July 14, 1881.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



475 



§m tmd §iver Jfishmg. 



FISH 1ST SEASON Itf JITI/IT. 



Salmon, Salmo mlar. 



Bl'UOK Trulll.. .V'OVITVO/A ;-.,,i 

 KalubOW Trout, ,vi/»<t, iridra. 

 Dolly Vaiden Trout, SaleeKntts 



Rriiyiing, Thymallus tricolor and 



J'. -,Hvhtti„o.,. 



Black Kas,, .m.rojj,!,),.,' saftnoides 



and J/, pallidum 

 Jlrtscalonye, i&ws nolilior. 

 FlUHerbl, t&uz rtacutatH*. 

 Pike or Pickerel, K«o* rfueflM. 

 Pike-perch (wall-eyed pike) 



Rlizntethum americemum, S. 



r/riwm, etc. 

 fellow l'erch, Perca flvviatilU. 

 .Striped Bass, Poccns lineatu*. 

 Whltti baw, H'jccuM cnrynopit. 

 Hock Bass, Ambloplitet. (Two 



species). 

 War-tnout h, Chcenobryttue gutoaus. 

 Crapple, J'miozys nigromaculaluz. 

 Kaehelor, Porttozyx annularU. 

 i 'lllltj, .Semot-U'K ■■orpnratU. 

 Sliiifi. .twin /.TiMMi'-f ''«";, 



Sea Bass, Centrorrintii atrartun. 

 Striped Bass or linckflsh, /<n«w« 



tnieatvs. 

 White Percll. Moronc amerienna. 

 Bluertsli or Taylor, Ptmi#tqnw 



saltatriz 

 Scup or 1'orgle, vttiiotomwi amy- 



raps. 

 Pollock, Poltachivs carbonariii*. 

 Tautog or Blaclatsh. Tauto-ia 



cmitia. 



SALT WATER. 



Weakrisli or Squetague, Cynoscyon 



re.ialin. 

 La Fayette or Spot, JAattmtmaoW- 



ipiv.us. 

 Channel Bass. Spot or Redflsh, 



acf&ftopa ovetlutas. 

 Sheepsuead, A rchaaargu* probato- 



cjilialuts. 

 Klngtish or Barb, Menticirrva 



itebulosuj. 



" ; Tis reported by Pliny, but perhaps 'Us but. a Pllnylsm, that there 

 18 a fish called Lucerna, whose tongue doth STiTJH like a torch. It it 

 be a fable let tbe tongue ol a minuter be the moral of that fable. 

 Now, such an 1 lumlnat'.ng tongue was that or one Plerson "— .Prom 



:,',! introduction to biographical sketch of Abraham Pierson, in Cotton 

 Mather's " Magnalta.' 



If totj Know of a Good Plaok to camp and fish, or to 

 board and fish this summer, report it for the benefit of 

 others. 



MR. PRICHARD ON THE FLY CAbTLNG TOURNA- 

 MENT. 



New York, July 11. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



i will avail myself of the privilege you kindly extend to 

 me of correcting tmy incorrect statement puolL-hed in the 

 editorial account of the fly casting of the 28d. 



In the first place, on ihe salmon casliutr, you state that I 

 "lost several flies." This is incon ect. I lost but one, and 

 that 1 did not. replace because there was but one minute left 

 of the five which were allowed me. Now sir, I would like to 

 know why some of the contestants were allowed fifteen 

 ruinutes instead of Ave. I should also like to know why 

 some of the contestants were allowed to leave the platform, 

 ar.d walk forward to the edge of tbe pond and ihen back; 

 enabling them to get their lines straight out before casting. 

 Again, I iliink the judges should have examined each of the' 

 contestant's leaders as soon as he had made his casting. I 

 do not understand how my opponents wi re enabled to throw 

 th'ir flies into ihe grass behind them, and then forward, yet 

 never losing a fly, nor did their hooks ever once foul m the 

 grass. This matter very much surprised me indeed. I also 

 object to your saying of my trout easting, that 1 "failed to, 

 or could not retrieve." It, is true I failed to, because 1 was 

 not aware thai 1 was required to reirieve — not because I 

 could not. Before ibat you saw me cast further than any of 

 my opponents, and yet 1 had no difficulty in retrieving; in 

 (act that part of it seemed so unimporumt that I gave it no 

 thought, until 1 was told lhat the rides required that it should 

 be ai tended to. 



