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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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New Jnrsey Gann:—Madison, N. J.—Although quite a 
number of cock quail have been heard during the summer 
whistling their accustomed song, it is a hard matter to find 
a beyy of birds now or even in November, During July the 
woodcock were very scarce, consequently but few birds were 
Killed. The best bag on woodeock made in daly for a day 
_ was one of 10 birds, killed by myself and a friend one morn- 
ing. I predict good fall shooting, however, on woodcock, 
since so few birds were killed in July. Woodcock are more 
_ plentiful now than in July, but it will not be lawful to kill 
them until Oct, 1, Partridges I tind more plentiful than 
for five years past, and expect some fine sport In November, 
Partridges are found in considerable numbers near running 
streams, at least [ find if so around here. Rabbitsare in fair 
number, but not as many as last year. The Passaic River, 
two miles from here, is dragged almost nightly, and, there- 
fore, it is impossible to catch a decent mess of fish with hook 
and line. One fishing along the Passaic River can see plainly 
the marks of the fishing net made the night before. Al- 
thouch the law forbids fishing with nets, nevertheless nets 
are dragged nightly, Ducks will bein larger numbers this 
fall than formerly, judging from the amount of food now 
prowing along the river. Ducks do come in considerable 
numbers along the Passaic River, but it seldom pays to hunt 
them. The weather for the past week has been extremely 
warm, Cowbirds are in flocks already, the only bird, I be- 
lieve, to flock so soon.—Six'rHEN-BoRB, 
PumaDELPH1A Norms.—A flight of snipe seftled down 
on our meadows around Philadelphia last week, but the 
great bulk ot birds occupy the drift on river shore as the 
meadows are very dry and afford no food. Rail shooters 
will find more of them than sportsmen with setters on the 
main land. The flight, bye-the-bye, is not a large one. A 
prominent sportsman of Burlington, N. J., has leased almost 
all the rail grounds in the neighborhood ot Salem Creek, 
and, consequently, the local sportsmen of Salem county are 
compelled to seek other sections for shooting. Should a big 
tide come (as is expected) next week, the leased grounds will 
be trespassed upon. -I'here are very many rail in the 
marshes, but it has been too bot for pleasurable shooting, and 
the tides duving the past week haye been poor. Few upriver 
boats have secured more than twenty birds each to a tide, 
and I learn that the Chester and Lazaretto men have done 
but little better. The change of wind to a westerly quarter 
Jias caused poor tide. Teal ducks are now quite plentiful on 
the streams flowing into the Delaware below Chester. Sev- 
eral flocks have occupied Salem Creek, and tumerous 
bunebes have chosen Augustine for their feeding grounds. 
Not many have come up the river yet.—Homo. 
West Jersey Socrery.—The annual meeting of the 
West Jersey Game Protective Society will be held at 531 
Market street, Camden, N. J., on the 17th of September, 
Following is a statement of the finances of the organization: 
Receipts—A mount ou hand Sept. 20, 1883, $941.32; received 
from RT. Miller, late secretary, $27; received from game 
committee, $2.24; received from sale of certificates to Sept. 
i, 1884, $1,619—total, $2,589.56. Wxpenditures—Vouchers, 
drawn hy C. A. Bragg and R. T. Miller, $215.68; C. VY, D. 
Joline, services as solicitor from 1877 to 1883, $160; O. H. 
