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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 14, 189a. 



pools and I'll take yours to-day, and to-morrow we will 

 change.' 



" 'No,' replied my friend, 'that will give you the 

 fourth pool to-day /and as that is the best pool on the 

 river, and it has not been fished lately, I am sure of a 

 salmon in it.' 



" 'Very good,' I answered, 'we'll stick to the original 

 programme.' 



"By this time I was rigged and ready to begin casting. 

 My friend still sat on his log, although I suggested he had 

 better take advantage of the early fishing. 



"I began casting, and rose a beautiful fish at the third 

 cast. I missed him, and then such a growl as my com- 

 panion uttered would have tried the patience of Job. 



" 'Just my infernal luck. Oh! what a beautiful fish. 

 If I had had this pool. Cuss the luck,' etc. , etc. 



"I waited a few minutes and then began casting again, 

 and soon rose and hooked my salmon. It was a bright 

 silvery fish just from the sea. 



"Such a look of absolutely green jealousy and envy as 

 I caught on the face of my friend I had never seen before, 

 and it destroyed all the pleasure I was expecting. How- 

 ever, I played the'fishas well as IcouJd, but I felt nervous, 

 for I had never before had such an experience. Alas, my 

 casting line parted in the middle of one of the furious 

 runs of the salmon, and be was free. 



" 'Too bad, too bad, 1 exclaimed my friend, but his 

 countenance belied his words, for if ever I saw a face 

 lighted up with satisfaction his was. 



"He took his rod and guide and started off for the sec- 

 ond pool. 



"After repairing damages— the fault was in the cast- 

 ing line, a flat place only an inch in length in the gut 

 having broken, all the rest of the leader being perfect — I 

 cast in the same pool again for a while, but without any 

 success. 



"At length I reeled up, and with my guide moved 

 along up to the third pool, which was my next one. As 

 we passed the second my friend was busy casting, but he 

 had no rises, as his guide informed us. 



"At the third pool at my second cast I hooked and 

 killed a grilse, and soon after rose a fine salmon, hooked 

 and played him, and my guide was just on the point of 

 gaffing the fish when my friend joined us. 



"He came down the path with a bound, and as we 

 killed the salmon he burst out with a loud 'I congratulate 

 you; I congratulate you!' but he looked ready to cry. 



"All this made me so uncomfortable that I said I would 

 give him the balance of the river for the day, for I had 

 had all the fishing I wanted, and with my guide carrying 

 my salmon and grilse, I returned to the hotel." 



"Ha, ha!" shouted Hiram, "that man wanted the 

 earth." 



"Well," I continued, "the next day it was the same 

 story, and the next. Nothing would satisfy him, and on 

 the evening of the third day I told him that on the next 

 morning I was going to another river a few miles away 

 and he would have this stream all to himself, and even 

 that did not satisfy him, for his last words when I left 

 him on the following day were: 



" 'Don't kill all the salmon in the river, for I expect to 

 fish it in a few days.' " 



"He was a hog clean through," exclaimed Hiram. 



"He was," assented William. 



"Yes, there is nothing like going fishing with a man 

 to give one a true insight into his character," said Frere. 



"Sure," responded Hiram, "and it don't take a guide 

 long to find him out." 



"Right you are, Hiram," said William. 



And the brothers were right, no one can size up a fish- 

 erman as correctly and quickly as an old guide, and I 

 confess I always make my first casts with that trepida- 

 tion when I am out with a new man, knowing, as I do, 

 that my every movement is scanned with the keenest 

 scrutiny and my every word weighed in a balance that 

 is unerring. 



ANGLING NOTES FROM PORTLAND. 



PORTLAND, Me., April 2— The Sebago fishing for 

 landlocked salmon is looked forward to this spring 

 with more than usual interest. Reports from all sources 

 last fall were favorable to an increase in the number of fish 

 running up the tributaries to spawn. Our local anglers 

 are overhauling their tackle and getting paint on t heir 

 boats, to lose no time when the ice leaves, which will not 

 be for some weeks yet. 



Poaching and wanton slaughter of spawning fish have 

 reduced the Sebago waters to a state of depletion which 

 will require years of careful management to make good, 

 but local sentiment is now better than for years past, and 

 we are hoping there may be a return of the days when a 

 day's trolling would give a fair return. If any of your 

 readers care to visit us, it should be done with an under- 

 standing that it means a great deal of time and labor with 

 no surety of fish. 



Your correspondent will be glad to afford any inquirer 

 through your columns such information as he can from 

 time to time acquire. 



Black bass have increased wherever they have been 

 placed in our State and afford plentv of sport. The 

 nearest pond for Portland anglers is Duck Pond, distant 

 about eight miles, and a few of us who persist in follow- 

 ing it up, find plenty of fish. So far as my observation 

 has been supplemented by experience, our Maine bass are 

 not partial to the fly. This mode of fishing captures email 

 ones, but the three and four pounders of Duck Pond, 

 Lovell's Pond, the waters at Norway and Waterford, 

 refuse anything which is not alive. How it is with the 

 fish at the Belgrade, Winthrop and Pushaw ponds I can- 

 not affirm, having never fished there. At the other ponds 

 mentioned I have taken a great many, but must confess 

 that I have never yet landed a bass without regretting 

 that his name, color and flesh did not make him a trout. 



Spurwink. 



