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goodness! if we only hare a BQu'-wofiter— all's in that blessed 

 li lu'l know what the dear old Zephyrcs was 

 good for; who dues but We, the heirs of all creation,' masters 

 of wjilcr, ' 11 e mother of all thiug-v ,; 



" To J. A. Fronde— Yesterday I went up the side stream 

 in the park, and after the rain it was charming. They took 

 first a little black gnat, and then settled to a red palmer and 

 the conquering turkey-brown. My beloved black aldet they 

 did not care For, but I kept seven brae i o) good oat and 

 threw in twelve, none over 1 \ lbs., though. Oh! I wish you 

 had been with mi 



"Mackerel Guile, Sliffo, Juh/ 4.— I have done the deed at 

 last— killed a real live salmon over five pounds Weight, and 

 lost a whopper by light hookiua," 



' 'Juh/ 5. - -I had magnificent sport, this morning ; five salmon 

 killed; biggest seven pounds, and another huge fellow ran 

 right away to .sen, carrying me after him, and was lost after 

 running 300 yards by fouling a shi p'a hawser. There is noth- 

 ing like it ; the exci erneut is maddening." 



IE the good man lost his wits over a five pound fish, which 

 would be called a grilse on the Restigouche, what would have 

 happened had he chanced to fasten a twenty-five or thirty 

 pounder ? In our country we should introduce this English 

 custom of throwing back all Email trout, say those under six 

 or eight inches long, and it is for Fokest and Steeam to teach 

 young anglers that there is more credit in the capture of one 

 two-pound trout than in killing one hundred yearlings. 



S. C- O. 



Gkeen Bass.— Frank J. Bowman, Esq,, in a letter written 



from Tike Lake, Bayfield County, thus desciibes the gree 

 bass that is there found in great abundance : 



Lake its near kinsman, the black bass, it has in the dorsal fin 

 nine spines ; the second dorsal, one spine; twelve soft rays, with 

 a remarkable Uniformity ol color on hack or belly, closely re- 

 sembling the dark, polished green of the oak leaf. In weight, 

 from two to live pounds. It is a bold biter, and a good-sized 

 green trog is the most tempting bait you can throw; a live 

 minnow killed well. It will strike handsomely at a bright 

 spoon hook, or piece of red flannel drawn rapidly through the 

 water, it takes the bait with a rush, aud must be given line 

 or it will tear loose or break the tackle. Its leaping and shak- 

 ing propensities are remarkable— on the first leap it will fre- 

 quently jump from three to four aud a half feet from the 

 water, and will leap and shake like a Scotch terrier from four 

 to six times before taming down. Its flesh is very firm, and 

 the fish flavor is more delicate than the black bass. .Some idea 

 of the gameness of the fish in from the fact that 



Mr. Knight', who has long enjoyed the reputation of an ex- 

 perienced angler, found ii impossible to save more than a half 

 dozen of the hist fifty bass he hooked, and your COl : 

 eut, although boasting that he hud lost but four large trout in 

 making a catch ol several hundred, had no better success than 

 Sir. li. in handling green bass. After losing a heavy braided 

 silk line and breaking two poles in good hard lighting, we fell 

 back on a stout pole aud half a trolling line. Thus arrned, 

 we made a fair showing of thirty-two big bass in a half day's 

 fishing. — Ashland ( Wis.) Press. 



W Axt About the Hexqeamitb. — Editor Forest and Stream : 

