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FOREST AND STREAM. 



j^ea and ^iver ^ishitfg. 



FISH I N SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 



Land-locked SHlm<m.Salrnoq/ovt rl. Salmon tront. iSalvio mnn»is. 

 Black Bass, nigricans. 



.striped 1; tmaculatUs. 



Klueiish. im Weakfish. 



'fronting is permitted in. Maine and Itanuda until October first. Sal- 

 mon fishing with fly is permitted in Hew Brunswick until September 15. 



l.Hiui-lnrked salmon and salmon trout in season till September 15th. 



Fish in rut: Market. — There ia somewhat, of a scarcity 

 aed by an advance in price, though 

 aeem overflowing, Spanish mackerel are by no 

 means in large quantity, and worth fifty cents a pound, 

 coming from the east end of Long Island. It looks as if 

 the rush was now over, though they will keep off and on 

 until October; prices may be increased. Blue fish in good 

 north eight cents a pound, they have been as low 

 ms six. They are coming from Ilyanis and Martha's Vine- 

 yard, Nantucket, and perhaps escorted President ©rant and 

 ; Peking, We may expect the blue, fish to keep 

 "ii coming until about November. The New Jersey throng 

 of fish ought to make in, say about the middle of this 

 month. The averag svelghl is about three pounds. We 

 6ne fellows, which when dressed turned Ihe 

 eight pounds. The true mackerel are plentiful 

 ■■on, worth fifteen cents, though small, fat and 

 delicate. Sheepshead from Little Egg Harbor are in mod- 

 k, worth twenty cents Striped bass quite scarce, 

 and really none fresh on the market— a hungry squad of 

 shuiks off Pasquc Island said to be the cause. Salmon in 

 small supply, principally from the Miramiehi, fetching 

 forty-five cents a pound, [t is not pleasant to look at them, 

 if l lie lish seemed ripe with their eggs. King fish 

 in their pretty coats of silver and russei hardly plenty, 

 worth twenty-five cents, Pompinoes abundant at thirty- 

 five cents, Salmon Iroul aid while fish from Lake Erie 

 jlisl -lopped from Baffalo lire bringing eighteen cents. The 

 South now is sending in some of her fish, notably the 

 handsome red snapper, which comes out of the brilliant 

 - around Key West, all aglow with Ids crimson fires. 

 rah — loige fellows — fat and tempting, the nicest we. 

 have seen, worth for the best $1 50. The New Jersey lob- 

 sters we have SO much praised, have gone to grief or to 

 Salad; there are now no more of them, at least for the pres- 

 ent. Smaller i, i io > liabitat ib Fisher's Island, near 

 Xoank. are now in market. Epicu;es declare these lob- 

 :i "fineM as to flavor which come to us. Hali- 

 e— worth twenty cents. Cod— the famous old 

 ii -i.iud-by — in moderate quantity. Worth eight cents, 



■.ducket Shoals. 

 —The best fishing ground in Pennsylvania, as wu 



Mtiallyi from the Sermantowu fflfgntph, is ai the 

 Ikill Falls. That paper says: "The water 

 side of the river is as black as ink, and on the other side il 

 has all the colors of the rainbow. We have never passed 

 along v. ilium! seeing nitii and boys fishing." The only dif 

 Acuity seems to lie that there are no lish there, and yet, as 

 we have remarked, the. fishing could hardly be better. 



—The Norristown Mi nil'!, of Thursday says; "Twenty 

 black bass, weighing thirty-nine pounds, were caughl by a 

 gentleman at Pawling'* dam, on Saturday last. Among 

 ; •■.ere some splendid lish, six of tbe largest weighing 

 ii-eii pounds. The same place has since been visited 

 by sportsmen, nearly all of whom failed to catch even a 

 single fish." 



Mr. A. B. narrower, who is in the halitt of ''casting bis 

 lines in pleasant places," says;— 



Tbe Bab in tbe Bicbelieu Uivci. P. Q .Canada, are pike, black I..!--. 



rods ba--. -bad. whiieiish, perch, pickerel, idore.i atid an occasional ma.- 



recySae, tuna taken at 81 John'- with amin- 



I Bah, trolling with a spoon 



ahove tbe rapids The pteasaoteet apotto fish »u the Kicbelieu, however, 



i sat CJ .: 11,-in' afford- Bne boat 



a,;', and (bete Is ■■< good hotel there, kept bj one LaHne, (never saw it writ- 



■ the orthography.) a Frenchman-that la, he 



state from my ownexperience that bets do ttUu a 



-■ iu certain waters. 



