SEPTmiBHa 3,- 1880.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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field for fishery investigatioife, having been instructed to 

 exhibit, in connection with the Philadelphia International 

 Exhibition, the methods of fish culture and the Ameri- 

 can fisheries. Much, however, was accomplished by 

 Bingle investigators in various localities. Tlie propaga- 

 tion work continued. This year the first carp were in- 

 troduced from Germany. 



1877. 



The field of investigation was resumed at Salem. Mass., 

 ajid later at Hahfax, N. S, A larger steamer of 300 tons 

 made deep sea research possible. The Commissioner and 

 his staff served as experts before the Halilax Fishery 

 Commission. Tlie propagating work was on the increase, 

 and the government carp ponds were established in 

 Washington. 



1878-1879. 



In 187S the summer station was at Gloucester, Mass. ; 

 in 1870 at Provincetown. These centers of ttie fishing 

 interests were selected that more attention might be de- 

 voted to studying the history, statistics and methods of 

 the sea fisheries, A plan for tlie systematic investiga- 

 tion which seemed yearly more necessary in view of the 

 dissensions between the governments of the United 

 States and Great Britain. In 1879 a combination was 

 formed with the Superintendent of the Tenth Census, by 

 which the Commissioner was enabled to cany more rap- 

 idly forward this branch of the work. Specialists were 

 dispatched to all parts of the country to study the bio- 

 logical, statistical and practical aspects of the" fisheries. 

 In 1878 the breedini; of cod and haddock was accom- 

 plished at Gli.iiccHtr]-. In 1879 the propHi:;itioTi of the 

 oyster was accoiiiijlishcd by cooperation wilh tlie Mary- 

 land Commission, under the direction of Maj, Ferguson, 

 and the distribution of the carp tliroughout the country 

 was begun. 



1880. 



The snrnmur .station is at Newport, R. I. The Pish 

 Hawk. B steamer ol !>il tons, constructed expressly for 

 the work of the commission, lies at the wharf, now 

 equipped for scientific research, later to be employed in 

 the propagation of sea fish, such as the cod and the 

 mackerel. Over fifty inve.stigations are in the field in the 

 service of the commission. The season was opened by the 

 participaiion of the commission in the International Ex- 

 hibition at Berlin. The finst hou..r prize, the gift of the 

 Emi'eror of Germany, was awarded to Prof, Baird, not 

 alone as an acknowledgement that the display of the 

 United .States was the most perfect and most imposing, 

 but as a personal tribute to one who, in the words of the 

 President of the Deutsolier Fischerei Verein, is regarded 

 in Europe as the first fish culturalist in the world. 



gm nnd ffiveti fishing. 



— Addresx all commMnicatioiis to"JBorest and Stream 

 Puhlishing Company, New York." 



^ I I I » 



visa IN SEASON IN SEPrEMBEB. 



Grayline, Thi/nuinm tric-ih-r. 

 Land-lockefi Salmon,' Sal mo 



:<ntar- 

 Lake Trout, S.(7/».< nainayni.-ih. 

 Moskalonifi!, Mixir.r aiihiluir. 

 PicJsurel. Esox reticulatm. 

 Piko iir Pickerel, Bsnx lucitis. 

 Tlkv-pexoh (wall-eyed pike) 



Stizolethium amtricanum, s. 



griteum, etc. 

 Tellow Perch, Pdrca fluvUitUts : 

 Rtrlped Bass, Roecw Htveaim. 



lioek Bii^s, AmhlopUten. (Two 



species.) 

 War-mouth, Clwenobri/lUin g-iUn. 



CrappJe, I'omiixys nivromacula- 



tm. 

 Bachelor, Pomnxys anniUarig. 

 Ohutj, SemoMJfo cwporalis. 



Pomie. :s(, 

 Stripi-il Hi- 

 White Pen 

 Spot, .ir I 



Spot, R.;'lli 



Wlii 



;i7- 



Scv.: 



. /'!, 



*lii Mai 



mi'if .iinnrij. ana. \ Croaker. Miiyrnij.»j,,n n.iulidatu.1. 



