July 13, 1895.] 



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due reverence for the fitness of things, the rights of the 

 black bass and of their defenders. But I forgive him. 



Old Sam. 



Syracuse, June 21. — Having seen considerable contro- 

 versy in the last few issues of the Forest and Stream 

 about leaping or jumping bass, I became very much in- 

 terested, and began to think that perhaps my eyes had 

 deceived me after reading the communication of M. G. 

 Ellzey, when he said that the bass leaped on account of 

 fright; that he very seldom lost a fish by having it leap 

 from the water, ana that a tenth of a second was not time 

 to see whether the bass had its mouth open or not. But 

 being at Montezuma last Tuesday I took particular pains 

 to test the argument. I caught a good number of small- 

 mouthed bass, two of them weighing 31bs. 4oz. and 41bs. 

 2oz., and was very unfortunate in losing a number by 

 having them break water and leaping* from Gin. to 1ft., 

 and in every instance did the bass have its mouth open 

 and it shook itself. I could not say it was exactly like a 

 terrier shaking a rat, but it would be a very good com- 

 parison, and in one instance the hook flew to a consider- 

 able distance, and each time did I have a taut line. I can 

 save most of the fish that do not break water, but am very 

 unfortunate in losing a great many that do. But as the 

 Doctor says good-by, I don't think that we can have an 

 argument. A. R. K. 



IN NEW ENGLAND WATERS. 



Boston, Mass, , July 6.— Judge Horace Gray, of the U. 

 S. Supreme Court, has left Boston for the St. John's River, 

 where he will spend a few weeks fishing for salmon. For 

 many successive seasons he fished the Nepissiguit at the 

 Grand Falls, but I understand has not done any fishing at 

 all for the last six years. I trust his return to the sport 

 will be made agreeable by the best of luck on his present 

 trip. 



Mr. Jas. Bird, of Boston, has returned from his bass 

 fishing trip to Belgrade Mills, highly pleased with results. 

 He reports the fishing to be exciting enough to satisfy the 

 most exacting. At one cast, on a 5oz. rod he hooked three 

 bass whose total weight wab 7|lbs. It required great care 

 to land them without breaking his tackle, and this was 

 only accomplished after quite a struggle. Mr. Bird will 

 go to the Plymouth Ponds for a short time, and will return 

 to Belgrade for a few weeks, later in the season. 



J. C. Gibbs and E. R. Eustis, of Boston, have left for 

 Belgrade, expecting to make a two weeks' stay. Mr. Gibbs 

 has been there before this season, and goes back this time 

 determined if possible to capture some of the big land- 

 locked salmon known to be so plentiful in these ponds. 

 He will try deep water trolling, and ought to be success- 

 ful. From Belgrade the two gentlemen will go to fish the 

 waters in the vicinity of the Katahdin Iron "Works, 

 spending a week in that locality. 



H. N. Whitman and wife, Samuel Boothby and wife, 

 Charles Gilman and wife and Mr. Fred. Eastman, all of 

 Portland, Maine, have gone to spend a two weeks' vacation 

 at their comfortable camp at Mill nocket Lake, near the 

 west branch of the Penobscot. The fishing is generally 

 very fair in that region and it is said to be quite a sight 

 during the months of June and July to watch the game 

 coming down to the water. Mr. Whitman is an old 

 Sebago fisherman, and captured several lusty salmon at 

 that lake shortly after the ice went out this year. 

 _ Professors G. S. Lamson and J. C. Rolfe, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, stopped a few days in 

 Boston this week en route to the White Mountains, where 

 they will stay during the month of July, spending most 

 of their time fishing the streams for trout. Prof. Lamson 

 is very fond of brook fishing, and no alder thicket is too 

 dense for him to penetrate if he thinks there is a fair 

 chance of reward. A part of August will be spent in salt- 

 water fishing, and after that a trip to the Maine woods 

 has been planned to last until college reopens in the fall. 



The fishing at Big King and Bartlett Lake in Maine is 

 reported to be better this season than for many years. 

 There has always been a degree of uncertainty about what 

 to expect in this pond. Plenty of trout are known to in- 

 habit its waters, but they have been somewhat eccentric 

 and not always ready to take the fly. This year has 

 proved a notable exception to the past, and everybody 

 who has visited the King and Bartlett camps seemed very 

 well satisfied with their luck. A peculiar feature of these 

 trout is their almpst exact average of lib, in weight. It 

 is singular how uniform they ara in this respect. As evi- 

 dence of this fifty trout were taken on the fly in one day 

 a short time ago and were found to weigh almost exactly 

 50lbs. The success of sportsmen who have visited this 

 preserve during the present season is worthy of special 

 notice. There is only one Spencer Stream in Maine, and 

 that is a paradise for those who like brook fishing. T. H. 

