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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 6, 1889. 



hiring boats of Michael should have a care as to their 

 apparel. 



At Stapleton, next station north of Cliften, John Wah- 

 len has fifteen rowboats for hire at fil.DO a day. He also 

 has two catboats, one of 18 the other 20ft., and two cen- 

 terboard cabin sloops, one 38 the other 532ft. long. Price 

 for catboats $8 and $10 a day, and for sloops $10 and $12 

 a day. The large sloop will accommodate twenty people 

 very comfortably. Wahlcu visits all the best places in 

 the lower bay, and furnishes lines and bait free. One of 

 his hosts caught thirteen weakflsh of small size last week, 

 Tuesday. 



At Tompkinsville, next station north of Stapleton. Ex- 

 Sheriff Denyse rents seven rowboats at $1 a day week 

 days, $1.50 Sundays, boatmen 25 cents an hour or $2 a 

 day extra. He also has two catboats for line at $5 a day, 

 which includes a man to sail them. He also keeps bait 

 (clams). Denyse takes lodgers at $1 a night, and fur- 

 nishes meals d la carte. 



At New Brighton, S. t, the first station below St. 

 George on the north shore railroad, Patrick Donovan 

 keeps a place convenient to the Bobbin's Reef fishing 

 grounds. Donovan has three rowboats for hire at 50 

 cents week days, $1 on Sundays. He also keeps four 

 cat-rigged open boats at $4 for week days and $5 for 

 Sundays. One of Donovan's customers "caught three 

 bluefish last week Sunday off Bobbin's Reef Light. 



. Seneca. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



/TTHE Fox Lake country is giving good account of itself. 

 JL Camp Lake last Saturday showed several fair strings 

 of bass. Mr. J. M. Clark took six. one of 4£lbs. 



Mr. F. P. Taylor says he and his party fished on the 

 Oconto, leaving the railway at Ellis Junction. Their 

 luck at the trout was all they could ask. Mr. Frank 

 Arrowsmith, of the C. & A. R. R. , a Syracuse angler who 

 wears a medal won for fly-casting, took ninety-two trout 

 in one day with the fly. Mr. Arrowsmith can stand with 

 his back against a wall and cast a rolling cast straight 

 out in front of him to a good distance, and it was the 

 ability to do this which so much increased his catch along 

 the brushy Wisconsin streams. Mr. Arrowsmith tied his 

 own flies and used on the day above mentioned nothing 

 but very small brown-hackles and black-gnats, some- 

 times using a small wing on the brown fly. For those 

 who contemplate going into "Wisconsin woods for trout, 

 the above is worth remembering. It seems the con- 

 sensus of opinion of anglers who go in there that the 

 bulk of flies should be dark and small. I presume that if 

 one stuck to brown and black hackles, or brown hackle 

 and a small, dark- winged fly, he would do as well as 

 though he took a bookful, although he might strike a 

 capricious stream. But ninety-two trout is too many. 



Dr. Buechner, also mentioned earlier as having had a 

 good trip, was at the Gaylord club house. He reports 

 that the fly was not being taken well in their vicinity, 

 although they had fair luck on the whole. He caught 

 his 2£lb. trout in a lake which is fairly alive with black 

 bass. This is a very common feature of Wisconsin 

 waters— to find trout and bass dwelling in harmony 

 together. I leave it to the imagination of Eastern read- 

 ers to picture what sport these deep, cold lakes would 

 afford; and once more I say to all Eastern men who want 

 to go fishing and catch some fish, that they should send 

 their wives home, or bring them along, and start at once 

 for this place, right here, and then go north. 



I was walking down Wabash avenue one evening last 

 week with a friend, when we saw a man stop a buggy 

 and take out from it a fish which he could hardly drag 

 clear of the ground. It needed only a look at the clean 

 yellow sides to show that the fish was a mascallonge in 

 prime order. We walked straight over to the buggy. 

