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THE ESCANABA (MICH.) DAILY PRESS TAGGED TROUT TRAVELS AFAR Released At Marquette, Fish Caught 236 Miles Away At long to bp exact one of the lake trout tagged and released off White Hock? on Lake Superior for the Marquette Yacht club 1940 trout derby has been cautht. And what started out to be little more than novel fun In way of a fishing derby In Marquette waters has produced Interesting data that will provide fruit for scientific research in fish migration at the Institute for Fisheries Research. University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Hearing tag No. 20017, the lake trout was one of four tagged Sunday, June 9.

1940, by Elvin Nieml, of Ishpeming and released by him the same day from Emil Tormala boat about four miles north of Marquette near Presque Isle park. Xletnl liolfjiwxl It Nicmi, now coach of athletics at Talmer hlgrh school, and Tor- ntala marked and released eight trout for the 1940 derby, and as far as is known, the current catch is the first. Whether the successful angler will be eligible for a prize in the contest is a moot question. It is certain that Yacht club big-wlgs had not figured on one of their prize babies being captured 17 months later. The time element was not taken Into considered Neverthlesg.

L. T. 20017 was caught in Beaver Ray on the north shore of Lake Superior early this month. The name of the successful angler is not known 1 here, but the catch was reported) to the of If. Institute for Fisheries Research by Emil Minnesota state game warden.

I stationed at Two Harbors. Minn. Migrated 236 A S. Hazzard. director of the Institute, relayed the information to Niemi at Tiis home.

503 West Division street. Ishpeming. Niemi was right glad to hear the fate of at least one of teges. Hazzard and David S. Shetter.

assistant aquatic biologist at the Institute, are particularly interested in knowing that the fish migrated, in the Intervening 17, months, 236 miles, as calipered on the War general chart of Lake Superior drawn in 1924. When released, the fish weigh- ed six pounds and was 27 inches long, measured from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tall. When caught in Reaver Ray, its lencth was the same, but it hart gained one and one-half pounds. Deer Carcass Gets Stale Seal Harold Rurnett of Howell. ht this deer to the state conservation station for the state seal on the carcass.

Placing the seal on the 110-pound carcass Is Conservation Officer Harry Plotts. This was the first deer shot in the special deer hunting season in Allegan county, Michigan, in which only does may taken. season is designed to reduce the deer population In that county, since farmers reported the animals were too destructive. West Coast Fishermen Cash In On Discovery BY JOHN HICK Service Staff (Viriespondcnt San Francisco, In the Pacific, the shark was once just a nuisance. Now it's prize eagerly sought by shark The big halibut fleets of Oregon, the tuna fleets of California a few crab fisherman have joined the parade.

There's money In that thar ocean and more than 1000 boats are out get- Hunting and Fishing WITH SID OORDON WOLVERINES EAT PHEASANT Conservation Club Has Game Feed Planned for December 16 ne Wolverine Conservation as- soclatlon will hfcve a game ferd on Tuesday ever.ing Decetnber 16. nt the Sberni'in hotel. A short speaking progr'im will bp a part of th program but the prlncipal feature of the affnlr will be South 1 Dakota pheasants which memhers of thP flub will ronsume. Forty of the blrds are bping spnt to tho Wolverines In ex- ehange for a large shipment of smrlt sent to the Flnndreati. 1 South Dakota.

Isaac Walton leagup chaptPr last sprinc. Comrnittpps in Charge of the af- falr as well as the progrnm will be announced latpr. Plenty of Hunting Yet livers contains an Immense quan- i ting It. tity of Vitamin which has be- About 80 per cent of the fishinc come immensely valuable since is done in deep water, 40 miles fish oil imports were cut off by out. Raskets (lame loops of line the war.

