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FOREST AND STREAM 
Glen Drake. —Saturday, March 4lH, Hie matches of the 
American liifle Association at this range, drew together 
quite a large attendance Of marksmen and spectators. Sev¬ 
eral ladies were also present. In the subscription match 
at 200 yards, the highest scores were as follows:— 
Name. Total. I Name Total. 
D. F. Davids.S J. W. Todd.18 
J. A. Gee. SO G. H. Thompson..IT 
H. Haber....IDlAlfred B. Fry..’.5 
AL the Subscription Match, 500 yards, best scores were;— 
Name. Total.! Name. Total. 
R Fisher. 24 A. W r . Peck.18 
D. P. Davids.«l| 
The three highest scores in the Remington Solving Machine Match were: 
Name. 800 yds. 500 yds. Totals. 
D. F. Davids.4 3 4 4 4 ... 10 5 5 5 1 4....23 42 
(1. 11. Thompson.I I 2 3 4... .1? 5 8 4 5 5....88 3!) 
J. W. Todd.515 11....22 0 0 3 3 5....11 33 
Saturday, March 11th, the mutch lor tiro Association 
Cup will lake place. 
—Wc see by our contemporary, the Montreal Gazelle, 
that the Whitney Arms (Jo , of Whilnevville, Conn., have 
just furnished the Montreal police with Whitney carbines, 
through the well kuown and popular caterer to the wants 
of sportsmen in that city, Mr. U. H. Kilby. 
ea mid §iver ^ishitiQ. 
FISH IN SEASON IN MARCH. 
SOUTHERN WATERS. 
Pompano, Tmchynolus carolmus. Grouper. Epinephelpus iiigHlus, 
Drum (two species.) Family Ham- Trout (black bass,) Cenlroprlett * 
mote. atrarius. 
Kingfiah, Mentidrrm nebulosus. Striped Bass or Rockfieh, Itvccus 
Sea Bass, Hcicetwps ocellatus. lineatvs. 
Shccpshead, Archosatgus probate- Tailorfish, Pomatrmns saltatrice. 
csphalus. Black bass, Microplerus sa/motdes; 
Snapper, jLuijanus cams. M. nigricans- 
[ Under the head of “Game and FUh In Seasonwe can only specify In 
general terms the several varieties, because the laws of states vary so much 
that were we to attempt to particularize we could do no less than publish 
those entire sections that relate to the hinds of game in question. This 
would require a great amount tf over space. In designating game we are 
guided by the laws of nature, upon which alt legislation is founded, and 
our readers would do well to provide themselves with the laws of their re¬ 
spective Stales for constan t reference. Otherwise, our attempts to assist 
than will only create confusion.} 
Fish in Market. —The increased demand owing to the 
Lenten season has stimulated the fishermen to great exer¬ 
tions, and with the mild weather prevailing, the benches 
have made a fine display during the week. We quote: 
Bass, striped, 25 cents; smelts, 15 to 20 cents; blue-fish, 18 
cents; salmon, frozen, 50 cents; mackerel, 25 cents; shad, 
Southern, 50 cts., North Carolina, $1; weakfisli, from JTortli 
Carolina, 15 cents; while-perch, 18 cents-; Spanish macker¬ 
el, 50 cents; green turtle, 20; terrapin, $12 per dozen; frost- 
fisb, 8 cents; halibut, 15 cents; haddock, 8 cents; king-fish, 
from Key West, 20 cents; cod-fish, 8 to 10 cents; black- 
fish, 12 to 16 cents; flounders, 8 to 12 cents; sea-bass, 
from South Carolina, 15 cents; eels, 15 to 18 cents; lob¬ 
sters, live. 10 cents, boiled, 12 cents; shcepshead, 80 cents; 
turbot, 25 cents; scollops, $1 per gallon; soft clams, 80 
to GO cents per 100; white-fish, 18 cents; pickerel, 18 cents; 
sun-fish 10 cents; perch, yellow, 10 cents; salmon trout, 
20 cents; ciscoes, 10 cents; hard crabs, $4 per 100; pom* 
pano, $1 per pound. 
