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FOEEST AND STREAM. 



[September 15, 1881. 



The heaviest fisheries are on Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. 

 The value of the products Cur the several lakes during the 

 Tear are set down as follows: Lake Superior, $105,535: 

 Lake KBdjigan, $(512,410; Lakes Huron and St. Glajr, 

 §349,365: Lake Erie, $578,690; Lake Ontario, $138,050; 

 total, $1, 784,050. The products were marketed in the follow- 

 in"; conditions: Fresh fish, $1,102,950 ; salt fish, #402,070; 

 fio'zon fish, $126,100; smoked fish, $109,970; caviare, 

 #34,315; isino-i,,-., $5,705; oil, $2,280; total, $1,784,050. 



The foregoing shows the value of the products, being in 

 excess of 100 per cent, on capital invested. 



A PENNSYLVANIA RESORT. 



Stkklton, Dauphin Co., Pa. 

 I desire to add my mite for the benefit of the disciples of 

 the tod and gun. White House Station, on main line of 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, seven miles east, of Harrishurg, in 

 this county, is an excellent place for bass and salmon fishing 

 from June 1 until winter. The river is also full of the more 

 common varieties of fish, such as carp, chub, cat fish, uiul- 

 lelt, a few rock fish, and plenty of shad in season. There is 

 also excellent duck shooting in the spring and fall. Hotel on 

 river hank. Accommodations plain, but. good and substan- 

 tial. For particulars address, with stamp, E. M. Stoner, 

 High Spire, Pa. ; R. M. Neiman (prop'r hotel), High Spire, 

 or the. writer at Steelton, Pa. Boats plenty at low rates. 

 Mr. Neiman was for a number of years a resident, of the 

 lumber Tegions of thiB State, and to persons wishing it 

 could give all the necessary information in regard to the 

 trout and bass streams of Northern and Central Pennsylva- 

 nia. The hotel is a popular stopping plac- for lumbermen 

 and raftsmen on I heir down river trips, and from then) the 

 sportsman could gain much valuable information in regard 

 to choice trout streams and game regions llOOWH to scarcely 

 any one else but these hardy backwoodsmen of Ihe moun- 

 tains and forests of Pennsylvania. All ivay passenger trains 

 stop at White House. JoRS II. Rotrhock. 



FISHING AT BEAUFORT. 



New Bebne, N. O. 



FISHING at. Beaufort and vicinity is now at its height, 

 and all the species usually taken here are plenty, es- 

 pecially Spanish mackerel and bhiefish. The harbor is alive 

 with boats in charge of capable men and occupied by ama- 

 teur fishermen wlin, wilh hook and line, catch in a short 

 time, such quantities of fish as nearly equal under ordinary 

 circumstances the result of seine fishing. Postmaster 

 Hubbs, of this city, Internal Revenue Collector White and 

 his chief clerk, Tinker, constituted a party in the Ives Sharpie 

 Lucia, in charge of Captain Ben Piggott , and had admirable 

 suceesB in taking the members of the finny tribe. Although 

 these gentlemen, leading as they do comparatively sendenliuy 

 lives and lacking the experience that makes good fishermen, 

 hauled in on this occasion seventy handsome Spanish mack- 

 erel and seventy-nine bluefish. One of the former, caught 

 by Mr White, measured thirty-seven inches in length and 

 weighed nineteen pounds — the finest caught this season. In 

 this connection one of this parly assures us that whole 

 schools of fish are disporting themselves, the big ones eating 

 the little ones, and the whole hovered over by gulls, who 

 dive down for their prey. U. N. I. 



Bass in Swabtswood Lakb — Newton, N. J., Sept. 8. — A 

 party of three gentlemen from Newton caught forty-eight 

 pounds of black bass in S warts wood Lake last Monday morn- 

 ing. The largest bass weighed four and one-half pounds, 

 and the others weighed four pounds. The fish were brought 

 to Newton to-day, and attracted much attention. Nearly all 

 the lovers of the sport in the town have gone, or are about 

 to go, to try their hick. The lake was stocked with bass a 

 few years ago by the State Fishery Commission. Previous 

 to this time few had been caught. Since Monday's excite- 

 ment, however, the yield has been large and constant, af- 

 fording the greatest gratification to the successful anglers. 

