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FOREST AND STREAM 
Washington, D. C., March 6,1874; 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The tie between Derrick, Sherwood and Williams, the result of the 
match of 23d February, was arranged to be shot off on the 2d of March, 
and all parties and theft friends were promptly on the ground at Kalo- 
rama and had proceeded to arrange the trap, when an order came from 
Major Richards, Superintendent of Police, that all pigeon matches in 
the District of Columbia should be broken up. Talking to the officer 
and his comrades who brought the order was useless, and the shooters 
had to adjourn to French’s to make other arrangements, and Jackson 
City, in Virginia, just across the long bridge from Washington, was the 
place selected, and will be hereafter the resort of all such matches. We 
fail to see any just reason why pigeon shooting should be stopped here 
and we do not know of any like precedent. I append the score: 
31 yards rise, 
Williams—0 100001100011 1—7. 
Derrick—1 0 0 1 1 1 I 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 C—10. 
Sherwood—0 1100010 1 01010 1—7. 
Referee—French; Judges, Marr, Wardell, House. J. N. D., Jr. 
Toronto, March 6,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Our second shoot did not take place as was anticipated on Saturday, 
21st ult., on account of the death of one of Toronto’s oldest sportsmen 
whose funeral was held on that day, so it was postponed until Tuesday, 
the 24th when it came off on Lumber’s farm. 
In the last match they should have shot at fifteen birds, but on account 
of scarcity they only shot at ten birds each. In this they shot at fifteen 
each, with the following result: 
Yards. Score. Total. 
18 _James Rose.. . ..1 1 0 1 0 6 1 0000 1 0 1 1— 7 
19 _J. Maughan.1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1— 7 
19.. ..C. Pickering.0 110101 1111101 0— 10 
21 . J. Taylor.0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0— 8 
19_J. Kennedy.1 0000 1 1 01 1 1 1 00 0— 7 
18.. .. J. Morrison.1 1011000101011 1— 9 
18. . ..S. Herring . 100000000 0—Withdrawn. 
18 . . W. Smith. 10110010100001 1— 7 
18.. ..R. Ardagh. 0 0101101001101 0- 7 
We had another shoot on Saturday, February 28, when J. Morrison and 
J. Taylor tied, and not having any more birds the match was postponed 
until nezt Saturday,” March 7th. Toronto gun club. 
Akron, Ohio, Feb. 28,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
We have a very live sporting club, organized in town here named 
Summit Sporting Club. We have fine club rooms, a library and cabinet 
of curiosities. A few of us have your paper and consider it the best one 
published in the interest of sportsmen. Our State legislature, now in 
session, have a bill before them asking the passage of a more stringont 
game law. It is advocated warmly by the State “Grange,” and as warm¬ 
ly opposed by remonstrances from several counties. At present it is im¬ 
possible to say which will prevail. The following is a copy of the bill:— 
That the Legislature of Ohio be respectfully urged to amend the game 
laws of Ohio so as to secure to the owner or occupier of lands all game 
thereon; to make all persons who shall catch or kill the same upon the 
premises of another liable to the owner or occupier of said land for the 
value of said game, and for all damages resulting from the catching or 
killing by said trespassers, and it may be made a penal offense, punisha 
ble by fine and imprisonment, for any person to go upon the premises 
of another for the purpose of killing aforesaid.” 
mi md Bitter 
FISH IN SEASON IN MARCH. 
Speckled Trout. Land-locked salm on 
Salmon Trout or Teague. 
Exception is made in the State of Pennsylvania, where the close sea¬ 
son does not end until April. In New York, the season begins on the 
15th of March and in Massachusetts on the 20th March. 
Pompano. 
Snapper. 
Grouper. 
Rockfish. 
southern waters. 
Trout, (Black Bass.) 
Drum, (two species.) 
Kingfish. 
Striped Bass, 
Sheupshead 
Tailorfish. 
Sea Bass. 
—On Sunday, the 13th instant, the close season for trout 
ends in this Btate, and we doubt not that anglers will hasten 
to avail themselves of their privileges. We hear of large 
delegations booked for the several trout ponds and streams 
on Long Island, and we doubt not Carman’s, Aaron Yail’s, 
Suffolk and South Side Clubs, Minell’s and Massapqua, and 
the Cedar and New Bridge creeks will be fringed with rods 
as thick as cane-brakes on a southern bayou. If any of 
these ambitious gentlemen are fined $25 for fishing on Sun¬ 
day, it will not be because we did not warn them that such 
a penalty attaches to a violation of the Sunday law. And 
yet the temptation to violate the law will be great. 
