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FOREST AND STREAM. 



cents; eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; sheepshead, 25 

 cents; turbot, 25 cents; scollops, $1.50 per gallon; soft 

 clams, 30 to 60 cents per hundred; whitefish, 20 cents per 

 pound; salmon trout, 20 cents; pompano, 50 cents; frog 

 legs, 50 cents; hard-shell crabs, $4 per 100; soft do., $1.50 

 per dozen. 



—A correspondent residing at Harwood, Rice Lake, 

 Canada, complains that the tax of $1 per day for fishing 

 privileges has driven off nearly every American from the 

 lake the past summer, a fact that may be regarded in the 

 light of fun for the bass, but death to the hotel keepers 

 and boatmen. 



— A correspondent who has been fishing in the Saco riv- 

 er at the base of Mt. Crawford, New Hampshire, writes:— 



"The Saco below Bemis, will soon get used up, for up 

 Sawyer's river, that empties into the JSaco, they have estab- 

 lished a saw mill, and made a town in the wilderness for 

 lumbering, called Livermore, and will run the sawdust 

 down stream by the tons. 1 got a dose on the stream, so I 

 know, and give it up as a gone trout stream, though other 

 interests may be commercial in this new settlement." 



Fishing Movements —Many of the Cape Cod mackerel 

 fleet have mace a harbor here, and they leport a slim catch 

 of late. The arrivals during the week have been 58, as 

 follows:— 19 from ma •kereting, including 3 lrom the Bay 

 or St. Lawrence, 2(J lrom Georges, and 13 from the Banks. 

 The receipts have been 390,u00 pounds of Georges codfish, 

 715,000 po.iuds of Bank codfish, 214,000 pounds of halibut, 

 and 2,800 barrels of mackerel. There aie 27 vessels en- 

 gaged in the Bay of St. Lawrence mackerel fishery, from 

 this port. Of ihis number but three have as yet arrived 

 home, packing out 440 barrels in the aggregate. The schr. 

 Mary Odell, Uapt. Geo. McLaiu, arrived Wednesday from 

 mackereling, hiving made a good haul off Matinicus on 

 Sa'urdav, securing 100 barrels of nice mackerel which were 

 sold fresh in Boston for the snug sum of $1,500, The Mary 

 Odell has landed this year 2,200 barrels of lresh mackerel, 

 making a stock of $11,000 net. The crew have shared 

 $436 96 each. This is ttie largest stock, that we know of 

 Up to this time, of the niacke'tl fleet. — Cape Arm Adver- 

 tiser, September, 23d 



—Nat uralists of the Meteorological Society of Scotland, 

 noticed last year that hei rings in fresh water rose to the 

 sun ace only when the tempeiature had fallen below twelve 

 degn.es Reaumur. Fishermen now, when they do not find 

 the Qsti near the surface, drop thtir thermometers until they 

 fall to the required point, and lower their nets in accord- 

 ance, with great success. 



F1SH1JNG 



AND GUNNING 

 TUCKET. 



AT NAN- 



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Brooklyn, September 24. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



Never ha\ing heard Nantucket spoken of through the columns of your 

 paper, I take ine liberty of writing a few lines about it. Situated within 

 fuur or live hour's journey of Boston, it presents unusual attractions for 

 the louriot and sporttrneu, not to be equalled on the whole Atlantic 

 coast. The fishing is very tine for scup and bluefish. The former is the 

 sarne that we call the porgie, although the fishermen say not, but it bears 

 Buch a strong re -emblauce to the porgie taat it must be the same Hen. 

 Tuey are. caught in great numbers, sorneuines a party catching as many 

 as a bundled in thiee or four hours fishing. And bluefish! what better 

 plea .me is there than trolling for bluefish? In my estimation it is far 

 ahead of salmon fishing. For ihoee that prefer still fishing, there are 

 several ponds teeming * iih perch, a person in a day's fishing frequently 

 catching over ten dozen. For the sportsmen, the island offers a great 

 many attractions, black ducks, four varieties of plover, viz upland, 

 green heads, red-breast, and chicken plover, curlew, and almost every 

 variety of snore birds. 