—If any one wishes to fish in the Connecticut river he 
must apply before March 15tli to the Fish Commissioner 
for blanks, on which he must record each day’s catch, and 
return them to the Commissioner at the eud of the season.— 
Germantown Telegraph 
We presume our contemporary refers to net and not rod 
fishermen. As we understand the law seiners and other 
Hellers are required to keep this record, but not the rod 
fishermen. 
Adirondack Fishing.— Pickerel are being taken out of 
the Kaquette waters this winter by the ton. They are 
said to be far superior to the ordinary pickerel, possessing 
more of the flavor of the muscaloDgc. This is doubtless 
owing to the fact that their principal article of diet is trout, 
and also that these waters are far purer aDd colder than 
those which usually furnish the breeding grounds of this 
fish. These are the only waters in the Adirondack regions 
-where pickerel can be found. The guides report good 
prospects for plenty of trout lliis spring. About 40,000 
salmou trout were put into the Fulton chain of lakes in 
the North woods, recently. Some of the backwoods land¬ 
lords expect to receive 100,000 salmon and 25,000 speckled 
trout from Seth Green, for stocking the lakes and streams 
of the North woods .—Rutland Herald. 
Movements op the Fishing Fleet.— The Georgesmen 
are returning from their first trips of the season with light 
fares, having encountered very heavy weather, which in¬ 
terfered with fishing. During the week there have been 
72 arrivals of the fishing Beet, 60 from Georges, 7 from the 
Banks, and 5 with frozen herring. The receipts of fish 
are 1,518,000 pounds of codfish, 487,000 pounds of halibut, 
and 2,000 barrels of herring. The fleet will soon be under 
weigh again, and we hope their second trip may retrieve 
the first. 
Schooner Pioneer, Capt. Osier, from Georges on Mon¬ 
day, weighed off 65,001) pounds of halibut, Blocking $2,- 
!)(10.12, which is the largest trip of halibut ever landed 
from Georges. On her former trip she landed 30,000 
pounds, stocking $1,107, making an aggregate of $4,067.12 
for l lie t wo trips. These halibutwere caught on hand lines, 
in what is known as the deep water Georges fishing, which 
is from 100 to 150 fathoms in depth, and this is the first 
season in which this kind of fishing has been pursued with 
any marked success. The cook’B share was $167, high 
line, $181. Time absent, three weeks. The vessel got 
within twenty miles of Eastern Point, on the loth ult., and 
was driven back by the storm and again came Kyiuclior on 
Georges .—Gape Ann Advertiser, March ‘id. 
—If any ol our Maine friends have a couple of brook 
trout weighing about ten pounds each, we situ it Id like to 
fiave them for exhibition at the Centennial. 
TROLLING FOR SALMON TROUT. 
Seth Green has written the following hitter on the above 
subject to the lion. E. M. Smith, Fisli Commissioner. As 
it conveys some valuable information regarding this mode 
of fishing, wc print it in full: 
Sin: Every year since 1872 we have been distributing 
salmon trout fry in many of our inland hikes. Those de¬ 
posited in 1872-3 will be large enough to catch the next 
coming season, and there are but few' people who know 
how to lake them. I will give some hints on the different 
ways they are taken. They are taken with silver and 
brass spoon hooks, by leading the line so lhat the spoon 
runs nears tile bottom. But they are taken sometimes at 
the top oi the water and sometimes half way down from 
the surface, and by trolling with three lines at one lime— 
one at the surface, one half way down and one near the 
bottom. Another way is to anchor a buoy out in deep 
water and cut fish in pieces, varying in size from a hickory- 
nut to a butternut, and scattering the pieces around the 
buoy for some days; then anchor your boat to the buoy, 
usiug a piece of the same Uiud of bait on your hook that 
you had been in the habit of scattering around your buoy; 
fish near the bottom and give it a little moliou by giving 
your line short jerks. The buoy should not he baited the 
day you go fishing. 