—Three parties, Nat Miller, Nelson Hawkins and a color¬ 
ed man have been indicted by the grand jury at Riverhead, 
L.I., for stealing young fish from the ponds of H. J. Bishop 
and the Suffolk Club, for whom Miller was keeper and 
constable. Nelson Hawkins became Miller’s bond when he 
was elected constable. The result of the trial is looked to 
with great interest by sportsmen on Long Island. Bellport 
is situated on the south side of the Island, where are located 
some of the best trout ponds in the country. Mr. Bishop 
is determined to prosecute fully, and he should have the 
sympathy and encouragement of all sportsmen in detecting 
and punishing wrong doing. If these men are guilty they 
should have full punishment. 
—Princess Bay is now alive with oyster men planting 
their Virginia seedlings. If we were to call these hard 
working fellows aquaculturists it may be they would think 
themselves insulted, as the fish-woman was when Daniel 
O’Connel told her her husband was an octahedron. 
—Dr. Fletcher has lately procured two hundred and sixty 
thousand salmon eggs and placed them at Robinson’s Fish 
N ursery in Meredith Village, N. II. When hatched they are to 
be placed in the Connecticut River. A combined effort is 
to be made this year, by the Fish Commissioners of several 
States, to test the capabilities of the Holyoke Dam for the 
passage of salmon. Dr. Fletcher has also procured fifty 
thousand salmon trout, which he contemplates putting into 
Ossipee Lake and Six-Mile Pand, which are connected with 
a rapid stream of water. 
—A bill is before the Maryland Legislature that provides 
for the appointment of a State Fish Commission, and no 
doubt will become a law. A law for the same purpose was 
passed by the Legislature of 1870, and expired without any 
appointment under it. 
—Walter M. Brackett, Esq., the innimitable painter of 
beautiful trout and an earnest devotee to the sports of the 
wildwood, sends us the following notes upon the character¬ 
istics of the salmon of the Pacific: 
A careful examination of the California salmon, (salmo quinnat) which . 
come to our markets, discovers that they differ materially from the salmo 
solar of the Atlantic. They have no dark spots below the lateral line, 
which our fish have. The dorsal and caudal fins are thickly covered 
with small black spots, which our salmon have not. Tne proportion of 
the head to the body is as one to four, whilst the fish of our coast is as one 
to five, and sometimes five and one half. There is still another difference 
which to the angler is a very essential one, namely, the entire absence of 
beauty of proportion and graceful outline, with no more to attract the 
eye than the ‘bluefish’ of our waters. Our salmo salar, as you well know 
is as beautiful as a poet’s dream, and worthy the admiration of the most 
cultivated and refined angler that ever cast a fly upon the limpid waters 
of a Canadian salmon river. To even draw comparison between this 
beautiful creature and the ugly, bullheaded and awkward fish we get 
from California is nothing short of rank heresy.” 
It should be’ stated iu behalf of the California salmon 
that those that appear in our markets have lost their lustre 
by being long caught, while it is known that they are gen¬ 
erally taken during the‘summer when they are by no means 
in their prime, and lack the more brilliant hues and shapely 
contour of the winter runs.—[E d. 
—We are in receipt of the following letter dated at En¬ 
terprise, Florida, Feb. 25, which we deem important in 
evidence of our persistent advocacy of fly fishing for bass, 
and our statement which some captious persons have 
seemed to think ought to be taken cum grand sails -. At 
Palatka, in 1872, we took large numbers of bass with a 
Leonard bamboo fly rod of eight ounces weight, and aston¬ 
ished George Lucas Und'other old fishermen of the town by 
the extraordinary .results of this (to them) new method. 
The same season, from off the bridge that crosses the St. 
Sebastian, back of St. Augustine, we took bass with flies, 
fishing on the flood tide, just about an hour before slack 
water. Here is the letter:— 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Your “Fred Beverly” is probably now among the Everglades, and will 
hardly be able tp transmit to you a record of the very fine fly fishing for 
bass (grystes salmoides) we are now getting here. Two diys ago I was out 
with a light trout rod and flies, add took thirty-five bass and two perch; 
total weight, sixty-four pounds, besides a garfish. Sometimes I throw 
but one and at other times three flies. I found the fish to rise freely to 
large trout flies. Twice I took triplets, and frequently couples. Just 
before dark the white miller is very taking. 
Yesterday Mr. T. J. Falls, with a split bamboo trout rod and flies, took 
eighty-eight bass and three perch; total weight, 128* pounds, besides 
three garfish and one alligator gar. The most of his work was done with 
a fly tied by himself of red body and wings of the “robin snipe” and 
jungle cock. lie sometimes used three flies 1 ana once took triplets and 
frequently couples. 
The largest bass taken here this season was captured with the fly by 
Mr. E. D. Lawrence, of Louisville, Ky. It weighed eight pounds. The 
spoon is now at a discount here. B. Hackle. 
