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fca and |jf ivei[ fishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 
FRESH WATER. 
Black Bass, Mtcropt-ertie ealmo -I Pike or Ptokerel, Emx Indus. 
ides; M. nigricans. Yellow Perch, Perm flaveseem. 
Muskalongre, Bso* ndbUior. \ 
WATER. 
Spanish Mackerel, Qybiiim mae- 
ulatum. 
Oero, Oyhtum regale. 
SAIi 
Sea Bass, ScuKHops ocellatus. 
Striped Bass, Roccus lineal us. 
White Perch ,Morune urnerlca na. 
Weakfish, OunoseUm recalls. 
Bluefish, Pomatomus mltatrix. 
Bonito, Sarda yelamys. 
Kinsftsh, Mcntlcirrus nelmlosus. 
Exporting Salmon to England.— The business of 
freezing fresh salmon for home consumption and for ex¬ 
port to the United States has been in operation in Canada 
for a dozen years at least; but it is only within the pres¬ 
ent year, we believe, that Canadian salmon have been ex¬ 
ported to Europe. Several cargoes have already gone 
from Newfoundland, and there is a 150-ton vessel now 
loading at Campbellton, New Brunswick, with Resti- 
gouche fish. The latter are very large and fine, and have 
been a favorite in the United States markets for four 
years past. 
—Montreal papers say that the Labrador catch of her¬ 
ring has proved almost a complete failure the past season. 
Holders are asking $6 per barrel, to arrive. 
Salmon Score of the Grand Cascapediac for 1871). 
— -In our last issue we referred incidentally to the large 
catch of salmon in the Grand Cascapediac river the past 
season. The Grand Cascapediac is a Canadian river 
empting into the Bay Chaleur. The following is the score 
of the Hon, CharlesEUis, Mr. L. Iveson, and Captain G. 
A. Percy, from June 9th to Aug. 15th inclusive, to which 
are added those of Capt. Fane and Capt. Drummond, 
R. N.. who joined the party toward the end of the 
season, and enjoyed five days’ fishing. The average of 
the whole was five fish, weighing 1351bs., to each rod, for 
each day’s fishing, the total being as follows :— 
Weight. 
Days. Fish. lbs. liOib. & Dp. 
Hon. C. Ellis..44 269 6,714 53 
Mr. L. Iveson . 46 213 6,483 48 
Cant. G. A. Percy. 30 137 3,451 27 
Capt. Fane, R. N.. 5 12 305 4 
Capt, Drummond, R.N 5 13 335 3 
Total..li» 647 16,238 185 
— Anglers who study economy, and wish to provide 
tackle for next season, will bear in mind that Orders given 
now can be more cheaply filled by manufacturers during 
the winter months than i n the busy spring, when the time 
of the manufacturers is fully occupied. Mr. Chas. F. Or- 
vis, of Manchester, Vermont, wishes us to say that he will 
furnish excellent bamboo rods at exceptionally low prices 
if they are ordered this fall and winter ; also, that he has 
on hand a fine stock of first class trout flies, than which 
no better are manufactured anywhere. His flies always 
give fullest satisfaction. 
—The editor of a rural journal thanks a young fisher¬ 
man for a “mess of eels,” and says he is so successful in 
taking fish that the finny inhabitants of Clear Creek butt 
each other to death in their efforts to escape his killing 
hooks. The editor is paving the way for another “ mess 
of eels.” ^ 
v “Old Salt’s” Score.— Marietta. Ga,,Sept. 29th.— The 
editorial remarks in issue of Sept. 25th on “ The best haul 
ever known,” were much to the point. In the same pa¬ 
per was recorded another “ haul,” said to be by Gov. Al¬ 
ford, who caught over 5,000 bass, pickerel, etc., during 
his summer vacation. The writer omitted to state the 
length of the vacation, but supposing it to have lasted 
three months, and that the Governor fished three timeB a 
week, his captures must have amounted to 128 per day, 
On his best day, when he killed 833, he would have to kill 
thirty-three fis'h per hour,’ for ten hours, and they with the 
fly ! The bass must have been small, or the day very 
long. S. C, C. 
