Auotjst 10, 1882. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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doubt but such a water-proof, braid ?d silk line as we pay 

 five dollars lor can be mile, aud sold at u fair profit for one 

 dollar. The samples of surgicil silk seat are strong but are 

 not round, nor are they water-proofed. The latter process 

 stiffens a line and keep's it from kinking. The surgical silk 

 ■will fray easily, but no doubt would be excellent if coated 

 wi'h some sort of water-proof material, Its softness would 

 render it liable not only to kiuk, but to fray in the rings.] 



Capturk of a Bio Shark off Fire Island.— Mr. W. C. 

 Rogers, of 560 Broadway, and Mr. W. T. Taliaferro, were 

 off Pi re Island Light House on Monday comfortably fixed 

 in one of the Wuwayanda Club's best yachts, trying rod and 

 reel for blueflsh The sport was poor, and Mr. Rogers, be- 

 coming weary of ill-luck, yielded the field to Mr. Taliaferro, 

 who was somewhat annoyed at the indifferent success of 

 his party, especially when observing that his neighbors half 

 a mile off were doing so much better. But the absence of 

 bluefish was soon explained by the presence of a iiuge 

 shark, n genuine black fellow, measuring ten or twelve feci. 

 All was excitement in a moment; Mr. Rogers arousing uim- 

 self to action, making preparation for the battle. We soon 

 got our shark tackle iu shape, using an empty keg for a 

 float, and a whop mossbunker for bait. The" hook was 

 scarcely well in the water before the keg was seen to disap- 

 pear rapidly, and all hands were, promptly at their post to 

 give the important strike, and we soon found we had fast- 

 ened the monster. For one hour the struggle lasted, during 

 which time our mettle was severely tried," for at close quar- 

 ters he showed tierce fight, aud could only be conquered by 

 the repeated thrusts with an old bayouet, delivered with 

 great force by our captain, into t.e heart and brain of our 

 foe. Our neighbors seeing something unusual going on in 

 our boat, came alongside, and suggested that we should carry 

 our captive to th: hotel wharf, which we did, affording the 

 many guests at Sammis's the first sight of a genuine black 

 shark. His weight was variously estimated at from 450 to 000 

 pounds. Additional interest was given to the occasion by 

 Dr. Townsend's (of Albany) skillful removal of one of the 

 eyes.— X. 



The Skvkk Ponds.— Raugeley. Me., July 2Q.— Editor 

 F^feH an I Stream: I notice a slight error concerning these 

 ponds in Samuel Farmer's late communication, and trust lie 

 will pardon me for miking correction. He refers to North- 

 west Pond as being ou the divide. It is Grunt's Pond that 

 is thus situated; the two ponds are less than half a mile 

 apart, however. The ponds are known as Rocky, Big 

 Island, I,, Loug, Beaver. Little Island, Grant's and North- 

 west. These are the principal ones. There are two small 

 ponds lying adjacent to Northwest at the base of the Boun- 

 dary Ridge, with separate outlets, that converge to a point 

 at, and empty into, the upper end of Northwest Pond. 

 Whitecap Pond is two miles distant from Little Island Fond, 

 nnd discharges into Kennvbago stream a short distance below 

 Long Pond.. Thus it will he seen there are eleven ponds in 

 the "group, without mentioning one or two smaller beaver 

 ponds. As regards the controversy by interested parties as 

 to the best route, I have nothiug to offer, except to coincide 

 with the editorial remarks in last week's issue, although I 

 have decided convictions. But I will add that what has 

 llEBll stated regarding abundance of fish and game is all true, 

 and is under rather than over drawn, as witness the follow- 

 ing: A party going to Seven Ponds week before last saw on 

 the stream three moose and seven deer. The following day 

 another party saw one moose and two deer, all between 

 Little Keimcbago and Long Poud. Since then as many 

 more have been met with by other parties on the same stream. 

 I state this for the benefit of sportsmen, not for lines aud 

 routes of travel and other interested parties; still I am loth 

 to "give it away," a3 my interest is all in the opposite direc- 

 tion.— Warfield. 