—The Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Fisheries 
have reported the bill concerning lobsters in a new 
draft, forbidding their being caught under 101 inches in 
length , • 
—The Littleton, New Hampshire, Republican reports 
numerous violations of the fishery laws along the ponds 
and streams of the White Mountains. It says:—“We saw 
a handsome string of pickerel and some trout going home 
last Saturday. We hear also of another pond in this vicin¬ 
ity from which these came not long since, at the hands of a 
veteran angler of somewhat more than three score and ten 
years, a trout weighing two pounds and ten ounces.” The 
same paper states that the town of Lake Village, N. H., 
captures and exports a million of minnows every day. 
—Last July, John Como, one of the crew of schooner 
Magic of Gloucester, caught a small halibut on the Banks, 
on which he took a notion to cut his initials, and threw the 
fish overboard, not expecting to see him again. This season 
he shipped in schooner Mary E. Daniels, and while hauling 
his trawl on the Grand Banks, about a fortnight since, dis¬ 
covered, to his great surprise, the identical halibut he had 
marked some eight months before. The schooner arrived 
at Gloucester on Wednesday, and the halibut was on exhibi¬ 
tion at the wharf of the New England Fish Company. 
The initials were plainly discernible, although the fish had 
grown considerably since they were cut. This is no fish 
story, but a veritable fact, and the circumstance is certainly 
a most remarkable one.— Gloucester Advertiser. 
—From the Overland Monthly of this month we copy the 
following, taken from an interesting article on the head 
waters of the Sacramento:— 
“All the rivers are stocked with splendid trout; the Mc¬ 
Cloud River—easily reached from Shasta by wagon-road— 
containing a rare species, called the Dolly Varden, from its 
large red spots, known to the Indians as the Wye-dul-dicket , 
and found in no other stream in California, and nowhere 
out of the State, except possibly in Oregon. This is be¬ 
lieved to be the same fish ^escribed in some of the railroad 
reports as Salmo speciiUlis. Besides the true brook or river 
trout, the Sacromento and McCloud contain the large 
salmon trout, and in the season—at its height in July—are 
filled with salmon. Castle Lake is one of the best fly-fish¬ 
ing places in the State. As this whole northern region is 
wild and little explored, there being few settlers apart from 
the stage-stations along the one road running between Red¬ 
ding and Yreka, game has not been thinned out or scared 
away, and there is an opportunity for some original explora¬ 
tion. The few Indians remaining are mostly domesticated, 
and none are troublesome. 
— The Maine Legislature u has amended the game laws 
so that the killing of woodduck, woodcock, or English 
snipe is forbidden between January 1 and July 4, and the 
killing of quail, grouse, or partridges between January 1 
and September 1, under a penalty of not less than $5 nor 
more than $10 for each bird killed. Only sporting with 
firearms in the killing of these birds is allowed. The kill 
ing of larks, robins, swallows, sparrows, or orioles is not 
allowed between January 1 and September 1 under a pen 
alty of $5 for every bird killed. This, however, does not 
apply to the killing of robins on one’s own premises dur 
ing the period when summer fruits are ripening. Any per¬ 
son who maliciously destroys the nest, eggs, or unfledged 
young of any wild bird, excepting crows, hawks, and owls 
or who removes the eggs or young from the nest, is liable 
to a penalty of not less than $1 nor more than $10 for ever? 
nest, egg, or young so taken or destroyed. y 
The close time for land locked salmon, togue, and trout 
in the St. Croix River and its tributaries has been extended 
from September 15 to March 1, beginning the present year 
An act for the better protection of lobsters in the waters 
of Maine has passed, which provides that no lobsters shall 
be caught or sold between August 1 and October 15 of each 
year, and from October 15 to April 1 next following 
obsters shall be caught or sold under ten and one half 
inches in length. From April 1 to August 1 all restrictions 
are removed as to time and size, as well as in the taking oi 
selling of lobsters. 
The taking of land locked salmon, togue, or trout in any 
of the waters of the State by any other means than by line 
and hook and fly is prohibited, the penalties already estab¬ 
lished for illegal fishing to be applied to all violations. 
The law has been changed so that smelt fishing in any 
other manner than by hook and line or dip net is prohib¬ 
ited between April 1 and October 1 of each year, instead of 
between March 1 and November 1. 
Taxidermists commissioned by the governor are not^ 
amenable to the law relating to th ( e destruction of birds. 
The Legislature has also incorporated the Maine Sports¬ 
men’s Association, for the prosecution of violators of the 
game and fish laws. 
tnchting md Routing. 
All communications from Secretaries and friends should be mailed not 
later than Monday in each week. 
HIGH WATER, FOR THE WEEK. 
