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jug's tramp, and will praise that wily customer, while 

 wondering how lie could drop 30 or 40ft. to the ground 

 without injury". Let us look for another, for we must 

 soon leave to attend business. 



Yonder is one jumping more quickly, but carefully to 

 where you saw him last. Now listen! Thump! That is 

 the one we saw, or another. Carefully, now, there he is 

 in that slender hickory, and hard at work. Get just as 

 close as you can. Now give it to him! Whack! Crash! 

 Thump! Only a body shot, but too sick to get away. No, 

 I don't always hit them in the head; wish I did; that 

 would be the quintessence of sport, but it needs con- 

 stant practice npon game, with the thousand and one 

 conditions of light and circumstances connected with 

 game shooting, which cannot be attained at the target. 

 Pst! There is a squirrel! Don't move an inch, for we 

 arc in plain sight, but watch him! There he goes to the 

 top of the tree, now out on that limb for a nut! No, he 

 is going to jump. Whack! Whack! Sput! sounds the 

 bullet as it strikes him; game to the last, he struggles to 

 regain a foothold, but cannot. Down he crashes, and 

 feebly creeps to another tree before he can be caught, as- 

 scending just out of reach. Drive another ball through 

 his head at short range and he is dead. Now if you don't 

 think this is sport, try it in reality and see. Pieus. 



Btjckhannon, W. Va., July 30.— The game in this sec- 

 tion is about as follows: Quail very abundant, pheasant 

 (ruffed grouse) rather scarce, squirrels very scarce, 

 rabbits abundant, woodcock plenty, deer and wild turkeys 

 tolerably plentiful in the southern part of the county.— 

 Veteran. 



Companion Wanted jtok the West.— I would like to 

 be one of a party of two or three, to start about Sept. 1, 

 on a camping out, hunting and fishing trip in Colorado, 

 Idaho or Washington. Address S. R. H., care Forest 

 and Stream. ' 



Quebec Moose. — The Quebec moose season will open 

 Sept. 1 this year, but non-residents (who must take out a 

 license, fee §20) may not kill moose before Oct. 1. 1890. 



Rockland. Me., July 28. — Saw last week a bag prairie 

 chickens which were sent here from the dumping 

 ground.— Johnson. 



SHOOTING RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA. 



T^HE Sportsmen's Protective Association of California has re- 

 cently issued an address "for the purpose of directing the at- 

 tention of sportsmen to the game preserve evil which has worked 

 its way among us and assumed such formidable proportions that 

 it excites alarm for the future of true sporfsmauship in the mind 

 of every man who has its best interests at heart." 



The address sets forth: "In no State in the Union has this ques- 

 tion excited more comment than in California, where, during I he 

 past few years, vast areas of tide-water and marshla.nd, which had 

 previously been open to the public, have been leased by wealthy 

 shooting clubs and preserved for the exclusive use of their members. 

 These olabs obiained control of the best shooting grounds in the 

 State, and nothing was said by the great mass of sportsmen until 

 a year ago, when a tract of 7.000 acres of barren tide- water land in 

 Sonoma county, which had long been a favorite resort for duck 

 hunters, was leased by one of these preserve clubs, notices of ex- 

 clusion posted and keepers employed. * * * To go further than 

 this, the Association claims that the lands which have been secpaes - 

 trated by the preservers are barren wastes, entirely useless for 

 agricultural purposes, uninhabited and uninhabitable; that they 

 are not lawfully inclosed or reclaimed, and in many cases have no 

 established legal ownership; that unlawful notices of exclusion 

 have been posted: that navigable streams have been closed, and 

 that sportsmen inadvertently (repassing have, without warnirg, 

 been fired upon by keepers. * * * If was on such a broad plat- 

 form of principles at this that our Association receiver] its incep- 

 tion at the hands of the representative sportsmen at San Fran- 

 cisco, but a little over a year ago. Since that time it has steadily 

 grown in numbers and influence, until to-day its membership roll 

 is but little short of 100 names, and is constantly increasing, as our 

 objects and purposes become known to the great body of our sport- 

 ing population— men from all classes in life, whose inherent love 

 of liberty in all forms leads them, to believe that the game and fish 

 of the nation should be as free to its citizens as the air they 

 breathe." 



