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ghiogheny; nor of the rapid stream of Sunfish, the solemn 

 waters of Black Creek, the rocky walled waters near the 

 Cascades, or farther up the Allegheny, the enchanting waters 

 of Silver Falls outlet, the last the' home of the "speckled 

 beauties." 



Now, is not this city peculiarly blessed with places where, 

 the lover of the rod may enjoy himself'/ and I say, for what 

 more may the angler ask? 



But my friend says, "Write, and be assured before com- 

 ing" Trayeleu. 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Tell "Stranger," who asks for information about angling 

 in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, to call at No. 79 Mulberry 

 street, and ask for Harry Irwin, and he can post him. Call 

 about 6:45 P M. 



AMONG THE PICKEREL. 



Though thou flshest only for trout and salmon, despiso not thy 

 hurable brother of the angle who flndeth pleasure in taking even so 

 mean a fish as the bullhead or pickerel. 



4 UTUMN is with us. The bass have retired to Horicon's 

 ^_V tranquil depths, and gathered in schools, meditating 

 on.the narrow escapes of the last season. Overhead in the 

 Clearwater they see the form of our friend with the open 

 countenance (the pickerel) lazily floating past. He does not 

 care for schooling, ami even now is waiting for some one to 

 play hook-ay with him. That is certainly a barb-arous joke. 

 We must draw the line, somewhere, arid as the breeze has 

 hauled round to southeast, Basin Bay will be as likely a spot 

 as we can find. A. long pull dead to windward/ with a 

 gentle sprinkle now and again, as the wind cuts the crest of 

 a wave and slaps it vengef ully down on our backs, and we 

 round the point; a few strokes and we glide into smooth 

 water, a sheet of about ten acres in extent, laud-locked on 

 three sides, but open to the east. This is Basin Bay, famous 

 for its big pickerel. 



Out iu the lake the white caps are. flashing in the sun, 

 while here all is calm as a poud, the only break on the still 

 surface being the occasional play of a cat's paw that, tempted 

 by the quiet beauty of the scene, has left its boisterous com- 

 pany outside, and wandering in, now dances daintily to and 

 fro Oter the water. With a good stout line out we start 

 diagonally across to the. other shore, keeping the spoon just 

 off the grassy bed on the bottom, in range with a dead cedar, 

 backed by a' tall maple a short distance From it, which, glo- 

 rious in ltd rich attire, blazes like a beacon iu tile woods. 

 Over and back! — evidently they are asleep below there! 

 What's the time? Half-past eleven? Soon show up now! 

 Try it again and with a little, more line this time. A_n in- 

 spection shows the spoon hidden in a handful of long, green, 

 trailing strings. Scraping the bottom, hey? Now it is buz- 

 zing nicely; give a little more, then! and with 125 feet of 

 string out we start again, and this time on the skirt of the 

 grass" we strike, them. T-s-s-ook! and the old bamboo rod 

 bends like a bow, just enough spring in it to hook 'em with- 

 out tearing out. The line is taut with the strain, aud the 

 drops which cling to it sparkle like diamonds iu the bright 

 sunshine as they chase each other down its vibrating length. 

 Laying the rod in the bottom of the boat you grasp the 

 line, and hand over hand, incomes your li-li. Splash; sook; 

 sook; soo; "let him run; let him run; don't check him too 

 suddenly, now then!" yard after yard, until you see his 

 white belly gleam as, with a sweep of Ids broad tail, he turns 

 exhausted on his side; swisL-h-h; "ease him, quick!" This 

 time only a feeble struggle ; and now becomes rapidly to 

 hand under your steady pull, his mud-colored back making 

 a ripple on the surface. Here he is alongside, and grasping 

 the Stretcher you stun him with a sharp, quick blow on the 

 head; then seizing him firmly, and thrusting your thumb and 

 finger into the sockets of his deep-set eyes, lift him out. 

 Careful handling saved him, for as he gives an ugly shake 

 the hooks fall from his jaws aud rattle sharply as they strike 

 the thwart. 



