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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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"The i ■ ' itiou were marked by more something jerked. The line became taut, the Iiat assumed 



ualftly of mere ! v& afeto ;, £nd the toy - the appearance of a liattcred hour-grass, and 1 recognised a 

 ' ,[ '• "' sneak-thief on the other side, a livfily salmon-trout, disputing 

 : ' ' . '" possession, having snapped up one of the. hoppers, as the 

 en mani- I mnn rni1 lne l '°P c " ,|,i lliU ' a (:l,f t0 ' f > though perhaps with- 



Ileiv was . .■ emergi ucy I had not anticipated. The 



frightened iish dashed about with the usual vigor, the iiat 



going uuder at times, and bobbing up, and gyrating in 



comical fashion; the line tightened and slacked, and the reel 



-, fairly smoked with friction. 1 wanted the furniture more 



t Mi*^!, for m in-.nl.er-, ,„n ,= e c ; ,- f dy united fa • , ^ ., w fa ( , ;mrm)miseil , JV giving him 



VOV Wi'le i. at t'he < , lo.-'iim nn'Vi> neuLs c.) . I. e C' " ven- , . ,. , ' , . , ... , , ' .,. . - v >• i 



l in and gave the members good words of cheer in 1™ freedom; but he manifested no conciliatory feeling. A 



i : . ■ ■, i iabiD betw 



every w ovd and actios. Jt 



aid in tins or 

 or difference — 

 sp n. '■,.' convention which has just closed. In bhi 

 not OBI UarSh word 01' cuttinp: sarcasm was 

 heard. The obiectof the association seemed to Onoroughlj 

 .,..,. every speaker and tone every paper from first to 

 i! breakers of the game laws wiU ttnd bhey have no 

 ble . e I a grapple with in the State Sport mien's Asso- 

 ciation of M' ' ' 

 unit. Mayor 



■ -edition ot tncir 



1 i-lly in ByHipatll 



j ■,. [emen nave i 



. as. but the impres 



manent one, and one i 



, revolutionize the. ] 



tag on amid th 



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Forest and Stream: 

 tq your last issue, in the report t 



of it 



of Michigan. 



.... lortsmen's As,- 

 i , rbr 1 am reported as d< 

 stricken out of bhepresej 

 ■ i hereas Tdt si) ed th m h 

 the ami >nj ection, 



mil rly reported 



neetioll with our annua 



i his you will exo 



l'er a favor upon. A 



, held i 



rig the. W 



bhi 



3s from the exit of the iiot spring water from the 

 mOUntain-Slde is a Stretch of White sandy shore which I was 

 rapidly nearing, and here at last I got fish and liat.to land, 



thi j can fit weighing at least five pounds, hat and all. 



As much like a. fish-story as this way seem, it is no ex- 

 aggeration, though of course you will have to take my word 

 for it. 



it is unnecessary to tell how and where and by what man- 

 euvers the, rest of the morning's complement was caught. 

 of the Micbi- I By ten o'clock I had twenty-two t.n ail. of full weight, and 



Rf.x. 



-light. 



ity, b 

 Is "whiles* 



to the killing of deer, 

 reasons mentioned in 

 neidencs, my position 

 ns a year ago in cou- 

 insihg. By kindly in- 

 ne.onsisfenev and . ■ ■ ■ 1 1 - 



feeling satisfied for the nonce, ptdled my hat firmly on my 

 bead, ' and went back to camp. Jerome Burnett. 



$m and 



liver Mhking. 



MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE. 



Why is the moon like a sword? 

 Because it is the glory of the (k)night. 



ET us turn again to nature for the verification of the 



"And shall you never come bade?" she said, 



Where she stood by his side in the porch rose-covered— 

 Op in the jasmine over her head 

 A psacock butterfly poised and hovered. 



And ever through hush ot the languid noon. 

 They heard like the beat of a ceaseless tune, 

 The mill-stream fretting, foaming; churning— 

 The mill-wheel plashing, droning, turning. 



—The Mill-Wheel., by May Pi-abj/rit 



A HAT FULL OF TROUT. 



