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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 29, 1911. 
away the brush and lo and behold, there were 
not only my rod tips, but Lyman's, and the din¬ 
ner basket as well. 
“Well,” said I, “this is a rum go.” 
1 removed the rest of the brush, and in doing 
so came across a long birch pole, painted red, 
besides my own property. Carefully breaking 
the red pole into sections of about eight inches 
each, I replaced these and covered them with 
brush and made it look the same as before. 
Then, drawing my revolver, I fired the whole 
six charges as rapidly as possible and set up a 
howl fit to raise the dead, crying, “Lyman 1 
Lyman ! come here quick 1 ” 
Lyman, who was fishing, although his appetite 
was increasing with greater rapidity than his 
fish creel was filling, heard my cry, and giving 
an answering shout in reply, started off toward 
me as hard as he could jump. 
From my place of espionage in the pines I 
could see him coming and could not help laugh¬ 
ing at the figure he cut. His hat had fallen off 
and his hair seemed standing on end, as with 
his heavy hip boots he came wallowing through 
the mud and mire of the meadow, ever and 
anon yelling out: “Hold him! Keep him till 
I come!” until I fairly rolled on the ground 
with laughter. 
Finally when he reached me out of breath and 
almost ready to drop, he exclaimed, “Where is 
he; where is he?” I pointed to the pile of fish 
rods and supplies and said: “I have got them. 
“Well done,” said he, “but where is the coun¬ 
tryman ?” 
“Oh,” said I, “I haven’t seen him.” 
“Haven’t seen him! Then what did you shoot 
for? I thought you had got in a fight and was 
getting the worst of it and had plugged the 
scoundrel!” 
“Oh, no,” said I; “I merely fired to attract 
your attention.” 
“Well, I made good time to get here,” said 
Lyman, “and am satisfied to have done so, now 
that I know you have been successful in your 
search, for I went all over the ground here and 
found nothing.” 
“Oh,” said I, “I have been so accustomed to 
hunting and fishing in the fields and the woods 
for years that I can see the sign of footprints 
plainly when not a trace would be visible to 
an unpracticed eye.” Then I escorted Lyman 
to the brush heap and showed him where I had 
found our stuff concealed and also showed him 
how carefully I had restored the red rod of 
the farmer and covered it with brush and fern 
fronds as before. 
Lyman laughed long and heartily at the sight, 
and then we sat down and partook of our re¬ 
freshments, and our subsequent efforts were rea¬ 
sonably rewarded by a total capture of ten 
pounds of fine trout. Piscator. 
Aransas Pass Tarpon Club. 
Kansas City Bait- and Fly-Casting Club. 
Kansas City, Mo., April 19 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Inclosed find scores made at our 
first meeting which was held April 16 at Troost 
Lake. The accuracy fly and distance fly events 
were postponed on account of weather condi¬ 
tions. HALF-OUNCE ACCURACY. 
Per C’t. Per C’t. 
N. F. Noland.98.5 J 
98.5 
E. M. Meier. 98.5 
T. W. Bramhall. 97.8 
O. H. Pitkin. 97.fi 
F. B. Robinson. 97.5 
E. G. McLean, Secretary. 
M. Clark. 97.3 
A. G. Brandenberg... 97.0 
W. F. Stine. 96.6 
C. H. Cheney.96.4 
Akron, Ohio, April 17.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: This club has headquarters at Tarpon 
Inn—formerly Tarpon, Texas, but recently 
changed by the Government to Port Aransas— 
Texas. The membership has greatly increased 
the past season and the interest taken in tarpon 
fishing by the fraternity in general, not alone 
in the United States, but in foreign countries 
as well, has been very encouraging. Much of 
this interest, of course, has been stimulated by 
the club’s aggressive campaign and attractive 
list of prizes which are offered and awarded 
for landing tarpon on light tackle, namely a 
linen line not to exceed nine threads and a 
wooden rod not shorter than six feet over all, 
the tip of which is to be not less than five feet 
in length, and to weigh not more than six ounces. 
Wonderful skill with the tarpon is being de¬ 
monstrated by many of our anglers and what 
was considered a few years ago a physical im¬ 
possibility, is to-day an accomplished fact. I 
have just received advice from our secretary, 
that Mrs. W. H. Dilg, of Chicago, the wife 
of an enthusiastic sportsman, has broken the 
woman’s record on light tackle by landing a 
tarpon six feet 2 y 2 inches in length, which en¬ 
titles her to the Wilcox diamond brooch as a 
prize. Many have competed for this honor 
and failed and it speaks well for Mrs. Dilg’s 
skill in winning it. The club’s president, Mr. 
