June 24, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
981 
Big ’Gator. 
New Orleans, La., June 16 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Albert Heitzman during the week cap¬ 
tured an eight-foot alligator near Dunbar’s can¬ 
ning factory in Bay St. Louis and shipped the 
saurian to New Orleans. It had evidently come 
from the marshes nearby and was on the road¬ 
side when Heitzman, with the aid of a com¬ 
panion, captured it. A dealer in New Orleans 
paid a handsome price for the alligator, as it 
■was one of the largest taken alive in some time. 
Large alligators are becoming very scarce and 
a number of sportsmen are advocating the pas¬ 
sage of a law by the next Legislature forbidding 
the hunting or trapping of alligators in Louis¬ 
iana for a period of years. It is believed such 
a bill will meet with favor by the general public. 
The closing of the various schools and col¬ 
leges here during the week for the summer vaca¬ 
tion of three months has served to increase the 
number of fishermen at the several resorts on 
the gulf coast and elsewhere in this State. The 
college and school boys are very fond as a rule 
of the sport, and many of them have gone over 
to Chef Menteur, the Rigolets, Lake Catherine, 
Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Gulfport and Pass 
Christian and other places, and they are now 
enjoying the sport. Many of the college boys 
are expert fishermen. The fresh water streams 
in the center and northern portion of this State 
are just now yielding some fine trout, catfish and 
other species. 
Splendid luck is reported by ail the fishermen. 
Several of the fishing clubs are entertaining 
visitors who are spending a short time in New 
Orleans. The resorts are more generally patron¬ 
ized this summer than for several years. The 
season was somewhat later than usual in open¬ 
ing this year. F. G. G. 
Green River Trout. 
Hendersonville, N. C, June 4. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: So far this season the fishing near 
here has been rather poor. I have been several 
times to Green River for rainbow trout and have 
always killed a few, but the spring was rather 
cold, and since warm weather began, the water, 
where I have been, was only once what it should 
be for fly-fishing. 
One day in May I had fairly good sport, but it 
was Saturday, and the mill hands and many 
others were also fishing and kept the stream dis¬ 
turbed. On that day I had an interesting little 
experience with my largest trout of the season, 
one of a pound and a half. I had almost reached 
the head of the deadwater nearly two miles 
above the power p ant. Just here there is a 
shelving rock and a small stretch of good water. 
I had fished it going up and was fishing over the 
same water on my return down stream. There is 
a bank fringed with laurel and ferns and a large 
spruce with plenty of shade there, and from this 
bank a log lies one end in the bushes and the 
other thrust well down in the middle of the 
deepest part into the sand bottom of the river. 
When about thirty-five or forty feet above this 
log I cast over and beyond it. I was using three 
flies attached to a six-foot leader, the tail fly a 
royal coachman, the middle fly a silver doctor 
and the upper dropper a Cahill. My trout selected 
the silver doctor, and when he had done so, in¬ 
stead of promptly leaping from the water as the 
rainbow trout so often does, he rushed under the 
log toward me, and then turned and fled down 
stream, but not till he had first gotten over the 
log. Of course the upper fly caught on the log 
and there we were fast. 
There was but one thing to be done and that 
was to secure that trout. To do scr I took in 
my line, walking down till I was waist deep. I 
then took my landing net and dipping down deep 
till I was almost to my shoulder I succeeded in 
getting the net under the trout, and lifting it 
nearly to the surface of the water, was able to 
get the fingers of my left hand in the fish’s gilis. 
My trout was soon safely in my creel. 
Then to save leader and flies I turned the reel 
down against the line following it to the leader, 
and the line parted only a few inches from the 
end of the leader, leaving the leader still attached 
to the log. I then went to the bank and leaving 
the rod, creel and net, I cut a stick five or six 
feet long and about four inches of a limb’ at 
one end for a hook, and with this I returned to 
the water. I used this hook stick, feeling along 
the log until I succeeded in securing my leader 
with the three flies intact. 
Going down to a stretch of good water below 
the power plant dam, I again began fishing a 
pretty bit of water with a big log lying in mid 
stream straight down its middle. At the first 
cast on the right I secured a trout of eleven 
inches. A cast to the left and a better one 
joined it in my creel, but even as I killed this 
trout before putting it in the creel, I heard voices 
above me, and looking up I saw a mill hand and 
a small boy with “poles.” I knew that every 
trout there had seen these fishers and gone into 
hiding, and so it proved. 
