FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ebt.— This fine Irish setter, which, in another column 

 ' i« advertised for aalc, is a very desirable purchase; he is well 

 mda good hunter. 



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A New Bbked of Dog.— An actual incident at the Boston 

 bow. — Enter inquisitive old man and wife, near stable 

 iiiing a pup staghound, in process of retrieving from 

 1 isli attendant his morning's meal. 

 Old roan -" What kind of a dog is this, my friend ?" 



iish attendant— "Sitting Graveyard, No. 3, yer 

 Honor.'' 



it repeats information to wife, and passes on. 



Sawbones. 



Philadelphia. Dog Show.— There is to be a bench show of 



dogs in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, the last week of 



Between $1,200 and $1,500 are to be distributed in 



pri7,'S. The Adams Express Company will transport dogs at 



heir usual rates. All information may be obtained 



by addressing the committee, at Horticultural Hall. 



3m and Eiver Mi 



FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Slack Bass, Ificropierux salmoictes; W r cakfisli, Cynoscion.regaHs. 



icane. Bluellsh, Pomat&smts mltatrix. 



THascftlfinge, E.ioz nolrilior. Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula- 

 Pilce :OV Pickerel, Eno'X hwiws. turn. 



erch, Perca jlavencens. Cero, Cybium regale. 



Sea Bass, SeitmopnoceUatus. Bonito, Sarda pelwniya. 



Htvlpetl Bas.s, Roams linnsatus. Kingflsh, Menticirrus Jiebulosus. 

 oil, Morone amerieana. 



Fish in Market. — The supply still scarcej owing, as much 

 as anything else, to the bad weather. Bluefisb, as is their 

 wont, have turned to the South and are now being caught off 

 Capo May. Bass, according to size, 15 to 18 cents ; bluefish, 

 10 to 12 cents ; salmon, frozen, 80 cents; mackerel, 15 cents ; 

 weakfish, 15 cents ; white perch, 15 cents ; Spanish mackerel, 

 30 cents; halibut, 18 cents; kingfisb, 30 cants ; codfish 

 (soflrce of supply, Block Island), 8 to 10 cents ; blackfish, 15 

 cents; flounders, 6 to 10 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; sheepshead, 

 25 cents; scallops, $1.25 per gallon: soft clams, 30 cents per 

 100 ; la/ge do, 60 cents ; white-fish, 18 cents; salmon trout, 15 

 ceflta; hard crabs, $3.00 per hundred. 



The fishing for striped bass in the vicinity of New York is 

 remarkably good, and much sport is afforded. 



Movements of thk Fishing Fleet.- — The shore mackerel- 

 ing'Ueet continue in the neighborhood of Cape Cod, meeting 

 with indifferent success, ana it becomes more and more ap- 

 parent that the mackerel stock for 1877 will be the smallest. 

 The Bank fleet continue to make short trips, and bring in light 

 farts ; 12 have been reported the past week. The market has 

 been fairly supplied with fresh halibut, but the receipts of Bank 

 rndMi have not been large. We notice receipts of 145,000 lbs. 

 halibut and 365,000 lbs. Bank codfish. The Georges season is 

 iliuwing to a close. 20 arrivals have been reported since our 

 last issue, with 160,000 lbs. codfish and 6,000 lbs. halibut. 

 The stock on the market is small, the call fair, and prices well 

 sustained. Total number of fishing arrivals for the week, 48. 

 Ann Advertiser, Oct. 26. 



Rhode Island — Providence.— A. favorite resort for gunners 

 igue Pond. The pond is separated from Providence 

 by a long, high sand hill, which, with the hid and 

 woods opposite, completely enclose it. Here are found stone 

 Bolfte, meadow larks, plover and a host of other game birds 

 Beyond the pond are the cliffs, extending for nearly half a 

 mile toward the ferry, and then falling into low, broken 

 ridges. Below these cliffs is the favorite fishing of the neigh- 

 borhood. Bass, tautog, mackerel, and in fact nearly all fish 

 common to >iew England waters are here found in profusion. 



F. H. S. 



kk— Neio York. — The season for bass this year has 

 been an unusually long one. The piers along the North and 

 East rivers are daily crowded with fishers old and fishers 

 young, fishers rich aud fishers poor. 



