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FOREST AND STREAM. 



- I H 8fJ, 1883. 



Ttm Pond, Aug. 18.— T came to Ml. Vernon, Maine, the 

 2d iust. After spending more than a week there, I came to 

 this popular resort, l limi a good number of guest- here- 

 some familiar faces and soma 1 have never seen. Some are 

 here for sport, some for health ar.d pleasure, and 

 some for health alone. I,asl Thursday evening I 

 wet my silk braid for the first time. Simon is with me, 

 as lie lias been for the lasl three years, and is as full of fun 

 as ever, nut to say enthusiasm for troutrng. We wore in the 

 boat for an hour, and returned wilhaboul live pom da, Tin- 

 OCX! morning, alter the liveliest sport, we returned v. ilh a fair 

 string, and that evening we brought to our cabin thirty-six 

 charming crimson flecked beauties, which have just been 



able. 



. Ne 



id bee 



ntly : 



irk 



ml Have* of the 



ivnile other- 

 er better. 1 



rded iu 



■em spellboi 



s (old the a 



iches 



tin 



; his 



inch 



i Rclga: 



thing 



most invitingly 



from Boston li.i- been m< 



proportion. Parlies froi 



sport and in praise of Up 



and the scenery which surrollnt 



men remain only a short lime, 



for months. Tbefishing was ne' 



is inn- of tin Seven Ponds, bill 



and there is all here that heart and appe 



I shall not visit the other ponds this ti 



for luffed grouse is a3Sured. Aeeomnn 



improved the last two years All br 



systematized. [\eimedy Smith over- 



brother David has charge at the farm boils 



attends to the brigade of hucUboard wagons. 



move without friction, and to the comfort and 



the guests. On my way home I intend to again "stop at Ml. 



Vernon. It is aprettv village surround. -.i 'by n number of 



ponds, and has one small hotel. About three miles distant 



is Long Pond, a very large one and well stos ked with liaafi 



and \\ hile perch ]' had ran) sport with Ihem one day, and 



1 intend to have more. Board ran be hail with farmers ill 



the vicinity or al the village, llo.ts arc not yet so plenty as 



they should be. When the merits of said pond ate well 



known, I predict it will bi much veiled; its waters arc very 



clear, and the bass of best flavor Pickerel are plenty in ail 



of the ponds Of thai region. It was here, when a' boy, I 



caught my first fish.— J. W. T. 



The Inflvkncic ok Nets.— The cry against the netiings 

 of iish on the coast of one Slate by ihe citizens of another is 

 not new. Neither is (In- partial disappearance of certain 

 fishes for a season or two at all novel. We take the Follow- 

 ing item which sustains our remarks, from the" Nantucket 

 Mirror Ot August 18, 1805: ••Considerable indignation seems 

 to be felt by our fishermen, that vessels from abroad should 

 be allowed to come into our waters and spoil the blue fishing, 

 by seining the lish. We are informed that a number of 

 sirauger vessels have been iu Madaket harbor— flryl may 

 be there now— and their seines have been stretched from that 

 part of TtickcrniieU known as. Broolsa* Lauding, to Hie shoal 

 wnier a mile and a hall below Eel Point, thus slopping 

 every fish from going into Hie harboi. and also destroying 

 and breaking up the fishery . It there is no law thai reaches 

 this p.uiicuiai ease, ane shculd be enactidforwitb. The 

 fishermen also slate that there is not the least doubt bill bass 

 arc regularly seined on the Island of Muskegel. 

 clear infringement of the fishery law. and the oil. 

 only to be c-aughl in Ihe act. to" lie made to suff. 

 Only nine bass, we Irani, have been lakeii by 

 season, when hundreds, are generally In ought i 

 maiieis should be looked to; our peop.c should guard Ihei 

 flSbipg rights With tlie most Jealous i are, and see lo it that 



This is a 



dcr.- have 



h. 



ibey are uot trampled upon with iin| 

 Edgarlown have put a stop lo .-ucl 

 waters, and our lishermen must ket 

 tiny would get rid of such troubleso 



niiy. The people of 



ll.i 



sharp 

 isitois 



He 



ok out, if 



Black Cass i.n this Sciiuyi.kii.i,.— Your correspondent 

 has just returned from a. bass fishing trip lo the Porkibmcrj 

 Creek, Pa. This stream runs into the Schuylkill kiver a 

 mile or so above Valley Forge, and is- a fair ground for paag. 