I moved on down stream for a last effort, 
when just as I began a number of little fishers, 
children from the mill village, ran down a trail 
to the bank overlooking my flies. The little 
fellows were also out for “fish and fun,” and I 
had some, so without a word I quietly reeled up 
my line and quit. I hope they did as well as I. 
Ernest L. Ewbank. 
North Shore Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., June 12 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The scores for June 10 follow: 
Hinterleitner . 
99 . 
9ii. 
96. 
9S. 
Liddell . 
Dorchester . 
Marshall . 
Hall . 
Adams . 
Clausin. 
I ambert . 
Madson . 
Ilenz . 
Lyon . 
Ercanbrock . 
9~ 
Dr Waters . 
Moeng . 
Forsyth . 
97. 
Luthy . 
(loodwin . 
98. 
The captain finds the present method of pro¬ 
viding judges and scorers very unsatisfactory. 
He thinks it unwise to fail to provide the same 
in advance of an event. It is of much import¬ 
ance to the participants that the judging and 
scoring should be correct. As the active mem¬ 
bers are particularly interested, the captain has 
decided to call upon them to serve in the capacity 
of judges and scorers. Scorers of bait events 
will be chosen (also judges) from the bait- 
casters; fly judges and scorers from the fly- 
casters. 
As a member will not be asked to serve a 
second time in any event, and as a member can 
re-enter for an event on any day on which a 
similar event is cast, and as there are three 
special re-entry days, it will be seen that this 
service will not be a hardship on anyone. 
In case it should not be convenient to serve on 
the day appointed, it will be an easy matter to 
find a willing substitute. The captain makes the 
following appointments: 
June 24.—Bait, Goodwin, Benns; fly, Bellows, 
Luthy. 
July 1.—Bait, Adams, Lambert; fly, Hinter- 
leitner, Hall. 
July 8.—Bait, Dorchester, Lyon; fly, Goodwin, 
Liddell. 
C. O. Dorchester, Sec’y-Treas. 
Asbury Park Fishing Club. 
The eighth annual announcement of the club’s 
fishing season from April 1 to Oct. 31 has been 
received. 
1 he rules affecting the award of prizes follow: 
Prizes awarded shall be subject to the follow¬ 
ing conditions and rules: 
1. Winners must be members in good stand¬ 
ing in the club at the time the prize fish is 
taken. 
2. Fish must be taken with the usual angler’s 
outfit (rod and reel). 
3. Fish must be caught from shore or some 
structure directly connected with the shore, un¬ 
less otherwise stated. 
4. All fish must be caught within the terri¬ 
tory bounded on the north by Sandy Hook, 
and on the south by the north side of Little 
Egg Harbor Inlet. 
5. Fish must be weighed at the club house, 
or at John F. Seger’s store, 703 Cookman 
avenue, and the weight must be attested by at 
least one witness, who must be a club member. 
6. A prize winner is entitled to but one club 
prize. If in line for two he must choose one. 
7. Prize fish must be caught between April 
1 and October 31, inclusive, unless otherwise 
stated. 
8. In order to be a prize winner the fisher¬ 
man must cast his line, hook and land his fish 
without assistance, except in beaching the fish. 
9 - In case of a tie for any prize, slips must 
be drawn. No. 1 slip to take the prize, and 
No. 2 slip to take the next prize, and so on, 
until the tie is run out. 
10. The prize for the first striped bass, king- 
fish, bluefish or flounder taken is to be awarded 
at once, rule six being eliminated in this case. 
11. Special prizes to be subject to same rules, 
unless otherwise specified by donor. 
12. Off shore fishing—fish must be brought 
to gaff with rod and reel unassisted. 
STRIPED BASS. 
First Prize — Largest, reel. Second choice, 
split bamboo rod. 
Second Prize—Second largest, reel. Second 
choice, greenhart rod. 
1 bird Prize—Third largest, reel. Second 
choice, greenheart rod. 
Fourth Prize—Largest number taken, casting 
reel. 
Fifth Prize—Largest number of pounds taken, 
casting reel. 
Sixth Prize—First taken, tackle and tackle 
book. 
(Continued on page 997.) 
