The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-15
.SPORTSMtN ARE STRIVING
TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS
Trout Season Will Open May LIST
This Year Instead Of on
April 18th.
DUCK SEASON IS NOW OPEN

Through an error last evening The
News referred TO the opening of the
trout fishing season on April Is,
whereas the season does not open
until May 1, a change having been
made in the law at the last session
of the legislature. The law relating
TO the trout season now reads:
section 1:-No person shall catch
or take from any lake, river or stream
of this state, by any means whatever,
any speckled trout, land-locked SAL
mon. grayling, California trout, Loeb
Leven trout or steel head trout, from
the first day of September to the
first day of May following there
after" ..
The later opening of the season
will be very beneficial to the local
sportsmen. Ii is only on rare occa-
sions that the weather conditions i'm
the copper country permit the fisher
men to approach the streams as early
i'm the year as April Is, and even then
the streams are. so high that good
fishing conditions were not available.
While May l is an early date for the
fishermen of the copper country and
I'm fact all of upper Michigan, it is
not long after that date that the
streams are accessible.
Plant Trout This Year.
Contrary To the announcement re-
Gently made, application has been
made to the state fish commission for
10000 fish fry, 100000 of which will
be trout fry and $4,000 bass fry. No
word has yet been received from the
as TO whether the appli-
cation has been granted but it is
hoped that il has. committee of
sportsmen will wait upon the repre-
sentatives of the Mineral Range and
Copper Range roads here in an effort
to secure the best possible terms for
the fish car AS the state has made
no provision for defraying the expenses
Of the car this year, the sportsmen
will have to meet this expense them
selves. Although no funds are avail
able for this purpose it is hoped that
lnty may nc StCuItu DN SUBSCRIPTION.
Duck Season Now Open.
1t is not generally known that the
spring duck hunting season is now
open. The law provides that duck
may be killed from March 2 to April
25 of each. year in addition to the
regular fall duck hunting season.
While only few hunters who are
with the law have hunted
so far that report that the sport is
good and the birds almost as plentl-
full as in the regular fall season. The
recent warm weather has brought a
large number of the birds north again,
and the scarcity of food forces them
to come close to the city limits,
where they prove easy prey to the
hunter.
Can Secure Rabbits.
Those who were instrumental in the
recent movement to raise a fund to
import rabbits for propagation pur-
poses have recently received word
to the effect that the orders will be
supplied about the latter part of this
month. Fifty pairs of jack rabbits
have been ordered from ST. Paul and
30 pairs of Baravian hares will be
secured from Wisconsin, Both spe-
cies are hardy and it is thought that
they will stand the climate fully as
well as the native rabbits.
Will Make Experiment.
The sportsmen who have taken up
this question plan to experiment with
the rabbits TO learn whether or not
the new species may be successfully
into this section. They
propose to place six or seven pairs of
rabbits on Manitou island, off from
the mainland, and to learn whether or
not they multiply there. Manitou
island is four miles long by two
miles wide, and it is thought that re-
suits will be quickly noticed there.
Gipp on Rabbit Hunters.
While discussing the present con-
ditions in the woods yesterday Game
Warden John Gipp of Calumet, ex-
pressed surprise that hunters are still
pursuing the rabbit Although there
IS no closed season for rabbits, sports
men generally agree that 1t is use
less to kill the little Dummies" after |
March u stin, according to Mr.