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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Marco 24, i881 



your the champions Will have a class as usual, and their con- 

 test will not lack lor prizes and interest, but there will be 

 other classes also ; one which bars all who have ever won a 

 1st prize, and another, for amateurs especially, which bars 

 all who have ever won any prize at a State tournament. 

 Messrs. Conroy, Bissett & Malleson write to a member of 

 the. prize committee as follows : 

 Mr. C. W. tVlSQKBT: 



Dear Sir^We will contribute ono of our split bamboo fly- 

 rods, one click reel, and one Holberton's full-ienath fly-book, 

 with improved Hyde clips and Russia leather cover. We wish 

 these to go for prizes in fly-casting, and would be obliged for 

 a. list of prizes, so that we can name conditions, etc. 



CONKOY, BlBSKi'X & MAJ.r.ESON. 



Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie write to the director of the fly- 

 casting tournament : 

 Mr. FitED Mather : 



Dear Sir— You may put us down for a valuable prize. 

 Exactly what it will be we have not yet determined, and 

 possibly we will not decide to announcc.it until you are about 

 ready to make up and close the list. Wishine the tourna- 

 ment every success, we remain very truly yours," 



Abbey ifc Imbrie. 



Eishlnc Tackle in the National MnsrcrM.— The most 

 complete display of fishiug tackle in the world is to be seen 

 at the National Museum mWusbinjctou. It comprises the 

 bone hooks, seal-skin lines, seal-bladder tloats, walrus-hide 

 lines and spears and lances of bone used by ilia Indians of 

 Alaska : the wooden hooks and all ennibimitions of wood, 

 bone and metal hooks and spears of the Esquimaux and the 

 natives of our northeast coast ; the enormous shark and 

 halibut hooks, with a full set of all hooks, lines, floats, and 

 tloats used in tho commercial fisheries of our Bast and West, 

 coasts down to the various rods, reels, lines, flies, floats, creels, 

 etc., of tho scientific angler. These latter have been pur- 

 chased from our American dealers, the larger part just be- 

 fore the Fishery Exhibition at Berlin, and now Prof. G. 

 Browne Goode. the curator of the museum, acknowledges the 

 receipt of a donation of an elegant collection of English made 

 angler's goods, consisting of hooks made for Ihe Amercnn 

 market, artificial baits, insects, (lies, etc., from S. Allcock A 

 Co,, Keddilch, Knglaml, whose advertisement will be found 

 in our columns. 



The Luxuries of Ahglixo.— The liichmond, Va., Wftiff, 



says-. "One has only to examine the advertising columns 

 I to be impressed with the vast amount 



of Forest and St 



of industry, skill, talent, enterprise and genius, and phtlan- 

 trophy (emphatically) devoted to this task of supplying the 

 needs and luxuries and augumeiiling the pleasures of the 

 sporting community. Wo say philanthropy, with emphasis 

 -for those who thus toil for the enjoyment and happiness of 

 their fellow-beings cannot be enemies of their kind. But 

 admit that, self enters as an element of the motive — in an en- 

 larged sense, it may be truly affirmed, that self, if not a vir- 

 tue in itself, is next kin to it, and is the basis and prompter 

 of all the virtues." 



This is only a part of a column devoted to fishing tackle in 

 which the .enterprise of Abbey & Imbrie is spoken of in the 

 highest terms, and mention of Conroy is made. The editor 

 of the Whir/ is a veteran angler, and was formerly one of the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries of his State. He still loves to 

 take the savage bass and smoke his pipe of bamboo root after 

 the victory. Long may he continue. 



m*i spit""- 



ANGLING. 



FROM a lecture upon Fisculture and Angling, delivered 

 by Rev. H. H. Sliced before the Iron, Coal and Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Chattanooga, Teiiii., of which we 

 have already published the fishfultural portion, we extract 

 the following : 



There is au 



other re 



ma why we 



should cult 



vate 



ish, 



other than 



as au article 



of food. 



and that is 



for the re 



a-eat 



ion 



tfforded in 



angling'. 



I know I ai 



i treadit 



ig on ground which von 



niav 



consider debat- 



able, but I as 



sure you 



1 do not in 



he slightest 



1 > 



ee. 





1 am eonvii 



ead thai 



as a people 



we do not rt 



:aeu 



een 



jngh. Un- 



fortunately, 



our pcoj 



lo are too a 



mich bent i 



i pou 





ev making. 



