THE AMERICAN 



T 



SPORTSMAN'S 



JOURNAL. 



Entered According to Act ol Congress, in the year issi, bv the Jforeat and Stream Publishing Company, In the Offlce of the Librarian ot :congress, at Washington.; 



Terms, 84 a Year. 10 Cts, 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1881. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial : — 



A Sea-Fishing Partv ; Esg« n" ■ ' ■■■■■■■■! 



Bit Henry Halford ; An Enthusiastic JFiahculturist ; Bass- 



ing in Greenwood Lake , 50' 



The Sportsman Tourist : — 



Canoeing on Canadian Waters ; Euuniug the Jtapids at- Mid- 

 night ; Midsummer Dream k ; Sporting Attractions of New 

 Berne; From Moosehead Lake to the Main. St. John; A 

 Minnesota Besort ; Camp " Jim White ;" A Xhirty-Pouiid 



Rangeley Trout ; Picking the 'Possum's Bones 508 



Natural Histobi :— 

 Bo Garter Snakes Eat Fish ; Habitat of the Beaver j Tree- 

 Climbing Snakes; Notes 511 



Game Bag and Gun :— 

 Ignorance in High Quarters ; Table of Open Seasons ; Lar- 

 ceny of Animals ; Notes from the Game Grounds 512 



Sea and River Fishing :— 



Channel Base Fishing ■ Trout Notes from Virginia ; Bass- 

 ing in Greenwood Lake ; Pleasant Fishing Kesort ; New 

 Yorkers at the Douty Ponds ; Trout Flies for Colorado ; 



The Bed Man as a Diplomat 515 



The Kenned :— 

 London Dog Show ; Franklin Dog 'Show ; Nebraska Field 

 Trials ; Louisiana Field Trials ; Breeding and Bearing,... 516 

 Fish Cut.ture :— 



Habits of Rainbow Trout ; Maine Commission ; Chemical 



Composition of Fish 515 



Rifle and Trap Shooting : 



The Wimbledon Meeting ; Clay Pigeon Contest , 518 



Yachting and Canoeing: — 

 Cruise of the Atlantic Y. C; Unainiabla Yaclits ; Livadia; 

 Racing Canoes ; San Francisco Letter ; Questions of In- 

 terest 520 



Answers to Correspondents 521 



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The Table of Open Seasons in our game bag and gun 

 columns will bo found a useful index to the opening days for 

 shooting. 



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Larceny or Animals is the subject of a very interesting 

 paper ■which we copy from a legal contemporary supplement- 

 ing it with other articles on kindred subjects which have 

 been printed since. 



Al Fresco's Invitation to try the channel bass fishing in 

 Florida is not so strange as it may at first appear. In the 

 first place the fishing is good, we know that. And in the 

 second place the sea coast of Florida is a much more enjoy- 

 able summering land than are the sizzling cities of Ibis lati- 

 tude. There is almost always a sea breeze, and that, with 

 the afternoon showers, insures comfort. 



Wistbrn Shooting. — We are informed that the prospects 

 for prairie chicken, duck, goose and brant shooting were 

 never so fine as they are this year through Central Minnesota 

 and Eastern Dakota, and especially along the line of the 

 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in that territory. Some 

 of the best shooting grounds in the United States are reached 

 direct by this line. 



A SEA-FISHING PARTY. 



A MOST enjoyable trip, which brought health and fish 

 in equal proportions, was recently made in Ihe schoon- 

 er "Van Name," Capt. Cubberly, by a party of gentlemen 

 from New York, consisting of Mr. John Foord, editor of 

 the Times ; Messrs. Jules Ttivoas, Walter E. Colton, Max 

 Wrssendonck, Carl Scheffer, Mr. Ingalls, Barnet Phillips, 

 Secretary of the American Fishcultural Association, Dr. 

 Prout, and Mr. E. G. Blackford. The latter gentleman was 

 landed at Montauk Point, and the party went on to Cape 

 Cod. 



They caught sharks at Nantucket, Mr. Phillips taking a 

 large one, which fastened its teeth in the pedestal of his 

 trousers and carried away so much that was necessary to a 

 respectable appearance that the loao of an ulster was re- 

 ceived with thanks. Returning they interviewed the cod at 

 Block Island, where Mr. Colton, an experienced Adirondack 

 and Maine angler, captured, with a 16-ouuce rod and reel, 

 severs] laTge cod, among which was a nine-pounder, drawn 

 from fourteen fathoms of water. This was said to be sport, 

 and the excited party stood around Mr. Colton offering odds 

 that he never could land that fish with such tackle. The 

 fight was undoubtedly terrific, for the cod is gamy when op- 

 portunity offers to show his powers of resistance, but science 

 prevailed over brute force, and the little rod, bent like an 

 ox-bow, did its work and brought the monster to gaff after a 

 hard fight. 



The parly stopped at Wood's IToll to interview the United 

 States Fish Commission, but the work had not fairly beguu 

 and few besides, Professor Baird were there. An artist ac- 

 companied the party, and it is said that "Harper's Maga- 

 zine" will soon contain a fall account of the trip, with illus- 

 trations. 



TO THOSE WISHING EGGS OF CALI- 

 FORNIA SALMON. 



a "IHE season for eggs of the quinnat salmon approaches. 

 - The eggs taken next month and in September reach 

 the Atlantic Stales from the 1st to the 15th of October, and 

 those wishing eggs should apply now. This is important, as 

 Prof. Baird is desirous of knowing how many eggs of this 

 fish will be required by the different State Commissions and 

 fishculturists generally, in order that he maygiveiustructions 

 to Mr. Stone, at the McCloud River fishery, in regard to the 

 number of eggs to be taken. All applications for the same 

 should therefore be made at once, stating the number desired, 

 as it is the custom of the Fish Commission to take only the 

 number requisite to fill the orders received, aud a certain 

 number to be hatched and turned into the river. 

