


Jamison Barbless Flies 
WIN BIG PRIZES 
Pat. Pend. 
Edw. G. Taylor’s three wonderful Brook 
Trout, weighing 7 lbs., 634 Ibs. and 61/2 
lbs. each, caught in the rushing torrents 
of the famous Nipigon River on Jami- 
son Barbless Hook Flies won three 
out of the six prizes in the big Field 
& Stream contest. 

THEY HOLD THE BIG ONES 
DON’T INJURE LITTLE ONES 
The smooth tapering needle point of 
the Jamison Barbless Hook gives a 
much quicker and deeper penetration 
than is possible with any barbed hook. 
They instantly go all the way in and 
stay in, because the pressure of the 
hump against the flesh holds them there. 
For this reason you catch as many and 
often more fish with our barbless than 
you would with a barbed hook, and at 
the same time you greatly benefit your 
own fishing by saving all of the many 
small fish that would be killed by barbs 
or handling, as they can be shaken off 
unhandled and uninjured, to live and 
propagate, 
NO EXTRA SKILL REQUIRED 
MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED 
Send forinteresting letters from such nationally 
known authorities as Dr. Jas. A. Henshall, 
author of the “Book of the Black Bass,” Will 
H. Dilg, Pres. Izaak Walton League, Fred N. 
Peet, Sec., Sheridan R. Jones, Fishing Editor, 
Outers’-Recreation, O. W. Smith, Fishing 
Editor of Outdoor Life, Robert Page Lincoln, 
Fishing Editor Rod & Gun, “Wisconsin Cal” 
Johnson, Fishing Editor Milwaukee Journal, 
“Ozark Ripley”, Frank Stick and others. 
Also List of Trout and Bass Flies 
and Hooks for Fly Tying. 
The W. J. JAMISON CO. 
Dept. S, 737 S. California Ave., Chicago, III. 
In 1oriting to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 


miles beyond our range of vision. 
However, the explanation lay in the 
fact the birds were traveling north, 
to a range of hills called Riding Moun- 
tains, for shelter and food, as the fol- 
lowing winter proved exceedingly 
severe. 
At the invitation of my friend 
Stewart, who had his homestead a few 
miles south from Griswold, and was 
himself a keen sportsman, I spent a 
week in late October among the ducks. 
A short distance from his house one 
could, in a day’s shooting, load him- 
self with all he could carry, mostly 
mallards, pintails, broadbills, and a 
few gadwalls. My setter dog I had 
trained to retrieve, did not want to 
expose him any longer in the freezing 
water, and so I prepared to return 
home the following day. The ducks 
from the north had come down and I 
knew they would leave soon. About 
four in the afternoon as I prepared to 
leave the body of water I had been 
shooting over, there suddenly appeared 
to the south a large flock of Sandbill 
Cranes. There were about 200 of the 
birds. They veered around where I 
was standing and commenced to fly in 
a circle, gradually mounting higher in 
each round, until they seemed about 
the size of blue wing teal, when they 
pointed south and said good-by to Mani- 
toba. Shortly afterwards, a swarm 
of ducks arose, performing the same 
maneuver exactly, then heading south 
on their journey of thousands of miles. 
To have looked upon the sight of 
chickens migrating north and _ the 
usual movement of the ducks south, is 
somewhat of an unique experience. 
Mr. S. CoTTINGHAM, 
Winnepeg, Canada. 
MORE ABOUT LARGE 
BROWN TROUT 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
N the April, 1923, issue of FOREST 
AND STREAM, mention was made of 
the fact that the largest brown trout 
captured in American’ water by rod 
and reel weighed 10 pounds and was 27 
inches in length and 16% inches in 
girth. In FOREST AND STREAM of last 
December, a letter was published call- 
ing attention to the fact that a brown 
trout weighing 14% pounds was taken 
in 1903 on the property of the Bloom- 
ing Grove Hunting and Fishing Club. 
Just recently a still more remark- 
able record has been brought to my 
attention—that of a brown trout 
weighing 19 pounds and 14 ounces. 
This fish measured 34 inches in length 
and 23% inches in girth. It was taken 
in the Esopus River on rod and reel 
by Mr. George F. Taylor of Albany, 
N. Y., on last August 29th, on live bait. 
This fish was mounted and is now 
It will identify you. 
on exhibtion in Kingston at Carman’s 
Winchester Store on Front Street. 
Such instances only go toward show- 
ing what possibilities the large reser- 
voirs of a watershed system like that 
of New York State afford in giving 
fish an opportunity to develop to 
enormous proportions. The abundance 
of food supply, the extent of deep 
water with the comparative freedom 
afforded, the excellence of conditions 
necessary for breeding purposes and 
the difficulties and restrictions offered 
in catching fish in the large reservoirs 
are the determining factors in causing 
fish to attain such astounding pro- 
portions. 
In this connection, it might be noted 
that the brown trout introduced in 
New Zealand waters afforded a speci- 
men weighing 28% pounds. This fish 
was exhibited in the World’s Fair in 
St. Louis in 1904. If these waters are 
capable of producing fish of this 
weight, it is by no means unreasonable 
to suppose that some of our larger 
lakes and reservoirs hold specimens 
even larger than the one caught by Mr. 
Taylor. Such possibilities afford a 
large measure of the charm associated 
with angling. 
“ASHOKAN.” 
MORE ABOUT THE PAS- 
SENGER PIGEON 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
HAVE read many copies of your 
valued magazine and in the Decem- 
ber, 1923, number saw an article about 
the passenger pigeon which I read 
with much interest as I am one of the 
old time sportsmen and remember well 
the last great flight I ever saw which 
lasted three days, passing over Lake 
County, Indiana; but like others who 
have written of this, can not give the 
exact date. The flight was from 
northeast toward the southwest. There 
were literally millions of them. They 
were gleaning the woods and fields, 
and flying at all heights, as high as 
one could see. The sky was darkened 
many times as if an eclipse were on. 
I saw only a few small flocks after- 
ward in the fall of the year until I 
left the state in the spring of 1880. 
This was between 1870 and 1878. 
So far as I know, there were no roosts 
near us, but I have often heard my 
father speak of a large roost in Rich- 
land County, Ohio, which was previous 
to 1851. Before this roost was aban- 
doned, almost all the limbs were 
broken off by their weight. So far 
as I know, none of the birds were 
shipped because of the shortness of 
the flight, but everybody was eating 
pigeons. Many were killed with clubs 
and stones, for while feeding they were 
constantly rolling like a huge wave 
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