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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ne-half nl which pu politely .surrendered to a 

 wry pretty young lady, but just He he had got his mouth 

 fixed for com. i scat on the other side 



of the- cat and Mr. .Tatneu was lcfl alone in hie glocy. He 

 jWeaTs that next time he takes the Moose River trip he will 

 i change of clothes sent by express to the Jit. Kine.0 

 Rouse. 



At 3 V. M. we reached Yarmouth. Junction, Just in time 

 to catch the G. T. R. train, and at miduigW arrived al Slier 

 brookc. Since our return Mr. E. 0. Hale lias made a trip to 

 Boa Brook, where he shrU two caribou. Next year the rail- 

 way will be opened lo the head of Moose River, when we 

 hope 1.0 take the same trip, and have more time lo devote to 

 trout fishing. We I eel (bat no part of Northern Maine can 

 afford belter sport. D. Thom vs, 



Shkbiikooice, CJufcbei ::■. - tN8 



THE NATIONAL ROD AND REEL ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



A MEETING Of the Association was Uflld al Mr. Black- 

 bird'.. FaltOH Market. Sew fork, on Tuesday. Nov. 

 13, at 3 P. M. The- secretary announced that the receipts of 

 the tournament from memberships, entry fees, gift from the 

 Southsidc Sportsmen's Club, stiles of programmes nud adver- 

 tising, were $2tK),30. The expenses for tnedals, badges. 



carpenter work, boats, etc., were $*<220.04, leaving :i 



remainder inbis. hands of sWil.C'n. lie was of the opinion 

 Unit this, With what the treasurer now held. Would make a 

 fail' showing al the Had of flic first year of the existence of 

 tin Association. 



The eouuniltec appointed lo investigate I be desirability of 

 adopl'mg a standard size for I eel-plates reported progress. 

 Air Vaflofton, of this cdmnrittee, had written the following 



letter and mailed if to twenty-two manufacturers of rods 



and reels: 



New York. Nov. 6, IfflS. 



Hear Silt— As one .,!' th.- committee appoint,-..! hy the National Hod 



and Heel Association In report for their consideration and adoption 



a staudarrl lei reel-pL-in- a nil i-ei-l-se.es, I respectfully request yon 



lo f,-,T..r mo win i sin supgeslioiis touching the same, aim 1 trust tlte 



stripe,,; bass, also for black tas and trout, t-he len'gln of Ibe reel- 

 jilate. and also the proper size of the are. Verv Respectfully. 



James L. Vau.ottoi,. 



Seven bad responded SO far, and all expressed sympathy 

 Willi the object, and a desire to conform to the standard i'f 

 one was adopted. The recommendations of five who offered 

 Ibeui were: Trout, and lilack baSS reel -plates; length of reel- 

 plate, :■', 2-1-, 3J, SJ, Sf width if reel plate, 9rV, % \\ b 

 ,'■'„ : diameter of circle, . j | ,; I;. Only twogave thick- 

 no--- of plate, one suggest i.d :i thieliucss of .'.. al the ends and 

 In the middle, and the other the thickness of No. If. sheet 

 metal " In -'almon and striped bass reel-plates the following 



were suggested; length, -i], %;.. bi ; width, \}„ t, ;:,;diame- 

 ler. i inch, 1-, 1 ,:, 1 inch, thickness, ..':,- al, ends, and At in 

 middle, "No, fl or ifl metal American standard." The 

 mat n r was referred back to the committee. 



NETTING IN GREENWOOD LAKE. 



r IMfE trial of the four men who netted the black bass iu 

 1 Greenwood Lake for Mr. Silk to take to England, took 

 plane a( Goshen, N. V., before .Justice Wyker. The ease re- 

 sulted in the discharge of the prisoners, because of a lack of 

 proof that they had netted the fish, or, in fact, that Mr. Silk 

 had taken .any frill from the lake. The trial was a farce 

 throughout, The men who had lelegraphed Mr. Blackford 

 that base were being netted, knew nothing when called to 

 testify. Eight, or nine witnesses were sworn, all residents of 

 Greenwood Lake or vicinity, but the difference between 

 what they knew before the arrest of the men and wbaf they 

 fouud it convenieiil not to know when called to the 

 aland by the prosecution, was remarkable. Messrs. Ha/.en 

 and Degraw, who were among the tirst, to complain, knew 



o I other Witnesses knew less. Not one bad seen 



nets handled, nor knew of any black bass being sent away 

 from the lake! 