Wounded Trout.— While reading a late number of For- 

 kst and Stream I ran across several incidents regarding 

 trout being hurt by the hook and immediately bitiug again. 

 While fishing this summer on the Boardman I got into a 

 thicket, and found a deep hole about two feet below a log 

 that had fallen across, leaving about sixteen or eighteen 

 inches of clear water; I took the top joint of my rod with 

 a short line and dropped in. Snap! came a trout to the fly; 

 I hooked him but could not land niru and he broke loose. 

 I dropped the lly again and snap! he came up and out. with 

 his mouth blecding'from his former attempt, parly in June 

 I caught a large trout that had two hooks in his mouth, and 

 in trying to got them out they broke like pipe-stems; I cut 

 the pieces out and they crumbled up fine as powder by rub- 

 bing them between the thumb and finger. I also took a 

 large one that had a hook and patent sinker in his stomach, 

 with nearly four inches of snell protruding through the 

 vent. 1 am not troubled as some of your correspondents 

 are, especially some of the Kingfishers, with brash ; and right 

 here let me tell all lovers of trout fishing never to go out, 

 especially where the stream is narrow and brushy, as it is in 

 the Boardman or Jordan in places, without a horse-hair line, 

 and vou will say less "cuss words." Hor. e-hair lines never 

 wind" up on twigs, limbs, etc., so, but what a little jerk 

 . and they are all right again. I, for one, am never without 

 one, and I fish witn either fly or bait, as suits the fish. I 

 would like to hear from some of your readers in regard to 

 fin for bait. I have had splendid luck both with fin and 

 gullet, when trout would not touch a fly.— W. E. Wtner 

 (Michigan). 



Black Bass tx New Hampshire. — Claremont, N. H., 

 August 2. — Perhaps it will interest some of the many read- 

 ers of Forest a_\d Stream: to know that we have very good 

 black bass aud trout fishing up here in New Hampsfiue. 

 Bunapee Lake (Sunapee, N. H.) is one of the. best fishing 

 grounds in the State. This beautiful sheet of water lies at 

 the base of Mount Sunapee, is nine miles long, studded with 

 beautiful islands and surrounded with magnificent scenery. 

 If waters are well stocked with trout and black bass. A 

 party of lour from Claremont, IN. H., caught eighty pounds 

 July 29, some of them the handsomest your correspondent 

 ever saw. A magnificent trout weighing six pounds was re- 

 cently caught by a party from Ware, N. H., while fishing 

 for bass in this lake. Sunapee Lake is accessible by the 

 Concord and Claremont, N. H., railroad, which leaves" Con- 

 cord and Claremont for the lake, etc., several timeasacL 

 day. Stages connect at Sunapee depot, aud the United 

 States mail steamer Lady Woodsum, a staunch and trim 

 steamboat, at Newbury depot, running to Sunapee Harbor, 

 Lake View Runals House, etc., where fishermen can be ac- 

 commodated at aU times. Your correspondent has been 

 there and icnows whereof he writes.— Beau. 



Massachusetts Black Bass— Boston, August 1.— July 

 has not been a favorable month for buss fishing; yet during 

 the first half or coolest part of the month there have been 

 some very good catch, s taken from all the ponds of this 

 part of the State. Ma:y two-pounders, aud so on up to five- 

 pounders, with the usual nunilip of big ones hooked but 

 lost, broken tackle and resolutions, etc. The Plymouth 

 ponds are counted ammg our bi-t waters for fly-fl»hing, a 

 circumstance not easily explained; in fact, a great deaf of 

 mystery still surrounds the conduct of the fickle fight ts 

 anyway, and I reckon will not be cleared up this year." As 

 Uncle Nat says. "Vou njver know what one is going to do; 

 to day one kind of bait is the best, and to-morrow they 

 won't touch it." The incident that called forth this remark 

 was a five-pound bass taking my fly about noon, under a 

 scorching suu, with the water surface as smooth as a bottle. 

 We expect more and the best results yet to come during 

 August, but the time will now have to be divided between 

 this" sport and the woodcock shooting, which opens here 

 to-day. Some few guns are already out prospecting. — M. 