Barnard, expenses securing society's books, $100; Robert 
Yonker, police, $48.16; Wdward Anchutz, issuing certifi- 
cates, $15; C. H. Kendrick, carriage hire for committee, 
$8.25; gaine committee, purchasing quail, $650; expenses 
distributing quail, $15.60; special officers, $63.29; boat for 
otticers, $80; badges for officers $7; expenses directors, 
$63.30; seeretary’s salary, $187.50; treasurer’s salary, 1883, 
$50; rent of hall for meetings, $20; printing, $98.37; post- 
age, 14.87—1total, $1,747.02; cash on hand Sept. 1, 1884, 
$842.54. During the past year the West Jersey Game Pro. 
tective Society bought and planted 2,500 quail_—Howmo, 
A Nuw Derrorr Crcs.—Detroit, Mich., Sept. 15.—Ar- 
ticles of incorporation of the Detroit Fishing and Hunting 
Association were filed in the office of the Wayne county 
clerk Saturday. The capital stock is $20,000, in shares of 
$100 each, of which there are now 50 on the market A 
tract of land, 300x500 feet, has been purchased from William 
A. Butler at the Flats, the plat lying between Mr. Butler’s 
residence and the old club house. Dredging and filling will 
be commenced this week and a club house will be erected 
to cost between $10,000 and $12,000. The north wing of 
the club house will be built this winter or early next spring, 
in time for use next season. The idea of the association is 
fo furnish a place where young business men and their fami- 
lies ean secure quict rest and enjoyment. William A. Green 
has been elected President; Lou Burt, First Vice-President; 
Dr. Phil Porter, Second Vice-President; Freeman B. Dick- 
erson, Treasurer; Charles F. Beck, Secretary; Campbell 
Symington, George W. Moore, Albert A. Worcester and Dr, 
HE. C. Moore, Board of Directors, There are thirty charter 
members, and application has already been made for about 
twenty shares in excéss of those held by the charter members, 
Tue “Nessmuk” yrs, of which an illustration is here 
piven, was desiened by our well-known correspondent, and 
a sample made after his specifications has been received at 
this office. We have handled the knife, thouzh we have as 
yet had no opportunity to actually try itin camp. It comes 
up to our notion of what a hunting knife should be, and has 
handled well in the imaginary work we have done with it, 
Ae) 
The drawing, while as nearly correct as calipers could make 
if, inadequately represents the graceful lines of the weapon. 
Altogether we commend the knife to those whoare so fortu- 
nate as to have a use for it; and others who cannot go hunt- 
ing this year will find if an excellent pencil-sharpener to 
whittle their points for writing to the Forms? anp SvRRAM 
accounts of former game excursions. — 
Dakota Prarmif Cuicxens.—I have just received a letter 
from my friend, F. Trumbo, of Choteau Oreck, Dak., inyit- 
ing me to ‘‘come up chicken shooting,” and in his letter 
he states that he shot over his dog last week and killed 122 
chickens at 122 consecutive shots, How is that far shoot- 
ing? Frank's word is as ‘'yood as gospel,” and if he says le 
did it, | am not afraid to indorse it, He says further that 
chickens are abundant,—A. #. R. 
Tum Nye Creasen has been examined and used by us. 
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Bae EE BEY ater 1S Sey Me = 
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r We find acatee convenient and rapid, altogether as neat, 
Dusrs or Hiram JenKs.—Troy, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Hiram 
Jenks, the oldest hunter and fisherman at Schroon Lake, 
Essex county, was found drowned in the lake yesterday. 
He was eighty years old. 
“Sn0RE Brrps” is a timely little work for this season, It 
tells all about the habits of the bay birds. We haye many 
letters recommending it. Price, 15 cents. 
Sea and River Sishing. 
KENNEBAGO. 
HE unusually warm weather of the early part of this 
month has interfered greatly with the fishing of the big 
lakes in this region, and from Mooseluemaguntic, Upper 
Dam, Rangeley and all other resorts comes the same story; 
but yesterday, the day before and this morning no one com- 
plains of heat, and with the thermometer ranging from 32° 
to 50°, and a flurry of snow on Friday, it looks as though 
the big trout might ere long find it cool enough to show 
themselves. 
The pleasant and well-kept hotels, which are generally at 
this season well patronized, are now lonesome places, and 
even here at this headquarters of fishing-made-easy but a 
few members haye as yet arrived. 
