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FOREST AND STREAM. 



THE "ROWE" ON COLOR TEXTURE. 



Editok Fobest and Stkuam:— 



As an old sportsman, with a warm sympathy for everything connected 

 with the noble art of venery, I regret much to see a gathering storm in 

 the tmpers devoted to my favorite pursuit, incited by Dr. Rovve and Mr. 

 Arnold Barges. These, compared with myself, are both young men, and 

 with the centennial Field Editor of the Forest and Stbeam, Squire 

 Smith (called by his friends the Nestor Methuselah of American sports- 

 men), and the venerable Col Skinner, of the Turf, Field and Farm, are 

 mere infants. Under these circumstances, why should they disturb the 

 harmony of our fraternity ? What do they, after all their noise in the 

 papers, know about Irish red setters? How many have either 

 of them owned, or even seen? When they answer this plain question in 

 a satisfactory manner we old outsiders will know what weight to give to 

 their juvenile opinions. Nature in liit wisdvu afilicts blindness upon 

 puppies before they can bark. Trusting this color question will soon 

 meet with a solution, I am, very respectfully, Canonicus. 



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DEMUTH'S LAVERACK. 



Maysville, Ky., August 5th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



As I see that there has been considerable discussion regarding the 

 number of pure Laveracks in this country, and especially whether ther e 

 are any outside of Mr. Raymond's fine kennel, I wish to say that Mr. 

 Demuth^s bitch, Picides, is as pure as the best. I have before me a 

 draft of her pedigree, signed by Mr. Buckell, showing that she is by 

 Llewellin's .Prince, out of Lill 2d. Prince is brother to the celebrated 

 bitches. Countess and Nelly, and to Mr. Iieid's Sam. He is by Dash yd 

 out of Moll 3d. Lill 2d is by Dash 2d out Lill 1st. 



Apart from the evidence above, I know that Pickles was sent to this 

 country from theLlewellin Kennel, as Mr. Buckell mentioned her name 

 in a list of dogs purchased from Mr. L. by American genl lemon. She 

 was lined by Rock, now owned by Mr. Luther Adams, of Boston, before 

 leaving England, and I believe came over in the same vessel with Rock . 

 There can be no doubt of her purity or origin. 



Your printer made a mistake in the age of my bitch, Queen Mab. She 

 was ten, not fifteen months old when I wrote. Arnold Burges. 



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West Troy, N. Y., August 16th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I wish to claim the name of "Daisy" for my orange and white setter 

 bitch pup, whelped March 26th, 1875. Daisy is out of Mr. Glass' Fan, 

 by the late Mr. Kelsey's Sport. Fan is out of Bess (owned by Mr. C. R. 

 Smith, of Scranton, Penn.) by Jack, and of the Gddersleeve strain. 

 Sport is by imported stock, both sire and dam. Daisy is a beautiful pup, 

 and at the age of four months would find and retrieve a woodcock splen- 

 didly. Truly yours, John H. Fitchet. 

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Kennel PnonucF.— Baltimore, August 81//, B. IF. Jenkins, Owner.— 

 Eleven pups, six living, live dogs and a bitch, all perfectly marked and 

 very like the dam, out of imported black and lan Gordon setter bitch, 

 Alice, by imported black and tan Gordon dog, Her* The mother won 

 firet prize at every place where exhibited in this' country— Watertown, 

 Springfield, Mineola. Hero was highly commended at Water to vui hi a 

 good class. 



Jfua mid $$iver Jf/s/w/#, 



FISH IN SEASON IN AUGUST. 



Trout, Salmo fontinalis. 

 Salmon, Saimo satar. 



Maskenoiure, 2&S0X nobilior. 



Weaktish;' 



Striped Bass. 



Kingfish. 



Salmon Trout. Salmo con finis. 



Land-locked Salmon, bttlmo Oloveri. 



Black Bass, ini&mpterus nigricans. 



Pike, esox lucius. 



Pickerel. 



Bluefish. 



Sheepshead. 



