Feb. 15, 1888.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



49 



The Mifiw:>mu Association publish in convenient form 

 titution andby-laws, with tales for. trap- shooting, 



together with the game aud fish laws ol' tin.' Sine The 



pamphlet gives these l':i. -t -- n i ruing the society: "The or- 



.■ Missouri State Sportsmen's Association, though 

 dot quili a tradition, has nut been ptesarvBdin its minutes. 

 [The credit of the original organization belongs to Si. Louis. 

 Kansas Cin anil St. Joseph." and the clubs of lliose cities. 

 The first meeting was held at St. Louis in i.878, and D, L. 

 Hall and J E. Guinotte. of Kansas City, elected president 

 and secretary, respectively, lor ensuing year, aud Kansas 

 I . 'iiy was selected as place of convention oflSW. Thesecond 

 meeting was then held October 2i, 18711. al Kansas City, the 

 constitution and by-laws adopted, officers for 1870-80 'elect - 

 cd. aud Macon City chosen as third place of meeting. In 

 tssi i]],. convention was held al St. Louis, and tournament 

 given bv Si, Louis (Urn Club, and in 1882 at Sedalia, and 

 tournament given under auspices of the Sedalia Gun Club. 

 The present officers- are: P. Houston. Bedalin, President; 

 Paul Francke, St. .Joseph. First Vice-President: W. W. 

 Jtti.lv, St. Loui;-. Second Vice-President; .T. C. Parmerlee. 

 Sedalia. Recording Secretary; W, R. Thomas, Sedalia. Cor- 

 responding Secretary. 



li'NN^tVASM (i.CMK \KD FlsIT L,\ W.— Cil I u.\\ issa, Feb. 



8.— The Catawissa Fish and Game Protective Club held a 

 meeting Feb, 9, and reorganized by the election of the fol- 

 lowing officers: W. G. Vetter. President: Abel Thomas, 

 Vice-President; Wm. Ever. Treasurer; A. IT Sharpless, 

 Secretary. It is the intention of the cluh to strictly enforce 

 the name and fish laws in this vicinity. A committee con- 

 sisting Ol W, a 3 etter, H. B. Aldrich, W. H. Rhawn, Es< ( ., 

 and A. II. SharplesH was appointed to draw up and circulate 

 a. petition asking the. Legislature to amend the fish laws re- 

 lating to illegal fishing, so as to enumerate more explicitely 

 what" is meant by "permanent set means, "etc.. and the game 

 laws to allow the killing of pheasants or ruffed gnmse 'from 

 Sept. 1; also a.skiug that a bounty be offered tor the killing 

 of hawks. The club think the above changes proper, and 

 ask the different clubs throughout the Slate to take a simi- 

 lar action, and through their representatives to bring the 

 subject before, the Legislature now sitting. — A. 11. Shakp- 

 T.lWs, Sec'v. 



Pia.NsvnvA.MA —lb. llii.laysl.it 

 shooting Season has been ra'thei 

 roiled gi mat i« .- arce and v 

 plentier lhan ever before, the qi 

 cover from the decimating effei 

 IB80-'8i. If we could only • 

 granger friends call it. on (he st 

 have reasonable hopes for the n 

 shooting of four years ago. Wa 

 pusl summer aud' fall weis a far 

 score birds were killed in the cot 

 season our young shots have 

 with fail-success, to the destructi 

 ous dog-like tracks dot every th 

 young man has seven hides la 

 shot before the dogs, and prou 

 making a right and left on thi: 

 played along IB front of his pack 



Ja 



15.— The 



ia-t 



1. and while rabbits a« 



I have just begun to re 



of the terrible winter of 



the "scalp law." as our 



le books again, we might 



rn of the splendid quail- 



eoek shooting during the 



I think not over four 



y. Since the close of the 



rned their attention, and 



of I he fi ix.es, w hose numer- 



kel, field and knoll. One 



I away to dry, all of them 



idly bus the distinction 



s cunning "burd," as they 



of beagles.— T. D. 



