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FOREST AND STREAM. 



•July 5, 18*3. 



full, and of good men, Some yeavB ago it bought SOW* 

 thousands oi acres In the wilds of Pike county.Ta., and 

 uuw ii Ik>, nvu sun acres under fence as n breeding park 

 ch teer 



SMALL FRY. 

 Editor M/resi, nnd (tommi 



in pour issue of June 1, a correspondent Riven a slowing 

 ■mil enthusiastic recital of bis wonderful prowess as a troul 

 killer, I should ucarccly have noticed the rhapsodical effu- 

 ih: • w I'iin had nol been bo overcome by blind in- 

 fatuation SB to use the expression sin-ikied beauties." that 

 terrible bfto not? to sportsmen, which he introduces with 

 heart-sickening recklessness, and utter disregard for the liner 

 feelings and tender sensibilities of your readers. 1 supposed 

 il Was a principle well settled and fully understood, through- 

 out the length and breadth of the territory 'which consti- 

 tutes the geographical distribution of Fokest \m> Stream, 

 that if any man should assume to himself the garb and sen) 

 lilance of sportsman, and bad the hardihood to force that 

 nauseous phrase upon the stomachs of your innocent and 

 unsuspecting readers, he would, with common consent, be 

 ignominiously ejected from the fraternity, and he meta- 

 phorically drawn and Quartered, for the warning and edi- 

 of posterity. The correspondent and bis compan- 

 ion* devoted live hours to tli. heroic exploit of killing one, 

 hundred and seventy-fire trout, of which Ave were one 

 pound fish, fifteen half-pounder*, and thirty four-ounce 

 specimens, leaving » hundred and twenty live which weighed 

 [ess than four ounces. What a murderous as sault, tii be 

 sure, on the poor little innocents, I am reminded of a story 

 told me by an attache to a traveling dramatic company, a 

 musician named Reynolds. He said he was fishing a troul 

 stream in Massachusetts, and he had been engaged for sev- 

 eral hours, when a farmer accosted him and asked. "What 

 lick." Oh." replied Reynolds. • 'I have caught twenty 

 trout." ■Where are I hey?" asked the man. "1 have them 

 here in my w-sl pocket.'" said Reynolds. "How did you 

 catch them'" asked the farmer. ■'That's a secret of mine." 

 nolds, "but 1 don't mind telling you, only don't 

 give il away. 1 put it big grasshopper on' my hook, and 

 whenever a trout comes along the grasshopper swallows 

 him. When lie got full I look him off and put him in my 

 pocket." 



The sort of fish which constituted the bulk of Mr. >I lire's 

 catOh, are such as we commonly caich here when we drag 

 with a mosquito bar for bait. 



A few days ago a friend of mine, Hob Osborne, caught in 

 Bayou DancMti, near the crossing of the Viekshurg, Slireve- 

 pott and Pacific Railroad, one hundred and forty seven 

 pounds of fish with a single rod. most of them being black 

 bass and white perch. His fish ranged from one to two and 

 ,i half pounds, One of the perch weighed five pounds, a 

 very unusual weight for this fish. Let Mr. Mure and his 

 companions try our Southern waters. We will give him 

 g hearty reception and good sport, but let, him eschew 



speckled beauties" in his future ebullitions Of enthusiasm. 



I It A01TITA. 



I ■■! i-it.VA. 



FISHING AND LYING. 

 Editor Ebresi and Stream: 



Il is a singular fact thai these two accomplishments usu- 

 ally go hand' in hand through the world, and doubtless ac- 

 counts for the remark attributed to the blacklish, to wit, 

 I don't mind being hooked so much, but it worries me to 

 think what lies will be told about my size and weight." 

 For nearly two thousand years this propensity has been 

 indulged by piscatorial sportsmen, and It is worthy of com- 

 ment "that 'in pursuit of thai branch of moral culture the 

 lower animals have generally been selected for illustration. 

 We are all familiar with The' hoy's story of the thousand cats 

 which he saw on bis father's woodpile, and which on inves- 

 tigation was reduced to "our cat and another one." 