 Rollinson and wife and E. L. Barry and wife, of Walt- 

 ham, Mass., while at King and Bartlett spent a couple of 

 days fishing this stream with the very best of results. 

 The Kibby Stream, a branch of the Spencer, is also good; 

 235 good-sized trout were landed there in one day by two 

 gentlemen who fished for a record, but returned most of 

 their catch to the water. Big Spencer Lake, about four 

 miles from the main camps, is noted for large lake trout, 

 mostly taken by trolling. The record for big game seen 

 on the preserve this season is also quite remarkable. Mr. 

 F. H. Talcott, just returned to Boston, saw thirteen deer 

 and a moose at Long Pond. While Dr. Johnson's party 

 were fishing at Big Spencer Lake a largs black bear 

 came down to the lake to satisfy his thirst. He watched 

 the boat for five minutes and then made off into the 

 woods. The Messrs. Epting, of Philadelphia, with Fred. 

 Davis as guide, were fishing on Spencer stream. A 

 noise on the bank attracted their attention, and the next 

 instant a large moose thrust his head through the bushes. 

 He looked at the party a moment and then boldly de- 

 scended into the water and commenced to feed on the 

 lily-pads. Tne guide paddled up to within 20ft. of the 

 moose, and they watched him for fully ten minutes. 

 Finally his wild sense was aroused and he sauntered off 

 into the woods. An hour or two later the same moose 

 presumably was seen at Fish Pond, and the party got 

 within 20yds. of him. Finally one of the gentlemen 

 commenced to bellow at him. This aroused him with 

 a vengeance, and as he showed indications of a charge 

 the party beat a hasty retreat, considering that discretion 

 was the better part of valor. 



Mr. S. C. Dizer and wife, of Boston, have just returned 

 from what proved to be a very enjoyable trip into the 

 Moosehead region. They went to the Northwest Carry, 



from there into the Upper Penobscot, and then to Spencer 

 Pond. Fair fishing was had, the largest taken weighing 

 2ilbs. At Northwest Carry Mr. Dizer saw six deer within 

 gunshot distance of the house. When fishing at Spencer 

 Pond he saw a doe and two fawns, which came out on the 

 shore and stayed in plain sight for some time. The trip 

 just over was undertaken principally to arrange for a 

 much longer one to begin in August. At that time it is 

 Mr. Dizer's intention to make a canoe trip of 200 miles, 

 starting at Moosehead, over the Northeast Carry to the 

 Penobscot, thence to Chesuncook, Chamberlain and Eagle 

 lakes, and the Allegasb and St. John's rivers, coming out 

 at Edmanston, N. B. 



Mr. Frank C. Black, of William Read & Sons, leaves 

 Boston in a few days for an extended trip over the best 

 fishing territory of Nova Scotia." Before returning he ex- 

 pects to stop some days with his father, who owns a large 

 farm in the midst of a good sporting country, where ex- 

 cellent fishing is to be had almost at the doors of his 

 home. 



Messrs. H. Williams and Robert Williams, of Boston, 

 have gone to Norcross, Me., where they will take guides 

 and go into the woods for a three weeks' trolling and fly- 

 fishing trip. Last year these gentlemen spent some weeks 

 salmon and grilse fishing in the Miramichi River. This 

 year they are trying Maine for a change, and as they are 

 going into the Aroostook country will no doubt have good 

 sport. Hackle, 



BOSTON AND MAINE. 



Boston, July 3.— Mr. Rodney P. Woodman with his 

 friend Chubbuck starts to-day for a fishing trip that is 

 likely to prove to be a good one. They will visit the 

 almost unknown ponds that lie in the mountains beyond 

 Parlin Pond. Parlin Pond itself is well up to the Canada 

 line on the borders of Maine, on the celebrated Canada 

 Road, which is about the route Benedict Arnold took way 

 back in the days of the Revolution. Parlin Pond has been 

 somewhat opened up to sportsmen by the building of a 

 hotel there. It is said to be in the midst of a great fish 

 and game section. But up among the mountains, over 

 one of the roughest of buckboard roads, are Grace Pond 

 and Horse Pond, the latter named from the fact that the 

 lumbermen once got a horse into it and drowned bim. A 

 little further in is another pond or two called Enchanted 

 Ponds, or "Enchantment," for short. This name seems to 

 have been rightly given, for the few that have visited the 

 locality are loud in their praises of the scenery. The 

 mountains, over 2,000ft. high, hang over the little ponds, 

 shutting them in, with only a narrow gorge for a gate- 

 way. Murphy, the hotel-keeper at Parlin Pond, has 

 built some camps at the Enchanted Ponds, and with his 

 men will transport the luggage of sportsmen on his buck- 

 boards to his camps. Murphy is a character that the 

 sportsmen will speak in high terms of. He makes them 

 comfortable somehow, and his charges are said to be rea- 

 sonable. 



