July 10, 1883,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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uovera, or in the sis hundred pages of its catalogue, more 

 suggestive than this contrast between the exhibits of China 

 ana those of the United Staffs. They represent two very 

 opposite views of human life, ttnd two very opposite methods 

 of dealing with nature and of extorting from her the means 

 of subsistence. >V i 11 tie people who have grown to 300,- 

 000,000 already— an expansion no other people have ever 

 reached, an homogeneous population equal to the aggregate 



Of all tile nations Of Europe — who are able :u!d ready to 



work well for less than any other people, who dan live 

 where any other people would starve, who ran labor in 

 every climate, and are content with any form of govern 

 meat, will they at last hurst the invisible bonds which have 

 hitherto kept them within their own boundaries, and 



which there now appears in tEem some disposi- 

 tion to hurst, and overflow other parts of the 

 world, and displace existing populations by getting 

 possession of the means of living, through their Jiility m 

 work harder and to live upon less'? Or. to look at the qucs- 



sid,- 



did if 



;elves 



laboi 



it progressive people in 



* granted that whai those who have 

 no more than the starting-point from 

 ■e to advance; Who, without shrink- 

 labor with the brain as no other 

 not merely to live, but to bve well; 

 ?orkl as the field for their activity; 

 3 forces of nature 

 [ the materials of 

 many problems 

 ,-ill they lie hemmed in 



Hon from II 

 the world, who t 

 gone before their 

 which they them 

 teg from manna 

 people ever did, 



who regard the whole 



and who look upon the 



may he subdued to human purpose: 



nature turned to the best account, 



which they are called upon to solve 



beaten, and displaced by the China 



It has been said if a Chinese, Napoleon were to arise he 

 would cut out very ugly work For the rest, of the world. 

 That apprehension, however, we may summarily dismiss, 

 because Hie future can only grow out of the past, and China 

 during its thousands of years of existence, and out of its 

 hundreds of millions of people, has produced no Napoleons. 

 ■ contrast just dwelt upon seems to meet satisfactorily 

 the apprehensions ou Ibis subject with which some mind's 

 are at present troubled. Who can doubt that fifty years 

 hence the Chinaman with the same appliances as he sets be- 

 fore us in this Exhibition, will be capturing about the same 

 amount of fish he captures at this day, and which is probably 

 the amount his ancestors captured in the same fashion two 

 or three thousand years ago? This interesting and iustru. 

 live Exhibition shows, among many other tb 

 history and present condition of the fisheries 

 together with the amounts of enterprise and 1 

 played severally by their fishermen, constitute 

 in i: in i- of the 'character of the people themselves. — F. Bti 



7iam Ztnefse in MaendUau'st Magazine. 



, tin 



ail people 



lihood dis 

 ■rv faii 



Tnt PoSd AHD the Seven Ponds.— I send you ex- 

 tracts from letters just received fi-om the Maine' resorts 

 named: "July 3, 1883.— Smith is getting lots of letters 

 from new patties referring to advertisement in Forest and 

 Stbjsam. Several cabins are engaged bv sportsmen for 

 themselves, their ladies and children to hoard at Tim Pond 

 for two months or more. There, have been more sportsmen 

 here this season than up to this time last year. The pros 

 petit is for a very large increase through the season. Gen. 

 F C. Barlow, of New York, with two sons, are now having 

 splendid trouting at Big Island Pond. I saw in Gen. 

 Barlow's boat fifteen or twenty trout averaging about one 

 pound each, Mr. Henderson weighed two of them, oue 

 weighed two pounds seven ounces, the other two pounds 

 five ounces. The trouble is, the men catch too many. A 

 gentlcnia n from South America who has been lit Seven Ponds 

 the last twenty-live days, came into camp last night from L 

 Pond, bringing the best string offish 1 lave even seen from 

 that pond. ' A man from Boston went to Tim Pond yester- 

 day, and was having grand fun when 1 left, Have seen 

 several broods of young partridges in (he woods this spring, 

 but cannot yet tell how numerous they will be the coming 

 season, but" the law that prohibits killing them for the 

 market Will save thousands per year for sportsmen and the 

 home tables, f saw a bear in the road between Smith's 

 house and Tim Pond recently; he looked at tile backboard 

 team a moment, then made good time for the cover of the 

 forest.'' "The law protecting trout in this State is a great 

 help to fish in these ponds as well as all others. Formerly 

 there were more trout caught out of than in season. Not so 

 now, and parties who fished here five years ago, lell me the 

 sport is quite as fine now as then. Hope when you come 

 you Will have your usual good luck."—,!. W. 'T. (Now 

 Britain. Come. July 11). 



