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yaclit at Deering, and there is also one building at the 
Cape. The club is making preparations, for a whole season 
of yachting. 
—A yacht club has been organized in Haverhill, with 
officers as follows.—Commodore, John Hanson; Vice Com 
modore, John Goodell; Captain of Fleet, George Hoyt; 
Secretary and Treasurer, E. F. Brown. The fleet is com¬ 
posed of thirteen boats, varying in length from eighteen to 
thirty-eight feet. One is a sloop built of iron, owned by 
Henry Yotter. Early in June they will go on a yachting 
trip to Provincetown and other points on Cape Cod. 
—The Haverhill yacht club will have regattas on the 
Merrimao on the 30tli instant, and on the coming 4tli of 
July. 
—The first race of the season under the auspices of the 
Philadelphia Yacht Club came off on the Delaware on May 
18. The course was from Kensington wharf to a buoy 
below the block house and return. There were eighteen 
entries for first class yachts and thirty-two for second class 
yachts. The winning boats arrived in the following order: 
First class—William Kleintz, first; Albert Dager, second ; 
and Albert Eggleston, third. Second class—Charles F. 
Riddle, first; John B. Brewer, second; and S. A. Stamford, 
third. The Jouty Hillman ran aground near League Island 
flats; the Ida May upset, but her crew were rescued, and 
the Sallie was disabled by the loss of her halyards. 
—The “Goodwin Cup,” won by the schooner yacht Syl¬ 
vie, in England, some twenty years since, has been offered 
by Mayor Barker, of Detroit, as a prize for an international 
race, to be sailed this season on the lakes, between yachts 
of the United States and the Canadas. 
—Mr J. Buchanan Henry’s steam yacht, building for 
him at Philadelphia, is very nearly completed. She is said 
to be of remarkably fine model, and is ninety feet on deck. 
Her anchorage for this summer will probably be off Staple- 
ton, Staten Island. 
—Both the university and freshmen crews at Yale are 
doing their regular work. They practice every evening 
fronTsix to seven o’clock, and on Wednesday and Saturday 
afternoons. D. H Kellogg has been chosen as substitute 
for the university crew. 
—The Dartmouth students have raised $1,200 to pay the 
boating debt and send the crew to Saratoga, though the six 
is not chosen as yet. 
—The Harvard spring races will be rowed June 3d. 
Crews will be entered by the junior, sophomore, and fresh¬ 
men classes, and by the scientific school. 
—The Harvard freshmen will not send a crew to Sara¬ 
toga. 
—The Columbia crew has been taking steady gig prac¬ 
tice during the week, coached by Messrs. Benson and 
Reeves, formerly of Cambridge University. Mr. Reeves 
rowed stroke in a four, while Mr. Benson coached from the 
stern the other day. The stroke was no faster than thirty 
to the minute, and, being so slow, it was followed with 
difficulty by those behind Mr. Reeves. Towards the finish 
of the practice, however, there was improvement enough 
to show that the men w'ere striving to catch the new idea. 
_The Amherst students have raised enough to liquidate 
all the debts of the boating association, and to leave a sur¬ 
plus sufficient to defray the expenses of the coming college 
regatta on the Connecticut River near Hatfield. The crews 
go into training at once. 
_The students of the Wesleyan University have sub¬ 
scribed liberally towards the expenses of their boating 
brothers, enabling them to have every facility for training, 
etc. The university crew is composed of the following 
gentlemen:—John E. Eustis, Hammond, N. Y., stroke; C. 
P. Marsh, West Newton, Penn.; G. M. Warren, Deer Isle, 
Me.; C. A. Waldo, Gouverneur, N. Y.; J. W. Whitney, 
Sprague’s Corner, N. Y.; W. H. Downs, South Berwick, 
Me., bow; H. C. Hermans, Corning, N. Y., substitute. 
They will row in a new shell, now being built for them by 
Elliott, of Greenpoint, and will use the sliding scats. The 
quarters of the crew at Saratoga have been selected in a 
choice spot on the shore of the lake, and they will prob¬ 
ably occupy them June 28th. 
—On Saturday last Mr. R. W. Rathbone, of the New 
York Athletic Club, rowed over the course on the Harlem 
River for the mile championship medal of the club. In 
1873 he twice won this medal, once in a contest with Mr. 
C. H. Cone, and once in a race between himself and Mr. 
McCreedy. On Saturday Messrs. Cone, McCreedy, and 
Sprague were to have rowed against Rathbone, but with¬ 
drew on plea of lack of condition. This occasion makes 
the third time Mr. Rathbone has won the medal, which 
now becomes his personal property. 
