FISH AND FISHING. 



Hackensack, N. J. 

 Editor Recreation: 



Every summer I go to my old home in 

 Stevensville, Sullivan county, N.Y.,and have 

 a week or two at the pickerel. I have just 

 returned from a trip there, in which 

 there was no disappointment. Alight- 

 ing from the train at Liberty, on the N. Y. 

 O. & W. R. R., I ' was driven across 

 country to Stevensville, on Stevensville lake. 

 This lake is 3^ miles long. I get a boat 

 for $3 a week, and good board, at the farm 

 houses, for $5 a week. 



I took in five days 164 pickerel, weighing 

 1 to 3/^ pounds each. On another trip I 

 took 104 pounds in three days, and have 

 made many good catches there. You can 

 always rely on getting a mess of fish 

 at Stevensville lake whenever you go, 

 and if the day should happen to be cloudy 

 I can guarantee you a good catch. If any 

 sportsman desiring to go to this place will 

 address me, I shall be pleased to give him 

 any information desired. 



C. O. Gardner. 



Chicago,Ill. 

 Editor Recreation: 



From a thoroughly reliable source I quote 

 the following, in regard to the Wisconsin 

 waters, near the Michigan state line: 



" Big Presque Isle, crab waters, the Ox 

 Bow lakes, and all lakes east of me are 

 being fished for market. From 100 to 600 

 pounds of bass leave this station nearly 

 every day from the waters mentioned." 



I know from experience that these mar- 

 ket fishermen, in the northern Wisconsin 

 and upper Michigan lakes, pretend to use 

 hand lines only, but that they also use nets 

 is absolutely certain. J. I. W. 



Messrs. Fred, and Benj. Adams, of Evans- 

 ton, 111., and a party of Chicago gentlemen, 

 went to the Turtle waters, Wis., September 

 1st, after bass and muscalohge. 



Fred. Spencer, Vezie, Me., caught a sal- 

 mon in the Bangor pool that weighed 27 

 pounds. J. H. Gould, Bangor, caught 7 

 salmon, and Mrs. Gould caught 1 that 

 weighed 9X prounds. Michael Quinn, of 

 the same city, caught 6 land-locked salmon 

 at Green lake. 



A schooner lately landed at Bangor, Me. 

 with 3,500 lobsters. 



Mr. J. B. Nellegar, of Chicago, has gone 

 to Livingstone, Mont., for a month's trout 

 fishing in the Rockies. 



Messrs. F. Blakemore and H. Haupt, Jr., 

 of Chicago, returned, recently, from Glen 

 lake, Mich. They report the fishing poor. 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 I returned to-day from Lake Keuka, 

 where several 2 to 4 pound black bass made 

 me feel young again. Have accepted an 

 invitation from the "Saginaw Crowd" to 

 join their car party in October. 



C. R. Sumner, M. D. 



Roberval Lake, St. John, Quebec, 

 Have just returned from a trip up the 

 Mistassini river, 90 miles north of here. We 

 had splendid luck with ouananiche. 



Harry P. Bigelow. 



Some years ago, while in one of the ferry 

 houses at Jersey City one evening, waiting 

 for a Brooklyn Annex boat, I observed one 

 of the R. R. employees sitting in a chair 

 looking down at his feet. The room was 

 built over the water, and on investigation 

 I found that this man had cut a hole about 8 

 inches square in the floor and was fishing. 

 He had a good string of tom-cods. He 

 seemed confused and begged me to say 

 nothing about it. Said he caught enough fish 

 each night for his family's breakfast. 



Chas. Sully Wheeler, 



Washington, D. C. 



Lieut. W. J. Pardee, U. S. A., who is sta- 

 tioned at Sackett's Harbor, caught, in the 

 St. Lawrence river, yy black bass one day in 

 the early part of August. 



Lena, 111. 

 Have just returned from a fishing trip in 

 Wisconsin where five of us caught over 300 

 pounds of black bass and pickerel in two 

 days. I am only 14 years old. 



Harry B. Nelson. 



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