FOREST AND STREAM. 



371 



■ . from Id to IS pounds. The 

 prospect is that the salmon season will close Barly in July. 

 The catch has been a good one. both as regards rrUantity and 

 quality, especially in the Restigouohe. The Restigotielie fish, 

 first introduced in. the New York market last summer, by 

 Blackford, have maintained their- supremacy as regards tleli- 

 i flavor and perfect freshness, and have entirely sup- 

 planted the Kennebec and Penohacot fish, so that every fish 

 dealer announces that he has " Rcstis-mene " fish, even it he 

 lias nothing but the inferior Miramiche salmon. 



Fish of nil kinds are now very plenty, especially blueflsh 

 and Spanish mackerel. 



Our quotations Tor the week arc as follows : 



Striped bass, lo to 20 cents per pound; blueflsh, 7 



cents; salmon, green, 20 to 25 cents; mackerel, 10 to 



nis each; shad, Connecticut Kiver, 50 cents; white 



perch, 15 cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, 15 cents; 



green turtle. 15 cents: terrapin, $12 per dozen ; halibut, IS 



cents; haddock, cents; king-fish, 25 cents ; codfish, S cents: 



hlackfish, 10 to 15 cents: herrings. 5 cents ; flounders, 7 to 10 



cents; porgies, 10 cents 18 cents; eels. 18 cents; 



lobsters, 10 cents; sheepshead, IS cents; soft clams, 30 to 80 



cents per 100; pickerel, 15 cents: Long Island trout, $1; 



Ida do., 50 cents; hard shell crabs, s;i50perl00; soft. 



oralis, ?2 per dozen ; weaktish, 12 cents; frog legs, 40 cents 



pci- pound. 



—Our correspondent " Piseeo"lias sent lis a number of frac- 

 tured gut. lengths and hooks which be recently subjected to 

 crucial tests during a leisure hour in the Adirondaoks, and as 

 a result of his experimenlB he has drawn the inference that, if 

 a length of gut leader lias been once broken by a strain, it is 

 probably worthless throughout its entire length for any subse- 

 quent use. The strain that breaks it in one place, injures it 

 all through ; aud one break in a leader condemns it for use. 

 no matter how strong it seemed in the first place. We ap- 

 pend a memorandum of results, as they may make our postu- 

 late plainer. 



The tests are by dead weights : 



No. 1. Forged Limerick hook, Binglegnt, broke at s iijs., tirst pull ; 

 second pull, :: lbs.; third pull, 2 lbs. 



No. 8. Forged Limerick, single gut, broke at 9 lbs., first pull ; i)i lbs. 

 i : pall : s lbs., third poll. 



No. :•. Klrbj hook, double gat— one gut broke at hook, and both at 



"!■ at toibs. strain; the remainder of tiie gut broke again at si.j lbs., 

 and at the third pull at 2>; lbs. 



No. i. Limerick salmon hook on gimp, 8S lbs., no injury. 



No. 5. Fly hook broke at 3\; His.; second pull, gut broke at 6 lbs. 



No.it. Single gut trout leader, first pull, « lbs.; second pull, 'i lbs.; 



tlliVd pilll, I II::- 



No. 7. Another leader same size, drat pull, BH lbs, second pull, s 



lbs twra pun, iji ibs. 



No. 8. Double gut leader not twisted, after lauding a line trout from 

 it— first lehgtll, first pull, s lbs.; second pull, :sv lbs. Second length, 

 first pull, T His. Third length, first pull, 11 lbs. 



No. 0. liouble gut trout, leader twisted, First length, 11 lbs.; second 

 pull, ■libs ; third pull, 2 lbs. 



The above tests also show that goad medium sized gut, such 

 as is sold at the tackle shops, will generally sustain a pull of 

 of about eight pounds, but a test of three pounds before us - 

 ing it will be quite sufficient, this being all that expert anglers 

 demand of tine salmon tackle. 



