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drawipgs from specimens of the male and female insect, 
pupa and larva, which I have had in alcohol for years. The 
adult insects are nocturnal and are seldom seen, the larva, 
which is the only form I have ever known to be used for 
bait, is found in swift mountain brooks under stones and is 
captured by putting a landing net below a stone und then 
raising the latter and capturing the larva as it tries to escape. 
The pupa is found under Jogs on the bank, but personally I 
have never known of its use as a bait for fish, 
The Oorydalus cornutus is a large fly of from three to four 
inches in length, the female having short pincers, like the 
larva, and the male posessing long horns. The female is 
said tolay her egss in clusters about water plants, this I 
have not seen, but that the larya is carnivorous is well known. 
They feed on insects and fish, alive or dead, and are rayen- 
ous. as all larvee are, 
The perfect fly is never seen before the last of June, hay- 
ing passed the stages of egg, larva, pupa and emerged into 
the imago or perfect state, during the year beginning about 
September 1 of the previous season. I have kept the larva 
in running water and fed them on the flesh of fish and of 
beef, but they will die in still water and will eat each other 
if no other food is at hand. They will live for some time iu 
wet moss, but. like all other larvee will require food or they 
will die or transform into the pupa stage, It is impossible 
for them to do the latter unless they are full grown and 
ready for this tranformation and have access to the banks of 
streams where they can find the proper condition of moist 
soil under logs. 
That our ‘‘dobson” is not without a pedigree is a fact, and 
to such as are interested in it, I would say consult the ‘‘Hinto- 
mologists’ Annual,” London, 1862, where will be found Dr. 
Hagen's description of a fossil Corydalus, found in the Meso- 
zoic rocks in Rolenhofen, Bavavia. Now, if man really ex- 
isted in the Tertiary period as is claimed by Mr. Edward 8, 
Morse, in his address before the Section of Anthropology of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 
Sept. 4, 1884, at Philadelphia, there is no doubt but he used the 
dobson as a bait for fish, for the insect was already at hand, 
As it is probable that no living angler was there at that time, 
and none of the ‘oldest inhabitants” recollect much that 
happened in the Tertiary period, I do not see how any 
modern fcllow is going to overthrow my assumption that 
pre-historic men used the dobson as bait, 
The dohbson is a peryerse ‘‘critter” when on a hook, and 
will crawl uuder a stone if he can get to the bottom, and 
basely leave the angler to believe that his bait is fishing hard 
for a bite until he pulls slightly and thinks the sinker is fast. 
This habit of the larva isa bad one, and he should be rea- 
soned with and taught to know that when an angler pays 
two cents for him to the boy who bas spent his time in cap- 
turing him, that he should not attempt to shirk his duty and 
skulk under rocks, but diligently fish all the time. 
Lest any one ask how this formidable-looking beast is 
impaled on a hook, 1 willsay: I usually insert the point in 
the back behind the thorax, and bring it out just behind thie 
head, because this leayes the body free. Others insert the 
hook on the lower side, about the thorax, and bring it out in 
the abdomen. You pays your money and takes your choice, 
but as most fish prefer to take their prey head foremost, it 
seems best to present this point of the hook to them. In this 
connection | cannot too strongly condemn the sneaking prac- 
tice of 2 dobson in attempting to save its own Jife by crawl- 
ing under stones after the angler bas paid four it to fish for 
him; this is the basest part of its character. - It evidently 
wishes to live torever * 
There are some other flies which lay eggs in the water, 
whose larva look like the dobson when small; this is the 
genus Siala, and the worms have naked bouies and pincers, 
but do not grow large; and have long and slender tails, It 
one of the male Corydalus should hover over my drawing of 
a female and feel injured that | have drawn the second pair 
of wings overlapping the first, I will apologize to him and 
declare that it was only a slip of the pen, aud that 1 know as 
well as he that the first pair fold over the others. J am sure 
he will ,ecognize his youngest in the drawing of the larva, 
and his eldest in t: e pupa, and will see that his wife has her 
jaws open to meet him, as she often has when he has been 
out too late at night, FrReD MATHER, 
*A writer in the Century for October paraphrases the words of 
Frederick the Great to his guards: ‘'What, do want to live forever?” 
and puts the words in the mouth of a general in our late rebellion. 
