FOREST AND STREAM. 



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qtl. ; hake, $2.75 per qtl. ; cusk, $3 per qtl. ; tongues and 

 sounds, $8 to $11 per bbl.; prepared cod, 5 to 7 cts. per 

 lb M as to 'quality; pickled halibut, $6 per bbl.; pickled 

 cod. $4.75 per bbl ; round herring, $3.50 per bbl.— Cape 

 Ann Advertiser, Aug. 4 , 



—A very queer looking fish was found on the sand at 

 Savin Rock, near West Haven, Tuesday, after the tide 

 went out. It was a broad flat fish resembling a turtle cut 

 in twain. It measured eight and one-half by five and one 

 half feet, and had small eyes, and large breathing holes in 

 the centre of its back. Its mouth was on the under side. 

 Its tail, which was five feet long, was covered with prongs, 

 one of which was in the centre, and was two inches in 

 length. The fish came in with the tide, and was secured 

 l>y some men who gave it to Mr. Allen, the proprietor of 

 the museum at Savin Rock. Of the many people who have 

 seen it, no two seem to agree as to its ''tribe" or proper 

 name. Mr. Allen called it a "stingaree." 



[This was probably the whip stingray or skate (Trygon 

 Centura) which is found from Cape Cod to Florida. It is. 

 of the family Raiidm. — Ed. 



— Reports from the Labrador fisheries are conflicting. In 

 some quarters cod are reported scarce. On the whole the 

 prospects of success are fair. The Newfoundland shore 

 fishery has improved of late. In St. Pierre the fishermen 

 have secured plenty of bait, and the fishing prospects are 

 good. In Cape Breton the catch of fish has been below the 

 average, except in a few places. 



— The Portsmouth, N. H., fishermen are reaping rich re- 

 turns in shad fishing off the harbor. About 400 barrels 

 have been seined during the past tew days. This is a new 

 business in that part, the shad have not before been found 

 in that vicinity. 



—Quite a number of dead shad have been found floating 

 down the Connecticut river near Glastonburg; they were 

 large sized fish, weighing from 3| to 5 pounds. 



— A fourteen pound snapping-turtle was caught in the 

 canal at Windsor locks on Monday last, with a hook and 

 line. 



—Eighty barrels of porgies were taken in a single haul, 

 last week off Bangor, Maine. 



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TWIN LAKES. 



Twin Lakes, Ct., June 26th. „ 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Picnic and camping companies are making glad the shores of our 

 pretty lakes this cool, breezy weather, as boats and anglers make merry 

 the waters, however sorry the fisti. Yesterday (June 25th) not less than 

 a dozen boa; s were out on the big lake, and bass and pickerel had to 

 suffer some. A party froxa Pougbkeepsie have held squatter possession 

 of Roger's Island the last ten days, and have caught some heavy bass 

 and pickerel off the rocky point at the east end. There have also been 

 camping parties in MiLs's W o ds. Bass and pickerel fishing have been 

 good for some days. On the Joth Wm. Miles, of the Copake Bashbish 

 Iron works, and E. Sherman Pease, our resident fish painter, cau«kt 

 eight pickerel and eighteen bass, not to mention the perch and punkies 

 of no account. Several of the bass put down the scales at the 1J 

 and two-pound notch, and the "picks" were of good size. For a week 

 previous to these "good catches 1 ' three noted choir singers of Gotham 

 — Messrs. Nilson, Phillips and Finch— had fed out spoon victuals most 

 liberally all about the lake with tolerable success; but don't they wish 

 they had stayed over a day longer and tried their scales on some of the 

 two-pound sort? Several new boats have been launched on the lakes, 

 among them a 35-foot shell, owned by Mr. Fred Plumb Miles, who has 

 just graduated from the Yale Scientific College, and who may be seen on 

 any still day taking a "spurt," with neither Cornell or Harvard to make 

 him afraid. Young Mr. Miles has also a four-oared, centre-board, cat- 

 rigged "sharpy" just finished by E. S. P., which is a model for trolling 

 or still fishing. City visitors are coming in rather less than the usual 

 number, and finding, of course, better than usual accommodation, and 

 at more moderate rates than in former years. Mr. Peck, at the Cyrus 

 Hudson place, has some very agreeable people from New York. Of the 

 Coopers we have not heard, but presume they have rooms for sutih as 

 apply. Trouting is done for the season in this State, but they may still 

 be. taken in Massachusetts, "over the line." Jip-Say. 