I Spanish iMaclcerel, Cijltinm mao 

 r Channel Bass, ulatum. 

 ahix. I Ccro, CiiMum regale. 



( "'ii'i-v. i Bonlto, Sar-ftape(amys. 



uM carhonirlus. j KlngUsh, .Mentielrrun nehulosii.'. 

 til Sept. I.Mh. 



How Birds Destroy Fish.— We have believed with 

 Prof. G<Jode that the fishes taken from the sea by man 

 was but a fraction of what is destroyed by their enemies 

 in the water, as fish, seals, etc., and by the birds. Prof. 

 Goodemade this statement in reference to the capttu'e of 

 the menhaden for oil, and its destructioiT bj- the hundreds 

 of different kinds of enemies, who number far into the 

 millions of individuals. In speaking of the destruction 

 of herrings by the ganuets a recent writer in Nature 

 says : — 



Of the fiveScntrh st^ttions where thegannet breeds, the 

 number of birds hequent.itig each is put down as follows: 

 Aitsa Craig, la.OOO ; the Bass Rock, 13,000; St. Kilda, 

 50,000.; the Stack, 50,000 ; Gulla Sgeir, 300,000, or a total 

 of 424,000. Each of these birds would consume at least a 

 dozen lierrings in the day if it could get them ; but esti- 

 mating the daily average as six to each gannet produces 

 938,.jHl),000 as the quantity consumed in one year, and 

 reckonijig WUO herring.s lo the barrel gives us 1,160,700 

 barrels captured by the ganuets, as against 750,000 barrels, 

 the total taken by fBhermen on the west coast of Scot- 

 laud for 1.873. 



Salmon of the Pacific Coast.— Humboldt Sarbor, 

 Popoff Island, ShumagiM, Alaska Territory. July Idth. 

 Editor forest and Stream .-—In your paper of Ma.y 13th 

 I have seen a note by my friend, Prof. Jordan, on the 

 redflsh of Idaho, which he thinks is the same as the 

 species figured in Forest AND Stkeam of Nov, 13th, 1879, 

 and afterwards received from Capt. Bendire in the U. 

 ^. National Museum. I have examined Capt. Bend ire's 

 specimens and am prepared to say that they are Keiiner- 

 ly'a salmon, Salmo kennfrlyi, of Suckley ,■ 'Oncoritynchns 

 kennerlyi, oC Gill and Jordan, They are not different, 

 except in size, from the types of Kennerly's salmon. 

 Now, unless this salmon Is identical with the nerka 

 studied by Pruf. Jordan, we have no right to call Capt. 

 Bendire's redfifh nerka. I have not yet seen a salmon in 

 Al aska which I can positively identify with 0. nerka, but 



in the systematic work of Gill and Jordan one receives 

 the impression that it is much like quinnat. Kennerly's 

 salmon is not closely like quinnat in some respects : for 

 instance, it has a much greater number of teeth in the 

 middle of the roof of the mouth, and its jaws are mtajsh 

 more oblique. 



The name redfish is a source of confusion. In some 

 localities it is sale lo assme that the red color of the skin 

 is the fonndalion lor the name. In Cook's Inlet the color 

 of the flesh cive.s rise to the name, and it is certainly well 

 foundeil tliere, the dee]) red of the drying fish brighten- 

 ing up whole villages in the flsliing season. 



I have not seen the Yukon redfish, but there is reason 

 to believe that it is one of the small scaled .species. 



It was my intention to publish a somewhat extended 

 notice of Capt. Bendire's Bpecimens last spring, but lay 

 preparations for collecting in Alaska, and various other 

 duties, prevented me from doing so Perhaps, after all, 

 it is just as well to let the SHlniou family rest until we 

 have material enough to enable us to settle on the right- 

 ful names and hold to them. Taklton H. Bean, 



With such investigators as Dr. Bean and Prof. Jordan 

 after them the salmon of the Pacific coast will soon have 

 to give up their family secrets, and allow their relation- 

 ships to be published to the world. It would be interest- 

 ing to know the exact time covered by the spawning of 

 each aUfiged species, as this would show the possibfiity 

 of some of them being liybrids. 



