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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Novbmbse11,1S80.] 



FISH.I3V SEASON I?f NOVEMBER. 



;.FBBSn WATEB. . 



Bliio); Bass, iruroplerm. (Two 



species). 

 Koclc Bass, JmbhpHtea. (Two 



species). 

 War-mouth, ChaenobryUus gidosun. 

 Crapple, P'}Tu>j>i/tt niprnmacutatus. 

 Baclielor, J'omnxijs anmilariu. 

 Chul), ^eiiioti'U curpnralit. 



JlaskaVingf, Be&x nohilior. 

 Plcken.-I, &.>.[• reticulatug. 

 Pike nr T'lcUerBl, Emx liteius. 

 Plkc-poivh (wall-eyed plko) 



.'iti.-.oMhimn amtricanum, a. 



ijrijieumi^ etc. 

 Tollow Perch, PfroaflwvialiUa. 

 Striped Bass, RocruK Hnealua. 

 WUle Bass, Jtaccua ctiri/mps. \ 



8AIT 'WATBK. 

 Sea Baas, Cmtropristis almiiM. \ Sen, " Ttout," Q/)w»<iynn mroHnap- 

 Blieep.slieiKt, ilccZ/./mo-jK.! yHof«'c(- ■•-■fs. 



„,,/,,, ,. . I S'!'nr.- Wbltlncr, Mentinrrut bttur- 



Horfii ■ ■ . . ■■ ■■'•■•. 



Spot, L'l J 



Spot, lied llsh, 



i^li Markerel, Ci/biuui i 



.SWf 





.t;f« 



Tatlfng-, TuuUhja 

 Pollock, I'ollaolii 

 Wealcnsh, Cp{ 



, Cero, Ciihuun. 

 Bouito, >«/-i'3 

 I Kln!;fl»h, ii/c/ 

 I SmiJlL, Oi:meri 



eady 

 and 

 and 



driving I he | 



Howuvcr -. 

 appoititrd '■ ' 

 a lilllecT.al 'ii 

 staTted, by wli 

 aljoiil, three poii 



ids of 



FISHING ON THE MATAPEDIA. 



TD ECEIVINO a pressina: invitation from t^v^o of uiy old 

 JQj friends, Dr. jVi-lhur' Arni.=.troii!r and Will Sutherland, 

 well known '^ troiitisLs," if I may coin Ihe woid, from Du- 

 loup. to ,ioin their parlv for a week's fishitiL', I was not lonij in 

 replvincc in the ullirnialive. a.s I waa .sure of some good sport 

 the boriorlieintr thoroualily acquainted with the river, and 

 the next day saw- me ut Duloup, assisting in the preparations 

 for our excursion. ,,,,,. 



Our parly consisted of IhoTlnet or, Bill Sutherland, Colin 

 Hetherington oud self. Kvrrvtbiiia: being in readiness we 

 took the J. C. R. train to Mill'SlrMm station, where we ar- 

 rived at 5 o'clock A. M. in a tcri-ible shower of rain ; but us 

 we expected wet work we did not complain of the early com- 

 mencement, and immediately got the c 

 and embarked om- camp and other ui 

 proceeded up the river to McKinnon's 

 pitched our tent. It was still raining; "oo a 

 vengeance, and, as the bush ivas so iniinvitin^^l.y v.et, 

 we camped on an islane where was plenty of drill, 

 wood ; but it was a hard job to get that tent up 

 the island, beinc composed of siuitll slones, and 

 I Ill-Ill was a wet task. 

 iiiiii-s lo right.s, and a.s T was 

 ' i lnana^a■d by the help of 

 hi V ,1 . idar "to get a good fire 

 lime Colly TI. managed to land 

 I rout, which were soon sim- 

 mering witha slice of porlc, and we sat to breakfa-'st 

 and did it ample Justice. I Ihiuk tea in camp is far 

 better flavored than boarding' house ciuality in 

 town. 1 may lie mistaken, but it took a gallon of 

 tea to supply our party at meal lime, and they 

 have been in the I en trade sometime. BreaWast 

 over and things straighteneil up, and rods got ready, 

 we started up i he river. 



