Forest and Stream: 



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( YOL. XXXV.-No. 11. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 October. 



The Game Fishes of Idaho. 

 Calliopes in the Field. 

 Blueflsh in Long Island 

 Waters. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 

 Trapping Days. — vt. 

 Slide Rock from Many Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 

 Heath Hen of Martha's Vine- 

 yard. 



Nesting BiTds and Scent. 

 National Museum Publications 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Bob White Shooting in Vir- 

 ginia. 



Ways of the Ruffed Grouse. 



In the Wilds of Pike. 



Mallards in the Timber. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The niubs of the St. Clair Flats 



The Game Fishes of Idaho. 



Angling Notes. 



The Branch Alewife. 



The Greek Catfish or Glanis. 

 Ftshculture. 



Trout Cultural Controversies. 



FlSHCULTUHE. 



Salt and Clay for Trout 

 Disease. 

 The Kennel. 



The A. K.C. Meeting. 



Woodbury Show. 



Dogs of the Day. 



Ottawa Show. 



London Show. 



Dog Chat- 

 Mr. Peshall and the A. K. C. 



"House and Pet Dogs." 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Targets. 



The Trap. 



Excelsior Gun Club_Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



Winter Work. 



A Misadventure. 



The Building Season. 



Hamilton Y. C. 



The Chesapeake Flattie. 

 Canoeing. 



Ottawa C. C. and Aylmer B. C. 



Amateurs vs. Professionals. 



A River Cruise in a Folding 

 Boat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



OCTOBER. 



OCTOBER is the sportsman's month, and in this lati- 

 tude its opening is most auspicious. Shooting con- 

 ditions are not yet in their prime. The foliage is very 

 dense, not so heavy as that of last year, but heavier than 

 usual. There have been no frosts, and until the cold 

 nights come and the leaves begin to fall shooting in cover 

 will be difficult. To bag bis birds in early October this 

 year, to use an old and hackneyed but expressive phrase, 

 one must "cut loose with the eye of faith and the finger 

 of instinct." The successful shot is made with the gun 

 pointed "where the bird ought to be," not where it can be 

 seen to be. 



Owing to recent rains the woodcock grounds are moist 

 and the scent would be good were the birds confined to 

 their accustomed haunts, but the same wet weather has 

 dispersed the birds; they are scattered widely, and while 

 this is fortunate for them it is equally unfortunate for 

 the gunner. In the north, over the line in Canada, wood- 

 cock have been noted in great supply; they bred abund- 

 antly there and knowing shooters are looking out for a 

 woodcock flight this fall which shall give better returns 

 than the flights of recent years. 



From all parte of the country come reports of an abun- 

 dant supply of quail. It has been a favorable year in- 

 deed for them, with the mild winter of 1889-90 and the 

 propitious weather conditions during the breeding season. 

 The open time in Massachusetts began the middle of last 

 month, but September quail shooting is not what the 

 sport will be in the last of October and in November. 

 There are shooting conditions which cannot be changed 

 by whims of legislatures. No legal enactments to 

 encourage July woodcock shooting can give to 

 the mid-summer pursuit of that bird the bracing 

 and exhilarating nature of autumnal flight shoot- 

 ing, and it is beyond the power of the law- 

 makers to prescribe rules and regulations to be observed 

 by "Bob White" for the convenience and delectation of 

 his human enthusiasts who love and preserve him that 

 they may pursue and slay him. The feeding habits of 

 the birds in September differ so much from their habits 

 Jater in the season that the conditions of shooting are not 



at all the same. So long as food is abundant every- 

 where, as it is in September, a flushed covey taking wing 

 will be likely to fly far and not return; while in Novem- 

 ber, as the supply diminishes, the birds frequent the 

 stubble fields and the valleys, and flushed here to-day 

 will in all probability return on the morrow. 



GAME FISHES OF IDAHO. 