Another way is to have a rod and reel and four or five 
hundred feet of fine strong line, and if the water is deep 
put a lead sinker weighing three-quarters of a pound on 
tl>c end of your line, and tie a single gut leader twelve feet 
long, on Ihc main line twelve feet- above your sinker. For 
books, yon should use nine number 6 Limerick hooks, tied 
lime together, back to back, so that they look like a throe- 
pronged grappol. Tie them on a single gut leader, about 
two and one-half inches apart, and you have a gang of 
hooks five inches long. Put two very small brass swivels 
on your leader. Use the kind of small fish for bait that 
the trout, sre used to eating in your lake. Hook one of the 
upper hooks through the under and upper jaw so lhat. his 
mouth will be closed. Then hook one of tiie lower hooks 
through the buck near the tail in such a manner that it 
will give the fish a curve and will turn around like a 
trolling-spoou wiicn it is drawn through the water. The 
most successful fishermen use three of this same kind of 
rigs in one boat, they fish one rig near the top with a light 
sinker, say four ounces, and one about half way down with 
an eight ounce sinker aDd the twelve ounce sinker near the 
bottom. This is the most successful rig 1 have ever 
used. The boat should be rowed very slow, so that you 
can feel the bottom witli the heavy sinker nearly every 
time you raise it up and let it down. The bait should be 
raised up and down by a gentle motion, set the other two 
lines, one on each side of the boat, and they will take care 
of themselves. Live fish should be used tor bait. Some 
do not use but eight hooks, one hook for the upper to 
hook in the minnow’s mouth and one to hook through the 
back near the tail, and two sets of three each between the 
two single books tied about one and a half inches apait. 
Be careful and keep your minnow looking as natural as 
possible. Do not rub any more scales off than you can 
help. When you let your line out your boat should be in 
motion to keep your bail from twisting around the main 
line. Seth Green, 
Rochester,, February 2i.sf, 1870. 
must ent away a very considerable part of the strongest fibre underly¬ 
ing the enamel. Third—You expose to the elements the porona part nf 
the cane, while you close in lhat part which, if any, is waterproof. 
Fourth—In use of ihc rod, the greatest sLrain being upon tbe outside, is 
put upon the weakest part of tbe material. 
I do not lay any great stress upon any man’s opinion as-to the beBt 
way to make a rod, unless he can support it by good reasons. If mere 
opinion availed much, I might perhaps be eutilled to express mine, in¬ 
dependently of the reasons given above. For I have been a diligent fly- 
fisher for abont a quarter of a century, and hare bandied a great many 
rods, and I do not hesitate to say that, iu my belief, this hexagonal ham- 
boois the best rod oxtant. Your city readers aud sojourner-, I am in¬ 
formed, can sec specimens of these rods at Conroy, Bisset & Maileson’s, 
65 Fulton street. 1 don't intend to advertise unybodj; hut, as how to 
make tbu best rod is an important question to all devotees of the “gen¬ 
tle craft, I Ldought it not improper that I should contribute my mite to 
the uti-cus.^ion of it. U. 
Mr. J. B. Crook, of 50 Fulton street, 1ms a luetkud of 
pulling split bamboo rods together which strikes us us be¬ 
ing particularly good; it is as follows:— 
“The hut and second joints are pul together in six strips 
with the enamel on the outside. The bamtiuo must be of 
the same stillness so that it will not be uny stiller on one 
side than the other. To make sure, when they are pul to¬ 
gether and you roll them around it they ate not the same 
they will jump. That we do not want, and it must be 
thrown away. When you get a joint and but that is per¬ 
fect in all parts, then \ou gel a good rod. On the tips I 
put the enamel on the insitie in sections of fifteen inches 
long, of four pieces of bamboo, no two emancls go to¬ 
gether. Put the enamel and the soft part together so that 
the enamel crosses the tip, then work down Irom the out¬ 
side, and as you come to the extreme point you get noth¬ 
ing hut enamel. The part you take from Lite outside is 
solt, but the nearer you gel to Ihc centre the more enamel 
you gel, which is the strength of bamboo, and then you 
get lips that will wear out any tip made witli the enamel on 
the outside; will keep straighier and will he stiller. They 
cost more to make my way but will pay iu the eud.” 
