90 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AUGUST 31, 1882. 



$& mid Biver 



Open Seasons. — See bible of open teoMtot-fot qawe wrMJwi 



in ima of July 30. 



FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER.. 



Lake truut, Urintivumvr natiuiy- 



cunlt, 

 Ettscowet, Griativomw :--i'.-u-oe-w. 

 tlrayllng, Thymalluo tricolor nnd 



■ nto.i 



irirfra 



Rainbow trout, SdZu- ■. 

 Clark's trout, Snlmo clark... 

 Dolly VartleD trout. Su/w'i'hiio 



Salmon, ,SWmo nolar. 



Laud-locked salmon, var. srim<jo. 



Quinnat salmon, Oncorftyttcfcus 

 chouycha. 



Black bass, JftferQpterWf, two Spe- 

 cies. 



MavktnonKo, SW4 HotriHor, 



Sea bass, CWifro;)risie.s u (nines. 

 Striped bass, Roccvs linrtitus. 

 White pereb. Moront americana. 

 Scup or porgio, SfenotOTTW tir- 



gj/mpi). 

 Tautog or blacklist, 1'autuga urn 



PflcttCN. Y. pickerel), ESkh Ittctoa 



llekoivl. f.'.oj- n-iirulaUts. 

 Pike-perch (Wall-eyed pike) SW- 



YpUoh peroh, Peivu flu-viatilin. 

 Striped bass (Roekflsh), fiocctt-s 



White 



Rock I 



War-in 



. etb,j. 



Blueflsh 

 ioUatrix. 



Wealdisk 



tayloi 



Pomatoi 



Orapple iStrawber 



I'OHIOXIJ* VI HTO/mieUIfMUtf. 



Bachelor, Pomoxws mm-uhiris. 

 Chub. .S'cmoroUJ bulluria, 



"Sen trout," Oynnscynu LVirolinsn- 

 Sheepsheud. .OcWaruKs proia- 



lor^jhallti. 



Klnglfeh or Barb. Mentlcirrus ne- 

 tntioiras, 



Spanish mackerel. Cyliium »<ue«- 



sg,uet&gue. Oj/nos- Ln 



gg" This table is general. For special laws in the several 

 State.? see table of Open Seasons in issue of July 30. 



Phys.— i admire tbt fish, but I cannot admire the art by which it 

 was taken; and I wonder how a man of your active min d and en- 

 thusiastic character can enjoy what appears to me a stupid and mel- 

 ancholy occupation. 



Hal.-I might as well wonder in my turn, that a man ot your ilis- 

 cussive imagination and disposition to contemplate should not 

 admire this occupation, and that you should venture to call it either 

 stupid or melancholy. 



Phys.— I have at least the authority of a great moralist. Johnson, 

 for its folly. 



Hal.— I will allow no man, however great a philosopher, or moral- 

 ist, to abuse an occupation he has not tried; .and as I well remember, 

 this same illustrious person praised the book and the character of 

 the great Patriarch of Anglers, tzaac Walton. 



Phys.— There is another celebrated man, however, who has abused 

 this your patriarch, Lord Byron, and that in terms not very qualified. 

 He calls him, as well as I can recollect, "a quaint old cruel coxcomb." 

 I must say, a practice of this great fisherman, where he recom- 

 mends you to poss the hook tirough the body of a frog with care, as 

 though you loved him, in order to keep him alive louger, cannot hut 

 be considered as cruel. 



Hal.— I do not justify either the expression or the practice of 

 Walton in this instance; but remember, I fish only with inanimate 

 baits or Imitations of them, and I will not tihume or expose the 

 ashes of the dead, nor vindicate the memory of Walton, at the ex- 

 pense of Byron, who. like Johnson, was no fisherman; but the 

 moral and religious habits or Walton, his simplicity of manners, and 

 his well spent life, exonerate him from the charge of cruelty: and 

 the book of a coxcomb would not have been so great a favorite with 

 most persons of refined taste,— Sir Humphrey Davy. 'Ratmonia." 



TROUT1NG IN MIDDLE PARK. 



1HA\F, just returned from a hurried business nip to 

 Middle Park, and propose to submit a few brief notes of 

 the trouting season. I hud no time to spare, and did not 

 wet a line, but picked my share of fish bones at various tables 

 and on numerous occasions. 