 The bass are caught with tho little black crickets as bait. 



The Streams Dry— Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 6.— We are 

 having a severe drought in this part of the State, and in con- 

 sequence the rivulets and mountain streams are dry and our 

 rivers are lower than ever known but once before. The fish 

 are reported all dying. A gentleman just in my office, who 

 came down Monongahela River this morning, reports seeing 

 large numbers of dead bass and other fish along the river, on 

 the rocks, and along the river bank. A few more, days of 

 such weather will certainly kill all the fish in our streams, 

 except possibly those in deep holes.— I. R. S. 



Tkoft is tub Ttiamks.— Mr. J. Harrington Keene, in the 

 London Finking Gazette, favors the extermination of pike in 

 the Thames and the establishment of a large trout hatchery 

 thereon. He thinks that a seven years close time for Thames 

 trout, a yearly introduction of the true trout of the river, 

 coupled with a persevering decimation of the eels and pike, 

 would render the river the finest trout stream in the world. 

 We know little of the local peculiarities of the river, but on 

 gem ml principles we agree with Mr. Keene. 



How Does a Black Bass Take a Crawfish?— Paris, Ky., 

 One thing has been agitating our fishermen — viz., How does 

 a black bass swallow a crawfish ? Which end of crawfish 

 ahead ? The contest waxed warm, and they agreed to leave 

 it to Foekst and STKKAMfor decision.— Cajjpio. 



We have the impression that the black bass takes the craw- 

 fish by the tail, but as our observations have been limited we 

 would like to hear from others on this subject. 



Salmon Fisheries of Scotland.— From the Scotsman, of 

 Aug 26, we learn that the net salmon fishings on the Dee arid 

 Don terminated on the 25th. The season has been a very 

 successful one. At the outset the returns were comparative- 

 ly poOr, but as the season advanced the catches of fish large- 

 ly increased, and at the close the v ield from both rivers is 

 considerably ahead of the last two years. In the latter end 

 of July, and during the present month the nether Don has 

 yielded between 300 and 400 fish per day. The fishing on 

 the Dee all round was over an average, the greater portion of 

 the fish having been got at, the Pol and Fords. From the 

 middle of June onward big hauls have daily been got, and 

 it is estimated that not for twenty years have so many fish 

 been got at these stations as there have been got this season. 

 The returns at the Mid-chingle were also good. Since the 

 beginning of the eril.se season the fishing has been interrupt- 

 ed by disagreeable weather. The best catch of the season was 

 got about the middle of July, when some 600 fish were land- 

 ed in one day from the Pot and the Fords on the Dee. All 

 through the season the quality of the fish has been good. 

 Price for salmon in Aberdeen has varied during the season 

 from 2s. 8d. to lOd. per pound, and grilse from Is. 6d. to 9d. 

 per pound Quantities of fish were retailed for the Aberdeen 

 market at London prices, but the greater part of the fiBh 

 were sent by train and steamer to the London Market. 



Striped Bassino at Newport.— Wm. Rotch Wister, Esq., 

 of Philadelphia, has recently returned from Newport, R. 1, 

 and is reported in the l'i,:nnanUnrn, Tdajruyh as saying that 

 striped bass fishiug was very successful there just before his 

 departure. One angler succeeded in taking nine fish in one 

 day! aggregating 450 pounds in weight. Angling there for 

 this fish is quite as expensive as angling for salmon in Can- 

 ada. It bites best when the ocean is rough. The angler 

 rents one of the small rocks which abounds in the vicinity, 

 and is prevented from being washed off it into the sea by an 

 iron railing. He engages a man to bait the ground for days 

 in advance of the time he intends to fish. He may remain 

 there every day for a week without getting a single speci- 

 men. The tackle used by these anglers is the best which is 

 made, a rod and reel not unfrequently costing $200. Much 

 skill is required in landing large fish, an hour or longer not 

 unfrequently being spent in this exciting amusement. 



Unwholesome Fish at Billingsgate.— We learn from 

 Land and Water that during the month of July the fish- 

 meters appointed by the Fishmongers' Company seized at 

 Billingsgate Market, "and on board boats lying off that place, 

 83 tons 15 cwt. of fish as unfit for human food. Of these 

 54 tons 18 cwt. came by land, and 38 tons 17 cwt. by water. 

