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FOREST AND STREAM. 



IS, 1883. 



Anti-:i. 0PK m 'I'liMAS.- TM : 1 1 1 i it Country. June '-'■">.— Aulr- 

 Iqpe are quite plenty in tins section, l'suw about sixty or 

 seventy head this rewriting while traveling eight miles. 

 'I'ln-v wiii* within I wo mill's of the railroad. Gfood sport 

 '.in in h^<l here in the winter season. Last winter while 

 hunting lure 1 often saw as inanv as 300 to 700 in a bnueh. 

 During n "norther" they will drift down on the plains as 

 tViraslhe railroad, and I hove Been their t mils along the 

 Slide oi the road as plain us ii three or four thouaaud sheep 

 had been driven along. Being afraid of the track they 

 would not cross it, and seldom doso except when they see 

 other antelope ou the opposite side, or when the lender takes 

 a tuition to cross, then the real of the bunch will follow. - 

 W. A. W. 



The "K.iki Toll Hammkki.kss." — Among the; notable im- 

 |irn\einenls in the lumiufai lure ol line gnus is the ejecting 

 mechanism recently added by Mr, W. W. Greener to his 

 hammerless guns. By an ingenious device, which is exceed- 

 ingly simple, and we'shotihi judge durable, the lired shells 

 are ejected When tin- gun is opened; Ol if lint, one shell has 



to i 'i thai is ejected, and the other simply extracted. 



ii , i recently tested the working of the ejector and found 



tohi is excellent in practice as in theory, (n some of our 



English exchanges we And reports from those who hay< 



used the ejector hammerless. and the experiences there de- 

 tailed appear to bear OUJ in the fullest degree lhc;laims 



made by the manufacturer in regard to the gun's durability. 



DUTCHES Ooifl i . V IOOJ ATiuN.— Poughkeepsip. N. V.. 

 July 9 We organized on Saturday an association to be 

 called the Dutchess County Association for the Protection 

 of Game and Fish. The following bfflcers were chosen: 

 W. S. Johnson, President; James 11. Iiudlev, Vice Piesi 



dent Peter 8. Ifivl, Secretary: James la mix Banks, Cor 

 responding Secretary; Edward L.Morse, Treasurer, P. E. 

 Aekert. Counsel. 



&h mid ffiver ^fishing. 



To insure prompt attention, com mnnieat ions should lie ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream fulilishimj Co., and not to 

 : ,idieidioiJs, in whose absenee from Do- of\iee matters of im 

 lortanee are liable to delay. 



(fenny Jfire Jt 'Ikkcvimp. 



■'That reminds me.'' 



I^OE two or more very long hours had we sal in a boat on 

 the Unruffled bosom of Maidstone Lake, our baits 

 within a yard of the bottom, seventy-five feet below us. 

 ••bobbing" for a bite. Three expectant fishermen, whose 



beaming countenances, radiant with hope, might craze with 

 mirth the most gioic 'inpn" that ever darkened a commu- 

 nity— Prof, S., of Bangor, ('apt. 15., of Lancaster, and yours 



truly. Suddenly Prof. S. jumps to his feet: "I've got a 

 bite." 



"Yank, then," from both his companions, lie did yank. 

 Two more hours of weary "bobbing." during which the 

 beaming counteuam e changed to a somber hue. then a blue, 

 lien a homesick color, without title, but, expressive. "I've 

 got sick of this: let's go home." Enough. We sloyvly 



no I in our lines. As the Prof. 'a boo], came from the 



pater n quarter pound trout was seen impaled upon it. 

 hooked t.lin.i.oli the brain, dead. Again his varying phiz 

 changed to an expression of astonishment indescribable, and 

 he made his companions scream with laughter as he slowly 

 asked, 'What made my bait grow like that?" He assured 

 him it was a peculiar property of the water, and that was 

 enough. Coos. 