 I found loday that Ihe fly would not OUtiCe his lordship to 

 the surface of the « at< r, slild contented myst ff with luring 

 him with both crawfish anil minnow bjiit. In June quite 



good flvfishing can be had in the Pi 

 the first utiles— both Mr. Cresson of N 



i al the 



yearly li>h these 

 sful. Th 



ii-hi 



:hin I s 



id a si 



tithe I: 



foot of 

 rristown. and Dr. 

 ivill waters wilh 

 lish I look to-day 

 nd gamy on a ten- 

 ikiil bas'been quite 

 lless continue to be so for the 

 thing ioda\ struck me quite 

 i fishing on my road toward 

 ig of sunlisli and black baps, 

 to six inches. Is ii legal to string 

 demonstrated, nevertheless, I hat the 

 black bass is increasing instead of decreasing iu the Schuyl- 

 kill Kiver. -Homo. [The law forbids killing of ' any black, 

 yellow or green bass less than six inches in length ."] 



Wis., Aiii-. 20.— 

 :le by "Pii-iin-hin- 

 dreanied of being 

 ioji Lakes and the 

 tgons with fi.-h wiih 



Gumbs of Peiki 

 fly. and 1 hear are qi 

 Were not large, but 

 ounce reel. The bus: 

 good this week, and 

 balance of the seas 

 favorably. liveiy in 

 the railroad station 1 

 the I i Her not over f 

 such small bass? It 



Fisiii.sc l.s Wisconsin. — Oconom 

 In voui paper of the Hiih lust, is an 

 sapa," (I rend it just before relirinj 

 scalped), iu which he speaks of the 

 farmers in ihe vicinity loading their 



pitchforks. I do not doubt the trullifuhi. ss of this fish 

 Story, as he vouches to]- il on his word as a man, not a fisher- 

 man. In fac.l 1 believe nearly every lish slory I hear nowa- 

 days. We have a liimarkahl'e fishing country here, but we 

 always lake them With rod and reel.' Wc have a very strin- 

 gent law against using pitchforks or spears of any kinds, or 

 nets. But il is not an uncommon thing for fishermen to go 

 out for a day's fish and bring in I weniy-five or fifty black 

 bass, weighing from three to eight pounds, and to hook on 

 lo a twenty -five of thirty pound pickerel that will low nis 

 boat home for him. Ocouomowoc is located on the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee <S St. Paul Railroad, thirty I wo miles northwest 

 of Milwaukee, and is without any exception the be.- 1 fishing 

 and bunting roori in the North-wee! By the way. do you 

 think tho-. tuo fioin -mills on Ihe oullei of ihe' Ofcoboji 

 Lakes could he bought at a reasonable price:- ,1. (,'. II. 



(_ii r,i- UNATOiiiAt, Tttofr. — Hon. drover A. Cleveland, 

 Governor of .N'ew fork, ha. been the guest of tbe Bisby Club, 

 or which (Jen. H. U, Scerman, of thc.N. V. Fish t'.nimi-- 

 .sion, is President. The club has ciilen.-ivc grounds on the 

 Adirondack lake or that name, and the Governor is reported 

 as having enjoyed the t.ip and to have taken a good shore 

 of trout. Lbs visit to the Adiroud.tcks is partly to investi- 

 gate ihe character of Ihe lamls belonging to the Slate, and 

 to form an idea <A tin. extent lo which the forests need pro- 

 K;etiou 



Minnows.— Our Ohio correspondent "Splasher" sends us 

 -pern. icns of two species of minnows, which are favorite 

 bait for black bass in Ohio. These fishes belong in the 

 great family CypTwitda, all of which make good bails and 

 are distinguished by ihoir soil-raved fins and usually small 

 5WeS OnB, ihe -'Mack-nosed dace," RMnichtkyx atrotuttu* 

 does uot exceed two and a halt inches in length, and is d 



tinguished by the bl 



and around the nose 

 or during the brecdii 

 grows a trifle larger. 

 ayioffnaOnts nvchnU, 



bait is the 



k line which extends along the sides 

 This line is nn orange red in summer, 

 season. The other fish is silvery, and 

 It may he called the. silver minnow, 

 One point in the value of species for 

 ty of life on a hook. We have found 



small suckers to stand this test as well as any fish. 