 Nineteen tons were shellfish. The single fish numbered 

 09 !i; j ,7, and include 8 catfish, 10 cod, 18 crayfish, 500 eels, 120 

 coneer eels, 500 dabs, 81,560 haddocks, 2,300 lobsters, 750 

 mackerel, 4,822 plaice, 630 skate, 73 pairs of soles, 1 sturgeon, 

 245 turbot and 8 4^0 whiting. There were also 10 barrels of 

 crabs and 12 of pickled herrings, 168 bags of mussels, 4 of 

 oysters, 36 of perriwinkles and 106 of whelks, 8 kits of pil- 

 chards and 1 of prawns, 1,648 gallons of shrimps and 55 

 quarts of whitebait. 



When an arm of the sea encircles a neck of land look out 

 for fishing smacks. — - Tonkas Statesman. 



TO A CLAM. 



LOVELY tenant of r.lie sea, 

 shell-bound dough nut dear to me, 

 Dear to ine where ripples plav, 

 On the beach at Kockaway, 

 Dear to me as porgie bait, 

 Bearer still upon a plate- 

 Dear as poms fondest wish, 

 You eclipse alt other llsh. 



Far bene; 

 Loatiug i 

 How you 

 Mermaid.- 

 How yon 



At theclll 



While yoi 

 At the ne 



i the 



inning wave, 

 ue coral cave, 

 happy gangs 

 elr golden bang 

 : eye and grin 



With your aromatic stoam. 



E'er: 



uleadacpiiet lite. 



. injuieii me. 



For you haven't got a wife ; 

 E'er your earthly pain elude, 

 In your sandy solhud". 

 O, I would 1 were a clam 

 With a seaweed orlflamme 

 In mid ocean's deepest dives 

 Far from clashing oyster knives ; 



Far from Bockaway hotels, 



Hid 'raoiig rim-i.-lieiinied shells: 

 Fur from S .miuls's and Mott'S 

 Patent lever chowder pots. 

 Then I'd sit and scratch my chin 

 With a diabolic grin, 



vowing liinu should never hc n 



Me in coney Island soup. 



R. K. Munkittbuk, in A'oah'n Sunday Titnes. 



^isficuUme. 



Knot ins re tite History or Ftshccltvbe.— The conclusion of 

 Prof. Goodes "Epochs in the History of Fishculture" is in type 

 and will be given in our next issue, its publication being deferred 

 to that time that the proofs may have the author's supervision. 



FISHOULTURAi MOTES. 



North Carolina has a shad hatchery at Avoca and a trout hatch- 

 ery at, Morgautown. both under t B charge of Mr. S. G. Worth, 

 the Actine Commishionev .if in! ; . i. 



The Minnesota Commission has at their hatchery at Red Wing, 

 in charge of Mr. S. S. Watkins, brook trout, California salmon, 

 rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, lake trout, wall-eyed pike, yellow 

 perch, and hybrids between the brook trout and rminnat salmon. 



Mr M. T." Bailev has been appointed Superintendent of the 

 ■ , . , , i ■ . ! ' : . i . 1 1. . .ii, Wis., in place of H. H. Welsher, resigned. 



Mr. William H. Furman, the veteran trout culturist of Maepeth, 

 near Brooklyn, N. Y., has bought a placo on the Nissequoge River, 

 Long Island, and is making trout pouds there. He haB a hne 

 place near Smithtowo, ...., , . 



The Maine Commissioners are stocking lakes with black bass. 

 They have also stocked the Rangeley Lakes with whitefiBh. 



CARP IN KENTUCKY. 



Paris, Ky., Sept 10. 

 Fish Commissioner Dr. W. Van Antwerp, of the Ninth District, 

 has been turning bis attention to the carp which have, boon placed 

 in the hands of private partlea and can therefore be protected, for 

 our public waters are depleted by the cursed giant powder and 

 nemos so the only fish that can be protected are those m private 

 pouds. Our country is plentifully covered with artificial ponds for 

 stock water, they average from three to ten feet deep, with muddy 

 bottoms, aud aquatic granges 1 Ornish plenty of food with an occasion- 

 al bunch of cabbage and lettuce from the garden, and they are hap- 

 py and grow finely. Prom four pouds 1 have measured and weigh- 

 ed them, and And* their growth very even— one foot, one foot and 

 fourteen inches, oue and one-half feet. The leather carp being 

 larger than the scaled variety, the farmers who have them are 

 very enthusiastic concerning their culture, and I know if Prof. S. 



