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FOREST AND STREAM. 



■Junk 38. 1883. 



s, twenty-eight of thorn were as fine brook trout as one 

 -would wish to have the pleasure of sitting down and dine off 

 .if. Our catch was the best that had been made from the 

 reek that year. 



The favorite hunting place of our citizens is Mi. Pleasant 



Pond, a sheet of water of fifteen acres, formed by damming 



»j] • a Bpring creek, Every flrsi of May. all oui (root fishers 



stall for the pond, and at midnight commence. There were 



mitt caught thetirsl day lasl year, weighing from 



one to lli.ee pounds' each. This year Ihe eateli was nol near 



ounl of the backward season. One curious 



Ml tliis pond is, that I have never yet seen a person. 



or beard of one, who had CftUghl a trout froni it with the By. 



A great many —myself among the number— have tried and 



failed, and have always had to fall hack on chub or worms. 



As the trout have a Bort of hankering after this kind of bait, 



1 am generally able to catch a few. One of our anglers, Mr. 



Minor, one day a couple of weeks ago, caught nine, nverag- 



lwo pounds apiece Thai was quit 



good day for trout, 

 might al tlii: 

 and 1 assun 



though. The 4th of May lasl year. 1 B 

 ponii thai weighed three pounds two 

 you that it s.-iin Johnson had been waktiuug an angler use 

 .■ ii i to J iSiis tish. I would not have blamed 

 him for his definition of angling. He had a pole, the tip of 



■which was as thick as your thumb, a thick line, heavy siukcr, 

 and a large bass book tied direct to the line; no gut for 

 him. When he fell the bite, he just gave 

 and the trout hY\\ overhishead anil landed tWCiDty feet' behind 



him as "dead as a herring." This is the largest trout 1 have 



.seen caught, but have been told they have been taken weigh- 

 ing over four pounds. 



Can any of your renders loll me if they ever caught a small- 

 mouthed trout. 1 was fishing in a brook a month ago. and 

 caught two half pounders, and there was as much difference 

 ttcm as i here is between Ihe large and small-mouthed 

 black 1 



Out river fishing has been very poorso far tills year, al- 

 though one or two good fish have been caught ; a ten and a 

 half-pound pike, six-pound pickerel, and a four and a half- 

 pound black bass being among the numbers. 



1 intend next week to Spend a couple of days at Ml. Picas 

 ant Pond and see if 1 cannot manage to catch a four-pounder. 



Besides fishing in the 1 1. there are two brooks running 



inlo it. wlietea person can manage to eateli a ten trout, from 

 the pounder down to those which might be done up in 

 bunuhVS, marked •this bunch fur live cents." 



I had Just got solar, when an angling friend poked his 

 head in the door and sa \ s : 'Ma.-, will you go to the pond 

 this afterl it 1 .'" Mai' says aye, and so al :i 1'. M. we were al 



the pond ready for our afturuooa'* sport, 1 left Charley at 



the pond, and 'started to fish 1 lie brooks, but after awhile had 

 to give up on account ; oi 'the mosquitoes. Every one had 

 bis little bill to present. 1 cam" hack to the pond, and as it 

 commenced raining pretty bard, we bad to quit. Result, 

 -me one pound Iwo ounce and one two-pound trout. You 

 do not catch many tish al this place, hut What you catch 

 are worth having, ' Little Mac. 



BR-v.NTFeiv.n, i ,-ih. eta. Jane IT'. 



TROUTING NEAR CALAIS. 



IP you want to take a novel trip, check your bag for 

 Calais, Maine, and, after a two days' voyage from Boston, 

 you can sleep al Ihe eastern boundary of the United Stales, 

 or cross Ihe St. Croix and soj-'Urn among the English pro- 

 vincials, who (am be easily distinguished from the Yankees. 

 The men are Slim, straight, and took as though they wore 

 corsets, and the distinguishing feature of the women is their 

 slovenly bonis and buxom ruddy faces. In Calais, inas- 

 much as ihe people are independent of the rest of ihe world, 



every feels his own responsibility and tries to make 



things move. 



