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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 22, 1908. 
This is intended to bar finished experts and en¬ 
courage novices. 
New York, Feb. 14. — Editor^ Forest and 
Stream: At the meeting of the Anglers’ Club 
of New York, held Tuesday night, the tourna¬ 
ment committee decided to hold its annual tour¬ 
nament on May 14, 15 and 16. Events will be 
decided on later. 
R. Johnson Held, Chairman. 
Mr. R. B. Marston informs us that the dates 
for the international fly- and bait-casting tour¬ 
nament, to be held in connection with the Inter¬ 
national Sports Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush. 
London, are July 9 and 10. Bait- and fly-cast¬ 
ing events open to all and open to amateurs 
only are being arranged. 
Fly-Fishing for Black Bass. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 10. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: For several years past I have 
been much interested in fly-fishing for small- 
mouth black bass. I have read all I could on 
the subject, especially in Henshall and Rhead 
books. But unfortunately I have never been 
able to catch a decent red eye with the artificial 
fly. I have tried fly-fishing in half a dozen dif¬ 
ferent waters and at various times of the year, 
but always unsuccessfully. 
,Last summer I wrote an article asking for 
information on the subject which appeared in 
one of your contemporaries, but was barren of 
results so far as definite information was con¬ 
cerned. 
I should state that I am not an expert fly- 
fisherman, but I cannot attribute all my failures 
to that reason. I have caught brook trout and 
large-mouth bass on a fly, which is the extent 
of my knowledge on the subject. My experi¬ 
ments have been made mostly on lake waters, 
but I have tried one or two rivers. 
While I have not learned where bass can be 
caught with a fly, I have found that it was use¬ 
less to fish for them in the deep waters of lakes 
' and the pools in rivers which are usually sought 
by the bait fisherman. I have, therefore, be¬ 
come convinced that the proper places to try 
are the shallows in running rivers where the 
water is not deeper than can be waded. 
Will not some of your correspondents send 
me some definite information as to where and 
when to go? I do not want the general advice 
which can be found in all the text books. 
Your interesting correspondent Loch Laddie 
has mentioned black bass fishing with a fly near 
his place. I have had some letters from him on 
other subjects, although I do not know him. 
Can he not be persuaded to tell us about it, giv¬ 
ing special attention to the details, such as the 
kind, size and number of flies used. 
There may be others of your readers to whom 
it might appeal. Leonard Finletter. 
Fishing in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 7.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The season for taking steelhead 
trout from tidewater estuaries terminated in 
California on the first of the month, after a 
short and by no means satisfactory open sea¬ 
son. It is hoped that the closed season on tide¬ 
water fishing will be removed at the next meet¬ 
ing of the Legislature, as the sport barely begins 
by February, and the few fish caught in tide¬ 
water would have little effect. 
Owing to a typographical error in the fish 
laws, an opening is left for anglers who refuse 
to observe the unwritten law of sportsmen by 
which they may fish for steelhead above tide¬ 
water when angling for trout which, it is said, 
is not permitted in any other State in the Union. 
Several members were severely scored last week 
by Director Wentworth, of the Anglers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, for taking advantage of this opportunity 
by fishing on Paper Mill Creek abover tidewater. 
There is no fear of a scarcity of trout during 
the coming seasons, as the fish commissioners 
intend to keep the coast streams north of this 
city well stocked. At present the only trout 
fry obtainable are hatched in the breeding sta¬ 
tions of the commission, but when the new 
hatchery on Klamath River is in operation it 
is expected that plenty of rainbow and steelhead 
eggs will be obtained from the Klamath River. 
A great 'deal of new territory in Santa Cruz 
and San Mateo counties, along the coast, will 
soon be opened to San Francisco anglers by the 
new railroad which is being built between San 
Francisco and Santa Cruz along the ocean. 
There are many fine streams in this section 
which have been very little frequented by San 
Francisco sportsmen on account of their inac¬ 
cessibility, but there will probably be quite a 
movement in this direction next season. - 
The Brookdale hatchery, in Santa Cruz county, 
is busy at present shipping game fish to stock 
the streams in that section. This hatchery, 
which has formerly been maintained by Santa 
Cruz county alone, will be supported hereafter 
by Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Mateo 
counties, and will be considerably enlarged. 
Since the close of the steelhead season some 
of the local anglers are fishing for bass in the 
waters about the bay. The sport, however, is 
said to be very good in San Antonio and Peta¬ 
luma sloughs. 
The Anglers’ Association will try to put a 
bill through the next Legislature requiring a 
license for all fishermen, as is now required of 
hunters. 
A large number of arrests have been made in 
the last two weeks for violations of the fish 
laws, including several for catching steelhead 
in tidewater since the close of the season. The 
most numerous offenders, however, are Italian 
fishermen using small meshed nets. Several of 
the officers had quite a battle with a party of 
these miscreants recently on San Pablo Bay, 
but succeeded in capturing six of them. 
The San Francisco Fly-Casting Club will soon 
resume its semi-monthly contests on Stow Lake, 
and the members are already showing consider¬ 
able interest, as this sport will serve to break 
the monotony of the closed fishing season. 
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One result of the question, “What is a salmon fly?” that has been hotly discussed in the English papers recently. 
Landlocked Salmon in Billington Sea. 
Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 10 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Some six years since I planted several 
thousand land-locked salmon fry that were 
hatched by us in Billington Sea, a pond of sev¬ 
eral hundred acres in this town, and on the 7th 
inst. one of these fish was taken through the ice 
measuring twenty inches in length. 
It is most gratifying to me to know that some 
of the little fellows survived and have grown to 
such a size, and the knowledge may prove of 
value to some of your readers interested in 
stocking either private or public waters. 
Colburn C. Wood. 
IN THE WOODS 
or in the mountains, no matter how far from 
civilization, fresh milk can always be had if fore¬ 
sight is used in packing the outfits. Borden’s 
Peerless Brand Evaporated Milk in cans keeps 
indefinitely until opened, and answers every pur¬ 
pose. It is pure, rich milk, condensed to the 
consistency of cream, put up without sugar and 
preserved by sterilization only.— Adv. 
All the fish laws of the United States and Can¬ 
ada, revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
