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A Matter of PimcrrnE.— EaHtor Forest m 

 With "Nissmuk"! usually aeTec, but sometimes Jupiter 

 nods. In you issue of Aug. 16, page 44, "Nessmnk'' says; 



"(Id the next night, however, a couple of guides went out 

 and sot ii yearling buck. 'It was so near the open season,' 

 they 'said.' 'What odds did il make if Ihe deer were killed 

 on Monday instead of Wednesday? The hoarders were wild 

 lor venison.' T think they were not so far wrong." It is 

 just this loose logic that has always been the defense of 

 poachers, guides and greenhorns for their unlawful lulling. 

 If the killing "so near" t he open season ' can be defended, 

 then why not the killinr in the noddle of the close season; 

 :i'i<l suppose the 'hoarders were wild lor venison, ' what has 

 that lo do with it? The maw of the "boarders" is not to be 

 filled at, the expense of law and decency. The boarder is 

 wild for venison ail the year around, and" the landlord is too 

 often ready to satisfy him. There is one Adirondack hotel 

 man who' keeps a 'deer dap in ope ration all the summer 

 through to satisfy his boarders' untamed appetites. Is it 

 not about time 'that we do away with such time-serving 

 casuistry as that of "Ncssiiiiik"'' quoted above?— Meat- 

 Hawk. ' 



Str.AH Wads.— Editor Forest and Stream: I have had the 

 following experience with star wads shot in a Colt's 1 -bore. 

 Shooting three sucec-sive shots from the right, and allowing 

 the left shell to remain in the barrel, 1 found the wad had 

 started so much I could shake il out, shooting one shot in 

 the same manner. I found the wad in the left had started 

 sliehtly. I found the pattern made by a crimped shell 

 equally good, if not better than the other, while in testing 

 the penetration, the crimped shell penetrated twenty -three 

 ihi its of i pad. and the one in which the star wad was used 

 only penetrated nineteen. Of course in both cases the lead 

 was the same, 3dre. and 1 ioz. 1 do not think they injure the 

 barrel in the least, as they are too soft, and the edges' are not 

 Sharp enough to effect the slightest injury.— Chip.' 



Wiscohbik Deesh.— Manitowoc, Aug. lS.—JZtiitor Forest 

 null Stream: The open season for deer hunting is Nov. 1 to 

 Dee. IS, This act prohibits shipments out of the State. 

 Superintendent Dutton, of the Wisconsin <fc Michigan, and 

 Superintendent Laing, of the Chicago A Northwestern, state 

 that no shipments will be accepted over their lines out of 

 sea on or ail dressed to patties out of the. State. This will 

 go far toward remedying the evil of deer slaughtering that 

 lias existed in Northern Wisconsin for years past.— D. 



HoLi.trewsr.uuG, Pa., Aug. 18.— Quail promise to be 

 more plentiful this fall than they have been since the terrible 

 winter of '80-81, which almost, exterminated them. Wood- 

 cock, although not so numerous as during the season of 

 1881, are. nevertheless, much pli utter than last summer, and 

 are also so scattered throughout the country that from six to 

 ten birds constitute a day's bag for two "guns. However. 

 •with good dogs there is no great difficulty in repeating the 

 process often. — X. 



QUAIL IN Ohio, — Cincinnati, August, 1883.— Our last 

 Legislature amended the law so as to give us the right to 

 shoot qu.ii! in this Slate during November of this year only. 

 I volunteer this advice for the benefit of non-resident shoot- 

 ers who expect to visit the State for Ihe purpose of hunting 

 quail. There is a. fine prospect for fall sport, the number of 

 young birds I have seen being unusually large,— P. 



NEW Brunswick.— It is stated thai large numbers of car- 

 ibou are to be found in the vicinity of New Brunswick, 

 between Alexandre and Campbillton." Riviere du Loup is 

 recommended as a center, from which desirable shooting 

 grounds are accessible. At Lake Ternisconata, thirty-eight 

 miles from Riviere du Loup, fish and game abound. Ruffed 

 grouse are plenty in the vicinity. 



Dutchess Couxty woodcock are said to be few and far 

 between. The muddle in that county over the August-pro- 

 hibiting law hitf been settled by some of the shooters, at 

 least to their own satisfaction. They go after the birds and 

 shoot if they Hud any. 