In FoUEsi v,i> Si REAM of May 24, I he writerof "Notes 

 on tiie Birds of Alabama," states that the local name of the 

 ivoiv billed woodpecker is "woodcock." 



It is a fact, also, that to many dwellers in our laud of 

 cane-brakes and cotton fields. the true woodcock. l'/ii/o/o/a 



minor, although al certain seasons quite numerous, is 



almost d /'/,'' ;..,■ tgnita. The only bird that, they recog- 

 nize b\ the nana v Icock" is the aforesaid ivory hi U. 



Thereby bangs mj tale 



Onedav, at t) country crossroad, the writer was relating 

 a Story Ol what time he had hunted woodcock under the 

 shadow of Muskonetkong and along the swales of Wawa 

 y.iuda, where the foot prints of poor Herbert (Frank For 

 ester) had scarcely been obliterated by the changing seasons, 

 when John I; remarked thai the woodcock was certainly 



the hi -I of birds when properly served. His words attracted 

 Ihc attention of an individual who stood neat us, an over- 

 seer on a neighboring plantation, whom we will call II. 

 This person, believing that 0. had reference to the afore- 

 said ivory bill, volunteered the remark thai he "didn't know 

 I hem derm d tilings were til to cut," 



"O yes," said 15.. who saw an opening for a practical joke, 

 in which he was never averse to indulge. "Oyis, the finest 

 bird that flies when properly cooked. You just kill some 

 and try them, II. and you'll agree with me. I'm certain." 

 Nothing more was said on the subject at that time. 



About a week atterwaril we three happened to meel.nl 

 lie same place again, when B. asked H. if he had tiled any 



woodcock. 



"D — n your woodcock!" said II. "1 killed a whole 

 dozen and had 'em cooked, and 1 had as licve eat so much 

 ti ied alligator,'' 



Willi" said II "I don't, expect you cooked 'em 

 right ly." 



I cooked 'em like everybody cooks birds," .said II. 



"There you made a great mistake." said B. "But tell us 

 exactly how you dill cook 'em." 



"Why," said II.. "1 jus; picked 'em. and dressed 'em, and 

 I think the old darkey said she parboiled 'em, but it didn't 

 do 'em a bit of good Tiny eat like they were a hundred 

 years old." 



"I thought," said I'.., "you must have made sonic mistake 

 in cooking 'em." 



"Well, how the devil do you cook 'em?" said H. 



"Well," said 15., "in the first place you ought not to have 

 picked Yin, and in the second place you ought not to have 

 dressed em. All Voii'vr ovit to do when jfOU cook wood 

 cock is to tic a string around their necks and hung them up 

 before a pictty hot tin — not loo hot, though, nor so near as 

 to scorch tie- feathers Bona? people," he continued, "like 

 'fin busted with salt and pepper; but they are good enough 

 fur me just dr , 90. 



"The devil you say?" muttered II., as lie turned away, 

 • incblic 111 have mine cooked that way next tbne, and— 



Li ■ | in oi.l'i to ear './m." 



Bui whether the ivory-hill in II. 's cuisine was ever served 



■ ml!. ih to B.'s recipe. I do not know, as H. never seemed 



; -I i deock afterward. Tuckajioe. 



AM! LI \i: ItKSUttTS.- We shall be qlnd to ha 

 alio,, notes of aood ftshina loealities. Will no. . 

 pondents favor as with notes of desirable points fo. 



for jmbli- 



THE SECRETS OF ANGLING.* 



THIS quaint, and charming old poem has been faithfully 

 and literally translated from the original edition, and 

 we therefore have it as it was written, instead of the modern 

 ized edition of Axber, which has long been the only acces- 

 sible one. The hitter took great liberties with the original 

 both in punctuation, orthography, and syntax, and conse- 

 quently robbed the book of its' principal charms. The 

 original edition had on its title page the follow im;': "Secrets 

 of Angling. Teaching the Choisest Tooles Baytes and Sea 

 sons, for tin-taking of any Fish, in Pond or Riuer: practiced 

 and familiarly opened in' three Booties. By .1. D. Esquire. 

