Ava, 21, 1890,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE TRANSGRESSORS' CORNER. 



APHENIX, K. L, correspondent sends us a report, taken from 

 tbe Providence Telegram, of tbe trapping of one Gteo. L. Hox- 

 sie, the game officer at Hopkinton, B. L President PeUney, of 

 the Society for the Protection of Game and Fish, received word 

 that Hoxris was out shooting with a hired man. Tuesday morn- 

 ing President Penney and Geo. T. Anthony, one of the. special de- 

 tectives of the. society, enlisted the services of Deputy Sheriff 

 Beny. of Westerly, to assist them. The party went, to . % place 

 near Hoxsie's house and concealed themselves" behind a stone 

 wall with a full view of the premises about his place and patiently 

 awaited his return from the shoot. About 11 o'clock (bat night 

 Hoxsie with another man went into tbe yard. Thehvatcbers saw 

 him hang the birds down into the well. After the family hud re- 

 tired the two betook themselves to a, farmhouse, where they were 

 stopping, and remained there till 2:30 o'clock in the morning, 

 when they again returned to watch Hoxsie. They lav in wait till 

 he came out. He looked anxiously up and down the road, and 

 then went to the well and drew up the rope to which was attached 

 the basket of birds. Tbe detectives started for him, but he dis- 

 covered them when within 300yds. of the house. He was en the 

 alert, as he afterward explained, he had been warned bv E. 0', 

 Green, the pharmacist of Hope Valley. He ran with the "basket 

 of birds, but the Sheriff and President. Penney were equal to the 

 emergency and they overtook him. 



Mr. Hoxaiesaid be had not been shooting. The warrant was 

 read to Hoxsie, and while a conversation was going on between 

 two of them, the sheriff, who had been looking for tbe birds, re- 

 turned with a basket which contained twenty-one partridge and 

 two woodcock. 



The caso came before Justice Whipple in the Third District 

 Court at Westerly, Hoxsie was adjudged guilty and fined $20. 

 Justice Whipple dismissecLthe twenty-three separale complain' s. 

 Hoxsie's counsel pleaded that having been convicted of having 

 one partridge and paid bis fine he could not be fined for each bird 

 in lus possession. The president of the game club has not given 

 up Hoxsie's case yet. Mr. Penney has employed more counsel 

 and is going to make this a test case of the game laws of this 

 State; and if there are any defectsin the law it will he brought up 

 before the next meeting of the General Assembly. 



Game Warden Collins, of Hartford, Conn, has been waking up 

 things again. On Sunday. Aug. 3, Joseph Notine, a Hertford bar- 

 ter, went up into the Ten-mile woods in Windsor with a. party of 

 friends to have a clam bake. He unfortunately took along his gun 

 and young bird-dog for the purpose, as he says, of training tbe 

 dog and having his picture taken. Monday morning Game War- 

 den A. C. Collins, of Hartford, Conu., received information that 

 Notine was seen with a dog and gun and shots were heard fired in 

 that vicinity. Upon this he promptly got out a warrant for 

 Notine 's arrest, and he was summoned to appear at the town hall 

 in Windsor at 5 P. M. Wednesday, to be tried before Justice Sid- 

 ney E. Clarke of Hartford. Game Warden Collins conducted the 

 prosecution for the State. The accused pleaded nor. guilty. The 

 State produced five witnesses who testified to seeing Notine in the 

 wonds. wearing a hunting coat and having with him a bird-dog 

 and gun, also to hearing two shots fired in the direction in which 

 he had gone. Notine dented the charges and produced three wit- 

 nesses to substantiate his statements. Mr. Collins argued that 

 the State had made out a case under section 2,532, Revised Statutes 

 of 1S88, which provides that: "Any person found with a bird-dog 

 and gun upon land where woodcock, qua'], ruffed grouse (called 

 partridge), are known to exist, shall be deemed prima facie to he 

 there for the purpose of pursuing said birds with intent to kill;" 

 and also under section 2,533: "Every person who shall on Sunday 

 shoot or hunt or have in possession in the open a'r the imple- 

 ments for shooting, shall be fined not less than seven nor more 

 than twenty-five dollars." Tbe court found the accused guilty 

 and the tines and costs amounted to $31.01, which he promptly 

 paid; and no doubt charged the same up to profit and loss. 



