FOREST AND STREAM. 





lively content, for the beaotUnl gold, 



Michael Knglert.wlib had won Lhc Badge twloeon lonnwn 



audit successful this lime would hs,ve becnttS me owner of the same 

 by winning It tttreo times, did ail lie possibly could to capture tho 

 splendid medal, hut Mr. JatnosT. Davis, wtio la always willlug and 

 ready to dn honor whi-re hoaor la due, thoogtit neat Hot to lot him win 

 It sgalo, and succeeded In winning- it nimself. Gus WiIltuwB, the 

 world renowned comedian, acttd as scorer: 



WmSteers ....] 1 1 t 1 1 1 1-8 



MEoglerr. 1 1 1 1 1 11 U W 



James IJ-ivis 1111110 1 1-8 



John Vosfcamp - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0-S 



Shoot off- miss and out. 

 Ween i i i i i i i i l i l o— n 



IJ.vi.H 1 1111111111 1-12 



Voakamp missed his Hist aud Englerthls second. 



Several contests at double birds toot place afterward, and after a 

 well supplied meal by Mrs. Lohr, the parties went home, each with a 

 t'.ioii load of birds to carry. 



Nbw .Tsbsky— Nacark. June U —Weekly sweepstakes of the Newark 

 City Qua Club ar. ten of Kaj'a substitute for glass balls. First sweep, 

 2.1 yards rise : \V B Qobatt broke 7, Decker It, R A liny 10, 11 Mont- 

 gomery 7, A B Kay 9, UauderS, J S Unslou 7, J Decker S, V I iil-.ze 1 II, 

 J Klnsey S Second sweep, 25 yards rise: Duston 10, A 15 K.iy 10, R A 

 Kay 10, Decker 10, J Decker 9, Riusty 9, 1" 1 Glaze 3, Uauder 9, W it 

 llobart 7, Monte 7. Ail except tivo used Kay's chips. 



Sko. W. C.G. C. 



Cbanmkk SnoiTiNO CLUB— Rordmtoum, A T . J., June 9.— Second 

 shoot ; Card's rotary trap ; 21 yards rise : 



Dr waillilliard 1 10110011111111 1-13 



FG Wlese o 11001011011111 1-11 



JK.ovea 10 111001011110 1-10 



MMait.iaad o 0OOOOioillll00i-8 



K Wright 1 10 100010101 11 0—7 



S Taylor 01001101001010 1— 7 



Pknnsyi,vanI4— Cotairftwa, June 10.— The second practice match at 

 glass balls f the CatawUsa Hisu and Game Protective Club; Card's «>• 

 tary trap, IS yards rise, ten balls each : 



KBAldrich 111111111-9 



AAKIok 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 0—6 



LPKreisrh 11110 111—7 



TPuherrington 1 1111 110 11—9 



Wai Orange o ill l 1 o o 1—6 



AKtttdier 1 11110 11—7 



TB Harder 1 1 1 1 1 0-5 



A Thomas. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-s 



G W Heifsnyder 10 110 10 0-4 



AHBBarpless 1 11110 10 10—7 



Seoond score. 



Cl.Omberg 'I 111 1110 0— fl 



aiHamiiWH 1 1110 10 L-fl 



,1, ie Veal 10 10 11 0—1 



ADmberg o o o o o o i 1 0—2 



Ham Veal 10 1 1-3 



H Harris 1 110 1110 0—6 



Tie. 



CLOmberg ,..0 1— 1 HHiurls 1 1-2 



KlUampton 1 1 1-3 



Third score. 