 T^HE article contributed to this number of Forest and 

 Stream, by "G. H. W." on the salmon and trout 

 of Idaho will be read with much profit and pleasure by 

 all of our readers who delight in this noble family of 

 fishes. The account of the habits of the redfish corres- 

 ponds exactly with our own observations on the red 

 salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)oi Calif ornia and the region 

 northward to the Yukon River in Alaska. Even the 

 month (August) in which dead salmon line the river 

 banks is the same in Alaska as in Idaho. In short it is 

 an accepted fact that the redfish and red salmon, or blue- 

 back are identical. There are, however, landlocked fish 

 of this species, and we have seen examples from Wash- 

 ington which were sexually mature at a length of 10in, 

 This is the only one of the Pacific salmon known to have 

 a landlocked form. The colors described by "G. H. W." 

 — a sharply contrasting green head with a reddish body — 

 agree perfectly with those of the red salmon on Kadiak 

 Island as we saw them last fall, but Alaskan salmon are 

 somewhat larger than the 20 in. fish of Idaho. What is 

 the bull trout here mentioned? A dark-colored thick- 

 set fish with a large head and the habit of lying in deep 

 pools and taking bait near the bottom, while all the other 

 trout of this communication take the artificial fly — this 

 is the description of a trout which we have long supposed 

 to be the dolly varden (Salvelinus malma), which is the 

 only red-spotted trout recorded from the Western region. 

 The other three kinds, we assume, are all black-spotted 

 and represent varieties of the red-throated or Clark's 

 trout (Salmo purpuratus). There is in Henry Lake, 

 Idaho, and doubtless other lakes as well, a trout which 

 we fail to recognize among those described by our corres- 

 pondent; it is the lake trout or namaycush, which is so 

 widely distributed in North America, from Labrador to 

 Alaska, and from Idaho to the Arctic Ocean. This will 

 be easily accessible and always desirable for the great 

 work of stocking the Yellowstone Park now in progress. 

 Living in deep lakes, growing to the greatest size of all 

 the trout and possessed of admirable qualities as food 

 and game, it must always command the attention of 

 anglers and flshculturists. 



CALLIOPES IN THE FIELD. 



W E have all encountered him in the field, the man 

 who howls like a maniac at his dog. It is not be- 

 cause the dog is deaf, for even if he were there would be 

 no need of the howling and shrieking; but it is that the 

 howler knows not a bit better. He has the notion that a 

 hunting dog must be worked like a sledge dog amid 

 Arctic ice fields, and so he makes an Eskimo of himself 

 every time he goes shooting. And none of us ever yet 

 saw a dog that worked any better for the racket than he 

 might work, or might at least have been trained to work, 

 without it. 



As a safe rule, the man who howls at his dog in the 

 field may be put down as a poor sportsman^ and the dog 

 that is howled at as a poor dog. For the matter of that, 

 the dog which finds game for a noisy master usually does 

 about what his dog sense tells him to. The very fact of 

 the man's noisy demonstrations imply that he cannot 

 make his dog obey. With dogs as with horses, the mas- 

 ter who handles them best is not he whose voice can be 

 heard in the next county. The quiet control of horse or 

 dog is the only true mastery. 



There is nothing to be said for noise in the field. 

 Properly trained, a dog will obey as readily, and as intelli- 

 gently, and as effectively a motion of hand, or gun, or 

 head,' as the bawling and roaring of a Boanerges. It is 

 true that the dog-exhorter may thereby secure a needed 

 and beneficial degree of lung exercise; but he is not at all 

 likely to secure so large a count of game. Of all sounds 

 that startle the birds, that of the human voice is most 

 certain to alarm them. Every expert gunner knows this, 

 and keeps still. The shouter is a tyro; or if he shouts 

 year after year, he is certainly a poor sportsman; and 

 when in company with others who do not share his noisy 

 proclivities, he is voted a general nuisance. Many a 



grouse has been lost for no other reason than because it 

 was startled and flushed by ill-timed speech. 



Roscoe Conkling once pointed out that it would not do 

 to hunt ducks with a brass band. He meant the remark 

 to apply to politics. There are some men who never have 

 learned, and never will learn, that it applies to shooting 

 too. 