Judge Desnoyers. Mr. W. S. Walker, attorney for the Pish and 

 Game Protection club, and Mr. Alex. N. Shewan, secretary of the 

 club, returned to Montreal on Saturday from Beauharnois, hav- 

 ing succeeded in convicting three parties after a hard fight, of 

 shooting and killing wild duck during the close season. The court 

 was held at the court house, Beauharnois. The costs and fines 

 amounted to some |60 for killing two ducks. 



§mnp=<gire Jjflichqings. 



"That reminds me." 

 DOSTON.— Mr. W. T. Farley of the dry goods jobbing 

 AJ> firm of Farley, Harvey & Co., is spending his vaca- 

 tion at the Adirondacks. Mrs. Farley is with him. He 

 writes the firm that they may think of him as jacking a 

 deer every night. The other members of the firm all under- 

 stand what that means, for they have been there them- 

 selves. They tell a good story of a Boston merchant at 

 the Adirondacks last year. He was particularly anxious 

 to kill a deer. He employed "one. of the bestguides in 

 the region," and they jacked and jacked nearly all night, 

 amid great suffering of the would-be shooter. Not a deer 

 did they see nor hear. The shooter was nearly dead from 

 sitting in one position. Toward morning they passed a 

 swampy place, and there was a rustling in the reeds. 

 The guide asked in a soft whisper if the shooter heard it. 

 He did hear it, and his teeth were already chattering 

 with buck fever, or with cold, he could not tell which. 

 He signified his willingness to shoot by the trembling of 

 the gun in his unsteady hands. The guide again whis- 

 pered that the rustling was a deer, and for the merchant 

 to watch for eyes, but if he could not see any eyes, to 

 shoot as near as he could at the sound. At the same time 

 the guide suggested the caution that the shooter should 

 be careful and not shoot him. The hunter fired. The 

 echoes awoke, and the splashing and rustling had ceased. 

 The guide told the merchant that he had shot a deer, and 

 "by the sound" he judged that it was a large buck. He 

 had doubtless secured a beautiful pair of antlers. But 

 the swamp was so thick and of such a nature that it 

 would not be possible to get the deer, but when winter 

 came the place would freeze over, and then the horns 

 and hide could be Becured. He would take the earliest 

 opportunity to get them and forward them to Boston. 

 The merchant came home in the full faith of his success. 

 When cold weather came he daily expected the horns, 

 The express was watched, but they have not come to 

 hand. Later in the winter he learned that some guides 

 arrange with another guide to go into the swamp, get be- 

 hind a tree, so as to be safe from the shot, and then to 

 rustle and splash till the tenderfoot shoots. After which 

 all is still, and the tenderfoot is satisfied. He has shot a 

 deer. Now that merchant does not cire to have his 

 friends mention the pair of horns he expected. Special. 



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m Htfd §iv([r fishing. 



FISHING NEAR NEW YORK. 



"C 1 OR practical and specific directions to reach several hundred 

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

 issues of 18S9 as follows: April 18, April 25, May 2, May 9, May 30, 

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



THESOUTH BRANCH OFTHE POTOMAC. 



THE south branch of the Potomac is equally famed lot- 

 its picturesque beauty and the line sport which the 

 limpid stream, well stocked with bass, affords the angler. 

