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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[August So, 1881. 



"One incident of the trip and I am done, as it relates to our 

 rnosquitoe friends. On the fourth night in camp Y. B. bad 

 been elected to keep the smudge in good order during the 

 nitrht so that the o hers might have, a chance io sleep. He 

 faithfully stuck to his post fill all were in the land of dreams, 

 when he put in a good amount of damp punk, -which smoul- 

 dered away slowly, and laid himself dowu for a nap. Before 

 doing so he pushed the pan away from him in my direction. 

 T was enveloped from head to foot in a good quilt, which 

 covered my head to help to keep off the assaults of the ene- 

 my, and in turning over during the night it was my luck to 

 roll right into this smudge. At first it was not felt, but pres- 

 ently a sensation like a sharp hite near my lip caused tne to 

 scratch the spot ; but Before I could do more 1 found myself 

 rolled over by Y. B. and nearly cuffed into a state of ifisen- 

 sibility, which I was unable to resent or repel. I was soon 

 extracted from my shell and then the damage became ap- 

 parent. There was a hole in my quilt large enough for me 

 to crawl through, while I was decidedly the worse" for wear 

 in my garments which covered the nether man Sitting 

 down was somewhat painful for some time and had to be 

 gone about carefully, inspecting the elnir previously to find 

 mil the softest part of the cushion, but I happy to say the 

 trouble was not more serious. Ar Sattbi.k. 



FISH BUTCHERY IN INDIANA. 



Indianai" lis. Ind., August 20. 



A new sort of fish but clary is being practiced in this State. 

 They arc, from reliable report", being killed by thousands by 

 use of dynamite cartridges. The " meditative man " will find 

 little recreation in this State if this thing is not stopped soon. 



Inclosed are a sample of newspaper clippings which may 

 be of interest to readers of Foukst and Stream : 



" The destruction of fish in the Whitewater by dynamite 

 fish torpedoes is not confined to the locality of Richmond 

 alone, but extends for thirty miles along the stream and its 

 tributaries. It is estimated that len thousand fish have been 

 destroyed by them. At Cambridge City there are hundreds 

 of them that weigh two pounds or ni'>re apiece floating Id the 

 old Whitewater canal. Only the best ones are taken by the 

 fishermen ; the others are left in the water. 



" An initiatory meeting of gentlemen interested in pre- 

 serving and protecting fish in the streams of Indiana was held 

 on the 15th at the office of Ignatius Brown, and there was a 

 large attendance. A temporary organization was affected by 

 calling John A. Finch to the chair, and electing Frank T. 

 Flolliday secretary. Ignatius BrowD, Alex. 0. Jamison and 

 Mr. Finch were appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws 

 for submission at a meeting to be held at the same place to- 

 morrow evening. Reports were had from a number of coun- 

 ties in central Indiana, showing that, dynamite cartridges were 

 being used with deadly effect in the streams, destroying the 

 fish in such numbers that unless the practice is soon discon- 

 tinued, no fish will be left. Some idea of the ellect of these 

 cartridges may he gained when it is known that an explosion 

 kills every water animal within a radius of fifty feet. The 

 dead bodies then float, the largest arc taken up and the re- 

 mainder allowed to float aw T av. One dealer is reported to 

 have soild $300 worth of these cartridges in one day at twenty- 

 live cents each. Their use was denounced in the most un- 

 qualified manner, and the suggestion to abstain from patron- 

 izing any establishment that deals either in cartridgesor seines 

 met' with unanimous approval. The new organization will 

 start off with a membership of over three hundred, composed 

 of gentlemen of abundant means, to see thai the fish laws are 

 enforced, and doubtless other organisations will be made 

 throughout the Slate." Silas. 



BiSS AND TaKFON FISHING. 



IN your last issue I noticed au error which needs correct- 

 ing. In publishing an extract from my letter to you, 

 you made me state. : "From this time until the middle of 

 December the fishing will improve." The word September 

 should have been usect. 