—Our friends in the northern part of New England and 

 the State of New York, and in the eastern townships of Que- 

 an obtain from Chas. F. Orvis, Esq., of Manchester, 

 Vermont, just as good trout (lies as they can by sending to 

 Now Xork or Boston. We have just received a half dozen 

 patterns from this dexterous whipper of silk and combiner of 

 feathers, and are delighted with his handiwork. Mr. Orvis 

 says he has tied very many flies for the San Francisco market. 



The Toronto says that immense numbers of white 



fish, pickerel, herring and sturgeons are being taken off Tal- 

 bot creek. Farmers come a distance of twelve or fifteen 

 miles every day to get a supply. White fish sell at 3.',e. per 



ad, pickerel and herring at 75c. per bushel, and sturgeons 

 at 25c. each. 



VOahada.— MatepectuB, N, B. { June 30.— Salmon rising 

 freely; fish very large this season. Mr. Bagster, of Montreal, 

 was Si hours killing a « pounder. Mr. Brown, of Newburg, 

 N. V., killed one of 36 pounds, and fish of 25 and 30 pounds 

 are common. Mr. Kobinson, the actor, killed four large fish 

 in one afternoon. There arc several New York gentlemen 

 stopping here. I killed my first salmon, a 25 pounder, in ten 

 minutes. E. B. H. 



—Mr. Charles F. Imbric, of the firm of Abbey & Imbrie, 

 leaves New York, July 7, for the Grand Kiver, Gaspe, Canada. 

 He will join Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, aud Mr. Andrew 

 Clark, and together with them he will cast the fly for the 

 lordly salmon. This is the same river lie fished last season 

 with so much success, and from all accounts ho will find even 

 better sport this year than last. 



Massachusetts, A T ew Bedford, June 27. — Trout fishing the 

 present season cannot be called a success, although some fine 

 fish have been caught. At present our Amateurs are having 

 tine sea fishing of bass, blueflsh, etc. A party chartered 

 steamer Glide to No Man's Laud. Mr. Lissou has returned 

 with three bass, largest 40 pounds. The Basque and Outty- 

 liunk Clubs are just opening their season, and will n, 

 give a good record. Numerous parties from Boston, New 

 York, etc., are daily passing through our city for the " Sea- 



plrt' islands for :i fpw nnv'q ftqbinir n™.,.^. 



'■' The Raquettb ash VtemiY -t'l-reaurkh. Jim 16.— I 

 bare lust returned to New York wilh a friend, from a two- 

 months' stay in the Adirondack region, and especially upon 

 Raquette Lake. We slopped on the Way, in and out, at Hol- 

 land's house at the head of Blue Mt. Lake, where we found com- 

 fortable quarters and good fare. Mr. iUenviu's '' Blue Mt. 

 House" is one mile farther on up the side of the mountain, and 

 commands a fineviow of both mountain and like, Jonas Ord- 

 way, of Glens Falls, has put. up a large two and-a-hnlf-story 

 house on the next point on the BOutl Bid below Hollanfi'S. 

 We camped on Knquette, North Point, at the lop; house of Mr. 

 James Tin Eyck. of Albany, with Bysander Hall and his son. 

 Herbert Hall as guides. Messrs. Ten Eyck and Stickney, of 

 Albany, had just preceded us with the. "same guides, and we 

 met them at the head of Blue Mt. Lake, bearing out among 

 (heir trophies one lake I rout weighing nearly twenty pounds. 

 While we were on Raquette one 'was taken of IS pounds, one 

 of KiJ pounds, and we took one of 144 pounds— all by troll- 

 ing. Ou the outlet of Raquette I took one speckled trout of 

 £j lbs. on a while ami ibis bass Hy. and this gourmandizer had 

 in his stomach a sucker seven inches in length, and sixteen 

 minnows. Also, quite a number Of L! pound each all going 

 for this same white and ibis bass fly. 