 There can be found all that the enthusiast regards as es- 

 sential to happiness. Eugged gorges, lovely valleys, deep 

 vistas and forests, the clear dancing waters of the river, 

 and other natural features are present to give the color- 

 ing that adds zest to the angler's pleasures. The north 

 and south branches of the Potomac River join at South 

 Branch depot of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R . a point 18 

 miles east of Cumberland, Md. The south branch rises 

 in Highland and Pendleton counties, West Virginia, in 

 the Shenandoah Mountains, and flows northward through 

 Pendleton, Grant, Hardy and Hampshire counties. It is 

 about 115 miles long. From Petersburg, W. Va., to the 

 mouth of this branch the distance is 60 miles, and the 

 stream ranges from 100 to 250yds in width and can be 

 traversed by small boats the whole way, there being no 

 falls or rapids bad enough to obstruct the passage. The 

 water is well-suited to bass, being fed by many small 

 mountain streams. There is no pollution whatever as 

 there is in the north branch, which has several manu- 

 facturing towns and coal fields along its banks. The 

 river is full of riffles, shallow places, deep holes and 

 plenty of bold rocks, affording just such haunts as the 

 bass like. 



As is well known the black ba^s was introduced into 

 the Potomac Basin, at Cumberland, in 1858; the first 

 recorded introduction being made by Gen. W. W. 

 Schriver, of Wheeling. To-day the south branch is one 

 of the finest streams for small-mouthed bass (Micropterus 

 dolomieu) east of the Alleghanies. 



More bass have been caught in this river during the 

 present season than for several years past. This is proba- 

 bly due to the fact that last season's freshets kept the 

 water in so turbid a state for the greater part of the 

 summer, that fewer anglers visited the river, and the bass 

 had an opportunity to grow and multiply. While there 

 are plenty of fish they run large, and now and then a 

 genuine mossback is lured from the stream. It is not a 

 rare thing to catch 4 and 5lb. bass either with the fly, 

 minnow or trolling spoon. While expert fishermen with 

 the fly do not catch the largest fish, yet they will show 

 greater numbers and a heavier string for a day's work. It 

 is our belief that the best method of fishing the south 

 branch is to have a well-stocked fly-book, an Soz. split- 

 bamboo of ten or twelve feet, and to wade along the banks 

 of the stream , whipping it as one goes along. In this way 

 wo, have had many successful days on the dear old stream, 

 and have had the satisfaction of sharing in the largest 

 catches on record, except one, which we shall mention 

 later on. For those who use live bait there are plenty of 

 crawfish, helgramites, shiners or bright-sided minnows, 

 chubs and black-nosed dace. These are found in the 

 small brooks running into the river. For bait-fishing a 

 short rod is the proper thing for this stream, but that to 

 angler's liking, long ones can be used as there is no 

 trouble in wading along the river's banks at a distance so 

 far from shore that the trees do not interfere with casting. 



One of the famous resorts is the hanging rock, at Col. 

