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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct, 2(1, 1882. 



who were driven in, and found a camping ground at the 

 further end of Hie beach from us. As soon as we discovered 

 iheir presence I made a villi to them, and the mttnti eoraiah 

 was established, visits were interchanged, and the bablts Of 



civilized life were at once established in this place by our 

 borrowing their lantern and loaning tliem one of our frying- 

 pans. 



The storm having abated, Mr. Palmer and hia party, on 

 their way to Beaver Lake, Mopped long enough to tell US 

 that the Indian engaged to come tor us, had at the last 

 moment gone a, hunting and so we had no boatmen. Our 

 neighbors at the other end of the beach pulled up stakes and 

 left, sailing farther down the shore, and for a time the out- 

 look to us was rather discouraging. But at the last moment 

 a party of young men from Marquette wl o were in Mr. P.'s 

 company concluded, to stop over night at our place to try 

 for a deer on the lake, and a noble young fellow proposed 

 to take his boat and carry two of us' back to Munising in 

 search of a boatman, which he did, and Captain -lim Kish- 

 ka-togwasin due time found and once more had us m 

 charge. 



It was with feelings of rctrrct that we left our camp at 

 Miner's Creek, but so soon as before a good breeze we 

 began to sail along the base of the rocks eastward of our old 

 camp, all thought of the past faded away. It issixmfles 

 from Miner's Creek to Mosguito Inlet, and between the two 

 points the beauty and grandeur of the pictured rocks culmi- 

 nates. No written description can convey any adequate 

 idea of the view they present. Nor will a view al any con- 

 siderable distance give one a knowledge of what they are. 

 As I saw the steamers passing at two or three miles distance, 

 while at our camp on the creek, I could imagine the sight- 

 seers after peering at the far away rocks turning aside in 

 disgust ami declaring that another idol was broken. Of 

 these rocks it cannot he said. 



" 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, ' 

 and hence I conclude them to be worthy of great praise. To 

 be seen at their best, one must sail along close to their base. 

 TlW Pictured Rocks are made ti|> of a loose, fraile sandstone. 

 which in some places is regularlv stratified and lies in thick 

 beds and at others it is laminated, the layers being from u 

 half to au inch in thickness. Between the strata and often 

 between the laminated plates, is a strip of a hard or chesty 

 like rock, which enables them to withstand more weathering 

 than they otherwise would. Sometimes the lines of lamin- 

 ation are parallel with the lake's surface and at others they 

 lie at varying angles, thus showing, 1 suppose, that at some 

 time past the rocks have been subjected togreat preSsuri . Or 

 that there has been a gradual elevation, It is the color of 

 the rock which gives the name of Pictured Pocks. In some 

 places it is a reddish or burnt color, caused I suppose by an 

 oxide of iron, in others it is a soft, creatnv white, again it is a 

 very dark brown, shading off into a black; then it wears a 

 bluish tinge; next comes" a yellow: and SO On. It is the 

 combinations of all the colors wdiieh these rocks show, that 

 makes them worthy of being called the Pictud Bocks. 



At tne Grand Portal the boldest and most beautiful view 

 is presented. Here the cliffs rise two hundred feet high, 

 and into their sides the waters and floating ice hive worn 

 caverns into which small steamers could float and turn. 

 One was a dome-like cavern two hundred feet in diameter, 

 with a csiline one hundred feet high. And then think of a 

 perpendicular wall of rock an eighth of a mile long and two 

 hundred feet high, as true as if made with plummet and 

 rule, covered with trees! On the summit of this wall and of 

 the other great cliff, and walls hereabout, and in the clefts 

 and holes below the summits, innumerable gulls have their 

 nests and are ever circling and screaming high in air. It is 

 here where the wicked Pan-puk-kecwis in "Hiawatha" 

 " * * climbed the rocky headlands, 

 Looking o'er tht< Gitohoe Gumee 

 Perched himself upon that summit. 



Stretched upon his back he lay thore: 

 Far below him plashed the waters. 

