FISH AND FISHING. 



WHERE LEAPS THE OUANANICHE. 



Following is a list of anglers who have recently 

 visited the Island House, Lake St, John, 

 Canada, and of their catches of Ouananiche : 



No. of Fish 

 caught. 



G. F. Gregory, Syracuse, N. Y., 

 E. G. Seymour, 

 Arthur Beebe, »" 



Dr. W. H. Brown, " 

 Mrs. W. H. Brown, " 



D. C. Olin, Kalamazoo, Mich., 

 W. W. Olin, 



J. Nelson Parker, Boston, 

 G. H. Thomson, Quebec, 

 Nelson G. Palmer, 

 H. W. Hawley. Chicago, 

 A. G. Hegeman, New York, 

 Dr. R. T. Morris, 



lulian Mitchell, Jr., Charleston, S. C 

 "Dr. R. R. Trotter, Yonkers, N. Y., 



E. M. Coats, Springfield, Mass, 



E. H. Sterns, " 22 

 H. A. Sherwin, Cleveland, O., 28 

 J. H. Walsh, 96 Spring St., New York, 16 

 A. W. Hooper. New Haven, Conn 

 L. C. Flynt, Monson, Mass., 

 A. D. Norcross, Monson, Mass., 



F. G. Nelson, New York, 

 E. B. Mayo, Boston, 

 TVI. D. Tyson, Baltimore, 

 E. C Quiggle, Hartford, Conn., 

 J. E. Nichols, New York, 

 Wm. B. Neal, Newark, O., 

 Wm. Sargent, " " 

 Geo. Cottrell, New York, 

 M. H. Hulbert, " 

 J. G. Hecksher, " 

 Jos. Gamble, Plattsburgh, N. Y., 

 J. S. Codman, Boston, 

 Wm J. Schieffelin, New York, 

 R. Bacon, Jr., Cleveland, O., 

 J. T. 'Carpenter, New York, 

 J.M.Pangmanand( Montreal 

 J. A. Hamilton, ) ' 



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State Fish Commissioner Kirsch, of Indiana, 

 has recently investigated the fishes of the Mau- 

 mee river and published the results in the 

 Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. He 

 finds the Maumee basin surprisingly rich in 

 number of species, the total number now known 

 from that river basin being no fewer than 87, in- 

 cluding 1 sturgeon, 2 gas-pikes, 8 catfish, c, 

 suckers, 25 minnows, 2 whitefish, 9 sunfishes, 

 and basses, and 13 darters. The number of 

 species of valuable food and game fishes is large, 

 among them being both the large and small- 

 mouthed black bass, the pike (Lucius lucius), 

 the muskallonge, the wall-eyed pike, the Sanger 

 and the rock bass 



The Nashua Club, of Nashua, N. H., con- 

 trols some excellent fishing and shooting privir 

 leges at Holeb, Me., on the Canadian Pacific 

 R. R. The following is a list of the members, 

 all of whom are residents of Nashua : 



Dr. Bradford Allen, George E. Anderson, 

 George F. Andrews, Frank Ayers, Mr. Dennison, 

 E. F. Emerson, G. B. French, C. F. Hamblett, 

 Dr. E. F. McQuesten, John F. Stark. 



The club preserves are located about half-way 

 between the Megantic Club region and Moose- 

 head lake. 



There, has been some fishing this spring up 

 the Potomac, but no very large catches. The 

 perch fishing, for the last two months, has been 

 grand. It is almost at our door. I took a walk 

 with a friend, not long ago. Saw parties fishing 

 with three snoods on their lines and raking white 

 perch, three at a time. Our bass fishing is not 

 good until fall. One or two frosts make it more 

 agreeable for the anglers, and the fish are 

 better. Our party generally gets off about 

 October 1st. Chas. Sully Wheeler. 



Washington, D. C. 



Walter M. Hazeltine, who contributes such 

 delightful poems to Recreation, writes from 

 East Bethel, Vt. : 



" Am once more among the green hills, where 

 I shall probably spend the summer, seeking 

 diligently ' for renewed strength and vigor, 

 which — after all — I hardly expect to find. .Fish- 

 ing is everywhere throughout this section re- 

 ported bad, the unusually heavy spring freshets 

 having done much damage, in the smaller 

 streams especially. 



Can you give me a recipe for dyeing silk worm 

 leaders a mist color ? 



W. D. Church. 



Ans. To stain leaders some persons use 

 strong tea, others strong coffee, leaving in a suf- 

 ficient time to take the color to such a degree as 

 may be desired A good stain is obtained by 

 boiling about 6 ounces extract of logwood in a 

 quart of water, or 3 ounces in a pint. Soak the 

 leaders in this about five minutes ; then put into 

 the solution a piece of copperas about the size of 

 a small egg or large walnut. Then wash and rub 

 the leaders. The desired shade may be obtained 

 by leaving the leaders in the solution a longer or 

 a shorter time. 



I live, during the summer, at Mr. O. N. 

 Thome's large farm house, i\ miles from Green- 

 port, L. I., and close to the shore of Long 

 Island sound, where I can breathe the salt air 

 and sometimes catch blackfish, sea bass and por- 

 gies. It is curious that I never knew a weak- 

 fish or bluefish caught here by hook and line, 

 though the nets often take them. 



Isaac McLellan. 



Greenport, L. I. 



Probably the largest jew-fish ever captured in 

 Texas waters was seined recently in Corpus 

 Christi bay. It weighed 

 entrails had been removed. 

 3 inches, and the largest 

 body was 6 feet 3 inches. 



863 pounds after its 



Its length was 8 feet 



circumference of its 



Please change my address on your books to 

 Blue Mountain Lake, New York, and send Rec- 

 reation there until further notice. I like the 

 magazine so well that I do not wish to be with- 

 out it, even in the Adirondacks. 



J. C. Allen, 247 Decatur Street, Brooklyn. 



