July 2), 1881.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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sight he make! 



B8h for it -without -waiting to 

 ;i-k. -■ w Qft i uuvo we Here?" Il is the most killing lure for 

 pickerel I ever ufeeci, aud I verily believe that bad I be©] 

 ejisposed [cdntd have taken a hundred of tl.em ina, day's 

 fishing, t i,, ok a dozen or ©ore large bass with these pieces 

 of fia, but it seems to be the one particular sham the longj 

 faces have been looking after, for Io .' these many years. 



After taking eight dp ten fish with the halt of a flu, it. be- 

 comes worn ami split by their teeth till it is usele:- . 

 another one wfcioti has the stripes of rusty black, dull red 

 and orange well defined, and repeat till you are worn out 

 handling them. 



I will say of the tw kinds f bass in this lake, the toge 

 and the sniall-mmithed, that they are identical with the 

 Muypppieraa jfallidns and 1/. : t' ;i e>' .. described by Prof. 



'''')• 'i'hey are g one 1o In ;■.,■■ _■ - .s-.r.-i L I J v in" :nn".11. 



mouthed ones, and I had more keen apart, and hieh enjoy- 

 ment handling a dozen of the largest ones, than with all the 

 pickerel I took, although it is rare fun to wear out and gaff 

 a ten or twelve pound longface. There may bo better sport 

 than black hass fishing, but the writer seekelh it not. neither 

 cloth he hanker after it. Contentment arissth and goetb" 

 forth wilh the bass fisher, in the early morning, it ling^reth 

 with him through the day ; and it abidelh with: him even un- 

 to the falling of the shadows of the evening, and unto the 

 closing of the day. True game, noble and glorious is the 

 black bass ; the peer of all his fellows of the waters, and as 

 the craft begins to appreciate his qualities, he fakes n step to 

 the front each year as the future game fish of the North and 

 West. Not many years, till he will flirt his tail in the face 

 of the last £>almoJvnlvm%8 of these regions, unless a law is 

 passed and enfurcal, to punish the murderers of innocent 

 Bngerliiigs, and to better protect the forests that give life to 

 the streams. 



Fr'ul iv morning and time to break camp came all too soon, 

 :,ll,i I prep ired to leave the little green island and go back to 

 the smoke, and dirt and din of the <' Paris of America" with 

 line regrets. The Cutler boys came over early in 

 the morning to help pack up, and by ten o'clock the sun'had 

 dried the dew out of the. tents and fly and everything was 

 reaily to put aboard the boats. 



This time, we used but two boats and made but one trip, 

 by lashing the boats together about three feet apart with 

 some loose boards, and loading the bulkier boxes on top as a 

 deck load, leaving room at each side to handle an oar. 

 ; One of the Cutler boys had engaged to take us to Manee- 

 lona by a road that promised a better way of getting out from 

 the lake than to go by Bcllaire, and believing there could not 

 be a «m way, I swallowed the bait eagerly, and wished 

 afterward I hadn't. Our point of debarkation— the only 

 place for a goodly distance along the east shore where a 

 wagon could get to the water— was near the mouth of our 

 little stream at- a " lauding" where a corduroy road bad been 

 made through the swamp from the hard land to the lake 

 shoie. Pap Cutler w as wailing for us with a new wagon 

 and a yoke of sleek, powerful young steers — a team that did 

 not promise much speed, but they proved sure and reliable 

 in miry places and wearisome, knee-deep sand hills that we 

 found on the waj r . I am sure a pair of ordinary horses 

 would have stuck in some quagmire or left us hard and fast 

 on a sand hill somewhere on that infernal road, aud I was 

 thankful before the end was reached that we had the patient, 

 ploding cattle, aud a careful driver to handle them, in the 

 person of Willard Cutler. When the wagon was loaded, 

 With head uncovered, I made a profoundbow to the beautiful 

 lake, said good-bye to Pap Cutler, who stayed behind to care 

 for the boats, and bade adieu to the " laughing waters of In- 

 termediate" 



We stopped a few minutes at Caller's house- which, wiili 

 bis outbuildings, make up the town of Lake Shore, post 

 office and all— to got an axe and a log chain, to be used in 

 case we should have to cut away a fallen tree from across 

 the road or meet, with a mishap of any kind. While wait- 

 ing, good, matronly Mother Duller filled the writer up with 

 cool, fresh buttermilk, for which he confesses a special weak- 

 ness, and at 12 it. Willard said, "Come, boys," to his pets, 

 and we were fairly in for a drive, or rather tramp, of fifteen 

 miles over a road that would develop profanity in a wooden 

 Indian. . 



