June 3, 1886.] 



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Lake Erie Bass Fishing.— The Pelee party of Dayton 

 anglers are all at home again, sunburned and heartily pleased 

 with their sojourn on the green isle of the lake, but, accord- 

 ing to the Dayton Journal, sorely disappointed with the fish- 

 ing. But they were not exceptions to the rule. Bass were 

 not running anywhere in the lake. No one of the various 

 parties from Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus, Springfield, 

 Toledo, Chicago and New York captured the fifth part of an 

 average May string. As a rule, each boat with two good 

 anglers, expects to return to the sojourning place in the 

 evening after an all-day's devotion to the bass with a string 

 of forty to sixty bass, and often more. This time the boats 

 did not average above six or eight bass each all day long. 

 Some of the best rodmen did not get a bite some days and 

 were accordingly skunked. One-half the Dayton party of 

 ten were served that way one day, and some congratulated 

 themselves on taking even one. The stories published from 

 Put-in-Bay were pure inventions. There is sbsolutely no 

 rod-fishing at Put-in-Bay or near it, at any time. All the 

 good catches reported from that point are made by parties 

 who sail from thence in steamers to the East Sister, Cold 

 Harbor, Old Hen and Chickens, Gull Island Reef and Pelee 

 Islands. The Pelee Club at Sheridan Point, on the north- 

 western corner of the island, and who have the most extrava- 

 gant angler's outfit in the United States, had no better luck 

 thau others, notwithstanding their two steamers, one for sup- 

 plies and mail, the other for sport. They have two oarsmen 

 for each of their fishing boats, and fish to much better ad- 

 vantage than less expensive parties. This party represents 

 over $50,000,000 of capital, embracing such wealthy men as 

 Hon. Charles Farwell, Marshal Field, Potter Palmer, Rynar- 

 son and others of Chicago. The club numbers thirty-four 

 members. Their original assessment was $1,000 each, their 

 annual dues are $200 each, and current expenses during fish- 

 ing seasons added. They live in luxury, and are enthusiastic 

 anglers. The Leffel party of Springfield, eighteen strong, 

 had a commodious tug and made Put-in-Bay their head- 

 quarters. They had no better luck than the rest of us, 

 although they sailed all over the late. The Middle Bass 

 party, mainly from Toledo, and the Cleveland Club, at 

 Ballast Island, were equally unlucky. The weather was fair 

 and intensely hot, and'the water so elear that the bottom at 

 ten or twelve feet depth was plainly visible. Most of the 

 anglers have returned home and the spring fishing season for 

 1886 may be said to be practically ended. Various theories, 

 none of them conclusive, are advanced for the failure of the 

 bass— which are as conspicuously absent from the pounds as 

 from the cunning rods of expert fishermen. The pound men 

 cannot explain the mystery. Some assert that the bass had 

 their run before the season opened, but this is contradicted 

 by the fact that the pounds did not catch many. Had the 

 bass run as usual, the pounds would have demonstrated it. 

 Others assert that the bass have not yet come up the lake, 

 but that is illogical, the season for running having passed 

 two weeks ago. The most plausible theory for their non- 

 biting is that the fish are on their spawning beds. No matter 

 what was the cause, the spring of 1886 in Lake Erie for bass 

 fishing will be recorded as a dismal failure. 



Chateatjgay Lake, Adirondacks, May 20. — For the troll- 

 ing season this lake is unsurpassed by any lake in the State 

 of its size. In 8% days I caught 21 salmon trout, besides a 

 good many brook trout, the salmon going from 3 to 7$ 

 pounds, the speckled from I to l j-, although very early for 

 brook trout. Others have done as well or better. Alto- 

 gether about 200 salmon trout were taken this season, which 

 is as good as any lake in the State can furnish for the same 

 area. In the summer we have the best of fly-fishing, trout 

 having been caught weighing 5£ pounds, salmon tipping the 

 beam at 22 pounds. Not a bad record for a small lake. One 

 afternoon 9 salmon were taken which dressed 65 pounds . 

 Indian Point is a pleasant house on the lake, the proprietor, 

 R. M. Shutts, is a genial sportsman and host and has had 

 thirty years' experience in the Adirondacks, and is a perfect 

 guide either in pursuit of deer or the speckled beauties of 

 the water — E. W. Cook. The season opened two weeks 

 earlier than usual here. We had a good catch of salmon, 

 running from three to fifteen pounds. The trout season 

 opens fair with good catches. Deer are all around us, and 

 are robbing my cow of her pasture, but thanks to our legis- 

 lators, they will soon be more "shy." — R. M. Shutts (Cha- 

 teaugay Lake, N. Y.). 