The periodical reappearance of that marvelous fish known 



i- 'the great American sea serpent, which is seen ever 

 and anon hovering about our coast, seemingly in doubt 

 Whether to swallow an Atlantic steamer or pull Long Island 



away from its | nines, is faithfully reported to the world 



by the press, 



' One of these -fish stories" has lately been hooked up out 

 of Lake Michigan or elsewhere by a Chicago editor, and the 

 editorial anglers east of that moral city have scooped ir. into 

 their own columns, with an exaggeration which would 

 astonish the blackfisli spoken of had not the frying pan 

 destroyed his powers of appreciation, 



The' science of "nslie-ultutc," as represented by this tale, 

 can hardly beexpected to go much further, for what was a 

 mere little "killy fish" at Chicago has become a right whale 

 ...n leaching the seaboaid. Rut, without, further preface, 

 let the story be briefly given; 



The writer is charged with having said that our worthy 

 President Arthur is not fit to.be the Chief Magistrate of this 

 great republic, although a gentleman and a scholar, because 



'he goes a dishing." Now, to deny such a silly story would 

 be as silly as the story itself, aud reminds the undersigned 

 of the prudenl remark of an old lady, who lived near where 

 he was horn, in reply to the assurance of her sem thai his 

 gun was not loaded" to wit, that "she had heard of guns 

 ileil (i ...tld go oil' without lock, stock or barrel!" 



IIenky Bkkuii. 



Larue Cwu.t.r. ok PoMPASO.— Mr, George Gilbert, of 

 Pilot Town, Fla.. recently sent to a friend in Jacksonville 

 -,i eavallc weighing M lbs. and measuring 3 ft 8 in. The 

 name of eavallc. or crevalle. for Dr. Gill spells il both 

 ivays, is apparently used to denote different fishes pj the 

 I'an'iilv CtirtiKtjitl'i-. Gill gives it as a South Carolinian uauie 

 I'or Hie lish known as pompano on the southern coast ami 

 Fork. Ln his "Catalogue of Fishes of the East 

 Coast of North America" he records three pompanos— the 



Tnic/tj/iKitii* will mix (the one we have referred to), the T. 

 ylatimi "i smooth pompano, and the T. umliin or short 

 pompaDO. \\ iiliin the past three years we have recorded 

 the capture pf huge specimens of T. i/nmiim'n weighing 

 from eighteen to twenty -four pounds, a fish whose habitat 

 is I he west ceast ol Africa about the Canary Islands and in 

 the- same la I ii ude as Florida, It has been suspected to be 

 merely the adull form of our common pompano or eavalle. 

 It so then our lish is not lull grown, and in common on our 

 coast only in its early life. Our valued correspondent, Dr. 

 Keuworiin has been charged with drawing the long bow 

 mi ' "i" that he has caught one of these fishes in the Cal- 

 loosa'haichie Liver, Florida, which weighed sixteen pounds, 

 :i fact thai We do not doubt. 



Bi.mk Bass ns Lark OhTABIO.— The Oswego, ,N. V, 

 Palllldivm says: "Just now, not only the people of this 

 city bul Of the whole country along t hi- south shore of Lake 

 Ontario, are having the rarest sort of sport in angling for 

 black bass. It may be that n,i,, is ail exceptional year— 

 though we doubt it— and thst the bass have come to ihis 

 shore in unusual numbers, about which, also, wo are duhi 



OUS; bul of one thing we are certain, and thai IS that < 



of ihe lines! spoil of which we have knowledge is now being 

 had by the Ushers on I he lake. In a general way, and of a 

 verily, it may be said that the whole south shore of Lake 

 Ontario, from Pultneyville to Cape Vincent . is oik series of 

 black bass fishing grounds. Of course there is much of this 

 shore- the sandy and gravelly portions— which is not 

 haunted by the black bass. But'., whcre\ cr i here are broken 

 rock bottoms, if from five to fifteen feet in depth. Micro the 

 fisbermau may safely throw out his lines, and there he will 



get the most satisfactory results. The city of 1 18^ ■ at 



to he most favorably situated with reference to the noted 

 black bass haunts. ' Lewis's Bluff, some six miles up tin- 

 lake, is one of the best poinls on lie- whole shore, and ii can 

 be easily reached either by boat Or carriage: by the former 

 iu an hour and a hall, anil by the latter in an" hour, over a. 

 delightful lake shore drive. From this bluff a bar of broken 

 rocks runs out a mile and II half into lb, lake, with a depth 

 Of water ranging from live to fifteen feel. This ledge varies 

 in width from a, quarter of a mile to a mile, and it, and tin- 

 bays near il, arc now full of black bass— ihe -mailer fish 

 being in the shallow water, and the larger in the deep. This 

 condition holds good on the ledges and surrounding bays all 

 along the shore. Coming cast from Lewis's Bluff, and about 

 half way to tin- city, the fisherman runs upon Ford's Shoals, 

 ami a belter place for an afternoon and evening's sport is nol 



lobe found. These shoals cover considerable ground ami 

 there are day- when the well equipped fisherman can have 

 snort which he will nol fail to remember with pleasure. 