Now. I hiive been tarpon fishing and failed to capture one 

 of these specimens of "greased lightning." My main ob- 

 ject was to capture a tarpon and do a little bass fishing. 1 

 iefl. this city on Thursday at 4 e. m. and arrived at Mayport 

 at fv.30, and soon after landing engaged in the pleasant occu- 

 pation of depositing bass chowder, shrimp, fried sheepshead 

 and devilled crabs at Burrough's hospitable board. 



On Friday and Saturday I fished, when the tide suited, 

 and hooked three tarpon— one six, one seven and one eight 

 feet long. They were not measured, but length estimated 

 when the}' were performing their acrobatic feats, and I can 

 assure you that their length was not stretched. The seven- 

 footer I plated until lie was beyond jumping, when we 

 started for shore to bring him to gaff. In towing astern fric- 

 tion agaist his scissor-like jaws parted thesnead and he was 

 Very SOOn "sleeping sweetly." Owing to the small size of 

 the boat and the muscular development of the fish, I declined 

 using the gaff and landing him in the boat, and in conse- 

 quence I cvme, I saw. but 1 did not conquer. 

 . As I went tarpon fishing, I paid but little attention to the 

 channel bass, but I captured seven of the following weights i 

 40, 35, 31, 28, 28, 23 and 21 pounds. Tarpon are hooked al- 

 most daily, but none have been landed within four years. I 

 have cap ured many varieties of fish and in several countries, 

 tut I never experienced anything to equal the Struggles, 

 rushing and acrobatic feats of the tarpen I rendered liovi <Ui 

 combat. If any of your readers are desirous of enjoying pis- 

 catorial sport, par excel'ence and witnessing horizontal and 

 vertical jumping, let them visit Mayport, fasten to seven feet 

 of tarpon and their every wish will be gratified- 



r'i., Aug. lt>. Al Frksoo. 



LARGE TROUT FROM CHATEAUGAY LAKE. 



Lyon Mountain', N. Y., Aug. 18. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



Inclosed find stereoscopic view of a large speckled brook 

 trout taken here this week by Mr. O. M Bogart, Jr.. of yonr 

 city, which weighed three pounds six ounces. I only regret 

 that I could not have shown you the fish instead of the pic- 

 ture. Trout fishing has been good here all the season, but 

 this is the largest taken so far. The season has been very 

 prosperous for me, and it is my intention to double the ca- 

 pacity of my hou«e for next season. 



Through, the medium of the Foebst and Stueam and a 

 few such gentlemen as Mr. Charles Dennis. Jr., Mr. B. G. 

 Arthur and Mr. Charles Stokes, all of New York, and of the 

 Stock Exchange, I believe, I have had a house full of very 

 excellent people, all of whom 1 think are pleased with the 

 house and lake. JkL D. Bum, 



Caught rj» tub Fly— Plattsburgh. N. Y., August 10.— A 

 singular event occurred to the Dominic yesterday, which he 

 is constrained to tell to the fraternity of him who said " I go 

 a-fisbing/' the " apostolic succession" of the writer vouch • 

 ingfor its truth. 



While casting flies on Mead's Pond, a private trout preserve, 

 the birds wen: numerous over the water, skimming it, as is 

 their wont, with rapid flight, catching the bugs that live upon 

 the surface. An unusually long cast had been thrown, per- 

 haps fifty feet, with two flies upon the, leader— one a coach- 

 man and the other a Montreal —when, just as the line struck 

 the water, a swallow "struck'' the Ry, hooked himself and 

 fluttered in the air with hook and line pendant from his bill 

 for the space of ten or twelve seconds. How's that for a fly- 

 ing fish ? The Dominib. 



Greenwood Lakb.— Having passed two weeks in a very 

 comfortable manner at the Encampment Hotel, at Warwick 

 Wooillands, on the shores of Greenwood Lake, it is but just 

 to say that the accommodations provided were all that could 

 be desired by any one who can enjoy a tent for a bed-room 

 and parlor, instead cf being housed up in a hotel building. 

