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[Oct. 26, 1907. 

Perry D. Frazer third prize. The latter’s first 
cast, a long one, was not seen by the judges, and 
he was ordered to cast again, with the result 
that he let his reel overrun. The scores follow: 


Average, 
Feet. 
Charles Stepath.......... 130 166 145 150 1-5 
Wins Jihbioh. pean 50 140 101 133 1-5 
Perry Dy Frazer..c.c.3 4: *45 140 168 130 3-5 
G. A. Endersby.....¢: 0.0 20 90 110 
Fred, Do Mapeseens so .cn 90 115 104 
BP. Je Maldoo ncn... 05 95 
G. M. L. La Branche.... 20 91 
George FE. Moore....... 90 95 100 75 
AS hay Cars ie oer eres 30 25 84 
Jeo 'G:) Jacobites nanan, 90 70 1-5 
Jee Wis Dillver: enon 70 c 71 
AA isn, INCI chin ecto ee tee *O” 8b 496 E 7 
( cE. Champion, 32452600 00 *40 *50 *35 *30 51 
*Backlashes. 
[rout Fry-Castinc, DIsTANCceE. 
There was little or no wind about 5 o’clock, 
when the final event was called, but before it 
was finished it was difficult to see the fly alight. 
The usual nine and ten-ounce heavy single hand 
fly-rods were used. The Newark club members 
did not take part, as. they have been practicing 
f short a time that few are equipped for 
fly-casting, although they are all very much in- 
terested in this branch of the sport. Perry D. 
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‘razer won the first prize, a fly-rod. William 
J. Ehrich, second, won a reel, and John L. Kirk, 


third, a trout fly line. The scores, feet: 
Amateurs. 
Perry D. Frazer..... 94 Jobut I. Kirk ascents $4 
WroaeJ. ebistchy.ccees oe 8914 George La Branche. 83% 
Professionals. 
Berl, Quilseerseeserane 97 Le) Se DErlingy wens crate 92 
Secretary-Treasurer Fred T. Mapes was as- 
sisted by Fred Squires, who acted as scorekeeper, 
and A. J. Neu 
On Nov. 5, 
petition f 
referee. 
in the afternoon, the second com- 
for the Anglers’ Club trophy will be 
contested by members. A distance fly-casting 
event will also be held, open to members. 
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New England Angling and Anglers. 
Boston, Oct. 19—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. W. J. Epting, of Philadelphia, writing me 
from Pierce Pond, Maine, where he has been 
stopping all summer, gives some interesting de- 
tails of the fishing. The entire season was very 
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The Fifth Edition much corrected and enlarged. 

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wet and the lake was bank full most of the time. 
In September the gates at the dam were raised 
and the water drawn off to a very low point. 
On Sept. 28 Mr. Epting landed with the fly on 
a 5¥%-ounce rod a 634 pound male trout 22 inches 
long with a girth of 17 inches. It was said to 
be the largest trout ever taken from Pierce on 
the fly, although larger ones have been taken 
trolling, The season’s catch of Dr. W. H. Bar- 
rett, of New York city, consisted of nine salmon 
ranging from 2% to 9 pounds and twelve trout 
from one to 310-16 pounds. The catch of Chas. 
W. and W. J. Epting was seven salmon from 
2% to 834 pounds, and fifteen trout, 1%4 to 634 
pounds. The general record of the camp is very 
incomplete. What there is of it shows many 
large salmon, the heaviest 9% pounds, and many 
trout weighing from 3 to 6 pounds. More 
anglers have visited the camps than ever before 
and nearly every man has had a fair measure 
of luck. 
A Newfoundland salmon weighing 36 pounds 
when gaffed and now fresh from the hands of 
the taxidermist, will be displayed in a Wash- 
ington street window this week. The fish was 
hooked late in August in the Red Bank pool, 
Codroy River, by Dr. E. J. Thompson, of Lynn, 
Mass. It took the doctor three hours to land 
it and he frankly stated that had it not been for 
the assistance and encouragement given him by 
that old Boston salmon angler, F. J. Daggett— 
who happened to be on the spot—failure instead 
of success would have been his portion. Mr. 
Daggett not only gaffed the fish, but waded in 
up to his neck and drove the fish out when it 
sulked, in one instance pulling to the surface a 
large section of a sunken tree around which the 
salmon had wound itself. Such assistance was 
indeed timely and Dr. Thompson’s good fortune 
is recognized by no one better than himself. 
On Oct. 8 Mr. T. L. Smith, of Boston, and 
L. H. Wetherell, of Newtonville, returned from 
Newfoundland, where they have been since late 
in August. Both express themselves delighted 
with the trip and cannot say enough to do the 
country justice. On the Humber they caught 
salmon ranging from 12 to 20 pounds. Later on 
they went to the barrens for the September 
shooting and each got his full legal allowance 
of caribou. HACKLE, 



