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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[A?Bn>, 16, 1891. 



SOME ST. LOUIS CLUBS. 



TBTE shooting and angling clubs in. St. Louis number 

 thirteen with about 800 members. After a week's 

 still-hunt I was enabled to gather the following brief 

 sketch of each club: 



The St. Louis Game and Fish Preserving Association^ 

 commonly called the King's Lake Club, is located in 

 Missouri at King's Lake north of St. Charles. The asso- 

 ciation has under its control about 6,00f) acres of land 

 and controls one shore of the lake for about two miles. 

 There is a large club house contaiiiing about forty rooms, 

 ice house, garden and other conveniences. The mem- 

 bership is fixed at 200, and is nearly filled. There is a 

 wide range of sport, there being both timber lakes and 

 prairie lakes. The shooting consists of duck, snipe, 

 quail, squirrels, and imported coons. The fishing is 

 mostly for bass and croppie, although other fish are 

 caught. The officers of the club are: David Caruth, 

 Pres. ; Joseph Specht, Tice-Pres. ; John McDonald, Sec'y 

 and Treas. 



G^rand Pass Sliooting Olvb.—This club is located in 

 Green county. III., about luO miles northeast of St. Louis. 

 The club owns 3,000 acres, and has a fine ten-room club 

 house. The membership is limited to twenty-five and is 

 full. The club grounds alford duck, snipe and quail 

 shooting, and black b^ss are freely taken in the spring 

 with the fly. Tlie offii^ers are: J. F. Shepley, Pres.: 

 Frank Carter. Vice-Pres. : J. D. Malin. Sec'y. 



Calhoun Fishing and Hunting Cluh.—The grounds 

 are located in Calhoun county. 111. The club owns about 

 too acres of land, upon which was recently erected a 

 new club house, and in addition conU-ols a large sloueh 

 from the river with about two miles of water front. The 

 membership is limited to seventy-five, the roster now 

 numbering about seventy. The officers are: D. W. Mc- 

 Elroy, Pres.; M. Petersen, Vice-Pres.; P. J. Cliiford, 

 Sec'y: M. P. Morrisey, Treas. 



Kicid Lake Cluh.—The grounds of this club are located 

 in Monroe connty, Illinois, and contain nearly 2.000 

 acres of land and lakes. The shooting is duck and snipe, 

 while the fishing is for bass and croppies. The lake being 

 clear water, fly-fishing is the only method pursued, and 

 fine scores have been made. The fishing begins in June 

 or about as soon as the shooting is over. There is a club 

 house on the pronerty. The membership is limited to 

 twenty, and the officers are as follows: President. F. G. 

 Huaunin, and Secretary, Allpn Glassow. 



Murdoch Lake Clidi.— This club was organized about a 

 year ago under the laws of Illinois, and has a member- 

 ship of fifty. The officers are: President, Thos Couch: 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. Smith, The lake is loca- 

 ted near Harrison ville, I'l. The club also cnnti-ols the 

 shore land around the lake, but the shooting is mostly on 

 the water. Angling is good, especially for croppie, for 

 which the lake has long been famous." The club put a 

 stop to seining, and fishing has been much better in con- 

 sequence. 



&ilead Slough Hunting and Fishing As.sociation. — 

 This club is incorporated under the laws of Illinois, with 

 a capital stock of $7,250. Its membership can reach 290, 

 hut at present numbers about seventy. Their grounds 

 are located in Calhoun county, 111. The club owns 800 

 acres of la,nd a,nd controls about two miles of water on 

 the Mississipi River and two miles on Gilead Slough. 

 They are now building a fine cbib iicuse to cost $3,000, 

 and an ice house is also being constructed and a cottage 

 for the accommodation of members and their families. 

 The shooting consists of duck, quail, snipe and rabbit; 

 flshine', black and striped bass and croppies. Fly-fishing 

 is also done on these waters. The officers are: President, 

 D. Delabar; Vice-President, C. Schweickhardt: Secretary, 

 A. E. Winkelraeier; Treasurer, Herman Schwartz. 



Brevatore Shooting Club.— This club owns 4 000 acres 

 in Missom-i about 10 miles from St. Charles. It has a fine 

 club house of 10 rooms, and as the club contains but 10 

 members each one claims a room. The association is 

 what is known as a close one. The president is Joseph 

 Lucas. Sec'y-Treas., David Rankin. 



