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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[April 14, 1881. 



and flats from the eastern extremity to a road known as No. 

 1 road, which includes all the best shooting grounds. This 

 lease has been granted, and the company will be organized 

 within a short time The company intend to allow shooting 

 on three days of the week only; they will enforce the neces- 

 Bary restricti >us to prevent poaching on their property, and 

 will encourage game to resort thither by sowing alarge quan- 

 tity of wild rice, which though formerly abundant, had of 

 late years become very scarce. Licenses will he grauled to 

 others than the members of the clu >. It is to be regretted 

 that such aclion has become necessary, but the residents of 

 the district have only resorted to this measure of self-protec- 

 tion as a last resort." 



New Yoiik — West Sparta. March 26— I wish to tell you 

 of a queer marked squirrel I shot last fall. His back was red 

 from his shoulders to his tail ; his sides and tail were of the 

 common gray color; his belly, legs, neck andhead were black; 

 its weight was thirty-three ounces. 



The game of all kinds has wintered in good condition ex- 

 cept quail, of which there are very few to be seen this spring. 

 We hope the bill mentioned in your last issue in reference to 

 giving a bounty on foxes, owls and hawks will become a lasv. 

 They are very numerous in this section and not very wild. 

 While away from home one day last December my wife 

 heard a rumpus among the poultry, and upon going out to sec 

 what was the trouble "she saw that a large hawk had caught 

 one of the fowls and was doing his best to kill it. She tried 

 to drive him off, going within a few feet of him, but he did 

 not scare worth a cent. She then went to the house, took 

 down my breech-loader, fitted a shell to it, went out and 

 shot the "varmint," killing him instantly. The distance 

 was a trifle over five rods, and it was the first time she ever 

 fired a gun. With the revolver, however, she is quite an ex- 

 pert. — Spaetax. 



Taunton Sportsman's Club —The officers of the Taunton 

 (Mass.) Sportsman's Club for the ensuing year are : Presi- 

 dent, James A.. Woodward ; Vice President, N. S. Williams ; 

 Secretary, R. W. Townsend ; Treasurer, II. D. Atwood ; 

 Executive Committee, W. D, Tripp, C. E. Richmond, A. B. 

 Hodges. The Executive Committee of the club concludes 

 its annual report with the following bit of verse descriptive 

 of rabbit shooting: 



When fi 



The ol 



Ands: 



Anil see 



The rinc 



To the 



But W 



While a 



But win 



To he.' 



And o 



Until the gun Uieq.Ul 



>eg whereon It nangs 

 ant boy takes clowri, 

 scape parental frown, 

 004. Though loudly hangs 

 j-rimniis: sound 

 tthln— lie nothing heeds, 

 his way proceeds, 

 ih" aged Hound. 



i ikes i u rein t:u nose, 



a night dutu close. 



Chknbvus, April 3. — I was out upon three pieces of woodcock 

 ground with my two dogs and put up more birds than at any 

 one spring day "in many years. The only theory I can give 

 for suehau occurrence is on a count of si much snow that the 

 birds have to keep more together in the small places that are 

 open for feelings. 



1 took an April fool trip by trying to catch a trout or a 

 basket of them, with the snow banks three or more feet deep 

 along the creek and the atmosphere so cold I could hardly 

 hold my fall. Why does not the committee include skunks 

 in their bill with hawks and foxes, etc. ? They are as de- 

 structive to bird's nesting as any animal in thhVcounlry. — D. C. 



Mottvillk, N. Y — Foxes are unusually plenty here this 

 spring, some fifteen having been killed in the past three 

 months. 1 believe partridges would be plenty here if skuuks 

 and hawks could be exterminated. There were very few 

 partridges killed here last fall. The cold weather began so 

 early and was so severe that there was little pleasure in hunt- 

 ing them. Have seen them in goodly numbers while fox- 

 hunting, and other hunters report seeing them daily now. 