supported by floats and carrying From Canada to Mexico, shark 4 5 to 9 0 hooks baited with sar- flshing tidal-waved into an 'dines or sole) arp standard tackle Mild Weather Is Ending Time To Feed Birds Again in FERN RFRRY It is quite true that birds will find something to eat if left "on their own" but how nice it is that they bring their color and song to our yards, and not keep it locked in the fastness of the forest and swamp, when snow is deep and ice covers the landscape. So, when you are using your food chopper or grinder to prepare salads or other food, put a few of those accumulated crusts into the grinder, and you will have a great many crumbs for the irds which come lookine for food. Or use small grains and weed seed, if you have access to a farmer's barn, and the chaff from the barn floor and hay mows. On bitter cold days place the food in the oven, stirrinc it occasionally to heat through, before pi acini: it on the shelf or feeding trays. Rice, raisins, rolled oats, cracked cereal, the hard kernals of pop corn which refuse to pop open, corn meal, bits of apples and apple cores, suet, piecrust scraps.

suet cakes into which corn meal and coarse wheat ami oat cereal has been mixed, are some estimated $7 6,000,000 business and Pacific Coast fisheries are riding the crest. Fishermen who have been earning only a fair living, now average well oxer $200 a week In a frenzied hunt for certain varieties of sharks. Some, worth $10 a ton in 1938, now bring $1200 to $1800 i a ton. Record profits were made when a four-man boat, out of San Francisco for five days, made a $7 000 catch to net $1100 for each fisherman. That's an exception, not the rule, or everybody on the Pacific Coast would be out catching sharks Average for a three-man boat is $700 to $1200 a week.

Tins fabulous boom can be traced to a San Franciscan. Ttno J. Ouaracnella, representative of a large rtrug concern He started buyint liver in 1938, using the oil to fortify poultry feed. accidcnt, he dlscovpred that the huge livers of the common soupfin shark to 25 per cent of entire weight) carry near- 20 times the Vitamin A potency of other fish. nought it) r.

s. Compared with cod liver oil's average of 1000 International Cults of Vitamin A per gram, and 5000 units per cram, the average yield from sharks really makes the oil "liquid And when Ouaragnella found also that the livers were more than 50 per cent oil, the boom was on. Already this year, the United States Government has purchased nearly four trillion units of it a mln A. Much of this is given to our Armj Mid Navy fly era; rest is sent to England, perhaps Russia, under lend-lease. Vitamin A is for flyers what glasses are for near-sighted persons.

It tends to facilitate night flying by preventing night blindness: it lessens eye fatique and is claimed to increase vision This alone mipht account for but some fishing is done closer to shore with nets. The soupfin shark is trim and graceful, not at nil vicious. Fishermen call it lamb amone sharks." It weighs 45 to 55 pounds along the American coast lino, gets much bigger off Mexico Resides the the dogfish shark Is the best bet for oil. Tons of these are caught annually, especially in Oregon, where there Is a good market for their livers. Rlue, thrasher and mud sharks are of some value.

Pacific fishermen know have hold of a good thing and that there are only two things that can stop it. 1. A government-fixed price on I shark liver 2. Development of a synthetic Vitamin A. New Fish Law Digests Ready The new leaflets containing synopsis of Michigan's 194 2 fishing regulations have issued by the conservation ieparttnent and a quantity of the leaflets has been received by the Daily Press.

Sportsmen wishing copies can obtain them calling at the Press office will receive them by return mail if they will send their re- accompanied by stamp, to Outdoors Page Editor, in of the Press. The leaflets contain, In brief, ill regulations governing the taking of game fish in waters of the state They include the rhanges in the laws made by the last session of the legislature. TIIHEH IS TROUBLE IX MY HEX There is an air of sadness In uiy den. For a long time I couldn't put my finger on the trouble and It worried me. One night while sittinc with eyes, thinking out a problem.

1 heard voices. Someone said, "Look at the lazy slob sitting there sleeplne." As the voices continued, I kept very still and discovered that they came from the corner where the rods were stacked. the fellow who whs bragging alxoit me last summer. Thai Is the same bird who was that he'd sooner part with right eye than lose me. He (old many a friend about the fisli I had taught for him from the Soo to the Pacific "Here I have fought and landed the best fish he has caught for the last 20 years.