K;l 



Gri'.hiiNM-iuNAi. Pickerel— Ex-Governor St, John, of 



their 



boy I 



went trolling for pickerel at Silver lake, N. Y. 

 fcher day. but talked With a companion constantly until 

 return to the shore. He wa«i leaving the Lake when a 

 aid: "Look a here. .Mister Man, there's a pickerel on 

 line ye forgot lo pull iu." The pickerel weighed four 

 pounds. 



Bass at Xiao uia — New Vork. Aug. 22.— Reports from 

 Niagara, Out,, state the black bass fishing there is the best 

 they leve had in years, and fish running large. One laken 

 ■i few day- since weighed G lbs. 11 oz. forty minutes after 

 h'-ing killed. Gtoofi fishing with the fly may be had about 

 Sept, 1 loi- while bafia, al this point, — NIAGARA. 



GLOBE or tiik Tuorr Si-:\son.— The law in most States 

 closes the si ason for fcrovtl ou Sept, 1 We have a printed 

 notice from Mr W. F. Whiteher, Commissioner of Fisher- 

 ies lor ihe Province of Ontario, that the season closes in the 

 Province on Sept. 15, and that the law will be rigidly en- 

 forced. 



Lake Si l'Kitioit— A jolly party of fifty Pittsburgh gen- 

 tlemen, members oi the Hod and Gun Club, passed through 

 Detroit a few days since bound for Like Superior. I hope 

 that we shall see an account of their catch in Fobest and 

 Stkkam. — Delta. 



tgislfcultnre. 



POUND NETS AND SEINES. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your issue of August !) I notice a reported interview 

 with Mr. Howell of Toledo, in regard to tbe 'deadly seine" 

 destroying millions of fish eggs on the spawning grounds. My 

 opinion is that one string of pound nets destroys more fish, 

 when thev come to the age of one year old. than all the seines 

 For the last fourteen years I have 

 handled fish and eggs from the waters of the far-famed Sag- 

 guinav, on the St. Lawrence, and the whole chain of Ink. 



The spawn was taken from tbe adults bv a method origi- 

 nally devised by Mr. ftvder, and already described in various 



published reports and papers, After th 

 was allowed to stand in pails with an aliunde 

 water for a period of three to live, houi-s, so as tc 

 ter eggs a chance to develop to the swimming i 



was then poured into the pond orinelos ai ■ 



to insure its effectual distribution throu Ii the w 

 were then driven iuto the bottom of the pond. t.. .. 

 oyster shells were suspended on wire; the stakes put down at 

 different dates being marked so as to distinguish them apart. 

 The suspended oyster shells were introduced so as to afford the 

 young fry clean surfaces to which they could fix themselves. 

 The first spawn and shell collectors were put into the nond 

 July 7, and some of the shells were found bv Mr. Pierce, on 

 Aug. -'•> just past, to have spat attached ranging trom a fourth 

 to three-fourths of an inch iu diameter. Some samples of 

 these youug oysters are now in Mr. Ryder's possession, prov- 

 that oysters may be retired in inclosed ponds 

 cribed, in which it has also been found that 



taken it 



Jt clean 

 the oys 

 ion. i: 

 is points 

 Stakes 

 :h dead 



ing .„„ 

 such as t 

 the natu 

 This e: 

 doubt th 



methods are likewise so simple that tl 

 hands of unskilled persons. A lull des 

 pursued will shortly be published in t 

 Fish Commission. 



;ed in vast quantity, 

 •d as to preclude any 

 irived fiom any source 

 tilized and introduced 

 most important step 

 n oyster culture. The 

 dv are available in the 

 ription of the methods 

 e Reports of the U. S. 



THE IOWA COMMISSION.— We have the fourth biennial 

 report of the Fish Commissjbn of Iowa, for the yeors 1879-80, 



and 1880—81. A branch hatcbe. . . 