Bra B.ASS IN Vermont.— SAe/dow. Vt, Aug. \Uh.— 

 On the 14th inst., Mr. H. Caseau and myself, with our 



better halves, and Blr. B. Thomas, visited 'Bass Lake, or, 

 as it is comnioidy called. Franklin Pond, where we made 

 a big catch of sinall-moulhed bass. We used live min- 

 nows for bait, and caught the moat of our fish between 

 the hours of 6 and li a. Tit. in about fifteen feet of water. 

 I tried fly-fishing, and only took a few small bass in shal- 

 low water, which caused me to take to the nrdnnows and 

 deeper water. I selected five of my Largest tish and they 

 weighed as follows : 4J lbs., 4i lbs., 45 lbs., .51- lbs. and .oj 

 lbs. My scales were rusty and gave light weights. Frieml 

 Caseau followed me closely in size of his fish. We botli 

 used Scribner's light greenheart rods. My better halt 



scored next in numbers, leaving Mrs. C and Thonias 



far in the re.ar. The bass are being well protected here 

 during the close season, which makes this lake the best 

 bass lake in the State, and will afford plenty of sport be- 

 tween now and 1st of November to all '' jolly anglers" 

 who may visit its waters. Stanstead. 



We would like to see a " small-mouth " of the weights 

 given. We often hear of them, but on examination they 

 have always turned out to be the "big-mouth." If 

 our correspondent is positive as to species, we would ad- 

 vise him to send one to the Smithsonian. 



The black basses grow very large in the Southern 

 waters, but we have doubted whetherthe "small-mouth" 

 exceeded four pounds in any Northern State. 



^ Bass and Pike-Perch Fishing in the .Susquehanxa. 

 — Harrinburg, Auj}. Ith. — Having read your valuable 

 paper for some time. I have never seen any notes of fish- 

 ing on this river. Aljout ten years ago black bass were 

 introduced into this river through the efforts of a few 

 gentlemen of Hariisburg, who worked with perseverance 

 for two or three years, btit they at last succeeded in 

 stockmg the river so that it is now ;in easy day's work to 

 catch as high as thirty a day — frequently you hear of 

 catches ranging between forty and sixty. The bait used 

 is toads, minnows, crabs and helgraiiiites. They will 

 also readily take the troll. As foi- Hy-lishing, although 

 very few fish for them that way here, it is exceedingly 

 good, and as many as six or seven can lie caught in tlie 

 evening by fishing in water about three to fi\-e feet deep, 

 where there is plenty r,f eeLgrass. as the bass he in this 

 the same as trout in moss. ■' Sahnnn " (pike-perch) fish- 

 ing la.st fall was better than I liave ever known it to lie. 

 The bait used is the lampiey eel, trolled along slowly, 

 just fast enough to keep tlie bait off ot the bottom, the 

 catches ranging- between twenty and forty a duv. 



" E. H. 



Big BROOK-Trotjt — ^The Thunder Bay Sentinel. (Like 

 Superior), says : The largest genuine speckled brook 

 trout ever seen in this district was taken in the nets of 

 the Lake Superior Fish Company near Amethyst Bjy on 

 Tuesday last; three fish weighed' lo lbs., the largest one 

 weighing 6| lbs. 



St. CL.4.IR Flats— JlficTi., Axtg. aOifr.- The following 

 party are from Frankfort, Ky.: have iished here three 

 days", and caught over two hundred genuine black bass. 

 They wiU stay until the first of cieplember. This party 

 has the reputation of being the best lishermen in Ken- 

 tucky: Gen. J. W. Hodman and wife; J. W. Rodman, 

 Jr., and wife ; H. W. Bodmati; Judge Hines. 

