The sun., 1916-12-15
Rod and Gun News
FOR LOCAL ANGLERS FORTHEwEEKEND.


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state Leagues Buck Law vsts.
On the fish and game page Of THE eUN
Of sunday, December TO-. appears an article
Are Killed" and then follows what J. B.
Burnham says IN connection with the &C
Game and ~ Pyore ene h.sSus Al ne annual
meeting held In Buffalo.
II Ia a matter of interest to all sportsmen
the slender margin OF 30 to 20 in the voting
determined to continue the present buck
1t Ia also worth while TO note that at the
annual meeting of the league. which rep
resents 10000 organized sportsmen," only
,,nn my ~, ae,ess,ss voted On n, n oa S,x cues
ICED .sportsmen when they hear of II will
wonder where their representative were.
ham. president of the league. il primarily
q measure to safeguard human life. Yet
In the deer season Of 1915 i've men were
OF men as were killed In a season before
the buck law was enacted.
The buck law is designed TO insure the
perpetuation of a species. according to Mr..
Burnham. but the game protectors Of the
eastern Adirondack division at their recent
many does have been killed this Hu season.
their heads removed and the carcasses cut
up and brought out.
The protectors also declared that t. IL
almost impossible TO get convictions on thu.
charge and that II Is certain that more
does were killed than ever this fall.
does killed under the buck law. with the
game protectors powerless to help them
The representation that the number Of
deaths IN the woods would have been
greater n there had been no buck law Is
not authenticated by the records.
The representation that all men do not
accept the buck law because they md IL
y xiii bucks cannot ha athas a N siasad et,har
cause of It's failure to do what II is repre-
deaths under the buck law as there were
before the buck law was enacted to safe
guard human NE II fails In practical opera
buck law. which IL designed to perpetuate
a species. 1t again fails In practical opera
ton.
Features Of the annual meeting of the
New York state Fish. Dame and Fores,
League are the feed and the movie en-
way when 1. the ...is., 'p ~ss. but IN In 'n .hs
face Of the killings OF men and the killings
OF female deer under law which I. "pri-
MARTY TO safeguard human life' and de
signed 20 insure the perpetuatfon Of a spe-
cies' It is not time for feastings andQenter-
tainmen,s. but 1, is the time to make the
KENSErH W. eoLpIHwAIrE.
Dame Seasons Close To-day.
The deer season closes to-day In Maine,
New Hampshirs and Penn.ylvanis;
and goose season also closes
In New jersey the season closes for
Also for siaeeII '' b rn q r1u ana ro,d.n
piovcr and yeilowlegs in Pennsylvania.
Porpoises Seen Near Roekswsy Buoy.
Gus Lehlbach Of tho Theima said hs
found plenty OF nsh a half mile to the
west OF the Ambrose iishtship. last sunday
and that his fishermen took big messes OF
blackfsh. cod. hake and whiting. OnS
man aboard caught q IL pound pollock.
port side Of the boat near the Rocnawss
Gas Buoy on the way home and they fol
lowed the boat until quite near Cone,
Island. The captain mentions this Incl.
dent because porpoise Is q summer nsh and
they seldom come up with = school OF
them In the month OF December.
.sts LII. Striped Bsss Wins ~ 0utat.
The Mark Rock Club. q fishing club
ing It's original president. Walter s. Bal.
lou. still at It's head. had its annual dinner
a, the waldorf-Astoria OF wsdnesda,
The club is limited to twenty-five mem.
b.rs and has a club house at ontorara
Md. on the SusQuehanna River.
The clubs prize of a $50 rod and rec
for landing the larsss. striped bass Of
iSs "s Il. s@ause Snn cf Br rSs "~"rd hmon 4.
ans MP prsssn1 In :asi cs' e Mr. Bale
y. McAlpin. J. Milton Ferry. John o Kane
Frederick Floyd-Jones. Frederick Law
Tense II. ~ Peters. Nathaniel Rogers II
, by ana Arthur y. Williams.
Winter Casting Tournament February IS
Z The Long Island Casting Club met Sun
: day, as usual. az Dexter Park.
Interest is being shown in the comm,
open tournament on February %, 1915
Z and from the present outlook the innova
= ZION OF u winter tournament is going Il
, Sunday practice casts were made as FOL
. lows: A. J. Sahdala ION Sailyi. $50 feet
, Fred $ Fech; $685. E, korenyi. as an'
. scores sod for * Finch trophy ,GIls-; pr
! f. Frank q. P,Ges'' "a; a. NJ 10 i. I anFi. : :.s, n: .' 3
I CHARLES II WELLS, sec,-rreas.
\ sl3 Yarmouth street, Woodhaven, Dec. ~
{ Wants Legal Mes. on Salt Water Fish.
|. see our old friend "sy!" is ON the jol
again roasting the feed bag fisherman
That's the boy Keep at them. They ar
almost as destructive to our ocean play
r ground inhabitants as are the marke
, net men.
The large majority Of these nsh hog
never catch those reported huge catche
|, Just because they need them. but for n
sole reason OF making big catches. VIII,
can't a mar be a man and take only whs
he can use"
Cannot some OF those men leav. som,
for the next trip what will be the ma
result OF such destructive fishing? | hrml,
OflleNe tNal n law sHoulu W " nm ~ al
species OF both fresh and salt water Ash
For an example, who In the world coul,
use more than twenty ling or hlackhsh o
thirty founders mot postage stamps
More should not he taken. 4 fisherman
getting nfty tomcods has enough. An
E vet We time and time again read Of tw
. men getting over 100 founders and ski;
I tnmrods.
l why, most Of these would 60 had and Il
tho end would have to he thrown RwRv
r Some OF you fsh hogs should become rea
=. men and take only what you can use.
$ Don't try to get a bieger mess than IN
3 one you heard or read about. Have !
Q heart. Give everv one a chance. You vii
. be one Of those who will benefit In the end
New York. Dec. 6, JOHNNY OUT.
Fish Uninjured when Barb Taken on.
As I am = constant reader Of tho Ro,
and Gun column l could not fail to see tn
| reports of largo catches of founders an,
toincods and the criticisms Of your numsr
Gus contributors and tho protests againy
the large waste Of small Ash owing to tn
= practice OF taking such large numbers witt
ordinary hook and line.
. want to add my protest and also
= plan to save some of tho small nsh. As q
3 fishermen know, founders and tomcod
s have a tough mouth and In removing tn
ordinary hook they are often badly tor
and tho chances are that the small rs
e Will die after being returned to the water
ON my last trip I tried this experiment
took q small hook with a long shank an
Z broke on the barb. Then ! sharpened tn
I noint and used II instead OF the barbe
q hook and 7 found It hooked and held tn