TROUT IN PRINCE EDWARD’S ISLAND. 
OME of the readers of ForREsT aND S’REAM may be in- 
terested in the following list of trout rivers on Prince 
Edward’s Island: 
Wheatley River, sixteen miles from Charlottetowu, 
Beach River, Lot 33. 
Winter River, Lot 34, 
West River, Bonshaw, Lot 30, 
Worth Lake, near Kast Point, 
Montague Bridge, Lot 59. 
Rollo Bay and Fortune River Bridge. 
McDougall, at the former. 
The Big Miminigash. 
Bear River Station. 
Nautrage Pond. 
Morell Station. 
Brae Station. 
Dunk River, Freetown Station. 
The Morell and the Dunk are perhaps the most celebrated 
streams, But inasmuch as there are no pickerel and no 
chub, every brook and every millpond contain trout. 
Among millponds, I may mention especially Ramgay’s Pond, 
not farfrom Murgate. The natives despise trout that are 
not silvery in color, and maintain that no trout are silvery 
but such as have access to salt water, 
I must say, however, that my own experience of ten 
weeks’ fishing near Malpeque, and of ten weeks’ cating of 
trout, does not tend to make me agree with them, One 
eolor tastes Just as good as another, and millpond trout may 
be just as tempting to the palate as those caught near or 
even in salt water. It was quile new to me to fish at the 
mou hs of rivers where the water is almost, or, perhaps 
quite, as salt as in the ocean itself. One of my acquaint- 
ances, who this time had abandoned the fly for a humble 
worm, caught on one and the same occasion and with the 
same tackle trout, smelts and flatfish, ‘Trout are taken even 
away out in Charluttetown Harbor, near the Block House. 
Two new localities al the very mouths of smallish rivers— 
here I caught one fish of a pound and nine ounces and a 
number more of very respectable size—were where the 
stream narrowed and the slope of the bottom to.deep water 
was sudden. Such places I should be tempted to try if I 
eyer made a trouting tour of the island, even though the 
Apply to Archibald 
Apply to Dennis Costlow, and go to 
al inhabitant asserted that trout had never been 
ere. 
Prince Edwards has cool summers, low prices, a hospit- 
able and kindly population—this latter the densest in the 
Dominion, so that there is no need whatever of camping out 
to fisi—and trout and golden plover (the latter in Septem- 
ber) in great abundance. he scenery may, perhaps, at last 
become monotonous—gentie hills covered with spruce and 
fir (almost to the exclusion of broad Jeayed trees: and soil 
deep red wherever it is exposed; no rocks, but soft, crum- 
bling red sandstone, and that showing hardly anywhere ex- 
cept on the seashore; no stones, the greencst of turf, bitten 
short each side of the road by the sheep, and a general air 
of fertility and agricultural prosperity—but this scenery has, 
on the one hand for a stranger, the charm of novelty and on 
the other the delight which every one, without exception, 
must take in the unusually vivid contrast between the soil 
and the foliage, is one which never wears out. 
Wituram Coox. 
UNEQUAL LUCK. 
IPMUG is the Indian name of a small lake in the town 
of Mendon, Mass,, about 600 feet above tide water, 
quite deep and of the purest water. 11 was leased from the 
State and stocked with bass in 1870, and is now swarming 
with them, One dull, cloudy day not long ago, myself, a 
friend and a scion of one of the party were taken down with 
the bass fever, and procuring about thirty frogs, we started 
for the lake, four miles away. Numerous were the stories 
told on the way of our skill and luck catching bass and other 
fish, and of the big strings caught and big fish lost, A 
lovelier sheet of water than Nipmug was that day was no- 
where to be seen. The surface was rufiled by just the nicest 
ripple, and the distant shore was just one bank of green. 
This prospect was grateful to us, as we were to snatch from 
its bosom the gamy bass. Unloading our frogs and fishing 
kit on the beach, we adjourn to Luther’s cider mill, hard by, 
to refresh ourselves with his rich new cider just from the 
press. 
Returning we proceed to fix up our rods for business. 