Good fishing may be done in a canoe if you 

 can only manage to anchor it, but we took to 

 wadiDg,"and wading where the cm-rent runs at the 

 rate of fifteen miles. an hour is no ea.sy or safe task 

 as the Doctor found out. He only weighs 235 pounds, 

 and when he came down plump on the end of his 

 back, lie said, as he upended him.soif, "I'm too 

 round to make an anchor." We arc now one mile 

 from cam]), and only one dozen fish between the 

 Doctor and I. ATe retrace onr track, not by water, 

 but alonrr the beach, and on reaching camp, find Bill 

 and Collv there before us. They went up Mclvin- 

 non bro(.k and brought liaek nothing Ijut wet 

 clothes, which Ihey were busily engaged in drying. 

 All bands were disgusted with the commencement 

 of our anticipated good time, but if they lost their 

 temper over it they did not lose their appetites, and 

 the day's catch was again consigned to the frying 

 pan. 



Doctor said, casting his eye to the east : "Boys, 

 we must move our tent ; there will be no island 

 here to morrow !" And move it we did to the 

 main bank of the river, and a beautiful spot we 

 chose, just alongside of the railroad track, and nn 

 elevation that cohimanded a view of the river for a 

 mile up and down. While the rest ol the partv' were 

 moving camp I made a raft, and, with the aid of 

 some green withes and clotliea-line, ninnaged a 

 rather cumbroiLS-loolnng vessel, liut sufficiently Inioy- 

 ant to bear one comfortably, and 

 tlian oin bark canoe. By this 

 dusk, and the Doctor was roaring 

 ready. They had made a good fire, a 

 petitcs appeased. It was still raining In 



was waterproof, and.Tutbling o ■• 



our blankets, while Colly irot hi 

 had the "Campbells are (Jomi 

 and a host more of Scotia's fa vr 



hills. We then (ixcd tile brc for the night, and rolled our- 

 selves up in our lilankcts :nid fori^ct our disappointment. 



Breakfast over we niade >nior her trial. The Doctor was 

 alicad of me on the raft, as when I went down for it he had 

 pos,sessiou and was aocliored about half a mile above the 

 McKiniion Falls bnsilv wliipiang away with better success 

 than yesterday, so I jiroccoded down below the falls and 

 was joined by (Jolly imd Bill. The latter had sprained his 

 knee atid was'almost unrdile to walk, and wc could not use 

 the cauoe as it had a hole in it, so we hauled it up to dry till 

 it copld be gummed. AVo were sorry for Bill as he could do 

 very little walking, but when he saw us hooking a few two 

 or three poiuiders he Stan ed to ji in us. Thcysay. "'Tis an ill 

 wiiKl," etc. ; BO with Bill, llehad ni5t come twenty yards when 

 he slipped, and dovsm he went, and hardly dow^u till up 

 a"-ain aud started for shore as if a .shark was after him. AMien 

 he rea.r't'fd the ='liorc lie fell his knee, and looked out at ns. 

 -^eci:;' :i ' iiJ ■ -o langh. lie sjriwly bent the knee aud 

 then : ■ _ I 11' I ,1 ml airain, walked a'few imces, and then 

 started .M, iiii iM : o ns with the exclamation, "Boys, I'll be 

 busted, Vint ift^ all right again." The fall had, no doubt, put 

 the sinew back in its iiliice. AVell, Bill had hardly got out to 

 us — wo w-aisl deep in a good smooth piece of water — when we 

 saw the Doctor and his raft approaching the head of the falls 

 at a lively gait. "He'll be over the falls as sure as fate," s»id 



Bill, and hardly were the words uttered than we saw the 

 Doctor l,iy his rod down and then lay himself alongside of it, 

 and he, raft aud all, were in the rapid.s over tlie falls and 

 alongside of us in about as short a space of time as I take to 

 write it. 



It appears his anchor line cut and he never noticed he was 

 drifting till too late to try and pole ashore. "ATa.sn't that 

 neatly done?" .said he, and wc thought it was, but would not 

 like to try it. The Doctor lost his line, liooks and all his fish 

 by his little cruise, but htuig on lo his rod. 



