Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6, 1882. 



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Editorial. 



The Anglers' Tournament. 

 The Sportsm in Tourist. 



Camp Life m the Groat Swamp. 



Below Quebec. 

 Natural History. 



Til-' Graeellj! Ol.Jilrlii.nV 1J i I • • 



Biol Migration in the Mississippi 



Valley. 

 Monsters of While F.iver. 

 Game Bas and Gum. 

 Quail Shooting in Kentucky. 

 In the North Carolina Mountains 

 •'Maine (.'oast shooting." 

 Hounding vs. Still-Hunting, 

 Pigeon Shooting in Minnesota. 

 Phijai.lelohia Notes. 

 Tennessee Notes. 

 New Jersey Game Societies. 



' ■ I ■"■:'.: .■T.K'i.n:! .OS 



Sea .lvd riivEK Fishing. 

 Salmon Wheel of the Columbia. 



CONTENTS. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Maine Notes. 

 TL.-Tilen-Oi is not I'm: mi 

 The Heushall Rod. 

 The Menhaden Question. 



IGeHgULTURE. 



Fish Comtnisioners. 



The Kennel. 



The Color of i in ■ < ■.-■. o ;.™,- 



Food for Puppies. 



Louisiana Field Trials, 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootino. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Schooners of the Day. 



Albany Y. C.— Sept. 37. 



Boats that Will .Not ■"-ink. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



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THE ANGLERS' TOURNAMENT. 

 HWHE Commissioners of Public Parks of the City of New 

 -*- York having kindly placed the Harlem Mere, One 

 Hundred and Tenth street, at the service of the Committee 

 of Arrangements, the first annual Forest akd Stream 

 Anglers' Tournament will be hold there on the 19th inst., 

 weather permitting. The only postponement will be on 

 account of rain, when it will take place the first fair day fol- 

 lowing. The grounds can be reached from the City Hall in 

 forty-five minutes, either by the Sixth or Ninth avenue ele- 

 vated roads, or by the the Third avenue line. In the case 

 of the two former the visitor will leave the road at One Hun- 

 dred and Sixteentli street, and a twelve-minute walk will 

 bring him to the spot. Should he go by Third avenue, then 

 Hie nearest station is One Hundred and Sixth street, which 

 leads directly into the park a few yards south of the lake. 



This tournament will be the best one ever held in this 

 country, and will give people a chance to see what a beauti- 

 ful art. it is to cast the fly to a distance and to do it with 

 delicacy. It will draw the attention of anglers to this style 

 of fishing and no doubt will add many recruits to the ranks 

 of those who use the fly in preferenee to baits. Should the 

 JdOtf be fair many ladies aie sure to be present, and as 

 there are a few ladies who cast the fly with skill, there are 

 hodoubl others who would like to do so, and here they will 

 have an opportunity to observe the contestants and note 

 their different styles without leaving the city to do so. 



Below we give the adopted rules which govern the con- 

 tests, and a partial list of the prizes— a list which will be 

 completed next week. It will be seen by a glance at this 

 |»t many valuable prizes arc to be contested for, and that 

 lpanMteur.3 have not been forgotten. The amateur class 

 we regard as the most important one on the list, being de- 

 signed to bring out new men, and as this class will be called 

 first, it will give the leading ones an opportunity to enter the 

 other classes if they wish. Many arguments were held at 

 the meetings of the Committee of Arrangements in regard to 

 the rules, especially in regard to the rule, which is held in 

 other tournaments, requiring the contestant to recover his 

 1 !l liter casting. It was decided to leave this regulation out 

 of the present rules, the argument being that it was a useless 

 requirement and one that was impossible of enforcement 



when automatic reels are used. Certainly a person who can 

 cast his line can retrieve it; but all do not do so. Another 

 departure is in making no allowance of distance for length 

 of rod. This, we hold, is the correct principle, for if a man 

 cannot cast with a short rod a.s well as with a longer 

 one, let him provide himself with a tool that he. can 

 use. Besides this, abolition of allowance will tend to show 

 what length of rod is the. best. There are anglers who talk 

 of a rod "fitting a man," meaning that a tall man can use a 

 len-th •!' rod that a short man cannot. We do not believe 

 this, nor do we believe that a tall, long-armed man has any 

 advantage in casting for distance. We think that a mat! 

 may be "fitted" with a rod of a weight to suit him, but 

 weight does not always express the drag that comes on the 

 muscles of the arm. Leverage is a more powerful factor, 

 as Mr. Van Siclen has shown, through the figures of Mr. 