The bathing is magnificent (either the surf or still water). And the 

 clam bates! Ah, that magic word that will make an epicure's mouth 

 water— the pile of clams adorned with lobsters, chickens, and green corn, 

 lying in their green covering of sea weed, steaming and hissing. I think 

 the I aMamed Rhode Island clam bake falls far behind the Nantucket 

 bake. ' C. H. 0. 



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ROTTEN MACKEREL. BY MOONLIGHT. 



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The following correspondence upon an old and much 

 vexed theme will be found interesting: — 

 W Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 25th. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



For the first tim«, last week, did I hear a doubt expressed abont the 

 effect of moonlight upon fish. W ithout giving any reason why it was 

 not true that fish weie spoiled by being exposed to it. the statement was 

 made that such a theory was simply nonsense. I have never met a fish- 

 erman of any experience who does not believe in the theory from actual 

 experience, aud while I can give no scientific explanation of tbe cause, 

 I quote tbe old saving, "he snines and stinks, and stinks and shines like 

 a rotten mackerel by moouligit." Can you throw any light, upon the 

 Bubj* ct which will berve to enlighten the ignorant or convince the skep- 

 tical? B. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.— 



Your corre-pondent who asks for information a? to the effect of moon- 

 light upon fish is respectfully referred to Pruf. Tyndall. Many of the 

 notions of fishermen are groundless supir-titions. and others that ap- 

 pear so at first thought will, upon a thorough investigation, be found 

 ba-ed np<m f ct. S rong light upon dead animal tissues containing as 

 m ich phosphorus as fish may possibly histen their decomposition. In 

 t he case of sunlight the heat accompanying it would accomplish this ob- 

 ject in advance of the light: but if the moon does affect a fish in this 

 manner, it is of course by light alone. 



1 am glad to see this question raised, and will try the effect on the 

 roof of the aquarium with three fish of the same kind and size kided at 

 the same time, one exposed to moonlight, one covered from it, but m the 

 game currents of air, and the other protected from both light and air, 

 and report the result. 



My friend E. B. Paxton, of Detroit, Mich., who owns the fishery on 

 Fighting Island in the Detroit river, and who freezes tons of whitefish 

 each winter, informs me that his father formerly salted whiteflsh for 

 market, and in Octoner, 1834, upon one occasion, had a large lot of fresh 

 ones lay all night in the moonlight, aud in the morning they appeared 

 f resb and good, and were cleaned and salted. The bar-els— some 30 in 

 number— were marked and kept until the first of March the following 

 year in the usual manner, when they were inspected and found spoiled. 

 Some of the men employed in cleaning the fish expressed doubts as to 

 their condition from tbeir appearance, but their judgment was overruled 

 and the fish were salted Fred Mather, New York Aquarium. 

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—"Wild Bill," who was lately killed in a Western sa- 

 loon, is said to have caused the violent death of at least 

 g<J0 iiuinaa beings. 



ffHchting mtd§a%ting. 



All communications from Secretaries and friends should be mailed no 

 later than Monday In each week. 





HIGH WATER. 



FOR THE WEEK. 





Date. 



Boston, 



New York. 



Charleston 



Sep, 28..... 



H. M. 



7 34 



8 27 



9 14 

 9 57 



10 39 



11 18 

 11 56 



H. M. 



4 19' 



5 12 



6 



6 43 



7 24 



8 

 8 30 



H. * 



3 34 



Sep. 29 



4 27 



Sep. 30.. 



Oct. 1 



5 14 

 5 57 



Oct. 2 



6 39 



Oct. 8 



7 18 



Oct. 4 



7 56 



New York Yacht Club Regatta. — The autumn re- 

 gatta of the New York Yacht Club was sailed on the 19th 

 inst. , but the report reached us too late for our last issue. The 

 day was all that could be desired for a race, but unfortu- 

 nately the entries were so few that the regatta was a farce 

 when we consider the immense fleet of yachts comprising 

 the club. When Mr. Bennett took an active interest in 

 yachting sueh was never the case, and the fall regatta was 

 apt to be the most interesting of the season. The course 

 was the usual one, from the club house, to and around 

 Sandy Hook Light Ship, and return to buoy No. 15. The 

 entries were of schooners, in the first class, the Rambler 

 and Idler, and in the stcond, the Meta and Peerless; of 

 sloops there were only the Gracie and Madcap in their 

 respective classes, so each had a walk over for the $200 

 cup. The racing was, therefore, really between the schoon- 

 ers, and reduced to a match between those of each class. 

