Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 3, 18 82. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Twenty-Eight Pages. 

 The Artistic Angler versus the 

 Bare-Foot Boy. 



loifiU-i ■ "u-],l 'I'lljl- 



Adirondack Survey Notes. — in. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Warwick Woodlands. 



Camps or tl i Hngfi=h" ■■.. 



Outfit for the Adirondacks. 



A Summer's Rambling in Colo. 



Tim Pond aud the Seven Ponda. 

 Natural History. 



Some New Names. 



The Self-Pre: 



of Animals. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Game in Season in August. 



The Phantom Pond. 



Josey Earls and the Cubs. 



Game in Quebec. 



The Prairie Chickens. 

 Camp Fire Fi.ickekings. 

 Sk.a and Rxveh Fishing. 



Fish iu Season in Aueust. 



Fir or Bait? 



The Restigouche Salmon Club. 



t : l, ■ r pj,.,i i'liJsiv: 



Palaver of the Panionkees. 



Colorado Trout Fishing. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



White Bass. 



Carp Angling. 

 Fishculture. 



Taking Mackerel for Oil. 

 The Kennel. 



Plantagenet. 



Dogs are Property in Ohio. 



What is a Cookery 



The Color of Bull-Terriers. 



Dr. Huggins and his Dog Kepler 



The Irish Red Setter. 



The Byron Hounds. 



Kennel Notes, 

 ative Instinct . Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Creedmoorin August. 



The Trap at Marlboro. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



The Disowned Trophy. 



Royal Canadian Y. C Sweep- 

 stakes. 



Royal Nova Scotia Y. Squadron. 



Facts about the Maggie. 



"Her Weather." 



Firing Starts. 



The Great Canoe Meet. 



Atlantic Y. C. 



New York Y. C. 



Beverly Y. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



TWENTY-EIGHT PACES. 

 r pHE Forest and Stream is to-day enlarged to a twenty, 

 eight page paper. 



This is a concession to the increasing and urgent demand 

 for more space in the several departments ; and at the same 

 time a titling recognition of the cordial aud substantial 

 support accorded by an appreciative constituency. 



II is not the first, nor is there a probability that it will be 

 Hie last , enlargement in the size of the paper. It is the well- 

 matured policy of the Forest and Stream, as the exponent 

 iu this country of the interests embraced in its scope, to keep 

 pace with the steady expansion of those interests. Ameri- 

 can sportsmanship of the best type is making rapid advance. 

 The public has a more wholesome appreciation of the value 

 and dignity of health-giving field recreation than ever before. 

 That this journal, representing as it does the varied phases 

 of these manly field pursuits, should have a correlative 

 growth is a natural and necessary sequence. There is no 

 better indication of the substantial place held by the rod 

 and gun in popular esteem, nor a more reassuring promise 

 for their future, than is afforded by the publication of a 

 paper of the size and character of the Forest and Stream. 



Willi these increased faeiljrii .-; ;ir mir command, we shall 

 lay before our readers every week a generous supply of the 

 very best field literature of the day. The extent, variety aud 

 excellence of the correspondence of this journal is unsur- 

 passed by that of any other publication in the world. 



We most heartily aud emphatically acknowledge the kind 

 offices of hosts of friends throughout the country, who have 

 ever manifested such a generous interest in the success of 

 the Forest and Stream, and who have themselves so ma- 

 terially contributed to its attainment of that success. It 

 shall be our ambition to maintain the excellence of the pa- 

 per, to make it worthy of a continuation of these favors, 

 and to win for it the continued endorsement of the public. 



THE ARTISTIC ANGLER m. THE BARE-FOOT BOY, 

 VTS^E print to-day two communications on this subject; 

 ' ' one from the veteran fly-fisherman, Mr. W. Holber- 

 ton, and the other from our correspondent, J. R., Jr. These 

 two articles present diametrically opposite views on the sub- 

 ject, the former represents the artistic angler; the latter 

 gives the reasoning of the man -who believes in getting a fish 

 in any manner, so long only as you haul it in. 