 1 believe there is a general feeling of respect for the game 

 laws in this vicinity, and consequently but few birds are killed 

 out of season. Some pirales were robbing our lake (Skane- 

 ateles) of trout last fall. They did not rtside in this viciuity. 



F. A. 8. 



Arorxo, Penn., April 4— If we do live in the backwoods 

 we have our setters and fox hounds of the finest strains and 

 plenty of game. Pheasants, quail, woodcock, squirrels and 

 rabbits were all plenty Hist fall, and the gunners wee always 

 seen coming home after a day's sport with a good lot of game. 

 The winter has been very severe on the game. Farmers 

 have told me of seeing rabbits frozen dead in their nests. 

 Quail have fared better than the rabbits. I think there will 

 be plenty. Readers of your paper will find a lively little 

 village on Hairy White's canal bo«t stream, and also Mr. 

 Joseph Lewis and the subscriber with their fine stock of 

 pointers and setters to pilot them. — G. Stitt. 



Massaoucbettb Fisu and Game Association. — The an- 

 nual meeting of the Fish and Game Protective Association 

 was held at its rooms last week. The report of the Treasurer 

 showed thai. $788.40 had been received during the past year, 

 and $509.88 had been expended. 



Tun London Society — London, Ont., April 5. — I inclose 

 you two clippings from obi local paper to show that London 

 DiBlricl Fish, Game and Insectivorous Birds Protective So- 

 ciety is still in existence and means business. In another ten 

 days I hope to have our annual meeting, and trust that the 

 secretary's report will be able to show that we have succeeded 

 in our undertaking. — J. S. Ivivkn. 



Canada.— St. Clair Fla's, April 1.— Mr. N. was at Big 

 Point the other day. It is all frozen up except three open 

 places. The holes are full of geese and ducks. lie killed 

 twenty-two redheals and two geese in two hours. The 

 geese were hard hit and went to the St. Clair Lake, where 

 the ice is still two feet thick. He followed them, but they 

 flew again, and he thought the best plan was to leave them 

 until morning, but when he went next day he found two 

 eagles had secured them. There is good sleighing this morn- 

 ing.— W. 



Hawk and Owl Association.— The sportsmen of Wash- 

 ington county, Pa., have been so successful in their efforts 

 to diminish the supply of hawks and owls in the county 

 that they have organized a permanent society known as the 

 Hawk and Ovvl Association, the object of which is to offer 

 suitable rewards for the destruction of vermin. This is a 



most excellent movement and promises much practical 

 good. The president of the society ia Mr. Thomas McKccn, 

 of Claysvillo ; the treasurer, Mr. J. S. Margerum. 



Vail— Iowa, March 30.— I find from observation and in- 

 quiry that about sixty per cent, of the quail in this section 

 have weathered the blast. Ruffed grouse are as thick as 

 spatter and as fat as butter. They have had a regular picnic 

 this winter as there is fully one half of the corn crop stand- 

 ing in the field yet, which has also helped to save our quail. 

 Three beavers have been shut within a short distance of town 

 this spring They were driven out of their quarters by the 

 spring freshet.— E. B. B. 



Dtjok Shooting in New York-. — If anv of your readersin- 

 quire for a good place for duck shooting near the city tell 

 them to address Captain E N. Danes, Savville, Long Island. 

 The captain is a jolly good fellow with lots of decoys and no 

 end of willingness to oblige. His charges are the most re 

 sonable of any that I have experienced in a considerable ex- 

 perience iu shooting on the Long Island and New Jersey 

 coasts.— R. T. M 



Manoiikstbr Shooting Club. — The Manchester Shoot- 

 ing Club, of Manchester, N. EL, is in a flourishing condition, 

 and is growing apace. The officers are -. President, Benj. 

 F. Clarke; Vice-President,, Georga 8". Elliot; Treasurer, 

 Lewis K. Mead; Secretary, Arthur E. Clarke; Executive 

 Committee, Moses Wadleigh, George E. Morrill, Horace 

 Tobey. 



