AuctUBT 2-1. 18S3.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



69 



two years no record was kepi. In 1372 the best cast was 

 05 feet with 13 feet. fl-inch rod; salmon-easting, rod i : ''' 

 feet; 1878, Beth Green, 65 Fett, 1st prize, length of rod not 

 given; 1878, no record given, J look 1st casting 65 feet with 

 a heavy wind ; ] NT j R. Wood, 1st, MM*; tret, 11. (i rod; 1875, R. 

 Wood, 1st, 75 feet, l8-fOOtrod:lS76, R, Wood. 1st, (i!) feet, 

 12-foot rod; 1877. Ti-a Woo. 1, 73 feet; t:s,N, my brother and lief 

 Seth win with a record of 701'eet. 12-foot, rod": Koclicsti >, L979, 

 we did not. east. .1. .1. Meldram, one of my pupils, 66 feet, 

 12-foot rod. Salmon casting, Meldrara, 1st, 73 feet; 1880, 

 Ira Wood, 1st. 70 feet, 10.fi rod; 1881, R, Wood. 1st, 75 feet, 

 tO-fool cod. tialuion easting, K. Wood. 1st, 110 Feet; "Era 

 Wood, 102.10; 17-fool rod; IT. Prichard, 92 feet, 15 foot 

 rod; 188 ': ' ■ ! tst, 75 feet, 10-foot rod. Von will ob- 

 serve the rules all 5 feet tc ihe loot for excess of length 



in rod. We think it too great, yet have followed the rule 

 for years. 



■•The State Association owns, and we use for measuring 

 distance, a cord with buoys attached, weighted underneath, 

 so that when, the cord is sirelcbed the buoys stand uptight, 

 and the numbers easily rend for some distance. Buoys 

 placed five feet apart. 'Our first buoy is marked 25; a knot 

 is tied in the rope at zero, that is, drawn to the stake from 

 which we east, so thai the buoy.-, register correctly. The 

 odd feel between the buoys tire estimated, if the full distance 

 is not readied, as [| would Lake so many buoys to mark every 

 foot, ThuS, I believe, I have given you all the points on fly- 

 easting. 



"As lo black bass, we liud tliem nearly, if not. quite, as 

 gunicy fish as the brook iiout. They attain a. weight of 

 Dearly, or Quite six pound. In a swift, rocky .stream ft two 

 pounder will give anv man all the proof he may require on 

 this head. We are stocking many of our depleted trout 

 streams and inland lakes with them, and prize them Very 

 highly, not only as a game fish, but as a table fish. If any 

 orie finds 'heir peculiar flavor too strong, skin them, an'd 

 is lost. You cannot find a fish, other than the 

 trout, Within toy knowledge, that will give you the sport 



. -. rj 



"I think.I have given you all the puinis you require; but 

 i not shall he plf -. 1 I I reply to any future inquiries you 

 mav make. Keep your lly-castiugsepmaic from all shooting, 

 and you will find that it wH I raisey our standard, and increase 

 your fly-fishermen. And every" new fly-fisherman I look 

 upon as another fiah warden, for he will 'help you keep the 

 poachers from your streams, 



"With best wishes for your success, both in fly-casting 

 tournaments and also with your black bass.— 1 ,.m. etc. , 



"(tv.-j/v/.- S. Piigi'. Esq." 



"74, South Saline si-ev. hvrs 

 N. Y., U. S. A." 



re perse 



>u Inisht 



big fish to take h, 

 ide to jig Hiem d 

 md ice-houses. 

 i i. had my ear rot 

 ra of a case this 



, and 

 ed of 



in charge. Fishing is allowed from March 1 until Septem- 

 ber 15. No member can fish more than two days in one. 

 week, nor take more than fifteen pounds in one day. Trout 

 less than eight inches long must be returned to the stream, 

 unless SO injured as to endanger the life. No angling is 

 allowed, except, with flies. How will Caledonia Spring 

 compare with ours? 



On the 25th of July last Mr. Ing'ersoll sent me two trout, 

 taken by him from that spring. One of ILem was a 

 whopper. I never tasted finer trout in my lifn— flosh firm 

 and Of a deep salmon color. On the ne\t day, July 20, I 

 arknov.'leclged the reception of the trout, by the following 

 rhymes (not poetry), entitled "The Angtcr," and deflici fed 

 to'J. E. Ingersoll,'attorney-at-!aw, and patron of the gentle 

 art. 



THE ANGLER. 



Onco more my rnuse my song inspire. 



For once again 111 time my lyre; 



A gentle theme inspires lay song. 