Now why is it that in this country— and this country only, 

 so far as we know — the practice of fly-fishing and the use of 

 fine tackle should be rated a sort of huge joke by those who 

 cannot appreciate them? Is it not because the masses are 

 not educated to that point where they may comprehend 

 these refinements of the art? 



It is not so in Great Britain. There, as Mr. Holberton says, 

 the common people along the streams are anxious to secure 

 fine tackle, well aware that it is the most killing of all 

 tackle. But in some of the rural parts of America a fine 

 fishing tackle appears to be held as synonymous with the 

 outfit of a "duffer;" aud the use of such implements by an 

 angler is accepted as prima facie evidence that he must be a 

 greenhorn, unskillful and unsuccessful in his sport. On 

 the other hand, the employment of primitive tackle is associ- 

 ated in the minds of your rural reasoner with a big string 

 of fish at the close of the day— the length of the string and 

 the size of the fish being in inverse proportion to the dimin- 

 utiveness and raggedness of the small boy who wields the 

 pole. 



Now we venture to assert our belief that these common 

 tenets of the rural angler's belief arise from a total miscon- 

 ception of the facts and principles involved, and from a 

 wrong association of ideas in the mind of the rustic rea- 

 soner. We will try to explain what we mean. 



A certain country angler has a large local reputation. He 

 uses tackle of the coarsest description. He cuts his "pole" 

 iu the woods. He is a successful fisherman; that is, he cap- 

 tures many fish. But his success is most certainly not due 

 to his primitive tackle. He catches lots of fish because he 

 knows every foot of the. stream and just where the fish are 

 to be caught. He loses no time in trying stretches of water 

 here, there are no fish. As a matter of course he comes 

 home with a good "mess of trout." And just here we may 

 say that this man has not the first conception of what sport 

 is. His only thought is fish. If he has taken twenty trout 

 in a day more than another man he deludes himself with 

 the belief that he has had more sport, and that it is some- 

 thing to brag of. It matters not how the fish are taken. H 

 another man came up with a net and forty pounds of fish 

 more than he has, our genius of the pole would "knock un- 

 der" to him as the superior fisherman. 



The bait fisher, with his coarse tackle, may, at times, 

 say in the middle of the day, take more fish than his 

 companion with the fly. but in the long run, day in and 

 day out, granting to each man an equal knowledge of the 

 wafers fished, the angler with fly and delicate tackle will 

 excel the other both in amount of sport, had and in weight 

 of creel. 



The ragged country boy with a bean pole cannot begin t o 

 compete with the man who has light tackle, if the latter be 

 an angler aud know how to use his tools. And yet an 

 abominable fiction to the contrary has been going the rounds of 

 the press for the past century, its corrupt doctrines perverting 

 the, minds of our angling youth. Stories without, end of the 

 urchin's string of fish bought by the "dandy" are rife in the 

 rural press, but are not true iu one case in ten. There may 

 have been duffers who have thought that all that was 

 necessary to make them anglers was to buy a great assort- 

 ment of fancy tackle; but such men do not fish often. A 

 trial once or twice, convinces them of their error, and they 

 lay their rods aside for the last novel, or for some other 

 plaything. 



As well may the wretch who baits quail in a furrow and 

 rests his gun over a rail fence and blows, twenty birds 

 into eternity at a single blast, boast of his superior skill 

 over the wiug-shot, as the man who has slaughtered a creel 

 full of trout with a worm, and thereby pandered to the 

 baser appetites of the fish, crow over a fiy-fisher, who may 

 not, on that particular morning, have equalled him in numbers 

 or in weight. Between the two there is no comparison 

 As for the barefooted boy, we don't believe in him. 



The fly-fisher can fish over more water than the bait- 

 fisher, and can thereby take more fish; and he has a higher 

 land of sport that the latter knows nothing of. The fly- 

 fisher can take more either of trout or salmon, in a day than 

 the bait-Usher if he knows the ground equally well; and 

 assertions to the contrary would not be listened to by the 



most ignorant poacher in England, Ireland or Scotland, for 

 be knows that the fly and fine tackle are the best equipment 

 for taking fish. 



