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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AUGUST 18, 1881. 



This QrrNcr Club— Quincy, Ky., Aug. 9.— We have 

 organized a sporting club here with the following officers: 

 V. B. Morae, President ; B. R. Morse. Treasurer ; James 

 Dupuy, Secretary. We call it the "Qnincy, Ky., Club." 

 The membership is small, but are all enthusiastic sportsmen. 

 We are going on a camping expedition this fall in the inte- 

 rior of Kentucky, and anticipate a splendid time with wild 

 turkeys, grouse and black bass. — J, D. 



Wants a Tennessee Health Resort— Orange, N. J.— 

 Can some of your correspondents in that State tell me of a 

 place in Eastern Tennessee where I could find good shoot- 

 ing and trapping and a climate that would benefit a person 

 troubled with bronchitis. I would prefer a place not fre- 

 quented by sportsmen and near some river or lake, also where 

 board is not high. — W. R. B. 



Delaware Quail— Wilmington, Del., Aug. 1881.— I be- 

 lieve, notwithstanding the very hard winter we hud on the 

 quail, that a great many birds have been left over and good 

 shooting will be had. I have Ihe best of reports from lower 

 down the State. Reed birds and rail have began to come al- 

 ready, which leads me to think we will have an early fall. 



H. W. G. 



Wisconsin — Waukesha. — Game has suffered some from the 

 cold winter and is not as plenty as usual. Some wild 

 pigeons in the woods. Squirrels plenty, etc. — H. W. Mer- 

 iull. 



Illinois— Oreston, HI. — Grouse shooting bids fair. Many 

 flocks of young ones are seen in the prairies and some quail. 

 — H. W. M. 



The Woodoook Season in Dutchess County, this State, 

 does not open until September 1. 



The Minnesota Pbaiuie Chicken Season opens Septem- 

 ber 1. 



We loam from Messrs. Tiprheprove ,y Mel ellun. of Valparaiso, Intl., 

 that tht? 1 1 --!':■ i' l i"i Mum: J-lolnbln! sli'.mi I ai' stilrs rim season Is un- 

 precedented, u si nc only Cue very lest material, and engaged exclu- 

 sively In Hie manufnel lire of these suits, enables thein to give, a per- 

 fect outfit. 



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FISH ISi SEASON IN AtCBST. 



FRESH WATER. 



Stizotethium aiMrictmum t S, 



grisevm, eta 

 Yellow Perch, Perca Jtuoiatilis. 

 Striped Bass, Roccwt Untatna. 

 White Bass, Bmeeitt enrysopa. 

 Hock Bass, Ambloplites. (Two 



species). 

 War-mouth, ChcenobryttumjiiUmt, . 

 Grapple, Portwxya nigromaculatn#. 

 Bachelor, I^mwxys annularis. 

 Oh lib, finiwtili* corporalU. 



Salmon, Saliiw mtar, 



llr ml I'll. ill. ;..■'■ . .■■...■■. 



Rainbow Trout, Salma iridea. 

 DoUy Varden Trout, SaZvtMnun 

 maima. 



C4rayllnt{, Thymallus tricolor and 

 T. monlnnuJt. 



9 lialiHoidts 



Black Bass, Micro^ir.. 



and M. pallidus. 

 Mascaloinre. Esox. nobUinr. 

 Pickerel, Esox retteutatui. 

 Pike or Pickerel, F.mx lueiua. 

 Puce-perch (wall-eyed pike) 



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Striped Bass or Kocknsh, Jloccus 



lineatw. 

 White Perch. Mormu miei in- .."<. 

 Blueflsh or Taylor, Pomatvmus 



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 Soup or Porgle, Stenotomns argy- 



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Weakflsh or Squetague,C#no8c#»» 



regalti. 

 La Fayette or Spot, Liostovms obli- 



quuos. 

 Channel Bass, Spot or Redflsh, 



Sciamops ocellatus. 

 Sheepshead, A rehanargvs probalo- 



ce.phalus. 

 Klngflsh or Barb, Uenticifrus 



nebulovuff. 