 Isaac Parsons's. This spot, in the very heart of the bass 

 region, is attractive because of its scenic beauty, and also 

 on account of a ready and hearty hospitality one meets 

 with there, and which has gone forth to make the name 

 of "Ike" Parsons a familiar household word among ang- 

 lers. This was where ex President Cleveland was enter- 

 tained on his 1887 hunting and fishing trip to the south 

 branch, when quite a number of fish were caught. This 

 rock is about 12 miles from Green Spring Run, on the 

 B. & O. R. R. It is the camping ground of the Wheeling 

 Bass Fishing Club, members of which were among the 

 first to discover the fine sport to be had in the south 

 branch by the angler. It was to this club that Mr. Otho 

 Heiskell belonged, enjoying the sport with the younger 

 men, who called him Uncle Otho. The best grounds are 

 above Romney, the terminus of the South Branch R. R., 

 16 miles from Green Spring Run. Romney is a great 

 gathering place for anglers and sportsmen— 156 miles 

 from Washington, D. C, 160 from Pittsburgh, and 27 

 miles east of Cumberland— it is situated on a level plateau 

 300ft. above the river, and is supplied with pure, cool 

 sandstone water, piped from a mountain spring. The 

 town is surrounded by mountains and is well shaded, tbe 

 nights during the summer are cool and plea-ant. The 

 roads are fine, and the town and county are entirely free 

 from malarial diseases. At this paint is located the State 

 Fish Hatchery, 



Above Romney the best fishing is to be had in the 

 "trough," a marvellous gorge formed by two mountains 

 that seem to rise abruptly from the' water, and run 

 parallel for a distance of five miles. Here, we do not 

 hesitate to say, is to be found the best bass fishing in tbe 

 whole river. The trough is ten miles above Romney and 

 is not reached by railroad, but by conveyance from Rom- 

 ney, The gorge averages from 100 to 150yds. in width, 

 and the stream runs swiftly through, now rushing over 

 shallow places forming riffles, and now eddying in deep 

 rocky holes, which afford fine hiding places for the bass. 

 Here the b:«s reach a large size. Mr. Gibson caught one 

 of 61bs. weight, which we saw weighed after he had 

 carried it eleven miles to Romney. As high as 64lbs. of 

 bass have been taken by a single rod in one evening's 

 fishing; from twenty to forty fish a day are very fre- 

 quent catches. We quote some good records from the 

 Morefield Examiner of July 31, 1890: ''On last Tuesday 

 (July 29) Frank Turley and George Strawder broke the 

 record on fishing with hook and line. They went from 

 town to below the old stone mill in a boat, fishingasthey 

 went down. They report a catch of 180 bass. The river 

 appears to be full of bass. It seems a small matter for 

 two or three fishermen to go out and bring in from fifty 

 to a hundred in a day. We venture to say that within 

 the past two weeks 700 or 800 have been caught between 

 Petersburg and Morefield, besides a great manv have 



hm c§wgJ$ Mort here," 



It is not unusual for parties to go to Morefield, secure 

 boats, and fish to the mouth of the river, which is a dis- 

 tance of fifty miles. These trips are generally very suc- 

 cessful; 1,400 bass have been taken by three men on a 

 single voyage of this kind. This party was made up of 

 anglers, and most of the fish were returned to the river 

 unharmed. While the bass are in great numbers and ap- 

 pear to be multiplying, despite the efforts of the anglers, 

 there are very few, if any, other fish in the river. All 

 along the stream strangers will find places Of shelter, 

 where they can rest and be fed. There are excellent 

 camping places, plenty of good springs of excellent water, 

 and farmhouses near by where vegetables, etc., can be 

 had. 



Besides its picturesque beauty, and its ever renewed 

 supply of bass, there is another reason why the south 

 branch has a place near the heart of every true angler. 



It was on the banks of this stream that a boy, who 

 afterward became one of the most prominent fishcul- 

 lurista of the world, fished for mullets, suckers and eels, 

 for that was before the introduction of the bass, and it 

 may have been his contemplation of nature, as showm by 

 the humbler members of the finny tribes, that inspired 

 him to the great work of his life— the artificial propaga- 

 tion of fishes— which has added so much both to the 

 wealth of the land and to the pleasure of the angler. 



Easby. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



A S a rule striped bass are not caught on any bait but 

 rx- the genuine article; they seem too shy and suspi- 

 cious to be tempted by the various imitations. But we 

 have heard of several instances lately where they have 

 taken the phantom and whitebait minnows. Another 

 successful lure lately used is a gang made of one treble 

 hook on gut with a small revolving spoon above. A sand- 

 worm is hooked on to this gang, and the bass, attracted 

 by the glistening spoon, rushes for the bait and is cap- 

 tured. It should be trolled slowly in shallow water with 

 80ft. of line and no sinker— a good-sized swivel is suffi- 

 cient weight. 



Mr. John Yale, one of our prominent fly- fishermen, 

 has just returned from a troutingtrip to the upper waters 

 of the Rondout. He says that owing to the intense heat 

 there was very little fly-fishing to be had during the day- 

 time, but after dark the fish rose freely to a good-sized 

 ginger-palmer and coachman. The fish, as usual during 

 the night, took the fly as if they meant it and fought 

 bravely. He killed a number of fish running from 12 to 

 14in., and among them a rainbow, which in its eagerness 

 to escape jumped fully 3ft. up the bank. 



