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trolling. For fishing with rod and reel the author advises 

 the use" of 200yds. of 18-thread Cuttyhunk line, holding a 

 large stout hook fastened to a piece of piano wire, the 

 wire necessary on account of the sharp, lancet-like teeth 

 'to. the powerful jaws. A piece of menhaden is one of 

 the best baits, or an artificial minnow is sometimes used. 

 Anchor the boat in some place frequented by the fish and 

 fasten a float several feet above the bait; then wait for 

 developments, which may be prompt and will surely be 

 startling. The important rule in reeling in a bluefish is 

 to keep a taut line until the game is landed. At Ocean 

 City, N. J., the species is sometimes called mackerel, 

 but the usual designation is snap mackerel or snapping 

 mackerel, and this will illustrate its method of taking 

 the bait. 



The kingfish is generally associated with the weakfish 

 and arrives and leaves about the same time as this species. 

 Mr. Spangler observed a. great increase in the size of the 

 kingfish in 1888, and especially at Anglesea, where he 

 and a Mend took 168 on a, single tide. The kingfish is a 

 vigorous biter and is decidedly a game species. It is to 

 be found on the bottom, and a small bait and correspond- 

 ingly small, but strong, hook are needed. Mr. Spangler 

 xecommends the use of a single gut snood looped Sor4in. 

 above the sinker. The tackle must be Light. Clams and 

 mussels are used for bait, and small pieces cut from any 

 of the silvery fishes, particularly the spot, or even the 

 darker colored sea bass, will be accepted. Shedder crab 

 is the best bait. The kingfish is one of the species which 

 Sometimes disappears from our northern waters for a 

 term of years and then reappears in large numbers. Two 

 kinds of kingfish are taken at Somers Point. 



The Spanish mackerel shows some resemblance to the 

 pluefish in its style of taking the hook, but has not the 

 strength and courage of that species. This elegant fish 

 occurs in abundance in the waters of the eastern shores 

 tof Maryland and Virginia. It is occasionally taken by 

 trolling. The species comes in June and migrates south- 

 ward in September. Fine specimens are caught at Sea- 

 bright, New Jersey. 



The sheepshead arrives on the New Jersey coast about 

 Jthe 1st of June, sometimes in large schools and some- 

 times in small bodies.- It is usually a cautious biter ana 

 hard to land. Fiddlers and hermit crabs are in general 

 use for bait, and some anglers use the large sand flea 

 \Hippa) with good results. The best time for catching 

 sheepshead is on the slack of the tides. A twelve-thread 

 cable-laid Cuttyhunk line and the largest-sized Chester- 

 town hook is preferred by the author. A light but strong 

 rod, not more than 8ft. long, and a smooth-running reel 

 'are necessary. Sheepshead are especially fond of the 

 vicinity of wrecks and steep meadow banks in deep but 

 not swift water. Mr. Spangler mentions Barnegat Bay, 

 Great Egg Harbor Bay and Carson's Inlet as furnishing 

 good localities for this fishing. The catch in Great Egg 

 Harbor Bay recently has been very small. 

 • The sea bass is very abundant at five-fathom bank off 

 Cape May, also on the banks opposite Anglesea. The fish 

 range from lib. to dibs, in weight. Parties are taken out 

 to the banks in sloops and schooners, paying a dollar each 

 for their trip. They are furnished with lines and bait 

 and receive all the fish they catch. The baits are usually 

 clam and cut menhaden, A stiff rod, a heavy sinker and 

 two or three hooks of medium size are desirable. Slack 

 water is the best time for fishing. The shoal waters 

 swarm with young and half-grown sea bass, which be- 

 come a uuisance to the angler. 



The black drum is one of the largest of the angler's 

 fishes along our northern coast, reaching a length of 4ft. 

 and a weight of 70 or 801bs. Its teeth are admirably 

 adapted to crushing shellfish, the teeth in the pharynx 

 being large and very coarse. Drum are caught with a 

 hand line or with rod and reel. The fisherman either, 

 casts from the shore or fishes from a. boat, in either case 

 using a heavy sinker. Clams are used for bait, and the 

 force of the tide makes a bait string necessary. The fish 

 bites best on the flood tide. It arrives on the New Jersey 

 coast in May. 