LAKE FISHING IN CALIFORNIA. 



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V^ San Francisco, July 20th, 1876. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



At this season of the year we have our strong westerly trade winds. 

 If these gales catch us anglers out at one of our large lakes, not far from 

 the city and near the ocean, we have a hard time of it to get off in a boat 

 to troll for salmon and trout. I have very lately had an experience of 

 the kind. A number of members of our new Sportsman's Club were at 

 Lake San Andreas last week. We were all ready to push out into the 

 lake to fish with the spoon bait, but one of these severe westers set in 

 and kept most of the anglers ashore. I being au experienced oars- 

 man, however, jumped into one of the plungers, and managed to head 

 out through the high waves that broke quite heavily on the shore. My 

 object was +o cross the waters and operate under the lee of the mountains 

 opposite, where the winds had comparatively but little force, being af- 

 fected only by occasional strong puffs and eddies. As I crossed over 

 with my rod over the boat's quarter with 150 feet of line out, my bait 

 was, as usual, suddenly seized by a salmon, and taking up my rod in 

 double-quick time, I found I had a good-sized fish to handle. He bent 

 the top-ffcints of my rod as much as J could allow him, without endanger- 

 ing thw#; in a moment he made a rush to the right with great strength, 

 and I then had to give him some considerable length of line from my 

 reel. Presently I found myself able, by giving him the butt of my rod 

 pretty strongly, to turn him, and then he came very swiftly back to me,' 

 and my ability to reel in rapidly was put to rather strong test. But I 

 was not quick enough for him, and he rushed right under my boat. If I 

 had had another oarsman with me this thing could have been prevented. 

 Then it was that some skill was required to take up an oar and turn the 

 boat so that my line could clear it. This I fortunately was able to accom- 

 plish, and then came the task of checking him in the opposite direction 

 to the first run he made. This I did without putting too much strain on 

 my rod and line. Then his fish-ship came to the surface, and commenced 

 a series of somersaults, which, unless I had thrown down to a certain 

 angle the point of my rod, would have probably proved fatal to the 

 strength of my line or hooks, by jerking them too violently at a strain, in 

 his successive leaps. But hook and line held and this danger was over- 

 come. Then another risk had to be avoided, namely: the allowing 

 him to reach the bottom and the weeds, and rub the hook from his jaws 

 or throat, or wherever it had taken hold. By this time he began to show 

 less power of being able to rush where he pleased, and I again, by put- 

 ting on the strain, to prevent him from accomplishing this not uncom- 

 mon fe*)t of cunning and maneuvering, turned him from his evident pur- 

 pose; after rushing hither and thither for a long time, he began, at last, 

 to show unmistakable symptoms of exhaustion, i^fter coming to the 

 top several times, he finally was unable to descend further into his life- 

 giving element. I kept him now permanently on the suiface and 

 was enabled to keep his head and gills out of the water, and so "drowned 

 him"; and then drawing him plose to the skiff r-npiwithstanding the 



high and rough waves— with my rod in my right hand and landing net in 

 the left, drew him over it, and then by lifting up my net under him, se- 

 cured my much coveted prize. I then killed him by driving my knife 

 into his brain. I found that he weighed— by the scales I always carry 

 with me— just four pounds and three quarters. 



