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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 2, 1910. 
districts, and the sport at both places is de¬ 
clared to be in first-class shape. 
The trout hatching season has been a great 
success at the State hatchery at Sisson, and 
8,000,000 young fry are now ready for distribu¬ 
tion. The State fish car, in charge of R. M. 
Requa, has left on its initial distributing trip 
for the season, and will serve Sierra Nevada. 
Placer and El Dorado counties first. The State 
hatchery at Tahoe has 6,000,000 trout, ready for 
distribution, the Brookdale hatchery 2,000,000, 
and the Ukiah hatchery 1,000,000, making a 
total of 17,000,000 fry from the four hatcheries. 
The Sisson hatchery has already distributed 
this season 22,000,000 salmon fry, the eggs hav¬ 
ing been received from the United States 
hatcheries at Baird, Battle Creek and Mill 
Creek. 
Charles A. Vogelsang, Chief Deputy Fish and 
Game Commissioner, points out the fact that 
the State appropriates only $20,000 to the sup¬ 
port of that commission, which maintains the 
fish hatcheries and operates a fish and game 
patrol. Last year about $19,000 was received 
from fines and $22,000 from fishermen’s licenses. 
A. P. B. 
Fishing in Newfoundland. 
St. John’s, N. F., June 22. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: And now the red gods make their 
medicine again. From near and far the anglers 
are converging on the chosen waters. Some of 
them get fish, all of them get fishing, and the 
balm that soothes their worrying spring fret. 
The $10 license fee does not seem to affect 
the numbers of American sportsmen. The in¬ 
creased protection of the rivers and better and 
larger fish will more than repay the outlay. 
Reports coming in from the various salmon 
streams are calculated to make those who per¬ 
force must stick at their desks envy the other 
fellows; that is, if it is possible for any good 
angler to envy his more fortunate brother. 
Some of our local trouters, too, take an odd 
day off and fish the ponds, in the neighborhood 
of the city, and the ubiquitous newspaper man 
catches them at the station on their return, in¬ 
spects the catch and writes items like the follow¬ 
ing that make the stay-at-homes more restless 
and uneasy: 
“Messrs. Aspell and Flynn caught six dozen 
fine trout at Lockyer’s Waters, Avondale. At 
Terra Nova three dozen mud trout over one 
pound each were caught at the Narrows by the 
Governor and party. At South Branch, Hudson 
and party hail for fifty-seven salmon for ten 
days’ work. At Crabbs, Boylis caught twelve 
salmon, total weight 112 pounds.’’ 
Certain days each month are kept as com¬ 
mercial holidays. All the business places close 
up and hundreds of trouters take to the woods. 
A couple of enterprising city firms who deal 
largely in fishing tackle, and whose principals 
are right good sportsmen, offer valuable prizes 
each week to those who are fortunate enough 
to capture the large ones. These are placed on 
exhibition in the windows of the establishments 
and sometimes the exhibit make a goodly pic¬ 
ture, but it is noticeable that when the large fish 
come to the scale, they do not weigh nearly as 
heavy as their fond captors imagine when view¬ 
ing them on the bank of some purling stream. 
I give you a couple of clippings from last 
week’s competition that will interest anglers: 
“In the exhibition at Martin’s the prize win¬ 
ners are: First, James Ryan, Quidi Vidi Road, 
one rainbow 2 pounds and 14 ounces; second, 
Colin Campbell, half dozen native trout, 6 
pounds; third, Michael Manning, half dozen 
native trout, 3 pounds and 13 ounces.” 
“The following were the prize winners in 
Ayre's competition: Fred. Smallwood, largest 
catch, seven local mud trout, weighing 6 pounds 
254 ounces; Mr. Salt, largest rainbow trout, 2 
pounds 6 F> ounces; Francis Woods, largest local 
mud trout, 1 pound 5 ounces; H. Snow, largest 
sea trout, 3 pounds 2^2 ounces. 
The salmon and sea trout have begun to go 
up the rivers and reports from the west coast 
show that the fishing is very good at Little 
River, South Branch, the Codroys, Crabbes, 
Fischels and Robinsons, and it is also reported 
that there are no flies yet to torment the patient 
angler. The following paragraphs from the 
papers of the last day or two will show what 
success has already crowned the efforts of the 
fortunate ones who were on hand when the gods 
were kind and the fish biting: 
Sir Ralph Williams, accompanied by Lady 
Williams and Miss Dean, had a very enjoyable 
holiday on the West Coast where they had good 
salmon fishing,' and at Placentia they caught 
many trout. 