MY brother and I were camping on the Grand Kiver at the 

 Hot Sulphur -pi ;i,: , C olorado, and having a grand time 

 hunting, fishing, climbing t he mountains, and storing health 



and happiness for yet 



termiiied lo take his pi 

 of which he was makin 



One morning I 



de 



nerals. 

 ■ led to 



in same fcrou.1 

 hoppers for bait, pick 



i :.: early morning 

 Stringing them on a tl: 



Having obtained a 

 stream where, th 

 it would be difi 

 line could be w 

 spots, I . . i 

 logroll:,! n t 1 



Though 



ig them c 

 ehen the 



ead by 

 supply 



I 



.cult 10 



stand in flu 

 wed, and tl 



nd go in Quest of : 

 a collection, and 1 



id flies Ave used grass- 



■ bushes and the grass 

 :e stiff with cold, and 

 if a needle, 



i. lo a point a mile up 

 f little falls. Finding 

 hit current, where the 

 ait thrown to attractive 

 d, after much labor, in getting a large pine 

 e river, and against a huge rock, just above 

 ds below which there were pools of deep 

 water A little wading was necessary to reach the log, but 

 om e out Ms re was dry footing. 

 The first cast was' signal for excellent, sport. A nimble 

 Mi,: took the lure and went off with much spirit, but 

 soon returned to rny feet, and surrendered. Weight, three- 

 quarters oi a pound! The second cast brought in his mate; 

 and, one after another, six of the same size were landed. Then 

 I changed my position, going to the further end of the log, 

 where my weight and the pulsating current made it dis- 

 agreeably unsteady. But , you know how it is, the spice of 

 adventure, the keen sport, and all that, give one a feeling 

 i : ' inly a ducking or some such disaster can check. 



Presto ! 'his was the place for Sir Humphrey Davy, or 

 any other man v.dio loved sport. Getting ready to throw the 



same Unruffled calm possesses it: still, and as we near its mar- 

 gin we see the cool, crisp brilliancy of the stars reflected 

 from its face, seeming as though it held them in itself, and 

 that their silver gleams came from its own liquid depths, not 

 from above. Lighting a cigar and finding a. comfortable 

 seat on the gnarled and curling roots of an old cedar, we are 

 prepared for this, our second, communion with our Creator's 

 works. Why is it that we feel awed and impressed as we 

 gaze up into the heaven above with its endless array of gems 

 gliding majestically on and on to eternity? The plaintive 

 calls of the loons cause a momentary sadness to come over 

 us, soon dispelled, however, by the. Changes constantly going 

 on around us. All is hushed as in the splendor of sunset a 

 few hours before, but it is the hush and silence of ex- 

 pectancy, and we involuntarily listen as though about to 

 hear the opening chorus of some grand anthem. The stars 

 still gleam in the throbbing water, and as our eyes wander 

 over the mountains reposing in grand shadow-like masses in 

 the distance, Jupiter swings into sight over the far away 

 stunmits, and throws a pure silver 1 bread across the surface 

 right to our very feet, bringing vividly to our thoughts the 

 Indian maiden, who, long ago, met her faithful chieftain on 

 these shores, under the, beams of this same planet, (see 

 Cooper's "Deerslaycr") and as we watch it climbing upward 

 an increasing splendor seems to fill all the atmosphere, grow- 

 ing and broadening in glow, until the full moon, the crown- 

 ing glory of the night, rolls noiselessly up, paling the stars 

 into softness as she sails along in their midst. 



"Soon as the evening shades prevail, 



The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 



And nightly to the listening earth. 



Repeats the story of her birth." 



The lake is a mass of joyful ripples, whicli dance and 

 sparkle in the moonlight flooding over all as the soft night 

 wind now stirring breathes upon them. JSTature has proved 

 that our answer is true. Do you still doubt her? Question 

 her and satisfy yourself. Akox. 



WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER? 



