OrrrOBBB 14, 1880.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



207 



; liiko bass {Utiixas nkrysopa) and the river niooa-eye 



:i\ and we tlierefore usk sucli of our frieuds as may 



, Id Iviiow wliiit flsh is called " ailvfir baas" iij parts of 



10 give us tbeii- other mimes— scienlific ones, if possible 



I ve may inform our friends across the water of tlie true 



'|iuu(i ttiid (!lniracier of tlioir fish. 



1 Oiir correspniident says that SQfttib Of lliem spaiWned last 



«, ,.,u, inalittlei)ond, and that there are now thousands of 



ri' on hand, hut HS they have no knowledge of thujr 



■ haiaicteror needs, they hpaitnlr- alioni stocking the 



■nth (hem. He. write-- : ri ; i!,iii.^ arc tlcg-iiTit ; 



■ ', e the power of cJiangiuu' -l '; : i--i:!,i!ly, ami \t-d\v a 



I [lie spot near the ext.Teniii ', u iIm i.jn.Tculiun. Tin/ 



proportionately short and Uuck, the belly hu-ge, the 



■mall, and the upper Jaw shortest," 



lossible that it may be one of the worthless "snn-ftsh" 



iui-f38h,"butthati8, of coarse, only guesswork, and 



I 111' to hear from some of opr readers who know the 



I A lli.M' ifoit Henharen Fmuekh. —The f iict that the herring 



lin ".'I tting scarei, — or, at least, ts considered worthy of some 



I (H'otection on the other side of the Atlantic— might 



I .ibly considered by our menlmdeu fishermen, to whom 



I u thing as giving the fish time to breed has been entirely 



11, or, if known, tmpracticed, while they complain of 



Jfiarly decrease of their prey. On Miis^inint the yurthern 



i Bays, in »pe;ikiiiL '' . li- i-n n i ii vof inniuitiin- 



bgs-sent this ye:',r i.o'li I'rom iln- 



landtheEMrit C(.;iM -:.,.■ ■,,.,! UisfMission 



1 desirabiUty of iuslitutiug a cIohc linn' toi ilic herrin'j; 



"The opinion," says the N'-jrihcm lymtun. -'is 



Ltliat damage is done to the regular lishiug by hrrakhiu; 



- the shoals when they are forming in l In- early part of 



i; and it is this view of the ipieslion which chiefly 



I home upon the fiahermen as most specially aJIccting 



,' interest 8. Then, in the seronrl iilacc, it in only too well 



1 that harm is done to the market, by otTei-insr as the lirst 



; of the fishing seiison an imripe inferior article, which 



^^hliyer rejects as soon as he gets somethbii; better, and 



Sph is apt to depi'ess the tone of prices after the superior 



nfliodity has arrived." Commenting on this the London 



rein.irks: "Fishcm'erS and fishermen, it is believed, 



Id actfuiesce in any reasonable arningement, and one 



Btcuiporary siigge,sfs that the cleise time should exteiitJ on 



I West Coast from the beginjiing of April till about Die 



t of May, and on the East Coast from the hegilining of 



■ till the nuddle of July." 



len Snai'pek.— A "red snapper," Lut^dmi* WmlcfcvdU, 

 -TOis eanght off New Jersey last week, an extreme northern 

 ^oiiil for this fish to visit. 



The next day the same party struck the stream (Trout Htm) 

 someseven or eight miles higher up. Bad luck at teiided all then- 

 early operations, and disconsolate, they thi-ew their live 

 minnows on the bolfom. and Koutrht coiafort in the pipe and 

 tickler, when a, hicky ttiought struck a native angler, who 

 was one of I he party. " Vou see that spvinc," said he, '■(■om- 

 iuii ui at the bead o'i' ilie po.il : I ivill 0:0 and muddy it and see 

 if that ivou't make tluaii liUc." Mo .sooner said than done. In 

 riled water nindt; its appetu-nnce, ;md imme- 

 ■■.■■!■ !■■! ■!). The result was Iwentv-six 

 ■ !_1h. On liie ri:.llowirl^-dav. at 

 ■-•■imeiif wa,- tried, mth a result 



^ ■ TROUTING IN "WEST VIRGINIA. 