At Kennebago, however, aud Little Kennebago and adjacent 
waters the fishing has been excellent, These lakes seem full 
of trout ranging from 6 to 10 ounces, and now and then a 
szood one. Prospects just good enough to keep up excite- 
ment, Per example, my first day’s fishing brought me 78 
fish, of which 60—less than } pound weight, which was the 
standard—went back again; the 18 left ranged up to a 
pound. ‘the next day one of 14 pounds and three others 
oyer a pound gave good sport; and on the next one of 24 
pounds surrendered himself, As bythe third day everybody 
at Kennebago gets in the habit of putting back, I resolyed to 
make a use of that trout that I would remember, and, grate- 
ful to him for the pleasure I had deriyed from our fifteen 
minutes’ acquaintance, I, after weighing, let him go, too 
At the Seyen Ponds, parties had about the same style of 
fishing—any quaxtity from small to medium—none large. 
By the way, the Forest AND Stream is taken by Richard- 
son at Kennebago, and the letter of your correspondent 
**Knickerbocker” has made considerable sensation. 
Somevody must have been guying him fearfully is the 
general verdict, for the stories he has ‘‘verified” of big trout 
are way up beyond anything we can hear of elsewhere. Be- 
ginning at 24 pounds, le runs down to 114 by a series of big 
weights; and just where he knocks off is the figure for the 
biggest fish that I can get any authentic information of, 
One thing that parties going into Keanebago should know 
and many of them don’t until too late, is that from Rangeley 
in by buckboard, the charge for baggage is $2 per hundred. 
No notice of this is posted anywhere, and during my stay 
there were yictims. Cne man and his wife paid seventeen dol- 
lars for traps of which they had no need during their short stay. 
The road into Kennebago is rough, but the stories in regard 
fo it are exaggerated. I walked in the seven miles in two 
hours ten minutes; and there are lots of worse roads in the 
Adirondacks, which, though, I think I shall neyer try again, 
as the Maine woods wil absorb ail of my future spare time. 
For Kennebago fishing the most successful flies are scarlet 
and splitibis snd bee, for trolling, Pamachenee belle, Montreal 
and biue jay. PISHCO. 
Camp KENNEBAGO, Sept. 13. 
MINNOW CASTING FOR BLACK BASS. 
WISH to invite the attention of black bass anglers to 
the special contests of ‘‘casting the minnow for black 
bass,” which is to be included in the programme of the tour- 
nament of the National Rod and Reel Association, to be 
held next month at Harlem Mare. The rules governing this 
contest are framed with the design of making the contest 
approach as nearly as possible the conditions of actual fishing, 
and for this reason only such tools and tackle and weight 
of sinker are allowed as would be used on the stream. Rods 
are limited in length from eight to ten feel, and in weight 
from seven to ten ounces. The weight of sinker (repre- 
senting the minnow) is one-half ounce, While these limits 
provide for an ample and liberal variety im the length and 
weight of rods, they preclude the specially-constructed trick 
rod, gotten up solely for long distance casting; for it is well 
known that a rod of say five feet in length and weighing 
five ounces, can cast a given weight much further than a 
longer and heayier rod—but there its finctions end, for such 
a wand would be of no use in actual angling. 
The mode of castiny will be underhand, to the right or 
left, and but one hand allowed in making the cast. The 
casting will be on water, over the same course as the fly- 
casting, and the system of scoring or counting is similar to 
that heretofore used in the fly-casting contests, wherein ac- 
curacy and delicacy or style, as well as distance, are pro- 
vided for. Each contestant will be allowed tive mipvutes for 
distance and five minutes for accuracy and style. The dis- 
tance for accuracy and delicacy or style will be at-sixty feet. 
The longest cast will count in feet, to which will be added 
the number of points for accuracy and style, the maximum 
of each being 25, For instance: To the cast, say 75 feet, is 
to be added, say 20 for accuracy and 15 for style, agegre- 
gating 110 points, By this method of scoring the battle is 
not always to the longest cast, and the more desirable fea- 
tures of accuracy and style are encouraged. 
