780 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 20, 1911. 
score of 92 feet with a four-ounce fly-rod. 
On Friday E. M. Gill cast 85 feet with a five- 
ounce flv-rod. It was an excellent perform¬ 
ance in view of the fact that he is just graduat¬ 
ing from the novice class. 
On Saturday Edward B. Rice scored 260 feet 
in the surf event and averaged 222.6 feet, which 
was far below his best form and was due to 
lack of practice. 
H. M. Horton made an excellent showing in 
the bait events, winning in the 175-foot half¬ 
ounce class for distance, and taking second place 
in the half-ounce accuracy event. 
A. Jay Marsh’s best score in the half-ounce 
distance bait event was 209 feet, and he won the 
accuracy event with same weight with only 15 
demerits. 
Hiram Hawes, the rodmaker, cast 113 feet 1 
inch in the event for heavy single-hand fly-rods, 
and 1351-2 feet in the salmon fly event. He is 
one of the veteran casters, and was greatly 
pieased that he had journeyed all the way from 
Canterbury, Conn., to attend the tournament, for 
he exceeded his own records in both events. 
The first prize in each event was a handsome 
cup, and other prizes were merchandise. 
The results in detail follow: 
THURSDAY. MAY II. 
Event 1—Distance bait-casting with quarter- 
ounce weights, open only to those who had never 
cast further than 130 feet; average of five casts: 
Feet. 
FI. M. FTorton. 117 5 Feet. 
J. L. Kirk. 102 4 E. F. Todd. 54 2 
Open to all amateurs: 
A. lav Marsh. 
K. i. Held. 
FI. M. Horton.. 
Event 2—Accuracy bait-castin 
ounce weights at 60, 65, 70, 75 
casts in all : 
ltest Cast. 
Feet 
13C 5 149 
1D4 2 146 
. 97 2 115 
g with quarter- 
and 80 feet, 15 
Demerits Demerits 
A. Jay Marsh. 37 R. T. Held. 4S 
G. M. L. La Branche 44 E. B. Rice. 55 
Event 3—Trout fly-casting for distance with 
four-ounce rods—70-foot c'ass: 
F'eet. Feet, 
''"alter McGucken .. S2 0 A. 11. A. Bradley... 72 5 
R. J. Held. SI a \V. A. Metcalfe. 72 0 
E. B. Rice. 75 0 
Open class: 
G. M. L. La Branche. 92 R. T. Held. 80 
J. L. Kirk... 88 
FRIDAY. MAY 12. 
Event 4—Trout fly-easting for distance with 
five-ounce rods—70-foot class : 
Feet. Feet. 
C. H. Higby. 69 E. F. Todd. 68 
Eighty-five-foot class: 
Perry Frazer . 84 6 E. M. Gill. SO 0 
J. L. Kirk. 84 6 C. IT. Higby. 74 6 
‘N. S. Smith. 84 6 W. C. Metcalfe. 74 0 
Open class—ties in above decided in this class: 
E. M. Gill. 85 0 R. T. Held. 79 0 
Perry I'razer . 84 0 N. S. Smith. 79 0 
J. L. Kirk. 81 0 Walter McGucken.. 77 6 
<G. M. La Branche 81 0 
Event 5—Dry-fly casting for distance with five- 
ounce rods; five minutes’ time allowance and best 
cast in five to count: 
Feet. Feet. 
P. J. Held. 69 W. C. Metcalfe. 50 
George La Branche. 61 E. M. Gill. 43 
Walter McGucken... 61 
SATURDAY, MAY 13 . 
Event 6—-Dry-fly casting for accuracy, deli¬ 
cacy and style for a cup presented by the club’s 
president, George La Branche; three targets, 
p’aced 35, 40 and 45 feet from the p'atform, five 
casts at each: Won by Walter McGucken. The 
entries numbered nine. 
Event 7—Surf-casting for distance with 2^/2- 
ounce weights, two-handed rods and linen lines 
strong enough to lift a dead weight of ten pounds 
one foot off the ground, average of five casts to 
count—200-foot class: 
W. Muller _ 
A. R. Hanners 
E. B. Towne... 
M. Adler . 
E. M. Gill. 
Average. Best Cast. 
. 164.0 L 1 ' 9 
.. 123.4 145 
.. 91.2 133 
.. 73.0 90 
.. 67.0 100 
Open class: 
Edward B. Rice... 
E. E. Spencer. 
W. Muller . 
R. J. Held. 
George La Branche 
E. M. Gill. 
222.6 260 
205.8 237 
193.6 235 
185.8 200 
181.0 215 
156.0 213 
Event 8—Distance bait-casting with half-ounce 
weights, average of five casts to count—150-foot 
class: 
Average. Best Cast. 
A. R. Hanners. 148.6 160 
IT F. Todd. 129-2 139 
One hundred and 
IF. M. Horton. 
I. L. Kirk. 
M. H. Smith. 
A. R. Hanners. 
\V. IF. Zabriskie. 
C. FI. Higby. 
seventy-five-foot class: 
.’.. 148.0 
. 131.6 
. 123.4 
. 113.2 
. 108.2 
. Withdrew. 
150 
150 
165 
157 
166 
Open class: 
A. I. Marsh. 
R. J. Held. 
A. R. Hanners. 
M. II. Smith. 
W. H. Zabriskie. 
H. M. Horton. 
E. B. Rice. 
184.4 209 
176.0 193 
154.0 175 
121.2 140 
116.2 160 
107.8 158 
1C0.0 115 
Event 9 — Half-ounce 
from a boat: 
A. J. Marsh. 
H. M. Horton. 
E. B. Rice. 
A. R. Hanners. 
E. F. Todd. 
W. H. Zabriskie. 
accuracy bait-casting 
Demerits. 