While I am tying on a hook something strikes bang against, 
the boathouse, and a two pound bass flops between my feet. 
To save him I drop my line and grab him with both hands; 
and looking up to see where the fish came from saw 
the Scion with his frog torn by the sharp teeth of 
the bass, while a broad grin on the youth’s face plainly 
showed who had been the first one to cast his froe into 
the lake. After bailing out the boat Fred took the 
oars, the Scion stepped into the bow, and I into the 
stern, while Fred’s portly form in the middle just trimmed 
the boat, and off we started under the engine-like stroke of 
the oars. Hooking on a medium sized frog I cast as far from 
the boat as possible, expecting every minute to see the swirl 
of the bass as he comes with a rush from the bottom, TJ had 
cast three or four times when there was a commotion in the 
bow and on looking up saw the young man’s line taught and 
going through the water with a rush, but the fish proved 
to be well hooked and was pulled in by main strength, 
coming through the air like a bomb shell, striking me on the 
back and bounding into the bottom of the bout. I hooked 
the scales into bis jaw and he pulled just three pounds. 
Within two minutes the bow line pulled in another weigh- 
ing two and one-half pounds. That same line kept at it, and 
all this whiue my frog was unit jured. Fred said, “If I had 
a boy that could catch fish like that, and 1 couldn’t catch 
one, I would turn over all of my rods, reels, lines and good 
will, and let the boy do the fishing in the future.” At this 
moment a splash in the water meant something, and on Jook- 
ing to see who had fallen overboard, I saw the bow line go- 
ing for a bunch of lily pads as though scmething heavy was 
on the otherend. And Fred said, ‘‘Pull him in! Pull him 
in! He is a ripper!” And sure enough, he was the largest one 
yet, weighing four pounds two ounces. 
Disgusted with my luck, I said to Fred, “Come, let me 
take the oars, and you take my rod and see what you can 
do.” ‘‘All right, I will show you how to catch bass ” 
Handing bim the rod and taking the oars, I pulled gently 
around to just casting distance from ihe shore, and all the 
caught 
| while the bow line kept pulling them in, large-mouth and 
small-mouth, and rock bass, and once in a while a pickerel, 
This continued until the entire circuit of the lake was com- 
pleted, and we arrived at the place of starting just in time 
to start for home before dark, neither myself nor Fred hay- 
ing caught a single fish. Fish caught by bowline, 26 bass, 
484 pounds. 
The next day Fred said, ‘‘I’ll tell you how we ean fix that 
fellow; we will hire some one to catch a lot of bass for us, 
and keep them in a car; then ask him over fishing, and then 
we will have the best of him,” NipMua. 
MILFORD, Mass. 
SuArks In Lone IsnAnp Sounp.—Northport, Long Island, 
Sept. 22.—The oldest inhabitant cannot remember such a 
tun of sharks as are infesting the Sound at present. The 
fishing is spoiled by them, as the food fish are too scared to 
feed, or have been driven off, A Jarge shark was landed in 
Huntington harbor last week which had a great number of 
full grown menhaden in its stomach, none of which bore 
marks of teeth. In almost any part of the Sound the fins of 
sharks can be seen above the water, and they seem quite 
tame. The fishermen here think that scarcity of food in the 
ocean has driven them in here. A shark eight feet long was 
taken off Lloyd’s Neck, which stands at the east of Cold 
Spring Harbor, and large ones baye lieen seen in the harbor, 
almost up to the fish hatchery. Porpoises were plenty in 
the Sound before the sharks came but have been scared away. 
The small boy bathes with caulicn, and adventurous fisher- 
men are risging up their shark tackle. The little bluefish 
keep close in shore and feed by stealth, being aware of the 
presence of the monsters. A gentleman shot eleyen from a 
yacht on Monday and captured two of them,—Poxrn-o’-Moon- 
SHINE. 
Tar Rop ann Reet TouRNAMENT.—Last spring the 
committee of arrangwments fixed upon an early day in Octo- 
ber for the tournament, and it was published. The chair- 
man of that committee appointed the various sub-commit- 
tees to revise rules in the different classes, etc,, and all went 
out of town in the hot weather, each thinking that the 
others could arrange all matters without their presence. 
