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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 15. 1890. 



MAINE TROUT SEASON. 



THE Maine trout season has opened in good earnest. 

 The ice went out of Rangeley Lake on the 9th and 

 out of Moosehead on the same day. Rangeley was clear 

 ten days later than last year, but three or four days 

 earlier than the average. An extensive thaw, with the 

 melting snows, started the ice in the lakes and came very 

 near starting some of the dams. The lakes below Range- 

 ley, in the Androscoggin chain, wf>re a day or two later 

 about clearing; but the clearing of Rangeley started the 

 sportsmen, and since that time the rod and reel exodus 

 has been considerable. The first gentleman to be on the 

 wing was Edgar W. Curtis, a prominent Meriden, Conn., 

 merchant. He started for the Upper Dam on the 7th. 

 He has had wonderful success on the lake in previous 

 seasons, and he is bound to be in season this ypar. The 

 Tuttle party left Boston on Saturday for Lake Point Cot- 

 tage, Rangeley Lake. This party is a long-time one, 

 and has generally started as soon as the ice has left that 

 lake. Among the prominent business men included are 

 Mr. R. A. Tuttle, a Boston commission merchant ; Mr. C. 



F. Hutchins, of the wool firm of Hntchins & Kitchen; 

 Mr. K. M Gillmore, of Somerville: Henrv Miliiken, of 

 Deering. Miliiken & Co.. Portland. Me.; Peter Reid of 

 New York; Moses Wortben, also of New York, and O. H. 

 Sampson, of the same city. 



Col. H. T. Rockwell, of Rockwell & Churchell, printers: 

 John A. Lowell, the well known lithographer and litho- 

 graphic printer, and H. A. Priest, of Priest, Page & Com- 

 pany, all of Boston, will make up a part of the Prie<=t 

 party, soon to start for Rangeley. C. W. Loring will 

 follow some time next week. C. C. Basset, of the well- 

 known fishing tackle firm of Geo. C. Appleton & Com- 

 pany, with Mr. G. M. Smalley, will start for an extended 

 trip in the Rangeleys, about May 20. Mr Basset goes 

 largely to see the country and get acquainted. Mr. E. 



G. Partridge, of Boston, will start for the Maine lakes on 

 Wednesday of this week. Mark Holl in gs worth, the Bos- 

 ton artist, an old-time fisherman at the Upper Dam, 

 will take up his tackle again for that point some time 

 this week. C. A. Hill will start for Moo-ehead on May 

 20. The Dpnnison party, including Mr. Henry B. Denni- 

 son, of the Dennison Tag Company; F. A. Kennedy, of 

 the Kennedy Cracker Works, of Cambridge, and R. C. 

 Donner, President of the Broadway National Bank, is 

 soon to start for the Grand Lake Stream for landlocked 

 salmon fishing. Mr. C. F. Rice, of the Atlantic Avenue 

 Electric Light Works, and Mr. Amidown are soon to 

 start for Moosehpad. Another party of prominent Bos- 

 ton merchants and business men will leave for Moose- 

 head about May 20. This party includes H. M. Stephen- 

 son, a Boston architect of prominence: Calvin Austin, 

 general agent of the Boston & Bangor Steamship Com- 

 pany: Grenville Austin, with Howard W. Spurr & Com- 

 pany; George C. Moore, a North Chelmsford manufac- 

 turer, and Harry Moore, of the Boston grain trade, who 

 is not wholly unknown to the readers of the Forest and 

 Stream, in the way of moo c e and deer stories. Harry 

 Gardner, of Smith, Hogg & Girdner, with a party, will 

 leave for the Rangeleys about May 21. The above are 

 among the many who are going a-fi^hing after the man- 

 ner of the good old St. Peter, though they are more the 

 fishers of men while at home. 



The interest in the Maine lakes is greater than ever 

 this year, if pos&ible, and the big catches will soon be in 

 order, though cold weather, snow on the woods and 

 naked trees will greet the "early birds" at this sport. 