MtNNi-.si.TA. — Audubou.— i am very gkd to note the 

 stand you have taken against the park grab. Whalevei the 

 outcome maj be; there are here mauv ardent admirers nf 

 your action' and fearless treatment of the steal. I have 



been much interested in the discussion of -hounding vs. 

 still-hunting'"; and I would like to see the dogs put out] 

 aud every man who aspires lo hunt the deer obliged to 

 match his own skill against the instinct and cunning of 

 that much-hunted and inoffensive animal. 1 have iived 

 years in the deer country of Minnesota, and did 1 Inn hold 

 the pen i,t a ready writer, 1 think 1 could convince those 

 who hold themselves Open lo conviction thai the use of 

 dogs is destructive lo the best interests of the sportsman, 

 which means the fostering of the game he loves tp hunt. 

 and should love to so well thai he will be willing to sacrifice 

 the use of the dogs. — Veteran. 



Mi'isim. Torraa 9vommk?i"— Editor Wrest, and Stream; 



After you get through wilh the Yellowstone Park specula- 

 tors, could yqu not tire a single volley al the benighted 

 press of this State, solicit one might read so influential a 

 journal as the Philadelphia Times without running on some 

 half a dozen clippings like this: '-Young Johnny Pig- 

 head bids fair to become one of our best shots, tin last 

 .Monday he killed eleven quail with one shot from his father's 

 musket." Or. "Mr. So-and-So, of Green township, is one 

 of our most successful sportsmen; lie recently killed seven 

 wild turkeys with one shot as they follow ed a trail made 

 with corn to the blind in which he sat . " It is ' -a thunderi ng 

 pity" they did not beat his pot-hunting head oil! with their 

 w ings. for a Very few simb men will more thoroughly clean 

 a country of game than a regiment of decent shooters.— 

 T. D. 



LppiiR MiCHiGAH.— Union City, Ind.— 1 noticed that in 

 your issue of November lb, Major fl. W. Merrill recom- 

 mends Mackinac aud Schoolcraft counties, in Lppei 

 Michigan, as a good hunting country. I went, there last 



October with f 



Worst couutr 

 guace to Mil 



iNf.w GLASGOW Ron ash Gin I/liilc-Ncw Glasgow, N. 

 S., Feb. :',. — The annual meeting was held on the 1st 

 inst., and the following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year; President, \\ \;. Moore m elected); Vice- President, 

 A. M. Frazer; Secretary and treasurer, .1. H. Caviiuaugh 

 (re-elected); Executive Committed, Norman McKay and H. 

 T. Sutherland — Gt.ont: Stout 



Massachusetts.— East Douglass. -Game has been quite 

 plenty here this winter* the woods were full of squirrel; 

 grouse were plenty, bul quail were scarce.— Amatbuk. 



Nisw Orleans, La.. Feb. 5.— Our hunting has never 

 been so poor as this season; no woodcock; very few snipe 

 and ducks; quail, of course, plenty, also rabbits. 





th 

 The railroad front Point St. 

 riy the whole way through a 

 marshy country, l»ut there are no roads nor teams there, 

 consequently we gave it up in disgust aud came home with- 

 out seeing a deer or bear, — I). B. C. 



.Note Pbom PlObida. — An Oak Hill correspondent writ- 

 ing under date of Feb. 1, says: The shooting has been 

 wonderfully good this year, big hags of all kinds of game be- 

 ing the rule instead of the exception. The fishing has not 

 been extra good thus far on account of inclement "weather, 

 still some good fish have been caught, the largest weighing 

 12; He,— n channel bass. The Duke -of Newcastle and a 

 friend. Mr. Laugley, of England, are here now, fishing and 

 shooting. 



jN'ew York.— Foxes are plentiful; one man here got a 

 double shot, killed one. and shot one foreleg off the other, 

 and then it got away from him. Your correspondent 

 Clarence A. Farnuni, of Wellsville. has been appointed 

 County Judge of Allegheny county If his judicial deci- 

 sions are as sound as he is on the game quest i'oji then Alle- 

 gheny county is to bfe congratulated— J, n T is Fk.llow >, 

 (Horneilsyillc. K. Y.. Feb. 4), 



Jfiw* mid ffiver fishing. 