 Mitchell. We recently had two rods of exactly the same 

 weight shown us, but the weight was so differently distri- 

 buted, that one felt to be nearly twice the weight of the 

 other. 



There are many questions regarding fly rods which can 

 only be settled at tournaments where the casts are measured 

 and comparisons can be made, aud. as a means of educating 

 the public in the beauties of our art, and of training the 

 rising generation of anglers in the way they should go, these 

 contests are of the greatest value. 



Two meetings of the Committee of Arrangements have 

 been held since our last issue, and Mr. James L. Val- 

 loton, President of the Pasquo Island Club, has been added 

 to the Committee. They have decided to consider delicacy 

 and accuracy in the awards of fly casting ; but a scale of 

 points, with their value, has not yet been made. Next week 

 we will give the full prize, list and the entrance fees. The 

 following is a partial prize list: 

 Charles Seribner's Sons, publishers, New York, " The Game 



Fish of the United States," by Kilbourn and Goode $50 00 



W. Holberton, 65 Fulton street, New York, copy of " Standard 



Trout FUes." colored by hand, in frame K) IX) 



Frank Holmes, manufacturer, Chagrin Falls, O., " Stranahan 



Folding Canvas Boat," with seat and oars 30 00 



Thomas Sedgwick Steele, Hartford, Conn., copies of "Canoe 



and Camera " and " Paddle and Portage " 3 00 



Fred. Malleson, manufacturer, 136 First street, Brooklyn, 



N. Y., Split bamboo Newport bass rod, with agate tip and 



rubber haDdle 40 00 



Fred. Malleson, Split hamboo fly rod 05 00 



William Mills & Sons, T Wan-en street, New York, dealers in 



guns and fishing tackle, a "Leonard" rod, reel and line 



(in special class f "ir rods of 5J^ ounces and under! 50 00 



Members of the South Side Sportsman's Club of Long Island, 



Cash 10000 



Eugene G. Blackford, dealer in fish, Fulton Market. New 



York, Cash &5 00 



Porter & Coates, Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., "The Amer- 

 ican Angler's Book." by Thad. Norris 5 50 



Robert Clarke & Co., publishers, Cincinnati, O.. " Book of 



the Black Bass," by Dr. J. A. Henshall 3 00 



B. F. Nichols, manufacturer, 153 Mill street, Boston, offers a whole 



ehiso of privee n;' vis. epih Veto i ho. > vwh; h'nees not gt v en. 



Other prizes are promised. Mr. William Mitchell, rod- 

 maker, New York, has offered a rod upon conditions which 

 are being considered by the committee, and Oonroy & 

 Bissett, dealers in fishing tackle, New York, have promised 

 a prize, and William Mills & Sons talk of giving a whole 

 class of bamboo rods in addition to the one named above. 

 We can assure our readers that our next issue will contain 

 many additions to the list. The following rules were 

 adopted: 



Pules for Fly and Bass Casting. 



single-handed contests. 

 1. No rod shall exceed eleven feet six inches in length, 

 and it shall be used with a single hand. 



3. Any style of reel or line will be allowed, but a leader, 

 or casting line of single gut, of not less than eight feet in 

 length, to which three flies, one stretcher and two droppers, 

 shall be attached. 



3j No allowance of distance shall he made for difference 

 in length of rods. 



4. Persons entering these contests shall draw lots to deter- 

 mine the order in which they will cast, and will be ready 

 to east when called by the judges. 



5. Each contestant will be allowed five minutes^to cast 

 for distance and will then stand aside until called iifhis turn 

 to cast for delicacy and accuracy, when he will be allowed 

 five minutes for this purpose. 



0. The distance shall be measured by a line with marked 

 buoys stretched on the water, said line to be measured and 

 verified by the judges at least once each day of the casting. 

 A mark shall be made on the ground from which the buoy 

 line shall be measured and the caster may stand with his 

 toes touching this mark but may not advance beyond it. 



Should he step back of it, unless directed so to do by the 

 judges, the loss in distance shall be his. 