! NOVEL MODE OF ASeUNG. 



S Forest icsii 8tre.a.m should be advised of all that per- 

 \ Mil,:, t-i ■■ibcgcnf,leart,"I vetituretogive a-fcwuoles 

 ;i i, !,i ■ [M'dition to the wild .streams of the tiiounlains 



! I ,. I,,,-. , I i|,:;st.-d ot self and friend, an expert from the 



I, ' : ,', : '.vl " -.-'i.. li:M'.-i- iiic^ for iroutand salmon in 



■ ; I , ■. , I,.' ■■-■•• M.I -I, -ir, 11, ,, -id as kri-ii-«-entcd for 



. . ,\ I,,;- l..;-ii-;:l.-' ",h,. •-'.'\y willun (lie boluids of 



lro:td at 8lrasb.:iurL' in 



ick, traversed lliree or 



in the saddle itlielrip 



L-hiele on the Moorlie^ld 



ay-live miles dislaul, in 



[lenvillo is a good place for 



iS; Wail's Run, Trout Run 



Each of these alj-e^ms has its valley, and 



djort distance below WardeuvJlle. The 



it's l!nii. tlicTiPXt Trout Run, wdiich flows 



hi 



. AVe Icll tl.. 



l.il 



lah Co., Va.. an 







aii'iiil lit 



made more con 



Pike), u- 



; rcitched VVardi 



Hardy C 



1., V/est Virgini 



oj,era,la)i 



s,.n tbrcci'amo 



Vallcv- Ka 

 d. on h<a-sel 

 einbt bom-s 

 ifortablv In 

 ■nvillp,"t 

 ,. Wa,r 



diately Uic lit 

 trout "over twe 

 the same plac. 

 ot sixteen trou 

 J am vul-ari 



torn, vJaifcNci 

 One tact is 

 tains of Virgi 

 grassdioiipers, 

 'I'rotit Rim, Ct 

 cast its shadow 



lougli 10 prefer hass-fishmg to any trout- 

 'T,n— certainly to trcuit-flshing on the bot- 



■esulls. 



lilat 



id constant, that 

 ai West ^qr!£iIlfa 

 I |.u.,rs .■iral nunn. 

 i iraxst !uaistic Hy \ 

 water 



monu- 



rickels. 

 and in 



And anothei 



of t 

 all this 



iuihtr-six 

 Diountai: 



■ear), 



id > 



lib 



. It 



ral 



whv 



be 



the 



equally certain, is that 3[r. ,Seth (ire 



would be a useless accouiplishnier 



gion. AYith hia-h reachiim- laurel and ovcrljanu'li 



the angler will be lucky to make a cast rhc Ifai-Ui • 



One of (,be trout had" in its stomach eleven loi/usis 

 foiu- lings resemtibug June iing.s, one grasshoppe; 

 minnow, and was iakcn by an earthworm oj' 1 

 would be satisfactor\' to Icnow (if the cause is get 

 uinddy water prompts the fish to feed. Does 'it 

 appctili', or is it the ap|u-e.hension that the water niavbecorae 

 too mnddy to find food, aial they prudently lay in a .store in 

 anticipation of an enforced starvation':' This wotdd imply 

 memory and rea.son : but fish may have more sense tliaii 

 some pe.jpilc suppose. 



.'VII this region abounds in game — deer, wild turkeys and 

 pheasants in profusion, with now and then a bear or wolf 

 and catamoimt. Sheijando. 



