NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Under this Department Heading queries relative to Angling, Ichthyology and Fish Culture, 



will be answered.] 



Lake Winnebago, Michigan. 



" On Wednesday a party composed of Adolph 

 ]\Iehlmann, H. Lindner, Otto Noss, Robert 

 Voss, Will Wilkinson, and several others char- 

 tered the steam yacht Cora, and went to the 

 east shore of Lake Winnebago, where they 

 spent the day fishing. One hundred and thirty 

 black bass, weighing about four hundred 

 pounds were caught, besides a number of pike 

 and other varieties. About two hundred sheeps- 

 head were taken and thrown away." 



A Large Black Bass Score. 



I send you by this mail samples of some of 

 the pictures I took while in the vicinity of Camp 

 Franklin, Wisconsin. My trip from Chicago 

 via the Northwestern to Woodruff; thence by 

 wagon twelve miles to Camp Franklin was 

 thoroughly comfortable and enjoyable. I went 

 up there this year for bass, black bass, and like 

 the lake trout fishing the last time I was there, I 

 beat all previous records. There are lots of 

 lakes in the vicinity of Camp Franklin that are 

 filled with black bass to overflowing. I fished 

 four days on Palette Lake (or you might call it 

 a pond), about one mile long and a quarter of 

 a mile wide, and caught nearly five hundred 

 black bass in that time, but I let most of them 

 go as I was too far away to take them out of the 

 woods. If any of your friends are fond of that 

 kind of fishing and want to get at the sport 

 quick and have lots of it while they are at it, 

 send them to Camp Franklin and have them 

 get one of the guides that I had, either Judd 

 Blaisdell or Alexander Gillies, and have him 

 take them to Palette Lake and they will forget, 

 for the time being, everything except the genu- 

 ine pleasure that is incident to black bass fishing 

 on the beautiful sheet of water. In order to be 

 certain of securing accommodations and guides 

 they should write in advance to Mr. C. J. Coon, 

 Camp Franklin, Woodruff", Wisconsin." 



Fishing at Barnegat Bay, N. J. 



A correspondent of the Neivark Sunday Call 

 sends the following very practical information 

 about this old time fishing resort. The scenes 

 at Barnegat the past week have been better than 

 ever and a most pleasant day can be spent 

 there. 



Barnegat bay will never lose prestige as a 

 fishing resort. The only drawback is the dis- 

 tance, and distance suggests expense and A-aste 

 of time. The trip occupies nearly four hours, 

 and the cost is over I3.45 for an excursion 

 ticket, but there is nearly always an assurance 

 of good fishing, and the uncertainty at other re- 

 sorts nearer at hand offsets the difference in the 

 price, especially when it is taken into consider- 

 ation that the fishing arrangements at Barnegat 

 bay are reduced to a science which approaches 

 luxury. 



At other resorts one day a party may get as 

 many fish as its members can conveniently 

 carry, and on the next day there will not be a 

 weakfish on the grounds. The expense goes 

 on just the same, however, and there is just as 

 much or more hard work attached to getting to 

 and returning from the fishing grounds when 

 the fish are not to be found as when they are 

 plentiful. It is different at Barnegat bay. When 

 the fishing is good there on Monday it is likely 

 to be good all the week. Barnegat bay is like 

 a big fish pound. The fish get in through the 

 narrow inlet and have difficulty in finding their 

 way out, even if they want to go. The bay is 

 thirty miles in length, and the inlet is only a 

 mile in width and guarded by fierce breakers on 

 the numerous bars. Sharks and savage blue- 

 fish guard the entrance to the bay and drive the 

 timid weakfish into shallow water, where they 

 stay throughout the season. There is another 

 entrance to the bay at the extreme lower end, 

 through New Inlet and Egg Harbor, but this is 

 still more of a trap, and few fish get out that 

 way after entering the land-locked water. 