—Pamrapo, New Jersey, facing New York Bay, has been 
selected by the members of the Triton boat club for the 
site of their very handsome boat house. The view from 
the piazzas of this building is most beautiful, and there are 
many other advantages which render this position one of 
the most eligible for a rowing club. Staten Island, acting 
as a breakwater, generally gives a smooth surface for row¬ 
ing, and die extreme shallowness of that part of the bay 
prevents its being used to any extent as a thoroughfare by 
steamers and sailing vessels. The club is composed of gen¬ 
tlemen engaged in business m New York, and although but 
a year old has already attained quite a reputation for oars¬ 
men. At the meeting held a few days since the following 
officers were elected:—President, Frank W. Gifford; Vice 
President, Clias. Edwin Hoe; Secretary, George I. Wick- 
man; Treasurer, W. H. Stevens; Captain, Clias. E. Connor, 
First Lieutenant, Thos. Allaire; Second Lieutenant, Wm. 
T. McRae. 
—The following letter from Galveston shows that some 
interest is beginning to be felt there in yachting: 
Galveston, Texas, May 10, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stbeam:— 
A new era has dawned upon us. We are now forming boat clubs. A 
very large one of some 150 members is making arrangements for a boat 
house, and has already given the order for 6 six-oared boats. These six* 
with other yachts and boats belonging to other parties, two coming out 
from New York, will make a handsome fleet. We think we will have 
some fun this summer. You may expect to hear from me again upon 
o her topics appertaining to general sporting themes. Yours very truly, 
J. L. 
Out Door Exercise and Open Air Recreation.— 
Seven convicts, five of them colored, were whipped at New¬ 
castle, Del., on Saturday. One of them had twice before 
enjoyed the same exhilarating.pastime. 
jffv? and Oliver 
FISH IN SEASON IN MAY. 
Salmon, Salmo Salar. Salmon trout. Salmo conjinis. 
Trout, Salmofontinalis Shad, Alosa. 
Land-iocked Salmon, Salmo gloveri Michigan Grayling, Thymallus tricolor' 
Black Bass, nucropterus salmoides, micropterus nigricans. 
Striped Bass, Labrax lineatus. 
The amended Ash law of New Jersey prohibits the taking of black bass 
within the State before the 1st of June. 
GSIF" For complete fishing outfit and instructions for camp¬ 
ing, see Forest and Stream, Yol. 1, pages 153, 186, 200, 
217. 
—Our fish market is still bountifully supplied. Shad 
are, however, falling off. It seems as if the season for shad 
will be short. When they did come they were in quantity. 
It is too early for us yet to form any estimate of the total 
catcli. One thing seems certain, that shad have been finer, 
larger and in better order than for many years. Sea bass, 
royal indigo looking fellows from Rhode Island, are begin¬ 
ning to be plenty. Mackerel have left our immediate 
shores and are not working further north. Salmon are not 
as plentiful for the season as they should be. They are 
scarce in Maine and have not come to us as yet in quantity 
from the Provinces. This time last year salmon was worth 
thirty-five cents a pound; this week salmon is selling at 
fifty cents. California salmon plenty; worth twenty-five 
cents a pound. That queer specimen of the crustaceans, 
the soft crab, is making its appearance. 
—Weak fish and flounders are entering the estuaries on 
the Jersey coast in considerable numbers. The porpoises 
having put in their appearance for the season, salt water 
fishermen are now beginning to prepare for the usual sum¬ 
mer sport. 
—A Greenpoint paper says that Menhaden fishing began 
in good earnest on May. 12th, when many of tlie gangs made 
large catches, some of them “setting” close to the wharves. 
On Wednesday Capt. Ja’s G. Winters, of East Marion, took 
115,000 at one set, and on Thursday Capts. Israel Warner 
and J. Conklin Corwin, of Greenport, by putting their nets 
together enclosed an immense body of ffsli from which they 
filled all their boats, saving 220,000 and allowing the re¬ 
mainder to escape. Other gangs have been almost as suc¬ 
cessful. The fish are of fair quality. Eatable fish of 
various kinds were never more plenty. Porgies weighing 
2 lbs. each have been sold at two for one cent ! Shad have 
been taken in considerable numbers, but they sell high, 75 
cents a pair. 
—On May 12th three wagon loads of saltwater perch, 
mostly good sized fish, were taken at one haul at West- 
hampton. It is said the Bay was never fuller of these fish 
than now. Indeed, all kinds of fish usually found in the 
waters of Long Island at this season are said to he uncom¬ 
monly abundant. In the city markets fish of nearly all 
kinds have latterly been almost a drug, selling for very un- 
remunerative prices. 