Attaching Droppebs. — Centralia, Pa. — Editor Forest 

 and Stream: I inclose a cord tied so that you may see how I 

 attach droppers to the leader. No doubt your readers will 



understand it without a long description. If droppers are 

 not to be used and only the stretcher fly attached, then omit 

 the first loop and you have a straight leader. I think this a 

 better arrangement than the one illustrated by "Percy val" 

 in your issue of April 15. The leader can be shortened or 

 lengthened at pleasure, and the droppers can be placed at 

 any distance desired. — Spicewood. 



Lake St. Joseph. — Editor Forest and Stream: I noticed 

 a paragraph in a late number of your valuable paper, relat- 

 ing to Lake St. Joseph, near Quebec, Canada. This lake is 

 a very fine, but by no means a new one. But the Quebec & 

 St. John Railway is now opening out some splendid fishing 

 grounds in that direction. There is good trout and black 

 bass fishing in the lake, also large 'lunge or great lake trout 

 are sometimes taken. The Messrs. Watters and son wish to 

 pose as great fishermen and are frequently informing the 

 public, through the press, of the wonderfully large fish they 

 catch, but never relate that they take them off night lines 

 at the wee sma' hours of the morning and not in the "after- 

 noon," as stated. As this style of fishing is illegal, these 

 lines which, by the way, were quite a curiosity, being one 

 quarter of an inch thick, with some fifty or sixty hooks and ten 

 pound sinkers attached, were seized and exhibited in Quebec 

 with the owner's name placed on them. It is said that these 

 splendid 'lunge can always be obtained fresh at the hotel from 

 ten to fifteen cents per pound ; therefore strangers need no 

 ropes nor get up at unearthly hours to procure these fish. It 

 may not be sportsmanlike, but they need not return home 

 with empty baskets,— Verbum Sap. 



The "Sun's" Fish Tarns.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 About two weeks ago there appeared in the Sun an article in 

 regard to the trout fishing in Eastern Pennsylvania, which 

 was calculated to make any decent trout rod jump out of its 

 case, put itself together, thrust itself into the hand of its 

 owner, and drag him willy nilly to the scene of such astound- 

 ing piscatorial exploits. Now, I do not mean to contradict, 

 impugn, or even question the strict accuracy of the state- 

 ments in the article aforesaid, notwithstanding the result of 

 previous investigations of such matters. All I wish to say is 

 this: I sent a copy of the newspaper, having marked the 

 article with red ink (it was so ink-redible, you know), to the 

 proprietor of a certain village hotel in the heart of the Mon- 

 roe couuty trout region, and asked him to tell me what he 

 knew about the alleged facts concerning the capture of so 

 many one, two and three pound trout in his vicinity. Here 

 is his reply, received to-day. Neither his grammar nor 

 orthography is as good, perhaps, as that of some of your 

 deer hounding legislators at Albany, but he always tells the 

 truth: "Dear ser, I recieved yours and aboute the fishing up 

 thair I dont now, that seams like a big fish story I would 

 like to se you a gain. Yours truly — ."— K. (Perth Amboy, 

 N. J., May 28). ^ ; --i 



FiiY-FisurNG for Shad.— Holyoke, Mass., May 31.— 

 Nothing new ou last week's report of shad fishing. On 

 Friday, 28th inst., they ran the net all day; result, two shad. 

 Up to noon to-day, four shad. Fishing not a shadow of its 

 former self. Unless the Massachusetts Commissioners of ' 

 Fisheries commence hatching here again through August 

 and September, the shad industry of this place is done. 

 Anglers will have to try the Housatonic; Chatahoochie at 

 at Columbus, Georgia. If taken at Columbus in deep 

 water, why not in the Hudson and other streams where the 

 shad abound? It is all folly, a scientific stick in the mud, 

 to say shad don't feed in fresh water. All nature proclaims 

 against such a theory, at the very cime when all their powers 

 are called into the most active exertions, going up stream 

 against strong currents and turbulent waters, and reproduc- 

 ing their species, the most eventful period of their watery 

 lives, unless it is out of the water into the frying pan. — 

 Thomas Chalmers. 