In lower Grand River, Troublesome and Williams forks, 

 fishing was said to be exceptionally good and their average 

 size large. In the immediate vicinity of Hot Sulphur 

 Springs it is pretty well exhausted, and will so continue 

 until the fall run of 'fish down stream. In all streams above, 

 and in Grand Lake, it is good, hut in the lake most of the 

 fish are small. This is the consequence of perpetual fishing, 

 summer and winter, spring and autumn, lor fifteen years. 

 Yet fair strings are still made, in numbers if uot in weight. 

 Formerly all fishing in this lake was with bait, and the fish 

 were taken at from three to ten feet below the surface. Now 

 the fly is most successful, and a new class of fishermen are 

 at the front. Bait fishermen are despondent, although they 

 vet take goodly numbers at certain times. The most suc- 

 cessful fly-fishing is in the evening, from six to nine o'clock. 

 and the average catch to a rod is from thirty to fifty fish, or 

 ten to twelve pounds after dressing, In the outlet of the 

 lake, and in the North Fork near by, larger trout are caught, 

 and skillful anglers brought in large strings. Major Horn- 

 brook, late of Kentucky, was the most successful while I 

 was there. On successive days he took from eighty to one 

 hundred and twenty fish, running from half a pound to two 

 and a quarter pounds each. He fished generally in the lower 

 three miles of the North Fork. 



Chris. Young, a young gentleman with an extravagantly 

 wide-rimmed hat and a partiality for gray hackles and white 

 millers, who supplies the tab.e of hfs mother's hotel with 

 trout, is quite as successful, but confines his operations to a 

 certain portion of the lake and catches nearly all his fish after 

 dark. There may be a reason for his sticking to the lake 

 and this may he if. Not long ago he permitted his boat to 

 drift down the outlet, intently casting his fly and taking in 

 the "speckled beauties'* as he floated along. At length the 

 craft laid up alongside a tree that had fallen and reached well 

 toward the middle of the stream. He fished away, but hear- 

 ing a Shuffling noise behind him he looked over his shoulder 

 to see a large bear coming down the log. Without ceremony 

 or unnecessary delay Chris, climbed out of the other side of 

 his boat and put for the further shore, which must have been 

 reached in good time, since he didn't get lus feet wet 

 although the water was away over his boot tops. Bruin 

 ambled down to the boat, placed his fore feet in it and 

 smelled around at the cargo but took nothing. Chris., having 

 gathered his wind, gave B veil, when the bear took a good 

 look at him, turned around, marched up the log and disap 

 peared in the woods. Since then Chris, fishes in the lake. 



The District C'oiu-t whs sitting at Ike lake; the judge, with 

 his family, living in a tent in a grove of pines on its margin. 

 His Honor is an ardent fisherman, and the best ballast in the 

 country. The court stenographer is a more successfulangier 

 and an enthusiast in fishculture. Attorneys, jurors, litigants 

 and witnesses all took a hand, and the consequence was 

 from two to four hours of court each day and fishing the 

 balance of the time. 



The day I left, two gentlemen, Messrs. Everett and Wells, 



of Golden, left the lake for home, intending to fish a day or 

 two en route. Later I saw them on the summit of the range 

 coming out, and learned that they stopped on the south fork 

 of the Grand, about ten mih;s from the lake, and in the 

 evening and next, morning took one hundred and sixty trout, 

 ranging from half a pound to two pounds weight, some 

 of them, in fact, dressed more than the latter weight. They 

 also killed a number of grouse and were talcing their fish 

 imd game home. 



