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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[August 4, 1881, 



in llie shallow -water between two points; sticks the few 

 canes in the mud around his boat and binds down the tops. 

 This makes a " blind " that does not seem to hide lliui or his 

 boat, an v more than the Iraditionnl ladder did the girl wlio 

 Bed liehind it ; still the ducks do not seem to see. him. 

 The coarse shot. Hint lie always uses, [jo out of his old gun 

 With a kind of " swish," caused by his two drams of powder 

 i ■,. one Cllt wad, but the duck comes down, be it anywhere 

 uiiiier sixty yards, and he seldom shoots further unless he 

 • • chances" a long shoot at a canvass-back or goose. 



Perhaps you never noticed the difference between the 



-will" of his gun and the bang, roar and reverberation of 

 the ten-pound, ten-gauge, rive dram breech-loader, with two 

 pink-edge wads over the powder. And speaking of targets, 

 his gun won't make one. Why, a l.hirly-iiich circle, at forty 

 yards, wouldn't have a dozen" pellets in it— but then there 

 would be four or live near the centre. 



Our native is not out this time for profit. Fowl are not 

 plenty enough. He gets half a dozen in a half hour just 

 enough for a " mess " -pulls up and goes home, with his old 

 gun again in the bottom Of the boat. He makes no false 

 motions, but if a duck conies within range of that skiff it falls 

 down, perhaps only winged, and of course dives. Does our 

 •'marsh rat" shoot at his flattened head on the surface.of the 

 writer? Not much. He picks up his paddle, and there is a 

 lively race for the grass, with strokes at. the. duck every time 

 his head pops out of Hie water, not, giving him time to "get 

 his wind " Long before the grass is reached the head col- 

 lides with the paddle, and a dead duck is added to the pile in 

 l he skiff. 



Now, we will go over to Blue Rill Point, where this same 

 "native" shot all last week, and the week before. See 

 Hi mow! if you want to get out of the boat, get out over 

 the bow. Don't, you see I he grass is not disturbed at all, ex- 

 cept just where his boat was shoved in, and one or two little 

 I rails' where lie has gone in after dueks dropped in the grass. 

 Now, supposing this same point had been shot off from by 

 some of the members of the " WinottawavilleGunOlub," it 

 would lorik as if it had been run over by a, herd of cattle, and 

 yon could not pet any well-appointed wild fowl within four- 

 teen gun shots of the place. Oh, my boy, there's many a 

 point "to be learned, many a 'wrinkle no( dreamed of in your 

 philosophy — nor in mine", for that matter — nor in any man's 

 who can only hunt two or three weeks in the course of a 

 year. Mk-hit-ablk. 



I'h-vehi,,!. '',''. 



|ua and §iver Jfishmg t 



FISH IN SEASON IN AH«I ST. 



TOK8H WATKR. 



Salmon, Baboo galar. 



Brook Trout, NalvrUnun/tmlinaliH. 



Kalnbow Trout, Satmo irid.:«. 



Dolly Vardoa Trout., Salwliimt 



stizotrthUim americmwnh 



lir.iviiii' 

 T. 





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Pickerel, rtxnx rrtifidatuJ). 

 Pike or Pickerel, K««x Indus. 

 Pike-perch (wall-eyed pike) 



SALT WATRB. 

 Sea liass, CentroprUttx atrariuH. 

 Striped Bass or Uockiisli, /,•„,•<• 



lineatiiK. 

 While Pcreli. Mnrtnic americaiuj, 



Biuclish or Taylor, Pimetom 



satfadix 

 Scup or Torgle., St*)u>tomm arr, 

 rmw. 



tat 



klisli or SipieiiiKiayi/mwmii 



•f to or Spot, LimtiimiixMi- 



• or Kedtlsh, 



argwi priilnili, 



i or Barb, Mctitii-imt* 



BABBIT TAKING TO WATER. 



Editor Fared and 8ti % ewi% 



If any readers of this paper have ever seen a rabbit take to 

 iter When pursued by dogs I should like, to hear from 

 theiu. 