^ New York —Shelter Island, Oct. 1st. —Bunker fishing 
on the eastern coast of Long Island since the 1st of Aug¬ 
ust has been quite unsuccessful, much inferior to that of 
former years. * The months of August and September 
have usually been fortunate seasons. For the last four 
weeks fishing has not been a paying business for sailing 
craft", and many of them have been hauled up for the sea¬ 
son. The steamers usually go out to sea, or into Long 
Island Sound, and some fortunate ones have taken 800,- 
000 in a week. The sharks have been very numerous and 
have injured the seines badly, 
For some unexplained reason the fish are scattered all 
over the waters of bay and ocean in small schools, which 
is quite unusual at this time of year. It is probably ow¬ 
ing to the great number of steamers that pursue them in¬ 
cessantly, far into the ocean, and so break them up. 
Gardiner’s Bay, that has always been considered the 
best fishing ground, is now nearly destitute of fish. Long 
Island Sound, and off the south shore of the Island in 
the Atlantic, are vast numbersof fish, but in small schools, 
so that not more than some six or eight thousand can be 
taken at a haul. Still, new factories are being construct¬ 
ed and the present ones are enlarging their capacities for 
carrying on the business. But the steamers seem to in¬ 
crease in number as the fish diminish. In addition to the 
large number of steamers belonging to this region, large 
numbers of them have been in those waters this season, 
from other seaboard states. 
For the last few weeks the two large factories on this 
Island have averaged weekly only about 300,000 to 400,- 
000, It would almost seem as if the best days for bunker 
fishing were over ; and this would be very disastrous for 
the hundreds of vessels and steamers and the thousands 
of men employed in the business, as there is a good de¬ 
mand for the oil and scraps. MoL. 
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A Pennsylvania Haul.— Pottsville, Pa., Oct. 1st.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: —Tumbling Run Dams, two 
in number, are walled in by mountains on either side, and 
are about one mile in length by about one eighth in width, 
and from five to forty feet in depth, of pure spring water. 
During protracted dry summer seasons they feed the 
Schuylkill Navigation Co.’b canal, on which occasions 
they are drawn off very low. About six years ago one of 
our prominent fishermen commenced stocking these 
waters with the insignificant number of six small black 
bass, and since then, through the efforts of our represent¬ 
atives, the State Fishery Commission have put in about 
6,000 bass and trout. By request of our sportsmen, the 
Philadelphia and Reading R. R. Co., who are the lessees 
of the dams, placed around on the shores notices that 
“improper fishing would be punished.” Last summer a 
year, a lew coal and iron policemen were stationed at the 
dams to make arrests of any caught in the act of fishing, 
but they themselves exercised an unlawful liberty in the 
sport. The past season was the first opportunity extended to 
any and everybody to try his luck with hook and line, and 
many large bass and trout were caught. I had the pleas¬ 
ure of taking some bass from two to five pounds, aud by 
another season any quantity of large fish could have been 
caught. But our fondest hopes have left us through the 
maliciousness of a few officials of theS. N. Co., at Schuyl¬ 
kill Haven, two miles below. Last Sunday night, one 
named Jones, another named Cartright, and Sullivan, 
screened the pipes, broke the padlocks, raised the wickets, 
and in a short time drained the dams, being quite low at 
the time, and thousands of small fry passed through the 
screens and died in the channel below, and the rapid cur¬ 
rent carrying as many into the head of the sulphurate 
waters of the Schuylkill River, which being pumping's 
from the coal mines above, is as black as tar. No fish 
can live in it. Thousands of small fry, and bushels of 
fair specimens lay in the bleaching sun on the beds of the 
dams, dead and dying; the scoundrels carried away 
several tubs full of the largest fish, liberally distributing 
them with their friends on then- way home, and their only 
reason, as far as we can learn, for it was, “ to get ahead 
of the policemen.” The company’s attorney here has ad¬ 
vised President F. B. Gowen of the circumstances, and if 
we can have these miscreants properly punished, we mean 
to do it. Dom Pedro. 
Missouri — St. Louis, Oct. 2d. —Have made three or 
four trips to Murdock Lake Club House, and as usual 
came off high line in catching black bass. More and lar¬ 
ger ones have been taken in our lake this fall than ever 
before. I have hardly missed capturing some weighing 
four to five pounds eachat every visit. Several have been 
taken weighing six pounds. D. L. D. 