I am just as strong, just as hearty as the day he bought me He getting old, look at his bald head, his arm what it used to be but I make up I for it. I throw that fly Just as lightly as 1 ever did." "Look at me There are trout scales from last summer still upon my sturdy strips. My beautiful silk windings are frayed at almost every guide and ferrule. Years ago he me three beautiful coats of llcht varnish. He rubbed I them down so gently that I lost none of my smooth action." "This season one of those silly steel rods had the nerve to look at with disdain, the upstart! Imagine that! 1, who never lost a fish when he set the hook right.

The silh stt 1 rod noticed that my bamboo was touched up in many places. She even noticed where my bare skin showed here and i there." Camp Evelvn CCC Youths Make 500 Signs For Forest Some 20 CCC enrollees at Camp Evelyn, near Mtinising, are busy this winter constructing 50ft signs that will aid users of the Upper Michigan National Forests. The signs will include the more familiar markers prpctpd on the forest boundaries alone highways, rustic signs that mark such features as camp and scpnic spots. Some also will be directional signs that are to be placed at road and trail intersections. Doslgned to provide Information for the forest visitor, the signs are so made and placed that they will not mar or obscure the scenery Constructed of heavy two- inch redwood with lettering routed in at the craft shop of Camp Evelyn and painted, these signs will last for years.

Other winter work in the CCC craft shop Includes the building of tables and benches for camping and picnic sites within the forests. FISHING STORY I XLICENSED Helena, (U D. Rue, assistant engineer for the U. S. Geological survey, has a story of a fish that get away.

Reason? He didn't have a fishing license. Five snowBhoe hares still make a day limit, like the bag shown here, though no more than three cottontails may be taken in one day. With the seasons closed on most small game and deer, rabbit hunters and their dogs have the field to themselves for many weeks to come. Hunting of snowshoe hares and cottontails continues until December 31 In southern Michigan, January 31 In northern lower Michigan, and March 1 in the Upper Peninsula. Dog Chats QUAIL HUNTING DOGS OF TODAY Hy Huell Patterson Time was when the hunter thought that If his quail dog was doing his work properly, that dog would get every single which scattered from a bevy of the tered after the first shooting.

No longer do the hunters in the better quail areas hunt down every last bird and think that is the sole way they can demonstrate their skill and efficiency with the sporty birds. Today a dog must be scatter gun It is a decided breach capable of locating singles, but I of sportsmanship to wreck an en- the good sportsman is not out to tire hand of birds and, strangely, decimate a bevy. He Is cenerally it is usually the so-called sports- schooled to look to the future and men. and not the locnl hunters fraj guide with liosive a piece of ad- I kept very, very quiet. I really felt quite badly and ashamed.

I felt much greater remorse when plug rod said to the fly rod, "We came to him in the same package yearB ago, look at our shabbiness now. Just a few hour work this winter would make us i look like the days of our youth, so ready and willing to give him good service. How can he have the heart to treat us so?" They stopped talking when I in my chair. I walked I slowly over to the corner to be contented If he gets one or two birds from each bevy and leaves the remainder to build up the quail popula ion for the next seasons. It takes considerably less stamina on the part of a dog to locate the larger bevies than to range on all over a countryside to locate the singles that have scat- ALASKA'S FUR EXPORTS RISE Game Agents Travel Over 200,000 Miles In Year Protecting Wildlife Fourteen wildlife agents of the Alaska Game Commission travel- and led 203,500 miles last year to pro- DIRECTOR SEEKS CAMP DEER BAN Abuses During November Open Season By Meat Hunters Scored At the meeting of the Conservation Commission on Tuesday, December 9, Director P.