The Forest and Stream wrote to Mr. H.-H. Briergs, field editor 

 of the San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman, for some information 

 about the Protective Association: and Mr. Briggs replies: 



"Please find a copy of the pamphlet mentioned in your note, and 

 in sending it I send two or three emphatic statements with refer- 

 ence to it, which I beg you will note. First— The pamphlet was 

 not prepared at the instance, of the California State Sportsmen's 

 Association, nor have the views advanced in it the sympathy of 

 that body of sportsmen. I am now and have for many years been 

 the Secretary of the State Sportsmen's Association. I know every 

 man in it intimately and I feel safe in saying that not one single 

 member of the Association sympathizes in any degree with the 

 position assumed by the pamphlet or with the organization which 

 prepared and sent it out. 



"Second— The 'Sportsmen's Protective Association of California' 

 had its origin in the anger of a few foreigners, who had for several 

 years arrogated the right to enter upon the premises of Senator 

 J. P. Jones in Sonoma county for the purpose of shooting. The 

 men were of the irregular, unattached, unattachable sort, to whom 

 everything killable was game. After a time the Senator leased 

 the shooting right upon his property to a club of San Francisco 

 and Oakland gentlemen, who proceeded to preserve it and warned 

 off non-members. An outcry was at once made about tyranny, 

 autocracy and that sort of thing. The disgruntled ones agitated 

 the matter, gathered about, them a few men of like character and 

 formed what is styled the Sportsmen's Protective Association of 

 California. I made it my business to become thoroughly acq uainted 

 with the personnel of the Association; and I freely confess that I 

 did not know there were so many and such curious types fond of 

 the gun. During the three evenings which I spent at meetings of 

 the Association not once did anybody speak pure English. The 

 stamp of foreign extraction was on them all. Their views were 

 the views of little men, their temper wholly unsportsmanlike and 

 their disposition one. which should entitle them to summary treat- 

 ment at the hands of landowners if they tresspass at any time. I 

 inclose a clipping from the Breeder with reference to the matter." 



This is the Breeder's comment: "The organization styled the 

 Sportsman's Protective Association of California has issued a 

 pamphlet, the central idea of which is to discourage the formation 

 and maintenance of clubs of sportsmen which shall lease or acquire 

 by purchase and preserve suitable tracts of ground or water upon 

 which to hunt. The pamphlet is a rehash of what has been said 

 from time to time by one or two rather thoughtless and inconsider- 

 ate sportsman's journals. There is no argument in it and the 

 sentiment, is rot. The Protective Association has neither sym- 

 pathy nor support at the hands of sportsmen generally. Its 

 animous is unworthy, its methods are questionable, and it is, al- 

 together, a good thing to let alone severely." 



FISHING NEAR NEW YORK. 



OR, practical and specific directions to reach several hundred 

 * fishing resorts within easy distance of New York city, see 

 issues of 1889 as follows: April 18. April 25, May 2, May 9, May 30, 

 June 6, June 13, June 20, Jnnc 27. 



The Yellowstone Park and Dining Car Route.— The 

 Northern Pacific Railroad, stretching from the (4reat Lakes to 

 the Pacific coast, witn its elegant vestibuled service of dining 

 cars and Pullman sleepers, not only affords business men, tourists 

 and others a route of travel equal in every respect to any in the 

 country, but renders accessible to sportsmen the only region in 

 which can be found to-day the large game which was once so 

 plentiful in all the West. In addition to the large game, the 

 sportsman will find in the country along the line of the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad such quantities of small game as- is unknown in 

 the Bast. This line, penetrating the Lake Park region of Minn- 

 esota, and running tnrough the valleys of such trout streams as the 

 Yellowstone, Gallatin, Hell Gate, Clark's Fork, Spokane, Yakima 

 and Green rivers, as well as lying in close proximity to the hunt- 

 ing grounds of. the Big Horn, Snowy, Belt, Bitter Root, Rocky, 

 Coaur D'Alene and Cascade Mountains, is unquestionably the 

 sportsmen's route of America. The pamphlet, "Game Preserves 

 of North America," together with other interesting publication, 

 descriptive of the Yellowstone Park and Alaska tours, will be 

 mailed free on application to Chas. S. Fee, G. P. & T. A., N- P. 

