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three branches could be covered, and good and perfect re- 

 sults could be obtained. 



And in conclusion permit me to say, with these sugges- 

 tions carried out we may see the days spoken of, when all 

 the trees have the whistling songsters upon them and the 

 morning air ringing with their sweet carols, such as have 

 not been heard of in many long years gone by, and the 

 State of Pennsylvania shall have a perfect system of laws 

 for the care and protection of birds. 



Shooting for Records. 



Sidney, N. Y.— Editor Forest and Stream: What true 

 sportsman does not read with contempt the accounts of 

 performances of would-be "record" hunters. Will it 

 never cease? In reading the eleven days' record of Geo. 

 P. Finnagan, of Smithville Flats, one wonders why an 

 intelligent man cares for the killing of some twenty par- 

 tridges in one day, to say nothing of the slaughtering of 

 146 during the time mentioned, unless it be for a record. 

 ^Should a man, because he has every day in the field, if he 

 chooses, take more interest in the number he kills than in 

 the sport? Delaware county, adjoining Chenango, can 

 boast of far more game of every species than the latter — 

 but thanks to true sportsmen, we have no "record" hun- 

 ters. This section is overrun with foxes this fall, they 

 having gradually increased during the past few years. In 

 fact all game has multiplied fast during the past two 

 seasons. B. Squires. 



September and October. 



The finest shooting grounds in the Northwest are on and tributary 

 to the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The crop 

 of prairie chickens promises to be exceptionally good this year; also 

 ducks and geese. Ia northern Wisconsin and tne Peninsula of Michi- 

 gan splendid deer shooting is to be had. 



The game laws will be changed in several of the Western StateB this 

 year. 



Full information furnished free. Address Geo. H. Heafford, General 

 Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111.— Adv. 



Don't Buy Tour Outfit 



In the East if you are going on a hunting trip in the Northwest. We 

 have everything you want in the sporting goods line, and our experi- 

 ence will perhaps keep you from buying a great many things you 

 don't want. 



We have all the modern Nitro Loads at Eastern prices. Don't 

 encumber yourself with stuff until you get on your hunting ground. 

 You can depend on us. Wm. R. Burkhard, 57 and 59 East Seventh 

 street, St. Paul, Minn.— Adv. 



BOSTON RODS AND GUNS. 



Boston, Sept. 20.— The season has closed with the 

 owners of Camp Sebago. This camp was built last win- 

 ter by a party of Boston merchants on the eastern shore 

 of Sebago Lake. The camp is a delightful one, some fine 

 photographs of which I saw the other day through the 

 kindness of Mr. Fisher, of Harding, Whitman & Co., who 

 was really the prime mover in getting up the camp. The 

 main room is a large one, with a remarkable stone fire- 

 place at the end, the opening of which includes a radius 

 of 4ft. 9in. Only natural stone is used. The front is in 

 the form of an arch. The company will build an icehouse 

 this winter, including a refrigerator built into the same. 

 On the whole the club has enjoyed all the salmon fishing 

 reasonable sportsmen could ask for. One salmon of lllbs. 

 has been taken, the largest of the season. Mr. Dumaresq 

 was the happy captor, and is high line for the season of 

 1895. Two salmon of 81bs. have been taken, one of 7lbs,, 

 two of 61bs., one of 5ilbs., three of 51bs., one of 41bs., one 

 of 4jlbs., three of 31bs., seven of 2lbs., one of lib., and one 

 31b. brook trout, making twenty-four fish in all of a total 

 weight of nearly lOOlbs. The summer has been a very 

 busy one with most of the club, and they have been able 

 to be in camp but little more than in holidays. They have 

 let their men go earlier than they anticipated this fall, for 

 the reason that business is so pressing that they cannot 

 spare the time to be in camp as they would like to be. 

 Another season they expect to be in camp more and to 

 greatly increase the record of salmon taken. 



Now and then a sportsman is fitting out for the Maine 

 woods, and will take his rod along, though it is chiefly for 

 gunning that the majority go. Richard Loring, well 

 known as a gunner in the vicinity of Boston, will start 

 about Oct. 4 for a trip to some waters beyond the Katah- 

 din Iron Works. He will have his fishing rods in his kit, 

 but he does not propose to try them on trout. There is a 

 pickerel pond where he is going, and pickerel in the fall 

 he is delighted with. He says that he has had all of trout 

 in September, October or later that he cares for. Here is 

 another good sportsman who does not believe in Septem- 

 ber trout fishing. 



