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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 22, 1911. 
A Fishing Decision. 
New Orleans, La., April 14. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: The fishing season has opened 
very well, although the attendance at the various 
fishing resorts for the past fortnight has not 
been large on account of the busy season with 
both the merchants and professional men. 
Striped bass, speckled trout, redfish and small 
sheepshead are being landed. Shrimp are quite 
abundant and the fishermen say that there is 
no trouble to get good bait. The muddy water 
at the Chef, the Rigolets, Lake Catherine and 
other fishing resorts has made fishing rather 
poor. It is not probable that the big crowds 
will go over to the resorts until after Easter, 
and that fishing will not be the best until the 
latter part of April and May. 
Attorney A. L. Ponder, of the State Game 
Commission, has rendered an opinion to Presi¬ 
dent F. M. Miller to the effect that the closed 
fishing season in April and May applies to fish 
caught with seine and not with hook and line. 
Attorney Ponder holds that the Game Commis¬ 
sion cannot prevent the shipment of fish into 
this market caught in the Gulf of Mexico and 
other salt waters during the closed season, and 
the board has not the right to prevent the sale 
of these fish. The law prohibits the sale of 
bass, or green trout, and fresh water game fish. 
Mr. Ponder says that all new laws which are 
considered innovations and drastic should be 
enforced with the least possible injury to the 
great mass of the people, and furthermore that 
when the people are accustomed to certain laws 
for several generations, it is never wise to im¬ 
mediately enforce repealing laws to the strictest 
letter, but rather to seek the spirit of the new 
law and gradually educate the people up to the 
new provisions, so as to do the least harm. 
Mr. Ponder contends that the policy he suggests 
will serve to make the conservation laws popu¬ 
lar with the people instead of antagonizing 
them. 
Mr. Ponder says the chief aim of the new law 
is to prevent seining, and that the seines kill 
the spawn of fish in April and May, and 
thousands of fish are thus destroyed. Mr. 
Ponder’s opinion has been hailed with enthus¬ 
iastic delight by hundreds of fishermen who will 
now catch fish with hook and line and sell them. 
F. G. G. 
Dig Fish. 
According to the Anglers’ News the record 
salmon for Great Britain last year was taken 
by Mr. Impilt from the Tay and weighed forty- 
eight pounds. 
The largest salmon trout was caught in the 
Avon by Mr. Mills and weighed sixteen pounds. 
Michael Molloy, while dapping (skittering) 
with a fly on Lough Corrib, caught a trout 
weighing twelve and one-half pounds. Its length 
was thirty-two inches. 
The record grayling weighed two pounds nine 
ounces. It was taken in the Derwent, by Mr. 
Holt. 
On the Norfolk Broads, G. Chamberlain landed 
the record pike, a thirty-pounder. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
Launchings have begun. Last week three 
yachts that will be prominent in races during 
the coming season took their first dips in the 
water. The largest was the big three-masted 
schooner built at Staten Island for former Com¬ 
modore Robert E. Tod, of the Atlantic Y. C. 
This vessel is just under 200 feet in length, and 
is the largest sailing craft built on this side of 
the Atlantic. Some day she may be an auxiliary. 
Commodore Tod has space left for an engine, 
but it will not be installed until later. The yacht, 
named Karima, is to be a sailing craft pure and 
simple, and her owner, who is an enthusiastic 
yachtsman, will enter his vessel in races when¬ 
ever possible. He has already challenged for 
the Cape May and Brenton’s Reef cups now 
held by the Atlantic, and it is very probable that 
Karima will take part in the races for the Clark 
and Norman cups of the Eastern Y. C. The 
Clark cup will be raced for after the Harvard- 
Yale boat race, and the course is from New 
London to Marblehead. The Norma cup is for 
a race from Bar Harbor to Marblehead, 161 
miles. 
The other two sailing craft launched were the 
Flying Cloud, a 48-foot waterline sloop built at 
Herreshoffs for Russell and Irving Grinnell, 
and a class S sloop also built at Herreshoffs 
for D. G. Whitlock, of the Brooklyn Y. C. Fly¬ 
ing Cloud, while really a cruising craft, is to 
be raced in her regular class, and the class S 
boat which is named Wink will take part in the 
S class races on Gravesend Bay and try to win 
the Lipton cup of the Crescent A. C. 
The inter-bay catboat races are to be sailed 
off Marblehead in August. The boats eligible 
for this series of races will have quite a busy 
season according to plans made. Beginning 
with the open race of the Lynn Y. C. off Bass 
Point on Aug. 5, there will be eight days of 
racing which includes the Marblehead midsum¬ 
mer series. Then there will be a week of rest. 