Notes kroai the BusQ^tHHAsifA.— Athene, Pa., July 9.— 

 Eililar Forest and Stream: In your many mentions of bait 

 for black bass, I have not noticed bullhead mentioned. This 

 is the principal bait here: and those who fish for big bass use 

 a bullhead from two to four inches long. Whim fishing 

 with these you are not troubled by the biting of small fish. 

 They are found under loose stones in the. rill's, and are 

 caught b\ stunning or by dip net, Hook them through the 

 lips, E.'AY. Davies, our enlerprising fishing tackle' man, 

 offers a fine rod as a prize to any of his customers catching 

 the largest black bass with hook and line (hiring the season" 

 the bass to be weighed by him. We have had little- or no 

 fishing hero yet, as the river has. been too high or muddy. 

 But early in 'the spring quite a. few yellow bass were taken 

 by trolling. Monday evening, July !), a Bah cluh was or- 

 ganized to protect the fish, which arc disappearing yearly 

 because of pot fishing and seine drawing. ,1. K. Wiliistoii, 

 President; E. W. Davies. Secretary and Treasurer: 1?. 

 Jolly. Fish Warden, besides others appointed to act as war- 

 dens, A reward of twenty-live dollars is offered to any one 

 who will give information that will lead to the conviction 

 of parties 'who draw seines in the county of Bradford. — W. 

 K. P. . 



PlCKEBEI. Take the Fi.y.— A well-known angler of New 

 York in a private letter to us wrote as follows; "Last week 

 I took advantage of leisure to run down to Southampton. 

 Long Island, where another gentleman and 1 caught fifty- 

 nine pickerel "on the fly," easting, not trolling, and thirty 

 large-mouthed bass. The pickerel were far more gamv than 

 the bass, and reminded me of the festive trout , in action. 

 The pond where we caught them is surrounded with over- 

 bunging bushes, which explains to me the readiness with 

 Which We caught them in casting the fly. When I saw 

 wind we were about Iput on some "olJ sockcrs" I bought, 

 several years ago. and hud lain aside us useless. Tin 

 so made thati.the pickerel injured them very little, having 

 large wool bodies, yellow and red ; wings, mostly ted and 

 black. Hid you ever?" 



C.uiFBEi,i/ro,N, New Brunswick, July '.I.— Salmon and 

 trout have so far been scarce in the Jaquel River; but in the 

 Rest igoucho waters both the net-fishermen and fly-fishers 

 report the catch of salmon to be the largest known forycars, 

 and during the first part of June tvout fishing at Ihe head of 

 the tide in Bay Cbaieur wu.s good, but now at Ibis date little 

 or no sport is to be had there. The writer and Mr. Richard 

 Parker, of Campbellton, have just returned from some lakes 

 back some twelve miles in the wilderness from here, where 

 we have had good trout fishing, and a portion of the trout 

 taken theie were the most beautiful specimens of 8. flmii- 

 natix imaginable. Willi Ihe exception of a narrow, dark- 

 motfled strip along their back, the general color was a pale 

 yellow, with four rows on each side of Ihe fish of large deep 

 gold gpotS, and running through and among these linger 

 Spots were two rows of smaller spots of (he deepest crimson. 

 1 several times had (wo of these trout that would weigh 

 abOUt 1 j lbs. each on my fiies at the same time, and they 

 presented, while dartinglhrough the water, their colors, which 

 shone wiih a bright metallic lustre, to the best possible ad- 

 vantage mill formed (lie most attractive pictures that T ever 

 saw. Moose, caribou and hear signs were numerous in the 

 vicinity of those hikes. 1 also saw a hen ruffed grouse that 

 had a forge family of chicks. A part of them were, at least. 

 three or four wests old, and the others not overtwo or three 

 day, old. With the exception of the few days that trout 

 arc running up the rivers from the sea, trout fishing is w 

 as good in this section as in the lakes north of the St. Law- 

 rence River, or even in some portions of Maine and the 

 Adirondack?, while the expense is greater, with nothing of 

 the comforts thai vou get iu the last-named places. Here 

 at the hotels, badly cooked food aud dirty sheets are (he- 

 mic without hardly an exception. — Stanstead. 