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An Unique Collection of Fishing Books|! 
Editor Forest and Stream: h 
In truth it is better to make history than tol] 
read it. And likewise it is better to catch fish]! 
than to get your thrills at second hand. But|| 
in winter one cannot go off for a day’s outing, |t 
and the fire for fishing that, like Hope, burns 
eternal in the human breast, clamors for food 
of some kind. Then it is that the angling library 
is drawn upon for entertainment. 
Many of us have excellent collections of con-|! 
temporaneous “Bibliotheca Piscatoria,” but few 
are acquainted with the number of rare and 
curious volumes extant bearing upon the sport. 
The collection of Mr. Harvey Rowland, Jr.,|" 
deceased, recently sold at auction in Philadel-|! 
phia, embraced an extraordinary assemblage of 
angling literature, over 300 volumes in number. 
Prominent were thirty-two editions of Walton 
and Cotton’s “Compleat Angler.” The very 
scarce fifth edition, 1676, 12mo., full crushed]! 
levant, gilt back and sides, dentelle edges and}! 
copious illustrations, was a magnet for the many 
connoisseurs present. “The Angler’s Sure Guide, 
or Angling Improved and Methodically Digested,” | 
1796, London, and the “Angler’s Vade Mecum,” 
1700, were also eagerly contested for in the sale. 
The earliest known volume on fishing in Latin,|! 
“Oppiani de Piscibus Libri,’ 1517, bound in red)! 
morocco, went at a high figure. Brown’s “Ang- 
ling Sports in Nine Piscatory Eclogues,’ Lon- 
don, 1773; “The Complete Fisher by a Brother 
of the Angle,” 1716; “The Whole Art of Fish- 
ing,’ 1714; the rare “Complete Troller or Art 
of Trolling,” 1682; “The Rod and Line, or Prac- 
tical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure|! 
Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc.,” were all baits 
for the antiquarian. 
The first seven volumes of Forest AND STREAM, 
now rare; Sir Humphrey Davy’s famous “Sal-| 
monia,’ London, 1851; three fine editions oil! 
Dame Juliana Berner’s “Treatyse of Fyshynge,’|’ 
and a splendid “Book of Saint Albans,” indeed, 
they made one’s mouth water and were sore 
temptations to reckless bidding. | 
The catalogue of that sale makes rare reading 
and could profitably be inserted in full were it 
possible. Such an oportunity to pick up obscure 
angling volumes comes but seldom nowadays, ! 
unfortunately. F. L. Harpine. 




























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Onondaga Anglers’ Association. 
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One hundred and three names were added to, 
the membership list of the Anglers’ Associa- 
tion of Onondaga at the meeting held recently); 
in Syracuse, N. Y. The organization now 
numbers about 1217 members. 
When President Honsinger rapped for order 
there were three or four hundred of the mem- 
bers present. It was one of the best meetings| 
ever held by the Association. 
President Honsinger spoke on the work of| 
the protectors during the last month, and in-, 
cidentally remarked that “fish piracy is on the 
wane.” He outlined the association’s idea for 
a club house on the shores of Oneida Lake, 
and if the plans are carried out, the anglers 4 
will have a home that will eclipse anything of , 
its kind in this part of Uncle Sam’s domain.|, 
Commissioner James S. Whipple was to have, 
addressed the meeting, but he was taken sud-|; 
denly ill at Albany. In his place Abraham) 
Knechtel, Forester, gave a lecture, his stere- 
opticon pictures being illustrative of his sub- 
ject, “Making a Woodlot from Seed.” 
With three different gangs of protectors| 
working in Oneida Lake, twenty nets were 
secured in one week. 
State Protectors Piersall and Willis are} 
working at the lower end of the lake. Special! 
Protector Nichols, of the Anglers’ Associa-| 
tion, with Harry Smith and John and Nibbs 
Wise, is looking after territory around Shack- 
elton’s Point, while State Protectors Hawn 
and Contraman, aided by Special Protectors 
John Black, Cronk Rogers, James Dickenson|r 
and Shaw, have been employed around Brew-|y 
erton. The number of nets found is small for|¢ 
this time of the year, for twenty nets were|ji 
often the result of one day’s dragging in the}y 
past, and goes to show what the Syracuse 

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