THIS one-sided question, "Which would you rather do or 

 go a-fishing,'' by whom fathered I know not, is very often 

 thrown at me, and the answer invariably is, "Go a-fishing," 

 and so I wotdd. We all have bobbies, have we not? Some 

 folks ride theirs to death. Fishing is mine, but the cares of 

 this world and the pleasure (?) of working on a salary for 



hooks, the rod, in my effort to maintain equilibrium, dipped, | somebody else keeps me from riding mine so far. 



and the bait dangled on the water by the. log, when they When I was big enough to go to school up in the country 



were snapped up" and taken off down tire river with the where we lived, I soon learned that boys' pockets contained 



velocity of a chain shot from a frigate. Away went the sundry odds and ends — slate pencils, marbles, tops, strings, a 



fish making leaps clear of the water, and not stopping to 



catfih Ills hreath until he bad run off one huml, ed and 



twenty-fire feet of line. Then he turned and went into an 



eddy to the right, giving back twenty feet of the tine, which 



was quickly put on the reel. As the silk tightened he started 

 :or shore and then down stream. As I could 



with a little help from Stuart we got him into the boat again. 

 We had quite a mess of fish, but they were biting lively just 

 then, and you know how hard it is to reel up your ] ia ' 

 give up when things are just so; hat this all'.;; . stopper 

 on the fun, and we all felt that our fishing for that day was 

 d ?.. Poor Sam never wanted to go fishing again. 



I had been up in Brown's Tract (Adirondaclts) for three 

 weeks, and only a few days remained oi my vacation. One 

 day I said to my guide : "John, 1 want two or three sticks 

 for canes for friends. Suppose we. go up to Fourth Lake 

 Si ream and cut some." "All right." said John; " id.e your 

 tackle along and we'll get some trout and some minnows for 

 the boys." ~ So wc started out, got a lot of minnows and a. 

 few trout, and then landed and cad tin canes. .John stepped 

 down off the bank into his boat and took his seat, holding 

 the boat alongside a clump of roots from which I was to step 

 into the stern. I placed one foot in all right, but as ifiy sec- 

 ond went in the canes caught tn the branches, of the tree ; ■ 

 the boat shot out from me like a flash, and somebody 

 overboard mighty quick. As my head came up I reached 

 for a root, of the tree, shook the water out of my eyes and 

 scrambled up t'ne bank. Then I took a survey. ' John still 

 sat in his seal with his feet on the gunwales, Bis boat half 

 full of water , and everything afloat and demoralized, 

 soon as my breath came I had a good laugh at the affair, and 

 many a time since has the smile come to my face, and John's, 

 too, at the quick passage to the bottom of Fourth Lake 

 Stream. J. K... Jr. 



New York. 



Angling fou a Eat.— New York, Feb. 3.— Believing that 

 angling items are scarce at this season of the year. I send you 

 the following exciting account told me by the gentleman him- 

 self. Mr. LV , an accomplished and well-known angler of 



this city, while sitting in the "sanctum" of a fishing tackle, 

 dealer the other afternoon calculating how many days before 

 the trout would be at his mercy on Long Island, suddenly 

 noticed the head of a big rat peeping from behind the counter. 

 Hastily rigging a small hook on a stout line and putting on a 

 piece of cheese for a "stretcher," Mr. E. proceeded to angle 

 for "Brerr Rat*'. in the most approved style, and as carefully 

 as if for a two-pounder on the South Side. Presently there 

 was a smart tug. "I've got him!" shouts Mr. E. "Give him 

 line!" "Wher's the gaff?" "Pull him in!" etc., etc.. are 

 shouted by the excited lookers on, while with his usual skill 

 and great display of nerve, friend E. plays him until the rat 

 is used up, and following the advice of the Forest .iva 

 Stream, he kills him with a rat-tailed file. — W. Hoi/berton. 



Smelt Fishing in Maine.— The Belfast. Journn.1 says: 

 "The advance guard of the smelt fishers have pitched their 

 canvas tents on the ice, above the upper bridge, and entice 

 the silvery fish up through holes cut in the ice. On Saturday 

 there were eleven tents, eight single and three double ones. 