Black Bass Tackle.— Mamaroueek. N. Y.— I have read 

 with pleasure and profit Br. HenshalPs article on "Improved 

 Black Bass Tackle." in a recent number of Foiiest ASD 

 BTHEAJI. I have seen the reels he refers to. and thev are 

 certainly improvements in the right direction. The Doctor's 

 clear and evidently impartial manner in setting forth the 

 good points of these reels is to be commended. The. black 

 bass being, in a manner, my specialty. I feel much interest 

 in everything pertaining to improvements in the "tackle" bv 

 means 'of which this gamy fish is caught, There are other 

 reels and fishing appliances which 1 should be glad lo see 

 the Doctor treafin the same practical wav, showing their 

 defects as well as their good points. In regard to the new 

 line. I have handled oue that answers precisely lo the 

 Doctor's description, and which, for aught I know, may 

 have been made to meet Ihe requirements called for by Dr. 

 H. in his "Book of the Black Bass," and which has been for 

 sale by Messrs, ffm. Mills & Son tor about a year past. It 

 is numbered H., is a very hard braid, very strong (lifting 

 nine pounds or more), and is in all respects the best black 

 bass line I have yet seen. It may have been made by the 

 parties Dr. H. mentions, at all events, it seems to be 'iden- 

 tical with it, and deserves all the praise Ihe Doctor bestows 

 upon it. Articles like Ihe Doctor's last arc very useful to 

 such readers of Forest AND Stream as are not well posted 

 in regard to fishing tackle, and who are not quite willing to 

 trust implicitly to the highly drawn descriptions found in 

 many of the catalogues. — Petba. 



Keuben WOOD in Lnoi.and. — New York, July 10. — The 

 following extract from a private letter just received from 



my friedd Henry Wright; Esq, 

 Duke of Sutherland, will be read 

 merous friends of the champion 

 Reuben "Wood, Esq., of Syracuse, 

 Pace. "Stafford House, St. James, 

 Mv dear Mr. Page; * * * What 

 the Fisheries Exhibition here. The: 

 plete and extensive a show, and r 

 again. Although 1 have been several 

 that 1 was unable to study anyth 

 friend Reuben Wood, a very genia 



■tary of the 



•ith interest by the mi- 



ly-caster of the world, 



N. Y. — Geo. Shepabd 



London, June 28, 1S83. 



a pity you cannot be at 



re never was so com- 



ibly never will be 



«, I was so hurried 



losely. I met. your 



ry gentleman, who 



1, el 



ihowed me some beautiful "rods and a new reel, which 

 would be very convenient for trout fishing, but I am afraid 

 would not enable one to kill a heavy fish,' otherwise it woaltj 

 lie a great advantage when a fish was runuing toward you 

 to be able to run up the slack more rapidly than by the usual 

 plan of hard winding. A few weeks ago 1 was at Dunrobiu, 

 Sutherlaudshire, Scotland, and killed two salmon on my 

 single-handed trout rod, and I fear I could not have done 

 that with the spring reel. I am going to Trentham, Staf- 

 fordshire-, to-morrow, and on my return I mean to have 

 another "palaver" with Mr, Wood on the subject. Yours 

 very truly, Henry Wright." 



The Big Gat of the Kaw.— North Carolina. — B&itor 



Dan/ and Stream: "Ouachita's" big "gar" beats me by 

 just eleven pounds. While in Lawrence, has., in 1878, 'l 

 saw a cattish taken from the Kaw River, at the dam ol the 

 Dough- Company's nulls, which weighed 165 pounds. 

 Some of your readers probably will remember the incident. 