Hudson and party in ten days caught fifty- 
seven salmon and Baylie’s have twelve salmon 
to date. Total weight 112 pounds for Baylie’s, 
Crabbes River. 
A list of fish caught at Doyles, Little River, 
June 11, follow: C. D. Wagstaff, two salmon, 
g]/ 2 and 10 pounds; one trout, s l / 2 pounds. Chas. 
E. Thorne, one grilse, 4 pounds; one trout, 4^2 
pounds. J. R. Judson, three salmon, 10 pounds 
each and one salmon 7 pounds. 
Seven salmon were caught at South Branch, 
five by Mr. Bourk, one by Mr. Dyke and one 
by J. Ryan, weighing from 7 to 13 pounds. 
W. J. Carroll. 
Surf Fishing. 
Asbury Park, N. J., June 25.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: This advanced date of the favor¬ 
ite month for striped bass along our coast gives 
us not a remarkable story of success. Although 
a few fish are being taken, the largest, thirty 
pounds, goes to the credit of John Clayton, of 
this city. The second in size, twenty-one and a 
quarter pounds, was caught by Joseph Cawthorn, 
of Little Nemo and other stage fame. The largest 
number to a single rod, by Wm. Schwartz, of 
Newark, three fish, the heaviest being ten and 
a half pounds. 
The surf has been in fine condition much of 
the time during the month, but the bass are not 
taking bait as freely as is desirable. June is al¬ 
ways looked upon as the best month of the year, 
but as in all the affairs of life, circumstances 
alter cases and none of us can read from our 
viewpoint the whys of fish change of habit. That 
they are alongshore quite abundantly is made 
sure by the fact that one of the guards on the 
ocean front early yesterday morning saw a large 
school break close inshore. They had been dis¬ 
turbed by a school of porpoises which were 
feeding nearby, and the bass ran inshore for 
shelter. They were large in size and hundreds 
of them in number. 
Kingfish are quite abundant and fully as plenti¬ 
ful as they have been for many years. They 
run fine in size and are heavy with spawn. They 
are always welcome to the angler, as, weight 
considered, there is no more desirable fish to 
be met with along our coast. Seventeen to one 
rod in an afternoon is the best record to date, 
and, considering some seasons of the past for 
comparison, can be regarded as fine. 
Two weakfish have been taken so far which 
shows they are beginning to trade inshore and 
are always welcomed gladly, as they are such 
free biters and full of vim and stay with us so 
late in the autumn that they are regarded as the 
real staple article of rod diet both along the 
beach and in our inland waters. 
. Leonard Hulit. 
Deformed Trout. 
Brewer, Me., June 25.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: A day or two since I caught a brook 
trout which may be of some interest to you. I 
inclose a rough outline of the fish and a strip 
of skin from the back to substantiate the sketch. 
The trout, one of a half pound in weight, had 
what might be called a double dorsal fin or two 
dorsal fins near where the usual member is 
placed. At first glance one might think that at 
some time a bite from some larger fish might 
have cut away the center of what was originally 
a normal tin, but upon examination they proved 
to be entirely separate and with fully an inch 
of just ordinary back between them. 
Both of these fins are dwarfed to about half 
the usual size and with proportionally less rays. 
W. M. H’ 
Methodical Fishing. 
“Jim” McDermit, the lawyer, has a great 
fund of “darky” dialect stories. The one he 
most delights to tell follows: 
“A traveling salesman in a southern town 
came to a small pond. An old negro was 
lolling contentedly in the sun with fishing rod 
in hand. The salesman paused and watched the 
fishing. After watching for half an hour with¬ 
out seeing the least sign of a bite he asked how 
the fish were biting. The fisher looked sur¬ 
prised. “ ‘Why, boss,” he exclaimed, ‘dere ain’t 
no fish in dis year pond. Dere never was a 
fish in it.’ 
“ ‘Well, what do you fish for?” the salesman 
wanted to know. 
“ ‘So’s my old woman can see dat I ain’t got 
no time to chop wood fer de fire,’ the negro 
answered.”—Newark Star. 
All the fish laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
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