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fishing at Main Gut, reports that fish were very 
plentiful and gamy. Twenty splendid salmon 
were hooked the first day, fourteen of them 
being landed. Nine more were caught during 
part of the next two days. Seventeen of these 
fish weighed from 8 to 23 pounds, and the re¬ 
mainder about 4 pounds. This is a stream that 
is very seldom fished and has lots of room for 
many anglers. 
There are numerous other reports as good, if 
not better than the above, from various other 
sections, all tending to prove that the fishing is 
improving year by year. 
C. DuB. Wagstaff had the sport of his life 
this season. I gave you a description in my last 
notes of the big fellow that he captured after a 
four hours’ fight. Those who saw it say that 
it was a beautiful and perfect fish. Since then 
he caught the largest fish I have seen reported 
this season. He shipped it to me and I can say 
from personal experience that it was a beautiful 
salmon, and as delicious as it was beautiful. I 
take the liberty of quoting an extract from Mr. 
Wagstaff’s note accompanying the fish, which I 
think will interest all angling readers: “I took 
the salmon I sent you last Sunday. He was a 
beauty, fresh run, and the most perfect fish I 
have ever taken, as you may judge by the 
measurements: Length, 41 T 4 inches; depth, 13; 
girth, 25; through body, 6J4 I weighed after being 
out of the water three hours, 33!% pounds. 
“I am high hook on the Codroys for the season, 
and as far as I have heard, in Newfoundland. 
“I have had some fine sea trout fishing. On 
the 17th I took two and a half dozen; 18th, 
three and a half dozen; 19th (raining) one 
dozen. A number went over 2 l / 2 pounds, several 
3 and 3(4, and 1 pound was the average size. 
So you see 1 struck the highwater mark when I 
stopped over for a few days to avoid the heat 
in New York.” 
There is a record of which any fisherman 
might well feel proud. W. J. Carroll. 
Fishing in Nebraska. 
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 8 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Special Deputy Game Warden Otto 
W. Wolf, of Madison, confiscated a large eight- 
foot fish trap which for a number of years has 
been doing active business on lower Union 
Creek. The trap was found in the possession 
of one of Madison’s respected citizens who 
claimed that he was using it for the purpose of 
catching muskrats. The trap was constructed 
of closely woven chicken wire and was pro¬ 
nounced by men who claim to have had experi¬ 
ence in the use of fish traps to be one of the 
best they had ever seen. 
A correspondent who writes for a never-fail¬ 
ing black bass bait should know that no such 
bait exists. No one has ever had a patent on 
catching any kind of fish at any particular time 
if the fish are not in a mood to bite what is 
offered to them, and if an angler had a sure 
thing in the way of catching fish, angling would 
soon lose its charm. It is the glorious uncer¬ 
tainty of fishing that makes it so attractive. I 
have fished on many of the choicest waters of 
Minnesota, and many and oft have been my dis¬ 
appointments. If I could always catch from a 
half to a dozen nice bass in a morning or after¬ 
noon, I would be supremely contented, and think 
I was in the best of luck, for I have cast and 
trolled many a day all day long until the boat 
seat seemed to have worn off my vertebra up to 
my shoulders without getting more than a strike 
or two to encourage me to broil and perspire and 
blister in the hot sun. Last summer two friends 
at Long Lake, Minn., cast near me for two days 
and never got a strike, while 1 caught a nice 
string of bass each day. Our tackle and bait 
were exactly the same and we were casting in 
the same water, so close to each other that we 
kept up a running fire of small talk, and there 
was no good reason why they should fail and 
I succeed, unless it was purely fisherman’s luck. 
The remarkable feat of capturing three black 
bass at one time on the fly was accomplished by 
S. A. Farrell, of Chicago, while casting with 
Nebraska friends on the lake near Merriam, 
Cherry county, a few days ago. Mr. Farrell had 
three flies on his line and the three fishes must 
have struck almost simultaneously, as it is un¬ 
likely a fish would take the lure while another 
fish on the same line was struggling for its free¬ 
dom. The three bass did not give the angler 
any unusual trouble in landing them. The com¬ 
bined weight was three and three-quarter pounds. 
Let all the enemies of the finny tribe rise and 
bless me. I have discovered an absolute anti¬ 
dote for mosquitoes, jiggers and woodticks, and 
you can lay it before the readers of Forest and 
Stream. If any of them are going to Min¬ 
nesota, or any other place, fishing or camping 
this fall, they will find my remedy a sure one. 
It is nothing more nor less than a saturated solu¬ 
tion of hyposu’phite of soda. If liberally applied 
to the face and hands before going into the 
woods, neither skeeters nor jiggers will molest 
them. It is a sure cure also after being bitten. 
Just apply liberally twice a day, and that will 
end your trouble. Sandy Griswold. 
[Hyposulphite of soda has been recommended 
also as a remedy for poison ivy.—E ditor.] 
Tuna Celebrate Again. 
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 25.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The middle of August was the time 
set for tuna excitement by the experienced. It 
proved a premature guess by a few days. How¬ 
ever, Dr. Vilas landed a good specimen of 136 
pounds, the smallest of the year thus far, al¬ 
though a big one as they ran last summer. 
There was no further activity until Aug. 22. 
It had been reserved for this date to qualify 
a fourteen-year-old boy for the highest honors 
the Tuna Club has to bestow. Jack Kendall, a 
lad big of his years and strong, after the usual 
summer vacation passed in fishing with his 
father about Catalina, used up twenty-two flying- 
fish during the day and the twenty-third proved 
the winning number. 
