. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Fish Lines. Sunday afterooon last, at least fifty boats were in circula- tion at the mouth of i el river, their occupants in search of the "; Not many fish were caught until toward evening, and then the majority of the fishermen and women departed. Myriads of the finnv quarry were seen on and above the surface of the water, but they couldn't be induced to take hold with any regularity.—Ferudale Independent. The annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries. Game and Forests of the State of New York has just been issued. It is full of intere
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Fish Lines. Sunday afterooon last, at least fifty boats were in circula- tion at the mouth of i el river, their occupants in search of the "; Not many fish were caught until toward evening, and then the majority of the fishermen and women departed. Myriads of the finnv quarry were seen on and above the surface of the water, but they couldn't be induced to take hold with any regularity.—Ferudale Independent. The annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries. Game and Forests of the State of New York has just been issued. It is full of interesting reading, and is the second report issued. The Commissioners have illustrated their handsome and well-printed volume with elegant cuts of fishing and shooting incidents and scenes. Among other matters of interest to the angler, the report contains a great deal of information respecting brook and rainbow trout. The most fascinating paper of the series in the report is, perhaps that dealing with the saibling or golden trout. Here is a Bporting fish which vies, indeed, with the Herculean tarpon and the dashing ounaniche. It is only some sixteen years si=ce American anglers were first stirred by accounts of a beautiful, Bilvery, deep-water trout, to be found and captured in Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. In October, 1885, a gentleman accidentally came upon a mid- lake spawning bed of an acre or so in area, covered with hundreds of these then little known fish, raugiog from three to ten pounds in weight. Specimens were sent to the Fshery Commissioners, and by them identified as members of a fam ily of Alpine charr, whose presence in United States waters had been, up to that time, unsuspected. Fred Johnson returned Monday evening from a two weeks' trip through Humboldt county. Being an enthusiastic angler it is needless to say that he had some excellent sport on the Eel river. He reports the sport to be good at points on the upper river now, the fish having gone up stream. The l
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