 The tents will be left standing a few weeks longer, so that 

 any one who desires camping out with the comforts of a good 

 hotel table and attendance, can improve the opportunity. 

 The Brandon, Windermere, Traphagan House and olhers at 

 the upper end of the lake have been doing a fair business 

 throughout the season and are well patronized at present. 

 The fishing on the Jake is fair and catches of bass weighing- 

 forty pounds and upwards have been made in a single day. 

 A little episode occurred while still-fishing that was hunior, 

 ous. 1 hooked a strong 2i-pound bass and gave bin) plenty 

 of line, as my rod only weighed 7 A oz. All of a sudden 1 

 could not feel my fish and was trying my best to reel in so as 

 to feel him once more, when my friend said, " What are you 

 doing? Your fish is in the boat." Sure enough, there he 

 was on my rubber coat, behind me, having run under the 

 boat, and in making a leap lauded in the boat.— T. C. B. 



Deiuanok of Law in New York.— A special correspond- 

 ent of the Syracuse Standard pictures an organized gang of 

 poachers on Skaneateles Lake. "It is a shame," he says, 

 "Hint these robbers cannot be brought into subjection, but 

 the fad is, and we can't disguise it, the lake is literally ruled 

 by the New I [ope roughs. They act as theypleisc, knowing 

 that the warnings they have already given of their power and 

 daring will hold in check all the efforts to get the upper hand. 

 They have no regard at all for the law, being utterly reckless 

 in what they do. They have burned barns, sunk boats, stolen 

 horses and done many other things equally as lawless, sim- 

 ply out of revenge for attacks on what they consid r their 

 rights. Our Sportsman's Club which had slumbered fir 

 years, was reorganized last year for the purpose of attempting 

 io break up the illegal fishing, but the thing flattened out. 

 The truth is most of us were frightened oil. Unless some 

 measure is taken soon to quell those desperadoes there will 

 be no safety in navigating the lake unarmed." 



The fact that, a reign of terror exists upon the shores of 

 Skaneateles Lake has n'it, been of recent discovery, nor is 

 positive knowledge of it confined to the more frequent visit- 

 ors to that beautiful sheet of water. If is infested by organ- 

 ised bands of moonshiners, wdio laugh to scorn the best leg- 

 islative efforts to protect the fish of the State, and hold a' 

 bay those whose duty or desire it is to see Ihe law enforced. 

 The so-called "New 1 lope roughs" are a body of reckless fel- 

 lows bailing from New Hope, Cayuga County, on the west 

 shore, of the lake. They .swarm to "the shores after nightfall, 

 cast their seines into the water and draw them full of fish, 

 without, so much as giving a thought to such a person as a 

 game constable. 



LAitiiE Tuot.-T IN SwiAN.u: 1 .auk.— Saturday. Aug. 20 

 In your issue of Aug. 14 I see a note from At. Burr relating 

 to the landing of a 2-V pound trout, nothing being said as to 

 the variety of trout or the manner in which was caught "thi 

 largest of the season." During Ihe past month Dr. M. II. 

 Williams, of your city, has been in camp with me at Big 

 Trout, Pond, and on Aug. is caught, among eleven of lesser 

 weight and size, a speckled brook trout weighing 3 pounds, 

 and "measuring 19jf inches in length, on a t) oz. rod, with a 

 brown hackle. Mr. Hathaway, in camp with my father — 

 Calvin Brown almost equalled this the next day, and we 

 think a 20 pound mess of this size fish "no great shakes," for 

 it can be done every day during the season. A five-puunder 

 has risen to the fly several times, and his capture is but a 

 question of time, of which you will be duly notified. 



LoWETj, BnowN. Guide. 



A Step Backward.— The New Hampshire Legislature has 

 passed a bill or resolution exempting the (,'ontoocook River, 

 one of the principal rivers of (lis State, from the law in force 

 tor several years requiriug all owners of dams to provide 

 aui ii:' i.li iwiys. This river was stocked with salmon some 

 years ago, and all that is needed to make them plenty once 

 more is an open way. 