Tbe only witness who had seen a black bass taken iu a 

 net was a .Mrs. Garrison, who bad rowed a boat in which 

 one of the prisoners had been fishing "for bait" with a 

 mosquito net for several days. She saw one lilack bass taken, 

 "only a little one, as big as one's finger." No doubt site 

 would have told more "but for the looks and shakes of the 

 head which she was admonished with by the prisoners and 

 their friends, and which were not stopped by the court. 



Mai hew Kennedy, the game protector who made the ar- 

 rest) went on the stand and began to give Ids testimony, and 

 when he came to the point where he' related the admissions 

 of the prisoners (bat they had taken 1,000 blank bass in nets, 

 and Shipped them to New York in nine barrels, his evidence 

 was excluded because the parties were under arrest at the 

 time' Tin- jrtdge remarked that the atfair was more like an 

 investigation than a trial, and while Commissioner Blackford 

 had done all he could in the matter, there was really no evi- 

 dence to convict the prisoners. Mr. H. W. Naunv' the vol- 

 unteer counsel for the prosecution, could, do Mining in the 

 face of the dense ignorance assumed by the witnesses, 



There is no doubt Whatever that some person has com- 

 mitted perjury in his zeal to free these men who have clearly 

 Violated the law. In our opinion, it would be well for the 

 Greenwood Lake Association to supplement this irial with 

 an investigation to determine how far their steward, Mr. 

 Waterslone, was in league with Mr. Silk and the men who 

 used the nets We think that, this Association should fake 

 ttres to prevent a repetition of this outrage if they care 

 to keep the lake free from nets and to make it a resort, for 

 anglers. 



There is a mistaken notion concerning the duties of the 

 Fish Commissioners, in the State of New York. They are, 

 nol obliged to prosecute offenders against the laws, their 

 dudes are mainly in propagating fish, and llicv have never. 

 until this year, had anything to do with game and fish pro- 

 tection. Las! winter a law was passed directing that the 

 State game and risli protectors should report to thoTTsh Com- 

 missioners and be directed hy them. As 1 1 . ■ lel.-granisfrom 

 Ibe lake, which Complained of the netting, were all directed 

 !o Mr. Blackford, as Fish Coninii-sioiier, he look th; u itl 

 in hand and oulered Mr. Kennedy lo attend to it, and even 

 went up to the trial in person and" tried lo get the lull pen- 

 ally of thC law enforced. This, however, is not ibe business 

 of a Commissioner. 



No douht this trial will have a good effect on some ni Uu> 



resident- about the lake, and will make them more careful 

 in future. We are sorry that there was no conviction on ac- 

 count, of a sympathy of some of the witnesses with the 

 prisoners, which made them most conveniently ignorant. 



Nkttino its THE CKEMTOO.- Athens, Pa., Nov. 13.— I 

 notice in your last issue that "J. H. A." speaks of Alliens lis 

 a place wiiere parlies, earrv on the business of netting fish in 

 the Chemung River. Athens is at, the junction of the Che- 

 mung and Susquehauna rivers, but most of the netting has 

 been done iu the Susquehanna. I am glad that lie has 

 spoken, but he is too late. Last spring different parties be- 

 gan to draw semes. Tiny did it at night, and it. was not 

 generally known until one Sunday morning, when iu broad 

 daylight, and within sound of the church bells, a parly came 

 down" the Susquehanna River in a boat and drew a seine sev- 

 eral times in sight of a number of persons standing on the 

 bank. This excited our fishermen and citizens, the Pish Club 

 was reorganized, and they decided to put a slop to the 

 poaching. The river was then full of fyke nets, but, the 

 most of them were taken out by Ibe owners. A reward of 

 $26 was offered to any one who would give the proper in- 

 formation to the authorities which would lead lo the con- 

 viction of offenders; but no one would inform or prosecute. 

 Another party residing in town were drawing seines all the 

 time, and the club decided to arrest the principal ones There 

 were live witnesses, all of whom swore falsely, and not one 

 of them knew what a seine was when questioned, so the bold 

 fdshermeu were set free. This really put a stop to illegal 

 tishiug here, and the parly is now broken up. — \V. K. P, 



T envkssKE Fish Notes.— Nashville, Nov. 11. — 1 was 

 shown a beautiful fishing rod the other day winch was made 

 by Mr. Hen Allen, of this city, for his father (a noted angler). 