The fish in these lakes are very game, and they therefore make a lively 

 fight, I assure you, before they knock under to the force and skill ex- 

 erted against them. I reached safely the opposite shore and began to 

 bait fish till the wind increased so much in violence as to render any 

 sport almost hopeless. And so I found it at last. I then rowed against 

 the storm of wind to a more sheltered point, but where the water was too 

 shallow to hope for any success at all. The next movement was home 

 ward and across the lake again, and although the waves rolled very high 

 with white caps and very threatenly toward the opposite home shore, 

 still, as the gale would be directly aft of the boat, I determined to make 

 the attempt at any rate, and had but little doubt of success in reaching 

 home in safety. I pushed off, and the wind being quite favorable and 

 very powerful, I scudded over at a great pace, my plunger riding the 

 high waves like a duck, and by rowing with all my strength, especially 

 as I neared the the bank, I drove my boat nearly high and dry on the 

 shelving landing. My fell®w members of the Club greeted me with 

 cheers, and considered the whole thing a prety good achievement for a 

 man of 74 years; and we had my fish cooked for supper, which, with a 

 plentiful supply of beef steaks, bottled beer, potatoes and bread, and a 

 dish of delicious strawberries and creim, to wind up with, we enjoyed 

 ourselves exceedingly. We all spent a cheerful and chatty evening to- 

 gether, although the persistent gale shook the game house and made it 

 tremble rather badly. This storm lasted all night, and nearly the whole 

 of next day, preventing all of us from fishing, except two adventurous 

 and good anglers, who after breakfast pushed out from the shore amidst 

 the breakers and trolled for about three hours under the lea of the oppo- 

 site mountains, but only took one small salmon which rose at a black 

 fly above the spoon bait. In the evening we all left, not much discourag- 

 ed, but resolving to visit the lake soon again, when the weather should 

 be more favorable for piscatorial operations. This lake— San Andreas- - 

 is more exposed to high winds than lakes Merced or Pilarcitos— all of 

 which are leased by our Sportsman's Club. E.J. Hooper. 



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NINE DAYS ON THE RESTIGOUCHE, 



"X New York, August 1st. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Reaching the noble Restigonche on July 3d, we proceeded to secure 

 Indians, bark canoes and provisions for ten days, and set out early on 

 the 4th to ascend the rapids, our objective point being some sixteen 

 miles distant, selected as a spot for permanent encampment. It was a 

 hard day's struggle with loaded canoes against the foaming rapids; but 

 our men were experienced, stout, fresh, willing and eager for the sport 

 (no trouble if you give them plenty of pork, flour and tea, for they rare- 

 ly use spirits in any form), and the run was accomplished by 6 P. M. 

 Here landing our stores, the writer dropped down the current a short 

 distance to secure a fresh salmon for the larder. It is only under such 

 circumstances that you can truly enjoy this noble fish in perfection; 

 city salmon is not to be classed with it. I returned to camp at 7:30 P. 

 M with my canoe lined with three silvery beauties weighing 22, 23 and 

 14 pounds, and a grilse four pounds. I found the tent pitched, a fire 

 such as can only be made where fuel ie in abundance and costs nothing 

 culinary utensils unpacked, kettle boiling, etc. The result of the half- 

 hour's fishing was soon apparent from the flavor wafted through that 

 pure mountain air, and with appetites to be envied we were not long in 

 satisfying them. Next in order was the brier-wood pipe, Hallock's 

 "Fishing Tourist," and consultation as to the programme of the com- 

 ing morn. The river, although then too high, was rapidly falling to a 

 good angling mark, and our anticipations were of the most encouraging and 

 pleasant nature. Morning soon came with a fair promise (nights are 

 short in that northern region), but only to cause disappointment. The 

 sky soon became overcast, resulting in a heavy rain, and causing the 

 river, already too high, 1o increase fully two feet. Wnh depressed coun- 

 tenances we encouraged ourselves by the fact that there were plenty of 

 salmon, and we must search for them in other spots than their accus- 

 tomed haunts at lower water. 



The score stood as follows :-22, 23, 14, 18, 19, 18, 14, 23, 18, 20, 23, 22, 

 26, 26, 26, 15, 17, 23, 24, 19, 26, 14, 18, 22, 24, 22, 21, 22, 19, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 

 21, 23, 25, 21, 22— aggregating 817 pounds, and averaging 21 pounds. 

 Also one grilse, 4 pounds. With these fish in such high water and 

 strong rapids, we experienced some desperate, and many positively 

 dangerous eucounters. Many more fish were hooked and lost after a 

 half to a full hour's struggle from this cause, and none but the most 

 perfect gear and leading tackle could stand them in such water. I re- 

 turned to the city in improved health and vigor to experience the last 

 day of the heated term which we had, fortunately, escaped. 



