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Dekr and Beatis — Homellsville, N. Y., Nov. 27.— A 

 great many deer luve bePn killed near here this season. 

 Eleven killed in one day at Cedar ljuo. Five were waiting 

 at depot yesterday to be shipped. Geo. Humphrey and Will 

 Harris killed two in one hour, both fine specimens, only a 

 few miles from here. One d -or was killed last week inside 

 the corporation limits. Hugh Jordan recently killed a 

 monster bear which weighed 500 pounds. It ie said this 

 makes the twenty-ninth bear killed by him in this section. 

 Mr. Jordan is a noted hunter and trapper.— J. Otis Fellows 



CofiDnr.oY Fim Shooting Purr.— Northbridge, Mass. Nov. 

 7 — Editor Forest and Stream : Can you tell me where I can 

 get Ihe genuine Irish corduroy of d«ad grass color. My 

 tailor says he has looked over Boston and New York and 

 cannot find it. I want to have a suit made by my own 

 tailor after my own ideas — H. T. W. 



[We have been unable to find the goods.] 



Adirondaoks. — The deer shooting at Upper Chateaugay 

 Lake, Ra'ph's Hotel, has been very fine, it is reported. We 

 understand that Ralph's house is to be enlarged for next season. 



Live QrAiL— Ad Hall, Milum County, Texas.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream, : I can supply live quail to those desiring 

 them for stocking purposes. My address is as above. — (J. A. 



YWOENT. 



i&t and Erivtr 



FISH IN SEASON IV DMEHIIEK, 



FKESB WATBB. 



Black Bass, Mieropterm aalmoide-si 



and M. pallidue. 

 Mascalonge, Ehox nobilwr. 

 Pickerel, kaux rehcwtalwi. 

 Pike or Pickerel, mux tucius. 

 Pike-perch (wall-eyed pike) 



Stizote.th.ium 



griaeum, etc. 



Yellow Peren, Perca fiuvialUU. 

 Striped Bass, Roccu* lineatus. 

 White Bass, Raccun chryuopa. 

 Hock Bass, Avtbtoplites. (Two 



species). 

 War-inouth, Chornobryttuagtitv/ru.. 

 Grapple, i'omoxys nigrornaculatus. 

 Bachelor, Pomoxys annularis. 

 Chut), Senwtilu corporalis. 



SALT WATBB. 



Smelt, Omierau mcirdax. 



oett uittw, tstuu uyriHLi* ulrarius. 



Striped Bass or Koekllsh, Roceus 



lineatuH. 

 White Perch. Mormie americana. 



Pollock, PoltaehiuH carbonarius. 

 Tautog or Blacklist!, Tautiwa 



cmitis. 

 Weakusli or Squetague.Cj/ntwcj/im 



With very tew exceptions, the gau 

 conllne themselves either to salt, oi 

 3'ejr, hut visit, oue or the other, as lh< 

 pally the propagation of their species, 

 fishes are, without any e* epi ion, the 



b fish are those which do not 

 tresh water, throughout the 

 r habits and taste, out prlnci- 

 llrect them. These migratory 

 tiongest, theholdest, and, as 



such, afford the b'st, .sport of their tribe : nor are they, for the most 

 part, to be surpassed by any In excellence, nrmness, and flavor, when 

 In their best condition. Those llsb which never visit tvse salt water 

 at all, are unquestionably so much Inferior to others of their own 

 family which run periodically to t be sea, that they are with difficulty 

 recognised as belonging to the harne order with their roving brethren ; 

 while of those, nons of which aie known to leave the fresh water, 

 but two or three kinds, are worth taking at all ; and even these are 

 not to be compared with the migratory, or the pure sea flsh.— Uenky 

 William Hekbekt, 



PIKE FISHING ON THE LEHIGH. 



THE Lehigh River at Bethlehem, Pa., affords excellent 

 sport tor the lovers of bass fishing, and quite a num- 

 ber of nice bass have been taken at this place during the 

 present season, the largest weighing, I think, four pounds 

 But for a good day "r sport and a tail" string of fish (pike), 

 Chain Dam, a station on the L. V. K. K , nine miles below 

 Bethlehem, is no doubt the fishing plate, par excellence, of 

 the Lehigh. Oo thai river we spent a day with the pike, 

 the result (8 lbs.) is considered gojd for this part of the 

 country. 



