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defatigable, and his vigilance in order to prevent the shov¬ 
ing of bad food on the public, is unceasing. In these times 
of hydrophobia and dyptheria scares, to get up a fish panic 
when there is no just cause for it, is as vexatious as it is 
harmful. 
Last week, at the request of Professor Baird, some half 
dozen of the finest of our shad were carefully packed in ice 
and sent to Professor Peters, of Berlin, for examination. 
—Fishing at Mollychunkamunk and the Kangely Lakes, 
in Maine, has begun in good earnest. A score of the mem¬ 
bers of the Oquossoc Club have gone there with their 
friends, and already we begin to receive reports of five and 
six pound, trout taken, specimens of which occasionally 
reach this city’- packed in ice and grass. ■ The Oquossocs 
own a camp and territorial rights and privileges at Kangely 
Lakes. 
—Splendid messes of trout are daily taken from the 
mountain streams and brooks in the vicinity of Gorham, 
New Hampshire. 
—The first trout ever caught in Wenham Lake, in Massa¬ 
chusetts', was taxen from thence a few days since. It 
weighed two pounds. 
—Captain John M. Taylor, field editor of the Forest 
and Stream, and A. C. Lawrence, Esq., of New York, 
left on Monday last for Cape Breton. They will fish for 
salmon on the Margaree Kiver. 
—Messrs. T. R. Proctor, Thomas Van Embergh and C. 
W. Hutchinson, of Utica, have gone to the Adirondacks. 
—The Utica Herald notes the return last week fromKaquette 
River of a party of Ilion gentlemen, with a butter-tub full 
of fine trout, forty of which weighed fifty pounds, and 
eight of the number from 1% to 3 pounds. This is certainly 
good evidence that the pickerel have not driven the trout 
entirely out of the Raquette. 
—Here is a short message from Malone, New York:— 
Malone, New York, June 13th, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
We are having lively times now. Sportsmen from every quarter are 
flocking into town, partaking of “Sandy” Flannagan’s hospitality for a 
breathing spell prior to their departure for the happy fishing grounds. 
Our enterprising livery men, Tobey and Chisholm, are rnnning a line of 
Concerd coaches to Duane, fifteen miles south of here, connecting at 
that point with Pol Smith’s stages for all interior resorts of any note, 
the increased patronage of this route within a year or so demanding 
extra carrying accommodation. Fishing is particularly good at Lake 
Meacham, twenty-live miles, on stage road. This is a beautiful resort, 
and parties who delight to “cast their lines in pleasant, places” need go 
no further. Of Paul Smith’s, Martin’s, Bartlett’s, and others, now fa¬ 
mous, I need not speak. All are easily accessible over an improved 
highway at reasonable rates from this most desirable “jumping off” 
place. At “Slate Dam,” fourteen miles, is another point not to be over¬ 
looked by the sportsman who wishes to absorb every locality where it 
will pay to wet a hue, A few days with “Russ” Cunningham, on the 
upper Salmon River and at Round Pond, not forgetting charming little 
Charlie Pond, will prove highly satisfactory. Arrangements have re¬ 
cently been made with the railroad lines east of here to sell coupon 
tickets from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and all the principal cities 
directly through to the Adirondacks, via Malone, at reduced rates. This 
will be interestiug to your readers who intend “doing” the North Woods 
this summer. . H. E. Cantwell. 
TROUT STREAMS OF VERMONT. 
Weston, Vt., June 8, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Trouting is now good. Have been out several times with good suc¬ 
cess. This section is in the heart of the Green Mountains, and abound¬ 
ing in trout streams that are easily accessible from the village and visited 
by but few besides the resident anglers. In the main streams the trout 
are of fair size. Then there is the Cold Spring Reservoir, literally 
swarming with fine, large trout, but except in the first of the open season 
they will not answer a summons every day. I do not affect them much, 
as they are not game like the trout. The- most of the anglers from abroad 
visit the reservoir, for when they are iu the humor they afford a full 
creel. Weston is 12 miles from Chester, a station on the Rutland and 
Burlington Railroad, and connected by daily stage and can be reached 
the same day from Boston or Troy, N. Y. The hotel was recently de¬ 
stroyed by fire, yet the people of the village kindly and very reasonably 
care for small parties. There are also plenty of accomplished and gen¬ 
tlemanly anglers to act as guides, notably Messrs. Wm. Holden and H. 