Mr. Harry Powers, of the Boston Chamber of Com- 

 merce, with a party of friends visited the Enchanted 

 Ponds a couple of years ago for a spring fishing trip. But 

 alas, they were too early! There was actually ice in the 

 ponds very late in May,- the sun barely rising above the 

 mountains in the middle of the day. They caught very 

 few fish, but were well satisfied with the surroundings, 

 and that the fishing must have been great a few weeks 

 later. 



Mr. Woodman has reports from these ponds that satisfy 

 him that the fly fishing must be all that could be asked in 

 midsummer. He sayB that guides are not necessary, 

 except a man for all work, including cooking. All there 

 is to do is to take a boat and row out to some of the fishing 

 grounds, drop the anchor and cast the fly. "If one spot 

 does not prove satisfactory, why, pull up and move to 

 another." The shores are so bold and rocky that very 

 deep water is found only a rod or two from the land in 

 hundreds of places. He says, "in fact, there is very little 

 shoal water in these ponds." 



Deer he speaks of as being remarkably abundant there, 

 with occasionally a moose. Mr, Woodman thinks strongly 

 of making another trip to Enchantment this fall for gun- 

 ning, provided he finds the signs of game, big or little, as 

 abundant as represented, and if he likes the country as 

 well as he expects to. 



There are some complaints of poor fishing from the 

 salmon anglers, who are now generally on their rivers. 

 Mr. John Fottler, Jr., one of the best known of salmon 

 anglers, and owner of the salmon rights of the St. John at 

 Gaspe, P. Q., with Mr. I, W. Adams, writes from Mossy 

 Cliff Camp, under date of June 27: "Salmon fishing is 

 fairly good on our river. Up to date we have taken 24 

 salmon. Other rivers, famous for salmon, we learn, are 

 affording light catches as compared with former years. 

 The weather here is cool now, and we have had rain for 

 a week. It was very hot ten days ago." It will be 

 remembered that Mr. Fottler has had great success at the 

 same river on former seasons. 



July 6. — There has been a hearing, under the new law, 

 and before Commissioners Stanley, Wentworth and Oak, 

 relative to restricting the fishing in Quimby Pond, at 

 Rangeley, Me. The hearing resulted in a decision 

 that no person shall kill or carry away from the pond 

 more than 15 landlocked salmon or trout in any one day. ' 

 The ruling is to stand for four years from date. 



Dr. Fred Mores, of Boston, is passing his summer vaca- 

 tion, with his family, in Monmouth, Me. He is counted 

 as an expert angler. Up the Carthage Stream, and back 

 of Saddleback Mountain, is a favorite fishing resort of his. 

 He has recently returned from a trip to that stream, 

 where he is reported to have taken 134 trout in f our 

 hours' fishing. Some of the brook trout weighed over a 

 pound. If he put back three-quarters of his numbers, he 

 made a good catch; but if he brought them all away, he 

 simply deprived the next fellow of sport that he had a 

 right to expect, and showed himself to be unreasonable. 

 There is not a trout stream in the world from which 134 

 trout can be taken in four hours without taking the very 

 stock that should be left to breed and grow, and such fish- 

 ing is simply depletion, that is not sport. 



Many of the vacationists are taking New Brunswick 

 and Nova Scotia as their objective points, and they are 

 seeking points where there is promise of sport with rod 

 and line. From the salmon fishermen there have come 

 home many complaints of poor fishing. This is, in a 

 measure, accounted for by the fact of dry weather and 

 very low water through nearly all of June, with so little 

 water that the salmon would not come to the fly, or were 

 not on hand. All this has been changed, however, with 



an abundance of rain along the Atlantic coast, and it is 

 likely to bring better sport to the salmon fishermen. 



Mr. "Nick" Boylston, of Worcester, is down for another 

 big catch of trout. Mr. Whorff, landlord of the Mooseluc- 

 maguntic House, Haine's Landing, Me., writes a friend 

 here an account of this catch. It was made on Friday, 

 June 28, and included 10 trout weighing respectively 8£, 

 5f, 5A-,"5£,. U, U, 4j : , 44, 24. and 21bs., the united weight 

 of the string being 471bs. The length of the largest trout 

 was 27in. Mr. Boylston has spent a number of seasons at 

 this resort, and is as well acquainted with the fishing and 

 hunting there as almost any man can be, besides being a 

 great lover of the rod and gun. Special, 



CANADIAN ANGLING NOTES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The fishing for ouananiche in the Grande Decharge has 

 been, so far this season, even better than it has ever been 

 known for some years back. Mr. J. U. Gregory, the 

 agent of the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Que- 

 bec, who first visited the Decharge twenty years ago, long 

 before there was any railway to Lake St. John, assured 

 me that the fishing this year is fully equal to what it was 

 when he first visited the locality, both as regards the size 

 of the fish and also their abundance. He attributes this 

 fact to the care shown in preserving the waters by their 

 lessees, and also to the sportsmanlike qualities of the 

 American anglers who principally visit the haunts of the 

 ouananiche, and who invariably return all their catch of 

 small fish to the water. This statement of one so well 

 qualified to judge will be very gratifying to all admirers 

 of the fish, disproving as it does the necessity for the note 

 of alarm sounded by a writer on this fish some few years 

 ago, who expressed the fear that with the completion of 

 the railway to Lake St. John and the consequent rush of 

 anglers to the ouananiche waters this splendid fish would 

 soon become a thing of the past. 



