FOREST AND STREAM, 



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rm even n [i lei I he lime when the Salmon are OD the BpuwninizgJOlvndB. 

 If the attention of the Department of Marine and Fitflieriue Was directed 

 to this important remitter, we believe that immediate steps vt-ODld be taken 

 to compel the officers appointed for tin- protection of the tivci to perform 



■ ■ .1 in event of their failing to rloso,to afsehnrgi Chew i 



appoint others whov.iil be muiy prompt and faithful. 



The Alirnmicbi River, with fair play aftd propel 8tti i rTUunn 

 >8t salmon river in Hew BrnnaWMk— perhaps in the Domin- 

 ion. W. are told that in years gone Dj the wet-lit or the Ball lahen in it 



, , M ciaath»661h0iCKCS»g,qttehenrC)iiieap»llac 



is no reason why, with propel- protection, it should not regain its old 

 ttandard, 



—In tlie Jordan River, Charlevoix county, Michigan, 

 our old friend 6. C. Clarke lately captured a .,'; pound 

 !/ra.i/Uvg, which is double the Weight we overheard of. This 

 stttteMaeflt is authentic in all respects- Mr, Clarke says of 

 the .Jordan: — 



[[ i s ii wild and lu-uiiiifiil river, with water a- cold US icO, and if !. ! 

 alone n few years i; wnnld affui 1 splendid Hilling;. I n-ci very email grey 

 Hies; Hie water bciiiEj extremely, clear, fconld do nothing with bright BMs, 

 tjr large Ones. Itliasbcoi) doubted by some whether Hie two-species, 

 (trout *nd grayling) are found together, ant 1 MoE tUOiri rroin the same 

 hole with Hie same east of Mo*. The Jordan i. -.-■ (I sartdy Bottom: arid 

 the grayling are io he seen lying Ineohoole orr too -and bars; but they 

 have been so mr/ch persecuted by the net and -; 

 shj ii i- -..id h; [he resident fishermen and gulden tluit the grayling 

 spawn at the -aim- lime a- ii... ti - inber, and they say they 



have taken n. cm tin last of August Ml Of esgs. I think some of imii; to 

 the An sable, or in- headwaters of the Muskegon, to try again fonhe 

 grayling afler these great boats have subsided. 



— i[mv little those of us who have travelled most exten- 

 sively, know ol' Hie wilderness richness of this great Amer- 

 ican domain'. Gradually our corn-so. mdems open up its 

 in azures to our view. Perhaps there is no region whose 

 attractions are less widely known than that herein de- 

 scribed by our contributor, Dr. I. H. Stearns. There is 

 pood fishing here iu abundance, and plenty of woods, 

 rocks and water: 



"The counties of Adams, Juneau, and Sank, near the centre of Wis- 

 consin, contain a tract with a collection of pinnacles crags and cliffs, 

 with hills, lakes and rivers unsurpassed anywhere in this country. This 

 point may be reached by a few hours' tide from Mjlvvauki i ■. and a dosen 

 hours' ride fi"n ' - i'-om Chicai-o. the P-ini-twill :,'. :' .■ . V- 



cagp and Northwestern Railroad for Anleman's Station, or Kilhourn, 

 sixteen miles beyond. From Milvi tmkee, yon take the Mil. and St. Pan 1 

 Tvailroad. 



Running cast and West is tin? Barrabo River, and there is a gorge 500 

 feet deep and half a mile wide, called the "Dells of Wisconsin." Ko 

 such scenery is found cast of the Mississippi. Near the middle of this 

 winding, cavernous cannon, with its rocky terraces and in; sterinne pht- 

 nacles. is situated "Devil's Lake," a STilplluroua nam.-, translated from 

 the Indian cognomen, expressive of their si.perstiiion that this cavern 

 was the abode of some mysterious goblin. Hire in a good hotel, and a 

 few days' fishing and boating, and clambering over the crag* and cliffs 

 would be most charming. About lifteen miieswe-i -a .'I'mmrian's mm 

 pass the divide and reach the streams running west, whore brook trottl 

 can he found. In the streams running east you find pi-kerel and liuss. 