FisuriN-o in a Central Park Lake.— For several week!, 

 the Central Park policemen have been kept busy driving 

 away a gang of between twenty or thirty boys, "who hud 

 made "a dead set" with lines and hooks on the" fishes in the 

 One Hundred and Tenth street lake, near the Fifth avenue. 

 The gang generally appeared m early as 4 o'clock A. M., 

 and when the morning squad came on duty, and approached 

 the lake, the fellows would scatter in all directions. Lead- 

 ing the party was George Manard, aged seventeen years, 

 who has repeatedly assaulted Officer Stone of the Park Po- 

 lice with stones aiid other missiles because the latter inter- 

 fered with the sport. Parly this morning Officer Stone, in 

 citizen's dress, pounced upon Manard just as the fellow had 

 landed a large, fat perch, and he marched the prisoner, with 

 his string of perch, between eight and ten pounds, before 

 Justice Bixby, at the Yorkville Police Court. Manard was 

 sent to prison for ten days in default of $10, and the mess 

 of fish was confiscated by the prison-keeper. — Ecening Post, 

 Aug. 2. " 



Arizona Fishes. — Tucson, Ariz. — Arizona cannot boast 

 much of fish, on account of It-terrnittent streams and intense 

 brat. The Colorado River produces a hump-backed sucker 

 of soft meat and insipid flavor. In the northern tributaries 

 of the Gila speckled mountain trout are found in consider- 

 able quantities In the San Pedro and Santa Omi some 

 small fry ate found, not worth mentioning. Carp are being 

 introduced into the lakes, ponds and cieuegss of the Tern- 

 toiy, and promise well. Terrapin and frogs are found in 

 great abundance, and are of pood quality and flavor. The 

 territorial Legislature established a fish commission by a;> 

 act approved March 3. 1831, providing three commissioners, 

 who are to ieport bi-rnnually before the meeting of the Leg- 

 islature, and appropriated §500 foi expenses of same. An 

 act of February 3, 1(381, provides that no fish shall be taken 

 or killed with giant powder, or other explosive material, 

 under penalty of fine of not more than $300 or county jail 

 tkree months. — Charles D. Poston. 



White Bass Take the Fly. — New York, Aug. 5. — I 

 note that "Homo," in speaking of the white bass of the 

 Northern lakes, says that they are taken with minnow bait, 

 and says nothing of their taking a fly. I lived for some 

 years "at Niagara, Out., at the mouth of the Niagara 

 River, and have caught a good many white bass, using 

 nothing but a pure white fly, home made. Lovers of fly- 

 fishing wid do well to try tuis sort of fishing, as these bass 

 are as gamy as their blnck brothers, and four half-pound 

 white bass will give all the spoit one would wish, for 

 we used from three to five flies on the leader at once. I 

 have landed five of them at one cast. One can take from 

 thirty to eighty fish in an evening's fishing. They can be 

 found at the mouth of the Niagara River from June till Oc- 

 tober. Any one wishing information of the fishing at 

 Niagara can get the same of me or by writing to W. S. 

 Lansing, Ksq., Niagara. — L. C. K. 



Anglino in Kentucky. — We are permitted to publish 

 the following letter from a former Fish Commissioner of 

 Tennessee to our correspondent, "J. D. D.": 



Rockcastle Springs, Ky., August 1, 1882.— I have 

 reached the "climax" of fishing grounds. This place is 

 certainly properly named. "Jim Crow's" letters in the 

 Courier-Jour nal faintly portray the grandeur of these hills 

 and streams; but read him of the 30th ult. I am sitting in 

 the Grand Piazza, fronting the river, with a party of friends. 

 My No. 3 reel at my side and the hook one hundred feet 

 from me, extends into the deep water in full view. I Uave 

 ha 1 some lively tuga, and have lauded seveial fine fish. 

 "Salmon," jack, bass, channel cat and other game fish fill 

 the waters, and the angler is happy. — Geo. F. Akers. 



