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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 5, 1888. 



carried what was necessary for the night's camp down to 

 the creek, about three-quarters of a mile from the station 

 t) should say railway track, as there is no station at 

 Springbrook). Having pitched our tent near the creek, 

 we fished during the rest of the day and part of the eve- 

 ning till a heavy thunder and rain storm drove us into 

 the tent. We got about thirty fine brook trout, small, 

 however, as they generally are in this stream. I took 

 nearly all of mine with a red-crow tag, an excellent qy 

 for small stream trout fishing. At 8 o'clock on Saturday 

 morning we packed up and left by the train going south 

 at 9:15; reached Trenton on time and took the Grand 

 Trunk train for Belleville, where we arrived about noon, 

 and at home half an hour later, delighted to see our wives 

 and families once more, and feeling much benefited by 

 such an enjoyable trip. ., . . 



I would advise any one who wants a good trip of the 

 kind mentioned to pay a visit to Salmon Lake, Hastings 

 county, Ontario. I am sure he would not be disappointed. 

 Several gentlemen from the States have been there 

 within the last year or two, and all expressed themselves 

 as delighted with the sport. I believe among them I may 

 mention Col. Strong, the popular United States consul at 

 Belleville. The people in the neighborhood, and others 

 from Belleville and Trenton, who had visited the lake at 

 a more seasonable time of the year for sport, said that the 

 fishing was excellent and that they had taken very large 

 bass out of the lake both with fly and bait. In the season 

 deer and partridges are said to be plentiful, as the country 

 round about is poorly settled and not much disturbed. 

 I may mention that the following bass flies take well in 

 Salmon Lake during July and August: Professor, 

 Canada, Parmacheene-belle, Montreal, queen-of-the- 

 waters and Alexandria. 



Ottawa, Canada. 



THE SUSQUEHANNA. 



THIS glorious old river, extending from the Otsego 

 Lake in New York to the Chesapeake Bay in Mary- 

 land, which winds its twisting figure over about four 

 hundred miles of as fine sporting grounds as any river in 

 the United States, possesses many advantages not found 

 in the wilds of uncivilized sections of our "great and 

 glorious*' country. Here on this river one can float in a 

 comfortable boat surrounded by fine fertile fields amid 

 the refining influences of civilization, and in company 

 with— if you so choose — your wife and family; and tempt 

 the beautiful glass-eyed pike, and struggle with the un- 

 tamed and plucky black bass; and here the struggle and 

 fight will afford as great pleasure to the true sportsman 

 as at any place, however remote it may be, and however 

 far removed from home, where deprivations and cares of 

 many kinds form a great factor of the whole. Here one 

 can sit within a few hours of his own fireside and bring 

 to net satisfactory numbers of from 1* to 51b. black bass, 

 with an occasional 101b. pike thrown in to keep up the 

 interest. It was on this river that I landed with a me- 

 dium light rod a 4|ib. small-mouth that gave me about 

 twenty minutes of unalloyed pleasure, and brought our 

 string up to about 401bs. of as fine black bass as ever 

 graced a platter. 



Choose any point you may from Binghamton to 

 Wilkesbarre, and take your wife, daughters and sons 

 with you, if you are blessed thus, select any hotel con- 

 venient to the river — they are all good — while those at 

 Binghamton, Owego, "Waverly and many other points 

 are excellent and will satisfy the needs of the whole 

 family. Good boats and plenty of guides can be had 

 nearly everywhere along its banks, and, unlike many 

 other rivers, bait can be had in plenty. I remark this for 

 the benefit of others who may "have had similar experi- 

 ence with myself at times, when fish were plenty but no 

 bait to be had. for love or money, and the fish would not 

 rise to a fly "not even to please a prince." On this river 

 you will never be caught that way, as it affords abund- 

 ance of bait which can be had for* the trouble of getting 

 it. "Dobsons" will be found in quantities on nearly all 

 the rifts, while "shiners" can be caught at the mouth of 

 nearly every inlet; and "lampreys" are abundant in most 

 of the mud banks known to all guides, while grasshoppers 

 and crickets can be had during the season, with plenty 

 of "night walkers" on most of the fields, which makes up 

 a good list of luring baits. These, with a few gaudy flies 

 having a plenty of red in their make-up, will assure you 

 luck at all times, and under nearly all circumstances, 

 always excepting a heavy roil in the waters during the 

 continuance of which you need not expect much luck, 

 and it is better to patiently wait until the waters are 

 again clear than to fish against hope and reason, which I 

 believe to be quite demoralizing, as it gets one in the 

 habit of holding the rod mechanically and induces care- 

 lessness, for who ever sat in a boat all day and kept up 

 the deception of fishing when he knew that there was 

 not a fish within five feet of his bait without feeling the 

 demoralizing influence of it the next time he went out? 

