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is committing a fraud upon one party to the 
contract. No matter whether the licensee can 
find time to hunt or not, his equal share of the 
game should be left in the covers if he does 
decide to go for it. Equal opportunity for all 
hunters should be the watchword. Why should 
a man of leisure, who can afford to hunt every 
day, be permitted to get all the game? He 
pays the same fee for his license as the man 
of business or workingman who can find time 
to hunt only once or twice during the open 
season. Why permit special privileges in the 
taking of our game? 
This can be obviated by a just bag limit pro¬ 
vision in law, well and strictly enforced with¬ 
out discrimination. Such a measure is now 
fully recognized as just to the hunters and a 
means of assuring protection to the game. The 
day is fast approaching when sportsmen will 
insist upon the bag limit more strongly than 
any other provision of the game and fish laws. 
It is the square deal clause in every law en¬ 
acted to preserve the game. I believe the 
above sums up what is now recognized in this 
country as the slogan of fish and game pro¬ 
tectionists. Harry Chase. 
Catching Fish with the Hands. 
Catlettsburg, Ky., Dec. 9.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: We are on the Ohio River, 150 miles 
above Cincinnati. The river is at a fair boat¬ 
ing stage, about six feet of water. 
On the 8th I took my gun and started up the 
river to see ifi I could find any ducks, as there 
are generally a few at this time in the year. I 
was in a johnboat about twelve feet long. They 
have not much model, but the best of them will 
outrun a skiff, and they are very light, only 
drawing two or three inches of water. I pulled 
along for about a mile, mainly interested in the 
snow that lay on the bank, an unusual one for 
this part of the world, one foot deep, and cling¬ 
ing to all the branches. Four or five inches of 
it lay on every little twig. I was looking for 
rabbit tracks as well as ducks, as the rabbits 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
come down to the water in a deep snow hunt¬ 
ing something to eat. 
I passed a couple of fish floating near the 
shore. As one often sees dead fish I thought 
little of it, but a short distance further I saw 
another, and out of curiosity I stopped the boat 
and picked this one up and was surprised to find 
it was alive. I examined it, and as far as I 
could see there was nothing wrong; no injury 
of any kind. I rowed back down and picked up 
the two I had previously passed. Like the others 
there was nothing wrong with them; simply 
floating on their backs. In a couple of hours 
I picked up fourteen fish, all about eight inches 
long and all white perch. A man I passed 
claimed to have picked up twenty-five pounds 
the day before. I asked him what he thought 
was wrong with them. He said the unusual 
fall of snow had chilled the water and caused 
the fish to act as they did. I cannot account for 
it and want you to see if any of your readers 
can. S. W. Mansfield. 
[Several years ago, during a blizzard in the 
Middle Atlantic Coast States, large numbers of 
salt water fish were taken from the waters of 
James River in Virginia by duck shooters, who 
lifted them out with the hands. An examination 
showed that the fish were in perfect condition, 
but were temporarily disabled through the sud¬ 
den lowering of the temperature, which chilled 
the shallow water in which these fish were feed¬ 
ing. No doubt Mr. Mansfield’s fish were labor¬ 
ing under a similar handicap.— Editor.] 
Bass Fishing at Port Rowan. 
To get the best bass fishing, go to Port 
Rowan, Ont., a place about one hundred miles 
from Buffalo, on the Grand Trunk Railroad. 
I went up with Dr. B. G. Long one year, and 
we started late in the afternoon and got up 
there after dark. We had to go about seven 
miles across the bay after we got to the Port 
Rowan station to get to the fishing grounds, 
and the bay was extremely rough, and I 
thought for a while that the big waves would 
swamp us; but we made it, although it was so 
dark that you could not see your hand before 
your face. 
We stopped at a house-boat which was 
anchored on shore close to the fishing grounds. 
The accommodations are not good, and I 
would not advise any one to go there. The 
Ferris Cottages, as they are called, about a 
mile below this spot, are very good indeed. 