 The yachts were started as follows;— Idler, 11:21:28; Peer- 

 less, 11:23:12; Madcap, 11:23:54; Meta. 11:24:27; Rambler, 

 11:24:40; Gracie, 11:25:44. The Idler went off at a tre- 

 mendous pace, and kept her lead throughout the race. The 

 yachts rounded Sandy Hook Light Ship as follows: — Idler, 

 1:09:18; Rambler, 1:16:30; Peerless, 1:19:22; Meta, 1:24:30; 

 Gracie, 1.36:05. Back to the Spit was a beat to wind 

 ward, and the sloops laying up closer recovered some of 

 their lost ground. The Idler continued her lead however, 

 and the winning buoy was passed in the following order: — 

 Idler, 4:09:35; Rambler, 4:28:45; Peerless, 4,34:38; Mela, 

 4:42:18; Gracie, 4:39:46; Madcap, 4:56:48. The Idler had 

 an allowance of four minutes, eight seconds from the Ram- 

 bler; she won by more than sixteen minutes witkout it. 

 The Peerless won from the Meta, to which she was giving 

 time, and the Gracie and Madcap, of the sloops, gained 

 their prizes without contention. 



Brooklyn Yacht Club. — The annual fall regatta of the 

 this Club was sailed on Thursday last, the course being 

 from off the Club house in Gravesend Bay, to and around 

 the southwest spit buoy, a distance of fifteen miles. The 

 yachts were divided in four classes, the prizes being a 

 pennant for the successful boat in each class. The entries 

 were as follows:— 



Actual Corrected 



Start. Home. Time. Trme. 



Name. h. m. b. h. m. b. h. m b. w. m. p. 



Comet 13 48 00 t 51 00 2 03 00 2 03 OCT 



Playful 12 41 00 8 13 00 2 82 00 2 32 00 



Mautic 12 41 45 2 49 45 2 08 CO 2 08 00 



Kate 12 43 45 3 05 45 2 S£ 00 2 18 16 



Lizzie L 12 41 10 3 0* 15 US 23 00 2 23 05 



Selene 12 44 00 3 12 25 2 28 25 2 26 44 



America 12 42 15 — — — 



W.T.Lee 12 37 80 3 07 40 2 30 10 2 27 25 



Cynthia 12 39 00 3 06 20 2 27 30 2 27 20 



The Comet after sailing around the course withdrew, 

 giving the schooner prize to the Playful. The Niantic 

 took the prize for first class sloops, and the Lizzie L. was 

 in the second class. The Cyntnia, after a very closely 

 contested race, beat the W. T. Lee in the open boat class. 



Seawanhaka Yacht Club. — This Club will hold a 

 "Corinthian" race, open to second class schooner yachts 

 of all duly organized yacht clubs, on Saturday, the 30th 

 instant. By second class yachts are meant all those of 

 ninety feet mean length and under, and there will be time 

 allowance based upou mean length and greatest breadth. 

 Yachts must be manned by amateurs exclusively. Tke 

 course will be the usual one, from off Fort Wadsworth, 

 to and around Sandy Hook Light-ship and return. En- 

 tries to be addressed to Mr. M. Roosevelt Schuyler, No. 

 52 William street; close to-day at 4 o'clock p. m. 



Queens County Yacht Club. — The fourth annual re- 

 gatta oi this Club was sailed from Little Bay Side, on 

 Tnursday last. 'Ihe course was from a stake-boat off the 

 Club-house at Little Bay Side to and around the Stepping 

 Stones buoy, theDce to and around a stake- boat off Mc 

 Cletland's dock, City Island, thence to and around the buoy 

 off Throgg's JNeck and back to starling point, ail marks to 

 be left on the port haud. This course to be gone over 

 twice, making a distance of about sixteen miles. A fair 

 breeze favored ihe yacuts throughout the race. The sen- 

 sation of the day was the sailing of the Greenpoint of tlie 

 second cla*s yachts. The following total gives the entries 

 and the result:— 



FIRST CLASS. 



Finish. 



H. M. S. 

 4 09 00 



withdrawn. 