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Boston, March 2d, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
A meeting of the Beverly Yacht Club was held at the 
Parker House on Saturday, February 28, at half past sev¬ 
en o’clock for the purpose of electing officers for the sea 
son of 1874. 
The following gentlemen were elected:—Commodore, 
W. C. Loring, of the Surf; Viee Commodore, S. S. Gray, 
of the Merlin; Secretary and Treasurer, Walter Burgess, 
of the Tulip. Regatta Committee: Walter Burgess, of the 
Tulip; G. D. Ilodes, of the Sodie; W. Lloyd Jeffries, of 
the Bluebell; E. B. Russell, and C. H. Williams. 
Secretary’s office is 23 Merchants’ Exchange, Boston. 
The following is a list of the yachts of the club, though 
there are some five or six yachts belonging to recently 
elected members whose names have not yet been returned: 
Name. 
Agnes. 
Arrow. 
Avon. 
Bessie. 
bluebell.... 
Curlew. 
Charlotte_ 
Eva. 
Fanchon. 
Firefly. 
Ariel. 
Frolic. 
Hebe 
Owner. 
E. P. Adams.1 
H. B. Jackson. 
F. R. Sears, Jr. 
W. Lewis. 
j W. A, Jeffries. 
| W. Lloyd Jeffries.. 
W. Tappan.. . 
F. Peabody.... 
J. A. Iasigi.. 
A. Burgess. 
G. F. Balch. 
W. D. Sohier. 
N. H. Gibbs. 
G. A. Goddard. 
lone.;W. Lawrence 
Jennie.|W. H. Bangs, Jr 
Lady Clara.|C. W. Reer 
Maud 
Merlin. . 
Minna. 
Nora. 
Pacer... . 
Peri. 
Pink. 
Red Cloud. 
Ruby. 
Sadie. 
Shrimp. 
Surf. 
Sucy. 
Sylph. 
Thetis. 
Tulip. 
Yanitas. 
Victor. 
Virginia. 
Volante. 
Wail. 
Waquot. 
Water Lilly_ 
White Wing.... 
C. E. Fuller. 
S. S. Gray. 
F. S. Armory_ 
F. Dexter. 
G. F. Roberts. 
S. W. Burgess. 
I. B. Mills........ 
S. M. Quincy. 
T. W- Preston_ 
W. D. Hodges_ 
A. T. Perkins. 
j W. C. Loring... 
j A. P. Loring_ 
W. F. Hal sail. 
A. Hemenway, Jr... 
A. B. Denny.... 
Walter Burgess. do 
F. C. Welch. 
J. B. Parker. 
C. H. Plimpton- 
C. Barnard___ 
E. W. Codman_ 
A. T. Perkins. 
P Grant, Jr. 
P. Dexter.... 
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Swampscott 
Beverly. 
Swampscott 
Beverly. 
Swumpscott 
Beverly. 
Nahant. 
S. Boston. 
Swamspcott 
S. Boston. 
S. Boston. 
Beverly. 
Beverly, 
Boston. 
Beverly. 
1 Swampscott 
Nahant. 
Beverly. 
Nahant. 
Cotuit. 
Beverly. 
,S. Boston. 
Newport. 
Swampscott 
Beverly. 
S. Boston. 
S. Boston. % 
S. Boston. 
Dorchester. 
Nahant. 
Cotuit, 
Nahant. 
S. Boston. 
The sailing length is the length on the water line. The 
yachts of the clnb are limited to those of thirty feet and 
under on the water line. Yours, 
Blue with a Gold Castle. 
Philadelphia, March 6th, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
At a meeting of the Schuylkill Naval Board, held Maici 
2d, the following committee was appointed to carry out a 
resolution to hold a regatta on the Schuylkill, in June. 
1874, open to all amateurs. The prizes to be challenge 
prizes, to be rowed for annually:— 
J. Gillengham, Undine; George W. Parker, Quaker City; 
R. F. B. Fairman, Pennsylvania; W. A. Steel, Crescen , 
E. S. Miles, University; C. B. Hart, Philadelphia; 
Bedecheimer, Malta. > .. 
The committee is instructed to issue circulars of mvi 
tion to the clubs of the country at once. . 
The prizes will be for fours, pairs and double and si 
scull shells. Presentation medals will be given to the 
ning crews in each case. - lki ii 
This is to inaugurate annual regattas on the bchuy 
and will prepare amateurs for a Grand International £ 
ana win prepai-e aiuaieuis iui- a, - , 
gatta to be held here in 1876. Commodore Ferguson - 
been authorized to invite the Rowing Associations oi e 
land and France to participate upon that occasion. 
Jonathan Gillengham, Sec., 
Schuylkill Navy. 