I witnessed one instance of if one day in February, 

 1863, while stationed as ordinance sergeant at Fort Banks, 

 fen miles above New Orleans on the Algiers side of the river. 



The planiers use a half-breed hound and setter for rabbit- 

 hunting; they run faster, but don't follow as true as the bea- 

 gle, and, consequently, run over and lake up lime in picking 

 up the trail. We were" running a pack of six or eight of these 

 dogs. They had started a rabbit, and were coming toward 

 meat, a good pace, every dog giving tongue that made the 

 woods fairly ring with" the exciting music. I saw the cot- 

 ton-tail jus! flying over the ground, some of the pack were 

 running, J think, by sight. He suddenly stopped in an old 

 ditch or drain. There was about ten or twelve inches of 

 water in the ditch into which my long-eared friend settled 

 himself, leaving above the surface his eyes and nose only. 



The pack came up, jumped the ditch pell-mell and, as the 

 last, dog cleared the hank, the rabbit crept out, and took his 

 back trail. Talk about lull-sailing! Why he went like a 

 Streak Of lubricated lightning, and by the time the pack got 

 through lighting over their b; under and straightened out on 

 the new direction the cotton-tail had ten minutes' start and 

 the whole Slat- of Louisiana lor a ra^e-course. H. L. M. 



Oywti, July 23. 



Ssipe Shooting off Conn's Island. — Parties diiect from 

 the Virginia coast report poor bags of bay birds at, Cobb's 

 Island, though at Cape Charles Light and vicinity flue sport 

 has been had. Dr. George Wilkins, P. Savage, Cap). Stur- 

 gis, of Northampton County, left on Monday for an extended 

 hunt Off the broad wafer. As each man carried one hundred 

 pounds of shot,, a keg of powder, and a sack of salt to pre- 

 serve the game, the hunt must be immense, if they get back 

 alive I will semi you an account, of their trip. The Doctor 

 has just bought a new gun from New York. It's a choke 



bore,' and maile by . Well, as tkis ad. isn't paid for I 



Won't mention makers. — Cuassbob. 



The Ci.ttbb of Westminster, Md.- We have a Forest and 

 St nam tJlub of Carrol County at this p'ace in addition to 

 the Carrol County Rifle Association. The Forest and Stream 

 Club is now in camp on the banks of the Menocaee, some 

 nineteen miles wesl of this place, on the Western M. R. K. 

 The camp consists of a frame structure 12 by 20 feel, con- 

 taining twelve hunks, each 40 inches wide: a tent 14 hy 22, 

 and a bunk for the cook. Some very nice si rings of bass 

 have been taken already, principally with crawfish and tad- 

 poles, but the fishing promises to be better later in the season, 

 W, H. R. 



Gilpov Rod A.ND Con Ci.ijn. The officers of the Gilroy, 

 Cal., Bod and Gun Club for the present year are: E. H. 

 Farmer, president ; Geo. Holloway, vice-president ; H. M. 

 Briggs, treasurer-; E. Leavesby, secretary. The club is in a 

 nourishing condition, and a field trial of dogs in the fall is 

 proposed. 



Gooo Ground, Shinnecock Bay.— Ray snipe shooting con- 

 tinues to be good. Parlies bringing in good bags every day. 

 The best, b -,g of the season, so far, was Drought in by Horace 

 Waldo and son, July 26, sixty-four in a half-day's shoot. 

 We are looking for a flight of willet every day.— Wllllam N. 

 Lane. 



Wilkinson's Chaucer for Ailing rifles and shot shells is a 

 simple, accurate and perfectly satisfactory I ool. We have 

 carefully tested its merits, and And that its manufacturer's 

 claims for it are well founded. 



Beavers in Georgia must be in goodly numbers if the re- 

 port is true that a Greene (Ga.) County trapper made $700 

 trapping them last senson. 



A good excuse tor sickness of yourself and f am fly Is that you don't 

 use Hop Bitters. 