B. Rogers, who are aw fait in all that pertains to rod and gun, and own 
craft upon the aforesaid reservoir. 
While on the subject I will say that the Battenkill, on the west side of 
the mountain and running through Manchester, Sunderland and Arling¬ 
ton, is a famous trout stream, coursing through the open meadows most 
of the way, affording the finest sport for casting, as the deponent can tes¬ 
tify from personal knowledge. Then the fish are large and gamy. The 
stream is greatly fished but still the supply is kept up. In the towns 
mentioned are capital hostleries, notably the Elm House, at Manchester, 
kept by my friend C. F. Orvis, the maker of the best cheap rods I know 
of, and himself the most accomplished fly fisherman in the State, ever 
courteous and ready to put his guests in the way of securing a full meas 
are of sport with rod or gun. Yours very truly, C. L. Whitman. 
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FLY PREVENTIVES. 
Philadelphia, June 12, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
In the last issue of the Forest and Stream, I noticed that one of your 
readers inquires for a remedy for black flies, gnats, &c. In answer, I 
would say that carbolic acid soap is one of the best articles that can be 
had to keep off troublesome insects; and it is true that the odor of car¬ 
bolic acid is not the most delicate perfume for refined noses, but being a 
disinfectant" also, will neutralize any noxious vapor that may arise in the 
low, swampy grounds. A great deal]of carbolic acid is used for this pur¬ 
pose by the engineers in the Red River country, where the musquitoes 
can be measured out by the cart load. 
Another remedy is to make an ointment of mutton suet and oil of pen¬ 
nyroyal, or make a mixture of’tar and sweet oil. This can be washed off 
with soap and water when the angler or hunter leaves the woods. Al¬ 
though I have not tried these last two receipts I understand that they are 
both good. “Davy Crockett.” 
[We have tried all these thoroughly. They are the best 
known remedies, and are all efficacious to a degree, but we 
prefer and have always unqualifiedly recommended the tar 
and oil. It is not nasty or unpleasant to use, and acts as 
an emolient as well as preventive.— Ed.] 
—Char es Lanman, Esq., of Washington, D. 0., the vet 
eran author and angler, can often be seen on the Potomac 
River, exercising his bass rod. 
—Black bass continue to abound in the Potomac, and 
were never so plentiful. They run from from 1% to 21- 
pounds. 
Our readers are indebted to our well known correspond¬ 
ent, Thad Norris, Esq., for “what he knows about black 
bass fishing in rivers of the Middle States. His letter ap¬ 
pended will he serviceable and appreciated, we hope:— 
208 West Logan Square, I 
Philadelphia, Penn., June 1, 1874. f 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
In response to your inquiry as to the best place for black bass on the 
Delaware and other Pennsylvania streams, I would state that these fish 
have been so recently introduced that they.have not had time to multi¬ 
ply sufficiently for good fishing. The Delaware was stocked with 550 
brood fish in the fall of 1870. These and their progeny to the third gen¬ 
eration are busily following out the law of their nature in replenishing 
the water, and there is every evidence of rapid increase in number The 
limit of time for prohibition to taking them expired July 1, 1873, and last 
fall there were moderate strings caught m the neighborhood of Easton. 
But they were mostly small fish of a year old,averaging, according to our 
commissioner, Mr. Reeder’s, estimate, half a pound, and those of two 
years old a pound. In some rare instances the old settlers weighing from 
three to six pounds were taken. The Susquehanna, with half the num¬ 
ber of brood fish brought from the Potomac, afforded more sport. I 
heard of frequent catches of from one to two dozen, averaging from one 
to one and a half pounds, by Harrisburg anglers. We have them in the 
Brandywine, where the term of prohibition has also expired. The game 
laws of the State, which extend protection to fishes, make it illegal to 
take them between January 1st and June 15th, thus ensuring them 
against molestation during the spawning season, which extends from 
about the middle of May to the first week in June. 
If any one contemplates a seVious raid against the so-called black bass 
he should by all means go to the Potomac or some of its tributaries. 
There is good fishing at various points, from the Great Falls to Harper’s 
Ferry and Williamsport. Sandy Hook, about four miles below Harper’s 
Ferry, is said to be an excellent stopping place, with fair accommodation. 