Lake Drummond. Belvidere, N. O— The skipper of the 

 Coot, in his map of last issue, does not give "Lake Drum- 

 mond" sufficient prominence. Iu accordance with his scale, 

 he makes it only about 3x4 miles, while in reality it is 6x7 

 miles and a most picturesque piece of very deep and clear 

 "juniper water," with excellent bass and perch fishing for 

 those who know the ropes — no "greenies" or "fancy fisher- 

 men" need apply — only those "to the manor born" can suc- 

 ceed there, i. e., only those who have had experience, or 

 have an experienced guide, can do enough to pay for the in- 

 convenience of getting in and out. The Dismal bwamp canal 

 was cut for the purpose of getting at the Valencia cypress 

 and juniper timber of that region and not the pine, as repre- 

 sented by "C. P. X." although much pine is now rafted 

 through the various canals, from the highlands of the differ- 

 ent easterns counties of North Carolina. — A. F. R. 



Notes from New Orleans. — The waters in the bayous 

 of the Mississippi Sound are fast clearing and settling. 

 Silver fish have been seen round the Rigolets, and fishermen 



are preparing to go out to capture them. A new sportiug 



club has been formed at Look Out. It is composed of twelve 

 members, comprising the leading business; men of the city, 



and is called the Pearl River Club. There is on the tapis 



a pegging fish match. In this each contestant is tied to a 

 peg ou the border of a stream and fishes there a certain 

 length of time. The one catching the least number of fish 



pays for the dinner. Quite a crowd assembled in front of 



Branch 27, at West End, yesterday, to view the big catch 

 made by Sam Merlin. It was the biggest thing of the kind 

 ever hooked in these waters, the monster garfish weighing 

 150 pounds and was fully six feet in length. 



A North Carolina Bass.— Belvidere, N. O, May 24. — 

 A friend of mine caught a bass of the big-mouthed persua- 

 sion last week which pulled down the scales at ten pounds 

 strong two hours after being caught. The fish was caught 

 in a millpond near this "hamlet," and was a "fighter from 

 away back."— A. F. R. 



Dr. J. A. Henshall is making an extended pleasure trip 

 up the Mississippi River in company with Judge Longworth, 

 of Cincinnati. The party are on Judge Longworth's pleas- 

 ure j acht Co, specially built and fitted up for such cruising. 

 Dr. Henshall's address is care Geo. B. Ellard, Esq., 158 East 

 Third street, Cincinnati. 



Columbus Casting Tournament. — The anglers of Co- 

 lumbus, O., are talking of a fly-casting tournament. Persons 

 interested should address Mr. W. H. Miller, Box 245, Co- 

 lumbus, O. 



Every pair of Allen's bow facing oars warranted. Send for little 

 catalogue free. Fred A. Allen, Monmouth, III.— Adv. 



JUislfcultnre. 



PROTECTING NEW YORK OYSTER BEDS.— Fish Com- 

 missioner E. G. Blackford has appointed Joseph W. Mersereau 

 of Staten Island, State Oyster Protector. The bill creating 

 the office provides that it shall not be lawful for any person 

 or persons, corporation or corporations, to place or cause to 

 be placed in any waters within the jurisdiction of the State, 

 any sludge acid or other refuse matter, resulting from the 

 manufacture or process of manufacture, or treatment of 

 crude or refined material from any oil refinery, or oil works, 

 any sugar refinery or sugar works, or from any gas house or 

 building or buildings used for the making of gas, or to deposit 

 in the waters any substance injurious to oyster culture. The 

 law further provides that it shall not be lawful to throw or 

 cause to be thrown from any boat, scow or vessel whatsoever 

 into the waters of Long Island Sound, or into the bays or 

 harbors opening into the same west of a line drawn from 

 Eaton's Neck due north to the boundary line between New 

 York State and the State of Connecticut any cinders, ashes, 

 refuse or garbage. The Fish Commissioner is authorized by 

 the law to appoint a person, who shall be known as the 

 State Oyster Protector, whose duty it shall be to patrol 

 under the directions of the Fish Commissioner the oyster 

 regions of the State. The salary of the Protector is fixed at 

 §1,000 per annum and expenses. Mr. Mersereau is an old 

 oyster planter, but of late years has been in the employ of the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His application was in- 

 dorsed by the oyster growers of Staten Island, and the dealers 

 at the fbot of West Tenth street, He will enter on the dis- 

 charge of bis duties at once. 



FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 8.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association, at Abilene, Kan. R. C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



Nov. 22.— Eighth aDnual field trials of the. Eastern Field Trials Club, 

 at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, Kings 

 county, N. Y. 



DOG SHOWS. 