J. Hofftnas- ter will recommend that the game body go on record favoring repeal of that part of the deer law which provides for issuing permits to take camp deer, unless other means can be found to correct the abuses that showed up during regular open season this fall. Hoffmaster announced his Intention as the season came to a close last week-end The 16 day deer season In November was the first for a score of years In which riflemen could legally kill does. The last legislature changed the law to allow the shooting of does as well as bucks under the camp deer permit. This camp deer permit provision of the law was Intended to provide fresh meat for the hunters in camp.

Hardly had the season opened this It became evident that the intent of the law was being flagrantly disregarded. Very few of the thousands of deer shot under camp deer permits were used In camp as the law intended. It soon became apparent that hunting parties obtained permits for the sole purpose of getting meat to take home Just enough meat was removed from the "camp deer" to provide an excuse to tak" the rest of the carcass home. Instances were even reported in which meat was cut off and thrown away to make it appear to officers that a portion of the doe had been used In camp. In announcing his intention to recommend commission action, Hoffmaster stated: "For a number of years this Department has realized that, because of excess concentration of deer in a few limited areas, winter food conditions have become acute.

We have advocated controlled shooting of does in these limited and specific areas to lower the deer population to permit winter browse to come back. In much of deer country, the population is below the winter carrying capacity. Although It didn't adopt the Department request for an antlerless deer season In certain limited iircas of the state, the 1941 session of the legislature amended the deer law to permit taking oi either a buck or doe for camp uce. Last year we issued I about 700 camp deer permits and neither we nor the legislature anticipated the tremendous ln- i crease in demand for such permits or their subsequent misuse. There is no doubt hut that it is advisable to lower the deer population In some areas but I certainly i believe it ought to he done hy tho subterfuge of killing does under picked up the fly rod.

Quietly talking to myself I fitted the middle joint of the fly rod to the tip. then to the butt joint. I said. "My good friend, the male ferrules fit too loosely. I must take thpm down and have a couple of coats of nickel put on them.

1 remember how almost lost a fish laBt summer when the ferrule from the socket. have ful work for done such wonder- I continued. tect the Territory's wildlife resources from poachers, illegal trappers, and other violators, ac-U0 pick up body scent while who violate the present code. The local men know what it means to decimate an area of all its birds and realize that it will take a long time to bring the birds hack in 1 any numbers. Rird dogs of either the pointer or setter breeds which can work equally well on a bevy or on singles are a rarity and the exception rather than the rule.

The type of cover being hunted has much to do with the styles a dog should use In assisting the hunter. When the cover is thick big rangey dogs are not In as much favor as they are In the more open country where ranging is essential to pick- ing up the scattered bird population. A far-ranging dog is not useful in thick cover because he becomes too easily separated from the gun and is valueless. In thick cover the hunter wants a doe: which ranges in sight a majority of the time. A fast dog Is not rated as highly as a dog which is slower deer permits, for in so doing but more thorough.

aro tn0 doef The nose of a quail dog is all areas few otherfJ- important. In some sections, the! "Years ago when permits were dog must depend upon his ability issued for camp deer, cording to its annual report made jokers the dog which works to to Secretary of the Interior Har-! plck lip foot 8Cent is the more jn i were isolated during the period of I must give you a new qqo old L. Icke8. Fur exports continued to rise, the fifth year of increase, with a total of 565.553 pelts bringing Alaskans over $1.958,500. In the 16 years that export records have been kept, the Territory has shipped out almost 7,079,000 fur pelts for an aggregate of winter.

Three thin of the best coach vamlsli 1 can buy, put after all this old cracked varnish is removed." "I must buy the silks for winding tomorrow. Maybe the silk situation will get worse and I (shall be unable to obtain the to complete the job if I do kind of a fishing part- not hurry. The guides are all right I drawn who spends ho but I shall surely lose some where much time oiling up his and that newcomer, that automatic shotgun? Does he want me to fall apart? Is he going to grab me the day the fishing season opens, as last year, and fasten a of the things we have about the house and can easily place for the fact that demand is still four winter birds. If you live in an times larger than supply. Rut area where the bright red cross- shark liver oil has countless other redpolls, pine grosbeaks uses.