A Big Pikis. — We saw iu Mr. Bell's atelier, on Broadway, 

 il pike which has been prepared for the State Museum at Al- 

 bany. The specimen was forty-five inches in length, weighed 

 nineteen pounds, and was caught in Warren county by a six- 

 teen-years old boy. 



Pennsylvania— Coneicago, Oct. 27.— Bass fishing at the 

 talk is the thing just now. 



Caluokna.— The State Fish Commissioners, from close in- 

 vestigation, have ascertained that the legal catch of salmon for 

 '-he past three years, counting the fish caught at points in the 

 jay below Bcnicia, and shipped to San Francisco or Sacra- 

 .niinlo, .was, from November, 1874, to the first of August, 

 1875, 5,098,781 pounds ; from November, 1875, to August 1, 

 J©?, 5,311,423 ; from November, 1876, to August 1, 1877, 

 1, i',15, ;>;:.. This shows an increase of about a million and a 

 quarter pounds for this season, and is an indication that the 

 inn were plentiful.— Pacific Life. 



SALMON FISHING. 



UBMOHANOA 01? A FORTNIGHT'S S0J0GKK ON A SALMON RIVEH. 



Albany-, October, 1877. 



-iirest andSthkam: 



" last year tlie river was so nigh that it was the 20th of Jane before we 



i 8su. This year the water was in splendid angling eondi- 



innou the 16th of May. But, as we deemed the Kith of June early 



: to be on the. ground, we lost the Eupveme sport which always ac- 



ompanies the first run. We regretted the delay when it was too late, 



md jnadu the best of our blunder. Froai I he grand sport we had you 



•an infer what we might have had if we had been on hand in time. 



iTUw II .—Began fishing at 7 a. m. and hooked, a fish at the second 



Everything was favorable, and lie was brought to gaff in thirty 



lmutes, lie weighed exactly thirty pounds. Iu five minutes I was 



econd. He was a very lively customer— showing himself 



' Ris times in as many minutes, and no wonder, for, when 



iltw au hour's hard fight, I landed him, I discovered (hat be had been 



ooked foul, no weighed twenty-eight and a half pouuds. My third, 



taken as soon as I could cast for him, weighed twenty-six pounds. 

 This was my morning's work with nearly as good sport in the after- 

 noon. 



j„nc V2.— Hooked and fought a large fish for an hour, when he ran 

 Into the rapids below the pool and broke oil. Next morning he was 

 caught in a net (the Warden's) at the mouth of the river nine miles 

 below. He weighed forty- four pounds. I had him within reach of 

 my gaffer several times, but he seemed to be afraid to strike. -T 

 would rather nave lost, half a dozen thirty ponnders, for he was the 

 largest fish hooked iu the river this season. Although I afterward fished 

 faithfully I fished in vain. The water was so low and transparent in the 

 pool I held that the fish were too shy to he lured. On returning to camp 

 I recounted my fight and failure, and my companion consoled-nie thus : 

 "FiSh oft are hooked and yet- escape withal ; 

 But better hook and lose than never hook at all." 

 June 1 3.— A fine morning and excellent sport. In one hour and thirty 

 minutes I landed three fl*h. The first weighed twenty-five pounds, the 

 second twenty-six pounds and the third twenty-six pounds. Before 10 

 o'clock I killed two others— twenty-eight pounds aud thirty-six pounds. 

 All these flali rose head and shoulders out of water when they took the 

 fly. I lost one fish— small, not over twelve pounds, but he was the Uve- 

 liest fellow I ever struck. I could do nothing with him his movements 

 were so eccentric and impetuous. 



June 14.— A furious gale rendered casting impracticable. I succeeded, 

 however, iu killing two fish by a sort of half troll— ten pounds and 

 twenty-nine pounds. I lost one because I was unwilling to disturb the 

 pool by following him through it. My poetic friend rebuked me fer my 

 excessive caution, thus : 



" To slight a hooked fish you should never oughter; 

 One fish in the boat is worth ten in the water." 

 June 15.— A lovely day— clear and balmy. Killed three fish weighing' 

 respectively, twenty-live pounds, thirty and a half pounds and twenty- 

 six pounds. Missed four handsome rises unaccountably, andlost one 

 by the hook breaking after a long right, I never had such a succession 

 of mishaps ; but you know " misfortunes never come singly but by bat- 

 talions." My poet friend comforted me with this couplet : 

 " While ill luck always makes the foolish rail, 

 Wise men are patient even when they fail." 