 After a careful examination of the authorities, and a thorough 

 search in journals and books, I am of the opinion that tiie 

 helgramite has been overlooked, and perhaps it will bo inter- 

 esting to "Knights of the .Rod and Keel," who look to your 

 paper for such information. I give a short statement of the 

 hauits and value of this bait : The helgramite is the most 

 " killing " bait for black bass. By that name it is known in 

 the South, in the Northern States it is called "Dobson" or 

 " Dobsell." Our rivers and canals are full of them, and yet a 

 very large number of fishermen never saw them, and few have 

 used them. By anglers who know it is in constant use from 

 the last of June until the close of the fishiug season. By 

 some they are called salamanders, wJuch is entirely wrong. In 

 appearance and shape it very much resembles the thousand- 

 legged worm, and has pinchers like a pinching bug. It grows 

 to oe about 3£ inches long, and is of a dark brown color. It 

 instantly clings to any object it strikes, lives entirely under 

 the water, and feeds upou decayed vegetation and matter of 

 all kinds. It protects itself from fish by hiding under rocks 

 and drift in the bottom of the streams, or in the crevices of 

 submerged stone walls. They are found under cobble-stones 

 and rocks, on the riffles, or clinging under the timbers of old 

 dams and decayed driftwood. In the canal and feeders they 

 live in the walls of locks, on the gates, bridge timbers and 

 sunken boats. They are caught on the riffles try standing in 

 the stream with minnow net set, so as to hold the upper end 

 of the brails together In one hand, the lower end of the brails 

 spread so as to stretch the lead line on the bottom of the 

 stream, then with a hoe turn over rocks and stones as far up 

 the stream as you can reach. Being thus disturbed, the hel- 

 gramite will curl up in a ball and drift into the net, from 

 which it must be taken before reselling the net. Timber and 

 driftwood must be turned over, for they will be found under- 

 neath. The difficulty in finding them in canal3 is because of 

 the water being too deep to wade. The theory of some 

 naturalists is that the b Igfamrl i e i lop into butterflies, and 

 that ihe butterflies dig holes in the river bank and depos i 

 that are hatched the next year into helgramite ; but the more 

 practical fishermen say that hundreds of small ones are found 

 through the season, with the larger ones on rocks and decayed 

 wood in the streams, showing that is where they breed and 

 multiply. In the early fall they burrow into the banks of 

 streams and remain iu that condition until spring. As bait 

 they are belter than " crays," and when used are hooked un- 

 der the shell that covers the neck. All kinds of fish take 

 them readily, aud the angler is pot annoyed by turtles eating 

 them off his hook. They will live for months if kept in a 

 cool place— in a bucket or box, partially filled with pieces of 

 moist decayed wood. Boys who catch them sell them at 

 eight cents a dozen. Anglers hereabouts are enjoying excep- 

 tionally line black bass Qshihg this year. Good catches are 

 being made every day along the banks of the Big and Little 

 Miamis, the Stillwater, Mud River, Wolf, Twin and Bear 

 creeks, and at the lakes near Carlisle, and over at Piqua and 

 and up at the Lewiston reservoir. Bait is plenty and the 

 waters in prime condition. Camping parties are scattered all 

 along these streams, and will be until cold weather Bf.ts io. 

 Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 1(1, 1878. IbAak. 



The Ykixowstonb as a Trout Steeam.— A letter to the 

 Cleveland Leader says : "At every halt along the river every- 

 body would fish or "paw around among the beautiful pebbles 

 over which the river flowed for specimens. In both instances 

 the reward for one's trouble was sure to be most satisfactory. 

 The trout, Whitehall and grayling took tho grasshopper bails 



that were thrown them with the greatest avidity. This may 

 seem strange with regard to the whitefish, as their repiri i 

 on the great lakes for taking the hook is not. the hpst, yet here 

 sd better biters than the trout. General Sherman, 

 in his report on the National Park, says he does not believe 

 there is a finer trout stream in the world than the Upper Yel- 

 lowstone." 



Fishing at Saitt.t Ste. Mamb.— A tourist gives the follow- 

 lowing account of his experience : "Seating myself in a canoe, 

 one Indian took his position in the stern and another stood in 

 the bow. The one in the stem m;-a a padi 

 boat's head up stream, while the other used a pole 



We had a dip-net about four feet in diameter, with 

 a handlo twelve or fifteen feet long. This was hung over the 

 projection of the cutwater, while, the handle trailed back in the 

 water. Thus equipped, we sailed out. into the rapids, which 

 are half a mile in length and one mile wide. At ihe fool, of 

 the rapids the fishing is done. The water boils and tumbles 

 like the swiftest rift on the Delaware, and is generally half 

 white with breaking foam. "With his pole the Indian in the 

 bow holds the canoe, ru lets it float steadly sideways, now up 

 a little and then down, but always under perfect control, and 

 always dancing wilh the rush of water. lie watches the 

 water constantly, which varies in depth from two to nine feel. 