There is nothiug in pickerel fishing like the wild dash 

 andfrantic jump of the bass; but a big one will "strike like 

 a major," and his spasmodic starts for liberty will often take 

 the novice by surprise, otherwise he comes in like it water- 

 soaked log. Another thing in his favor is his size, ten or a 

 dozen of the real old sort of seven to nine pounders make a 

 nice. show, aud when spread out in front of the hotel on the 

 grass, amid the "Ob's" and "Ah's" of the ladies, you may 

 select the big one. of the lot, and gently stroking his chin, re- 

 cite Gordon's epitaph : 



Here lies the hotly of Robert Gordon, 

 Mouth— almighty, aud teeth aecordin', 

 Stranger, step lightly o'er this wonder, 

 If he opens his jaws, you're gone, by thunder! 



Dick. 



PHILADELPHIA FISHING NOTES. 



ALL through the shad-fishing season at Gloucester, N. J., 

 black bass, out of season, have been taken in the big 

 seine, and marketed, not in great quantities, to be sure, but 

 when the net was iirst. hauled, some female baas heavy with 

 spawn were caught. This is not generally known, from the 

 fact that the catch is all dipped from the bag of the seine 

 into the market boat, twenty or thirty yards from shore, and 

 cannot be seen, Had I not been told by one of the fishermen 

 1 would nol have known. Last year several salmon were 

 caught at Gloucester, but this season none have shown them- 

 selves in the net 



Weakfish are still being caught by the thousands down 

 our bay liy the net fishermen of Slaughter Meek. The bulk 

 of risli taken are used for manure, and are purchased by the 

 farmers for a small sum. 



A few sheep's-head are being taken at Little Egg Harbor, 

 but the run is small. Next mouth the larger fish will show 

 themselves. I would recommend ('apt. Joe Shords and 

 Geo. Morris as pilot- for am of your readers who may want 

 to test their patience at Qua sport. Both can 'he engaged at 

 Tuckerton, N. J. The great trouble with me when sheep's- 

 head fishing at this point was ma the lack offish or their 

 biting, but for a long time never knew when they were 

 taking my bait. I have since learned. Homo. 



The Grayling, iu upper Michigan waters, are biting 

 vigorously. Several parties from Toledo are now encamped 

 on the bank of the An Sable, thirty miles from Grayling, 

 and report fine sport. One party of four, just returned. 

 caught 471 during four days' work. Grayling are monopoliz- 

 ingall the interest formerly manifested in St. Clair Flats 

 bars.— Whip (Toledo, June 20, 1882). 



VntorMA Trouting. — We are told that good trout fishing 

 is to be found in Dry Run, Rockingham county, Va., in the 

 vicinity of Pawley Springs. 



TJw Mettncl 



J/jisffcitUure. 



SALMON AT THE McCLOUD HATCHERY. 



THE following notes on the catching of breeding salmon at 

 the TJ. S. Salmon Hatching Station on the Met 'loud River. 

 Calif orru'a, during the season of lgSl, may tie of interest. 



The number of ripe salmon cauirkt at each haul in the seine 

 commenced to increase about the middle of August, and on 

 the eighteenth of August I thought it safe to begin to collect 

 salmon eggs for the hatching house. On that day we took 

 one hundred and forty thousand (140,000) egg*, the parent 

 salmon appearing to be very thick in the river. The next day 

 we took two hundred and tweutv-five thousand (225,000) and 

 by September 2, we had exceeded half a millon a day. The 

 next day we took more yet, and from this time till we Stopped 

 fishing we could have" taken a. million a day,. if necessary. 

 Ripe sahnon never were so abundant before in the MfeClouii 

 River during the fishing season. We. caught frequently at one 

 haul of the seine more than we used to catch a few years ago 

 in twenty-four hours. The salmon were very large too, the 

 average weight of the spawned fish be ing several pounds 

 more than last year, and the average number of eggs to the 

 fish being 4,205, "against about 3,000 in 18S0, and a still smaller 

 number in 1879. 



In consequence of the abundance, of spawning fish, com- 

 bined with their large size and average of eggs, the fishing 

 season was made comparatively easy this year. When sal- 

 mon are scarce we have been in the habit of drawing the 

 seine continually, night and day, through the twenty-four 

 hours. When they are plentiful, the regular time- for draw- ' 

 ing the seine is from four A. M. to ten P. M. This year, on 

 account of the extraordiny abundance of the fishj we fre- 

 quently had to make but two or three hauls a day, and even 

 at this rate we took all the eggs needed, (seven million five 

 hundred thousand! before the spawning season was half over, 

 a piece of good luck that never came within our experience 

 before. 



