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FOREST AND STREAM. 



— According to the Cape Ann Mvortv<er lobsters are 

 plenty aud of good size this .Fall. They never were 

 bullet or in livelier demand. The present month 

 will about wind up the halibut, cod and mackerel 

 fisheries. The demand for boneless cod, as prepared in 

 Gloucester for tUd retail trade, is constantly increasing. 

 The Ilaymen are now coming along briskly, and our traders 

 arc glad to welcome them with good bargains. 



Fishermen's Luck- — The Nantucket Henme says schemer 

 Oliver Cromwell, while on her mackerel cruise, had a 

 curious incident befall her. The seine being out, a school 

 of mackerel suddenly turned, and making for the seine 

 took it down. A vessel in the neighborhood immediately 

 answered a call for assistance, and swept her seine under 

 that of Oliver Cromwell's, Twenty-three hundred dollars' 

 wurlh of maekrrel were secured, the two vessels dividing 

 the catch, the tish selling at an average of nine cents each. 

 The bunt of the seine belonging in the Oliver Cromwell 

 was ba'dly rent by the sudden rush of the fish, or more 

 would have been secured. This is the second lime the 

 seine of the Oliver Cromwell has experienced similar Ireat- 

 ment, losiDg all the fish at the first, on account of the seine 

 giving way, and there being no help near. 



— The Canadians are imposing heavy fines on all who 



capture fish out of season. 



— Any catch of white fish made in Canada between Nov. 

 ember 191b. and December 1st will prove a dear matter to 

 the angler, as the law will be strictly enforced. 



— Mackerel fishing on Cite North Coast, of Prince Edward 

 Wand, has, during the season just closed proved a most 

 profitable one. Over thirty thousand barrels are reported, 

 and their market value eight, dollais; the relurn is by local 

 authorities pronounced eminently satisfactory. Cod fish- 

 ing, though not so largely engaged iu, has proved a profit- 

 able investment to those engaged in it, and as a con- 

 sequence, all branches of trade on the Island are reported 

 iu a flourishing condition. 



— Some enormous tish, a stranger to the Western waters, 

 played sad havoc with a fisherman's nut near Detroit, re- 

 cently, and then escaped. This giant of the deep is sup- 

 posed to be a man-eating shark. 



■»♦*■ 



OF BARBERRY WOOD. 



fjib«r 10th, 1871. 



FLY RODS 



New Yobk, Noi 



t Fokkst and Strbam:— 



our issne of November 3d, "C. E. C." reminds me that, in my 

 icalion tinder the head "New Material for Fly Rods," published 

 by yon July 23d, 1H7-1, it was .suggested that your readers might hear of 

 i h.-' im. berry rod ngain. II will be remembered that I had then Ashed 

 with the rod eight days. Early iu the month of July I Ashed a few days 

 in the lower Benverkill, again using the rod in question, with Increased 

 satisfaction and admiration. On the last day (if the bout., while fishing a 

 wide poo], from which I had just taken two half pound trout, and when 

 1 had out about forty feet of line, a half pound Ash rose at one of my 

 droopers. 1 struck it with considerable force, and broke the second joint 

 of the rod near the middle. On attempting to reel iu my Ash I discov- 

 ered that my trail Ay was securely hooked into a piece of timber lying in 

 the stream, covered by water two inches in depth, aud which the heavy 

 rain, falling at the time, prevented my seeing when I made the cast. Of 

 course it was no fault of the rod that it broke under such circumstances. 

