FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Hartford, May 36.— Some- remarkably large shad have boon 

 taken in i In' river near Norwich Ibis season. One was caught 

 the other day which weighed eight pounds; two others is liiu 

 same haul weighed neai'ij BeveU pounds I ill II. 



— 11' in. Henry B. Harrison and kis nephew, T. B. Osuora, 

 have gone !<■ the Bangley Lakes in Maine. 



A Conut clicul river Balaton weighing twelve pounds-was 



Cdughl in line of die ponds at Snybrooh. yesterday. Il was 

 sent to New York. 



English herring are being fished far successful lj near Watch 



TTill. One haul ol a .-inn- there filled forty barrels, ami is 



considered one of the largest ever made iu the Pawcatuck 



river. 



ii NBW TOBK.- a&0» Lake, "M»J 33.- .Tnst Lack from a ten 

 days' trip, with over a hundred pounds of trout, and all my 

 Di i [hborsare feasting. My biggest take neighed 10| puuads, 

 and my hoss speckled trout, two pounds three ounces, 

 dressed Trolling just tairly started on Piseco and LakePleas- 

 ant. Pisf.i .-o. 



Adihmdacfa, Magi®.- Wnuldlcould make a cast; hi A 



you as lilna speekled beauty, and land yen herein the 

 Adirondack*, dear old woods! where the sportsmen love to 

 meat. Tims far i his year none of the old guests are about, save 

 a few who for years visit here and cannot be tempted to go to 

 Maine. It is a fixed fact that traveling here is growing less 

 inviting, owing to the inroads of civilisation— and no attempt 

 made to chock violators of the law. At Martins ['find regis- 

 tered Mr. S. Arnold, Mr. Mason and family, I >r. Corrigun and 

 party, Mr. Hundley, Mr. Gregg and son; at Barltett's Sports 

 men's Home, .Mayor Thatcher and family, Vice-President 

 Wheeler, Dr. Rtxneyn, Mr. vv. H. Snow and wife ; at Paul 

 Smith's, Dr. Triidean and family, Mr. Titos, etc. etc. A few 

 days ago " Paul " eame near being liurned out. The woods 

 have been "generally on lire," and approached bis house; 

 but sixty men came to his aid, and after bard work saved ils 

 destruction. Trolling ibis season in the Tpper aud Lower 

 Siianar has linen excellent. Dr. Hoineyn, last week, took in 

 two hours one U out weighing 111 pounds and one weighing 

 13.J pounds, and others, making Lis catch 40 pounds in three 

 brtUrfi j but Ibis was cxiraordinary. To the disgust, of the 

 spi a isincn a small lummpathtd steamer plies on the upper 



lake. M isipiiloes and black Hies have made their appear 

 anec. and for six weeks will reign in all their vexation. The 

 hotels ba-e are all ad nimbly kept, the guides faithful and 

 obliging, arid to the Inie sportsman and lover of nature no 

 spot is more inviting. Tivn parties are on Kaqueltt) Lake in 

 camp. Smith. 



Johnstown, Miy 28.—] was al Canada and Caroga and Pi- 

 seco Hakes last week, and took fifty pounds of front ; weather 

 unfavorable for good fishing. J. M. P. 



— Win. s. Kimball, the manufacturer of the celebrated 

 • Vanity Pair tobacco " nt Rochester, is going to try the Land- 

 locked salmon at Sobcc. from thence to lite trout of- Moose- 

 hcad. and after that, salmon on a famous river in New Bruns- 

 wick. 



>•' Pennsylvania.— Lewis' J,,,/,-,;— This lake cannot be sur- 

 passed for a place of resort, it is situated on the highest 

 • range of the Alleghany mountains, accessible by railroad to 

 Money, then by cjach twenty miles up the mountains— one of 

 the most delightful rides imaginable. The place lias not been 

 very widely known to the pleasure seeker until lately. List 

 fall" live cottages made their appearance, one built by a gentle- 

 man of mean* from Philadelphia, Pa., one from Milton. Pa., 

 and the remaining three by citizens of Muncy, one of them 

 being a very eminent physician. About one dozen more will 

 be erected the coming season. Two boarding houses have 

 been in existence for a number of years. The lake covers 

 about three, hundred and fifty acres of ground, and contains 

 brook trout, lake trout, and a. number of other species. The 

 brook trout fishing is to be fouucl iu Hie many small mountain 

 streams wnicu head close by, but the rarest sport is the duck 

 shooting, there being always an abundance of them and very 

 easy to get. Afire is veiy comfortable in the hotest July eve- 

 nings. Com'mv. 



