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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[May 37, 1880. 



May 5th for Shandaken, on the Ulster and Delaware R. 

 R.; fare $2. 90. We stopped at La Ment's Hotel; fished 

 the Notch. Pine Hollow, Broad Street Hollow, Fox Hol- 

 low, Big Indian, and other streams in that locality : 

 found fish plenty, but very small, and certainly a dis- 

 grace for any sportsman to take home. Tired of this lo- 

 cation, we took the train and got off at Arkville ; hired a 

 team — price $4 — and drove to farm house of Mr. De 

 Silvie, Grant's Mills, Delaware County, fifteen miles from 

 railroad ; fished Millbrook in Ulster County, .and met 

 with good success. Mr. "Whitney and myself are sports- 

 men to the backbone, and will walk with any one thirty 

 miles if necessary to catch two good sized trout, but 

 when you come to small ones we will always put them 

 back, and if every sportsman and true lover of trout 

 would do the same we would have better fishing in a 

 short time. We fished Millbrook four days, catching 

 only enough to supply our table. The last day Mr. 

 Whitney and myself caught one hundred and sixty and 

 brought most of them home, and they were beauties, all 

 good size. Boy-like, coming down on the railroad we 

 had to open our basket to look at them, and they were 

 admired by more than one passenger on the train. We 

 had a very pleasant trip, and I can say to our friends that 

 there are good sized trout left yet, if you go in the right 

 direction. Law is not up in Delaware County until 

 June 1st or 10th. H. C. W. 



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Virginia— Mt. Airy, N. O.. May 15th.~ Our " little " 

 party, tired of the " Sunny South," went to the moun- 

 tains of Patrick County, Va., a few days ago on a 

 trouting, for a little recreation. The waters of the Dan 

 are good right now. We hooked upward of three hun- 

 dred in two days : also, with our guns bagged three large 

 wild turkeys, two gobblers and one hen, besides pheas- 

 ants, squirrels, rabbits, partridges, robins, doves, shakes, 

 etc. The snakes were shot on our hunt in tbe mountains — 

 rattlesnakes, adders, and black snakes. We seldom kill 

 a black snake, unless he gets saucy. In our party was a 

 deaf mute, one of the Siamese Twins' sons, Bunker. He 

 enjoyed the trip hugely— full of life and fun. T. M. B. 

 ♦ 



Bass in Texas. — Waxahaehie, Texas, May 17th— 1 

 have before me your issue of May 6th, in which appears 

 a communication from Willis, Texas, over the signature 

 "C. L. J.," in which the writer describes his preparations 

 for a campaign against the black bass. 1 am afraid, 

 however, that if the gentleman confines his piscatorial 

 pursuits to the killing of black bass in Texas, he will, in 

 the language of the poet, " get left." I have fished all 

 the principal rivers and best fishing grounds in the State, 

 and killed every variety of fish known to exist in Texas 

 fresh waters, but have never yet met with the black bass. 

 What is known as the black bass here is rock bass proper, 

 called in the northern States variously rock bass, striped 

 bass, river bass, etc., according to the locality, and uni- 

 versally known as trout among natives of the Southern 

 States. If "C.L. J."will carefully peruse Frank Forester's 

 " Fin and Feather," he will find there such information 

 in regard to black bass and rock bass as will forever set- 

 tle in his own mind which of the two varieties abound in 

 Texas waters ; and he will never again be guilty of mis- 

 taking our gamy and toothsome favorite for the un- 

 wieldy but voracious black bass. Perhaps "C. L. J." will 

 kindly furnish the readers of Forest and Stebam with 

 an account of the first or opening battle of his campaign. 

 I, for one, shall look with great interest for a record of 

 his success with flies in capturing " Texas trout." 



C. S. W. 



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The Richakson-Ranoeley Lakes. — The travel to this 

 celebrated lake region has already commenced, and quite 

 a large number of people are scattered about between 

 ErrolDam, Umbagog Lake, and the Upper Dam, on the 

 Richardson Lakes. At present writing the fishing on the 

 Magalloway and Diamond rivers is first rate, and large 

 strings are also being taken at Middle Dam, Upper Dam, 

 head of the Upper Riehardson Lake, Beaver Ponds, Rich- 

 ardson Ponds, and Mill Brook. 



The two most direct routes, by Bryant's Pond and 

 Andover, and by Bethel and Upton, seem to be the favo- 

 rites at present, and most of the people who are visiting 

 the lakes this spring go by one or the other. Later in the 

 season, however, the " Dixvilie Notch Route" must be- 

 come the favorite on account of the wonderful scenery 

 along its way. 