"The fishing not being very good we delerniined to strike 

 camp, and seeing Tom King', ilic master for that sreiion, going 

 down on his "pumper" weniadc him wail and lake our bag- 

 gage down to iMill Stream and Collv and Bill went along 

 with him leaving the Doctor and 1 with the canoe to go by 

 river to join them. Doctor and 1 started, " but," say's the 

 Doctor, "we are not going straight through yet. I'll' .show 

 you some good spots. We will try the ijools rit the Assamct- 

 quaghu Bridge," and there we steered for, hauled the canoe 

 up and tried Ihc pools. First fish for the Doctor and a beauty 

 of five poiUKls ; next for me, not so large; and for two hour's 

 wc were kept busy. 'J'hc sky then lirighteued and ti,shuig 

 (teased, the doctor went nshore'and stood on the bridge. AVe 

 were fishing about one hundred yards from the fool' of . the 

 bridge in still water, and 1 suddenly heard a shout, when I 

 ran up the bank aud .shouted ba(k to know if anything was 

 wrong. "Come here and see trout as long a.s a raUroad 

 track," said he, and up I went, and it >vas a sight to make one 

 wild. Just under the biidge the water is as "clear as crystal 

 and about six fathoms deep, all rock bottom ; and, lyiiig in 

 shoals, one could see the trout without a perceptible 

 motion, and larger ones than we had yet caught. AA'e tried 

 every lly. we had, Init could not eet a rise. 1 then got on a 

 sinker and cut up a, trout for bait and tried them with that. 

 No betler auccess, although I could sei; the bait alongside of 

 their nose and rub it against their bodies. They would only 

 give a wtiggle to their tails and move out of" the road. 1 

 then got around a ledge of rock out of sighl, and putting on 

 a piece of Bill SutherTantl's red haukerchicf, which he gave 

 ine before slatting, as wings for a fly, I gave a east and 

 hooked my fish. The Doctor was watcliing the movement, 

 and when I hooked it lie got so excited, being afraid I'd lose 



^ MR. SCOVEL GOES A FISHING. 



IT was a gorgeous Siiptember afternoon, and I sat rcnlinn 

 the Tfi/if.i under the lofty and leafy pines whirli nnr? 

 my friend Stover's esplanade nn the upper Dclawan-. 



I had justread ' Bodinc's'' brilliant and sparkling; aii .iini 

 of how that -speckled trout had got away from him, and how 

 "Bodine's" " lured the gentlcMassel "back." iVIy mind re 

 verted to my first day's fishinii out in Indiana in Doushicn': 

 Creek, when 1 was sixteen years old, and (i! ivti.-il a~ioy it 



was to my imtutored and somewhat savru-- i oi ii,, 



Itcauliful little sun-flsh scattered on tie- b,: ii , i „ , 



them up as fast as they would bite, and -as ta^i i-. i , .imi p rt. 

 them in! If Cicero had anymore exipiisite delight witt 

 "listening senates at his heels" than I had with my snn-fisli 

 at least history has been silent on tliat sniiject. 



The " IJodine" trout still lingered in my mind, and I sain 

 to my friend .leirdan H. Stover.' who h;is ll'ie .soul of goodnes' 

 in him, that if I had appropriale taekh- 1 would tackle on t. 

 the sun-fish. He told me he knew a hole down bv the mil 

 where they most did congregate, and that 1 might t"ake a bass 



or two 



The 



few h( 



if 1 



which 



vas stiatier 



me It 

 at me 1' 

 d 1 soon 



furie.nsly 



was getting 



1 get supper 



had their ap- 



but the tent 



-led out on 



;:-.-\vl.ui 



i- Is Reel." 

