AtiatrsT 14 1880.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



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than the past! si lall let tlie Doctcr attend to that part 

 and give his profound ideas of the 2,000 year ago subjects 

 which we unearthed, in his coinmunicatiju to the 

 literary.... 



On the 24th, early morninp;, we struck tent, packed 

 our traps, paid oflE our man $1 a day, hired a team for 

 ^4, and at 6 p.m. were landed across the country on the 

 Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad at Jlancelona .Sta- 

 tion ; took train at about 10 p.m.; arrived at Grand 

 Rapids at .^ A. M,, and at Jackson at f):.30 a.m., witli a 

 nice lot of trout packed in sawdust, whicli wh t.njt at a 

 mill at Grass Lake, and wliich were as nice ruid li.ard as 

 tliougli ,iu8t from the water, almost, and no loss of flesh 

 or appetite after our six days among the brook trout of 

 Cedar River. 



• We unanimously voted the trip a success, and that fu- 

 ture years would And us, with rod and fly, trying for a 

 bite. " H.'SOTJLE. 



Thoct in North CARoUNA.-^.S7taro)i Hill, Aug. M.— 

 In your paper of July aOth, your correspondent, "A. F. 

 J.," inq^uires if tliere are any trout in the French Broad 

 River in Nortli Carolina ; and in continuation of the sub- 

 .ject. you ask for infonnatiou about tlie distribution of 

 trout in that State. There are very few trout in North 

 Cdroiina. in the ptreams that flow east into tlie Atlantic 

 Ocean ; but nearly all the streams that How west, into 

 the Tennessee River, contain them, often in great abun- 

 dance. I have utvc-r sec-n thf-m there in waters le.ss 

 than 3,000 fuel a!ju\-i? t\w sea. TJif>- ar^ seldom found in 

 large rivers, such as i lie Freneh Bmad. but they prefer 

 the.triliUtarics, and " pusli up " well toward their sources. 

 They like to revel in the cool, shady waters, fresh from 

 theearth, above the settlements where the trees anW 

 bushes are cut from the margiiis of the strpaiu.s, and 

 where foul waters are carried from plowed fields in times 

 of rain, 



I will enumerate some of the streams in North Caro- 

 lina where trout ma}' be found, coiumencing in Watauga 

 County aud gofii;: SI MitliMeNl. When I mention a river, 

 I moan its iribuiaries. Trout are found in the Watauga 

 River, in tiie eoimty of tlie same name ; in Mitchel 

 County, they exist in Ninth and South Toe Rivers; in 

 Oiine River, in Yancey (Jounty ; in the headwaters of the 

 French Broad, in lliiiaer.-ion and Transylvania counties ; 

 and in its tributaries, such a.s the Swaunanoa and Ivy 

 rivers, in Buncombe County ; iu the Big Pigeon River, 

 in Haywood County ; iu Tuckaseege Kuer, ju Jackson 

 County ; in the Little Tennessee Kiver, in Macon County, 

 especially in Sugartown Creek, above the falls, where the 

 good old Silas McDowel "planted'" theni many years 

 ago, as he informed me, and where they may be' caught 

 among the clouds, nearly 4,000 feet above the sea, proba- 

 bly the highest habitat of the trout in the United States 

 east of the Mississippi River. Probably the best fishing 

 may be obtained in the NantalialeU "River, in Jlaeon 

 County, especially in Buck Creek, on ■' Chiinkey Ual 

 Mountain." This river is 2,600 feet aliove the sea, near 

 Alec. Monday's house, on the jiiain road frotu Asherville 

 to Duektinvii find I 'leaveland, Tenn. Alee, can accom- 

 modate ttiaii^eis cumfiirtably, and can give them a bear 

 hunt, also, a.s he is a fearless hunter and keeps good dogs. 



for that. This was in late August. What the lower 

 waters of the French Broad and tributaries afford I can't 

 say, as I have never been there. S, 



His address is Anuone, Macon 

 I could never ascertain \ 



streams farther south than tl 

 They are not found in tl 



contradictory reports about t, 



waters of the Oi.'cmi.G River, i 



There is a railroad now f 



among the 



to Mitchel 



ty, X. C. 



ether tniiit are found in 



Xaiitahaleh River. 



Irliwissee. .atid there arc 



:ii-e\-isteuee in the head- 



the iiHHintains <rf t-ieorgia. 



