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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[May 19, 1881. 



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SUUP 01' Poi'S'lfi «< notorial* uall/rojis. 



FiBHiNQ About New York.— We are prepared to direct auglera 

 to fishing resorts easily accessible from this city. This informa- 

 tion will be given upon personal application to thiB office or to 

 those who may inclose self-addressed envelope. The kind of fish- 

 ing, the distauco and tho tiino to ho spent should be stated. 



. . . . As an angler, he is one, wham old haak would 

 liave loved, for with him anglinf) is an idyllic pastime, a 

 contemplative man's recreation. He, has no aire for tte more 

 exciting branches of ike art. Be cares but little for the, toils 



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pike. More to his taste is the quid ramble beside the trout 

 stream, the scat in a punt, gudgeon fishing, or a still calm, even- 

 ing by a pool side, anffltng for tench, He himself will tell 

 you that he, is an angler because oj the opportunities it affords 

 for pleasant and profitable reverie. It was very little ■matter 

 wlut/ier ha caught fish or not when he went a- fishing. From 

 what, we luivc ob*<roed, we doubt that the angler whose por- 

 trait we are sketching was born to the. art; we think, he was 

 rather led into its ij-rci-e by the deUght he. takes in its acces- 

 sories; tia.refore he is, asurul', not u succcs ful angler. His 

 pursuit of the, fish themselves is net keen enmu/hfor that, and 

 he is too often led astray by some extraneous object. His 

 float nviy be carried down, ami the fish may entangle his line 

 in the weeds, the: while he is uwon-eimisly peering at the 

 petals of a /lower through a magnifying glass. His rod may 

 lie on the. bank of a stream. wAOe the minnows are nibbting 

 thefrath'r off his flits, and he will be absorbed in tht >twly of 

 gravel section.* OV roth strata laid bar, by thr winter loirt/Us. 

 Winn he returns to angling conseivufness, lie will extricate his 

 line from the treed?, or , at. jr. ,i: Hits on his line, \rilha quiet 

 smile, and without the hast impatience. 



G. Chkistopueh Daviks. 



from the trout looked and they have imitated it to perfection. 

 Just at night the Coachman, the Scarlet Ibis and White Mil- 

 ler do well. Now and then a brown hackle wi'l lure the 

 speckled denizens of the clear waters of the mountain 

 wreathed lakelet. But CoL Hayden, after some months 

 of experience, as well as myself and others, has decided 

 that the "Montreal " is the favorite. 



There are many good trout brooks near the farm house, 

 and a fine pickerel pond near "Flagstaff. There arc outside 

 places of amusement and plenty of game near the lake, with 

 dells, glens, cascades, ravines and gorges. About three and 

 a half miles away is a small beaver pond, boiling with the 

 gambols of good-sized trout. It is not the season for small 

 game. Bears and other large game are always plenty. All 

 these things add variety and pleasure. 



If there are other facts and particulars you desire in rela- 

 ion to this sportsmen's paradise, I should be glad to furnish 

 them, hoping that some of your readers may And the sanje 

 rich enjoyment at Tim Pond that I and about one hundred 

 others here realized, and intend to repeat. J. W. T. 



TROUTLNG IN TIM POND. 