 Above the lake, some fifteen miles, is Kilbourn, where you will find 

 a little 



wild a 



intic 



The 



•Irter. 





enery. Northwest is a 

 land out in bold relief, 

 cries which sleep in un- 

 ■ rule crack. WiS- 



in the distance, and secluded islands 

 and with legendary caverns, to give 

 can float down stream through miles 

 broken wilderness, where startling i 

 and inviting the camping out party t 

 disturbed repose, all unawakencd by 

 cousin is yet to become a great summer resort. With its Milwaukee, 

 Soldiers' Home. Waukcesha, and oilier medicinal springs, and its Adi- 

 rondack de'ls and its wild and glorions scenery at the north angle of 

 Luke Superior in the Ncpigon region, where lofty cliffs fewer thirteen 

 hundred feet above the lake*, which are tilled with the fines! trout, the 

 advantages offered to tourists must Ue more and more appreciated as 

 they become better known." 



Rakgeley Lakes, jfacwp. — A party from Washington, 

 D. C, visited the falls of the Cupsuptuc one day the past 

 week, and captured 143 troul, six of Hie number weighing 

 from a pound to one and a half pounds each, and they 

 were all taken on the rapids above the "Jam." The day 

 was cloudy, with occasional showers, and deer were seen 

 on the borders of the lake on returning to camp. The 

 black flics and mosquitoes are still very annoying, and lite 

 weather has been warm, with occasional heavy thunder 

 storms, accompanied by very sharp lightning. 



— Canada West is celebrated for its black bass fishing, 

 but there is certainly not in any part of America a region 

 where these fish abound in such quantities as in the Mtis- 

 koka country. Last week at Lake Couchiehing, three New 

 Orleans visitors caught sixty in two hours and a half, aver- 

 aging three aud a half pounds apiece. Tlie fish in this sec- 

 tion run very large. Why don't sirne of our anglers run 

 up there for a fortnight. See advertisement in this journal. 



— Fred Day, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been out hshing 

 again. He writes: — On Saturday, 15th, was above the 

 dam; in four hours caught twenty-one rock bass. On I he 

 17th, down the river, two of us caught thirty-seven black 

 bass. Next day four of us took seventeen black bass and 

 one pickerel from under a tree that had blown into the 

 river; but not being wholly satisfied two of us tried it nu 

 witwel. We stripped off our clothes aud went into the 

 river with our tackle. Then you should have seen us lighting 

 fish, horse flies, and mosquitoes! Phew, shark fishing is 

 nowhere! In one hour w-e took forty-four pike perch, and 

 one black bass that weighed four pounds and six ounces 

 good. Another fisherman caught forty-one black and rock 

 bass up river on Monday, so that the total catch of the 

 three days reached 103 fish, fishing only an average of four 

 hours each day." 



— Representative anglers from half the States in the 

 Union, and several of the Provinces, have visited the Nepi- 

 gon this summer. 



— Rev. C. Hull Everisi, of Brooklyn, lias just returned 

 l'rom the Muskoka and Mugm-tc-wau region. He reports 

 deer in great abundance, tmd trout, and buss unlimited. 



— A-B to sea fishing, (here lias been a lull in sport for the 

 past .month along the north Atlantic. And wind wonder'/ 

 During Ibe- whole of Juno and part Of July great bluetish 



ng their spawn and the Voting fry. 

 ' Fishery Commission, with their 

 . testing the odtjan depths several 

 ■ly able in obtain food enough lor 

 ng but disgusting skate Ball, mo- 

 mnders, that wriggled through the 

 efft 



in order 

 nd multi- 



appeared in millions along the New Jersey eoasl, scouring 

 the. inlets and bays, pillaging, devouring, extirpating every- 

 thing finny that came in their palh, and seizing so raven- 

 ously the bare, unbailed squid of the trailer chatsingle 

 persons were able to capture upwards of L.000 pounds per 

 day! They swooped down upon lire gathering shoals Of 

 estuary fish, and scattered ll.cm to the four quarters of the 

 ocean, chopping up millions as they went, and mutilating 

 without mercy. They threw their trenchant masses Upon 

 the migratory fishes as they worked to the northward, and 

 drove Ihe shad by hundreds high and dry upon the shore; 