The red drffin, or channel bass, is an occasion al visitor 

 to the New .Jersey coast, sometimes found on the shell 

 beds, but usually in the surf; it is not a ready biter, but 

 fights vigorously when hooked. 



The scup, or porgy, called sea porgy at Somer's Point 

 to distinguish it from the spot, which is also styled porgy, 

 arrives on the New Jersey coast in May, and begins to 

 take the hook freely in June, after the close of the spawn- 

 ing season. The scup will take almost any bait, but is 

 very hard to hook; its mouth is small, with thin hps and 

 strong, incisor like teeth. 



The pamphlet closes with a brief sketch of surf fishing 

 for striped bass. Some of the noted places for this kind 

 of fishing is Key East and Asbury Park. The line must 

 be strong and of the best quality. An 18-thread Cutty- 

 hunk line is advised by Mr. Spangler. The favorite 

 hoi ks are No. 6 or 7 Sproat, 5 or 6 O'Shaughnessy and 

 Linn- ricks of the same sizes. The rod must be strong and 

 stiff, but not unwieldy, Shedder crab is the most satis- 

 factory bait , and it must be secured to the hook. In the 

 bays and inlets smaller fish are taken, but they are more 

 abundant and furnish rare sport. 



Blooming Grove Park. — The fishing in Lake Giles 

 has been surprisingly good. A large number of bass have 

 been taken running from 1 to 21bs., and several over 21bs. 



j A few days since one weighing 3|lbs. was taken on min- 

 now, and same afternoon one weighing 2flbs. was taken 

 on a fly. The trout in the lake are giving great sport. 

 Since the season opened upward of 150 have been taken 

 averaging lib., quite a number of them weighing l-\ to 



' lflbs. As this is the second year since the stocking of 

 the lake with trout began, the results are proving that 

 Lake Gfles will become one of the best trout hikes in the 

 country. The annual fly -casting tournament of the club 

 members, on Decoration Day, did not result in scores 

 that are deserving of record. — XXXX. 



Madison County, New York.— Our county, especially 

 the southern half, contains many small lakes and four or 

 five large reservoirs which are used as feeders for the 

 Erie Canal. Most of these have been stocked with black 

 bass. Most of the time since the season opened it has 

 rained, therefore not many bass have been taken. One 

 catch of three weighing lO^lbs. is reported. From one of 

 these lakes two of our experts with 8oz. rods captured 

 701bs. hi one day. Seven of these bass weighed 281bs. and 

 two tipped the scales at 91bs.— Wing. 



Paradise Club.— Lac dos Grandes lies, Canada, June 

 10. — Editor Forest end Stream: The Paradise Club of 

 anglers of New York have completed their club house 

 here and can boast of the finest house of its kind in the 

 Dominion. Several members are here at present enjoy- 

 ing the fly-fishine:, which is splendid. Catches of 50 

 trout weighing about 2lbs. each are an everyday inci- 

 dent. I took ft 4 pounder with a brown hackle at noon 

 yesterday from the boat landing. Alexander Edgley, 

 formerly keeper of the Windsor Hotel at Lake Edward, 

 has been appointed guardian of the new club. The 

 building and its contents were brought from New York, 

 and the fleet of cedar boats were made by R. J. Douglas 

 & Co., of Waukegan, 111. A new and commodious hotel 

 has been erected at Lake Edward, and new and roomy 

 boats are on hire. The trout fishing there is simply un- 

 surpassed. Many anglers prefer to camp upon the beau- 

 tiful shores of the lake. To this end everything needed 

 can be rented at the station, and ice in plenty can be had 

 to send fish home. I leave to-day for a tussle with the 

 winrrinisb of Lake St John and an exploration of the 

 Mistassini River.— Kit Clarke. 