Pen's'syivani \. — GiriYiriW', Mai/ 25. — The Hon. Ben. L. 

 Hewitt, SI ate Kish Commissioner at Hollidaysburg, and wife, 

 together with President. I udge, of this County, A. MeDcrmitt 

 and wife, were giie.ts of A'. G. Pacaard, of Inis place, to-day. 

 Mr. Hewilt gave us a go id deal of useful information on pis- 

 ciculture, also on # tlie hunting of setters and pointers ; aud, by 

 the way, 1 would he gratified to see Mr. Hewitts idea of the 

 same in the Fores r jsn Sikk.'.m &md Pou) and Sbs. B. 



We would warmly second the desire expressed by our friend 

 B. No doubt the Judge can give us much information that 

 would serve our readers to good purpose. 



*C ViBeonAv— Nor/otic, May 21.— Fein coming in lively now. 

 Saturday there were so many thousand tailors (medium sized 

 blue fish) brought to thai they could not tic disposed of except 



for the compost heap. Saw one gray trout [squeteagV4) Wed- 

 nesday thai weighed HU pounds, and was :ti V inches long. 

 Round beads (king lish; are coming in fair quantities. None 

 taken with hook and line yet. 



One large woodcock was picked up in the west end of the 

 cily last week that had llown against a tree and broken his 

 skull — very unusual to see them here so late. A beautiful 

 specimen of the large legged avosets was shot a short time 

 since on llie Hats a short distance below the city. Some few 

 ortolans, reed birds, rice buntings or bobolinks (any other 

 names ha- them that yon km >w i it ": ) still here. Many of the 

 migratory birds are very late passing through this year. 

 Glass ball shooting is the only thing iu order now— some 

 very good scores made; none cleaner, however, than your 

 correspondent made last week, each of his shots being scored 

 misted, D. 



48 AlAltiEN Lank, New York, May 21, 1STT. 

 Editoe Fokkst and Stueam and Hod a.nd Grx : 



I see in your number ul t His dale that •' Messrs. Abbey A- Imbrie are 

 goinj* to lisli Hie Turk tuver next month." Your friend, Mr. A. U. 

 StllikluSOll, Will JirobBDlV do so, but my partner und myself have no 

 sut'U intention. If Mr. Shiikiusun is as agreeable a companion us he is 

 a writer (ami we believe linn to tie even more ho), there is reason lor 

 n.- to He soriy that your projibevy has no dunce of being considered 

 canonical. 



The truih of the matter is that poor Aliliey must forego salmon Ash- 

 ing this seai-ou for business. 1 shall do'what little T eun lor the .Sad-,,,. 

 UD the Grand lilver. As 1 ttliull he in llie eompany ol Sejmtur 

 Edmunds of Vermont and Mr. Andrew Clerk, 1 think there is a lair 



i .,., tor pleasant evenings as well an pleasant days. 1 know llie 

 Kokkst asi> -Sthlim anh Hon and Gun tries to tell the truth, bnt there 

 seems always to he L-reat difficulty in lelliue, a " fisb story " correctly. 



Yours very siuceieiy, Chas. F, Iubbib. 



BASS FISHING IN LAKE GEORGE. 



*~r T HE bass in Lake George are of two kinds— the Oswego 



J- and Hock Bass. The Oswego is I he most, gamey fish 

 that swims iu the lake. It requires an experienced angler to 

 Capttifl} one that weighs over half a pound, unless the fish 

 should be so deeply booked I hat he could not Lear loo.se if 

 suspended iu mid air. If after several attempts by jumping 

 out of the water and shaking his bend lie cannot gel. free, lie 

 will go for the bottom and continue to struggle for liberty 

 until be becomes exhausted. Sbmlild the atlglei jel fivei 

 anvioiis lo force him to the surface, he will leap and shake 

 himself; invariably in such distances be will gel free: llie 

 strength requited to raise him tears the Hesh, makes the hole 

 large, and his lightning motions tear or shake the hook OuL 

 If time is taken, when he takes a run, give him more line, but 

 under a firm', steady, and even strain, which will cause him to 

 take a circle. In doing this you can slowly gather iu tine. 

