FOREST AND STREAM, 
403 
The fishermen at Myslic are now reaping a harvest of fat 
OTosshuukcrs. Allyn & Co. hauled 1,600,000 last week, 
and 500,000 on Monday of this week. L. Wilcot & Co. 
also did well last week, Capt, Elias F. Wilcot alone taking 
535,000 between Monday morning and Friday night. Plen¬ 
ty of hlueflsh of small size can now he found off Hartford 
and around Yellow Mill bridge, Bridgeport. A hoy caught 
103 in Yellow Mill Pond on Friday. Crabs, too, are said 
to be plenty. 
New York .—Frontier House, JTenderton Harbor, Jeffer¬ 
son Co., JV. 7., July 9fA —I have just arrived, and find that 
1 lmve struck another good place. Bass fishing is excellent. 
W. II. Phillips, of Philadelphia, came tu just after my arrival 
with a string that opened my eyes, Jifty seven good bass, 
if]fifteen of which averaged three pounds; caught since 3 
P. M. His boat in an came up dragging a string over two 
yards long, solid meat. They take dark flies and minnows, 
wont, touch spoon. Fisaco. 
lTmdenon Harbor, July 24 ih. —Fishing continues good 
here. 1 caught in two hours before breakfast yesterday, 
dive three pounder bass, besides small ones. Pisisco. 
ty, Alemndrln Fay, July 16th.— I have bean having glorious 
sport with the bass ever since I struck the Bt. Lawrence at 
■Cape Vincent. At Clayton I took 25 basr inside of two 
hours, casting for them as you would for trout or salmon. 
] have been usiun a team of gaudy flies tied on No. 2 Lim- 
•erick hooks, which are quite large enough. At this partic¬ 
ular season there are millions of "eel flics floating on the sur¬ 
face. I am told the bass are now feeding on them, which 
(materially lessons the attractions of the artificial fly. 
J. JB. McH. 
® Syracuse, July 22 d .—Small brook trout, in fact mere fin- 
;geriings, are daily sold here at lofty cents a pound. I 
believe they are caught in the northern part of Ibis State, 
or in Canada. Senboa. 
\ Massachusetts. —Our Gloucester correspondent writes 
under date of July 19th:— 
“The mackerel slruek our harbor on Monday afternoon 
last, and as a consequence, have since been taken with the 
honk and net iu large quantities. The fish, though invari¬ 
ably small, are abundantly proving an excellent dish fur a 
breakfast, or other meal. The school first made its appear¬ 
ance direclly off Pavilion Beach, and immediately after 
they were first discovered, boats of all kinds were in 
demand: soon, ‘countless numbers’ of different craft cov¬ 
ered the sen, their occupants, each and all, ‘striving earn¬ 
estly’ to obtain iheir respective shares. The fishing is 
somewhat lessened at the present writing, from the fact 
that the remainder of the school tends with great rapidity 
towards the neighboring hay, W.” 
X New Jersey— Kinsey's Ashley House—Barnegat Inlet, 
July Hitk —iFishing of ail description has been very dull 
Hie past week, with the exceplion of one day, What few 
hlueliHh were taken would not weigh over one pound. 
Black lb h and r,eu bass fishing also poor. The profession¬ 
als attribute ihe poor tithing to Lhick and warm water. 
YVe are looking for a returrTof the good fishing after the 
rain (now falling). N. D. Taylor and friends, in the yacht 
Plover, were among the arrivals this week. B. 
s, Pennsylvania — Baden, July ISf/t.—There has been a 
summer resort opened up on little Beaver at the mouth of 
the Conoquessing Creek called “Rock Point," where one 
can board, and there is good'to middling black bass fishing. 
I took twenty in one day, not fishing iu t the heat .of the 
day, although it is very cool in the creek. Artificial min¬ 
nows are good, as the water is swift, There is some hunt¬ 
ing there also, but the hill is so steep that one don't like it 
this warm weather. “Jumbles,” 
—Black bass are said to he quite plentiful in the old canal 
•reservoir above HoliidnyHhnrg, 8 or 10 miles from Altoona, 
Pa., where they were planted three years ago. 