Outakio. — Belleville.— Ducks were very scarce on the 

 15th. Some of the local sportsmen got none, while bags of 

 from one to tour were the order of the day. One unfortu- 

 nate lost his gun off Massassaga Point by the upsetting of a 

 sailing punt, 



(JONKECTIbDT. — llakerville. — Quail havebeen bred here ii 

 great numbers. — A. .1. J. 



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"That reminds me." 



IIP correspondent, "Antler," who is oneof the.veterans, 

 once wrote of the wolf's "blood-curdling howd :" "The 

 dismal hoyvl of the wolf is what we often see written and 

 often hear quoted; but 1 contend that there is nothing dis- 

 mal about it. I would be willing to travel some distance to 

 hear a concert gotten up by a half dozen wolves. Not that. 

 I claim any very sweet melody for the sounds, except that 

 they would bring back to my memory pleasant reminiscences 

 of other days." In pleasantly commenting upon thePoREST 

 and Stream's decennial, "Antler" writes: "Years ago when 

 I first saw your title page, I could almost fancy a resinous 

 odor of hemlock and sp'tice; thoughts of choice steaks, 

 venison soups, speckled trouts fried just, brown and crispy, 

 all floated back on memory with a vividness which seemed 

 pleasant to dwell upon. There are some who do not seem 

 to comprehend Forest ani> Stream, and there are also 

 many wdio cannot appreciate music. [ remember the man 

 who thought to entertain a visitor in the best possible man- 

 ner by sending out the hired man with his foxhounds. It 

 was a clear, crisp, fiosty morning, and while every dog was 

 giving tongue he called* up his friend to hear the music. 

 After listening some time, the visitor said he could hear no 

 music nor anything else as long as them blasted hounds kept 

 up such a horrid noise." 



P., a staid, pious and practical minister of the gospel, with 

 none of the sportsman in his soul, had an engagement to 

 lecture in a neighboring village. S., a brother minister 

 with team and gun, engaged to take him to the appointment. 

 On the way a well-directed shot at a flushed bevy of quail 

 brought three to bag. Said P., with a, sorrowful look, "I 

 had hoped you would miss them and they would get away." 

 Arrived at the hotel they were given to the cook with "the 

 request that they be served at a separate table for the land- 

 lord, wife and S. On the way home, P. remarked, with an 

 air of disappointment, "I saw' nothing of the quail. What 

 became of them?" "0,"said S., they got away, but you 

 were the one that missed them." K. 



Iowa. 



|i»3 und ffiver fishing. 



ANOLING RESORTS. — We shall he glad to have for publi- 

 cation notes of (load fishing localities. Will not our corre- 

 spondents favor us with notes of desirable points for anglinri 



,:- prmiip: o'/i'uiVoi. t,s,,i it: id< >. -oi.tr a; >/',■, Wo I,.- m! - 

 Ihe Fnrrst and Stream Publishing Co., and not to 

 Is, in whose absence from Ihe office matters ofim- 

 ure liable to dehuj. 



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ROCHESTER ANGLING CHAT, 



THE summer days are going quickly, and as they vanish 

 there reappear, on the streets the bronzed face's of the 

 anglers who have been taking new leases of life amidst 

 forest and stream. Their stories of adventure on Hood and 

 field are already taxing the credulity of friends and furnish- 

 ing new evidence to the skeptical that all men arc liars. 

 There is so little faith entertained by the "general public" 

 in the narratives of fishermen that if they yvere the only 

 ones to read notes about rod and line it yvould be a waste of 

 time to tell even the most common fact in the experience, of 

 an angler. But as your readers understand that, what to 

 the uninitiated in the joys of angling may seem untrue or a 

 gross exaggeration, is a downright fact, and worthy of full 

 credence, I venture to repeat a few of the tales told by 

 recently returned visitors to the haunts of game fish. 



County Clerk McNaughton and his party, made up of 

 editors, lawyers, doctors in medicine, and, if 1 do not mis- 

 take, doctors in divinity, with representatives of a few other 

 occupations, aie back several days from an excursion to the 

 wilds of Canada, back: of Toronto, in which all the sport 

 that, experience in the woods and a complete outfit, for oatnp 

 ing can confer, was enjoyed in a region well stocked with 

 fur, tin and feather. Another industrious county official 

 snatched a few days from business to east his tines in p 

 ant places in the Upper Genesee, with which he has 

 been familiar. He has just got back to 

 announces that a change is taking place 

 the fi.-h in the river. In three or foil 

 caught scarcely any bass, but took mi 

 and pickerel of large size. He tear 

 pickerel will kill off the famous black bass which formerly 

 gave such sport to the rod fishermen of this river. Anglers 

 for bass at the Lower Falls have noticed this year an extra- 

 ordinary number of eels in the basin, and attribute their 

 presence lo the glare of electric lights which illuminate the 

 gorge nightly, the electric light company having its machin- 

 ery on the bank overhanging the river at this point. The 

 men who fish for bass use strong objurgatory expressions 

 against the eels for taking hooks designed for nobler game. 