At Co/ens', on (tie Franc r. there were a number of pleas- 

 ure and health-seekers having abundant sport. They re- 



ported the trout 

 record of a Mr. Wa 

 side, the door of this 

 gives a good illustn 

 as an invalid in lb 

 daily figures range 

 it runs some days fi- 

 ord is about like 

 off temporarily boa 

 the other day 1 oul. 



uing but very plentiful now. The 

 . penciled on the weather-boards be- 

 lt excellent hostelrie, for three years, 

 of 1 he fishing, Mr. W. firs 



■tv, fiftv 

 art, buti 

 othe 



part 

 three and a-t 

 the Fraser. in his father's pasture, 

 resident of the same hole for si.e 

 small stream close up to its h 



f '80, and took 



twenty odd. The 



d sixty. This yeai 



•et incomplete, He 

 .f the park. Co 

 arter pound trout from 

 It bad been a familiar 

 ral summers. This is a 

 the snowy range and 



His 



next year 

 ■ the'ree- 

 had gole- 

 ms, Jr., 



over twenty miles from its mouth in Grand River. Rauche, 

 Crooked, Ban Luis. Vasquez, and all (he other brunches of 

 the Fraser, are full of trout, but they do uot average so large 

 us a dozen years ago. 



A friend who hud spent a month in the park and who 

 came out with me, said he was perfectly satiated with 

 trouting and trout. 



Soni" English sportsmen who were killing deer and elk 

 in Middle "Park a month or so ago, werelianled up by a 

 deputy sheriff and singed $50 apiece. The) settled aud 

 left .the State, and others followed their example, and now 

 the citizens are all torn up over the question whether the 

 game law is a fraud or the sheriff a too vigilant officer. The 

 sportsmen claimed they were slaughtering only sufficient for 

 their daily wants, which the law allows, and'they left with 

 a supreme disgust for the "blarsted country, you know." 

 Many of the settlers, who gather dollars from such visitors, 

 think there was an abuse of authority, but I havn't heard of 

 any indignation meetings among the elk and deer. 

 Draws, Gdl.j Aug. 80, 1882. W. N. B. 



TEMPERING WATER IN AQUARIA. 



I FIND in your issue of August 34, a brief paper by 

 "M.," of Boston, headed, "Temperature and Trout," 

 on page 70. In describing his experience in endeavoring to 

 keep trout in an aquarium, ho says that he placed in it every 

 autumn trout of half pound to two pounds weight, and 

 kept them through the winter, but they died as the weather 

 became warm, "seldom living to the middle of June.'' He 

 gave them a constant supply" of changing water from the 

 city pipes. As a rule they died when the temperature of 

 the water was about. 70 deg., some of the stronger ones 

 living until it was 73 deg. to 73 deg. 



My purpose is 'o give instruction how to reduce the tem- 

 perature of hydrant water without the use of ice, and to 

 give an ample supply for a "house aquarium. " of water at 

 o4 deg. to 57 deg., while the water is constantly changing. 

 in which trout will live indefinitely and be fat and healthy if 

 they are judiciously fed. 



At 8 point as nearly perpendicular to the proposed site of 

 the aquarium as practicable, attach a branch pipe to the bouse 

 supply pipe, and sink a trench for the branch pipe twelve 

 feet in depth below the surface of the ground, and forty 

 feet in length, in any direction that the excavation of the 

 trench will least disturb flower boarders and shrubbery if in 

 a yard or lawn, 



"in supplying cooled water to a new building before the 

 pavement is laid, the cooling pipe may he laid under the 

 sidewalk. For an aquarium of twenty gallons capacity, 

 the supply branch, pipe should be of inch caliber. Eighty 

 linear feet of pipe may be laid in the forty feet trench, by 

 making are turn bend and extending the pipe back to a point 

 opposite to the branch, thence the pipe will of course ex- 

 tend up to the site of the aquarium. 



That portion of the pipe above the cellar floor should be 

 insulated with woolen felt, to prevent the water from absorb- 

 ing lieal from the atmosphere of the building ere it reaches 

 the aquarium. The cooling potency of a given length of 

 pipe laid in the en rib as described', will be augmented by 

 laying: the incidence portion of it as remote as practicable 

 from the return portion. 



If the pipes lie in juxtaposition iu the earth, the heat 

 absorbed from the first section of it will be imparted to the 

 return pipe, and an approximate equilibrium of temperature 

 will obtain. A trench two feet in width, however, will 

 suffice. 



The depth below ihe surface recommended for laying the 

 cooling pipe is sufficient from 38 degrees K. latitude indefi- 

 nitely northward, hut iu lower latitudes solar .heat affects the 

 earth to a greater depth below the surface: hence the trench 

 in which to lav Ihe cooling pipe must be deeper to attain the 

 degree of temperature mentioned in the flowing water. 



