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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Aug. 7, 1890, 



general manager, and Mr. Sheardown, general passenger 

 agent of his road, could not be present, but they sent re- 

 gards and two boxes of fizz water with the compliments 

 of the road, hoping that the Milwaukee beer and the 

 Milwaukee & Northern champagne would not be condu- 

 cive to conscienceless fish stories. Mr, Tabberner was 

 willing to have the boys smoke with him, but didn't just 

 exactly know how that club house came there, anyhow. 

 Thought it "growed" there. 



So now the club house was opened, and everybody went 

 fishing. For myself, I caught that day, wading along 

 shore and casting the frog, six fine bass, all big-mouths. 

 This was on Wausaukee Lake, just above the club house. 

 In answer to "Kingfisher's"' late challenge in the angling 

 columns of this paper, I would like to say that these bass 

 were as hard and stubborn fighters, and fought as long 

 as any small-mouth I ever saw. Ordinarily, in the warmer 

 waters, this is not the case. In this very deep and cold 

 lake, at the season when all the bass are in deep water 

 most of the time, the big-mouths are very different from 

 that fish in many other waters. This was the testimony 

 also of Mr. Gilpin, who caught one the next day. Mr. 

 Cratty, the well-known Chicago lawyer, better known as 

 Tom Cratty, caught two black bass- on worms the next 

 evening, but as he didn't give them any time to fight, his 

 evidence is not competent. 



Mr. Tabberner and. I tried the Wausaukee for trout. 

 That is a deep and narrow stream, but we got only 39 

 trout, all very small. The stream was very high and 

 muddy. The next day I fished the Middle Inlet, a very 

 rough stream, clear down into the cedar swamp, and I 

 got 50 trout, which Henry, the boy guide who Avent down 

 with me, said ran as good an average as any he had seen. 

 These were gamy and grand fighters and very different 

 from the torpid Wausaukee trout. No one knoAvs what 

 makes the trout of the latter stream so sluggish of late. 

 The Middle Inlet fish are certainly lively enough. Ply 

 fishing is not practicable on either of these streams, and 

 never will be until they are cleared up, which Avould be a 

 work of endless toil and expense. There are long reaches 

 of beaver meadows on both these streams, and on the 

 Wausaukee I saw fresh beaver cuttings. I saw the tracks 

 of a big buck in the vret sand along the Middle Inlet. 

 There were three deer seen during my short stop at the 

 club. This fall there should be good shooting. 



The weather was rather warm for these few days, and 

 not much fishing Avas done in a serious way. I believe it 

 was Mr. Vail who caught 8 very nice trout one morning 

 in the brook that runs through Mr. Rollins's meadow, 

 Mr. Rollins has a ranch of about 800 acres, just a step over 

 through the woods. It Avas over in this direction that Mr. 

 Blackman and Mr. Tuttle went fishing and got lost. They 

 did not get in until 10 o'clock at night, but no one worried, 

 for Mr. Blackman was known to be acquainted with the 

 country. It is an almighty easy country to get lost in, 

 and those who want the thrill of going into a wilderness 

 with a real guide may well feel that the guide is no 

 hollow formality here, for a time at least. 



At the present time many of the trout that have been 

 planted in most of these streams are running small. If 

 the club members insist on taking these little fellows, 

 they will be curtailing their own privileges. It is against 

 the law of Wisconsin to keep a trout under 6in. in length. 

 Itis all very well to say that a small trout hooked in the eye 

 is bound to die. The only way to do is to put every trout 

 under 6in. back in the water, and let it solve the question 

 of life or death for itself. I proved to my own satisfac- 

 tion that on the Middle Inlet, at least, one can get a good 

 basket of trout and not break the law. The club should 

 provide each fisher with a 6in. stick for a standard, and 

 fine the man with the small trout. That is the only way 

 they will ever get the standard of their excellent streams 

 up to what it may be. They are admirable as they are. 

 Keep the law, let the little fellows groAv, and in a very 

 few years these streams will be as good as they ever were, 

 or better. Otherwise they will never be real trout streams, 

 for they will be kept fished doAvn too close and hard. The 

 Castalia Trout Club of Ohio has a rule like this, I think. 