To insure protitpt itftentixm, mimnumaaUoita should h<- ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and SI, runt 1'iililisliinu I e,. and ,„: to 



ind.induals, in whose absence, frmn the office matters ofhti- 

 porfcwioe we liabt» to ftiUmi 



■ Tile broad-side I, renin. 

 The wary In, in Uial l.hnves against tlic .stream; 

 The well-srown tiirp. full laden with her spawn; 



The surest Wily 

 To tilte the fish, is give her leave to play. 

 Anil yield Una line," .-,■'.■ pfti rd's Ecology ■■■ tl(W4). 



WITH HACKLES AND GENTLES, 

 vrr. 



"Angling oue summer morn iilm..-. 



1 sat me down upon a stene, 



A little purliug lirook beside, 



Whose modest, silver, rippling tide. 



Mov'd n.v the zephyr's softest sign. 



Was scarcely heard by passer lij ." 

 EW are the friends from whom the angler can Choose 



.paniou to tish with. There is that in the "gei 

 tie art" which shrinks from a coterie and can only be t'boi 

 oughly enjoyed by the "lone fisherman. " or. at the utmost 

 by twain, and then the twain must be as "one desk" in th 

 pure and simple love of the pursuit. Yet who d; 

 angling an "selfish pl< 



F 



trow, and cyn 



heiid. or lack i 



The angler it 



-I re 





Le 



be is their friend 

 Tin 1 write a p; 

 Ini.i. is a bulcl 

 meadow brook al hirst for 

 upon pleasure, to which the 

 flies and- the sweet Bowers i 



beyond thai of be 



sway of the birch an 

 lly, and mercy, not j 



did, and 1 have lool 

 were alas] closed t. 

 thi 



' No brother of tin craft, I 

 at what they cannot conipre- 



ne than when alone" for the 

 ure are with him in sympa- 

 eparable from him, and the 



humanely transfers from the 

 e a subtle understanding (hat 

 all. 

 us see. No angler. ,nir e.n-,1- 



he crush the daisies bv the 



iod. He comes afield intent 



ithe birds, the Hitting butler- 

 heir own way minister The 

 he purling brook, butlta charm 



'fei 



at the 



g the habitat ot hsh. The graceful 

 Ihe alder he mimics as he casts his 

 eed. controls his cuteh. Oiibr'l ever 

 depths" in an anglers e V e-: [ never 



sd straightforwardly into many (some 

 isant scenes of earth \) since 1 



kindly i 

 Here 



which Nat 



gle; 



ge when the very thought 

 iches wasimknown. Hnw- 

 Icare, the face of the octo- 

 of youth upon il, and the 

 it can never be effaced. 

 rl to pay „ i,, n,| iributc.if 

 praise to an honest angler whose genial 'and kind face has 

 been lately hidden by the cere -cloth of death, and whose 

 form ha, been lain away in the dust lo await the general 

 resurrection at the last day.* How Often, in our piscatorial 

 chat, h-ave i Seen life eyes gleam with pleasure aud his face 



alit with the love of the craft, of Which he was so 

 thoroughly the masier. His was a type— and aright noble 

 one— of an hones! angler's life and love, and those who knew 

 and loved him the best miss him and mourn him Ihe most 

 sincerely. Quiet, gentle, unobtrusive, like many a puts 

 stream h. was won! to love and cast his By upon, lie passed 

 from our sight BO suddenly that, his loss cannot be fully 

 "-i) keep his memory green" and may 

 ion him ! 



af Ihe angler, in practice of his craft, 

 jarring short "runs" and doubtful 

 siting incidents in brook fishing. An 

 ride hard to hounds, or put no dog 

 r, but. pent in the "blind alley" of 

 vill confess that his first and dearesl 

 "sparkling- stream." 

 fit. " So may it be said of an angler. 



lalizedl "Lord (to i 



light perpetual shine u 



Of necessity , be life 



is contemplative and. 



ami Visigoths, who have no scruples as to how, or with 

 what si/.e of tish, their creels arc tilled. 