!»■ 



QurB.s" IN Tisn. — There is a point relative to bass fish- 

 in- and cooking which I would like to ask the opinion of Dr. 

 llcn.shall, (I. A. S., of Chica&), W. E., of Cliicago, and others 

 who know tie;' tine srira-i i!n-se ti.sh give, the toflowing ques- 

 tions: "Dothi-i 1- ■ 'j' liave ^vornis or gruhs under 

 the skin':' Ar^' 1. - ■■'' injurious to persons eating the 

 ba.ss?" We ui-i' ■._•(■■' Ill' I I, '. make ihcse inquiries owing lo a 

 diversity of opir.ioii :ini.ai:: sumc fishermen and niitnrartsts, 

 who were c:tuiped up in rhe woods durina: (he summer. 



They fished (?ne hike auel caught some" big felle.w.s. They 

 took them to camii, cleaned and skinned Ihem, when some big 

 grubs as large as maggots c;iuie out of the riesli. Some moss- 

 backers told them that bass having these ijrnbs were unfit for 

 food. The^^ tossed them into the kdie. and jireltv soon some 

 fish <Teiws found thcrii ami carried them off'. 



These fisli were caught in an inland lake fed by springs, 

 bul Ihe water was warmer than the water of Lake Michigan, 

 henoe the gi-ubs were said to exist firaii this cause. 



Another day some of the jjarty \'isited :i Lake noiue miles 

 from their cat'np lh:it is iioled fea- its tine bass. 'I'liey caught 

 some good ones and carried tliem to ramp, seven miles, ox- 

 peclnig to have a feast free from grubs, because tb<-' water 



springs and 



best fisliiiig of any locality in the State, but I will try to sus- 

 tain my statement, and give a few results of fishing excur- 

 sions. 



One that I took myself in the early spring \^ especially 

 vivid in my mind. A pariv of three, etubodyina- myself, 

 started down the little sfroaiii. known as the P'elic-an, :'ibout 

 1 p. M, A ride of nliout twenty miunies broui^rht us lo Jlusk- 

 rat Lake, and although we h;id never fished here nor heard of 

 anyliody h:iving done so, we ciineluded to try the place as an 

 experiment, and we soon came 10 a. stirndstili. B(3fore I bad 

 tlu'own my line my fellow fisherman bail landed a fine rock 

 bass. I soon followed with another : then we both secured 

 others, and bore 1 lose all recollection of the order in wdiich 

 they came, as fish after fish came tunibling in, black bass, 

 Oswego bass, rock bass, pike, pickerel, perch and sunfish, 

 imd — 1 must not forget — one ■' bidl-head." Aftca- wd had 

 caught some forty fish v/e lifted anchor, and proceeded down 

 the stream unfit we- came to Lake Sally, a beautiful sheet of 

 water aljout UveU'c ndles around, and here we struck ;i tem- 

 porary camp and prep:ue'd a lunch. While the otiier two rep- 

 resentatives of our parly of three were preparing and t'ryii 



aded another dozen fine 

 of Oswego bass weigh- 

 ting our lunch we pro- 

 .Miiskral Lake, where 

 while T took the boat. 



fere ha 

 water, 

 ze, and a 



1), left 

 ■el and 

 Tliev 



was colder and the liU.ve a large one fed by 

 rivulets. 



The fish were juii into a spring of cold water 

 until morning. When they dressed them they 

 firm as though (hey had just come from the 

 fotmd hi them the ^:inie grubs, about the same 

 put under a micrus<-ope exhiliired Ihe s:nne bum and manner 

 as the grubs i-aken from the Ijass c^njght in the warmer w:Uer 

 of the small lake. The party varied their trout fishing by 

 these occasional tlays after bass, so another day tried the large 

 lake connecting directly w^ith Lake ^fichigan, and where 

 bass are caught; of large size. 



They expected soinr'tfjin- u,'jod li^eim it, because the fi.sh 

 feed on niimiows and 1 ■■. ■' alumiijmee of cold, clear water. 