The president and secretary have labored to get a meeting 
of the committee in vain until last week. The days now 
fixed are Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 22 and 23, The 
prizes are coming in, and on Oct. 4 the prize committee will 
make up the list-of prizes in the differeni classes and the 
programme will be published. Everything points to a 
splendid meeting if the weather is at all favorable. 
THosr Bie Trour,—Stanley, N. J.—Hditor Forest and 
Stream; Countless numbers of the arguing readers of your 
always interesting journal are awaiting rather impatiently 
the verification of ‘‘Knickerbocker’s” Munchausenish state- 
ment relative to the Rangeley trout of 24, 17, 15, 12 ponnds’ 
weight. Will he not rise and explain? Nothing short of 
his affidavit. certified by the judges and clerks of courts in 
Oxford and Franklin counties, Maine, and indorsed by the 
Fish Commissioners of Maine—Hons, H O. Stanley and KE, 
M. Stillwell—further verified by the countersigns of Charles 
G, Atkins, Ass’t U. 8, Commissioner of Fisheries, and Prot, 
8. I. Baird, the distinguished and reliable Commissioner of 
Fisheries of the United States of America, will convince any 
angler for trout, whose scales stopped at. 10 pounds and un- 
der, that ““Knickerbocker’s” effusion ought not to have been 
placed in your columns headed ‘That Reminds Me,” I think 
we are all ready to present him our biggest jack knife and 
our chromo, ‘‘Little Hatchet.”—Gno. SHurarp Pags, 
Bass iy Virerta.—Anent the bass fishing at Front Royal, 
Va., advertised elsewhere, a Baltimore correspondent writes: 
“The bass fishing on the Shenandoah River at Front Royal 
is about the best 1 have found in this country; and it will be 
unusually good this fall, owing to the fact that during the 
early part of the season constant rains prevented the river | 
from being over-fished. My average weight from Aug. 1 to 
Sept. 1 was two pounds; average catch twenty-one, which I 
count pretty good.—J, L, T.” 
Perca av Berrerton —The perch at Betterton are biting 
and the fish are large, Grove and Thompzon’s Points are 
the favorite spots, Weakfishing is still good at Barnegat. 
There has been a noticeable falling off of bluefish at thig 
famous fishing ground this year. It is all laid at the door of 
the menhaden fishermen,—Homo, 
TROUT IN THE RANGELEYS.—Our correspondent ‘J. G. 
R.,” writing from Rangeley, Me., Sept. 19, says: ‘Very 
few trout are being taken at present in any part of the Range- 
lJeys, but the large ones are running in and a little cold 
weather will set them rising.” 
Lishculture. 
CARP CULTURE.—Philadelphia, Sept. 17,—The American 
Carp Cultural Association held its fall meeting here to-day. 
The secretary’s report showed between five and six hundred 
enrolled members, representing nearly or quite every State in 
the Union. The price of membership was fixed at one dollar. 
Arrangements were made forthe publication fi a monthly 
journal to be largely devoted to carp culture, was stated 
that 25,000 persons have commenced the culture of carp in 
this country. The members of the association willbe present 
at the draining of the government carp pond at League Island 
to-morrow. Philadelphia, Sept. 18.—The members of the Amer- 
ican Carp Culture Association visited League Island to-day 
for the purpose of inspecting the carp which were placed ina 
pond there in January, 1883. When placed in the pond the 
carp were about four inches in length, they having been 
hatched the summer before, Seyeral specimens were cap- 
tured to-day. not one of which was less than 51g pounds in 
weight and 19 inches inlength. The heaviest one weighed 4 
pounds and 10 ounces, measured 21 inches in length and 14 
inches in girth. It was thus shown that the fish grow large 
and thrive without any especial care, and the experiment was 
pronounced a complete success. 
Answers ta Correspondents, 
F.S., German Hunting Club.—For squirrel shooting, try Sussex 
county, N. J. 
G. W. M., Cedarville, O,—The Michigan game law forbids the ex- 
portation of deer. 
DS. M., Waverly.—Black squirrels will breed in captivity. See 
note on page 45, issue of Feb, 14, 1884. 