I may add here that this vast increase in the number of 

 salmon in the river is the direct result of the artificial hatch- 

 ing of young salmon at this place. For several years past the 

 United States Pish Commission has presented to the State of 

 California two million (2,fJOO ( ,Q0Q) salmon eggs or more each 

 year. These eggs the State Pish Commission has hatched 

 each year at its own expense, and has placed the young salmon 

 in tributaries of the Sacramento. This artificial stocking of 

 the river has resulted in a wonderful and wholly unprece- 

 dented increase of salmon in Sacramento. So great has been 

 the increase that the annual catch of salmon in the Sacra- 

 mento River is worth nearly half a million dollars more than 

 it was seven years ago, before the hatching operations were 

 resorted to. This one result of the work done by the United 

 States Pish Commission on the McCioud River would ob- 

 viously be ample compensation for all the outlay which has 

 been made there, supposing that it were attended with no 

 other results. Livin gston Stone. 



the Mcdonald fishway. 



Manchester, Va., June 15, 1SS2. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



Some time since I wrote you concerning the McDonald fish- 

 way at Bosher's dam on the James River, promising then to 

 give you further information as to its working during the 

 present running season. I have paid considerable attention 

 to the way this spring, and am entirely convinced of its com- 

 plete efficiency. I have had the gates shut down at various 

 times, and have almost invariably found more or less fish on 

 the fore bay at the head of the ladder and upon the ladder it- 

 self. I have never seen a shad upon it, but there have been so 

 very few shad up there this season (being but three caught in 

 that part of the river, with nets, that I have heard of), that it 

 would have required constant watching to have discovered 

 one, except by the merest chance. If any shad have ever 

 gotten to the foot of the ladder I have no question they have 

 gone up, for there is absolutely nothing to prevent them. 

 The smaller dams between Bosher's and tide-water have 

 been very much built up and added to within the last twelve 

 months and I think that is mainly the reason of the scarcity 

 of shad higher uj) the river. There is an effort being made 

 now to have the McDonald fishways put upon these dams in 

 time for another season, and if successful f haVe no doubt we 

 will see plenty of shad going over the Bosher's dam way next 

 season. 



In mv former letter I said 1 believed 1 could push a boat up 

 the ladder if there was plenty of water. I accomplished that 

 feat this spring, shoving one with a pole entirely to the top, 

 the weight of the boat and myself going up an incline being 

 the only difficulty, the current being positively nothing. 



All of the fishes common to the river, such as mullets. 

 yellow suckers, carp, perch, bass, gars, catfish and eels have 

 been seen upon the ladder in quantities. Upon shutting the 

 gates down at one time, there were found nineteen mullets 

 and one yellow sucker at the top of the ladder, stopped in the 

 act of passing. 



The Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company, whose 

 duty it is to construct these fishways on the James, have 

 never completed the one at Bosher's, having failed to run a 

 deflecting wall from the foot of the ladder to turn the current 

 from the ladder into the main stream coming over the dam, 

 which when done, I've no doubt, will make the way much 

 more effective, enabling the fish to find their vruy more 

 readily to the foot of the ladder. When the railroad com- 

 pany build ladders on the other dams on the James, which 

 the law requires them to do within another year, 1 have little 

 doubt that the shad, as of yore, will be regular visitors to our 

 mountain regions. That the McDonald fishway presents an 

 efficient and economical means of getting them there, there is 

 no doubt, and it only remains to have the ladders put up to 

 accomplish the f act. J- W, ri. 



FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES.— Toledo. O., June 

 10, 18S2.— Editor Forest and SI ream: We have read the article 

 from Mr. D. Y. Howell, in your issue of June 1, which we 

 think gives a very fair solution of the vexed Bsh question. 

 The views as there expressed meets the general approbation 

 of the fishing interests at this end of Lake Erie. We indorse 

 it fully.— J. H. McLean & Co. 



Pike m QSBnJA Lake.— Chittcnango, ±n t . Y.. June 21.— 

 In On rda Lake which la five milac fi.mi h-r;, th-re has 

 not been within fifteen years as good fishing as there is now. 

 B is com non to Batch from fifty to one hundred pike in a 

 day's fishing, They will average about two pounds each. 

 We think here that it is owing to having hunted up the 

 nets, which has been done successfully. Let the good work 

 go on. Lake Port is the point I have reference to.— L. E. S. 