 Their flesh is firm and ;-■,, ■ i-i . Iln tish themselves are gamy 

 as one could wish, tighiirig ii. ihe la^l and running up \o 4i 

 liiaiuds in weiLdit. but wiien tlresseil and skinned the same 

 grubs api. 



flsh I stood on the bank and soon Ian 

 fellows, among which were a fine ]iai. 

 ing over four poimd.s each. After c:j 

 ceeded to return, and .soon arrived al 

 the other two decided to w-alk biick ■ 

 As I was passing over our first " battle-grotmd" the tempta- 

 tion was too great, and I decided to again try my hand at 

 them, and was soon hauling them in al a lively rale. About 

 the fifteenth fish 1 decided thai f would catch twenty-five 

 liefore leaving, but imfortunaiely on the twenty-fli'st fish my 

 hook broke at the barb and left U'.e in rather a peculiar posi- 

 tion, as i had no other about me. 1 did not give in, however, 

 and after throwing about a dozen ovei' the boat 1 succeeded 

 in landing the four neces.sary to complete my quarter hun- 

 dred, and started back and arrived at 7 i-. m.— six hours fish- 

 ing — with the following result : Twcidy-oneljlack bass, fifteen 

 of which weighed on an average of four p.*mids ; fifteen pike, 

 whose -weight I did not lest, but, which were exiraor-dinarily 

 large; thirty rock bass not ■■ wei'^lMic- n'-ioly one potmd, and 

 filled with parasites," but lai'-i . ii ;-, some of tbem 



tipping the beam at over tw s ec pickerel: two 



Oswego bass; one sun-fish : '■.■I's -1. ami (uie bull-bead or 

 mud trout. In all these must have weighed upward of two 

 hunhundred pounds. 



Two other parties, Dra. Carman by name, caught eighteen 

 Oswego bass in Lake Sidl}' in tW'O houi.s, all with a cosnmon 

 spoon trolling book. They aver.aged four pounds. A. E. 

 Bowling and R, E. Jletcalf took a drive to Floyd Lake one 

 afternoon and cau.ght lwent_v-eigbt black bass, several of 

 which weighed six pounds. Air. Amos Bowman, of St. 

 Louis, Mo., and a brother, of :\Iatshall, Mich., started out em 

 Detroit Lake one da}-, and soon returned w ith a half lian-el 



filled to overflowing with sunie e.f the ti 

 finny tribe that ever man's cye\s 

 mentioning other fishing exper 

 tliink wc have sustained oiu- stal 

 best fishing in the State, and it a 

 the same we would be most happy lo h 

 will give him om- hand in fcllo-(\-3hip, 



specimens of the 

 upon. AVc nnght rro on 

 ■R of tills kind, liut we 

 11 on Detroit Imving the 

 jther enthusiast doubts 

 him. and we 

 ng on one point. 



that there is no place like Mmneaota for a person to get his 

 fill of flsh. H. 



Fridav 

 pond,' . 



in the 

 lie with ou<: 

 imeaud no 

 on it two ])i 

 : gills : the 



,/.. ii(-r>t. 37.— On 



others on Outcall's 

 t ashore for lunch at 

 ltd fiauk of the chan- 

 i red single hook. It 

 :ie went near it until 

 e. one about, twelve 

 ither about a pound. 



Ir 



ed 1 



-ell e 



condition. 



- e-omiected by a fcelile current remains, 

 fwo a big spring lireaks out, and the 

 ! iLdiial proportions and name. I'p lo and 

 M I .lack bass, which have been In the 

 av., nejw predominate. 

 . on with a detail of our operations. 

 ■a 'vas not commensm-ate with our 

 il a a LTOt, which is my experience in 

 I'lie resifil of our tiest day's work 

 aa.u.i.a-!, none 'under 11 inches, nor over 

 I, geaileu dish, and served to E-s\'eeten the 

 t reams were too low, and the water too 

 iiinds me to i-efiort the residl of a former 

 ni. a mouth a'j-o, by my eoini-ianion and an inveterate 

 . They had reached troul Fu\cr. ihe most famous 

 f all tills region for large from, alt the iiond near 

 fille, Ibev found the water milky and m first-rate 



ly every i.aie in camp fell sranc compunction in 

 {hough the tish were ail one co.ild desire 

 kc(i vet these grubs were the interesting^- Iheme 

 rfiile ill camp. Poasildy. laid th- ]iarly made lessprclense of 

 bein.u- .^v .'■.■;'•■ a\-. liaa,- lia'-'f -v. a'.,l aiive heeu voted splendid: 