 Never attempt to lead him into the landing net until he gets so 

 tired that he can be seen to lie flatwise iu the water ; even 

 then it is necessary to avoid all quick motions. There are 

 hundreds of pounds taken every year, the largest of them 

 weighing between five and six pounds. They wnole mfllG 

 ply very rapidly were it not for the spearing done during the 

 spawning season, aud another mode of destroying them, vi/. : 

 when the female has selected her ground for a bed she cleans 

 off all the loose dirt with her tins, and forms a basin, varying 

 fi'iiu otic to three feel in diameter ; when completed the sand 

 and gravel looks as clcau an if would if washed by man; she 

 will lake in her mouth aud carry off any small slick or si one 

 that is dropped into the bed. Vagabonds who know Ibis 

 habit prowl along the shore in a small boat in calm, slid 

 weal her, with a stout pole, heavy line and u large hook 

 covered with worms; whin they come to a bass bed they 

 pull close enough to it to drop the. baited hook into llie .m hi. 

 which will be picked up to be carried away ami dropped oul- 

 sidc. While so doing llie lish is hooked ; if not captured the 

 lirsl, time, she will very soon return to her bed. If the otl'cn- 

 sive thing is found she will again place herself ill jeopardy. 

 In this manner millions of bass are yciuly destroyed. Among 

 all the laws for the protection of bass in the waters of Lake. 

 George not one act has been sufficient; the penalty is not 

 enough, Hie and lime prohibiting the hiking of them i[sn 

 never beeu long enough. The lima should be of siillieien 

 length for the vouug to be of sufficient si/.e to get out of the 

 way of perch and rock bass. While the female is living no 

 other fish dare approach the bed or molest their young when 

 Id be from ihe lirst day of April lo 

 The penalty should be both line and 

 id fifteen days iu the county jail for 

 i within the lime specified, 

 taken yearly, by men who fish for 

 the hotels, that will not weigh lour ounces. All they fate for 

 is to oct I heir money, whether the lish arc lit to eat or lint. 

 Iu this case the hotel keepers areas much to blame as the 

 fishermen. It they would not buy such small fry they would 

 not be caught. 



The catehiig of bass in Lake George is confined to the 

 Summer and first fall months. There are one or two places 

 in the lake where they can be taken very late iu the fall, und 

 have been taken in the Winter through the ice. Those taken 

 at this time of the year are usually very large. There is a 

 reef of rocks that comes within about eighteen feel of the 

 surface ; on one side for some distance the bottom is covered 

 wilb a Tine, long, green grass: on the opposite the water is 

 very deep. A person has got to know the spot to a smail 

 boat's length iu order to get them. The exact spot wu 

 known by only two or three men for some years, and is nut 

 known toy very many at this day. 



The reek bass.are not very good eating fish. The meat is 

 soft; they inhabit Ike rocks, aud are invariably filled with a 

 small, dark grub under the skin. They have a very large 

 mouth and use it to the best of their ability. They go for all 

 kinds of bait, small and large. If they have a few seconds 

 work, the hook will be out of sight. In order lo get Ihe b 

 ihe stomach will have to be opened Nothing is more annoy- 

 ing to the sportsman when fisning for the Oswego with a nice, 

 lively minnow, l ban to have his float disappear and give the 

 fish time to get Hie hook well down, and then find il deep in 

 one of these red eyed gormandizers. They take Hie lly also, 

 t have been trolling for Oswego and fastened lo a good tidi, 

 and while handling him have had one or two of these useless 

 things fasten to the other flics on the leader. They are a great 

 destroyer of young fish. The young fish seek the crevices 



ii ig Hie rocks for safety, and become food for the rock 



bass. Jf these fish inhabited all parts' of the lake there would 

 not be much sport in fishing. Their abode is among loose 

 rocks along the shore, and under sunken logs and tree tops. 