That has bee 



nn, the 



ill absorbing 



thought, at 



d tii 



. li-if 



a of spend- 



nig a day lis 





considered 



.ymiiny a 



vast- 



of 



timo. while 



other* reearc 







lipid sport. 









it. 



but is one of the m 

 liuy of the out-door s 

 pastime, in which om 

 plants his rod iu the I 

 bite, is, us any trouto 

 verse of it. And, if s 

 Of emfenmoe, itwini 

 not know any r , ' 

 The selection' and prt 

 state of the weather 

 place in tho pool whui 

 the striking of your 

 gorged the bait, and 

 summate skill and th 



Dr. Nowcll, Dean 

 ripe old age of ninety- 

 not dimmed his eyo 

 and temperance were 



Sir Humphrey Dav 

 oestors after my Got 

 bountifully given, a: 

 patriarch Walton, to I 



of it. 



land, lived to the 

 m that years had 

 and that angling 



"For my health I thank ray au- 

 ]'. and I have not squandered what was ho 

 nd though I do not expect, like our arch 

 number ninety years and upward, yet 1 hope 

 y a vernal dav, the warmth and lights of the 

 sunshine, still to haunt the streams, following the example of our 

 late, venerable friend, the President, of the Royal Academy, Ben 

 West, with whom 1 have thrown the t!y, caught trout, and enjoyed 

 a delightful dav of angling and aocM amusement by the bright 

 clear Streams of Wamble. 



The Bav. Dr. Paley said to a friend who was anxiously inquiring 

 whtinone of his great philosophical works would be completed, 

 "As soon as the fly Hailing i» over," evidently considering this 

 diversion of equal importance with those mental efforts that have 

 rendered hi,-, name immortal. 



Gav Thompson, John Tobiu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir 

 Walter Seott. all literary characters, wen, ardent disciples of Wal- 

 ton. Admiral Lord Nelson was so passionately fond of the sport 

 thai lie fished with his left hand long after he had lost his right. 

 Hen. West, the celebrated painter, engaged in many days sport, 



with Sir Humphrey Davy, and Daniel Webster, America's great 

 statesman, during his lifetime, found relief after a tedious sesBion 

 Of Congress iu 'angling for salmon in the Kennebec. And tho 

 first Bishop of the I lioccse of Tennessee, tho late Bishop Key, de- 

 lighted ii, following the streams of his adopted Statu iu angler's 

 garb, and enjoying tho pleasures afforded by the splendid bass 

 fishing, for winch they were famous in tin- early settlement of the 

 Slate. And many other distinguished men who 

 " Oft Have tried with balled hook, 

 To temi 1 1 tie tenant oi the brook. " 

 might be added to tho list to show that angling is held iu high 

 esteem by all classes of people, but it is unnecessary. 



But I am trespassing too largely upon vour time iu introducing 

 quotations to show yon iu what estimation angling haH been held, 

 but J hope not unprofitable, and therefore f shall give you but 

 one more from the " American Angler." 



It is time tie my have ridiculed this noble art and pitied 



its followers, but let those whose extreme and somewhat morbid 

 seuBibihties have rendered them blind to the beauties of nature, 

 remember that Ho who weut about doing good chose a number of 

 his disciples from fishermen, and considered them worthy objects 

 of Hi- confidence and His love. 



It seems in fine a work of supererogation to attempt to justifv 

 that agreeable pastime after tiie expressed opinion of so many 

 U arned and distinguished men of every age. for is there any 

 recreation at onco so harmless and with which so many happy as- 

 sociations are blended as angling V" 



"Adieu, ,vo spoils,, i i.,.,-.- and mil, 



. . .J its favor ; but all men do not agrc. 

 The great and learned Dr. Johnson describes angling to he " ! 

 Stick and a string with a worm on one end and a fool on the othor,' 

 but we have an ingenious Spaniard giving the following rebutting 



„...^g rebutting 

 testimony; " id vein and the inhabitants of the watery element 

 were made for wise men lo contemplate, and fools to pass bv with- 

 out consideration." 



Dr. Johnson never sat in a boat iu the mouth of the Emory 

 River, surrounded by the beautiful scenery which greets the 

 angler there, and had a three-pound bass gorge his bait a hundred 

 feot away, and lert thai thrill which electrifies vou whon the 

 saucy fellow leaps three feet clear of the water to shake the hook 

 from ins mouth, and tho exquisile pleasure or playing him and 

 then flopping him over in your boat; nor did ho "over stand on 

 the rim of some pool in the mountain gorge, and watch the deftly 

 cast fly dance along the eddies, and then disappear like magic, 

 and in an instant feci that delightful contest begin between him- 

 self and a two-pound trout : nor did hs over strike a firteeu- 

 pound jack salmon, with his trolling line a hundred feet astern of 

 his boat, as lie glided over tho blue waters or some beautiful lake 

 or stream, or lie would never have penned such a sovere, though 

 stupid satire. 