The Toronto Grm Club is one of the most active sports- 

 men's associations of Canada. We are in receipt of its con- 

 st tution and by-laws, which show the club to be in posses- 

 sion of admirable rules. We bespeak for the Toronto Club a 

 long lease of harmonious prosperity. 



Ohio, Cleveland, April 2.— I was out last Monday and 

 found a woodehuck's nest with four eggs, all spoiled. Now 

 the snow is three feel, deep over the eggs, the deepest snow 

 of the season. No snipu could live here yet. J. C. 



Information Wanted — F. M P. wants to kuow the 

 nearest, locality to Chicago, III., where good squirrel shooting 

 can be had. 



We should be glad to learn where leaver tails for eating 

 can be obtained in any quantity, either fresh or pickled. 

 Will some of our trapper correspondents let us hear from 

 them on this point. 



New Yohk. — Hornellsvillc, April 4. — Many grouse have 

 been frozen or starved. The snow in the woods near this 

 city is still four feet deep.— J. Otis FaxLOWo, 



Wild Pigeons. —We have received several inquiries re- 

 garding the whereabouts of wild pigeons, and we shall es- 

 teem it a favor if our correspondents will advise us on the 

 Bubject. 



Phoenix vi i.i.e. Pa., has a new game association which is 

 to restock that vicinity with quail. 



in i . Me' sportsmans outm. 

 by Hi- Winchester Rspeatlug 



v-i'S .sum- Important advantages 

 asers ol a Lelr. should inquire 



s good than one Dottle of I top 



$ea md §iver ^mhittn. 



There it the Fussy Anqler, a (/nut bore ; of course oou 'trill 



shun him. The "8 mb" A itg'er -',;.■■; ■; -■ . ■■ f.-h-iMy on. « 



slight capital of ski. I or crjkrience. The lirttd'/. i'vshing 

 Anqler, vim rush's ahead ami hull' fishes the water, teatinq 

 those whofollmo in doubt as to whether he has fish, -4 a pool or 

 rift earefu It/, or slurred it oar pn his h-iste to reach some well- 

 knotcn. place down the stream before his companions. The com- 

 pany of these, the quiet, ca/ efu.l angler wilt 'avoid.— Thai) Noe- 



Book or the Bass.— Dr. Henshall's book on the fresh 

 water baBS is about ready for the press as per advertisement 

 iu another column. This book has been long talked of and 

 will no doubt meet with a large sale. Since the first an- 

 nouncement that such a book was in preparation we have re- 

 ceived numerous inquiries concerning it, showing that, much 

 interest was taken iu it. by our readers. 



THE GREEN RIVER TROUT PRESERVES. 



i year New York trout fishermen 

 steps toward Long Island, indeed 

 ania and oilier inland resorts are 

 is more ice than clear water, 

 jther day a list of names of gentle- 

 onen ihe troul season at Blooming 

 o early for Penn- 



AT this season of th 

 naturally turn theii 

 the streams of Penney! 

 not inviting when there 



The Graphic gave the 

 men who are expected t< 

 Grove Park on Ihe 15th iust., but that 

 sylvania. May loth is about ri-ht there. 



By invitation of E. R. Wilbur, Esq., a parti carree, 

 Messrs, AUSUD, Giles. Avery and Wilbur, tiie latter a part 

 owner of the Green River stream, noted for its salt water 

 trout, reached the grounds on the evening of the fourth of 

 April. 



On the way down by the 4 p. m., train, (one hour and 

 Ihirtv-five minutes to Savville.) they passed and inspected 

 from the car windows, " the Lurdiard Place, South Side 

 Club House grounds, and ponds, W. K, Vanderbilt's ele- 

 gaol country seat, a palatial mansion with ornamental 

 grounds, Stellenwerf's trout ponds, etc., expecting to see 

 crowds of members out iu force whipping the streams and 

 ponds, but only one solitary piscator was seen, hip deep in 

 a stumpy pond, presumably taking lives -fed caricatures of 

 the Salmo fuulinaCis. 