I leer had been feeding freely on the lily pads in Marion 

 Kiver. Mr. Alvah Dunning sent us a piece, of venison from a 

 deer that got info his otter trap and carried it off, but was cap- 

 tured by him with the aid of his dog after a protracted pur- 

 suit, 1 note the controversy about deer being killed by guidi 



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girt' islands for a few day's fishing. 



Concha. 



Movements op the Fishing Fleet.— The halibut receipts 

 small, and prices favorable. Very few mackeB I 

 ami stock on band closed out. The number of arrivals for 

 the week 73, including 3 from I he Banks, 60 from Georges. 

 from ninekercling Hips, and 1 from Newfoundland, Receipts 

 60,000 lbs. codfish, and 40,00(1 lbs. halibut from the Banks, 

 900,000 lbs. Georges codfish, 50,000 lbs. Georges halibut, 835 

 kerel, and 600 bbls. herring, — Capo Ann Adver- 

 tiser, Jum 26, 



on snow shoes and out of"s 

 this are good guides, one al 

 parties from this place to the 

 with me nearly ten years, an 

 charge when he made it. B 

 denv his assertions I 

 Hall must be mistata 

 call to mix up "Killi, 

 ing twelve deer in tw 

 have the facts, gentlemen, 

 charge be true, let it be subs 

 ly retracted, and as publicly 

 everybody else in that rejj 

 tual friendship and self-intei 

 fish from unseasonable aud 



should 

 n. ll 

 ig sever 



i weeks 



The men charged with 

 It of whom has hunted with 

 isfaction. Mr. Hall has been 

 ave no doubt he believed this 

 these men should themselves 

 nk, until further proof, Mr. 

 Id seem as if there was no 



e'er last autumn" with "Kill- 

 three feet of snow." Let us 

 I or fall who may. If the 

 antiated ; and if an error, square- 

 as it was made. The guides, and 

 on, should stand together in lim- 

 es", for the protection of game and 

 illegal slaughter. Division will 



not do it ; unity of action and public sentiment can. 



Yours vety respectfully D. W. Maxdei.i,. 



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THREE TROUT AT ONE CAST. 



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Benttett Building, New York, June 4, 1377. 

 EniTOK Forest and Stream : 



I cannot refrain from telling a little fish story. On Tues- 

 day last, May 30, on the lake of the Willemerndc. Club, up in 

 Sullivan County, N. Y., I hooked at a single cast three trout 

 measuring respectively sixteen, twelve and a quarter, and ten 

 inches in length, and weighing certainly over two pounds and 

 a half, and finally saved them all. This was done in the pres- 

 ence of Garrett Roach Esq., and George Van Wagcnen. of this 

 city. Mr. Roacli says I "yelled like an Indian." Probably 

 I did. The rod with which 1 caught these fish weighs, on a 

 ■ces : it was made to order for 

 mdam street, N. Y.; it has a 

 the first joints of three rods, 

 ds): this grip weighs a little 

 the first joint of ash, and 

 :ewood, weight together two 

 ounces. From the time I first threw a fly, over twenty years 

 ago, I have constantly had increasing faith in lighter rods. 

 The lighter the rod the harder it is for the fish to tear away. 

 I do not bother with three flies at a cast, but the weather was 

 hot, the water clear and smooth. I had on a black gnat and 

 dung and had east a number of times without a rise at 



postage t 

 me last j 



cales, less than, si 

 ear by Mitchell. 