It is enough to say of that road that there may be a few 

 '-<■-"■ i '"< ' ' ■' :■■:';< . •! ,-,"L-. -■*■:- r-ere ;;e;i c, . ._ - ,i .-.. , g.„,d. ','/■;: 

 walked nearly all ihe way, because we could not stay on the 

 wagon without being tied on. 



Five miles from the station we crossed Cedar River, stop- 

 ping awhile to rest the tired cattle aud our nearly played- 

 out legs. Here we cooled the red-hot inner man and boy 

 with copious draughts from the limpid stream, and went on 

 our way filled with fresh vigor and cold water. About three 

 miles further on we slopped at a farm house to get a drink 

 from a well 103 feet deep, and, judging from the extreme 

 coldness of the water, it must have had direct underground 

 communication with the deepest and coldest pool of Cedar 

 River. 



Prom here into town the road was better, and wo managed 

 to stay on the wagon, greatly to the relief of our weary legs 

 and the evident disgust of Willard's "boys - " 



An hour before sundown we drove up to the depot, thank- 

 ful that it was all over, and after checking the baggage and 

 billing the camp furniture through as freight, I dropped in 

 on Charley Persons, of the Mancelona House, to scour up 

 and see. how many of his 32 calibre biscuits it would tKkc, 

 flanked by a 2x4 beef steak, to fill a good sized area of cry- 

 ing emptiness, somewhere in the region below the dia- 

 phragm. In twenty minutes after the call to supper I had a 

 waiter-girl distracted and the genial Persons ready to make 

 an assignment. Appetites? Well, yes! Northern Michigan 

 is full of 'em. 



When the biscuits gave out the waiter-girl folded up her 

 exhausted frame into a chair, and Persons and I adjourned 

 outside to laugh at the antics of a young bear cub chained to 

 a stake in the yard. 



The train south came along at 11:05, and half an hour after 

 I was curled up on two seats, sound asleep and dreaming I 

 was back on the sparkling lake With the bass aud longfaces, 

 and the loons and kingfishers. 



Before reeling up this "hundred yard, bard twisted letter 

 of many kinks," I wish to say a word about the G. R. & I. 

 E. E. and its management, as affecting sportsmen. 



First, there is no region in the country as easy of acccess 

 as by this road that will afford the trout and bass fisher 

 better or more abundant sport. The "Six Lakes" chain is 

 literally alive with bass aud pickerel, and several of the 

 streams flowing into these lakes are full (if trout, with a f air 

 sprinkling of that " silvery beauty of the gorgeous dorsal," 

 the American grayling. 



The region around Petoskey is perhaps as good, but there 

 are too many people there during the season. Everybody— 



his uucle3 and his aunts and his aunt's sisters — goes there, 

 ill "the ".'<■ ;= are full of 'eta." Tlicy carap out, and they 

 slay at 'he hotels, and I hey overrun the country, and they 

 fish, and they don't fish -mostly don't. If you want, solitude — 

 and what true lover it lh< rod and n el docs not ?— if you want, 

 to have a private talk with chime N iture without being inter- 

 rupted or jostled by a crowd, go to the Six Lakes ; it you 

 don't, go to PetOskey and h-b Crooked, Burt and Mullet 

 lakes, and on tk-ough to Ohehoygftii. 



Peer aud ruffed grouse (local, "partridge,") are very 

 plenty in the regit d re Wa'Wfere, and later in the season 



the lakes are covered with thousands of wild geese and 

 chicks, but as all game and wild fowl are out. of season in 

 July except woodcock, they received no attention from us. 