The angler has in various ways been a prominent character In the 

 affairs of men in all ages of the world. In the remotest times of man- 

 kind the finny game was pursued by a primitive people with as much 

 ardor as they are now by tbe most civilized. Savage tribes who have 

 fashioned hooks out of human Jaw-bones have been equally as en- 

 tliusiaslie and zealous votaries ot the art as the most fastidious 11- h- 

 erman of modern days who " whips " the waters with a sil v w-mount- 

 ed fly-rod. We And Its praises celebrated In ancient lore and em- 

 balmed In Holy Writ. Men of all classes, race and conditions are 

 among the ardent disciples of izaak Walton. But especially from 

 the busy throng of city and mar from the giddy whirl of the 

 metropolis, from Its dally friction and strife are men and women 

 drawn by the fascinations and charms of wilderness, lake and stream. 

 The ceaseless Industry ot the city requires some relaxations, and can 

 wc wonder that the Indescribable, charms and joys found In the 

 "honest man's recreation" captivates these pent-up' denizens? 

 There bus ever been a fascination in Ihe sport which has ; captivated 

 the greatest minds. The Pharaohs fished In the Nile ; the Romans 

 paid a bounty for red mullet— J. F. spbague. 



THE CARP IS GAME. 



Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



Messrs. Prewitt, Spurr & Co., on the east side of the 

 Cumberland River from Nashville, have beautiful artificial 

 ponds for the rearing of fish. Last November I gave them 

 twenty German carp which they placed in these waters. 

 This morning I was invited over to Bee them, and, in com- 

 pany with a few friends, consented and went over with hook 

 and line and a No. 1 Kentucky reel. 1 baited the hook with 

 a small piece of bread and in a few minutes hooked two as 

 pretty fish as ever had fins, ripe and ready for the duties of 

 the cook, and a sweet morsel for a hungry man if placed ou 

 the table before him. They were pretty to look at, one of 

 them a daisy, with dorsal tin distended, with golden splotches 

 and sides, like the golden flashes of an evening sun on a 

 western sky, and bright, silvery scales, like the mail of a 

 naiad queen. 



This beautiful fish, only one year old, now weighs one and 

 a half pounds, and wid take the hook as quick as our native 

 bass, and I do say Ihey are game. It requires a good hook to 

 bold one, and I predict, from their wonderful fecundity, with 

 due protection and feeding, that our anglers need only to visit 

 our neighbors' ponds and have all the fish and sport they could 

 wish for. 



I am advised that a sufficient number of this year's hatch 

 wall be ready by the first decided frost to supply the thous- 

 ands who write to me for this fish, and as the State gives me 

 no appropriation for the distribution, not even postage, I will 

 require those wanting carp to call in person. 



Geo. P. Axbes. 



THE WICKED PISHING WHEEL. 



THE San Francisco Evening Bulletin is responsible for the 

 following story, which, if that paper has not been im- 

 posed upon, deserves immediate attention. We can hardly 

 I credit this account of a device which is simply devilish. The 

 Bulletin says of it: "Prom an English gentleman who has 

 lately traveled overland from British Columbia to this city, 

 we learn that a new device, which has been patented, is«ow 

 in operation Jailing salmon on the Columbia River. This de- 

 vice, or machine, is known as ' Williams' Patent Pishing 

 Wheel,' and is located on the Oregon side of the Columbia 

 River, about a mile and a half below the Cascades. This de- 

 vice consists of a jetty of rocks built out from a point on the 

 shore of the river, outside of which is a planked sluiceway, 

 in which an undershot wheel, with large tank buckets, re- 

 volves. The sluiceway was built when the river was at its 

 lowest stage of water and the wheel is hung so that it can be 

 raised or lowered as may be desired, according to stage of 

 water. 



"Tbe instinct of the salmon is to run up the river alongside 

 of the banks instead of mid-cbannel. By this the fish can 

 take advantage of the eddies below jutting points of land. 

 On these projecting prints the Indians have from time imme- 

 morial taken salmon in large numbers by using dip-nets. The 

 jetty built out from the point above named makes a larger 

 and longer slack-water behind it, and the salmon rounding 

 the point rush into the sluiceway to get up the river. In the 

 sluiceway the wheel which revolves in the current in gauged 

 so as to sweep within a foot of the bottom and the salmon 

 are scooped up in the tanks or buckets, which latter let out 

 the water as they ascend. On the wheel descending the fish 

 are thrown out into a trough or gutter leading to a pen be- 

 low, where they remain until taken away to be canned. 