¥. §.—Try the vicinity of Chateaugay Lake or Meacham Lake, See 
notices of these resorts in our advertising columms. 
H. H.L., Chicago,—The process of making sawdust gas you will 
find desc:ibed in a pamphlet published by George Walker, P. 0, Box 
83, Deseronto, Ont. 
Sport, New York.—Please inform me the most proper way tocatch 
black bass. Ans. With the artificial fly when they willtakeib, At 
other times use helgramites, minnows, or frogs. 
C. §. 8., Philadelphia, Pa.—l. Use a common butcher knife for 
scraping down spars or mast. 2. Thecvmmon veterinary yaseline, 
the cheapest eee is good for slushisg down masts, It may be 
Tubbed on with the hand. 
A. W.. Massillon, O.—Where can I procure young carp, and at 
what season should they be started? Ans. Apply to Prof. 5, F. Baird, 
Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington, D, C. The distribution will 
probably begin next month. 
R. D. L.. Mystic, Conn,—The seasons in your State are: Ruffed 
grouse, quail and woodcock, Oct. 1-Jan. 1; wildfowl, Say 1-May 1; 
rail Sept 12-Jan. 1 (in New Haven, Fairfield and Litchfield counties, 
Aug. 20-Jan. 1); speckled trout, April 1-July 1, 
J.L. Z.—You will find ruffed grouse and quail near Nyack, <A re- 
cent writer recommended for ruffed grouse near that place the ridge 
which runs from Oak Hill Cemetery north to Hook Mountain. For 
woodcock, go east of Creskill station, Squirrels are reported plenty 
in Sussex county, N. J. ; 
J.G.G., Jr.—From Petoskey, Mich., you can easily reach rood 
deer hunting grounds. The Michigan deer season is in Lower Penin- 
sula Oet. 1-Dec. 1; in Upper Peninsula, Aug. 15-Noy. 15. The pun you 
name will answer for deer shoo.ing. See¢communications elsewhere 
on “Bullet ys. Buckshot”. 
Micuigan Tourist.—For ducks try the marshes at Monroe, Mich. 
Part of them are preserved by a club. For ruffed grouse go to any 
of the stations on the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad west of Hast 
Saginaw. Jeromeville and Munising in the Northern Peninsula are 
good points for deer shooting. 
T. F., Minto.—1. Does, in your opinion. the feeding of meat to bird 
dogs injure their power of scent? 2. Will rubbing powdered emery 
upon the inside of Damascus steel barrels injure them in any way? 
8. Whatis Ube best article for removing rust from the inside of gun 
barrels? Ans, 1. No. 2. No. 38. Try gun oide. 
» Frat, Lowell, Mass.—Will you kindly inform mé: 1, What is the 
best work on salmon and trout flies (artificial), by tha study of which | 
an amateur could learn to make a satisfactory fly fur American or 
Canadian waters? 2. Where can materials be obtaimed? Ans. 1. The 
information is contained in ‘‘The American Angler's Book,” by Thad. 
Norris, price, $5.50, or in Hallock’s Gazetueer,” price, $3. We can 
furnish either. 2. Write to any of our advertising tackle dealers. 
A, M. H., New York.—A large and very cold spring on a farm is so 
situated that 1 can havea large pond at small expense. The water 
is too cold for carp, which, I am told, require warmer water, How 
would black bass do? The bottom of tue pond is tuo muddy or T 
would try trout. Ans. If there are springs in the pond you can 
throw in grayel on them and trout will thrive, or if there is a spring 
Tunning mm it you can make spawning races. Black bass also require 
sand or gavel. 
L. K. W., Do you thinkit would be worth while to stock a pond on 
the south side of Long Island with black bass? The pond was form- 
erly well-stocked with trout, but has not been strictly presetved dur- 
ing the last few years, consequently most of the trout have been taken 
out. Itisaboutfive fect deep, clear, cold water,sandy bottom, Ans. 
If there isno chance of restoring the trout we would put in black 
bass. Deeper water would be better, but they may do well in five 
feet, Write to Mr: Annin, whose advertisement isn our columns. 