 Later the fly fishermen will be in the wing. They will 

 find green trees, with all the beauties of springtime, and 

 what if an occasional mosquito and black fly comes to 

 mar the comfort of the sportsman, he is more than com- 

 pensated by what he sees and feels in the woods and at 

 the waters. If it were all of fishing to fish then we would 

 start early; nay, we would arm ourselves with one-half 

 of the money it costs to go into the Maine woods and hie 

 ourselves to the fresh fish market and purchase ten times 

 as many fish as it would be passible to catch, and with 

 thpse we would make all of our friends happy with a 

 string. But, alas, for the woods and the waters! where 

 the cares of the city and of business or profession are for- 

 gotten for a brief , ieason. Special. 



Si wash and his country, or of prospecting, or lovemaking 

 to klootchmen, or of running a dance-house, had among 

 his good points a fondness for fishing; and while the Fa- 

 vorite was anchored in Killissinoo Harbor offered to take 

 me to a bank near by where the wild halibut was tame, 

 so tame that there was hardly any sport in catching him. 

 So we went, and within three miles of the little steamer 

 and within half a mile of the shore we anchored in seven 

 fathoms and went to fishing. Had we been provided with 

 an automat ic apparatus that would lower our hooks to the 

 bottom and immediately haul them up again, we would 

 have bad better fun , for then we could have simply looked 

 on and not got ourselves wet. The bottom must have 

 been paved thrpe or four deep with chicken halibut, 

 weighing from 15 to 301bs. 



Pretty soon Dick proposed a fishing match with me for 

 a large wager. If I remember aright it was 500 shares in the 

 Silver Island Mine, worth at that time an indefinite price. 

 We had just discovered and located the mine and posted 

 our claim notice. It is worth now — anything it will bring. 



The terms of onr match were: Each to fish with two 

 lines. Each to have an assistant. Each to bring his fish 

 to the surface and hold him there until the assistant, who 

 while waiting had baited the other hook, had hooked the 

 fish with the gaff. We were to fish just one hour. 



At the end of the hour time was called and Dick was 

 pronounced the winner. He had caught twenty-four 

 and I but twenty fish, whose weights we estimated at 

 about SOlbs. each, or over 8001bs. of fish. 



The bait we used was salmon — red fleshed, beautiful, 

 lordly kings of fishes, etc., and we got our bait on the 

 spot. While we were halibutting, the men, of whom we 

 had two or three besides our assistants, were fishing for 

 salmon. Their apparatus was that commonly used by 

 the Indians, being duck-shaped buoys, to the under sur- 

 face of which were fastened lines about 4ft. or 6ft. long, 

 the hook baited with a herring;, the buoys were fitted 

 with lines so that they could float some little distance 

 from the boat. While we were catching the halibut the 

 sailors caught seven salmon weighing from 5 to lOlbs. 

 each. We used nearly two of them for bait. 



The herring with which we caught the salmon, with 

 which we caught the halibut, were thus obtained: About 

 half-way to the shore a fleet of canoes was herring fish- 

 ing. The crews were provided with poles, into one end 

 of which a lot of sharp nails were driven at an angle. 

 The herring were running abundantly. The Siwash 

 would thrust his pole down about 3 or 4ft., jerk it back, 

 "jigging" (the step has not, as "Big Reel" says, been a 

 a long one), and at every jig up came from one to half a 

 dozen herring. I bought of one of the canoes a bucket 

 full for a codfish hook, and had three pounds of them 

 left when through fishing. 



Now for the point. While catching these halibut, we 

 both got now and then, as the boat swung over a rocky 

 patch, a codfish. 



So there's my confession. Piseco. 



NEW YORK FISH COMMISSION. 



THE eighteenth report of the Commissioners of Fisheries 

 of New York contains manv items of general interest 

 The distribution of fish eggs and fry during the vear ending 

 Sept. 30, 1889, was 31,489,638. representing chiefly Lhes of 

 the salmon cod and shad families. The output of the Cal- 

 edonia hatchery w«s ov-r 13,000,000 and of the Cold Snrin" 

 Harbor nearly 10,000.000. The planting of yearling trout 

 was begun. Most of the applications for fry were for waters 

 in the Adiroiidacks and Catskills. Plenty of evidence was 

 obtained of the success of artificial propagation The man- 

 agement of Mr Drew as chief protector of game and fishes 

 is highly complimented. Attentioniscalled to the necessity 

 of codifying the conflicting and contradictory game laws 

 1 brongh the efforts of the oyster protector, Joseph W Mer- 

 sere m, the injuries from deposits of refuse and acids' from 

 ml refineries upon oyster beds has been mainly stopped- but 

 the gas com pan- es continue to pollute the 'waters for the 

 want of efficient law to prevent it. 