H Harris 1 ooo 1-2 JoeVeal 1 1001—3 



C L Omeerg 1 1 1 1—4 A Oinberg .0 0-0 



On\a-C,ncinniiti, May 30. -Score of glass ball match shot by the 

 Puoki ye Club or Cincinnati on the above date ror the Hamilton U.mniy 

 Agricultural Socb ty medal . This nudal, and a number of oilier prizes 

 put up at Che couuiy fair last September, were woo by the Buckeye 

 Club, they beating all competitor*, including the Wyoming nud Lock- 

 land clubs. The team put It op with the unden-timrUog that the win- 

 ner became the owner; 13 yards rise; Bates & Banni traps, with 



J A Whetstone. ...1 Oil 1 1 1 1 111 1 1 1011 1 1 11 1 1 1 1—23 



,1 Ferris 1 1110 10 111111111110 111 1—20 



H J Kuch 1 11110 11010 1111011010011 1— IS 



C M Kpply 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—14 



T A Jones 1 01100011101110 11010000 1—13 



JBrunnell ...1 0010 010010010 1101010010 0—10 



Week- 1 1110 110 110 10 10 (J— 10 



WDavlB 10110 01011101000000 00 1—9 



KH Dnnlap ....0 001100100001001011000010—8 



Thk Pittsecbgii Tournament— Pilttfoirgh, June 13.— The shooting 

 tournament, held by MVesrs. J. P. O'Neil & Co. at the Exposition 

 Grounds (the di-tlniuisaing features of which are that it lasts a 

 month instead of a day, that three irlals are allow, d each contestant, 

 that no entrance fees ate charged, and that the balls are thrown from 

 the Mole's revolving trap la any way one wants, and lu a great many 

 ways one don't waul, which same would not be at all right but for 

 the fact that birds, which glass balls -hould Imitate, have the same 

 disagreeable tendency), is going off with that good order and geniality 

 which is peculiar to, and attendant upon, a congregation of sons of 

 guns, and la creating a deal of Interest among sportsmen in this 

 vicinity. Tuere are delegations coming from several neighboring 

 towus to compete in the several matches, lu the off-hand ritle shoo:- 

 ing contest. Creedtnoor target and regulations, the best scores made 

 tnus far are inn and l>)2 ont of a passible 125. In the glass ball sliojt- 

 ing with a rifle, a la Carver, 70 out oi 100. Parenthetically, it may be 

 Bad thit the opinion sterns to be gaming ground that this style of 

 shooting IS more of a trick, easily acquired, than an art gained by long 

 experience. In the shot-gun shooting at glass balls the best scores 

 ate 77 and hi out of 100. Professional shots are excluded from this 

 match, but a short tournament lor professional wing shots Is being 

 thought of. Will send fuil reports of these matches at their close. 



—A glass ball shooting tournament will be held ar. Williams' Grove, 

 Cumberland County, la., June 85. Excursion tickets will be sold 

 from principal stations on Pennsylvania and Northern Central Had- 

 roaiH, and from all otaliuns on Cumbarlaud Valley Railroad, Com- 

 mittee— F. A. Marshall, Chanibeisburg, Pa. ; D. A. Uhrlcli,8lRi... 

 town, Pa.: D. R, Hrandt, Clear springs, Pa. ; G. D. Keller, Carlisle, 

 Pa. ; Geo. Duke, Sbippensbnrg, Pa. ; Geo. 11, Keller, Uummelstown, 

 Pa.; James B.liea, Newvllle, pa. 



Exchange Gun OLtrn— Tiluiville, Pa , June 7— Card trap and Bougb- 

 ton explosive target balls. These lulls work to a charm, and ate In 

 every way equal to birds. First meeting of club : 



JJMcCrum I 111110 10 1— B 



CVBoughtou 1 101111111—9 



K H Booghton, Jr 1 1 1 1 ,1 1 1 1 1 l-lo 



CUBurton 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—9 



LLSnattock 11111111 1— « 



This club will meet every Salnrday rrom Ibis on. Betier scores 

 miy be looked for with these balls than heretof are with glass . 



Youngslown, June 14.— Semi-monthly contest of the Buckeye Ball- 

 BreakeiB for the cbanplousliip of the club; Dogardus rules; Cards 

 rotary trap, full spring ; 21 yards rise, 15 balls each : 



Miller 1 00010010011110—7 



Dead 1 11110 10100011 1—10 



Onlniau 1 1110 110 11111 0—11 



Davis 1 1001010101100 0— T 



C.lter 11111001101101 0-10 



Boggans 0111011010001 0—7 



White 1 1001000000110 0—5 



Joyce 1 00 10100011001 0—7 



Mumouigh 1 1 1 o o o 1—4 



W Davis 01000001010110—6 



Froggot .0 1110111100 111 1—11 



Wliilams 1 001111000W 



Buckeye Bor. 