You can leave Buffalo at 9 o’clock and get 
there at 1 o’clock. 
It is necessary to have a boatman, and the 
price per day, $2.50, includes boat, bait and 
man. The man baits your hook, takes off the 
fish that you catch, and looks after your com¬ 
fort generally. A first-class guide is George 
Wisner, who understands the fishing thor¬ 
oughly, and is good in all respects. He is 
supremely happy when fishing all day long, 
and is a good, all-round fellow; and if you are 
lucky enough to get him, you are in for a good 
day’s sport. 
I have seen the top of the water alive with 
bass for an acre in width. The number of bass 
at this point is almost incredible. I have been 
after bass in many places and have never seen 
anything like this. 
One afternoon, just to see what I could do, 
I put on three hooks at a time and caught 
three bass at a time three times; but I soon 
took the hooks off. 
A peculiar feature of this fishing are the 
gulls, which live there in large numbers and 
congregate in large flocks above a school of 
bass to catch the minnows that the bass drive 
to the top of the water. One can always tell 
when the best fishing is by the flocking of the 
gulls. They also have a good plan for keeping 
minnows. A hole in the bottom of the boat, like 
a centerboard, but wider and not so long, is 
screened by wire. The water comes up into this 
and keeps the minnows alive and fresh. 
The best time to go there is June 16 to 
Aug. 15. I have talked with a number of 
fishermen who have been there, and all agree 
they never saw such fishing. J C. Downer. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
Herresiioff has designed two schooners for 
Class B. One which is building is for Morton 
F. Plant, and this boat will have 82 tons of 
lead in her keel. The second, which has not 
yet got beyond the designing stage, is said to 
be for a New York yachtsman who will prob¬ 
ably give the order for building after the holi¬ 
days. It has been rumored that this craft is 
for Cleveland H. Dodge who now owns the 
schooner Corona. Mr. Dodge has wanted a 
first class racing yacht for some time and has 
often said that he would build if he could dis¬ 
pose of Corona. The second yacht is very 
similar in model to that for Mr. Plant, but has 
just a little more beam. With two new 
Herresiioff Class B schooners, the Westward. 
Arolita (formerly Queen), Elmina, Enchantress 
and the new yacht building for Robert E. Tod, 
racing will be> the best ever witnessed in these 
waters. 
The Boston Y. C. is dong everything possible 
to make next season’s race for sailing craft to 
Bermuda. Hollis Burgess has already done 
some good work in getting the start of the race 
to Boston, and now be and other members of 
the Boston Y. C. are hustling for entries. 
There is every indication, too, that the race will 
be much more popular than it was last sum¬ 
mer, when there were but two starters. This 
event should attract well because it comes 
early in the season when yachtsmen like to make 
short cruises and before the best of the racing 
begins. An owner can- take part in this race, 
spend a few days at Hamilton and then get 
back without missing any of the sport in these 
waters. The Boston Y. C. will shortly an¬ 
nounce the conditions. These will be similar 
to those of former races, but it is expected that 
there will be several prizes offered, one for the 
whole fleet and some special class prizes. 
The Yachtsmen's Club of Philadelphia will 
hold it annual election on Tuesday, Jan. 3. The 
ticket nominated is: Commodore, J. G. N. 
Whitaker; Vice-Commodore, John Lucy; Rear- 
Commodore, M. E. Brigham; Treasurer, R. M. 
Vanderherschen; Secretary, Maurice Belknap; 
Financial Secretary, Herman Mueller. 
Paul E. Stevenson, well known as an author 
of books on Yachting and an enthusiastic 
yachtsman himself, died last week. Mr. Stevenson 
was born in this city on May 19, 1868. He was 
educated in a special course at Columbia Uni¬ 
versity with the class of 1890, and three years 
after his graduation was married, in German¬ 
town, Philadelphia, to Maud Zeilin. In 1894 