The Commissioners have examined the waters of the 

 Adirondack region, and have instituted a thorough explora- 

 tion of Lake Ronkonkoma and the Great Ponds%f South- 

 ampton, Long Island, by Professor Dean and Mr. Fred 

 Mather. The il ustrated report, of this examination is ex- 

 tremely interesting and valuable. 



The present policy of the Commission to send fish frv to 

 all persons who apply for them to stock public waters and 

 will pay the transportation seems to th.em unjust Fish for 

 public waters should be deposited at public expense. A car 

 is asked for to distribute eggs and fry, and would undoubt 

 edly prove a profitable investment. 

 The Commissioners recommend the passage of a law to 



EkM ! b e ^ e ^ ti0 ^ 0f - V0UD g sal ^ on ^er the mis- 

 TA^M 1 ^^ thc, y, are tT -°ut. The shad and the game 

 fish of the Delaware also rpq uire protection 



thtcim-ent P^*' 011 of * 41 ' 500 is estimat ed to be needed for 

 In addition to the usual reports forming part of the ao- 

 pend,x to that of the Commissioners will b "found a revised 

 S fl J °J the Adirondack fishes by Mr. Mather, a report of 

 ^r t tn^ at ' 0nsby i «°u ean a »d Mr. Mather, amend- 

 ments to the game and fish laws and a copy of the previously 



TWeli^fT- Th ! el A St of , the - Fish Commissioners of the 

 United States and Canada migh have been improved bv 

 reference to the columns of Forest axd Stream 



SALMON AS BAIT FOR CODFISH. 



Edi tor Forest and Stream: 



Your correspondent "Big Reel"hasbeen so awfully and 

 horribly shocked by the "utter depravity of the fellow" 

 who fished for salmon with codfish bait, as shown in one 

 of his "Rmdom Casts" published in to-day's issue, that I 

 can't resist the temptation to shock him again— I hope 

 not fatally, for I rather enjoy his casts, lut just enough 

 to make him squirm a little. I've had lots of fun in my 

 time by shocking some companion of the angle, one in 

 particular, a "genial fellow," whose name I will not. 

 unless forced so to do in due course of law, reveal, by 

 fishing from the same boat and by the same brook bank 

 with good fat worms, and c itching trout— nice ones, and 

 lots of them— while he pursued a~ course of calisthenics 

 with his fly-rod, the exercise and the pleasures of hope 

 being his only reward. The shock never affected his 

 appetite, and he ate his full share of those foully deceived 

 speckled and fried beauties without a murmur of pro- 

 test. 



If catching salmon with codfish stamps a man as 

 "utterly depraved," what epithet is left to crush into the 

 veriest atom the blanked person who not only has. but 

 would again if he got the chance, caught codfish with 

 salmon for bail? Is the English language sufficiently 

 copious to do justice to that man, this man— me? 



I'll tell you about it, and in advance will say that the 

 adventure has upon many occasions saved me from all 

 necessity of drawing upon my imagination, in the man- 

 ner which is commonly supposed to be held in common 

 by fish story tellers and Ananias. • The true history of an 

 hour s work off Kilns-inoo, in Alaski, has on these occa- 

 sions frequently earned for me a first-class reputation as 

 one of the aforesaid. 



It was as I have said in Alaska. I was sitting in the 

 stern sheets of my gig. Dick Willoughby sat in the bow. 

 1 call him "D ck," and am thus familiar with him be- 

 cause he had not at that period aiisen to heights of fame 

 as "Professor Willoughby," the discoverer, photographer 



and desenber of a mystic marble c<ty at times visible i» t i«t. * 



among the glaciers of Glacier Bay. If 7 was while on the tSK' HiubTat^ ^ %£ f ^ 



cruise of the Favorite, fully described in your columns Springs, N. Y. secretly. bpnngs < Va - w - Co8ter - Saratogo 



years ago. We were fishing for halibut. Dick than ' nPl 0 ' ^T^™"* 1 4™»»'«"--'.-<"-^^ — 



whom no man knew more of the peculiarities of the SecTet&ir 



fennel 



FIXTURES. 



DOQ SHOWS. 