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fUnder the head of "Game, and Fisn in Seas m" roe can only sped 

 fy in general terms the several varieties, because the laws of States vary 

 so much that were ive to attempt to particularize we could do no less 

 titan publish those entire sections thai relate to the kinds of game in 

 question.. This would require a great amount of our space. J n desig- 

 nating game we are guided by the laws of nature, upon which all legis- 

 lation is founded, and our readers -would do well to provide themselves 

 with the laws of their respective Slates for constant reference. Otherwise, 

 our aUemois io assist them will only create confusio?i.] 



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Fish ln Market. — Fish still continue scarce and high. 

 Salmon season over; none but the frozen in market, selling 

 at 45 to 50 cents; bluefish, 8 cents; striped bass, 25 cents; 

 blackflsh, 15 cents; sheepshead, 25 cents; Spanish mackerel 

 from Long Island, 40 cents ; large whit efish, 12 cents; sea bass 

 20 cents; fresh mackerel 20 cents; halibut, 20 cents; soft crabs 

 plenty at $1 25 to $1 50 per dozen; green turtle, 15 cents; 

 lobsters, 10 cents; a few whitefish and salmon trout selling 

 at 20 cents. We noticed some fine striped bass and large 

 sheepshead on the stand of Middleton, Carman & Co., also 

 some extra large flounders from the eastern end of Long 

 Island. 



The Great South Bay. — Fishing during the past week 

 lias been very fair both inside and outside the inlet. A 

 large number of bluefish have been caught, by chumming, 

 in the channel inside of Fire Island. On Thursday last 

 one boat took 140 fish. They are quite small, however, 

 not averaging over two pounds in weight. The fish taken 

 outside, say five miles off shore, are much' larger, ranging 

 from five to eight pounds. There is a most unaccounta- 

 ble scarcity of weakfish. in the Bay this season; in fact 

 none are being taken with the hook, and but few in the 

 r>ounds. Whether they are kept away by the bluefish or 

 whether the destructive fly net fishing has driven them 

 away is uncertain. At this season they are usually to be 

 taken in abundance, but now the rod fisherman is deprived 

 of one of liis principal sources of amusement, and were it 

 not for the bluefish it woula no longer pay to wet a line in 

 the waters of the Great South Bay. 



— Hon. AlvahP. Hyde and son, O. W. Stowe, and Frank 

 Pratt, all of Connecticut, have just returned from the 

 Miramichi River, in New Brunswick, where they caught 

 eighty salmon and grilse. 



— The Hartford, (Ct.) Fishing Club have been cruising in 

 the vicinity of Block Island, Nantucket, Provincetown, 

 and vicinity for a week past, but we do not learn that they 

 have caught more than the average disciple of the olden 

 time. 



—A correspondent speaks of Drake's Brook, that runs 

 near the base of the Ossipee Mountain, in New Hampshire, 

 as abounding in small trout of one pound weight and less. 

 The season thus far has been very favorable to angling, 

 the constant rains having kept the streams well tilled. 



&. — The largest trout caught with fly at Rangely Lakes, 

 Maine, last Fall by any of the Oquossoc fishermen was 

 taken by L. L. Crounse of this city. It weighed seven and 

 a quarter pounds. 



— Mr. Douglass, son of Sir Charles Douglass, of London, 

 in a letter dated August Gth, says that in about three weeks 

 on the Restigouche, Matapedia and Rimouski Rivers, he 

 only got seventeen salmon— and he is an A No. 1 angler. 



Long Island. — Greenport, Aug. lGth. — The fishing in 

 the waters of Eastern Long Island this year has been un- 

 usually poor. The weakfish, bluefish, blackflsh and 

 porgies, have beeu scarce. In Peconic, Gardiner's and 

 Noyac bays, fish are scarce, and I attribute it to the num- 

 berless pounds that fill the bays and line the shores, entrap- 

 ping all the good eatable fish that come in. At Jessup's 

 bar, the best place for bluefish in these waters, the fishing 

 has been poor; very few being taken. I live very near it 

 and would know if auy were 'taken. Last week the bunker 

 fishing was poor, one boat has just come in and took but 

 10,000 fish and it requires 40,000 fish to pay expenses. 



Mac. 



Maine. — A letter from S. C. Clarke says: "I have just 

 returned from the woods of Maine, where I weut into 

 camp with Dr. Wm, Read and lion. Charles Allen, of 

 Boston. Trout not plenty; black flies very much so. Dr. 

