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FOREST  AND*STREAM: 

[Ocr. 19, 1907. 

Tuna Club Prizes. 
PHILAPELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 1.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The ninth annual sea angling tourna- 
ment of the Santa Catalina Island Tuna Club 
closed on Oct. 1, and while the club has been 
somewhat embarrassed by the non-appearance of 
tuna of the requisite weight (100 pounds) to 
win its blue button and other trophies offered 
in this class, it has had one of the most pros- 
perous years in its history. Its inauguration of 
the red tuna button for a fifty-pound tuna taken 
under its light tackle rules adopted during the 
year 1s a step in advance and a recognition of 
changed conditions due to the absence of the 
heavy weights. Only one red button has been 
won this year, Mr. E. J. Polkinhorn being the 
fortunate angler. However, the club has awarded 
four other buttons in this class to Messrs. Pot- 
ter, Sharp, Streeter and Eddy for catches made 
during the previous season. 
The club has recognized the skill and experi- 
ence On the part of boatmen by awarding those 
who have gaffed a blue or red button tuna under 
the rules a silver badge inscribed, “Tuna Club 
Gaffer.” So far thirteen have been issued. 
The Tuna Club has taken the initiative to se- 
cure co-operative action by anglers throughout 
the country along lines of fish protection and 
kindred matters by starting a movement for a 
conference of anglers in New York in Novem- 
ber, which has assumed great proportions. 
The club has been especially favored by pre- 
sentation of cups from Messrs. Burns, Morehous 
and Potter, two of which are the most costly 

ever put up as angling trophies in America. 
Messrs. S. Nordlinger & Sons present a hand- 
some cup for ladies. Gold and silver medals 
have been given by Messrs. Harding and Streeter 
for white sea bass and albacore respectively. 
Potter tuna cup for the largest red button fish 
of the season; weight, 5034 pounds; won by E. 
J. Polkinhorn, of Torreon, Mex. 
Rider-Macomber medal for the largest black 
sea bass of the season; weight, 427 pounds; won 
by C. J. Tripp: 
John F, Francis medal for largest yellowtail 
of the season; weight, 4134 pounds; won by Ed- 
ward C. Sacks, of Butte, Mont. 
Eddy light tackle cup for largest yellowtail of 
the season; weight, 4134 pounds; won by Ed- 
ward C. Sacks. 
Nordlinger woman’s cup for largest yellowtail 
of the season taken by a woman; weight, 3634 
pounds; won by Mrs. L. A. Brenen, of Los 
Angeles. 
Streeter albacore medal for largest albacore of 
the season over 40 pounds; weight, 4134 pounds; 
won by A. B. Cass, of Los Angeles, Cal. 


F. L. Harding cup for largest bonito of the 
season; weight, 20 pounds; won by Edith 
Holder, of Los Angeles, Cal. 
The Holder Swordfish cup and C. H. Harding 
white sea bass gold medal trophies: remain un- 
earned this year, F. L. Harprne, 
Corresponding Secretary. 

Not a Grayling. 
Boz—EMAN, Mont., Oct. 9.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Sept. 28 is an article 
entitled, “Trout Fishing in Wyoming” in which 
the writer mentions a fish that he found “more 
or less abundant in many streams (near Wind 
River Mountains) called by some whitefish, by 
others grayling.”’” The writer was in doubt as 
to the identification of the fish, but as a game 
fish considered it a disappointment and much 
inferior to the trout. As many of your Western 
readers are aware, the fish was not the gray- 
ling, but the Rocky Mountain whitefish. There 
are no grayling in Wyoming, except where re- 
cently planted in the northwestern part of the 
State. The very tall dorsal fin with its rose- 
colored spots and border, characteristic of the 
grayling, could not possibly be overlooked. 
JAMES A. HENSHALL, 
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 


THE Forest AND STREAM may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly, 
Adirondack Fishing. 
SARANAC Lakg, N. Y., Sept. 30.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: I spent August and September 
this year on Lower Saranac Lake and was con- 
siderably surprised to observe a total disregard 
of the law which prevents Sunday fishing. Per- 
sonally I do not believe such a law should be on 
the books, but while it is there some attempt 
should be made to enforce it. The majority of 
Sunday fishermen have been business men, who 
spend Saturday and Sunday in the woods and, 
no doubt, a strict enforcement of the law would 
inflict a hardship on many of them. 
On questioning several of the natives they 
either pleaded ignorance of the law, or else said 
that no one ever thought of observing it any- 
where in the Adirondacks. 
Partridge hunting, too, has been done more 
or less openly. I personally talked to two or 
three sportsmen with their guides who were 
hunting partridges, and I saw a good many par- 
tridge feathers on the ground at the end of a 
carry on the lower lake. Frequently while fish- 
ing I heard gun shots back in the woods. Of 
course it is possible that it was only target shoot- 