 "Where on earth did you get that fish, and who are yoii, 

 anyhow?" I asked of the gentleman. 



Well, I didn't steal him," said he, "but I caught him in 

 Lake Vieux Desert, above Eagle Waters. This is a little 

 one. It only weighs 311bs. We caught twenty-eight of 

 'em altogether." 



Later I learned that this gentleman's name is Mr. 

 Winans, of the Wabash Railway, and that his companion 

 was Mr. Cameron, of this city. They had royal sport, if 

 ever two men did. Mr. Winans killed one mascallonge 

 which weighed 37|lbs., and which was subsequently 

 placed in banquet before certain Wabash railway mag- 

 nates. When Mr. Winans got back and began to tell the 

 boys about this fish, he got wild, and could hardly keep 

 down on the ground at all. He caught the big fish and 

 killed him in worthy style, using a Clark 8joz. lance mas- 

 callonge rod, a No. E Mansfield raw silk line, and an 

 Abbey & Imbrie double multiplier reel with the old Fos- 

 ter drag. He says that outfit suited him, and Jim Clark, 

 of the Wilkinson Co., who is the designer of this rod, is 

 consequently tickled pretty near as much as Mr. Winans. 



The Eastern anglers who want to go fishing and catch 

 some fish had better come right out here and start soon. 

 In a very short time now the bloom will be on the lakes, 

 and then no more mascallonge till October. We have got 

 fish out here as is fish. The air is full of them. Two 

 fishers on Fourteenth street pier yesterday caught a string 

 of lake perch which dropped on the ground from a pole 

 between their shoulders. Sam Booth caught 251bs. of 

 pike and bass in the Grand Calumet near the club house. 

 Another angler, whose name I forgot, caught twenty 

 black bass in the Little Calumet near Liverpool. Ira 

 Pease, keeper of Mak-saw-ba club house, writes up be- 

 seechingly for the boys to come down and catch some of 

 the bass out of the Kankakee, as they are biting so much 

 as to be fairly dangerous. There are fish anywhere 

 around Chicago, from the city building out. The atmos- 



Ehere here is gradually assuming a lurid, dark purple 

 ue, as the fishing season draws on apace and the anglers 

 come in with their creels full of lies. The stories I may 

 tell in the columns of Forest and Stream of these suc- 

 cesses will all be true. I would not tell any other kind. 

 But much as I should like to tell a real good fish lie, it 

 would be difficult to exaggerate the actual excellence of 

 the fishing lying— I mean the fishing which lies or is sit- 

 uated—in our new North Woods. This country is open 

 to gentlemen. I sincerelv hope that any one who goes 

 in there and kills all the fish he can will fall out of his 

 boat and be drowned and devoured. 



Speaking of that. The best hated man in all Wiscon- 

 sin lake country is Dr. Robert Hunter, of Chicago. Not 

 a guide, hotel keeper or woodsman who ever knew him 

 but execrates his name, and throughout that whole dis- 



trict his reputation is anathema. Dr. Hunter is the man 

 with the record. To acquire his record he had to stack 

 up fish on the shore and let them rot in heaps. To acquire 

 record and reputation Dr. Hunter invented a little 

 machine, consisting of a good stout spring coiled in a 

 box, to which he attached his trolling line. When a 

 mascallonge struck the spoon, the worthy Doctor could 

 fold his hands and sit and watch the spring kill the fish. 

 He couldn't catch them fast enough with rod and reel— 

 not so fast as was consistent with his idea of the size of 

 the pile of fish rotting on the shore. Dr. Hunter gained 

 his reputation this way some little time ago. He got his 

 reputation. He got into the railway guide books as the 

 man with the record. He got into the papers out here. 