We had two friends in C, and they decided to lake Us 

 brook limiting. So we talked trout and slept to drift in 

 dreams upon the BtyS and eateli its horrid monsters 



It is well right here to lell who made up the party. A 

 military man, lieutenant in the Calais Light Infantry: 

 another fauiilinriy called Deacon, a law student of some 

 little local reputation., who will tell you that be, and Presi- 

 dent Arthur were of the same Greek letter society in college; 

 one called Pns, short, for posterity, and your underwriter. 

 We started at S A.M. and as our ride was to be a long one, 

 we settled ourselves and sought to sooih our nerves with 

 noxious nicotine. 



In view of the horses' actions I feared a premature arrival 

 at our journey 'send on the. side of the road, bul half a dozen 

 miles and a good driver calmed them so that they went like 

 two kittens. 



The first twenty miles of the journey was by a traveled 

 road through Milltown, where we' saw saw-mills and a 5(1, 

 *"". Baring, five miles from C, brought 

 lills and a few good farms. Turning 

 started across the open fields, but 

 loped, and for five or six miles our 

 ie by instalments on account of the 

 n & "Penobscot B. K. track the road 

 :1 at this stage of the way the rain began 

 ghteen miles was a fine hard road, 

 ■d at a good spanking gait. In 



000 spindle eotto 

 to view more lun 

 off the highway 



presently a road 

 songs and storie 

 jolts. At the Pri 

 promised better, 

 to gently fall. The last t 

 over which our he 



THE ICHTHYOPHAGOl DINE. 



'IM1E great hotel at Manhattan Beach never held a jollier 

 1 party than on the evening of Tuesday last, when the 

 famous Ichthyophagous Chili sat down lolheir fourth an- 

 nual dinner Thai is. they were jolly after they bad 

 passed the danger point in the menu and found that they 

 still lived. This danger point was the fillet o I sea COW, 

 Mn nut in tiiim iniiuiK, a new and untried dish, which Mr. 

 Barnct Phillips thought must be a steak of Goody-ear's 

 patent, and Mr. Francis Kudieotl declared would make 

 an excellent sole for a waterproof boot, Fifteen minutes 

 after the steak u as eaten, two Brooklyn Coroners who 

 were waiting outside lell for home in disgust. Mr. Black 

 ford broke a tooth on the freshwater mussels, which Mr. 

 G. L. Feunrdnit declared had been stolen from the Ocs 

 noltl collection of Cypriote marbles. The following is the 

 MENU. 



Per 



Razor CUvou Kn 



wis. 



Bailed M tish. sn jaux Eerevissau, 



Sturgeon a la Matelotte Normande, 

 I lucutaberb. 



Potatoes HoiUuiiiHisc. 



Alli^al. a- steaks :'. la DUxello. 

 Tenderloin of lleef a la Miu-„-"l. 

 Steaks u la Mattre d'Hfltel. 



fillet n| I'l.injiumi ;i la Kavigottft. 



green Peas, Btring Beam,. 



Sorbet an Ktrseh, 



nana. 



Iiniiutisli floiidii ':•- la Chaiubord. 



Ilr.ille.l Sea Rollins i'i la Victoria. 



Salade de ! lisoj 



We 



lire called a mosquito smudge, ill an iron pot, and sitting 



around it (old si ones of their prowess as fishermen, which 



caused our catch to seem mean and small. 



and confounded, yet a sense of happiness < 



weh of our mental make up, and weslepl 11 



room with niosipiilo nettings on the windin 



the enemy, singing their death songs, dash 



horn sounding waked US all but Pos., wli 



murmurs of "Dip her, boys; dip 



L'hi I 



dumb 

 rp and 



a cool 



which 



The 

 I with 

 .. .re left. 

 we tried bait-fishing, but it had lost its charm. We left 

 Todd's farm with reluctance, and when we have another 

 Vacation we will go to -Maine. 



Befo 



LAt;i-K Tiioi t.— An extraordinary prize fell to Ihe creel 

 of one of our best sportsmen, ("apt. Henry Audhis i m 

 Salun:b|V the lfitli, al about 7 P. M., as that gentleman 

 1 Mr. H. S. Gladwin (both of the -.Etna Life Office 



if Hartford) 



lishi 



the city, Capt. Andrns ncai 

 deep and propitious spring hole, with more tl. 

 tion, well remembering that, sixteen days bef 

 dous bite al the same place had cost him a 

 of snell, besides a heap of satisfaction 



fifteen 

 certain 

 mal nan 



trenicn- 



d piece 



In 

 beet! 



ight-c 

 villi yellow- 

 spot; when 



DBS8BBT. 



lilace Napolitainc. 