No doubt the ouananiche fishing, as usual, will continue 

 fair throughout July and August in the Decharge, but 

 after about the 20th or 25th of July the fish often run 

 much smaller than during the early part of the season. 

 The larger ones are then running up towai'd the spawn • 

 ing grounds in the large feeders of Lake St. John, and 

 the best of the sport is then to be had in the Mistassini, 

 Peribonca and Ashuapmouchouan rivers. 



Trout fishing is still exceedingly good in the various 

 club waters between Quebec and Lake St. John. Kit 

 Clarke, upon the Amabalish club waters; Mr. A. W. 

 Hooper, of New Haven, at Lac Commissaire, and Dr. R. 

 M. Lawrence, of Lexington, Mass., have all enjoyed 

 splendid sport. Dr. Lawrence fished some of the lakes of 

 the Triton Club, of which he is a member, and has a 

 5flbs. fontinalis to his credit at Lac Trois Caribous. 

 Dean Robbins, of All Souls Cathedral, Albany, is at 

 present on the Triton Tract, and splendid sport has also 

 been had there this reason by Messrs. G. F. Gregory, M. 



C. Pierce, J. G. Seymour, Dr. Hugh H. Brown and F. P. 

 Denisson, of Syracuse, N. Y. The gentlemen just men- 

 tioned and several of their friends and fellow citizens are 

 about joining this club and will have a cottage of their own 

 upon American Point, overlooking one of the prettiest of 

 the hundreds of pretty lakes now known to exist upon 

 this tract. Plans are in course of preparation by this 

 club for the construction of a handsome club house to be 

 105ft. in length, and to be constructed on Vermillion 

 River, where it can be reached in twenty minutes by a 

 canoe trip from a flag station upon the edge of the 

 water, on the line of the Quebec & Lake St. John Rail- 

 way. » 



Judge Harlan, of the Supreme Court, is expected here 

 shortly to fish on the Triton Tract, his son, Rev. Mr. 

 Harlan, being a member of the club. Among other 

 prominent members of this club are General Fullerton, of 

 the War Department, Washington, Rev. Mackay Smith, 

 of Washington; Messrs. Eugene McCarthy, Daan, Curtis 

 and others. 



Mr. McCarthy took home with him last week to Syra- 

 cuse four splendid salmon between 20 and 301bs. each 

 which be killed in the Ste. Anne des Monts River, 



The Moisie River, on the North Shore, has also fur- 

 nished good salmon fishing to a party of American 

 anglers, and Messrs. J. D. -Gilmour, Edson Fitch and 

 Veasey Boswell have had fine sport on the Trinty. 



E. T. D. Chambers. 



Quebec, July 6. 



Mussels Take the Hook. 



U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 



D. C, July 5.— Editor Forest arid Stream: Persons famil- 

 iar with the operations of haul seines used in capturing 

 shad and the river herring have observed that the shell- 

 fish known as the fresh-water mussel is brought ashore 

 during a great part of the season. The mussel comes in 

 not as an involuntary but apparently as a voluntary 

 prisoner. They cling to the twine with both edges of the 

 shell as if they had grabbed it in their mouths. 

 Fishermen believe that the twine drops into the open 

 mouths of the mussels while they are innocently feeding, 

 and that their seizure of the twine is done under excite- 

 ment, which seems probable. 



Two or three years ago I knew of a number of these 

 animals being captured on hook and line by W. T. Lind- 

 sey, custodian of the Bryan Point Station, U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, situated on the Potomac opposite Mount Vernon. 

 When the catch was reported I inquired somewhat min- 

 utely to determine whether or not the mussels were after 

 the bait, but could not reach a conclusion. Last week 

 Mr. Lindsey put out a trot line for the obtainment of a 

 mess of channel catfish, and when he raised it he found 

 the hooks covered with mussels. They evidently took the 

 hooks in order to secure the bait. There were 175 hooks 

 on the line and nearly every one had one mussel and quite 

 a number had captured two mussels. This statement is 

 furnished as a fact in natural history and not to create a 

 sensation as a fish story. The line was laidbrosswise of the 

 channel on the bottom and in water 30ft. or more deep. 



S. G. Worth. 



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