Tenhbssek— Jaekson, June 10,— Glass ball shooting at 50 balls thrown 

 from three traps. It Was ouc seoond trial : 



Campbell..! 111110111111111 01101010111111 

 1111111111110111110 1— 43. 



Persons. .1 101110 1111110 11000111110111101 

 011010110001111111 1—36, 



McOatcheon. ..1 111111111111111011111111111 

 1111111111110 1111111 1— l'j. 



King. . .0 1101111111111001111110000111001 

 31111111110110101 0—38. 



MurrelL.l il oooi ill u li l l 110U01011 ill 01 



011111110010110111 1—38, 



T. W. M. 



Washington, D. C. June 9.— Matches shot Saturday afternoon, June 

 7. Mr. Mills, allot with a very hue 12-g'iuge gun. weighing s», Ins., 

 built by John A. Nichols, of Syracuse, N, f. Handicapped ta 26 yards, 

 hi.' excellent s.ore is interusilng as dcraonstral ng tne ability of the 

 12-gange guu to cope wilh the heavy 10 gauge at the trap : 

 Fust maich. 



Mills, 20 yds 1 1 1 1 1—5 Lynch, 21 yds 11 1—3 



sim. .ns, 21 vds 1 10 11—1 Daw,21yds 1 1 l 1—4 



SuetwoOd, 20 yds t 1 w 



Second match. 



Mills, M yds 1 1 1 1 1—5 Simons, 21 yds 1 1 1 1 0-4 



William -,2o yds 1 1111—5 Howling, 21 yds 1 1 1 1 0—4 



Daw, 21 yds 1 1 1 1-4 



Mills and Williams divided. 



Third match— Purse of S4. 



Simons, 21 yds 1 1 1 1 1—6 Daw, 21 yd- 111 1—4 



Mills, 20 jds 1 110 1—4 Williams, 26 yds 1 1 1 1—1 



Slaions takes prize. 



Fourth match. 



Mills, 20 yds 1 1 1 1-4 Daw, 21 yds 1 1 11—4 



Wlmsatt, 21 yds 1 1 1 0—3 Dowllng, 21 yds 1 1 1—3 



Mills and Daw divided; scarcity of birds prevented ties being shot 

 otr. h. v. jonxs. 



CBBROfiBE GUN CLTJB— Home, Ga„ June 10.— Glass balls: 

 First score. 



CLOmberg 111 n 0111 0—0 



SI Hampton ••■! 1 1 1 1 1— li 



Joe Veal 1 I) I 6— >i 



AOmberg 1 II 001100 0-3 



SituVeal 1 1110 10-5 



HH&rrls , 1110 11111-8 



—See Bogardus' advertisement. 



ff# mid ^ive 



FISH IN SEASON IN JUNE. 



8BR8H WATER. SALTWATER. 



Tront, Salmo funtinaUa. Sr-u Bass, Ce < : < ■'!■: )■;"■• r-": .f.j. ,.'.". 



Salmon, .sutoio Satar. Kin eo-nissi], 1 ;- </;.-...- n, ; ;j •...'.,.'•... 



Salmon Trout, Sahno eon/mis. cephalui. 



Land-luckea Salmon, Salmo gloveri. Striped Bass, Koccua linnr.otus. 

 Mnskalonge, Bsoa nobilior. White | ereli, Morovc amtriaxna. 



Pike or Pickerel, F./.nx lucius. W eakflsh, Cynoxaon rejatin. 



Yellow Perch, Perca ikn-csecrw. Bluensii, J'mnn!irmun xallatrix 



Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula- 

 Cum. 



Cero, Cybium regale. 



Bonito, Sarda pelainys. 



Kmgtlsh, Montieirrus nebuloiua. 



