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Fishing in Minnesota. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 30 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: During the last two weeks in July 
and the first of August it was very hot and the 
fish refused to take bait of any sort, even during 
the feeding .hours. However, when cooler days 
and nights succeeded one another, the fishing 
again became good. Every lake has its bass and 
one need not fish in vain. At this date I find the 
bass to be readily taken by still-fishing—using- 
angleworms. Just now the fish do not seem 
to care for frogs, refusing to even rise. Min¬ 
nows are better, and an occasional crappie may 
be landed, although they do not bite very well. 
Pickerel are often caught. 
The lakes and streams have fallen considerably 
under the tremendous heat, and only the re¬ 
cent rains have saved the situation. Some 
streams have gone dry. Early last spring a Minne¬ 
apolis judge in a trip north of the city thought 
he would do a vast amount of good by planting 
trout in a stream on the grounds occupied by 
a boys’ home—the idea being that the lads were 
to have the sole right to catch them when they 
grew large enough. Thirty thousand trout fry 
were planted there. Recently the judge took a 
trip there to see how things were progressing. 
The stream had dried up. 
Frogs have been scarce, and twenty-five cents 
a dozen is being paid for them by fishermen. A 
man from Montana, taking advantage of the situ¬ 
ation, hurried back to his home and returned 
recently with two hundred and fifty dozen as 
fine fishing frogs as one could find. At Minne¬ 
tonka he sold them in two days to fishermen for 
fifteen cents a dozen. Robert Page Lincoln. 
Louisiana Fishing. 
New Orleans, Aug. 27 . —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The vacation season has served to 
greatly increase the number of fishermen visiting 
the resorts on the coast. Hundreds of fish are 
being caught, and the sport has proven very en¬ 
joyable. A number of families are spending sev¬ 
eral weeks at Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass 
Christian, Gulfport, Mississippi City, Biloxi and 
other places on the coast, and both men and 
women are fishing and boating as the only diver¬ 
sion. Large parties of men are spending days at 
a time at Lake Catherine, the Rigolets, Chef 
Menteur, Lookout, and to North and South shore 
on Lake Pontchartrain, while others are enjoying 
the fishing in the Barataria section. Speckled 
trout, striped bass and redfish have been caught 
in large numbers. Sheepshead are fairly plenti¬ 
ful, and Spanish mackerel in goodly numbers 
have rewarded the industry of the persistent fish¬ 
ermen. F. G. G. 
Anglers’ Club of Milwaukee. 
Milwaukee, Aug. 29 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In the contest held Aug. 24, H. C. 
Mullen won the quarter-ounce event with a score 
of 98 7/10; Albert Lahman won the half-ounce 
event with a sebre of 07 9/10. The following 
are the scores: 
^4-ounce, %-ounce. 
H. C. Mullen . 98.7 97.4 
C'. A. Rhine. 98.4 
Albert Lahman . 98.2 97.9 
C. L. Tolfson. 96.2' 97.2 
Jas. McBride . 96.9 
(7. C. Schoenlaub. 96.3 
C. L. Tolfson, Sec’y. 
Yachting Fixtures. 
SEPTEMBER. 
10. Indian Harbor Yacht Club, fall. 
19. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
10 . Brooklyn Yacht Club, eleventh championship. 
10. Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, open. 
10. Quincy Yacht Club, interclub races. 
10. Chicago Yacht Club, Com. Baum cup. 
10. Seaside Yacht Club. 
10. Beverly Yacht Club, seventh Corinthian. 
1 #. Royal Canadian Y. C., Prince of V\ ales cup. 
15. New York Yacht Club, Glen Cove. 
17. Larchmont Yacht Club, special. 
17. Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, fall. 
17. Atlantic Yacht Club, twelfth championship. 
17. Taunton Yacht Club, open. 
17. Duxbury Yacht Club. 
17. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
17. Chicago Yacht Club, fall regatta. 
24. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. club. 
Atlantic Y. C. Race Week. 
The race week of the Atlantic Y. C. was the 
most successful in the history of that club, and 
one of the most successful of all the race weeks 
that have been held this season anywhere. 
Horace E. Boucher, the chairman of the re¬ 
gatta committee, has worked very hard to make 
it a success, and he succeeded in getting to¬ 
gether a fine fleet of yachts, so that the racing 
was of the best. Mr. Boucher invited owners 
of yachts from other sections to race with the 
Atlantic Club, and the result was that there 
were yachts from Marblehead, from the Sound, 
from the Great South Bay. from Cedarhurst, 
and these, with the fleet that races regularly 
in the Lower Bay. furnishes some fine sport. 
