Jan. 23, 1890. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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This hegina the 1st of September in hot weather, when a deer 

 killed after a barri run will not keep over night. This must o6 

 allowed for fil'tv days for the protection and preservation of our 

 deer and to make him wild to save bim from that awful man, the 

 pot-hunter. This also puts money in the purse of the Adirondack 

 hotel keeper and guide, as one man and dogs mean from $3 to $.j 



These men are almost without, exception good fellows, and 

 manv of tuem are candid enough to admit that the present laws 

 are ruinous to deer. Thev should be careful in their eagerness to 

 get the golden eggs not to kill the bird that lays them. This, the 

 finest deer preserve in the State, and perhaps in the L nion, can 

 Stand the strain put upon it but for a few years more. Almoa 

 all dogs on the borders of the North Woods and in them are bred 

 for runniner deer; and every vear adds more and more to the 

 number of them and also to the hunters that go in with them; 

 and everv year the less and less deer. With our present laws the 

 end is not far off. Five of the principal States of the North that 

 have anv deer to protect, viz.: Maine, Pennsylvania, Michigan, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, prohibit killing until the first ot October, 

 which cuts off all jacking when the weather is hot and the deer 

 are in poor condition, and saves the fawns which need the care 

 and sustenance of the mother, and allows them to be killed ra 

 October nnd November, when they are at their best; and these 

 States prohibit bounding entirely. 



There are laws that are what they profess to be and that prop- 

 erly protect. New York allows jacking in August; and at any 

 time in season hunting with dogs from Sept. 1 for fifty days there- 

 after, with great and unavoidable waste of venison; and prohibits 

 hounding in November, when the deer killed are at their best and 

 can all be saved. Our laws are not what they profess to be for 

 the proper protection of our deer, but in the interest of a class. 

 Of eighteen States and Territories in our latitude and the two 

 principal provinces in Canada, New York is the only one that 

 allows killing in August and prohibits it in November. Can it be 

 that they are all wrong and that we alone are right? 



A Veteran. 



1 Ioiaanp Patent, Oneida County, N. Y. 



THE COGGESHALL BILL. 



Section 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and thirty-four 

 of the la.ws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, 

 entitled "An act for the preservation of moose, wild deer, birds, 

 fish and other game," as amended by chapter five hundred aud 

 one of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, 

 is hereby amended so as to read aB follows: 



