Oct. 15, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
the boat. While looking behind him the tuna 
on the squid made a rush toward the boat, and 
in some unforeseen way the line went slack and 
must have caught around either a guide on the 
rod or on the reel. 
At this time the fish sounded and simply pulled 
the rod and reel out of Mr. Townsend’s hands 
and it went overboard and is probably being 
dragged around the ocean to this day. 
At this time of year the tuna are extremely 
abundant off the Jersey coast. Albacore are also 
unusually numerous off this coast this fall. 
The hand line fishermen never come ashore 
without tales of losing from one to one dozen 
squids per boat to the tuna. 
T. E. Townsend is a member of the Asbury 
Park Fishing Club. J. M. Hall. 
Asbury Park, N. J., Oct. 8.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: There have been several tuna taken 
here this summer and at least two have been 
taken with rod and reel by our club member, 
T. R. Townsend. A picture of Mr. Townsend 
and his two specimens has been sent you by 
Mr. Leonard Hulit. If you desire a specimen 
sent to the New York Aquarium people after 
seeing the photograph, advise Mr. Hulit or my¬ 
self and we will get the next specimen brought 
ashore and forward it. 
R. A. Norris, 
Secretary Asbury Park Fishing Club. 
Asbury Park, N. J., Oct. 6.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: I am sending you a photograph 
of the two tunas caught by T. E. Townsend, of 
White Plains, N. Y. I have made arrangements 
to have, if possible, a specimen sent to the New 
York Aquarium. I will make a trip to sea at 
the earliest possible date and endeavor to have 
a story of my own of the Atlantic tuna and its 
capture. Leonard Hulit. 
Bait for Chub. 
The chub in the summer months may delight 
in a diet of cheese and cherries—two capital 
baits then, by the way—but in the winter 
months, particularly in frosty weather, nothing 
seems to tickle his palate more than bullock’s 
pith. 
How the chub acquired the taste for the 
spinal marrow of an ox, for such this special 
bait is, is unknown, but it is a pretty old lure 
and will attract the wary fish when nothing 
else will tempt him. The pith is much used in 
the Thames and Trent, the two principal chub 
rivers.—Westminster Gazette. 
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The lover of life in the open will rejoice in 
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who know well the mysterious desert of the 
Southwest. Mr. Grey spent a year or two in 
Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. He 
studied the Mormons of that little known 
country and has painted a striking picture of 
their characters and of the lives which they 
lead. The tale is of the range, where simple, 
honest owners struggle with rustlers and water 
thieves who strive little by little to force them 
away from the springs which alone make life 
possible in that arid region. 
The hero, a consumptive, is found apparently 
dying in the desert by a Mormon, the father 
of stalwart sons, the friend of Navajo Indians 
and the protector of a region. The hero wins 
his way back to life and at last to strength, 
health, toughness and a knowledge of the hard 
conditions of life in the desert. There is range 
riding, the capture of a famous wild stallion, 
horse breaking, gun play and sudden death; and 
at last a long, long ride over the desert in search 
of the girl whom persecution has driven from 
her home. The book moves fast and is full of 
life. For the most part the pictures are well 
painted and true to life. 
The situations where are described the strug- 
mr. townsend’s tuna. 
Weights, 52% and 25% pounds. 
gles to obtain possession of land, or water to 
which another has long had a possessory claim, 
picture well the difficulties and disputes such as 
used to occur in the old times on the northern 
ranges, and which may very likely still have a 
place in the borderland life of the Southwest. 
The book will be enjoyed by a wide public. 
There were two of a kind at the Hotel Lorenz 
in Redding, Cal., writes Ransacker, and one said 
to the other: 
“If you talk aboud shooting deers, Tony, vy 
is id you dond’t remember dot onvelope I shooted 
ven we vas down by Aritzona yet?” 
“Vale,” exclaimed Tony. “Vy is id you dond’t 
speak langwage ven you are talking? Vat? Id 
vas not a onvelope vat you vas shotting dere; 
id vas a cantelope.” 
Everybody laughed a great deal and Tony, 
with a satisfied look, thought the joke was en¬ 
tirely on the other man. His own confidence in 
his power of speech was unshaken. They let 
it go at that. 
1121 
Acclimatization of American Fishes 
in Argentina.* 
During the latter part of 1903 the Govern¬ 
ment of Argentina, having determined upon in¬ 
vestigations as to the possibilities of practical 
fishculture in that country, employed John W. 
Titcomb, chief of the division of fishculture in 
the United States Bureau of Fisheries, to in¬ 
augurate the undertaking. Mr. Titcomb was 
engaged in the work some eight or nine months, 
and during this period arranged for the intro¬ 
duction of several species of fish from the 
United States. He also chose the site for the 
first hatchery at Lago Nahuel Huapi, situated 
in the Andes Mountains, within two or three 
miles of the Chilean boundary. 
Actual fishcultural work was begun in Argen¬ 
tina March 4, 1904, with the arrival at Lago 
Nahuel Huapi of a consignment of fish eggs 
with which I had left New York Jan. 19. From 
Buenos Aires I brought also the necessary 
equipment for a small temporary hatchery, the 
latter having been planned by Mr. Titcomb and 
nearly finished under his direction before he left 
the lake. The first part of the journey, from 
Buenos Aires to Neuquen, was made by train, 
the time occupied being two nights and one day. 
From Neuquen to Lago Nahuel Huapi, a dis¬ 
tance of 300 miles, the eggs and hatchery equip¬ 
ment were carried in wagons, the members of 
the party accompanying on horseback. 
The consignment of eggs consisted, in New 
York, of the following: One million whitefish 
(Coregonus clupe if or mis') , 100,000 brook trout 
(Salvelinus fontinalis) , 53,000 lake trout ( Cristi - 
vomer namaycush), and 50,000 landlocked salmon 
(Sal-mo salar sebago). The loss in the entire lot 
of eggs, from the time they left New York until 
their hatching was completed, was less than 10 
per cent. The loss in the lake trout was only 
about 5 per cent., and the same in one lot of 
brook trout, while the other 50,000 lot of this 
species began hatching before reaching their 
destination, thereby causing a loss of about 30 
per cent. The loss of landlocked salmon was 
about 10 per cent, while the loss of whitefish 
to the day their distribution was concluded had 
been only 10 per cent. This consignment of 
eggs produced a great many more fry than we 
expected, and it became necessary to move the 
hatching troughs and fish immediately to a site 
about three miles away, where were found 
springs from which would flow at least ten 
times more water than those at the first loca¬ 
tion. The hatchery on this site has since been 
pulled down and rebuilt on a much larger scale. 
We liberated 900,000 strong, healthy whitefish 
fry in Lago Nahuel Huapi within a month after 
the arrival of the eggs at the hatchery. Up to 
the present time, however, no specimens of the 
whitefish hdve been secured for unmistakable 
identification, owing, probably, to the fact that 
we have not yet been able to fish systematically 
for them with suitable boats and nets. A sup¬ 
posed whitefish was caught in a small seine 
about a year ago by an “estanciero” living on 
the shore of the lake. 
The majority of the lake trout, as also the 
greater number of the landlocked salmon, were 
planted in the lakes Nahuel Huapi, Traful 
*By E A Tulian, Chief of the Section of Fish Culture, 
Ministry of Agriculture, Argentina: a paper presented 
before the Fourth International Fishery Congress. 
(Continued on page 634.) 
