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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. t 3 , 1909. 
A Remarkable Mahseer. 
On the 20th of this month a friend and my¬ 
self went to the Hutty and Cauverie rivers for 
a four days' fishing, says C. E. Murray-Aynsley 
in the Indian Field. We found the river a bit 
big but clear. The first day on the Hutty my 
friend moved one fish. The second day we 
fished the Hutty to its junction with the Cau¬ 
verie, and then on into the Cauverie. A little 
before 3 p. m. in the second run in the Cauverie, 
when I had given up all hope of moving a fish 
and at the end of the run when I was making 
my last cast, I got a tug at my line that fairly 
astonished me. Up stream he went for about 
forty yards, then turned and came down, pass¬ 
ing me in my coracle about thirty yards from 
me at a frightful pace, taking out about eighty 
yards of line before he stopped, then made 
across the river and then up stream again and 
got under a rock. I got up above him and then 
came down to the rock, reeling up as I went, 
and when within twenty-five yards out he came 
and went down stream. I then made for the 
middle of the pool (which had a good current 
on it), my friend was below me and I signaled 
to him to come up, which he did after some 
trouble, as the current was against him. I tried 
to keep the fish in mid stream as well as I 
could, he making runs all over the pool. After 
about an hour of this I got him fairly close to 
the coracle and he kept going round and round 
me, I putting on all the pressure I thought my 
rod and tackle would stand. This went on for 
over thirty minutes, but do what I could he 
would not come to the surface. 
At last he came up a little and I got a glimpse 
of him. I worked away and managed to get 
his tail up, but he kept his head very low in the 
water. After two hours at him I found it was 
no go. I should never get him up; his weight 
was too much, so I made up my mind to get 
him to the side of the pool and try and shelve 
him. I funked it, as the bank was nasty look¬ 
ing with trees and roots around and some nasty 
1 ushes below, and only one small clear space of 
about fifteen yards. However, I managed to get 
him there, and my friend followed in his 
coracle. We both stranded our coracles, my 
friend’s below mine, and I managed to get the 
fish up close to his coracle; in fact, more than 
half the fish was under it when he gaffed him, 
and with the help of our two boatmen we drag¬ 
ged him on to the bank, and then we saw what 
a beauty he was. and T began to think I had 
broken my record of September. 1906, when I 
killed a fish of T04 pounds, but when we weighed 
him he scaled 103 pounds. We then got the 
tape and measured him and found his dimen¬ 
sions as follows: Weight, 103 pounds; length, 
64 inches; girth. 39 inches; mouth, across, 
inches; tail, across, 19 inches. Very much the 
same as my record fish which was 104 pounds. 
Length, 66 inches; girth. 37 inches; mouth and 
tail the same; that is, 8)4 and 19 inches. 
I was using a 16-foot salmon rod, cane built, 
steel centered (the second joint had a nasty 
bend in it just above the joint after the fight, 
but I am glad to say it is now straight again), 
a No. 8 spoon mounted by myself with a swivel 
and one treble hook, a Punjab wire trace (also 
made by myself), a reel and a tanned flax line. 
Home for Anglers’ Club. 
New York City, Dec. 8. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: At the regular meeting of the Ang¬ 
lers’ Club of New York, held Dec. 7, a commit¬ 
tee appointed for that purpose reported that it 
had examined a site including both lake and 
stream fishing in Lackawaxen township. Pike : 
county, Pennsylvania, previously offered, and 
recommended its acceptance by the club. Owing 
to some legal questions, however, the matter was 
laid over till the next meeting. It was the . 
sense, however, of the members present that the ■ 
club should accuire as soon as possible a per- t 
manent house either in the country or city. 
Edward Farnham Todd, Sec’y. 
Yachtsmen’s Club of Philadelphia. 
The Yachtsmen’s Club of Philadelphia has 
come to the front very rapidly. It is a young 
organization, but in the few years of its history 
it has done things and in the coming year will 
manage the longest race for power boats that 
has so far been held. This is the race to 
Havana and back. The annual election of offi¬ 
cers of this club will be held on .Tan. 4, and the 
following nominations have been made for the 
many positions to be filled: 
Commodore, J. G. N. Whitaker; Vicc- 
Commodore, John A. Lucey and George S. 
Gandy; Rear-Commodore, William Kern; Sec¬ 
retary, Morris G. Belknap and James A. Guth¬ 
rie; Financial Secretary, Herman Miller; Treas¬ 
urer, Ray Vanderchew, Board of Directors 
(eight to be elected)—R. H. Crowall, George 
D. Martin, R. N. Horter, W. U. Moyer, W. 
D. Snow, C. C. Eareckson, S. Biddle, Dr. C. 
S. Street, J. D. Arnold, Joseph McElwell, 
Charles E. Smith, S. Vanderchew, C. J. Max¬ 
well. 