 A few fishermen were upon the ice without shelter. The 

 smelt fisher believes in comfort. Each tent is supplied with 

 a stove, which not only keeps the fisher warm, but supplies 

 him with hot coffee for dinner. A seat, is arranged alongside 

 the stove, while at his feet is a yawning hole in the ice 

 through which hang his four lines. About ten pounds per 

 man is an average day's catch." 



Salmon Disease in Gbeat Britian.— For the past year 

 or two our English exchanges have been filled at certain 

 seasons with accounts of a disease among salmon. It mani- 

 fests itself in the form of a fungoid growth which re 

 resembles that often seen upon a fish which has been injured 

 by nets or by handling. This fungus is evidently the effect 

 and not the cause of the disease. We now read in a Scotch 

 paper that "a mysterious disease prevails among the salmon 

 of the Tweed which is decreasing their numbers to an alarm- 

 ing extent. It. is estimated that fifty per cent, of the fish 

 are affected. The epidemic is attributed to overcrowding." 



A Correction.— Sauk Centre, Minn., Jan. 28, 1883.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream. — Your correspondent at Sauk 

 Centre, Minn. , ' 'Dell, " states in a recent number of the Forest 

 and Stream that W. C. Brower fell into the lake-while on a 

 hunt with Long Prairie sportsmen. The statement is wrong 

 in every respect, not one of the party met with a mishap of 

 any kind. — Walter C. Brower. 



jack-knife, and very often a. piece of fishing-line, a sinker 

 and a book. When opportunity offered a split bamboo rod 

 was easily found growing in the woods or alongside the 

 stream. So to get rigged up for fishing was a very simple 

 matter, and many a. time I have done it, too. And now that 

 the skating pond on top of my head is very smooth and bare, 

 not follow I was about to give up the fish and save what . and my locks whitening with my fifty winters, I find myself 

 line 1 could, when, to my surprise, he suddenly turned and | just as fond of the gentle art as when a boy at school. 



me tip stream like an iceboat in a gale, not halting- until 

 he was at the foot of the rapids, leaving a hundred feet of 

 line playing in the turbid waves. Fortunately he was tired 

 and sulky,' and the slack was regained without disaster. 

 When again he shook his head and telegraphed defiance along 

 the line of communication. 



1 thought, at this turn of affairs, it would be very difficult 

 to laud hirn out there or the log, and determined to get care- 

 fully on shore. While endeavoring to walk the now slippery 

 log." and keep the trout in hand, my foot, slipped, and — 1 



But the pleasure I have had with my fishing-line in all 

 those years is a something priceless to me. I can sit on these 

 winter nights and think over companions in the art, adven- 

 tures sometimes rather scary, "mishaps laughable, and withal 

 the keen enjoyment ever fresh and ever new. 



One day my friend Jim lleid and I went over to a certain 

 rock on Long Island Sound forblaekfish. We sat fishing at 

 a place where the rock rose about four feet above high water, 

 when all at once something gave my line a yank, and before 

 I could think I was overboard. How or why I never knew, 



The Young Idea. — Schoolmistress (just beginning a nice, 

 improving lesson upon minerals to the juniors) — ■ "Now, what 

 are the principal things we get out of the earth?" Youthful 

 angler, aged four (confidently) — "Worms."— Ex. 



The Expensive Terrapin. — An item is going the rounds 

 of the papers, that at the recent dinner of the Olivier Club of 

 Cincinnati, the terrapin cost six hundred dollars. 



went into ice cold water up to my waist. At the same time but there I was and unable to swim a stroke. As soon as 



ii.'i got off and started on a. voyage by itself down my head came up I grabbed hold of a spur in the rock and 



toward the grand canyon of the Colorado. A friendly stuck there; hut poor Jim was as crazy as a loon. He ran 



branch from the log enabled nro to keep perpendicular, and around on that rock as though it was red hot. I sung out to 



somehow I managed to get out, my hoots full of wider, and him to pass me the end of his rod and then help me out, but 



nay Mdor and clothes much dampened. Bui the fish was on he was too seared to do even that much, llowever, the rock 



vet, and in a f ew minutes I had him in hand. He weighed got cooler and so did he, and finally I was hauled out, very 



t ■'■ o and I love-quarter ponuds, and was the largest we caught j wet and awful mad. The first thing I did was to give him.a 



i ! good thrashing for his prompt assistance, and then T stripped 



'ing eciuod the fish, the next object of thoughtful off my wet. clothes and spread them in the sun to dry, so as 



'.eh the hat; It was a serious matter to lose to save myself a thrashing when I got home. 