BOTTOM Fishing, ground-batting with the float and sinker, and the 

 like, are doubt less all very welt In their way ; and will perhaps. In 

 many Instant es, even with sporting fishes, he found the most killing, 

 i iii ,ir clearly the easiest methods ; while, with oiher varieties 

 they are tie Only modes Hint can be adopted ; still they are to fly- 

 flShlng, or spinning the minnow, what shooting sitting Is m snooting 

 on the wing ; and the rtsher who Is proud of lugging out ot their ele- 

 ment twenty trout by main force, aided by a lob- worm or roe-bait, 

 stands in the some relation to him who baskets Ms three or tour brace 



ifh the artificial fly and single gut artistically east, as the gunner 

 who pot-hunts his bag full or birds— treeing his ruffed grouse, and 

 butchering his miall In their huddles on ihe ground— does to the crack 

 shot, who stops his cock In a blind brake, with the eye or faith and 

 the linger of Instinct, or cuts down his wild-fowl, skating before the 

 wind at the rate of a mile a minute, deliberately, rapid and unerring. 

 —Frank Forester. 



NEW PISHES IN NEW PLACES. 

 Of 



I HAVE read with much interest several articles on food 

 fishes, their true names and classifications ; also a desire 

 expressed that auy new development in' new localities might 

 be promptly forwarded to the Purest and Stream. 



Primarily, I would that you might be assured I 

 am no authority in ichthyology, although 1 claim, from a 

 former residence oT years on that noblest of rivers of our 

 continent, Ihe Si. Lawrence, to know the muscalongc, pike, 

 pickerel, black aud rock lass, perch, sturgeon, eels, catfish 

 and bull-heads (the last in particular, when I sec a French- 

 man deftly separating the head and hide from the toothsome 

 fle-di). I, too, have seen and relished those "shiners," si 

 called, which (lid so abound m years gone by in the lumber- 

 ing regions of Canada ; and here in our beautiful Lake Mad- 

 ison, just a pleasant ride from our city, we have, besides 

 other excellent fishes, the black biss lifting the steelyard bars 

 at 5 lbs., a very striking resemblance to ihose Rideau 

 " shiners" (not them"" fellah"," who, years agone, played 

 such adroit tricks on Her Majesty's customs officials, giving 

 to smugglers from the American side that aid and cotufoit 

 which is so refreshing to the fraternity in a tight place, and 

 when hotly pressed), but that excellent fish which your 

 correspondent has so filly portrayed. Here the people call 

 ihem bass, and they are taken rapidly with indifferent bait. 

 1 believe them to be. of the veritab e family of shinets where- 

 of your correspondent speaks. 



Here 1 will cud my rambling introduction, and give to you 

 and your readers something new to us hete in the Minnesota 

 river. Three years ago, while passing along the streels of 

 our city with a friend, who is regarded as a good 

 fisherman and a mighty hunter withal, we met a 

 lad with a string of fish, three of which were 

 so singular iu looks and so unlike anyl king known to in- 

 habit our waters that bo asked the lad where he caught, l hem. 

 "Just below the slaughter-house " was the reply. 1 was 

 nonplussed, although I spoke of their strong resemblance to 

 Ihe shad. They were a Hi tie like the whilefish of Lake On- 

 tario, with some resemblance t> what we call the sbeeps- 

 head. After a careful examination, participated in by others 

 who came along, it was agreed by all to be an entirely new 

 comer to our river. 