At 9:45 a. M. we embarked at B. and started on our nine- 

 mile trip, " Jim"- seated in the bow and m> self wielding 

 the paddle. All went smoothly until we came to what is 

 known as '-Jones' Island," where we prepared to meet our 

 fir t difficulty in the shape of a quarter of a mile of rapids, 

 and iitfly ones at that, the water being very shallow, and 

 running like a mi 11 race ; but, norhing fearing, we pushed 

 bravely on. When half-way through and while congratula- 

 ting ourselves on our good luck in not getting stuck, we saw 

 Just in front of us an immense rock, partly submerged. In 

 vain I ttied to pass it, the current proved too strong, and 

 with a bump and a scratch we were high and dry. After 

 half au hour's work we were once more afloat and speeding 

 onward. Having covered myself with glory in delaying the 

 expedition half au hour, 1 resigned the paddle and changed 

 places with '-Jim," in the bow, and once more we glided on. 



In nearing Freeniansburg, we struck what we thought 

 would prove a fishy place, so, casting the troll and letting 

 out. about twenty-five yards of line, we paddled silently past. 

 the place, waiting patiently for a rise. Suddenly we felt 

 one, and with a quick twisl we hooked, as we supposed, a 

 pike. Our supposition proved correct, for on landing hint, 

 he proved lo be a splendid specimen of this gamey fish and 

 measured seventeen inches. We fished this spot for half an 

 hour, catching two smaller pike, and left it, well satisfied , a 

 we depended mainly on " filling our creel " at Chain D am 

 our destination. 



Passing Freemansburg we reached our second rap ds, 

 which, although worse than the first, we passed without a 

 scratch, owing, no doubt, lo the skillful manipulation ot the 

 paddle in "Jim's" bands. From this place lo our third and 

 last rapids, it was plain sailing, and the j urney was passed 

 in Bilence, excepting, now and then, certain uncomplimentary 

 remarks concerning the rain, which had begun falling on 

 our entering Fretmansbmg, antl which was still falling 

 "as though it, had never rained before," as Jim remarked. 



The last obstruction consisted of a dam about ibree leet 

 high, through the center of which was an opening eight 

 feet wide. Through this the water rushed m one large 

 volume, curving up at the bottom into a wave two feet 

 high. Through this chute we passed in great style, and as 

 our old tub would not ride over the aforesaid wave, we took 

 the next best course and went through it. shipping, in the 

 passage through, considerable water. After a mile of shal- 

 low water and aggravating ripples, we struck smooth water, 

 and, passing Reddinglon as the 13:30 mill whistle blew, we 

 had before us one long steady pull of three miles over the 

 placid surfare of the Lehigh at its finest point, from Red- 

 dington to Chain Dam. 



At three o'clock, exactly, we arrived at Chain Dam, hav- 

 ng stopped to dine on " Turkey Island," a beautiful spot in 

 the river midway between the two last named places. From 

 3 to 5 p. m. we I rolled with good results: and as we glided 

 swiftly by the scenes of our troubles, in the smoking car of 

 the 6:1 5 train, we had no reason to complain of our " luck," 

 the eight-pound siring of pike more than compensating us 

 for our work in getting them; for it tms work— not fun- 

 in paddling a heavy flat boat nine mileB through rapids 

 and over long stretches of still water, in a driving Tain 

 storm, on a cold day, wilh the section of a broken oar for a 

 paddle. Dick. 

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PiXOT-KSH. — 1 was very anxious to obtain a specimen of 

 the pilot-fish (Naucrate* duct or.) Dr. Gilnther quotes with 

 approval Dr. Meyen's opinion that the pilot, feeds on the 

 shark's excrements, but adds also that it obtains a great part 

 of its food directly from the shark, in feeding on tbe para- 

 sitic crustaceans with which sharks and other large fish are 

 infested, and on the sma'ler pieces of flesh which are left un- 

 noticed by the shark when it tears its prey. On seeing a 

 solitary pilot-fish near the vessel one day 1 attached a small 

 gtvt-hook to a trout-fly line, and tried various baits, such as 

 dried cod, herring and beef, without success. I, however, 

 succeeded in hooking him with a snra.ll piece of pork fat, but 

 ■unfortunately the point of the hook afterward gave way. 