I trust that these remarks will not be attributed to a carp- 

 ing spirit. In making them I am actuated by the same feel- 

 ing which 1 know you entertain yourself — a desire that on 

 future ' ccasious Ihe most accurate justice may be done to 

 everybody. I t-ive myself but little credit for my own per- 

 formances on that day. The consciousness of veteran com- 

 petitors around me, and it being my first attempt in such a 

 contest gave me something like what you would call stage- 

 fright, a feeling not calculated to command success on any 

 occassion. But for nest year let us hope lhat there will be 

 improvement all around. Harkv Pbichahd. 



Mr. Pilchard's candid letter shows that he thinks that 

 some favoritism was shonji in the matter of the allowance of 

 time allowed to the coiite.'tanlF. Ibis, and st me other ponts, 

 plainly point out what Mr. Pricbard will readily allow to be 

 true, that be came to tbe contest wholly unprepared in point 

 Of knowledge of the rules of such contests. The men who 

 appear to have been allowed fifteen minutes, instead of five, 

 claimed time under tbe rule which says : " Each c ntestant 

 Shall be allowed five minutes for syle, delicacy ami accuracy 

 in cas ing, and five minutes more for length of leich; and in 

 case of accident, such as parting o>- fouling of the fly or line, 

 the Referee may allow additional 'ime in his discretion." 

 1 his » paid have been allo« ed Mr. Pricbard as read )y as the 

 others if he had asked for time to replace his fly, no matter 

 if it had taken ten minutes to do it. in regard to their walk- 

 ing to the edge of the pond tn get out a line before beginning 

 to cast, we do not know why it was done and do not see any- 

 thing gained by it, but if it had been objected to, the obj .c- 

 tion Would have been entertained. 



Concerning our remark lhat Mf. Prichard "failed to or 

 could not i etrieve," we (an only say that he was cautioned 

 several times on this subject, and the impression, as ex- 

 pressed by many, was that he could not. We gave him ihe 

 benefit of tbe doubt. " No cast shall be valid unless the line 

 be retrieved," says Ihe rule. This may have been to prevent 

 a cast being counted when tbe wind was with the cas'er so 

 strong as to help him out with more lme than he can prop- 

 erly handle; ami it seems to he a good one. 



We are pleased to have Mr. Pricbard's views on his first 

 attempt to cast in public, where be made a most creditable 

 attempt to wrest the championship from tbe veterans, and 

 we repeat what we said before, that, in future he will make 

 them look to their laurels, which have been worn quite 

 easily for some years. 



That the late contest had many imperfections no one 

 knows better than ourselves, but it was so much better and 

 more perfect than any previous one that all acknowledge 

 it to be a long stride in advance toward a perfect system, 

 at least all who are familiar wi h th- history of the fly- 

 castings. And now a word on rules. Much was said before 

 the tournament about some needed cbnnges in them, but 

 at the last moment it was decided not to attempt it ; but on 

 the ptiuciple lhat ihe best thing to do with an obnoxious 

 law is to fully enforce i', we concluded to make the five 

 foot allowance for rods, hoping that its injustice would be 

 bo apparent that it would be repealed at the meeting. It 



was- announced that a meeting would beheld on the even ng 

 after the tournament, when these things would be consid- 

 ered. We attended, and none of the fly-ca ters were there. 

 The shooting members were discussing ibeir affairs, and 

 would probably htvo passed any amendments to the fly- 

 casting rules which we offered, but as we knew that there 

 were persons who held opposite opinions on the rules we 

 declined to take advantage of their absence to amend them 

 to our way of thinking, and so the meeting of fly-casters 

 came to naught. 



If tou K>ow of a Good Place to camp and fish, or to 

 board and fish this summer, report it for the benefit of 

 others. 