 The rod is made in part, of bamboo, the butt, being con- 

 structed of alternate strips of hickory and cherry, and the 

 tip of lancewood. The ferrules at the joints, line guides and 

 .swivel at the tip are exquisitely finished, and with the ex- 

 ceedingly neat wrappers between the joints, gives the whole 

 a very workmanlike finish. The most ingenious feature of 

 this handsome rod is in the butt; tiffs has been hollowed out 

 so as lo serve as a case for the more fragile middle and tip 

 pieces. Gen, Jt.i P. Jones and ('apt. James T. Bell went 

 down to Turnhuil Creek in Chatham county yesterday to 

 have a day's angling, The stream is partly preserved, and 

 consequently has a "great many tine fish in' it. There have 

 been unusually few fishing parties out this fall, though from 

 persons living cont ieuous to tbe, best fishing streams, f learn 

 that fish in abundance bii.vc been taken. It, is astonishing 

 the quantity of fish that is consumed in this market; Andy 

 Headers and John Hook sell them by the car loads, and still 

 the supply is not sufficient to meet the demand. — J. D. H. 



Florida. — Gulf Hammock, Levy County. — 1 write 

 from the Gulf Hammock House." The large-mouthed 

 black bass run lo a good size bore, but have not within 

 my knowledge been caught with a rod and line over 

 t»i pounds. "Now spearing may not be a veiy sports- 

 manlike way of securing fish, but is occasionally resorted to 

 here when the tish will not bite and some are wanted for 

 supply. A few days ago 1 speared with a gig a black bass 

 weighing over H.f pounds, which 1 think is something re- 

 markable for a small river. The fishing is good, though the 

 lowness of water and dry season makes navigation s. im-what 

 difficult Our colored hunter Albert brought in two bucks 

 to his own gun yesterday.— P. C. L. 



Bass Pi. iks .— Tbe plate of standard flies for black bass, 

 which has been so long in preparation by Mr. VV. Holbertou. 

 as a companion to his "Standard Trout 'Flies," has been pub- 

 lished. It. is Upon line, bristol board, and is not only a thing 

 of beauty, but also of "Teat value. The flies, forty' in num- 

 ber, are of lull size, and surround a picture of a black bass. 

 They are lithographed by Endicott & Co.. and are then col- 

 ored" by hand" by Mr. Holberton himself. The work is 

 liner than anything we have ever seen iu this line, and Ibe 

 plate one that deserves to be framed in every club house and 

 gent Icniii u 's I i bra ry. 



Piui.MiELPiiiA Noi'iis.— The Anglers' Association of 

 Eastern Pennsylvania met Nov. 16. The most prominent 

 question before* the meeting was the discussion as to the giv- 

 ing of a tisb dinner by tbe society. No decision was arrived 

 at, the matter being referred to a committee with power to 

 act. Au election was held for officers, the same hoard being 

 unanimously chosen by the society. — Homo. 



A t'HLiii. Insinuation. — The New fork lleivkl says that 

 according to Poukst and Stream Senator VT.st evidently 

 believes no one's lish stories but las Own. 



tgistfotUmt* 



THE LONDON AWARDS. 



IN regard to the high value placed on rigging, fishing pro- 

 ducts, etc., as compared with fisheulture and its appliances, 

 by the jury at the late International Fisheries Exhibition iu 

 London, to which we alluded when publishing the list of 

 American awards, a valued correspondent says: 



'T share your disappointment that our fishculturists did not 

 receive, more attention iu the way of awards at London, 

 though I am not at all surprised at it, since the English are not 

 nearly so much interested in fisheulture. nor, indeed, so well 

 informed on it, as the Germans were. English fisheulture, as 

 you well know, with the exception of the establishment of Sir 

 Ifames Maitland. is conducted on a very small scale indeed. 

 Their only fishery officer. Prof. Huxley, has no duties what- 

 ever in connection with fisheulture. Li "fact, there is no Gov- 

 ernmental fisheulture in the. country. 