I NOTICE in your ever live paper au advertisement from 

 Kennedy Smith, of Eustis, Maine. As all real sports- 

 men wish to aid each other, evidence of which is often seen 

 in your columns in various ways, allow me to say that Tim 

 Pond is one of the few places Where ttOUt are very plenty, 

 and the place is easy of access. I do not mean it is cloBe by 

 home. But one can leave New York at evening and the 

 next evening be at Kingfield, or North New Portland, ac- 

 cording to the route they may take. From Boston the route 

 is by boat or Maine Central Railroad to Portland. From 

 Portland by rail to Farmington, thence by stage to Kingfield 

 and to Smith's Farm. At Kingfield Mead's hotel is oue of 

 the best, for an invalid, pleasure tourist or sportsman that it 

 has ever been my lot to find in Northern Maine. There are 

 many excellent trout brooks within easy distance of this 

 hotel. Aud on the route from Kingfield to Smith's Farm 

 you follow the banks of the Conybassett River nearly eighteen 

 miles. This river has many trout, and a few years since was 

 as well Blocked as any in Maine. The scenery ia wild and 

 very beautiful, the road good, if, perhaps, at this season we 

 Except the nine miles of new road (four years old), through 

 Jerusalem \ after leaving this road it is nine miles to the 

 Smith Farm, with as tine mountain scenery as can be found 

 in New England or Switzerland. 



Dan Clark & Son run the stage from Farmington to Eus- 

 tis. Many of your readers will recollect the senior propi 

 tor as the veritable old "whip," who, years since, took th 

 to Rangeley. His outfit is complete in all respects and ra 

 reasonable. If a party chooses to go from Portland to West 

 Water ville they can there take the Somerset Railroad to 

 North Anson ; John Aver is president ; I knew him when a 

 schoolmate, his rank ran high, but not higher than afterward 

 as a leading manufacturer of his State, or as a railroad man- 

 ager. His*road, as well as the other, sells round trip tickets. 

 Two years since there was a good hotel at North New Port- 

 land, eight miles from North Anson. I think there is one at 

 Anson. 



1 have been over the route from Farmington to Eustis five 

 times, and always find new charms. I have once been Erotn 

 Eustis to New Portland ; tho drive is somewhat longer and 

 the road very good. It passes through " Flaggstaff," whore 

 Arnold lost so many soldiers on his way to Quebec, then 

 along Dead River, at the foot of Mt. Bigelow, for several 

 miles. Just as the road turns into the " Notch " there is a 

 good hotel, though with rather high prices. After turning 

 from the Dead River banks the road comes upon what is called 

 the "Horseback," a "ridge," barely wide enough for a car- 

 riage track, which is some hundreds of feet above the brooks 

 and meadows below, while the peaks of the mountains on 

 either side are thousands of feet above the "Horseback." 

 Through " Lexington Plantation" the road is like a race 

 track in a trotting park. As I am writing for your patrons 

 and not for hotels or routes, I have spoken of both ways of 

 reaching Smith's Farm. 



I have been to Tim Pond for trouting and shooting three 

 times, and before I am a year older I hope I shall have been 

 there twice more, because I can get uroieand better trout and 

 game for tho outlay of money, time and fatigue than any 

 other place I have yet f ouud, after many years of experience, 

 and because the scenery is just what one covets. A man in 

 (Jomieeticut, who has "been there once, and I hope will soon 

 be there again, said to mc last Saturday} that after more 

 than forty years ol fishing— he has been in poor health the 

 last ten years — Tim Pond waB the only place that com- 

 pletely satisfied him in the number of trout, the quality of 

 the scenery, the cabins aud fair treatment that he had yet 

 "ouud, though he had traversed Connecticut, New York aud 

 Maine. 



If such of your readers as go there are to use bait they 

 know what they prefer. If they are to use the fly, permit 

 me to say that the "Montreal," as made by Wm. Mills & 

 Son, ia the most successful I told them how the fly cut 



FI8H PROTECTION IN CALIFORNIA. 



THE San Francisco correspondent of Forest and Stream 

 writes us that there is great complaint from all who 

 have tried the streams this season of the scarcity of fish; 