'll Canada.— Quebec, July 21«t—Notwithstanding the high 
Water in the early part of the season, angling on the salmon 
rivers has been satisfactory upon the whole. Allan Gil- 
•mour's party have jnst returned from the Godbout, on the 
north shore of ihe Bt. Lawrence, and have left for the sea¬ 
son, The Godbout is a three rod river—a larger party than 
■three lake the river iu Him—400 to 500 is the usual bag, 
exclusive of grilse. This year up to the middle of July, 
over 200 salmon were killed, hot llie fishing will he good 
for two weeks longer. The high water has up to this time 
somewhat diminished tire take. For many years a register 
has been kept of the salmon killed, each fish, at the end 
of the day, being weighed and entered. You have pub¬ 
lished some of Ihesg in previous seasons. The river Moi- 
sie, also on the north shore, is being fished by Hamilton 
gentlemen. The York river on the souih shore (Gaspe), 
lias yielded 120 fish to the rods of Messrs. Reynolds and 
.Middletou, the first named having just returned. Walter 
Brackett, of Boston, Mr. Strong of Brooklyn, and Mr. 
Hoyt, of California, are on the Marguerite, a branch of the 
Saguenay, the river being owned by Mr. Willis Russell, of 
the St. Louis Hotel, Quebec, and Robert Hare Powell, of 
Philadelphia, the latter being now' at his summer residence 
at Tadousac. By the way, Mr. Russell, who reserves his 
liver for his guests, 1ms recently pill up Bix cottages with 
every comfort for lodging, where gentlemen can take their 
families and servants, and sojourn as long as they will. The 
accommodations thus supplied will hq appreciated hy an¬ 
glers who have suffered inconveniences lhat have hitherto 
been regarded as inseparable from salmon fishing in Amer¬ 
ica. Andrew Clerk has been for several weeks on the 
Grand river, and has been joined this week by Messrs. Im- 
brie and Bruce, the former being of llie firm of Abbey & 
Imtirie, Maiden Lane, N. Y. Atr. Whitcher, of Ottawa, 
Messrs. Page and Purcell, of New York, and others, are 
on the Restigouelie. Mr. Fred, Curtis, of Boston, on is the 
Dartmouth. The river Jacques Cartier, which contains 
some good fish, is now in the hands of ten Montrealers, of 
whom Mr. Ivan Wotherspoon, is one. Manasseh Smith, 
of Portland, is in town. T. C. Clarke, of Philadelphia, 
was here yesterday, and is said to be in quest of salmon. 
J. U. Gregory, Naval Agent of this port, is fishing one of 
the Gaspe rivers. I shah visit the New Brunswick rivers 
this week, ami send additional reports. Hal. 
Ran gelb y Lakes, July 25ft—'The Executive Committee of 
the Oquossoc Angling Assocmtionkave voted to admit per¬ 
sons not members to'Camp Keuoebago, Range,lex, Maine, 
until Sepiember iOlh, without special application to the 
BUpeiimeudeni. or a member, at very reasonable charges, 
and with all the advantages of members. Alter Bept. lGili 
admission to the camp must, ho had lit rough a member. 
The fishing has been, very good this season; many trout 
weighing from two to seven pounds have been taken—also 
several land-locked salmon of from one pound to two 
pounds weight. 
—The intense heat during the past two or three weeks 
has occasioned the fish in the Delaware to forsake the warm 
shallow water, and lie in the deep and cooler waters of the 
channel. Fishing with rod and hue near the shore has con¬ 
sequently been very unsatisfactory, many who have used 
the deep sea have had poor success. Mr. Horace F. Whit¬ 
man, of this city, informs us that he had an excellent catch 
the other day off Bomb creek below the Lazarett. He 
and a companion took with deepseas thirteen dozen fish in 
a half day, including a number of white catfish weighing 
over two pounds each, and many perch of unusual size. 
They commenced fishing at high tide in about twelve feet 
of w'ater, using the ordinary' ground worm for bait.— Ger¬ 
mantown Telegraph. 