FLIES IN SEASON IN JUNE. 



Hawthorn, _Vb. 11.— Body, shining black ; feet and head, black ; wlngB 

 bright hyaline. 



Shoemaker, $<t. 10.— Body, ringed alternately wilh light and gray sal- 

 mon ; feet, dark ginger ; wings, the mottled gray of the mallard and 

 the mottled of the woodcock mixed ; setce, mottled woodcock. 



Black June, No. 10.— Body, peacock's herl ; feet and wings black. 



Dart Stone, Xoa. 8 and 9.— Body, dark brown; feet, yellow brown; 

 wings, lnteus. 



GoMrnor So. 10.— Body, peacock's herl ; feet, dark red hackle ; wings, 

 made ot the darkest part of the bittern's wing or brown hen. 



Grain Draite, A'o. 7.— Body, white posterior, half libbedwith black, 

 green yellow, mottled with brown ; sela;, dark brown. 



JSrown DraAe, A'o. 7.— Body, feet and wings, a golden yellow brown s 

 seta), dark brown. 



Haven, No. 11.— Body, feet and wing, black. 



Wren Fly, No. 9.— Body, clay yellow ; feet, made from the scapulary 

 feathers ot the English wren or quail ; wings and setae, mottled widgeon. 



Fish in Mabket— Retail Pricks.— Bas8,J15 to 20 cents : blue- 

 fish, 8; salmou, 20 ; mackerel, 15 ; shad, 8; Spanish mackerel, 

 18; green turtle, 15 ; halibut, 18 ; haddock, 6 ; kingfiah, 12 ; cod- 

 fish, 6 ; blackfish, 10; flounders, 8 ; sea bass, 15 ; eels, 18 ; lob- 

 sters, 10 ; Bhoepshead, 18; brook trout, Canada, 40; soft crabs, 

 per doz., $1.59 ; froga, 35. 



OnTxmo—Braeebridge, June 11.— Am here -witli a parly of 

 four en route to Baysville and Trading Lake ; will report 

 catch G. H Crank. 



Movements of the The Fisiiikg Fleet.— The number 

 of fishing arrivals reported at this port the past week has been 

 95, d from Western Bank with 150,000 lbs. codfish and 10,000 

 lbs. halibut, 5 from Grand Bank with 100,000 lbs. halibut, 48 

 from Georges with 1,000,000 lbs. codfish and 07,000 lbs. hali- 

 but, 24 from Inshore fishing trips with 335,000 lbs. codfish, 2 

 from unsuccessful squiding voyages, and 12 from oil shore 

 mackereling trip3 with light fares.— Cape Ann Advertiser, 

 June 13. 



New Youk— Newark, June 10.— "Week before last a friend 

 and the writer caught, in two days' fishing, COO trout at Osce- 

 ola, near Kedfield, this State. Weather was cold and bright. 

 Could not then get a rise on Salmon River. Had to go to 

 the mountain brooks. Trout small in size. Accommodations 

 and attention from S. Williams, the landlord, all that could 

 be asked for— good rooms, good living, horses and wagon to 

 take us to the head of the streams, fish taksn care of, packed 

 in ice, luncheon put up, bait dug, e'c. Charges, $ 1 per day. 

 With warmer weather larger trout will be taken in the river. 



C. H. P. 



Adirosdacks— Eecne Vallaj, June It.— The trout are bit- 

 ing lively, and I have hooked several largo strings during 

 the past week. In Company with "Parker," than whom no 

 better sportsman and genial fellow lives, I took 24 speckled 

 beauties from the rapids in Lower Ausable Pond yesterday, 

 averaging one pound each. I send you exact dimensions of 

 largest, cut out of birch-bark ; have had fresh brook trout 

 al every meal, and am not satisfied yet. This section is a 

 perfect paradise for anirk-rs; no flies as yet, and plenty of 

 trout for devotees of the rod. William L. Howaed. 



New Jersey — Forked Eiver, June 14 — Blue fishing has 

 not been better at this place for several years past. Our 

 yachts, the }'apor, with a party of gentlemen from Allen- 

 town to-day came in with 55 fish, and the Haze, Capt. Theo. 