 They plant their streams, which do not compare with 

 these splendid wild streams, and they get big trout out of 

 their little 8-mile run of open water. There ought to be 

 a decided stand made right at the start on this point by 

 the club, and once the first two years were past, the wis- 

 dom of it would be cause of congratulation to all. 



A few good reaches for fly-casting might well be 

 cleared out on some of the streams. That is a very 

 tangled country. The Eagle Nest is the prettiest stream 

 for the fly, and ought to be kept sacred to the fly alone. 

 I hope it will be stocked largely in the club operations, 

 and then fished only with the fly. That would be fine. 



The Wausaukee men, headed by genial and always 

 helpful Mr. Warren, who by his presence now is doing 

 the club a service it could hardly buy in straightening 

 and smoothing the early, opening tangles in details, cer- 

 tainly know how to entertain as well as to enjoy them- 

 selves. I don't know when I have so disliked to turn 

 homeward as I did from the hospitable roof of this grand 

 young club, which has so soon, at one bound indeed, 

 taken high rank in the army of clubs of this region. In 

 many ways this is a unique club, and its history is here 

 all too briefly and imperfectly told. Let us follow its 

 later growth with pleasme and with admiration. For 

 the present, farewell became necessary, and after a last 

 row over the gloomily deep Wausaukee Lake, which is 

 the coldest and blackest, deepest and most merciless look- 

 ing bit of water I ever saAv, and after a last prowl around 

 the old log cabin, which is all that is left of the trad- 

 ing post which the adventurous pioneer of the 

 "free traders," Norman Kittson, established here thiry 

 or forty years ago on the old Menominee trail, 

 I had to cut short a visit which ought to have been a year 

 in length, and take the light Concord wagon which bore 

 several of the members homeAvard that evening. By and 

 by we arrived at Pike, or Aniberg, and met the invari- 

 able sign of country civilization, the village brass band. 

 They were going to serenade somebody, probably Mr, 

 Amberg, on account of his changing the name of their 

 town. The man who blew the big bass horn had only one 

 arm. I reckon he must have blown the other one off. At 

 any rate, we knew we were again in civilization. But 

 many and many a tired soidwill pass this gateway of the 

 wilderness after this, and drink the rest and strength 

 that lies around Wausaukee. A very strong collection of 

 good business they are, the Wausaukee men, as pleasant 

 to meet as any on earth, and not full of conceit. "We 

 haven't got a 'sportsman's paradise,'" they say, "and we 

 don't claim it; but we've got a place to build up a mighty 



good club, and there is no better a country anywhere." 

 They might say much more than this and be far within 

 the limits. Long life and success to Wausaukee. Fol- 

 lowing is the membership: 



Officers— President, Charles E. Rollins; Vice-President, 

 Spoor Mackey; Treasurer, John Marcler; Secretary, Wal- 

 ter W. Tabberner. Directors— John W Tope, Win, S. 

 Johnson, John J. Flanders, Alva L. Rose, Edward F. Law- 

 rence, Wm. Mariner, Geo. H. High, Arnold P. Gimiore. 

 C. Stewart Warren, Executive Committee — C. Stewart 

 Warren, EdAvard F. Lawrence, Alva L. Rose. 



List of Members— W. A. A mberg, F. D. Ballard, L, 

 Blackman, L. Baldwin, T, R. Burch, Z. P. Brosseau, C. 

 L. Bonney, L. C. Bonney, B. E. Bremner, J. W. Brooks, 

 Jr., M. Carruthers, J. A. Clark, E. Carqueville, C. S. 

 Crain, T. E. Courtney. S. M. Coe, T. Cratty, W. B. Con- 

 key, M. A. Donohue, J. Darlow, H. R. Durkee, T. C. 

 Dennehey, A. T. Ewing, J. J. Flanders, E. H. Fishburn, 

 W. G. Furguson, T. E. Gilpin, T. E. Gross, W. H. Gray, 



F. D. Gray, S. Whipple Gehr, A. C. Gehr, A, P. Gilmore, 



G. H. High, G. C. Hall, J. W. C. Haskell, A.W. Harlan, 

 Mrs. C. Hopkinson, J. K, Hanes, R. W. Hyman, Jr., A. 

 C. Huston, J. C. Jackson, W. S. Johnson, H. M. King- 

 man, E. F. Lawrence, E. W. Lyman, J. Marder, J. W. 

