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FOREST AND STREAM, 
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3 Salina seems delighted with their fine large leather 
medal. 
The beautiful gold medal for beat average shot was 
won by C. A. Smyth, of Wichita. Dirigo. 
Mississippi— Natchez, Oct 13th.— Tournament of the 
Gaillard Sporting Club of Natchez. Guests and members 
bad a thoroughly pleasant day. Score of first match at 
glass balls ; 18 yards; Bogardus trap and rules :— 
John A. Dicks. 1 llnnnilllll 
John Jenkins.1 1. 1 1 1 1 l I 1 1 0 1 l I 1 
lb II. Calhoun. 1 III l 0111011101 
IV. D. Jenkins. 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 
Sam Stanton. ..Ill 
J. 8. Shields. 1 1 I 
W.A. Coulson. 1 1 1 
Aaron Stanton. 1 1 1 
C. W. Babbit.6 0 
C. H. llowan. 
M. E. Taylor. 
Jerkins won Bhoot-off for second with'2 out of 8 at 21 
yards. 
Second match; 21 balls; 3 traps; 18 yards rise ; 10 yards 
apart; Bogardus rules:— 
John A. lllclcs.111111111 1. lllllOlllll 
John F. Jenkins. 111011111111111111101 
R. H. Calhoun.1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 l 1 1 1 I 1 1 0 
W. 1) Jenkins. 101101111111110011111 
Sam Stanton . 11111101110101 1 000111 
J S. Shields. 0 111011011001110 01011 
W. A. Coulson. 1 ) 000 1 1 0 1 00 10 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 
An90n Stanton.0 10011001 0 000 0 1000010 
C. W. ilubblt.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 11 1 0 1 1 0 
C. H. Rowan.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 
M. E. Taylor.0 0 0 00000 OOOOOIOUOOOOO 
Dicks won championship medal and also cartridge 
bolt. 
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11110 11 
011110011011 
10111 11 1 0011 
0 10 10 0 111111 
00011 0 00 0 0011 0 
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ami $h cr fishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 
FRESH WATER. 
Blaelc Bass, Micrnpterus salmo- I Pike or Pickerel. Eso.t: fuoiiw. 
Wes; AT. nigricans. Yellow Perch ,RcroiJIovcseeM 
Mnskalonge, ISsox nobilinr. 
SALT WATER. 
Son Boss, Scioenops octUattis. I Spanish Mackerel, Cybtum Mac- 
Striped Bass, Roecus linmlus , I vlatum. 
WhitePcrohAlorcnicamerloano. I Ccro, Cyhium regale. 
Wenkllsh, Cpmseion regain. llooito, Sacda petamys. 
Bluefish, Pomatomus mUalii.r. | Kingfish, M evlicirrus netivlosus. 
Primitive Fish Hooks of Alaska.—O ur third Alaska 
letter, printed last week, referred to the sketches of fish 
hooks and implements which are herewith presented. 
These hooks are used by the Indians in the capture of 
halibut, a species of fish which abounds on the Alaska 
coast, and constitutes an important item of the food sup¬ 
ply. As we inadvertently omitted the use of these cuts 
in their proper places in the letter referred to, we take 
the occasion to reprint the descriptive text there given, 
in order to make the whole consecutive and intelligible : 
The book (see sketch) is made of two pieces of tough 
wood each about eleven iuebes long, bevelled at the larger 
end, and seized together at such p.n angle that the open¬ 
ing, b-d, is about five inches. A sharp iron spike pro¬ 
jects from the lower portion and forms a barb by which 
the bait of a moderate sized herring or perch is secured, 
and by which the halibut secures himself. Halibut hooks 
are always ornamented with more or less carving, and 
some of them are quite tasty ; generally birds of different 
species are copied in their carvings, then next seal and 
sea otters. 
The Indians ornament nearly all of their wood-work ; 
even a club with which caught halibut are stunned, must 
be made to resemble a bird of some kind. 
I send you sketches of a couple of hooks. One is carved 
to represent some long-neck duck, and the other I should 
suppose was two doves fighting for the same morsel. 
—Some large bass Lave been taken recently iu Coney 
Island Creek, near by, and the fishing will likely be 
good for the rest of the month. 