 Read killed a bear swimming the Penobscot." 



Massachusetts. — Neto Bedford, Any. lUh— Our markets 

 are filled with sword fish, (18 arrived to-day) bluefish, 

 squcteague, tautog, seup, and bonitas, with a few Spanish 

 mackerel and stripped bass, although the latter are smaller 

 and scarcer. H. 



Gloucester, Aug. 14///..— The mackerel made their appear- 

 ance in our harbor on Tuesday last, (10th inst.) and since 

 that time Ashing in that line has been briskly carried on; 

 they average in size, No. 3's, though occasionally a lucky 

 fisherman hauls in a No. 1; most of them are sold on the 

 spot for .$5 per barrel. The fishing still continues, though 

 with less success, as the school is fast going out to sea. 



J. S. W. Jr. 



The Fisheries. — The number of fishing arrivals for the 

 week ending August 13ih, was 70— 39 from Georges, 10 

 from the Banks, and 21 from mackereling. Amount of 

 Georges cod brought in, 470,000 pounds; halibut, 40,000 

 pounds. Bank cod, 075,000 pounds; halibut, 210,000 

 pounds. Mackerel continues very scarce, only about 1,000 

 barrels having arrived the past week. — (Jape Ann Adver- 

 tiser, August 14///,. 



New Jersey— P&rth Amfoy, August 12///,. — The weakfish 

 are biting readily to shrimp, crabs, and mussels. The first 

 caught this season was on the 15th of July by Isaac C. 

 Ackus, Esq. lie and his grandson caught in one tide (low 

 watt'i) seventy two. 1 have been out with this old and 

 skillful fisherman several times, always with, good success. 

 Perth Amboy has afforded, so far, the best weakfish iug 

 within easy distance of New York. Staten Island boat to 

 Third Landing, cars to Tottenville, ferry to Perth Amboy ; 

 fare whole distance, twenty-five cents. Boats and bait at 

 Tottenville or Perth Amboy. H. 



— Carman House, Forked Purer, August .16.— The fishing 

 for the past week has improved greatly, and several parties 

 have made fine hauls. Among them — Wm. II. Florence 

 and party; best catch, 51 weakfish, 13 kingfish; Mr. E. C. 

 Taylor, 38 weak and kingfish, 2 bluefish; Messrs. Hadley, 

 Howell, Wolf, and Bennett, caught 42 and 53 in two days. 

 Other parties caught from 15 to 30 each. There is every 

 indication of good sport the coming week, aud visitors may 

 expect full lines. F. 



Barnegat, Kinseifs Ashley House, Aug. 1G.— Fishing has 

 been poor during the week, except for sea bass— owing to 

 storms and high winds very few boats out. The house 

 has been well filled with guests who were very much dis- 

 appointed. Only catches worth reporting are Messrs. 

 Horton, Marshall, Swain, Lane, Travis, and Robertson, of 

 Peekskill, N. Y., 25 sea bass, 5 weakfish, 2 shark; Wm. 

 Rose, W. W. Twaddell, James N. Galline, of Philadelphia, 

 35 sea bass, 2 sheepshead; Thomas R. Green, of New 

 York, 15 sea bass; J. M. Atwater aud son, New York, 30 

 sea bass, 1 bluefish. 



Later, Auy. mh, 2 P. M.—J. M. Atwater,'of New York, 

 has landed from the sheepshead ground with 15 sheepshead 

 averaging ten pounds. Our sheepshead fishing will be 

 good again. Harry Atwater caught this P. M. 8 sea bass, 

 3 blackflsh, 1 bluefish, and 1 weakfish. 



Virginia. — Leesburg, Aug. 15th. — The Potomac has been 

 in bad condition for angling nearly the whole of this month . 

 I have taken a few bass and some fall fish with the fly, 

 but the water has never been clear, and is generally very 

 muddy. Major Ferguson, however, took three at a cast 

 this season, a repetition of last year's exploit. He takes 

 them principally with the Ferguson fly (a green fly) tied by 

 Abbey & Imbrey, Maiden Lane. Eight or ten young men 

 from this place made a pleasant trip to Siiannondale 

 Springs, on the Shenandoah River, not long since; took' 

 cooks, cooking utensils, and camp equipage, with rods, 

 etc. They caught bass with the fly and with live bait. I 

 have been alternating experimental fly-tying and toothache, 

 while the Potomac emulates the yellow Tiber. T. W. 