§ 1. The lawful season in which wild deer may be killed in this 

 State shall commence at sunrise ou the lato day of August, and 

 end at sunset of the 15th day of November in each year. Who- 

 ever shall hunt, kill, chase or take alive any wild deer at any 

 other time than above specified shall forfeit one hundred dollars 

 for each deer. Whoever shall kill more than three deer during 

 lawful season of any year aforesaid, shall forfeit one hundred 

 dollars for each deer more than three. Whoever shall carry or 

 transport any wild deer or part thereof, except during the lawful 

 season, and as in this section specified, shall forfeit one hundred 

 dollars for each offense. Whoever shall sell, or possess, or offer 

 for sale, or purchase, any wild deer or part thereof In violatiou of 

 the provisions of this section, shall forfeit one hundred dollars 

 for each offense. Whoever shall set any trap or spring gun, or 

 put any artificial salt lick for trapping or killing or enticing any 

 wild deer, shall forfeit one hundred dollars. Whoever shall hunt 

 or pursue wild deer with dog in St. Lawrence or Delaware coun- 

 ties, at any time, shall forfeit one Uundred dollars. The lawful 

 season for' pursuing deer with dogs in Queens and Suffolk coun- 

 ties shall only be during the first ten week days of October in each 

 vear. The lawful season for pursuing deer with dogs, in counties 

 other than the four last above named, shall commence at sunrise 

 of the 1st da,y of September, and end at sunset of die last day of 

 September in each year. Whoever shall hunt, or pursue, or chase, 

 any wild deer with dogs, at any other time than the lawful season 

 therefor above specified, shall forfeitone hundred dollars. Who- 

 ever owns or harbors any dog is hereby at his peril required to 

 restrain and prevent such animal from violating the provisions 

 of this section; and the owner, or possessor, or harborer of any 

 dog shall be responsible for all acts of such animal, in violation of 

 this section, whether with or without assent, to the same extent 

 as if done by express procurement of such owner, possessor or 

 harborer. Wild deer lawfully killed may be carried or 

 transported within this State, only when accompanied by 

 the actual owner thereof to destination, between the 15th 

 day of August and the 30th day of November in each year, 

 hut at no other time, or in any other manner, and only 

 one deer may be carried or transported for any one owner as 

 aforsaid. Head and feet, when severed from the carcass during 

 the lawful season aforesaid, may be excepted from the limitation 

 as to number, and also as to being accompanied by the owner 

 upon transportation above stated. Heads, feet and skins, when 

 set up, preserved and mounted as specimens or ornaments, are 

 excepted from this section, provided they were lawfully killed. 

 It shall be lawful to sell, or possess, deer or venison between the 

 15th day of November and the loth day of December in each year, 

 provided the seller or possessor proves that the same was law- 

 fully killed during the lawful period as provided in this section. 

 Whoever shall enter, molest or unnecessarily disturb any wild 

 deer yard, or place where wild deer are gathered during the 

 snowy months of winter, or whoever shall crust any wild deer, 

 shall forfeit one hundred dollars additional to the penalties above 

 provided as to hunting or pursuing. Whoever aids or assists, or 

 countenances any act in violation of this section, shall also be 

 liable to the same extent as if he were a principal. Common 

 carriers, corporations, associations and companies, are hereby 

 made liable in their associated capacities for all acts of their 

 agents, servants and employees, done within the scope of their 

 employment, in the same manner and to the same extent as per- 

 sons for any act in violation of this section. The several sums 

 above mentioned are hereby imposed as penalties and in addition 

 thereto the several acts prohibited by this section are declared to 

 be misdemeanors, and may be punished as such, additional to the 

 penalties above prescribed. 



§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



BURNTSIDE LAKE "SALMON '* A LAKE 

 TROUT. 



SIX MONTHS behind a pair of wiry bronchos, tiring 

 out one pair, then scouring hills and vales, wood- 

 lands and prairies with another, using a third to push 

 through the hard timber region of northern Minnesota, 

 and then to come again to the beautiful Park region to 

 visit Detroit Lake, Lake Lizzie, Lake Lida, Pelican and 

 Stormy Cormorant lakes to stand and enjoy the calm 

 beauty of Interlaken , Geneva Beach and Osakis, to see 

 others pull four or five black bass from deep Minnewaska, 

 to enjoy the cool breezes from Battle Lake during the 

 scorching days of August, and to hang on to the sides of 

 the boat when a flurry struck us preceding a thunder- 

 storm at Clitheral Lake, and for the first time in twenty 

 summers not to catch a single fish — this has been the lot 

 of your scribbler this summer, fall and early winter; 

 driving over 5,000 miles and yet not going out of the 

 northern half of the State of Minnesota. 



But how enjoyable to come home, and during the 

 holidays to dive into the files of mechanical engineering, 

 natural history and sportsmen's journals, to pick out the 

 Forest and Stream first, and to laugh over the disap- 

 pointments of the "Kingfishers," memory instantly spans 

 the shadowy distance. I hear the cordial greeting, "How 

 are you, Norman, I am old Hickory and these are the 

 'Kingfishers';" strangers before, but strangers no longer; 

 that Mancelona platform was the scene of a warm hearty 

 greeting. My family were intent on a trout. fishing trip; 

 they were going to their old camp on Intermediate Lake, 

 while waiting for our wagon we held a love feast, and 

 the "Kingfishers" ever hold a warm place in Norman's 

 family since that time. 



Coming into the further northland, we have only com- 

 muned with them through the Forest and Stream; but 



we hope again to visit the Boardman for its trout, the 

 i Manistee and its feeders for grayling, and to spend at 

 least a part of one summer amid scenes we learned to 

 love so well away back in the 70s. 