Elapsed 

 Time. 



h. m. s. 

 2 43 57 



Corrected 

 Time. 



H. M. S. 



2 43 57 



* 



43 



50 



2 



43 



05 





57 



15 



2 



57 



» 



•A 



01 



19 



3 



02 



59 



3 



09 



25 



3 



04 



15 



Start. 

 Name. h. m. s. 



Gracie 1 2i 03 



JacuD Laug 1 25 00 



SECOND CLASS. 



Greenpoint t 27 00 3 44 20 2 17 20 2 17 20 



Kosa 1 26 50 4 17 50 2 51 00 2 43 01 



FOURTH CLASS. 



Quits 1 26 40 4 10 30 



b rank Pigeon 1 ai 30 4 21 45 



Lizzie 1 26 01 4 30 20 



Ella 1 28 20 4 3? 45 



Thus the Gracie wins the money in her class, while the 

 Greenpoint carries off not only the prize in money in the 

 second class, but the handsome cup for the best time, as 

 she beat the Quits (next on the list), 27tn. 40s. The Quits 

 wins the silk pennant for the best time of the Queens 

 County yachts, beating the Gracie 20m. 7s. The Rosa and 

 Frank Pigeon save their entrance. 



Atlantic Yacht Club.— The fall regatta of this Club 

 was sailed on Saturday last, over the usual couise from Bay 

 Ridge to and around the South-west Spit buoy and return, 

 a distance of twenty-two miles. The entries included the 

 schooners Triton, Agnes and Peerless, sloops Dolphin, Orion, 

 Madcap, .Niantic and Sadie in the first class, and Mvra and 

 Nimbus in the second. The yachts were restricted to 

 working sails and earned their boats. A flying start was 

 effected at 2:27, the schooner Triton leading the fleet. | 



The wind was from the East and the tide running ebb 

 enabling the yachts to make a straight course for the Spit 

 with sheets started. Outside Fort Lafayette, however it 

 headed more to the southward, and bv the time the Hospi- 

 tal Islands were reached was blowing half a gale, sending 

 lee rails under and causing a reduction of canvass to 

 lower working sails. The Peerless was unfortunate in 

 parting the tacks of her jib and flying jib, and carrying - 

 away her cat-head. The Triton was the first to round the 

 buoy, at 3:53:30, followed by the Peerless at 3:56:30 the 

 Agnes at 3:58:50, the Niantic at 4:01:15, and the Orion at 

 4:03:50; the rest were not timed. It was when hauling on 

 the wind that the Peerless parted her flying jib tack, 'and 

 while repairing damages was passed by the Agnes. ' The 

 yachts were enabled to lay a course for the Narrows, but 

 once inside several tacks were necessary to reach the stake- 

 boat. The Peerless passed the Agnes, and tne Niautie 

 passed everything but the Triton. The following was the 

 result:— 



SCHOONER*. 



Elapsed Corrected. 



Starts. Finish. Time. Time. 



Name. h. m. e. h m. s. h. m. s. h. m '» • 



Triion 2 27 35 5 51 05 3 '^3 30 3 20 4r 



Asmes 2 30 00 6 05 45 3 35 45 3 28 27 



Peerless 2 3^ 40 6 02 40 3 32 00 3 32 00 



FIRST CLASS SLOOPS. 

 H. II. S. H. M. S. H. M. S. H. M <* 



Niantic 2 32 25 6 03 05 3 30 40 3 30 40 



Orion 2 28 10 6 10 15 3 42 02 3 31 59 



Sadie 2 34 34 6 23 30 3 48 56 3 38 16 



Madcap 2 21 40 6 25 2tt 3 53 40 3 39 E5 



Lolphin 2 27 30 6 40 20 4 12 50 



SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 

 H. M. S. 



Nimbus , 2 32 00 Not timed. 



Myra 2 31 40 Not timed. 



The Triton wins the prize in the schooner class, beatms 

 the Agnes 7m. 40s., which beats the Peerless, on time 

 allowance, 3m. 23s. The Niantic wins the prize for first- 

 class sloops, beating the Orion lm. 10s. ; and the Nimbus 

 the prize for second class sloops. 