Nova Scotia. — Halifax, Aug. 1875. — The salmon, al- 

 though late, have been rather plentiful this season. A 

 gentleman who has just returned from the Margaree River, 

 in Cape Breton, tells me that, although he had to wait 

 some time, he was rewarded with twenty-three Arte fish 

 during the last ten days of his stay. They have also been 

 caught within the last few days at Indian River, St. Mar- 

 garet's Bay, Halifax county, twenty-one miles from this 

 city, where sea trout of from one and a half to two pounds 

 are now running. Good accommodations, and guides 

 always on the spot. Fitz. 

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Petekboko, August 12th, 1875. 

 Editor, Forest and Stream:— 



In your issue of the *29th ult. "Camper" is surprised to find that some 

 of your correspondents use a preparation for killing and keeping away 

 black flies and mosquitoes, viz. : tar, oil, etc. I am equally surprised to 

 learn that the mixture I referred to in my communication of the 15th 

 ult. was ever intended to kill blask flies, etc. "Camper 1 ' is no doubt 

 aware that tar and the oil of Jamaica tar are quit) different, the latter 

 being what is used in the fly preventive I had in camp. We only used it 

 on the bands, and did not find it either disagreeable or unsightly, nor did 

 it varnish the skin, a little soap and water removing every panicle of tbe 

 mixture at once. When w e wish to beaiuify the cuticle, however, we re 

 sort to rouge, cosmetics, etc., but in this case had no ladies with us, and 

 rather invited the lays of Old Sol to impart a healthy color. C, A. P. 



FLY BOOK AND FLY HOOK. 



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New York, August Gth, 1875 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I observe in your paper of this week an allusion to "Mr. Hyde's fty 

 book," and to Mr. Brainerd as a maker of the same, which gives a wronw 

 impression of the matter. A former item of the same tenor led me to 

 call on Mr. Hyde, and although I have no reason to regret having done 

 so, as I was treated with the greatest courtesy, and received much infor- 

 mation and pleasure from the call, yet I think it would be well to have 

 the facts properly understood and spare Mr. Hyde the trouble of enter- 

 taining too many interviewers. Mr. Hyde has not invented any fly book 

 •but only an ingenious little contrivance for holding the Hies by the bend 

 of the hook. It is itself a sort of book made of thin white metal and 

 provided with two little spurs, which are pushed through the parchment 

 aud bent down at the back of the leaf. They can. be placed at a con- 

 venient distance apart, and as rnauy rows as the page will accommodate, 

 Mr. Il3dehasa book which contains eight hundred flies. He uses a 

 book arranged in the usual manner with parchment leaves, having three 

 and four pockets on a page. About an inch and a half above each 

 pocket is a row of the metal fly-holders, which receive the hooks, and 

 the gut, each length coiled separately, is placed in the pocket. This 

 makes a book of great capacily, and th« advantages over the ordinary 

 arrangement are— that the flies are all handsomely displayed, and any 

 fly can be easily and quickly taken from and returned to its place with- 

 out disturbing the others. To suit my own ideas of convenience! have 

 arranged a book with only two rows of holders on a page, one row at 

 each end and parchment loops in the middle of the page, through winch 

 pass the gut lengths. These are all the same length, about four and a 

 half inches. By having them no longer than the book I avoid the neces- 

 sity of coiling, and the gut is alway s straight and ready for use . Now, as 

 to Mr. Brainerd, he does not make fly books, but at Mr, Hyde's sugges- 

 tion, as I understand, he has made a die to stamp out the fly-holders', (i 

 don't know that they have auy particular name,) and purely from a 

 sportsmanlike desire te add to the comfort of the angling brotherhood, 

 makes and furnishes the article to those who may wish to try the im- 

 provement. Mr. Hyde is an importer of watches, and Mr. Brainerd is 

 of the firm of Brainerd, Steele & Co., 9 Maiden Lane, jewelers, and, of 

 course, fly books are entirely out of the line of either of these gentle- 

 men as an article of sale. Should any of your correspondents wish to 

 try their hand at fltting up a book in the new way, let them send to Mr. 