 Suddenly, wilh a quick motion, he shoves the end of the pole 

 under the bow piece, grasping the net at the same time with 

 the othsr hand, and, never taking his eye from the water, 

 plunges it in, perhaps ten feet away, and forces it. to the bot- 

 tom, or, as the canoe sags back with the current, lets it drop 

 a few feet, and then with a peculiar twist raises it I 

 lace, and with a toss like turning a flap-jack, drops a five- 

 pound white fish into the canoe. This was repealed time and 

 again, right in ihe swiftest water, and seldom only one fish 

 w T as caught, but once six that woe 1' ' 



Often I could not sec the bottom, and one was caught in eight 

 or ten feet of water. I could see no fish until they were 

 brought to the surface. It was the only kind of fishiug that I 

 ever saw that I did not think ] could learn to do. It is said 

 no white man over did learn. The Indian 1 was with took 

 1,800 in one day. We were out. an hour aud took about 

 thirty. I could not induce any of Ihe other passengers to go 

 out, but they asked me if I had seen the City Hall at Detroit." 



TIM POND. 



New Bmtain, Conn., Sept. 28, 1S7S. 

 Editor Forest and Sthkam : 



Last year my frlead, of Mount Vernon, Maine, told you something of 

 bhla pond, remarkable for Its trout. About the first of this mouth I 

 started with said friend and two other gentlemen for a week: ot troutiog 

 aud gunniug In the mountain and lake region of Maine. We drove our 

 own teams, A good way for sportsmen or any party desiring recrea- 

 tion and amusement in the open air iu t.lie finest forests and by the 

 mo.-t beautiful lakes and streams of New England is to go by railroad, 

 or by team to Parmington, Halue, llienei: by si age, or private carriage 

 on good rotds, via New Vineyard, New Portland and Klngfield, to Eua- 

 tis. ThlB was the route wo took. The drive on a September day— at 

 the foot of rugged mountains aud by the Bide of the dashing Cairybas. 

 setto River— is most enjoyable . to any lover of nature. Iu the eveuing 

 we arrived at a comfortable dwelling and Cue " Tim Pond hoot." being 

 given by one of the party well versed In the art, (he proprietor, Mr. Ken- 

 nedy Smith, appeared at the door aud recognized old friends. Smith 

 knows how to woicomo his guests and cause them to feel at home. It 

 was not long after our ap,>e:ites were appeased before we retired, A s 

 gray dawn Kennedy Smith wss aellr and so were his good wife and 

 nrisk daughter, and era the sua had lighted up the far-off peaks our 

 quartette was upon the lawn, and, Mr. Editor, you should have been 

 there that you might give a word-painting of the landscape ! Away 

 around to the left is Flagstaff, where Arnold with his brave soldiers en- 

 aamped, amid the snow and ice of winter, on that memorable march to 

 Canada. In frout of us boldly stand the three peaks of Mount Bigelow 

 where Arnold sent his aid to " look over into Quebec." To the right ia 

 Saddle-Back, and further on are Eenneuago and Mount Abram, this 

 side of which lies our Promised Laud— the camping ground of Tim 

 Pond 1 



After an appetizing breakfast the " packs" were put into a wagon and 

 we started for Pond. When wo had proceeded about a mile and a half 

 our guide took from the wagon one pi.eK and his lusty t, 

 other, and we plunged Into the forest. For a time the patD 

 then only fair. The forest trees were mostly Bpmce, lir, pine and cedar. 