CONNECTICUT.— Superintendent of State Pish Hatcheries 

 Henry S. Penton reports that in the State 535,000 brook trout, 

 .";r, 000 Penobscot salmon and 111 ,000 land-locked salmon eggs 

 have been planted, Dp to date, 1,2000,000 shad have been 

 hatched and placed in the rivers. 



FIXTURES. 

 BENCH SHOWS. 



April 3, 4, 5 and 6,1882. Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Fifth Animal lieneh Show, Pittsburgh, P«- Entries for Hie flench 

 Show Derby, lor English setters whelped on or after March i. isse, 

 close December ]. IBS:.}, ('lias. Lincoln, Superintendent. I. H. Stay- 

 ton. Secretary, Allegheny City, Pa. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



September i.— National American Kennel Club Field'Trinls on Prafrin 

 rihickens. Fairmont. Minn. Entries for the Derby close .July 1, for the 

 All-aged, Sept. -!. Jos. H. Dev,, Colainl.i'i, Tenn., Secretary - 



iNovember 17— Eastern Fieid Trials Club Field Trials on Quail, near 

 High Point. N. C. Entries for the Derby close July 1. For the All- 

 A<eil and MMhbera' Stake, November 1. F. N. Hall, P. O. Box &S4, 

 New Tort, Secretary. 



December 4— National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Quail, 

 Brand Junction. Tenn. D. Brysoh. Memphis 'fear... Secretary. 



December 11— New Orleans Gun Club Field Trials or Quail. Opclou- 

 :,:<-.:.< Entries close December HI. J. K. Renault, Secretary, New 

 Orleans, La. 



SPANIEL CLASSIFICATION AT THE NEW YORK 

 DOG SHOW. 



fT^HK writer being a greenhorn as regards spaniels, invested 

 I. five half-dollars for as many separate admissions to the 

 last New York Bench Show, and devoted from two to four 

 hours on each occasion to the examination of the dogs on ex- 

 hibition. Being specially interested in the spaniel class, most 

 of bis time was spent in examiningthe do :;s coming tinder this 

 category, Ills object being to acquire information regarding 

 this class, and of studying the characteristics of the different 

 varieties. As a greenhorn, he ventures a few criticisms, to be 

 taken for what they may be worth, and subject to correction 

 when wrong. 



"Class 5-T. Irish Water Spaniels." In this class we find 

 entry No. 046, Rover. This was certainly a handsome dog, 

 and the writer envied the owner of it. But what was it? It 

 was a liver dog, with wavy (not curly) hair aud a bushy tail, 

 looking as much like an Irish water soaniel, as the dog is gen- 

 erally described, as a half-bred liver setter would. Now this 

 dog was clearly either a mongrel of some sort (like the "Eng- 

 lish retriever") or else belonged to a breed not described by 

 any authority that I have been able to consult. In either 

 ease he. had ho business in the. class in which he was entered, 

 and I ask whose fault it was that lie was entered in this class? 

 Can an owner enter a dog in any class he pleases— as a setter 

 in the pointer class, or a bull-terrier in the bull class — or Is 

 there some one whose business it is to see that dogs are cor- 

 rectly entered^ One would naturally suppose that this func- 

 tion belonged to the superintendent or to a competent deputy 

 who would examine, each dog on its arrival, and if incorrectly 

 entered by their owner, assign them to their proper class. 

 The dog in question was certainly a beaitty, and I herewith 

 ask its owner what it is, and how it came to be iu class No. 54? 



"Class 55. Spaniels (other than black) over SiSlbs." In this 

 class we find entry No. 055, Nellie. This bitch, when brought 

 into the judging ring, looked about fifteen pounds, and the 

 writer will give up as a. guesser if she weighed an ounce above 

 20Ibs. How then is she entered in tin's class? Entry 056, same 

 class, is ' 'Ten puppies nine weeks old. " This entry was probably 

 correct, provided they bunched the whole litter to make up 

 the weight, but "why, may I ask, were they not placed in 

 "Class 59, spaniel puppies (any color) under 12 months." 