Silver Bass.—A fisherman at the Red Rocks, on the 
Potomac River, the other day caught a five-pound basB, 
which upon being dressed was found to have stowed 
away in his stomach three silver half dollars, two of them 
bearing date of 1876 and the third 1858. Of course they 
went where all such things should go—to the desk of the 
leaal editor, 
Indiana— Washington, Oct 13th.— The bass fishing in 
thiH vicinity has been excellent this fall. Dr. Jones, of 
this place, and his brother, of Bloomfield, made the best 
catch of the season ; they caught over sixty, one of which 
weighed six pounds. William Tranter, another old iisli- 
ermau, caught three last week, the combined weight be¬ 
ing sixteen pounds. Tbe most enthusiastic fisherman in 
this city is Stephen Belding, editor of the Democrat. 
ON THE ALLEGHANIES. 
I N August my friend and I made an excursion to Fort 
Pendleton, which is about eight miles due south from 
Oakland, a station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 
at the very summit of the mountain crossing. The situa¬ 
tion is one of tbe most salubrious and picturesque these 
grand old mountains afford. The noble Potomac (South 
Branch) is here a wild stream, whose channel is deeply 
eroded into the carboniferous rocks, whose nobly rounded 
profiles rise to a height of seven hundred or eight hun¬ 
dred feet, and then slope gradually up to the dominant 
ridges on either side. An isolated house stands some six 
hundred or seven hundred feet above the river valley, 
which is very narrow, and is the remnant of the former 
homestead of the Pendletons, having been built by the 
father of the present Senator, Geo. H. Pendleton, of 
Ohio. 
A well graded road, known as the “northwestern 
grade,” coming from Winchester and Romney, and lead¬ 
ing westward to Clarkesville and Parkersburgli. crosses 
the river at this place, and passes the door. This road 
was once macadamized with the prevailing sand stone 
rock of the country, but the railroad having stolen away 
the travel, it has not been kept in repair, though it is still 
practicable, and many visitors to these mountains come 
up from the valley of Virginia by it. Captain Phelps, 
one of the Commissioners of tho District of Columbia, 
lately drove through from Washington ‘ City with his 
family, in two strong phfetons, and returned by the same 
route, stopping here and there to fish. The cleared field 
of a once beautiful farm, now gone to grass, adjoins tho 
house, which affords accommodations for from fifteen to 
twenty persons. The best and sweetest of mountain mut¬ 
ton is served, and everything else of tbe best that can be 
procured. A tri-weekly mail communicates with Oak¬ 
land. Grand old woods clothe the mountains in every 
direction, and tbe river winds among the many ridges 
that slope down from the mountains. Tbe elevation is 
two thousand six hundred feet above the sea, and here 
those who suffer from “hay-fever," “ rose-cold," or 
“autumnal catarrh” always find relief, and many, im¬ 
munity from this troublesome disease. 
In May and June the river is the very best of trout 
streams. In May last Capt. Phelps and a companion and 
Mr. W. F. Deakins, the proprietor of the resort, took, in 
one day’s fishing over a mile of tbe river, about one hun¬ 
dred and thirty trout each, weighing from one-half a 
pound to a pound and a half. There are several branches 
putting into the river within two miles from the house, in 
which less ambitious trOuters may try their hand. There 
is Difficult Creek, three miles over into Virginia (for the 
Potomac is the boundary between Maryland and Vir¬ 
ginia) along the graded road, and Buffalo, also on the 
Virginia side of the river: and on the Maryland side 
Shield's Run, from which I one day, hi three hours, took 
some twenty speckled beauties, from three and four to 
seven and eight inches long, and my friend Hood took 
nearly as many, and a party of four struck eighty beau¬ 
ties under the same circumstances. This stream was 
visited once a week with like results, as were also Diffi¬ 
cult and Buffalo. But for the true lover of trout fishing 
the Black Water Fork of Cheat River, on the western 
slope of the mountain, and some twenty miles south 
Bouth-west from Fort Pendleton, is a Mecca, where trout 
are taken daily by the hundreds, and of much larger size. 
There are plenty of pheasants (ruffed grouse) and turkeys 
in the fall season, some squirrels, and wook-cock, and 
later, deer. Bears are occasionally seen in Virginia. 
The graded road described is the one by which Gen. 
Garnett's beaten army retreated from West Virginia 
after tbe battle of Cheat Mountain, subsequent to which 
event a field fortification was made here, with flanking 
rifle pits, to protect the river crossing, and hence the 
name Fort Pendleton. 