The Cuivre Shooting Club. — This club owns 3,000 acres 

 of land in St. Charles county, Mo. They have a fine club 

 house suitable for the accommodation of the members of 

 the club, which number only 20. They have excellent 

 shooting on then property, on which there are six lakes. 

 The shooting consists of duck, snipe, quail and geese. No 

 fishing in the lakes. The president is Geo. M. Wright, 

 Sec'y, Geo. Dana. 



TJie Dameron Hunting and Fishing Club. — This asso- 

 ciation, now in its fourth year, holds a State charter from 

 Missouri good for 20 years. It is located in Pike county, 

 Mo,, and contains about 5,000 acres, mostly prairie with 

 some timber. There are a number of small lakes and 

 sloughs on the property which afl'ord fine bass and crop- 

 pie fishing. The shooting consists of duck, snipe, prairie 

 chicken and quail. The membership of the club is 

 limited to 20. There is a comfortable house on the grounds 

 for the use of the members and also an ice house. The 

 officers are: Wm. Clark, Pres.; E C. Mohrstadt, Vice- 

 Pres.: L. A. Weaver, Sec'y; Wm. Hettel, Treas. 



St. Louis Hunting and Fislmig Club.— This club has a 

 memberphip of 100. The grounds are located in Stoddard 

 county. Mo., and consist of lOO acres, but as the region 

 is a very wild one, the range of country for hunting is 

 almost unlimited. They have a fine club house with 

 every convenience. The character of the shooting con- 

 sists in deer, ducks, quail, turkey, squirrel, woodcock and 

 rabbits. In angling of black bass, croppie, jack salmon, 

 wall-eyed pike, su.nfish , pickf rel and catfish. The officers 

 of the club are Seth W. Cobb, Pres.; J. R. Claiborne 

 Vice Pres.; E. C. Lickiand, Sec'y. 



The AllenviUe Cun Club is a sortof a close communion 

 club and has only five members, but they claim lo con 

 trol about 4,000 acres of land and water at AllenviUe, III . 

 near Collinsville. They have a club house and boat house 

 with excellent duck and snipe shootine. The president 

 is C. W. Steinmetz, and secretary, G. Miller. 



Current River Fishing and' Hunting Club. — This 

 club is located on the Current River, in southeast xMis 

 souri, not very far from Doniphan. The offic^-rs are 

 R. C. Barrett, President; J. A, Lee Vice-President, and 

 R, L. Mabrey, of Doniphan, Mo., Secretary. The associ- 

 ation was incorporated in 1887. It has spent several 

 thousand dollars in building a club house on the Current 

 River and in other improvements. At one time the 

 membership numbered over 200, but of late there have 

 been many withdrawals, and the future of the club is in 

 a somewhat dubious condition . The shooting and fishing 

 are both excellent in the tei-ritory surrounding the olu b 



■property, but it is somewhat difficult of access from St. 

 Louis. 



Dardenne Hunting and Fishing CZu5.— This club is 

 located in St. Charles county, near St. Peters. It controls 

 3,000 acres of land, upon which is a fine new club house | 

 with accommodations for thirty guests. The grounds 

 are fitted up with all conveniences for the accommoda- 

 tion of shooters. There is a fine kennel house, ice house, 

 etc. The membership of the club is limited to thirty- 

 five. The shooting consists in ducks and snipe. The 

 club is incorporated und^r the laws of Missouri with the 

 following officers: President, -JobnC. Noble, the present 

 Secretary of the Interior; Vice-President, Mark Taylor; 

 Secretai V. J. Shepley. 



The Giiham Lake Hunting and Fishing Club, which 

 was partly organized a few weeks ago, will probably not 

 reach a permanent organization. The property they had 

 in view they have been unable to obtain, and without 

 full control of the lake the property they now have under 

 lease would be of no vahie, consf quently the club will 

 not go further in theic organ iz-ati on. 