July 20, 21, 22 and 2a.— Milwaukee Dog Show. John D. Olcott, Man 

 ager, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Aug. 21, 25, 26 and 27.— First Annual Dog Show of the Latonia 

 Agricultural Association, Covington, Ky. George H. nih, Manager, 

 P. O. Box 76, Cincinnati, O. 



Sept. 14, 15, 16 and 17.— First fall dog show of the New Jersey Ken 

 nel Club, Waverly, N. J. A. P. Vredenburg, secretary, Bergen Point 

 N. J. 



WILKESBARRE DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I herewith send a few notes on the Wilkesbarre dog show, 

 which opened for three days on May 25, but as I had just suf- 

 ficient time to get through with my classes and catch the 

 train for Philadelphia, I had no opportunity of looking at the 

 setter or beagle classes. The show was got up for the benefit 

 of the armory fund, for which a fair is also being held in the 

 city, and the gentlemen in charge deserve the greatest credit 

 for the way in which the show was arranged and managed. 

 The dogs were nicely and comfortably beuched in the old 

 Armory building, a good ring was provided for the judging, 

 and in addition we had a well priuted catalogue, for which I 

 suppose we must thank Mr. W. H. Tuck, the secretary. In 

 mastiff dogs oar old friend Agrippa had a walk over and also 

 beat Duchess for the special. It was a close thing between 

 the litter sisters Duchess and Rena, but the extra height and 

 better head of Duchess turned the scale. The Rev. Chas. F. 

 Kelley won first and second in St. Bernards with Bonivard II. 

 and Cassaudra. Both were out of condition and Cassandra 

 had a big litter of puppies in her stall. Newfoundlands were 

 me usual collection, first going to a black and white of good 

 lize, but curly coat, and second to a short coat, black dog, 

 ftveak in head. 



/ As Mr. Lindsay was unable to attend the show I was set 

 down for pointers, but had only five in two classes. The 

 three dogs were an odd lot. Sweep was the best iu head and 

 style, but is shelly. Fred, liver, is deficient in quality and 

 wide in front. Trump was as fat as a pig, very thick in head 

 and crooked in front. Of the two bitches, I gave first to Dora, 

 as Beau Beau was in shocking condition. The winning span- 

 iels are nearly all old friends, the only new face of conse- 

 quence being Hornell Fancy, of the same buff color as the one 

 shown at the Fanciers' show. It ought to turn out a good one, 

 but it was very timid in the ring. The four fox-terriers made 

 up a very poor class, and I stretched it to give Nellie a second 

 prize; but she was of the right size and the others were giants. 

 The winning collie, Major, was a very fair specimen and won 

 easily. Only one half-bred terrier wasshown as a bulldog, and 

 got nothing ; but the bull-terrier class was a good one, thanks 

 to Mr. Dole's entry of four. Count of course won, and the 

 grand body and make up of Mark-Eyed Victor was not to be 

 denied in comparison with his mother's weak head and wall- 

 eye and Lady in White's lack of condition. This is a new bitch 

 of Mr. Dole's, wonderfully good in head. 



A class for Skyes was filled with rough terriers and with 

 three of the same sort in the miscellaneous class. A very fair 

 lot of six was picked out for a rough terrier class; a blue sad- 

 dle and tan dog got first and next came a pure white, shown 

 too fat, but good in coat. Thumb, the winning pug, is of good 

 size and otherwise a fair little dog. Ky-ky was not in condi- 

 tion to show off well. Sir Lucifer, fresh from his great victory 

 at St. Louis, excited the curiosity of the country folks. He 

 won easily enough in the large miscellaneous class, and Boss, 

 a Mexican hairless, was as easy a winner in the small class. 

 Mrs. Kramer had the Italian greyhound prizes all to herself. 

 The last class was greyhounds, and Begonia won from what 

 must have been a good dog at one time, but he was showing 

 too many signs of old age to beat the bitch. Following is a 

 complete list of the 



AWARDS. 



MASTIFFS.— Dog*; 1st, Lackawanna Kennels' Agrippa. Bitches: 

 1st, G. U. Sturdevant & Co.'s Duch ess ; 2d, Col, S. H. Sturdevant's 

 Rena. 



ST. BERNARDS. -1st and 2d, Rev. C. F. Kelley 'S Bonivard II. and 

 Cassandra. 



NEWFOUNDLANDS.— 1st, W. Bauer's Cimarron; 2d, G. H. Par- 

 rish's Rover. 



POINTERS. — Dogs: 1st, G. H. Butler's Sweep; 2d, W. W. McCain's 

 Fred. High com., J. Laniug's Trump. Bitches: 1st, J. Laning's 

 Dora; 2d, Lackawanna Kennels' Beau Eeau. 