LOWER 
Length, 34 inches. 
SARANAC LAKE PICKEREL, 
Weight, 10144 pounds. 
ing, but when a man goes into the woods with 
a shotgun it is certain that it is game of some 
kind he is after. 
A curious accident occurred on the night of 
Sept. 8 on the outlet of Fly Lake. Two parties, 
jack hunting in boats, met on the stream. In 
one boat the jack had been extinguished. The 
jack on the other boat shone for a moment on 
the darkened jack. It appeared like the eyes 
of a deer to one, Hope Casler, of Herkimer, and 
he fired a charge of buckshot, with the usual re- 
sult, under such circumstances, that his aim was 
true. A Mr. William Courtney received part of 
the charge in his face and ear, and a Mrs. Frank 
Stanley suffered from a bad scalp wound. For- 
tunately for Mr. Casler’s future peace of mind 
his victims will probably recover. I have not 
heard whether the authorities have taken cogni- 
zance of the affair. 
Lower Saranac Lake, once known for its trout 
fishing, is now given up to pickerel, bass and 
perch. A few lake trout are taken each season, 
but they with the speckled trout are gradually 
disappearing. 
Always prejudiced against pickerel, I have 
been agreeably surprised at the battle many of 
them put up. Their fighting qualities seem to 
be largely influenced by the manner in which 


they are hooked. Most of my pickerel fishi 
here has been spoon casting with a trout rod 
short range, and it has been my experience tt 
if the fish was hooked in the jaw he would 1 
up a stiff fight, frequently jumping several tin 
before being brought to gaff. It has usua 
taken me from fifteen to twenty-five minutes 
land a large pickerel and every minute was pt 
unadulterated fun. My largest was 34 incl 
long and 10% pounds in weight. The memc 
of that fish will last for one season at least. 
There have been several fifteen-pound picke 
caught in Lower Saranac Lake this season, a 
one that was said to weigh 22 pounds. In clea 
ing my fish I only found two pickerel that h 
recently been feeding. Each of them contain 
a small perch, whereas every bass was gorg 
with crawfish. 
Unfortunately the bass and perch taken in tl 
region are more or less infested with parasit| 
small tape worms I think they are. Dissecti| 
reveals quantities of these disagreeable white f| 
worms scattered throughout the flesh and son 
times the gills are clustered with them. T]| 
condition has rather destroyed my appetite 4 
bass and perch. The pickerel seem to be i 
mune from the parasite, for by close observati 
I have failed to find any. 
It is certainly heart breaking to bring ho 
some fine looking bass, and on cleaning the 
find they are full of these disgusting worn! 
Probably cooking renders them harmless; so 
“skunk pie,’ which the writer of a noted co 
book says is “eaten by many people,” but whi 
she refuses to recommend. If you want to knc| 
how to cook it look at the directions for coc| 
ing rabbits, she says. And if you want to « 
a Saranac Lake bass or perch get someone e! 
to clean them, say I. PERCIVAL CHRYSTIE,| 









































































































































A Team of Trout. 
Wasuincton, D. C., Oct. 1.—Editor For, 
and Stream; During the past summer I ha 
been trout fishing in the lake which lies ba 
of Tadousac at the mouth of the Saguen 
River, and as rather a curious incident occurr 
while there I thought possibly some of yo 
fishermen readers might be interested in it, 
I had fished in Lake Boulanger for an ho 
or so in the early morning without getting a 
rises, but discovered that from time to time sm| 
trout would rise and strike at the yellow me| 
swivel which fastened the leader to the lit 
while the flies themselves seemed to be neglecté 
I took off the dropper and put on a yellow sal| 
and after the second or third cast got a stri 
from a very large trout and succeeded in hoc 
ing him. As I was gradually working him 
toward the boat, to my amazement a seco) 
large trout struck at the fly, which had pass 
through the corner of the first fish’s mouth, a/ 
became hooked, so that the two fish were hook| 
together side by side almost as if they had be 
harnessed. I played them for some time, a 
when I had nearly brought them to the side | 
the boat they made a desperate effort and € 
off, breaking the leader just below the swiv 
We saw these two fish, fastened together in tl| 
way, two or three times during the day, tf) 
although we tried to bring them to boat w)] 
a landing net, it was impossible to do so. 
I was greatly surprised to hear, a week frc| 
this time, that several fishermen in the same la| 
had noticed these two trout swimming togett| 
near the surface of the water. Efforts had be 
made to capture them, but as soon as the bc 
approached they seemed to have a unison 
ideas and sank to the bottom. 
It is a matter of surprise to me that with t 
struggles the fish made after they had be 
hooked that it seemed impossible for them 
separate from each other. 
I may say incidentally that in the small gro 
of lakes back of Tadousac the trout fishing is 
good as I have ever found it in Canada. The fi 
taken there are not what are known as the or 
nary lake trout, but the true brook or spott 
trout. In one of the lakes where I did not fi 
myself I was informed that trout varying fre 
three to five pounds might be taken with worn 
but I did not essay this kind of fishing. 
H. C. Yarrow. 