On Saturday, Aug. 19, there is the open race of 
the Winthrop Y. C. The following Monday 
the inter-bay match will begin with the Quincy 
Y. C. It is expected that catboats from Narra- 
gansett Bay, Barnegat Bay and possibly the 
Great South Bay will compete with the Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay catboats for the trophy which was 
won last year on Narragansett Bay by Dolly 
III. and Iris. This inter-bay catboat racing was 
started in 1909 by a match on Barnegat Bay 
when the Narragansett Bay boats Bother and 
Ina won. Last year on Narragansett Bay 
Dolly III. and Iris represented Massachusetts, 
Ina and Bother, Naragansett, and Virginia, 
Barnegat. 
After the inter-bay series these boats will be 
able to race in the open regatta of the Hingham 
Club, the two regattas of the Boston Y. C. mid¬ 
summer series and the catboat championships 
of the Boston Y. C. 
The Quincy Y. C. has named Aug. 21 to 26 
as the dates for the Quincy Cup series of races. 
This trophy was won last year by Charles 
Francis Adams 2d’s Harpoon. In 1906, the 
deed of gift was changed to allow Sonder boats 
to compete for the cup, and that year it was 
won by the Corinthian Y. C.’s representative 
Windrim Kid. The next year Sally VIII. was 
the winner. In 1908, Charles Francis Adams 2d 
took the trophy to Quincy with Manchester, but- 
the next year Ellen, representing the Boston Y. 
C., won. Ellen was the defender last year, and 
the races-were sailed off Hull. In this year’s 
match it is expected that there will be repre¬ 
sentatives of the Eastern, Corinthian, Boston. 
Manchester, Quincy and possibly some other 
clubs. 
In addition to the two inter-club matches and 
the annual Y. R. A. and inter-club regatta, Aug. 
26, the Quincy Y. C. has announced the follow¬ 
ing club races: Aug. 27, June 10 and 24, July 6 
and Sept. 9. There will also be a club run to 
Marblehead on Aug. 6. 
The Stone Harbor Y. C. members are to en¬ 
courage dory racing this year. A meeting of 
the club was held last week at the Yachtsmen’s 
Club, Philadelphia, and after electing Charles 
A. Farnum as secretary to succeed Edward J. 
Rankin, the dories were discussed. Twelve of 
these boats have been ordered and will be de¬ 
livered by Emmons, of Swampscott, very soon. 
There will be a series of sailing events among 
these dories each week, which will finally wind 
up with a grand regatta, in which the boat scor¬ 
ing the largest number of points for the sea¬ 
son will receive a cup from the Regatta Com¬ 
mittee of the Stone Harbor Y. C. Those who 
intend to purchase Swampscott dories are Com¬ 
modore James Thompson, Vice-Commodore 
Fred D. Biddle, Rear-Commodore Ernest N. 
Ross, Secretary E. J. Rankin, David Risley, 
John Q. Gilmore, Charles A. Farnum, Henry 
Bassett, William Schuck and Peter Brown, all 
of the Stone Harbor Y. C. The first event in 
this class will be held Memorial day. 
Fleet Captain James Bishop, of the Stone 
Harbor Y. C., was delegated to mark Great 
Channel from the north of the Y. C. down to 
Hereford Inlet with five barrel buoys, each bar¬ 
rel marked with numbers 1 to 5 an d painted in 
black and white. These buoys are already being 
placed in position and have been approved by 
the State Inland Waterway Commissioners. 
Commodore Thompson announced that the 
Sfone Harbor Club house will be completed by 
July 1 of this year. The club will have twenty- 
•four beds installed in the numerous sleeping 
rooms on the second floor. 
At the annual meeting of the Casco Y. C. the 
following officers were elected: L. G. Cushing, 
Commodore; A. H. Torricilli, Vice-Commo¬ 
dore; H. R. Alden, Secretary; Willis H. Soule, 
Treasurer; J. S. Soule, G. W. Soule and M. T. 
Moseley, Trustees; E. B. Mallett, C. T. Dilling¬ 
ham and J. P. Merrill, House Committee; H. G. 
Means, W. G. Jones, A. L. Carter, and A. H. 
Torricilli, Regatta Committee. 
The schooner Elena, built at Herreshoffs for 
Morton F. Plant, will be launched on Monday, 
April 24. That day will be the 70th birthday 
of John B. Herreshoff, the president of the 
company, and the launching is to be part of the 
day’s celebration. Capt. Nat. Herreshoff re¬ 
cently returned from Bermuda in much better 
health, and has been devoting much attention 
to the yachts building in the shops. 