 Predmore, with Mr. Baker and son, of Newark, 69 fish, some 

 of which would weigh 7 or 8 pounds apiece. This is now the 

 nearest point to the fishing grounds, as parties coming to this 

 place avoid a long ride to the water, as at Barnegal and other 

 points on the bay. C. A. S. 



West Virginia.— Meadow JRiver Forest, Qreenlriar Co., 

 June 9.— Fished to-day in Young's Creek. Two lines caught 

 140 mountain brook trout. Largest eight weighed one pound 

 each, Our altitude is 2,500 ft. above the sea. We are fifteen 

 milts from Sewell Station, on the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. 

 Cost of reaching this place from Point Pleasant, W. Va., 

 mouth of Great Kanawha, $7. We are ten miles from mouth 

 of Meadow River, in Greenbriar Co. The trout have nearly 

 all left Meadow River and gone up the small streams. We 

 are on. spurs of JJig BeweU aioimtain, Bait used to-day -was 



the red angle-worm, We lost abouB thirty trout by bad 

 fUuiug. H. A. G. 



Wusr Virginia— Berkeley ISpriurfx, June 16. — Black bass 

 fishing on the Potomac good, especially with fly. E. Gray 

 Pendleton and myself, on Wednesday last, caught wilh fly 

 43 bass. Unfortunately, Mr. P. broke his rod on his fifth 

 fish, leaving me to catch 33 out of the 48, which was done 

 with a 7-ozT split bamboo rod. These fish were taken in four 

 hours. But for Mr. P.'s mishap 1 am confident we could 

 have taken 75 in the same time — jtisl a little ahead of Mr. 

 Bond. George Hovermale, of this county (Morgan), caught 

 last fall, at Oam No. 6, a bass weighing G£ pounds, unci a 

 great many have been taken weighing 5;[- and 5|. 1 myself 

 have caught several of this weight. Tip. 



Blue-Fishing. — Dr. Morton Robinson, of Newark, New 

 Jersey, contributes the following interesting facts : 



Forty-five years ago our home was on Point Judith, two 

 miles north of the light-house, on what is now known as the 

 Pelig Anthony farm, now, as in olden times, a great resort 

 for striped bass fishermen. Unlike the present day, at that 

 time, there were few but native fishermen. It is true that 

 there were several who living along the shores principally 

 fished for a livelihood, sold Iheir fish to the smacks or found 

 a local market, but the principal part of the fishing was done 

 by the farmers and men of other pursuits for their own con- 

 sumption, mostly living within a short distance of the local- 

 ity. When there was- a good surf for bass fishing, it would be 

 a rare thing not to see several lovers of the sport on the rocks 

 fishing fur those splendid fish. For a man to capture three 

 or four 40 to 60 pound bass of a morning would hardly be 

 deemed worthy of mention, but the catching of a "horse- 

 mackerel" (blucfish) in 1835 by a professional fisherman by 

 the name of William Williams was regarded a rare event. 

 For more than twenty years the oldest fishermen could not 

 remember seeing one, and it was only the old frequenter of 

 the shores who could give it a name. In the beginning of 

 this century and so long as the country had been known be- 

 iore, these'bluelisb, "horse-mackerel" as they were called in 

 that locality, were very abundant, and at about this lime 

 pressed the shores in such numbers as to be taken wilh hay- 

 forks by wading a short distance in the surf of the beach. 

 From some cause unknown, in 1812, these fish suddenly left 

 our seas. Various have been the conjectures as to their leav- 

 ing. Some, full of speculation, have ascribed it to the war 

 which broke oul in that year, others to instinctive premoni- 

 tion of the great Septomber gale, which visited the coast with 

 furious wiuds and buried the ordinary bouudaries of the sea 

 twenty feet deep, I think in 1815 ; however it may be, from 

 1812 to 1815 if there were any taken they were only stragglers, 

 aud from the latter date to 1635 diligent inquiry among those 

 who fished along the coast failed to develop an instance of 

 one being taken. After the one caught by Williams, dur- 

 ing the summer, a boat from Newport, bating for mackerel, 

 took one, and there may have been a few others taken by 

 bass fishermen ; but tbey were not in considerable number^ 

 until 1810 to 1841, when they began to show in schools, and 

 in 1844 and 1345 their numbers were beyond computation. 