Anent the landlocked salmon spoken of by Mr. Hough 

 as coming from Burntsidc Lake, your valued correspond- 

 ent has been misled by the cook's ignorance. 



I have been on Burntside Lake and Little Long Lake 

 twice. During one trip I made the most careful inquiry 

 among men who had caught them, at the hotel in Ely 

 where I was stopping, and among fishermen familiar 

 with the namaycush "of Lake Superior. These fish are 

 the red-meated, red- spot nennaycush of the same kind 

 that are found in Lake Superior! 



I saw one in the hotel at Ely that was said to have been 

 caught in Burntside Lake. This was a red-spot. A mem- 

 ber of the Duluth Fisheries Association, who has caught 

 the siscowet and the namaycush for years, and who has 

 been on and. around Burntside Lake iron prospecting, 

 says these lake salmon are the red-spots, the same as 

 found in Lake Superior. 



The landlocked salmon of the Maine lakes are the 

 black -spots, commonly so-called by those who live around 

 those lakes. 



About four years ago a gentleman in Duluth, who goes 

 on annual pilgrimages to the Nepigon. became enthusi- 

 astic; over the report that landlocked salmon were found 

 in Burntside Lake. I obtained a careful description of 

 them, sent them to my friend, J. G. Rich, of Bethel, Me.; 

 he sent me a profile of an 11-pound Maine landlocked 

 salmon caught by his artist friend and sketched in with 

 a crayon. We concluded that this Burntside salmon is a 

 namaycush. W. David Tomlin. 



Dt.Tt.tJTH, Minn. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



IN Dean Sage's superb work on the salmon of the Res- 

 tigouche, he mentions the fact of salmon taking a. 

 small trout which had been hooked by an angler. On at 

 least one occasion this happened to Mr. Sage's son while 

 trout fishing. It is generally supposed that salmon do 

 not feed while on their way up the river to their spawn- 

 ing grounds, but Ave think this theory will eventually be 

 found to be like the one about woodcock living by suctiou. 



In Great Britain salmon are taken early in the season 

 on the phantom minnow, and in many waters they are 

 taken with worm bait. If they did not want to feed they 

 would hardly take these things. Mr. Sage's idea that 

 the salmon as soon as hooked throw up any undigested 

 food they have in them is undoubtedly correct. Besides 

 which they digest their food very rapidly, and these are 

 probably the reasons that nothing is found in them when 

 they are cleaned. 



We presume many anglers have been overtaken by bad 

 weather while off on fishing trips, and if the rainfall was 

 sufficiently heavy to raise the streams to that degree that 

 fishing became impossible, their patience has been put to 

 a severe test. 



On such occasions it is hard to fix one's mind on even 

 the most interesting book, and if the angler has been so 

 thoughtless as to have left home without any reading 

 matter, he is indeed to be pitied. 



The writer and a companion were caught in just such 

 a fix once upon a time. No fishing, no books; the old 

 papers in the little tavern had been read even to the ad- 

 vertisements. Watching the big drops chase one another 

 down the window panes grew monotonous, and it was 

 only a question of which method of suicide was the least 

 painful, when suddenly my friend was struck by an 

 idea. He found an old pack of cards, or rather, part of 

 a pack, as several were missing; he then took a hat which 

 he placed on the floor 10ft. from his chair, and we pro- 

 ceeded to see who could throw the most cards into the 

 hat. This at first may seem a very childish game, but it 

 gets to be quite exciting and one becomes very expert 

 after a few hours of practice. The exercise is very severe, 

 the continual stooping to pick up the cards brings the 

 muscles of the legs into action not unlike that produced 

 by mountain climbing, and after tw r o or tlu-ee hours of it 

 we were as tired as if we had waded a rough stream all 

 day. 



The water in the Hudson, owing to the immense rain 

 fall, is unusually fresh, and the yellow perch have come 

 down the river in large quantities, At Sing Sing they 

 are selling at three cents each, are in fine conndition and 

 just ready to spawn. The fish market displays an ex- 

 cellent variety of fish and they are in fine order; the shad 

 lood as if just out of the rivers near by. The white perch 

 are particularly large and fat. The open season will pre- 

 vent the usual netting under the ice of big striped bass 

 in the Hudson, and the anglers rejoice thereat. 