The legal open season on partridges in Maine begins to- 

 day, Sept. 20 — the new law, passed last winter. Reports 

 continue to come in of a good many partridges in Ando- 

 ver, Hebron, Paris, Auburn, Rumford, Rangeley, Kene- 

 bago, Upton — in fact, many of the towns in the western 

 part of Maine mention partridges more plenty than for 

 several years. The papers published in the eastern part 

 of that State generally mention more birds than for sev- 

 eral seasons, and numbered among these papers are such 

 papers as are not specially given to booming the hunting 

 and fishing. Hence their reports can safely be regarded 

 as true. 



Charlie Cook will leave for his vacation this week. 

 With his wife he will go to Cornish, Me., on the Ogdens- 

 burg branch of the Maine Central. Then he will go 

 further on to where there is good bird shooting. After 

 Oct. 1 he hopes to secure a deer. 



Another moose has been seen near Andover, Me. Geo. 

 H. Catting writes me that he means to try for the fellow 

 in the open season. Doubtless there will be a number of 

 hunters after him. He also writes that another camp is 

 to be built in the Narrows of Richardson Lake, between 

 the Stevens cottage and the Haines camp. The Portland 

 & Rumford Falls Railroad is being rapidly pushed up the 

 valley, and the cars are running as far as Houghton's. 

 Beyond that point the road is being built through the 

 mountains to Bemis. This road opens a new fishing and 

 shooting region between Mexico and Bemis. It is a very 

 wild region, and deer and partridge should be plenty. 

 Several gunners talk of an excursion up that line this fall. 

 One of the directors of the road says that the cars are to 

 be running to Bemis very soon. 



The lack of shore birds along the Massachusetts coast is 

 still a matter of surprise to the gunners. Charlie Cook 

 tells me of two gunners who have put in a couple of days 

 at Anisquam this week without shooting a bird. Not 

 even coot were flying. But a gentleman was on the car 

 with me the other day who was telling a friend of a fine 

 bag of golden plover and yellow-legs that he had lately 

 made in the neighborhood of Ipswich. His name I did 

 not find out. 



Sept. 21. — The first bag of partridges of the season came 

 to Boston to-day from Maine. It is early for such game — 

 the open season in that State beginning only yesterday — 

 but the gunners who killed the birds informed my in- 

 formant that they were legally shot. They came from 

 the line of the Grand Trunk, the gunners admitting that 

 they boarded the train at Bethel early this morning. 

 Since the bringing of partridges out of Maine is not legal 

 at any time, I am not to publish the names of the lucky 

 gunners. But they declare that they had had the brood 

 spotted for some weeks by a man who acted as guide for 

 them, and that they left Boston on the 19th and were on 

 the grounds early on the morning of the 20th. They 

 believe that they could have secured more birds, from 

 the fact that one or two local gunners were on the 

 ground soon after they got the first shots at the game. 

 They say that partridges are plenty in that part of the 

 country, but that woodcock are almost unknown this 

 year. They think that some wet weather might bring 

 out a few woodcock, but at present the woods and swamps 

 are very dry indeed. The season has been so dry nearly 

 all over southern Maine that the trees are turning very 

 rapidly, and the leaves are actually coming off fully three 

 weeks earlier than usual. It is suggested that the trees 

 will be nearly bare early in October, and that deer shoot- 

 ing will be favored thereby. 



Mr. Hal. Haskell, son of E. B. Haskell, one of the senior 

 proprietors of the Boston Herald, is still at Allerton 

 Lodge, Mooselucmaguntic Lake, where he will remain for 

 the early shooting. Senator and Mrs. W. P. Frye are at 

 their camp — Cupsuptic Lake — and are entertaining sev- 

 eral parties of friends. SPEClAli. 



SOME ANGLERS OF BANGOR. 



From the standpoint of fishing and shooting there are 

 few places in Maine so well situated as the big city of 

 Bangor. Lying in close proximity to the great Aroostook 

 country, without doubt the very beat section of the State 

 to-day for sportsmen, and also close to the celebrated 

 Machias region, its people are singularly fortunate in the 

 ease with which they can obtain the best of sport. These 

 reasons probably account in a measure for the fine 

 sportsmen who are found living there. It would be hard 

 to find kinder or more unselfish gentlemen than I have 

 met in that city. Prescott H. Vose is a genial represent- 

 ative of the class, and is a sportsman of the finest caliber. 

 With B. L. Fowles, of Norcross, as both companion and 

 guide, Mr. Vose has lately made a trip into the Aroostook 

 country which proved unusually interesting. They 

 went first to Norcross station on the line of the Bangor 

 & Aroostook R. R. and then to Mr. Fowles's camps on 

 Poins Island in Pumadumcook Lake. Here it might be 

 said the trip really began with a carry to third Kateps- 

 conegan Lake, where they camped on the west shore. A 

 splendid view of Mt. Katahdin was visible here through 

 a notch of mountains on the northeasterly side. From 

 this place they went on a three day's trip over the moun- 

 tains to head of Rainbow Lake. In a small pond close to 

 this lake they had the best fishing of the trip. It seemed 

 quite filled with trout of good size, and from its remote 

 position they think it has not been fished before. The 

 trout rose steadily to their flies and proved very gamy. 