 Good bouts, oarsmen, luncheon and minnows can he had at 

 Lewis's Bluff. Coming down the lake and passing cast of 

 the cilv the angler conies upon ledges marked bv jutting 

 points of land, all of which indicate rocky bottoms and bass 

 beds. In any of these, if his lines are out', he will soon lave 

 trouble." Four miles down there are large areas of bass 

 bottoms from which fabulous numbers of the gamy tribe 

 have been taken this season, and of unusual size. Continu- 

 ing cost, we strike Pleasanl Point, one of Hie notable fishing 

 grounds of this shore. Here Capt. Sain Nichols 

 fortable hostelry, where the angler will find cc 

 hospitality. The point is convenient to 

 ledges, mid il is much favored by parties fr 

 surrounding (owns for its pleasant scenery, 

 notable bass beds. Three miles further 

 Point, one of the lovelies! spots on the sbuti 

 Mr. W. H. Wright's hotel. Just now :,.„] 

 the latter part of July, the trolled, 1 

 ingest' bait. These, in from ten to 

 wonderful execution now. Very la 

 minnows— still-fishing — but this is 

 If von would have sporl nexl to tlv- 

 fly-rod— of say from ten to fourteen 

 a good reel, and from HcvTiitv-tive I 

 oiled silk line. Pul on a fri 

 not large and clumsy clam] 

 ,'ipiue are necessary, put a 1 

 a three quarter ounce sinke 



the leader: troll slowly ove 

 of the points named above, 

 will have fun, the like of 

 know a man — a Mr. Looinif 



i the 



fort and 



famous 



city aud 



y. as well as for its 



a i i is Mexieo 



nth shore. Here is 



ad probably until 



innow is the -kill- 



n feet of water, do 



ISS are taken with 



iport for an angler. 



ig, do this: Taken 



ourteeu ounces in weight, with 



y-fiyi to one hundred feet of 



elve foot leader and three flies — 



• of feathers such as some im^ 



re minnow on the end flv ; put 



on Hit line about 1 w o feet' above 



Ihe ledges in the vicinity of any 



vhieh you have not had. 'We 

 .... of Syracuse — who within the 

 last, week, with this kind of 'tackle' aud skilled manipula- 

 tion, killed in one day near Mexico Point, one hundred and 

 thirty-two black bass that weighed (wo hundred and sixty- 

 eight pounds— aud is wasn't much of a day for bass, either/' 



A Buck Statue.— Capt. ,1. W. Collins, of the start of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, now at the International Fish- 

 cries Exhibition in London, tells the following story of how 

 one of our colored brethren came out ahead of an Indian 

 from Canada in the way of posing like a tobacconist's sign. 

 Capt. Collins says: "V\ e have among our exhibits (at the 

 London International Fisheries Exposition) several tine casts 



of colored fishermen. One of these had m placed near 



the display of whaling implements, and another close by 

 the main 'entrance to our section, facing the broad aisl'e 

 between the United states and Canada, down which passed 

 the royal procession. A, short time before noon ihe Indian 

 brought over by the Canadians took up his position on their 

 side/ Gay with headdress of feathers, beaded legging, etc,, 

 he made quite a sensation on his first appearance! Not to 

 be outdone by 'Mr. Lo/ ti North Carolina darkey, who has 

 been employed as a laborer in our department, acting under 

 instructions, dressed himself cap-a-pie in a suit of oil clothes, 

 and look up his jiosil ion. oar in hand, Opposite the 'noble 

 red man' from New Brunswick, Standing as creel, and im- 

 movable as a royal horse guard on duty, and scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from Ihe cast of a negro near by, he became, 