There is only one name mentioned for com¬ 
modore, so that Mr. Whitaker’s election is prac¬ 
tically assured. He will succeed Dr. Street 
who has done much for the club since he has 
held office. Treasurer Vanderchew, who has 
held office, is nominated, and there is no op¬ 
position. 
Commodore J. G. N. Whitaker is a yachts¬ 
man of ability and well-known along the At¬ 
lantic coast. He is a member of the New York 
Y. C., Corinthian Y. C., Larchmont, Crescent 
and many of the social clubs. He has owned 
some of the finest sailing yachts on the coast. 
The Iroquois, a powerful schooner the com¬ 
modore has sailed many times to Nova Scotia, 
Maine, the Bahamas, and taken cruises along 
the coast of South America. He is a master 
of the art of navigation and deep-sea sailing. 
Commodore Whitaker’s famous power boat 
Ilys, built last winter, won the return race 
from Bermuda, the race at Bermuda and won 
most of the cruiser races on the New Jersey 
coast last season. In the Fulton race at New 
York, the Ilys won in her class. This yacht 
will be entered for the Havana race. 
With Commodore Whitaker at the helm of 
the Yachtsmen’s Club, the organization must be 
a success. Deep-sea racing will be promoted, 
building of larger yachts will be planned, com¬ 
bining with the summer club every effort will 
be made for their welfare, and a handsome, 
permanent home for the club is on his list 
for achievement during his administration. 
The Yachtsmen’s Club has come to stay. It 
has passed the experimental age and has be¬ 
come a club to be reckoned with, when it comes 
to promoting races of long distance on the sea. 
The Havana race from this city is the largest 
ever attempted for the power yachts. 
M. Starr;. 
Inter Lake Association Meeting. 
Fourteen of the twenty clubs in the Inter- 
Lake Yachting Association met at Toledo for 
the annual meeting on Dec. 4. The new officers 
elected were printed in last week’s Forest and 
Stream. The clubs represented were: Cleve¬ 
land Power Boat Club, C. D. Randall; Cleve¬ 
land Y. C, George FI. Worthington; Lake- 
wood Y. C., Robert E. Power; Buckeye Lake 
Y. C., Charles D. Lynch; Detroit Boat Club 
Yachtsmen, John L. Dexter; Detroit Motor 
Boat Club, F. R. Still; Detroit Y. C„ Charles 
P. Sieder; Erie Y. C., George T. Bliss; Mon¬ 
roe Y. C., H. W. Alford; Put-in-Bay Y. C., S. 
M. Johannsen; Sandusky Y. C., C. B. Lock¬ 
wood; Maumee River Y. C., R. 
Toledo Y. C., A. H. Gallagher. 
The clubs not represented were: Buffajo Y. 
C., Buffalo; Launch Club, Motor Boat Club, of: 
Buffalo; Edgemere Y. C., Detroit; Solvay Y.' 
C., Detroit; Port Clinton Y. C. 
Besides the regular delegates about forty 
yachtsmen from the various clubs attended the’ 
meeting. 
The report of Secretary-Treasurer Joseph M. 
Grasser showed that total receipts in the past 
year were $3,328.77, and with all debts paid: 
there was a balance in the treasury of $35.98. 
A resolution to prohibit pot leading of boats 
in the 16-foot class, together with considerable' 
correspondence on the subject was referred to 1 
the rules committee to be reported at the. 
spring meeting. It was also decided to create 
the office of power boat measurer as well as 
make provisions for a power boat regatta com¬ 
mittee. These questions will also come up at' 
the spring meeting. 
The new commodore, Dr. 
nings, of the Country Club, 
point the secretary-treasurer, fleet captain and 
all the standing committees. These will be 
officially announced at the spring meeting to be 
held in Detroit some time in February. Prob¬ 
ably the successor of J. M. Grasser, of Toledo 
as Secretary-Treasurer, will be a Detroit man. 
as the intent of the rule permitting the com-, 
modore to appoint the officers is to have the) 
secretary-treasurer in close touch with the] 
chief officer, besides it is understood that Mr 
Charles G. Jen j 
Detroit, will ap- 
Grasser. who has served the association faith¬ 
fully for two years, will not accept a reappoint¬ 
ment. j 
Five past commodores were at the annua 
dinner given by the local yachtsmen in honoij 
of the visiting Corinthians. Four of these ir 