—Accompanying the following note was a box of beauti¬ 
ful trout, nicely packed in ice and moss, which we beg to 
acknowledge with our best bow. One of them made a 
breakfast for two persons, not invalids. We wish the 
Bennington Club the best success in its efforts to protect 
and propagate these beautiful fish in Vermont:— 
Bennington Game and Fish Club, ) 
Bennington, Vt., May 16, 1874. ) 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I send you a few trout this day by express that were 
taken by me this morning in the Wailoomack River, in our 
village limits. I took twenty-one fish last evening and this 
morning. I send these to show you that there are some fish 
still left with us, which we propose to protect during the 
breeding season. Our club is now formed and hope to ac¬ 
complish some good. Will be pleased to send you a copy 
when out. Hoping to see you in our beautiful village at no 
distant day, 
I am, very truly yours, 
Wm. E. Hawks, Vice-President. 
—The Hartford Courant notices with disgust a display of 
diminutive trout at a restaurant in that city, just forty of 
which it took to weigh a pound. Some law will have to be 
passed prohibiting the capture and sale of fingerling trout, 
just as there is of lobsters and several other kinds of fish. 
—A Hartford correspondent, T. S. S., speakes of two 
brothers Runce, of that city, having caught 120 trout of a 
fair average size last Thursday; and of Gurdon Trumbull, 
Jr., the artist, who took, in company with one of the 
Bunces, 61 good-sized trout on the 8th instant, which is 
good for the “Nutmeg State.” 
—A letter from Pike County, Pa., speaks of a string of 
thirty-five trout, not tc mention “small ones thrown back 
for seed,” having been taken at tlie “Shook House” on the 
Shohola meadows, and a similar string at Shohola Falls. 
The woods are on fire, (May 15th,) in all directions—“great 
fires,” the letter says. 
—The Oquossoc Angling Association, which has its head¬ 
quarters on the Umbagog or Rangely Lakes, where the 
great speckled trout of Maine are found, held its annual 
election on the 12tli May, and chose the following board of 
officers:—George Shepard Page, Stanley, N. Y., President; 
G. H. Kimball, Bath, Maine, Yice-President; Lewis B. 
Reed, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y., Secretary; F. N. Otis, M. D., 
New York, Treasurer; Lewis T. Lazell, Brooklyn; William 
P. Frye, Lewiston, Me., A. P. Whitehead, Newark, and 
Jas. A. Williamson, Trustees; Lazell, Whitehead, and 
Otis, Executive Committee; C. T. Richardson, Superin¬ 
tendent. The principal camp of this Association is acces¬ 
sible by tlie Androscoggin Railroad from Portland to Far¬ 
mington, thence by sqige , to . Rangely, via the town of 
Phillips. The camp is usually opened by members and the 
latch-string hung out about tlie first of June. A large 
party is already booked to leave for camp this season at 
that date. We understand that the President, Mr. Page 
has five shares for sale at $200 each, and as tlie company is 
very select, and jealous of its reputation, and tlie trout fish, 
ing the finest that can be found in Eastern Ameiica, owner¬ 
ship in the property becomes very desirable. We acknowl 
edge with thanks am invitation to accept tlie “freedom of 
the camp” this summer. 
^ iu.ay ia lo74. 
.Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I liave noticed, with mingled feelings of regret and disgust, at the dif 
ferent places where I have been trout fishing, the immense number of 
small trout that the anglers bring in with them after a day’s fishing 
Little fellows of the size of one’s finger; they are no use for food cer¬ 
tainly cannot afford any sport to the fisherman. It is done simply to* 
swell the count. Now it seems to me, Mr. Editor, that if you would use 
your influence against this practice and urge upon the anglers now so 
ing forth for the summer, the necessity of returning these°young fry to 
the water. Let them count them if they wish, but put them back to 
grow larger and wiser. Every time I take a fine fish I think with regret 
of the thousands of fingerlings slaughtered and sport thus spoiled If 
fishermen would try for the heaviest average it would be much more 
creditable. Every year we find, on returning to our old haunts the run 
of fish smaller. Yours truly, Wakeman Holberton. 
[A capital suggestion! Let every true angler discourage this slaughter 
by hooting down the puerile preteutions of all persons who vaunt big 
strings of fingerlings this summer as tests of professional skill. i n or fa 
nary brook fishing four fish out of five should be thrown back into the 
water; and how much prettier is a display of a dozen fair trout than a 
big bunch of diminutive fry which should put even infantile prowess to 
blush 1 —Ed.] 