 There were some hard-wood trees. The air was Invigorating and health- 

 ful. Literally, there are tous of gum upou the spuiee treeB. This dense 

 woodland is inhabited by large game. There are many evidences that 

 Bruin finds a congenial home here, but he does not seek acquaintance 

 wilh man. Deer, caribou aad moose, In the season, can be hooted here, 

 w 1th proper dogs and outfit, to advantage and with great sport. After 

 about Ave hoars we bad accomplished six miles and stood by the shore 

 of the annex of the main lake or pond. This annex evidently was pir- 

 titioned off by the industrious beaver many years ago. It is but a few 

 acres In size. The real pond, according to the S-.ate survey, ha3 a Bur- 

 face of about a thousand acres. It Is a beautiful sheet of clear, spark- 

 ling water nestled down among the green trees, hlllsana mountains. 

 onr guide soon placed his boat before ua and stored our packs and 

 equipmeuU inside for transfer to the landing opposite the camp. Wo 

 took a few fine trout in the small pond and then crossed tin:, bar or 

 opening iu the ivi t> the real lake. Alter row 



distance our gnlde landud anu hastened, to put the camp in order for 



i .. and h;s assistant dp i B good | 



For an hour or more the sport was excliiog. fn a short time what 

 trout we had caught were cooked and well appreciated by six bmogry 

 men. 



Each morning we arose early, drank from a health-giviug spring 

 near camp, took to onr boat, returning after an hour with all the trout 

 We warned ; more than we could eat, though our appetites were keen. 

 During the day we burned partridges with two good dogs and wita fair 

 success, though! do not think we found them as plenty in the deep 

 wilderness as near openings, where their haunts were lhled wlffi them. 

 Near sunset each afternoon we took more trout, for we had only to cast 

 In our hooks io gain the speckled prizes. Thus we spent our time, varj- 

 .luuie by visiting some of the wildest and grandeur, acenery 

 i . affords. One day wj visited ■! Tim Pond Stream" which 

 oonuectB thla lake With Dead River. It is a charming slream, with high 

 embowered banks, numberless rapids and throe dashing cascades. The 

 deep basin at the foot ot each waterfall is alive with trout. There are 

 no fish in this lake except trout. Never has one. ot any other speeies 

 been csught here. The lake ia swarming with Its exclusive inhabitants, 

 Whloh can be taken by bait or by a " fly," by a novice or by a profes- 

 sional. Few have " whipped" these waters, because few know of them, 

 ltione.h each j tar their fame 1b Increasing. For one desiring the life or 

 a fashionable hotel this Is not the place. It is f.Uo place for the true 

 sportsman, rhe place for recreation, for health, ihe place to worship 

 Gad in bti first temple. 



The enjoyment ot onr party was complete. We gained In weight, 

 health and strength. When I return next year I hope to see some of 

 your readers. Instead of going to Farmington by railroad uuothei route 



^rt.V.L,.l MMUg .?W11W1.» U!l«» 



ingagood pi 



prices rule low. - Cope . 



ia by the Maine Central R. R. to Anson, thence by stage and private 

 conveyance to the residence of Mr. Smith. Should any one wish for 

 former Information they can obtain- it by addressing Kennedy Smith, 

 tsusils, Maine. J. Wabrbn tcck 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet.— The number of fish- 

 ing arrivals reported at this port the part week has been 81, 

 Tho Bank arrivals have included 3 with codfish, 370,000 lbs., 

 and 4 with halthut, 54,000 lbs. The number of Georges arri- 

 vals has been 18, with 270,000 lbs. codfish. The Bay men 

 arrive slowly, but most of the fleet are on the way home, and 

 the arrivals will soon he numerous. The number of arrivals 

 the pas", week has been 2, and ihe receipts 300 bbls. mackere'. 

 The Shore fleet are mostly across the Bay, and the seasou will 

 soon be brought to a close. The arrivals for the week have 

 been 4, and the receipts 500 bbls. The mackerel season will 

 close with a small stock on the market, number ones and 

 extras being scarcer than ever before known, and command- 

 •e in better supply, but 

 tverliscr, Oct. 25. 



CoHNEOliOTjT— JTiiM London,, Get. 26. — Myself and friend, 

 on Monday, in four hours' fishing, captured 37 black bass, 

 many females in | pawn. Is it not unusual for them to be in 

 spawn at this season ? Bass of 51bs. Goz. weight have been 

 caught in Gardiner's Lake. Misaii. 