I am told by an old angler who has had great success there, that Dam No. 
6, two miles above the station called Sir John’s Run, and about 120 miles 
from Baltimore, is the best place for large bass on the river. The Capon 
comes in here on the Virginia side, and is reported to he well stocked. 
There is no public house at this place, and the angler would have to 
seek entertainment of some private family on the river. On the Shenan¬ 
doah there is good fishing. One place of note is Riverton, where the an¬ 
gler will find good accommodations at extremely moderate charges with 
Major J. R Richards, who for a long time refused to take pay at all, un¬ 
til his friends and visitors forced him to establish a moderate rate per 
diem. His post-office is Riverton, Warren county, Va. I give this in¬ 
formation as coming from those who have visited the points named, and 
am not able to post your readers further. Thaddeus Norris. 
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BASS FISHING IN LAKE ERIE. 
Midway, Woodford county, June 3, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I send you a few lines in reference to our spring trip to Point au Pelee 
Island on a fishing trip. A party of seven left here on 18th May, and 
arrived at destination on the evening of 19th. We had some windy 
weather, which necessitated our going to different parts of the island on 
different days to fish. Remained eight days, having some fishing each 
day (except Sunday), taking about 2,000 pounds of bass weighing from 2J- 
to 4 pounds. The iish were heavy with roe, and in cleaning them we 
found they were all females; don’t remember having a single male. Is 
not this rather unusual ? Caught some pike of 12 pounds, cats of 15 
pounds, and a few pickerel. We use in our fishing the Meeks reel made 
at Frankfort, in this State, which we think the only good reel, and prefer 
the Japanese cane to bamboo or other poles, thinking the bamboo too 
elastic for these fish. I send you a piece of line I fish with, and with 
which 1 landed a 12-pound muscalonge. [A very delicate and fine braided 
linen line]. The fall fishing is best about the middle of September, and 
fish are generally about one pound heavier 'than in spring. The South 
Side Dock is, I think, the best place to go to; better accommodations, 
but you have to fish in boats. The best point to obtain men is at Put-in- 
Bav. I understand that the beet ducking is in October, as the wild rice 
is then ripe. West Dock is the best part for clucking aud fishing com¬ 
bined, as you are near the marsh. For information address Robert Mc¬ 
Cormick, Kingsville, Ontario, Canada, the nearest post office for South 
Side; Walter Grubb, or Dr. McCormick, Kelley’s Island, Ohio. The 
fishing was better than usual at all the islands this spring. J. Sutton. 
SHAD FISHING IN THE CONNECTICUT. 
Sk Springfield, June 11,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I went up to Holyoke last evening to try my luck with the shad. It 
was a favorable evening. There was a light breeze down the river, the 
water was falling and running clearer. The gentle and courteous Thos. 
Chalmers met me with the report that the fish had been biting all day. 
It was between five and six o’clock when we got our boats into a good 
position in the rapid .water below the bridge from which we could see a 
good many lines trailing for shad. In a few minutes I took a handsome 
fish weighing five pounds. Next I took a pair, one weighing about four 
pounds, the other two aud a half, and in less than an hour I had hooked 
seven fish, four of which I saved, two being hooked in a soft, mouth and 
one was lost by fouling with a comrade’s line. This is the short and 
simple account of one evening’s shad fishing. About sunset, which is 
considered the most favorable hour for these fish to bite, they unaccount¬ 
ably stopped biting last evening and no one took a fish after.that time. 
Now, I shall be sorry to disenchant anyone, or “bust” the day dream of 
the pensive angler, but catching shad at Holyoke is not fly-fishing par 
excellence. Guided by my previous experience last year and this, and 
profiting by the better success of the angling genii of the place, I dis¬ 
carded all my light tackle, my beloved ten-ounce Norris, and ray es¬ 
teemed ten-dollar Orvis, and took an elastic but anonymous trolling rod, 
to which I attached a salmon reel with 150 yards of line. The boat an¬ 
chored in a favorable spot, about 100 yards of line is let out down the 
rapid water, and this is the way shad are taken with a fly at Holyoke. 
But if this style of hooking the shad is a little rococo , I must say tha 
when well hooked he gives good sport. He fights hard and dies, as it 
were, under protest. 