 Marcler, W. S. Marder, R. L. Martin, Spoor Mackey, H. 



C. Mitchell, A. McDonald, S. P. McConnell, R. W. 

 Morrison. F. E. Morse, W. C. Newberry, J. K. Prindi- 

 ville, E. H. Pitkin, W. R. Roney, A. L. Rose, J. M. Rog- 

 ers, C. E. Rollins, C. E. Rollins, Jr., J. O. Smith, L. B. 

 Sidway, R. J. Street, H. M. Shepard, J. W. Shields, H. A. 

 Sloan, 0. W. Schwab, D. L. Streeter, C. T. Stratton, F. 



D. Turner, W. P. Tuttle, W. W. Tabberner, H. S. Vail, C. 

 Stewart Warren, H. P. Wadhams, W. M. White, D. F. 

 Bromner, F. E. Patterson, C. H. King, J. G. Steevers, all 

 of Chicago; Grant Fitch, H. Herman, F. M. Hoyt, L. E. 

 Katzenstein, W. H. Mariner, F. Sylvester, W. B. Shear- 

 down, of Milwaukee; J. W. Tope,' T, Werswick, of Oak 

 Park, 111.; T. H. Ball, of Aurora, 111.; Henry Davis, Jr., 

 of Springfield, 111.: T. S. Hawley, of St. Louis: G. H. 

 Mitchell, of Forestville, Conn. 



The Moktreal Fish and Game Protection Club 

 has sent a deputation to Ottawa to petition for much 

 needed amendments to the Quebec fish and game laws, 

 such as reducing the size of net meshes and reducing the 

 number of licenses for netting fish; also to have the dore 

 and bass season assimilated to 15th June. These things 

 the Government have promised to do what they can 

 about. The club has also petitioned to have net fishing 

 stopped in Missisquoi Bay for five years. There is a 

 movement on foot to get a grant from the Provincial 

 Government Avhich will partly pay for game wardens 

 patroling the district from the Grand Nord to the Ontario 

 boundary of Lake St. Francis. The club is paying one 

 good warden already, but its funds are low and will not 

 admit of the employment of a necessary second. This 

 Avarden has caused the convictien of over thirty persons 

 for infraction of the fish and game laws. As the club is 

 doing so well it should be better supported. Too many 

 sportsmen are willing to condemn any effort toward fish 

 and game protection as useless, but the Province of Que- 

 bec Fish and Game Protection Club are demonstrating 

 with a very great deal of ability that success can be 

 achieved when every sportsman puts his hands in his 

 pockets and contributes his mite, — Montreal Gazette. 



"Jumping" Bass.— The Windsor, N. Y., Standard re- 

 ports: Charlie Dusenbury, Charlie Roberts, Miss Mollie 

 Russell and Miss Aggie Gilbert were boating on the Sus- 

 quehanna last Monday evening. As they rowed along- 

 side a piece of driftwood they saw something coming 

 along on the surface of the water with considerable fuss 

 and flopping. Visions of sea serpents and weird mon- 

 sters rose before them, but ere they had time to become 

 thoroughly alarmed the cause of the disturbance entered 

 the boat by a neat jump and landed in Miss Russell's lap. 

 It proved to be a 2ilb. blacK bass. All of Avhich goes to 

 prove that for the gamy bass and for the comfort of fish- 

 ermen, pretty girls are better bait than dobsons. Can 

 you blame them? 



Tarpum in East River, New York.— On Wednesday, 

 July 23, David Mole caught in his pound net at Little 

 Bayside, L. I., a tarpon, weighing 231bs., 45^in. long, and 

 8-iin. deep. Has one ever been caught in the East River 

 before?— J. E. Hillyer (New York city). [We think this 

 is the first record of taking the tarpum in the East River. 

 It has, however, occasionally been captured on the south 

 side of Cape Cod, and taken to the fish market at Wood's 

 Holl, Mass. It may be called an occasional summer 

 visitor in this latitude, not extending its range north of 

 Cape Cod.] 