— An expert angler who fished a Canadian river last 



month thus describes how he captured a tine fish latin- 



ttwk, and the difficulties he had to contend with. He 



unites:— 



I killed a splendid salmon at du-k Hue evening. He weighed twenty 



Hi as I - -. ten or fifteen minutes, and darkness com- 



I made a final cad prerio ding ap. My I is* • i 



i supposed to be a grilae or large tront, under water", soon, how- 

 .. . i ,., ,.j, ,;,,,■ , mi in I tell isanred thai I bad at ami m 01 



■ 'i"" i <-l my tactics accordingly. He made forthe 



.,f the run, and sulked for some time. Then he .1 , -he..' ■!<, -rrcaU II 

 ■_,'i ■■ ..iipiitc dark. My line was invisible, and I ad twice 

 around': - [ expected every moment to lore the gam. ; 



■ '* rock and showing himself but once above rater,] 

 .: in . 1 1 v- reeled him towards the at '"I" 



.... o _..n hi i b .! in the dim light broke ft . I hi i i 



hotly ol ' ' i-'i '■''■" tad I '■ ■ "-"' '■ : < ml inallempta..- Ni n : 



Uilll Bui " " I '""' '■■■ - ■ ' r i 'l""""'d 



iu the fish, which again, made off. He wu-. however, prertjwi 



Out, audi again reeled him in«itnout much difficulty. Thegnidi tappi 



him over the bead, and then -scooped" him wnh hhj hands, and literally 

 flung him ashore. II was the hardest fight 1 ever experienced with a 

 salmon, and considering the darkness and adverse circumstances I re- 

 garded his capture as quite a triumph. 



—Our attentive Barnegat correspondent, wriliug August 

 29th, says:— 



No Woe fish have been ln| I eak ti-h have 



hgen , ■ Sammy's SJeughV— so 



■ - i 



Ottkl.-. . . ,.'i. ■ ' S .i ' n '.'in over a hundred on 



Wednesday iu aboui Lwohouis, Tbe prevailing easterly wind has made 



intertable In boats. But few have been on the 



"round, and not many have been caught. Yesterday, here, in Tom's 



River, T saw a fisherman catch a large string of weak fish and perch near 

 the mott Ih of tbe river. Another fisherman caught abont thirty pike in 

 the river here. In my next I expect to report some good c i [i I - at Ijl 

 Striped baas. 



BLACK BASS. 



irily, and 



V 1 UAVEseonr. Iowa, Angost tqth, 1674. 



Entron i ■ jtri un- 



ity r. ii-ni communications in (your valuable paper the writer observes 



that with many it is still a mooted question whither the W 



be taken with a lly. Permit ma to add my testimony in the affirmative, 



if the question he regarded in any respect: 

 The writer, with a young friend who has 



who never fished With, a By Mi G oxgi 



chosen spot not a mile distant, on the 



sport among the bass ll- to,ok,as I h 



from me. arranged his. rod. and attached II 



and dr.ik<- wing-, and dropped u upon the 



instantly he bad a fine black bass. 



landed safely eleven, one of which 



four others from three i" fenr pound 



three and a half pounds. These fish 



tbe rippling 

 I Ihiuk in c 

 weighed five 



les. and we have had glor 

 h Willi the lly. Upon oi:> 

 Bohiug place, ir.c writer. 



-.ii.U;, 



bass, and iiniu.d;- 

 \'ow, touching thi- 

 bui if this article 



ib. the hirgi -i I have seen "r taken 

 a line table lish. esti enied equal bo 

 have not in Basterii waters. I think 



fisherman of this pi 

 a fir with any of Si 

 gether in ' 

 Rock River, i. 



red-«inged lly and Hgbl body, e*( 

 atelv afier a four pound -alnioii. < 

 latter nth 1 am mm-h inclined to 

 bu taking, will reserve my disqofsi 

 In fishing with the lly here for 

 perch, its I have intimated- whose 



or striped bu ■ fl itoples. Pard 



fish. I am familiar with the stripe 

 but do not attain the sajj 

 weighing four pounds. They art 



■ i-. Tile cropie.- you 



they would be worth planting. A-l 



I have caught them largest tthrrol thn 



seen sixte.-n taken iu six miliiiti Kali than tie 



snnlisb, and I have known old i.-in equal, if 



i iU] m any fresh wnier li-b. t uivm-K will luke brook trout all 



iu, mm, Till intemsttng feature, however idiutitihe crjiple ia that it, 

 wiib tie nthera named, will leap to :be fly. 