 This monster cat was caught with tackle similar to that de- 

 scribed try "Ouachita/' But it required the strength of two 

 irl) i ns of Ham" to laud the fish, and I well remember 

 thai after a pole had been run through its gills, and shoul- 

 dered by the proud possessors of the prize, the tail of the fish 

 trailed on the sidewidk as it was being carried up street; 

 This was the largest fish I have ever seen taken with hook 

 and line, though some of the "forty-niners" can tell of larger 

 fish having been taken from the Missouri and its tributaries 

 -A F. ft. 



Prince Edward Island— Charlottctown, P. E. I., 

 June 30. — BOitor Jfbmt and Stream: The long continued 

 rains have kept the waters well up in the small rivers of 

 this island, which has made trout tisbiug Ihe best known 

 here for years. Mine host Davis has just returned from I he 

 "Morrel" with fitly pounds of trout i'u a thirtv-five-pouud 

 creel, and the basket was not full either. After much dis- 

 cussion and a war of words the catch was placed ou the 

 scales, and shewed thirty and one-quarter pounds, which 

 may be set down as the usual difference between a fisher- 

 man's guess aud the actual fact. The catch of salmon here 

 (his season has so far been a small one. The movements of 

 S. xah/r have been very erratic, a great scarcity iu some 

 sections, while in others an overabundance. — Stanstead 



Sheehshead at Cape Mat. — July 12.— The sheepskead 

 fishing at Cape May Point continues to be very good. Mr. 

 Campian, of Philadelphia having not many "days since 

 taken twenty-five fish during one forenoon,— Homo. 



Veraiont Troct Streams— Fist Berkshire. Vt., July 

 14.— 1 am living on the Missisquoi Railroad, twenty-two 

 miles from Si. .Vilnius nud within five miles of plenty of 

 trout fishing. There are several brooks where plenty of 

 trout are caught, viz.. Wade Brook, Mill Brook, Hannah 

 Clark Brook, Jay Brook, and several others that I do not 

 think have any names; aud besides these is Trout River. A 

 short time ago 1 fished on Wade and Jay brooks, at the 

 junction where Wade Brook runs into Jay Brook, aud took 

 ou( eighty-seven fine front that, were served up, shortly after, 

 at severai different places, I having divided (hem among my 

 friends. It is a tine place for a sportsman lo spend a few 

 days, as there is plenty of fishing, wiih good hotels near bv. 

 Plenty of partridges car, be hot there after the first of Sep- 

 tember, as they are very plenty Ibis year and with hut few 

 hunters. Till 1 commenced taking your valuable paper I 

 did not know anything about angling, other than going > 

 the brooks, yanking out all [ could and geitug home. Bid. 

 thanks to your paper, 1 now fish with a lO-ounce, ltn-foot 

 fly-rod. with a multiplying reel and forty yards of very line 

 grass line, and am getting good sport without caring so 

 inn eh about (he number of fish as T do the size of them. I 

 learn something from >our paper i very week, and it is gel- 

 ling lo be a friend that I do not care to be without.— Snip 

 Skat*. 



Black Bass Fishing in the Brandy wine. — Bass rtsh- 

 ing in this stream has been unusually good of late, and some 

 hue strings have been caught, Mr. John Ingram, a tobacco- 

 nist, of 'West Chester, Pa., offers as a premium, for the 

 largest black bass taken during Ihe season of lSSfS a jointed 

 bamboo bait rod of superior "workmanship. There .ire a 

 number of competitors for its possession. The largest bass 

 reported measured twenty inches, and weighed three and 

 one-half pounds. The west branch affords excellent lly 

 fishing. The bait employed most successfully is tin- tad- 

 pole, although some of the smaller fish are caught with the 

 crawfish and helgramite. There is no accounting for the 

 varied taste of the black bass of the Braudywine. At times 

 all Ihe above allurements are persistently refused, while the 

 common earthworm is eager!',' sought. T can recall a cir- 

 cumstance which happened a' few years ago iu illustration 

 of this peculiar trait, One of our local fishermen had used 

 all Ihe known bass bait and a great deal of patience without 

 avail. As he was in the act of "unjoin tins his rod, he espied 

 a small field mouse. In a fit of desperation he killed it; 

 attached it lo the hook aud made another cast. In an 

 instant the cork was out of sight, and after much persuasion 

 he landed a three-pound bass. So much for bait, — Occa- 

 sional. 