Altogether I do not know of a pleasanter place to while 
away a summer month, with fishing and wood tranrp- 
ings"; or a fall month for pheasant and turkey shooting. 
A large portion of the game furnished to Baltimore and 
Washington is sent from the vicinity of Oakland. 
Viator. 
Washington, D. C., Sept. 1st, 1879, 
Choice Sporting Grounds in Michigan and Wiscon¬ 
sin. — Mr. Editor :—I started from Republic, on the head 
of the Michigammi River, about the middle of August 
last: ran down this stream in canoes for about thirty 
miles to Mary’s Lake; carried to the lake, about eighty 
rods; crossed it, about one and a half miles; then car¬ 
ried to the Paint River, about two miles; poled some 
fifteen miles up the Paint to the Chacogan Portage, which 
ran through a small pond to Chacogan, two and a half 
miles hand-carrying; up Chacogan Creek for ten miles 
to Chacogan Lake; across it, three miles to Brule Port 
age, one and a half miles long (through a half mile pond), 
to the Brule River ; down it-, about thirty miles, to Bad- 
water, and then out. 
As for the hunting and fishing : the Michigammi is not 
a trout stream ; but deer are very abundant all along its 
banks, and can be readily approached by floating down 
to them with the current. Partridges abound, and the 
ducks are nuisances, as, by thrashing along on top of the 
water just ahead of one’s boat, they scare the deer away 
The Michigammi is best for the hunter down stream. 
The up-bound traveller has to pole, and the noise of the 
pole on the bottom alarms the deer. Around Mary’s Lake 
the deer are as thick and tame as sheep, can be readily 
approached in daylight in canoes, as they feed on tbe 
bank, to within seventy-five yards, and are easily “jacked " 
at night. In the woods, back of the lake, the hunter has a 
good chance for still hunting, and a much better chance 
of losing himself, if he does not keep a compass with 
him. No fishing in the lake, except small perch and 
roach. 
The Paint affords good fishing for trout at its head, and 
good deer hunting all along, At Chacogan Lake are 
several Chippewa Indian settlements. There tho deer 
are shot by the Indians on the “fence," i. e., a loose 
brush fence, running east and west, about five feet high, 
the undor brush being cleared away for several yards on 
the north side, and a trail made on the south side. As 
the deer, in making their regular fall move (from north 
to south), come to this fence they stop, and, after star¬ 
ing at it a while, move along its side looking for an out¬ 
let, The hunter, stalking under cover of the fence, on 
the south side, if the wind is right, gets plenty of shots ; 
250 were killed last fall on one fence. 
The Brule River swarms with smaE trout, very seldom 
more than a pound in weight—average about a j lb. 
The little lakes and ponds which are found on either side 
of it, are full of black bass. The Menomimee, into which 
the Brule runs, is a capital deer stream, giving a good 
chance for jacking at night or floating by day. AE 
through this part of the country are found innumerable 
small ponds, where deer can always be found. 
Guides for these regions can always be found at Mar¬ 
quette, or, better yet, at Marinette, Wis., at tbe mouth 
of the Menomimee River, their charges being from $2.50 
to $3 per day. At Badwater, on the Menomimee, good 
birch canoes can be brought for from $8 to $12 apiece. 
So far as I could learn from repeated enquiries, no tur¬ 
keys can be found in this section of Michigan. 
W, 0. B. 
THE CHARMS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 
\ TY trip to Northern Michigan this fall, was cut short by a aum- 
inons home. My vacation season, though brief, was pleas¬ 
ant. Many persons start out lu pui-suit of game, with the sole 
idea of enjoying themselves, as soon as they have accomplished 
some wonderful feat; caught a live-pound bass, a four-pound 
trout, a two-pouud grayling, or shot a deer or bear. So far as my 
experience bas taught me, 1 have Invariably observed that those 
who start out in this way, and who do not enjoy the trip from the 
commencement, the fresh pure ait - , beautiful hills, valleys, trees, 
cold aud rapid streams, rowing, boat-riding, transfer of boat, 
traps, and equipment through some wild and scarcely passable 
country, the bagging of a fewpigeons, a partridge, or perchance u 
duck or two from some secluded pond, or a halt by the wayside at 
some dear and beautiful stream or lake for an hour or two's fish¬ 
ing, hut expect to get rid of—to them—all discomforts, and go 
right to the place where they can sit in the parlor and 6hoot deer 
from the door, catch grayling, trout, and bass from the window 
or poroli, are not the ones who really enjoy what to a real 
sportsman is the wild and interesting part of such a Journey. 
