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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 10, 1888. 



Sebec Lake. — I would like to tell of a locality I am 

 accustomed to visit, when I can spend time for a "trip to 

 the Pine Tree State. I refer to Sebec Lake and its ex- 

 tensive headwaters — situated east of Moosehead about 40 

 miles, at about the same latitude. The particular sheet 

 of water of this group which I favor is Long Pond. 

 Here are both trout and landlocked salmon, with now 

 and then a togue. The squaretails range from 1-J to 21bs. , 

 the togue from three to twenty. The salmon are small 

 for some reason, rarely going over 21bs. The abundance 

 of both these smaller fish is the beauty of the place. Ex- 

 cellent accommodations are provided. Within a few 

 miles on every side are small sheets of water where the 

 fish are found in greatest abundance. At Sebec Lake 

 itself the landlocked salmon run much larger, reaching as 

 high as lOlbs. They are rarely taken later than June, 

 but in Long Pond there is good fly-fishing until late in 

 September. — F. K. O. (North Adams, Mass.) 



These Fish Should be Spared. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: I have lived four years near Lake Auburn, 

 four miles from Auburn, Maine; and have had an oppor- 

 tunity to see how the poachers destroy the fish here. 

 There is but one stream in which the fish can deposit 

 their eggs, and I have seen its banks plentifully sprinkled 

 with spawn, from speared fish, after a heavy rain in the 

 month of October. The fishermen iu the vicinity are 

 aware of the existing evil, yet they have taken no steps to- 

 ward preventing it, which might easily be done at a 

 small expense, by erecting a number of pens and pre- 

 venting the fish from ascending the stream; their eggs 

 can be taken and the fish put back into the water to re- 

 turn another fall and not become victims to the poachers' 

 spears. The sportsmen of Lewiston and Auburn should 

 awake to the fact that they can have at their doors as 

 fine fishing as can be found in Maine.— Gamp. 



Matthew Arnold as an Angler.— Sir John Millais 

 writes to the Fishing Gazette: "It may interest your 

 readers to know that the late Mr. Matthew Arnold was a 

 keen angler. He was my guest at Birnam Hall, on the 

 Tay, in 1866, and was on the water from morning till 

 there was no more light to fish. I was in the boat with 

 him when he killed two fresh -run grilse, (casting) and I 

 never shall forget his delight and pride with which he 

 told me they were the lai'gest fish he ever caught. The 

 run of water which afforded Mm so much pleasure had 

 no name, so I have since christened it 'Arnold's Stream.' 

 I was looking forward to his returning this season, when 

 I hoped he would kill a salmon. I need not add how 

 charming Iris companionship was and how thoroughly he 

 appreciated the beauties of the Murthly Water." 



The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Eailway 

 publishes a handy pocket manual of the famous Eagle 

 waters and other fishing resorts in Wisconsin and Michi- 

 gan reached by its lines; there are maps and detailed in- 

 formation, giving just the information desired. There is 

 also in separate form a compendium of the fish and game 

 laws of Wisconsin and Michigan; and for use in the 

 smoker the managers equip their passengers with little 

 manuals of the rules of poker and whist. All these pub- 

 lications may be had on application to Geo. S. Marsh, 

 Gen. Pass. Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. 



The Art of Fly-Making.— We have received a little 

 book of 33 pages with the above title, written by M. A. 

 Shipley, of Philadelphia. He says: "This short treatise 

 is not intended to be at all exhaustive, but to give some 

 plain, practical directions for tying the flies usually 

 used," etc. It is illustrated, and will no doubt be useful 

 to those who wish to learn the first principles of fly- 

 tying. 



Metal Leaders are a novelty sent us by Messrs. Ship- 

 ley & Son, of Philadelphia. The wire is very thin, is 

 colored a "dull smoke," and is said to be capable of stand- 

 ing a strain of 31bs. Months ago a well known angler 

 spoke to us of the possibility of wire leaders, and the 

 Messrs. Shipley have now given the angling public an 

 opportunity to put the mateiial to a test. 



Slate Run.— Muncy, Pa., May 4.— A party of four 

 started up to the northern part of Lycoming county to 

 try our luck for trout. We fished in* Slate Run, which 

 empties into Pine Creek. We had the pleasure of catch- 

 ing 700 in four days fishing, two days' too cold to wade. — 

 J. B. D. 



Ontario Seasons. — Brook trout. May 1 to Sept. 15. 

 Pickerel, dore, May 15 to April 15. Bass and maski- 

 nonge, June 15 to April 15. Whitefish and salmon, Dec. 

 1 to Nov. 1 following.— R. P. J. 



Washington Territory. — Cedar Mountains, April 26. 

 — On the first day of April, fishing with bait, I caught 183 

 trout, weighing 571bs. Can any one beat it?— J. C. McK. 