"Novice." 

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WHAT ARE LUNGE? 



Waterloo, July 20th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



In your issue of the 6th one of your western correspondents "Havi- 

 land," inquires "What are lunge?" and says that he knows the woods 

 and waters mentioned in my article that appeared in your paper of May 

 4th, and the gentlemen whose names appear in that article "did not call 

 a lake trout a lunge in the days when he used to knock around with 

 them." It is a matter of surprise to us that Tom C, under the guise of 

 "Haviland," should pretend that he knows all about those woods and 

 waters, and as for his other statement I will let the following communi- 

 cation from the gentlemen mentioned in my former article speak for 

 itself:— 



Watertoo, July 19th. 

 This is to certify that the lake trout of Memphremagog and Brompion 

 Lakes are known in tins vicinity as "lunge," and bave been called so 

 since our earliest recollection. Geo. H. Allen, Mayor. 



T. Nutting, Clerk Circuit Court. 



A. K. Nutting, Dep. do. 



W. A. Tavlcr. 



P. Cowyn, Sheriff, Dist. Bedford. 

 For the benefit of your readers in general I would say that we early 

 settlers in this vicinity adopted the name "lunge" for the lake trout 

 from the St. Francis Indians, who formerly hunted and fished around 

 these lakes. I have had since my letter of May 9th the pleasure of ex- 

 amining some fine specimens of the black and silver lunge, and am fully 

 convinced that they are the Salrm confl,ais and b'almo Jia?naycush } and 

 from the description that I have had of the "racer lunge," it answers 

 well to the Salmo Hscowet by Gunther. There is also another variety 

 of lake trout found in the Masiiwippi Lakecalled the black salmon. I 

 expect a specimen of this fish soon, and will send you a description of 

 it when obtained. Stanstead. 



TRANSPORTING LIVE MINNOWS. 



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Cincinnati, August 5th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.— 



In auswer to F. W. C, Boston, would say I have had great success in 

 transporting minnows by using a large bucket, holding say four gallons, 

 with inside bucket small enough to have plenty of play and thoroughly 

 perforated. Place a large pitce of ice on top of the inside bucket every 

 ten or fifteen minutes; churn the inside bucket up and down to aerate 

 the water. I have transported minnows in this way two hundred miles. 

 If the inside bucket is oval on the bottom it is much better than if it has 

 a flat bottom as the action of car or boat will keep the bucket in motion. 



W. B. S. 

 [This double bucket is much used by fish culturist's for 

 transporting live fish for stocking waters. — Ed.] 



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The Centennial Bench Show.— Intending exhibitors 

 at the Centennial Bench Show will see from the letter 

 which we publish below that in order to have their entries 

 printed in the official catalogue it is necessary to hand them 

 in as earty as possible. The letter is intended to apply to 

 live stock generally, hence the paragraph regarding pedi- 

 grees, which does not apply, necessarily to dogs: — 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The list of entries of live stock for display at the International Exhibi- 

 tion, will go to press August 20th for publication in the official catalogue 

 of the Centennial Commission. 



Breeders intending to exhibit will recognize the advantage of having 

 their stock comprehended in this publication, and are invited to for- 

 ward promptly their entries, with pedigree so made out as to be clearly 

 understood. 



Entries of stock will be renewed after the date mentioned and judged 

 on an equality with the others, but it is questionable if the Commission 

 will assume the cost of the publication of an appendix. 



Applicants for stalls will receive by the 20th of August an official per- 

 mit of space, giving exact location in the stock yard of the stalls assign- 

 ed them. Instructions in relation to the shipping will accompany the 

 permit. 



Terms of entry may be obtained upon application to the Bureau of 

 Agriculture. Burnet Landrete, Chief of Bureau. 



In a subsequent letter relative to the Bench Show, Mr. 

