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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 18, 1908. 
t,0, 80 and 100 feet from platform. Target to be of con¬ 
centric ring pattern and to score as follows: 10 (bullseye), 
l J, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0. Highest score wins. Contestant will be 
allowed one preliminary cast at each target. Cast must 
be made from free running reel. Open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 15.—Single-handed bait-casting for 
distance with fly-rod and Vz ounce weight. Casts must be 
made with the “slack line,” and not from the reel. Con¬ 
testant will be allowed ten minutes ^in which to score. 
Weight must touch the water on the back cast and be 
raised therefrom for each forward cast or the cast will 
not be scored.. Open to all. 
Saturday, Feb. 29, 2:30 P. M.—Event 16.—Single-handed 
bait-casting for long distance accuracy. Conditions of 
this event the same as for event 14, except targets will be 
placed 100, 125 and 150 feet from platform. Open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 17.—Single-handed fly-casting for 
distance. Championship class. Rod must not weigh more 
than 4 ounces. For allowance, see Rule, 7. Open to all. 
Monday, March 2, 2:30 P. M.—Event IS.—Right and 
left hand bait-casting for accuracy. Conditions of this 
event to be the same as for event 14, except that five 
casts shall be made with each hand at each target. The 
total of points made, divided by 2, will constitute the 
score. Contestant will be allowed one preliminary cast 
with each hand at each target, and may begin with 
either hand. Open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 19.—Single-handed fly-casting for dis¬ 
tance. Open to all except those who have cast 85 feet 
or more in any club or tournament contest. 
Tuesday, March 3, 2:30 P. M.—Event 20.—Right and 
left hand bait-casting for distance. Five overhead casts 
to be made with each hand with ^4 ounce weight. The 
longest cast made with each hand added together and 
divided by 2 shall constitute the score. Contestant will 
be allowed one preliminary cast with each hand, and may 
begin with either hand. Cast must be made with free 
running reel. Open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 21.—Single-hand fly-casting for dis¬ 
tance. Championship class. Rod m-ust not weigh more 
than 5 ounces. For allowances, see Rule 7. Open to all. 
Wednesday, March. 4, 2:30 P. M—Event 22.—Single- 
handed bait-casting for accuracy. Conditions of this 
event the same as for event 14, except that cast shall 
be made with Vi ounce weight, at targets placed 60, 70 
and 80 feet distant from platform. Open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 23.—Single-hand switch casting for 
distance. Championship class. An obstacle will be 
placed 15 feet behind the contestant. Open to all. 
Thursday, March 5, 2:30 P. M.—Event 24.—Single- 
handed bait-casting for distance. Championship class. 
Conditions of this event same as for event 8, except that 
cast shall be made with % ounce weight, and that the 
event is open to tall. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 25.—Right and left hand fly-casting 
for distance. Contestant will be allowed tVz minutes to 
cast with each hand. The longest cast made with each 
hand, added together and divided by 2 shall constitute 
the score. Contestant may begin with either hand. 
Time will not be allowed in changing from one to the 
other hand. Open to all. 
Friday, March 6, 2:30 P. M.—Event 26.—Single-handed 
bait-casting for distance. Championship class. Condi¬ 
tions of this event same as for event 8, except that it is 
open to all. 
8:30 P. M.—Event 27.—Single-handed fly-casting for dis¬ 
tance. Open to all, except those who have cast 100 feet 
in any club or tournament contest. 
Saturday, March 7, 2:30 P. M.—Event 28—“Miss-and- 
out” bait-casting contest. Cast shall be made with Vz 
ounce weight. Cast must be made from free running 
reel. A target will be placed 75 feet distant from plat¬ 
form and contestants shall each make one cast in turn. 
If contestant succeeds in hitting the target, he remains 
in the contest for another round, but failing to do so, is 
disqualified and out of the contest. The last remaining 
contestant wins; and second and third prizes go to con¬ 
testants scoring the next greatest number of hits. One 
preliminary cast will be allowed each contestant in the 
first round, but none thereafter. Open to all. 
S:30 P. M.—Event 29.—Single-handed fly-casting for dis¬ 
tance. Championship class. Open to- all. 
All casting weights will be furnished by the 
referee. 
Entries may be made at any time up to the 
hour set for any particular event, but the man¬ 
agement requests that casters desiring to com¬ 
pete will send in their entries as early as possi¬ 
ble, accompanied by the entrance fee of $i for 
each event. The tank will be open to all con¬ 
testants for practice from io to 12 A. M. and 
for one hour before events are called. Holders 
of season tickets will be admitted at Fourth 
avenue and Twenty-sixth street entrance for 
practice at 7 A. M. Season tickets, $2. Any 
further information will be furnished by C. E. 
Jacobus, Tournament Manager, Irving National 
Bank Building, No. 1 Hudson street (cor. Cham¬ 
bers street), New York city. 
Trout for City Reservoirs. 