other bright and colorful birds I One of the most Important is spend the winter, you will find a jn lubrication Secret experiments MARVELS of NATURE COPft 1941 BY NORTH AMI RICAN MOHTIMAN'9 BUREAU. Inc great deal of pleasure in studving the hungry horde hich will come to vour feeder. Wildcat Attacks Hunter As He Skins It are being carried on, testing its use for stratosphere engines, 1 where ordinary lubricants are af- fected by the extreme and rapid temperature changes. Highly re- I fined, it inn i- a topnotch oil for fine mechanisms. The Rritish are using it to fort- 1 ify margarine for national health, Many milk companies are using to improve their products Pharmaceutical manufacturers use it in many preparations.

Vast to amounts go into poultry feed to speed growth and Improve egg Palm Spring, Calif. (jp Carl Rradsher discovered the mountain lion he thought dead was very much he began skin it. Rradsher encountered the ani- anf1 qualities raal on a quail hunt and felled it Meanwhile, top with three charges from a 12 men are working gauge shotgun As he started to skin the beast, it revived and attacked him, gashing his hands, face and Rradsher said he first tried to choke the lion, then freed one hand to draw a 10-inch knife nith which he completed the kill. Dogs wag their tails when thpy are happy; cats wag theirs when angry. notch research constantly to find new uses for both the car- casses of shark and the residue of the liver.

Such developments as have been made are still secret, hut may be startling. With all these uses for their catch bringing shark prices up to nearly triple that paid for the next most expensive tish the pompano small wonder that Pacific Coast fishermen are "making hay tPf ttV TEAL CANNOT HOPE; TO tub DUCK HAWK spec? seen AT TO fSs AN EAAMPt -C Of DOPV PROCESSES SLOW POWN P0RIN6 LONG WINTER HIBERNATION PERlOP OP MANY ANlMAtS YAKfc THU OF COMMON CUIPMUNK- ANIMATED CUEATOgE Of TMfc SUMMER 0ALLOP Fua whose HEART got fn those windings are "This tiptop guide must be replaced. 1 have had it too long, for grooves are worn in it. It will spoil my good lines through excessive wear, I must not neglect to fit one at once and not wait for the lines to become When 1 turned and picked up the plnii rod, I that the Utile microscope showed cracks in two of the auate guides. too, my faithful friend, shall new guides and a new dress." I said.

"I am very proud of the 20 years of service you and your companion have rendered me." Thauk goodness that I overheard their conversation and I shall attend to them at once well, just as soon as the rabbit season closes anil the crow shooting is over. It will be but a matter of a quarter's worth of good coach of silk varnish. 20 cents worth thread and a couple dollars worth heaver, $1S; 2,080 of guides; $2 50 to make $80 red foxes, $7 The Alaska Came Commission is the operating agency in the Territory for the Fish and Wild- life Service. In apprehending violators, wildlife agents used every means of available: Agents spent fi75 hours in airplanes, for a total of 109.150 miles of travel. Patrol vessels curried the men 24.GOO outboard motorboats, commercial steamers, I railroads.

and dog teams, 1,700 miles. To reach otherwise i inaccessible arens. the agents walked 6,257 miles to "get their men." Of 174 violators prosecuted the fiscal year. 109 were convicted, 2 were acquitted, and 1 3 have casts pending. Violators were sentenced to an aggregate of 1,590 days in jail, fined $6,215, and forfeited articles sold for $13,000.

Largest individual seizure of Illegal game was at Juneau, yvhere a Commission officer found 15 I deer on a seine boat. 43.700 Mink Shipped Rig-game hunting attracted nonresident and alien sportsmen who shipped out 24 4 animals; hears, 133; mountain sheep, 5 caribou. 20; mountain goats. 15; moose, 21; and deer, 30. Fur shipments from Alaska during the year included 15S black bears for an average of $2 each; 62 polar bears.