Be sure and include a box of Hinds' Black-EMy Creaui in your 

 fishing outfit. See advertisement.— Adv. 



THE MENHADEN QUESTION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have read with great pleasure the articles that have 

 appeared in the Forest and Stream in regard to the men- 

 haden question and it seems that your correspondents have 

 cut out all the work that Capt. Church wants to attend to. 

 The Can tain says in his last, that the food: fishes are more 

 plentiful than they have been for years. If this is so is it 

 not strange that the hand-line fisherman does not know it 

 and that not one except the Wood's Holl man has ever come 

 forward and testified to the alleged fact? Is it not also 

 strange that if man with his "puny engines" does not make 

 any difference to the amount of menhaden that come along 

 our shores, and his pursuit of them and the amount that are 

 captured hy him make no difference to them, that the 

 Captain is hot going to fit his fleet this year for the purpose 

 of catching menhaden? Also, if the story is true, is it not 

 strange that last year he made a large sum of money in 

 trap-fishing and stated that he lost it and more too in purse 

 seining? In regard to Mr. Palmer before the Massachusetts 

 Legislature, does the Captain known that the Committee on 



Fish and Game for the year spoken of, was packed by men 

 in the seine fishing business, and while hardly any one op- 

 posed the petition it was killed in committee? "Capt. Church 

 thinks it is proof positive that the menhaden is not the food 

 of food fish as the lookouts on the steamers of the oil men 

 have never seen food fish with the large bodies of menha- 

 den which they have come across. Quite different is the tes- 

 timony of the captains of the svvordtishing smacks and the 

 sea bass fishermen, who say that they have seen large schools 

 of bluefish, bass and mackerel following, and also among, 

 the large schools of menhaden which are going east, at from 

 three to forty miles off shore, and also that they have seen 

 bluefish among the schools killing menhaden till the water 

 was red with blood. Swordfish which used to he in shore 

 after food, now .-ire found Way off shore after the menha- 

 den. 



The pleasure expressed hy the hand-line fishermen when 

 the rumor was heard that the menhaden men were not go- 

 ing to fish this summer was very marked, and if the steam 

 ers have not had anything to do with driving oft' the men- 

 haden it seems queer to me that the men that gain a living 

 by fishing with a line should be so pleased. 



Let us by all means have the menhaden fishing stopped 

 within three miles of the shore, except for bait, and also 

 try and have a law enacted so that the in-shore end of any 

 trap shall not be set iu less than twelve feet of water. If 

 this is done thousands of fish will have a chance to spawn 

 and our rivers and bays will afford a harvest to all who will 

 come and fisli as they ought, and not try and kill the goose 

 that lays the golden egg. Acoxet. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It should have been free fishing not fin fishing, and bar- 

 barian's spear instead of barbarous spear in the article Mr. 

 Martin quotes from. From the time I was a hoy until Baird 

 and Goode stated to the contrary, I had heard and always 

 believed that menhaden came into our bays and rivers iu the 

 spring to spawn. The old fishermen used to haul ashore 

 what they called menhaden spawn, and that was what I re- 

 ferred to in my statement to Goode. I know now from ob- 

 servation that menhaden leave our coast in October, Novem- 

 ber and December in spawn (almost mature) and come back 

 in April, May and June without spawn. As Mr. Martin says 

 I left out the boy, but I did not leave out the fact that after 

 a drouth or scarcity of seabass lasting about thirty years 

 they are plenty again in spite of traps, pounds, purse seines 

 and h ook and lines. There is any amount of evidence at hand 

 that striped bass were plenty last season on a long reach of 

 our coast notwithstanding the fact that they have been scarce 

 for several years. Now what is the explanation to account 

 for their return if as alleged it was the traps and pounds 

 that caused their absence, for it is a well known fact they 

 have been in full operation every year. 



It seems hard work to square in Mr. Martin's mind that a 

 meal of menhaden now and then is not the daily food of 

 bluefish, codfish and striped bass. 



Our adversaries in Maine used Mr. Martin's argument 

 against us, but the absence of menhaden north of Cape Cod 

 for about ten years has had no visible effect on their shore 

 fishing, 



Providing the popular opinion was correct that menhaden 

 is the daily food of food fish, it would be the business of 

 practical fishermen to find the menhaden and ca tch the fish 

 that were in their company. Daniel T. Church. 



Tivisutox, K. I., April 5. 



HATCHING CODFISH. 