Ridgefield, Conn., Jan. 10. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: I want to call the attention of the 
New York State Forest, Fish and Game Com¬ 
mission to the condition that exists, and the con¬ 
ditions that should exist in the City Storage 
Reservoirs in Westchester and Putnam counties, 
New York, in regard to the possibilities of 
those reservoir^ being made trout lakes instead 
of what they are at the present time. Someone 
who should have known better has put bass, both 
large and small-mouth, perch and pickerel into 
those waters. The one at Purdy’s is fed by the 
Litticus and its feeders, which are all natural 
trout streams, and the headwaters of those 
streams are here in Connecticut, and in years 
past some of us here have stocked those streams 
with trout, but it is poor encouragement for 
people here to stock those streams with trout 
and have them settle for the winter in the reser¬ 
voir at Purdy’s to be devoured by fresh water 
sharks. Bass and pickerel like trout, of course. 
Why shouldn’t they? 
What the city should do is to clean out those 
reservoirs—Sodom and Drewville reservoirs the 
same—let the water out of them, and the fish 
go with it, and if there are any that don’t go 
scoop them out and make them go. If there are 
any trout in the puddle, save them, clean them 
out wholly and totally. There is plenty of room 
in the big Cornell dam for the water, so none 
would be wasted, and the fish too. There is 
everything in that, and it may as well have the 
rest. 
Of course bass and pickerel are all right in 
their proper places, but they have no business 
in trout waters. It will be no detriment to the 
'city and there ought not to be any objection 
to it. The water will be all the better to have 
trout in it. The reservoir between Cross River 
and Katonah—just completed—is also fed by 
natural trout streams, and it should be seen to 
strictly that nothing but trout get into it. The 
proper time to clean out these reservoirs would 
be before the bass and pickerel spawn, and let 
them fill up and stock them with trout. In two 
years’ time they would be alive with trout. If 
any one will stop and ponder a minute they will 
readily see what would be the result. Thou¬ 
sands, yes millions, of trout within fifty miles 
of New York city, just as well have them as 
not, a great deal better than not. Plenty of 
trout for everybody and plenty left, if they are 
only used right, and they would grow to weigh 
five or six pounds, perhaps more some of them, 
and those reservoirs are just the place for trout. 
They would have the streams to run up to spawn 
and the young fish would remain in the head¬ 
waters till they got large enough to take care 
of themselves and not get eaten by the larger 
fish. 
Mink and coons are bad enough on the trout 
without having bass and pickerel to help out. 
Just as well have trout in this part of the coun¬ 
try as anywhere. This bass and pickerel busi¬ 
ness has wrought havoc with the trout in the 
Adirondack region to the sorrow of many that 
know better than to try to keep both in the 
same pool. 
Wolves and sheep wouldn’t get along well in 
the same pen. It is high time that the people 
awake to the sense of , their duty and get strictly 
down to business and do something for the 
propagating of the trout in this part of the 
country if they expect to have any, and stop 
doing everything they can to exterminate them 
as a great many have been doing for years. I 
hope I will live to see those reservoirs and the 
streams that feed them teeming with trout. 
The Forest, Fish and Game Commissioners 
have a glorious opportunity to build a monu¬ 
ment to themselves that will glitter as if set 
with diamonds, and the sooner they lay the cor¬ 
ner stone the better. E. S. Reynolds. 
Remarkable Growth of Steelhead Trout. 
Bozeman, Mont., Jan. 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In October, 1902, two thousand steel- 
head trout fingerlings from Bozeman Fisheries 
Station were planted in Axolotl Lake, near Vir¬ 
ginia City, Montana. Previous to this time this 
mountain lake was utterly devoid of fish life, 
but was inhabited by an abundance of axolotls 
(Amblystoma tigrinum), the curious and interest¬ 
ing batrachian of that name. In September, 
1907, just five years from the planting of the 
steelhead trout, two of my angling friends car¬ 
ried a canvas boat to the lake, and by trolling 
caught eleven trout weighing seventy-three 
pounds, the largest weighing thirteen pounds. 
This fish was preserved in brine, and a few 
days ago was brought to me for identification, 
so there is no doubt about its weight, whjch is 
extraordinary for a five-year-old trout. This 
rapid and remarkable growth is easily explained, 
however, when it is considered that for several 
years the trout have been gorging themselves 
with the salamanders mentioned; certainly a 
nutritious and luxurious diet. 
James A. Henshall, 
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 
Why the Bait? 
A young man was found with a hook and line 
in his hand on the bank of a stream where the 
fishing was preserved. On being summoned for 
poaching, says the Deutsche Fischerei Corresr ( 
pondnez, his solicitor exnlained that his unfortu¬ 
nate client, while boating on the river, had drop¬ 
ped a valuable gold watch and chain overboard. 
Luckily he happened to have a hook and line 
with him, and was endeavoring to fish his prop¬ 
erty out of the water when the water bailiff 
appeared on the horizon. The magistrate turned 
to the water bailiff with a smile, and asked him 
whether he accepted this version of the story. 
"Well, your worship, it sounds all right, but 
there’s just one thing I can’t quite understand. 
Why did he put a worm on the hook?” 
All the fish laws of the United States ahd Can¬ 
ada, revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