Fishing Movements. —The number of fishing arrivals 
reported at, this port the past week has been 70 viz., 13 
from the Banks, 35 from Georges, and 22 from mackereling 
cruises off shore. The receipts for have been 1,175,000 
pounds codfish, 178,000 pounds of halibut, and 4,978 bbls. 
of mackerel. The market is fairly active for the season, 
and the shipments continue large .—Cape Ann, Advertiser. 
July 22 <1. 
BASS FISHING IN ALABAMA. 
Huutstu-ls, Ala., July 11th. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Ob the 16th of Jane, having occasion to go to Guntersvllle, Ala., on 
business, I determined to also have some tun fishing in Short Creek. 
We ronnd the Tennessee there very high, and I was satisfied my fishing 
would not prove as successful as 1 had anticipated. On Wednesday, 
the 21st inst., in company with a friend, I started for Short Creek. We 
rowed three miles against a swift current, to the month of the creek, 
and thence m slack water four miles up the creek to a mill dam, to 
which point the water had backed up, being witbintwoor three inches 
of the top of the dam. We had to catch minnows with hook and line 
and to get a supply berore trying Ihe bass. As soon as I threw my line 
in just below the dam in the rippling water a bass struck, it, and in a 
little while I used np all my minnows, catching a bass every time, and 
sometimes two with one minnow—or course not at the same lime. I 
then fished with one hand above the dam for minuowa, and the other 
below it for bass, and canghtin all five bass. The largest was thirteen 
inches long and weighed one pound. Itried a spoon bnt without suc- 
!?; then I tried a iiy and had a rise jnst as the fly touched the water, 
bnt failed to Hook him, and could not succeed in getting another rise. 
We returned to camp, reaching there about 7:3b with our seven fish, 
bicli only weighed four pounds—rather light weight. The next day 
Ihree of us wentnp, One of the throe taking a “dog-ont" canoe, or as 
ihe natives called it, a "cooner.” It is light, easy to paddle, ami very 
convenient for one man, enabling him to avoid the swift water when go¬ 
ing up stream by keeping close t o the banks, and also to glide noiseless¬ 
ly 7o the holes haunted by the b ass, and to cast bis line exactly where he 
wants it. The water had fallen some eighteen Inches or two feet, and 
the appearance of the stream promised better results than the day pre¬ 
vious. All three of us caught with minnows ten bass that day. The 
“cooner" man caught five, and one of them a five-pounder. The next 
day we caught nine, two of which were five-pounders, which measured 
ini and 19 inches. We noticed a good many “trout flies" (I). These 
flies make their appearance about the last of June aDd first of July. 
Last summer someof ray party caught bass and minnows with them. 
They caoghl more minnows with them. I have seen trees so black with 
them that it was hard to see the leaves, and the surface of tho small 
creeks was covered with them. I presume that in season they are excel¬ 
lent bait, and they look to me as if they would bo first-rate bait for 
mountain trout. I prefer a live minnow to anything else, and of the 
mimiowB I prefer a long, narrow, shining fellow—a "stone-roller,” or 
the like, liasa will hire at perch. The two flve-ponndera we canght 
,.__j both caught with perch four or five inches long. The bsss is very 
voracious, and my impression is that it will take any sort of fly or 
insect, and I think a very good plan of finding out what sort of bait to 
s to examine the stomach of the fish. I found the head of a large 
beetle in one, and also two small fish. I was struck with the difference 
iu tho markings of the fish we caught. Some of them were mottled 
with black spots, while others were entirely withont spots. The largo 
had no spots on them, and the body color was different from the 
body color of the spotted ones. I saw a number of young ducks, some 
very small, not over a week old, and others full grown. They call them 
here summer dacks. _ W. G. W. 
gntioml ffMtimes. 
THE CALEDONIAN CONVENTION. 