The Chalmers brothers, Thomas and John, keen anglers both, are 
most kind and courteous to fellow anglers w r ho come from a distance to 
try the sport they have discovered at their doors. Every day they are 
ca ed upon to fit out some errant fisherman with tackle, boat and guide, 
all of which they do without money and w ithout price. They ought to 
receive an angler’s testimonial, a monument of moulten fish-hooks, with 
an undying line upon it. But as Thomas has a rising young brood of 
eight children, he would doubtless prefer bread in some form, to stone or 
brass—or even fishing rods. 
Perhaps I ought to tell for the benefit of my friend Norris, and those 
other fish culture fellows, that I caught a shad about eight inches long 
and two and one-half broad, which brother Chalmers said was a yearling, 
and another fourteen inches long and four broad, said to be two years 
old. And yet we were told that the infant shad was so precocious that 
when he first left the Connecticut he staid away three years! 
Yours, B. F. Bowles 
—Tlie Montreal Gazette announces the annual visitation 
of -immense swarms of the shad-flies (mentioned by us on 
several occasions,) which are believed to prognosticate au 
abundant supply of shad in the river. 
Norwich, Conn., June 14, 1874 . 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
Herewith I give you the result of my fishing with a flv 
in the Slietucket river, at Greenville Dam, one mile from 
this city. The first day, having about 100 feet line out' T 
felt a strike quite heavy, and supposed that it was from a 
shad ; (at the time I was using a very light “fly rod”) and 
you can judge my surprise when, upon landing my fish I 
found I had what we call here a “Bony fish.” At the next 
cast I took two more ; at the next I struck a large shad 
held him about fifteen minutes, and lost him; llie next, 
was a large dace, 1| lbs., then a bony fish. The above was 
the result of two hours fishing. These are the first bony 
fish I have ever known being caught with a fly. Tjji 
showed as much game and played as lively and fought as 
hard as a trout of the same weight. I caught them upon 
the white fly sent me by Mr. Chalmers, of Holyoke, Mass 
and one on a brown and white fly that I procured at Brad¬ 
ford & Anthony’s, Boston. The next evening I went im 
to the dam, hooked on to three shad, and saved but one 
which weighed a little over 4 lbs. Last evening I was un 
again and got but two strikes from shad • lost one by foul¬ 
ing with another line that was out, and one tore out and 
got away. However, I am satisfied that the Slietucket 
river at this point will afford as" much sport as one can ask 
for wnen the water gets down to its ordinary stage at this 
season of the year, as we have had more or less freshet ail 
of the spring and summer. I was thirty-five minutes kill¬ 
ing the shad, he was out of the water frequently and 
fought hard. __ E. P. Slocum. 
CANADIAN TROUT STREAMS. 
H Peaoedale, R. I., May 18,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The stranger in Montreal and even the denizen of that calcareous 
city is frequently mildly surprised at having the name “Kilkenny” ut¬ 
tered with an accent of much familiarity, and with such accompaniment 
as to lead him to wonder what interest that particular locality has for so 
many persons. The name is probably associated in his mind with those 
two cats of pugnacious memory; but to those “who have been there” 
the term has quite a different significance. The tourist who climbs the 
tower of the French Cathedral will see from its summit a long r ang e of 
low mountains bounding the western horizon. Should he be fired with 
a desire to make their closer acquaintance, he will find upon approach 
that they ale merely hills, and that they consist of a series of parallel 
ranges more or less broken m their character, doubtless, but still retain¬ 
ing sufficient distinctness as to be designated as the first range, second 
range, &c. Between the ninth and, tenth range lies a body of water 
named “Kilkenny Lake,” more familiarly known, as “Kilkenny.” It is 
some two or three miles long and about a mile in breadth at the widest 
part. The water is comparatively clear, hut the great depth, combined 
with the dark bottom and the shadows of the surrounding hills, detracts 
much from its apparent purity. In Red Trout Lake, two and a half 
miles distant, the scene is different. The overhanging cliffs are absent, 
the water is shallower, and so transparent that objects are visible at a 
depth of over twenty feet. The scenery around these lakes is wild and 
broken but hardly grand. The woods teem with raffed grouse and 
neither bears nor deer are very scarce. The roads are extremely hilly 
