| very light tackle. 

Oct. 5, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Mr. Eddy on Light Rods. 
WE have been requested to publish the fol- 
lowing comments on light tackle which appeared 
in the Times of Los Angeles, C Cal., Sept. 8. Mr. 
Arthur J. Eddy, president of the Catalina Light 
Tackle Club, is already well known to our 
readers. The article follows: 
Nothing except the return of the blue tuna 
lcould create such lively excitement and such pro- 
\found interest among the several hundred Cata- 
lina anglers, as has been manifested in arguing 
|the pros and cons of the tackle question. 
As was announced last week, the club, so far 
las its buttons are concerned, entered into a 
partial compromise with the heavy tackle sin by 
lgoing on to a six-ounce five-foot standard, but 
|President Eddy, in yielding to the majority in 
\the board of directors, which favored the heavier 
|tips, reserved the right of organizing a_ new 
/simon- pure light tackle class, to be called the 
“Gold Star,’ competition in which the original 
irules would govern. 
To prevent the practice of taking out light 
‘tackle only for a day to catch a record fish is 
the purpose of the ‘gold star,” as it is made 
necessary for the angler to catch a big fish on 
\two different days in order to qualify. 
The rules as drafted by President Eddy, 
‘clude these provisions: 
The tournament is to be open to men only. 
The line is to be of standard nine-thread. The 
'rod is to be of wood, with detachable butt; tip 
jmay be of one or more pieces. Length, includ- 
ing butt, not less than six feet. Length of butt 
|not to exceed twelve inches from end to end. 
| Weight, including butt, not to exceed nine 
ounces. 
| Tackle must be submitted to some officer of 
iclub or member of weighing committee before 
|they begin the season’s fishing. No hand-lines 
or heavier tackle (whether owned by boatman 
or not) can be carried in boat. Extra rods com- 
ing within above requirements can be carried for 
use in case of accident. Only one rod allowed 
to each angler out at a time. The boatman, 
under no circumstances. is to touch rod or line 
when hook is in water; he may touch wire leader 
to steady fish for gaffing. The angler may use 
the ordinary leather belt socket, but he cannot 
use any pad, grip, extension or device of any 
kind attached in any manner to rod, unless szine 
is weighed in as part of rod. A broken rod 
disqualifies catch. When catch is weighed in, 
both boatman and angler must certify that above 
conditions have been fully and honestly complied 
with. 
The object is to promote the habitual use of 
A gold star will be given the 
angler who, under above conditions, JIands on 
different days, two fish as follows: 
Two tuna, each not less than sixty pounds; 
one sixty-pound tuna and a forty-pond alba- 
core, or forty-pound yellowtail, or fifty-pound 
white sea bass; or one fish of each of any two 
of the three last named species. 
A fish of required weight caught one season 
will stand to the anglers credit during subse- 
quent seasons. If angler lands two or more fish 
of the required weights on the same day only 
one will be credited. 
President Eddy, in defense of his position in 
the light tackle matter, says: “The gold star 
competition is open to men only, not becanse 
women are not good fishermen, but we wish to 
remove skillful boatmen and gallant escorts from 
all temptation to help in any way. The condi- 
tions as drawn do not appeal to any one except 
the habitual user of the nine-ounce rod or lighter. 
It does not appeal to the man who takes a light 
rod out once or twice in hope of making a fluke 
catch with the intention to revert to the use of 
heavy tackle immediately thereafter. 
“I do not believe in the weighing of any part 
of a fishing rod to the exclusion of some other 
part. In my opinion it is as logical and reason- 
able to weigh the butt alone as it is to weigh 
the tip alone. 
“T have no hesitation in saying that a five- 
foot six-ounce tip is altogether too strong and 
powerful for any game fish except tuna weigh- 
ing over 100 pounds. I used, for several months. 
a seven foot rod with an eighteen inch butt and 
a six-ounce Noibwood tip, that is much more 
in- 

Stream: 
flexible than a good stiff bamboo, 
the rod altogether too heavy 
tail and white sea bass. 
them. 
“T am using 
I found 
yellow- 
slaughtered 
and 
for albacore, 
It simply 
now an 8&34-ounce split bamboo 
rod, twelve-inch butt, tip five feet five inches, 
weighing less than five and one-half ounces. 
This tip is altogether too stiff for any fish except 
large tuna. In my opinion it is stiff enough for 
150-pound tuna, though for such large fish a man 
would need a longer butt if he wished to fight 
them to the best advantage.” 
California Angling. 
San Francisco, Sept. 15.—Editor Forest and 
The last two weeks have been the most 
active on the Truckee River this season. 
Members of the San Francisco Fly-Casting 
Club are conspicuous along the stream. Last 
Sunday, the close of the season at Stow Lake 
kept most of the experts at home, but the week 
previous a number of them spent Saturday, 
Sunday and Monday at the club’s lodge on the 
Truckee and made some nice catches of trout. 
Boca, on the Truckee, was favored by a large 
number of anglers on Sept. 7-9. The best catch 
made in any one day was ten beautiful rainbow 
trout which were lured by James Thomson. 
The combined weight of the fish he had taken, 
after they had been dressed for shipment, was 
13% pounds. All of these except two, which 
were captured by fly-casting, were tempted by 
the spoon and bait. 
Alvin Seale, who recently went to the Philip- 
pines to study the fish of the islands for the 
Government, and who was furnished with 140 
black bass and 25,000 rainbow trout eggs by 
the California Fish Commission, writes to the 
latter body that in the thirty-four days occupied 
in making the trip he lost but twenty-two black 
bass. The rest reached their destination in 
good order and were safely planted in waters 
in which he believes they will multiply. Not- 
withstanding that the trout went into high alti- 
tudes, he found the temperature of the water 
too warm for good results. Instead of having a 
temperature ranging from 50 to 55 degrees, he 
found none less than 7o degrees. The result 
was that most of the eggs hatched prematurely, 
but he believes that about 8,000 of the fry sur- 
vived. The fish and the trout eggs were sent 
out on the army transport Sherman in care of 
Mr. Seale. A circulating pump, abundance of 
fresh water and ice were provided. 
California 
Angeles, Cal., 
the Southern 
held at Los 
At the meeting of 
Rod and Reel Club, 
Sept. 12, it was decided to hold another barbe- 
cue and casting tournament at Redondo, Sept. 
22; to hold regular monthly meetings; to pro- 
vide more entertainment at the meetings, and to 
secure a permanent hall for a meeting place. 
There were four rods, several reels and a half 
dozen spools of nine-thread line on exhibition 
as prizes for the tournament which closes on 
Oct. t. To date the tournament entries stand 
as follows 

