Mat 5, 1881.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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rifles, and are thinning out tbe game rapidly. We are about 

 twenty mules from Reelfoot Lake, tbe great breeding and 

 fibbing grounds for our black bass, striped bass, white perch 

 and other fish. Keel foot Wftfi formed by the great earthquake 

 in 1812, is thirty miles long, by five to seven wide, and is 

 teeming with fish, duck and geese, and a few swan. Squirrels 

 are " thick as leaves in Vallambrosn." They are gentle, and 

 and are very fat and juicy The young ones are now half- 

 grown, and will be mature very soon. It is not an unusual 

 thing for a good hunter to bag fifty in a day. O.ie word 

 about guns. Why does not some one manufacture a .32 cal. 

 magazine gun? We have lots of the MS cal., but it is too 

 large for small game. Who will be the first to make such a 

 gun?— T. L. W. 



Migratory Quail. — AVe see it reported in a Boston paper 

 that "the Messina quails which Messrs. Peter ,Ierris and J. 

 P. Longley, of Lewiston, set free on tbe farm of Mr. Long- 

 ley's brother in Greene last full have returned to the farm in 

 large numbers. They are the first returned quail heard from 

 of the hundreds imported by our Maine sportsmen last year." 



THE NEW JEJiSEV GAME LA.W. 



THE game law passed by the late Legislature of Now Jersey is 

 one of the worst pieces of legislation of (his character ever 

 put into a statute book. Tho Legislature of I.SsO closed the wood- 

 cock season until September 1. The Legislature of this year, 

 without waiting to allow that law to produce good results, lias 

 opened the season from July 1 to August 1 ; closed it during 

 August, and opened it again from September 1 to December lit. 



The second section of the new law is ai- follows : 



"2. And be it enacted, That no person shall kill, take, exposo 

 for sale, or have unlawfully in his or her possession, after the Same 

 has beeti killed, any ruffed jjrouse (commonly called pheasant), or 

 tmail (sometimes called Virginia partridge), except onlv between 

 the last day of October and the last day of December, in any year, 

 or any rabbit between the last day of October and the first day of 

 December in any year, under a pcualty of fifteen dollars for each 

 rabbit, grouse or ijuad killed, taken, exposed for sale, or had in 

 possession contrary to the provisions of this section." 



The intention of this law was to malic tho open season for rab- 

 bits from October 81 to December 1, but. as a careful reading of 

 fee above section will show, the law reallyniakes from October :i:l 

 to December 1 the only closed season for rabbits, so that they can 

 be shot atnny other time in the year. Even without this error the 

 now law would be supremely ridiculous, for what sportman can re- 

 member so complicated nu arrangement as makes rabbit shooting 

 end on December 1, woodcock shooting on December 16 and quail 

 Shooting on December 81 ? Every one who knows anything about 

 practical game orotection knows that quail hunters will, as a rule, 

 kill alt the rabbits and woodcock that they can during the whole 

 of December. 



It is surprising that practical sport-mien, like Senators Lawrence 

 and Vail, did not defeat this law iu the Senate or show the Gov- 

 ernor why be should veto it. L. 



[Another correspondent, " J. E. B.," is informed that we printed 

 the law from a printed copy furnished to ns by a member of the 

 Senate. That cop y does not contain the blunder poiuted out in 

 the above commimication respecting the rabbit season. — En.] 



eating fish. 

 ill a great in 

 Good Hope 

 of bis paws 



Jffl/fs tu{d jfncitlentp. 



GATHERED FROM EXCUANGK.S. 