 Plashed and washed the dreamy waters; 

 Far above him swam the heavens, 

 Swam the dizzy, dreamy heavens; 

 Round him hovered, fluttered, rustled 

 Hiawatha's mountain chickens." 



And although the rascal killed them by "tens and twen- 

 ties." he seems to have left them in plenty, for we saw them 

 flying in and out and round and round by scores. 



It was well on toward noon of Friday that we landed at 

 the mouth of Beaver Creek, four miles east, of Mosquito 

 Inlet. Ou a high shore in the edge of a thick woods we 

 pitched our tent and sought at once for Beaver Lake, less 

 than half a mile back from our camp ground. The bottom 

 of this lake is a white sand, and its waters, which were very 

 clear, abound in pike and bass, the latter of which display 

 remarkably gamy qualities. At this camp, at which Mr. 

 Palmer and bis parly were also established, we hunted and 

 Bshed, but beyond 'eight grouse which Ed. shot on Satur- 

 day, scarcely moving from his tracks, we met with no 

 specially good luck. I did- not try Beaver Creek for trout, 

 but Chancy Toniett, a wandering Switzer who has taken up 

 his abode in the Upper Peninsula, and who had come down 

 with Mr. P.'s party, assured me that there were many trout 

 iu the creek, but hard to get at on account of logs and" brush. 



Saturday the wind blew fiercely in shore, and the waves 

 tan high all day and far into the night. Sunday morning, 

 ho vever. there w s a calm, and we determined to sail back 

 to Munising if possible. The night before a party had been 

 made up to "shine a deer" on "the lake, and of ' that party 

 was a Louisville clergyman, a most intelligent man, wit i 

 whom 1 spent an hour or two fishing quite pleasantly. He 

 b id never bagged a deer, and was quite anxious to gel "just 

 one," and so it was arranged that he should shoot. ' ft was a 

 late hour ere the party returned, so late that the next; morn- 

 ing wht n the good doctor gave us a circumstantial account 

 of how be shot and killed his first deer, and how the boat 

 came straightway home afterwards, Ed. and Oscar both 

 in aint ined (in the good doctor's absence, of course) that they 

 lit Wtoked at their respective time pieces when the party 



i lie in, and that it was all of two o'clock in the morning, 

 and that therefore, these two voung scapegraces reasoned, 

 the preacher shot a deer on Sunday, Of course I did not 



lieliew the boys, and if the doctor 'sees this, f want him to 

 kuo.v that 1 have never ceased to maintain that his was a 

 Saturday night's deer, for he gave us a quarter of it before 

 we left, and, of course, 1 ought to know! 



Sunday morning we bid good-bye to our Beaver Lake 

 it'L-mls aud set sail for Munising. We were about sixteen 

 miles from the place, and for ten miles or more we had a 

 delightful sail. Kish-ka-tog kept his boat close in to the 



foot of the rocks, and we enjoyed to the utmost the splendid 

 views that were presented, not infrequently ruling into the 

 caverns and under I be arched ways in the" rocks, and once 

 going ashore, where we climbed to the summit of the 

 "chapel" and explored its dry grottoes and dark 



When about six miles from our destination the wind 

 shifted and we were driven to ihe oars, wdion, "tell it not 

 in Oath," but Jim refused lo touch a paddle because it was 

 Sunday. The Switzer had taken passage with us, and at 

 this turn in our affairs he took hold, and so we were able to 

 man four oars in spite of the pious Indian, and by sundown, 

 in an exceedingly bad humor, we landed in Munising in 

 'in ' n i -cape a drenching rain. I). T). Banta. 



FaVKRUN, Hid, 



SUNDAY IN CAMP. 



