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THIS MONTH IN THE 
OUTDOORS 
( Continued, from page 11) 
length of the deer season and Kentucky 
has no open time until 1925. One of the 
reasons for shortening the season is 
overshooting and the great increase in 
the number of hunters. 
Hunting clubs, frequently composed 
entirely of Northern sportsmen, owning 
vast tracts of land .in the Southern 
states, no longer make the big kills that 
were once the rule. Often in clubs, the 
game which one may take is less than 
the limit that the state or the county law 
allows. (In North Carolina, for in¬ 
stance, almost every county has laws 
different from adjacent or nearby coun¬ 
ties.) But there was a time when wild 
game was so abundant, but little atten¬ 
tion was paid by gunners to the bag 
limits prescribed by the state or by the 
Federal authorities having in charge 
migratory game. 
Not so many years ago I had the 
pleasure of being a member of a party 
of probably fifty men who lived in 
Jasper County, South Carolina, who 
were given a day’s hunt by the Okatee 
Club, whose home is about two miles 
south of Ridgeland, South Carolina. 
Mr. J. B. Bostick, in charge, to create 
good-will for the club, invited men who 
lived in the community of the club’s 
ground to a hunt. The men came to a 
central point, in all sorts of convey¬ 
ances, captains were appointed, and men 
on horseback with the dogs circled and 
drove the deer to where the men were 
stationed at their stands. 
At one o’clock, the men met at the 
meeting place. After grace had been 
said, they sat down to dinner in the 
outdoors, but long before the pipes and 
cigars were lighted, all were telling of 
their experiences that morning and 
recollections of the other days. As I 
recall it now, possibly a dozen deer 
were brought in, which, added to those 
obtained in the afternoon’s hunt, brought 
the total up to eighteen or more. The 
deer were then apportioned out, one to 
a family, say, particularly where there 
were three or four representatives, and 
where individual families were repre¬ 
sented by one, a deer would be given to 
that man to share with his hunting com¬ 
panion who lived nearest. Neither 
John YV. Horry nor I had the luck to 
get a shot—I missed mine by not staying 
on the job long enough—but in the back 
of the buggy we had a deer tied and the 
families represented by us and our 
neighbors received us joyously. 
“Poor Man’s Turkey” 
O FF the coast of Long Island, Rhode 
Island and Massachusetts a n d 
thence northward to the Maritime 
Provinces, the cod, which locally in 
New York is called the “poor man’s 
turkey,” is taking the angler’s bait and 
for the angler who hates to put away 
his fishing rod, there are boatmen who 
will take the fisherman to where the cod 
is found in schools. 
At New York City’s local fishing 
grounds, a cod of 25, 30, 35 and 40 
pounds is not unusual at the Cholera 
Banks, Seventeen Fathoms, Rocky Hill 
and Black Warrior Wreck. Captain 
Fred Foster, known to all bank fisher¬ 
men whose memory runs back a quarter 
of a century used to tell about a cod 
taken by Paddy Regan that weighed 52 
pounds, 1 ounce. It was the largest 
taken in his fishing career on the local 
banks. The day that Regan got his big 
cod, Foster himself captured three cod 
(from the small boat that was lowered 
from the steamer A1 Foster), which 
weighed 52, 48 and 30 pounds re¬ 
spectively. I doubt if that catch has 
ever been exceeded by a fisherman on 
the fleet of boats that leave New York 
City proper, from Sheepshead, Graves¬ 
end or Jamaica Bays. Dr. Benjamin 
M. Briggs, president emeritus of the 
United Angler’s League of New York 
City, insists that the cod is a game fish 
and through years of reiteration he 
believes it. Ask him. 
Casting in Winter Weather 
A FTER the migratory fish leave the 
New York and New Jersey waters, 
many salt water fishermen do not put up 
their tackle, instead they take the “big 
stick” to the casting field and spend 
many a Sunday or a Saturday afternoon 
casting the four-once lead regardless of 
snow and ice. Thus they improve their 
casting, particularly in surf fishing, for 
next season and the men themselves are 
in a better position to be chosen as a 
member of a team of five to make the 
annual struggle for the Ocean City Cup, 
the classic casting event of the clubs in 
the Association of Surf Angling Clubs. 
Each season, as a result of the prac¬ 
tice casting during the winter, the 
Asbury Park Fishing Club, the Belmar 
Fishing Club, the Anglers’ Club of 
Ocean City, the Ocean City Fishing 
Club, the New York Casting Club and 
other salt water fishing organizations 
hold a club tournament at which mem¬ 
bers compete in casting in a 30-foot 
lane, two parallel lines made at right 
angles to the base line, thirty feet apart. 
Also in the V-shaped court, in which the 
boundary lines diverge from a point on 
the base line with a spread of thirty feet 
at the 100-foot mark and continue at an 
angle indefinitely. Also the distance- 
accuracy line, a marked line at right 
angles to the base line, variations from 
which are deducted from the length of 
the cast and the 140-foot stake and a 
straight accuracy mark. 
The world’s record for distance in 
casting the four-once lead is 461 feet, 10 
inches, made at Ocean City, New Jersey, 
in 1920 by Harold G. Lentz. Records 
going back to 1884 show that the Ameri¬ 
can record was boosted from 204 feet 
to its present distance. Year by year 
the distance has been gradually climbing, 
some years by feet, some other years by 
inches, the record holders including such 
good fishermen as J. A. Roosevelt, W. 
H. Wood, E. B. Rice, Dr. R. J. Held, 
William J. Moran, Carleton Simon, Jr., 
Dr. Carleton Simon. John E. Clayton, 
Edward E. Davis, J. Charles Elimgs- 
hausen, A. J. Sahdala, John Shaw and 
the man who surpassed them all. 
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