F. Baird could hear the words of praise he gets for their introduc- 

 tion he would feel happy. 



I learn from a friend that Dr. Van Antwerp has promised to get 

 some pamphlets on the growth and culture of carp from Prof. 

 Baird, and distribute them to those having ponds, that the knowl- 

 edge of the requisite of this valuable fish may be more widely 

 known. A discussion as to tho table merits of the carp resulted iii 

 a practical teBt. A company of epicures dined off black bass and 

 carp recently in Clark Co., Ky., and they say no difference esistj 

 as to flavor that they could discover. Caupio. 



For the Holidays: A Present which will be kept and remembered 

 for years is a ilLetn-aphoscopeor srereoscopo with rarae handsome 

 Photographs of celebrities. Thelargesi w t assortment lo ltd 



n'o.-i .it ■■ i 1 1 1 1 >■ ..ii- :i,.„.| ray, New York. Will send Pho- 

 tograph of any celebrity desired per maXL—Ade. 



%mml. 



FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 September 21, 22 and 23, at Franklin, Pa., Franklin Sportsmen's 



1 . ' "i ■::!"!■■ i' ! - rarara' i: ,._ - . i , ,i rle, ,- ;,■,-■,. -,.■■,,- 



tember 15. Thos. D. Adams, Superintendent ; p. 0. Box 61, Franklin, 



September 27, 2S, 29 and so, at London, Ont, London Dog Show. 

 Entries close September 12. Charles Lincoln , su< .eri n i euclent, Tecum- 

 v'li llonse, London, Out. 



December 14, is and ifi. at Lowell, Mass Lowell Dog Show. Entries! 

 close December 6. t'tias. A. Andrew, West, Boxford, Mass., Superin- 

 tendent. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



September 13 and 14, at Pittsburgh, Pa. Collie Trials, held under 

 Hie auspices ol ihe Pennsylvania state Agricultural Society. Km lies 

 closed September », Btbridga MeConkey. secretary. HurrNbiirg. I'h 



or' Franklin spmtsnii-i/s ciub and came Protective Society!^.'!! 

 Nlckien, sr., Secretary ; P. O. r.ox Cl, Franklin, Pa. 



Trials commence on Thanksgiving 

 O. Box 274. New York thy. 



October 2.5, 2(1, 27 and 28 at Masonlown. Fayette Co.. Pa., via boat 

 frmn I'lusburgh. Pennsylvania Field Trials. First. Annual Derby. 

 Entries close at I'lnsburgii, l'a.. (tcdber i.-.. 1. it. stayton, -ecretary. 



Club. Entries close .November 1. K. I.eviMvlry. Se'.reiarv. 

 December 96, Louisiana State Field Trials. Entries close November 



November 5, at (hand Junction, Tenn., National American Kennel 

 Club's Field Trials. Jos. IL Dew, Secretary, Columbia, Tenn. 



NEBBASKA FIELD TRIALS. 



At Camp, Tk.s Miles N. W. or Norfolk, I 

 Nbbbaska, September 2, 1881. ) 



THE second annual Field Trials of pointers and fetters under the 

 auspices of the State Sportsmen's Association, of Nebraska, 

 was held at this place some ten miles northwesterly of the ibriv 

 iug Utile town of Norfolk on the east side of the north fork of the i 

 Elk-Horn Itiver, in Pierce county. Tho encampment was located 

 on a high point on the left bank of the river, a beautiful stream of 

 clear, wholesome water, skirted by one of the handsomest and 

 richest valleys in the State, and at this point about five miles wide, 

 and studded' with fine fields of corn and groves of forest trees— | 

 planted and nurtured by the deft hand of the thrifty farmer. 



Here upon this big plateau of "smooth-shaven grass" stands four 

 canvas tents. The largest one, a hospital tent, is assigned to the 

 cuisine. The three smaller ouos for the use of the attendants, 

 competitors aud their dogs. No more fitting spot could bo found, 

 and when the last peg had been driven to hold the trusty tent 

 cords in place we felt ourselves at home. 