VYfE had spent our vacation iu a pleasant and agreeable 

 * ' manner, trout and grayling fishing. Wehud tramped 

 many miles to and fro, ami 'spent days' in Ihe dense forest 

 beside the creeks and streams after trout, returning every 

 night to camp. We had strengthened every muscle and 

 toned up a bundle of nerves that threatened at one time an 

 attack ot physical prostration, and had grown brown as 

 berries under the August sun. Saturday night found us iu 

 camp, the fish cleaned aud prepared for Sunday morning, 

 and we half dozing as the candle lightened up the darkness 

 surrounding cmr tent. Nine o'clock saw us in bed, but our 

 sleepiness passed away, and we spent an hour perusing "The 

 Adirondaeks," sent to us just before leaving home by a gen- 

 tleman whose name is well known in the angling world, 

 At last we dropped into a dreamy sleep, from which \ve were 

 aroused by the sharp elbow of our better half digging into 

 our ribs and the half sleepy, "Come. II., put out thai light." 

 To hear was to obey, and we slept, the peaceful sleep of inno- 

 cence. 



Pat-pit-pat, pat-pat-pat, then a Bhower of something, and 

 th v;:sm;i our V- hgstir piped up, Say, pap, it rains 

 and we were wide awake. The liltle clock on our tent pole 

 pointed to 7:45, and we had thus slept ten hours. Such a 

 luxury we had not enjoyed for a year. Blessed sleep, what 

 a power to rejuvenate and build up the overtaxed and 

 wearied body. ' Nowhere in the big city could we thus re- 

 main in such perfect quiet and enjoy such rest. 



It was but a moment's work (o dress aud plunge into a 

 large bowl of cold water to remove the traces of sleep from 

 our eyes and to prepare for breakfast. But what a morning! 

 A fog thick enough to cut with a. knife-such an one as we 

 had never seen up in Michigan in all our fishing trips. The 

 tall maples were fairly soaking with the dampness. The 

 rustle of the leaves deluged you aud wetted to the skin, but 

 the sun was struggling to get through the fog, and puffs of 

 light breeze came up once in a while. A silence and calm- 

 ness betokening a Sabbath of rest brooded over even-thing. 

 Though on almost the highest point of land in this section 

 of the peninsula, yet this infant city was "a sleepy hollow,'' 

 as truly so as ever Old Rip ever found in Ihe mountains of 

 his long sleep. Breakfast was a deliberate affair. Late 

 numbers of the FonEST and Stream lay around the tent, 

 and while partaking of the delicious fish, 1 read the expe- 

 rience of Old Knots in the Kingfisher's Camp aud other in- 

 teresting articles from this journal. No hurry to-day; no 

 fishing, "no huntiug. The rods were in their sliiigs. hanging 

 in the rear of the tent, and we intended spending Sunday 

 as the angler should who loves to contemplate the beauties 

 of all things around him. lie finds something to adore and 

 reverence iu the moss-covered wood path; the delicate 

 fronds of different species of ferns; the soft-tinted hues of 



I,, ., ,, hi:,sl llowcrs attract, him; While all around rear up 

 the fiit v maples aud giant hemlocks, the rustling and rip- 

 pling of whose leaves seem to strike new chords in nature's 

 grand .s\Tnphonv, and all join in a grand bvinn of praise. 



Breakfast over, we take the hammock and stretch it to 

 the trees in the forest. The sun is well up iu the sky, and 

 is shining in his strength, gathering to himself the heavy 

 fogs of the early morning." Ah] glorious above nil days, 

 this last Sunday "in August, seemingly the best Sunday in a 

 damp summer. Taking with us a book we are soon stretched 

 in blissful content, and gently swinging in the hammock, 

 are absorbed iu the interesting pages. Snatches of sacred 

 music come, from the tent as the good wife makes some 

 changes in her apparel, and comes out with another ham- 

 mock that is soon filled with her somewhat stately form. 

 What a feeling of content comes over the senses as we thus 

 let this lovely day pass away in a quiet rest. 



Soon we are aroused with. "Say pa, if you will go to the 

 spring for some water I will make some lemonade!" Tak- 

 ing the bucket, I am soon beside the cold, clear waters. 

 quaffing them again and again. It is astonishing how much 

 water, one drinks when beside these. Michigan streams. We 

 sit on the log a moment and there comes stealing through 

 the woods the sound of a well-known sacred song. In an 

 instaut we catch the words: 



"Had t a thousand hearts to give, 

 Lord, they should all be Thine." 



What a solace, wdtat comfort woman finds iu a devout, 

 earnest religious trust. 



