An Item For Fishermen

The following will be of interest to the man y fisherruen in this vicinity. An important bill to protcct fish and regúlate fishing passed the house Saturday. It prohibí ts the taking of speckled rout or land lock salmón from Septemaer lst to May lst; grayling and Calibrnia trout from November lst to June .st, and prohibits buying and selling such tish during the closed seasou. The use of explosives or stupefying powders to ;ake fish is made unlawful. Spearing flsh s forbidden in March, April, May and Tune in any waters except thoae of the great lakes, and no fishing with seines, lound nets, gill nets, or any species of ooninuous nets, except in the great lakes, heSt. Clair, St. Mary and Detroit Rivera. Speckled and brook trout and grayling can lawfully be taken by hook and' liue, aod from and after January lst, 1889, ;he St. Clair ltiver is closed to all fishing except by hook and line. The destruo;ion of minnows or small fry fish, for iny purpose except bait, is unlawful. Other piovisions make the inland treams free for the passage of fish by irohibiting nets, weirs, etc, in the channels, or near dama. Muskallonge, lack, strawberry, green and white bass ire protected everywhere from the lst of tfarch to the 15th of June.