Red Snapper at Martha's Vineyard.— On July 13 

 Mr. Vinal N. Edwards, of the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 went to Menemsha, Martha's Vineyard, collecting. From 

 a little bass trap set in 10ft. of water he obtained a l21bs. 

 red snapper (Lutjanus blackfordi). Mr. Edwards believes 

 this is the first one taken on the Massachusetts coast, but 

 he thinks one was caught some years ago near Block 

 Island. Mr. Blackford had a young example from Long 

 Island. At the time of writing fish were scarce at 

 Wood's Holl. 



Missisquoi Maskinonge.— Highgate, Vt., July 30.— I 

 have recently had some fine sport in the Missisquoi River, 

 at High gate, Vt., with maskinonge. Have killed several 

 fine ones on a light salmon rod. One tipped the beam at 

 191bs. It gave me in the rapid water half an hour's fight; 

 broke water like a salmon. — Stanstead. 



Clayton, N. Y.— G. W. Sinsabaugh and his grandson, 

 C. C. Siter, of Troy, N. Y., stopping at the Walton House, 

 caught three fine muscalonge, weighing from 15 to 20 lbs. 

 They are the largest caught this season on this part of 

 the river. 



A Good Home for Them.— CobAvigger— "What makes you 

 think those four pups will please your wife?" Younghus- 

 band — "Because I'm sure she could make such nice dog 

 biscuit.— Life. 



First trout— This seems to he a quiet neighborhood; how 

 does it strike you as a place of residence. Second trout- 

 Just the thing. There are no flies on it!— Puck, 



AMERICAN BROOK TROUT IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



PIETERMARITZBTJRG, Natal, South Africa, May 21.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream.— Many of the readers of 

 your valuable paper, Forest and Stream, will be pleased 

 to hear that the American brook trout has been adjudged a 

 fit and suitable fish for South African rivers, and that the 

 little colony of Natal has taken the initiative toward its 

 introduction in a really practical manner. 



The introduction of trout was first brought before the 

 Legislative Council of Natal by Cecil A. S. Yonge, Esq., M. 

 L. 0., and was met by opposition on the ground that it 

 would be a waste of public money; but Mr. Yonge's 

 characteristic perseverance and thorough earnestness of 

 purpose ultimately won the day in so far that the sum of 

 five hundred pounds sterling was granted for the, purpose. 

 A committee was formed, consisting of Cecil A. S, Yonge, 

 Esq., M. L. C. (chairman), Col. Vaughan, J. C. Parker, Esq.', 

 and J. E. Wace, clerk of the committee— all thoroughly in 

 earnest to carry the experi meut through to a successful issue. 

 And now, what has been clone? Why, out of the small 

 grant a splendid little fish hatchery has been set up, in- 

 cluding fry ponds, all of most substantial workmanship, 

 and upward of thirty thousand trout ova laid down from 

 the Solway Fishery (Joseph J. Armistead's), Scotland. 



The ova Avere placed on glass grilles and hatched out well ; 

 some of the young trout have already been turned out into 

 the rivers. The success of this experiment is in a very large 

 measure due to the care and watchfulness of Mr. J. C. 

 Parker, one of the committee, who nersonally took charge 

 of the hatchery from the beginning. " This next season, with 

 a further grant, it is to be hoped not a few thousands but a 

 few hundred thousand ova will be laid down, and with the 

 experience already gained in the past the experiment should 

 turn out successful. 



We have difficulties to contend with in all our rivers in so 

 far as temperature is concerned; they all heat up consider 

 ably in the summer, possibly as high as TSdeg. Fahrenheit 

 and possibly to 80deg. at times. What do you think of that ? 

 The temperature is what T fear most, still the trout are 

 doing remarkably Avell in Australia and New Zealand. I 

 expect their rivers are pretty warm sometimes, but have no 

 data to judge from. Also, your American rivers, I imagine, 

 will sometimes run up a pretty high register. On this point, 

 your Eish Commission will be well posted; it would be in- 

 teresting as well as useful information for our Committee 

 on Trout, Introduction. 



The water in which the eggs were hatched Avas cooled by 

 passing through boxes containing ice. and th e temperature 

 of the water flowing over the eggs varied from 45deg. to 

 61deg. The eggs were put on the grilles March 8, and some 

 of them were hatched shortly after their arrival. On the 

 7th of April the number of fry remaining alive was esti- 

 mated at 3,000. The quantity of Avater passing through the 

 boxes per minute was one-half gallon at first, and was in- 

 creased finally to seven gallons per minute, The total quan- 

 tity available Avas ten gallons. On the 33d of March one of 

 the alewives had almost lost its sac. On this date 319 of the 

 fry were lost from blue swelling. A. W. Ahmistead. 