There were three days of racing for series 
prizes, and in order to make things more in¬ 
teresting, inter-state, inter-club and special races 
were arranged, so that the races were more 
representative of any that have been sailed this 
year. 
Three of the Eastern 31-raters came around 
the Cape to meet three New York boats, and 
largely through good management, rather than 
any special speed that they have, the visitors 
carried off the prize. The visitors were: 
Amoret, Mavourneen and Timandra—a trio hard 
to beat in any team race. Amoret has won the 
Lipton cup in Eastern waters, and has a fine 
record. She is specially good in fresh to 
strong winds. Mavourneen is a good all-round 
boat, and Timandra, the champion of last year, 
is good in light weather. These three sailed 
against Cara Mia, winner of the Manhasset 
Bay challenge cup; Windward, winner of that 
trophy last year, and Crescent. Crescent is an 
old boat, and was in no way able to sail with 
the others, so that in figuring the points, the 
home trio was at a disadvantage. 
It had been hoped that Mimosa III. would 
make one of the three to represent New York, 
but her owner is abroad. Mr. A. G. Hill, owner 
of Crescent, agreed to make one of the team 
and very pluckily took part in each race, keeping- 
on to the finish, although he never had any 
hopes of success. 
The first race was sailed in a fresh wind with 
rather a rough sea. A S. W. or S. E. wind 
will kick up quite a sea on the Lower Bay. 
The course selected gave the yachts a good 
windward test, and Cara Mia easily defeated 
Amoret. Unfortunately. Cara Mia made the 
mistake of turning only the spar buoy on 
Craven Shoals instead of the bell and spar, and 
a protest was filed after the race, but it was 
withdrawn later as the mistake did not alter 
the result of the race. Windward in this race 
stood in too close to the Lower Hospital 
Island and touched, and she was held up for 
about two minutes. This race showed that in a 
fair wind Cara Mia was better than Amoret, 
and Windward better than the other two Bos¬ 
ton boats, and on points New York led with a 
score of n to 10. 
The second race was sailed in a light wind 
and rain, and this time the Eastern boats did 
remarkably well. Timandra got away well and 
was never caught. Amoret took second place 
and Cara Mia was third. In this race Wind¬ 
ward touched on Coney Island Point, but this 
did not hurt her chances in the race, as she 
was fourth when she touched. The Eastern 
yachtsmen showed in this race that they had 
made a good study of the tides, and on the 
second round of the triangle Mavourneen stood 
well up toward the Narrows, got the first of 
an ebb. and then reaching down toward the 
Bensonhurst mark, managed to catch Wind¬ 
ward and beat that boat by a few seconds for 
fourth place. This race gave the Boston boats 
a command in the point score which could not 
be overcome. 
In the third race Windward won with Ti¬ 
mandra, Amoret and Mavourneen following in 
the order named. Windward won on the second 
round, having been third boat when the yachts 
finished the first round of the course. ' Cara 
Mia was badly beaten and Amoret scored the 
most points in the series and took the prize. 
The third series of races for the Thompson 
cup brought together a good fleet and furnished 
a big surprise to yachtsmen. Little Rhody 
finished second to Grayjacket in the first race, 
won the second with Grayjacket second, and was 
last in the third. She is four years old, and no 
one thought she would have a chance with the 
more modern craft. She came to these waters 
from Narragansett Bay, and on points tied 
with More Joy for second place, the cup being 
won by Grayjacket. 
The series for the Lipton cup of the Crescent 
Athletic Club was won by Blue Bill. This 
series of races attracted ten yachts, some com¬ 
ing from the Sound. Blue Bill. Ardette. Drena. 
Nereid, Scylla. Althea and Alice were from 
designs by Gielow. Bensonhurst and M. and F. 
from designs by C. D. Mower, and Opal from 
designs by Cox & Stevens. In the first race 
some accidents marred the snort. Althea fouled 
Opal, knocking a hole in that boat’s bow and 
only four finished. Had the others kept on 
securing points. Blue Bill would not have had 
such an easy victory. Blue Bill won the second 
and third race and secured the most points with 
Ardette second and Scylla third. 
The Larchmont and Islip one-design boats 
sailed a series together, and the Islip boats won. 