Any multiplying reel may be used, but which, in casting, 
is to be controlled entirely and alone by the thumb; that is, 
the use of clicks, drags, etc., are barred. The line shall be 
a practicable one, not smaller than No. 6 (letter H) braided 
silk, No. 1 sea grass, or corresponding sizes of other material. 
I have received numerous letters, at various times, from 
anglers who seemed to think thata cast of forty or fifty 
yards should be easily made before they could be called ex- 
perts; but such casts are phenomenal. I never made a cast 
of fifty yards unless under exceptionally favorable condi- 
tions; as casting a heavy minnow with a strong wind, and 
with the very best tools and tackle, An ordinary minnow 
(weighing not to exceed a half aunce) cannot be cast much 
further than the artificial fly, and as in fly-fishing, forty to 
sixty feet is really far enough in practical angling. 
IT bope no one will be deterred trom taking part in the 
black bass minnow-casting contest because he cannot attain 
Temarkable distances. If he can cast sixty feet accurately 
and with delicacy and good style, he standsas good a chance 
ot Winning as the long-distance caster, Ido not believe that 
forty yards will be cast at the tournament. Twenty-five or 
thirty yards, with a half-ounce sinker, is a long cast. 
Thaye secured the following Jiberal list of prizes, manu- 
factured expressly for this contest, and it now remains for 
black bass anglers to show their appreciation of the generos- 
ity of the donors by entering and contesting for them. If 
this class be well filled, we hope to have two or more con- 
tests for casting the minnow at the tournament of 1885. 
List or Prizes.—Extra fine selected black bass minnow- 
casting rod, Henshall pattern, tancewood joints, two tips, 
extra fine German silver mountings, solid German silver reel- 
plate, wound butt, bamboo tip-case, Manufactured and 
donated by Thos. J. Conroy, 65 Fulton street, New York. 
Value, $25. 
Fine Leonard split bamboo Henshall rod, made strictly to 
specifications, German silver mountings, patent ferrules, 
standing guides, wound butt, extra tip, etc. Manufactured 
for and donated by Wm. Mills & Son, No. 7 Warren street, 
New York. Value, $30. 
Iixtra fine hand-made Henshall rod, ash butt, Bethabara 
joints, two tips, fine German siver mountings, ferrules 
banded and milled, wound butt, ete. Manufactured and 
donated by A. B. Shipley & Son, 503 Commerce street, Phil- 
adelphia. Value, $15, 
Fine split bamboo Henshall rod, with best German silver 
mountings, extra tip, wound hand-piece, flush joints, patent 
reel-seat. Manufactured and donated by Charles F. Orvis, 
Manchester, Vt. Value, $15. 
Fine split bamboo Henshall rod, fine German silver mount- 
ings, non-dowel joints, braided hand piece, extra tip, solid 
grooved wood case. Manufactured and donated by Thos. 
. Chubbs, Post Mills, Vt. Vatue, $15, 
Extra fine German silver multipiying black bass reel, size 
No, 2, latest pattern, handle next to cross bar, adjustable 
click, drag or rubber. Manufactured and donated by B, 0. 
‘Milam, Frankfort, Ky. Value, $20. 
Extra fine German silver multiplying black bass reel, size 
No. 2, narrow pattern, click and drag, with adjustable 
German silver reel fastening. Manufactured and donated 
by J. L. Suge, Frankfort, Ky. Value, $20. 
__ Extra fine German silver symmetrical black bass reel, 
Henshall & Van Antwerp pattern, automatic thumb for cast- 
ing, adjustable compensating joints, alarm. Manufactured 
and donated by Thos, H. Chubb, Post Mills, Vt. Value, $157 
J. A. HENSHALL, 
Chairman Special Committee on Black Bass Casting. 
CynTaiana, Ky., Sept. 8, 1884. 
POINTS ON SUCKERS. 