 Near the end of July a friend and myself went to Canada to Ash a river 

 of which we were the lessees. As I had tiad no time lo make a new' sec- 

 ond j'.int of barberry, I spliced the broken one. I Ashed one day with it 

 in its impaired condition, taking fifteen or twenty trout, weighing from 

 half' a pound to three pounds each. In Die course of the next day, in 

 Striking, or hooking, a trout (which I saved) tha', weighed two pounds 

 and fourteen ounces, 1 broke the same joint, quite near, and above, the 

 splice. This was not unexpected, as thejshortetiing of the joint in splic- 

 In«, and the whipping of the splice with silk, destroyed the uniformity of 

 , the. taper and the elasticity of the rod After this, for about one week, I 

 nsed the barberry but aud tip with an iron wood second joint, killing 

 many large trout without injury to the rod. 1 am not at liberty to name 

 the stream where we Ashed, hut can state that our smallest trout, weighed 

 one quarter at a pound, and the largest four and a quarter pounds; that 

 the average of our catch (several liundr 

 quarter pounds per Ash, and that all were t 

 In conclusion, I will state that my conl 

 paired, but, on the conlrary, increased by 

 have just finished duplicate second joints of barberry, one having the 

 pith iu the centre, and the other being made, like the tip?, from a section 

 of a slick one and a quarter inches in diameter, in anticipation of the 

 next, my thirty-second, annual trouting campaign, 



Shonld C. E. C! , or any other person, try my experiment, I would sug- 

 gest that it is Important to have the rod straight when made, for It Is dif- 

 ficult, if Dot impossible, to take a set out of barberry, such as 1 have 

 used, after it has become thoroughly seasoned. Virz. 



n number) 



. with the fly. 



:e in barberry is not Im- 



*■»■ 



MAINE TROUT. 



Boston, Nov. 13, 1871. 



EtMTOTi FoRttnT AND SfUKAM t— 



In F. andS. or October lath, a letter from W. W. S. on the decrease 

 or trout in the Adirondack waters, freshens in my mind a few facts in re- 

 gard to the trout and taws of Maine, and Mooseheaa .Lake in particular. 

 We find the general close seasou to commence Oct. 1st, while those In- 

 terested in the Grand Lake section very judiciously affected a special law 

 for those waters, commencing fifteen days earlier. While special legis- 

 lation, also, has given the angler until Oct. 15th on Moosehead, offering 

 no protection for these lisli until many days after they have sought their 

 spawning beds. 



Through my own observation and experience in this sec-lion, together 

 with an extensive association with sportsmen, I find that Moosehead is 

 already depleted to that degree that trout are much more abundant In all 

 the surrounding smaller lakes. 



Depletion and certain natural causes resulted in poor fishing during the 

 latter part of last seasou; many sportsmen failed to catch enough to 

 gratify present needs, the months of September and October offering no 

 sport whatever, except In a few individual cases where success attended 

 the discovery of a spawning bed. 



These fish arc found on their beds iu September, and should be pro- 

 tected as early as the 15th of that month Sportsmen know it. The 

 people know it. Then, why allow them to be grappled by a few tardy 

 anglers, fifteen days after humanity forbids? What need of any law, if 

 not a protective one? Why prohibit the fee,- residents there from cutting 

 a hole in the ice and securing a much needed article of diet for their 

 table in the long cold winter? 



It Is not my purpose to claim that this ig not a people's law, nor a sports- 

 men's law; neither that it is a law effected by hotel interests, but to show 

 it to be one most destructive in its workings, which will eventually put 

 an end to trottt Ashing in Moosehead Lake, and 1 appeal to the old pin* 

 tree State to protect it for themselves and posterity. 11. 



jjjiu'hting mul^oiifinq. 



HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 



Vale. 



Boston. 



Xew York. 



Charleston. 



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Nov. 31) 



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Nov. 23 



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—The Boston Boat Club, which now numbers over fifty 

 members, have chosen the following officers for the ensu- 

 ing year: President, John Dohcrly; Vice President, John 

 W. Fruscr; Secretary, Andrew H. MoCartliey; Treasurer, 

 James D. Shea; Captain, Patrick Reagan; Board of Direc- 

 tors, John W. Prat-er. John Oullen, Peter F. Pinan, James 

 N". Henry, Patrick McGaUcy; Committee on Membership, 

 Chas. Reagan, Peter McDonald, Michael J. Mahoney. 



Famous Clipper Shir. — The following letter appeared 

 in Forest and Stream October SOi.h : " The Shipping JS'cwn 

 recently announced the loss of the ship Flying Cloud, at St. 