My knowledge of anglers has led me to make this observation, 

 that anglers, as a elass, are liberal, large-hearted, generous men, 

 gonial and full of good social qualities. Men who him Remitted 

 the habit of looking on the bright side of life aud of extracting 

 joy from every phase of it, and of trying to make the best of 



of evil phophot-who begin,,' at Ih'e yery inception of the ewnrsron 

 to predict that no fish will he caught, that the wrong time has been 

 selected, that the water will be too high or too muddv, and really 

 feels a sort of disappointment when the party has made a hand- 

 some catch ; but even these, taking them all in all, are good fel- 

 '••-uiah it Uttle variety. 1 only wish I could per - 

 to study and practice tho art of angling. 

 fT'iently yon would regard lire. Gnu-ral- 

 ly, it works a happy change in the gloomy and morose, and gives 

 the invalid a new lease on life. 



THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION. 



r f HE tenth annual report of the Commissioners of Inland Fish- 

 1 erics of Rhode Island tells us that the catch of soup (porgio 



of Xuw York i. .Venn/ us ,o-./:/e„;s. 111 the traph tins spring was 



not as large as usual, but that the prices were better, and the fish- 

 ermen received a fair pi ioo for ihcir labor. On Ihe subject of trap 

 fishing the commissioners hold the same views expressed in their 

 last report, in which thev recommend that the line established from 

 Narragansett Fifr to Soaconnet Point be abolished, and the whole 

 coast liue protected, and that heart-nets or pounds should bo 

 licensed. Fieh have been plentiful, tspeeialh seup of large size 

 tautog or black fish, young bhutish and squetaeuo or weak fish, aud 

 this is attributed to the two causes, first, the close lime, aud sec- 

 ond "an exceptionally abundant season for these sorts of fish, din- 

 to favorable circumstance.-, at the spanning season, etc." 



'I'he-.aieityof bass, for which Newport s shores are famous, is 

 accounted lot by the nee of traps, which are the means of catching 

 the fish bv the thousands when they only weigh from one half to 

 three and four pounds each. There arc invested in tins Stato by 

 persons residing hen: r177..lli'l in works, steamers, boats, etc., giv- 

 ing employment to 884 men. In the nienlnulen fishery there are 

 246 mou who depend npuu fishing for their support "during the 

 whole vear, or «bom rurtv-three are interested in heart nets. Ex- 

 actly whv this small number of individuals should he allowed year 

 attcr year to deplete and ulraost ruin the fisheries the Commis- 

 sioners fail to ,-or and, in their capacity as Commissioners, thev 

 earnest:-,- l.eg that the. General Assembly will enact such addition's 



The Commissioners desiie lo call the attention of the General 

 Assembly to the verv important question of the lobster fishery in 

 Rhode Island waters. Maine, Ma-s.u husctts and New York have 

 seen lit to protect themselves, and it is more than time that the 

 State of Rhode Island followed their e-samp'c. The lobster taw of 

 Massachusetts forbids the sale of lobsters fees than ten and one- 

 half inches in length, The capture of small lobsters has gone on 

 in Rhode Island since the first lobster pot was put iu Rhode Island 

 Waters, 'the larger ones are sent to market, and the smaller are 

 \md for bait for black lisb. Vtrv many men eke out a living with 

 their lobster pot*. For a' number or years past the catch of lob- 

 sters has boon steadily decreasing, not as to numhers, but as to 

 size. They recommend the passage of a law forbidding the salo of 

 iDbslci-s less than twelve inches in length, and suggest that it 

 would be advisable lo forbid the sale of female lobsters loaded 

 with spawn. So far as the limit of size is concerned, the Commis- 

 sioner.^ are assured that the law « ill be most popular. To show 

 tho value of tho lobster fishing thev stato that ono man in this city 

 handled *20,l)00 worth during the past year. 



The Commissioners have received a consignment of 200 carp 

 from Trof. Baird, the United States Commissioner. 



DAMAGE TO THE SALMON BREEDING RANCH.— In addi- 

 tion to our notice of the almost, complete destruction of the Gov- 

 ernment buildings on the MoCloud River, Cal., in our last, we print 

 tho following from the San Francisco Bulletin : 



To persons who have visited the United Slates. Fishery the height 

 of the water will ho appreciated when it is stated Unit it completely 

 covered the Indian burial ground on the hillside in the rear of the 

 buildings. The floating boats cmitahiing the wider wheel which sup- 

 plied the hatchery with water from the river were saved, they buy- 

 ing been chained to trees. The cost of tho braidings and works de- 

 stroyed, it ia represented, was from £20,000 to *25,000. At the 

 time of then- construction all the lumber had to be obtained from 



i National 



saw-mills near Mount Shasta. It is claimed that thev con be. re- 

 placed now for $ 12, 000 or $15,000. 