—The following letter, especially the first part of it, will 
be read with peculiar interest by anglers who have contem¬ 
plated visiting the Restigouche River in New Brunswick 
the coming season: 
\\ Dee Side, Metafedia, N. B., May 15 , 1874 . 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
As the time is approaching when the lovers of the “gentle art” will be 
on the move for pastures scaly, and as this river has, through the exer¬ 
tions of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, ably seconded by the 
different lessees, attained an enviable notoriety for salmon fishing,in or¬ 
der to prevent disappointment to many of your numerous readers and 
friends, as well as save me the pain of refusing strangers the necessary 
permission to fish on this river, it will be necessary for any party visi¬ 
ting with this intention to be provided with a written permit from the 
lessees, viz: Messrs. Fleming & Brydges, Main River; Sir Hugh Allan, 
Upsalquitch; and George Stephen, Esq., Montreal, Metapadia. As this 
rule will he strictly adhered to, you will confer a favor by inserting the 
above and oblige, sir, your obedient John Mowat 
Fishery Officer, Restigouche Division. 
P. S.—Since your visit to us things have undergone a great change. 
Netting has been greatly circumscribed, the channels have been opened 
36 hours free pass weekly to the fish,' spearing totally abolished, netting 
greatly restricted in fresh water, and lastly a fish breeding establishment 
in operation. Consequently the tidal fishery last year was nearly double 
the usual catch, while on the river you could count the salmon in the 
pools by hundreds, “green hands” making scores of 6 to 8, or even more 
fish per day, averaging from 18 to 26 lbs.; heaviest fish taken on Main 
River last year was 36 lbs., but. Mr. Stephen had heavier on the Metape- 
dia, and still heaver got on Cascumpedia. j. 
—We tender thanks for a copy of the constitution of the 
famous West Island Club, whose members are all able by 
this time to distinguish a striped bass.from a flounder. The 
membership is limited to thirty persons. All hands are 
getting their running rigging clear for the speedy advent of 
the big fish. 
—A strange disease prevails among the fish of river and 
lake at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their flesh under the mic¬ 
roscope is found to he alive with animalcule. Millions of 
dead fish are floating upon the surface of the water, and 
dealers have been forbidden to sell any. 
Shad Fishing.— If “civilization” is not absolutely a 
“failure ” along the Potomac, fly-fishing for shad is, so far 
as experiments made this season can determine. The fish 
will not rise to a fly when it is trailed under their noses, 
and as for game qualities, why, they play, well—they play 
like a chip! Tlie letter which we append comes from au¬ 
thority so high, and qualifications for investigation and 
judgment so thorough that the informotion should be 
deemed of special value. Unless a lower stage of water by 
and by, and the jamming together of the shad at the 
falls in the higher waters of the Potomac during the ripe¬ 
ness of the spawning season shall show entirely different 
results from those herewith presented, we shall feel com¬ 
pelled to accept the situation and surrender the preroga¬ 
tives of the angler to thenetter and dipper. 
\ Washington, D.-C., May 18, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
As you well know the shad ascends very rapid currents 
by crossing backwards and forwards in the same manner 
as horses draw heavy loads up a steep grade. They ap¬ 
pear every year to take precisely the same path, and so 
every few hundred feet upon both sides of the stream (but 
never opposite each other) you will find a fisherman set a 
dip net. I placed myself just below one of these dippers 
at the Little Falls of tlie Potomac, and allowed my flies to 
move gently in tlie slaek water from which tlie sliad must 
pass in order to start diagonally up stream and pass into 
the net. While many sliad were dipped and must have 
had tlieir noses within a foot or less of tlie flies sent me by 
Chalmers, none bit. After two or three hours pf futile at¬ 
tempts we then determined to try their mettle,and bargained 
with the dipper for his fish as fast as he drew them out. 
With the most careful manipulation we could in no in¬ 
stance slip a hook through the nose and' drop into the 
stream and then get play enough from tlie sliad to click 
the reel. They seem to have no powers of endurance, and 
but a precious little vitality. Old Mr. Payne, who resides 
at tlie falls and lias fished there for fifty years says that he 
lias almost every year caught sliad with the hook, but that 
he believes that it was always by the merest accident, and 
that in no instance did they ever offer the slightest resist¬ 
ance to coming out of the water. We fished last Friday 
and also Thursday at just the points where Payne had 
caught them, viz.: in slack w^ter nearshore just where 