Large Tautog.— The largest tautog ever taken in 

 American waters, it is said, was caught by Elijah El- 

 bridge at Tinker's Island, Marblehead, Memorial Day, 

 weighing 14ibs. Elbridge caught twenty, the average 

 weight being 31bs, The largest salmon ever caught in 

 (hat vicinity was taken off Sherman's Point at Camden, 

 Me., Memorial Day. It weighed 351 bs. and measured 3ft. 

 Bin. in length. Another weighing 251bs. was captured 

 in the same net at the same time. — Gloucester Daily Times. 



Bluefish are Swarming in the Great South Bay, and 

 big catches are reported from Sayville, Bayshore, Islip 

 and Babylon. These points are reached by the Long 

 Island Railroad from this city; and at any of them boats 

 may be chartered. The boatmen charge $5 a day for 

 the boat and their services, no matter how many may be 

 in the party ; the bait costs extra, a dollar, more or less. 

 This is the time for bluefish. 



Trout Casts. — Cleveland, O. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: I send to you by express a plaster cast of some 

 brook trout raised by the late Seth Green, who did so 

 much to advance fishculture in this country. He sent 

 the fish to me in the early spring of 1870. As it was im- 

 possible to remove the winter coating of slime from 

 them, I could not make a perfect cast; however, they 

 give good satisfaction. — Dr. E, Sterling. 



Tarpon Springs, Fla., June 7— Fishing is good. 

 Groupers are out in force. Quail will be quite plenty, if 

 one may judge from present indications. I counted five 

 broods the other day in less than an hour's walk. Weather 

 cool and delightful.— Tarpon. 



Pickerel in Meacham Lake. — We are told that several 

 pickerel have been caught this year in Meacham Lake, in 

 the North Woods. This will be unwelcome news to those 

 who know what a fine trout water the lake is. 



THE FOOD CARP. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The food carp is not a German fish, and there are no Ger- 

 man carp iu this country, except a few specimens in the 

 hands of the TJ. S. Fish Commission. The fish is of Chinese 

 origin, and has been cultivated iu that countryfor thousands 

 of years, .-is was positively ascertained by Hon. John Russell 

 Young while U. S. Minister to that Empire. 



The food carp has beeu amazingly improved by the intel- 

 ligent and systematic methods of cultivation by a compara- 

 tively few Americans, and that, too, without intelligent co- 

 operation on the part of Fish Commissions, except in a very 

 few instances. 



There are not three varieties of the food carp, as is so often 

 stated. There is really but one variety, while there are an 

 infinite number of types, distinguishable only by the quan- 

 tity of scales found upon individual specimens, varying 

 from an entire covering to a partial covering of all grades 

 up to no scales whatever, the finer bred being of these parti- 

 scale types having the least number of scales. By breeding 

 from selected specimens of any of these types specimens of 

 all the other types are almost certain to be found, showing 

 conclusively that there is but one variety of the food carp. 



Your angfing correspondent in the issue of May 23 gives 

 seven points favorable to the carp, the first and fourth being 

 identical ; but he has failed to give the most favorable points. 

 I here repeat, and without the least fear of successful con- 

 tradiction, that our best-bred carp, as a table fish, is the peer 

 of any fresh-water fish excepting only the Salmonidm. No 

 elaborate cookery is required. Take a properly cultivated 

 carp of 51bs. or upward, and prepare it in the simple man- 

 ner in which Americans prepare the Thanksgiving turkey — 

 sew it in thin muslin and bake brown— and there are few 

 epicures who will not acknowledge its excellence. It is in 

 season during the late fall and winter months only, and this 

 fact has caused most of the abuse of the carp. Epicures 

 nave eaten it out of season. 



