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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES The California State Fish uid Game Commission estimates that 30000 deer are killed annually more tlian cneIiiilf bj mountain lions and the remainder by huiiters At the Uiological Suryevs fnrgami farm Kits villo N Y eorjje A Jeffreys is conducting ex Iieriments in rearing ruffed grouse He lias been feeding his birds on the food given to fur bearing animals t tL L C Michaelson of JNew York City in two one day trips at Avalon Cal rvciuitlj took a marlin swordfish of 194 pounds and another of 210 pounds The larger fisli fought an hour and forty minutes American Field FieldOn On the Scioto River near Columbus Ohio the other evening Robert Alexander while fly casting hit something in the air on a back cast Upon investigation he found ithat he had struck and hooked a live bat While fishing from the launch Adelaide at Santa Catalina Island California F W Bird of Dead Wood S D recently brought to gaff a marlin swordfish weighing 100 pounds and a fortyfour pound yellowfiu tuna tunaThe The Indian Cliih a group of Poiitiac Mich sportsmen has a unique custom oil its quarterly jaunts Each member is paired off and receives nn announcement like this If you dont likt your partner tell him you cant go goThe The United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania advocate the passage of laws that will make it illegal t least lands to clubs or companies for the purpose pf controlling such lands as private hunting and fishing grounds to the exclusion of the public publicA A E IlodgkinVion of Liii Ang les Cil recently caiitured the smallest swordfish of the season on the grounds of the Tuna Club at Santa Catalina Island The fish weighed si tsonr pounds and fought for twentythree iniinites making a total of twenty one leaps leapsThe The prize for the largest rainbow trout given annually by the Anglers Club of Butte Mont was won this year by Frank Gore who took from Georgetown Lake on a No U royal coachman fly a rainbow trout weighing1 sixteen and onehalf pounds when dressed dressedJ J Anderson Hall fish and game warden angling in Silver Lake Dover Del caught three black bass that weighed fifteen pounds The largest bass was slightly under tht weight of the big black bass Prof A R Spaid caught the record bass of the season seven and onehalf pounds poundsM M L Alexander conservation commissioner of Louisiana estimates that seventy five per cent of the wild waterfowl of the United States and Canada make their home in this state This is partly due it is said to the destruction of their former wintering ground in other parts of the country countryThe The United States Bureau of Fisheries at Wash ¬ ington has received a record of the capture in the upper Fraser River of a sockeye bearing on its tail a button that had been inserted in the mark ¬ ing experiments on Puget Sound The fish was dipnetted by an Indian at Soda Creek Canyon British Columbia and assuming that the fish moved in a direct route its average rate of travel was seventeen miles a day