In the same, "Class 55, spaniels (other than black) over 

 :.'Slbs.." we find the first prize given to "Nero, liver, 11 

 months. Bob III. -Black Bess." This dog was certainly hand- 

 some, but both sire and dam were distinctively black spaniels, 

 and !\ T ero was by no means a true liver, but rather, if appears 

 to me, an off color black, and I think be should have been 

 placed among the black or else in "Class 59. Spaniels, puppies 

 (any color)," in fact, in the same class with his own titter 

 brother "Doctor, black, 11 months, Bob III. -Black Bess." 

 How is it that two full brothers of the same age are entered 

 in different classes? Doctor certainly deserved the first 

 prize in the class in which he was entered, but why, may I 

 ask, are not different varieties of puppies classified in the same. 

 manner that adults of the same varieties are? The blask 

 spaniel, according to modern standards, differs almost as 

 muchfi-om the. old English-Welsh liver, and liver and white 

 cocker, as a bulldog does from a bull-terrier, but the puppies 

 of both sorts are mixed together, and in accordance with the 

 present rules for judging the blacks will inevitably get the 

 prizes. 



The result of this wdl be that commercial breeders will soon 

 breed the blacks exclusively, and that the old stvle cocker 

 will be at a discount, and be only bred by amateurs who be- 

 lieve the latter to be superior for sporting purposes. If now 

 the black spaniel is the better dog for a - <, , rem m s use, let 

 some one who knows say so, or give his reasons. As a green- 

 born I offer no opinion on the subject, but look for light to 

 experts. I would like to ask another question. Why is a 

 black spaniel under SSlbs. called a "black cocker," and how 

 was the weight in t his breed of dogs, if it he a distinct breed, 

 raised to between toandSOlbs? Where does the black come 

 from and \\ hat are its special advantages.' Compared with 

 liver, or liver and white, is the black superior in nose, in trea- 

 tability, in endurance or in adaptability to pursuit of more 

 varieties of game* The prediction has been made that the 

 spaniel before many years will supplant, both the setter and 

 pointer as a sportsman's companion in tile Pastern aud Middle 

 States, and it therefore becomes a pressing question as to 

 what variety of spaniel wall on the whole prove most useful. 

 If the blacks, let us know it, and transfer the liver and whites 

 to the non-sporting and fancy class, and let them be bred 

 simply as house dogs of good looks and pleasant disposition. 

 The matter, however, ought to be delin tely sett ed, not by a 

 show of hands merely, but by good and sufficient argument. 



Paasir o 'Glass 8, eoeta - .. a As (other than" black), 

 under SSlbs.." we find entry No. 606, se-en puppies. s,. 

 when there is a puppy class, these should have been entered 

 in it. I am aware that an owner lias the option of entering 

 a puppy in an adult class, but think that the rule permitting 

 it should be re-r-hided "Class .7.1. spaniel puppies (any color) 

 under }■: months," permits a mingling of water spaniels, black 

 Spaniels, held spaniels and cocker spaniels; that is. dogs 

 which, when adUlt, may vary from 20 to 501bs. — and compels 

 them to be judged together, a manifestly unfair arrangement, 

 as there is no standard by which they can all be judged — the 

 'points" varying decidedly in each of the varieties, men- 

 tioned. 



Reviewing the matter, we find but six classes allotted to 

 spaniels, while twenty are given to setters, and yet the differ- 

 ent varieties of setters resemble each other more olo:-"Iy than 

 some of the varieties of spaniels, We hope, therefore, that 

 at some futuie show the spaniel classes wid be sub-divided, 

 with separate classes tor dogs and hitches and puppies qj 

 each varietv— possililv also champ-on .o. - - i -o that 



there will be some one whose I US ae - that dogs are 



not manifestly misplaced as ree.: ; class Scatnon. As to 

 points tor judging let those who admire the black spaniel 

 n^ri^ upon a standard, and those who prefer the liver and 

 liver and white agree upon one, aud not as at the last Cleve- 

 land show attempt to .judge both by the same. 1 1 



necessary, as the black spaniel, whether be be over 01 ' 

 Mti-, is 'quite a different dog from, the other. Which is the 

 better and more useful type of dog the writer does not at- 

 tempt to judge, being only a 



The Bhantford, Ont., Caledonian Society and Lacrosse 

 Olul) will hold their athletic games July 18. 



Greenhorn. 



MS. A. J. KELLY, who has for some time been c 



i laltimore Kennel Club, as trainer, has resigned the 

 position, and will leave July L 