—The Spanisli bark Odulia, from Liverpool, now lying at 

 Welch, Rilliet & (Jo.'s wharf, has on board a tame walrus or 

 seadion. This animal was captured by Captain DeAbortis 

 thirteen years ago, while cruising in Beliriug Straits. It was 

 then a "pup," was trained by him, and has been his constant 

 companion on all his voyages ever since. He is called 

 "Scnor," and answers to bis name or to a blast from a silver 

 whistle blown by his master; but if blown by any one else he 

 pays not the slightest attention to the call. He eats bread 

 and meat, enjoys tea and tobacco. He is as passionately 

 fond of hour as an old toper, and on many occasions has be- 

 come genteely " light " from imbibing too heavily. When 

 caught be weighed 19 pouuds, but lie now turns the scale at 

 41 V, pounds, has two enormous tusks, measures IS feet 3 

 inches at flic girth and is 8 feet 4 inches long. As the Cap- 

 tain good-naturedly remarked, as he showed the brute to a 

 few visitors, be is becoming "one big noosance." In bright 

 weather he sleeps in the sun on deck. During heavy blows 

 he resorts to a kennel, but when the weather is calm he leaps 

 overboard and sports about the ship for hours, catching and 

 When tired of swimming be is hauled on board 

 . . i basket. On one occasion, off tbe Gape of 

 , a great shark tackled Senor, laying hold Of One 

 i and biting off one of his toes ; but Senor dove, 

 and, coming up under his enemy's belly, ripped him up with 

 one thrust of his great tusks, and devoured him with savage 

 cries of delight and satisfaction. He is very fond of the Gap- 

 tain, and when the latter is absent from the ship for a day or 

 two he manifests his uneasiness by a thundering noise not un- 

 like the sounds that might be emitted by two or three scores 

 of dogs burking in chorus. Senor is. perfectly docile,. allows 

 himself lobe palled on the head, and is very susceptible to 

 kindness.— Victoria, B. C. Uulonid. 



— A few years ago some kindly enthusiasts, among whom 

 the late John Kcast Lord and Prank Buekhnd were leading 

 spirits, made strenuous efforts to stock our woods, moors 

 and rivers with strange flesh, fowl and fish. We were to eat, 

 elaud steaks, and luxuriate on sterlet and corregomis, which 

 alone of all the finny race has the property "of never satisfy- 

 ing. We were to have prairie fowl, blue grouse, and pintails 

 from the Wes'ern woods and prairies, while salmon was to 

 he sold on costerniongers' barrows as sprats and bloaters are 

 at present But, somehow, nothing came of their projects. 

 There was a good deal of experimental eating and chinking, 

 several hopeful reports, and some indigestion. Aud (lien the 

 the Acclimatisation Society faded from public recollection. 

 Tinned meats, cold-air storage, and Anti-Game Law As- 

 sociations seem to have been too much for it. Nevertheless, 

 in the freer atmosphere of the newer worlds, its scientific 

 progeny flourish apace, and are. busy bringing to our remotest 

 dependencies the salmon, trout and birds of the Old World. 

 If, as some ethnologists assert, the European' is not yet natur- 

 alized in America, the horse, the ox, and the sheep which he 

 introduced three centuries ago certainly are. 



It is not yet a hundred years since John Hookham Frere 

 and a number of other ingenious young gentlemen of the 

 University of Cambridge were speculating as to whether the 

 Antipodes could ever be a self-feeding settlement- Already 

 the land is covered with millions of kine and sheep, and iu 

 some of the Australian colonies the wild horses are becoming 

 a public nuisance. As for the rabbit aud the thistle, which 

 the patriotic Seot imported, they have long demanded the 

 attention of the Legislature. They have cost; the squatters 

 and the UovernmeiiMhousands of pounds, aud even yet it is 

 questionable whether they or these prolific immigrants will 

 conquer in the struggle for existence,-' London StMiuhtrd,, 



$ex and Eiver 



FISH IN SEASON TN H1AT. 



FBESII WATER. 



Brook Trout, Satmo fontinatia. 

 Ptcfcerei, ffiw* rettculatus. 

 IUr or Pickerel, Bsw lucius. 

 Pike-perch -wall-eyed pike) 



priseum, etc. 

 Yellow Perch, /Vrra iliiviatUin. 

 Striped Bass, llmcun tiveulux. 



White- Bass, Itocen* chrt/xapa. 

 Rock- Bass, AmblopUtex. (Two 



species). 

 War-mouth, Chmnobfyltusrjuhsus. 

 Crapple, J'omuxyii- myrortuioulalus. 

 Bachelor, 1'tmwx.iin annularis. 

 Chub, Stmolilu coriiuralis. 



