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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 4, 1911. 
waukee, was one of the important matters which 
were taken up at the annual meeting. Several 
communications received from Messrs. H. 
Wheeler Pierce, President of the N. A. S. A. C-, 
and E. M. Town, Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Anglers’ Casting Club of Chicago, which con¬ 
tained information regarding the big event, were 
read by the secretary. Dates for the tourna¬ 
ment were not set, but Aug. 17. 18 and 19 will 
undoubtedly be the dates decided upon at a meet¬ 
ing of the executive committee this month. The 
members were requested to give the officers of 
the club all possible assistance in making the 
event the most successful one on record. 
The following officers were elected for the 
ensuing year: President, M. A. Beck; Vice- 
President, H. W. Lewis; Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer, C. L. Tolfson; Captain, Gus Schoenlaub; 
Directors, in addition to the above, Alb. Lah- 
man, J. H. McBride and Chas. Rhine. 
A hearty vote of thanks was extended the re¬ 
tiring officers. C. L. Tolfson. 
As to Foreigners. 
New Orleans, La., Feb. 25 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Judge Rufus E. Foster, of the United 
States Circuit Court in this city, has announced 
an important decision in connection with the 
cases of John Ashen and L. Mew, involving the 
right of the State Game Commission to confis¬ 
cate and destroy seines. Judge Foster holds that 
the game commission cannot confiscate a seine 
and destroy it without due process of law, and 
in order to destroy or take a seine, the board 
must apply to the courts and get a judicial pro¬ 
cess. Judge Foster sustains the contentions of 
the game commission in all other respects and 
holds that the State owns all the fish in the 
waters of the State, and it can, therefore, im¬ 
pose certain conditions, rules and regulations in 
catching or seining for fish. The judge says that 
the right to fish is not a personal one, but a 
property right which the State can regulate. 
Judge Foster, in announcing his opinion on the 
allegations of one of the petitioners that he is a 
subject of the Emperor of China, and the rules 
governing or the laws applying to his fishing 
or the men under him in the waters of Louis¬ 
iana, are in violation of a treaty between this 
country and China, says that the laws of this 
State do not abrogate the treaty, and the Slate 
has the right to prohibit a foreigner from fish¬ 
ing at all here. The judge concludes that any 
regulations the State or the game commission 
might make, even though these rules require a 
higher license than from a citizen of this State, 
would be legal and binding. 
The game commission, after a long conference 
and investigation, has decided to allow the Louis¬ 
iana Fish Company, of Berwick, La., to seine in 
Lake Verret for buffalo fish only until April 1, 
which is the beginning of the closed season. 
There was a great deal of interest in the con¬ 
troversy and the claims of the Assumption parish 
authorities in regard to Lake Verret. The game 
commission held that the catching of buffalo fish 
would be beneficial to the growth of game fish 
in that lake. 
Henry Righter, a well-known local fisherman 
and member of several fishing clubs, has the 
honor of landing the largest green trout [black 
bass] of the season. The fish weighed four and 
a half pounds. It is declared by all the fisher¬ 
men to be the largest green trout caught in many 
years in these waters. The fish was landed at 
Chef Menteur and attracted much interest and 
attention. 
Fishing as a rule is not very good and only 
fair luck is reported. It is said that the fresh 
water from Pearl River has caused a kind of 
milky way which is not conducive to fishing in 
the several salt water bodies near the shore line. 
It is a little early for spring fishing. The visitors 
to the carnival here as well as the regular winter 
visitors who are spending some weeks in New 
Orleans are in many instances interested in fish¬ 
ing, and quite a number will go out to the fish¬ 
ing places near New Orleans and enjoy the sport. 
Superintendent of Fish Hatcheries Tullian is 
busily engaged in making an inspection of the 
various streams in Louisiana with a view of 
locating hatcheries and also for the purpose of 
studying the character of the fish. Mr. Tullian 
is familiarizing himself with conditions in this 
State, and he hopes to increase the output of 
game fish. He advocates protection for the alli¬ 
gator so that they will kill the alligator gar. 
F. G. G. 
Anglers’ Club of New York. 
During the week of March 6 this club will 
hold a limited number of casting contests in 
Madison Square Garden in connection with the 
Sportsmen’s Show. The space allotted is not 
extensive enough to permit distance casting, but 
the events decided on are popular and furnish 
good practice for the fishing season, now but a 
few weeks in the future. The events follow: 
Tuesday, March 7, 3 p. m.— Quarter-ounce bait¬ 
casting for distance, 130-foot class, amateurs, 
8:30 P. M.— trout fly-casting, distance, 70-foot 
class, amateurs. 