 themselves so iutent in Iheir pursuit that men and women 

 waded into the surf and dragged them QUI with rakes and | 

 hoes! Scarcely any kinds of fish Bsqaped excepl the |iot- j 

 torn fish, and tlie great chunky shee-pshead, which securely \ 

 Bracked their> clams on their feeding grounds while eommo- j 

 tiou wetil on above. Next the blue liveried Bedouins made J 

 a dash for the northern waters, aud played havoc wilh the j 

 mackerel off the coast of .Massachu.-ells, driving ilit-ni sea- J 

 ward and ashore, and chopping up millions of other fish of i 

 all kinds, and swall 

 Even the Unit, d Stales 

 pound nets and IrawL- 

 tiuies daily, were scare 

 Iheir mess table. Noth 

 lusks, and grovelling tl 



mud and weeds, rewarded their efforts. What wonder fish- 

 ing has been slack, or thai the market slabs have been re- 

 cruited from far anil wide, lo obtain Iheir very remarkable 

 assortments or food Ball? Prof. BalrcL in his late report, 

 estimates that 100,000,0011 bluefish range the waters along 

 our coast; lhal Ihey mutilate or devour twenty other; fish 

 per day; that they destroy spawn additional in quantity 

 sufficient to make the aggregate destruction 13,000,000,000 

 per day. What they can tip in the 150 days of their an- 

 nual reign of terror can be easily arrived at by an ordinary 

 mathematician; but figures will only express it — the human 

 mind cannot conceive it. 



And now Ihe choice fish that amuse the scientific angler 

 are beginning to come again. How their depleted ranks 

 are recruited so quickly we know not; whether they 

 filled by forced drafts upon theinnumerablere 

 to work out their Creator's decree to "inerea 

 ply," or whether the number of the fish in the sea is really 

 so ya/rt that billions cannot be missed out of the great ag- 

 gregate! There is a very fair run of weaktish from Barne- 

 gatloNew York Bay, and along Long Island lo Nan- 

 nickel; striped bass make a good show at their habitual 

 stamping grounds along the Rhode Island and Massaclru- 

 , ;, - ' caste; sheepshead and blackfish fill up the bulletin. 



All along the piers in our harbor the gamins and raga- 

 muffins are intent on catching "snapping mackerel," or the 

 infant generation of those same predacious bluefish — and 

 when the biting slackens Ihey fill in the interval by pitch- 

 ing stones and bits of coal at each other's lines, or tossing 

 each other playfully off the dock. There is good sport in 

 taking these voracious little fish with the. lightest possible 

 tackle, a rod and line, reel, diminutive float, wilh shrimp 

 for bait. 



— Weakfish are running iu the "Swash" down the Lower 

 Bay, two to four pounders, and the catch from 50 to 100 

 per day each man. 



—On Saturday night last, fishing by moonlight, two 

 members of the Jackson Club, Highlands, X. J., in two 

 hours, off tUB Marl Bock, Shrewsbury River, captured, with 

 rod and reel, eleven weaklish weighing thirty-nine pounds; 

 largest fish, five pounds, plump. Soft crab used fur bait 

 and tide half ebb. 



— The fish in market this week, with their prices, are: — 

 Miramichi salmon, 40 cents; Hyanis bluefish, very abund- 

 ant, 6 and 8 cents; sheepshead, large supply, from Little 

 Egg Harbor, 15 and 18 cents; Spanish mackerel, fair sup- 

 lily, 35 cents, and not so abundant this summer as last; 

 live black-fish, 15 cents; pompano, a few, from the Chesa- 

 peake, GO cents; Striped bass, scarce, from Rhode Island, 

 35 cents; soft crabs, Jerse;; and Loug Island, very abund- 

 ant at $1 and $1.33 per dozen; green turtle, liberal supply, 

 IS and 30 cents. 



—Mr. Eugene Blackford, of Fullon Market, received last 

 Tuesday from New Dorp, State.u Island, a fine specimen 

 of tarpum, which, at tin request of Professor Baird, was 

 forwarded to the Fish Commission at Noank for their 

 study. 