>r"v 



grip of a 



under on 



second ; 



foot long, wide 

 m and eight oun 

 : -quarter of a pc 

 oint and tip of 



i tit 



UDd 



Ian 



the spring hole at the head of tl 

 house, so 1 thought to try a lighter fly, 



man. too lazv to take off one of the o'tl 

 cast it suddenly clouded over a little, tl 

 pie, and I saw the three fish rise sii 

 know how long it took me to land th 

 my watch. I did not sit down and e 

 't know what became of tl 



r the clut 



and put on a coach- 

 irs. At the moment I 

 are came a slight rip- 

 uiltaneously. I don't 

 m. I forgo! to look at 

 lolly light a cigar: I 

 j I was smoking. The 

 rod bent so at times as to lap the braided-silk line over my 

 wrist, but everything held, and in my opinion, chiefly because 

 the rod was so spring;,-, but the leader and swells must have 

 been good stuff too.' At times the flsh would run out twenty 

 yards or so. but their fighting at cross purposes preventing 

 their going far. The fellow at the bottom would not get tired; 

 sometimes I thought 1 had him, and then 1 would give him up 

 nd at every suggestive opportunity after that the 



uld mock 



fo 



breakfast next morning as plate after plate Of slap-jacks (with 



i ili ryrup) was emptied, liey would cry, "They 're- all on!" 

 "Only one left!" "The bottom one is off!" "Now I've 

 got two!" Finally (not after breakfast next day, but after 

 firing those trout)*! got the three fish in line under each other, 

 and by a quick stroke of the landing net lifted all three into 

 the boat. Unfortunately the fish were not weighed, but I 

 measured them carefully. The sixteen inch trout was also 

 very broad and thick. In all my fishing 1 never had three 

 trout On so light a rod, nor on any rod, at one time, and I do 

 not expect such good luck again. Yours, jubilantly. 



Geo. W. Van Srt.en. 



Rational jjjastitim. 



THE LONG BOW AS A SPORTING 

 WEAPON. 



FniausuuHGti, Vt. 



EuiTOit Fokest and Stream : 



In two of tlie leading magaziru 

 are published a eaper in Bach, by I 



i" ; I' "ni 'i "■ i! the full grown woodcock as he goes writs bullet speeil 

 among the aider stems, or tumble the lulled grouse headlong from Ills 

 whirring flight in the gorgeous October woods— miserable pot-huntera 

 mill belly gods all. intent onl.v un Slaughter and foud, no matter by what 

 means ! 

 And he whose Highest idea of game quality in beast or end, after its 



neas, is that tl should sit still and be ahot at till hit, says, "No 



man OUgW to brae' Ol knocking flown I wo quail left ami right under the 

 oniiuaryi-irciuiistunncaof ileal shooting, with a double-barreled shel- 

 ly certainly, have, in my hum 

 Adorn do. They surely would 

 try a chance shot, nor of hitting 

 I says, furthermore, thai " with 

 olsa a quail at thirty yards!" 

 ■an ever hope to be with the 



Uarp^r't :md Soribner's for July, 



9 same author, in praise of the long 

 lolesare well Mitten ami quite In- 



c learned to fly " and "arc lit for 

 •t than shooting wild turkeys when 

 ■y are delicious for the table ;" who 



lat opium 



and 

 of the godi 



; A.? think: 





love life for the sake ol eating "—this wielder of the 

 gays: "The gunner Is' modern and realistic; he wn 

 of hia tooth; he counts "how much hia ammunition has cost him, a 

 glances at the newspaper market reports to see what his birds I 

 worth !" 

 Tliit is what you are and what you do, yon sons of guns, who deem it 



i<!hf 



: the' 



n til 



lead i 



Bung hi claims II o ght to be, there would indeed he little sport in it 

 —it would be sheer slaughter. Bui the scores of crack shots will hard- 

 ly average more than three hits in live -m-i- ; ,i hlrda on the wing. A 



modating woodpeckers and tomtits at double hi., le-anees nine times 

 out of ten, but we should hardly call it sport 



It is a pity he hail not room to tell us why •• hunling with the gun, as 

 is the fashion now to follow it, cannot be recommended as either health- 

 ful or pleasant." Many deluded mortals who iliink It Is both ought to 

 be at once convinced that, their favorite pastime brings them neither 

 vigor nor recreation, but they will not be without proof or argument. 



Does any one believe that any woodpecker sucks the sap of trees ? I 

 do not. But if any one really know it to be a liter, I should be glad to 

 hear from him. Awahsoosb. 