 R. R., St. Paul, Minn.— Adv. 



TWO DAYS AFTER BLACK BASS. 



"/""IAN you go on a fishing trip with me to-morrow?" 



said my friend Stephens, as he came into my room 

 the other day, " Or are you too nearly beaten out? " For 

 I was lying down scarcely able to stir, having just re- 

 turned from a trip to Island Lake, which trip had been 

 anything; but a brilliant success. I at once roused up and 

 said, " I'll go," for Stephens is one of the most satis- 

 factory companions I have ever been out with, a large- 

 hearted, royal good fellow in every way, true as steel; 

 and the proposed trip was only one of a dozen we have 

 taken together this season. " We'll go to Franklin Lake," 

 he said. " There were over sixty big bass sent up from 

 there yesterday." We did not get away on the morrow 

 however, but the following Monday morning saw us 

 driving out of Detroit city, Minnesota, with our tent, 

 fourteen foot Acme boat, rods and provisions, snugly 

 packed in the wagon. 



After leaving Detroit Lake we went on ever further 

 and further into the woods, grand beautiful woods, in all 

 the pomp and glory of full summer time. We passed 

 Little {Twin Lakes, Meadow Lake, Lake Melissa, and a 

 little before noon reached Buck's Mill on the Pelican 

 River. Here we had been told that we could get some 

 minnows. Plenty of them we could see in the river, but 

 how to get them into our minnow pail ! Happy thought ! 

 A bolt of mosquito netting was in the wagon; weighting 

 it with stone on one edge, and taking off our shoes and 

 stockings, we made a grand scoop, resulting in more 

 minnows than a dozen fishermen could use in two 

 days. 



On we went deeper into the woods: The hills increased 

 in frequency and steepness; the day grew very warm. 

 Did we know the location of the lake we purposed going 

 to? No, not exactly; but we would inquire at the first 

 house. Ripe raspberries began to appear in profusion on 

 the bushes which line the road. We stopped and picked 

 all that we wanted to eat; the finest we had seen this 

 year. Soon a house is reached. " Were we on the road 

 to Lake Franklin?" "Yes, keep right ahead and this 

 road will bring you there, but with many crooks," said 

 the old man of whom we made inquiry. We found the 

 crooks with many extra ones thrown in; and we were re- 

 minded of the man "who went a crooked mile," At 

 3 o'clock we came out on the shores of Lake Franklin — a 

 beautiful lake, wooded all around. 



A Mr. Jordan lives on the north shore, and near here 

 we decided to pitch our tent. Soon the white was gleam- 

 ing amid the green, coffee made and [lunch eaten, boat 

 unrolled and set up, rods made ready, and about 5 o'clock 

 off we shoved. We each use split-bamboo rods, think 

 there is none equal to them. Our rods are bait-rods, 

 weighing 8oz. and are good all around rods. We are also 

 devoted to the use of the Sneck bend, Kendal hooks. 

 This afternoon we put three hooks on each line; and 

 baited with frog, minnow and fly. 



We moved slowly up the shore, and a few rods from 

 where we started something was seen in the water — was 

 it a shadow moving between us and the shore? " 'Tis a 

 bass," said Stephens. "I'll try for him. The cast was 

 made, the line falling near the suppositious bass. Whew ! 

 Zip, went the line, the rod bent, and in a few minutes a 

 31b. black bass lay in the boat — a good beginning in a 

 strange lake. The wind was blowing pretty hard, but 

 we picked up a bass every now and then as we moved 

 along. Out near the center of the north end of the lake 

 was a great mass of rock coming nearly to the surface of 

 the water, 1 I saw a monster bass come from tinder this 

 and nip the leg of the frog on my hook, then turn con- 

 temptuously away; nor could he be induced to return 

 and bite. We trolled along the west shore of the lake 

 and toward sunset started back for camp. I was 

 rowing very fast, and we were out in the deep water, 

 when suddenly my rod bent nearly double. Stephens 

 took it while I kept the boat in position. The pull was 

 hard and long for I had 175 feet of line out. At length 

 the landing net was brought into use and two three- 

 pounders were added to our catch, one having taken the 

 frog and one the minnow. We staked out a dozen bass that 

 night, none weighing less than 2 Jlbs. After our 10 o'clock 

 supper we went to bed, feeling very well satisfied with 

 our first experience in Lake Franklin. 