Another point, and in many respects the principal one, is 

 the important fact that the carp is as yet the only known 

 variety of fresh-water fish that can be successfully culti- 

 vated. I mean by this that the few other varieties of edible 

 fishes that can be cultivated at all will cost at least three 

 times as much as they will bring in any market in this 

 country. Take the brook trout, which has been the princi- 

 pal fish propagated by State Fish Commissions; not a pound 

 was ever served upon a table that has not cost some State at 

 least $5! Indeed, it is rare that a solitary specimen of the 

 scores of millions of young trout consigned to public waters 

 is ever seen again by mortal eye! In America's thirty -five 

 years of experience m fishculture the carp is, so far, the only 

 notable success; and, although millions of dollars have been 

 expended, this one success will ultimately repay all the pro- 

 digious expenditures of the past. MlLTON P. Peirce. 



Columbus, Ohio, May 27. 



Forest and Stream, Box 2,833, N. Y. city, has descriptive illus- 

 trated circulars of W. B. LeffinjweU's book, "Wild Fowl Shoot- 

 ing," which will be mailed free on request. The book is pro- 

 nounced by "Nanit," "Gloan," "Dick Swiveller," "Sybillene" and 

 other competent authorities to be the best treatise on the subject 

 extant. 



Names and Portraits of Birds, by Gurdon Trumbull. A 

 book particularly interesting to gunners, for by its use they can 

 identify without question all the American game birds which 

 they may kill. Cloth, 220 pages, price 82.50. For sale by Forest 

 ahd Stream. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 10 to 13.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the London Kennel 

 Club, at London. Ont. C. A. Stone, Manager. 



Sent. 10 to 13^— Dog Show of the Central Canada Exhibition As- 

 sociation, at Ottawa, Can. Capf. R. C. W. MacCtmur, Secretary. 



Sept. 11 to 18.— First Annual Dog Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Club, Toledo, O. T. B. Lee, Secretary. . . ... 



Sept. 17 to 20.— Dog Show of the Pet Slock Association at. El- 

 mira, N. Y. J. Otis Fellows, Superintendent, Hornellsville; N.Y. 



Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 1890.— Dog Show of the Colorado Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



Feb. 18 to 21, 1800.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



March 11 to 14, 1800.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

 Kennel Club, at Rochester, N. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



March 25 to 28, 1800.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mass. 

 Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 4.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel Club. 

 P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Nov. 18.— Eleventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 2.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odeb, Secretary, Mill's Building, Now 

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 16.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field 

 Trial Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Marietta, 

 Ga. 



Jan. 20, 1890.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club at Bakersfield, Cal. H. H. Brigge, Secretary, 313 

 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 24.— Fall meet of the National Coursing Club at Hutchin- 

 son, Kan., M. E. Allison, Manager. 



DOG LICENSE LAWS. 



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WE continue below the publication of our reports on the 

 laws relating to dogs in towns, and the methods 

 adopted to reduce the number of vagrant curs. The in- 

 formation has been secured by correspondence with the 

 may«rs or presiding officers of the several places named, and 

 the reports were all made in 1888: 



New Jersey. 



Brklgeton.— Tax on dogs, $1.50. First Ward of this city- 

 has just tiled a list of dogs: they amount in this ward to 1S7. 

 We have four wards. 12,000 inhabitants If all the rest have 

 as many we have plenty of dogs. We have an ordinance that 

 all dogs shall be muzzled or chained up fron* June 1 to Ahl. 

 31. This ordnance is not enforced. Dogs go as they please. 

 If one gets cross we order it muzzled. This is done by gen- 

 eral consent, thinking a clog is more likely to go mad muz- 

 zled than unmuzzled; therefore we have no dog pound or 

 killing of dogs m any way. But the city couueil talk of 

 passing an ordinance to have dogs registered; if not, to be 

 sent to pound and killed.— J. DUBOIS, Mavor. 



Jersey City. — There is no license fee or tax imposed on 

 dogs in'this city, and there is no dog pound. The Mayor is 

 empowered by law to issue a proclamation at any time 

 authorizing the killing of all dogs found running at large 

 in the streets and without muzzles, and the killing is usually 

 done by policemen. The contractor for the removal of dead 

 animals from the streets takes the bodies away.— D. Mc- 

 Aghon, Sec'y. 