 butwla II ill ,i :.. - ,, I, ,aii as large as a wheat 



grain mi, •■ I If ■''.•■ • a at ion in the region of the 



stomach, ami liie .■i..,,,liiia: r'k' ■"'-•. ' How manv of those fine 

 fellows did ymi put away loi lire:dvfasl Ihia morning':'" 



We would like to know something of the ex-perience of 

 .gentlemen who Ik'ivc lakeii liass lhrou,gh the many lakes in 

 Ihe Northwest, if tills has liccn their experience, or are these 

 scrubs peculiar to Ihe Michigjiu lakes, where 80 many of na 

 Spend our summer ii-^bing holidays. 



f trust 1 shall not lake up loo umcii of your space in asking 

 theopmionsof others coucermng these psrasiles, ''if such 

 tUev are." W. D. T. 



dhk^go, Sept. -Zo. 



li 



The 



111 till 



FISHING IN MINNESOTA. 



TRAXOK C.\-rnu. — W<jliUtoirn 



last 1 w;is pike-fishing wilh 



leai- Sjiotswood. Whcj 

 noon we left one pole slickinii- 

 nel. On this pole was aline v 

 was in ].lain .sight all the lim.- 

 our return, when 1\ ■ 



ounces, .strung throi .. ,, . . 



hooked iu the jaw. The fust |iikc bad evidently taken the 

 minnow and hook and cje'Cted tbem through his" gills. The 

 second pike, hooking himself, bail dra-wti the line a foot or 

 more through the gills of the first. This kind of a double 

 catch was s'lj strange that 1 hardly dared believe my eyes, but 

 bcinet a uotarv I at' once look Ibealbiiivits .if mv comiianious, 

 Messrs. Frerlerick Farr, and James Scidilei, al Craiibmy, to 

 the truths of the fads as above stated. Is li iioi, rare ? /ij^i(, 

 .. il. AefLice^. 



Till. 



New Spobting Ghounds— :7'o7;w(:«/-f/(, Out., Sept. 25. — I 

 am here in a, so to speali for the sportsman, new country. 

 About thirty miles north of here is a beautiful chain of lakes, 

 and 1 shall, ehirini;^ the next week, have a fair view of them and 

 send you a deseripliou. which wdll probably prove interesting 

 to your readers. 1 have not succeeded in getting a maako- 

 lou'ge that 1 wanted for comparison of teeth and vertebrte be- 

 tween piki^ and maskeloiisie. Melieve me, the latter are not 

 as pleulU'ul as is generally believed. V. 



FoK Plokida.— it is frequently the pleasant privilege of 

 FoKEST A^-D Stbbam to extend acquaintance among gentle- 

 men sportsmen, and in tliis interest we are called upon to say 

 that a gentlijman, a jom-nalist by profession, who wilh his 

 wife spent last winter m Florida, is desirous of meeting one 

 or two othei- couples who would like to go |o the Gulf coast 

 or So»ith Florida the comuig winter, and spend one * 

 months in gimning, fi.shing, and having a good I itue gen 

 C'oiTespondencc is solicited that refeaenees may be excl 

 and a congenial party organized ; and any letters sent 

 •■Scribe," care of this oflace, will be promptly fonivarded. 



two 

 ally. 



iiged 



Oasoe asd OAitfBBA.— Mr. Thos. Sedg-svick Steele, the 



ACfORKESPONDENT of yom- journal, in the issue of 

 Sept. 9. states that I;ake Tetonka is said to be the best 



fishing ground in the Slate. Now, I do not wish to dispute 



the geiitlenjaiis statement, but he wants to tell of something 



more "fishy'' t ban a string of rock bass averaging nearly a 



pound lo sustain his statement. Besides this, he says they 



were filled with parasites, and it isn't likely that many per- ! .jutiior of "Canoe and Camera," the most elegant sportsman's 



sons would eat fish filled -with these animals; so they are no I .^ , „f .,,, ,,„„, ;. „„_ ,„ „ ,,.„,^ „„„,, _„,.t ,,« ,.u„ rnntrs dp 

