The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
Let's Go Fishing
GAME AND FISH
FIND HAVEN ON
WALTON FARM
State Convention Will Be
Held at LoganSport
Preserve.
BY LEFTY LEE
Times Fishing Editor

The Cass county chapter OF the
Izaak Walton league will be host TO
the Waltonians at its beautiful
home one mile north Of Logans-
port, during the annual conven-
ton of the league Sept. 4, 5 and 6.
In the spring of 1881 this chapter
bought a forty-acre farm, and have
turned it into a haven for wild
life.
A springfield four-acre pool pro-
duced $4,000 lingering bass in 1882.
The chapter now has four pools
for spawning and is raising large
and small mouth bass, red eye and
blue gill. An extensive forestry
program also was decided upon and
$4,000 trees, Norway Spruce, wal
nut, Scotch pine, red oak, black
locust and tulip poplar, were planted
and are in a healthy condition
The house that stood on the farm
has been remodeled and is being
used as a clubhouse. An up-to-date
bathing beach, archery and rifle
range and a gun CLUB with four
traps also are part of the eStab-
lishment. Birdhouses sufficient to
care for 500 pairs of birds have
been placed at different locations
on the farm Members attending
the convention are invited to bring
along their guns, fishing tackle and
bathing suits, and leave the matter
of entertaining to the Cass county
boys.
More than 100000 small -mouth
bass were Matched in the two ponds
at Memorial park, Huntington, this
year by the Izaak Walton chapter of
that city. This chapter also hopes
to plant $4,000 large-sized bass this
year.
An angler writes to request in
formation concerning the proper
method of carrying helgemite. A
better method may be known, but
we always have been successful in
placing leaves in the bucket with
about one inch of water, which gives
the bait its own choice.
The United Sportsmen of Indiana,
InG., is enjoying steady growth.
The lovers of the great outdoors
gladly are enrolling with this Or
ganization in its efforts to make
conditions in Indiana's fields and
streams on par with any other
state in the Union.
This organization is pledged to
stop stream pollution, promote pub
lie shooting grounds, foster refor-
estation of watersheds and waste
lands, prevent unnecessary drain
age of marsh lands, determine
rights to waterways, encourage APP
probation of the out doors and
improve hunting and fishing.
The membership fee is but so
cents a year, the full amount being
used for the above purpose. Lee
Emmelmann is treasurer of the or
ganization, and will enroll you if you
mail or send the dues to him at the
EmRoe Sporting Goods Company,
Indianapolis.
Harry Bason certainly can tickle
the keys of a piano, but is an utter
failure to date as a fisherman. His
two trips this season, one to Lake
Manitou and the other to the Oak
dale dam, being blank as far as
catching fish is concerned.
Harry is living in hopes, however.
The art of being a real angler runs
in the family, as witness the all
time record catch of his nephew, in
the Niagara river.
The youngster, who is only 16
years old, landed a forty two pound
northern pike. The catch created
a sensation in that part of the coun-
try, and yong Bason and his catch
made the front page.