All dams on the river, with the exception of one or two, 

 have been so provided at great expense. It seems stranae 

 that such an act of injustice should be allowed to pass when 

 the principal parly in getting it through was one of the com- 

 pany who have been violating the law for nearly two years. 



It was put through in the rush of business at the close of 

 the session, and nrit understood, or it would not have been 

 approved by so intelligent a body of men. 



Where is the New Hampshire Game League V Justice. 



Large Masoai.oxg.b— Camp of the "Kingfishers," lutt r- 

 mediate Lake, Mich., Aug. 12.— Two weeks ago to-day I took 

 in Bower's Lake, ffflb lake above this, a mascalonge four 

 feet four inches long, twenty inches girth at pectorals : 

 weight, don't, know just how much, as we weighed him on a 

 steelyard that pulled thirty-two pounds. He flipped tbe 

 ball up vehemently at thirty-two pounds, so we felt safe al 

 calling him a thirty-five pound fish. A Canadian that has 

 speared numbers of them called him a forty pound fish. I 

 took him on a sever, and one-half ounce rod, speckled frog ; 

 time, an hour and a hall'.— Kinkfibubr.* 



Sou.ttan County FisniNo— Eldicd, Sullivan county, N. 

 Y., Aug. 22. — There is a lake near my house where perch 

 averaging from a quarter of a pound up to one and a quarter 

 p rcmds actual weight h ivi been caueht by the hundreds ; and 

 pickerel from one to four pounds. New York refet 

 03 given.— I. M. Buadj.ey. 



Sturueon vebsus Halibut— Albany, N. Y.— In a late 

 copy of your paper 1 saw I bat the fishermen on the Lakes 

 were smoking the sturgeon and fraudulently siding it for 

 halibut. To an Albanian that sounds like sin J.i.i, ;ood beef 

 and fraudulently vending it for mule meat. Why the stur- 

 geon, which is much superior, in my estimation, to halibut, 

 should be the subject of so much absurd prejudice 1 don't 

 see. It is not only a good fish, but a most exc llcnt one, if 

 properly eookul and eaten without pn jttdice.— ALBANIAN- 



Large Sueepsubau— Jersey City, Aug. 23.— John Peer, 

 of this city, while fishing in New York Bay (off the Sunken 

 Island), on Monday last, caught a sheepshead weighing GJ 

 lbs, Havetft Sheepshead been strangers to New York Bay 

 for sometime t — Rustic 



Bi.tjefisij rr Cape May— Aug. 10. — Just now bluefish fishing 

 is fine at Capo May, N. J. , and all along the Jersey coast. 

 Anglers are doing good work. At Rutterton the big perch 

 are biting freely and in our Delaware and Schuylkill black 

 bass are being caught in fair numbers. It seems that eight 

 out of ten of the fish are taken after 6 o'clock P. M, — Ho.uo. 



Fishing at Loon Lake — Uornellsville, N. Y., Aug. 14. — 

 In reply to your invitation to tell of any good places for 

 hunting and fishing I would say there is good black bass 

 and pickerel fishing at Lion Lake. Loon Lake is in Steuben 

 Co., N. Y., ninety five, miles from Uornellsville and five 

 mdes from Waylam't or Liberty on the Rochester division of 

 of the Erie R. ft. The lake is formed entirely by springs, 



and is one of the highest bodies 

 over 400 feet above the Cohoctoi 

 miles distant. The altitude of tl 

 in its favor as a summer Sshiujj 

 and pleasant. No mosquitoes 01 

 hotel at the lake, Lindenw-iod ( fi 

 Cotton, whose address is Cohr. 



i the Stale, be 



Valley, which i 

 b lake is a strong argument 

 place, being healthful, cool 

 S. ' There is a good 

 tage. kept by C. E. and C. 

 Steuben Co., N. Y. 



Board, $ 1 per day, which includes use of boats. It is at 

 Lindenwood that once a month through the season clubs 

 from Rochester, Efdrnells 



Waylancl, QbW 

 grand glass ball E 

 premises. I'ishii 

 no fishing tbrpUj 

 prohibiting the 

 Fellows. 