"TROUT-HOGS" AND OTHER PESTS. 



riMIE thing which, of late years, most detracts from the 

 1 pleasure of a trip into the Maine woods, is the kind of 

 people one meets there. There are, of course, man-.' of the 

 old-timers who used to go there before the railroads aud 

 steamboats (more's the pity] made access 30 easy into that 

 region, who still go. and many new-eones'- ft In; atei ports- 

 men and gentlemen, lint. Unhappily, there Ate many others 

 who, attracted by the lavish advertising of the people- who 

 are malting the money, swarm in there, who are neither 

 sportsmen nor gentlemen. There are persons wdio. finding 

 r ';: i pound trout, do ttot grow on bushes, even in that 

 region, resort to all means to "geti 

 EroUmg with spnona, getting a gui 



even dealing them fr mi ;' ih-1 



During one i)f my trips to I" " 



all the large fish in it, and I _ 



where two gentlemen, upon going to pack their tish to take 



home, found that all but about a dozen of the smallest had 



been stolen. It is pretty well understood who the thief was, 



too. 



1 suppose, as long as the world is composed, as it is, of all 

 sorts of men, that we shall find nearly all kinds represented 

 at the fishing camps — even down io the "trout -hog" and the 

 man who blazons over the camp advertisements of his busi- 

 ness. But. I should suppose that the motive of self-interest 

 alone would proven! proprietors of camps from extending to 

 such men as I have described any special encouragement. 

 either to stay or to come again. Split Bamboo, 



f'n.sTu.v, Aug. IS, lfi8& 



THE TROUT OF CASTAL1A. 



THE following statements about these famous springs 

 were furnished me by J. E Ingersoll, Esq., a, prominent 

 attorney of Cleveland: 



There are two of these springs about five miles south of 

 Sandusky city. The main spring comes from the ground 

 in such force that it has scooped out a bowl sixty-five 

 feet deep and about a hundred f L ..-[ m diameter. The K ttter 

 rises with such force and volume that the surface is much 

 convexed. The water is so clear that the bottom is distinctly 

 seen, and so strongly charged with lime that from one quart 



Of y:\ii..:.'. .] U'le-pOeniul of lime e-iul.li:- pL'ecipiT.nled. 



Ahout ten years since, Mr. fcfoyt, a Vermont Yankee, who 

 had a paper mill at this Spring, tried the experiment of stock- 

 ing it with brook trout, and. as Judge Cadwell, of Cleveland, 

 inlormsme, procured about 10.000 of the young fry of this 

 fish. The spring runs about four miles' I o its end in San- 

 dusky Bay. In this distance, although the country seems to 

 appear as' level as a prairie, yet it has a fall of about fifty 

 feet. 



There are three grist mills along the si ream worked by this 

 Witter power. The width of the spring vanes from 15 "to ;10 

 feet, and its depth from 2 to 8 feci. 



At one point it spreads out into a. pond, covering about 

 one acre, and here are the largest trout taken; the largest yet, 

 taken, weighed three pounds. 



A. species of stringy moss grows in great, abundance, form- 

 ing a sorl of network, and Banks, almost entirely across the 

 pond, giving the trout good hiding places, and when a trout 

 is hooktd he Hies into one of these moss dams aud makes a 

 light for his life. 



Four years ago it was found that the whole length of the 

 spring was swarming with trout, there being an abundance 

 of the very best of io'oj for them, the moss being alive with 

 small crustact una, lite crabi and walls (uav ' i. I have 



angling to go into scientific NCai '--'inns. 



A Club was organized in 1878 consisting of twenty-five 

 members,. who, under the name oi the Castalia Spoiling 

 Club, have leased I he spring from a poiut about half a, mile 

 balOW the bead of the spring to Its mouth, and have a keeper 



ger angler takes bis way, 



oil and liue, with fly and reel. 



A quiet stillness here prevails, 



No leaf is moved by mountain gales. 



The caution? angler looks about, 



Ye QodS, hi- cries, what haunts tor mint: 



K the day is dark, with clouds aud mist, 

 A gaudy fly will suit bim best. 

 But if bright with brilliant sun, 

 A hackle, either brown or dun, 

 With topes aud fears a east is made 

 Behind a rock, and in the shade. 

 The. eurling water shows a pise, 



y trout uaii-l; SC&ns the flies. 



And lea 



And do- 



sbcdh 



Eight here my muse, the fickle jade, jilted me, as she has 

 often done before, and I must send you "The Angler'' iu an 

 unfinished state. Plague take the whole Nine. 



T. C.MlLiCK. 

 Bedford, Ohio July 36, 1882. 



CARP AS A GAME AND TABLE FISH. 

 rpHE following is an extract from the Petersburg. Vs., 



W: should .xplaill" llOW. V. r tie ■: ' ;V" "\ I r; ;i r . , "•;■. "',:;;,).. 



•apf 



,/li/s). 