 aud this in the face of the fact that many of these streams 

 hsve beenstockedbythevery active Fish Commissioners of Cal- 

 ifornia. Along most of the California streams which are easily 

 accessible from the larger cities, numerous Portuguese and 

 Greeks have settled, particularly the former. These people 

 are vandals, respecting no gaine laws and doing as they 

 please. They keep their affairs among themselves, aud 

 while one will know of the Other's law-breaking, people of 

 other nations are kept in the dark. These people, usually 

 small farmers, vignerous or woodchoppers, kill the fi=h at all 

 times. They use traps, lime, etc.. and, in Ibe pools, giant 

 powder, People are so accustomed to the use of giant pow- 

 der in mining operations and in splitting logs, etc., that 

 cartridges are not scarce and are very handy Several dozen 

 fish can be taken by usiug oue cartridge. " Our correspond- 

 ent savs he took five traps out of a stream in oue day's fish- 

 ing last sea°on. In one stream a gentleman living near by 

 had put 10,000 trout two years in succession, mr they were 

 trapped and blown up anil the stream was depopulated. He 

 gave up the attempt to stock it. Aud this, our correspond- 

 ent, says, is a common experience. Several sportsmen's clubs 

 have been organized with the ostensible object of protecting 

 the fish, buff most of them have established preserves on 

 lakes, etc., and general preservation has not been aimed at. 

 With the game clubs pigeon shooting has obscured the idea 

 of preserving game. 



A club in Marion County, organized to protect the a! reams, 

 had a man to watch before the season opened. He caught 

 several irresponsible boys, and forcibly took " red-banded " a 

 prominent member of the Spor smanClub, well known as an 

 enthusiastic lover of angling, but never before suspected of 

 law-breaking. He was prosecuted, but was freed because he 

 averred that he bad caught chubs and iriven them to China- 

 men. That is the plea he got off on. Enthusiastic anglers 

 are, however, not usually noted for a fondness for chubs, 

 nor Californians for philanthropy to Chinamen. He was 

 seen to take tho fish and put them in his basket. A new 

 trial will be had. 



Our correspondent also informs us that a number of gen- 

 tlemen in San Francisco are about organizing a society with 

 the exclusive object of protecting the fish and game of the 

 Stale. They will enlist the aid of gentlemen residing in the 

 country; 



The vcinninish from Maine has been successfully acclimatized 

 in California, The San Francisco Hail says : " At a meeting 

 of the Academy of Sciences last week, T. D, Wakcleo pre- 

 sented a specimen of land-locked salmon, caught in Felt's 

 Lake, San Mateo County, this being the first specimen of 

 this valuable fish caught on this coast. The circumstance is 

 worthy of note, in that it proves that the Eastern land-locked 

 salmon, a most excellent good fish, will propagate aud flourish 

 in California waters. The eggs from which this particular 

 fish was derived were receive'd from the Government ofiicials 

 aud placed in Felt's Lake by onr State Fish Commissioners 

 two years ago last December. The fish exhibited was some 

 eighteen inches long, which shows the size the fish will attain 

 in" that time. There is no doubt of its being the true Salmo 

 Sebngo, as all its markings agree exactly with the descriptions 

 in the books. The Fish Commissioners are very much grati- 

 fied at the result of thiB lot of eggs, as the fish is a valuable 

 addition to our food supply. Moreover, what sportsmen will 

 all rejoice in, is the fact that it is a first-class game fish, tak- 

 ing the fly readily. Eggs of this fbh have been put in Tulare 

 Espinosa, Tahoe, Donuer, and several other lakes and streams, 

 but this is the first specimen of this salmon taken. Felt's 

 Lake, where it was caught, is an artificial reservoir, with very 

 little water flowing into it." 



The Gall makes an appeal to sportsmen to broaden their 

 views and devise plans for the protection of fish aud game in 

 the whole State, instead of the few preserves in which they 

 arc individually interested. This is the proper way to pro- 

 ceed in order to avoid all appearance of selfishness, aud we 

 hope the sportsmen of the State will heed the Call, which 

 truly says: "Our city sportsmen are too apt to consider 

 themselves the onlv sportsmen. They are apt to look upon 

 country people as all 'pot hunters.' They have ignored the 

 existence of many good men who could help in preserving 

 the fish and game"; in fact, the only men who would see the 

 laws enforced, by being on the spot when they are broken, 

 and where the law-breakers could be detected and pimished. 