 So I say wait until the water is good and the wind en- 

 couraging, then go, and go early, and fish to a purpose; 

 and if you get tired, rest during the middle of the day, 

 and if you feel that you want another three or four- 

 pounder, try for it later on toward night, and success will 

 generally attend you. 



While you do fish, attend strictly to it, earnestness of 

 purpose is a prime rule in angling, and having everything 

 in readiness is equally important. Never have your 

 tackle in such shape that you cannot get to work at once, 

 and be ready as soon as on the ground to put in youi- best 

 work. I remember the past season of being put on the 

 best ground on the river by Mr. S., our guide; my wife 

 was in the stern of the boat with her light split-bamboo, 

 which I had just put in readiness with a fine live lamprey 

 on her hook, and, line in hand ready to cast in-shore the 

 moment the boat swung into the eddy, before I could get 

 a lamprey from our bait pail she had a strike and was 

 toiling with a 2-Ub. bass, which was giving her light rod 

 a lively shaking up. I laid my bait back in the pail and 

 stood by with landing net awaiting the arrival of the first 

 fish of the morning; it came, slowly but surely to the 

 music of my wife's reel, and it was landed equally sure, 

 and placed in the hands of the guide while I put on an- 

 other bait. The boat swung to the current, another cast 

 was made, and another strike, and again the reel was 

 telling of the spirited conflict going on between Mrs. B. and 

 another black bass nearly as large as the first, then I felt 

 like abandoning all hope of getting one of those slippery 

 wriggling lampreys on my hook before all the fish were 

 caught. Laying aside my rod I seized the landing-net 



and landed the beauty alongside of its brother in the 

 bottom of the boat. The guide at the same time handing 

 me another wriggling lamprey for Mrs. B.'s hook, which 

 I 60on secured to'the bared hook and returned it to the 

 waters. 



Being again at liberty I attempted to secure a bait for 

 my own hook that I might get in a little fine work while 

 things were going that way ; but before I could get the 

 bait on, click-whiz! went that reel again, followed by a 

 roar of laughter at my predicament, which was justly 

 merited by not being in readiness. This time the fight, 

 though sharp and decisive, was of shorter duration; I 

 took the landing net and stood by, and at the proper time 

 secured the largest and handsomest striped perch I ever 

 saw. Its center stripe was equal to the brightest rain- 

 bow, with a dark stripe on either side, and all small fins 

 were of the brightest scarlet, while the back fin and tail 

 were nearly black, the belly being a bright gold and 

 brown mix. Oh! such a beauty, and he turned the scales 

 at lib. 7oz. "Another bait, if you please, Mr. B.," came 

 from the victorious Mrs. B. in the stern of the boat, and 

 another bait it was, but this time no strike until I had 

 got a lamprey well attached to my hook, and by this the 

 little eddy was well fished over, and I kept my bait well 

 out, when I got my first strike, and landed my first bass 

 of the morning. 



As we crossed a small bar and made the deeper water 

 beyond. Mrs. B, had struck and captured another bass 

 just as I had released mine, and I was in readiness to 

 assist the landing of her fish number three, and so we 

 kept it up, first one then the other catching a fish, some- 

 times a bass, sometimes a pike, until a shower drove us 

 under cover and put an end to our fishing until toward 

 night, but I did not make up that day for not being in 

 readiness as soon as on the ground. 



It is seldom one goes on this river properly equipped 

 during the season of fishing without getting a good catch, 

 and every fish caught is of the finest 'flavor of its kind, 

 and in the best possible condition, while of its sport 

 among the wildfowl it holds a national reputation for 

 the finest canvasbacks, redheads, broadbills, etc, I 

 hope not to fail in calling attention to the many dangers 

 besetting these sports, dangers which are calculated to 

 destroy both the fine fishing and the shooting, and I 

 hope the constable hi whose hands we trust these inter- 

 ests will receive suitable support to bring to justice those 

 market fishermen who practice setting night lines in ' 'pike 

 pools," and the stretched lines across the river baited with 

 fifty or- more hooks. Of such there are in Tioga county a 

 few men who have immense luck in catching pike, but 

 seldom capture a black bass, owing to the fact that their 

 fishing is about over with at daylight, and if by chance 

 are seen are generally busy working a trolling line on 

 which they occasionally take a fish. It seems appropriate 

 to look after these men, as their lines are about as destruc- 

 tive as seines. With a light grapple attached to a boat 

 with a short line I have disturbed several such rigs, and I 

 hope to enjoy displacing others if they continue in my 

 course during future visits. 