A bear may be found almost any day along Cedar River, 

 but we bad not lost any bears that we knew of, and besides, 

 somehow, we did not care much about bear meat, 



But to come back Io the railroad. The management car- 

 ries dogs, guns and iishing tackle, with a liberal allowance 

 of traps, free, aud one can always get a civil and, respectful 

 answer to a question from the olticers and men, from con- 

 ductor down to the humblest "wheel polisher.* 1 



I have no acquaintance with Mr. VV\ O. Hughart, Presi- 

 dent and general manager of the whole line, but if he is 

 half as courteous and obliging and as solicitous of the com- 

 fort of the patrons of the road as are the meu under him 

 with whom We came ih contact, the directors have certainly 

 the right man iu the right place. 



The lower end of the line, from Fort Wayne to Richmond, 

 is under the able management of that clear-headed, sterling 

 old Quarker, Wm. Parry, well and familiarly known in East- 

 ern Indiana railroad circles as " Uncle Billy," and the angler 

 who may have occasion to "run " the end of the " tlsbjng- 

 line" held by him, may be assured that his Hues will be cast 

 in pleasant places and his comfort looked after by a crew of 

 careful and obliging tralu men. The road from Richmond 

 to Cincinnati is controlled by the 0. H. & D. E. R Co., and 

 is under the eye of that clever gentleman, Mr. Lew Will- 

 iams, general manager, to whom the writer is indebted for 

 many courtesies. 



Aw r ord about the expense. We were out from Cincinnati 

 seventen days, and our expenses, each, including $19.7.1 for 

 round trip ticket, were §42 and a few cents. This included 

 transportation from Maucelo.ua to the lake and back, boat 

 hire and camp boy, and we live! well and had everything 

 needful for a well conducted camp. 



I got home on Saturday night, aud Monday morning tell 

 into line and resumed the prose of life with new vigor aud 

 clear head, having enjoyed a trip that wit. never be forgotten. 

 And now, old friend, ray lines are reeled up, reels cleaned, 

 oiled and put away, rods uujointod, burnished up aud in their 

 cases, and the Editor, the Scribe and the writer are counting 

 the weeks till the time comes whe.u we (with yourself) may 

 again wet our lines in the "placid waters of glorious Inter- 

 mediate Lake." 



NOTES OF AN ANGLER IN THE NORTH. 



Bv FAiuotirr.D, Jr.— Part Fotr.xn. 



NATFRE'S BTUTLY STORE. 



IN the Northern Wilderness Nature has abundantly pro- 

 vided man wilh the requisites for a moderate luxury. It is 

 no exaggeration to say that were an old woosdmau suddenly 

 placed in the heart of the wilderness and deprived of every- 

 thing but his clothes, a flint aud steel and a knife, and told to 

 shift for himself, he would in a very short lime make him- 

 self exceedingly comfortable, leading a regular Crusoe exist- 

 ence in fact, aud in time would make Ms way to the settle- 

 ments richer in world!}' goods than when be. started. 



From thirst he cannot suffer, as water, pure and undefiled 

 as the dews from heaven, is everywhere abundant, but to 

 allay the cravings of hunger he must speedily devise means. 

 Every little balsam swamp be knows abounds" with hares and 

 partridges, and without losing any time he sets to work to 

 effect, their capture. With the aid of his knife and the 

 abundance of dead brush he constructs a low fence extend- 

 ing several acres across this swamp. At intervals he has left 

 small openings. lie next gal hers some of the long, tough, 

 pliant roots of the swamp spruce and fashions them into 

 Slip-nooses, which he sets at the openings he has left in his 

 fence. His next care is to provide himself with shelter. 

 Yonder boloo or yellow birches yield their outer bark readily, 

 and from it a small lean-to is" formed, and a fragrant and 

 soft couch is made from the balsam branches. A short 

 search about the camp discovers some Indian tea growing. 