The account says: 



It will be remembered by the readers of the indeti-Appml 

 that about the month of December. 1880 a 

 the Petersburg Fish ami (.lame A—elation, ha\ 



fish from the lake at the Central Parle placed' 



During 



r bread 

 in the 



would be thrown to them, their beautiful mov 

 water proving a constant source of interest to 



A lew- davs ago several members of the Pish and Game 

 Association, including Mayor-elect, T. J. Jarraff, Council- 

 men S. P. Arlington and'john R. Patterson, Capl. .). T. 

 Young, President of the Planters and Mechanics Bank, Mr. 

 Ro. A. Martin, the well-known commission merchant of our 

 city, and other prominent citizens, armed with fishing tackle, 

 went to the lake for the purpose of fishing for carp; with a 

 view to test their qualities for sporting purposes and a- (nod 

 fish, Several of the tish were thus taken, and the sport was 

 so exciting as to call forth the greatest enthuiasm on the 

 part of all who witnessed it, including some old anglers. 



By way of giving our readers in Virginia and North Car- 

 olina, where all of the. above mentioned gent lcmcn are widely 

 and favorably' known, 'heir opinions as to this new fish, 

 whereof so much has been published throughout the whole 

 country within the last few y..ars, we called upon several of 

 them for their views. Here is what Mr. Martin writes; 



"What is now written is simply to give the public our 

 opinion of the carp as found in Virginia waters in the month 

 of August, as a biter and puller, and as a fish to eat. formed 

 upon the experience of tbe several gentlemen who caught a 

 few from Park Lake last week. 



"We found these fish would not bite at worms, but would 

 at bread, and that the best bread with which to bait the hook 

 is the crust of a baker's loaf or roll, fastened on the hook 

 with the crust side up. Our party, including some old and 

 experienced anglers, wore astonished to see. how some of the 

 fish bit in genuine chub style. In bottom and wind the chub 

 does not. compare with the carp. We might say that among 

 tish the carp is what an old-fashioned foxhound is among 

 d.0gs— a little, slow, but of long enduring power. This fish, 

 we believe, fights as gamely for life when in water as a 

 mountain trout. It does not pull so hard as a. chub will for 

 a little while, but long after a chub would -throw up the 

 Sponge' the carp comes up smiling, and yoit cannot sBfl thai 

 it has lost a particle of its power to repeat the same thing for 

 many rounds. The truth is that of the earn we caught, 

 though allowed to play a long time, not one of theui said 1 

 give it up,' but continued to the last to light hard. To any 

 man of soul, who knows whal ,. lod mow ie, we would say. 

 •Make a pond, gel some (as many as you can) young carp 

 aild put them in said pond. Throw out some scraps of bread 

 to these fish once a day, and in twelve months you can have 

 such sport as would have electrified old Izaak Walton.' 



"Now as to the eftting qualities of the carp. It must, be 

 remembered thai, the taste of mankind is so different that 

 what would delight one person another could not stomach. 

 We had one of these carp boiled, we think by a German by 

 tiirt. h, but uoue of our party who tasted the tish thus cooke'd 

 liked it. The next fish was baked (giandly done, stuffed 

 splendidly iu real old Virginia style). This was far more 

 palatable than the boiled fish. It "is our candid opinion that 

 i r, baked, and. the stuffing is in good order, and 



good dressing is provided, it will prove a very passable 

 dish. 



"As a pan-fish — we had one of the smaller fish fried — we 

 must say that those fortunate people who know how a thir- 

 teen to fourteen inch freckle eats (say such as vou can catch 

 iu Mellwaine's pond in Surry county or Neblitt's pond in 

 Sussex county), will not take much stock in this new coiner. 

 But our opinion is that, on a < old frosty nmnnngin October, 

 the carp will be found lo be good eating; if prqpurly cooked. 



"While in form of mouth the ear]. Is like our mullet and 

 roundiish, it is totally different in the matter of bones, not 

 having more than a chub, we think. This fact, taken in 

 connection with its pulling powers and endurance, would 

 seem to show that the carp (notwithstanding -Its sucker 



mouth) belongs to lie family of game fish. 



"In conclusion, we would urge on the plain honest people 

 of the State, who work and who now and then would like, 

 to have a little recreation, to make them a pond of from one 

 to five acres, and stock it with German carp. It will be 

 money well spent, and will tend to keep their bovs at home 

 on every holiday, instead of having them to wander off from 

 the farm in quest of something to interest them. Iu closing 

 we will slate thai after close iuspvtion our party could not 

 Ibid that there Were in the lake any young carp, the product 

 of those put in. W© think, however, from indications, that 

 this will not be the case before the end of the fall." 



Mr, Jarrntt, one of the fishing party, bad one of the carp 

 baked, and il was pronounced by himself and other mem- 

 bers 01 his family, and also lus neighbor. Captain P. A. 

 Goodwyn, who was invited to partake of it, as a most excel- 

 lent dish. 