and rough in the vicinity of the lake, and vehicles are subject to much 
violent bumping. The lake so walled in by hills, and consequently 
not so breezy as might be, but the altitude has a perceptible effect on 
the temperature. Now a word as to the fishing. The principal fish 
found in Kilkenny Lake are tlie trout, lake trout, and bass. There are 
also taken in small quantity in the winter, white herring. This latter fish 
is said to be exceedingly delicate and fine in flavor, and from all I can 
learn seems to be the whitefish of the great lakes. How it came into 
Kilkenny is a mystery, as it is found in no other lake in the vicinity. It 
is an unfortunate circumstance that the trout in this lake can only be 
taken freely at two seasons of the year, viz: during the latter half of 
May and first half of June, and the latter half of September and first half 
of October; but from the first of October it is unlawful to fish. During 
the summer an occasional “lunge” may be taken bottom fishing, hut the 
angler had much better devote himself to the black bass, wfluch are very 
numerous. There are two kinds of trout in this lake, the lake trout or 
“black trout,” as it is called, growing sometimes to twenty pounds 
weight and much more slender and graceful than its Lake Superior 
brother, and the “red trout,” or brook trout (£alnio fontinalis ), which 
seldom weighs over four pounds. In the seasons spoken of the latter 
fish will take almost any bait, and I have even caught them with a spoon, 
trolling. Among flies their favorite seems to be those with yellowish 
bodies and mottled wings, and I have one before me now which proved, 
in the latter part of the season particularly, killing. The size is that of 
a small salmon fly; body yellow, wound with fiat tinsel; tail rather long 
and of alight mottled black and white; wings mottled brown and black, 
with iuner wings of pale red; hackle a yellowish gray. Round the head 
are two or three turns of peacock herl, which give an appearance of a 
head and eyes. I have seen again and again two fish rash for a similar fly 
at once, leaving the other two flies untouched. The fishing is mostly 
from boat or raft, the only place from whence a fly can be successfully 
thrown, being at the inlet of the lake. When fishing with bait or min¬ 
now', however, many rocks near shore afford a good foothold. In Red 
Trout Lake, two and a half miles from Kilkenny, there are no fish ex¬ 
cept the brook trout, and any one going there at the proper season—well, 
I do’nt want to tell the story of a certain day’s fishing there, for fear of 
its being accounted entirely too fishy. The trout in this lake are not al¬ 
ways to be depended on, as one day they will bite freely and the next, 
though a precisely similar day in all respects, you will not get a rise; 
but in flavor and gaminess they are superior to the trout of Kilkenny 
Lake. 
Of Lake Masson, several miles from Lake Kilkenny, almost fabulous 
stories are told, bat I have, unfortunately, never been able to test the 
truth of them; and there are several small laxes close by Kilkenny 
which, though difficult of access, afford splendid sport. 
The visitor to these lakes will require to camp out, or else run the 
chances of accommodation at some log cabin; in either case'they will re¬ 
quire to bring all supplies from Montreal. Access is by stage once a day 
from Montreal to New Glasgow; fare, $1. At New Glasgow a team must 
he hired to the lake, about nine miles. At the lake, William Hamilton, 
called “Rapidee Willie,” to distinguish him from a second William Ham¬ 
ilton, will find a boat, or render any other service that he possibly can. 
The Ward brothers also live near the lake and are very obliging. Mr. 
John Haile, who lives between New Glasgow and the lake, is a thorough 
sportsman; his hand is always extended to any brother of the rod or 
gun, and any information or assistance in his power he will cheerfully 
give. There are many ever ready to extend an open and hearty welcome 
to the true sportsman wherever he goes, and the neighborhood of Kil¬ 
kenny Lake will prove no exception. Mantlet. 
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—Fishing in certain parts of New Brunswick is not with¬ 
out its perils, as the following letter will show:— 
St. John, N. B., May 23 , 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream.— . 
As some of the readers of your popular sporting journal may think of 
cruising in this province during the summer, the following may prove 
both interesting and cautionary: — 
I recently made a fishing trip to Lake Utopia, and camped out hermit 
fashion. During my cruising I saw bear tracks fresh and plenty, bid 
considering myself lord over fish, fowl and brute, thought bruin would 