LAST Decemhcr the TJ. S. Fish Commission established a 

 salt-water hatching station on Ten Pound Island, a 

 small island near the northern extremity of Cape Ann, 

 where there is less sediment in the water than at Wood's 

 Holl, and began work with the codfish. Another advantage 

 that the new station has is its proximity to Gloucester, from 

 Which the schooner Grampus can make daily trips to the 

 fishing grounds off Cape Ann, instead of losing time in 

 getting over the shoals about Wood's Holl, which often oc- 

 cupied several days. In the first experiments with cod it 

 was the custom to bring the live fish to the station at 

 Wood's Holl and strip them t here, but now a corps of spawn 

 takers board the fishing vessels and take the eggs from such 

 fish as may be ripe, and in this way large numbers of eggs 

 were taken last winter during days when the thermometer 

 was not too low, for it has been proved that severe cold is 

 fatal to cod eggs, as well as to the fish themselves. 



The first lots of eggs taken to the new station were killed 

 by cold in the hatching jars, hut later takes of spawn were 

 successfully hatched." The newly devised "tidal hatcher" is 

 considered to be the best for codfish, and is, we believe, cred- 

 ited to the inventive genius of Col. M. McDonald and the, 

 late Capt. H. C. Chester. . This consists of inverted glass jars 

 placed in a box, and kept from its bottom by strips on which 

 the jars rest and which allow a circulation of water under 

 them. A hole in what was originally the bottom of the jar 

 permits the air to pass in or out as the water rises and falls 

 in the box. A stream of water is admitted at one end of the 

 box, and when it reaches the desired height it starts a syphon 

 that soon lowers it, and thus the "tide" rises and falls. A 

 hit of cheese cloth over the mouth of the jar prevents the 

 egress of fish or eggs. The ova of the cod will float in sea 

 water of a certain density, and this has caused much trouble 

 in hatching them in the older forms of apparatus; but in the 

 one just described the change of water comes from the bot- 

 tom and the eggs cannot escape nor clog the screens. To fill 

 these jars a cork is inserted in the hole and they are turned 

 mouth up and filled; the cheese cloth is spread over the 

 mouth and held in place by a rubber band and the jar is in- 

 verted in the water and the cork removed. The syphon can 

 be regulated to give as much rise and fall as is required, or 

 in as many minutes as may be necessary. This apparatus 

 will also be nsed at Cold Spring Harbor in future operations 

 with cod and. lobsters, and one box has already been fitted 

 up there. 



The fact that an adult codfish lays a million or more eggs 

 shows that nature has provided for a great destruction of 

 them, either in the egg or after hatching, and this the fish- 

 culturist guards .against in the protection afforded by the 

 jars against high winds, rough seas and rains, all of which 

 kill uncounted millions of the tender floatiug eggs during 

 the many days that they require for development before 

 hatching. Already the results of cod hatching are visible 

 in Gloucester Harbor and vicinity from plants made since 

 1879, and many fish were taken there where few or none 

 were found before, and the fishermen credit these to the 

 work of the Fish Commission. 



America is the first to engage in the hatching of codfish, 

 and the late Prof. Baird firmly believed in its benefits, and 

 under his direction the work was begun. Experiments 

 Were made by Prof. Ryder, Col. McDonald, Capt. Chester, 

 Prof. Goode, Dr. Bean, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Mather and others, 

 all of whom have contributed more or less to our knowledge 

 of the subject. The first eggs were obtained from Gloucester, 

 in 1877, and later from Fulton Market, through Mr. Black- 

 ford, and sent to Washington and elsewhere, and although 

 the cod is still plentiful it is believed that new fishing 

 grounds can be created by planting them and the range of 

 this valuable fish extended. If this can be done in Long 

 Island Sound there is no doubt of the great benefit of the 

 artificial culture of this fish. 



LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., has just been stocked for the 

 fourth or fifth time with landlocked salmon eggs. No re- 

 sult has come from former stockings. 



SHAD HATCHING. — New York, April 24— Editor Forest 

 and Stream: A letter received by me, under date of the 18th 

 inst., from Col. Marshall MaeDonald, U, S. Commissioner 

 of Fish and Fisheries, with reference to the prospects of the 

 shad fisheries in the Atlantic coast rivers, states as follows: 

 "Operating under conditions when reproduction of the shad 

 is no longer possible, on an extensive scale, the production 

 has been steadily increased, until in 1887 the aggregate in- 

 crease is 8300,000 in excess of the value of that fish in the 

 catch of 1884, and all the indications of the fisheries now in 

 progress are, that there will be a very large increase in the 

 aggregate of 1887. The catch on the St. -Johns River is ( he 

 largest in years and the catch on the Neuse is almost treble 

 what it was three years ago. The fisheries in the Chesa- 

 peake are only now in progress. The fisheries in the lower 

 bay are the heaviest ever known and there is every indication 

 for the increase in the Southern waters being continued all 

 along the coast,"— Geo. Shepard Page. 



THE FISHWAY LAW OF CALIFORNIA.— Last month 

 State Senator B. F. Langford, of San Joaquin, was charged 

 before a justice's court at Jackson with violating the law re- 

 lating to fishways in maintaining a dam on the Mokelumne 

 River, near Lancha Plana on which there was no fish way. 