It was from these works that the salmon eggs have been obtain- 

 ed and hatched for stocking the Sacramento and other rivers. 

 Through the facilities there offered by the United States Govern- 

 ment the state has placed annually two million salmon in the Saw 

 i-ai.ieiil,. liner, atari expeu-e ie.1 exceeding sd,(i00 for each million. 



The catch ot salmon in the Sacramento River has in consequence 

 doubled within the past live years, having risen from five million 

 pounds to nearly eleven million pounds. 



Tho following" letter from the voung man left m charge of the 

 property to a friend in this city gives some ot the details of the ef- 

 fects of the flood : 



rjJTCTBD StATBS ElSHBttXJ 



Baieu, Shasta Comity, )■ 



February i. issi.l 



'■ Dr. ah Sia : To-day I send you a few lines to letyoukuow how 

 we stand up this way. 



"As 1 told you in my last we were expecting another great storm. 

 Well, it came January HO, and the river that night rose thirteen 

 feet, but went down next dav. The day after it commenced rain- 

 ing worse than ever, and that night "about !> o'clock had risen 

 twelve feet six incheB, when Dick Hubbard and I burst in the doors 

 tc Mr. Stone's private rooms, and took out all the boxes, etc. At 

 11 o'clock all tho houses weru two feet under water, and rocking 

 fearfully At 2 A. M. they were all swept down tho stream. The 

 dwelling-house, the kitchen, buidc rooms, store house, wood shed, 

 in fact, all tho houBes went. 



" The remainder of the night we spent in G i-een's house tpost- 

 olliee) down the road. 



" In the morning this house stood thrco feet under water, but 

 did not go down the stream. I saved all the postage stamps and 

 stamped envelopes, but the two mail bags and letter stamps were 

 lost. What shall I do about them ? 



"You remember the gray rocks opposite, aud where the uew 

 trail was made last summer, well, the water rose above there. 

 This will show you how high the river was— pi obabiv ihirtv feet. 



"I lost all my clothes except a new coat, and a suit that I find on 

 at the time. 



"What shall I do now? Shall I remain and take care of tho 

 chickens, for they are all that is left, pretty much '/" 



Eish Commissioner B. B; Redding has telegraphed to United 

 States Bonater Booth to endeavor to sec-mo the passage of au ap- 

 propriation by Congress to defray the cost of rebuildiug the hatch- 

 ery. Mr Redding thinks if the- Legislature were to panp a joint 

 resolution asking Congress for such au appropriation it would 'help 

 its passage. 



_.«_ 



ICHTHYOLOGICAL NOTES. 



WE have received a part of tho " ProccodingE 

 Museum" in which are •• Descriptions or t 



Scopeloid lisbes, tiu'lis rinqentt and Jfyclo/>h>in> tn:unlart\ from 

 Santa Barbara Channel. California," bv D. S. Jordan and C. )T. 

 Gilbert. The former differs from Gunlher's S. h'/iitiiia chiellv in 

 the dentition, canine teeth being present on the mSnia^fJariea and 

 palatines. Thohitter lisb belongs to GnnlhcrV genus, llyi '..,./,, .„,, 



new flounders, ramphrys ischyrw aud riippoijhsxQuli 



irom Puget's Sound . . 



sion of the family necessary in order to accommodate them, and 



from Monterey, Cal. ; a new llouudei, /''u'y.v'mi [OV.V/iy.s simninv, 

 from California, and au Eitiblobcoui, ( r.,„::,f,„rir.t< r rosiwens) 

 also from California. 



Mr. W. N. Lockiuglon gives a "note on a new flatfish, 

 Lepidopeefn Uokpis, found in the markets of San l-'rancisco." 

 Trof. Jordan writes a " note on a forgotten paper of Dr. Avres 

 audits bearing on tho nomenclature of the Crpaaoid fishes of tho 

 San FronciKCO markets;" a " note on -Senia'and ' Daceiitrug. 1 " 



Jordan and Gilbiirt have a " Dcdcaiptf Oil Of a new Scorpffinoid 

 lish, SeOastichlUys proriyr, from Monterey p,a\ ;" a "Description 

 of anew Agoisud. Agohus nuteas, frqhi the Coast of California" 

 and a "Description of a new species of paralepis. /'imilepU 

 coruscans, from the Straits of Juan de l-'uca." Mr. S. [.Smith 

 gives a " Preliminary notice, of the ermsUcea dredged in (M 

 to 325 fathom", off the South Coastof New England. h\ the United 

 States Eish Commission in 1S80. 