 Spirit Lake, in Dickenson count v". and so muc 

 occupied the fall of I $80 that it was impossible ti 

 important work of saving from destruction tl 

 young native tish which annually get into 

 along the Mississippi and die when the siimmei 

 the waters. Tin; work of saving the lish and i 

 in suitable waters was begun in 1-STli and has bt 

 most important works of the Commission, 

 labor was rendered unnecessary bv 



.the 



ate: 



5 of Lake 



id 11.": 



ght 



- lo 



or. and I ha 



lvo been in trap-net 



high as one ton of 

 g, taken from seven 



getting a mere pit- 

 le people say that all 



not amount to any- 



i this last spring it 

 J-year-old 

 ants after 



icts. and the lishi 

 for them. Yet you will hear s 

 the lish that are hatched artificially i 

 thing. 



I know of a certain bay that a year 

 n.- -aid by the fishermen" that lad'tons of these 

 lish were caught, and if this is not murdering the 

 they leave the cradle, I do not know what is. 



Like Mr. Howell, I fear no man on this question, and any 

 one that doubts mv word, and will kindly take a trip with 

 t May. can see it. Whon 1 think of the number of 

 pound nets sot at the present time, and of the number set eight- 

 's ago, I find them now double. These nets are set out 

 from i hree to six miles, as far as the eye can see. 1 heard a 

 fisherman say this spring that next season he would have 

 f. nrtee n nets in a string: When his neighbor heard of it he 



Bald: -Wei 

 have to go oi 

 his neighbor 

 no more of s 

 of wafer tha 

 five feet of > 

 My opinio: 





ing Un- 

 forced. 



ft the making o; laws, regulating 

 not properly belong to Congress, 

 Fishery Commissions of the Stat 

 Lakes meet in convention at som 

 this great question, and agree oi 

 when their different Legislati 



oes outside to cut off 



;o it is with all the 



ne more net than he has. They think 



kes and setting their nets iu ninety feet 



I a tew yea re ago of setting iu tw ; ent.y- 



liere ought not to be allowed to be set, 

 mid net wilh the mesh less than four 

 knot in the pot, which would allow 

 •ough. The different States bordering 

 e spending thousands oi dollars in the 

 oi i.-h. and why not make laws regulat- 

 in pound nets, and see (hat I hey are en- 



tile fishing interests, does 

 why cannot the. ilill'civnt 

 s bordering on the Great 

 j central place and di-cuss 

 . some uniform taw, and 

 have it become law 



and placed upon their statutes; l kuow th 

 this State would be the first to respond to any action pro- 

 posed by any other State 



Jas. NiiviN, Supt. Fish Commission. 

 Mauison, Wis. 



THE OYSTER PROBLEM SOLVED. 



ME. J. A. RYDER 

 Commission, 

 the American ovst 

 county, Md.,on tin 

 pony, during the 

 Geo. V shepard, o 

 ties at the disposal 

 and afterward eo 

 toon. 

 The apparatus wi 



eeial assistant of the U. S. I 



ces that he has successfully rea 



the egg at Stockton, Worce: 



s of the Eastern Shore Oyster & 

 inner, Messrs. H. H. fierce I 

 >ove linn. Uindlv placing all fai 



water which allowed the fish to escape into the. 

 fish heretofore saved in this way number nearlv 

 and had of course passed the critical stage of bab 

 work of propagation has been successful and sev 

 which neve, before had a trout in them are noi 

 brooks. Black bass, striped bass, wall-eved pil 



sunfish, channel catfish Is. buffalo, and' other 



been taken in lakes, rivers and ponds where nous 

 were ever known before they were planted, and t 

 line fishing has been gcnei-allv improved in 

 water by the work of planting fiBh. During tl 

 66,000 fry of the land-loekcd salmon have b, , -i, dli 

 theroaro hopes of their thriving iu theolearee 

 Iowa. Lake trout, brook trout and carp lia\ 

 planted in considerable numbers. The bshwav 

 argued at length and Commissioner Shaw is of 

 that it is useless to put a flshway in a sin: 

 and that thev should be put iu all, or l 

 contains tjbe report of Mr. A. A. Mosher. tl 

 sioner, in charge of the hatchery at Sr. 