A movement is on foot by prominent sportsmen of the 

 State for the purchase of a birge game preserve in south- 

 east Missouri. It is fsaid that about 50,000 acres have 

 already been purchased in the rrgion of what is known 

 as the" "sunk lands" of Missouri. The land is mostly 

 swamp, but is full of game of all kinds, nnd is probably 

 the best hunting ground in the State of Missouri or in the 

 West. Abeedeen. 



AN ANGLER'S MEMORIES. 



ALTBURN, Cal.— Our trout season opened April 1, but, 

 alas! 'twas the same old story. When the law- 

 abiding angler went to his favorite stream, he fotmd a 

 well-worn path up and down the banks, formed by the 

 feet of numberless law-breakers who had fished the waters, 

 over and over again, in defiance of all law. It makes the 

 law-respecting man's blood boil, but what can he do? It 

 has all been said a hundred thousand times before, and 

 will have to be said millions of times more, until the end 

 of time — or trout. As long as every petty officer, even 

 down to constable, is elected by the voles of We, the 

 Sovereign People, just so long can the Sovereigns fish, 

 hunt, or do aught else contraiy to law that happens to 

 come into their sovereign heads unmolested by any and 

 all official action. 



But it is no use "kicking" 'Tis so the world over, more 

 or lees; and I try to think with Dr. Pangloss, that "Tout 

 est pour le mieux dam le meilleur de.f mondes possthles" 

 — which, being (ilj-literally translated, means, "every- 

 thing goes " 



I received a call the other day from an old Eastern 

 angling acquaintance that I had not seen before for 

 twenty years. He was visiting the Pacific coast and 

 came to'see me, and oh! didn't our tongups wag? When 

 we last met it was on the shores of Egg Pond, some two 

 miles back from Spider Lake, in the Megantic region. 

 At that time there was nothing but wilderness in that 

 region, the nearest settler being at Piopolis, on the west 

 bank of Megantic, ten or twelve miles away. We had 

 gone there as members of separate parties, to explore the 

 place, and to afcertain the facts about some wonderful 

 yarns we bad heard about the size and numbers of trout 

 contained ii: tbst small body of water. 'Twas only a 

 case of •'anolbrr lie nailed," as the fish were small and 

 in very limited numbers. I bade my friend good-bye 

 that June morning, just twenty years ago this coming 

 June, and we had never seen or heard from each other 

 since. Twenty years! It is a terrible gap right out of 

 the middle of one's life. We were only thirty then, and 

 now Ave are fifty, and— alas! and alas! our fishing days 

 will soon be over. 

 What's that ? Our fishing days will soon be over ? 

 Fie, for shame! For, lo, these twenty more years we 

 intend to "go a-fishing," if life be spared, and when we 

 are doddering old men the chck of the merry reel and 

 the ze-e-e-p of the silken line as it cuts the water, res- 

 ponsive to the wild dashes of his royal highness at its 

 further end, will again send the old boyish enthusiasm 

 bubbling through our senile frames. 



And when we get too old to cast a fly in actuality we 

 will do it in our minds and see the line go rolling out 

 across the dimpling water until the flies drop softly down 

 thirty yards away (there is no limit to our cast when it is 

 done in our minds) and his lordly trcutship answers with 

 flashing leap. Ah! here comes in an advantage we had 

 not thought of before. When fishing in our minds every 

 cast is rewarded by a rise! 



By the way, what can any old man occupy his mind 

 with after he becomes helpless and housebound, who has 

 never gone a-fishing? The glorious memories that store 

 every old angler's attic will be brought otit and dusted, 

 and ranged before the mind's eye vrith ever new delights, 

 and the rapidly descending road to the great unknown 

 will be smoothed and cheered by the innocent compan- 

 ionship of those dear old friends. Not one memory 

 among them all but what is innocent and happy. God 

 bless the declining years of the honest angler ! 