•Sea Bass, CmtroprixlU n 

 Striped Bass, Rnccus lint 

 Willie Perch. Moron* av 

 Seup or Porgie Stenotom 



BALT WATER. 

 aritts. I Pollock, Pnltaehiun carbonariu*. 

 tus. Taulog or Blacklist, Tautoga 



The Pr, kntioiis A nglcr, to use < 

 lamented tHokey Rika; mice Hec 



York, is one •'that pnr.ail* to a 

 mwnify." Tim gentleman has m 

 nt'd I')/ Fishsr, "/ ilr " Angina-'} 

 phre.y Vary. If he has attained 

 art, fie affects to despise all tp 

 efittfia; if a salmon fisher, In 

 is a, trout tlyfUher, he profemrs 



We have talked with true anglers 

 censure the eminent Viciiit , who 

 labor uf lute edited our American 

 fectaUon in saying of the red icor 

 since been trashed of the dirty thi, 

 not he above Itis master, and <■< rlo, 

 ciple the Doctor professed to be, co 

 use them., nor iras he disgusted V) 

 But the Doctor iras certainly righ 

 ground bait in reference to trout, v 

 little Jaith and less greed, soon lean 



Norms. 



favorite expression of the 

 ■n-der of the city of New 



gnat extent in this cm- 

 toy of the qualities attrib- 



S '■■,-.. ;>■■;•• to Sir Hum- 

 the, higher branches of the 

 which he considers Urn set- 

 tts trout "wrmiaj" if he 

 •■in. tto.pi for bait-fishing. 



: Walton, for nj- 



171, •• Our hands hue, \„ng 

 8gt." 'I he. urcaut *h;uld 

 '«/// " /;. W'a.," irhose. dis- 

 •isidtred it nt> indigni'y to 

 ■IU his -'horn Of ffenXifS." 

 t in deprecating tftcitte of 

 ■hen the angler eon, in'/h n 

 i Ilia use of'thtjly.—'luKV). 



AN ANGLER'S LIFE, 



Eve i brawn Hie ftSu C&ae sixer .vein , 



Ay, sixty year au' inulr, 

 An' inouie a speckled troutle kill'd 



WV bookie, hcuk an' balr ; 

 An" now I'm aulil an' feeble grown, 



.Yly lacks arc nice Hie siinw ; 

 But I'll gang iigidu to Camiet-stde 



An' tiuve a farewell Uiraw. 



A CHARMING book* is given to his brothers of the rod 

 by Mr. Henderson, who tells us that he is now (51 year** 

 of age, and as ardently attached to the noble spirt of angling 

 for salmon and trout as ever. For the pleasure he has given 

 us in this handsome volume we hope that he may continue to 

 enjoy his angling for many years more, for his portrait looks 

 like a nearly man, and one who would bo a good companion 

 on the stream, or in the bivouac. 



How the above verse touches the heart of every one who 

 was ever truly a boy, for "all are not men who wear the 

 human form," nud many men were never boys, as some of 

 us were. He says: "The acquisition of his first fishing rod 

 is always an era in an angler's life, and well do I remember 

 the circumstances which led to my possesriog one. Prowl- 

 ing along the river bank iu search of minnows T came upon 

 two boys apparently possessing a joint interest in a fishing- 

 rod which projected over a willow buVl. Youth is a period 

 of freemasonry, and I was soon ou good terms with the 

 strangers, who proudly exhibited the results of their i-porf — 

 three small eels strung on a willow twig. How often did we 

 take, them down aud carefully measure and re-measure, wash 

 and re-wash them, flap their tails when they showed signs of 

 returning life, and discuss the important question as to 

 whether they were members of the silver or golden eel fami- 

 lies ! It was not in human nature to witness such joys un- 

 moved, and soou . . I was bold enough to request from my 

 mother tbe sum of eighteen pence, for which I proposed to 

 pawn my weekly stipend of three-pence. Behold me now 

 the proud possessor of a ' two-piece rod,' glowing with bright 

 vermilion and rich in a brass ferrule!" 