 Strangers not accustomed to fishing often gel where these fish 

 are found and enjoy their good luck at, catching such a 

 quantity, but they find when they return to the. wharf that 

 •• all is not gold that glitters " when they see 'he man that has 

 charge of Ihe boat throw the fish overboard. They might 

 congratulate themselves if they were aware that they had 

 been the means of destroying a large, number of fish Cannibals ; 

 sometimes they da not find out their mistake, and go away 

 thinking that anybody can go lo Lake George and catch as 

 many lish as they choose. 



in order to make a sure catch of Oswego bass it is necessary 

 to be supplied with various kinds of bait. The bait that 

 takes well one day may not do the next ; minnows, grass- 

 hoppers, black crickets, young frogs and angleworms are 

 used. I have had as find sport with nothing but angleworms 

 as any bait used. The hopper and cricket are best late in the. 

 season. It depends much on the weather what kind of bait 

 to use, especially in trolling. The more, cloudy the duy, Ihe 

 more bright ami lively should lie the fly or spoon used. In 

 trolling lor bass a very small fly is best, The trolling spoon 

 should be of the smallest kind made. 1 have never seen one 

 too small. The more dainty the outfit, the quicker they take 

 o , Tun Old Pilot. 



hatched. The time 5 

 Hie first day of AUgai 

 imprisonment, $IS tii 



each and every bass I 

 Thousands of has 



ON SHARKS AND 



OTHER MATTERS. 



paint 1, 

 ladder. 



aish 

 and 



ing eye 



sol 



Lmar's Guide to Hangely Lakes is now published by- 

 Messrs. Lee A Shepard, Boston, and 0. T. Lillingham, Broad- 

 w;jy. New York. The map and guide to Moosehcad Lake 

 will be ready July 1st. . 



I'na a--. Kebnmry 10, 1877., 



Our genial correspondent, -Mr, Phillip Vibert, wbpsi 



, i,,tes regarding dog*, etc . have been read with so much inter- 

 est, Sends us, from his home in Perec, QltebtM , this flintier In- 

 stallment : 



1 am pleased to h aru by your issue "f llie 1st inst.. that 

 my communication on the breeding of wild geesij has led to no 

 less | hail three i ilber cases of extensive and successful breed- 

 ing beinir fully authenliealed— and. us i .. i ve, de- 

 coy birds can thus be easily procured— a few, no doubt,, from 

 Oiispe Dasin, if bespoken in time. 



1 have been greatly surprised to learn, through your valua- 

 ble journal, that a doubt has ever existed as to sharks being 

 men-eater.-., not haters. An old superstition exists among 

 Hriiish seamen, flint sharks will follow in the wake of a ship 

 having sick persons on board, when at the point of death. Jle 

 Ibis as if may, Ihe following fads, which are fresh in my 

 memory, would go far to confirm Jack in his nautical preju- 

 dices, 



In February. Is'23. I was on board of a vessel owned by- 

 members of my mother's family, which sailed from Messina in 

 Sicily, bound for St. Petersburg. The Captain was far 

 in consumption. The doctor who attended him — and had 

 kindly taken him to bis house during our slay in porl stfi ,i ■■■- 

 ly urged his remaining on shore, but lo no purpose. He hop- 

 ed he might live to be lauded in llie "island of Jersey, his native 

 place on our way up channel. Put he died a fortnight idler 

 leaving Messina, and we consigned his body to Hie deep, be- 

 tween Cape de Galla and Cape Palos, on 'the coas| of Spain. 



For S days previous to his dealh. a large shark followed 



the vessel, and was daily seen by all hands; bill, si range to 

 say, be did not put in an appearance on the d:iy 6( the Burial, 

 though we were becalm. (1 all the morning, two days later, 

 as we. were Hearing ttibrallcr. with a light air from the east- 

 ward. I pp.iposcd to the new citpiiiin lo give the white streak 

 a touch 'of paint, to make the old craft look shipshape. No 

 sooner said than done. A ladder was slung over Ihe side with 

 a board on Ihe rungs, forming a safe scaffold, and another 

 young main and myself went to work, due side was finished, 

 and we had only the porl quarter to paint, when a man in the 

 main lop shouted in an excited tone, "Alongside 1 there: 

 Halloa: Look oiil, the shark is close lo you:'' I turned 

 round quick as thought, and. lo my inexpressible hurror. I be- 

 held the huge monster, for he was twelve to fifteen feel in 

 length, within six feet of us. evidently about to make his dead- 

 ly spring. Shouting to my companion, I dropped a large 

 overboard, and sprang up the rope which held ihe 

 gained the deck. As I write, I fancy 1 see the leer- 

 thc nionsterin anticipation of a glorious feed. The 

 stage wasabottt two feet from ihe water. The man in Ihe top 

 said thiii the moment I dropped the brush the shark followed 

 it. Sony it did not hold a few ounces of arsenic orother dead- 

 ly poison. We finished our job nevertheless, the man in Ihe 

 top keeping watch, aud ihe captain on the quarter with a ! ai 

 edgun. 