 Jii7ie 17.— Had unusually fine play in the forenoon with a large fish. 

 He kept me busy two hours before he was brought to gaff. He weighed 

 thirty- three pounds. The others of twenty-one and twenty-seven pounds 

 gave me a surfeit, for the clay. 



June IS.— I had a provoking experience this morning. I struck a fish 

 in swift water and after weighing anchor my canoe men made for the 

 still water on the opposite side ol the river— a distance of more than 200 

 feet. But the fish remained just where I struck him. This left 250 feet, 

 or niy line to be "sasged" by the current. The result I feared followed. 

 When the fish jumped, as he did repeatedly, the tension of the line was 

 so great that he broke off ; for "dipping the tip " under such circum- 

 stances is of no account. The strain caused by the current is beyond 

 your control. When I found that I could not draw the brute out of the 

 swift water I ordered my canoe men to go back. But it was too late. I 

 lost my fish . Mem.— Always under such circumstances keep as near 

 your fish as you can. A long line " sagged " by the current is a difficult 

 thing to handle. I afterward killed four fish, eleven and a half, fifteen 

 thirty-five and fourteen pounds. The latter was a slink— which, yon 

 know, is a salmon-angler's abomination— which induced the question 

 •' When may an angler swear?" Our poet responded : 



" ' When may an angler swear t ' Well, let me think ; 

 Why, when a salmonproves to be a slink." 

 June 19. —The fish are running very large. The three I took to-day- 

 weighed twenty-five, thirty-two and thirty-four pounds. No sport in 

 the world is equal to the rise, strike and capture of these monster fish 

 in swift water. 



June 20.— A very bright day and the water as transparent as the at- 

 mosphere, and very low. I have had at least a dozen " false motions" 

 from as many fish to-day ; that is, they would start for the fly with a 

 rush, and then, just before reaching it, stop as if shot and glide off as if 

 conscious of danger, I could reach but one conclusion ; the water was 

 so clear they could see the canoe, the anglers, the rod and even the tiny 

 line and leader, and were scared. Jock, the poacher whom Maedonald 

 immortalizes in his "Starling "knew what he was talking about when 

 hejsaid that salmon water was in its best trim when it had " a wee drop 

 porter in't;" that is, when it was rendered a trifle brown by recent 

 showers. A single fish of twenty- three pounds was all I could lure to my 

 fly, although my casts were never short of eighty feet. My friend was 

 even more unfortunate than myself, and thus recounted his bad luck : 

 " Pity the sorrows of . n angling tramp 

 Whose bark canoe has borne him to you camp; 

 For six long hours he's cast without a rise, 

 And now seeks comfort from your camp supplies," 

 June, 22.— To-day fish were everywhere lazily lying under the lee of a 

 rock, slowly sailing about in the transparent pools, or leaping in sheer 

 friskiness in their leisurely march toward the upper waters. Here, for 

 instance, in the pool where I have been casting, eight or ten fish have 

 been jumping all day. But nothing could lure them to the fly. After 

 casting steadily for several hours I finally rose a fellow who had not 

 baeu leaping and killed him, He weighed twenty-six pounds. In view 

 of this propensity of salmon not to take the fly when in this leaping 

 mood our poet recorded the following : 



"■When yon can win at cards without a trump 

 You may take salmon when they're on the jump. 

 'Mong the huge humbugs on this earthly ball 

 A leaping salmon is the king of all." 

 June as.— A phenomenon. My camp companion while casting with a 

 full Bized " silver doctor" rose and struck a young salmon which weighed 

 JUS.t half an ounce. He was a perfect beauty and r^e to the fly like a 

 little man. Although we fished faithfully all day this was the extent of 

 our spoil, whereat my friend thus philosopnized : 



" Weary and sad the angler seeks his lair, 

 When glowing hope is changed to blank despair." 

 And this also : 



" As well make dinner from an empty dish 

 As fish for salmon where there are no fish." 

