Honeoye Falls anglers annual fishing contest

HONEOYE FALLS, N.Y., ANGLERS

HONEOYE FALLS, N.Y. - Editor Forest and Stream: The Honeoye Falls Anglers' Association held their third annual contest June 1. Notwithstanding it was the wettest, drizzly, cold, gloomy, dreary kind of a June opening on record, the club broke all its former records as fishermen in every respect. Honeoye Lake and creek, Hemlock and Conesus Lakes, and Lima ponds were the waters fished in; also a private pond in Bloomfield furnished a score and won a prize, which will not be allowed another year, and would not have been this year had it been on the losing side. The following is the list of members who returned a score:

Thus Capt. Chas. Seaman's side wins a supper at the expense of the other side by a majority of 701-1/4 points.

Captain Seaman's side had 97 lbs, and Captain Mather's 76-3/4, the winners having 20-1/4 more pounds that the losers. Captain Mather's side won 17 prizes, Captain Seaman's side 16 prizes and the club silver badge. There are six ties on first prize for largest variety and four ties on second for the same. There are three ties on the smallest score. Ties are to be settled among the men tied in any manner they hit upon.

The man who brings in the largest score at the annual contest wears for one year the silver badge of the club. Joe Shellman with a score of 438.5 points wears the badge. It is a good thing that Joe is a good, strong, able-bodied man, for we have a badge that makes one think of a policeman, and indicates the man who wears it is, as well as a fisherman, a man not to be badgered much. Pike, brook trout and muskalonge prizes were not won. Ties unsettled. The following are the prize winners:

Very appropriately a Honeoye Lake fish won the badge and the contest. The date of the supper is not yet decided, and an account will be sent in when it takes place.

DR. D. G. BROWNE, Sec'y Ex. Com.