TIM TOSD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



1 have just received the following letter from rav friend, a 

 reverend D. D. I think it has gri-at value to your readers. 

 The flies c miplained of are le*s troublesome after middle of 

 July and mosquitoes after first of August. Mr. Smith writes 

 that on a recent trip to the Seven Ponds he saw seven deer 

 within short rifle rau 6 e. J. VV. T. 



Tim Pond, Me., Julv 5, 1881. 

 Friend T.: 



In writing to the loved ones at, home 1 have scut one or 

 two messag, s to you ; but though fred, having just returued 

 from catching twenty-five nice trout wilh the fly, I will re- 

 deem my promise. 



First, then, all you have said as to tbe abundance of the 

 trout and the sport, of taking them with tbe fly i have more 

 than verified in my own experience. Two, and sometimes 

 three of us, have been able to supply the camp wilh our 

 fishing mornintr and evening, and only once have we been 

 out before breakfast. We bad a' undance to-day for twelve 

 persons, six of them men Mr. Smith has at work cuMlug ihe 

 last two miles to the Seven P, nds. lie expects to have it 

 ready this week, and hopes to have a camp up also, when he 

 will be ready for his friends. When this is done, from 

 what I hear from all the woodsmen around here, it will be 

 the grandest place, to catch trout in the United States. They 

 are larger in this pond, but I d,ubt if they will afford better 

 sport. The most I should fear would be the abundant:!- of 

 the fish, unhss we had a legiment to eat them when caught, 

 as you know no true sportsman would catch more than ihe 

 wants of the camp requited, 



This, too, must be agrand place for game in Sep'ember and 

 October. Iutravelingaround we s- eabiuidauceof rulfedgrous-", 

 hear bears at night making a noise (one was caught in a trap 

 a few days since), and this eveniug, while fis'iing. a magnifi- 

 cent largi- buck came to the edge of the pond and stood lo dt- 

 ingat u« in the boat, not more than two hundred yards away. 

 I am a great friend of game laws, but if I had bad a good 

 title in my hands it would have been a severe strain on sound 

 principles. 



I am very much pleased with Mr. Smith and his son 

 Edgar. Tbey are as obliging as they possibly can be, and 

 think nothing of any tioulde which will add to the con- 

 venience or pleasure of their guests. His c mips are a real 

 luxury iu the woods, and not only protect you from the cold 

 and rain, but are fitted up to shield you from rnOfcqtiTtoes and 

 flks— a necessiiy in June and to the middle of July. The 

 cooking thus far has been all any reasonable man could ask, 

 as a'so the variety of food fr the table. But my daily diet 

 is trout, either broiled or fried in pork, and of these I never 

 tire ; and for dessert I am satisfied with maple sugar aud nice 

 biscuits. Now, yon have my opinion, or rather experience, 

 of and at Tim Pond. It has been an unalloyed pleasure, 

 wilh three exceptions — the absence from my family, the 

 want of old and coneenial companion*, and last, but most 

 numerous, tbe plagues of the forest, black flies and mosqui- 

 toes. These last will compel me to make a shorter stay than 

 I purposed. It is impossible to write or study for them, and 

 I will have to go where I can. Now get your locks on to bar 

 out the rascals, and come here and enjoy yourself as a ra- 

 tional man, for all hands are waitiog to welcome you. 



If tou Know of a Good Place to camp and fish, or to 

 board and fish this summer, report it for the benefit of 

 others. 



THE FISHERY CENSUS. 



THE Census Bulletin No. 176, dated at the Department of 

 the Inleri'T, Census Office, May 24, 1881, being a com- 

 munication from Prof. G. Brown Goode, Special Agent in 

 charge of Fishery Division, to Hon. Francis a. Walker, Su- 

 perintendent of tbe Census, is the first of a scries of prelim- 

 inary reports upon the fishery industries of the United Stales. 

 It, embodies a report upon the st-itisiics of the Pacific States 

 and Territories, consisting of four tables in which are pre- 

 sented the statistics of California, Oregon, AVashington and 

 Alaska. 