Does any man mean to say that the boy with the disrepu- 

 table trousers and the bean-pole would not take as many fish 

 if he had finer tackle, say a fine hook on a fine gut leader 

 and a fine line nearly invisible to the fish? If so, he is 

 severely mistaken. No, friend of the boy with the letter in 

 the post-office, your protege would be a better angler for a 

 little familiarity with fine tackle. He would take more fish 

 aud would learn to enjoy their capture as an evidence of his 

 skill, for this constitutes the chief pleasure of angling, just 

 as does the bag in shooting. So much for the tackle; and 

 as for the fragmentary habiliments — there is no connection 

 between the trout and the trousers. Clothes do not make 

 the man, nor the lack of them the fisherman. 



We not only take the ground that the angler can secure 

 more fish with the fly, but that he has more pleasure than 

 the bait fisher, and this position we are willing to maintain. 

 No, friend in the rural districts, do not allow yourself to be- 

 too severely prejudiced against the gentleman who comes 

 with fine rod, reel and line, and perhaps knee-breeches, to 

 whip your streams; he may be able to teach you much that 

 you have never known; at least, if he cannot, you will not 

 often find him a boor. Much of this false feeling comes 

 from a prejudice, often entertained by people in country and 

 city alike, that whoever differs from themselves, either in 

 manners, dress or equipments, must of necessity be an in- 

 ferior, and a proper object of ridicule and sneers. Some- 

 times such persons make a mistake. The heavy lout who, 

 in Fourteenth street, the other day, forced a fight with a 

 dandy — the latter proving to be a graduate with honors from 

 a noted sparring academy — found that he had picked up a 

 very "hot potato;" and his fingers were well burned before 

 he was through with it. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



THE prospect for a brilliant meeting of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club at High Point, N. C. , next November, looks 

 very flattering. There is much enthusiasm among the mem- 

 bers of the club, and they will spare no effort to make the 

 coming event all that such a meeting should be. As may be 

 seen by referring to the list of entries for the Derby, pub 

 lished in Forest and Stream July 18, the running of 

 this important stake will undoubtedly prove very interest- 

 ing, both from the number and quality of the dogs that will 

 compete, and in witnessing the display of their powers as 

 they strive for the honor of victory. 



Glancing over the list we find that the sire or dam of 

 nearly every animal entered is a prize winner, either upon 

 the bench or in the field, and in many cases both parents 

 have achieved the honor. There are also quite a number of 

 them who can proudly boast among their ancf stors winners 

 both on the bench and in the field, winners whose names 

 are household words throughout the canine world That the 

 struggle for supremacy will be gallautly contested, and that 

 every effort will be put forth to secure the houors of victory, 

 we may rest assured; for not only will the winner receive a 

 goodly purse, but the achievement will bring to the name 

 an honor and fame that will far outweigh the gold. 



The gentlemen who have entered for this event are ani- 

 mated by an active interest in the club, and a strong desire 

 to see the present meeting in all respects successful, and also 

 by a generous rivalry as to the merits and performances of 

 their favorites. The enthusiasm and earnestness which we 

 note as existing among the members of the association form 

 the best guarantee of its success as an organization, as well 

 as a measure of its usefulness to breeders and dog lovers at 

 large. Where all are so interested it would perhaps be 

 invidious to mention individual names, and to most of 

 our readers tlis is unnecessary. 



The first event upon the card is the Members' Stake. This 

 should be the most important, event of the meeting, at least 

 to the members of the association, and everyone who can 

 possibly attend should enter and run his dog. There is 

 nothing more conducive to the success of such an associa- 

 tion than the hearty and active co-operation uf its individual 

 members in Bupport of the objects for which it was formed. 

 We hope to see a large number ot starters iu this stake, and 

 trust that every member who has a good dog will come for- 

 ward and conclusively show that he deems the honors of 

 victory worth striving for. The Free for All Stake will un- 

 doubtedly fill well, as many owners have already signified 

 their inteution to enter, and we have no doubt that the meet- 

 ing will be far ahead of anything of the kind that we have 

 yet seen. The great improvement of the dogs that are run, 