June 3 to 6.-The Cincinnati Kennel Club's Fourth Annual 

 S1 ^f R * ,n 1T - ln, ^ at > V- Ge ?-H- Hil1 ' Superintendent. 



ir .^Vi' H uh - M. V. B. Saunders, Secretary. 

 n^K: £ t0 ^-Infernailonal Dog Show of th« Dominion of 

 C»nafla K.-nnel Club, in connection with the Industrial Exhil 



«L°n I l a ?^^ ntn « Can ^ a - H. J. Hill. Secretory 

 b-^ikIh^ ~ b --^econd Annual Dog Show of tne Central Canada 

 Committee AESOC ' a " on < at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairman 



t£i$£^^$$& £ nnn # Dog Show of th " Danbury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danbury Conn. B. C. Lynes, Secretary 



FIELD TBJALS. 



Noyember.-Second Annual Field Trials of the Brunswick Fur 



" J. H. Baird, Secretary, Auburndale, 



Cluh, at Brunswick, Me. 

 Mass. 



1891. 



Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Bakersfield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



Feb. 3.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brim by. Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



ENGLISH FIELD TRIALS. 



THE National field trials of England were run near Shrews- 

 bury April 22 to 25. 



POINTER PUPPY STAKES. 

 There were 22 starters in the Pointer Puppy Stakes. The 

 winners were: 



First, Rev. W. J. Richardson's liver and white Rompish, 

 13mos. (Molton Banker— Milton Ringlet). 



Second, Mr. Hayward-Lousdale's liver and white Tyke 

 llmos. (Ightfield Dick— Perdita). 



Third, Mr. Scratton's lemon and white Neothys, 13 mos. 

 (Gough— Nannie). 



Fourth, Mr. J. Bishop's liver and white Brave Duke of 

 Salop, lomos. (Brave Duke of Wellington— Juno). 



SETTER PUPPT STAKES. 



There were the same number of starters, 22, in the Setter 

 Puppy Stakes. The winners were: 



First, Messrs. Balled & Turner's white and liver Devon- 

 shire Daisy, limos. (Prince Rupert If. -Devonshire Fan). 



Second, Sir R. Sutton's lemon and white Benham Jewell, 

 lOmos. (Bradford Ben— Minnie). 



Equal third, Mr. A. P. Hayward-Lonsdale's black and 

 white Phoness and Ian, 14mos. (Wood hill Bruce— Lucy). 

 ACTOX REYNALD STAKES. 



There were 14 starters in the Acton Reynald Stake, 9 set- 

 ters and 5 pointers. The winning pointers were: 



First, Baron Oscar Dickson's liver and white Rustem, 

 2yrs. llmos. (Susex Don— Ringlet). 



Reserve, Messrs. F. C. Lowe and A. Bertrand's Belle des 

 Bordes, 6yrs. lmo. (Young Bang— Polly). 



The winning setter was Mr. R. Li, Purcell Llewellin's 

 lemon and white Satin Bondhu, lyr. 8mo. (Dashing Bondhu 

 —Duchess Placid). 



Absolute winner, Satin Bondhu. Second best of both 

 breeds, Belle des Bordes. 



CLOVERLY STAKES. 



There were 9 brace that started in the Cloverly stakes. 

 The winners were: 



First, Mr. F. Bibby's liver and white English setters Ran 

 dolph, 4yrs. (Tory II.— Border Nell) and Sabot, 3yrs. lOmos. 

 (Slap Bang— Fleet). 



Second, Col. C. J. Jones's lemon and white pointers Polly 

 Jones, lyr. 3mos. (Carlo— Jenny JoDes) and Jenny Jones, 

 6yrs. 8mos. (Young Dick— Di Vernon). 



THE KENNEL CLUB FIELD TRIALS. 



The annual field trials of the English Kennel Club were 

 run near Savernake, April 29 to May 1. There were twenty- 

 six starters tor the Derby, sixteen pointers and ten setters. 

 The winning pointers were: 



First, Mr. Barclay Field's liver and white dog Fordcombe 

 Luck, lyr, (Gough— Larkspur). 



Second, Mr. F. Warde's liver and white dog Kent Pear, 

 lyr. 2mos. (Taw— Kent Fairy). 



Third, Mr. E. C. Norrish's liver and white bitch Sandford 

 Lark. lyr. (Saddleback— Whim). 