No more of the kind were reported until one year ago last 

 fall when a resident of Hiis city going to his stone quarry on 

 i he opposite side of the river ill his boat noticed large num- 

 bers of fishes going down stream, several of which he struck 

 with his paddle and secured. J list below where this occurred 

 the river widened out into a kind of amphitheatre of sand 

 with very shallow water, the main channel being quite nar- 

 row. Ice had begun to form on the shoal water the thick- 

 ness of window glsss, and, casting his eye down stream, 

 he saw numerous fish turned on their sides, the while of which 

 was distinctly reflected through the ice. Running his boat 

 as far as the draft of water would permit he jumped over- 

 board, paddle.in hand, and here commenced the "slaughter of 

 the innocents," who, having mistaken the channel, kept 

 on till thev bad to turn on their sides, and so on 

 till they grounded, being fairly wedged between the 

 sand below and the ice above. His catch, with noth- 

 ing but his paddle to break the ice and stun them, was large, 

 and characterized by true Norwegian grit that defied the ice- 

 cold water in which he stood, and cast his trophies ashore, 

 striking out with his pad lie as often as lie saw the dead re- 

 inforced by the living. That evening he filled a large wheel- 

 barrow full from his morning's catch, and on his way to his 

 home he stopped to show me his 1 >ad and for counsel as to 

 the kind of fish, whether good, bad or indifferent. They va- 

 ried in size from one pound to two pounds. I saw at a 

 glance they were of the same family as those caught by the 

 lad the year previous, though very much larger, in the ah- 

 sense of Goldsmith's Animated Nature, Agassi z being dead, 

 as a dernier resort, I took Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 

 and there on page 1,143 I found the "roach" almost a fac- 

 simile of the barrow load before me in size and description. 

 But Webster says they are "inhabitants of fresh water, silver 

 white color with greenish back, of the carp family." Why 

 were they in such vast numbers making toward the Missis- 

 sippi if they were not also visitors to the salted seas ? This 

 drift of these fishes continued with little abatement for three 



days, and our Norwegian friend needed no pork barrel to re- 

 sort to dial winter. 



Almost simultaneously with this incident which 1 have but 

 imperfectly described there appeared in the Ogdenshurg, N. 

 Yi, Republican] an account of the appearance and take m the 

 large bays of the River St. Lawrence above that city of a 

 similarly described fish much smaller in size than those taken 

 here, and the statement, was made that the name and classi- 

 fication of this new Species of fish which so nonplused the 

 Ogdcnsburgers was referred to a man who pretends to know 

 much about fish, who pronounced it a cross between the shad 

 and white-fish. I will only add that my Norwegian friend 

 gave me my r pick out of :.everal consecutive barrow loads, 

 and that I found the flavor much like that of the shad, as fat 

 as they, while the small bones (their principal objection), like 

 those of the shad, wore innumerable in multitude and infinite 

 in places, but with plenty of time and true patience, duplicated 

 with baked snowflake potatoes, there never occurred a "dead 

 lock" in satisfying the demands of a healthy empty stomach. 



F. B. H. 



BLACK BASS FISHING NEAR NEW YORK. 



THE guests of Stockbridge's Hotel, Central Valley, N. 

 Y-, have enjiv/ed unusual fine Mack bass fishing this 

 season. Messrs. Geo. Antlreae and Walter Hendricks took 

 yesterday m all eighteen bass, nine of them with the arti- 

 ficial fly. Mr. Antlreae look two weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz. with a 

 oz. Conroy split bamboo fly rod— a very handsome brace of 

 fish and hard to match anywhere. 



Mr. Fretl Malleson, of the firm of Conroy, Bissett & Mal- 

 leson, 05 Fulton street, took, two days before, fourteen bass 

 weighing 28 lbs. Mr. Malleson will be happy to furnish di- 

 rections to anj T anglers wishing a good day's sport. H. 



IS IT TARPON OR TARPUM? 



WE refer to the common name of the Mcr/rrlnps t/irix- 

 .wultH. We notice that. Dr. Gill, in his list of east 

 coast fishes, gives its common names as "jew fish" and 

 " larpum," as used in Bermuda. Prof. Goode, in his cata- 

 logue of the fishes of the Bermudas, gives its name as " tar- 

 pum.'' We have noticed that our Floridian correspondents 

 spell it " tarpon." Who knows what the name is derived 

 from and what its orthography should be? 



We have written to our correspondent "Al. Fresco" on 

 this subject, and he writes as foil ows : 



Jacksonville, Fla., July, 29. 