"The arrangement of the sluice, wheel, etc., is a'most suc- 

 cessful one, the catch of adult salmon, which are the only 

 ones canned, running from 1 ,500 to 4,000 per day. There is 

 virtually no expense in taking the fish save attending to the 

 pern 



" As the fishermen who take salmon in boats in the Lower 

 Columbia River demand and receive from 50 to 60 cents per 

 fish from the canneries, one can readily see what a vast profit 

 the use of the wheel makes to the cannery connected with it. 

 In fact, if the use of this wheel increases on the Upper Co- 

 lumbia River the canneries located near Astoria and all others 

 who depend on boat-fishing, will either have to give up busi- 

 ness or run at a loss from a reduction in price of canned sal- 

 mon, while their rivals will get rich. There are about 3,000 

 men employed in the boats and making nets for salmon on 

 the Columbia River which the general use of this wheel will 

 throw out of work, and at the same time the permanent plant 

 of the canneries, consistbig of piers and buildings estimated 

 at more than $250,000, will become worthless. These two 

 items, the non-employment of boatmen, etc., and permanent 

 plant of canneries are, however, the least of the evils which 

 will come from the use of Williams' patent fish wheel. 



"Our informant states tha< the wheel scoops up all sizes of 

 salmon from one pound weight upward. That all fish below 

 six pounds weight are not lised in canning, but are thrown 

 back into the river dead and float away. He states that at 

 one emptying out of the pen which he witnessed several 

 hundred of the young salmon were thrown away as above 

 stated, and as this occurs three times daily many thousands 

 of immature fish are destroyed weekly which would, in suc- 

 ceeding seasons, grow to a size fit for canning. In fact, it is 

 simply a question of a few years, say five, with this fishing 

 wheel generally in use when salmon-canning on the Columbia 

 River, which averages from $3,500,000 to $3,000,000 annu- 

 ally, will have to cease for want of adult fish to can. 

 , : "The use of this fishing wheel means the rapid destruction 

 of salmon-canning in all rivers that have a quick current and 



rocky shores. It is a patent which should be revoked ou the 

 ground of being 'adverse lo public policy,' and its use, or 

 kindred devices by which immature fish arc destroyed, should 

 lie prevented under heavy penalties within the limits of the 

 United States. It is time that, the interests of those who are 

 to come after the present generation should be protected 

 from wasteful devices, and especially in all matters relating 

 to natural sources of fish and game food, which the cupidity 

 of individual man would destroy with a view solely to his 

 present gain. 



"The taking of fish in public waters is subject to regulation 

 by law, and the Legislatures of both Oregon and Washington 

 Territory should take prompt action by forbidding the use of 

 this fishing wheel if they desire that Ihe industry of canning- 

 salmon shall continue on their rivers in future." 



IMPROVEMENT IN MACKEREL FISHING. 



^ Gloucester, Mass., July 28. 



AMONG the recent improvements in fishing apparatus 

 there are none, perhaps, that appear to be more im- 

 portant than one that was patented last April by H. E. Wil- 

 lard, of Portland, Maine— an article long needed in tbe 

 mackerel seine fishery and which has received from the fish- 

 ermen the name of " mackerel pocket " or "spiller." It 

 was first used by the patentee in 1878, and Capt. Geo. Mer- 

 chant, Jr., of this place, invented and put into practical op- 

 eration an improved " spiller" last year, though it was not 

 until the present summer that the advantage of its use was 

 known to the majority of the mackerel fishermen, who have 

 hastened to adopt it, and now more than thirty of the ves- 

 sels sailing from this port are each provided with one of the 

 pockets. 



The apparatus is a large net bag, 36 feet long, 15 feet wide 

 and 30 feet deep ; it is made of stout, coarse twine and is at- 

 tached to the side of the vessel, where it is kept in position, 

 when in use, by wooden poles or "outriggers," which ex- 

 tend out a distance of fifteen feet from the schooner's rail. 