 -iimong the 



" FYSSHYNGE WYTH AN ANGLE;" 

 (Fttc-simile of Illiiatratiou in First Edition, 1496 ] 

 him as the place where I was standing was veiy bluff and 

 barely room to move, that he got .shouting that he'd go round 

 and help me, when liis feet went from him and in he went, 

 and I was very near having to fish out more than 1 Ijargained 

 for; but he floundered around, and at last got ashore just sis I 

 lauded my six pound four ounce fish, the largest of all our 

 catch. Doctor was delighted at my success, as he did not ex- 

 pect I could land him without a net ; but it took me some time 

 to drown him. he fought so very hartl. 



AVe tried for over an hour at and around the same spot, but 

 not a rise from one. We then concluded to strike for camp, 

 and about six o'clock we arrived, Just in time lo try Bill's 

 cooking, which was excellent; had our after-supper smoke 

 and wrapiicd ourselves in hlankels. 



Next day we went back to .■Vss.unetiiiiadm bridge with the 

 whole party and G f. M. p,iw us back to eamp with a total of 

 thirty-three dozen and odd, exclusive of what we consumed, 

 to bi-iiig laniie with us and » hen weighed averaged three 

 pouud six ounce. Tliere is line fishing on this river, bntit is 

 uncertain- ,\s onr party liad decided to try Lake Malfait on 

 our way back we struck camp next morning and took the 

 train, lint on lo, . ^ill^: over ourslock of provisions we con- 

 cluded to so sttnialu tliroiiirh to Duloup. where we arrived at 

 -1:;?0 p. m', well sal islicdwiih our trip, although commenced 

 under very unfavorable circnmsinnces. 



The Dix-tor was quite right alioni ourfirst camping ground, 

 the Island, as v. hen passing in the train where an island was 

 three days iiefore only water was to te seen. AA'^e had several 

 rises froin salmon gii"lse but that was all, it was just as well, 

 however, as they were out of season. S. P. 



Qtid><:r, .sV^it. "1 880. 



—Through the courtesy of Mr. J. W. Boulon we publish 

 the above cut, illustrating a quaint book of wWch we spoke 

 in last week's issue. 



ling" e,ampaign had no more joys for me for , 



d.lordanwas soon n.ssidnonslv engaged In rii- 



steeds, which hitherto had only voyaged to Fif-M. Lii.ivi 

 or led exploring parties when liitc'hed To a hay wagon !■ , -rm 

 romantic spotlike the " Singing Rocks" in the Ha'pp> \ iili -i 

 Well, in one hour Jordan showed uie as pretty a flshiii^ n : :i 

 if I had bought it at Krider's. 



The place under the pines deserves a wau-d. Iler-,- 1 havi 

 rested for three simimers with my hoiischokl godsaljoui mi 

 (board .'^7 per week). To gci here vwn hmk-i l^i |o fundi 

 town, K. J., 2-') miles above Trenton.'and a line' to J. r Ian 11 

 Stover, at Erwinna ('two miles below Frenihlown, N J 

 in Bucks County, Pa.', will bring onr friend Joi-dan wilh , 

 pair of Arab colls, well bred and well trained, to meet v-jii :i 

 .any train north or south. 



And I have derived so much pleasure from tlie PoaEsi .\m 



SxREiM that I feel like giving others the benefit of whatevi- 



sweet delights can be had to fill the sportsman's son 



with joy without utterly emptying his pockets, unlesshi ,, ', 



be like tliat of Forlunatus or th^ devils w' h li i 



said to have neither top nor bottom I 



September and October are said lobe tin i-rs 

 months in which to catch bass, albeit mv oiern 

 Major T. AV. Walker, of the V. S. Army, .asi-iicsi,,,: 

 me with a four-pound bass he had canglit wilh a sill 

 line in the middle of Augu-it. lAIy luck d'V'ii'l nn 

 that way. I am some on ducks," brant ami wit 



feese, but when it comes to big hass and .ili.-,-pslir(i.i 

 am not there. For sixteen"ycars 1 aiigj. -I ,i . n 

 and too well for the sullen sheepslvni it i , . i 

 and in Grassy Bay and 'all over Ab.se' oin' I i n 

 caught one sle'pshead; time, .Tifly; yair, 1 .' , 

 had him embalmed, .and ever after co'nsole,] m,,.-. 

 with flounder and weak lish, aud against m, , i -.i 

 ess in that direction I yield lo no superior, lisli Ik 

 in Barnegat Bay or Atlantic City, he he skipier, 

 professional fish-catcher or s^niateur. 