THE McDONALD FIsHWAW— On the Oth of this mouth the 

 Virginia Legislature passed an act obliging all persons owning 

 dams which interiere with the tree passage of fish, to provide a 

 suitable lish ladder, known as the McDonald fi.mwav, so that fish 

 may have free passage up or down the streams during the months 

 of March. April, May and June of each yew; and n - 

 quired of such parlies that tho same shall bo restored iu case or 

 destruction, and shall bo kept in good repair ; and in ease thev rc- 

 ruap to construct sluices, slopes or ladders as required, they i-hajl 

 forfeit rivo dollars for each day thev so refme. It is the duty of 

 the supervisors of counties at' least twice- a year, in the months 

 of April and October, to examine and sec that the law is complied 



Willi. 



STRIPED BASS IN ('AI.ll-'OUNrA— About a year and a half 

 ago Messrs. Throckmorton and ]J. ];. Redding -ocured three 

 hundred bass spawn from tho waters of Pfew Joraty aud trans- 

 planted them in the Straits of Carqninc/., aqar Maitinez. Last 

 year a bass was caughl iu those waters, weighing one pound. 

 r'esterdav, a bass weighing four pounds and measuring twenty 

 niches in length and seven inches in width, attracted attention n't 

 the California Market, having been caught in the ocean, off 

 Bolinas. Mr. Redding sent a message offering ri for the lioh, but 

 it had already been secured b\ D. J. Staples, who intends to pre- 

 sent it to the Academy of Sciences, win ic it will bo officially ex- 

 amined and scheduled. 



I Tho above is from the Kan Francisco A 'In, of February 26. ' Wo 

 happen to know that the bass referred to were sinned haw, or 

 rocklish, A'oc-'is Hu.-ahit. allh6ugh the heading of the article. 

 "California Bass." did not c.nviv the in!. a man,,,,. 



sp.aking. " spawn ' are eggs, although iaaomo pain 



GEBMAN FISH CULTUItK —The Ftettfierd Ss&WlPi o f Stettin, 

 says: •• We learn that .Mr. i(. Eckurdi. Of LUbbiuchcn, has this 

 spring artificially multiplied •:.■ 



for lisbculture. There is great need of tho propagation ot ilns 

 lisb in certain districts ; il grows rapidly, as proven by the fact 

 that some nhich M. l-'.i'kardt impregnated on the l.itb of March 

 and examined on the 15th of October, in thosamr year, weighed 

 over ono pound— a moat wonderful growth, proving this ii. h a 

 valuable acquisition, Mr. Kcloudl will investigate Ihe breeding of 

 the Zander (pike perch, Btiwsledioril, which his hitherto been ne- 

 glected. Alter this be will devote, his attention to the sending of 

 tho impregnated eggs of the different varieties of oarp, as the scale, 

 leather and mirror carp spawn and frv. and in the month bl M - 

 will send a large package of them to A 



SALT IN TROUT l'ONDS. .-MY. J. Am.iu. Jr.. of Caladonia, N. 



„ says that last fall and winter hi used it ballolB of salt in 



16 of his breeding ponds uilh the very bust results, lie loiind 

 that he lost but yc rv few lish from anv dlBeeel , but, more especially 

 from fungus, which in many ' i -.- rts from the handling while 

 spawning, and he I hiuks it helps the trout in many ways. They 

 look cleaner, and after a little appear to bio- d, leu after throwing 

 it in the pond thev jroujtl run hi among :t. also rub themselves in 

 iL. It alBO'herpB Very trmeh to clean the cotton and aidts rf tbe 

 pond of anv unclean matter. He recommends the d se often 



or fifteen yonads of salt i very two to thl kye during ft, fall 



and spawning season. The flal mnild be he- better n it was con- 

 tinued during the year-. If the pond ii larger, use More. The 

 pond spoken of was 'about 10x14ft., 8 ; _ft. deep. 



AMERICAN Ethi-K ipLTHBAL ASSOCIATION. 'i'"> ami*! 



meeti i [he American PiBluiultural Association will take plttCje on 



Wednesday and Thursday, March Bi'tU r.nd ::i-., .■ !-"■■ m 



o'clock, in the rooms of the Directors of ill.- l-a i in , >,.- i i 



Monger's Association, foot of Eeekt r,,rk. 



B. Ehjxlifs, Secretary, R, B, Eooskvllt, President 