 Petite Fours Metes, 

 nun. CaM 



A peculiar bone from a walrus was presented to the Pre- 

 sident, Mr. .lohn Foord, and many speeches on scientific 

 Subjects were made. Among the guests were N. A. Taylor. 

 of Texas; Otto Wilte, lion. Stewart I.. Woodford. Chas. E. 

 Leland. Win. Drysdale, Howard Carroll, Prof. H. .1. Rice, 

 lion. R. B. Roosevelt, Gillam, of l>ml.\ who illustrated the 

 menus. W. Ilollierioii, Dr. Hammond, Prof. Jewel. G. L. 

 Ford. M. P, Handy. Capt. .1. H. Mortimer, C. Van Brunt, 

 and .lules Simon. Fokesi' a.sd Stukam attended hut still 

 lives. Remedies for indigestion are qi otcd a shade higher 

 on Ihe druggists' bulletins, and the call for soda is hcaid in 

 the land as we go to press. 



: on my return from a fishing or 



hunting trip. Ihe regular salutation was "Schneider, 

 ..lie i ihe matter with yo.tr lloseV" and the reply 

 invariably, "I peen oud fishing mil der poys, and 



1 purnt dot nose." Vaseline lor cosiiiohnc. saxo- 



line, fluorine, petrolina, uuqiieutum, petrolei, petroleum, 



etc.) will cure sunburn very quickly, and what is more to 

 the point, ir will effectually prevent, it. Applied two or 

 nes per day if keeps the skin soft, smooth and com- 

 fortable in a hot, dry wind or a blazing sun. If any doubt 

 this, let then, i . incefi,— Qybfawon, 



spile of rubber coats and boots the jl.o would find Ms lev] 

 and search (be vast unknown parts oi' the spinal column. 

 When WO got to the Jim lirown Brook, so called because 

 ie Mr. Ih'own was drowned up there, three of us dropped a 

 line with alluring success, 



This part of the. road was built on a ' •horseback." On either 

 (ide was a gully so deep, and full of rank foliage that one 

 could conjure up almost any sort of game by looking down 

 through it's mass of leaves. We got to Torua Stream farm, 

 owned by C F. Todd, at 10:30 A. M., and met a hearty wel- 

 onie. The farm buildings are in the center of a forty-acre 

 eld of English hay, such as one seldom sees dowu East 

 The horses cared for, we tried our luck on the stream. 



Water, water everywhere, so we came back to the bouse, 

 where Mr. Sharp had built a rousing fire in a large fire-place. 

 Wet and cold as we were the calorie was grateful to our 

 chilled limbs, and you can draw Ihe curtain over four happy 

 In, vs. Bu1 put it aside fill you have just one story from a 

 Calais alderman, (one phrase from which was the watchword 

 of the crew (whose perceptive faculties, like a convex lense. 

 focus in memory images and scenes converted by a vivid 

 imagination into pictures bordering on the fanciful. 



"I had told some Boston friends about the salmon trout 

 at Grand Lake, and Ibev camedown expecting sport. Well, 

 we fished four days and never got a rise— fly-ndling— and 

 they blame. 1 me and said, 'Is this your boasted fishing?' 

 Two Indians were paddling us in a big boat. I saw just 

 ahead a ripple on the wafer. They didn't know what it 

 was, but I did. I said to the Indians, 'Row on, boys, 1 We 

 came into the ripple, and 1 says; 



" 'Dip her, boys, dip her,' and we all stood up on the gun- 

 wale of the boat" and dipped her side into the water, and 

 when she righted she was solid full of trout and only a 

 bucket of water in her." 



We four dried ourselves and then went to a dowu East 

 meal of tea boiled with molasses, corned beef, buttermilk, 

 biscuits, cooked potatoes, and some dried apple sauce, wilb 

 too much cinnamon in it. The dozen farm hands took hold 

 well, but we had to be educated to if. 



After the meal we caught a fair number of trout, and one 

 of the boys fell into a deep bole in the brook, filling bis rub- 

 ber boots* which came to bis waist, with Nature's universal 

 solvent, We quoted Virgil's lines, "Farsm et fUBC, vlim 

 me Mints* jiiriihit," and went to sleep the sleep of the just. 