 * 



New Haiipshire — Lake Village, Aug. IQth. — Black 

 bass fishing m the Wakowan Lake, at Meredith, is very 

 fine. On Wednesday I look twenty beatifies from the 

 water, nine of them weighing two pounds each. I met 

 a friend who had taken one that afternoon for a solid 

 four pounds — one of the largest of the season. Gic. 



A New Maine Society. — Mon^on, 31aine, Aug., Wi. — 

 We are about organizing an Assooi.<ition here fcr pro- 

 tection and stocking our ponds and protection of game. 

 Fishing in this vicinity was never better. Ship Pond is 

 furnishing a large amount of speclded trout and land- 

 locked salmon. _ E. R. H. 



New YoKK—FishMll Landing, AiLg. 26th. — The drought 

 has made sad work with the streams that the Wicoapee 

 Association stocked with trout last spring, all the water 

 remaining in them being in the swamps, and that is 

 warm and impure, so the prospe<:ts for a good trout fish- 

 ing next season are anything but encom-aging. G. 

 ♦ 



FLy-FiSHiNO FOR Bass.— On page 69, last issue, line 

 31 from the bottom, for "a stiff rod is more pliable," 

 etc.. read " a stiff rod is more friable," etc— a typograph- 

 ical error. 



§attie §Hf[ atjd §mf 



—Address all eommunications lo " Forest and StrearH, 

 Publishing Company. Neio York." 



GATitE IN SEASON IN AUGUST.* 



Moose, Alcf' nmei%''ana. 

 Ciu-ilioo, Rnii'iilLt carihriii. 

 Elk or wHpiii! CnrnL^ c.nicuh-n.'iis 

 Red or Virginia deer, V. viniini- 



.'^quirreln— red, black and gray. 



Hares- brown and (frav. 



Kfed or rioe bird, DoUclwnux 



oriizivxiti!'. 

 Wild turkey, A7c/p«i7rf.«r;rt»„;OTl'o. 



lodcoclc, Phnnhela n 

 lok-hdHied pinvpi-. 



Pin 



ed 



P I' 



kens, CupUh 



Ri/ffod g-ronse or jjlieas: 



Quail or partridRO, Orty. 



■iml„. 



♦This 



[iVin- 



1 Xc. 

 is general, and 



Red-bre 



I Kecl-lKic 





Numenixus 

 or calico hack, Strep- 

 pd snipe, dowltoher, 



>iei] uodwit, or niar- 



; 7"iim'Ti«. 



iiraeratloi 

 the Stat'; laws. 



"Ba.v birds" generaU.v, including; various speoles of plover, 

 sandpiper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf bird, phalaropes, 

 avopets, etc., coming under the jf roup IJmac<tlce,Qr shore birds. 

 Many States permit prairie fowl (pinnated grouse) shooting- after 

 Aug. 1.5th. 



CHICKEN SHOOTING IN ALTGUST, 



Augusi. 1880. 



HERE in'Northern Illinois we liave had no rain for 

 over a, mouth. E veiy thing is dry and the weather 

 since Ang. 1.5th has been extremely warm, so that neitlier 

 man or dog could stand more than one or two hours' hunt- 

 ing in the e.ai-Iy morning and late evening. My favorite 

 resort is a two hours" rifle from Chicago, where I drop 

 down at a farm house the night before I wish to shoot. 

 It is five miles from the nearest railway station, with good 

 shooting in any directinn. I am s,qtisfied I go a less"di.^- 

 tance and fare belter then others as ho go further and 

 perhaps fare worse. The multitude fly to the far off 

 |)rairiesof Nebraska, Minne.sota and Iowa, leaving little 

 oceans of cream within onediundred miles of Chicago 

 that are seldom skimmed. In this refuge I have bagged 

 forty-eight grouse with a muzzle-loade/in a day's shoot- 

 ing, and have never failed to get twenty -five to two guns 

 on the first day's shoot. 



Last Monday found me as soon as it was light enotigh 

 to shoot, tramping a stubble over which, with oueexcep- 

 tion,.I had made an annual parade for the last ten years. 