From this time our author was an angler. At eighteen he 

 fished with a young friend who aspired to fly-fishing. He 

 tells it : " A gravel bed was selected as tbe spot most appro- 

 priate for donning our tackle : my friend took the lead and 

 was ready first ; the ' feed' had just come on. A score of blue- 

 dims were floating in the water, while round hig head 

 went my friend's' line, and a sharp sling within my 

 nosiril made me scream aloud. Not seeing his cast fall, as 

 intended, the rod made another circle, but the instinct of 

 self-preservation enabled me to grasp the line and save my- 

 self the dreadful wrench thst would have followed. What 

 was to be done ? On examination tbe hook was found deeply 

 imbedded in my unfortunate nostril. 1 was on the point of 

 running off to Itothbury in search of help, when my friend, 

 with a gravity more becoming his profession (for he was an 

 embryo surgeon) than his years, undertook the case himself. 

 'Lie down upon the ground,' he said, with a tone of author- 

 ity. 'Shut your eyes.' I obeyed. Another sharp sting 

 and the offending book was extracted and lying in my hand. 

 Many were my thanks, and warm my admiration of the oper- 

 ator's skill. 'Don't mention it,' said he, ' I never had a lan- 

 cet in my hand before, but as 1 got my first case of instru- 

 ments last week it seemed a good opportunity for trying 

 them.' " 



We cannot quote the whole book ; and find that we must 

 leave the angler at eighteen, while he writes at sixty. But 

 we so admired the man who forgot that he had been injured 



*" My Life as an Angler.'' by William Henderson, author of "The 

 Folk Lore of Uic Northern Counties of England and i he Borders. ;i 

 With Woodbury portrait aarLCWelVfe woodcuts, cngiavedby Edmund 

 Evaiu, A new edition. Lomlou: William Hiirchell ,* Co., 13 I'Mls- 

 tools street, coveut GW'den, W, C„ USD, 



by tbe man who hooked him in the nose, at a time when ho 

 was not taking flics any way, and thanked his awkward com- 

 panion, instead of ducking him, that we had to quote it, to 

 show the stuff our author was made of. We are all loveable 

 men if the world knew us 1 



FISHING OX THE CARP RIVER. 



NOBTHERN MIOniOAN. 



HERE we are, H. ('. Lonnis. my chum from Columbus, 

 O., and our old friend, Capt. David Smith (whom 

 we dub " Old Reliable"), of Cheboygan, Northern Michigan, 

 leaving on the steamer Mary bound for the Carp River on the 

 North Peninsula, with traps and provisions for a ten days' 

 ►trip in the wilderness where we are to fight mosquitoes" and 

 catch trout. 



Leaving Cheboygan about 5 o'clock in the evening we have 

 a pleasant run of "eighteen miles to Mackinaw Island, where a 

 stop of about an hour gives us ample time to get supper 

 at our choice of the miserable hotels, and then a run of five 

 miles to Point St. Ignace, our intended course from there 

 being northwest, along the extreme northern shore of Lake 

 Michigan, twenty-two miles past St. Helena Island, whiciwe 

 expected Lo row or sail unless lucky enough to strike one of 

 the very few steam-lugs which ply around the shore gather- 

 ing fish from the ponds. Tbe captain of the Mary said this 

 was the evening for the fish-tug Mattel, but unless she bad 

 been detained up tbe shore we would miss her. By this time 

 it was half past eight o'clock, raining, and not a very ngreea- 

 ble outlook. The captaiu of the Mary said he thought the 

 lights of the craft off lo starboard were those of the Martel. 

 The little fisl -tug running in at this noun nt, all our traps were 

 duly stowed on board, and the little craft was oil without 

 ceremony. Fish ? Well, I should think so. The smet! was 

 so strong I was afraid I should trip ou it. The bow of the 

 boat: is filled with boxes, with covers— I guess more proper- 

 ly called cases— in which fish are carried from point to point, 

 aud on each side of the wheel-house aud engine-room are 

 boxes about eight feet long, two feet wide and two and a 

 half feet lugb, used for scooping the fish into tho boat from 

 the pound nets, and for assorting them. 



The boat wbb filled wilh the worst lot of drunken fishermen 

 I ever saw — French Canadians— and they made n wild night 

 of it until 1 o'clock, wheu we were landed atom' destination. 

 All were good-natured — lucky for us — but full of "Lnjin 

 whisky." One of them, a big six footer, weighing not less 

 than 2fl0 pounds, sat down on our big two-handled basket 

 filled with provisions, and Ihe top course being five dozen 

 ginger cakes. "Here, stranger, get up if you please, you 

 have sat dowu on our basket of provision " Up he rose, 

 turned right around and sat down on it again, harder than 

 ever. 