March 8, 3 p. m.—Q uarter-ounce bait-casting 
for accuracy, novice class; 8:30 p. m. —Trout fly¬ 
casting, distance, five-ounce rods; open. 
March 9, 3 p. m— Dry-fly accuracy, five-ounce 
rods; five targets, one cast at each; open. 8.30 
p. m. —distance fly-casting, five-ounce rods, for¬ 
ward obstacle; amateurs. 
March 10, 3 p. m.— Half-ounce accuracy bait¬ 
casting, novice; 8:30 p. m.— accuracy fly-casting, 
target placed under a bush; amateurs. 
March 11, 3 p. m. —Half-ounce accuracy bait, 
open; 8:30 p. m. —distance trout fly-casting, foui- 
ounce rods, amateur. 
March 13, 3 p. m. —Accuracy bait-casting, quar¬ 
ter-ounce, open; 8:30 p. M -—trout fly switch¬ 
casting, five-ounce rods, amateurs. 
The Long Sault Dam. 
New York City, Feb. 24.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The bill now before the Senate in 
Washington, proposing the damming of the Long 
Sault Rapids of the St. Lawrence River, is in 
grave danger of being enacted. If it is, aside 
from the fact that the bottling up of such a 
river as the St. Lawrence will deprive thou¬ 
sands of people from going through that beauti¬ 
ful stream, it will also prevent any fish from 
coming up stream. There is no provision in 
their plans looking toward this important matter. 
I am taking the liberty of writing you request¬ 
ing that from your standpoint in the interests 
you represent through your paper that you take 
a hand in the fight. Senator Frye is chairman 
of the whole committee, and Senator Burton, of 
Ohio, is chairman of the sub committee. Others 
of the committee are: Stephen B. Elkins, of 
West Virginia; Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, 
Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Boies 
Penrose, of Pennsylvania; Chauncey M. Depew, 
of New York; George C. Perkins, of Califor¬ 
nia; Samuel H. Piles, of Washington; William 
Alden Smith, of Michigan; Jonathan Bourne, 
Jr., of Oregon; Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, 
Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia; William J. 
Stone, of Missouri; F. M. Simmons, of North 
Carolina; James P. Clark, of Arkansas; Francis 
G. Newlands, of Nevada; John H. Bankhead, of 
Alabama; Clerk Woodbury Pulsifer. 
Personally, I have been quietly fighting this 
bill from the standpoint as a resident on the St. 
Lawrence, but even if I did not have a home 
on that beautiful river, I would fight it from the 
standpoint of good citizenship. I consider it the 
wanton destruction of a beautiful waterway that 
belongs to the citizens of the United States and 
Canada, and if this bill passes I venture to pre¬ 
dict that when our people begin to thoroughly 
understand it, which they do not now, it will 
lead to serious misunderstandings and grave 
complications. Geo. C. Boldt. 
Casting Tournament in France. 
The Casting Club de France will held a four- 
day tournament at the Bois de Boulogne, in 
Paris, this month. The dates are March 9-12, 
inclusive. 
The opening event will be trout fly casting for 
accuracy, followed by three novice events, as 
follows: Obstacle fly-casting, half-ounce dis¬ 
tance bait and distance fly-casting with 514-ounce 
rods. 
On Friday the first event will be a single cast 
for accuracy at 65 feet with one-ounce weights. 
Novice salmon fly-casting will follow, rods not 
to exceed 15 feet in length. 
On Saturday the events will be: Novice bait¬ 
casting with 2]4-ounce weights; novice distance 
bait, quarter-ounce; same, i}4-ounce; novice sal¬ 
mon fly, rear obstacle. 
Sunday’s events are: Accuracy bait, i l / 2 - 
ounce, targets at 100, 115 and 130 feet, five casts 
at each; novice trout fly, distance; novice salmon 
fly, distance. 
British Amateur Fly- and Bait-Casting 
Club. 
This club has been holding regular contests 
throughout the winter at the Welsh Harp, Hen¬ 
don, near London. The program has been varied 
to give practice in various styles of fly- and bait¬ 
casting, and improvement has been shown. If 
any club in this country, with the single excep¬ 
tion of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club, were 
to hold contests during the winter, it would only 
be possible to do so on the ice or over the 
ground. It is true that a few enthusiasts prac¬ 
tice now and then on the snow, but only on sunny 
days. Bait-casting on the snow, for either dis¬ 
tance or accuracy, is good practice, and one can 
see clearly just what he is doing, but fly-casting 
under similar conditions is not so satisfactory. 
There is little or no pu’l on the line in retriev¬ 
ing it, and in the back cast the line falls to the 
ground, so that it is difficult to extend the line, 
either by working out or shooting. For strength¬ 
ening the wrist, however, the practice is excellent. 