When the Caledonian “saehems” were in council last 
year in Toronto they resolved, on account of the Centen¬ 
nial interest centering at Philadelphia, to hold in that city 
the seventh annual convention of the North Ameiicm 
United Caledonian Association. On the sixteenth of next 
month the Caledonian convention will accordingly meet in 
the Quaker City. The games of the local club, given un¬ 
der the auspices of the Association, and invariably attend¬ 
ing its annual assembly, will be held on the two previous 
days. The business to be brought before the convention 
on notices of motions given at last meeting may be briefly 
summarized: A committee will report upon a system of 
Life Assurauce, suited to the peculiar wants of members 
of affiliated clubs; a motion will be discussed to the effect, 
that the results of the election of officers in each club be 
immediately communicated to all the affliliated clubs; a 
committee will report upon the by-law in reference to 
quoiting; a proposal will be discussed to change the weights 
of the hammers from twelve and sixteen pounds to four¬ 
teen and twenty-one pounds respectively; a motion will 
be debated making it compulsory upon clubs to choose the 
judges at their games on the day of the games from persons 
uot belonging to the club, the subject of representing clubs 
at the convention individually, and not according to nu¬ 
merical strength as at present, Will be argued; and the im¬ 
position upon all affiliated clubs of the duty of ascertaining, 
in reference to candidates for membership, if they have 
previously belonged to another affiliated club, and in such 
case requiring the production of a clearance card as a con¬ 
dition of admission, will also be argued. These are the in¬ 
novations of which notice was given at Toronio, and the 
mutters then brought forward upon which reports will bo 
presented, 
Last July, some weeks previous lo the convention, we 
pointed out that, although the by-laws prescribe the 
weights of the hammers and stones to be used at the games 
of affiliated clubs, a doubt existed whether the rules were 
observed. To remove any objection to existing usages 
upon that score, we suggested that these implements be 
weighed in the presence of the judges at every celebration 
of Highland games. To ieaeli the same object the Asso¬ 
ciation tried a different route. It adopted a report in 
which a recommendation was included that “Ihe Associa¬ 
tion furnish alL clubs in affiliation with regulation ham¬ 
mers and putting-stones, stamped by the Association, the 
clubs receiving the same to pay the cost thereof.” With 
all deference to the gentlemen advancing and adopting this 
recommendation, we think it almost ridiculous. In the 
first place, the most strenuous opposition will, for financial 
reasons, certainly meet any attempt to put it in force. 
Clubs whose practice grounds are already sufficiently 
equipped cannot be expected to undergo any expense for a 
purely formal object. In the next place, the recommenda¬ 
tion is quile unnecessary, and was evidently made under a 
misapprehension of the requirements of tile case. Uni¬ 
formity of weight is mainly desirable in order to facilitate 
comparison. After the ahsoltiIe assurance of uniformity, 
a correct knowledge of Ihe actual weights employed, is the 
next thing to he desired, We question if, in the hammers 
at least, any two thrown at the games of two different 
clubs would be found exactly equal in weight. What is 
wanted, therefore, is a knowledge of the weights actually 
used, not so much for the purpose of testing their uniform¬ 
ity with the by-laws, as for that of showing (he real extent 
of the competitor’s ability. For this purpose, and as the 
possibility of a few ounces of difference iu the weight of 
the handles is at present overlooked, the rule aught to state 
the weight of the hammer and. handle, and require that it 
be tested by the judges. We also suggested Die drawing 
up of a code of laws for the regulation of Ihe quoiliug 
match, and the report of the committee will in all like¬ 
lihood show that our suggestion has been acted upon. 
We also pointed out last year lhat the extent of the Asso¬ 
ciation’s authority is not defiued by llie constitution. It is 
entirely a matter of inference. • We alluded to the matter 
in order that the delegates to Ihe convention might take 
warning and remedy the delect. AJi present the Associa¬ 
tion can only constitutionally regulate the games of its 
members. From the motions lo be debuted ibis year, it 
will be seen that according to the views of some of the 
delegates to Toronto, and presumably of Die clubs they 
represented, it possesses a much wider authority. These 
motions, in at least two cases, have leference to me inter¬ 
nal regulation of individual clubs. One imposes certain 
duties upon officers, and another dictates as to who shall 
be admitted members. There is no doubt that, under the 
present constitution, the Association cannot lake cognizance 
of such matters. There is a doubt of the expediency of 
investing it with such a power. The matter should be 
definitely stated, or otherwise delegates will be continually 
in doubt as to the powers of the body which they compose, 
and will be everlastingly wasting its time with motions 
concerning matters, such as those above referred to, which 
are beyond its jurisdiction. A distinct definition should be 
embodied in the constitution of the power vested in the 
Association. The Secretary said last year Dial “in iuis de- . 
posited the chief executive, judicial, ami legislative power,” 
but lie unfortunately did not state whence that power is 
derived. Wc beg leave, in tlie meantime, and until the 
convention has revised the constitution, to question whether 
the Association has power to do any thing further than 
regulate the games of its members. 
base ball—the professional arena. 