 But we seem to wander from our mutton. 

 As I sat looking proudly at my horse-liair *;inr, 

 I thought of my lamented "friend Dr. AA'm. A[. King, 

 now at, peace with all the world. It was seno'cly n 

 year ag<i when the versatile Doctor bet me the htst 

 supper the Philadelphia Club coidd provide— » 

 its ciiiniuf is proverbial and imcvceptionabln 

 caught more front with a red worm, in a Abu iltr- 

 noon. in Broadhcad's Creek, on the In I,,- ,, ,\, -i. 



ern and Lackawanna road, than the > ■ i ii ■ i 



did with his .S'lOO worth of "si-izzlv In- , -,<. 



hundred other yariciies of tiy. 1 Imioil a dv.v. 

 buck," ten years' old, with a shining t fti.ceni |iiree, 

 and awav wc went, happy as the ros\ fingered .\ untM 

 at her en'riy bridal with the sky. Mj youthful tirnl:- 

 lious that a worm and a fish went together had bc/-» 

 sorely outraged by the valiant Doctor's sneer at the 

 "rcri worm." 'Blinicer, the comilry hoj^, g,-i I In-red 

 the bait, and gaily wc "troubadours" started up tlaj 

 valley. Neve^'r did soldier at Chamilly, aniidst ihe 

 red rain of the enemy's artilli rv, jiersjiire more or 

 tight harder than I did for a strin'g of spi.cklcd ir nit. 

 It was a hot day— stream low, till 1 had to heart 

 double to reach I he shady spots, and had a dozen falls 

 with my slippery u'uin boot^. 



The witty Do"clor and myself arrived at the bl 



painted hostelrie almost at the same moment. ^^^ 



was wet from top to toe, and held out at ar 



length a small chub he had caught wilh a 



.zly" fly. Blinker cauliou.sly opened his baS 



and spread out twelve speckled trout, none more tl 



six inches. The Doctor looked daggers and sp( 



cross words— and, alas ! the brilliant Doctor died before wc 1 



the dinner at the Club, at which I and a certain naval officii 



Rabelais in wit and a Talleyrand in diplomacy. Dr. D -, ( 



Barnwell, and one poor poet moinned. But rest thy p 

 turbcd spirit, tired of the world— a true frieud, if a bitter fo( 

 tliere must lie a place where thy soul can find the repose ( 

 nied it here. i 



I started off toward the spot pointed ouf. by Stover ' 

 the old mill. " Where the miU-whcel rolled right stcadil 

 As I trudged along I recalled good old Izaak Walton's won 

 "No life so happy and ple'asant as the life of a well gl 

 emed augler, for when the lawyer is swallowed up with bt 

 ness, and the statesman is preveiiling or contriving plots t 

 we sit on the cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, i 

 possess ourselves in as much (lUietness as these sileut si( 

 slTcams which we now see glide so Ciuictly by us. Illde 

 my good scholar, wc may say of angling as Dr. Boteler r^ 

 of strawberries ; 



" ' Doubtless God coidd have made a better berry than 

 strawberr3f, but doubtless He never did,' and so, if I lui, 

 judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet or innoc 

 recreation than angling." 



Once at the old mill I sat me down fifteen feet above'i 

 deep hole uito which the dammed up waters of the Dela* 

 poured. 



It was '1 p. M.. and a gratefrd shade diffused itself arouft 

 A new " Blincker" I had gathered in to find " crickets' 

 the hearth" for bait had to be silenced -with threats of 

 fectual applications of the butt end of my pole— "Ql 

 reigned in A^^arsaw." 



No sooner had the crickets touched the ooring waters t^^ 

 something gave a well-defined tug. Cautiously I tightsl 

 my hau--liae till 1 could see the glistening sides of a "smi 

 larger than my hand, aud if not a "game" fish he fought: 

 ten minutes before I dared draw him up to my "perch." 