 He has gotten into Forest and Stream; and as quick as 

 I can get time to go up into that country and get some 

 more facts— which are not more facts than these alleged, 

 be sure— he is going to get into Forest and Stream a lot 

 more. He ought to get into every sporting paper in this 

 wide land, and be so held up in all the glory of his suc- 

 cess that when the final curtain shall be rung down 

 on his drama, his fellow countrymen shall not 

 say merely in grave reverence, "This was a man!" 

 but shall whisper with bated breath, "This was 

 a champion!" I don't want to be told that I am too severe 

 on such a man, for that is impossible. An example can- 

 not be made too quickly and too surely of any such man 

 and of all such men. Those fish are up there for all of 

 the round table of anglerdom. There is enough for all. 

 It as the business of any man fit to sit at the round table 

 to see that they are sent round in a fair and square divide. 

 Moreover, I do not think that twenty-eight mascallonge 

 is too large a catch for two men, although this may be a 

 first offense. For those who hereafter come to my notice 

 with stories of boat loads of mascallonge I propose to do 

 all I can, in my feeble way, to make them wish it was a 

 first offense, or make them prove a h'alibi if it wasn't. 

 They say those waters can't be fished out. That's all 

 nonsense. Go to the fish dealers of our great lakes. They 

 will tell you that our whole inland seas will be and fairly 

 have been fished out. No amount of game was ever so 

 great it couldn't all be killed, and no amount of fish can 

 swim that cannot all be caught. The time to weep is 

 now, not after the ruin has been wrought. E. Hough. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM ANGLESEA. 



ANGLESEA, N. J., May 30.— Yesterday three fisher- 

 men here, from Philadelphia, bagged ten black 

 drum averaging 301bs. apiece. The birds have been thick, 

 and Chas. W. Barnard, secretary of the West Jersey 

 Game Protective Society, bagged *100 vellowlegs in two 

 days' hunting last week on Seven Mile Beach, which is 

 divided by Hereford Inlet from Five Mile Beach, where 

 four years ago the wild cattle monopolized the right of 

 way in the Holly Woods. 



During all the month of June there will be fine fishing 

 for black drum for those who revel in big fish, caught 

 after a gamy fight in the deep sea. But the weakflsh, too, 

 have come, and run larger than at any season before in 

 ten years. On the Fishing Banks Chris Ludlam reports 

 that "Holy Joe,"" Ludlam's boat— his name is familiar to 

 Forest and Stream readers— caught last week 1150 black 

 bass, so called, in three hours, water 30ft. deep, and the 

 largest bass kicked the beam at Slbs. and a fraction! 

 Good board can be had at the Hereford House, Andrew 

 Weeks, or J. J. Sturmer's, $6 a week. A sportsman's 

 wife, who don't cry for furbelows, or require pate de foie 

 gras at $1 a day board, can be happy here. You can hit 

 the Inlet with a stone from the Hereford Hotel porch, 

 and one can get out in the schooners, which go to the 

 banks every morning 6 A. M., when the wind is not 

 "no'theast," for $1 apiece, and the fisherman has all the 

 fish he can catch. "A ducat to the beggarly denier," to 

 the sportsman who cannot be happy for a month or a 

 week at Anglesea; and I am unselfish enough to wish 

 that my fellow craftsmen with double-barreled Greeners, 

 or rod and reel, or unromantic handline, mav enjoy as 

 much, and have as many happy days past, present and to 

 come as I have had and hope to have in angling down by 

 the sea at Anglesea. When a man gets to Philadelphia 

 he need only ask for the West Jersey R. R., and he is 

 within two hours of a sportsman's paradise. J. M. S. 



Black Mosquito Netting.— Auburn, Maine.— I desire 

 to give my brother anglers a point, which, put in practice 

 during a recent brook-fishing trip, was of much comfort 

 to myself and friend. It was simply a bag of black 

 mosquito netting. I had used white and pink netting on 

 previous trips; but as all know who have tried the light 

 colors or even blue it is at times as imposible to see 

 through as a thick cloth in the sunlight and in thick 

 bushes. The black netting offers no such objections, but 

 it is security against mosquitoes. The small black fly, or 

 "no-seeums," would of course crawl through. The angler 

 must wear a moderately wide hat, with brim sufficiently 

 stiff to hold the netting away from his face and neck. 