$27 each: 14.630 coyotes. 1.501 crosis helpful. A hunter should know the type of country over which his hunting is to be done and pick his dog for the qualities which will be most needed for the type of work demanded. Stamina is important in any section and the wepdy typp of pointer or setter Is to be avoided. Copyright 19 41, North American Sportsman's Rureau, Inc.

the deer season. Recause of lack of transportation facilities it almost impossible to obtain fresh meat. A camp deer made up this deficiency. This is no longer true. Frefli meat is easily obtainable from nearby I believe we are Justified any longer in retaining the camp deer law-, whether it be for bucks or for does." Small Animals Once Bid to Indian God Near Murslsing Meta1 Tag8 Must Identify All Traps While metal tags with the owner's name and address must be attached to all traps used in taking Michigan fur bearers, they need not be fancy manufactured articles, the conservation department points out in retuinding trappers of the need for tags.

Many of Michigan's 20.000 BY JfiAX JOHNSON trappers punch the required in- Indian god once formation on a strip taken from found himself in a tough spot a tin can, and attach that to the this accounts for the exist-1 trap Only tools needed are a ence of Grand Island, opposite pair of tin snips and an ice pick, Munising in Lake Superior, and or hammer and nail. Some trappers merely scratch the Information on pieces of tin, but this method is unsatisfactory, as the metal rusts under water, and becomes illegible. The law requires that the information be in legi- 1S- For trappers who wish them, specially manufactured name tags are available at most hardware worth of rods as good as new and foxes. 632 silver foxes, $27 just as handsome as the day I proudly opened case in which they arrived. Never once have I put the wonderful rods away while thpy were damp Never once I put them in a damp cafe.

A few days of that sort of tn atment opens up the seams, ruins a rod. In all the 20 years of flnhlnt: those particular rods not see an opened strip. That is why I know I can do a good Job for tlo have never lost that beautiful action. its two smaller companion lands. Wood und Williams.

This is all according to the following Indian legend: The Indian god was cruising about Lake Superior in a canoe with almost every type of animal ble English, accompanying him as his guests. Refore long a terrific storm blew up and the animals looked to the god for aid. However controlling and sporting goods stores, the weather was outside this god's jurisdiction. At length the god asked the mole to dive and bring up sand from the bottom of the lake. The mole returned unsuccessful and so the muskrat was appointed to try next.

lie. too, failed. Then the beaver filled his lungs and went weeks they have been roaming down, coming up some minutes from one haystack to another later with a pawful of sand. along the Colorado vomlng The god took the sand, uttered boundary, tearing down barbed his incantations, and blew the wire fences and frightening cst- sand from him just as the shiver- I tie. Buffaloes Roam, Trouble Ranchers Fort Collins.

Colo. Six wandering buffaloes are causing ranchers no end of worry For blue $19 26; 2t0 hares, 10 jng beaver sneezed. The main part 1 The buffaloes, raised by Frank cents: 1.196 marmots. 50 cents; and 9.62*> martens, for an average of $32 each. Some 4 3.700 minks brought an average of $8.50 each: 453.300 mu'krats, $1 10; 2.S04 land ot- tors, 720 s'uirrels.

10 cents; 9.895 weasels (ermine). 60 cents: 4 4 4 wolves, $18; 326 wolverines, $'50; and 1.698 lynxes, for an average of $4 3.50 each. of the earth went to form Grand bits blown awav by the sneeze formed Wood and Williams Islands. The party safely. The Indians claim this story is true because almost every type of animal may be found on Grand Island.

Young herring are packed sold as sardines. and Miller of the Trail End Ranch, became homeless when he lost property through a foreclosure. He had no place to take them and could not give them away. So they became wanderers. Ranchers cannot shoot them since they are protected by law in Colorado and Wyoming.

There are 255 bears (black and brown) in Florida. A REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURE OF THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS HUNTING FISHING RESORT PROMOTION PUBLIC RECREATION 4.