230 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



cents; eels, 18 cents ; sheepshead,frozen, 25 cents; whitefish, 

 18 cents; pickerel, 15 cents; salmon trout, 18 cents; hard 

 shell crabs, $5. per 100; scollops, $1. per gallon; lobsters, 

 (Boston), 10 cents per pound; green turtle, from Key West, 

 20 cents; terrapin, from Savannah, $12. per dozen. 



Bluefish off the Capes.— On the 29th ult., says the 

 Lewes, Delaware, Light, the bluefish were again chasing 

 and devouring the moss bunkers, and thousands in their 

 efforts to escape the ravages of "the bluefish ran high and 

 dry on the beach. Near the little light-house on the cape 

 where the high tides overflow into the valley, several thou- 

 sand bushels sought refuge, but were even followed over 

 the flats by their formidable enemies, and many of the lat- 

 ter were caught on the flat sands, where the water was but 

 a few inches deep. After the tide fell off, these fish were 

 left to die, and many of them were hauled off into the 

 country by the farmers, who use them as a fertilizer. It 

 is somewhat singular that these fish should make their ap- 

 pearance here in the manner stated — just at this season 

 this year and last — while nothing like it was ever seen or 

 heard of before, at least along the coast. 



— The anglers of the Susquehanna have given up bass 

 fishing for the season. A plenty of small fry are observed 

 in the river. During this season a few fish weighing three 

 and a half to four pounds have been taken. 



— Some of the Bridgeliampton fishermen have had ex- 

 traordinary luck recently. One night last week Lawrence 

 Jennings caught, with a seine, at the inlet to Mecox Bay, 

 between 400 and 500 dozen eels. Daring the week he caught 

 about 900 dozen. Luther Burnett caught in the ocean, op- 

 posite the same inlet, on the morning of November 2nd, 

 4,000 pounds of striped bass. 



— New London black fishermen report brilliant catches; 

 that is, of blackfish. 



— A cuttle fish or octopus, measuring eighteen inches 

 across and three feet in length was caught at St. Augustine, 

 a few days since. 



— Skill in angling is by no means confined to the male 

 sex. For instance, Lady Dufferin, wife of the Gov- 

 ernor-General of Canada, is one of the most successful and 

 expert salmon anglers known. We recall to mind another 

 lady, the wife of a prominent lawyer in Washington city, 

 who keeps always on hand a fishing suit, even to the boots. 

 Wherever she goes, in the season, she carries with her rods, 

 lines, &c. ; manufactures her own artificial flies, and will 

 talk "fish" from morning till night; she has most entertain- 

 ing reminiscences to relate of her exploits in the Adiron- 

 dacks and the interior of Pennsylvania. She is a nieee of 

 Daniel Webster, and has all the enthusiastic delight in fish- 

 ing, rpossessed by her illustrious relative. Did our angling 

 friends ever read Curtis' Life of Webster? He, Webster, 

 had been selected to deliver the oration on the occasion of 

 the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monu- 

 ment. Just previous to its delivery he had gone on a fish- 

 ing excursion to the coast of New Hampshire. By a single 

 throw of his line he caught two immense fish at the same 

 instant. Just at the time he was conning over his oration, 

 and addressing the fish he exclaimed: "venerable men (the 

 Revolutionary soldiers presumed to be present) you have 

 come down to us from a past generation." 



The Oregon Salmon Fisheries.— Some idea of the 

 magnitude of the fisheries on the Columbia River can be 

 obtained from the fact that during the past season of three 

 months 350,000 cases of canned salmon, each containing 

 forty-eight pounds were prepared for market, the aggre- 

 gate value of which is nearly $2,000,000. The men em- 

 ployed in catching the fish received from twenty to twenty- 

 five cents each salmon, some of them last season earning 

 during the season $1,500. About 10,000 were caught, for 

 which over $200,000 were paid. A considerable number 

 of salmon are also prepared in other way& for the market — 

 salted, smoked and dried— probably one-third as many 

 more. The salmon fisheries were first established on the 

 Columbia in 1851, and are increasing every year. The oil 

 of the fish is utilized at some of the fisheries, and sold for 

 railroad and other purposes. The profit to the packers last 

 season amounted to $1 per case, one establishment putting 

 up 40,000 cases. 



Comparative Size of Trout in Europe and America. 