Zoundsl I ban- written myself into a furious pet, aud 

 digressed a long way from my intent, 



Old ballot Every reader must answer for himself, and 

 every fisherman must act, as he best can, in what 1 have 



suggested, or there will not. be a decent fish to "Swear by," 

 much less to catch, by the time \\c slip inn. the "lean and 

 slippered pantaloon"' period of life's pilgrimage. O. W. R. 



to shame on the m 

 truth, Ihe odds are h 

 love is his rod aud tl 

 "Foefa ntiriius, n 

 and once an angler 

 asserted. True; he 

 rod for years, but pi 

 "to the f 

 aready t< 



nay 



may have little or no practice with h 

 -esent the opportunity and the angler is 

 nerve aquivcr for the first east, and eve 

 k the glint of Ihe captured fish. 



Once (forsooth a few times) ih a long life there m.-t\ be 

 found a congenial soul with whom we can be at one as we 

 fish and revel in the beauties of Nature, but the harmony 

 must be so complete and perfect as to be unique in common 

 fellowship and purpose, Deny it who may, there is a sub- 

 tle influence in the pursuit of the gentle art that may be as 

 easily affected as the flexions of the magnetic needle, and 

 then all becomes awry, "like sweet bells jangled." the gen 

 tie spirit shrinks and shudders like the aspen'in Ihe blast. 



Desolation is a tireless hound and gives no quarter) it 

 follows "hard upon" the tread of civilization and in many 

 a mead ana over many a mere may he read the legend 

 "lehabod,"— its glory' is departed I Depleted waters, 

 dammed (and damned) streams aud befouled lakes arc the 

 order of the day and generation, and it becomes the bounden 

 duty of every angler to befriend his craft, the goodly fish 

 and his favorite haunts. 



ft is high lime to send the "black flag" to the peak, and 

 all •■trout hogs" should be. taught its significance. The 

 gentlest stream may be ruffled and so may the angler's 

 nature wdten rude feet and ruthless bands invade realms of 

 nature that, should be forever inviolate against ibs f.V,,lv- 



* Mr. Lorenzo Prouty, 



FISHING THROUGH THE ICE. 



""PHlKKlN'tl that a few words from Ibis section of the 

 1- country to my fellow sportsmen in the East might: be 

 accepted, 1 have determined to give VO u a short account of 

 a fishing trip I had to-day along with a f'elloWtendcrl'oot." 

 1 have been located in this part' of the country (they call it 

 God's Garden in the LeadviUe and Gtmniaon 'papers) for just, 

 one week; and probably heard more lies s« opped about moun- 

 tain lions, wild eats. elk. deer, bear, beaver and trout than 

 I ever heard before, but 1. did want to have the chance to 

 do something myself. Talcs of trout of fabulous size and 

 gameni ss thai could he caught "in the spring" were contin- 

 ually being sounded in mv ears, lint to my oft repeated 

 question -Why don't you catch them now?" 'the never-fail- 

 ing answer was, -They won't bile, they ain't in the creek 

 now." -Then, where are tbeyV" said I. "I dun no, gone 

 down to the river, I reckon. " "To make a long story short, I 

 got tired of thai inevitable answer and determined to look 

 for them in the Surface Creek, and with what, success you 

 may judge for yourself. 



Last night Al said he would go with me, so We hitched 

 Ihe two mules to the "democrat" this morning and Started 

 off. I must confess, with no hopefi Of success. 



On the way We Stopped n "Shep's" to get the mail and 

 there had the supreme satisfaction of gelling the opiuions of 

 three of the oldest settlers in the country, and they all agreed 

 that "Wfi couldn't catch P trout nohow; might get one', etc., 

 etc." That, of COUTSI . ,\ as B splendid thing for our already 

 much depressed spirits. However, we jogged along till we 

 reached an old beaver dam, the point we had settled upon to 

 make our trial. Al grasped the axe with a sort of a uoyv-or- 

 uevcr determination, and set to work to cut a hole in the 

 ice. After chopping for a while we found that a shovel 

 was an absolute necessity, so off we marched to another "old 

 -el tier's" cabin and there once more had the benefit of four 

 wise heads' opinion on the trout question. Thcv all agreed 

 again, though finally old "Treacle" did say that his boy 

 had ,-een one trout not long since where they' got their water. 