 Printed at, London for Rosier Jackson, and are to he sould at 

 his shop mere Conduit. 1H13." This appears on the title be- 

 fore the reprint. 



"The first Booke containcth these 3, Heads. The Anti- 

 quifie of Angling, with the art of Fishing, and of Fish in 

 genera]]. The law fill ncssc. pleasure and profit thereof, with 

 all Objections answered, against, it. To know the season, 

 and times to prouide the Tooles, and how to choose the best. 

 and the manner how to make them lit to lake each seuerall 

 Pi l 



"The second Booke. Gonlainetli The Anglers Experience, 

 how to vse his Tooles and Baytes, to make profit by his 

 game. What Fish is not, taken' with the Angle, and what 

 is, and w hich is best for health. In what waters and Killers 

 to flnde each Fish. 



"The Third Booke eontaiueth. The 12 virtues and quali- 

 ties which ought to be in cuery Angler. What weather, 

 seasons, and times of the veere is best, and worst; and what, 

 hoiire.sof the day is best 'for sport. To know each Fishes 

 haunt and the limes to take them. 



Also, an obscure secret of an approved Bait, tending 

 Ihereiinlo." 



We have read this volume with great, pleasure, anil com- 

 mend il to all lovers of angling. It 13 SO full of gems that it 

 is difficult to select a few lor illustration. In the "First 

 Booke" we read: 



Von Nymphs that in the Springs anil Waters sweet,, 



your dwelling bane, of Kuery Hill uud Dale. 

 Anil oft amidst the Meadows greene doe meet 



To sport and play, and heartier Nightingale; 

 And in the Riucis fresh due wash \ our feet, 

 While Propnes sister relabel wofulltale: 



SWieh ayde ana power vnto my verses lead. 

 As may suffice this little work to end. 

 Even two hundred and seventy years ago il was known 

 that an angler should be properly dressed for his work, for 

 we are fold: 



And let your garments Unsset be or gray. 



Of colour dark, and hardest to descry, 

 That with the Ralae or weather will away, 



And least offend the IVuriull fishes eye: 



For neither Skarlet nor rich cloth of ray 



Nor colours dipt in fresh Assyriuu dye, 



Nor tender silkes, of Purple, Paule, or Uolde, 

 Will seme so well to keepe off wet or eold. 

 The obscure secret of an approved bait we will give, not 

 only to refresh the memories of the older anglers, who may 

 have forgotten it, but also to inform a generation who may 

 not have seen it, of the most, perfect filing ever discovered to 

 attract fish to the hook. The ingredients may be difficult, to 

 obtain iu some places, but the author assures his readers that 

 it they understand it it is perfect. 



Take tint 



isli; 



Thou that desirst. to fish with Line and Hooke, 



Be it in poole, in River or in 1-a oolce, 



To blisse thy Istite, ami make (he fish to bite: 



Loe, here's a meaues, if thou canst hit it. rigfit, 



Take (Juill of life, tine beat, and laid in soake. 



In Oyle, well drawn from that, which Mils the Oake. 



Fish where thou wilt, thou shall haue sport, thy Hll, 



When twenty fade, thou shalt be sure to kill. 



Prubatii,,,. 

 it's perfect and good, 

 If well understood; 

 Else not to be told 



tor Sillier or (tolde. —&. R. 



The work is neatly printed and gives us the first opportu- 

 nity to read the author as he wrote, and Mr. Westbrook 

 deserves thanks for preserving this book from extinction, or, 

 what is as bad, the devastating hand of the "improver." 



Til 



• An 



Bv .7 |olm| [eunvs Esquire. 1013. A 



Thomas Westwood. London: W. Sal 



et. Covent Uarden. W. (.!.. 1883. 



MOSSBUNKERS OR MENHADEN. 



