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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES NOTESThe The open season for quail shooting in Illinois closes Monday The season has not been a good one oneC C II Adams of Lament la recently killed with a ball shot from a 20guage pump gun near Kane 1a a 300pound bear bearIn In tlie Iowa grounds of the Missouri River there are plenty of ducks moving south but for some reason they are flying unusually high highA A license is necessary to take salmon in England and Wales the amount varying license for trout has also to be taken out in many parts partsRabbits Rabbits are not nearly as plentiful this season in many localities as they were a year ago the severe winter of 191718 freezing or starving to death a great many but if they are given half a chance for their lives this winter they will be numerous again In the fall of 1019 for they are great breeders breedersMiss Miss Miriam 1arkcr of Los Angeles Cal went fishing at Santa Catalina Island California a few days ago and succeeded in catching a black sea bass ithat weighed 182 pounds which is nearly double the fair anglers weight The fish fought for one hour and fortyfive minutes before Captain Bates could grab the leader American Fielil FielilHenry Henry Naylor of Manasqiian N J made an ex ¬ ceptional record the past few dnys fishing in the surf along the New Jersey coast One day he cap ¬ tured a striped bass that tipped the scales at twentyfour pounds and on the day following lauded one that weighed twentyeight pounds The day after that he pulled in a twentynine pounder pounderTlie Tlie Tuited States Bureau of Fisheries has re ¬ ceived a record of tlie capture in the upper Kraser River of a sockeye salmon bearing on its tail a button that hul been inserted in the marking ex ¬ periments at iget Sound The fish was dipnetted by an Indian at Soda Creek Canyon British Colum ¬ bia and assuming that the fish moved in a direct route its average rate of travel was seventeen miles a day