 June 25.— A cloudy day and a fair eatoh. The fish are getting very 

 shy. If the water had been In good condition I would have trebled my 

 take, for the pools are full of fish. As it was 1 took but three— nine- 

 teen, twenty-one and twenty-four pounds, 



June 26.— Three days of very Indifferent success ; one day without 

 either a rise or strike. But we were at no time without good sport, for 

 the sea trout were large and abundant, and we took them weighing 

 from one to six pounds every day. For eating, as a steady diet, we. pre- 

 ferred them to salmon. But trout was not what we came for, so, as out' 

 poet said : 



" To cast- all day and never hook a fish 

 Is supping chalice from a golden dish." 

 So we concluded, like the Arabs, 



" To strike our tents and sadly steal away 

 Hoping to live to fish some other day." 

 My score showed that my first fourteen fish averaged fcwentj 

 and a half ponnds. At the close mv average was twenty-sue and a quar- 



ter. This is the largest average I ever made. But for three or ten, 

 thirteen and twelve my whole average would have approached thirty 

 pounds. My last year's average was twenty-five pounds. 



Three of party who went up to head waters had excellent sport. Thei 

 score was sixty-two, forty-five and thirty-eight fish in ten days. 



This year's experience has confirmed me in my opinion that the very 

 best time to fish is the moment the spring freshets have so far subsided 

 as to enable yon to reach the pools. I hope next year to be ou my fa 

 vorite river at just this best time, ft will be weary waituig, but the inter- 

 val will be tilled with the pleasure of anticipation. U-. I). 



Albany, Out., isrr. 



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Fish about Noefolk, Virginia.— We are indebted to Mr. 

 W. H. Seabury for the following valuable catalogue of tho 

 fishes found in the vicinity of Norfolk, Va. : 

 EDIBLE salt water fish. 



Rock (Striped Bass)— Remain nearly the entire year; ba't, crab or 

 shrimp. Gray Trout (Squeteague)— In season April to November ; bold 

 biters. Salmon Trout— Spots more distinctly marked than in gray; 

 similar habits. Roundheads (Kingflsh)— May to November. Saltwater 

 Chub (Black Fish or Tautoag)— Very seldom found here over five 

 pounds. Sheepshead— Abundant at- mouth of James, York and Hack 

 Elver. Porgy— Very similar in appearance to Sheepshead. Spot- 

 Small delicate pan fish ; in their prime in September, llogfish— The 

 highest prized fish for the table. Sunfish (Pompano)— Not very abund- 

 ant, Travailieur— Small pan fish ; lives by suction. Red Drum- 

 Caught mostly on sea and bay shore. Black Drum— Caught mostly on 

 sea and bay shore. Croaker— Always on hand during the fishing sea- 

 son ; fair pan fish. Maiden (Soup)— Very small and not abundant. 

 Menhaden, (Mossbunker or Fat Backs)— Norfolk harbor packed with 

 small fry. Black Will— A dark, perch-shaped fish, seldom ever over 

 one and a half pounds; caught near fresh-water creeks; not very 

 abundant ; bite occasionally. Bluefish— April, May, November ; caught 

 altogether in seines. Tailin-Smali variety of above stay from April to 

 December. Bonito— Large fiah from two to five and a half feet ; mostly 

 taken with a gig. Shad— In prime order generally in March. 

 Herring— Abundant. Hickory Shad— Abundant in spring and fall; no 

 very large ones. Flounder— Earliest salt water fish in market. Mullet 

 Jumping— Caught mostly at night by having a light at the bow of the 

 boat which they jump at. Mullet Sea— Sharp bold biter. Mackerel 

 Spanish— Do not take bait; caught on bay shore. Mackerel Bay— A 

 darker, heavier body than the Spanish. Jewfish or Tarpum— An occa- 

 sional summer straggler. 



VARIETIES not used for food. 



Alewife (Menhaden, Mossbunker or Fat Back?)— The harbor packed 

 with small fry. Salt Water Catfish— Caught near fresh water creeks. 

 Flying Fish— Not very abundant; bite occasionally. Gar— No very 

 large ones. Sting Ray— Numerous and troublesome. Dogfish— 

 Abundant. Skate— Not numerous. Shark— A few large ones occasion- 

 ally. Porpoise— Abundant. Eels— Very abundant and large. Pipe 

 Fish— A very slim round fisb. Foolllsh— Have a receding head ; often 

 strand themselves on the shore, hence the narao. Hippooimpus or 

 Porsehead— Occasionally seen. In addition to these varieties, the 

 seines often bring up rare kinds lor which the fishermen can give no 

 name. 