At 3:30 A. M. " Stephens said " Come get up with you." 

 While he attended to the horse I prepared breakfast, and 

 the rising sun found us out on the lake. One 31b. bass 

 was taken and then Stephens made the catch of the trip. 

 We were laying by the mass of rock out in the lake where 

 I saw the " big one" the morning before, when Stephens, 

 who had just made a cast to the edge of the rocks gave 

 an exclamation and said, " What have I got now ? A 

 whale ? " Hither and thither surged the line, the split- 

 bamboo playing grandly. No fish broke from the water. 

 What could it be ? What a tremendous pull ! Stephens 

 had a look on his face that plainly said ' ' I'll conquer or 

 die." Ah, see that great swirl? How the water boils. 

 Nothing but a bass would cause that. Here they are 

 now in sight. They ? Yes, for there two were hooked 

 and a third has just broken a snell and gone. Careful 

 now, for one is a big one. But Stephens knows how to use 

 the rod; and here they are in the boat. From the fly, a 

 Qov. Alvord, we took a 5^-lb. fish and from the frog a 341b. 

 one, and the one that had broken away had taken the 

 minnow. 



Neither of us had made a catch like that in our lives. 

 I thought I did well when I landed without net or gaff 

 hook, a 51bs. 14oz. bass, in the Red River Rapids at Lost 

 Lake on a 5oz. rod; but this went over that, and I un- 

 hesitatingly give Stephens the laurels. 



Shortly after 10 o'clock we went to camp. The wind 

 had died out entirely and the heat was excessive. After 

 lunch we lay under the . trees and Stephens read aloud 

 from the last number of Forest and Stream. "They 

 are going to issuse a black bass number" he said. "If 

 they knew how much we know about that subjeot they 

 would have invited us to contribute to that number," 

 " Yes," I replied; " and I don't believe that the editor or 



any contributor or reader of the Forest and Stream 

 ever had or ever will have more good solid enjoyment 

 than we have had this very day." 



We went out a short time in the afternoon, but we were 

 all packed up and started home at 6 o'clock, with 29 

 bass running from 31bs. to 5-pbs. 



Why not stay and catch more in the evening? We had 

 all we wanted for ourselves and friends. No doubt we 

 could have doubled our catch in the evening as we had 

 just fairly found out the lurking and feeding places of the 

 fish: but while the butcher and savage within us said, 

 "get more," the true fisherman's conscience said " no," 

 so away we drove; feeling as we looked back that 



O'er no sweeter lake 



Shall morning break or noon-cloud sail. 

 No fairer face than thine shall take 



The sunset's golden veil. 

 Long be it ere the tide of trade 



Shall break with harsh resounding din 

 The quiet of thy banks of shade. 



And hills that fold thee in. 

 Still let thy woodlauds hide the hare, 



The shy loon sound his trumpet-note, 

 Wing-weary from his fields of air, 



The wild goose on thee float. 

 Thy peace robuke our feverish stiT, 



Thy beauty our deforming strife ; 

 Thy woods and water minister 



The healing of their life. 



At midnight we were in our beds. Tired? Well, I 

 should say so, but oh, so happy and satisfied. Not going 

 on such a trip again? No, not until we can get an 

 opportunity. Myron Cooley. 



Detroit Citt, Minn., July 10. 



CAMP OF " THE TRIAD." 