Hooper, had the honor of breaking the record 
by landing a tarpon six feet seven inches in 
length on light tackle. 
The tarpon season at Port Aransas opened March 
1 and ends Dec. 1, and I am already receiving re¬ 
ports of catches which are made. Port Aransas is 
situated on Mustang Island, a very pleasant 
and interesting trip of about three hours by 
boat from Rockport, Texas. During the hottest 
months of the year, July and August, it will 
always be found agreeable on account of the 
trade winds which prevail, beginning with March 
1 up to December. It is a most delightful and 
healthful resort and can truly be called a sports¬ 
man’s paradise. While everything is strictly 
first-class, it is not a resort where extravagant 
prices are charged and advantage taken of the 
tourist and sportsman. The Government has 
appropriated large sums of money to improve 
the harbor and channel at Port Aransas and 
has purchased large tracts of land on which to 
build fortifications. Much of the ocean traffic 
passing through the Panama Canal will be 
routed through this port. While tarpon fishing 
is the main attraction, there abound quantities 
of other fish which afford good sport, as fol¬ 
lows: Spanish mackerel, jewfish, red snapper, 
sea bass, redfish and sea trout. Mustang 
Island has a fine beach on the gulf side over 
eighteen miles in length where surf bathing 
can be indulged in. 
The club has now ready a large and attrac¬ 
tive list of prizes which will be awarded for the 
season of 1911, and judging from the manner 
in which the season has already opened, we be¬ 
lieve that 1911 will be the record breaker. 
For the benefit of any who may feel an in¬ 
terest in this sport, will say that railroad trans¬ 
portation can be had very reasonably from any 
of the Northern States by taking advantage of 
the tourist rates which the railroads offer. 
Secure your ticket routed to San Antonio, 
Texas, at which point you will make connec¬ 
tions with the Aransas Pass Railroad and go 
to Rockport, Texas. At that point you will 
find a boat awaiting with good accommodations 
to transport you to Port Aransas. The trip 
down the bay takes about four hours and is 
most delightful. I would advise, however, to 
first get into communication with the club’s 
secretary, J. E. Cotter, of Port Aransas, Texas, 
care of Tarpon Inn, and arrange for hotel ac¬ 
commodations, guide and boat. 
J. E. Pfleuger, Cor. Sec’y. 
Illinois Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., April 15 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I furnished you with copy of Secre¬ 
tary Whitby’s score report for 1910, and in pre¬ 
paring this copy I find that I made a typographi¬ 
cal error, and I am very desirous of having the 
same corrected. This has been called to your 
attention heretofore by O. C. Wehle, a member 
of our club. The two errors in question occurred 
in the report of the score. First, in the report 
of the delicacy and accuracy fly, which should 
have read as follows: 
“In the delicacy and accuracy fly event L. E. 
DeGarmo exceeded our previous club record (held 
by him) and raised our club record (on Aug. 
6) to 99 2/30 per cent. The score of F. N. 
Peet (of the Chicago Fly Club) of 99 21/30 per 
cent., previously the record, was exceeded by 
F. C. Kierulff who (on Aug. 20), casting for the 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club, raised the 
record to 99 24/30 per cent.” 
Second error occurred in the report of the 
salmon fly, which should have read as follows: 
“Salmon fly. Our record of last year, 120 feet, 
made by L. E. De Garmo, was broken several 
times the past season, L. E. De Garmo casting 
(in club contest) 133 and 135 feet and W. H. 
Ball 138 and 139^ feet, which latter distance is 
our club record. In the national tournament of 
1910, W. H. Ball established a new world’s 
record by casting 140)4 feet, with a regulation 
(fifteen feet) rod, slightly exceeding E. J. Mills’ 
cast of 140 feet, made in 1908.” 
H. D. Willis, Secretary. 
Deep Sea Fishes. 
At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy, 
Prince Albert of Monaco announced his inten¬ 
tion of commissioning a new steamship for the 
purpose of carrying on deep sea dredging work. 
He spoke also of the invention of a new 
dredging apparatus, by means of which many 
hitherto unknown examples of the life of the 
intermediate depths of the ocean had been se¬ 
cured. This apparatus consists of a net which 
may be dragged at any desired depth at a rate 
of about nine miles an hour. Using this ap¬ 
paratus, the steamship Princess Alice at a depth 
of more than 15,000 feet brought to the surface 
a dozen new kinds of fish in about as many 
days. Arrangements have been made for tak¬ 
ing instantaneous color photographs of the speci¬ 
mens as soon as they are out of the water. 
All the fish laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozv in force, are 
given in the Game Lazos in Brief. See adv. 