FRESH WATER FISH. 



Blue-mouthed Perch, Brown Perch, Red Fir Perch, Raccoon Perch, 



Pike, Pickerel, Robin, Qrlndle, Catfish, Mud-sucker, Sturgeon, Perch 

 White, Chub, EeJs— These are brought mainly from Currituck Sound 

 and the little streams flowing in, still a good many are brought from 

 the small ponds in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties. Fresh water 

 fishing is not much of an amusement here.- W. H. Seabury. 



Cooking Fish.— The editor of the Rochester Express has 

 been keeping batchelor's hall evidently, and gives the following 

 excellent result of his experience : 



Fish should be washed as little as possible, and white fish, 

 after being cleaned and wiped with a damp cloth, should have 

 the stomach stuffed with salt for an hour or two before cook- 

 ing. Fish should be put on in cold water, so that the inner 

 part may be sufficiently done and also, it is less liable to break. 

 This rule holds good, except for very small fish, or for salmon 

 boiled in slices, when boiling water should be used. The 

 time will depend ou the kind and size of fish, but it may be 

 easily known it is ready by drawing up the fish-plate and try- 

 ing if it will separate, from tlie bone. Here, as in other things, 

 practice is better than all the directions that can be given, as 

 so much depends on the strength of the fire and the size of 

 the fish. A little salt and vinegar should be always put into 

 the water, and some prefer their fish boiled in what is called 

 a "court bouillion," and this is how it is done : Lay the Ash 

 in the fish-kettle with enough cold water to cover it, add a 

 glass of wiuc or vinegar, sliced carrot and onions, pepper, salt 

 and laurel leaf, a bunch of parsley, a faggot of sweet herbs or 

 some of the same powdered ami tied up iu a muslin bag. These 

 seasonings impart a fine flavor to most boiled fish, excepting 

 salmon, and for fresh water fish it is considered very useful 

 for getting rid of the muddy taste they often have. 



-Pehsian Fisheries. — A recent report by Consul Churchill 

 on the trade and commerce of the province of Ghiler and As- 

 terabad contains some interesting information with regard to 

 the fisheries on the southern coast of the Caspian . ° From 

 these fisheries vast calamities of caviar, isinglass and dried 

 fish are exported every year to Russia and the Caucasus. 

 The sturgeon (called the seg mahi or dogfish), the salmon and 

 sslmon trout (called azad mi and sefud' mahi) abound in the 

 creeks and rivers along the coast of Ghilan and Mazenderan. 

 The former, the most valuable of the three, produces the 

 much-prized cavh;r, of which so large a consumption is made 

 iu Russia and in Turkey ; while the scfud mahi, when dried, 

 supplies the poorei"classes of the provinces, as well as those 

 of Shirvan, in salt fish at a very low price all the year round — 

 a luxury which to them is very palatable with their rice, 

 which constitutes their principal food. Within the last two 

 or three years the fisheries of Ghilan and MazeDderan have 

 been farmed out to a Russian subject named Leonozoff, who 

 has agreed to pay to the Persian government the sum of 41, 000 

 tomans a year for the monopoly. This contract is for five 

 years, and, although the amount thus paid exceeds the 

 amouut formerly collected by the government for the said 

 fisheries, it is calculated that a much larger sum might have 

 been paid for the said fisheries, viewing the profits made by 

 Leonozoff. When the winter season sets iu, and the fish seek 

 shelter in the creaks and up the rivers to spawn, upward of 

 five hundred fishermen are employed. It frequently occirs 

 that the fish are so plentiful— coming as they do in shoals— 

 that they are bailed out of the water at the mouth of the 

 creeks and rivers. Uuder such circumstances, as many as 

 30,000 fish are caught in a day. At other times prongs aud 

 hooks and nets are used. The sturgeon — which is deemed 

 "haram" or unlawful for food by the Pershns— is cut opeu 

 for the purpose of extracting the roe and the gelatinous sub- 

 stance on the back. It is then salted aud put into casks as is 

 also the caviar, and shipped for Astrakan (the headquarters of 



