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right, and a load was lifted from our minds. 
We went back to camp and soon heard them 
down at the spring, and all went down there, 
intending to abuse them for causing us so much 
uneasiness. We found Bill pouring water on 
Fletch’s head, while Fletch groaned with nearly 
every breath. Judge asked them where they had 
been all the morning. Fletch said : “Hush, Judge, 
I’m awful sick. I've been lying out there on 
the bank of the river all morning, too sick to 
raise my head off the ground, and Bill has been 
carrying water to me in his hat. I’ve been too 
sick to let him leave me a minute. It must be 
something I ate for breakfast, or a sunstroke, 
I don’t know which.” 
Judge let him go Qn until he had finished, and 
then asked him about the inquiries he had made 
of Murray about Johnson’s Ford and our camp- 
The final contest and cast-off for the season 
was held on Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park 
yesterday. The wind was variable, but the 
weather fair. 
Governor James N. Gillett was present and 
was deeply interested in the contest. He ex¬ 
pects to be with us and take an active part in 
the contests next season. 
Championship Long Distance: Won by J. B. 
Kenniff, 119 4/10 feet. 
First Class Long Distance: Won by T. C. 
Kierulff, 102 4/10 feet. 
Championship Accuracy Fly: Won by T. C. 
Kierulff, 98 145/150 per cent. 
First Class Accuracy Fly: Won by J. B. 
Kenniff, 99 per cent. 
Second Class Accuracy Fly: Won by E. A. 
Mocker, 97 131/150 per cent. 
Mr. Townsend’s Tuna. 
Asbury Park, N. J., Oct. 9.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: In regard to the identification of 
the tuna taken here by me, there can be no pos¬ 
sibility of doubt, as L. P. Streeter, of the Tuna 
Club of California, has presented to our club 
(the Asbury Park Fishing Club) two beautifully 
mounted specimens of tuna; one a yellow-finned 
tuna weighing twenty-one pounds and one a 
leaping tuna weighing 133 pounds, and the fish 
caught here this summer and fall exactly corres¬ 
pond with the leaping tuna specimen in every 
respect. 
The tuna have been plentiful here all summer. 
This I can state positively, as since June 1 I 
have been offshore every day a motor boat could 
get off. When I say plentiful I mean literally 
CLUB HOUSE AND PRESERVE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FLY-CASTING CLUB. 
ing place. At this Bill threw down the washpan 
with which he had l^een pouring water on 
Fletch’s head and said that it was no use, and 
that they might as well own up, and they did. 
It turned out that when they started 1 with the 
boat they got turned round and had followed a 
trail for about five miles up the river before they 
struck the stream. Then they were lost com¬ 
pletely and undecided as to whether they were 
above or below camp. Fletch insisted that they 
were below, and Bill that they were above. Bill 
finally prevailed in the argument and they 
started down, and found camp as I have told 
you. 
Fletch got lost again at this camp, but that 
is another story. W. P. Freeman. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 10.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: I am sending you a picture taken 
on our preserve on the Truckee River, near Union 
Mills, Cal. The capacity of the club house has 
been doubled since this photograph was taken, 
and now accommodates fifty guests. 
Novice Class Accuracy Fly: Won by Austin 
Sperry, 96 129/150 per cent. 
Championship Class Delicacy Fly: Won by 
T. C. Kierulff, 99 124/600 per cent. 
First Class Delicacy Fly: Won by F. H. 
Reed, 99 i6o / 6oo per cent. 
First Class Lure: Won by J. B. Kenniff, 
98 8/10 per cent. 
Second Class ]Lure : Won by C. G. Young, 
97 7/10 per cent. 
Novice Class Lure: Won by C. PL Kewell. 
95 7/10 per cent. 
E. O. Ritter, Clerk. 
Sport in the South. 
The best croaker fishing of the season in the 
lake off Bucktown and West End has prevailed 
during the past week, when splendid catches of 
very large croakers were made, especially in the 
evening and at night. Seiners, too, reaped a 
harvest, catching in large numbers croakers, 
speckled and white trout, small redfish, 
flounders and even some small Spanish 
mackerel.—Picayune. 
hundreds and hundreds of them at times. About 
three weeks ago they struck in here in renewed 
numbers, and since that time there have been 
hundreds of them caught by the market fisher¬ 
men squidding for bluefish and bonita. You can 
readily understand that the hand lines, being tied 
to the boats, with no give to them, a great, great 
many squids are lost on tuna. One day last week 
about fifteen miles off this place, where fifty 
boats were squidding around a school of bonita, 
a school of tuna struck in, and in fifteen minutes 
there were 300 squids lost by those boats besides 
a large number of tuna being landed. I relate 
this simply to show their numbers. 
The tuna I caught were taken about fifteen 
miles offshore from this place. The rod used 
was a greenheart rod, the tip weighing fourteen 
ounces and about five feet eleven inches long. 
The reel a 2/0, with 600 feet of No. 18 regular 
Cuttyhunk line. The first fish, weighing 25^ 
pounds, took about fifteen or twenty minutes be T 
fore my boatman, E. Saunders, succeeded in 
gaffing him, and immediately afterward the 
second fish, weighing 52% pounds, took the squid. 
This fish fought for a period exceeding an hour 