The temperature of the water as it flows from the Brook- 

 lyn (N. Y.) water-works is to-day, Aug. 24, 73 degrees Fahr,, 

 which temperature, according to "M.," is fatal to the 

 strongest trout. 



Such an arrangement as a water-cooling pipe will be found 

 economical and luxurious, irrespective ot its use for temper- 

 ing a fish aquarium, as it furnishes cool water for the house 

 for all purposes for which it is desirable. If the water is to 

 be cooled with ice for drinking purposes, the great economy 

 of the cooling pipe will be apparent. 



This method of cooling water for house purposes was 

 introduced fifteen years ago. 



I laid a cooling "pipe in the bottom of a sub-earth air duct, 

 with which I ventilated and tempered the a : r of a butter 

 dairy in Vermont a year ago, and it delivered a good supply 

 of water at 51 degrees Fahr. ; hence no ice or well water 

 was required in the manufacture of the butter. 



BWWH.TW, n. *,__ L Wmnnsps. 



RoDtLrn Fishing Club.— Gravenhurst, Ont., Aug. 34. 

 —The Eodulph Fishing Club, of Pittsburg, Pa., to the 

 number of sixty-one, have been spending their vacation up 

 here on MuskokaLake, but their pleasure was greatly marred 

 by a sad accident which happened to one of Iheir number. 

 if is the old story. In drawing a gun toward him, it was 

 discharged and a whole charge of buckshot entered his 

 shoulder, inflicting a terrible wound. It just narrowly 

 missed the main arteries, The poor fellow was taken home 

 by "Dr. 81." When I saw him at the station here he ap- 

 peared cheerful, and in hopes of having a partial use of his 

 arm.— C. 



A TRACK VELOCIPEDE TRIP. 



A TRACK velocipede is one of those dangerous machines 

 .;' V used by telegraph and railway men in the discharge of 

 certain duties; while in the bunds of others than experienced 

 railway men is equally as unsafe as a toy pistol. It is a 

 spider-like looking apparatus with three wheels, about twelve 

 inches in di '.meter, two of tl.em riding tandem on one rail, 

 connected by light braced rods to the third, running on the 

 opposite rait. It is propelled both by feet and hands, by the 

 operator sitting on a narrow seat, with both feet on a swing- 

 ing push treadle, and both hands holding a beam about even 

 with his breast, similar to the steering apparatus of a road 

 bicycle. When you push with your feet you pull with your 

 hands, and vice rerun. The motion in propelling the machine 



We take advantage of a steed of the above description, he- 

 longing to a gentleman connected with the popular Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana Railway; and the fact that on the day of 

 the week by some called the first and by others the seventh, 

 no trains ran. either ircight or passenger. 1 accept an invita- 

 tion from my companion, Mr. Holabird (of Hollabird shoot- 

 ing-suit fame), who takes the throttle. I hunch up on what 

 is left of the seal. All being in readiness, my companion 

 turns on steam by a good healthy push and pull, and we 

 glide along as smoothly as can be". When we have run a 

 couple of "miles we exchange, places, and I take hold. At 

 the end of my two miles I was ready to take the place of a 

 passenger. We alternate thus each mile or two, and enjoy 

 this new experience in traveling, the fresh morning air. 

 green foliage, and the ferns lining our route in great variety, 

 and springs innumerable, of which we sampled. One of the 

 blessings of this country is the abundance of pure water, to- 

 gether "with this grand bracing atmosphere, which rejuvenates 

 and exhilarates. 



We speed along, keeping a good lookout, at each curve lot- 

 fear an "extra" might be thundering down upon us, 



I had accepted an invitation from Mr Holabird tor this 

 velocipede trip from Petoskey, Mich., over the track of "The 

 Fishing Line," the Grand Rapids and Indiana, to u little. 

 station about eight miles south, where we were to stop and 

 walk over the country two miles to Bear Lake. I learned 

 on this trip how distance is measured by the natives. They 

 take a section map and give the distance, a place calls for 

 from point, to point, by section or fraction of a sec-tiou-line, 

 as the case may be; it matters not if the road leading to such 

 place leads one a circuitous route of even twice the distance. 