27ISHEEMEN in the north arc complaining about the 

 1 wholesale destruction of mossbuukers, as brnefish and 

 other fish are driven from the coast as a consequence of a 

 lack of food. With us the opposite is the case, for in the 

 lower (St. .Johns fishing is seriously injured as a result of too 

 many bunkers. Food is so plenty that the fish will not. take 

 a, hook. On the Hood tide bunkers enter the stream in im 

 incuse quantities; in fact it is a .continuous stream of moss- 

 buukers for about four hours of the flood and five bonis of 

 the ebb tide. The supply is continuous from June until the 

 latter part of November. 



Laud, labor and firewood are cheap, and as the fish can 

 be captured in immense quantities, it might prove advan- 

 tageous for your bunker fishermen to investigate the sole 

 |'ect. Steamers would be unnecessary, as there is an almost 

 unlimited demand for fertilizers in the State and ice is 

 cheap. 



An excellent market would be found in Jacksonville, Fin., 

 and in Savannah, Macon, AUgUSta and Atlanta, Ga., for the 



edible fish caught. In this market, the wholesale price paid 

 by dealers for sea trout, small aheepshead and wlritirrg. is 

 fifteen cents per string. If the bunker men wished to in- 

 dulge in the capture of larger and oily fish they could net 

 all the tarpurn and porpoise wanted. Near Mile Point i 8 n 

 Shiall bay with sandv bottom where porpoise do must con 

 gregale during the copulating season, and if a net could be 

 constructed to hold them tons could be captured at a haul. 

 V\ ill some bunker man visit the lower river and investigate 



l " l! 'I'l'S of the St. Johns regarding the manufacture of 



oil and lish guano? At. Fhesi 'i i 



Jacksonville, l-'ia., June 7. 



FISHING NEAR NEW YORK. 



r |"MIE lisliinir season near the city has been an average one 

 X thus far. both in fresh and salt waters. The height of 

 the season is from June, to July in fresh waters, and from 

 July until eold weather iu the 'salt waters new New York 

 There is not a place iu the country from which such a vari- 

 ety of fishine, and such excellent sport, also, can be had as 

 New York city. There are many places where more fish of 

 any one or twospeoies can be taken, and where larger fish 

 may be i aptured, but lake it all in all New York city is the 

 best K-iiter b.r varied angling. 



In the fresh-water fishes there are the trout streams of 

 Long Island, the Catskills. New Jersey, Connecticut and 

 Rhode Island, all within a few hours' reach, while the Adi- 

 rondaeks are only from fifteen to thirty hours distant. The 

 black bass fishing is not of the best, the fish being absent 

 from such wafers as have not been stocked with them, for 

 it is not a native ol this region. Still the New Jersey lakes 

 and the Delaware River and its branches afford some spoil 

 Pike are not found near the. city, but small pickerel are 

 plentiful, although not. much esteemed bv anglers 



The salt waters outside the harbor and up and down the 

 coast swarm with gamy hluefish. often roaehiuo- fen pounds 

 iu weight, while the noble striped bass is laken'al.out State, 

 Island up to three or four pounds, and from ttontau 

 Point to Newport of the large; i -i/s Weaklish, kingflshand 

 other. species are more or less plentiful, and are sought by 

 anglers of all degrees of skill and with all grades of tackle, 

 from the best to the cheapest. Hand liners go down the 

 bay iu small boats and with shedder-erab and clam "twitch." 

 at every indication of a bite, and haul their piey in hand 

 oyer baud, and often come back with large strings. The 

 "Fishing Hanks," just outside Sanity Hook are visited by 

 steamers which advertise for passengers, promising from 

 four to six hours' fishing, "bait and lines provider!," and 

 carry down a, motley crowd loaded with bun h -bi i: -k; K 

 reluitniiff wilh flic party well sunburned and usually sea' 

 sick, with more or less porgies, toadfisli, sculpins, and an 

 occasional weaktish or other gam.'. The Long Island Rail- 

 road takes the angler to Great South Bay. where the fishing 

 is often excellent, and now promises to he better since wajr 

 on the illegal betters has been declared 



In the brackish waters of New York and Newark bays 

 and the Kills, small bass, weaktish. white perch, blackfis'h. 