 as soon as Ihe opening ceremonies were over, the center of 

 attraction for a large crowd which gathered round, and by 

 ail the arts and devices which arc usually resorted to oil 

 such occasions, tried to bring a smile to the stolid and 

 statuesque colored individual, But he displayed a most 

 remarkable cuitrol over his features. Though he was 

 pinched and pushed, and shillings were forced "between his 

 lips and pennies Ihrtist between his lingers, nol a muscle 

 quivered, and scarcely the wink of an eyelash told the gap- 

 ing crowd that he was different from the plaster cast Some 

 of the people were deceived into the belief thai he was a 

 cast. One lady exclaimed: 'Well, I do declare, these 

 Yankees are ven elevei people; thev are sure lo get ahead 

 of all the rest of the world. No oiie could tell but what 

 that colored man was alive ' A gentleman who hud tried 

 unsuccessfully to make die darkey show some sign of 

 motion, broke out with: 'Thai beats ihe horse guards all lo 

 pieces. 1 never saw anything like it,' It is needless to say 

 thal this caused the crowd much amusement during the 

 entire afternoon, The Indian was forgotten, and alter 

 showing his approval of t.h» negro's solidity by an 'ugh. 

 left tiie scene, probably retiring lo smoke his calumet out- 

 side of the buildings, where no prohibiting notice stared 

 him in the face." 



Black Bass tn the Potom ac— Dt . W. S. Hoke, of 

 Philadelphia, with his brother and party of friends from 



Chambersburg. fa., will go inlo camp at Falling Waters, 

 on the Potomac River, for a fortnight for the purpose of 

 hass fishing. The bass at this point on the river are large 

 and sport is anticipated. 1 shall have daily accounts of the 

 catch from the camp, — Homo, 



The t.'Aiu- \s \ Game Fish. A correspondent of the 

 London Fhhiiuj (laz,:Ue writes of carp fishing at Wimbledon 

 Lake, aud says: When will certain clever anglers cease to 

 try and pull oul.ot the Wimbledon Lake carp weighing 

 from 4 lbs. to '-'bibs, without a reel? You will scarcely be- 

 lieve ii possible, hut many ,-,f these so-called earn fishers 

 visiting this lake never think of using a reel. The Conse- 

 quence is. as "L. B.. Esq.." says, "the breaks away, as com 

 l-« d to the captures, are most, alarming." I shall not for- 

 get in a hurry how one of these same gentlemen contradicted 

 your humble servant because in answering ii question I 

 Ventured lo suggest, in the most polite manner, what the 

 result, would he in the case of hooking a fish of 5, ij. or Tibs, 

 In reply, he observed: "It appears" to me you know very 

 little about carp fishing. With a rod like this! I could play 

 si carp 5 or li lbs as easily as playing a. roach of 5 or fi oz '" 

 I should no more think of using the said rod for taking 

 carp. Mr. Kdilor. than a barber's pole. The rod used for 

 chub or barbel fishing in the Trent is what I. should use. 

 Unless 1 am verv much mistaken. I said: "You would not 

 even have 13ie Chance Of playing him." "Why not/' "Why 

 not? because he would he gone before you could say 'Jack 

 Robinson.' " I here left him, and within ten minutes of nn 

 doing so he was literally smashed all to ribbons by a perfect 

 beauty, The keeper afterward informed me that this very 

 individual was broken up no less than three times in ope 



_ Two or three years ago the Bile Game and Fish Associa 

 lion secured a large number of German carp minnows, 

 which were placed in the bay here to improve the variety 

 aud abundance of the already excellent stock on our fishing 

 grounds. Scarcely anything has been heard of them since 

 they were placed in the water and their fate was « matter of 

 conjecture for some time. It was not known whether the 

 little fellows could manage to escape the hungry maws of 

 el In en, whose voracious appetite would glory 

 •p, but the developments 

 w that, the experiment 

 ii ii ruber of the German carp 

 o biting well, but of course il 

 r the supply be large or small 

 :rman carp nave been captured 

 ;■ quite a number have been 

 that iu addition to our gamy 

 ttraction of hauling in & fish as fufi 



t eating. Mr. Fuchsluoher was but 

 1. and during the afternoon the 



ss. and thai 

 row ii. and I 

 yet Wiethe 

 « small Gc 

 this spri 



ant 



sh< 



I heir 1 



on such delicat 



of ihis spring' 



has proved as, 



have become 1 1 



cannot be kuo 



From time lo 



occasionally. 1 



caught, anil the 



black bass will be th 



of fight and as excel 



yesterday with a frie 



tiired two big fellows weighing about five pounds" 



Mr. Fuchsloetier says that the carp die game and fight de 



sperately for life, so that Die sport of hauling them in is 



fully equal to that Of a good struggle for a lively black bass 



with a disposition not to be caught if he can help it. The 



carp soniewhai resembles a wlutefish, but are more of a 



silver gray in color, and as soon as their favorite haunts are 



well established they will lie sought out with great stviditv 



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Tub JORDAN. — To those who have visited the Jordan 

 River it is unnecessary to say anytlung iu praise of il as a 

 trout .stream, Few fishermen are ignorant of its qualities, 

 but to thee who are not acquainted with it, we say come 

 aud try it, and like others who have done the same, go away 

 satisfied that il is one of the finest streams in the Northwest. 