As we ran into the dock at St. Helena Island, the moon 

 was shining brightly, bringing out tbe residents and the ship- 

 ping lying in this, the handsomest little bay 1 ever saw. I 

 only wished I could have au opportunity of visiting this 

 place iu daylight. Tho approach is far prettier than that of 

 Mackinaw. We follow up the shore about ten miles further, 

 when we launch our boat, and, gelling all our goods alaard, 

 a good long whistle or two from llie tug brought, some one 

 with a light, on the dock, which the captain said was about a 

 quarter of a mile off, and for which we pulled, the tug steam- 

 ing off and we not regretting io part company. On the dock 

 we found two men, who helped us safely stow our traps in 

 the warehouse ; after which wo lake possession of a couple 

 of rade bunks kindly tendered us, aud we are soon dreaming. 



We were up in the morning and ou our way by 7 .o'clock 

 for a twelve mile trip on wagon to Ihe Carp River, over a 

 Michigan pike, i. e., a lot of trees cut down in order to drive 

 over tbe Slumps. We landed safely at the upper logging dam 

 about noon Saturday. Here we dump everything, and the 

 wagon leaves to calf again Monday and take us by road five 

 miles down the river, from which point we. expect to run to 

 its mouth in our boat, which we had rented at Indian River. 

 Ill the afternoon we fished for trout, aud with moderate suc- 

 cess, catching a string of fair si/.e and excellent quality. 

 Sunday a liule incident occurred which I will always recol- 

 lect with the greatest, of pleasure, illustrating what many 

 others have noticed — lhat wild game not being familiar to 

 the bight of man have nothing to fear. A short distance 

 above us a corduroy bridge spans the ttream ; several times 

 when we hail been on this bridge a red squirrel would come 

 down from his tree, jump ou tbe bridge and chatter away nt 

 a great rate, ruuning quite close Lo ns. This afternoon he 

 came down again, and running around me and under my 

 fool, which I iiad raised ou the rider log. Thinking to try 

 the little fellow I leached down my rod toward him and he 

 jumped on to it, within three feet, of my haud. The team. 

 came by 10 o'clock Monday morning, and at a little after 13 

 we were again on the banks of tho Carp. The team again 

 left, and we had before us a trip by this stream never before 

 undertaken by a fishing parly, and variously estimated at 

 from forty to sixty miles by people who knew all -about it, 

 but had never been on the river. 



We start off aud float a hundred feet, when we have to 

 climb out; aud then the boat goes along all right — with one 

 man pulling and another pushing. Here is a bend in the 

 river, water deeper, all aboard, around the curve, and all out 

 again. We kept this up for about au hour, but found no im- 

 provement in the river. We pulled our boat over bars, roots, 

 trees,. stones, briars, etc., and floated it over pools and worked 

 our best to make the railroad cut, five miles below, uu'il 

 o'clock, wdieu we camped for Ihe night, my chum celebrating 

 tin- event by catching a trout weighing just oue and a half 

 pounds. 



Tuesday morning it rained until about noon, when it 

 cleared, and we were on our way again. The water was 

 deeper after a couple of hours' run; we could ride with ea.w, 

 and take in all Ihe fine looking pools with sit tisfac Lion. 

 About six o'clock we. pitched tent at au old deserted loggirg 

 camp, Thus far we have pushed ahead too hard, have, in fat t, 

 been in too great a hurry, and we resolve to take matters 

 tnore easily and to go slow. 



Wednesday morning we were out bright and early, taking 

 advantage of the beautiful morning and the cool, fresh, 

 bracing air, and after a turn at a co-aple of Irout pools in our 

 vicinity, we are off again. But a short distanco is uaveled 

 before we sight a long, deep, black looking pool on the cuter 

 curve, about fifty feet long and about fifteen lo twenty feet 

 wide, while ou the inner curve the water was quite slndlow. 

 " Stub er up ; rou 'er over i here, Cap., up to the bonk in 

 the shallow water ; no noise I" Out goes my chum's line, . 

 and in less. than two moments a half pound -trout is in the 

 bottom of the boat. Out goes iny line, zip ! and I have jn 