Dansvill s, 



for a 

 a tbe 

 s was 



the ice last winter, there being a law 

 qo during the winter months.— ,1. Oris 



tnd i 

 r match. No 

 much better thfi 



Jfis// culture, 



REOTttMNGf THE McOLOCD IlATCHGIiY. 



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 rater wheel I 



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loter, for 

 Iso being 



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constructed, ii ii 

 thousand gallons i 



BXpeots to hiive evi 

 the last of August 

 There seems to bo 

 liver this year. 



The bridge across the rive 

 up to the hoadwaters of tbe 



Dae precaution has la-en 

 guard against .losses by lug I 



The total OOnt of the reconstruct! m of tbe fishery buildings, in- 

 eluding the replacing of tbe lost material which bad been collected 

 during the last eight or nine years, will amount to nut less than 

 fifteen thousand dollars. Oko. Ii. Williams, .hi. 



foi tbe batoning hi 

 u that this wheel wiL .. 

 int.. tbe hatching bouse. Mr. Stone 

 i i take the Brat ogga about 

 Bible, he intends to take ten millions. 

 ially largo number oi salmon in Ihe 



r is closed, so that no more salmon go 



hi new buildings to 



PISHOTJL-TUEE AT Till'. PAWS EXPOSITION. 



\\'Y. Iiuv,; just rocked the report of Mr. T. ii. Ferguson, (Jom- 

 » ' mis-iionor Irian the t niu ,1 States to tbe Ooivei'saJ Exposition 

 in Paris, 1878, oa Bshculture.* 



Tho author save that it was a matter of surprise, an well as of. 

 regret, that an exhibition so replete with objects of art, and illus- 

 trating so fully most o) the industrial pursuits, should have been 

 found deficient in the department of which bis report treats. It 

 was natural to expect that France, Ik.-, lug tal.en I In: inilialurv in the 

 attifioiolpropagatlonof fish, under tho lend of M. Quatret^geB, M. 

 Ui«te. M. Milne- Kdwards. and others, and having set sn example to 

 the world by taking hold of tbe dlacoveriei l repre- 



sent in the fullest detail the advance of this important industry m 

 Europe. But, as tho report shows, tbe afnstration of the modes 

 and appliances of fistoulture, and of the implements and means 



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lb- 



him about his aquaria. The United States did nut at 

 cultural exhibit, because no proviBi 

 the exposition until very near the opening, too late to : 

 itable Bhowing. The apparatus in the , 



Haaek, Dii tal liU.nunt at Hueniugen, : 



the hatching of the eggs of the Saunonidffi by two ol 

 melting ice, a modification of Williamson's Califomian 

 a modification of a conical hatcher, alleged to l«- an 

 Mr. WilmntV. Tho.-o and a transporting can of M. 

 comprise the apparatus. 



With such, poor materia] 

 mainiog pages with interesting mutter relating to Prei 

 nlatingthecaptam ofnahosaudfortoejrpi 

 iestookhig streams and transporting titth. maritime t 



iv M. 

 i-.hug 





:xhibitors in the fishery department, as natural hid- 



given in the fresh water a.piarimn, which was a grand feature of 

 the Exposition. 



This aquarium covered a surface of about 3,300 square motora 

 and was mostly subterranean. It was not covered by a building, 

 but erected iu tho open air, aud rooky ooIuiuuh supported a roof, 

 which gave the whole an appearance of a cavern. The report is 

 a very creditable on,' considering bus paucity Of mail rial 



• \no-t:iM> ol - 'is and nets, 



besides several ii'-'uiv- "i iisin-uiiui Uound.beartag 



O i a colon il ,' ii :■!:■• i- ol- I ■ 'Ion, IsT,. Be- 



nort.s or fnited Maien commissioners, flsclcuitnn '1 liouias 13. 

 Ferguson." No Imprint oi publication office, date, nor Index, 