Tuesday! 5:30 A. M., found us balancing beans, first on 

 our forks'and then on our knives, and the dexterity with 

 which some of the company juggled beans into their mouths 

 upon the Hat surface of a knife appalled and caused one to 

 moralize over such questions, as what would such a man 

 have been had bis dexterity been differently directed'.' Was 

 said dexterity a product peculiar to Ihe nineteenth century, 

 and the American eagle's hunger and civilizing influence? 

 Hail our first parents developed from the primal germ- 

 springing from the primeval chaos as they did— the same 

 ability and agility— or was this group of men the product 

 of Dai win's law of the survival of the fittest, evolved, as it 

 were, for Ibis beau eating feat v This day we went to the 

 "Roosling" hole, so called because the water gurgles and 

 "roosles." Coming back Deak got us to wait while he tried 

 a noted place, We waited ten minutes, fifteen minulcs, 

 twenty minutes. The flies bit the horses, the horses kic 

 and we shouted and swore he' had to come back 



The captain used a 

 rod, and for bait a small brown 

 No sooner had the bait reached a 

 came suddenly convinced that the 

 e he had recently made, would on 

 this occasion favor him with a prolonged call and perhaps 

 come to stay. There was a lively and hot time around and 

 in said Spring hole for about hull' an hour, during which 

 time bids for a landing net went up. so its said, all the way 

 to hundred and twenty dollars, with no supplies. A, -ail' 

 quickly rigged by Mr. Gladwin proved worthless, as it toie 

 out, anil only served to start another lively tussle. Resort 

 was then hail to ah almost complete drowning of the tish, 

 and that under cautious maneuvering, since the hook was only 

 just fastened in the upper lip. Finally Mr. Gladwin went into 

 the water and, after a struggle of several minutes, succeeded 

 in placing bis bands around and hisfingers into the gills of her 

 Iroutship and in safely landing her, wdieu the book immedi- 

 ately fell out, and the captain's old book and snell were found 

 securely fastened to another part of the lips. She tipped at 

 four pout-als and eight ounces, and was, by all who saw her, 

 pronounced a remarkably handsome female specimen of the 

 Salnw fontinalis. The two gentlemen herein mentioned are 

 among the most skillful and energetic of Connecticut 

 anglers; they can victoriously challenge any record in this 

 State on trout or black bass fishing. Years before ihe writ 

 ings of Dr. Ileushnll commenced to make a decent spoil of 

 black bass fishing, Capt. Andrns recognized the want oi 

 rods similar to those, described by the doctor, and Irom ids 

 early amateur trials at rod making, in those times of clumsy 

 bass rods, he has now risen to one of the most skilled rod 

 makers in the country.— M, H. P. (Hartford, Conn.). 



Black Bass n>- OHIO, — Newcastle. O., June 10. — lam 

 no fisherman, nor do 1 pretend to be, but I love txi take rod 

 and go to see some one else catch fish, and if one should try 

 to get my bait and get caught, I as a matter of course will 

 haul him in. I was down at the dam on Decoration Day. 

 but as the water was too muddy, had to give it up. Bill 

 there are some black bass in this river between this place and 

 where if joins the Ohio. 1 have heard of some being caught 

 (hat weighed five pounds. As far as 1 can hear there have 

 In ,ii none of any account taken this year. For bait they use 

 crabs and helgraniil.es. 1 have seeii no fly or troll fishing 

 here, and it surprised me, so I took my trolling hook, and 

 after 1 got started 1 soon found the reason, for almost every 

 rod or so 1 would have to stop and unhook some snag, or 

 tree, or bush. Will you please tell me the bass law of Ohio? 

 As that has been my borne for the past twelve years, and 

 never in that time that I know of has bass fishing been pro 



•cnt issue that a party has gone to Pouit 

 ss, as they were prohibited from fishing in 

 At Swan'. Ohio (formerly Black River), 1 



est bass I ever landed, it weighed five pounds. 

 lirty miles east of the islands in Lake Erie. 

 ils'tbey catch bass, pike, vvhitcfi.sh. perch, 

 on, that weigh from forty to one hundred and 

 Whitefish. hardly ever go over three or four 

 aw one that weighed nine pounds. Herring 

 ._, the hundred weight, and are Salter' 

 f barrels, and in winter are sold for fresh fisl 

 [The recent law of Ohio, as we inlcrpr 

 all fishing with hook and line about the 

 Me, and also in the inlets and bays. As thL 

 are, it effectually forbids their captu 



bibited, 1 see 



au Pelec for ba 

 Ohio waters, 

 caught the ]ar_ 

 this place is tl 

 In tin' pound n 

 cats and sfurge 

 sixty pounds. 

 pounds, but 1 - 

 ht. ' 



Apple, 



line. Whether th: 

 know.] 