I cannot post you regarding ihe word -'Tarpon." It is 

 used on the S. W. coast. 1 never heard any one say "lar- 

 pum." Until I corrected the error they were called "jewfish 

 by the fishermen at the Bar. They are being hooked daily, 

 but not landed. They can only be described as " greased 

 lightning," acrobats par excellence. Al. Fresco. 



FISHING IN WKSTKliN NEW YORK. 



Oswego, N. Y., July 20. 



BLACK BASS are in full season here. Within the past. 

 three days more than 200 fish have been taken with fly 

 aud minnow from our river within Ihe city limits. Two 

 days since after a two hours run with two friends in a sloop 

 rigged yacht from this port we made Stony Island, thirty 

 miles norl he , st from here, and iu three hours' fishing with 

 Ihe fly upon Calf Island bar look forty bass, five of which 

 weighed overtho c pounds each. 



In Lake Ncattawaula, distant twelve miles from this city, 

 on Friday last, five bass were taken with the minnow, weigh- 

 ing, respectively, five, four and one-half, three and two of 

 two pounds. 



The above record is authentic. Tl: 

 the law authorizing the expenditure 

 erect, fishways upon various rivers of 

 perintendeul of Public Works has pre 

 into the Oswcio immediately upon r 

 season, we shail, I believe, be able !o 

 the sporting public, even as now we c 

 bass fishing in ihe State. 



Covert 



rha 



signed 

 of funds necessary to 

 the State, and the Sn- 

 mised to put the ways 

 eceipt of plans. Next 

 offer salmon fishing to 

 aim to offer the finest 

 F. E. H. 



BLCEFISH IN GREAT SOUTH BAY. 



IN the early part of (he season the bjucfish did not enter 

 the bay freely, and no large catches are reported. .Now 

 the fish are more plenty and enter the bay, but are imme- 

 diately captured by the pound ne's which are set in the 

 channel. 



We are also informed that drift nets are used at night to 

 capture these fish. The use of pound nets is distinctly pro- 

 hibited by law in these waters, and also the use of the drift 

 nets. Notwithstanding this the law has been publicly vio- 

 lated for years past by a fflW men, and the people who live 

 on the bay hesitate, for some reasons nest, known to them- 

 selves, to complain of them. This netting destroys all other 

 fishing, and renders the bay a place lo be avoided by anglers, 

 who would spend more money among (he towns located on 

 it than the worth of the fish taken, ten times over. 



It is surprising that, the hotel keepers and others interested 

 allow this violation of the law to go on. We now call on 

 the Game Protectors of the State to take action on this evil 

 and abate it at once. 



Sat.mon in Canada.— Metapedia, July 28.— AVe have had 

 continued rains of late. The river is in flood, and nothing 

 being done at present. Mr. Win. N. Habersham, who is 

 fishing the upper waters of the river has had fine sport, 

 killing twenty-two fish, all very large, in five days.— 

 G, F. H. 



ScAJtoiTY of Salmon in New Brunswick. — St. John, 

 New Brunswick, July 29.— Samuel Wilmo!, of the Fisheries 

 Department, has gone to Grand Falls to look after the flsh- 

 hatchinsr there. He finds the greatest difficulty in procuring 

 eggs for 'the hatching, and speaks very despondingly of the 

 prospects of salmon-fishing in the river. The catch of 

 salmon has been so enormous during the last few years that 

 the supply of parent fishes is alrnosf exhausted.— B. 



Salmon in Fraser River.— Advices from New West- 

 minster, B. C, July 20, say: The run of salmon on the 

 Eraser Itiver surpasses all precedent or, calculation. Steam- 

 ers and towboats laden to the guards with fish are arriving 

 at the canneries faster than they can be packed, hands being 

 scarce and labor high, causing many fish to be thrown away. 

 One steamer has just arrived with over nine thousand fine 

 salmon. The " pack" will be enormous, as eight canneries, 

 representing $500,000 are in full blast. 