When distended in this manner a spiller will hold over 200 

 barrels of mackerel, which can thus be kept alive, as in the 

 well of a smack, until the crew who have captured them in 

 the great purse seines have time to cure their catch. As is 

 well known, it frequently happens that several hundred bar- 

 rels of mackerel are taken at a single haul. Heretofore, when 

 such a large quantity of fish were caught, but a comparatively 

 small portion of them could be cured by the crew of the ves- 

 sel to which the seine belonged. The result was that when 

 a large catch was made a considerable percentage of the fish 

 were generally "given away" to some other vessel, since if 

 only a part of them were removed from the seine to the ves- 

 sel's deck, the remainder being left in the net until the first 

 lot were cured, the chances were nine to one that the fine 

 twine of which the purse seines are made w T ould be bitten in 

 many places by the swarming dogfish {Squ/tlus americanus), 

 that 'bete noir of the mackerel fisher. In addition to the in- 

 jury to the net, the inclosed body of fish were thus allowed 

 to escape and went streaming out through the numerous 

 holes made by the keen teeth of these voracious bloodhounds 

 of the sea, which, in their fierce and ravenous pursuit of the 

 imprisoned mackerel, usually succeeded in robbing the fish- 

 erman of a large portion of the fruits of his labors. 



The "spiller," being made of coarse twine, though not en- 

 tirely exempt from the ravages of the dogfish and sharks, is 

 rarely injured by them ; and now when a large school of 

 mackerel are caught in a seine the fish are turned into the 

 bag, from which they are "bailed out" on to the schooner's 

 deck only as fast as they can be dressed, and in this way it 

 frequently happens that a full fare may now be secured from 

 a single set of the net. 



Perhaps no better instance could be cited to illustrate the 

 old saw that "necessity is the mother of invention" than the 

 introduction of this simple net bag, the use of which will un- 

 doubtedly save to our fishing fleet many thousands of dol- 

 lars, even in this, the first season of its adoption. 



J. W. C. 



THE STARFISH AS A COMESTIBLE. 



WHY have Ihe vigilant scouts of the Ichthyophagous 

 Club slumbered while the starfish grew ? They have 

 scoured the rivers, ponds, creeks and oceans for things to eat 

 whose very names made the gorge of the average citizen rise, 

 but the starfish has escaped their attention. Perhaps we 

 may take part of the blame for this, for we went down the 

 list of marine invertebrates and passed the starfishes as un- 



( J iil ftlilp 



We know of but few things which will eat a starfish, and 

 have wished that this destroyer of oyster beds had more 

 enemies. We have smclled of the starfish while dissecting it, 

 and for a right down disagreeable smell commend us to the 

 "five fingers." Again, we did not see anything in its an- 

 atomy that was capable of digestion by a human stomach, 

 and so passed the whole tribe as of no use to man, not even 

 to the Ichthyophagi. 



Now, a thing that this Club won't eat may be accepted by 

 the public as of no use whatever to a hungry man. But now 

 arises the steward of Glen Island. He conducted the cuisine 

 of the last Icbthyophngical dinner. He publishes a recipe 

 for a bisque of starfish, as "invented and composed" by 

 himself. Here it is : 



" Take twelve fresh starfish and cut them up into small 

 pieces ; put them into a saucepan, with a quarter pound of 

 butter, one clove, one bayleaf, one root of parsley, a few 

 leaves of soup celery and a pinch of thyme ; cut up three 

 carrots and two onions into small pieces ; let all simmer to- 

 gether until the butter has melted and begins to sputter ; then 

 add one pint of Rhine wine; cover the saucepan and allow 

 its contents to simmer for Iff minutes; boil a quarter of a 

 pound of rice in two quarts of water ; when done put it into 

 a mortar and add the starfish to it ; pound them both to- 

 gether and pass through a sieve into a clean saucepan ; now 

 strain the liquid and add it to the starfish and rice; place the 

 saucepan on the fire; stir it well until ebulition \ add a quart 

 of hot fish stock and salt and cayenne to taste ; before serv- 

 ing add a pint of rich, sweet cream, beaten up with the 

 yolks of two eggs ; stir all together and serve." 

 * The reader will observe that he makes no comment on its 

 flavor. Perhaps the loss said on that point the better, but 

 the Ichthyophagists cannot afford to let the starfish pass in 



It is said that no man dare eat a radish if he will cut one 

 up and let it lie in water over night end smell of it m the 

 morning. Verily, he who has sinelled a fresh starfish when 

 opened is^ajbrave man if he can eat it afterward. 