1 .Salisliury Iu Aahevdle, 



tains of North Carolina. When going 



mcey counties, one should leave tlie rail- 



lud go to Burnsville, or stop witli Isaac 



way. Tom Wilson is the ■■ boss trout 



V County, and can entertain si,ram;ers. 



■jJig Tom Wilson," Buriisvillt, Yauees^ 



road at JLi 

 Englisli on tl 

 fislier " in 't'ai 

 His addi-css 1 

 County, N. C. 



Do not uegleet tu put in the " big," as he says he does 

 not wish auuiher, liut smaller Tom Wilson to get his let- 

 ters. Tom says lie ctui eatch trout at all times and sea- 

 sons. I have seen hiin catch them at night, when he 

 made a large fire near the stream '-to light 'em up." fle 

 says the lug fish bite best at uight. The peoijle among 

 the mountains of iNorth Carnliua are very kind and ho.s- 

 pitjible. I will mention the iiaine.H oi' some ulher persons 

 there who will give informatmn aljiut lisluug Jocalities 

 At Asheville, Gen. Clingman and E. .f. Aston. At 

 Waynesvillc, Judge Cudger studies practical ichthyology 

 as well as law, and if not engaged on the Circuit, Jiu 

 might be disposed to exchange his gavel for the fly rod. 

 At Franklin, in Macon County, Mr. Jackson Johnson and 

 Rev. C. D. Smith will cJieerfuUy give information to 

 strangers, No one who visits Mitchel County should fail 

 to go to the top of Roan Mountain, where 31r. L. B. Searle 

 entertains traveler's at his house auionu; tlie eloinis 

 ti,a70 feet above the sea, and where mie nia/j- see a cheer- 

 tul, blazing Hre every morning aud cveniag in summer. 

 His addi-es3 is Cloudlaud, Mitchel County, N. C. 



Joseph Wilcox. 

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STKOt.TTjSB0RQ,Pa., Ai(^. 4<ft,.— In answer to the inquiry 

 of " A. F. J." as to whether there are trout in the French 

 Broad, I will say that I spent last summer between 

 Hendersonville and Brevard, late county seat of Tran- 

 sylvania County, and was repeatedly told there were 

 no trout iu the French Broad, that stream having only 

 a fesv Dlack bass and more "jack," But in the upper 

 waters of Mills River and Davidson Ri^'^r, and other trib- 

 utiiries of the French Broad, trout may be caught, though 

 they are not very plenty, as in the neighborhood in which 

 I staid I was told that nets were used wherever it was 

 posssihle. Iti most of the small streams that empty into 

 the upper Fi-ench Broad, trout may be found in limited 

 uumbei's, but are only caught with the worm. No liy 

 fishing on account of the laurel. I tried the fly iu Mills 

 River— a beaulifiil stream— but hatl no rise ; the trout 

 took worms, however, reailily. This river can only be 

 whipped by wading from ankle deep to waist, aud I 

 didn't care to get frozen for the privilege. I was with a 

 party, two of whom were mountaineers and accustomed 

 to wading irt cold water. These two. on the last niorii- 

 hig'of our trip oo the headwaters of J\IiUs River and Mt. 

 Piagah, one of the loftiest peaks in North Carolina, be- 

 gan to lish down the river early iu the morning, and be- 

 fore they had gone a iialf mile were compelled to leave 

 the water and thaw out, their bands being so numb they 

 could not bait a hook, X did not want trout bad enough 



^ The Lakes in Socthkun Canada,— Canton, .S'^. 

 Lnwrenca Count}/, X. V., Amj. 3d. — In your answers to 

 Correspondents, .E. 51., of Kew York, asks for dii-eetions 

 to reach Home retired lakes iu the southern part of Canada, 

 like Charleston Lake. 



Your location of Charleston Lake is very accurate. Y'ou 

 are also right about the chain of lakes north of it, but 

 you fail to tell him how to leaeh them. 