 Back we marched again end finally succeeded in etttting a 

 hole 



I -was carefully "putting it hook on my line aud getting 

 ready for business when a wild yell from Al announced the 

 pleasing fact that be had hooked a tish, but he lost him. 

 Of course he was a "Whopper," Procuring short polos 

 from the brush we set to work, and then the. fun began. 

 Al had the start of me, and had landed five large fish before 

 I dropped my hook in, and when 1 did get started thesee- 

 ond fish took my hook, and things then were blue. By the 

 lime I got ready again Al bad ten fish the start, bu1 the way 

 things did fly for about fifteen minutes was a caution". 

 VThue one of us was hiking off his tish the other would fish, 

 and so R e kept it up for half an hour. Finally we chopped 

 two more holes, but they were nol up to our' first location. 

 so we stuck mainly o. licit one. We fished, I should say, 

 abiitil three hours, and the total GatCh was eighty fish, 

 largest one pound, no "fingerlings," five fish weighed to 

 get her three and n half pounds, net weight of all sixteen 

 pounds, average three and one tilth ounces. Hot very bait 

 for a place where we were told there were no lish. On our 

 way Home we came by the "back way." not wishing to tell 

 of our good fortune to the entire settlement, and to-morrow 

 we intend trying another spoi before the news spreads, 

 Think of it— people settled all along the hank Of the creek 

 and living on hog, venison ami rabbil altogether, when within 

 fifty yards of thcii doors such dainties can be so easily had, 

 you might say for Ihe asking. Maybe John, our host's, eyes 

 didn't stick out when we came home. This, you know", is 

 anew country, and any sportsman can find plenty of game 

 if he will come 30 far. Tendkufoot. 



! H! KEREnVATlON, Cot., Jan. 23. 



PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION, 

 r"pHJE Anglers' Association of Eastern Pennsylvania has 

 JL taken 11 very handsome club room at 1020 IJrch street, 

 Philadelphia: and at a meeting on Saturday evening the id. 

 President Spangler I old of his taking a large shark in 

 our bay in which when opened were found sixty-eight 

 pounds of beef bones, crabs, etc. Other members narrated 

 similar adventures. 



This meeting was the first one held in the new rooms, which 

 are large autl commodious, and will go far toward promoting 

 sociability among its members. Thebld rooms at Broad and 

 Fairmount avenue were not central enough, and consequently 

 but few of the association frequented them. It is the pur- 

 pose of the society to decorate the walls of I lie new rooms 

 with angling scenes, trophies, specimens of tackle, etc. and 

 lo have the tables supplied with appropriate literature. In 

 addition to this it is said there will be weekly bulletins from 

 all the nshing centers as to whether the fish are biting, and 

 regarding the condition of the weather and streams. 



"President Spaugler stated I lie society was in communica- 

 tion with the State Fish Commissioners on the subject, of 

 stocking the rivers with fish, and a communication from a 



body of water as an excellent breeding place for the 

 rainbow trout. This we do not, recommend, as the stream 

 is stocked with black bass— at least that, portion a mile from 

 the Schuylkill— and these fish will be destructive to the fry 

 in their growth. 



The anglers' club was organised last Novwmber. aud has 

 now 130 members. Jo- objects, as they appeared in the 

 prospectus, were the encouragement of nsheulluic in Penn- 

 sylvania by the restocking of iis streams with game aud 

 other valuable food fishes, the protection of the same by a 

 rigorous enforet men! of exfetinglaws, which are strong and 

 good, and the advancement of the art of angling and the 

 promotion of sociability among anglers. Doubtless a fiy- 

 castiug tournament will be inaugurated in due time. 



Homo. 



Massachusetts,— East Douglass, Feb,, 1883.— Some tine 

 strings of pickerel have been caught here of late through 

 the ice, one of twenty-one weighing 33 pounds: another of 

 forty weighing 32. Among these were several' weighing 

 between four and five pounds. — Amateur. 