"In consequence, of the very grout interest which the English 

 take in angling, fishing, boat's, and such matters as lite-saving, 

 their attention was concentrated more particularly on those 

 subjects. In the exhibition at Berlin, in 1880, the importance 

 of the fishculturul collection was rather exaggerated, when 

 the seope of the exhibition is taken into consideration, f n 

 London, on the other hand, fisheulture was quite as much un- 

 derrated.'' 



This, in our opinion, is a fair criticism on the awards aud 

 puts the ease fairly. By the time that England has another 

 such exhibition we trust that she will have thrown off the 

 lethargy that has enshrouded fisheulture in her borders aud be- 

 gun a system of replenishing the waters that has both Gov- 

 ernmental recognition and substantial backing. Why she has 

 delayed this bo long we are at a loss to know, and why Par- 

 liament pays no heed to the few earnest men who are preMing 



the question, as far as may lie in their power, seems still 

 stranger, as many of the Continental powers are doing some- 

 thing in this line. Certainly tew nations, are such consumers 

 of fish as Ureal Britain. We imagine that in England fisheul- 

 ture is looked upon as merely a, recreation for men of means, 

 instead of a matter of producing food for the people. 



HATCHING CODFISH. 



-ill 1 



I contain an account of the 

 ing experiments by the t". Si. 

 Mass., during the Winter of 

 ird requested Mr. Ralph S. 

 ire into the results, which he 



of the c 

 Fish Commission, at 

 1878-74). fu October 



Tarr. of the Commit 



thus gives to Forest a»D Stream: 



During the wiut.-r of ls;.s and loT'd, experiments were tor 

 the lii-st time made, at Gloucester, upon the hatching of cod 

 l.ftidiis mo, ■rhuu) hy artificial means. Many difficulties had 

 to be overcome, and innumerable minor points taken into 

 account. The egg- •■ boated. Then too. the hatchery was situ 

 ated in the harbor, where fifth of all kinds is thrown. On 

 either -ido ot the, wharf upon which the building was situated, 



Qsh ', -- re sat onenaadlieirentrailaaiidheadstnrowiiintotfie 



dock aud left to decav, while at other points in the harbor, 

 every kind of refuse was thrown. After many trials the diffi- 

 culty caused By the floating of the eggs was partially gotten 

 over. But, the serious objection, and the one which could 

 never be overcome at Gloucester, that of impure water, suc- 

 ceeded iu driving the Commission to another point. This 

 S'ace finally and permanently fixed upon is Wood's Holl, 

 ass,, where, in the course of two or three years, cod hatch- 

 ing will lie extensively carried on. The advantages which the 

 latter place possesses over the former are many and import- 

 ant. At Gloucester, the severe northeast winds bring in 

 quantities of sea weed and fine mud. and after one of 

 these storms, the water is in a muddy condition for several 



1 ys. At TV I's Holl the bottom is sandy and the particles 



stirred up bv the winds are so large that they can be easily 

 o ',: -:-,,:. which was not the case at Gloucester. In Wood's 

 Holl the currents are very strong, thus furnishing a constant, 

 supply of fresh water, while the tides are but two feet, which 

 is an advantage. At Gloucester, although the tides are eleven 

 feet, thus carrying a constant supply of water to and fro, still 

 an opposite effect is produced from that desired. The pure. 

 water is carried past the docks, picking up decaying matter as 

 it comes, aud the same when it returns, thus producing a con- 

 stant flow of impure water past, the hatching establishment. 



Another great difficulty is the extreme severity of the cli- 

 mate, for the harbor frequently freezes over, and at such 

 times the car containing the live fish had to be sunk to the 

 bottom. This difficulty wall not be encountered at the per- 

 manent station. The one great advantage which Gloucester 

 ssses over nearly every other place, is that the fish from 

 which to take the spawn can be so easily secured. Notwith- 

 standing these many disadvantages, one million aud a half 

 young cod were successfully hatched and placed alive in the. 