Hiditor Horest and Stream: 
In your issue of Sept. 4, ‘Kelpie’ asks what kind of fish 
were meant when I wrote ‘‘suckers.” Literally, my mean- 
ing was just as submitted, though if I were to classify, I 
would say they were common red horse or white suckers, 
Ifmy memory serves me right, this species as a member 
of the sucker family, is of the genus Myrastoma, and bears 
the name of AL macrolepidotum. The fish is silvery in color, 
the lower fins being red or orange. It is found in all clear 
waters of the West. lt is not especially prized as an article 
of food, though large numbers are taken early in the season 
With both net and hook. 
Persons who practice fishing for this and other varieties of 
the sucker family with a hook, usually sink a small sack of 
meal at the head of a deep pool in creek or river. If after 
baiting a hole they return ina day or two, well supplied 
with good lines, small hooks and plenty of angle worms, the 
reward will be about all the snckers one would like to carry, 
In baiting the hook one should aim to get all the worms om 
that is possible and then fish on the bottom. To such as 
have fished for bass, trout and salmon, such play would be 
tame. 
I might say in connection with this that there is another 
branch of the family, the common sucker (Cuwtostomus teres), 
that swarms in every stream and pond in Ohio. It bites 
readily, and when bait is laid in a pool is always on hand to 
tuke part in the frolic. It varies some in form and color as 
found in different streams, but when served at the table all 
variations cease and it is the same old sucker. 
The stone roller (C. nigricans), the chub sucker (H. sucelia) 
and the spotted sucker (42. melanops) will also take the hook, 
but are not usually found in such numbers as the other yarie- 
ties mentioned. 
This explanation, I trust, will be eee though I 
must admit that, without reference at hand, | may have 
erred in classing the fish. Parson O’GATH, 
Barrp Inon Works, Gore, O. 
BASS FISHING, + 
Hditor Forest and Stream. 
As large scores seem to be the order of the day, and as 
some of your readers may be disposed to view my previous 
statements as “‘fish stories’ I deemed it advisable to repeat 
the dose, and add to the figures already published. I ad- 
dressed my friend, Dr, Quackenbush, quarantine physician 
at Mayport, and in reply he informed me that his first 
capture in 1884, was on the 13th of May, when he landed at 
the White Shells, eight channel bass, largest 32 pounds, total 
weight 168 pounds. 
On May 24, in company with Mr. J. C, Kerner, he fished 
at the White Shells, and inside of one hour they captured 
13 bass, averaging 20 pounds. Three of the Williams boys 
fished near him and took 11 in out of the wet. 
On the 25th, with his boatman, he visited the same point 
and they captured 15, Returning home they stopped at 
Mile Point and added 5 to the score. Being early in the 
season the fish were small and averaged about 20 pounds. 
During the month of June he fished anumber of times and 
captured from 2 to 14 on each occasion. On July 30, in 
company with his young son he anchored on the Shells in 
front of the old light house, and in one hour and a half he 
landed 19 bass, the smallest weighing 18 and the Jarzest 48} 
pounds, total weight estimated 540 pounds. 
On Sept, 1, Mrs. Maryin and four friends in one boat an- 
chored on Ward’s Bank, near the jetties and fished on the 
last of the ebb at this point, and on the young flood at Mile 
Point, with the following result, the fish being channel bass: 
Miss Bernard 18, Mrs. Marvin 8, Miss Thornton 7, Frank 
Marvin 7, B. Taliafiero 3. Number caught 43, average 
weight 30 pounds, total weight 1,290 pounds. 
On Friday last, Sept. 5, my friends, Dr. Fernandez, Mr. 
Ely and Mr. Bastnett, fished with rod and reel for a short 
time at Ward’s Bank with the following result; Dr, Fernan- 
dez, 1 bass of 27 and 1 of 35 pounds; Mr, Ely, 1 of 27, 1 of 
30 and 1 of 82 paynds; Mr, Bastnett, lof 27 pounds, Num: 