 —The river, or yellow trout of Europe, Balmo fario, seems 

 to vary in size in different waters. Larger specimens are 

 taken in the Thames than elsewhere; those of five and six 

 pounds appear to be common; eight or ten pound fish are 

 occasionally reported in the sporting papers, and that 

 trout weighing as much as fifteen or eighteen pounds have 

 been killed in that river, is a well established fact. These 

 large trout are in England usually killed with a minnow upon 

 trolling tackle. In other English rivers the trout seldom go 

 over seven pounds, and in Scotland,to judge from the reports 

 of fisheries in the "Field," they will probably not aver- 

 age more than three or four ounces. Of course large fish 

 are sometimes taken. Stoddart, in "The Angler's Com- 

 panion," mentions one taken in the Don, 1853, which 

 weighed eleven pounds; in the Tweed, 1850, seven pounds; 

 in the Til), 1849, seven and a half pounds; Teviot, 1848, 

 six and a half pounds. The Leet, tributary of the Tweed, 

 Stoddart says, has the largest trout that he is acquainted 

 with, and in 1841 he took there with the fly, twenty-six 

 trout that weighed twenty-nine pounds; in 1846, forty- 

 one trout, twelve of which weighed a pound each, and one 

 of three pounds. Professor Wilson (a great angler) killed 

 in Rutherford water, with minnow, eighteen trout, of one 

 and half pounds each, and as many of one pound, but 

 these trout are evidently considered by the writer as being 

 of extraordinary size. 



It is probable that the size of fish is diminishing in Eng- 

 land, as in the United States, and from the same causes, the 

 constantly increasing number of anglers, and the increasing 

 demand, which encourages poaching and fishing out of sea- 

 son. The largest trout taken in the Thames in 1875, weighed 

 ten pounds— others of nine, eight, seven, six and and five, 

 are reported. The whole number taken in this river for 

 the season being fifty-seven fish, a large proportion of them 

 under four pounds. 



It was asserted by H. W. Herbert, the first writer who 

 treated at length of our game fishes, that the American 

 brook trout, Salmo foniinalis, was much smaller than the 

 European species, but Herbert was familiar only with the 

 well fished streams of New York and New England. Since 

 his day, the Rangely Lakes and Moosehead waters have 

 been opened to the angler, [ where, according to Wm. C. 

 Prime, trout of seven, eight, ten and even eleven pounds 

 have been taken; Lake Superior, in the South shore 

 streams, of which trout of four to six pounds are taken 

 every year; on the north shore of this lake they sfYe 

 found still larger; in the Nepigon, a day's catch of sixty 

 trout has averaged three pounds; five, six and seven 

 pounders are common, and Forest and Stream reports a 

 true speckled trout of seventeen pounds weight killed in 

 these waters, a size fully equal to the largest Thames trout. 

 About 1847, a brook trout was taken "at the Sault Ste. 

 Marie, by an Indian, which weighed eight pounds. It 

 was brought to Major Kingsbury, commanding at the Fort, 

 from whom the writer had the statement. 



In the lakes and streams of the Rocky Mountains, very 

 large trout have been taken. In the head waters of the 

 Platte and in Lake Tahoe up to ten and twelve pounds, 

 as we have been informed, but it is possible that these 

 were a different species from 8. fontinalis; perhaps 8. 

 Lewisii. 



There is a river in Canada called the Nouvelle, which 

 flows into the Bay of Canada, where the trout appear to 

 be all large. The writer, in 1871, killed there one evening 

 with the fly, a string of trout, fifteen in number, which 

 weighed thirty-seven and a half pounds, none of them less 

 than two pounds. 



A late Boston paper reports the capture of a brook trout 

 in the Adirondack waters last Summer which weighed over 

 seven pounds. Such a fish as this was not supposed to ex- 

 ist in those much vexed waters, except, perhaps in the 

 Rev. Mr. Murray's romances. Perhaps the big trout there, 

 as in the Thames, are so thoroughly educated as to-be 

 proof against the wiles of common anglers, and only suc- 

 cumb to the most skillful, under peculiar conditions, which 

 seldom occur. g. c. C. 



The Fisheries.— There have been G9 arrivals of the 

 fleet the past week as follows: 20 from Georges, 25 from 

 the Banks, 9 from the Bay, and 15 from off shore. The 

 receipts are 160,000 pounds Georges codfish; 20,000 pounds 

 Georges halibut; 1,160,000 pounds Bank codfish; 1,500 

 barrels Bay mackerel and 2,000 barrels of shore mackerel. 

 The mackerel fleet are hauling up, the business being about 

 over for the season. The Newfoundland herring business 

 will now engage attention. Some thirty-five of the 

 staunchest vessels in the fleet will engage therein and be 

 ready to start about the last of the month in season to sup- 

 ply the early Georges fleet with bait.— Gape Ann Advertiser, 

 Nov. 5th. • 



— The following is a list of bass caught by Thomas Wi- 

 nans, at Newport, during the season of 1875: 



Date. 



July 14... 

 July 30... 

 July 31,.. 

 Aug. 3... 