ENGLISH SETTERS. -Dogs: 1st, Prof. E. R. Sprague's Royal Dale; 

 2d, G. li. Wright's Rollo. Very high com., T. S. Sperring's Flight. 

 High com.E. O. Weeks's Don. Com., Dr. E. Troxell's Duke. Bitches: 

 1st, H. Bowkley's May ; 2d, H, M. Beck's Victoria Dale. Very high 

 com.,M. Coolbaugh's Trinket. 



IRISH SETTERS. —Dogs: 1st, I. H. Roberts's Bruce; 2d, R. A. Spald- 

 ing's Garry. Very high com., L. B. Hillard's Mickey Free. Com., G. 

 L. Darte's Rex. Bitches: 1st, 2d and very high com., I. H. Roberts's 

 Hebe, Jessie and Little Nell. Very high com., W. W. Kendall's Lorna 

 Doone. Com,, C. A. Quick's Glennie. Puppies: 1st, C. A. Quick's 

 Glennie. Very high com., S. C. Struther's Fashion II. High com., 

 J, B. "Woodard's Mack. 



FIELD SPANIELS.— 1st and 2d, Hornell Spaniel Club's Hornell 

 Mikado and Hornell Dan. High com., S. Ayers's Barney. 



COCKER SPANIELS.— Black— 1st, American Cocker Kennels' Doc; 

 2d and very high com., Horned Spaniel Club's Hornell Jock and 

 Homell Silk. Very high com., W. T. Payne's Suzette and Lackawanna 

 Kennels' Bubble. Com., W. Ricketts's Jack.— Other than Black— 

 1st, 2d and very high com., Hornell Spaniel Club's Hornell Fancy, 

 Homell Belle H. and Hornell Tri-color. Very nigh com., M. Martin's 

 Gipsey. High com. , F. Bullard's Psyche. 



BEAGLES.— Dogs: 1st, J. Kasehenbach's Driver; equal 2d, W. F. 

 Streeter's Frisk and Rally wood. Verv high com., H. C. Wolfe's 

 Friskey. Bitches: 1st, W. F. Streeter's Lizzie; 2d, J. C. Huntington's 

 Betsy. Very high com., O. Smith's Swift. Under 12 Inches.— 1st 

 and 2d, W. F. Steeter's Marchboy H. and Skipper. Very high com., 

 , H. C. Wolfe's Frank. 



' FOXTERRIERS. — 1st, withheld; G. Deearie's Nellie. 



COLLIES-— 1st, A. N. Harvey's Major; 2d, O. Thomas's Zeus. High 

 com., E. Huff's Tip. Com., Gen. P. Oliver's Nemo. 



BULLDOGS.— Prizes withheld. 



BULLTERRIERS.— 1st, F. F. Dole's Count; 2d, F. M. Chase's Mark- 

 Eyed Victor. Very bigh com. and high com., F. F. Dole's Young 

 Venom, Lady in White and The Baron. 



BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS.-lsi, F. H. Gates's Fly; 2d, W. L 

 & J. L. Carey's Zip. 



ROUGH TERRIERS.— Open— 1st, F. A. Phelps's Budge; 2d, J. A. 

 Waring's Beauty. Very high com. J. Langford's Tony. 



TOY TERRIERS. — 1st, N. Wolfe's Nig; 2d, D. L. Hart's Tiny. 



PUGS.— 1st and 2d, G. W. Fisher's Thumb and Ky Ky. High com., 

 J. Howell's Naukipoo. 



GREYHOUNDS.— 1st, H. W. Huntington's Begonia; 2d, Gen. P. 

 Oliver's Flash. 



ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS.- 1st, 2d, very high com. and high com., 

 Mrs. Annie M. Kramer's Tiny. Effie, Dixie and Don. High com. and 

 com., Lackawanna Kennels' Posey and Dot. 



MISCELLANEOUS.— Over 25lbs — 1st, Glencoe Collie Kennels' Sir 

 Lucifer; 2d, Lackawanna Keunels' Muff. Very high com., E. G. Butz- 

 bach's Jumbo.— Under 2olbs.— 1st, L. T. Morgan's Boss; 2d, W.J. 

 McLaughlin's Tip. 



SPECIAL PRIZES. 

 Best brace of pugs, Thumb and Kv Ky. Best beagle, Maeehboy II. ; 

 mastiff, Agrippa; cocker spaniel. Doc; English setter. Royal Dale; 

 lorthig kennel, I. H. Roberts; non-sporting kennel, F. F. Dole, 