 • The eggs are collected and packed at the expense of the U. 

 8, Fisli Commission. The express charges on them, how- 

 ever, must be borne by the recipients. To those who have 

 had no experience with these eggs we will say that this 

 charge varies with the quantity sent East each year, the Com- 

 mission getting the advantage of full car rates, when they 

 have full cars, and dividing this pro-rata among the con- 

 signees. Every effort is made to deliver the eggs in perfect 

 condition, and the chances are largely iu favor of success, 

 but the Commission does not hold itself responsible for any 

 injury from unexpected detention or from any other cause. 

 Orders should be for at least 50,000, as this makes as small 

 a package as it seems desirable to put up, and we would im- 

 press upon our readers who desire eggs this fall the necessity 

 of immediate application. 



A HINT TO SIR HENRY HALFORD. 



A STUDY of the scores made at the recent Elcho Shield 

 competition ought certainly to encourage our British 

 friends to make another trial for the Palma and so secure 

 for themselves the championship title at long-range team 

 shooting. In 1876, it will be remembered, when the trophy 

 waB first shot for, five teams competed iu a two days' 

 contest. On the first day the Scotch team led with a score 

 of 1,586, or an average of 198| per man. On the second 

 day the American team led with 1,549, or 193f average. At 

 that time Ireland had Ihe best score on the Elcho shield record 

 — 1,506, or an average of 188^. In 1877 Ireland improved her 

 record by making 1,568, or 196, and this was the best Wim- 



bledon record. When, in 1877, Sir Henry Halford brought 

 over bis picked team, and under our clearer skies rolled up 

 the scores of 1,629 and 1,613 for the two days respectively, 

 showing averages of 203J and 201§, or a general average per 

 man for the match of 302 |, the figures of the Americans 

 for those two days ran up to 1,655 and 1,679, or to the re- 

 markable general average of 208|. Since that time, however, 

 the Elcho Shield figures have shown the effect of careful 

 drill and practice on the part of the riflemen all over the 

 kingdom. Last year 1,638 was the winning score, and dur- 

 ing the past, week the English team ran its score up to 1,642, 

 or an average score of 205^-. Now, given the pick of the 

 three teams, worked into a compact working squad of marks- 

 men, under such an enthusiastic captain as Sir Henry Hal- 

 ford, and given too the advantages of ahooting over an 

 American range, where the targets are not cut off by the 

 misty curtains of an English atmosphere, it would seem only 

 fair to assume that an improvement could be shown which, 

 would force the American riflemen to some magnificent 

 shooting in order to hold the trophy. If, we say, in 1877, 

 the best Wimbledon record stood at 196, and a picked team 

 could come to America and show more than 6 points better, 

 with the Wimbledon record now standing at 205 and over, 

 an improvement of much le?s than 6 points per man 

 would leave the exceptional American record safely behind. 



AN ENTHUSIASTIC FISHCULTTJRTST. 



TT MUST be a source of delight to Dr. Garlick to see the 

 -L yearly growth of fishculture iu these days. When he 

 began it, in 1853, it was looked upon merely as a curious 

 experiment by the public at large, and only a few thoughtful 

 men saw any future for it. The Doctor and his partner, 

 Prof. Ackley, were successful and bred trout, but it was a 

 long time before others took it up ; and this indifference to a 

 subject which seemed of vital importance to these gentlemen 

 was undoubtedly a great annoyance to them. 



Dr. Garlick is now iu his seventy-sixth year, and lias been 

 an invalid for several years past, suffering as only those who 

 have passed through the agonies of paralysis of the pneumo- 

 gastric nerve have suffered. Yet on his bed he reads with 

 avielity all that relates to his favorite theme ; and with a 

 mind unimpaired as yet by age and suffering he follows each 

 improvement and invention with the ardor of a young man. 

 Carp culture attracted his attention, aud he had a small pond 

 made and stocked with this fish. In getting an additional 

 supply four were killed, and he ate them. He writes us as 

 follows : 



bedtokb, o., July 21. 



asphyxia 

 terday nic 



- I ate 



-dear old friend, 3 udgt 

 mirror carp. Four o 

 Hit that did not. spoil 111 



Potter, came here and 

 diem liarl died frrim 

 an for eating, and yes- 

 t breakfast— what you 



done- You mi 

 never in my life ielt a gre 

 1 cannot while life lasts n 



it very strange when 1 tell you that I 

 rest In flshcnlture than I do to-day. 

 sell to the condition of doing noth- 

 ing although some people seem happiest when they have nothing 

 to do. T. Garlick. 



BASSING IN GREENWOOD LAKE. 



IN another column a correspondent gives his experience 

 with the bass iu this lake. We were there three weeks 

 later and our experience was somewhat different. We 

 reached there at noon and took three bass. Two of them 

 would weigh half a pound each, and the other weighed a 

 pound. We took two of them by still fishing with the 

 "Dobson" or helgramite, and one by skittering with a live 

 frog. The boatman promised great fishing on the morrow 

 when we would go down the lake. 



In the morning both the landlord and the boatman ridiculed 

 the size of our creel, and declared it would not hold half our 

 prospective catch. We relaxed our features at the prospect 

 and started. Three of us, two editors and the boatman, 

 fished from 7 a. m. till 5 F. m., with a result of twenty-one 

 bass, all small mouth, none of which would exceed a pound 

 in weight. The boatman said "we should have been here 

 last week." Alas! that last week story is familiar to us. 

 We have suffered from the voracity of last week's fish, and 

 the veracity of guides for years. We never did go fishing 

 "last week," it unf ortunal ely being an ever present "now" 