Table 1 shows the number of men engaged in the above 

 States and Territories in the fisheries. It includes tbe fisher- 

 men proper, and the shoremen and factory hands, or all who 

 live direct'y from the fisheries. These are: 



Cod fisheries, 2113 ; fur seal, lib ; ceneral fisheries, 5 650 ; 

 marine salt industry, 140; oyster, 75: salmon. 8,400; seal, 

 219; shore, 1,744; whale, 114; total 16,745. 



Of the above the following are the nationalities: Esqui- 

 maux, Aleuts and Indians. 7,010 ; and about 4,v00 Chinese. 



Table 2 shows the number of boats employed 10 lie 5.547, 

 aud their value to be $404,095; vessels, 53, value, $17^,430. 

 Value of buildings aud apparatus of manufacture, $960,0^0 

 making a total of capital inves ed, $2,748 383. 



Table 3 ^o«s the number of salmon fislnries and canner- 

 ies of the PaciSc coast, statistics of fishermen, boat", capital 

 invested in the fisheries and first products of the same and 

 of canneries; capital invested in canneries, product of the 

 canneries, number of factory bands, wilh lotals of capital, 

 persons employed and va ue of product for Lhe entire indus- 

 try. 



Table 4 shows tbe quantities and values of the products of 

 the sea bordering Pacific States and Territories. 



If top Know of a Good Plaok to camp and fish, or to 

 board and fish this summer, report it for the benefit of 

 others. 



A West Virginia Camp— Pittsburg, Pa,, July, 1881.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream,' A parly of four wish to start 

 from Pittsburg this summer, and camp somewhere within 



150 miles of that place where we can combine bass and trout 

 fishing with shooting of any kind (rifle or shotgun). 

 VV bat we want is good sport.— S. P. S. 



Go to Cumberland, thence to Keyser ; thence stage to 

 Pittsburg. Stop at Cunningham's Hotel ; and there you will 

 find information of exact localities. Tbe whole couutry 

 thereabout is a fine one for fishing and shooting, the latter 

 now out of season. You can find all tha fish you want with- 

 in five miles of Pittsburg. Board can be obtained at the 

 farm- houses. If you want to camp out you must take your 

 tent irom Pittsburg. Report to the Forest ajjd Stebam 

 for benefit of others. 



HOW TO TAKE LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 



Salisbury, Vt., June 19. 



I AM informed by the people who live near this bi-autiful 

 lake that some years ago there were a quantity of land- 

 locked salmon put into the lake and that none have ever, as 

 yet, been caught. There are quantities of perch found dead, 

 having been bitten ia tbe back, aud the oldest inhabitant is 

 of the opinion they are bitten by the salmon. Can you give 

 me any information on their ha its, and what you would 

 make use of for bait? It may be that the other fish iu tbe 

 lake have destroyed them, but it will be no harm to prospect 

 for them. Lawson B. Bell. 



If there are salmon in the lake we should think that some 

 one would see them rising at flies occasionally. If they 

 won't take flies, try a live minnow trolled in de p water near 

 the bottom by leading the line. 



If tou Know of a Good Place to camp and fish, or to 

 board and fish ihis maimer, report it for the benefit of 

 Others. 



Fishing on the New Jersey Coast and in Pennsylvania 

 Rivers— Philadelphia, July 9. — During the past week the 

 fishing along lhe Jersey eoa-t has not" been at all good. I 

 wrote you wiek before of the fairly goocLprospects repor'ed 

 to me, but I am informed by fishermen returning from Cape 

 May, Townsend's Inlet, Eeesley's Point, Atlantic City and 

 Tuckerton bay that the catches are scarcely worth mention- 

 ing. All reports are of the s uue tenor. Outside lhe bay and 

 inlets tbe fish seem to be in numbers and are large when 

 taken. Bluefish are plentiful outside, and are being takeu 

 from boats able to eo to where they are. At Belierion, the 

 celebrated perch fishing ground at the mouth of the sassa- 

 fras River, the fish have not put in their appeiranco. Op- 

 posite Crovc Point they r are noit est, but the run is exnecied 

 daily. They are a little late this year. 1> the Schuylkill 

 River fishermen are l aking some bass. The Susquehanna is 

 full of them, aud a great many large ones are being taken 

 there at all points. — Homo. 



