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ROD & GUN \ By GENE WIKE l (N. C. Division of Game and Inland Fisheries)_ BIGGER GAME OR BETTER FISH— The “toughie’ ’to answer in most of the states is whether there is more game than fish—which is the most plentiful. On the river banks, by the stoves, and in the field the argument is pursued, but the debating participants always wind up with indefinite conclusions. Bert Brother, Georgia sports man, says “tone thing about game you can see it, but it is difficult to peer beneath the surface of the waters and survey the fish sit uation. When dogs are working well and hunting is good, game appears plentiful. So do the fish when they’re biting, but what about the poor bunting and fishing days, declares Brother. When there are no birds in the sky or field, discontented nimrods quickly declare no game. Quite differently, the fisherman retraces his stops to his favorite fishing spot Hme and again on the as sumption that they aren’t biting. Ils really a deoatable question, this subject of game and fish. But in North Carolina sports men are prone to favor the fish while in realit ymany biologists believe that tho supply in many states if far behind the game. Polluiion, drainage, erosion and the like have mare serious in roads on the finny game, but the development of farm fish ponds, the restocking of streams, and the cultivation of bass and bream in the various impoundments of the state point with favor to the ang ler’s sport. But any way you look at it there is a whale of a job to be done in both game and fish restoration. FISII CAUTION AND CARE Speaking of restoration, return ing the fish you do not care to keep to the water unhurt is a mignty fine practice, according to J. W. Gwathmey, Richmond Rod and Gun artist. In future weeks many bream will be caught off their spawn ing beds. If these are carried around in the live' box any length of time and then liberated, it is a question whether they’ll ever find their way back to their mat es. The thing to do is liberate your fish where you catch him, Gwathmey declares. COARSE FISHING CONTINUES While sport fishing for warm water species is confined to year round impoundments of inland waters, many anglers have turned —w —* —— —■ to streams open to coarse fish ing. You can fish anytime in des ignated areas for catfish, carp; red-horse, sucker and non-game fishes, conditioned by the regula tion that you must return all game fish to thj water, you can’t take them by an yother method except rod and reel, hook and line and fishing license regulations ap ply. Tributaries to the following streams are not open to coarse fishing during closed season, but to put it specifically the follow ing have been declared open waters: TThe Cape Fear River from its origin at the junction of Deep and Haw Rivers in Chatham County to King’s Bluff Locks; the Dan River in Stokes, Rocking ham and Caswell counties; the Deep River in Randolph, Moore, Chatham and Lee counties; the Haw River in Alamance and Cha tham counties; the Neuse River from the junction of the Eno and Flat Rivers in Durham county to U. S. Highway No. 117 Bridge in Wayne county; the Eno River in Orange and Durham counties; the Tar River below its origin in Granville county. In the western counties: me French Broad River, Swannanoa River from mouth up to 100 yards below dam at Recreation Park, and Cane Creek below U. S. High way No. 74, Bridge in Buncombe county; the John’s River below mouth of Wilson Creek, Catawba River from State Highway No. 18 Bridge up to within 100 yards of Lake James Dam, Upper Creek below the mouth of Steeles Creek, Silver Creek and Muddy Creek in Burke County; Lower Creek, King's Creek and Zacks Creek in Caldwell county; Hiwassee River below old Power Dam in Clay county; Hiwassee River above bridge at U. S. Highway No. 64 in Cherokee county; First Broad River, Second Broad River and Broad River in Cleveland ' county; Cheoah Riber below the Santeet lah Cooperative Wildlife aMnage ment Area line in Graham coun ty; Pigeon River from Waterville Dam to Forks of River at Wood row in Haywood county; French Broad River and Cane Creek in Henderson county; Tuckaseigee River below the dam at Dillsboro m Jackson county; Little Tennes see River below U. S. Highway No. 23 near Franklin in Macon county: French Broad River in Madison county; Nolichucky, Toe and North Toe Rovers in Mit chell county; Catawba River from Yancey Bridge at head of Lake James to mouth of Crooked Creek in McDowell county; Green River below State Highway No. 9 Bridge near Lake Adger and Pacolet Riv er below Lynn in Poly county; Broad River below U. S. High way No. 74 Bridge in Rutherford county; French Broad River below the mouth of East Fork one mile below Rosman in Transylvania county; Yadkin River below Fer guson in Wilkes county; Yadkin River above U. S. Highway No. 421 in Yadkin county; Nolichucky, Toe and North Toe Rivers in Yancey county. TROUT STOCKING — The opening of the trout sea son April 15 found all types of fishermen flanking the streams stocked since March 1 with one third million trout, 30,000 of which were legal length. Stocking on many of the larger and more fre quently fished waters will con tinue during the onslaught of anglers. In Wilkes county alone, Game and Fish Protector R. S. Johnson reports a release of ’ over 2000 .egal length trout in fourteen streams designated for trout fish ing, most of which have been re leased recently. Taken from the Marion and Roaring Gap hatch eries, rainbow and brook trout planted should offer some good size fish for the fly rod fishermen, says Johnson. For further infor mation write him at P. O. Box 27 or phone No. 441-J. He strives to please. BRINGING YEAR-ROUND FISH UP TO DATE — The North Carolina Division of Game and Inland Fisheries has de clared additional lakes open to year-round angling, namely: Mills Fond, Panther Eranch Lake, Lake Myra. Perry’s Lake, Lake Wendell and Robertson’s Pond in Wake county; Asheboro City Lake in Randolph; Lake Lee in Union; Lake Latham in Alamance; Silver Lake in Wilson and Nobles Mill pond in Nash county. Folks from Durham can do a little fishing anytime in Flat River Lake, often called Lake Michie. The fishing commissoiner, through authorization fro mthe Department of Conservation and Development, voted year round fishing, accord ing to Leon Powell, who said that the lake would benefit from having some of the big ones caught. THE SPORTING FLEET — Morehead City — The Oareret Sports-Fishing Fleet, comprising more than fifty boats with exper ienced guides is groomed for act ion, according to Alex Davis, fish and game protector. Claiming Morehead City undis puted.y the most popular salt water fishing port in the state, he points to smaller fleets anchored ate eBaufort, Marshallburg, Davie and Atlantic standing by the boost the total when the season gets going ful bast. CAROLINIANS CAUGHT ’EM— Meanwhile from Miami comes news of tarheel anglers who slip ped out of the confines of the Ca rolinas to try their hand at a little aport fishing in the Florida wa lers. 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