Asbury Park— We have uo license fee or tax on dogs. 

 Two years ago we employed a dog catcher and caught a few. 

 What dogs were not claimed in a reasonable time were killed 

 and burned. Nothing has been done in rhe matter the pres- 

 ent year. I rather guess some have been stolen here the 

 past summer, as my son lost a very valuable setter dog.— C. 

 T. BAILEY, Chief of Police. 



Nevxtrk. — The owners of dogs are taxed SI for male and $2 

 for female, which when collected is applied to the contingent 

 fund, of the city. It is estimated that there are about 15,000 

 dogs in the city, but the assessors only find on an average 

 about 2,300. During the dog days (the same as in other 

 cities) they are all supposed to be muzzled or they are liable 

 to be impounded and destroyed unless redeemed by their 

 owners. When destroyed the carcasses are turned over to a 

 contractor. The pound has not been in operation for a year 

 or two until this year, and then only for a period of fifteen 

 days.— Joskph E. HAYNES, Mayor. 



East Orange. — There is no tax on dogs. We have an 

 ordinance to compel persons (if enforced) to take out a 

 license for one year, at 50 cents per year, also an ordinance 

 imposing a penalty of $10 on the owner of any dog, male or 

 female, running at large in the streets of the. township un- 

 less properly muzzled with a wire muzzie about the nose 

 and head, and any dog running at large without being so 

 muzzled can be killed by any person. The ordinance is not 

 strictly enforced. We have no dog pound. Any dogs killed 

 in the streets are turned over to the township scavenger. — 

 Alfred P. Munce, Township Clerk. 



Morristown. — No license fee or tax whatever is imposed 

 on dogs in this city. We have no method of disposing of 

 unlicensed or stray dogs. They_ are not destroyed. Until 

 this year a tax was imposed, but it was more bother to col* 

 lect than it was worth, and hence abandoned. We have not 

 availed ourselves of the authority permitting the destruction 

 of vagrant and worthless dogs, but iu my opinion we should. 

 —George T. Werts, Mayor. 



Paterson. — The mayor of Paterson reports that a license 

 fee of $1 is imposed on dogs, but there is no pound and un- 

 licensed dogs are not interfered with. 



Princeton. — Dqgs are taxed 50 cents apiece to owner. They 

 are not allowed to run at large between July 15 and Sept. 15 

 without a substantial wire muzzle securely fastened, ff so 

 they may be impounded, and the owner has to pay $1.50 to 

 redeem them. If not so redeemed they are destroyed and the 

 borough pays for killing and burying, 50 cents each, $1 

 altogether. No statistics of the pound this year.— Lerot 

 H. Anderson, Mayor. 



Pennsylvania. 



Bradford. — The licensed fee or tax imposed an dogs in this 

 city is, on dogs $1, on bitches $5. There is no pound. Un- 

 licensed dogs are shot. Revenue from license fee $100 a 

 year.— R. A. Dempsey, Mayor. 



Johnstown.— The registry fee for one dog is 50 cents, for 

 each additional dog kept at same residence $1. Our method 

 of disposing of stray dogs is a brutal one— shooting the dog; 

 and this is usually done by an inexpert marksman. If the 

 dog has an owner, the owner is fined if he does not pay fees. 

 The dogs killed are not utilized. In the neighborhood of 

 500 dogs are registered. Only a few have beeu killed; I have 

 not the record before me to give exact numbers.— Chal. U, 

 Dick, Burgess. 



Here is a little story of one of Johnstown's five hundred, 

 as told by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer.-. 

 "Johnstown, June 6.— A large crowd of people attracted 

 my attention about 6 o'clock this evening on Main street. 

 On going closer I noticed that a number of men and women 

 were surrounding a dog, on which each and every one of the 

 crowd was anxious to lavish attentions and endearing 

 terms more appropriately bestowed upon a favorite child 

 than upon an animal. The dog, a beautiful water spaniel, 