 My dog was a ni^vr acciuisition. wonderfully up in tlie tac- 

 tics, but lacking the experience of dogs 1 had hunted over 

 that field in other seaaon.s. I expected surprises in the de- 

 velopment of mj' dog; and what sportsman doesuol know 

 when he has a good thing in a dog, even thoiit,di lie has 

 not killed a thousand birds over him? My Ivnight proved 

 his mettle before we had been afield twenty minutes, and 



a pair 



I had the satisfaction of '-flashing my first si k 

 ot fine young bird, while the tlifrd shot failed, to flash 

 and poor Knight seemed to deijate in his jnind (brain I 

 should say), whether he should not trj- and catch tliat 

 single young chijk as long as I missed it. A gentle 

 "charge, sir," steadied his nerve, and retrieving the pair 

 we moved on. Most of the morning was (;iken"up trying 

 to cross patent barbed wire fences. Did you ever try to 

 g-et over, through, under, or on top of one? Like the 

 drouth they prevail in this country, and unless you carry 

 a jumping pole do not attempt to cross one. Farmers 

 need no longer post "No shootingon these here groimds." 

 Just let them build a five strand barbed wire fence, and 

 sportsmen will cross it just as quick as dogs wfil eat live 

 porcupine. 



Knight proved my judgement in his breeding and 

 tra'ning to be correct, and he had but one surprise in 

 store for me. One or two in a covey had fieen Hushed 

 when a young chick flushed from under Knights nose 

 and dropped on the stubble in p:ain sigiit, not fen yaids 

 from the dog. The chick stepped jauntily .along" with 

 ciuick jerks of its tail until Knight became disgusted, and 

 knowing I would not shoot the bird sitting, lie made a 

 beautiful dash at it and succeeded in fiushing it, and giv- 

 ing it a good start. A'isions of check cord, a charge 

 of flue sh"t, and the whip dashed tfirough my mind, 

 but it was too hot. Giving Knight credit for more 

 sagacity than I supposed he had. as he knew I would 

 not shoot nnlil the bird rose, I sat down and waited 

 his return. He soon came trotting in with a look 

 on his face that told plainly he had not caught that 

 chick. I had a friendly talk with him, took him to 

 where he started, made him charge, and gave him an 

 energetic lecture on the foolishness of chasing ; that 

 he would eventually get overtaken witii a charge'of shot 

 or run into a spikeri collar if he ever did it a>;ain. Dur- 

 ing the moiiiing we found four tine coveys, none of 

 the birds full-grown and a few old birds from which I 

 bagged thuteen, at no tirhe being over a mile and a half 

 from the house. The same evening 1 bagged nine, mak- 

 ing twenty-two for the day, and my best day. A iter the 

 second or third day I became wearied and exliausied with 

 the heac when I returned, determined that the right time 

 to shoot game in this latitude is in the full, not earlier 

 then Sept. l.'^^th, when birds are strong of wing and full 

 in size, and when some pleasure may be had in a day's 

 sport when you can breathe a bracing atmosphere as you 

 walk the craokhng stubble and when the gAme you bag 

 will not be unfit for food before itran be brought to the 

 table. Hoping to be able to chronicle the graduation of 

 Knight from his October fields with high degree, I am, 



Tom Tramp. 



FIELD SPOETS IN MINNESOTA. 



Sadk Centre. Augimt, 1880. 



ONE of the most enjoyable pastimes a man can en- 

 gage in, is in the held with dog and gun.. This sec- 

 tion of country is well known to a great number of sports- 

 men who pay yearly visits here in order to hud the much 

 sought pinnated grouse {Tetruo ctipido) and enjoy a 

 week's sport in (he fields of Minnesota. 



The law f ul lime for killing this noble bird ia Aug. 15tli 

 to Oct. lat, too long a time by half, for they are becom- 

 ing more scarce every year. 



Yesterday, in company with a friend, we toot our 