TROUT LAKE. 



VBOUT half a day's paddle from Tower, Minn., lies a 

 beautiful sheet of water bearing the very appropri- 

 ate name of Trout Lake. Down through a crack in the 

 hills it pours its clear, cold stream into the red waters of 

 Vermillion Lake, iying 20 or 30ft. below. The ground is 

 rocky, but a well-beaten trail leads across the portage, 

 and the carry only proves a relaxation to the tired limbs 

 after long confinement in a canoe. The expanse of water 

 is studded with islands. Now a low point wooded with 

 pine and the beautiful Canadian balsam, and then a bay, 

 whose rocky sides rise sheer up like the walls of a fort- 

 ress. The water is deep but very clear, and swarms with 

 trout averaging from 16in. to 20in. in length. They may 

 be taken freely in spring and autumn by trolling. But 

 during the warm summer months they retreat to the 

 deepest part of the lake, and can then only be taken with 

 live minnows as bait. I found it necessary to use 100ft. 

 of line, but could easily catch more than we needed at 

 camp. There are also in this lake perch, wall-eyed pike, 

 pickerel and maskalonge. It was a rare thing indeed 

 when we let out the full length of our trolling line with- 

 out getting a fish. A photograph which I prize highly 

 represents a 3441b. maskalonge, which I captured casting 

 from the shore with a very light trout line. The land all 

 around is high and the climate healthful. It is one of 

 the spots I would choose for an outing, Mac. 

 Grand Haven. Mich. 



MOUNTAIN MULLET OF VERA CRUZ. 



DOUBTLESS some of the readers of Forest and 

 Stream who have enjoyed the interesting account 

 of chitte fishing in Mauritius by Nicholas Pike, published 

 Oct. 10, 1889, will be glad to hear something about a re- 

 lated species which is found in Vera Cruz. Mr. George 

 H. H. Moore, of the U. S. Fish Commission, has received 

 a letter from Seflor Chazari, of the City of Mexico, con- 

 cerning an attempt to obtaiu individuals of a celebrated 

 fish called the "bobo," for the purpose of propagating 

 them artificially. The "bobo" of Sefior Chazari is so 

 nearly like the chitte of Mauritius that Dr. Giinther says 

 "it requires a minute examination to distinguish them. 

 The snout of the American epecies is comparatively 

 shorter, and the spinous dorsal fin is situated more for- 

 ward." We may add that the Central American "bobo," 

 "chitte" or "mountain mullet" is found also in rivers of 

 Guatemala. 



The mountain mullet is a game fish of exquisite flavor, 

 aud there is some prospect of its introduction into the 

 mountain region of North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. 

 The genus to which the mountain mullet belongs is 

 peculiar to elevated regions within the tropics, and is in- 

 digenous to both hemispheres. The West Indies, Central 

 America, New Zealand, Australia, Celebes, Mauritius and 

 the Comora Islands contain representatives of Agonos- 

 toma, and all of them are in high favor as food and game 

 fishes. 



The "bobo" of Vera Cruz, according to Sefior Chazari, 

 is peculiar to a few rivers of that State. His expedition 

 was fruitless because of an epidemic among the fishes on 

 the coast of the Gulf of Mexico at the time when the 

 mullet was descending to the sea. All of his collection 

 died, and his efforts at artificial propagation had to be 

 postponed. 



The mountain mullet delights in the mountain rapids 

 where the water is clear and cool, and yet it migrates 

 sea ward at a certain time of the year. Anglers need not 

 be reminded of the superior claims of the mullet as a 

 food fish. The mountain mullet is even more praised, 

 and it has the additional renown of a game species, re- 

 quiring the perfection of patience and skill on the part 

 of the "angler. We shall look forward with a great deal 

 of pleasure to its introduction into the United States, and 

 hope it will speedily become "a distinguished immigrant." 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



\ t R. J. M. OLIVER, a very well-known attorney of 

 It-L this city, and a member of Swan Lake Club, tells 

 me that he and his friends had a delightful trip of a 

 month in Puget Sound country last fall. They had mag- 

 nificent salmon fishing. Mr. Oliver took eighteen salmon 

 in one day, using his regular Restigouche salmon rod 

 and outfit, and substituting a small spoon for the fly. 