The catch weighed in at 144 K pounds, and the 
boy made a good fight of it. His hands were 
cut and skinned in proverbial tuna fashion. He 
has the honor of being the club’s youngest mem¬ 
ber. Lest scoffers rail at the difficulties of a 
game that can be turned by a boy, it might be 
said that young Kendall has more strength than 
the average man, weighs over 200 pounds, and 
has had more opportunity to learn fishing than 
falls to the part of most. 
D. Weibers, of Los Angeles, has a gold but¬ 
ton won on a Clemente yellowtail on light tackle. 
Aug. 24, at 5 430 o’clock, he hooked on, and the 
Cabrillo was in sight the next day. almost eigh¬ 
teen hours later, when he finally wore out his 
line and broke loose, fairly quivering like a 
palsied old man. All through the night Weibers 
and his boatman, Bert Allen, worked over the 
fish. Whether he fought it hammer and tongs 
from the first is a point tuna anglers argue, but 
most maintain no man could fight a fish that 
long. 1 he previous long distance record was 
held by the Woods brothers and Harry Elms, 
who jointly wrestled fourteen hours with a tuna 
which they finally lost in gaffing. It was im- 
'mense. Weibers never saw his and estimates 
of its weight are therefore idle guess work. 
People stood out on the pleasure wharf half 
the night, everybody in town having been ad¬ 
vised of the fight by returning boats. 
Edwin L. Hedderly. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 4 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Scores cast to-day at Stow Lake 
in a southwest wind : 
Event No. 1, 
II. B. Sperry... 
C. H. Kewell... 
Austin Sperry . 
T. C. Kierulff.. 
distance, feet: 
. 97 E. . 
. 93 *A. 
. 1.95 *H. 
. 100 
A. Mocker 
Sperry .. 
B. Sperry 
99 
104 
98 
Event No. 2, 
C. II. Keweil... 
II. B. Sperry.. 
James Watt ... 
Austin Sperry 
T. C. Kierulff.. 
accuracy, per 
. 98'. 12 
. 98.6 
. 97.5 
. 97.9 
. 99.8 
cent.: 
F. M. Haight. 
E. A. Mocker 
*James Watt . 
F. M. Haight. 
Event No. 3, Delicacy, 
H. B. Sperry. 
C. H. Kewell. 
James Watt . 
Austin Sperry . 
T. C. Kierulff. 
F. M. Haight. 
E. A. Mocker. 
*James Watt . 
*A Sperry . 
*F. M. Haight. 
*H. B. Sperry. 
per cent.: 
Accuracy. 
. 99.4 ' 
. 98.28 
. 97.16 
. 98.4 
. 98.36 
. 95.48 
. 98.8 
. 97.16 
. 97.32 
. 97.8 
. 98.32 
Event No. 4, lure casting, per cent.: 
H. B. Sperry. 
C. H. Kewell. 
James Watt . . . . . . 
Austin Sperry . 
T. C. Kierulff. 
E. A. Mocker . 
*James Watt . 
*A. Sperry . 
*H. B. Sperry. 
C. H Kewell. 
*Re entries. 
Delicacy. 
99 ' 
99.10 
97.50 
98.40 
99.20 
87 
100 
96.40 
97.20 
98 
99 
. 97.6 
. 96.6 
. 95.7 
. 97.5 
. 98.0 
. 98.2 
. 97.4 
. 97.3 
. 97.8 
. 92.1 
68.10 
97.4 
97.12 
98.4 
Net. 
99.2 
98.49 
97.33 
98.22 
98.58 
86.24 
99.4 
96.58 
97.26 
97.34 
98.46 
93 
87 
127 
78 
124 
122 
132 
E. O. Ritter, Clerk. 
The Anglers’ Casting Club of Chicago. 
Chicago, Ill., Sept. n.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following scores were made to¬ 
day in our regular scheduled contest in quarter- 
ounce accuracy. Scores in per cent.: 
Regular. 
f —Re-entries —n 
E. 1 own . 
. 98.2 
99.0 
98.6 
L. Place . 
. 98.4 
98.9 
98.9 
YV. Jamison . 
. 99.1 
C . Lingenfelter . 
. 96.6 
G. Chatt . 
. 97.4 
98.5 
97.8 
II. Hokamp . 
. 98.6 
98.4 
B Burke . 
. 96.3 
94.0 
96.6 
M. Cooley . 
. 96.8 
98.0 
H. Does . 
. 97.9 
1. Hall . 
. 95.8 
96.8 
96.9 
i . Nordholm . 
. 97.3 
Visitors: 
Mr. De Garmo . 
. 98.7 
Mr. Linder . 
. 98.2 
Mr. A. Berg. 
. 98.2 
Quarter-ounce distance 
event ; 
average 
for five 
casts : 
Regular. 
z—Re-entries—> 
E. Town . 
. 122.4 
131.2 
129.2 
L. Place . 
. 141.6 
140.6 
154.4 
W. Jamison . 
. 149.6 
107.6 
C. Lingenfelter . 
. 38.6 
Geo. Chatt . 
. 97.4' 
108.8 
95.8 
Mr. De Garmo, visitor. 
. 59.6 
131.0 
L. N. Place's score of 154.4 feet average for 
five casts is better than the record made by B. 
F. Flegel in the recent international tournament. 
Mr. Place also cast 177 feet in this event, this 
distance also beating Mr. Flegel’s longest cast in 
the above mentioned tournament. 
Wind southerly and varying in velocity. 
E. M. Town, Sec’y. 