1 remember also having read an account in some book of 

 voyages of a boy falling overboard, and n sailor jumping idler 

 aud saving him.' The boy was sab-ly hauled up. but his gal r 

 hint rescuer, when, soiue sis feel onl of the water, wis cut in 

 l wo by a shark. 



Put a well authenticated proof of the voracity of the shark 

 exists in Ihe dining hull of Chris:'- Hospital —better known as 

 the Blue Coat School in the city of London— where any vis- 

 itor mayysecn an oil painting, representing a ship's boat. 

 and crew' rescuing a man who has fallen overboard, and is 

 minus a leg, which had been amputated by a shark. The hero 

 ol ibis misadventure afterwards became Sir Brook Watson, a, 

 celebrated naval cciisiruelor, during the close of the Inst cen- 

 tury. 



A great grand-uncle of the writer, on Ihe maternal side, 

 named Joshua Manger, was a partner of Sir Brook, and final- 

 ly retired with a large fortune, hence my knowledge of ihe his- 

 tory of Hie painting The following anecdote may not be mi. 

 interesting to Ihe readers of FouKsr ami Sice \m" 



The aforesaid grand-uncle lived in great style in London, 

 aud had a country seat near Lyniiugton. a then fashionable 



watering place in Hampshire. He had a daughter— an only 

 child — who married a general in the Hriiish army, u .son of a 

 Peer of the realm. They had no children, and she <h ing lie- 

 lore herhusbiind. made a will in his favor. The gencrai. on his 

 demise-, left all his property to his relatives, 'memtung two 

 splendid life. size, half-lenglli portraits of .Mr. nrnlMrs. Manger, 

 by that celebrated painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Jly grandl 

 father having, through an old friend in 'Loudon, ascertained 

 I he then owner of the porl rails, staled bis auxieiy to become 

 possessed of ibem, and aci ing under his advice, called upon ihe 

 nobleman, and haying explained who he was, he proposed to 

 purchase Ihe porl rails, and give his lordship any reasonable 

 sum. This, his lordship politely declined, soiling th„t thon| 

 the porl raits lormed no part of the family gallery, he prized 

 them as works of art— as masterpieces, ol the great painter. 

 j\ly grandfather was not a little chagrined at this rebuff, as he 

 would willingly have given a handsome sum lor them. His 

 uncle had left him the greater part of his massive plate, bis 

 splendid china dinner and breakfast sets, every piece of which 

 had his coat of arms engraved or beuutifully'painled thereon, 

 a considerab e sum of money and handsome' legacies to all his 

 children, yet his heart yearned for the paintings, as life-like 

 likenesses of his deceased relatives. He relumed to Jersey, 

 and had nearly forgotten his disappointment, ,\hen, after a 

 lapse of some months, he received a letter ftoni the. agent of 

 Ihe Southampton Packets, advising the arrival of two large 

 ORSes, and enclosing a letter, which', on beinir opened, proved 

 to be from his Lordship, begging his acceptance of the por- 

 traits. The old gentleman's surprise could only be surpassed 

 by his delight at thus becoming possessed of what he had long 

 considered a lost heirloom. This princely gift proves that the 

 donor was a right Noble .Man ! " Pmuac Yibkkt. 



SPLIT BAMBOO RODS. 



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r l'o our customers and the public :— In reply lo the. damaging 

 reports which have been circulated respect ing the quality of 

 OUT spjit bamboo rods, by ••dealers" win i arc unable to compete 

 With us at our reduced prices, we have issued a circular which 

 we shall lie pleased to mail to any address, proving the falsity 



of their assertions. 



COS COT, BfSSETT & M.YLI.ESO' 



manufacturers, 65 Fulton Strtpt 