 flounders, sea bass and eels are taken both from boats and 

 off the bridges. This kind ol fishing is not as good as 

 formerly, on account of the pollution of the waters by the 

 refuse products of petroleum which are dumped into them, 

 and which have banished the lobsters and disgusted the 

 crabs, s that all which cared to live cleanly have left for 

 more savory spots. Still iu Newark Bay there is often good 

 fishing, especially behind the lighthouse at, Beracu Point, 

 and oh™ the lone- bridge from the Point to Eliziibelhport. 

 Near the junction of "the Passaic and Hackeusaek rivers 

 small striped bass are taken, and up these rivers are found 

 catfish and eels in abundance for such as care to take them. 

 Further up the Passaic some black bass are found, after 

 Patersou is passed, the best grounds lying between Two 

 Bridges and Little Falls. 



With this variety all wdio love to fish, whether the scien- 

 tific angler or humble brother of the hand-line and worm, 

 can surely find sport suited to their tastes and their purses, 

 and tish of all sizes, from the ponderous drum to the little 

 suufish, and from the royal striped bass to the slimy eel 

 and the groveling catfish, if we have omitted the Hudson 

 River iu our list of good fishing places, it, is because there is 

 no fishing worth the name in it near the city. The Hudson 

 seems fo be the poorest angling river in the United Slates. 

 If still produces shad, eels ami a few insignificant fishes, but 

 uothingthat Ihc angler cares for— at least in any quantity. 

 Even the sturgeon, which Were once so plenty, have nearly 

 disappeared. 



Coos, Nkw Hampshire.— A recent, communication of 

 mine in the Fun est and Stream regarding the fishing iu 

 this vicinity having brought me a "heap'' of letters replete 

 with inquiries, 1 take the same medium, with your consent., 

 to reply. Goos. N. II. , is the address of the village of North 

 Stratford, N. H., the most northerly railroad station in the 

 Slate, on the Grand Trunk Railroad, Where it crosses the 

 Connecticut River into Vermont. It has two regular Bos- 

 ton mails, and two regular Montreal mails, daily. There is 

 a first-class hotel called the Percy House near the depot. 

 with which is connected a livery, and the roads in all direc- 

 tions are unsurpassed. The I routing waters in the immedi- 

 ate vicinity arc Niilhegan River and its branches, Paul 

 Stream, Lyman Brook, Bloomticld Brook. Bog Brook. Kim- 

 ball Brook, West, Pond. Turtle Pond, Notch Pond, In 

 known Pond, South America Pond. Norlh Pond and a 

 score of other resorts, with pickerel and perch fishing in as 

 many more places. I nearly forgot to mention Maidstone 

 Lake, eight miles distant, with a first-class road, where t bl- 

 ushing this summer has been iiusumasseil. Very recently 

 three men. after about ten hours' fishing, caught about fioti 

 trout, nor were they experts either. Fishing will probably 

 improve about here until September. The shooting is good, 

 deer are very plenty and partridge- ditto. Any cornuiunica 

 (ions addressed to Cv. Tibbetfs. or Dr. A. F. Willard, at 

 Goos, will he freely answered.- A. F. W. 



Pknoukcot Salmon. — The run of salmon in the I'.iuli 

 scot, River has been a small one this year. Gomparafivelv 

 few have been caught, but the individuals have been of good 

 size, averaging overeighteen pounds. The absenceof small 

 lish is remarked, and had they been present iu the usual 

 number, the catch would have been up to or above the usual 

 run. 



Quebec, Canada, July 5. — Through the enforcement of 

 the fishery laws. Lakes Beaufort, and St. Charles, nine miles 

 respectively from ihis city, which had been almost com- 

 pletely "fished out, 'are now teeming with trout, and the 

 latter lake well stocked with bass, — H. H. Y 