I FOURTH LAKE, N. Y. — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The odor of the "punkie dope" is upon me, and the 

 smoke of the evening smudge eddies in an undecided 

 manner which brings tears to the sternest eye. Neither 

 "great nor populous" is the city whence this comes to yon : 

 its pavement the decayed vegetation of the ages and its 

 carrying facilities limited to one frail canoe; its moBt 

 pretentious building, the "Hall of Concourse," a "Ness- 



™-.-.l>- CH.nr.Kr T > of ni-QODTlf toi niTltT t llU Q.rmm'TT hrit.tl 



and Seneca's "Canoe a,nd Camp Cookery" — select and 

 sufficient for the book be- wearied brains of the public at 

 present enjoying the "freedom of the city." Two other 

 tents, one a smaller duplicate of the first, with the addi- 

 tion of some turkey-red curtains and "scalops," elabor- 

 ated with red, indicating the presence and abiding place 

 of the gentler sex in person of the "School Girl" and 

 Co-ed;" and the other, a wall tent serving the all-impor- 

 tant function of commissary department, complete, as 

 free and satisfied a commonwealth as can be found in this 

 day of "boodle aldermen" and drainage questions! 



Ten days have passed since the blue wall of the moun- 

 tains shut out the last clanking wheel and beleaguering 

 care of "irksome civilization." Ten — that mystical num- 

 ber—never stood for more of peace and pleasure than has 

 been crowded into these ten days. There are trout in 

 the pan, the blue wave sparkles, the sun and moon in 

 turn mirror their faces in quiet old Fourth Lake, which 

 serves a double turn as lavatory and refrigerator, whence 

 fish come "flopping" to the pan. A decided "Ness- 

 mukian" air hangs about us. Our bouse, our house- 

 keeping are of his teaching. A "Nessmuk" camp-fire 

 lights and warms us; and when the evening deepens, and 

 the bright eastern star before the hut sweeps behind the 

 huge hemlock before our door, we wonder, as we muse, 

 in what fair isle of the further forest is pitched the slop- 

 ing home of that gentle woodland spirit; and the waters 

 of what crystal lake ripple to the sw^aying dip-dip of the 

 loved single blade, as erstwhile did those whose gurgling 

 over the gnarled roots are our "slumber song," 



Sometime when we awake from our reverie enough to 

 undertake organized action we may write of our neigh- 

 bors of and in the woods, and the amusement they afford 

 us— of the BIG- and little trout we did and didn't catch, 

 and of such other matters as delight the soul of the so- 

 journer in the solitudes. At present we are unequal to 

 the effort, and even this would have been spared you had 

 not the last requisite of complete happiness been hitherto 

 lacking. That it may no longer be so, please change, for 

 the present, the address of my Forest and Stream from 

 Irving Park, 111., to "Old Forge," Herkimer county, N, 

 Y., Alexander's Camp, and complete theelysiumof yours 

 respectfully, KoraX. 



California Salmon in the Mediterranean.— Nature 

 (London) of July 17 records the capture of a quinnat or 

 Columbia River salmon (Oncorhynclius chouicha) in the 

 Mediterranean near Banyuls. The river Aude, in France, 

 was stocked with fry of this species, and the specimen 

 captured is supposed to be a result of the attempts to ac- 

 climatize the quinnat in France. The first shipment of 

 eggs of this salmon to France appears to have been that 

 of 1877, when 50,000 were sent from the McCloud River. 

 Since that time many thousands of eggs have been devel- 

 oped and the young fish liberated in several rivers of 

 France, and individuals have been caught from time to 

 time both in the streams and the Mediterranean. The 

 species has proved to be admirably adapted also to a non- 

 migratory life in ponds and lakes. 



A Large Shark. — A shark 10ft. long and weighing 

 over 700lbs. was caught in a fish pound, July 30, at Deal 

 Beach, N. J. The species was called a "man eater," a 

 name usually applied to the dusky shark (Carehariaa 

 obscurus), but frequently used for large sharks of any 

 kind that occur in New Jersey waters. As a matter of 

 fact the shark is a voracious fish destroyer, and takes 

 especial delight in the juicy and frail menhaden. Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, of Washington, D. C, told us of finding 

 over 200 whole menhaden in a stomach of one of the 

 common species of Carcharias. The true "man eater 

 shark" of the New Jersey coast, as suggested by a con- 

 temporary, is a land animal and a permanent resident. 



A Book About Indians.— The Forust and Stream will mail 

 free on application, a descriptive circular of Mr. Grrlnnell's book. 

 "Pawnee Hero Stories and, Folk-Tales," givins? a table of contents 

 and specimen illustrations from the volume.— Adv. 