 L and ret h says: 



"As will be seen in another communication from me the entries for 

 this show wi'l remain open till the 20\h inst. Entries will be received 

 up to the 1st September, but entries made after the 20th inst., will not 

 be included in the official catalogue, although they will be entitled to 

 compete, same as dogs previously entered. I need not point out to in 

 tending exhibitors, the advantage of having their dogs entered in the cata- 

 logue, as a much better chance is afforded to intending purchasers of 

 knowing whose property the dogs are, and getting other information 

 necessary as to the breed, &c, of the dogs. In allowing the entries to 

 remain open till the 20th, it will give parties from a distance a better 

 chance to enter their dogs, as so many applications for forms of entry 

 have been received, that it would have been impossible to have closed on 

 the 10th. This moreover will now give all fanciers who only recently have 

 heard of this show, an opportunity to enter their dogs, as there seems 

 to be a growing desire from all parts of the Union and Canada to be re- 

 presented at the International Bench Show." 



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Pittsburgh Bench Show. — A bench show of dogs will 

 be held this month, in connection with the second exposi- 

 tion of the Tradestnens' Industrial Institute, of Pittsburgh; 

 Pa., commencing on the 16lh inst. There are some fifty 

 classes for dogs, with money premiums in each. Mr. 

 James Johnson is Secretary to the Executive Committee, 

 and the person, we presume, to whom entries should be 

 made. 



— Mr. R. B. Yining, Superintendent of the Meriden trot- 

 ting park, has a fine setter dog, which has a curious habit 

 of stopping runaway horses. He seizes them by the bit 

 and stops them at once. Several instances of his remarka- 

 ble sagacity might be given when he showed his power to 

 stop such excited animals, thus saving their owner's loss, 

 and preventing injury to the horses. Mr. Vining has been 

 offered $150 for Sam, but refuses to part with him for any 

 amount. 



Poisoning by Paris Green. — A correspondent writes us 

 that he has lately lost a valuable setter in Orange County, 

 with strong symptoms of arsenical poison. Many other 

 dogs have also died. He attributes it to Paris green in the 

 fields, and requests us to caution sportsmen and give an 

 antidote , suggesting that perhaps one scruple sulphate of 

 zinc in warm water, for a vomit and then milk and magne- 

 sia might do. 



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— Judging from the number of applications for entry 

 blanks and information which come to us, the Centennial 

 Bench show will be far beyond anything of the kind ever 

 seen in this country. We trust that some arrangements 

 will be made with the Railroad authorities as to the trans- 

 portation of dogs. A concession in rates or guarantee of 

 careful handling would largely increase the entries. 



—Mr. Harry Babcock of San Francisco, Cal., has pur- 

 chased from our Field Editor a splendid brace of black and 

 tan Gordon setters. One of the brace is Monarch, a prize 

 wiuner at the last Springfield Bench Show. The other, 

 Rake, is. an extra fine young dog. These dogs are now on 

 the route to San Francisco, and will doubtless prove an ac- 

 quisition to the fine stock of the State. 



PEDIGREES AND THEIR VALUE. 



New Yobk, August 6th, 18T6. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I have read with great interest the different articles on pedigrees and 

 their value, etc.. that have appeared in the different sporting journals, 

 but have not as yet seen any, with perhaps one exception, that sets 

 forth the true and only value in, a pedigree. Some ro so far as to say 

 they are of no value at all. And really one would imagine by what is 

 written that a dog with a pedigree was to be condemned at once as 

 worthless when compared to another who had none at all. Others, how- 

 ever, go to the other extreme and attach too much importance to a 

 pedigree, and in so doing are likely to lose sight of or undervalue the 

 working abilities of an animal. Now, I believe, (and there are many 

 who will agree with me), that there is a happy medium between these 

 two, and that a pedigree is very valuable, and to some exceedingly so, 

 but only when taken into consideration with field performances of the 

 dog. Take, for instance, a man who only has one dog, who does not 

 intend to breed from him, but when he gives out to get another. Now, 

 if that dog does his work well, what does his owner care about his 

 pedigree; but, on the other hand,-suppose this m*n wishes to breed 

 from the animal, will not a pediciee, or, in other words, a knowledge of 

 his ancestry be all-important to him? There are gcod dogs with pedi- 

 grees as there are also bad ones; the same may be said of those without 

 pedigrees, and, I think, whore you compare the number, in this country, 

 of each kind, the larger proportion of .poor dogs, both in looks and 