Mr. Coleman, the keeper of the park, was also requested 

 to lake one of the fish and report upon it. Mr. C. speaks of 

 it as very palatable. 



Among the gentlemen present at the Park Lake at the 

 rapture of ihe fish was Air. W. II. Wells, former Collector 

 of Customs of this district. Mr. W. caught some of the 

 carp, and says that, as a source of amusement, with the hook 

 and liue they are superior to any fish he e\ er saw. 



The accounts which wc have in the books rprcsv.nl, the 

 carp as a tish highly esteemed in Europe as a, food fish. 

 When our people in tiiis section of the country learn the fa- 

 vol able reports which wc lay before, them to-day, especially 

 as to the fish as a source of amusement, we are satisfied that 

 the demand for carp will be greatly increased. 



LANDING A GAR. 



I WAS eighteen or twenty miles down the Mississippi and 

 Tennessee Railroad, near Yoeona River, last week, on a, 

 fishing trip, but, did not have very good luck with "trout." 

 as we term black bass, though I had heaps of sport with 

 gars. These ugly rascals have been in the habit of enjoying 



would find a party of gentlemen and ladies fishing, anil 



nevet seemi d satisfied 



Saturday, while ilie w ri 

 a. small lake near the at 

 to' cotton lines got amor 

 another off just below 

 him, I threw over an ai 

 attached lo a silk line a 

 n Struck Hie water M 



surface of the watei 

 testing the merits of 

 ucss of a large gat 

 down; then it earne t 

 down it about fifteen 

 when by that til . 

 greattjt to Ihe surprisi 

 surprise, such as "Zo 



;:.f thos, 



a Ho 



MS. Hiss., Aug. U. 



ter and a lew friends were fishing in 

 OVO named river, one of these terrors 

 g our hooks aud broke ours and hit 

 the sinkers, when, unfortunately for 

 tificial minnow, with silver leader, 

 bout thirty feet long, ami by the time 

 r. Gar struck it, Ihitikiug. I suppose, 

 One of my friends remarked that I 

 ole- ear) my fancy hook and tine line 

 ivas a "goner" anyway. 1 told him if 

 thai was then making the walcr foaih 

 ild treat him to the best cigar I could 

 ry one present except me/md the tish 



n a log, ami at. least six feet above the 



where I had a fine opportunity of 



silk line and the strength and game- 



I let the old fellow worry himself 



,- time. I took him to the 'bank and 



yards to a. nice place to haul ashore, 



:liein minutes) 1 landed him safely, 



of my friends. Their ejaculations of 



nds! but I'd gave a dollar to get one 



t hook and line like that." "What kind 



ke a look at it." "Island 



the next oue you get on that 



marks. I did not take another 



one during the whole day. 



Davy. 



Wnv Tilev Don't Bite.— There is no doubt of the influ- 



ay 



2qu 



life-long- attachment; or repelling with a certainty that 

 leaves no doubt. Assuming such to be facts, permit me to 

 ask, why this same influence may not be extended to the in- 

 habitants of the water, etc., the real cause, at times, of their 

 indifference to food,' when judging from all known condi- 

 tions of the air and the water, we might expect that the 

 allurements of the fly, the worm, or other bait; would meet 

 with a, ready response, and bring that success that all sports- 

 men hope for. I lately saw an acticle, written evidently by 

 a gentleman of experience and obeservatifm, in which he 

 slated that he had noted for years the condition of the at- 

 mosphere and its effects upon tish, and had invariably met 

 with no success when the ' -barometer had been falling." I 

 also saw it, staled in another article that the writer thereof 

 had beer: most successful in flshing, immediately altera 



sudden change of weather, either from waim to cold or the 

 reverse. Tnow 1 am sure, if some of your correspondents 

 who may have made a study of electricity, many of whom 

 doubtless are skillful with the rod, would give their views 

 upon Ihe subject, they will not, only alt'ord a rare treat to the 

 readers of the Pokekt and Stkla'm, but possibly give a so- 

 lution of the great and heretofore unaccountable mystery— 

 "why the fish don't; bite?" — Syuaccse. 



li\ss and Trout in Canada.— Belleville, Onf,, Aug. 11. 

 — Fishing in this locality lias been fully up to the average 

 this year, although the menhaden or -shad.'' a.s the} are in- 

 correctly called, interrupted bass fishing fur some weeks. 

 Now, however, fair takes are reported, tin- biggest of the 

 season being a siy-pounder V few days ago ATr. Will T. 



Soule, of Boslon, lis,: i go id An spOJ! -':,„, A r n ak, 



in the township of Rawdon, '.';: miles distant. His catch for 

 about twelve hour' Bshfnfi consisted oJ about iTti brook 

 trout, weighing 38ilbs. The largest turned the scale at 

 l3lhs.-0. 



