. Breeder and sportsman. f the season. This year thelong-continued cold weather and the fact thatthe streams have been closed by ice up to with-in a few days of the opening, has protectedthe fish to a greater degree than in many years,and good fishing is expected. Of all watersin the State, those of Long Island, both pub-lic and private, are more persistently poachedthan any other. The island producesthetrout-thief, not only in numbers, but in per-fection, and the king of them lives on theGreat South -Bay. Most wonderful storiesare told of his ingenuity in evading the watch-fulness of the owne
. Breeder and sportsman. f the season. This year thelong-continued cold weather and the fact thatthe streams have been closed by ice up to with-in a few days of the opening, has protectedthe fish to a greater degree than in many years,and good fishing is expected. Of all watersin the State, those of Long Island, both pub-lic and private, are more persistently poachedthan any other. The island producesthetrout-thief, not only in numbers, but in per-fection, and the king of them lives on theGreat South -Bay. Most wonderful storiesare told of his ingenuity in evading the watch-fulness of the owners, and it is asserted thatwith a rubber diving suit and a silken net hegoes beneath the water and nets trout in broaddaylight, while the proprietor, looking overthe pond from his window, sees nothingwrong. Allowing for exaggeration, it is cer-tain that this man sells an enormous amountof trout from an exceedingly small pool inwhich he claims to have bred them. N. B. N. B. N. B. Live Stock! The Peoria Blackbird and (Patents Allowed, i The Most Perfect Breakers,The Most Uniform m Flight. THE CHEAPEST AXD BEST TARUETMAKE. We Challenge its Equal. First invoice will arrive about May on Application. B. T. Allen, Sole Agent For Pacific Coast 416 MARKET STREET, San Francisco. FAIRLAWN, 1885.
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