 Johns, N. B„ Willi her cargo of lumber.' This vessel wns 

 the once celebrated clipper Flying Cloud, built by Donald 

 McKay, of Boston, and which for many years during the 

 clipper/«/v«v; Hew the champion pennant for the fastest 

 passage on record to San Francisco. Many of your readers 

 will recollect the excitement and interest felt in this city in 

 the great race between l he rival clippers of New York and 

 Boston twenty years ago. Webb and Westervelt were 

 launching beauties, while from Boston and the East came 

 gallant competitors for the pennant. At last, McKay sent 

 forth the Flying Cloud, the most, beautiful vessel that 

 ever floated. So exquisite were her lines, thai although a 

 ship of great tonnage— 1,700 Ions— she looked when under 

 if the daiuly yachts that cruise 

 ying Cloud' ran to 'F 



way hardly larger than 

 around the harbor. Ti 

 eighty-nine days and a 

 been excelled. It is a q 

 although Mallory's wot 

 son, claims to have bes 

 crack ships, the 01) 

 within two weeks ( 

 York backers lots t 



This passage has 

 a question whether it has been equalled, 

 wonderful clipper, the Andrew .lack- 

 beaten the Cloud a few hours. Webb's 

 allenge and Young America never came 

 f the Cloud's time, and cost their New 

 f money by their failure." 



Commenting on the above, the Mystic (Conn. ) Press says: 



The above article— in so far as it. relates to the clipper 



ship Aiulretn Jackson, and her sailing time, as compared 



with that of the Mifthg Cloud — is incorrect; as will appear 



by the following statement: 



The Andrew Jackson was built by Irons & Grinncll, of 

 Mystic, and owned by J. H. Brower & Co., of New York, 

 and Mystic parties. She math; "the shot-lost time on re- 

 cord" from New York to San Francisco (in I he year 1800) 

 in eighty-nine days four hours, thus "excelling'' the time 

 of the Flying Cloud, (mud- in 185 1-eighty-nine days/wfi.i-t' 



hours), and was awarded 

 dore's pennant in the hi 

 which the Flying Cloud 

 the Flying Clo ' ' 



.Yhosl 



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floated the eoint 

 sco and New York, 

 lie also "excelled" 

 1, making five pas- 



time beat the best live passages of the 



that 



and 



saga 



Flying Cloud. 



That we know whereof we affirm when we els 

 "pennant" for a Mystic ship, will bw apparent v\ 

 say, that within an hour of the present, writing we 1 

 the statement confirmed by Captain J. E. Willis 

 Captain William .Morgan, master anil mate of the And 

 Jackson at the time of the passage referred to, and during 

 a period of seven years, extending before aud after the 

 same. Capt. Williams still carries a line gold watch, from 

 the tuner case of which is copied the following inscription : 

 "Presented by J. II. Brower & Co. to Capt. JYE. Williams, 

 of clipper ship Andrew Jackson, for shortest passage to San 

 Francisco. Time 89 days, 4 hours. 186*0." 



YACHTING PRIZES. 



We give this week a complete list of races sailed last 

 Summer, prizes won, names of winners, &c, as supple- 

 mentary to our schedule printed last week. Both tables 

 will be found very useful for reference. 



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Ada... 



Addie., 



Addle Elmar . 



Adelaide 



Adelaide 



Albatross 



Albert Dager 



Albert Egglestor 



Aldine 



Aleppo 



Alice W. Hoopei 



Lig Injun. 



Champion 



f.'has. G. Aiiatii 

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. ISoiuhpurl... 

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. I Lynn Y. C. 



. 1. Y. C 



.Wakefield... 



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.iPhila. Y. C 



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. American Y. C 



.Jersey City Y. C 



.Hudson River Y. C 



|t. Y'. C 



.:Hiiltimore 



.Hunker Hill Y. C 



. Canursie Y. C 



..Hunker Hill Y.C... 



.Oanursie Y. C 



..Hudson River Y. U, 



,' Hi'iilL'eport 



.Lynn Y.C 



. j New London 



.(Manhattan Y. C... 

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. .. Lynn Y.C 



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IGnlveston 



Nantasket 



• Carolina Y. C 



| Riverside Y. C 



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IQiiincy Y.C 



iSainay Y. C 



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I New Rochelle Y. C. 



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