Then, there is 
casting under or around obstacles, casting 
against the wind, and casting for accuracy. Al¬ 
together, I should reckon that upon a fine 
winter’s day, with a pleasant grassy lawn to 
operate upon, the new casting game should 
prove more interesting, as well as more ex¬ 
hilarating, than golf or bowls. But we need 
not much longer put up with counterfeits. 
The real thing is at hand, for does not the sea¬ 
son for estuary trout fishing in the Derwent, 
below Bridgewater, commence on Monday next? 
Our brethren of the angle have long been 
busy in England and in America—their season 
commencing, according to locality, in March or 
April. It is pleasant to note the literary flavor 
connected with much of the writing upon that 
gentleman, the trout. The ordinary American 
newspaper is, from a literary standpoint, an 
abomination to be avoided. Not so such a 
sporting journal as Forest and Stream. In 
free, flowing graceful English the trouty por¬ 
tions are written. So many are the references 
to our most graceful English angling writers, 
so frequent and apprecative the quotations from 
English poets, so full of charm and so redolent 
of the scent of country airs the descriptions, 
that you might imagine yourself abounding in 
some old English worthy of the time of Izaak 
Walton. I might remark, in passing, that the 
front page of the paper in a late issue shows 
splendid pictures of angling in the Snowy River 
in New South Wales. The writer of the letter- 
press mentions, casually, as it were, that the 
■trout fishing in New South Wales is the best 
in the world. (Modest New South Wales! 
Sir Henry Parkes once proposed to call that 
colony Australia.) Also, that rainbows under 
three pounds were always thrown in again. It 
was upon this that a wicked English angling 
journalist made free to remark that “the baskets 
used in the photograph were of the usual Eng¬ 
lish size.” 
That was a man, unobservant and unimagina- 
tive, who called anglers “patient.” Patience is 
the least of their virtues; what the angler repre- 