But this is digression. My friend tells me that the fish- 

 ing at Megantic has followed the dodo, the Labrador 

 duck and the buffalo. 



The advent of the railway brought the world to its 

 doors, and its glories have departed. In the Chaudiere, 

 Lower and Upper Spider rivers, where I have filled a creel 

 in two hours' fishing, the angler must fish all week for 

 the same number, and then be in great luck if he accom- 

 plishes so nuich. But then, ''Tout est pour le mieux,'' 

 etc.; and where nothing was once heard but the melan- 

 choly hoot of the owl or bellow of the moose, hundreds of 

 our fellow creatures dwell in comfort anrl contentment. 



And where it took me tliree days to go, in a boat 

 mounted on wheels, the wonderful nineteenth century 

 railway train will transport you to the same spot in three 

 hours. 



Now, dear Forest a>'D Stbeam, all this maundering 

 comes from the awaking of old memories by my angler 

 friend's visit, so you must pardon me. I promise not to 

 do it again — till next time. Arepah. 



Hajl) a Seceet, — Columbus, Tex. — ^Last year a fisher- 

 man came into our midst, and every night he would 

 catch nearly a wagonlcad of catfish, and no one was able 

 before or since to do it. Thinking there is a secret about 

 I it I write you to see if you can give me this secret, or put 

 me in position to get it. Our stream has plenty of fish in 

 it, but they cannot be caught, and the turtles and gais 

 I are bad.— J. G. B. 



KEUKA LAKE. 



A DUNDEE, N. Y., correspondent sen^is us these notes 

 of the fishing in Keuka Lake: We have no good 

 fishing in this immediate vicinity. Our fishing grounds 

 we find in Lake Keuka, "The Queen of the L'lkes," about 

 ten miles west of this place. This lake is 23 miles long, 

 and averaging from ont -half mile to one mile wide. It is 

 in shape like the letter Y, with the village of Hammonds- 

 port at the head of the lake, Branchport at the foot of the 

 AVest branch and Penn Yan at the outlet and foot of the 

 East branch. This lake is traversed by two linf s of steam- 

 boats making several trips daily during the summer sea- 

 son, and, owing to the strong competition, the fare for a 

 trip through the lake, or to any pornt thereon, is only ten 

 cents. 



This lake is well stocked with trout, black bass, pickerel, 

 perch and whitefisb, with an occasional g]as--eyed pike. 

 Trout are caught troUtn^ with the spoon and "Seth Green" 

 rig, using with the last named tackle, alewives or "c-aw- 

 bellies," as they are commonly calkd for bait. This bait 

 is taken from the lake, long minnow seines being used 

 for the purpose. These lake trout vary in size from one 

 pound in weight up to twelve and fifteen pounds, with 

 an occasional "old sender" tipping the beam at eighteen 

 or twenty pounds. To capture one of these "heavy 

 weights" upon the "Seth Green" rig and safely land him 

 in your boat, furnishes an angling experience never to be 

 forgotten. The "Seth Green" rig is made of No. 1, 3 or 3 

 siUc line from 300 to 350ft. in length, with from 4 to 6 

 single gut leaders 12 to 15ft. long. Gang hooks are used, 

 upon which the baits are fixed in a slightly curved 

 position. 



The favorite fishing ground for these trout is at Keuka. 

 The season opens April 1 and continues until October 1. 



At Keuka is situated the Lake Ketika House under 

 the management of Mr. J. M. Washburn, owner ana pro- 

 prietor. It is a well kept hostelry and a favorite resort 

 for fishermen. Mr. Washburn always endeavors to keep 

 a good supply of bait on hand, together with necessary 

 tackle and boats. His charges are one dollar and fifty 

 cents per day, or by the week seven dollars. 



Last season' a trout register was provided by Mr. Wash- 

 burn in which the number of trout taken by his guests 

 was recorded together with their weight. Although the 

 season was a poor one owing to the high water and other 

 causes, yet the grand total footed up 1,005 trout weighing 

 2,o9llbs. The largest trout captured was taken by a gen- 

 tleman from Dansville, N, Y., and weighed 11^1 bs. No 

 record was made of any other kind of fish. Any inquiries 

 addressed to Mr. Washburn, Keuka, N. Y. , will receive 

 prompt attention. Guides are not necessary, though any 

 one desiring an oarsman to row his boat while trolUng, 

 can readily secure such help at reasonable prices. 