Salmon in Canada. — .Mr. George Dawson, of the Albany 

 Journal, has just returned from a two week-,' trip to the 

 .Marguerite, a tributary of tbe Saguenay. He reports the 

 fishing as of the poorest descripuon, and, although he had a 

 pleasant trip and a most enjoyable time otherwise and came 

 back much refreshed, be got but few fish. Hut lor lhe vil- 

 lainous assault on the President by the murderer Guitetiu and 

 Uib critical position of Gen. Garfield, Mr. Dawson might 

 have remained longer. He tells u* that up to the 0th of J uly 

 not twenty salmon entered the river, according to tbe obser- 

 vations of the men who watch closely below lor lhe coming 

 of the fish. Some fish which would have gone up were 

 stopped by the ne'S at, the mouth of the Saguenay. It had 

 been promised that the nets should be removed as soon as 

 two hundred fish had been taken; and while Mr. Dawson 

 does not know the exact number cap ured when he left the 

 river, he doubts that these figures had been reached. 



The fish seen and those t ken were large, but their num- 

 bers in the Marguerite, as well as in tbe other tributaries of 

 the Saguenay, were small. No other parlies have mad" any 

 catches in this district this year, and Mr. Dawson thinks 

 salmon fishing on the Saguenay is a thing of the past. 



Large Brook Trout — Rockland, Mass., June 24 — There 

 was quite a little breeze of excitement created in our town 

 by the arrival home on Saturday, June 18, of E. P. Wheeler 

 and W. F. Burreli, two ameteur fishermen, from the lakes of 

 Maine, bringing with them a good siring of trout. The lat- 

 ter gentleman had one which weighed six and three-fourth 

 p uuds. It was a speckled brook trout caught in Lower 

 Riehap'sou Lake, in the narrows three miles above the mid- 

 dle dam. Tbe fish was caught with an angle worm, after 

 ihey had tried miunows and flies and the trout would not 

 rise. 



The night before in the same spot, a trout was caught 

 weighing six and one-half pounds. 1 would like to inquire 

 of some brother sportsman how large a speckled brook trout 

 has been known to have been caught? Rookxantj. 



How to Rio Old-Fashioned Reels. — In the article pub- 

 lished, July 7, on how to rig the old fashioned wo den reels, 

 there was a mistake made in saying that the wire run through 

 the rod. It should have s iid. Bend the strong wire in about 

 the form of the lefer Z, wiih th* large loop at the end, and 

 the small loop at lhe other end. Then, when adjusted to the 

 nd, b iy tbe reel is on the under side and the nut on the top 

 side, the wire will lie close against the left side of the rod, 

 and it, will he held in place a3 firm as if the wire did run 

 through lhe rod; and further, it will not be in the way of the 

 band when you grasp the rod ahead of the reel ; and still bet- 

 ter because, when ihe nut is removed to release the reel, the 

 wire will fall off also. Please correct and oblige, 



F. A. L. 



Maine Fishing Notes.— The Belfast Republican Journal 

 says : "Asalmon weighing twenty pounds ha3 recently been 

 caught iu tbe Androscoggin, and the hope is entertained that 



this river may soon be stocked with tbem again A salmon 



weighing nineteen pounds wbb caught in the East Machias 

 River last week. Fish have been plentiful in this river, due, 



the Un'on thinks, to the enforcement of me fish laws The 



Howe Farm in answer to numerous inquiries says that Mr. 

 Henry O. Stanley, of D xfi Id, is theonly legal Fish Commis- 

 sioner. Mr. E. M. Stilhvell occupies lhe position of Acting 

 Commissioner, receiving h's authority from being ass-gned to 



duty by Mr. Stanley A sturgeon which weighed 150 



pounds when dressed" was caught iu the Kennebec at Rich- 

 mond recently." 



