Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-24

The eager fish quick bites the fattering bait
From the bsrbed iron through his wounded giils;
Down sinks the float, and, with repeated noo'
The struggling captive agitates the ROD
The ready stripping, thr ough the Kissing air,
Frem right to left now springs the strainlng nair;
And, flung upon the shore, his welcome prize
Flounces awhile in death, and gasping dies.
Robin AID snipe are appearing on the
Suisun marshes.
Gnnners are waiting for a good storm
10 bring to them plenty of sport at duck
shooting.
Duck have commenced to arrive in the
lower bays On their migratory trips from
the north.
Several widgeons and gadwslls, both for
eign birds, were recently killed by men,
Der of the Cordelia Club.
A Greek fisherman a few nights since
made q drift and caught forty dog-hsh,
averaging four feet in length.
A match is being arranged between DIR.
Carver and Captain Stubbs for l,00O a
side, 100 birds, to be shot on November
ii.
Two Scotch scientists have started upon
a dredging expedition in the Moray Firth,
one of their chief objects being to study
the habits of the herring.
A canvas-back duck was killed at To-
lands. and white geese and brandt at
Suisun, last week, which are the first OF
these kinds of game this season.
The disease known as black tongue is
decimating the deer in the mountain
regions Of Virginia. 1t made similar
appearance among the deer of that section
few years since.
Great sport has been afforded to hunts
men recently on the salt water marshes OF
MARYLAND and Delaware sesshores, where
the rail have been killed by the hundreds
of thousands. The wild rice crop in that
section gave the birds great plumpness and
sweetness.
Frank w. Smith, of Belleville, Nevada,
and E. II. Smith, while hunting near Deer
valley. El Dorado county, recently, says
the Pacific Life, killed five dozen quail,
eighteen rabbits, seven hares and tlne
three. spike buck, which weighed SS pounds
when dressed.
The Pacific Life ssys that 7. c.
McMeeny, of San Francisco, recently
killed several fine deer and much other
rifle game in Childes valley, above st.
Helena. He found an abundance, also. of
quail, rabbit and gray squirrels, and says
it is an excellent place to hunt.
1t is said the Tule Shooting Club-which
is composed of few wealthy San Fran
cisco gentlemen, and whose preserves are
at Teal Station, on the Suisun marsh-re-
Gently levied an assessment of $500 per
at
torney at the bay, is President.-l Pacific
Life.
A number of correspondents Of the Lon.
don Field have during the present year
noted the prevalence of squirrels in
England, with white tails, particularly in
the locality of Devonshire. OF one seen
recently, a writer says: "The abnormal
coloring only prevailed on about one-third
of the whole length of the tail, and was at
It's outer end"
A trap-shooting match at clay birds was
held at Gilroy during the recent races. H.
S, Fletcher, of Watsonville, made a score
of Is out of 20, which was the best of the
match. Tirsell, of Watsonville, came in
second, 10; R. Eustice, D. NJ. Pyle and
Ben Rountree divided third money on a
SCORE of II; and G. Holloway and L. Eus.
tioe won fourth on SCORE of IL.
1t is asserted by an English writer on
angling topics that the monks are en-
titled to the credit Of adding the grayling
to the store of river fish, as indi-
Gated by the fact that salrnO hymalIuS is
invariably found in the vicinity of ancient
monkish foundations. The grayling is be-
lieved to be an exotic introduced into
49,. oil
There is a significant fact in the defeat
of the bill introduced into the English
Parliament for the suppression of pigeon
shooting in Great Britain, that all of the
Bishops voted against the bill. Evidently
the spiritual peers do not regard trap.
shooting as the terribly demoralizing and
cruel act that some people do American
Field.
Parties recently visiting the vicinity of
Fresno saw, while riding over the plains,
immense numbers of curlew, and 30 far as
approaching them with horse and buggy
was concerned, found them very tame.
The party had no gun along, and hence
could not venture an opinion as to what
the opportunity for bagging would have
been if hunting trappings had accompanied
them, for it is well known that gun is
never needed 30 badly as when it's far
thest away.
a few carp, not over twenty-five were
placed in pond Just outside of Rockville,
Md, about a year and half ago. The
pond was made merely for the cutting of
ice, and no attention was paid to the fish.
Early this month the pond was cleaned
preparatory to the ice-cutting this winter,
and some fish eighteen inches long and
weighing three pounds were taken, and
thew were identified as the German carp.
The pond is not over three fest Deep and
covers about one.third of an acre. Forest
and Stream.
Saws an English exchange: The river
Whitman has Just been the scene Of =
novel contest. More than 500 anglers en-
tered the lists to compete for valuable
prizes, the fishermen who caught the
largest fish within certain time to obtain
the first prize At given signal all the
anglers cast their lines into the water, and
the keenest rivalry was shown by the con.
tinqents of fishermen from different towns.
Several of the contestants presented ab
normally large fish on which they based q
claim for the prize, but it was easily
shown that they had resorted to the old
trick of buying them, and they were ig'
ANONYMOUSLY debarred from the contest.
A man may excell in trap. shooting, and
vet never become anything of a field shot /;
1t is not in him. There are men whom
neither trap work nor field work can ever
make crack field shots. We have fre-
quently been out shooting with friend,
whose company we value most highly /; he
has large fund of woedcraft, is = close
observer, and as full of ardor as any sports
man we ever knew. He has followed the
dogs day in and day out, tramped hun
dreds of miles in pursuit of woodcock,
grouse and quail; fred no one knows how
many thousands of shots at the birds. The
total amount of game actually brought to
bag by him in the last ten years comprises
two rufied grouse and one woodcock-
and there is every reason to believe that
the grouse were killed by accident. As q