 clearer waters of Gloucester harbor, ft was not fully ex- 

 pected that many adult fish would be the result of this trial, 

 tor oven in the waters in which they were placed impurities of 

 all kinds exist, 



For over a year reports have been prevalent that cod, ap- 

 parently not, differing from the deep sea species, are found m 

 great abundance in Gloucester harbor. Thinking that these 

 might be the fish put into the water bv the Commission in 

 l,s?.i, Prof. Baird caused inquiries to be instituted, with the 

 i n 1 1 in tion of finding out definitely some of the facts concerning 

 the reported abundance. These investigations have estab- 

 lished without a. doubt that great numbers of cod of the 

 species (Vor/es morrhua are at present living there, while, ex- 

 cept tog in a single instance, at no other point along the coast 

 i- . :i the ease. Men who for fifteen years have been en- 

 gaged in fishing in the outer harbor at Gloucester, report that 

 never before the winter of 1882 have they caught the "silver 

 •ept in a few cases, and then only 



one 



t) at a tin 



A fisherman says that early last spring his catch of cod 

 amounted to 100 pounds in a single day, the individuals 

 weighing four or five poimds each. A specimen taken at this 

 time, and at present in the National Museum, measures four- 

 teen inches iu length. Not only are they found in the clearer 

 waters of the outer harbor, but even in the docks of the 

 inner harbor are they frequently taken by boys fishing for 

 Bounders. This is very remarkable, that fishes whose parents 

 have been accustomed to the clear, cold water of the bottom, 

 should be found in shallow, warm and dirty docks; and from 

 this and the fact that they are not equafly abundant at other 

 points along the coast, we may safely argue that other than a 

 natural course of events has caused this school of fish to seek 

 a home hi the place, under consideration. Now ; , if this is the 

 case, the first and most natural thought will be that these are 

 the result of the experiments of 1879. Facts tend to confirm 

 tiffs conclusion, for they are just the size that those hatched 

 by the Commisiou would be at this time, and further- 

 more, younger ones are seen; and at least three generations 

 o,o i ,, di o .: lushed, all probably descendants of the original 

 one and one-half million. 



The only other place from which cod are reported is Jit. 

 Desert. A school, from which fifteen barrels were taken and 

 brought, into Gloucester, having been found in shallow water 

 there. These cod measured fourteen inches on the average, 

 and were all O. nwrrhua. These, are probably an offshoot, of 

 the Gloucester fish. 



Another great benefit caused by the Fish Commission while 

 at Gloucester was the effect produced by its advice in regard 

 to the peculiar "reddening" of codfish on hot summer days. 

 Many fish attacked by this ■'reddening" were, entirely de- 

 stroyed and much money annually lost. It, proved upon in- 

 v.o .ligation to be an alga, which is quite, abundant in marshy 

 places, aud in hot weather develops at a rapid rate. Intro 

 duced into the tish houses bv one means or another, it had 

 adapted itself to the surroundings to such au extent that, dur- 

 ing the very warmest days of the summer, the w T alls of the 

 sheds and the butts in which the fish were kept actually be- 

 came decidedly red. It also went upon the vessels, and caused 

 destruction even there. Prof. Farlow. who was appointed to 

 study it, found that it flourished especially in fish cured by 

 Cadiz salt, while those prepared with Trepani salt were almost 

 entirely free from it. He found it even in the salt itself, but 

 to a much less extent in the Trepani. He therefore urged the 

 substitution of the latter in every case in preference to Cadiz 

 salt, which was most generally in use, on account, of its cheap- 

 ness. Those who have accepted his advice, say that not a sin- 

 gle case Of "reddening" has occurred for two summers, and 

 that a great deal more money has been saved by this means 

 than was required to pay the difference between the prices oi 

 the two kinds of salt. 



FISHCULTURE AND AG iff CULTURE. -I have often seen 

 Articles in Forest and Stream regarding the destruction of 

 fish bv the poisioning of steams by dye si uffs and other chem- 

 icals from different, factories, and 'have noticed the different 

 recommendations for the suppression of this pollution. To 

 look tor a remedy in that direction seems wrong. Although 

 the. fishing interest is of some importance, it does not out- 

 weigh that of manufacturing or similar interests. It appears 

 to me that the only means of securing tish for the future is by 

 cultivating them with some „vsfem. The water has to b'o 

 farmed after th.- fashion forests are in Europe. Allow me as 

 a practical lisheulturist to refer to the following extracts 

 from my book outhe cultivation of the goldfish; "The con- 

 sumption of food fish of course increases with the increase of 

 population, while ou the other hand, for reasons given, the 

 supply is rapidly decreasing in quantity and quality, Besides 

 the rfv«rs and Weeks nv iloW becoming I he sewed into which 