AtSayville we were met by the spanking team of our 

 host and" whirled through the town entering the grounds by 

 an ornamental gateway, the fence extending on both sides 

 along the highway. 



We pass a comfortable farm house which serves for the 

 lodge, then past meadows and Relets llnough an f- -le of 

 oaks, between whose trunks we catch glimpses of the blue 

 South Bay, glistening with white caps under a stiff north- 

 wester, and draw up in front of a comfortable mans ou with 

 broad piazzas on all sides, and hands rate stables in Ihe 

 rear, also g 'aperies, ornamental shrubbery, cedar hedges and 

 fruit trees, in fact a charming summer retreat for the over- 

 worked man of business, 



Captain Brown who is in charge of the premises ex ends a 

 hospitable hand and we are soon enjoying the grateful glow 

 of a coal lire iu the library before dinner is served. 



During the evening, spent as becomes sportsmen, in fish- 

 ing and hunting remiuisences, frequent observations are 

 taken of the weather, with poor prospects for a good day on 

 the morrow. The crescent moon shines with a steely light 

 and a cold, keen, bitter wind manufactured to order by Ven- 

 nor, in the far north-west, sweeps over the flat landscape 

 with ominous howls and moanings. 



The morning is but a continuation of lost nights " bliz- 

 zird," the temperature lower, and as we venture forth with 

 rods, reels and creels, and approach Ihe stream, we find the 

 ditches in the meadow frozen hard, but the stream is open 

 and we commence casting. With numb fingers "all 

 thumbs " in marine parlance, it requires all one's patience to 

 cast in the teeth of the wind. I am standing on a tussock in 

 a bog, it shakes and Heap for another, alas I miss it. by an 

 inch, and instead of lauding on terra firma my right leg 

 plumps to the knee in ooze and water, my boot is "full of 

 both. A bad beginning, I think, as on one leg, with the other 

 raised horizontally, the water runs out of my mbber boot. 



Hut ''misery loves company "and for my consolation just 

 then a gust carries Giles' black Derby like a wounded crow 

 skimming over the pond a hundred yards away, where it 

 slowly sinks. Soou Wilbur is seen pulling off from shore in 

 a ducking skiff which he with difficulty guides with a long 

 pole. He says he can get the hat, but he can't reach us 

 agaiust the wind ; just then a puff comes, the boat gyrates, 

 horror 1 she is over, no she rights with W. sitting safely on 

 the bottom of the. boat clutching a dripping hat. 



Meanwhile one halless and ihe other wet, we wend our 

 way toward the house, both having had enough, we think, of 

 fisherman's luck and trouting in April. 



But what is this 7 We see Austin making tracks toward 

 the house across the meadow where he has been industrious- 

 ly whipping the stream. He soon reappears with a new tip, 

 he broke his on a "big one." Hope rises, we follow him 

 back to the stream in the meadow. 



" Try there," he says, " ou this side in that deep hole un- 

 der the bank where the current wears into the clay bank. 

 Ah I I have him— a beauty of three-quarter pound — no white 

 liver-fed idler, but a genuine wild sea trout just in from the 

 Great South Bay, which is only a few hundred yards dis- 

 tant. 



Soon Austin hooks another, and with the skill of an adept 

 he guides the lively fellow along the bank, up and down, across 

 and back again, the rod thrills under the strain, and I stand 

 forgetful of my tackle to watch the result At last he is 

 landed and flopping among the reeds and grass just in time, 

 though another spurt would have separated the bit of muscle 

 on the upper jaw already torn by the hook. It is a beauty 

 (speckled, of course), of about twelve ounces, and he takes 

 his place with others in the creel. 



The Green River we are fishing, rushes out over a sandy 

 beach into the bay where lie many cat boats at anchor. 