MAHQNlNOTOWN, Pa., •rune 28, lSTI. 

 In the July number of Siriftwr'S Monthly is to be found a paper on 

 •has made, some assertions alto, 

 sutijee.t, which I am inclined to combat. In 

 comforts of the most necessary sort had to 

 luck of the huntsman [Mark the word luck 

 ? game as a means of livelihood], "and aa 

 ,ry and difficult of approach [he states 



"Sow Shooting," in which tn 

 gether at variance with his pi 

 it he says, " Formerly table o 

 be procured by the ski 

 in connection with pursuing 

 the game grew more Wai 

 elsewhere that now shooting 

 vented firearms— that terrib 

 duced shooting to less than i 

 sity for game bring about th 

 inquire, Why it is that he, » 

 shoots " everything from a i 

 should still continue to shoo 

 been reduced to less than a i 

 onght to brag of knocking 



s«ity in- 

 e source of slaughter which has at last re- 

 l sport." Permit me to ask, Did the ueees- 

 ■ invention of firearms '.' And I wonld also 

 ch a thoroughbred sportsman fN. B.— Ha 

 omtit to a hawk or an eagle,". von know.] 

 . when, by his own evidence, shooting has 

 iport. Quoting further, lie says : " No man 

 iwn two quails, left and right, under the or- 

 dinary circumstances of Held shooting." Now I appeal to your com- 

 mon sense, don't you think it as much and more to brag of making a 

 right and letter on quail than to make a "scratch "shot on a lot of tur- 

 keys, bunched together, giving one a margin for successful inaccuracy 

 of about 9 square feet, with a bow and arrow ? I'll warrant he can not 

 make a "double" on qnail once in three times. I have shot 

 a good many quail.aud shot at a great many more, and 1 am sure f can- 

 not do it myself. Further ou he says, "The shot-gun will soon ex- 

 terminate game." Now I do not wish to make any rash assertions, 

 but. I ask my fellow knights of the trigger is not game plentler, or at 

 least fully as plenty in England (where the shot gun is used the most, 

 and the most, effectually) to-day than it was when the fowling-piece 

 was tirst introduced ? and, which destroys the most quail, shot guns or 

 tra]is— No. 9's or hard winl era " Again he says in regard to " quail and 

 pheasant shooting " [mark the vulgar name for ruffed grouse] : "These 

 birds are so similar in their habits that to know one is to be pretty well 

 acquainted with the other." Huffed grouse and quail similar in their 

 habits! Hear him I Let's close the subject, further comment la un- 



As far as the subject 

 able. But when he att 



matte 



is concerned it is well written and read* 

 o talk about gunning, it is evident to us 



ence. We gunners, as 

 without permitting sue 

 noticed. 



ha";;" 



politic, have enough slurs cast upon ua 

 rranily unjust one as this to pass by un- 

 Ahbisian. 



"He that doth public good for multitudes 

 Feels few are truly grateful," 

 says the old dramatist Marston. Not so, however, with 1!. T. Babbitt, 

 the great soap man, or why do the newspapers ring with the praises of 

 his Toilet Soap? A conundrum easily answered, for Its excellences com- 

 mand instant conviction.— f.li/e. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, aud Ini 

 porters, have always a large stock of silver- 

 articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, racing 

 and other sports, and on request they prepare 

 special designs for similar purposes. Their 

 Timing "Watches are guaranteed for accuracy, 

 and are now very generally used for sporting 

 and scientific requirements. TIFFANY & CO. 

 are also the agents in America for Messrs. 

 Patek, Philippe & Co., of Geneva, of whose 

 celebrated watches they have a full line. Their 

 stock of Diamonds and other Precious Stones 

 General Jewelry, Bronzes and Artistic Pottery 

 is the largest in the world, and the public are 

 invited to visit their establishment without feel] 

 ing the slightest obligation to purchase. Union 

 Square, New York 