 Mr. Moscley, in his interesting book, " Notes by a Naturalist 

 on the Challenger," says: "The pilot-fish often mistakes 

 a ship for a large shark, and swims for days just before the 

 bows, which it takes for the shark's snout." This, however, 

 is not. I think, always the explanation of the pilot's appear- 

 ance without its messmate. Sharks are often known to 

 accompany a vessel for days together, swimmine- unobserved 

 beneath when the vessel is in motion, and only appearing 

 during a calm. This I have been assured is the case by 

 many sea-faring men and competent observers, and it may 

 often account for the pilot's apparently solitary appearance. 

 — The London Field. 



Destroying New Jersrt Fisheries — Beabright, N. J., 

 Nov. 21. — The -wholesale destruction of moss-bunkers by the 

 crews of steam fishing-boats sent out along the northern New 

 Jersey sea-coast by the. owners of fish-oil and fertilizer 

 factories caused a heavy loss to Monmouth county this year. 

 It has been claimed by eminent lawyers that the Stale au- 

 thorities had no right to enact laws prohibiting fishing in 

 New Jersey waters by boats owned in other States, even if 

 they did destroy fish that attract bass, cod and bluefish to the 

 shore of New Jersey. In answei to a letter upon this sub- 

 ject, Spencer F. Baird, United States Fish Commissioner, 

 says: "It is generally believed that the United States has 

 the right to regulate the sea fisheries off its coast within 

 three miles, but the said right has not been acted upon by 

 the generd government, and it is probably within the power 

 of New .lersev to enact reasonable legislation on the subject. 

 The Slate of Maine has assumed this right by limiting purse- 

 seining for menhaden, etc., within a two-mile line." At the 

 coming session of the State Lesislature the question will be 

 brought up for action. A bill prohibiting fishing for men- 

 haden by the crews of steam vessels within two miles of the 

 beach is being drafted for presentation to the Legislature. — R. 



Thr Angler's Note Book.— A publication but little known 

 on thiB side of the water is the "Angler's Note Book and 

 Naturalist's Record " and yet it is of the hiahest order of 

 merit. The book is a quarto issued monthly until twelve 

 numbers are given, and then it is stopped until convenient 

 to begin another series. The " Green Series," so called from 

 its cover, ceased with 1880, and we now see that another will 

 be begun. The prospectus fays : "The distinctive feature 

 of this series will be the reproduction of the angling matter, 

 ungarbled, from old, scarce and valuable books, and more 

 especially from such as onlv deal incidentally with fishing, 

 and which, though necessarily included in the libraries of 

 grfeat collectors, are forbidden, by consideration of space and 

 expense, to those who content themselves with a modest 

 gathering. Of the more important reprints copies will be 

 taken separately on Dutch hand-made paper." The .price is 

 not given, but that of the last was six shillings, post free. It 

 is published by W. Satchell & Co., 12 Tavistock St., Covent 

 Garden, London, W. C. 



Maine Fishing Notes.— Portland has packed about 

 100,006 bbls of mackerel this season, an increase of twenty- 

 five per cent, over last year Six large vessels recently 



loaded at Eastport within ten days, with sardines and other 



fish The Eastport Sardine factories are busy ; one week 



recently the workmen's pay-roll amounted to between 

 812,000 and $15,000; one boy earned over $14 cutting fish, 

 and several others $s to $10. Smelt fishing is lively at 



Damariscotta $3,300 has been paid this season at Bangor 



as duties on cans containing lobsters from the provinces ; the 



fish come in free, and the cans only pay a small duty 



Persons are now employed in Rockland harbor trapping 

 flounders for the New York market ; the fish are worth from 

 $3 to $4 a barrel in New York Some of the Maine fisher- 

 men are employed in the waters of Virginia. 



A New Reel Seat. — We have recently seen a new reel 

 seat which we think is an improvement on the old-fashioned 

 sliding ring. The reel is held in place by a flat, stiff brass 

 double spring, which is bedded in Ihe butt and held in place 

 by a screw in the centre. Each end of this spring bears 

 against a ring which is fast in its place- at either end ot the 

 reel seal, and to put the reel in position it is slipped under 

 the forwaid one first and then moved baelt under the other. 

 The spring is stiff enough to keep the reel in place at all 

 times, and will aUow reel-plates of different thicknesses to be 

 used. It is patented by Mr. C. F. Orvis, of Manchester, 

 Vermont, who will add it to all his rods in future. 



Where the Trout Hid.— I notice in my letter to Judge 

 Caton, published by you Oct. 20, in one place where I said, 

 this sediment is softer and not so white an the more solid 

 part. You had it, not so white and the more solid part. 