Mr. Vose mentions as a feature of the fishing at that 

 place the fine success they had with white flies after 

 dark. On a stream funning into Rainbow Lake they dis- 

 covered a beaver dam which on inspection proved to be 

 cf marvelous construction. The little animals had built 

 a dam about 6ft. high, making a pond of. nearly two 

 acres. They had cut down about twenty poplar trees, 

 and of this number eighteen had fallen toward the pond 

 as intended by the little architects. One of these trees 

 was so large that they took the trouble to measure it, 

 finding the stump to be I8f in. in diameter. They had 

 many opportunities to shoot large game had it been the 

 open season. Bear signs were very numerous and the 

 sight of a deer became a common occurrence. The 

 country over which they traveled was nearly all moun- 

 tainous, and a good part of it has never been lumbered 

 over. Mr. Fowles is an ex-member of the Maine Legis- 

 lature, and it would be difficult to find a better woods- 

 man. His camps on Poins Island are very comfortable, 

 and he certainly has a wonderfully good sporting country 

 near by. 



Another Bangor party who went into the woods a short 

 time ago consists of W. L. Miller, Chas. P. Webber and 

 Ralph Brann, all of Bangor, and W, T. Jenkins, of Bos- 

 ton. They will be gone four or five weeks and went first 

 to Moosehead Lake. From there they go down the west 

 branch of the Penobscot, through Chamberlain and 

 Eagle lakes to mouth of Allegash, then carry into Aroos- 

 took waters, returning via B. & A, R. R. It is all a very 

 wild country, furnishes fine fishing and some of the best 

 shooting in Maine. Mr. Miller, of this party, is one of 

 the gentlemen shown in the picture of a moose on sled 

 taken at North Twin Dam, Maine, which has been so 

 generally used this year by the railroads in advertising 

 that country for big game. The moose is a fine specimen 

 and was shot by Mr. Miller, the picture being snapped by 

 one of the railroad employees at the station on their way 

 out. 



Still another Bangor party who have gone into the 

 woods are Hon. F. H, Appleton and wife and C. A. Gib- 

 son. Their trip is nearly the same as the last-mentioned 

 party, but going the reverse way. They will go in at 

 Houiton, cross country to Allegash and go up west 

 branch of Penobscot, coming out at Moosehead Lake. 



Hackle. 



Is this the Last Leap? 



Lindsay, Ont., Sept. 16.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 When Old Sam wrote his last letter, something had gone 

 wrong; perhaps the bass were not biting, or they would 

 not shake their jaws, nor stand on their tails; anyway he 

 was in a bad humor and vented some of it on me. I am 

 surprised at his saying that no one agreed with my ideas. 

 If he will look again over the letters of the other corre- 



spondents, he will find that a great many think as I do. 

 Nearly all agree as to the two foot limit. Those who have 

 sp iken of the matter agree as to playing a leaping fish 

 with the tip of the rod held low, to one side, and several 

 of us at^reti with Dr. Ellzey as to the cause of the actions 

 of a bass when hooked. 



Some correspondents are a little off the trail. There is 

 no doubt but that a bass jumps out of the water and 

 shakes himself. In the first place what is the shake? I 

 am quite convinced in my own mind that it is simply the 

 rasutfc of the tail movement; he cannot keep his tail still 

 aud shake his jaws. In the second place what is the 

 explanation of the jumping and shaking? Is it an intelli- 

 gent action or the action of a bewildered creature? 



Old Sam and others Say they have known bass to get 

 the line tangled; so have we all; but, how often does it 

 happen? Is it not a wonder it happens so rarely? The 

 bass lives in hiding, under some weeds, in the shadow of 

 a snag, at the foot of a boulder; all his life he has been 

 accustomed to rushing out, seizing his prey and back to 

 his hiding place; he has done it thousands of times, and 

 when he seizes a bait with a line attached, about which 

 he can possibly know nothing, he instinctively attempts 

 to do as he has always done, as he feels the continued 

 resistance, and makes his frantic movements; is there 

 anything to be surprised at if he sometimes gets "hung 

 up?" Is it an intelligent act? I think not. 



After all, there is no occasion to quarrel about it. 

 Everyone has a right to judge for himself. As for my- 

 self, I do not agree with Another Kingfisher, but have a 

 great respect for science. I fully believe the great Dar- 

 win when he says that fish are of the lowest order of 

 intelligence. However, the philosopher, Dr. Johnson, 

 tells us that we can only judge of things by comparison. 

