The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-14
Let's Go Hunting
STATE INCREASE
IN TRAPPING is
RECORDED HERE
600 Licenses Have Been
Issued, Department
Data Shows.
BY. LEFTY LEE
lines Hunting Editor


coming quite an industry if the sale
Of fur buying licenses are an in
dication, a report from Earl Sprad-
ley Of the fish and game division
Of the conservation department,
stating that total of more than
six hundred having been issued this
year. Trappers, as a rule, are very
careful to abide by the laws of the
state, but some try to jump the gun
and, as a result, the state now owns
about four hundred pelts confscated
from trappers who took the animals
before the season opened. Mink,
skunk, fox, opossum and muskrat
are the fur-bearing animals trapped
in this state, the muskrat predomi-
mating.
We have heard about game hogs
of all descriptions, but this one has
them all backed off Of the boards.
When the duck season opened, the
federal law stated that no shooting
would be legal until noon that day.
At one of the lakes the game war
den covering the area received a
phone call from hunter who told
him that the other hunters we're
violating the law. The warden hur-
ried to the lake and arrested the
guilty ones. The informer, think
ing that everything was fine for
him then, with his competition IN
Jail, went out on the lake to do a
little private shooting of his own,
and you can imagine his surprise
when he found the warden waiting
for him on his return. He had
boat load of ducks, shot before noon.
The warden also was surprised to
find this man a violator, after he
had complained about the other
hunters, but we think the warden's
surprise was the more welcome one.
Courtesy in the field is one Of the
reasons the game wardens of today
are finding it so easy to start con-
servation clubs in all parts of the
state as the spOrtsmen know that
these men are the friends Of conser-
walton. They have countless friends
among the farmers and others in
addition to the sportsmen who now
have faith in them. Any number
Of times anglers and hunters, who
have told the wardens that they
had forgotten their licenses, are per-
mitted to go but are told to report
to conservation headquarters the
next day with the license they had
forgotten. If they were truthful
about the matter, that ended it, but
if they were "stalling' the warden,
it was just too bad.
Warden Mars reports that he has
been busy SEEMING carp from Eel
river and that he has taken about
400 of these obnoxious fish from
that stream. This warden also
seined Village, Cedar and Crooked
lakes for cisco and secured
about 300 pounds which he dis
tributed to the poor. This catch of
cisco was very poor, and the old
timers in the warden's district think
that operations were started too late
for the general run. The hunting
in Whitley county is slow at the
present time and the report states
it will remain that way until
heavy snow arrives.
The fishermen around Daviess
-
go out ,and get the best results. The
report of Warden Bennett states
that the fishermen were out during
the week and some fine strings of
bass, blue gills, crappie and jack
salmon were taken. This warden's
report would indicate that these two
counties are the dream spots of the
state for the SportSmen as he says
the quail are plentiful, rabbits
checked in with limit bags and the
trapperS are having fine luck, with
muskrat especially Fur buyers are
getting a great deal of fur, of eX-
ceptional quality, according to the
warden, raCcOOn, muSkrat, mink,
fox, skunk and opoSsum being turned
in to them. Several of the buyers
have remarked that they have been
offered less fur that was old and
had been caught in the closed sea-
son than ever before.
Ice covers most of the streams in
Rush and Decatur counties, the re-
port from Warden Lacey stating
that Blue river, Big and Little Flat
rock. Clifty and Sand creeks and
the Muscatatuck rivers are frozen
over and that Mccoy and Aliens
lakes are partly frozen,
Warden Hirsh sends in a report
that the Wabash river and all the
creeks are clear and that the hunt
ing in his territory is very good.
A heavy blanket of snow around
indianapolis would send the hunt
ers from this locality into the fields
in droves as the game has been
scarce here and the hunters are
blaming it on the weather and say
ing they are not going again until
it does snow.
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