I am glad to read that the parties setting duck nets in 

 the bay are to be looked after, and I hope the time will 

 come when both ducks and fish can cruise the Susque- 

 hanna clear of nets and set lines. Should the tune come 

 when we can realize all this the Susquehanna will be the 

 paradise of sport, as no river within many leagues of the 

 metropolis can show the same class or quantity of natural 

 feed as this river affords for both fowl and fish. 



Su> Bromley. 



Fish Dying in New Hampshire. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: What ails them? Joseph Young, who lives in a 

 camp on the shores of Rocky Pond in New Hampshire, 

 came into my office last evening and told me that he 

 was at the outlet of the pond a few days ago and saw a 

 large number of dead fish (mostly pickerel and perch) 

 floating down stream. He also told me that the water 

 in the pond is so bad that it is not fit for use, having a 

 muddy appearance. — C. O. Judkins. 



Messrs. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., 

 send us a Christmas box of their smoking product daintily 

 done up in packages befitting the superior character of 

 their famous tobacco. 



SHAD HATCHING IN 1387. 



TEN years ago six millions of shad was thought to be a re- 

 markable production. The late James W. Milner, 

 Supt. of the United States Fish Commission, made the fol- 

 lowing plants in 1877: New England rivers, 1,417,000; Sus- 

 quehanna river, 1,910.800; Southern Atlantic rivers, 1,245,000; 

 Mississippi river' and tributaries, 1.158, 000: Rivers of the 

 Gulf of Mexico, other than the Mississippi, 110,000; Sacre- 

 mento river, 110,000; making a total of 6,010,800 shad fry. 

 This was considered an immensa output, but for the season 

 of 1887 Col. M. McDonald, Chief of Division of Distribution 

 of the Fish Commission, reports the total number of eggs 

 taken to be over one hundred and forty-eight millions, and 

 the fry actually planted, deducting loss of eggs and fry in 

 transportation, as nearly one hundred and eight and a half 

 millions. His report, as recorded in the Bulletin of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, says: ' The number of sbad produced for 

 distribution the present season was unprecedented, and the 

 season of active work being restricted to a comparatively 

 short period, the capabilities both of the stations for pro- 

 duction and of the means of distribution were taxed beyond 

 their present capacity. To relieve the glut of eggs at Battery 

 Station and Central Station shipments of eggs on trays were 

 made both to the Cold Spring Harbor Station and to the 

 hatching station of the Delaware State commission at Wil- 

 mington, an aggregate of 10,718,000 eggs during the season 

 being forwarded to these stations. Further relief was ob- 

 tained by recourse to the hatching arrangements aboard of 

 car No. 3. The hatching en route proved uniformly success- 

 ful and enabled us to triple the capacity of the car for the 

 work of distribution, an* at the same time to relieve some- 

 what the overcrowding of eggs at the stations. 



SUMMARY BY RIVER BASINS OF SHAD FRY DISTRIBUTED DUR- 

 ING 1887, 



Penobscot River 922, 000 



Kennebec River 1,047,000 



Tributaries of Narragansett Bay 1,275,000 



Hudson River and tributaries 2,185,000 



Tributaries of Delaware Bay 5,099,000 



Tributaries of Chesapeake Bay 70,199,000 



Tributaries of Albemarle Sound 5,322,000 



Tributaries of North Atlantic coast 3,596,000 



Tributaries of Gulf of Mexico 7,048.000 



Inland waters 1,014,000 



Total planted by the U. S. Fish Com. 97,707.000 



Shipped to Cold Spring Harbor to he 

 hatched and turned into Hudson and 

 tributaries 6,644,000 



Shipped to Wilmington, Del., to be 

 hatched and turned into tributaries 

 of Delaware Bay 4,074,000 



Total* 108,425,000 



The total production of eggs for the season was 148,008,000, 

 of which there were lost during incubation and at hatchery 

 37.638,000 and during transportation 1,915,000, leaving the 

 total number of fish and eggs for distribution for the season 

 108,425,000. 



The most important experiment looking to the acclimat- 

 ization of shad in new rivers was made in connection with 

 the hydrographic basin of Great Salt Lake. This inland sea 

 would seem to present all the conditions necessary for the 

 reproduction of the shad under natural conditions. The 

 value that would arise to the inhabitants of that section of 

 the country from the introduction of some anadromous 

 species like the shad in their waters was so evident, that it 

 was determined by Prof. Baird, the Commissioner, to test 

 by an exhaustive experiment the capabilities of these waters 

 to supply the necessary conditions. Accordingly car No. 2, 

 with 1,000,000 fry, was sent to Utah and the fish successfully 

 planted. The deposit was made in the Jordan River, it being 

 deemed better to concentrate all the fish in a single plant 

 than to distribute them in smaller numbers to tributary 

 streams of Utah Lake. It is in contemplation to repeat this 

 work for two successive seasons. 