 Take of the black netting a strip of sufficient length, so 

 that when stitched up on the short side the hat will pass 

 readily through it. Then with a darning or tape needle 

 run a string through the interstices of the netting below 

 the reinforced edge, so that the edge may be gathered 

 loosely around the crown of the hat at the band, and the 

 thing is complete and ready for use. When on the head 

 it should hang down on the shoulders far enough to be 

 folded under the coat collar and upon the breast in front, 

 It may occasionally double in against the neck, but I had 

 no trouble whatever on that account, though fishing in 

 thick brush a part of the time. I am not claiming origin- 

 ality in this matter, except in the simplicity of the thing 

 and the use of black netting. All arrangements of this 

 sort I have ever seen use white netting or gauze, which 

 interferes very much with the vision, while the black 

 presents no such objection. — Nor'east. 



Salmon in the Hudson.— Recent captures of salmon in 

 the Hudson River were: By D. Perkins, in a net, near 

 Poughkeepsie, weight Sljlbs.; one of 171bs. by Charles 

 Harkins, off Hyde Park; one of 12flbs. by Wm. Albert- 

 son, of New Hamburg. 



Sawdust.— Hingston, N. B. — In my letter published in 

 your last issue, where it reads, "Nevertheless it clearly 

 proves that sawdust does not kill fish," it should read, 

 "Sawdust does kill fish."— Sportsman, 



Posted Brooks in Connecticut.— A case of peculiar 

 I interest to sportsmen in Connecticut has just been con- 

 cluded in Wallingford. Dr. Edwin Tabor was prosecuted 

 for trout fishing in Muddy River, which had been 1 'posted" 

 by a Wallingford syndicate, in some cases with and in 

 others without the consent of the owners. It is said that 

 there has been a great deal of this kind of posting of 

 streams in this State this season. The signs are bought 

 at any job printer's for next to nothing, and it has been a 

 common thing for persons to place them along a brook, 

 sometimes with the assent of the owner, but more often 

 without, for the purpose of keeping other persons off 

 their brook. So common has this become, and the trick 

 so well known to Connecticut sportsmen, that the signs 

 are disregarded unless they bear the name of the land- 

 owners. In the Wallingford case Dr. Tabor fished on the 

 land of a farmer named Hall, who had given him per- 

 mission to do so. Hall had previously allowed the syndi- 

 cate to post his land, but claimed and" exercised the right 

 to allow a personal friend to fish there. Consequently 

 the prosecution against Dr. Tabor failed, and he was dis- 

 charged. It is probable that some united action will be 

 taken against tricksters throughout the State who post 

 brooks without authority, and do not dare to affix a 

 name to their sign.— Waterbury American, May 31. 



Carp in Open Watebs.— Rock Creek, a tributary of 

 the Potomac River, and boundary between Washington 

 and West Washington, or Georgetown, D. C, is one of 

 the streams which have received a supply of escaped carp 

 from the Government ponds. We are indebted to the 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, Col. Marshall McDonald, for 

 the accompaning letter of Mr. G. Brown Goode, assistant 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, containing in- 

 formation about the number recently taken by a single 

 fisherman at one locality: "Washington, May 23, 1889. 

 —Dear Colonel McDonald: I bought a lovely 121bs. mir- 

 ror carp this morning, taken in Rock Creek by my neigh- 

 bor, Dennis Jones. It was one of seven— all mirror carp 

 —caught last night in a dip net below the dam at Lyon's 

 Mill, one weighing about l41bs. Jones tells me that he 

 has caught at least one hundred in this place, and that 

 they have been abundant there ever since the big freshet. 