 Aug. 5... 

 Aug. 6... 

 Aug, 19... 

 Sept. 6... 

 Sept. 8... 

 Sept. 9 .. 

 Sept. 17 .. 

 Sept. 20... 

 Sept. 25.. 



I Tot weight 

 Bass, Weight of each Bass in pounds. | each Day. 



15 



9 



16, 20 and 42 



13 



4 and 11 



54, 36, 31, 23, 16, 13 and 10... 



7 



42, 34, 29, 29, 25, 25, and 21,... 



56,^22, 20 and 26 



17 



49, 47, 40, 39, 35, 30, and 30.... 

 25 



Totel 37 



5 



15 



9 



78 



13 



15 



188 



7 



205 



124 



17 



270 



*5 



9H 



Average weight, 2(5£ pounds. 



BASS CAUGHT Br THOMAS WHISTLE B, AT NEWPORT, SEASON OF 1875, 



Date. 



June 11 

 July 12 

 July 15 

 July 23 

 July 24 

 July 31 

 Aug. 2 

 Aug. 3 

 Aug. 4 

 Aug. 5 

 An?. 6 

 Aug. 7 

 Aug. 8 

 Aug. 9 

 Aug. 10 

 Aug. 17 

 Aug. 19 

 Aug. 20 

 Aug. 21 

 Aug. 27 

 Aug. 28 

 Aug. 29 

 Sept. 1 

 Sept. 4 

 Sept. 5 

 Sept. 6 

 Sept. 7 

 Sept. 8 

 Sept. 9 

 Sept. 10 

 Sept. 12 

 Sept. 13 

 Sept. 34 

 Sept. 15 

 Sept. 16 

 Sept. 17 

 Sept. 20 

 Sept. 21 

 Sept. 25 

 Sept. 27 

 Sept. 29 

 Sept. 30 



jTot'l wah't 

 jBasp Weight of Bass caught each Day! each Day. 



Oct. 



Oct. 3 



Oct. 4 



Oct. 7 



Oct. g 



Oct. 10 



Total... 



5 



30 



4 



30 



31, 27, and 35. 

 20 



40, 40, 37, 19, 19, and 23.... 



7 



18 



9, 4, 3, and 4 



14, 6, 4, 43, and 3 



36 



4 



36 



35, 32, and 29 



16and 12 



1 



n 



4 , 



17 



60, 48, 35, 31, 13, 21, 13, and 10.. 



52, 20 and 9 



■",6,8, and 53 



49, 23, 17, 13 and 7. 



31 and 30 



37 



10 



27, 25, 15 and 5 



51, 43, 41, 37 and 35. 



50, 41, 41, and 41... 



6 and 3 



33.... 



26 



50 



37.. 



3 



11 and 5.. 



9 



5, 6 and 4 



5 and 5 



5 



30 



4 



30 

 83 

 20 

 38 

 12 



4 

 178 



7 

 18 

 20 

 34 

 36 



4 

 36 

 96 

 28 



4 

 18 



4 

 17 



8 



4 



4 



6 



231 



81 



101 



8 



109 



61 



37 



10 



72 



207 



173 



9 

 33 

 26 

 50 

 37 



3 

 16 



7 

 25 

 10 



i 2,056 



Average weight, 21 pounds.. 



—A Florida correspondent of the Atlanta, Ga. , Herald 

 in the course of an interesting communication regarding 

 Florida fisheries, says:— "The best fishermen in Florida 

 are the pelicans and ospreys. A pelican consumes about 

 a peck of fish a day. They flock about the straits and in- 

 lets by thousands. Supposing there are 2,000,000 pelicans 

 in Florida— and there are certainly more than that— thev 

 would eat 500,000 bushels of fish each day, or 182,500 000 

 bushels per year. The millions upon millions of white and 

 blue cranes, herons, curlews, gulls, fishhawks, kingfishers 

 and other water fowl, devour thousands of bushels of fish 

 every twenty- four hours. An experienced cracker esti- 

 mated that 700,000 bushels of fish a day are required to 

 feed the birds of Florida alone. This would make 225 - 

 500,000 bushels each year. Add to this the billions of fish 

 swallowed by sharks, bass and others, and the sum total 

 will reach nearly 2,000,000,000 bushels, destroyed by 

 feathered and finny fishermen on the peninsula in twelve 

 months. At first glance these figures appear enormous 

 but let any man make his own estimate, and carefullv 

 figure it up, and he will find them under, instead of over.'' 



— * — 



All communications from Secretaries and friends slwuld be mailed no 

 later than Monday in each week. 



4 „ 



HIGH WATER. 



FOR THE WEEK. 





Date. 



Boston. 



New York. 