From the rapid increase in the volume of the work of shad 

 distribution it is evident that it will be necessary to increase 

 the efficiency of our distributing service in order to meet the 

 demands that will probably be made upon it next season. 

 This may be accomplished in two ways: First, by the estab- 

 lishment of auxiliary field stations in those river basins 

 which are to be stocked with shad. These stations should 

 be properly equipped to give them a capacity of six or eight 

 million eggs at one time. To these at the proper season a 

 car can be dispatched carrying a full complement of eggs in 

 shipment, in this way quadrupling the present capacity of 

 the cars in the work of distribution and reducing the cost of 

 distribution per million pro tanto. Second, to increase the 

 capacity of the producing stations so as to enable us to take 

 care of all eggs at these stations until hatched. This would 

 necessitate an increase in the number of cars for distribution: 

 one or two at least in addition would be needed to provide 

 for the anticipated increase in the volume of this work." 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Pub, Co, 



RESTORING THE CLYDE FISHERIES. 



NOVA SCOTIA, Dec. 8.— Editor Forest and Stream: As 

 your numerous readers are much interested in every 

 effort made to protect and increase the supply of anadromous 

 fishes, and game fish particularly, will you kindly allow me 

 space to lay before them as briefly as possible the results of 

 an effort to restock one of our many depleted rivers in this 

 Province? 



The Clyde River, in Shelburne county, at the southern ex- 

 tremity of the Province— a small stream such as in your 

 country would pass for a mere brook — abounded, from thirty 

 to forty years ago, in salmon, trout and alewives, but as the 

 country became settled a milldam was thrown across the 

 stream at the head of tide-water, which had the effect in a 

 very few years, of completely destroying the fish. Many at- 

 tempts have since been made to pass fish over or by the dam. 

 but all without success, until in the fall of 18S0, one of the 

 Rogers's patent fish ways was put in the dam at a cost of but 

 $280. Five years afterward 4501 bs. of salmon were taken, 

 and in the year following 2,6001bs. , and this last vear 3,0701bs. 

 At an average of 121bs. per fish this would give 37 fish for 

 1885, 216 for 1886, and 255 for 1887. The improvement in the 

 alewive fishery has been still more marked, the catch having 

 increased from almost nothingin 1880 to 125bbls. in 1887. The 

 general increase already attained in this one small stream 

 would pay the interest at 6 per cent, per annum on $20,000, 

 while the entire outlay in bringing about this result has been 

 but $280, and this is but one of the many streams which are 

 rapidly coming up to their former productiveness in this 

 Province, by the aid of the fishwav. There has been no aid 

 given the Clyde by artificial culture, the success of the fish- 

 way being the only cause of the improvement. This being 

 the case, how important that every dam thrown across the 

 streams of your country as well as ours should be opened up 

 by means of one of these structures as soon as possible. 

 Public money cannot be expended in any other way that will 

 show so unmistakablysuch substantial returns. 



W. H. Rogers. 



Dogs: Tlveir Managem ent and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Ashmont. Price $2. Kennel Record and Account Book. 

 Price $3. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond. 

 PHce /i. First Lessons in Dog Training, with Points of 

 all Breeds. Price 25 cents. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Jan. 10, 11, 13 and 13, 1888.— Bench Show of the Ohio Poultry, Pigeon, 

 Kennel and Pet Stock Association, Columbus, O. H. O. Bridge, 

 Secretary. OolumbuB, O. 



Jan. 24. to 29.— Augusta, Ga., Richmond County Poultry and Pet 

 Stock. 



Feb. 13 to 17.— First show Fort Schuyler Kennel Ciub, Utica, N. 

 Y. E. J. Spencer, Sec. 



Feb. 21 to 24, 1888.— Twelfth Annual Show of the Westminster Ken- 

 nel Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. James Mortimer, 



S ^eb r . i 28 toiSarch 2.— Show of Philadelphia Kennel Club. W. EL 

 Child. Sec. 



April 3 to 6.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Jan. 10, 1888.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

 Trials Club, at Marshall, Tex. W. L. Thomas, Secretary, Mar> 

 shall Tex. 



Jan. 16.— Fifth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast Field 

 Trial Club, near Kingsburgb, Oal. N. P. Sheldeu, Secretary, 330 

 Sansome street, San Francisco, Cai. 



A. K. R.-SPEC1AL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials;, is 

 published every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be 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 

 York. Number of entries already printed 5*708. 