Black hass of two years old commence Bpawning in July 

 and continue into September. October is late for them. 

 Nevertheless, all fish are not wholly regular as to periods, and 

 may spawn at almost any odd month— En. F. & S. 



Pennsylvania— Erie, Oct. 19.— Fishiug has been the finest 

 ever known in our bay. Mnscalonge and black buss are being 

 caught in large numbere every day, which is no doubt owing 

 to our stringent laws in regard to all kinds of seine fishing, 

 which are being enforced very rigidly. Strips. 



Virginia— Richmond, Oct. 23. — Angling for bass between 

 Buchanan and Clifton Forge is very fine. The river is filled 

 with fish. The sport is improving in the vicinity of Kich- 

 mond, and by another season we may hope that the river 

 throughout its length will bo well stocked with that game 

 fish. M. 



Norfolk, Oct. 16— Very fair striped bass fishing near the 

 Bridges. Fish run small, but plenty. Drum, salmon trout, 

 spots and tailors in fair supply irom the seines. 



Richmond] 



Tennessbb— Nashville, Oct. 21. — James Snow, Esq., with a 

 parly of gentlemen, went down to the narrows of flarpeth 

 River on a fishing excursion, and last Saturday they had 

 splendid sport, taking seventy -five bass anil one cat fish. The 

 bass averaged three-quarters of a pound, and the catfish 

 weighed seven pounds. A large quantity of fish, principally 

 cat, drum and buffalo, caught in the Cumberland River, were 

 offered for sale last week in the market. This is the beginning 

 of the season for catching jack. It seems they are more vora- 

 cious on cool, frosty mornings than at any other time. A 

 number of our crack anglers are already making preparations 

 for their fall sport, J. D. H. 



Nashville, Oct. 26. — The fall season for fishing has opened 

 most favorably, large creels being taken in almost all of the 

 streams in this section. A gentleman lauded a five-pound 

 jack in the Cumberland last "week, and another party took 

 in the same stream a large string of bass and two or three jack 

 averaging about one pound weight. J. D. II. 



Savannah, Oct. 22. — Our fall fishing ha3 been cprite fair. 

 Several parties have enjoyed reasonably good .sport. On my 

 last expedition, I captured eight game representatatives of 

 the bass species. 'Wiix. *■ 



BASE BALL, 



The Leaotje Championship Campaign of 1878— The Sta- 

 tistics or the Season's Plat. 



The League Association's season of 1878, which began on 

 the 1st of May last, finished up on tho 1st of October, though 

 the League clubs have played exhibition games since then and 

 up to the close of October; but the championship season was 

 from May to October, the last game ol the championship pen- 

 nant series beiug played on Sept. 30 last. The contesting 

 clubs numbered only six during 1878, and it was the best 

 League season on record, both as regards the equality of tho 

 competing nines and Ihe tine fielding exhibited by the respec- 

 tive teams. Without further preface we proceed to give the 

 statistics of the season's play, beginning with the full record 

 of the season. 



The Ftjix Recoiot. 



Tlie full record of Ihe seas:m, giving the summary of the 

 games won, lost, drawn aud played is as follows. The names 

 are given iu the order of won games: 





Chlcsgo 







Milwaukee.. 



Games lost.. 



:::o 



Model Games. 

 Tho model games— or games in which the score of the win 

 ning nine docs not exceed three runs— iu the League cham 

 pionship contests of 1873, were as follows : 



BOSTON. 



May I— Boston va Providence. 1—0 



.Tin".- 1.!— ■ -'in' i'.-| " i 1 — 



July 211— " Cincinnati 1-0 



Sept 11— " Indianapolis C10 innings) 2-0 



Aug 8— " Chicago 2—1 



Aug 10- " " 2-1 



Aug 31 — " Milwaukee 2—1 



Junell— " Indianapolis 3—0 



Kept 13— " " 3-0 



Aug 9— " Chioago 3—0 



July 39— " Milwaukee 3-0 



July 4— " " 3-2 



Aug 1- " " 3-2 



Aug 3- " " 8-2 