 Brainerd for as many fly-hoiders as are wanted and go to work ; They 

 are easily applied, and can be used in the ordinary fly books by taking 

 out the parchment so as to get at each page separately. The cost is sev- 

 enty-five cents per gross. LlTTELL. 



[In our last issue fly book should have read fly hook— a 

 typographical error.— Ed.] 



IzchUiig and$§0Hting. 



All communications from Secretaries and friends should be mailed vo 

 later than Monday in each week. 



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Tiie New York Yacht Club Cruise.— One of ihc 

 most interesting events connected with the present cruise 

 of this club was the race on Friday last for the two cups 

 presented by Commodore Kingsland. The only competing 

 yachts were the schooners Idler, -Mohawk, Restless, and 

 Clio, and the sloops Addie V., Yindex and Windward. 

 The Rambler was entered, but did not cross the line within 

 the appointed time, and was, therefore, out of the race. 

 The course was from Fort Adams to and around the buoy- 

 off the north end of Block Island and return to starting 

 point. The Clio, although the last to start was the first 

 vessel around the buoy, and owing to her long start on 

 the homestretch and time allowance, won the schooner 

 prize. The Windward took the prize for sloops. The cor- 

 rected time over the course for each yacht is as follows: 

 Clio, 6:6:22; Idler, 6:19:00; Mohawk, 6:34:18; Restless, 

 6:35:00; Windward, 6:42:30; Addie V., 6:49:25; Yindex, 

 7:18:20. 



TnE New York Yacht Club have had a series of sail- 

 ing and rowing races within the past week, off Newport 

 notwithstanding unfavorable weather. On Monday last, 

 in the sailing regatta, the winners were the Rambler in 

 first-class schooners, the Restless in the second, the Vision 

 in the first-class sloops, and the Genia probably in the 

 second. The races for the Bennett cup was to be sailed 

 yesterday. 



Chicago Yacht Club— Chicago, August 9l7i.—l send you 

 a list of the officers of the Chicago Yacht club, chosen 

 last Saturday at a meeting of the club in the Sherman 

 House: Commodore, J. Poindiville; Yi'ce Commodore, I. 

 M. Bradley; Rear Commodore, W. T. Higgle; Secretary, 

 C. E. Kennealy; Treasurer, Louis Wahl; Measurer, Y. W. 

 Bates; Executive Committee, W. C. Lyon, chairman; J. 

 A. Farrow, W. E. Miller, J. Fergus, W. Barnum; Regu- 

 lation Committee, J. B. Lyon, chairman; A. C. Ducat, i. 

 Wentworth, F. W. S- Brawley, E. Brant. Uniform- 

 Members to wear a frock of navy blue cloth, with two 

 rows of large-sized yacht buttons on the breast, nine in a 

 row; pants of same material; vest of same, single-breasted; 

 standing collar, buttoned to throat; black silk neck ctotn, 

 cap of navy blue, with letters C. Y. C. in silver, and a genu 

 anchor in front. The constitution and by-laws of the in- 

 ternational Yacht Club were adopted, with slight change* 

 The initiation fee was changed from $10 to $o, ancltne 

 annual dues from $8 to $4. The club is to have anoinei 

 regatta on the 21st inst., over the same course as previously. 

 The Board of Trade have offered to give a purse in wiai 

 tion to the club prize. Cutter- 



Grand Haven Regatta, Michigan, second annual, oc- 

 curred on the 11th inst. There were fully 5,000 spectators. 

 In the senior scull race there were four contestants: ooin 

 itjff first, in 15:38; C. A. Pearson second, in 15: 4di; *• 

 W Pearson third, and T. A. Allcock fourth. In the chick 

 boat race, half mile and turn, there were seven entries. 

 James Welch won easily in 9:29. Junior scull race, nyv 

 entries; C. A. Barnard first, in 16: 6^; J. A. Wilson second, 

 P B. Kelsev third, and F. II. Watts fourth. S. B. Ham; 

 phrey drew out. Senior double scull, three entries- 

 Beauty, Lotos and Ferry, Time, Beauty, 15:4*; Lotob, 

 15:13-J; Ferry broke down. 