ADIRONDACK BOATS. 
Greenwich, N. Y., Feb. 30th, 187B. 
Editor Forest and Stream;— 
I see tin inquiry iu your correspondence as to who makes Adirondack 
lake boais, aud your reply is, "Newcomb,Essct <fcCo.,N. Y.” Now, 
where arc they, and who are they? 1 never heard of them. One of Uie 
best makers of the Adirondack guide boat I know of Isa man by tbe 
name of Chase, wbo JiveB at Newcomb, Essex county, N. Y. He bus 
the reputation among the Long Lake and Brown’s Tract guldesof put¬ 
ting together a boatiu tbe very best manner. There arc other excellent 
woikmcu at Long Lake, viz; Reuben Cary and Ilenry Stanton. 1 havo 
one of Reuben Cary’s make, which 1 have uted several years, apd it is 
about as good as-new. My impression is that the Saranac men do not 
excel in modeling or making these boats, and 1 know the Saranac gaides 
order boats front Chase, at Newcomb, and from Cary and Stanton, at Long 
Latte. Reuben Cary Is making me another boat this year, and either of 
the three men above mentioned can be relied on for thoroughly good 
work. Cary’s and Stanton’s models differ from Chase’s in being higher 
in tbe stem and somewhat squarer, while his ate not so shear and alike 
at both ends There is, perhaps, a little more style to the Long Lake 
bouts, while Chase’s are somewhat stiller. D. \V. MA.MihLL. 
[Tiie answer to our correspondent was a mis-priut. It 
should have read G. J. Chase, Newcomb, Essex Co., New 
York.— Ed]. _ 
Ice Chisels. —The most common article in use among 
fishermen for cutting holes for setting In lines, is the chisel, 
with edges rounding aud ground like an axe. I have used 
such an one to my dis-salisfaction. To cut a line of trout 
thirty to fifty holes through ice twenty-eight to thirty-four 
inches in thickness, requires a great deal of churning. 1 
have improved upon that article, and have never seen unc 
except the one 1 had made. I give you 
lhe description for information of tiie 
many adult fishers who are not content 
with fishing in open water only. Mine 
was five inches in breadth, aud twelve to 
fourteen inches iu blade, with edge bevel¬ 
ing on one side only, like a chisel, the ice 
with this will chip off in little pieces, in¬ 
stead of being all churned up with snow 
as by the axe chisel. The heavier the 
chisel the easier the work. No. 1 of the 
diagram is the pattern. 1 have an Idea 
since the lillie hand chisel for refrigerators 
have come into use, that a chisel formed 
like No. 2 might he an improvement oil 
No. 1. It remains to be proved, however. 
Patents not applied for. 1 suggest that a 
safeguard six inches long put on the ex¬ 
treme end of handle will be of some im¬ 
portance to prevent the chisel from slip¬ 
ping through one’s hand when lhe bottom 
falls out. I have seen two chisels pass away before fishing 
commenced. D, 
SPLIT BAMBOO RODS. 
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GAME IN SEASON IN MARCH. 
Hires, brown and gray- Wild duck, geese, brant, &c. 
for FiouinA. 
Deer, Wild Turkey .Woodcock, quail, Snipe, Ducks, and Wild Fowl. 
Game in Market.— A few varieties of ducks and geese 
are all in the way of game lobe found in the markets. 
Canvass-backs still continue to be received from the Ches¬ 
apeake and sell for $2 75-to $3 25 per pair; red heads are 
worth $1 20 to $1 50; mallards, $1 to $1 25; black ducks, 
87 cents to $1; broad-bills, 50 to 75 cents; geese, $1 to 
$1 25 each. Tiie latter, together with the commoner vari¬ 
eties of ducks come from the South Side of Long Island. 