Memory crowds back to another scene, when deep afflic- 

 tion fell od i nis same family, and this same voice, now ring- 

 ing through these woodland, cloisters, was dumb in her sor- 

 row, and stood faltering and suppliant, seeing no ray of hope 

 in the gloom. But a sublime faith triumphed, and to-day, 

 while sitting beside this spring, the voice comes strong and 

 clear in that moon-loved hymn — 



"Oh! that beautiful home in my visions aud dreams. 

 Its bright jasper walls I can see. 

 Till 1 Taney but dimly a veil iuterveucs 

 Between that fair city ami me." 



The sorrow had passed away, joy came in the morning; 

 but "where the treasure is there is the heart also." The 

 anticipation of spending Sabbaths more glorious than these 

 with the loved little one, voices these songs and turns them 

 into hymns of praise. 



No ' cloistered temples or hallowed fane— no Norman 

 arches iu grand old cathedrals, have rung out tones from a 

 tine old organ, the Gregorian chants, with a whit more feel- 

 ing of sublime worship thau have these groves of springing 

 maples rustled their leaves in accompanying music to these 

 songs of loftiest ehe-r. And so our Sohday passes in quiet 

 contemplation or in simple song. 



Since we came here fishing a new cabinet organ came to 

 the neighborhood, ami while ai supper on Sundaj i 

 a polite and cordial invitation came to our tent for us to 

 spend the evening at the house and give them some music. 



We found a copy of Gospel Hymns in the house, and sit- 

 ting down we spent two very pleasant hours with the family, 



and soon had all of them singing these simple yet touching 

 melodies. Turning to an old and well remembered tone, 

 "Manoah," wc sang the verses forming the doxology, and 

 with the thanks of these friends for the evening spent so 

 pleasantly, we went to om-tcntnnd to rest. Not a fear, not 

 a i Rgri I. no headache to remind us of a Sunday's spree, but 

 a peaceful, calm, quie! Sunday in camp. 



The next day Camp Leonard was broken up. The 

 twelve year old boy hauled down his stars and stripes and 

 put them away for another year, he says, but whether they 

 float another summer in New Mexico" up iu the mountain 

 or Bast in Canadian provinces, or in the Rockies, 

 or shall again spread lo the breeze up near the grayling 

 streams of Northern Michigan, wc shall always remember 

 our pleasant Sundays in campat Summit City." Noi.man. 

 Chicago, ill. 



THE NATIONAL ROD AND REEL AS- 

 SOCIATION. 



AT the close of the Fokest and Stream Anglers' Tour- 

 nament, ou Friday, the 20th iust,, the members of the 

 Committee of Arrangements and a few gentlemen who had 

 ■signified a wish to be present met at dinner at the Windsor 

 Hotel. After dinner the chairman of the committee foi- 

 mally stated, what all knew before, that there was a rapidly 

 growing sentiment among the anglers who had visited the 

 tournament, and many whose business prevented their being 

 there, that an association should be formed to continue the 

 good work so happily inaugurated by Forest and Stream. 

 The opinion of all was that an annual meeting should be 

 held, and that much good outside work could be done toward 

 educating the youthful anglers now coming on the stage, not 

 only in properly Casting the fly, but also in observing, and 

 aiding in the formation of laws to increase and preserve our 

 best fishes. 



Mr. E. G. Blackford expressed himself as heartily in favor 

 of an association to encourage fishing with the rod and reel, 

 aud it occurred to him that if might be well to consider 

 whether "The National Rod and Reel Association" would not 

 he a good name for it. Mr. Geddes thought it a good one — 

 it left out protection of fish from the title, aud it was much 

 better to do tilings than to imply a promise in the name of 

 the society that the protection of fish was the main object, 

 and then 'do but little toward ii. Mr. Mather approved' the 

 name and moved its acceptance, and the young society was 

 christened. 