I- t_ 
11 California — San Francisco, Sept. 19th. —We are hav¬ 
ing very good grilse fishing now in what we call the la¬ 
goons. All our small rivers emptying on the coast have 
sand bars at their mouths in the summer time which form 
lagoons behind them of brackish water; these are torn 
open by the first heavy rains of the winter when the sal¬ 
mon enter and go up to the sources of the streams aud 
spawn, and immediately return to the ocean. When the 
young salmon are hatched and have arrived at about the 
weight of from, six to ten ounces, they descend these 
streams seeking their way to the ocean, but are stopped 
by the sand bars, and remain in these brackish, waters 
until the heavy rains of winter tear open a passage to the 
sea. All of these lagoons are now full of these young 
salmon ; the water is brackish, and they feed ravenously 
and take the fly with avidity. It is the prettiest and cl ean- 
est fly fishing you can imagine ; a clean sand bank; no 
willows or trees, and an open pond of brackish water, 
Three of us took over a hundred with red hackle the other 
morning in an hour at the mouth of the Carmel River 
near Monterey. 
I read the Forest and Stream regularly, and am aston¬ 
ished that people should go way to Canada and spend so 
much money in catching a few salmon; when if they 
would come here in July or August and go to the head 
waters of the McCloud River, they would find that the 
salmon would bite so ravenously as to become a nuisance 
to trout fishermen. It will give you an idea how thick 
they are in the McCloud River in July and August, when 
I state that a few weeks since, Mr. Livingston Stone’s 
men at one haul of the seine, in a pool at the U. S. Fish¬ 
ery, took over two thousand. In addition to the natural 
product we hatch aud turn in two-and-a-half millions of 
salmon every year. By this process we are beating the 
fishermen, the caxmers, and the sea-lions. 
_ B. B. Redding. 
The Salmon Supply of the Season. —The supply of 
salmon during the season now at its close has fluctuated 
so considerably that it may be of interest to compare the 
present year with its predecessors. We have therefore 
compiled the following figures from the weekly returns 
published iu our columns of the number of boxes (con¬ 
taining 150 pounds each) received in the London market 
during the last five seasons, from the three divisions of 
the United Kingdom, during the seven months from Feb¬ 
ruary to August, inclusive :— 
Scotland. 
Ireland. 
England and Wales . 
1*75. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 
18,326 
4,835 
1,278 
24,439 
ri,412 
6,004 
1,806 
29,222 
23,700 
5,673 
1,681 
23,869 
3,815 
1,170 
28,854 
13,524 
5,042 
L340 
19,906 
Lon don Field, Sept. 9th, 
We note the return to the United States, this week, of 
S. Nugent Townsend, Esq., the American correspondent 
of the London Field. Previous to his departure for Eng¬ 
land, a year ago, he had spent three years in Texas, 
writing up the resources of that State, and encouraging 
immigration from abroad. The information which ha 
then collected has been embodied in a book recently pub¬ 
lished. 
§}achting and § eating. 
HIGH WATER FOR THE WEEK. 
Date. 
Boston. 
New Yobk. 
Charleston. 
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m. 
ll. 
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Oct- 9. 
59 
2 
40 
1 
58 
Oct. 10. ... 
* 
0 
3 
46 
3 
59 
Oct. 11. 
V 
57 
4 
43 
3 
58 
Oct. 12. 
52 
5 
38 
4 
51 
Oct. 13. 
9 
6 
32 
5 
45 
Oct, M . ... 
10 
39 
7 
25 
0 
38 
Oct. 15. 
11 
30 
9 
16 
7 
29 
Tons. owner. 
27 .Lieut. V. C. Carter, R. E. 
A. G. EdivardB. 
Honor to Whom Honor is Dub .—Editor Forest and 
Stream : — Your notice of our boat club move in this 
city gratefully received, but the distinction you accord 
me is not mine to keep, wherein you say : “ Owing 
mainly to the exertions of Mr. A. H. Siegfried,” etc. 
Tbe idea of a club, originated in my absence on the high 
Mississippi, and the splendid list of men we have, is al¬ 
most entirely owing to the personal persistent work of 
our Vice-President, Mr. L. A. Dunham, seconded by a 
few other gentlemc-n, of whom I was not one until well 
toward the close of the work. A. H. Siegfried. 
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 20th. 
Beverly Yacht Club.—T he fifty-second race, to sail 
off tie in the third class, took place off Nahant, September 
22d. Course, round Winthrop buoy and return; wind 
strong, easterly ; heavy sea ; judges’yacht, Loxen; judges, 
R. D. Seasr, A. Johnson. 
The boats got in a line, and all got off at 4.35. Psyche 
had the best of it, but had to work hard to get ahead of 
Bessie. Return : Psyche, 6.26.45 ; Bessie, 6.30.17 ; Nora, 
6.33.20. Psyche wins the championship. 
Protests Decided. — I n the fiftieth regatta, the Open 
Race at Swamspcott of August 23d, two protests were 
made. The first, that of Josephine, was mentioned in 
Forest and Stream in the account of the race. This 
was not allowed; the judges deciding they could not re¬ 
verse their award to correct the mistake made by Jose¬ 
phine herself. The second case was a protest by Em¬ 
press, J. Y. C., against Dictator, S. B. Y. C. ; the claim 
being that Dictator was longer than the length she un¬ 
entered at. Dictator made a counter protest against 
Empress, and the judges decided to measure both boats, 
which belong to the second class keels, in which first 
money was taken by Veronica, S. B. Y. C., second money, 
$15, being the amount in dispute. After much trouble and 
delay, both boats were measured as follows:— 
Actual Corrects 
Length. Time- Time. 