Maine Notes. — The Orland correspondent of the Ells- 

 worth American says sportsman are taking fine trout from 

 the ponds in that vicinity, and the bass put in the river three 

 years ago by John A. Buck have done well; a large one was 

 caught the other day. The Belfast Journal says that Cob- 

 bosseecontee Lake is becoming quite a resort for fishermen, 

 aud its attractions are drawing people to its shores. Wm. 

 F. Garcelon, Esq., of Lewiston, had the honor of reeling 

 in a bass recently, said by the guide to be the largest one 

 caught in Cobbosseecontee this season. 



Fifty-Dollar Trout. — Boston. — I sen iu an extract from 

 a Portland, Oresron, paper, that "last Sunday a gentleman 

 from Seabeck, W. T., went out in the canal for the purpose 

 of catching fish, and when a twenty-five pound salmon took 

 his hook it" nearly upset him. aud in lauding his game a if 50 

 watch slipped from his pocket and sank from his sight in 

 the water. This is the most costly fish ever caught, stand- 

 ing the angler $2.50 per pound." Lots of our boys are out 

 more than" $50 on one trout weighing less than a pound and 

 never tell of it.— C. E. G. 



Size of Yellow Piurch.— East Douglas, Mass.— Have 

 jlMt finished reading the last number of your unequalled 

 paper, which I found very interesting. Iu " St. Clair's'' let- 

 ter, of last number, he says he "presumes the perch in the 

 North may weigti as high as a pound." I have caught them 

 weighing three' pounds, and have seen them oven larger. 

 They are a good table fish, and quite gamy, but not equal to 

 the bass. The latter are quite plenty aud of fair siy.e, one 

 being caught by a friend last week weighing four and three- 

 quarter pounds. — Amatkub. 



Philadelphia Notes. — Aug, 5. — Fishing for sheepshcad 



has been very go •<! since the middle of July on all the bays in 

 the New Jersey coast. Weakflsh are now' running in goodly 

 numbers, and one cannot fail to find good sport at any point 

 from Cape .May to Baruegat. At Bettertou, at the mouth of 

 the Sassafras River, Ml. white perch, have begun to bite, 

 but the fish arc small as yet. The run of larger" fish is never 

 looked for until the lust of August and first of September. 

 Few of our Philadelphia anglers fond of Bettertou perch 

 fishing start for these grounds until the first week of the last 

 mentioned month, preferring to wait for the bigger run.— 

 Homo. 



Michigan.— Grand Rapids. June 23 —Wo have here some 

 very fine black bass fishing, often taking them from three to 

 five pounds weight, and they are gamy, I assure you. Our 

 fall fishing is the best, as log-driving seriously interferes 

 with spring fishing. Messrs. "Harrington and Curtis "take 

 the bun" for lust fall, taking a magnificent string of bass, 

 and hardly a fish less than three pounds weight. • I note in 

 your issue of June 1. W. E. M., under date April 21. speaks 

 of haviug caught fish in the Boardman. They were not 

 then in season. — Alex. [The letter of W, E. M. was writ- 

 ten May 21, the other date having been wrongly given.] 



Florida Fishing.— Large channel bass have entered the 

 river, and I have been informed that a fisherman lauded five 

 on Saturday last. Tarpon have appeared, and they are daily 

 seen going through their acrobatic performances. On Sat- 

 urday last a fisherman hooked a large fellow,- but he carried 

 away the line. Sea trout of good size are biting freely on 

 the ovster bans, opposite Pilot Town. — Al Fresco (Jack- 

 sonville Aug, 8, itf82). 



Striped Bass.— Swampscott, Mas?., July 29.— The best 

 buss of the season was taken here this morning by one of 

 our experts, J. Porter Thomas. It was n handsome fish, 

 though small, only weighing sixteen pouuds. He was taken 

 off Tinker's Island, and his' captor, after taking him, landed 

 thirty as fine tautog as one would wish to see. "Mr. Thomas 

 says there are a few bass left marked J. P. T. We shall 

 see.— S. M. S. 



Big Black Bass in Greenwood Lake. — Warwick 

 Woodlands, Aug. 3.— On July 28 Dr. C. A. Olcott, of the 

 club, caught a big mouth, or Oswego bass, weighing six 

 pouuds. making him the champion fisherman of the season, 

 he having caught the largest fish. — B. S. 



Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., N. Y., Aug. S. — Fishing 

 has been very poor here. — L. B. C. 



ttfisJfcttUure. 



INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION. 



CI ONGRESS having accepted the invitation of the Govern- 

 J meat of Great Britain to p irticipate in the great Inter- 

 national Fisheries Exhibition, to be held at Loudon, in May, 

 1SS3, the Commissioner of Pish and Fisheries has been in- 

 structed to prepare, under the auspices of the Department of 

 State, a complete and systematic exhibit representative of 

 the fisheries of the United States. 



Preparations for the exhibition are already in progress, and 

 there is no reason why it will not be possible during the nine 

 months which remain" before the opening of the exhibition to 

 provide for a display which shall do great credit to the ex- 

 tensive fishery industries of this country. In order to accom- 

 plish this result it will bs necessary to secure the co-operation 

 and aid of all persons interested in fishing, fishculture, the 

 fisheries and the related industries. I cordially invite corres- 

 pondence, therefore, from any persons having articles suitable 

 tor oxhibition, or willing to suggest plans by which the dis- 

 play of the United States may be rendered more effective. 



Two classes of articles will be carried to Loudon for exhibi- 

 tion, viz: 



First— Those which make up the "collective exhibit of the 

 United States," and, 



Second— Those which are entered for competition. 



In the collective exhibit will be shown, in a systematic and 

 synoptical manner, illustrations of our marine and fresh- 

 water animals of economic value, together with the appara- 

 tus and methods of their capture and utilization, and the 

 commercial, scientific, social, historical and legislative aspect 

 of the fisheries, ft will include the most striking features of 

 similar exhibits made by the Fish Commission in the Phila- 

 delphia Exhibition of tSTH, and the International Fishery Ex- 

 hibition, at Berlin, in 1880. together with many additional 

 ones never previously attempted. The major part of this 

 display will be borrowed from the collections of the National 

 Museum in Washington, but it will be necessary to secure a 

 considerable number of new objects. 1 wish to reserve the. 

 right of placing in this department sueh of the private ex- 

 hibits as can there be. shown to the best advantage, it being 

 understood that these are not to be excluded from competi- 

 tion. When objects are purchased to fill gaps in this exhibit, 

 it will be with the definite imderstauding that they cannot 

 enter into competition, and the name of the person from 

 whom they were obtained will not be mentioned on the 

 labels or in the catalogue. 



It is considered especially desirable that the department of 

 competitive exhibits shall contain a very complete represen- 

 tation of the various food preparations of Ush — canned, 

 dried, pickled, smoked, etc.— there being a constantly in- 

 creasing demand in England for goods of this description, 

 shipments to that country amounting, in 1881, to more than 

 $2,000,000, in addition to the very largo exports to other parts 

 of Europe and to the European colonies in the Eas... Manu- 

 facturers of boats and boat-iittln^s, angling apparatus and 

 costumes, and other similar articles, are also urged to con- 

 tribute. Medals in gold, silver, bronze, and diplomas of 

 honor will be awarded by a jury of experts. 



I am prepared to act, both in this country and London, as 

 the representative ot individual exhibit. rs, and to attend to 

 correspondence relating to applications for space, etc. Goods 

 to be exhibited, if delivered in Washington. Philadelphia or 

 New York, will be carried to London and installed at the ex- 

 pense of the government; special arrangements may bo made 

 for the. return of articles at the close of the exhibition. 



Prospectuses, blank application-f onus, blank "lists of ex- 

 hibits proposed to be shown," and any information desired 

 will be furnished on application. Applications lor space for 

 competitive displays should be made before the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, 1SS2. 



The exhibition — which is under the patronage ot the Queen 

 of England and the presidency of the Prince orwales— Will be 

 opened on the 1st o£ Hay, 188$ in buddings now being 

 erected in the Horticultural, Gardens at South Kensington, 

 and will continue for a period o t six months. 



Spencer P. Baibd, 

 V. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