For the beneflt of sportsmen, I will supply the required 

 data; having been there from three ilili"erent direc- 

 tions, I perhaps can give it as well as any. Jf a man has 

 a boat of his own and wishes to take it with him, to reach 

 there from New York City, or the central part of the 

 State, his best plan will be to take cars to Cape Vincent, 

 thence by steamer to (innanocqua. put his boat in Gan- 

 auocqua River and row up it atiiiut teu miles, when he 

 will re.l.ch the first lake consiftiiiL- i,'£ a ehaiu of seven as 

 beautiful lakes as a man would wish to see. He wUI also 

 find a number of ponds scattered around among the 

 hedges and mountains, consisting of what the inhab- 

 itants call Lime Lake, Long Lake, South Lake, Higaly 

 Lake. Kindrick Lake, and a number of others without 

 names, with good lisliiug iu all of them and excellent 

 black bass fistiing ill most of them. I had the ple.isure 

 of spending a few days there last October, and found the 

 Ashing all that ime could desire in the shape of small liah- 

 iug ; have taken liass I loiii Leadniine Lake that weighed 

 eight pounds, and uaniy enough to satisfy the desh-e of 

 any sp'rismun. 



If H man has no boat and wishes to go light, let him 

 take cars tei (Ji^densljurgh, cross over to Prescott, take 

 the Uiand Trunk Railroad to Lansdown Station, hire a 

 team to tiikc him to Henry Slack's, at Post Hay, and in- 

 quire for John Slack, who" has ill liis possession one of 

 Rushtou's boats, and is an excellent jiuide, and will gi\'e 

 you more fishuig and fun iu two weeks than a man can 

 get at Saratoga in two months. Thes-i lakes and |_)ouds 

 are all within easy access of one another, and &. good 

 strong nuui can carry his bo.at from one to the other 

 without .any trouble," and by carting his dufel four miles 

 he can reaeji t:liarleston Lake, where he wdl find good 

 saliuun-trout fishing, and scenery which any lover of 

 nature cau not help but admire. J. C. 



Another corre.spondent writes from Toronto, Aug. 4th : 

 One of your correspondents ask.s where he can have 

 some goJd black bass llshin.n. Send him to Lake Josepli. 

 north of Toronto. He must lake worms fui- bait, as all 

 land tliere is rock, aud does not contain worms. 



Deacon Dill. 



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Recoveeed Hooks.— Junexvillu, Wis., July 2Sth.— In 

 your issue of July 1.5th I see an article about a recovered 

 iiook, in which the writer says that he^ cau^lit a tine 

 trout weighing one pound, with Ids missing hook in its 

 stomach. On July a3d, inat., two of our hsiiermen went 

 to Indian Folk I lain, ten miles up the river from here, 

 and one of tlieiu caught a fine pike that weighed four 

 pounds, and when caught it had a set of triple hooks 

 aud about two iuches of silver ginip in his mouth. He 

 was hooked iu both the upper and lower jaw, aud one of 

 the hooks was broken off at the beard of the third hook. 

 He had a lively time with him, as it was in very swift 

 water and with a light rod. How long these hooks bad 

 been in his mouth he did not know, but lie said they 

 were very rusty. _ J. C. T. 



Y Anothek Recovered tiooK.— Franklin, Tenn., July 

 ■Hth. — Y'otir paper of July loth contains an account of a 

 "recovered hook." after Vemaming in the mouth of a 

 trout for nineteen days. A somewhat similar experience 

 occm-red to me in the' month of May last, on the waters 

 of Bedford Lake. In Koveniljer, of Last year, I was fish- 

 ing near Carpenter's Latiiling, and after a strike lost ins- 

 hook (a No. S h:Miilessi ijv tile hrea,kiug of my line, and' 

 in May of the present year, wlule fishing near the same 

 place, niy son, who was fishing a few yards from me, 

 Caught a black bass with a barbless No. S hook fastened 

 through the lower jaw. About a quarter of an inch of 

 the puuit was lost, and in several jilaces the rust had 

 nearly destroyed the wire, so that in a short time the 

 hook would have been released. The bass was in good 

 condition, aiid did not seem to have suifered from the 

 presence of the foreign body. As I was tlie only person 

 on the lake using the barljless hook, I presume tiiere can 

 be no question raised as tu its identity, aud consequently 

 as to the time it was carried by the lish. 



Bedford Lake abounds in all the fish known to AVest- 

 ern vy aters, and the number of logs, sunken stumps and 

 haracteiistics of the bottom, make it irapossiljle for 

 ho^e who fish for profit to exterminate them or ever 

 eriouslv diminish their numbers. D. B. C. 