I must not omit to mention that this delightful location was 

 suitably wet down with copious libations of cool, clear ice-water. Ju 

 this regard score, one for tho Nebraska Sportsmen. Another fact 

 may he mentioned of the largo number of young aud middle-aged 

 men, who neither smoke nor chew tobacco at all, or moderately, so ; 

 wo saw no whisky on the ground during the whole time, except a 

 single pint flask in the hands of one of the numerous medical gen- 

 tlemen present who had taken it simply as a precaution against 

 "snake bites.'' It was wonderful how many titled gentlemt u con- 

 gregate at such an encampment. Boys instantly become captains, 

 colonels, generals, doctors, lawyers and judges, and seem to bear 

 those heavy titles with istni,/ fn,i.,i. scarcely expected, of their agon. 

 And vet there were many really titled men present and ■■<■•■ era 1 tb.-i- 

 tinguished ladies with their children a portion of the time, which 

 especially made the encampment more pleasant, and may sufficient- 

 ly account for the orderly demeanor of the sportsmen, and the ab- 

 Bense of whisky and profane language. The camp being settled 

 we were summoned to dinner by our congenial restaurateur, dipt. 

 Bigalow. whoso rotund and stalwart form and genial good nature 

 (except when aome luckless dog invaded his apartment) made aU 

 feel at home. 



Tho dinner being over, and there being no entries in the stakes 

 for puppies under twelve months old, and as other parties were 

 expected to arrive with dogs to run in the second stakes— for Ne- 

 braska dogs— it was arranged to hold the entries open until the 

 following morning, and thus give all who desired a fan- opportu- 

 nity to take part iu the trials. A sufficient number of teams be- 

 ing at hand nearly the entire number of sportsmen rode out into 

 the broad prairie outside the limits of the ground assigned for the 

 trials to take place, with dogs and guns to pick up a few chickens 

 for the use of the camp, and in which a very pleasant afternoon 

 was spent, and about eighty birds were brought in as well as about 

 i. number of wonderful things, and incidents of this dog 

 ami that dog, of this shot and that shot, from which one might 

 easily conclude that every dog was not only a clipper in his way, 

 but an actual winner. 



Bine bloods. Natives, English, Irish and Gordons, setters and 

 pointers of high and low degree, pedigreed and unpedigreed, and 

 all of them imported, or would have been able to lay claim to that 

 on but for the fact that, like the American-born Irishman, 

 ., ,, la bored under the misfortune of not being born m his native 

 country, thev were aU begotten, whelped and reared this Bide of 

 the " Big Pond." .. ,, „ 



A pleasant evening was spent in recounting tho afternoon s ex- 

 ..', oes, and at ten o'clock all turned in for the night anticipating 

 the events and misadventures that awaited the scenes of the next 

 day Here it may be well to note who and whose dogs are 

 here Iu the list 'is Mr. O. B. Whitman, with note-book and 

 pencil ■ Hon. 0. P. Mathewson, of Norfolk, late speaker of the 

 House of Representatives of Nebraska, an ardent sportsman with 

 his Irish setter dog Mack, by Livingston's Brian out of his Mona ; 

 Captain 3. D. Brown, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, with his black and 

 white Belton setter and his Irish setters whose names and Uncage 

 we failed to obtain ; Dr. J. B. Leas, of Neligh, Nebraska. v>ith hiB 

 beautiful bitch Pearl; Mr. Ed. Johnston, of Omaha, with his white 

 black Belton Fleet II., aud black Gordon dog Jet ; Mr. W. J. 

 Irwin, of Topeka, Kansas, with bis famous lemon and white setter 

 dog Major, liver and white pointer dog Bock, and several young 

 setters and pointers iu training ; Dr. J. H. Peabody, of Omaha, 

 with his superb bitches Queen and Fan, the former a red setter, 

 ona, the latter, it liver and white pointer finely bred; 

 Air W H Brooks, with a beautiful black Gordon. Jet : Mr. B. E. 

 B Kennedy, of Omaha, with his Irish setter bitch Nora (Brian- 

 Mona) and his all liver pointer dog Dick, whose lineal ante- 