 The Senator is one of the stockholders in the Mokelumne 

 Irrigating Company, and was fined 1250, or one hundred days 

 in jail. The account says he will appeal the case to the Su- 

 preme Court. m __ m ^_^__^^_^_^___ 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. U to 27.— Fifth Dog Show at London, Ont. C.A.Stone, 

 Superintendent. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 19.— Tenth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at Hierh Point, 2f, C. (Members' Stake, Nov. 15.) W. A. 

 Coster, Secretary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 Trials Club, at West Point, Miss. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincin- 

 nati, O. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



r-pHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 **- of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all Bhows and trials), is 

 published every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should he in 

 early. Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed 

 envelope. Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. ! 

 No entries inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 $1.50, Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 1 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6 2 OS. 



DOG TALK. 



1\,fR. FRANK DOLE states that his bull-terrier Jubilee 

 Itx did not have mange at Boston show. The dog was in 

 perfect condition when washed for the journey to Boston, 

 but when taken out of his box the next morning had a rash 

 on him. This yielded at once to cooling medicine. 



A less enthusiastic fancier than Mr. Robert McEwen, of 

 Messrs. McEwen & Gibson, the Canadian exhibitors, would 

 feel inclined to withdraw from showing after losing Doon- 

 holme and a litter of collies by Bendigo, from distemper, 

 taken h ome after the Philadelphia show^ Mr. McEwen has, 

 however, made his entries for the collie stakes. 



Major Taylor has been acting as stakeholder and not w ith 

 very marked success if the following clipping from a Cin- 

 cinnati paper is correct: "Constable Krollman yesterday 

 called at the bench show and seized the valuable dog Lil- 

 lian. It was seized in a suit entered before 'Squire Horn- 

 berger by Richard Morgan, of Athens. Ohio, against P. il. 

 and David Bryson. Morgan and the Brysons, it seems, ar- 

 ranged a race "between their dogs for $125 a side. The money 

 was put up in the hands of Colonel Taylor. When the time 

 came for the race they could not agree on a referee, and the 

 match broke up. Morgan instructed Taylor not to give up 

 the stake, as he wanted the race to come off. Taylor gave 

 the money to the Brysons. Hence the suit. Krollman 

 served the writ and seized the dog Lillian, and the Brysons 

 claimed that they had sold it to the Syracuse Kennel Club, 

 for *1,500." 



The Syracuse Kennel Club is dipping deep into dogs, for, 

 in addition to an alledged sale of Lillian for $1,500, it was 

 stated at the Cincinnati show that the club had given 81,000 

 for Dad Wilson and $60.0 for Dl, a sister to Dad Wilson. 



Syracuse, N. Y., is plagued by a gang of dog thieves. The 

 newly organized kennel club may find it advantageous to 

 look after these fellows in time. 



"J. B.," the American correspondent of the Stock-Keeper, 

 makes the stupid and inexcusable blunder of confounding 

 Mr. George Washington Chikls, of Philadelphia, with Mr. 

 W. H. Child, secretary of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. He 

 also speaks of Mr. Dockraw, the English collie breeder, in 

 place of Mr. Dockrell, an error which might have been de- 

 tected by our contemporary. 



English exhibitors are again in the throes of cocker ver- 

 sus small field spaniel, and their exchanges contain plenty 

 of letters on the subject, which has been very definitely set- 

 tled here in favor of the shorter-backed cocker. 



English papers are rendered particularly interesting by 

 t he amount of correspondence they contain on a variety of 

 subjects of interest to dog fanciers. From the Stuek-Kee-pcr 

 we cull the following : 



" From Boston, JJ. S. A., it is whispered to us that at the 

 recent show there, our occasional correspondent, Mr. Wade, 

 was chatting with an occasional exhibitor recently from 

 these shores. Mr. Wade (being unknown to our country- 

 man) inquired as to two dogs our compatriot took over arid 

 exhibited at the New York show, and elicited the rather 

 startling reply, ' Oh, they are not good ones, but I thought 

 I might meet Wade, and he would buy them.' 'Wade' pre- 

 served a solemn face, and is now wondering if he is counted 

 a dumping-ground for 'bad 'uns' from this side." 



"Our countryman" might have been gentleman enough to 

 give a stranger a handle to his name. Is there any truth in 

 the story ? Mr. Wade is not averse to acknowledging a fair 

 hit at himself. 



An English exchange says it is sorry to hear of "the grand 

 hull-terrier Baron" being dead. Baron was sent out to Mr. 

 Dole a physical wreck, suffering from paralysis and a com- 

 plication of disorders, and perfectly incapable of doing stud 

 duty. In the same paper is an account of some Baron pup- 

 pies. If this is the same Baron, American exhibitors will 