Empress. J. C. 25 114 2 31 18 1 50 54 
Dictatin', S. B. Y. C. 33 91 2 37 48 L 50 56 
Empress, winning by one second. 
Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.—T wo races 
were sailed on the 13th of September by the yachts of the 
squadron. The first was for yachts exceeding fifteen tons, 
and for this were entered 
A'ame. Rig. 
Seafoam. Schooner . 
Petrel.Sloop. 
The breeze had died away altogether, hut, just before 
the start, came up from S. W., making a beat to first 
mark, Mar's Rock Buoy, a certainty. The second-class 
yachts entered were :— 
Warns. Rig. Tonnage. Owner. 
Psycho.Sloop. ... 7....."W. H. Brookfield. 
Phantom- .Sloop.,. . 7.W. H. Troop. 
Kate.Sloop. 8. W. B. AloSweeney 
Volante.Schooner— 9.F. Rudolf. 
Psyche made a very late start. Kate did not appear at 
the line till nearly eighteen minutes after the word “ go.” 
This delay on her part probably cost her a prize, for she 
sailed well. Phan tom, which led her class a long way 
out, was killed by the lop she met outside, and went in 
for pickaxe drill in the most disheartening manner. 
Psyche was the wonder of the day. Starting last of her 
class, six minutes and a half behind Phantom and eight 
minutes ten seconds behind Petrel in first class, she sailed 
so fast and worked the western shore so judiciously that 
she actually led the fleet around Mar’s Rock, and raced 
Petrel very close across to Thrum Cap. As for Petrel, 
the old favorite sailed quite up to her form, finally coming 
in ahead by a long piece, and landing the Flag Officers’ 
Prize without difficulty. 
The starting gun was fired at 1.30 p.m., and the yachts 
were timed as follows :— 
B.M.S. | H. M. S. 
Petrel.1 31 40 | Seafoam. 1 35 40 
Phantom.1 33 15 Psyche.. 1 30 60 
Volante,. 1 34 20 | Kate.1 47 10 
Petrel carried gaff topsail and flying jib j Phantom, gaff- 
topsail ; Volante, maingafftopsail; Seafoam, the same aud 
flying jib; Psyche and Kate, gatftopsails. The wind was 
moderate from S. W. All the yachts made a long board 
on starboard tack to ward’s McNab’s Island, except Psyche, 
which, away behind, went about short for the western 
shore and hugged it all the way down. Volante succeeded 
in weathering Phantom, but next tack was repaid in kind. 
Petrel was now closing up to the first mark ; but Psyche, 
going like a steamer, was there ahead of her, rounded the 
mark in quick time, checking sheets for the reach to 
Thrum, on the way to which Petrel passed and dropped 
her, steadily increasing her lead to tlie finish. Phantom 
led Volante round the buoy, but her balloon jib unfortu¬ 
nately got into the water instead of in the air, and the 
little schooner went past like a flash and away for next 
mark, on rounding which she smartly set a large square- 
sail on her foremast, and with everything drawing foamed 
homewards, Phantom hunting her close in hopes of sav¬ 
ing her time; but it was not to be, and Mr. Rudolf pulled 
off his maiden prize by 89 seconds from his opponent. 
The time at the finish was :— 
H.M.S. I H. M. S. 
Petrel. 3 53 37 I Phantom.--. i 06 45 
Psyche. 3 59 46 | Seafoam.4 17 29 
Volante-.--. 4 06 10 | Kate. 4 22 20 
Petrel winning Flag Officers’ Prize for first class boats, 
and Psyche and Volante first and second prizes respec¬ 
tively in second class. Both were steered by their 
owners. 
The five-tonners had a race to themselves over a new 
harbor course, which is likely to prove a favorite, as it is 
free from the disadvantages of that hitherto sailed. They 
started from the Lumber Yard, aud went round Dart- 