 This makes a very agieeable substitute for the tea of com- 

 merce. But how is he going to boil water for tea ? exclaims 

 the reader. Nothing easier; the birch bark from which the 

 woodman has constructed bis lean-to can be fashioned into 

 vessels that will hold water, and stones heated and dropped 

 into the water bring the latter to boiling point in incredibly 

 Bhort time. Undismayed by his position and certain of a 

 good breakfast in the morning our woodsman goes supper- 

 less to bed. Sure enough, a visit to the snares in the morn- 

 ing discloses several hares and partridges suspended in mid- 

 air. After a hearty meal ia partaken of our friend sets him- 

 self to fashion a line from the intestines of one of the hares, 

 and then to make himself a rude hook from a tough splinter 

 of birch wood. As primitive as are these appliauces, and 

 with no bait but a piece of partridge meat, he succeeds in 

 landing several dozen small trout from the brawling stream 

 near by that literally teems with fish. Well provisioned 

 now he packs his provender in a spruce bark corseau, and, 

 laying bis course by the stream, be jogs off as light hearted 

 as a schoolboy. He knows this stream must fall into a river 

 somewhere, and that river must bring him sooner or later to 

 the settlements. 



When after a couple of days he reaches the river he re- 

 mains camped beside it several days, laying in a store of 

 provisions and constructing himself a canoe of spruce bark 

 to float himself down stream. He searches out a large, clean 

 stemmed tree and denudes it of its bark in one large sheet for 

 some ten or twelve feet from the ground. He then makes a 

 frame of cedar poles that will exactly fit the bark, and the 

 two are lashed firmly together with the spruce roots. Some 

 gum and rosin are next hunted up and applied to the seams 

 at the ends to render the canoe water tight. While by no 

 means as serviceable as a birch canoe the spruce canoe with 

 care proves an excellent makeshift. We shall now leave our 

 woodsman, conscious that the remainder of his journey will 

 be uneventful. 



TnE UANAD1AN OURB. §f 



A most important individual is the priest, or cure, as he is 

 called, in a French Canadian parish. Tn his one person is 

 represented not only the spiritual authority, but the tem- 



poral as well. His sway is almoin' e, but as it is usually 

 tempered with much ton 7tOmln.it and paternal regard for 

 bis Modi, they render a cheerful obedience and look up 

 to him with a feeling of reverential fbadooss He is sel- 

 dom B man of much erudition or a great student : 

 the multiform dut'es of his respective offices absorb his time 

 and attention. He is fond of sociability, and over his pipe 

 if an evening he does not object, to a quiet game of cards 

 and a glass of toddy with even a heretic. He is hospitable 

 to a degree, the Word stranger or sportsman is an open 

 seasame to his heart and house. From the pulpit, of a Sun- 

 day, he hreithes fierce anathemas against fe< I'rotexlank, but 

 this ia a duly his Church forces upon him ; he himself is in- 

 capable of bearing malice. In all the social gatherings in Ihe 

 parish the priest is the most welcome guest. No one can 

 tell a better story, and a song from the cure is always re- 

 ceived with tumultuous apphm e. Does the fun slacken, 

 M'sieur In Cure comes to the rescue, and mirth and jollity 

 again resound. He is as much in demand at the be lsble of 

 the sick as Ihe physician, and performs this duly ,riih un- 

 flagging cheerfulness. At all hours, in all seasons, in all 

 kinds of weather I have met him on the road on his errand of 

 hope to the sick or dying. He is sometimes an ardent dis- 

 ciple of Walton, or has a 'induess for the sports of the 

 field. 



I recall with much picture the many pleasiut hours I 

 spent in the congenial companionship of one of these worthy 

 men during a long winter I passed iu a little tuck settlement. 

 He was passionary fond of shooting, but singularly unsuc- 

 cessful, yet his good nature ever came to his rescue, and hi3 

 ill-luck was mad'; a source of jest. I never knew him to kill 

 anything, out day after day he would accompany me on my 

 tramps after hares aud partridges, and my good fortune ap- 

 peared to give him complete satisfaction. One day I heard 

 tne reporter the cure's gun. "Good!" I mentally ejaculated, 

 "the cure has at Lift killed something." It was not long ere 

 I heard his reverence coming. " Well, old fellow, what 

 luck?" '* Luck," exclaimed the cure, "just my luck. Fired 

 at a partridge and I'm certain I killed him, and here are a 

 handful of feathers I knocked out, but I could not find the 

 bird" I laughed at his exhibition of chagrin, and thought 

 no more about the matter until along iu the afternoon, when 

 beating back over the ground I suddenly' caught sight of a 

 partridge's tail just sticking out of the snow. In a moment 

 I knew this was the cure's partridge. Bang went my gun in 

 the air, aud I then picked up the partridge and wuited the 

 cure's coming, but I quite overlooked the fact the bird was 

 froxen as hard as a rock. Along came the cure, " Hallo ! 

 a partridge. Do let me take it a moment. Why, it's frozen 

 already, isn't it?" exclaimed his reverence. "How cold it 

 must be to day." With the soberest face I could command 

 1 begged his acceptance of the bird, and for, several days I 

 kept him in ignorance of the joke I played upon him. 