 Now, Darwin probably compared the intelligence of fish 

 with his own mind and placed them accordingly. By all 

 means let others have the same privilege. 



S. Simpson, M. D. 



The Camping-Out Fashion. 



Muscatine, Iowa, Sept. 2. — A number of articles in 

 your excellent journal of late speak of the growing desire, 

 or fashion or "fad," for a spell of outdoor living. While 

 the papers are full of reports from lake and seaside outing 

 resorts, I believe few realize how universal this passion 

 has become. Taking the vicinity of Muscatine as a 

 sample, both banks of the Mississippi have been one vast 

 camping and picnicking ground during the summer 

 months of last year and this. They go out by boat and 

 buggy for trips extending from five hours to eight weeks. 

 This is not only to get out to fish — which is permissible in 

 the Father of Waters at all seasons — but to be out, live 

 under the trees and enjoy boating, fishing and resting. 

 The number of people who thus enjoy an outing must 

 run into the thousands w this locality alone. It is not 

 only the well-to-do who enjoy this pleasant privilege, 

 but you see the mechanic, the laborer, perchance with 

 wife and children, start off in a rowboat for a day or per- 

 haps go up or down the river to a camp some friend has 

 fixed some days before. As to fish, did it ever occur to 

 you why under the sun Uncle Sam should, spend vast 

 sums of money to foster the growth of fish and at the 

 same time allow indiscriminate slaughter of them by all 

 the devices known to man in such rivers as the Missis- 

 sippi, Missouri and Ohio? Theron Thompson. 



Nahant Sea Fishing. 



Boston, Sept. 15.— We, the fishing club, went down to 

 Nahant and had fair fishing considering the roughness of 

 the water, which at times dashed over the highest rocks 

 along the shore. Mr, Brugemann caught the largest 

 number of perch and pollock, but Mr. Fay was awarded 

 the cracker for catching a 2lb. tautog, together with other 

 fish. 



There are two low roots off Senator Lodge's estate 

 which are reached from the shore by wading knee deep 

 at low tide, where good-sized perch bite very freely. 

 These rocks are almost entirely submerged at high water, 

 and care must be taken to return to shore before the 

 water gets too deep or else it is a case of swimming. We 

 generally stay out there about an hour. Sea worms are 

 the favorite bait, though clams will answer the purpose. 



Bostonian. 



The Leaping Bass. 



Radford, Va., Sept. 5. — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Will Old Sam, Dr. Ellzey, Simpson or any other expert on 

 the leaping bass explain to me how, on a recent success- 

 ful bass fishing trip on Wolf Creek, Bland county, this 

 State, I caught a l^lb. bass through the eye? When I 

 first tightened on him when hung, he leaped about 18in. 

 I did not lower my rod, it being very elastic, and my line 

 was taut all the while. When I landed the bass the hook 

 was outside of the mouth and through the right eye, 

 which was pulled nearly out of the socket, the toughness 

 of the cartilage which surrounds the eye being sufficient 

 to hold the fish. The indications of the upper lip show 

 that when I struck him he was caught through the upper 

 lip at first. R. H. Adams. 



A Lake Champlain Gar. 



Rouse's Point, N. Y., Sept. 19.— Here is what I con- 

 sider a queer catch. Mr. Jos. Racine on the 15th, while 

 out for bass, using minnow for bait, took a gar pike, or, as 

 it is better known hereabouts, a bill fish weighing 4ilbs. , 

 and measuring just 3ft. in length. 



We have no authentic record of gar pike of this size 

 being taken with a rod and line by any of our fishermen 

 heretofore. I have the fish mounted for my collection. 



Another queer catch is a lizard which a boy took on a 

 night fine which he put out on the shore just for fun. He 

 brought the lizard to me, night line and all, being too 

 much afraid of the thing to unhook it. W. M. C. 



"Hunting and Fishing along the Northwestern Line" 



is the title of a booklet recently issued by the Chicago & Northwestern 

 Railway. It is profusely illustrated, and gives information In detail 

 concerning the best hunting and fisning grounds in the West and 

 Northwest. Copies will be mailed free to any address upon applica- 

 tion to W. B. Kniskern, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago 

 & Northwestern Railway, Chicago, 111..— Adv. 



Do You Fish? 



If so, you may be glad to know that the streams along the line of 

 the Lehigh Valley Railroad have been restocked with many varieties 

 of Ash, and it will pay you to visit them If you want good sport. Ad- 

 dress Chas. 8. Lee, General Passenger Agent, Philadelphia, for full 

 information.— Adv. 