■stablished at 

 h other work 

 p attend to the 

 e millions of 

 the sloughs 

 droughts dry 

 lanling them 

 en one of the 

 In 1881 this 

 intinued high 

 river. The. 

 ive millions 

 rliood. The 

 ral streams 

 ■ good trout 

 e. crappieSj 

 ipecies" havo 

 of the kind 

 le book and 

 the inland 

 e two yeara 

 nbuted and 

 I waters of 

 been 



i s i ii 



i is 



opinion 



e dam of .a series 



ii-. An appendix 



\ ■■: -i -.lit, Comuiis- 



t Lake. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Fyssheand Fyssiiynk -The (realise of FygshneiYittKUl Ahgletfroftl 

 the liokeof .Sr. Ailum's. IS. LHm- .bileuei llei/ier-. A.IMIOll, edited 

 hy George W. Vun Kielen. price Sl.UO. For sale ev tbi I op m .n.-l 

 Kireiun PiihlisliiiiKl.r.iini.aiiv. 



caught 



s. A, .a 



s to rind one or tn 

 Full purl ienl.ii->.-! 

 W II oi.MCUN.c 



ip'ies in New Mexico, uear 

 g, linemen uiui oapital to 



oe hii I nv .m]...iiitiag an 

 e IS, 11. Madison, 564 Fulton 



it in.— Yo 



s Kespe 



i'k Journal, the Fobbst and Stkeaai. pu'i- 

 ■inpl.-ied its leal h venr. We lake pleasure 



III LMIIIIIIUIIUIIIK l"« IMIKEST AND STREAM 10 all sp.irl-li.eli. as 11 is 



iHlile.1 ivirh ability ill all in, iiepartiiii'iits, mul every week cnuiuuis 

 more ei-l.s, innlter t-liiit will iutcnvl and In-lruel all win. at-,- r<u.i| 

 of the rod, gnu and dog. Fur Hint matter, its columns contain pleas- 

 ant reading for all Classes o: ]»•. pie. Sacramento Bee, .i»i/. r-.m. 



Foal 



J Str . 



■■'. t.l 



, kc 



•ps up 



its well 



lll.lt... 



must 1..- 



.11 til. 



m> ealle.l 



•ho Crt 



■ r to tile 



•■ lll.il 



BS et the 



ior of the woods auil fields. — JHghtstown 'A. ./.» 



1,1888, 



einher with what pl--a- 



; the 



■ for ( 

 expert 



nts under his dir 



•oul.i possibly be de- 

 perfectly aubomatu 



th. 



.-.it. i 



bill : 



l lo 

 slowly thr. 



found not to be a.- 

 was sufficient, as th 

 ranged constituted 

 be called such, desi 

 spawn. 



•o with the latt. 

 long, two feet wide and three feet 

 as let into the pond a wooden dia- 

 ateil boards lined wiii. :_'iinny eloth 

 i sand, was placed iu the ditch and 

 u. ■ water could get into tho pond 

 t sneh as altered through this diaphragm. 

 of tho tide alone was depended upon to 

 n the pond, and it was toiiud to rise and 

 inches during every tide, ebbing and flow- 

 the diaphragm. The rise and fall Was 

 ; m'.at in the pond as in the open bay, but 



the whole of the apparatus, if it could 

 hue ihe artificially fertilized 



read the lirxt number 

 tag an. i popular jour- 



..,.,•■-..(. puDushcdni .V -. Vork. H 



\el BUOh IS Ihe ftjCt, for tACdty hig 



L'luli I paper now occupy a ai.-he in 



i lu-.lel ke :l -I •" ens I ii.1i-.Ii |.iipers 

 •I.-I..U.-.1. x. all. net:' -....:■! : : 



Th year.'ni propmtely .i, -'.',■'.'. n,e 



s new. the In k; fxp.ineul of country 

 ■tieal uatim.i I -i-i...; . in m 



lie- loading on 

 irs in sto. k in 

 iiaiiiifaeture ( 



121 l.-u viae lia^ 



-el .-. ami a keen 

 .an . ii.-y used to 



i ti;i,-pi i '..-i J i !■'..: 



siraKAM, give udded interest to the ulunbei ■'.'..(. .."< 