7. The stretcher fly must remain at the end of the casting 

 line in all casts. The others are not deemed so important, 

 A contestant may claim time for repairs, which shall "be al- 

 lowed by the judges. Or the judges may order the next on 

 the list to cast while repairs are. made, in their discretion. 

 SALMI IX Fl.V CASTING. 



1. The foregoing rules shall govern, except that the rods 

 shall not exceed twenty feet in length, and may be used 

 with both hands, and that only one fly will be required. 



HEAVV BASS CASTING. 



Rods shall not exceed ten feet in length, any reel maybe 

 used, but the line shall be of linen not less than twelve 

 threads. The casts shall be made with sinkers, weighing 

 two and a half ounces. (These will be furnished by the 

 committee). The casts shall be made in lane formed by 

 the buoy line and a line parallel to it, and distant twenty 

 feet. Each contestant will be allowed five casts. His casts 

 within the lines shall be measured, added, and divided by 

 five and the result shall constitute his score. 



, LIGHT BASS CASTING. 



The above rules shall govern except that the sinker shall 

 be one ounce, and there shall be no restriction as to lines. 



A Word About Guns.— Hardly a day passes that the 

 Forest and Stream is not called upon to tell some inquirer 

 which particular one of the many guns advertised he shall 

 buy. Our invariable reply to such inquirers is, that we do 

 not give such advice. It is our aim to exercise due dis- 

 cretion, whereby advertisements of worthless or dangerous 

 articles may be excluded from the pages of this journal. 

 Having done this, our duty to purchasers ends. Our position 

 respecting the many makers whose goods are represented in 

 our advertising columns, must, of necessity, be one of neu- 

 trality: any other would be unfair, and resented by all save 

 the favored party. We can well understand and appreciate 

 the dilemma of an individual who must make a choice 

 among so many different excellent guns as are now in the 

 market. Each interested dealer, as a matter of course, 

 honestly believes that his particular gun possesses pecidiar 

 merits, and is superior to all others; and it is also a fact that 

 the sportsman, who has become used to a special gun, comes to 

 regard that particular make as the best. A man looks upon 

 his gun much as he, does his dog— it is the best in the world. 

 The gun suits him; he becomes attached to it; there is no 

 other like it; he wants no other — "wouldn't take a carload of 

 them if they were given to him. " And so we usually tell the 

 anxious inquirer to buy whatever gun happens to suit his 

 fancy, and the probabilities are, that he will be satisfied 

 with it so soon as he is used to it, 



Tournament Notes.— General Wade Hampton, who 

 was called by Frank Forester in the dedication of his "Field 

 Sports" "the first sportsman in America," is now in New 

 York, and in conversation with Mr. Endicott, chairman of 

 the Committee of Arrangements of the coming Anglers' 

 Tournament, expressed his regret at being unable to remain 

 to witness that, event. He said, however, that he would 

 look anxiously for the report in Forest and Stream, as he 

 took great interest in the contest. The General, like most 

 sportsmen, has devoted more time to angling and less to 

 shooting as he has advanced in life, and he is credited with 

 being the most expert angler in South Carolina. President 

 Arthur is now capturing bass among the Thousand Islands, 

 and watching to see that his boatman does not take him into 

 Canadian waters, where there is an unwritten law that a 

 President may not venture. He has signified his desire, to 

 be present at the Tournament, but fears that the politicians 

 would annoy him, aud as he is beyond their reach now, he 

 proposes to remain there during his vacation. 



Black Bass bob England.— Mr. W. T. Silk, a well- 

 known fishculturist. of England, in charge of the fislicul- 

 tural establishment of the Marquis of Exeter, arrived here 

 on Saturday last in the Germania. Mr. Silk has tanks on 

 board in which to take back black bass. He desires very 

 small ones, of two or three inches long, if they are to be ob- 

 tained. He willed on us and wc referred him to Mr. W- O. 

 McDowell, of Greenwood Lake, who will probably assist 

 him to some large specimens, if not small ones. Mir, Silk 

 has taken over these fish informer years, and tells us that 

 both he and Mr. Marston, of the Fishing Gazette, have taken 

 the fish in English waters from the former plantings. We 



ish him success both in obtaining the fish and in their 

 transportation. 