 We refer those wishing an extended description of its 

 beauties to the little book entitled, "Detroit and the Pleasure 

 Resorts of Northern .Michigan,' issued and i istributed gratu- 

 itously by the passenger department of the Detroit, Lansing tt 

 Northern Railroad. Excellent catches are reported already, 

 aud sportsmen are turning their steps toward the Jordan in 

 large numbers. Firs/class accommodations may be hud at the 

 Old hostelry, Webster's, three miles up the river, and guides 

 aud boats may be procured at Charlevoix. The various waysof 

 reaching Charlevoix are pretty well known to shooting men. 

 Lake steamers may be taken from Buffalo, Detroit, Cleve- 

 land and Chicago direct, to Charlevoix, or by rail via Detroit, 

 Lansing & Northern, or Grand Rapids & Indiana to Boyne 

 Falls, thence by narrow-gauge railroad to Boyne City, thence 

 by steamer on Pine Lake to Charlevoix. Refreshed by food 

 and rest, and invigorated by the northern air, the fisherman 

 can (having procured guide and boat) take passage on either 

 of the elegant, passenger steamers, Clara Bell or Gazelle, for 

 the river, or can procure a rig from the livery stable at hand 

 and drive through the forest direct to Webster's.— H. L. 1. 



A Laroe Axliqatoh Gab. — Monroe, La.. June ifi. — 

 Your correspondent "Echinus" wields a very facile pen and 



certainly writes a veiy entertaining epistle, but I can turn 

 him down on the weight of his rish: This morning Bill 

 ILinna caught an alligator gar in the river a I this place, 

 which I think is the largest lish I have ever seen a record of 

 as having been taken wffh hook and line. Bill procured a 

 cotton line "about the size of a lead pencil," and had three 

 ordinary cattish hooks lashed together with wire, so as to 

 form a kind of 'bob," Armed with this tackle he went 

 dowu to a fish dock near the ferry landing to have some fun 

 with the gar, which assemble there in great numbers to 

 feed on the fish offal which is thrown into the river. Bill 

 put a chunk of catfish on his hook for bait, and tossed it 

 inlo the water. He very soon had a bite, and then the fun 

 began. The line was some hundred and fifty feet long, 

 1'iir some time it looked doubtful to the spectators whether 

 the gar was coming out. or Bill going into the river At 

 last." however, he succeeded iu gettiDg the fish near enough 

 to the fish dock to enable tin fisherman t' 1 brain him with an 

 axe. The gar was hauled up lo our office on a dray, where, 

 having procured a small block and fall, he was hoisted up 

 to a limb of a .tree and weighed in the presence of a large 

 number of deeply interested spectators. He weighed one 

 hundred and .sevenfv-six pounds, and measured six feel leu 

 and a half inches i n "length.— Ou \cuita. 



WitiTKFisu Take the Hook;— Editor Mmk omit Stream: 

 Do whitefish bite or take the baited hook': Fes, they do, 



Manv years ago I was storm-bound forty-eight hours at 

 Copper'Harbor'iold Fort Wilkins, Lake Superior). One after- 

 noon while there, 1 tried for brook trout, knowing they 

 were I o )„■ found I here. I tried drop-tishiug, baiting with 

 fie'sh beef. Several limes the hook was taken, though very 

 quietly, bul 1 got no fish Hint afternoon. After dark, Capt. 

 Win. 'Watts and myself tried If again, fishing on the bottom, 

 over the hul warks of the steamer. Wc caught sixoreighi 

 tine whitefish in less than one hour's fishing. I was credibly 

 iufoi Died I hat a few had been taken with the fly at Ihe Sauli 

 Ste. Marie, ai the foot of the locks there. I cannot vouch 

 for the truth of this, but I believe it I used small pieces 

 of fresh beet for bait, and fished ou Ihe bottom in Copper 

 Harbor, -T. GabmOK (Bedford, O.. June 26, 1883). 