Bass Fisiiixn ix Sijllin wr. fui-NTY. — Narroivshurah, 

 SiUltvun iJuunly, A', Y., Afj. \lli. — ^To-day has been an 

 e%'entful one in tlie history of thi.s place, tor the visiting 

 as well as the nali\e re'sident fisherman, A Philadel- 

 phian signified his intention, by telegram to the Messrs. 

 C. H. &C. J. Murray, tiie pro'prietors of the principal 

 hotel, to visit them, coming prepared to catch bass, as. he 

 had read a letter in your paper relative to the splendid bliss 

 fishing at this place, I will mention at this point that 

 conbiJerublesur|>rise has been manifpsLed at tho circula- 

 tion of ) our paper ; visitors frLim different sections of tho 

 country ha\e visited us to try our iishiug grounds from 

 the reading of the article referred to. 



Sir. Middletou was attended by the famous Delaware 

 River fiaherman, Dell Bedford, Esq., a hercules iu phys- 

 ical proportion, and of a genial disposition. The ditfereut 

 points of flsbiag L;''"'unil win-e pati.mily lialied, llic clip- 

 per bait being used sueeesslully : to-iii-di I Jlr. Middletou 

 congratulates hiiiisi'lt on Ijeing I he ijjs.^L'Ssor .jf forty- 

 eight bass, few weighing less Uian two pounds. The 

 Narrowburgians also were fortunate iu capturing bass ; 

 eight boats with two or three occupants in each made 

 up the fleet. This day has been a remarkable fishy day. 

 Mr. J.'B, Coe, of the Court of Common Pleas, is stopping 

 here.and he has been considered heretofore the champion 

 tisherman, but today Ids Hug is lowered, he having sur- 

 rendered. The gentlemen of the Oraphio, Messrs. Good- 

 sells, have been with us and were successful ; their pis- 

 catorial outfit was maguilicent and it has been the chief 

 topic of conversation ; also the graceful manner iu whiuh 



they manipulated the rod and line, both gentlemen stand- 

 ing erect in the boat with fly rod in baud, stop reel, etc. 

 Occasionally a fly as an experimenter woidd be cast to the 

 game, then a grasshopper, next a pure gold spoon, troll- 

 ing, last the ordinary slimy Kround worm. The picture 

 was fully up tn the Ordphicn best. Fifty pounds of bass 

 were taken by them, wliicb were paelce'd in grass .and 

 ice and sent away. So much for your article sisned 

 '^Willoughby.'' Come and sec us, and invite your friends. 

 You will find it no hoax about our bass fishing. 



,. BCSSELL. 



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Northern mcmaxN.—Bnhivia, Til.. Anq. 3.i.— A 



troiii an exLairsion to 

 ^ two weeks at Cliarle- 

 iu way of adventure, 

 «ay of their infatuation 



party ot Batavians just ho 

 Northern Michigan, .^Vld a stn 

 voix : bare uot niueh +r. i!-! 

 though they liave a _^ i I 

 with that region, v. r , I. i ' 



ular as a summer If, 1, 11 mi. _, ^ . 



enjoyed exceedingly. On their way from Chicago up the 

 lake, by steamer, two or three of tlietn disembarked and 

 tried their hick in Black Lake, about ten miles south of 



Gi-and Haven. This lake stret 

 ward, to within a few rods ot T 

 stand between the two and tl 

 Their waters have been made to 

 channel, the work of the gover 

 nuglit run in there in times of sto: 

 ten years ago a lighthouse 



s fro 



ke Miehi 



Holland. 

 Yo 



sto 



eith 



ite hy an arlifir-ial 

 ent, so tliat ve.ssels 

 and be safe. About 

 erected at this point, 

 id then a 



Here tliey found excellent bass Ashing. Now ii 

 maskalouge is captured in this lake. This iiiiJre of good 

 fortune, however, did not fall to our boys. Spending 

 several days there they took the train North for 

 Petoskey, on Little Tniverse Bay, and thence by boat to 

 Charlevoix, on Pine Lake, into which '"The Boyne" emp- 

 ties, which is reckoned the best of nil the many trout 

 streams thereabout. They speak in glowing terms of the 

 S|iort they had there trouting. The trout averaged well ; 

 once in a while an unusually Bne one would be taken. 

 While they were there. Res'. Mr. Goodwin, of Chicago, 

 took on a fly one tliat wei;jherl two and a half pounds 

 tlie champion of the serts.jn; so far. Good for the cloth.' 

 In course of time I trust that I shall have some per- 

 sonal experience iu this delightful region to tell about. 



