Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-30
FOREST AND STREAM.

a coon recently killed at North Branch,
Calaveras county, weighed twenty. seven
pounds.
Recently Mr.. Taylor caught sixteen
pounds of trout in Independence lake in
less than an hour.
The several streams in the vicinity of
Bronco, near the State line on the Central
Pacific Railroad, are said to abound with
brook trout.
The Grass Valley Sportsmen's Club held
a club hunt ana had 4 general camp stew a
few days since, in which much pleasure was
enjoyed by the boys of the eagle eye.
To-day ends the close season for doves,
and as this class Of game is now quite plen-
tiful. the attention of the shooting frater-
nitv will no doubt be duly directed to this
particular sport.
A royal sturgeon, weighing $50 pounds
and measuring seven feet and four inches
in length, was recently caught in the River
Fay. and was presented by twelve fish
wives to the Prince of Wales.
The Shasta Democrat says there are nu-
nerous parties enjoying fishing at the beau
tiful McCloud river that the fish are most
abundant, and that they bite best in the
evening when they are attracted by fires
upon the banks of the stream.
Lake Tahoe trout are go plentiful and
bite 80 ravenously that it no longer re-
quirss an expert fisherman to bring them
to the surface. 1t is no longer necessary
for the amateur to prevaricate as to how
he procured his fish.-[Reno Gazette.
The statement that the Chinese who are
employed upon the railroad above Reddiug
are killing 700 to 500 salmon by the use of
a single giant powder cartridge, is probably
exaggerated at least 600 or 700. If not,
the fish must be go thick up there that
they are crowded out Of the water and
have to cit on bushes.
The lakes surrounding Madison, Wis,
are a perfect paradise for the angler at
present. Loads Of piokerel are daily caught
there, many of the fan weighing from
eight to twenty pounds. The bite of the
piokerel ia so gamy as to almost produce
an electric shock TO fisherman's nerves,
merely to read of such fish as mentioned.
Captain Bogardus, smarting under the
numerous comments of the press as to his
recent contest with Dr. Carver in which
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lished the following: "If you want to
know who is the champion pigeon shooter,
this will explain. | will match myself
against DIR. +. w. Carver, or any man in
the world, to shoot at 100 birds, any rules,
for s., coo or $40, 600 a eide, or 1 will wager
81, 600 l can beat any man living in feats OF
wing and gIass-ball shooting"
Lately the butler has been missed from
the Abbey at Combermere, and believing
he was drowned, diver was employed to
search the Mere. The spot is noted for
quantity of pike. a few days since, while
pursuing his search in spot about twenty
six feet in depth, monster pike started
from the bottom of the roots of an old tree
and struck him full in the chest, knocking
him onto his back, and creating 30 much
pain that he became sick and then tainted.
He was at once hauled up. when it was
found that the fish had had his arm in his
mouth. Fishing Gazstte.
The American Rife Team, which sailed
for England on the I9sh inst, will shoot
the International match in sbouttWo weeks
at Wimbledon. The question Of the use
of the wind gauge, or rather what class of
gauge should be used, does not seem to have
been entirely settled. and if the British
Team, or British Rife Association, in it's
behalf, shall attempt to impose any lib
eral rule upon the American Team for the
alleged purpose of complying with English
rules, but in reality to handicap their COM
petitors, the advantage will be q costly en-
terprise, and will be condemned by the
sportsmen of She world.
The new State Fish Hatchery at Sheb-
leys Station, under charge of j. a. Rioh-
ardson, is very successful. The Grass VAL
ley Union Gays tnat the spawn of rainbow
trout, recently brought from Modoc coun-
ty, has Matched out and with comparative.
lv small loss. The number of spawn sent
was intended TO be $4,000, but to cover
contingencies of loss 80, 900 was actually
sent, so that the Matching viii not fall
much beloY the former figures. The ca.
pacity of the hatchery has been enlarged
by the introduction OF a larger supply of
water, and spawn from Lake Tahoe to
hatch from $50, 600 to 500, coo more trout
is the next move to be entered upon.
The American Fish Culture Association
held it's twelfth annual meeting at Cooper
Institute, New York, the present month.
1t WAS highly interesting session. G. s.
Page presided, and there was large at
tendance. The fact was reported that Sir
James Maitland, of Scotland, had been SO
successful in fish culture that he had sue.
ceeded in Matching 997 out of |, 900 salmon
eggs, the highest result ever obtained.
Frederic Mather, of New York, read pa
per upon the damage done by sunfish, and
different methods of Kidding the ponds of
them. The sunish, he says, seldom weighs
more than two ounces but, while worth
less as food for other fish on account of q
strong backbone and sharp spines, they de.
YOUR the foo6-werms, flee, etc-Of vala-
able fish, and eat ND their eggs and Young.
An instance Of their depredations was had
at Cold Spring Hsrbor this year. Three
thousand landlocked salmon fry were put
into pond only to disappear with aston
ishing rapidity. A sunfsh was caught and
opened for investigation, when thirty-fiv
salmon fry were found in It's stomach.
There were tens Of thousands of suntish In
the pond, ana the 5000 salmon fry had
merely served TO wheG their appetites for
more. The sun6sh make nests at the
spawning season on the bottom in about
four feet of water, and usually near the
edges. The nests are several square inches
in area, and can be distinguished by an ex-
perienced eye. The only means of Kidding
pond of the fish seemed to be to scoop
them out with net-an endless work. 1t
had been proposed to kill them by explod-
ing dynamite in the pond, but that would
likewise kill all other fish, and likewise the
animal life upon which fish lived. Mr..
Mather suggested dropping piece of quick
lime the size of a robins egg into each
sunfsh nest, and would like to hear the re.
suit Of such an experiment. Each sunfsh
nest contains from 5 900 to 10000 eggs,
which, be thinks, would be destroyed by
lime Mr.. Mather also read paper in
which he suggests the transportation of
fish eggs by packing them into saturated
moss in boxes, instead OF in water, as is
usually done. He thinks better results
will be gained, judging from slight expert
nents tried. Colonel Mcdonald read an