F. C. Gay, 100 pounds. 
White sea bass—F. C. Gay, 45% pounds, 
Yellowtail—F. C. Gay, 2 i pounds. 

Albacore—Ed. Winfield, 33 pounds. 
i Sherman Baker, 7144 pounds. 
Corbina—Eugene Elliott, 6% pounds. 
Yellowfin—A. M. Morse, 3% pounds. 
Rock bass—F. C. Gay, 7 pounds. 
Striped bass—S. Simmons, 5 pounds, 
Halibut—Sherman Baker, 23 pounds. 
EK. E. Conger has also entered a croaker 
caught in San Pedro Bay last Monday, which 
weighed seven pounds nearly twenty-four hours 
after being taken from the water. 

Tue San Francisco Fly-Casting Club held 
the final contest of the season on Stow Lake 
Sept. 15, when a reentry competition closed the 
various medal contests which have been going 
on since the season opened in May. 
The championship medals for this year were 
won by T. C. Kierulff and C. R. Kenniff. 
Kierulff was the victor in the delicacy event, 
with an average percentage of 99.2, and he also 
won the accuracy, after. a tie with C. R. 
Kenniff, with a score of 99.8, and the lure cast- 

ing. Kenniff had the best average in long 
distance casting, his cast being 113 feet. The 
second medal in the accuracy event was won 
by E. A. Mocker. The-scores: 
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A. P. B. 
New England Angling and Anglers. 
Sept. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Charles B. Floyd, of Boston, spent a few weeks 
at the Middle Dam, Rangeley Lakes, with his 
business associate, Mr. Martin L. White. Mr. 
White reluctantly agreed to go, but served notice 
in advance that he could not tell a trout from 
a smoked herring. His manner showed no an- 
ticipation of enjoyment whatever, but what he 
lacked in this respect was largely made up by 
Floyd. The first three days were filled with 
doubtful hours for Mr. White and then came 
the transformation. From that time until the 
end of their stay a month later he was fired with 
intense enthusiasm and his friend had a much 
harder time to induce him to leave for home than 
he had to make him take the trip. The fishing, 
the woods, the environment enraptured him, and 
it will seem a long time before another season 
swings around in order that he may repeat the 
experience. Mr. Floyd reports very excellent 
fishing in Pond-in- River for both trout and sal- 
mon. Partridges were very scarce, deer quite 
plentiful, and as they tramped over a large part 
of the lower lake country this report is worthy 
of notice. 
A few of the officers of the battleship fleet, 
which will sail for the Pacific in December, are 
adding to their stock of fishing tackle the articles 
that experience advises in order to get what en- 
joyment they can from the sport during the long 
30STON, 
trip. Some who have made the voyage before 
have interesting stories of what has been done 
in southern waters, and I judge there will be 
many pie oe ees afforded for rare sport on 
both sides of the continent. 
Quannapowitt Lake, in Wakefield, is too near 
Boston to expect much yield in fishing, and yet 
all summer good scores of bass and white perch 
were made there. Mr. W. F. Jennings two 
weeks ago landed one bass weighing 4 pounds 
and nine white perch. Last Saturday he took 
a bass of 4% pounds and fourteen perch. This 
is not bad for a lake situated within eight miles 
of the City Hall. 4 
Mr. W. Harris Latham, of Brookline, left on 
Sept. 23 for a couple of weeks at Lake Webb, 
Maine, to get all the enjoyment possible out of 
the closing week of the fishing season and then 
to take up ruffed grouse shooting. 
An unusually large number of Texas anglers 
have passed through Boston this season en 
route to fishing resorts in New England and the 
Provinces. The latest arrival is Mr. W. E. 
Jones, of Houston, who has fished all of the 
‘best waters of the country, his experience ex- 
tending even to New Zealand, where he re- 
cently spent several weeks fishing the mountain 
streams for rainbow trout, which, he tells me, 
are it their hest there He is now bass fishing 
at Ossipee. N. H., where he expects to make 
good with his favorite lure, the wooden minnow. 
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