An unusually large number of round trip excursion 

 tiokets have been issued by the different railroads this 

 spring, and tourists and sportsmen cannot complain for 

 lack of diversity in routes. Some go in by Bryant's Pond 

 and Andover, and back the same way, and others back 

 by way of Upton and Bethel, The Dixvilie Notch tickets 

 read various ways ; some to North Stratford and Cole- 

 brook, by way of the Grand Trunk Railway, others by 

 way of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad. From 

 Colebrook you go down through Dixvilie Notch to Errol 

 Dam, where connection is made with the elegant little 

 steamer Parmaclienee, a new boat, built this spring, 

 expressly for this route. She runs daily to all points on 

 Umbagog Lake, and up the Magalloway every Tuesday, 

 Thursday and Saturday. She connects at the Berlin 

 Mills House (Brown's Farm) with teams for head of 

 Aziacohos Falls at Sunday Cone, with teams for the Mid- 

 dle Dam (Angler's Retreat): and at Upton with daily 

 stages for Bethel, running through (Jraftou Notch, a ro- 

 mantic pass in the mountains. 



Through the kindness of Chas. A. J. Farrar, Esq., 

 author of "Richardson and Rangeley Lakes Illustrated," 1 

 am able to give from advance proof sheets of his book 

 the following list of excursions to Dixvilie Notch and the 

 Rangeley Lakes, and I have no doubt but many of your 

 readers will be glad to learn at this early day the expense 

 of tickets to the lakes, and the different routes :— 



Boston to South Arm Riehardson-Rangeley Lakes and 

 return, Via Bryant's Pond and Andover, $13,00, 



Boston to Middle Dam and return, via Bryant's Pond 

 and Andover, $13.00. 



BoBton to Middle Dam and return, via Bethel and Up- 

 ton, $14.50. 



Boston to Upper Dam end return, via Bryant's Pond 

 and Andover, $14.00. 



Boston to Upper Dam and return, via Bethel and Up- 

 ton, $16.00. 



Boston to Upper Dam Via Bryant's Pond and Andover. 

 return via Bethel and Upton, $15.00, 



Boston to Upper Dam, ma Bryant's Pond and Andover, 

 return via Dixvilie Notch and Colebrook, $17.7"). 



Boston to Upper Dam, via Bryant's Pond and Andover. 

 return via Dixvilie Notch, Colebrook and the White 

 Mountains, $20.60. 



Boston to Indian Rock, via Bryant's Pond and Andover 

 and return, $15.25, 



Boston to Indian Bock, via Bryant's Pond and Andover, 

 return via Phillips and Farmington, $15.25. 



Boston to Berlin Mills House, llagalloway River and 

 return, via Bethel and Upton, $14.50. 

 g Boston to Berlin Mills House, Magalloway River and 

 return, via Bryant's Pond and Andover, $16.50. 



Boston to Dixvilie Notch and return, via Bethel and 

 Upton, $15.50, 



Boston to Dixvilie Notch, via. Bethel and Upton, return 

 via Colebrook and North Stratford, $15.2.1. 



Boston to Lake Umbagog and return, via Bethel, 

 $11.00. 



Boston to Errol Dam and return, via Boston, Concord 

 and Montreal R. R,, $19.00. 



These tickets many be procured in Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and other 

 large places, at all the general ticket offices. 



A new steamer has also been built for the Richardson 

 Lakes, and will ply this summer between South Arm, 

 Middle Dam, Upper Dam and all points on the lake. 



The roads from Andover to the South Arm of the lower 

 Richardson Lake, and from the Middle Dam to Lake 

 Uinbagog, have both been laid out as county roads, and 

 will be in first-rate condition this summer. Rambler. 



v\ THE OLD SCOUT GOES FISHING. 



A FRIEND of mine as was out a flshin', together with 

 me, a few days ago after trouts, has showed me 

 your paper of Thursday, March 18th. In that you has a 

 article tellin' how as to ketch trouts on April 1st. Now 

 you must have been a April foolin', and didn't think as 

 how we would lecollect 'twas the 1st of April, seeing as 

 how you says grizzly kings and perfessers and spiders 

 coopers and sich. Now I don't know much of them flys, 

 but I'll tell you — as you asks it that folks send you ac- 

 counts of the triumphs and reverses of your readers — 

 just what kind of luck them perfessers had up here in 

 Montanny last week. Well, we went a fishin'— two offi- 

 cers and a citizen, a New Yorker, and me ; and them 

 officers and that citizen they was just fixed up with rods 

 as looked like a long whip, and wasn't to my eye half as 

 strong, but they said them rods would yank out any trout 

 as I snowed 'em. Well, when we got inter the "moun- 

 tains, and went a fishin', they puts on rooster hackles 

 and pintail grouse fethers, as they called gray perfessers. 

