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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES Nebraska is having fine duck shooting Just now The northern flight of big ducks is on The canvas backs and redheads are in fine condition this fall These crispy mornings afford fine sport for the sportsman and his Chesapeake Bay dog dogNo No opening day of the hunting season in New Jersey ever had so many gunners abroad for rab ¬ bit squirrel quail ruffed grouse and introduced pheasant as on Monday due in a great measure to a general holiday in celebration of the end of the world war warNew New Jersey game wardens in touch with the deer situation the season for which closed last week reK rt a big kill Seven bucks were dropped in a track near New Gretna The largest buck was killed near Mays Landing by Walter II Hudson of Vineland The animal weighed 235 pounds poundsAn An association of sportsmen has been fornied in Wiinchiin Manchuria North China to protect the game of China Since the advent of the Trans Siberian Railroad birds and animals are quickly transported in cold storage cars and the game through shooting and trapping is rapidly becoming depleted depletedMissouri Missouri sportsmen are asking the Department o Agriculture to look into the duck situation in the central Mississippi section in order to see what can be done in the way of growing more duck feed to induce ducks to stop longer in that state on the fall flight At present the great flight is in the spring when there is a closed season seasonDeer Deer are reported plentiful in southern Oregon especially in the vicinity of Itoseburg and hunters who this season have been out after the fleet footed animals report having met with good success and say they would have done much better had it not l een so dry underfoot that it was hard to get within easy gunshot of the wary animals animalsOne One of the biggest largemouthed bass captured in Delaware this season was caught in Silver Lake a few days ago by Professor A It Spaid of Dover with an ordinary hook The bass weighed seven pounds and ten ounces and measured twentythree inches in length The tail spread measured seven inches A few days before at the same place a son of Professor Spaid caught a bass weighing over four pounds poundsAVIiat AVIiat is said to be the largest game fish taken out of the Oakland lakes this season was caught on an artificial minnow recently by Joseph Thorpe of Detroit Mich a member of the Indian Fishing Club Mr Thorpes prize was a pike weighing twentyone pounds and he took only twenty minutes to land the catch The fisli was fortyfive inches long and had been speared several times in the past American Field FieldThe The Canadian Department of Game and Fisheries hits announced the extension of the deer shooting season to November 30 for that portion of the province lying north and west of French River Lake Nipissing and Mattawa River This gives hunters fifteen extra days as the season ordinarly closes on November 15 The extension was made mainly on account of the influenza epidemic and the Victory Loan campaign which interfered with the operations of many hunting parties