Charleston. 



Nov. 18 



H. M. 



3 53 



4 52 



5 48 



6 42 

 8 34 



8 19 



9 5 



H. M. 



eve. 89 



1 31 



2 33 



3 28 



4 19 



5 3 

 5 50 



h. at. 



U 53 



eve. 52 



1 48 



2 42 



3 34 



4 19 



5 5 



Nov. 19 



Nov. 20 



Nov. 21 



Nov. 22 



Nov. 23.. , 



Nov. 24 



Yachting in England.— Much confusion has been 

 caused in England, and no little annoyance to yacht own- 

 ers, by the different regulations regarding measurement 

 existing with various clubs, and which has led during the 

 past season to unpleasant results; in one case, at least, the 

 dispute being carried into court. The number of yacht 

 clubs with and without the prefix of "royal" in the em- 

 pire is enormous, and it is the custom among owners of 

 racing cutters to cruise from one port to another during 

 the regatta season and enter their vessels for the various 

 cups. To obviate the difficulty arising from a variety of 

 racing rules, an association has been formed to be known 

 as the Yacht Racing Association, with the object of put- 

 ting yacht racing in somewhat the same position as horse 

 racing, by forming an association which should elect a 

 committee whose operations would be similar in nature to 

 those of the committee of the Jockey Club. The duties 

 of this committee will consist in deciding disputed points, 

 in codifying existing yacht racing rules and to make such 

 alterations and modifications as they may deem desirable, 

 and to classify yachts for racing. The association now 

 numbers over one hundred members, including the owners 

 of all the best known racing yachts. The advantages of 

 this new arrangement are that a universal system of mea- 

 surement and rules will be adopted, and by which all 

 yacht matches will be governed. The penalty for sailing 

 in any regatta where these regulations are not in force is 

 to be expulsion, and the question arises, What will Eng- 

 lish yachts do when they come to this country? Probably 

 their sailing under our rules will be overlooked. It is an- 

 ticipated that every yacht race sailed in British waters dur- 

 ing 1876 will be governed by the new rules, and perfect 

 harmony be the result of the new departure. 



A Book for Young Yachtsmen. — There is nothing in 

 the literary line which would better fill a long needed want 

 than some intelligible bock on the construction, ligging, 

 aud sailing of yachts and small boats. There are several 

 English works on the subject — such, for instance, as "Van- 

 derdecken's Yacht Sailor"— but the methods of building 

 and rigging are so different to those pertaining to this 

 country that the book is valueless to our young yachtsmen. 

 We are in constant receipt of inquiries on this subject, and 

 will hail with pleasure the appearance of some handy little 

 volume which will describe in plain language the whole 

 mode of building, rigging, sail-making, and navigation. 



Rowing in England. —A rowing match for £200 a side 

 and the championship of the Thames occurred on that 

 river on the 15th inst. The contestants were Joseph H. 

 Sadler, of London, the present holder of the champion- 

 ship, and R. W. Boyd, of Gateshead, Durham. The course 

 was the usual one, from Putney to Mortlake, a distance of 

 about four miles and a quarter. The race was won by Sad- 

 ler. Considerable importance was attached in aquatic cir- 

 cles to the race and the surroundings, as, whether defeated 

 or victorious, Sadler had announced that he would never 

 go into training again. Sadler, the winner, is thirty-six 

 years of age, stands five feet ten inches in height, and 

 weighs 160 pounds. He rowed in this country in 1870. He 

 has defeated all comers for the championship of England 

 since 1870. Boyd is twenty years of age, stands five feet 

 nine inches high, and scaled, when he stepped into his 

 boat, 158 pounds. Boyd recently beat Sadler in a mile race 

 for £200 on the Tyne, after an obstinate struggle, by three- 

 quarters of a length in 6 minutes 10^- seconds. With his 

 partner, Henry Lumsden, he also won the pair-oared cham- 

 pionship of England. 



« — » 



Yale —In the last game of base ball in the series for the 

 championship between the Juniors and Sophomores, the 

 former were victorious by a score of 8 to 13. 



The crew which is to represent the college in the regatta 

 of 1876 has been chosen, and have commenced gymnasium 

 work in earnest. Three of the men pulled in last years 

 regatta, and two were in the Freshmen crew of 1874 



In the foot ball match with Rutgers, on last Saturday 

 week, Rutgers won the first goal after a struggle lasting 

 one hour and twenty-eight minutes. Yale won the four 

 following goals and the game. 



Hahvaed.— A rifle club, composed of undergraduates, 

 will be formed this Winter, and target practice will be be- 

 gun early in the Spring. A range has been secured not tar 

 from the Square, and all obstacles to the formation of Uie 

 club are now removed, 