 Reachingtheterminusof ourrail way travel, we lift the machine 

 from the track, and with lock and chain securely fasten it. 

 Leaving the railway track we strike off through the clearing 

 and then into the dense woods, where we follow the narrow, 

 stumpy road cut throurh this dense, timber, where the foot 

 tread is soft, elastic and cool, while the trees above us form 

 a complete arch, making a cool, shady retreat where the sun 

 never penetrates. We descend a steep hill into a little val- 

 ley, where the road winds in a serpentine course, and the. 

 gathering clouds and distant, thunder make the roadway 

 doubly weird, dismal and dark, but grand, warning us that 

 a severe storm is approaching and that we must hurry our 

 steps. Alter a brisk walk we reach the shore of the lake at 

 a pL.ce Where it is not more than a couple of hundred yards 

 wide, when a few healthy Comanche yells from Holabird 

 bring a. man to his cabin door on the opposite side, who im- 

 mediately comes after us in a home-made flat-bottom craft . 

 which we gladly accept as a means of ferriage, as the rain 

 is now coining down in torrents, aud we take shelter in his 

 cabin until it ceases. 



\\ e u eiv sho-wn all the main points of interest about this 

 lake by a man who lives on the shore, and a young man 

 who owned and ran, for a summer pastime, a steam pleasure 

 craft. They were very accommodating and I regret that 

 my losing my notes of last year's trip prevents my giving 

 thek names. We were carried in this small steam yawl the 

 entire length of the lake some twelve to fourteen miles, and 

 made several stops to examine objects of interest on the 

 shore. ' 



This lake is a beautiful sheet of water, the shores tire well 

 wooded to the water's edge, with occasionally a clearing, 

 Where a settler's home looms up. and all with whom we con- 

 versed Were cheerful, happy, and independent. 



On the shore of this lake "a settler has taken advantage of 

 one of the largest springs in Northern Michigan, running 

 quite a. brook of pure cold Water, to make a trout preserve, 

 ami I believe enter into the cultivation of the same, cer- 

 tainly no better natural facilities were ever offered. He 

 had a number of trout in the main spring which lie bad en- 

 closed. 



We did not fish, we did uot go to fish; we went to look. 

 and we have looked, and are "satisfied this is one of the 

 grandest lakes in Northern Michigan, but from what we 

 could learu the fishing is not as fine'as in some of ihe lakes 

 between Petoskey and Cheboygan, and in their vicinity, 

 several of which 1 have made the subject of an article, in 

 your columns. There was no question as to the quantity 

 nor quality of the fish that could be drawn from the watery 

 depths of 'Bear Lake, but the size was small. 



Enough, We retraced our steps to the railway track, un- 

 locked our steed, and in about an hour and a half pulled up 

 at the station in Petoskey with a sense of delight and satis- 

 faction with our novel trip, at the same time a peculiar feel- 

 ing that one has after alighting from a trip of a few miles 

 on horseback, for the first, time in a number of years. 



Coi.tiirers, Ohio. FRANK N. BEEBE. 



Fjkesh Sauion fob the Fkexch M\nKETS, — A French 

 steamer, called the Stella Marie, put in here lately for a sup- 

 ply of coal. She and another large steamer are owned By 

 a joint slock company in France, and both tire, fitted with a 

 refrigerating apparatus of the most perfect kind, and with 

 all the recent improvements. The Stella Marie was dis- 

 patched early in the season to Labrador to load with fresh 

 salmon for "the markets of France. She proceeded to 

 Natashquan, Chateau Bay, where she secured 2bO,UOO pounds 

 of salmon, She is now on her homeward voyage, and 

 bound first for Marseilles. The price of her salmon, when 

 sold iu France, will not fall under Is. per pound: so that 

 the cargo of the Stella Marie will bring £10. 000— possibly 

 much more. This is the third year in which these steamers 

 have visited Labrador, and their returns are said to be highly 

 satisfactory to their owners. They leave France about the 

 first of May, and are not more than three months on the 

 voyage, Of course, during the remainder of the year they 

 can be employed elsewhere. The refrigerating process, 

 which is kept secret, is said to be perfect, and the fish are 

 delivered in E'rance in as good a condition as when taken 

 out of the sea.— St. John '(NeafoiindUm) Correspondmce of 



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