The Georgian Bay Club, of this city, came home a few 

 days ago from the waters whence they get their name, and 

 every man of them feels great mental activity from the phos- 

 phorescent food Ihev have been drawing from the crystal 

 watew of the bay. ' The two smallest men of the club had 

 the satisfaction of catching the largest fish— a thirty pound 

 muscalongt — and they do not. hesitate to say that alter they 

 had him subdued I hey felt safer than when his savage-look- 

 ing head first emerged from the \ 



yesterday the writer and two friends took advantage of 

 those "resources of civilization," the street car, locomotive 

 and rowhoat, to reach a rather pleasant place to- pass an 

 afternoon at the end of a fishing rod. We left the center of 

 the city at 1 :30 and by 3 o'clock were about ten miles away 

 on Lake Ontario, east of Irondequoit Bay, in the vicinity of 

 i'ier.rs I'oint. The shore of the lake is here rocky, and 

 when i la- wind is favorable good black bass fishing can be 

 had. Tin- conditions were not at their best for a mere 

 numerical catch of Hah, but we look a fair number, includ- 

 ing some very large peroii, and enjoyed the nlteruoon to the 

 utmost. The sky was clear, a pleasant breeze moved the 

 lake 



"In full but calm emotion, 



Like ihe swell of summer's ocean." 



A wuodehuek gazed at us from a bluff on the water's 

 edge, and two large blue herons flew lazily along the bench, 

 or stood sentinel at points where a small fish might be ex- i 

 I pected. At sundown the scene was one not soon to be for- 1 



gotten. At that point of the horizon where it seemed to 

 sink, a low stretch of land runs out, into the lake, and as it 

 is about twenty miles from where we were anchored, the 

 land could barely be discerned. When the lower edg'- 

 of the luminary reached the horizon, the disc .-.eemed to lose 

 its circular form, and Sol bulged into an oblong, as though 

 he were made of jelly, and was resting on a solid. Al this 

 time four large spots were distintly visible on the 

 sun's face, hut whether they were ordinary cloud*, or those 

 spots on the sun which so much interest astronomers. 1 can 

 not tell. There was not, nor had there been, anything of a 

 liquid form on the boat of a spirituous nature.'but we felt 

 rather romantic at the close of the day, and entered fully 

 into the spirit of the bard who snug: 



"Hon- dear to me the hour when daylight dies, 



And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, 

 For then sweet dreams of other (Jay arise 



And memory breathes her ve=per sigh to the". 



"And as I watch the line of light that plays 

 Atom; the smooth wave tow'rd tho burning wast, 



I long to t.-ead that golden path of rays. 

 And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest." 



The Bay Railroad is not exactly a "golden path 61 rays ' 

 to the passenger (howe'er it be to the stockholders ,. bul h 

 was the way we had to reach our respective "isles of rest." 

 and we reached there without noteworthy incident. 



Messrs. Charles H.Angell, \V. II. R'eid, Jamps C Hail 

 and James B. Chamberlain came home last night from the 

 Nepigon River and brought twenty-two trout, each weigh- 

 ing tiom foiu- to six pounds, caught by them with rod and 

 liiie in that famed stream. They were of the genuine brook 

 variety, differing only in size, as far as I could see. from ihe 



"Swift trouts diversified with crimson stains" 

 found in nearly all cold brooks throughout the temperate 

 zone. The fish had been preserved in anew compound, 

 said to be the invention or discovery of a Rochester man, 

 and were as fresh as if only an hour out of their native 

 water. The party caught several hundred weight, and re 

 turned to the river many which they could not use. That 

 unsurpassed artist, Robert Tangncuy, of this city, made the 

 flies and leaders on which these great fish were' laken, and 

 that may account for their size. E. R, 



Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 16. 1583. 



DETROIT NOTES. 