Black Bass en Ouio.— Newcastle, Pa.— Fishing here 

 this year seems to be a failure ou account of rain. It has 

 rained almost three days a week since fishing began, keep- 

 ing the water muddy. I am told in the fall there is good 

 fishing to be had for "salmon," but as I have just moved 

 here 1 cannot tell you very much about it. After frost they 

 bite pretty good I am told. 1 shall try il. and if any good 

 will write and let you know. The English sparrow is good 

 for something after all. I was walking on the main street 

 when I saw'one chase a sevenlecii-ycar locust. Which he 

 caught and proceeded to tear to pieces. First the wings and 

 then the head came, off. I could not tell what use he made 

 of the body as he flew to the top of some houses with it. By 

 the by, dicl any of the anglers of Forest and Stream ever 

 (ry tie- locust 'for bait? While at the river the Other day 1 

 saw several diop on the water, and they had no sooner 

 touched than thev were taken by the fish.' but 1 could not 

 tell what kind of'lish they were. There were four or five 

 fine bass caught, at the old railroad bridge over the Neshan 

 nock yesterday. I am told, thai would pidl (lie- scales at 

 three rind one-lia If pounds. — Ckab Apple. 



Black Bass in Seneca Lake. — Elmira, N. \'.— T have 

 never seen anything about this magnificent sheet of water 

 and its gamy black bass in the Forest and Stream. The 

 fishing does not lake place in Seneca Lake until about the 

 15th of September for black bass, and then they will take 

 the hook until very cold weather. The law iu regard lo 

 thai lake is the same as iu other lakes as to black bass, but, 

 for some reason or another they will not take the hook until 

 about the loth of September. ' A great many fish at, night 

 for these fish in the summer, using pieces of pork, white 

 rags, shelled lobsters, etc., for bait, and they have much 

 better success than the day fishermen. One 'person keeps 

 the boat moving just enough to keep the hook of his "pard" 

 from getting fast to the stones in the bottom of the lake, 

 and they will fish iu this manner all night some nights, and 

 will be rewarded by a handsome string of these black beau- 

 ties.— G. ' 



Poaching Near xYxbany. — Nassau, Rensselaer Co.,N. Y.. 

 July 16. — There is a pond about one mile from the town of 

 stocked with black bass of the small 

 ■:d \i iars ago. I can remember the time 

 in to the pond of a morning, aud lake a. 

 1 or black bass; hut now that is a thing 

 by! Because there are certain unscru- 

 s, living- on the borders of the pond, who take 

 n as the ice is out iu the spring, by netting, 

 runt to know is. could 1 inform a game Con- 

 it letting the party be the wiser as lo who en- 

 tile information!— 0. J, Y. A.' [If you inform your nearest 

 game protector he can work up the case on his own respon- 

 sibility, and you need not appear in it,."] 



Nassau, which 

 mouth species, 

 when oue couh 

 nice mess of pi 

 of the past. A 

 pulous persons, 

 the fish as so,,,, 

 Now wdiatlv 

 stable, wit-boi 



The Kingfishers.— That jolly party of anglers known 

 as "the Kingfishers," whose camp life has been so delight- 

 fully portrayed in our pages, is now in the woods of North- 

 ern "Michigan. They left this week for Cheboygan, where 

 theS took wagon lo camp, some twenly-three miles Thev 

 will remain for three weeks, and the big bass are welcoming 

 them with outstretched jaw^s and duply sloiiiachs. while the 

 mascalonge are whetting their incisors lo sever their lines. 

 There is a bint that a grayling stream, said to he unknown 

 save to a few "old mossbacksV' will be visited, and we are 

 promised an account of their joys and tribulations when 

 they get out of the woods. 



Florida.— Jacksonville, July 11.— Colonel J. E. Hart is 

 fishing at Fori, George and slopping with the genial Oeorge 

 Gilbert, of Pilot Town. Yesterday Colonel Bart, with rod 



and reel, caught four bass of an aggregate weight ol 110 



pounds, tfeiosf seven beside thes- and several lengths of 

 hue. Good time? Of course he is having a good tune. 



Wouldn't you be havings good time il vou" wen- eiitehing 



flsh like that?! 