 I told 'em it weren't no use, But they laffed and said all 

 right, you just watch. Well, I couldn't beleeve as sen- 

 sible fellows would calkerlate inketchin' trouts with them 

 feathers, and laffed to myself ; but at it the}^ went, 

 sneeken up through the briars and brush, and showin' 

 heeps of spunk, for they didn't mind the cold water as 

 much as I did, and just tried like all that was out to 

 ketch them trouts. But it weren't no use ; they just 

 cum up and took a look around and went off, and never 

 no more thought of bein' fooled by fethers than 1 would 

 of bein' by a Crow squaw for a Sioux buck. Then they 

 tried black partners and brown ibises and red parmers, 

 and a hull lether book full ; but it weren't no more use 

 than the perfessers. I told 'em them trouts hadn't ever 

 been to skool in the colledges, and they didn't know the 

 perfessers. That kinder riled 'em, but they laffed, and 

 began trying grasshoppers made of gum, and black 

 tumble bugs and tater bugs, and the Lord only knows 

 that they had more of them bugs than ever growed in 

 Montanny ; and I kep' on a laffin. Well, now, don't you 

 know, all the time as them three fellers was a playin' at 

 fishin' with them things, I was a fishin', I was a ketchin' 

 fish. Now you write a flshin' paper, and you know when 

 a man goas ahed of you fishin', a foolin' about and wadin' 

 threw the water, 'taint much of a chance of a man what 

 comes behind a ketchin' much fish ; but them trouts 

 weren't fooled by no sich fether tilings. Them trouts 

 was just hungry for something to eat, and fethers is 

 mighty poor eatin' ; so I come along behind 'em, and 

 tbrowed my line. Now I had a hook — a real old Limer- 

 ick hook with a twist on it— and I had a chunk of deer 

 meet, and the way them trouts cum up and took that 

 meet were a caution. They was just as hungry as they 

 could be, and sumtimes a big fellow would git the meet 

 and not git caught on the hook ; and when I put on an- 

 other piece of meet he just had had taste enuff of that 

 meet to go for the next piece with a jump and get 

 kotched, you bet. Well, I had heeps of fun. I kotched 

 fish and laffed at them fellows till I cried, and they was 

 just tired, and swearin' they didn't believo as them fish 

 was trouts. Well, now, that was sort of meen, I thought, 

 and told 'em so ; and 1 said 'taint uo use, gentlemen, these 

 trouts ain't been to colledge, and you better take some of 

 my deer meet. Well, they didn't kind of like to do it, 

 and sed that weren't no kind of fishin' ; but as they was 

 there, and couldn't ketch 'em any other way, they'd try 

 it jist to spend the time. So they put deer meet on toji 

 of them fethers, and tried again. Well, don't you know 

 they jist missed more nor half their fish ; then they was 

 sort of mad, cause I didn't miss mine. Well, after 

 awhile I looked at their hooks, and blamed if they didn't 

 have hooks as didn't have any twist on 'em. Well, I told 

 'em them hooks were no count, and they said they was 

 the very best of hooks— that they was Sprote's. Well, 

 now, I don't know. Sprote may make good hooks, but 

 he better mtike 'em with a twist on 'em. They ain't no 

 use if they ain't got a twist. Well, I got a whole big 

 string — more, than all three of them— and then we went 

 to camp and cooked sum and dried the rest of 'em to take 

 home. Now, I have seen city fellows ketch lots of 'em 

 out here in the summer with fethers, but 'taint no use 

 when they is reel hungry ; in the spring they want meet. 

 Now 1 say they is eddiikated, for they take" their desert 

 after they gets a good dinner, and they won't eat desert 

 on a emty stumack. The Old Scout, 



fennel 



Address all communications to " Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Company, New York." 



— Mr, Charles Lincoln, the superintendent of the late 

 show, has returned home ; his address, in the future, will . 

 be care of Gillman Brothers, Detroit, Mich, 11 would be 

 a great oversight on our part if we failed to compliment 

 Mr. Lincoln on his supervision during his stay in Mew 

 York. On the days of the show he exhibited more 

 than ever that wonderful executive ability to condtnjfr" 

 everything to everyone's satisfaction. We did not heat 

 one murmur. 