I have met people of tills kind a number of times; one, for In¬ 
stance, who could not enjoy the beautiful and wild appearance of 
Crooked River, and tho lakes and streams on. the inland route In 
Northern Michigan from Petoskey to Cheboygan, and the ride on 
the crudest of all crude railroads on the dummy from Petoskey 
to the head of Crooked lake, in the open overgrown street ear, 
drawn by swell an engine—it would have to he seen to bo appreci¬ 
ated—running over the wooden rails, through a wild unbroken 
forest, with space cut through just wide enough for tho car to 
pass, iu many places just grazing the trunk of some huge tree 
while the branches of a fir, balsam, or evergreen, are continually 
brushing against tho car, malting as pleasant a wild trip as one 
could take, and not soon forgotten. I really think a person who 
cannot enjoy and appreciate such a trip as this, is hardly worthy 
of being deemed a sportsman. When it comes to finding game, 
any one who has had experience knows that, in order to have 
successful sport, it matters not what kind of game you are 
after, work is absolutely necessary, and that work must be made 
one of the pleasures of the trip, or it's a failure, even if you 
have succeeded in getting a reasonable quantity of gamo. I do 
not lilce to hear any one say, “What we goafteristhe game, and 
not anything else.” If this is the feeling with which theyBtart 
out, in tbe majority of casos their trip will be a total failure—so¬ 
cially, certainly so. 
Deer and bear were reported quite plenty tills year, much more 
so than last. Ducks were scarce; in fact- there were very few to 
be seen, and consequently the duck shooting was very poor, and 
couldhardly be accounted for, as the crop of wild rice was certainly 
twice as large as the year before, and then they were plenty 
enough. 
Petoskey seems to be the goal for hay-fever subjects, and the 
air oertainly works a wonderful change in them. 
Pickerel Lake, which I made tho subject of a letter in your col¬ 
umns last spring, seems to have been the resort for fishermen this 
fall, and many were tho fine strings of fish taken from its waters, 
and there are many more in it j ust as good. 
There is n small lake—Long Lake—near Cheboygan, whiob is 
raoi-e celebrated in Northern Michigan for its large bass than any 
of the other bodies of water thereabouts (go to Cheboygan and 
get conveyance to the lake, about ten miles). Here is where they 
do really catch black bass way up in the figures, so l’ar up in fact, 
that I dare not give them; but a bass that will tip the scales at 
five pounds is not a rarity by any means; and, if you catch them 
weighing more than that—but probably you won’t—you need not 
be greatly surprised. 
1 saw a string of a dozen bass, caught by a gentleman and lady 
from Indianapolis, Ind., in an hour’s time, at the mouth of Che¬ 
boygan River, in Mullet Lake, with two and a half pounds for tho 
smallest, and a number weighing four pounds each; it was the 
handsomest string of bass 1 ever saw. 
The lakes in Northern Michigan, during the fore part of Sep¬ 
tember, were in what is termed blossom or bloom, so the fishing 
at that time was not as good as many expected. 
One of the redeeming features of a trip to this locality, is the 
very reasonable figure at which a person can make the Journey. 
Be they in search of sport or relief from hay-fever, tho very low 
rates established by the Grand .Rapids and Indiana Railroad do 
away with the excuse of “exhorbitant railroad fares.” And 1 
rvisli to take this opportunity ol’ saying, that all the attuoli6s of 
this road, with whom I have been brought in contact, aro the 
most courteous and accommodating of any road I have ever trav¬ 
ersed. Seemingly, their sole object is to make it as pleasant and 
agreeable for passengers as possible. Frank N. Beebe. 
Columbus, 0., Sept. 20t7i. 
No Danger. —An exchange says : “ Bears are reported 
to be numerous in New Hampshire. One of extraordinary 
size was caught in a trap near Warren the other day. Its 
weight is not stated, but its head measured eighteen 
inches in length. Near Milan another was killed after 
having passed within a few yards of a Ettle child. Others 
have been seen in various locaUties." The Ettle child 
was safe enough, unless tney have very small yards iu 
Milan, 