BLUEFISH IN LONG ISLAND WATERS. 

 PISHERMEN around Great South Bay have not for 

 *- many years seen such great numbers of large blue- 

 fish as are present this season. One man caught 450 in 

 a single day recently, and 250 at another time. Capt. 

 Daniel Thurber, of Patchogue, states that during August 

 they drove up on the beach near the Blue Point Cove Life 

 Saving Station immense schools of small fish that re- 

 sembled herring. On Sept. 24 we were on this beach and 

 saw on a stretch of about one-half mile west of Capt. 

 Thurber's house fifty-one round herring (Etrumeus teres) 

 which had been driven ashore very recently and were still 

 fresh. When Capt. Thurber's attention was called to the 

 fish he said these were the herring on which bluefish had 

 been feeding during the summer, and whenever they were 

 seen on the beach the men were sure to find bluefish close 

 at hand. Sometimes they chased the round herring up 

 to the water's edge, and many bluefish were captured 

 with gaffs and by throwing and hauling a jig or drail 

 from shore. At Fire Island, pleasure boats of various 

 types are now engaged in chumming in the inlet, and, 

 although the large fish are not often taken, individuals of 

 3 to 51bs. are not uncommon. A Jcatboat, with a fish 

 painted on its pennant as a sign of its business, plies 

 about to furnish the parties with chumming bait. The 

 bit of bottom known as "The Cinders" is a favorite local- 

 ity. Here the water is comparatively deep and the tide 

 runs with great force. In shallower water near the north 

 shore the young bluefish, here called "snappers," are 

 freely taken with rod and line. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THAT is an old and familiar story, of the man in jail 

 whose counsel said to him, "My dear sir, they can- 

 not put you into jail for that." To which the client re- 

 torted, "But I'm here." When told that the American 

 Kennel Club had convened in secret session, considered 

 Mr. C. J. Peshall's case without giving him a hearing — in 

 fact while he was detained elsewhere in the custody of a 

 sheriff — and had pronounced him guilty, and disqualified 

 him permanently, some one remarked, "But they could 

 not do that." To which it was replied, "But they did." 

 This is probably the impression that the proceedings at 

 the American Kennel Club office last Thursday will have 

 on most people who are interested. Assuming that Mr. 

 Peshall was guilty of all the charges on which he has 

 been disqualified, and that his sentence is a righteous one, 

 the manner of his trial in secret session of the club last 

 Thursday was not only in violation of precedent, in any 

 other country than Russia, but it is repugnant to accepted 

 notions of fair play. 



For several years the farmers of both the Big and Little 

 Miami valleys of the Ohio have been trying to effect a 

 State organization for the protection of streams and 

 farms from reckless hunters, trespassers, campers and 

 marauders, and for detective work to aid in ferreting 

 out and prosecuting cases in the courts. The Ohio 

 Farmers' Law and Order League has been incorporated, 

 with headquarters at Dayton, and expects to be in com- 

 plete working order before the quail season opens. 

 Gentlemanly hunters will have no more annoyance 

 under this league than heretofore; but indiscriminate 

 shooting and abuse of farmers and their property will be 

 effectually checked. 



Readers of "Uncle Lisha's Shop" and "Sam Lovel's 

 Camps" will be gratified to know that Mr. Rowland E. 

 Robinson, who has been threatened with loss of sight 

 has just successfully come through a surgical operation 

 for the restoration of his vision. Among those who hap- 

 pened to be in the city to congratulate "Awahsoose" was 

 our contributor, Ma j. F. G. Dabney ("Coahoma"), of Mis- 

 sissippi, who assured Mr. Robinson that the philosophical 

 tenets of the Vermont Canuck, Antoine Bissette, are 

 making steady progress in the cane-brakes of the South, 

 a fact to which Mr. H. P. Ufford had previously testified, 

 as noted by him in the Acadian country of Louisiana. 