[In New Zealand the Salnnonidce have succeeded in rivers 

 whose temperature is low and have failed in waters that are. 

 too warm: for instance, at Kawan, when the water in the 

 creeks reached a temperature of 70deg. Sir G. Grey found his 

 trout dying. In Shag River, Otago. trout died, as supposed, 

 because of excessive heat. In Australia, so far as we have 

 read, the Salninmdce have been most successfully introduced 

 in streams whose temperature does not exceed fiOdeg. in 

 their upper waters.] 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 2 to 5.— Dog Show of the Wilmington Fair Association, at 

 Wilmingtou, Del. F. R. Cars well, Supt... 101 West S-ixth street 



Sept. 2 ro 4.— Dog Show of the Midland Central "Fair Associa- 

 tion, at Kingston, Out. O. H. Corbett, Secretary. 



Sept. 2 to 6.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Michigan Kennel 

 Club, at Detroit, Mich. M. V. B. Saunders, Secretary. 



Sept. 15 to 19.— Second Annual International Dog Show of the 

 IndUatial Exhibition Association at Toronto, Canada. C. A. Stone 

 Secretary. 



Sept. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Central Canada 

 Exhibition Association, at Ottawa. Alfred G-eddes, Chairmau 

 Committee. 



Oct. 6 to 11.— Ninth Annual Dog ShoAV of the Danbury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danbury Conn. B. C. Lvnes, Seeretarv. 



Dec. 30 to Jan. 3, 1891.— First Dog Show of the Buckeye Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at Canton, O. James Sterling. Ser'v 

 3.9 North Market street. 



1891. 



Jan. 20 to 25.— First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana. Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at New Orleans, La. A. E. Shaw, Sec- 

 retary, Box 1058. 



Feb. 24 to 27.— Fifteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at New York. James Mortimer. Superintendent. 



March 24 to 27.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Massachusetts 

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

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 9,-Field Trials of the Manitoba Field Trials Club. Thos. 

 Johnson, Winnipeg. Secretary. 



November— Second Annual Field Trials of the Brunswick Fur 

 Club, at Brunswick, Me. J. H. Baird, Secretary, Auburndale, 

 Mass. 



Nov. 3— Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Carlisle, Ind. P. T. Madison, Indianapolis. Ind., Sec'y. 



Nov. 3.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel 

 Club, at Chalham, Ont. C. A. Stone, Toronto, Ont., Secretary 



Nov. 17.— Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., Secretary. 



Dec. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Contral Field Trials 

 Club, at, Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Building, New York, 



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1891. 



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

 at Bakerstield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



Feb. 2.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brtrnby, Secretary. Marietta, Ga. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 21 to 25.— Fifth Annual Meet of the American Coursing 

 Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, Secretary. 



THE WILMINGTON DOG SHOW. 



THE premium list of the first dog show of the Wilmington 

 Agricultural and Industrial Association is ready for 

 delivery. The show will be held in the main exhibition 

 building on the fair grounds of the Association, Wilming- 

 ton, Del,, Sept. 2 to 5. The judges appoiuted are Mr. R. F. 

 Mayhew and Dr. H. Clay Glover.* Seventy-five classes are 

 provided for yvith prizes of $8 in challenge, 88, $4, and 

 diploma in open, and 85 and $3 in puppy classes for some of 

 the prominent breeds. In some of the other classes the 

 prizes are 86, $3 and diploma, and in a few of the less im- 

 portant classes the prizes are $5, $8 and diploma, and in the 

 remaining classes the prizes are 84, 2 and diploma. The 

 Association offers S10 for the best exhibit, and kennel prizes 

 of 84 each for mastiffs, St, Bernards, great Danes, pointers, 

 English setters, Irish setters, Gordon setters, foxhounds, 

 field or cocker spaniels, beagles and bull-terriers. Entries 

 close Aug. 21. The address of the superintendent is F. R. 

 Carswell, 101 West Sixth street, Wilmington, Del. 