" —Bass fishing at Basque Island, Buzzard's Bay, has been 

 good this season, and it has been greatly enjoyed by the 

 fishing club located there. The largest bass caught weighed 

 fifty-two pounds, and another fifty pounds. Mr. Dona- 

 hue caught live large ones in au hour on Tuesday. 



—While Gen. Abbott aud his assistants were testing tor- 

 pedoes in the bay near WilleU's Point the other day, a 

 school of porpoises passed over; the General just turned 

 on the electrical current, and directly there was an explo- 

 sion, a surge and eruption of the waves, and three dead 

 porpoises, measuring eight feet long, floated upon the stir- 

 face. Bystanders thought it was an accident, but the Gen- 

 eral says' he did it on parpoixc. 



BuiMai.vr Inlet, August 21st, Iffi-L 

 Burros Porss'j and Stream:— 



Since my lust letter no Im-gU catcb of lisll. Weak fishing at tile "Ell 

 Iriuice," iiml Hi wlcc is known us the rteeil Ituucb, bus given tlie lishcr- 

 ni, in -"iiii- -I...1.. A sellout ol'liluelisll e:ilue ill I he Inlet 1 lie lit her il:iy, 

 ftn d tln.se who were loituunte enough til throw ant Ihe squi.l ill Hie riglll 

 lime wen mn.ilv ivpunl, A Jollty with Clint. John Kclh cinlght sei'ent.v- 



gliiswep ([a gfeoire.'JiHuuleiitf. 



governing r 

 (llimtimi. 



■ek Mel 



ill llll> 





I'M . Ileum II. Of Barm-gUt, IimiI; Iwenty-nne oil Tiles 

 sell buss lire ciiueht evi ry day nt Ihe Inlet, Your h 

 out Willi "Djid" l'urker, tin: rinuons ll-heriniiii, in id in 



M (111 1 '■■■ Illll ' f I'lliekll: ||, '-e;l bass, |l |"CW (llll'^i' 



wenkllsli, to irs, 



A. i . 5.., Byc.r3 Station, Ohio.— Wliat size shot is most effective: in 

 shooting pigeoiifi from traps! Ana, Nd. s. 



Shootist, Wheeling. -Will yon please specify. [( possible, where the 

 tools mnl implement;, of archery can be p rch .- I; also rules ivguleting 



eamoS Ans. Peck & Snider, tsfi Sasenn -■-, et, K, Y. 



if. K. E..Elizabutli, N. ,1.— I'nn you tall from whom I can purchase a 

 go ..] Srolch icrrier nrdanilic dinmom.5 Ans. \\Y J,, n ,, t ItnoW; An 

 :nlvrlli.-ci:l. tit ,11 .-mall cost would pi cbably scceii OUC 



Cmiipo-.-. st I .a". Worildan eight months' old sector bitch be to" 



... lie \": but it will require a good nciil more 

 patience and study of the dtspodllon of the uniin.il. However, "u i- 



S l.. itsx -Wlial : :..:■■ ■■ hi -lb : ie-i toi lranpJr«i tterand 



beaver .-ouibof ihe M Rivers! An-. The Bine Ridge 



Mouin o.-ii where ti ey cross the States of Virginia. West Virginia, 

 North CiUOlll a -u. J 'I'e.in. --.■,-. 



I..--, i-. p.: '■■. k.'. Please Ipttneknow where one can buy funis ,t 

 Harvey pow.h r, wh.r i.- the pn.-e per pound, and what is trtn boat sizu 

 f,,r . [noil iShdOtiOgS Aiw lint is ,v. II. u icy )iowder is very scarce i_ the 

 miirkei i,i pio.-vnl . 'I'll e price is J! .".n pol pound and Ihe size No tl 



Onixii'^ -Mll.i.s. Ihetimoie.-Do you ihiiih a 560 breech loader can lie. 



purchased: also, what cd foro brooch loader 7i Vai. weight, 

 38-inch barrel, i"ou plight W get a very fai* can for the 

 leation ' ■ ■ ' : ••: and i oz. of shot. 



11. M . lho-leng - What :- :he uu.-i "killing charge -Orange powi'.cr 

 and -hot. Tor a pill-lire No. IU and ltd inch gun. I'or squirrel? Alls. :; 

 drachms and J oz. No. ? shot. For dnaitf Ans, ;i drachms and H oz. 