I m kegs 



i.— Crab 

 et it, pro- 

 islands of 



is is where 



/ book and 



I was intended or an accident, we do not 



llf wouldn't have left such luck." 

 til again to the Jim Brown rips; the 

 '" aist deep. We always heat- 



marked that "Pi 



In the attern 

 stream is throe — 



that a cloudy day is a trout day. This was a bright da 

 The air hardiv moved the leaves of the trees, while fleecy 

 clouds hung in the sky motionless. No matutinal trout 

 seized the worm, and we fished in vain. Presently some 

 one gol a fly rig, two flies on a casting line, and letting it 

 float from one side lo the other on the rapid water, that is 

 letting it start down: it would be seized by a trout before il 

 had gone half way down, the line would run out SO fast that 

 you imagined a monster had the hook. Almost every cast 

 would hook a pair, trout too small to get, their mouths over 

 the hook would make the essay, and fine stout trout, over- 

 coming their modesty: would seize the deceptive bait. We 

 fished till the afternoon sun sunk low among the trees, and 

 wherever one waded in thai quarter mile ol quick water the 

 dancing fly would lure a trout. I have never seen a prettier 

 sight than' the :.'0() trout taken from their element. It seems 

 Wicked to play them with a tlv and torture them to death, 

 but such is the sportsman's jo'y, and had Ihe tish the rational 

 eiidownmeul . Ihev could feel thai they tried Ihe fishermen 

 in turn. We .were wet and tired with wad iug and fishing. 

 and Mr. Sharp's welcome and a trout supper was necessary 

 to make, us feel ourselves again. The farm hands built :t 



Laniiino Lakge Frsn.— Cousbobocken, Pa., Ju 

 The gentleman Wilting over the signature of "Homi 

 lo elate over the fact of having witnessed the taking 

 bv Mr. Scliiczc, weighing three and a half pounds 

 the aid of s landing net, and in the same ig-ticle 

 tieally avers that the fishermen above Shawinont. 

 know how to take the large ones and in ei nseipionc 

 no fish." Now the facts are that f have frequently wit 

 nessed Ihe taking of fifth much larger Unit our friend 

 "Homo" has mentioned. Not long since. Matthew Reel. a. 

 resident of Conshobocken, caught a tish weighing five 

 pounds eleven ounce.-, without the aid of any person or net, 

 and tliis was done while standing on the Plymouth Dam 

 breast. He raised it four feet clear lift while lour inches of 



ie 2;!.- 

 i" sen is 

 of a fish 

 without 

 sarcas- 

 •dn not 

 n port 



ater 

 swift, 

 of Com- 

 pounds 

 other g 

 last sun 

 a half o 

 pounds, ... 

 very extraordinary feat.— Amatki;k. 



r the dam and the current below very 

 common thing with the amateurs 

 Li bass weighing from two lo i\vv 

 an ordinary pole and line. An- 

 mi I am well acquainted, eauglif 

 weighing four pound fifteen and 

 inner- he caught several over four 

 L'-ounce rod, and be never considered it a 



New Jeusev Coast.— Oceanic, N. J.. June 35.— The 

 water still too thick for trolling. June 18, ten fish: striped 

 bass; average weight 11 lbs. June 19, Master George trolls 

 ground to trj the water; takes one and returns 

 home June 20, blowing hard; friend and self, 340 lbs., 

 in my little Rushton, weight 40 lbs., strike and capture live 

 fine baas and one wcakfisb of 2 lbs. June '.'1. business; 

 school bhietish in front of bouse. June vS. four bluetisb 

 S lbs. each: three wcakfisb 3;, bis. each. June 83, Master 



I friend, nine bluefish and weaktish. Jut 

 water Clearing; crabs shedding very slowly and scaice.— 



Wfl.D. 