 The fish taken by Williams would weigh about 3 lbs., aud 

 those first taken were generally near the same weight. If the 

 reports of the men of the former century be true, in the 1st 

 ter advent of these fish they have never attained the size they 

 formerly possessed. The size of 40 lbs. had been reached in 

 olden times ; but since their second coming 25^ lbs., is the 

 largest known to us, taken in 1844 by James Oatley, while 

 fishing with an eelskin squid ("bob") for large bass at the 

 Bog-rock opposile Anthony's. On the following day, in the 

 same place, there was one lakeu that weighed 24J lbs. With 

 a considerable field of knowledge your correspondent has 

 never seen or heard of another, that reached 20 lbs., though 

 18 lbs. are quite common. The manner of catching these fish 

 in the olden time did not materially differ from the present. 

 No doubt the tackle was more crude— the sheepshank bone, 

 elder with the pith punched out, and the eelskin had to serve 

 as squid, where now we have block tin, ivory and pearl,— the 

 domestic spun linen for line, where now we have more deli- 

 cate fibres, created by machinery. 



v\ Blue-Back Trout. — It is believed that the great size of the 

 Rangeley Lake trout of Maine is due to their diet being com- 

 posed chiefly of so-called blue-back trout. These blue-backs 

 have been repeatedly described in the columns of Forest and 

 Stream, and a full history of them will be found in Hallock's 

 " Sportman's Gazetteer." While the Rangeley trout are the 

 genuine Savelinus fontinalis, the blue-backs are adjudged a 

 distinct variety. As very little is ever written, the following 

 information given in the Hallowell (Me.) Register of April 2Glh 

 ultimo, will be valued : 



Blue-backs are a species of trout, and named by naturalists 

 Salmo ojwassa.after Oquossoc or Rangeley Lake, and bear the 

 general semblance of a regular built, bona fide, "brook trout " 

 except that they have a crochet tail. 'I heir backs are of 'a 

 very dark blue color, therefore their name, "blue-backs." 

 They grow to the maximum length of ten inches and weight 

 of six ounces. They inhabit the deepest waters of the lakes 

 and are consequently never seen except during about two 

 weeks in October of each year, when they run into the streams 

 in countless myriads to spawn. Then is the lime when tho 

 natives of Rangeley and surrounding towns really enjoy fish- 

 ing, if their method of capturing these fish may be called fish- 

 ing. 



Let us take a look at the various mc-lhods employed in the 

 wholesale slangher of this beautiful and peculiar fish. Just 

 below the old mill dam on the Rangeley stream, we find sev- 

 eral persons with rod and line, casting into the big pool, and 

 hauling out a blue-back at every cast. We al once concluded 

 that tbey must have a very taking bait; but upon exami- 

 nation are surprised to find attached to each line a grnpnel 

 composed of three fish hooks, and that the water is literally 

 packed with fisb, so that every time this grapnel is thrown 

 among them a fish is sure to be hooked. One gentleman a 

 summer resident of this locality, caught in this way, as many 

 as 2,000 of these in ten days of last season. Farther down 

 the Mrt am, at the foot of the pool, where a wall of rocks has 

 been piled up to form a temporary dam, are several more per- 

 sons. Some are armed with a fcaff, or what they call a "jig," 

 which consists of a fish-hook lathed to the end of a small 

 pole. With this implement it is nothing rare for one person 

 to take 300 blue-backs in one hour. Others, who wish to take 

 the fiih without lacerutiug them, use a dip-net which they 

 place close to the bottom, and when the fish run over dip 

 them up. 



Btill farther down, where the water is shallow, we find the 

 stream divided off into several sections by atone walls wita 