 Yours truly, G. Brown Goode." Carp from open waters 

 have become a feature of the fish supply in Washington 

 markets and the demand for them is constantly increas- 

 ing, 



Here is Something New about fishermen as truth 

 tellers. A Toledo, Ohio, man Avas recently stricken with 

 paralysis, and is just beginning to speak again. A re- 

 porter, calling on him, was talking about fishing, when 

 reference Avas made to our "Sunset Club" contributor. 

 Mr. John E, Gunckel, of whom the reporter ventured to 

 remark that he could catch more fish on paper than with 

 rod and line. Thereupon the paralysis-stricken man 

 rallied to the defense of his angling friend and, in a more 

 natural tone than he had yet used since his prostration, 

 retorted, "I'll just bet you $10 that John Gunckel can 

 take you out in his boat, do your baiting, take your fish 

 off the hook, and then catch three fish to your one." 



Mortality among Fishes.— Another serious epidemic 

 among fishes is reported from Iowa, and, as usual, the 

 cause is not ascertained, although pollution from glucose 

 works is suspected to be at the bottom of the trouble. 

 The destruction from Marshalltown down has been Avhole- 

 sale, and the State Board of Health has begun to investi- 

 gate the matter. The water has been full of dead fish 

 and the banks and eddies are reeking with them. The 

 Musquakie Indians claim that the water has killed some 

 of their ponies, and other deaths of stock from drinking 

 the river water are reported. The poison must have been 

 in the river water alone, for fish transferred to pure 

 water quickly revived. 



Michigan Trouting.-A correspondent writes that 

 there is capital trout fishing in Elliott's Creek, four miles 

 northeast of Cheboygan. Here William Elliott has ex- 

 pended nearly $3,000 in cleaning out the stream and its 

 branches, in building dams and establishing a hatchery. 

 He owns the stream and having expended money gener- 

 ously in putting the stream in shape and keeping it 

 stocked with fish, charges a nominal tee for the privilege 

 of the stream, but Avhen that has been paid the expense 

 is the least for the quality of the sport of any place in the 

 country. 



Penobscot Salmon. — Editor Forest and Stream: A 

 gentleman quite recently from the Penobscot reports 

 salmon fishing at Bangor as very poor now and he and 

 some of his friends up there attribute this fact largely to 

 the existence of acid and pulp factories that were started 

 last year above the dam. What a pity that that fine 

 pool cannot be spared. — Big Reel. 



RESULTS OF COD HATCHING. 



IT is very gratifying to know that the patient and persist- 

 ent efforts of the IT. S. Commission to sustain and im- 

 prove the supply of commercial fishes are likely to be crowned 

 with success in the case of the cod— the most valuable of the 

 marine fishes of the world— as will appear from the. letter 

 given below. When the first attempts Avere made to hatch 

 the floating eggs of the cod, about a decade ago, it was soon 

 manifest that none of the apparatus then in use Avould answer 

 for eggs of that kind, and the ingenious members of the 

 Commission set to Avork to devise something suited to the 

 new requirements. The history of the experiments culmi- 

 nating in the Chester-McDonald box and Jansen's device for 

 preventing the accumulation of air babbles, Avill be found in 

 the publications of the Commission, and AA-e Avill not relate it 

 here. The anglers are profiting by the increase of cod along 

 the shores, and they well know how to appreciate a species 

 which is far superior in flavor to most of the other fishes 

 taken on their hooks. Capt. Martin particularly mentions 

 the color of these fish and identifies them as ocean cod, and 

 not the brilliantly colored, but someAvhat insipid, algae fish 

 or rock cod of the New England shores. We are sure that 

 the captain's claim to speak as an authority in this matter 

 will not be questioned. 



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

 D. C, May 24 — Dr. T. H. Bean, Ichthyologist, TJ. S. Fish 

 Commission: In a letter which I have just received from 

 CaptainS. J. Martin, dated at Gloucester, Mass., May 23, 