The winning setters were: 



First, Mr. T. Lauder's black, white and tan bitch Sweep 

 the Green, lyr. (Monk of Furness— Kate Auburn). 



Second, Messrs Bullpd & Turner's white and liver bitch 

 Devonshire Daisy. 14mos. (Prince Rupert II. —Devonshire 

 Fan). 



Third, Mr. C. C. Ellis's Irish setter bitch Dartrey, lyr. 

 3mos. (Dan Moriarty— Mac's Little Nell). 



Absolute winner, Fordcombe Luck. 



THE ALL-AGED STAKES. 



There were twelve starters for the All- Aged Stakes. The 

 winners were: 



First, Messrs. F. C. Lowe & A. Bertrand's liver and white 

 pointer bitch Belle des Bordes, (iyrs. lmo. (Young Bang- 

 Polly). 



Second. Mr. T. Lauder's black and white English setter 

 dog Earl of Moira (Jock— Little Bess). 



Third, Sir T. Lennard's liver and white pointer dog Po- 

 ntes (Priam— Duchess). 



Fourth, Messrs. Bulled &; Turner's liver and white pointer 

 dog Devonshire Nero (Molton Baron— The Village Star). 



LeZtto 1 ^ ! 83S! M 6 § 61 >£ al Fi ? ld Trials th %te vicipresWent's 3 , 

 Lexington, O. O. B. Odell, Mills Building, New Yorfe committer, said comm.... 



1 and rhw active member's chosen by the crab\ 



THE NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB. 



"ATELROSE, Mass., May 7.— Editor Forest and Stnun,,: 

 jJA. I would like to extend through the columns of Fou- 

 est and Stream an earnest invitation to all interested in 

 the running, breeding and exhibiting of beagles to join the 

 National Beagle Club, a club formed for the improvement 

 of the breed both m the field and on the bench. All who 

 join us will assist in advancing their favorites to the front 

 rank of sporting dogs, where by nature they belong, and 

 being members they can compete for the valuable silver and 

 other special prizes that have been offered for our first semi- 

 annual field trials, which will be run some time next Octo- 

 ber or November. We have placed our initiation fee aud 

 dues so low that every owner of a beagle cannot afford to 

 omit joining and sending some of his dogs to our trials. 

 Any information regarding the club can be had by writing 

 to the Secretary. 



CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. 



This association shall be known as and called The National 

 Beagle Club. 



AJBT1CI.E II. 



The object of the club shall be to promote improvement in the 

 field and on the bench of the beagle houad in America. 



ARTICLE III. 



Sec. 1. Applications for membership to the club must be pre- 

 senter) in writing to ihe secretary, signed by at least two members 

 of the club and the secretary, referred to the executive committee 

 for investigation, to be balloted for at the next meeting. 



Sec. 2. A person to be a member must be recorded in a book 

 provided for the purpose by the secretary. Tbe dale of his be- 

 coming a member, also the time of his ceasing co be such, shall 

 be recorded. 



Se-. 3. Any member can resign from the club by sending his 

 resignation to the president or secretary in writing, and upon the 

 acceptance of such all his interests in the property of tne club 

 ceases from the date of such resignation. 



Sec. 4. Any member whose dues shall remain unpaid for two 

 months a> ter the same have become due shall cease to be a mem- 

 ber and forfeit to the dub all claims and benefits to which he 

 would have been entitled as a member; provided that the execu- 

 tive committee may consider bis case, and upon sufficient cause 

 shown reinstate him to membership upon payment of his dues. 



Sec 5. Any member acting contrarv to the provisions of the 

 constitution or in violation of the by-laws or rules of the club, 

 or in any way tuat may tend to tbe irjury or destruction of the 

 club, or neglecting his du'y as an officer or a member, or being 

 convicted of crime in a court of justice, may be expelled, and 

 shall forfeit to the cluh all monpys paid, all property, claims and 

 benefits to which he would have been emitted as a member of the 

 club. 



Sec. 6. A member can lie expelled only by a vote in favor of bis 

 expulsion of two-thirds of its members after thirty days' notice 

 has been given to him personally of the charges against him, 

 when action snail be taken thereon by a vote, 



ARTICLE IV. 



Sec. 1, The officers of the club shall consist of a president, 

 —-"dents, a secretary-treasurer and an executive 

 committee to consist of the above-named officers 