Great interest has been excited in base ball in Ihe metro¬ 
polis the past week by the statement that tlie strong team 
of the Hartford Club is 10 be transferred lo Brooklyn next 
season uuder the combined managemeut of Messrs. Buckley 
and Cammeyer. The new team will be made up from a 
selection from the existing Hartford and Mutual teams, 
,rjving Hart, Ferguson, Burdock, and Bond of tlie Atlantics 
as part of the team, and including also York, Treacy, 
Booth, Holdsworth, Casey, Ac. Remsen goes to St. Louis, 
Mills to Louisville, and Hicks, Hallman, and Mathews, to 
Cincinnati. With a team of this strength and with Mr. 
Buckley at its head a new era would he introduced 
in the metropolis in professional base ball playing. An¬ 
other new topic of interest is contained iu the. statement 
published in th % Herald, of July 23d to the effect that 
Mathews was made the subject of au effort at bribery at 
the hands of a noted pool seller of this city. If this is true 
one great source of “crooked” play will soon be got 
A feature of the past week’s play was the defeat of the 
Hartford nine by the Mutuals, July 23d, a result which en¬ 
abled St. Louis to occupy second position on the peunant 
race as the appended record shows:— 
Club. 
m 
Athletic. 
11 
a 
j Cincinnati. | 
Hartford. 
Louisville. 
w ! 
3 
§ 
5 
s 
1 
o 
Athletic.... 
4 
o 
2 j 
3 
0 
U 
Bo3ton. ...-. 
4 
t) 
6 
0 
4 
3 
19 
Chicago. 
5 
’6 
4 
3 
5 
32 
Cincinnati..... 
n 
‘6 
1 
0 
2 
6 
i 
A 
3 
4 
9 
a 
25 
- r ,. *. 
LoQisvil ... 
4 
4 
[J 
3 
’l 
& 
i 
16 
Mutual.... ...... 
1 
1 
6 
2 
8 
i 
15 
St. Louis... rr . 
6 
3 
§ 
5 
8 
3 
l 
26 
Games lost. ••• 
26 
19 
7 
"iiT 
10 
~23~ 
23 
32 
150~ 
It will be seen that while Chicago is largely in the van, 
St. Louis takes second place by 26 to 25 in won games. 
—Among the model games since our last may bo named 
the following:— 
'July 17.—Mutant vs.Buckeye, at Columbia......’3 to 0 
July 17.—St. Loais vs.New Haven, at St. Lotus..0 to 2 
July 17.—Hartford vs. Capital .City, at. Indianapolis-Sol 
July IS.—Mutual vs. Allegheny, at FiUsbnrg. to 3 
Jaly 18—Chicago vs, Louisville, at Chicago....2 i° ? 
July 18—St. Louis vs. Cincinnati, at St. Louts..,..5 to I 
July 16—St. Louis Reds vs. New Haven, at St. Loras.a to 3 
July 19-St. Lonis vs. Hew Haven, at St. Louis.8 to t 
July 19- -Mutual vs. Oakwood, at La Crosse.9 to 4 
July 19—Starve. Standard, at Wheeling....J to b 
July 19—Uartrerd vs, Neshannack, at New Castle.S V 
July 20—Boslon vs. Mutuals, at Hrooklyu..7 to 1 
Silly 20-St. Louis vs. Cmcraua'i 
itSt. I.uuts..9 to 1 
July 20—Fail'River vs. LowiilT at Fall River... ..7 to 1 
July 20—Capital City vs. New tlaven, at Indianapolis.0 to 3 
July 20—Mutual vs. Lexington, at Lexington, .9 to 4 
July 21—Hartford YS. Athletic, at Plula. q0 Innlugs).u re 4 
July 23 —Mutual vs, Hartford, at Brooklyn.... .7 to 8 