Now. as the writer is an old. white-headed li-b :i 



iji-v, ".,,ni - lor the benefit of others in the - me m itlon. tf you fish 



forblaeJ i - oi bait el me tell yon thi esi hi- the 



led •" • ,,.,.-...,.'.- , -i :.,,- 



known us hi-(ig.iruites or craw i,[- . , i nudei thi icfcs In the bass 



earn I I hinfc irt all 

 and for tliis rttteon tl 

 abound. Saw, this cc 

 May. Mlo- tod 

 lumber, becomi 

 for lei--. While thee 



f the year, die natural food or the bass, 

 lie tumbling ■ i, n - • ■. re the rocks 

 ■, 'ii-- ■. t of "" it April or 



rive bores ttidei clones and 

 , ,n . . ,. , i ,i 

 - ■ i ■' -i,i i I Ic, ugly .".,'.,. l-r 

 asyou can seein i'enncy's Zoo'.oj . i- U th best baa lor buss. I have 

 , eardani believe that a ifelterjuan took fsurleeu bla ', Ith a single 



soeeinien. In Kock Hlvrr I A i in Sept. and 



'', ,, i , ,, ild ',','" i ■ i ii "■■■ 



tinne in O.e stream tl,- year round, .mil ron-Ctuie the priUC - I - 



the black bass. I have found 'li, a doug - , iieli.iuua. aud have no 



i. h ., ' " io.oi ., iiiiiliont ,,i i nmn continuing iu rbe 



Itiie a portion -of a certain age, I suppose— leave it raumally 



For tbe lly conditio] B a i i i i 8 ,■,,',:' i ■ i ■. ,,,, 



c ilnmns. |i!aee il and I'll gii II cisiirC. 



•I. U, .'•■,.' 



I ROUTING NEAR M ALONE 



, , ' i : a it :— 



Among the numerous n ts of sportsmen ttiete are ten 



accessible, oc which afford belter sport tnun, the Salmon Rivor, above 

 wha; is know,, a.- the -State . Mm. ■' Here, within thirteen mil,:- of Ma- 

 lone, i.- ,. mreaui won . ■ » - affoeda an 

 ible quantity of trout. 1'Ue puud rui-ed by t.ie dam varies 

 I. e: let. lily il ia only about a q ; -iiei of a mile iu leugttl, 

 ■I the riverwtnds a torturous course :oi Be veral miles 



;lut-. and for a --ill rorther dhtfanoeu uon devious 



: alder-. With tb probable 



I, the 



being thereby reunced abont ■ 



ponds empt) into this river, which fum 



waller, and iis upper w.u, i- -■em a, bi 

 count- for the abundance of Ihe trout, 

 aged sixty to -evenly trout a day. the lar 

 ponnd and a hair, and from thai down, an 

 is considered there seems to be but lit 



ter with a rly than with bait, the favorites being a red ibis, brown hackle, 

 and a gray fly. Montreal flies, and white millers are also used With 



.Many d"ei come inio Round Pond. W'oir I'ond. and tbe other sheets of 

 water in the neighborhood, and trace- or bear were also visible. Many 

 partridg - are to be round in the wood-, i here is.agood, although un- 

 pretentious, hotel at the dam. kept by H. .1. Cunningham (better known 

 a-"Hu- ",. where guide- and bo.,- - cm be aed, Tim bouse is beau- 

 tifully dean and the fare good, Visions should take the 11. K. K. R. to 

 i igdeu.-burg and Lake fhainpluin Railroad. From there a 

 : the State Dam. (i W. W. 



CAUGHT. — A few days since, while one of the operatives 

 at the YVamsutta Mills, New Bedford, Mass., was walking 

 upon the shore near the. mills, he discovered a wild duck, 

 apparently wounded, on the shore. On approaching it he 

 found a quohaujr banging to one of its feet. The poor 

 creature had u'.-enb n i 1 1 iv got its feet into it while running 

 upon the shore. If was promptly released. 

 ■+*+■ 



— A. correspondent informs us that he has found oil of 

 savin a perfect protection against mosquitoes. It is entirely 

 harmless to the skin, has very little odor, and if rubbed on 

 in the evening will-last all night. Care should be taken to 

 rub over all tlie surface, as the pests will discover any spot 

 which the oil has not touched. 



— A Wisconsin correspondent reports pike, pickerel and 

 black bass biting freely in Lake- Koshkonong. 



j|/w/ %tm and ffifie. 



GAME IN SEASOn'fOR SEPTEMBER. 