. Eta. 



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Salmon Angling in Calh^oenia.— The auglers of Sau 

 Francisco have a new field open to them for salmon ang- 

 ling. The Bulhtiii, of that city, says :— 



"For several years past tlie fishermen iu :Monferey Bay 

 have taken a few salmon on tlieir lines each suiiinier, 

 while ti-olling for barracouta and other surface fish! 

 Within the past week, however, salmon have been fo 

 numerous that a great many have lieen taken with troll- 

 hig lines, and the guests of the Hotel del Monte, ;it Mon- 

 terey, have had rare sport in supplementing the profc;- 

 aonal flshermen. The fish taken have been in some 

 ustances of large size, and doubtless are a portion i f 

 the late snrniner run of salmon en route to the spiawr- 

 irg grounds of the McCloud and other branches of the 

 Sacramento Rn'er. 



"From a Telegram received, it is ascertained there 

 were four boats' out yesterdiiy, the united catch being 

 fifty salmon, the largest weighing twenty pounds. 



•■As salmon do not frequent the coast streams in sum- 

 mer, it follows that the discovery of an abuudauce of 

 them off Monterey at this season of the year is proof 

 that they go south instead of north of this port, as lias 

 heretofore been believed, between their spasvning sea- 

 sons. From A. C. Tiibbs, who has returned to this' city, 

 it is ascertained that an exaniiaatiou of the stoniaehs 

 of the salmon taken showed their food to lie tonjcod 

 or frost fish, instead of smelts, sardines, anchovies and 

 other surface small fish, as has hithei-to been supposed. 



"The discovery of salmon at Monterey opens a new 

 fishing field to the people of this city, wlio will be able 

 to indulge in the sport at less expense and discomfort 

 tlian is the ca.se with residents of Eastern cities, where 

 the nearest salmon rivers are in Canada, aud quite diffi- 

 cult of acoess." 



^^'crappie and California Salmon.— St Paul, Minn. 

 —I have been long wanting a paper that occupies the 



place that your journal does. There are many men who 

 are by nature si>orlsiueii. but who from lack of means and 

 time cannot from experience become posted, and to thiis 

 Class your paper becomes invaluable : men who now and 

 then have opportunily for a few days' fishing and shoot- 

 ing and who do not Tike to go into the field entirely un- 

 prepared. I have never cast a, 1ly before this season, and 

 though I cannot claim any de.i;iee of excellence or grace 

 still have managed to get'several strings of very baud- 

 some bass. Will souic of your readers Icindh- give na 

 information, as to wliat bait to use and how to fish fi r 

 CaUfornia land-locked salmon 5 There is a lake near my 

 place in tho central part of the State that was planted 

 about five years ago, aud the farmer living there hsg 

 caught five or six while bait fishing for bass, tjuite good 

 sized. I am going up there for a day or two and would 

 lilce to try my luck. Will they bite on a lly ? And will 

 you also please give me information concerning the fish 

 called in the VVestern States the ■ i ro[i]iie. ' 1 have 

 never seen them elsewhere; they are sba|iel like a sun- 

 fish, but different color, and excellent table lish. though 

 not very gamy. I have never found any one who could 

 tell me to wliich class they belong, Ajlvteijr. 



Tho California salmon should be left to breed. 



The "croppie,"or "crappie,"iB Fomoaxys 7iiyromacu- 

 latiis. ^ 



IIow TO Pack a Sal.\iun.— The best way, says Mr,' 

 Buckland, the well-kuowu English naturalist, to pack a 

 salmon to send away is to cover him completely with 

 silver paper, giving him, as it were, a new skin. The 

 silver [laper will adhere by rueaus of the natural slime. 

 The fish should then be plaeed in a box and buried in 

 clean sawdust. When the silver paper is washed off 



itli a sponge it will be found that the beautiful tints 

 of the fish are better preserved hy this mode of packing 

 than by any other. Salmon, as Mr. Buckland points out, 

 are without doubt at their best when caught actually in 

 the sea. They are then lull of "curd." This will dis- 

 appear, aud the fish become limp if placed iu ice for a 

 journey. Tliose, therefore, who wish to send away a 

 fresli-caiight salmon iu iti prime, should put the Ssh into 

 water actually on the boil for live or ten minutes before 

 packing it. Boiling water iuKtantly consolidates th» 