Wild pigeons are scarce at $2 75 to $3 per dozen. 
—Tiie Luzerne County (Pa), sportsmen’s club have 
ordered 1,000 quail from North Carolina, which they will 
distribute through the county lor propagation. 
Concentrators. —A correspondent writes:— 
“Has it never occurred to the choke-bore advocates, or 
IhoBc in doubt, that by using concentrators, tbe simplest 
and cheapest being a bag of very thin woolen inclosing 
the shot, a gun may be a ‘choke-bored’ at pleasure. I 
tried some of Kay’s concentrating cartridges a day or two 
since with a Stephen Grant C. F-, the effect was ‘prodig¬ 
ious,’ as the ducks will soon learn.” 
j( Ithaca, N. Y., March 1st, 1876. 
Editor Forbst akd Stream:— 
The old Indian gave as a reason lor weariug his buffalo robe with the 
hair outside that buffaloes always wore them so, and they ou Ait. to know 
the hest way. The toughest and most elastic part of a natural bamboo 
cane is a thin casing next, under the enamel. And it is a good reason 
for placing that on the outside in the construction of a rod, that there is 
where nature placed it in tho construction of the enno. If it were of 
any use to have the strongest part of the natural caue at the centre, na¬ 
ture would not have left it hollow there. 
Bat it needs no argument or illustration to prove that as much of the 
strongest patt of tiie cane as possible should be placed as near the out¬ 
side of the rods as possible. The moat successful mode of doing this, 
that I have semi, is to work oat six strips, each of which will, in sec¬ 
tions, show a perfect isosceles triangle, aud side-faced with the enamel. 
Glue these together with tho enamel faces out, and yon have a six-sided, 
or hexagonal stitch, the same shape in which those wise little creatures 
—the bees—make their cells for strength and storage. A loach Of sand 
paper will smooth the comure without cutting away the breadth of a 
hair, if the fitting is well done, and you can have all the rich and varied 
shades of the uatnnil “all over” the surface. Mount your rod with fer¬ 
rules and col tars to fit the form, amt you have tho prettiest rod yon ever 
saw, aud most assuredly the etraiglueal and most elastic lhat can be 
made of the material. 
The objections to the Krider rod, described In your paper of the 2d 
First— Yon must file off the enamel on each stnp down to the fibre, eo 
tu? to make the glue hold. Second— In filing the sticks in a round rpq 
New Jersey, Tcnafly, March 6th, 1876.—Woodcock made 
their first appearance with us Thursday, tbe 2d inst. The 
ground is frozen veTy hard, and until yesterday has been 
covered with snow. They can find feed in the spring 
holes, and will probably slay unless we have another’ cold 
snap. This is tiie curliest date in about seven years of 
their coming; tliey generally arrive about the last of 
March, or the first week of April. Three birds were seen 
at Tappan, N. J ., which is seven miles north of this place, 
the 18th of February. IViIson snipe made their first ap¬ 
pearance on tiie 20th of February. We have fair snipe 
grounds, but the best lie fail iter north, I shot two black- 
ducks on the 1st inst., tiie first I have seen. The creeks 
are opeD, with pfefliy of feed, so we shall have good sport. 
Al. Huyler. 
New Jersey. — Kinsey's AAdey IIovm, February 27th . — 
Harnegal Bay iB alive with geese and brant, thousands uro 
scon feeding on the clam island plots every day. Joel 
Rideway, wilit the crew of tho Life Saving Station, bugged, 
on Friday, 41 bruut, 6 geese, and 21 ducks. Mr. Kinsey 
killed 5 geese; wind westward. B. 
Massachusetts. — Antnn, P\hrunry ”8 —Gunning is dry 
of late, and will be until snipe hi rive ' Weather at present 
grny, rnw v miuI cold. No ficti lowl, jib our luirbor is Irozcn 
up. Goldfinches numerous near Denvers lately. Snow- 
buutilths on L,yan waisUes (U’e plenty. Shore laths have 