For black bass, the favorite bait are live minnows, the 

 helgramite or "dotson'" and the fresh water lobster or 

 "crab." Pickerel and perch also take the same bait. 

 Trolling with the spoon is a favorite way of capturing 

 them with many. The "dobson" or "crab" are not ob- 

 tainable at the lake, but have to be secured in advance 

 from other places. 



Keuka is easily accessible from either Haramondsport 

 or Penn Yan. Railroad guides give full dir^ ctious how- 

 to reach these places. The scenery of Lake Keuka is en- 

 chanting and picturesque. Tourists pronounce it the 

 most attractive of all the lakes in we^^eyn New Y'Tk. 

 Its shores are lined with cottages, while vineyards cover 

 tiie slopes o]j either side for several miles back. The lake ^ 

 has become famous on account of its imm.ense grape in- 

 dustry, and the large wine cellars in connrcLion there- 

 with. Much more might be written of this attrsctive 

 body of water, appropriately called "The Queen of Lakes." 



CASTALIA TROUT IN THE SNOW. 



C\HICAGO, April 11.— I don't hear of the snipe yet, 

 ) though it must be nearly time for them to be up 

 here. Along the Castalia strpam in Ohio last week I 

 heard of about half a dozen being seen. That is just at 

 the lower edge of Lake Erie. And while so near to that. 

 I must say, in re the close of last week's letter, wherein 

 the prospect of taking a trout was mentioni-d, that Mr. 

 Sadler, of Sandusky, and myself did go fishing on the 

 club preserve on the following day, and we did catch a 

 trout, and more than one, though the full score of those 

 kept (the smallest fish retained must be Sin. or over) was 

 only six trout. I had heard so much of fly-fish mg for 

 trout on this stream in the middle of a snow s'orm. "I 

 would dearly love t« see a trout takpu on the fly when 

 the snow was on the ground," said I to Mr. Sadler. And 

 a few moments later we did see one. In the snow bank 

 then lying along the stream the brilliant fish rolled and 

 struggled, encasing himseif in the frosty crystals until 

 he looked like no fish ever seen. But I shall tell much 

 more of this strange stream before we close about it. 

 Maantime the engravers must have a little time to play, 

 they are too busy to make a picture or two of things 

 bearing on that story. E. Hooth, 



GAME PROTECTIVE SOCIETIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The Utica Fish and Game Protective Association held 

 its annual meeting last evening. The reports of the 

 president and secretary showed that much good work 

 had been accomplished during the year, especially on 

 Oneida Lake. The removal of F. P. Drew from the 

 office of chief game protector was deemed unwise. The 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, I. J. Gray; Vice-President, I. C. Mcintosh; 

 Secretary, John D Collins; Trea^-urer, Geo. L. Br-idford; 

 Durectors: I. C. Mcintosh, W. K. Gdmore, VV. E. Wol- 

 cott, Gustavus D.xter, Dr. C, M. Hitchcock, Ebon G. 

 Brown, T. Jay Griffiths. 



The Hamilton Fish and Game Protective A^sr'ciation 

 held its annual meeting April 7, in Hamilton, N. Y., and 

 elected officers as follows: President, A. M. Russell: 

 Vice-President. L. B. Crowell; Secretaiw, E. L. Kings- 

 bury; Treasurer, Wm. Wentworth; Directors; E. L. 

 Kingsbury, C. M. Wickwire, Nicholas Carp, Wm. Went- 

 worth, E. Hoostkotter, A. R. Orvis, L. B. Crowell. 

 Although only one year old the a'ssociation is doing ex- 

 cellent protective work. Poetsa. 



UxiCA, N. Y., April 9. 



Lease of St. John Blver for sale; splendid salmon fishing, See 

 advertisement. —A.dv. 