Connecticut — NorwiaJi, May 10th. — A number of gen- 

 tlemen interested in glass ball shooting met on Friday 

 evening and organized a shooting club. A constitution 

 and by-laws were adopted, and the following oflicera 

 elected : President, A. S. Childs ; Secretary, C. W. Scott : 

 Treasurer. E. A. Tracy. The club meets twice weekly 

 for practice, C. W. S. 



Departure of the English Judges. — The steainei." 

 City of Picltiitond, which sailed from this port on Satut- 

 day last, had on board both of the English judges, Mr. 

 Dalziel and Dr. Stables. Their stay here had been una- 

 voidably protracted to a much longer period than antici- 

 pated when they left Liverpool, on April 13th, and 

 neither were BOrry that the time had come for their re- 

 turn home. Since their arrival on the 24th ult. tlieif 

 spare moments were employed in visiting the places Of 

 interest in the metropolis and in trips to the neighboring 

 cities, Dr. Stables having made two visits to Philadelphia 

 and also going onto Baltimore and Washington ; wh% 

 Mr. Dalziel had been to Boston and made Niagara Falls 

 flying visit. As the doggy views of theBe gentlemen n 

 be interesting to our readers, we are pleased to be able 

 give in a brief way the impressions gained from s 

 conversations held since the exhibition. Mr. Dais 

 speaking of the show, said: "Regarding the 

 classes, especially the setters, they were remark: 

 good; but the natives, in such a large class as show 

 exhibited too much variety, which careful seleetioi 

 breeding will only reduce. The pointers, although e 

 lent, generally speaking, were not as; good as the sett 

 For practical use there seemed to me to be a disposiH 

 to breed the dogs too fine and small. From conversati 

 with shooting men as to the lay of the country inha 

 by game, I would judge the old Spanish breed of j. 

 ers would prove the most useful. I was greatly surpii 

 to see such a strong interest taken in shooting matte 

 and 1 trust to be able to come back again some tin 

 the autumn and take a trip to the Western prairies. 

 compared with like exhibitions in England, I deemed I 

 building very well adapted to the show — in fact, c 

 not be excelled ; it was far better than that in which tl 

 show is held in Birmingham, and equal in attraciioi 

 the Alexandra Palace and more spacious. Doubt! 

 from inexperience, resulting from shows of th 

 ing young in America, many exhibitors did not 

 beating with that silence that they do in England, a 

 would not have expressed themselves as they did 1 

 they remembered the terms on which they made I 

 voluntary entries. Tbe general class of exhibitors a 

 whole was very nice to do with, and the above reffl 



apply only to a few. I was pleased to see two 



gentlemen have such large and excellent kennels as tb< 

 of Mr. Moore and Mr. Godeffroy, and I trust to 1 

 more of the same kind before many years havep 

 away. In England large kennels are continually c 

 ping up and dying out, and it is not always in the n 

 extensive that the finest specimens are to he foti; 

 there are many small breeders with only three or f 

 dogs who turn out the finest kind of animals. The g 

 feral condition in which the dogs were shown was e 

 lent, although there were many cases which requin 

 attention of a veterinary surgeon, and a large nu 

 still whose general appearance would have, been g 

 improved by judicious grooming. Exhibitors of 

 sporting dogs especially were lacking in the art of fii 

 ing their dogs in the blooming condition that they a 

 home. The non-sporting classes were very 

 character, and I was surprised to hear that many g 

 dogs shown before me had been imported from I 

 at the extravagant prices told me. In the toy-d 

 there were a number of very good specimens, but tl 

 were the exception ; and I am astonished thin 

 no Blenheims or King Charles spaniels show n, whirl 

 beyond doubt the most beautiful and pleasing ( 

 drawing-room pets. The benching and comfort ( 

 dogs were admirably seen to by the Superintendei 

 Linccln, and there was little delay in presenting t 

 for the judging. I was agreeably pleased to see thi 

 dogs were fed on Spratt's patent fibrine biscuits, 

 are ubiquitous, as I see them uised at German and! 

 aB well as at all out best English shows." 



Dr. Stables said: "I heartily indorse these com 

 of Mr. Dalziel, and I too was very much disappi 

 with the non-sporting classes, with the exception 

 skye and toy dogs. The fox -terriers W 

 bad, but I was very much delighted with the sette 

 Irish in particular, which we Cannot beat in . 

 The show arrangements were very good, but the p 

 compared with English benches, were too hi 

 would recommend the sides to he of slat-work c 

 netting, either of which affords more ventilation, s 

 besides, less expensive, I trust to return at some ( 