 Austin proposes that we cross the stream at the beach on a 

 convenient timber, and fish up stream again widen will bring 

 the wind iu our favor. As 1 linger behind the others Wilbur 

 appears, having Strolled out from ihe house, and with the ex- 

 perience of a veteran fisherman he points out a particular 

 spot to cast, j nst below an old boat which lies diagonally 

 across the stream. Hardly does the line staighten on the 

 water when a big black fellow darts from under the boat 

 never to return. After a hard tussle he is gasping on the 

 shore and, alter a smart blow on the head is transferred to the 

 creel. This trout was caught within a stone's throw of salt 

 water, and had probably run in from the bay quite recently. 

 Another cast was rewarded by another fine fish from under 

 the same boat. 



Our suitress in fishing up stream did not warrant longer de- 

 lay. It was also too cold for fishing with comfort. I took 

 a one-poimder from a deep hole under a clay bank, and Aus- 

 tin had a strike, but failed lo hook Ihe fish, and we Boon ad- 

 journed to the house nan am where, sheltered from the 

 wind on the grass, we laid ten fine fish for the inspection of 

 Cant, Brown. 



The other gentlemen returned from a stroll among the oaks 

 on the bay shore, and we drank a toast to the success of the 

 Green River preserve, 



I should not forget that our host in the true fishcullural 

 spirit brought down twenty German carp of small size which 

 he put into a pond, one of several new ponds which his men 

 are excavating on the meadow. 



After dinner with a menu somewhat fishcullural, including 

 huitres salecs de Blue Point and Haul Sauterne, we rolled 

 comfortably to the station and took Ihe 4 pm. train for the 

 oily, allowing a few favored friends a peep into our creels. 



i he del ca'cy of those salmon, pink salt water trout, when 

 boiled, is not the least agreeable memory of this trip. J. A. 



SALMON FISHING ON THE PENOtSSCOT RIVER. 



EECEIV1NG information that salmon were being taken on 

 the East Bremen of the Penobscot R vcr, near Hunt's 

 Farm, we organized a party, consisting of the writer, George 

 B , and Howard L. Brown, Dr. E. Lewis Sturtivant, of 

 Framingham, R L. Davis, Boston, and S. B Gates, of Winn, 

 Me., and were taken in charge by Alex. McCavin, of Matte- 

 wauikeag. Leaving Winn the 28th of June— some of us up 

 river in canoes, the others via road connecting at Medway, 

 twelve miles above, at junction of East and West Branck, 

 from wdiich place we started at 4 r. M. in seven canoes — we 

 made our first camp on Fisk Farm, four miles above Medway. 

 If any one follows our plan we would advise them to make 

 camp at Second House, as it is much better located. Next 

 morning, getting an early start, we soon arrived at Rocky 

 Rips, where we caught it few small trout and our first salmon, 

 about eight inches long, at the entrance of Meadow Brook, 

 noted for good fishing early in the season. Passing over 

 Rocky Rips without carry next we came to Grindstone Falls 

 at noon, which we were obliged to carry three-quarters of a 

 mile, over a very good path on the left side of river. (Below 

 the main fall 1 raised a salmon on our return, opposite alarge 

 spring.) Our second camp was made near the head of the 

 falls. 



Next morning, breaking up camp at 7 o'clock and passing 

 over smooth water two miles, our attention was called to 

 Mud Brook, entering the river ou our right, where trout 

 are found and taken in May and June. Ne.aring Bear Rip 

 we found another trout, stream on the left side, from which 

 Mr. George Brown took three dozen very quickly. Overtake 

 iug the party at Whetstone Falls in lime for lunch at noon, 

 here we relieved the canoe of baggage, enabling ihe guides 

 lo push over the falls, we making the curry on the right side, 

 distance one-half mile. Again loading up we made the next 

 two miles to Hunt's farm over smooth water, The farm is 