THE black bass at the St, Clair Flats have rot been biting 

 very well for the past few r weeks, in part owing to (he 

 June flies, and again to the small herrings that are running 

 the channels, and upon which the bass p rC y voraciously. 

 However, fair strings are reported from day to day, and til 

 least a few can always be taken by a good fisherman who 

 knows where to try.' 



The steam yacht Sigma, owned by M. S. Smith. Esq., is 

 completed. She cost, about $60,000, and is elegantly 

 finished and very roomy, being 156 feet over all. Many ele- 

 gant articles about his boat, attest the esteem in which her 

 owner is held in by numerous friends. 1 noticed that the 

 rich set of china came from Mr. Smith's partner. General 

 Alger; the cannon was presented by Mr. C. H. Hud; the 

 officers of the Lake St. Clair Forcsl and Stream Club ale 

 credited with a fine brass binnacle and compass. All in all 

 these little marks of kind feeling must he very gratih ing lo 

 the owner. The Sigma is the first venture of the kind by 

 Michigan builders, and it was Mr. Smith's idea to have her 

 built by Michigan men, and she is all right, all through, and 

 is probably the fastest steam yacht, afloat on the lakes to-day. 

 Hon. Andrew Jackson, of Saull St.e. Marie, is in town .and 

 recounts in a manner that makes the hearer's mouth Witter, 

 a ten days' trip just finished in a large sailboat, loihe north- 

 em shore of Lake Superior. Four persons, including two 

 guides, started from the Sault fully equipped, nni i, . i i 

 a ten days' supply of ice. They brought home over n 

 handled brook trout, each one over two pounds in 

 and Mr. Jackson lold me that in going up one stream within 

 one hundred yards of the mouth he. caught with ii 

 wall-eyed pik'e, brook trout, and bhiek bass. Ihe buss being 

 taken but of the very same hole that the trout, were in and 

 the bass took the fly" fiercely. The fact, of their being mixed 

 up together in the same waters surprised me. Is it' not ue 

 common to hook trout and black bass indiscriminately? It 

 certainly lias never been my good luck to do it. What a 

 sandwich. DKLTA. 



Detroit, Mich., Aim. in. 



BLACK BASS FISHING ON THE CASTOR. 



UQ TOP right here," said I to the driver or our hack, a- 

 kT we drove on the bridge . spanning the Castor Bayou 

 Catahoula Parish, La. It was lime to cook and sat our 

 mid-day lunch— anil most opportunely had we arrived ai 

 this celebrated fishing stream — the first lime that it So hap- 

 pened for us to stop at noon on a bayou suitable for Citfcbiujj 

 lish. When the hack mounted the bridge, 1 bad noted a 

 drift against a log spanning the bayou not fifty yards above 

 the bridge, and 1 felt confident there was a huge "Iront.'' 

 or black bass, wailing to seize ray troll. 



Prof. Thatcher, my traveling companion, did not care to 

 lish and lie and the driver proceeded lo prepare dinner ti 

 lew steps beyond the bridge, under a wide-spreading be.eh 

 that yvould have made old Virgil's eyes gleam with delight. 

 1 cut a suitable cane-pole and rigged my line. Walking out 

 on the log I Jiave mentioned, I cast the troll below it. ami 

 drew it several times without success. TkrdwUig it above. 

 and trolling gvutlv neat the edge of the drift, 1 

 felt a strike thai thrilled nie all over. Oh, he v. 

 huge feliow! All three of the silver steel hooks had 

 fastened to his wide mouth, and he darted up stream 

 with the speed of Maud S. There were no In- . anags 

 nor brush iu the way, and I let out the line for some bun 

 dred or more feet, and the reel flew round like the revolu- 

 tions of a fan in a foundry. I gradually got olf the log on 

 which I was standing, and walked several yard" almm the 

 hank, so that 1 could have sufficient play for him. and when 

 reeled back so as not to get under the drift and flu ids lose 

 him. I uever saw a bass tight nobler for his life, and it re- 

 quired all the strength and skill I possessed with qui arm to 

 weary him down. 1 guess a one-armed angler never bad 

 more' pleasure and more difficulty in getting a live pound 

 bass to shore. 1 had no fears of ids being able to bieak m y 

 line. but. 1 trembled lest some move on my part would slacken 

 it so that the hooks would break otn. Gradually reelinj 

 him in, 1 kept grasping the pole and extending it bate of 

 me, until T could catch hold of the line, and then I pulled 