■I,, i ! m article of apparel. There was not a 

 bat store, junk shop, nor coruc-r grocery within sixty miles, 

 and if was a poor place to borrow. A wolf-skin cap might 

 have been constructed; but first an attempt to capture 'the 

 old and familiar article was in order. 



my trips down New- York Bay after -weaknah, 



my friend Stuart said he wotdd like to take Sam J 



along. This was in the days of the Yohmtcer Fire Depart- 

 ment. Sam was odc of "the boys" and a good fellow. So 

 we met. early in the morning" and started. All went well 



By the iinte J got. to shore and had the trout in my hunt- until late in the afternoon. We were then anchored about 

 ing-eoal. pocket, the bat was a quarter of a mile' away, two miles below the point of Staten Island near "the old 



bobbing a a.1 iota ly, and apparentlyhavingaui.ee time. 



Eod ihhand I started in pursuit, and overtaking the truant, 



ie line, on whiGhl had tjujekly put a split bullet, 



black buoy." The tide was running out very strong, I was 

 at the bow, Stuart in the stern, and Sam in the middle. I 

 was busy putting on a bait, and in doing this had to- squat 



<$istimlhtre. 



REPORT OF THE WISCONSIN COMMISSION. 



r ]PHE eighth annual report of the Fish Commissioners of 

 X Wisconsin, for the year ending Dec. S3 i- : i is before us, 

 A change has been made in the olliee of Superintendent. Mr, 

 H. \V. WeMfer having tendered his resignat on, tot 

 in August, the board appointed Mr. M. T. Bailey to lie bis 

 successor. ' A new hatchery. 24x45 feet, with an upper story 

 for the residence of the assistant superintendent, has been 

 built near Madison, and now gives a capacity to hatch nearly 

 S"i;;,iJi)0 eggs of brook trout. The cost of this btuldingwas 

 $1,501). Up to date 1,500,1X10 eggs have been taken and de- 

 posisited in the troughs. 



It is proposed to begin the hatching of wbiteflsh, and to this 

 end a hatchery is needed where lake" water can be obtained at 

 a reasonable cost. Here also the lake trout can lie r 

 and attention paid to other valuable fishes. < 'evb-ifi 

 sin bas facilities for this work and her fisfc 

 Lakes Superior and Michigan are great enough to d 

 assistance of the State in the good work of pri >] tags 

 able species, as the whitefish and lake trout. The three most 

 valuable, fishes in the State are those named. The two latter 

 as commercial products and the brook trout is an inducement 



•agate d 

 \'iscon- 



1 the 

 valu- 



it somehow .-.nd draw it: in. Bui it was no easj down in the boat li was so rough, when all at. once the boot 



in ihe phase was kept up a longdistance. . Finally gave a lurch, and raising: my eyes I saw Sam halfway over- 



ju.st above the hat, and lightening can fully board. Thought wa&aclion for with one motion I made a 



'■ i ■■ ; ; ! ii ' " ;1 threw myseli gth on the 



Ingthot] ....,:.,. . sawed him. and 



to the thousand! 

 State to fisl 

 tabfe value < 

 Of the raj 

 were receiv. 

 hatchery, tr 

 two tbdusai 

 trout, 



Pt 



elsewhere, who visit, the 

 i "' ! rive, tfmes the 



he repoi i says: "There 

 of 1880 itl iStati 



unpi mated eggs to Da ■ bail 



were successfully hatched and placed in one oi 



the ponds, There were also received at the 



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