Fly-fishing at night to those who are not used to it is 

 a peculiar and rather uncanny experience. The rushing 

 water looks as black as ink, and even when the sky is 

 bright the shadows cast by the trees and bushes make 

 the stream seem intensely dark. It is better to use only 

 one fly and a short stout leader. The large trout feed 

 entirely at night during the hot weather, and after one 

 gets used to the strange surroundings it is very charming 

 sport, for the small fish do not trouble the fly then, and 

 the big ones take hold sharp and with a loud splash. 

 Large bright flies should be used as a rule, but strange to 

 say, in Lake Colden, in the Adirondacks, the black gnat 

 is tbe most killing fly. 



We regret to learn that in Tupper Lake region the 

 trout fishermen are killing more deer than trout. It 

 seems to have been done very openly, and we shoukl 

 think that the game warden for that locality would have 

 no trouble in securing convictions. 



Mr. M. S. Tweedie, of the Red Cross line of steamers, 

 office 18 Broadway, is getting up a circular relating to 

 the fishing and shooting in Newfoundland. He will be 

 happy to send a copy as soon as it is printed to any sports- 

 man who will take the trouble to apply for it. The 

 shooting resources of Newfoundland are .enormous, and 

 little understood by Americans. Many English sports- 

 men make yearly trips to that country for salmon, sea 

 trout and caribou. Now that the Red Cross line of steamers 

 run to Pilleys Island, it is an easy trip. Mr. W. Hol- 

 berton, a well known sportsman of this city, intends to 

 make this trip in October, mainly for the purpose of ex- 

 ploring the Island and finding out what is to be had in 

 the way of fishing and shooting. It is probable that a 

 party will be made up to go there this season. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



C CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 13.— There was on exhibition to- 

 J day. in front of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and 

 Western Railway office, a magnificent mascallonge whose 

 great size and perf ect beauty and symmetry kept a crowd 

 alike of gawkers and anglers about it. The fish was 4lin, 

 in length and 351bs. in weight. Across the back and up 

 and down through the body it was exceptionally heavy. 

 In every line it was shapely as a salmon. It was a grand 

 fish. Thi3 beautiful specimen of a fresh-water giant 

 came down from Crosby's place on Twin Lakes, Wis., 

 and was taken by Mr. Harry Goodall, of the Sun and 

 Drover's Journal, of this city, This fish was not only 

 big, but beautiful, and to take a prize like that must be a 

 joy forever to an angler. Mr. Ryder, agent of the road 

 above mentioned, commenting on the symmetry of this 

 fish, said, "I can tell one of those Twin Lakes mascal- 

 longe nearly every time as soon as I set eyes on it. They 

 don't catch so very many there, but when you get one it 

 is nearly always a big one and a beauty at that." 



Mr. Chas. Levings, of tbe C. & A., was down on the 

 Kankakee at the C. & A. crossing the other day. and 

 seized the opportunity for a little fishing. He fished an 

 hour and a half, and made the rather remarkable show- 

 ing of 4 small-mouth bass, 3 wall eyed pike. 8 croppies, 

 3 dogfish, 2 turtles and 1 clam (mussel). The bass were 

 all taken on the fly, and the other things on the frog. 

 The croppies were very large, and they took frog in theirs. 

 The mussel also bit the frog, clamping down on his hind 

 legs in great shape and making a very gamy fight. The 

 bass were small, not running over a pound. Mr, Levings 

 says he had more fun with the dogfish than anything 

 else. E. Hough. 



Names and Portraits of Birds, by (xurdon Truraouu. A 

 book particularly interesting to gunners, for by it3 use they can 

 fdeiittfy without queKtiou tUl the American sjame birds which 

 they may till. OiotAj W \>mh 0rtG» W.W: lT<n? s*!.e hv Fo&HS* 