 The latter they found quite usetess in the water fished, 

 although it was tried patiently. The water was very 

 deep, 200ft. in most places, and often the fish would start 

 straight for the bottom, sometimes at such speed as fairly 

 to run ahead of the reel, and buckle the tip clear down 

 into the water before the line started off fast enough. 

 The salmon taken were of the so-called "silver-side" 

 variety, and they afforded glorious sport. This party 

 thoroughly explored the greater part of the sound coun- 

 try, and had a magnificent trip. 



Mr. John A. Cooper, another Chicago attorney, was 

 wi£h a party last summer who found some new mascal- 

 longe country which they wish kept a profound secret. 

 I wouldn't give it away, but it was somewhere up Man- 

 itowish River way, in Wisconsin. They had great sport. 



Mr. A. S. Trude is another well known Chicago law- 

 yer. Mr. Trade's trip last summer led him along the 

 water trail above Grand St. Germain, clear up to Portage 

 Lake. There was fine bass fishing, and on some of the 

 lakes the bass were so thick you couldn't have pounded 

 another one in with a hammer, Mr. Trude says. When I 

 sit down and think of the bass and mascallonge fishing 

 I am going to have next season, I almost cry for the peo- 

 ple who can't go too. There will be new mascallonge 

 country opened next spring. E. Hough. 



Fly-Fishermen's Club of Indianapolis. — Indianap- 

 olis, Ind., Jan. 15. — On the 10th inst. the Fly-Fishermen's 

 Club of Indianapolis elected the following officers for the 

 current year: Pres., Gen. Geo. F. McGinnis; "Vice-Pres., 

 M. D. Butler; Sec, Jesse H. Blair; Treas. and .Librarian, 

 W. A. Rhodes; Pott and Historian, Igratius Brown. 

 The club is prospering; enters the third year of its exist- 

 ence with a membership of about fifty enthusiastic fly- 

 fishermen. We meet twice a month, and the interest is 

 increasing. Mr. Alex. C. Jameson is the pioneer fly- 

 fisherman of this city, having begun in 1869. Prof. Ora 

 Pierson, now of Battle Creek, Mich., soon joined him; 

 slowly the number increased, until now a man is con- 

 sidered a "back number" who does not use the fly. 



National Rod and Reel Association.— New York, 

 Jan. 18.— The meeting of the National Rod and Reel 

 Association called for this day was held as announced, 

 and the attendance being limited, on motion the meeting 

 adjourned sine die.—G. Poey, Sec'y. 



The annual dinner of the Megantic Fish and Game 

 Club will be held at Young's Hotel, Boston, Jan. 28. The 

 committee of arrangements propose to make the occasion 

 notable for the list of invited guests. 



Seal at Gloucester, Mass. — A large seal was cap- 

 tured in the harbor at Gloucester, Mass. , Jan. 12. Tho 

 harbor seal {Phoea vitulina) has been reported abundant 

 this winter on the New England coast. 



Pickerel in Maine. — Pickerel are abundant now in 

 all parts of Maine. A great many are shipped to Boston 

 from this State. 



Central Lake, Mich.— Herring appeared in the river 

 Nov. 3 last season. — Kelpie. 



Fishing in Florida Waters.— Anglers who intend visiting 

 Florida this coming winter will find it to their advantage to in- 

 spect the superior tackle for tarpon and other fishes, manufac- 

 tured hy Thomas J. Oonroy, 65 Fulton street, NewYork.— Adv. 



Seines, Nets of every description. American Net & Twine Co., 

 Mfrs. ; 34 Commercial st. Boston, or 199 Fulton st„ N. Y,—Adv, 