 Fish ponds for members and shooting matches between mem- 

 bers arc very good things in their way, but neither will pro- 

 tect fish or game. It is reasonably certain that should the 

 society referred to succeed in getting gentlemen in the country 

 to interest themselves, and to apt as guardians of the streams, 

 the State Fish Commissioners would do all they could in 

 stocking streams so geanled. Organizing clubs alone will 

 not do. Advertising rewards will not do. Passing resolutions 

 will not do. It needs practical co-operation among all classes 

 of sportsmen, and the country sporsmen can do mare than all 

 in the city. But let both join hands in the good work, and 

 benefit will result." 



Derivation op "Bass"— In yoer editorial of April 21 

 on the local names of fishes, a statement often found in 

 American books on angling, is repeated, that the word bass 

 ia a corruption of the Dutch barsch, meaning a perch. In 

 the works of Couch aud of Yarrell upon British fishes may be 

 found a cut and a description of a "bass," a marine fish of 



the English coast, which is evidently a perch by the descrip- 

 tion, and is stated to be a game Ash, often taken with hook 

 and line. Besides this testimony that the word is good En- 

 glish, we have that of the early settlei-3 of Massachusetts, who 

 often mention the bass fisheries as important sources of pro- 

 fit | so that they were in Plymouth farmed out to individuals 

 for the benefit of the colony. By their frequent and familiar 

 use of the name bass, it would appear that these people 

 brought the word with them from England and applied it to 

 the American fish, as they, in many other eases, applied Eu- 

 ropean names to American animals — S. C. C. 



Our correspondent iB correct, but we did not mean that 

 the name of " bass " was an " Americanism." "Bass "and 

 "Perch" have a common derivation. Both are now distinct 

 English words, and refer to fishes which belong to the family 

 Peraidm. Webster gives "bass, a corruption of barse," and 

 refers to the latter, ne gives the derivation of barse as from 

 the Anglo-Saxon bean, baers ; Danish baars; German bars, 

 barsch, baersich ; Latin perea, etc. Our idea was merely to 

 show that the names originally referred to the same fish, and 

 that in the case of a fish called perch at the South and bass 

 at the North, there was equally good authority for both. The 

 "black bass" of the North is in some parts called " black 

 perch," the "sun-fish" becomes "sun-perch," etc. 



How a love for the natural world may be carried into the 

 furnishing of the dwelling is told by Dr. Thad S. Up de Graff 

 in his tribute to a friend, which was published in T/ie Bistoury 

 for October, 1880 : 



