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asserted roundly that not a fish had been taken in the upper 
waters. From sheer contradictory “cussedness”’ I fished it for 
the best portion of three days with fly-bait—from shore and dug 
out—and with every possible device and captivation, without 
raising a fin. The water was clear, the season right and every 
surrounding apparently favorable, yet I couldn’t circumvent the 
first sight of a scale from its crystalline depths. To discount 
my disgust I caught a dozen or so Salmo fontinalts from the lower 
lake, and transported them safely into a camp-pail through the 
woods to the upper sheet, where I trust they have since followed 
the scriptual injunction in their new Eden. Eheu! that I might 
revisit those shores next summer and see.—E. R. WILson.” 
Mr. N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago, one of the Fish Commission- 
ers of Illinois, owns a part of Geneva Lake, just over the line in 
Wisconsin, and has ordered a million of smelt fry from Mr. Ri- 
cardo this spring. Mr. Fairbank has succeeded in completely 
land-locking the quinnat salmon, an account of which can be 
found in Forest and Stream of February roth, of this year ; 
they have not only lived but have spawned. 
The introduction of a new fish requires that the people should 
be educated to appreciate it. The small size of the smelt in the 
case of the people living near the Vermont lakes led them to 
neglect it for any purpose but bait, and there are people who are 
accustomed to seeing them eaten who think it necessary to re- 
move the head and the bones. This may be necessary in the case of 
the large Eastern smelts, which sometimes weigh half a pound 
but in the delicate little New Jersey smelts, they are simply 
cooked without opening and taken in the fingers by the tail and 
eaten, there being no waste whatever. 
The striped bass is another fish which, although we do not 
know of its being perfectly acclimated in fresh water, I believe 
would readily become so; and in this connection permit me to 
quote from Forest and Stream of to-day (March 31) as follows : 
STRIPED BASS IN LAKE ONTARIO. 
We saw the following in the Watertown Z7mes of March 15th : 
‘Clark & Robbins, the fish merchants of Sacket’s Harbor, had 