6 7 0 0 2—15 
4 2 2 10 0—18 
4 2 7 3 7—23 
5 7 4 5 10—34 
3 9 15 2 5—34 
15 20 10 18 12—75 
Event IO—Fly-casting for distance with any 
rod not longer than 11 /i feet, best cast in six 
minutes to count—70-foot class: 
Feet. 
F. E. Snencer . 74 
F. C. Raynor. 73 
Ninety-foot class: 
T. L. Kirk. 99 
E. M. Gill. 90 
Harry Friedman ... 87 
Open class: 
Perry Frazer .101 
J. L. Kirk. 99 
Professional class: 
Hiram Hawes . 
Feet. 
Max Foster. 72 
Walter McGucken... 85 
W. C. Metcalfe. 75 
William Watt . 73 
R. J. Ile'.d. 94 
113 1 
Event 11 — Salmon fly-casting with 15-foot 
rods, time six minutes, open to all, with handi¬ 
caps : 
Hiram Hawes .... 
J. L. Kirk. 
Walter McGucken 
E. B. Rice. 
George 
W. C. 
l’errv 
R. j. 
La Branche 
Metcalfe.... 
Frazer . 
Held. 
Record, 
Feet. 
Best Cast. 
Net 
Score. 
..123 6 
135 6 
139 9 
109 
120 
131 6 
81 
104 
129 6 
100 
110 
126 
118 
115 
■JOO 
112 
112 
122 
122 
116 
121 
132 
111 
111 
The Anglers’ Casting Club of Chicago. 
Chicago, Ill., May 8 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Scores made yesterday; those in the 
distance event are average of five casts: 
%oz. Acc’y. %oz. Dist. 
Town . 
Jamison . 
. 99 
. 97.9 
150.2 
C. Nordhclm . 
110.9 
T. Nordholm . 
. 97.9 
130.3 
Wemeke . 
Burke . 
Kleinfeldt . 
. 97 
135.2 
107 
. 90.7 
ITall 
. 96.2 
Chatt . 
. 96.9 
1S8.3 
E. M. Town, 
Sec’y. 
Camping. 
IX.—CAMPING AFTER SOME EXPERIENCE. 
Charlevoix, Mich., was our summer resort 
home, and from there we made trips that grad¬ 
ually became enjoyable and resulted in bass and 
trout fishing. Our first trip was out six miies 
to a lake of about ten acres with an abandoned 
log house near its bank. We carried hammocks 
for beds, milked the farmer’s cows on their 
way home, adjusting with him afterward, and 
had a fine time. We had to tie the boys in the 
hammocks to keep them from falling out. Here 
we could keep warm and dry, the two actual 
necessities for endurable camping. 
While there we learned two essentials in keep¬ 
ing fish alive. One was not to allow them to 
hang over the side of a quiet boat in the vicinity 
of turtles, which ate our fish; the other was not 
to tie them in the shallow water, as the heat 
of the sun either killed them or they became 
foul from lack of running cold water. 
We planned a trip up the Jordan River for 
our first trout camping trip and arranged for 
two men to pole the boats up the rapid stream. 
One failing us, our captain undertook the task. 
He had purchased a new light trout rod, and 
after using it placed it along the gunwale of the 
boat, tip inside, but in pulling the boat up a 
rapid, the tip engaged with the bushes and the 
rod was ruined. Ever since then the captain 
puts his rod in its case when not in use. He 
became so tired from the unusual poling that 
he had to take a sleep of an hour or so before 
he could go on, and for about ten days his shoul¬ 
ders were so lame that he cou’d not get his 
hand to his hip pocket. He has never under¬ 
taken any extensive poling since. He thought 
to keep his trout alive by nailing a box with 
holes in it to a log in the water, hut a thunder 
storm came on in the night and next morning 
the water was over the top of the box and the 
trout had gone. Since then he has always been 
on the lookout for rising water in a trout stream, 
always tying his boats and getting his camp high 
enough to be above high water line. 
On another trip we planned to go into terri¬ 
tory not familiar to us, and we left Charlevoix 
011 a small steamer for the mouth of the Jordan 
River. Our boats were towed behind the 
steamer, which burned wood, and the wind being 
ahead, our boats were pitted with ho’es burned 
by the sparks and were nearly wrenched in 
pieces by the strain of the fast steamer. Ever 
after that we took our boats on board, finding 
that it is quite risky to tow them. We teamed 
across land to the Intermediate Lakes, a long 
chain of lakes abounding with fish. At our first 
camp on the lakes a mink investigated our butter 
jar left on the bank. The captain undertook to 
shoot him with a rifle, but missing, he took up 
a club, headed the mink off on his trail and got 
him. A trap was set for ’coons, but we found 
the farmer's cat in the trap, so we quit setting 
traps in the neighborhood of farms. 
We teamed across country to the headwaters 
of the Jordan River, and fished down, return¬ 
ing by steamer to Charlevoix. 
We found during these early trips that with¬ 
out a cook the captain had to snend about all 
his time cooking and wash'iig dishes, so we de¬ 
cided to have a cook and have ever since had 
one. No one should go into the woods with¬ 
out a cook, because you can leave your camp 