 No. s. Forducki Ans. ■' and 1 J on. No. it. Shall i ase Ely's wire 



eurU'idge, and 8U411 I ISeShol eeiitralors! , Ans. Yes; if you are an 



expert. 



[•.Li.-Ti:i:i:n ]-">:i:i\ -The beat remedy for blistered toot, as ^ivuu to OS 

 by O. h. W., Of Weston, Vermont, an old Mexican war veimaii. i- a 

 coat ihe Inside of yoni sooSa [woolen are beat),from the ankles down- 

 three days, by which time the feet will become hardened. Ii ., i ,,, 

 ly well as a preventive. 



Titos. P. f AS'nvEU., Biaiuci'il. Minn.— A friend Of mine has a superb 

 pair of bal rl eagles, male and female. Ilo you know anybody who would 

 Ii!,-,. p, buy iln in - Ana. Write to Chas. Keichc, jj c'liaihaui stieei. or 

 i , i.,a.- Rnh ,981 haOiam street, Kew Torfc Tiny deal in all kinds or 

 animals. Ftfraonaltj we k,u.» of no one at present who wants bald 

 eagles. Gold eagles are always in demand here. 



O. G. 11. , Boston. -fan you inform a subscriber where he can preeui ■ 

 a good setter dog abont livo years old, to be of good stock ami well 





W 



to give adviee aa to Bloi '■-. &c, 

 A rjTjBaCKiBilB, Savannah, Sa.— Where can I «et a map or the u-oaat of 



Georgia— that is, one with die inlelsand islands d, tinitel.v laid down, and 

 plain enough for an umaleiir lis), erman lo rind bis way to the different 

 islands and fishing ground- aloi'ig the eoaatf Ans. Colton, irii William 



♦thing aceinate 



-, Leek, 



irNas- 

 st, Simons, 



mil half a dozer 



uiid tope 



pmvidial 



A. II. 



while in 

 valed gr 



in conliucuiellt. 



DVuiMAiT, Missouri -In our Slate Iheieis a piovisicm that netting or 

 napping tlinll not ho aonean any lime, except on one's own limd! or 



person may, at anv time, kill on iii- .malum...: -.-,. .,-:„.,. parifOUi! 

 ofiitin , . Kfl=S=. T»: '^' i ' ; 1 '. ,' ',,'!' ,';'' ! '' "' '." ; ' i '' l; 



, M iSti:::i;m May 11. vol. 3, page '-'11 l.awis foiinded'ou eoiumon sen.-.. 



•[-!,,. hum, I. I .f all well draw a law -is evident on their face, ('lime , ,,,. 

 evasions thai BOCure success may be sharp practice; Ihey may be good 

 logic, nut they are not goad law. Game is to be killed i ■:„:,, . 



■ i at -e.k Bie who, whei 



ml 



wderyo, 



Try Lallin & Tlanrl'r- or Hazard ml. Wh.u ti ihe. fare rrc.m here to Al- 

 bert Lea, Miuu., by what road, and could I find some sportsman there to 

 hunt wilh, it I conclude to take the trip? Ans. About $30. The. near- 

 est way is to go by L.il'rosse, Wis., where you will find one or two sports- 

 men-.' i Iu'i- v would bi glad to give yon further information. 



— While hunliiig ibieks around the Quadie Keservoir a 

 few years iig'u, my host, air. Mills, shot at one a l.nig ili,- 

 tnnee overhead," Ihe only result being u, few fcnlhers 

 loosened. A parly of men, neighbors of .Mills', v-wre m 

 work oh the road near try, and one of them asked .Mills if 

 he hit him. "liit him ! Difltt't \">u -ei- the feathers fly." 

 'Vi-.," s ;l ys another. "Ijiey (lew SO hard that ihey look 'ihe 

 meal oil with them." 



■ -•Two. largo Newfoundland dogs, while fi.g;htiiig: a 

 days since tit Niagara Kails, rolled over (he precipice, 

 were bniii dashed to pieei s ou I b ooka below, 



few 

 mid 