 Again, where I wrote I took an eight-pound whitefish near 

 the ore dock, you have it near the one deck. There was but 

 one dock at that time : there are three now. I think you were 

 right about the irout hiding in the sediment as there is 

 nothing else for cover in Trout Lake. — A. F. Young. 



That Nine-Pottxd Fi.y— Escanaba, Mich., Nov 15.— 

 Editor Fore.-t and. Stream: That, captious critic, "D.,"in 

 Forest and Stream, Nov. 10, must be off his feed. I 

 think the rule of telling fish stories is not to fa'l below the 

 mark. I had rather make the fly weigh nine pounds than to 

 get nine hundred miles from tbe truth. He says, "one of 

 your corespondents Bays, etc." I say it was not one of your 

 correspondents.— A. F. Y. 



JUisffculttm. 



THE GOLDEN ORFE OK IDE. 



R E 



a large scale near Cincinnati, O., received twelve 

 live golden orfe from his father, who is a prominent carp eul- 

 turist m Germany. This we believe to be tbe second importation 

 of this fish into America, the former lot having been received by 

 ProfesBor Baird and sent to the nonda of the Maryland Fish 

 Commission, at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore. 



This fish is a purely ornamental one. It surpasses (he gold 

 fish in the depth of its golden redness, which shades off to white 

 on the abdomen. It has been afflicted with almost as many 

 names as it has scales. It is a cypriuoid fish related to the tench 

 of England and to the "ahiner'' of New York, l.eiwixaus. To 

 begin with its systematic nomenclature, the, Germans usually fol- 

 low Heckel and call it, Mun melanotic. It in (lie J.rnai.wiis' Idas 

 of Gueuther; ('yprinim idu.i and O. orfn.i of LinuieUK, etc. For 

 common namesit has in different parts of Germany the following • 

 Gold-orfe, nerfling, rotlling, ure, urf, elft. find erfel. fu France it 

 is 1'orfe and in England golden tench, as the Tinea vulgaris re- 

 sembles the fish in question somewhat. In America it has been 

 called '• golden ide" and "gold orfe." The. former name has 

 mislead by its sound until it has been thought to be gnlden-eved, 

 therefore the name of orfe would seem to be preferable. The- 

 golden orfe is an active fish, and from what we have seen of 

 them in tbe aquaria of Germany, a smarter, handsomer fish than 

 the gold fish for all purposes of ornament. It, is said to bear 

 close confinement in a small amount of water better than the gold 

 fish, which is much abused in that rer-pect. Looking down upon 

 a school of golden orfe in a fountain they present a gorgeous 

 sight. We were also informed that the orfe obtains its golden 

 color soon after leaving the egg, which makes it more valuable to 

 those who know bow dilatory the gold fish ia in the matter of col- 

 oring, few obtaining a golden hue before the second vcar, many 

 not until the third, and some never assnmingit. 



We have no doubt of the complete success of this hardy fish in 

 our country, and in fact those in Baltimore have thriveu in the 

 large ponds in the | ark, and see no reason whv it should not be- 

 come a general favorite. Wo think that. Mr. Eckardt is associated 

 in business with Mr. Hugo Mulertt, the dealer in aquaria, etc.. of 

 Cincinnati, who lately contributed a valuable article to our col- 

 umns on the Chinese' "Paradise Fish," Marrnnmhix, which be 

 bred last year from an imported pair. Tnilv this is au age when 

 no country can keep all its good things within its borders, espe- 

 cially if it be a fish which a fisbeultnrist of another land has con- 

 sidered a desirable acquisition to the. fauna of his own. 



HOW MISSOURI CARP FEED AND GROW. 



I HE following is & specii 

 ' S. Fish Commission s 

 written by a gentleman in 

 publication, we do not give 

 enough to make his whole 

 done. We give it as it was 



iien of many letters received by the U. 

 ince the distribution of carp. It was 

 Misson "i and, not being intended for 

 his name. He is evidently enthusiastic 

 farm into a carp pond, if it could be 

 written : 



August 24, 1881. 



to r 



r Sir— After many months of hope and fear I am ready now 

 j and explain. Tbe carp which I received from you a year 



ago last June showed no sign until late this spring, when I "(..... 



one of them that appeared to be about, sixteen inchea lung. I sup- 

 posed that the rest of them had "gone up the spout :" bo a friend 

 went to the station to get ten younu ones for himself and also as 

 many for me. These latter were about fenr inches long and in 

 good condition, and hope revived again. They were cast like 

 bread upon tbe water, hoping to see them again after manv days. 