Elk <.r \Vapiti, Cer, 



■"over. ci..,:;.!,.,;.,.. 

 teidwit. tin 



' 



r Rice birds, Dolifhor-yr 0'>z- 



Game ix Market. — Woodcock still scarce: about S00 

 In aee enming into market a week. Birds in nice order, 

 are worth *l To a pair. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and 

 Sew Jersey are sending a few birds, but the bulk are from 

 Hie West, Some ruffed grouse in the market — said to come 

 from Indiana and Iowa — worth $1 50 a pair. Not in very 

 gui'd nriier, nor prime birds. Prairie chickens — but few 

 yet— worth $1 25 a pair — rather scrawny birds. Reed 

 birds — the first we have seen — worth $1 a dozen. As yet 

 they have hut a skim of fat on them. In a week or so 

 they will be lumps of lusciousness. Curlew few — Snipe 

 scarce, but grass plover in moderate quantify and plump — 

 worth $1 00 a pair. 



es to be as yet some 

 nc-ss, the fall trade c 

 e doing a fair businei 



ide- 



— Though thei 

 pressiou in genei 



-! e.vly, g Un makers are doing a fair business. Chicken- 

 iii.iiting- in tl. ■■ West consumes an enormous amount of 

 ammunition, and orders for guns are being rapidly sent in 

 .: nington have found if biposaihle to keep 

 up with the demand for their new breech -1 oadei s. At 

 present their facilities allow them to turn out some ten 

 guns a day. Very shortly with enlarged facilities they 

 I rust Io be able to make as many as 800 of their breech- 

 loaders every week. 



—James K. Polk, of New York, nephew of the late 

 President of Ihe United States: Landon Ketchuni and four 

 itlemen of Westport, Conn., went rail shooting on 

 August 26th, four miles above the New York and New 

 Haven Railroad bridge, at Stratford, Conn. They returned 

 in the evening, having bagged 600 birds. They report vast 

 quantities of all Kinds of game in that region. il ; 

 sportsmen may go there assured of meeting with success, 

 Tn" -e.i-iiu for rail generally begins in September, but this 

 ;, ear the birds have appeared earlier. Rail shooting is also 

 r- 1. 1 ni ed good at the Lazarette, Chester, Marcus and Port 

 Penn, Pa. 



—Snipe and oilier bay birds are reported scarce 

 Barnegat during the last few days. 



— The region around Lake Koshkonong, Wis., is a very 

 ultraolive one for sportsmen. Our attentive friend A. M. 

 Valentine, Esq., writing from .Tanesville August \i0th, 

 say»:— 



I have ju-t returned from a prospecting trip to Lake Koebonoiig. Mill- 

 iard, teal and wood ducks are very plentiful there now. and -booiini; i- 

 -oo,l oi will be when th.- i -lose season ends, Bent. 1st. We shall have 

 splendid canvas tiaek and red head shooting icoldstorre 



agoodplai 



ter. M:i:c), 



sleep and take pain- 



on sood 



— Our valti'-d nor. ■/.•niloiit "Guyon" sends the follow- 

 ing account of a wonderful iiot in the dark, as a "trump" 

 for the report of ihe icinarkalib- shot reported in Fohkst 

 ash Stream, and corrected by "Old Smedy." If it is 

 doubted lie offers to send "sworn statement," with signa- 

 ture of John Smith, J. I'., duly attached:— 



Mi P> oi Ihe v'xitiitv of Corinth, onedark and raiuv night, was much 

 disturbed by the howling pi i small pack ol w„lv,-. They dually came 



yaUa. .Mr. li. had an old Enfield rifle, picked up on the bloody field of 

 Shiloh, which he loaded, and going to the di be direction 



from whence the bowlmg came. The repot! ol .. gon, and a yell of 

 aimuish echo ■ silent. He 



beard the wolves no more mat ni»ht, and ncit morning, happening to 

 pass near the spot where they bad hut been heard, he found an iinmeuiie 

 ddg-woir— "with tbe roam ■■! his gasping lyhu» white on tbe torf-shot 

 stmare through behind the -boulder. 



—One who has enjoyed iis quiet comforts, endorses very 

 cordially the "Model Farm House" at Geqrgeville, P. Q., 

 Canada. The owner is N. A. Beach, and his rales of board 

 are moderate. 



Sports Extkaoruinarv. — During this week two young 

 men went down one evening to Comaiiclio bank. There 

 they killed forty curlews, of the brown and whie wing 

 variety, and amongthem several ol the pink curlew. They 

 then proceeded t" the mouth of Bar creak, where they lay 

 in ambush, and killed twenty more, including sea-shore 

 snipe and other delicate sea birds. 



Mr. James Mu-kler killed a buck, one day this week, near 

 St. Augustine, which weighed uver 200 pounds. Hunters 

 report that there never were so many deer near Ihe city. 

 Good for visitors during the coining season. Tin 

 port an extraordinary number of quail hatched behind the 

 hills of the North beach, and around and about, St. Augus- 

 tine. — St. Augustine (Fta .) Prett, Aug. 20. 



— The Gloucester Co. Game Protective Association of 

 Swedesbot'o, K, J., have elected J ■ o D. Hibbs, President 

 of the association, as a delegate to the National Sportsmen 's 

 Convention to be held September 9th, 1874. 