 "Big trout were jtimping in al! directimis, but not one would I hetter than so much caxrion, and I think he is in the wronsr | '''""^ f ^'"^ -^ '^^'' ''' ""^ '"1=^ '""' 7'^' P";\' °^ }, TlT.L 

 touch fly nor any bait. "T\Iy moss-tramping friend, believing ! when he makes bis statement on the superiority of that lakS 1 scribed m that volume. In a note written ]ust Dcrore ne 

 they coi'dd be circumvented" I ly patience and art, determined as a fishing ground. If he has traveled through Mmne-sota, ' started, Mr. Steele says: 



lo devote Ihe day to them, -vvbile his companion proceeded up- I and found nothing better than the aforesaid to"tell, he is cer- 1 intend to follow the old course of my book, " Canoe and 

 ward, whiiiyiing" the stream, semndum. nHivn. But all his tainly most tmforfiinate. Heretofore, we have never told of ■ Camera," imtil I reach Chamberliun Lake, when instead of 

 devices pro-vinfT vain, in despair he laid his rod down -with a I tlie rock b.ass that we catch here, but have considered them I tm-ning South into the East branch of the Penobscot as befeire, 

 hve minnow resting on the bottom, and took out his pipe for 1 as amouuting to very little in comparison with our larger and I shall follow a northerly course to Eagle and Churchill Lakes 

 consolation. In a few seconds he saw bis line violently shaken, I finer varieties. But while we are speaking of rock bass, we ' and turn east into Spider Lake. From this point through 

 and giving it the fatal t-witch, he drew out a twelve-inch might mention the t-wo-potmders and over, that to catch is an Echo Lake, Osgood L arry, to the IMausungan lakes the pas- 

 trout. He repeated the operation, sometimes -with live min- I everyday oc:curreiice. I have seen rock b.ass of ih,it size snap 

 nows and sometimes with cut bait, and he caught, thus fishing ', at the hooks before fhey would fairly louch the water, and it 

 ou the bottom for trout, sixteen, none under a foot, :ind one | wouhl take a mucli lemger rime t-i detach the fish than to 

 seventeen inches in lenirtb. When his companion retmned linok them, i myself have ofin! eauglii hlael-: hass that 

 fromhi8fl.y-whippingupslream. troutlessand disgusied, and weiaiied -U pounds, and 1 kmv.-,- of ivljal.le panics that 

 was confronted -with the sixteen golden beaulies imd iufa-med ciiuah! Ili'-tn weigliiiig six and seven |iuunds, mid even higher 



of the process of capture, he e.xclmmed indisuantdv: " I could than (Imi. Tlie iwh bite well on the trolbnif book and by , v, , .,.,„„.„ j...... - - ..-.- 



not have them on those terms." Yet he forthwith went to bait, and I have no doubt that they would lake the fly well if , practicing ^vith a new camera called a tourograph, and i 

 bottom-fishing himself; but too late— the trout' had ipiit \ given the chance. " i must e-onfes» that 1 am perfectly delighted wiih it. No 



feeding. • Perhaps I am mistaken when 1 say that Detroit has the ' knowledge of photography is necessary, the plates being 



sauR isdifBcult,'"all dependini: ou Ihe state of the ■water, but 

 hfi latter lakes once reached.' a pleasant and easy passage is 

 pen lo Ihe Aroostook waters. l:oiding one at the town of 

 'aritiou, Maine. 



(N.I. Lyman B. Ooff, of Pawtuckct, R. L, was the first 



."make Ibis trip, in Sept., 1879, and he will be my 



this year. For Ihe last few weeks I have been 



tourist t. 