— In the return match between the yachts Sophia Emma 

 and George B. Dean, sailed on Monday off Throgg's Neck, 

 the Deane won by nearly 15 minutes. Kach yacht having 

 won one race, a deciding match for the championship wil 

 shortly be sailed* 



— In the regatta for open boats sailed off Guttenberg, N. 

 R., on Monday, the Clara S. won first and second prizes, 

 but the third was not awarded. 



A Correction. — We were in error in our report of the 

 race between the Raritan and Carteret Boat Clubs at New 

 Brunswick on the 13th inst., in staling that Messrs. N 

 Merrit and J. Marsh were in the latter crew . The crew 

 consisted of Messrs. Meeker, bow; A. B. Marsh, R. H. 

 Marsh and Neilson, stroke. Mr. A. B. M.'s seat slipped 

 from under him on the first half mile. The time of the 

 winning crew should have been given as 20:43, instead of 

 21 :45. 



Greenwood Lake Regatta. — The first grand amateur 

 regatta under the auspices of the Greenwood Lake Sports- 

 men's Club will be held on that beautiful sheet of water on 

 Friday and Saturday, October 6th and 7th. The races com- 

 prise on, the first day, junior single sculls, pair-oared 

 shells, and six-oared gigs with coxswain; on the second, 

 senior single sculls, double-scull shells, and four-oared 

 shells. All races will be two miles straightaway, and en- 

 trance free. Amateurs only will be allowed to row. Good 

 board at the lake for contestants at the rate of $1 per day. 

 The prizes are handsome banners and gold lockets. Ar- 

 rangements have been effected with the Montclair and 

 Greenwood Lake Railway Co., for the free transmission of 

 boats and crews from Jersey City, Greenwood Lake and 

 return. All letters of inquiry should be addressed to Wm. 

 O. McDowell, Greenwood, P. O. Orange, Co., N. T. 



— A double-scull race for the $500, three miles with a 

 turn, was rowed on the Charles river, Boston, on the 22d 

 inst., between J. A. Landers, of Salem, and Michel Davis, 

 of Portland, on one side, and T. C Butler and Frenchy 

 Johnson, of the West End Boat Club, on the other. The 

 visiting ciew won easily in 2Um. 33^s. 



— Price, a member of the Paris (N. B.) Boat Crew, is ac- 

 cused by Fulton, another member, of selling the race at 

 Philadelphia. Price declares that Fulton sold the race. 

 Both have been expelled from the crew. 



HALIFAX ON SCHUYLKILL. 



Halifax, N. S., Sept. 20. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Halifax has been greatly exercised lately over the recent four-oared 

 race on the Schuylkill. The "Fishermen crew'' returned last Friday and 

 were received with much enthusiasm. An "ode - f .welcome," (consist 

 ing chiefly of abuse at the referee), was written in their honor, and a 

 torchligut procession escorted them through the principal streets of the 

 town, most of the houses past wuich ihay marched being illuminated. 

 The unfortunate referee was again a prominent feature, and he was 

 hung in effigy. It is to be regretted that a foul (the bane of rowing 

 matches) should have occured, and the race terminate unsad^faoturily, 

 but it seems to be ihe opinion of outside observers that the referee's 

 judgment was correct, when he decided that the Halifax crew were out 

 of their water when the foul occurred. It is to be presumed that he told 

 the crews to row on, on the chance that Thames would come in ahead, 

 and so save him the disagreeable duty of having to decide who was to 

 blame. However, the Haligonians have a grand opportunity of winning 

 both honor and dollars. Let them be magnanimous and accept the 

 challenge of the Thames crew to row a straightaway five-mile race on 

 the Thames, and let coxswains of equal weight be carried. This would 

 make no difference in their rowing, though the time might not be so 

 good, while it would reduce the chance of fouiing to a minimum. A 

 capital race would be the result, and if the Halifax crew should win, as 

 they have every chance of doing, they would have the honor, I believe, 

 of being the first ci ew to defeat Englishmen on their own waters, and 

 would wm any amount of money for their backers. C. M Douglas. 



— If rats enter the cellar, a little powdered potash thrown 

 into their holes or mixed with meal, and scattered in their 

 runways, never fails to drive them away. 



—In New Hampshire this is a great apple year. The 

 yield will be almost unprecedented in some parts of that 

 State. 