Brother augler, when you visit a Canadian parish inquire 

 your way to the cure's, and, my word for it, your subsequent 

 paths will be those of joy. 



ABDBST SP011T4MBN. 



There is somelh'ng irresistibly attractive about forest life, 

 aud I can recall a number of men of means and social posi- 

 tion who have abandoned all the pleasures that both might 

 have given, and sojourned for years in the bush, living in 'the 

 most primitive manner, dovoting themselves to the chase and 

 exploration. Captain D- — , well known in Quebec, threw 

 up his commission in the British army, and took to the 

 bush. He was a man of fine accomplishments, and wealthy, 

 but once having tasted the sweets of a bush life he became a 

 slave to the passion for hunting and exploring, and it. was on 

 one of these expeditions that he met an untimely end, dying 

 in the bush, from wdience his remains were dragged out on a 

 toboggin by his faithful Indian guide. The old settlers si ill 

 tell strange tales of two Englishmen who, for many years, 

 made their home iu the bush, far removed from all civiliza- 

 tion and companionship, appearing only in the settlements at 

 rare intervals for supplies and letters from home. They 

 were both men of wealth, but ardent lovers of the sports that 

 Canada's fastness offered. Other instances are not wanting 

 to Show that, there is a large leaven of the primitive man in- 

 herent in the English race. 



The Canadian, however, is pre-eminently an ardent lover 

 of bush life. His leisure from the duties of his profession or 

 business is speut in the woods. As an augler lie lias no equal. 

 Part of his early schooling was to learn to handle a rod as well as 

 a pen. He is an adept in bush lore, and wields an axe like 

 a professional chopper. He is hardy to a degree, a capital 

 buuter and fair shot, and a genial fellow to boot. 



VACATION RESORTS. 



POET .7KPFKRS0N, COM! ISI.AN0. 



In answer to your inquiry in this week's paper I take the 

 liberty of sending you a slight description of one of the many 

 beautiful summer resorls situated near New York where one 

 can go and spend a vacation at a small expense. Being an 

 old reader of the Forest and Stream I take pleasure in in- 

 forming your many readers that there is no summer resort. 

 more pleasact and picturesque than the growing and popular 

 village of Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, Long Island, with 

 its many lovely shady groves situated near the water's edge, 

 aud very convenient for camping parties. 



Fish, oysters and clams are iu abundance in the beautiful 

 bay which the village surrounds. Hood board can be had 

 at live dollars per week in many private families near the 

 water'. Reliable sail and row boats are to be let on very rea- 

 sonable terms. Sailboats large enough to carry twenty-live 

 persons can be hired for $2 per day or sjfe!) per week. Blue- 

 fishing is usually very good during July, August and Septem- 

 ber, and there is no better spot on Long Island for woodcock 

 shooting than around Port Jefferson. I killed thirty iu three 

 evenings just before dusk, and a friend of mine bagged twen- 

 ty-seven one morning before breakfast, and did not go two 

 miles from his house and was home before nine o'clock. 



There is uo place within one hundred miles of New York 

 more convenient for persons residing iu New York, Brook- 

 lyn or Jersey City than this beautiful summer resort. It can 

 be reached by the Port Jefferson & Locust Valley R, E. 

 from Long Island City or Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, or by 

 the New York and New Haven R. it. to Bridgeport, aud 

 cross the sound in the steamer Brookhaven, which makes two 

 trips each way every day and, crossing in this way, a fine 

 view of Long Island Sound aud the surrounding "counties 

 can be had, T. M. S. 



CROOKED LAKE, MIoniQAN, 



Fort Wayne, July 16. 

 Replying to several notices in your issue of July 14, in re- 

 gard to a good place to camp aud fish I can cheerf ullly rec- 