' ' Were we called upon to pen a single sentence, revealing 

 the character of our friend, A. L. Williams— now dead — we 

 should say ',he loved the birds and flowers.' Loved them 

 with a consuming, never ceasing ardor, that lighted up his 

 face and sparkled in ht3 tender eye, at the very glimpse of 

 them. Many times have we seen him leave the stream, when 

 engaged in the gentle art, to climb a precipitous bank, there, 

 to fondle a delicate anemone which his keen eye had dis- 

 covered. Seated upon the grassy bank of a rippling moun- 

 tain stream, we have listened to his eloquent praise of some 

 favorite flower, or of the song of a well known bird His 

 eye ever on the alert for a new wild flower ; his ear quick to 

 catch the first note of every feathered songster. Hin acquain- 

 tance with nature extended beyond that gleaned from books 

 — it waB a familiar knowledge, born of an intimate compan- 

 ionship with the creatures of his choice. Every tiny flower 

 that struggled for an existence in the tangled grass, or be- 

 neath a fallen tree, found a ready, cheerful rescuer at his 

 hands, for he knew their haunts and searched for them with 

 a never-failing delight. To hear him talk to the birds and 

 comment upon their habits, was alone richly worth a day's 

 ramble in his company. The bird that chirped unseen in the 

 branches of a tree or soared away to the clouds was quickly 

 recognized and some peculiar habit unfolded to the com- 

 panion who cared to listen. A taxidermist of considerable 

 skill, it was not strange that his dwelling was ornamented 

 with the beautiful creatures that he so much loved. Ashe 

 pointed out each pretty specimen of his handiwork a little 

 story of its capture was always related, revealing the great 

 enjoyment that his excursions to the woods invariably en- 

 gendered. Bird-nests of various kinds hung suspended by 

 the picture frames of his sitting-room, at home ; birds were 

 grouped in various attitudes about the apartment, while ferns 

 and wild flowers grew in cones and from brackets constructed 

 of fungus growths taken from the forest trees. Thus, in his 

 dwelling, was his fondness for nature manifested." 



Notes pkom Eagle's Nbst. — May 11, — Fishing is very 

 late this year. A few worm-drowners have caught small 

 baskets of small trout. They will not rise to fly in snow water 

 here, and we have drifts in our mountains yet five feet deep, 

 if an inch — I do not know but more. Over in Davenport, 

 Mr. Snyder, one of your old subscribers, and a true sportsman 

 on land or water, has been snatching up illegal fishermen, 

 aud Justice O'Connor has been teaching them the terrors of 

 the law. All honor to both. I have just received fifteen 

 thousand California mountain trout eggs from my long-lime 

 friend and ancient comrade, Seth Green ; and John N. Ben- 

 nett, another worshipper at the shrine of the Forest and 

 Stream, is already hatching them out with fine success. He 

 says he will not lose thirty eggs out of the entire lot. He is 

 a splendid fishcultutist. I have not yet wet a line, but I 

 have got my Orvis rod out, looked over my tackle, and shall 

 soon try a May fly over on the glad waters of the bright 

 Beaverkill. And will I not report to the Forest and 

 Streaai ? Yea, verily — so mote it be ! — Ned Bchtline. 



The IjAkk Mkgantto Roitte— Sherbrooke, P. Q., Miry 14. 

 —"E.J. T."can reach this place by the Grand Trunk, or 

 by the Passumpsic railway. From here to Lake Megautic, 

 the present terminus of the International Railway, 70 miles. 

 Return ticket, $3.85. After 25lh inst., small steamer through 

 lake 12 miles; one mile portage to Spider Lake. Guides 

 are: S. D. Ball, Pierre Le Royer (Indian) and Ed. Noel. P. 

 O. address, Agnes, Lake Megautic, P. Q. Terms, ft to $1 .50 

 per day. Fishing for trout aud lunge, fly and trolling, after- 

 June 1. I have visited Lake Megantic every year for the 

 last eighteen years, and will be happy to give any informa- 

 tion in my power respecting it. Supplies can be obtained 

 here and at the lake.— D. T. 



B The Nkpisic cut Salmon Grounds— New York, May 12 — 

 I am informed that the land on both sides of the pools on the 

 "Rough Waters " of the Nepisiguit River, New Brunswick, 

 bas been bought by some parties. This was the portion of 

 the stream where "salmon fishing was formerly obtainable 

 from the fishery officer at $1 per" day per rod. The land on 

 all the salmon pools above was purchased some time ago by 

 some anglers, and tho fishing was also under lease, by the 

 Dominion Government, which has led to law suits now pend- 

 ing. So, there is now no "public" fishing on the river, 

 which, by the way, bas furnished very poor sport of late 

 years and is rapidly deteriorating.— Manhattan. 



Trouting in Pennsylvania. — Last week some good trout 

 fishing was had at Jim Henry's neighborhood. Pa. All dis- 

 ciples of Walton know where Jim's is, so I need not give 

 the route to get there. Theard, an old and expert fly-fisher- 

 man, stated only to-day that he had fished almost every 

 stream in our State where there was room to make a cast, 

 and after all found that Jim's house was as good a starting 

 point to reach fairly good waters as he could find in Pennsyl- 

 vania.— Homo. 