The next move was naturally toward a permanent organi- 

 zation, and Mr. Francis Endicott, President of Ihe Rich- 

 mond C'ounly (N. Y.) Game and Fish Protective Association, 

 was unanimously elected president. Mr. S. M. Blatchlord. 

 of the Squibnocket Club, was then asked to draft an an- 

 nouncement of the objects sought to be accomplished by the 

 organization, and offered the following: 



TKe objects of the Rod and Reel Association of the United States 

 shall be— 



First— The preservation or gauie tish by every possible means for 

 thnse whose delight it is tu take them by rod and reel. 



Secondlv-The holding of an annual Tournament to cultivate and 

 Compare excellence in the use of rod and reel. 



Thirdly— The cultivation of that fraternal feeling which always ex 

 ists among the lovers of our gentle sport. 



Mr, L. W, Winchester. President of the Restigouelu- 

 Salmon Clull, was then chosen Treasurer aud Mr. Fred 

 Mather Secretary ; the initial ion fee aud annual dues were 

 fixed at sUS.oil. ' Messrs. Endicott. Blackford and Mather 

 were appointed to draft a constitution .and bye laws t,, i„. 

 submitted for approval at the Bext meeting, which will beat 

 the call of the President, and with n vote of thanks iu fhe 

 proprietor of the Windsor for I he use of the parlor, the meet- 

 fug adjourned. 



Since I hat. meeting the enthusiasm among anglers is per- 

 fectly astonishing, and they are all asking why this associa- 

 tion "was never thought of before. Many of the first men in 

 the land have written to the members of the Committee to 

 know how soon they can join. The low fee will bring in a 

 thousand members before the new year, and the proposition 

 of Mr. Geddes, thai, instead of asking for prizes Ihe associa- 

 tion should buy thcra. will be perfectly practicable. All 

 agree that the status of amateur and professional tly-easters 

 should be strictly defined, and . lasses made foi each, so that 

 it will be impossible for a man to enter in the first class and 

 sweep all through unless he should be one who only handles 

 the rod for sport and not, in the way of business. 



We predict the most glorious future for the new- associa- 

 tion which litis been born of the first Anglers' Tournament 

 ever held on this continent, which was conducted without 

 objectionable Surroundings, and which brought together a 

 class of men who never before assembled at such a contest. 

 The membership will include prominent men from most all 

 States in the Union, and bids fair to be come apowerfor good 

 in I he land and one whicJi it will be a pleasure for anglers to 

 join. 



RANGELEY TROUT AND SALMON. 



I HATE just returned from Rangeley Lakes, where I have 

 been engaged since October 1, in taking eggs of the 

 Rangeley trout, for the purpose' of hatching and restocking 

 the waters. The fishing during September was very poor, 

 aud many anglers thought, with good reason, that the fish- 

 ing was about played out. The cause was probably owing 

 to the warm season. After October 1 the tish began to 

 come into the si neons ami out! Is, and were very plenty. 



I give you items from my diary of my eaten iu Raneeley 

 streams, not taking into account any of less than two 

 pounds, of which we took quite a large number; also, the 

 score of Kennebago stream, where, as the fish run smaller, 

 I give you the whole number: 



Oct. 1.— 8 females, one of 7, one of 6, and one of 2J 

 pounds. 



Oct. 1. — 3 males, one of 7, one of 6, and one of 4 pounds. 



Oct. 8.— 6 females, one of 7, one of ti, two of 4, and two 

 of 3 pounds. 



Oct. 2.-4 males, one of 7, one of 6, one of f>, and one of 

 4 pounds. 



Oct. 4. — Went Up Kennebago stream to spawning ground. - 

 Caught with fly, iu two hours. 60 fish, from one to 5~£ 

 pounds each; found but few ripe fish; they took the llv 

 readily, ihe spawning females as well as the rest; four-fifths 

 of them were males. So few of them were ripe that I did 

 not try lo Caleb more. 



Oct" 4.-4 males, one of 9, one of r>, and two of 4 pounds. 



Oct. 4.— U females, one of 7-A. one of (i, one of 3 nun sis Of 

 4 pounds. 



Oct. 5.— Went up Kennebago; stopped over night. 



Oct. 6. — Oaughl, yesterday and to-day, 185 trout, average 