 That was about the first of Juue. On the 15th of June, while tak- 

 ing my usual walk around the pond, the water seemed to be moved 

 in Borne myst-rious way and, on looking. I saw a groat multitudo 

 of little fishes, so great that no man could number them ; the sur- 

 face of the wRter was literally black with them. 



O ! Mr. Baird ; no pen can write, no tongue express the joy and 

 happincBs 1 felt. Like the little negro, in telling bis experience, 

 he said bo " felt as happy as if de angels were pouring 'laases on 

 his head." Well, I saw them throe days in succession and then 

 knew it was no idle dream, so I told the neighbors the pleasing 

 story, and they came to see the fish and rejoice a while with me, 

 but nary fish we saw ! Day after day and night after night f 

 looked, but nothing saw. Where were the fish, and where was tbe 

 happiness I had enjoyed 'I Was it all a delusion, a fraud, a Biiaro? 

 I got the ague (you have done had 'em. haint you ?) and after 

 going through 1 1, ose beautiful, healthy, life-restoring gymnastics 

 of shaking, etc., I walked one day. pensive and alone, around 

 the pond. The bank seemed to tremble beneath mv feet ; I doubt 

 no more. The placid water became like n huge boding caldron. 

 lashed into foam by — shall I say it '.' — by the fisil 



They were floating so high that their heads, tails and fins were 

 visible chasing one another around like lambs at play. I believe 

 the least of them to be t-r-n inches long, and think that the first 

 twelve are all alive and fnlly two feet long. Three of them swam 

 at my feet. I could have reached them with my hand, the head 

 of one at the tail of another. They looked like some great sea- 

 serpent. Yesterday I took some dry bread and seeing the tail of 

 one of the big ones flapping out from the bank, where he waa 

 rooting, I dropped some crumbs. He came out and began to eat, 

 and in less than ten minutes (I guess, because f could not count) 

 I could have reached forty of them with a two-foot stick. There 

 ia no deception in this I The neighbors have seen them float and 

 play and are more astonished at them than I. 



The oarp have rooted out the flags, or cat-tail, as thick as your 

 wrist, and flags bis feet tall are chawed off as though a calf had 

 ■ ' rs say that tbe fish splash in the 

 san't lead their mules up to the 

 prised to find the carp out in the 

 redid they come from V Are u.,1, 

 of last year's hatch? One-foni -th 

 of my pond is covered with grasses, on which they feed like cat- 

 tle on a thousand hills. I will add six or eight nci cs to the pond 

 this fall. What more can I do ? Advise me, lest they eat me up, 

 as'they have the mosB. 



done it. Some of the ueighbc 

 water so at night that they 

 trough, aud I would nut bo su 

 cornfield some morning. Wb 

 those ten and twelve inch 



CARP FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHERN 

 NEW JERSEY. 



Wenonah, N. J. 



Editor Forest and Stream .- 



I havo established a rendezvous at 607 Arch street, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., from which I am now distributing the Government Carp in 

 Ea-teru Pennsylvania aud Southern New Jersey. I am personally 

 in attendance at the rendezvous on Wednesdays and Saturdays 

 of each ,voek. The demands for carp are nuinerous, but the ,,up- 

 1 ly will be equal to it. A large percentage of those receiving 

 carp, however, might as well dump them into a " fiery furunce " 

 as into the places where they place them— d.ep ravine ponds, mill- 

 ponds, etc., devoid of suitable vegetation and already stocked with 

 catfiBh, pike, bass and other predatory Varieties, 



Commendable preparations are being made throughout South 

 JerBey for engaging in carp culture, and numerous ponds havo been 

 constructed according to scientific principles and embodying ull 

 the latest improvements. In carp culture, as in an.y other busi- 

 ness, perfect system is necessary in order to insure success. With- 

 out system failure will be the ride. Mini ox P. Peibck. 



[While we agree with our correspondent so far as to believe that 

 mul-ponds may not be the best places for carp, we must say that 

 they usually contain vegelatiou, and we find that gold-fish not 

 only live in them, but that the latter abound in lakes where all 

 the flBh he namoa abide. We argue that where the gold-fiiJi Uvea 

 the carp will also, even though many of the young are devout ed.] 