Wisconsin Anglers Want Fishways placed in the 

 dams obstructing the ascent of fish to the upper waters of 

 Fox River. They are seeking also to prevent the whole- 

 sale destruction of fish by mill refuse, against which ex- 

 isting laws afford no protection. The paper mills are 

 especially active in causing fish mortality. There is no 

 good reason why corporations and individuals for whose 

 benefit streams are obstructed should not be compelled to 

 introduce fishways at their own expense, and everybody 

 who is interested in fish and fishing should aid in securing 

 legislation compelling dam owners to provide a free 

 passage for fish to their spawning grounds. 



BIG TROUT AT CASTAL1A. 



APRIL 2 Mr. John Sweeny, of Detroit, caught in the 

 waters of the Castalia Trout Club, with a fly, a 

 brook trout weighing 41bs. loz. This is the largest fish on 

 record in Castalia waters, Mr. Yale, of Cleveland, having 

 previously led the score with a trout taken from the part 

 of the stream belonging to the Castalia Sporting Club 

 weighing 31bs. 3oz , and Mr. J. W. Oswald, of Toledo, hav- 

 ing been high rod in the upper club (first named) with a 

 fish of 21bs. 8oz. 



There has always been a spirited, but good-natured, 

 rivalry between the two clubs as to which could produce 

 the largest fish, and it will now behoove the brethren in 

 the. lower association to excel Mr. Sweeny's prize, if it is a 

 possibility. The Castalia Sporting Club'has the best part 

 of the natural stream originally, but the upper club have 

 greatly improved their territory by .the construction of 

 the artificial stream already fully described in Forest 

 and Stream. The membership of the upper club is in 

 Sandusky, Detroit and Toledo, while that of the lower 

 organization hails mostly from Cleveland. Jay Beebe. 

 Toledo, O., April 9. 



FISHING AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



THE classification of the fishery exhibits at the World's 

 Fair will be as follows, being Department D., Fish, 

 Fisheries, Fish Products, and Apparatus of Fishing. 



Group 87.— Fish and other Forms of Auuatic Life. 



Class 218. Aquatic life— scientific collections and literature. 

 Works on aquatic zoology and botany. Maps illustrating geo- 

 graphical distribution, migration, etc , of fisbes and otber aquatic 

 animals. Specimens and illustrations representative of the rela- 

 tions between extinct and existing forms of life. Specimens 

 (marine and fresh water), fresb, stuffed or preserved, in alcohol 

 or otherwise, casts, drawings, and representations of objects 

 named in the following classes: 



219. Algse, genera and species, with localities. 220. Sponges, 

 corals, polyps, jellyfish. 221. Entozoa and epi'zoa. 222. Oysters, 

 clams and mollusca of all kinds; shells. 223. Starfishes, sea 

 urchins, holot 1 urians. 221. Worms used for bait, or noxious; 

 leeches, etc. 235. Crustacea of all kinds. 226. Fishes, living or 

 preserved, or represented by casts, drawings, or otherwise. 227. 

 Reptiles, such as tortoises, turtles terrapins, lizards, serpents, 

 frogs, newts. 228. Aquatic birds. 229. Aquatic mammalia, otters, 

 seals, whales, etc. 230. Characteristic plant and animal life at 

 great depths. 231. Fishing grounds. 



Group 38.— Sea Fishing and Angling. 

 232. HistOTy of fishing, fishery laws and fish commerce. 

 Ancient fishing implements and their reproductions. 

 Models, pictures, books, emblems. 

 Charters and seals of ancient fishermen's guilds. 

 Fishery laws of different countries. 



Copies of treaties, conventions, etc., dealing with international 

 fishery relations. 



Reports, statistics and literature of fish, fishing and fisheries. 

 Reports of acclimatization of fish, and of attempts in that direc- 

 tion. 



2S3. Gear of every description and of all nations, used in trawl, 

 herring, long-line, hand-line and every other mode or system of 

 fishing, fishing lines and rigged gear. 



231. Fish hooks, jigs and drails. 



235. Fishing rods and reels for lin^s and nets. 



236. Nets and seines, rakes and dredges, and materials used in 

 their manufacture. 



237. Fish traps, weirs and pounds. 



238. Fishing stations and their outfit. 

 23M. Knives, gaffs and other apparatus. 



210. Illustrations of special fisheries. The whale and seal, cod, 

 mackerel, halibut, herriDg. haddock, pollock, menhaden, sword- 

 fish, bluefish, oyster, sponge, and other sea fisheries. 



211. Fishing boats and vessel". 



Group 89.— Fresh- Water Fishing and Angling. 



212. History and literature of angling. "Waltonian literature. 

 Folk-lore. Anglers' trophies. 



243. Salmon nets and fixed appliances for catching salmonidaj 

 in al I their varieties. 



244. Salmon rods, reels, lines, artificial flies and baits, gaffs, 

 spears, creels etc. 



215. Bass, pike, perch, rods, reels and tackle, artificial spinning 

 baits, etc. 



246. Traps, nets, bucks, wheels, and all kinds of apparatus for 

 catching eels, lampreys, etc. 

 217. Auglers' apparel of every description. 



248. The anglers' camp and its outfit. 



249. Illustrations of special fresh-water fishery. Shad and ale- 

 wife, sturgeon, eel, salmon, whitefish, the Great Lake fisheries, 

 etc. 



Group 1*0.— Products of the Fisheries and their Manipulation. 



250. Models of fish-curing and canning establishments. Methods 

 of and models, and other representations of any appliances for 

 drying, curing, salting, smoking, tinning, cooking, etc. 251. Fish, 

 dried, smoked, cured, salted, tinned, or otherwise prepared for 

 food. 252. All products prepared from fish, such as oils, roes, 

 isinglass, etc. 253. Antiseptics suitable for preserving fish for 

 food. 254. Oils, manures, and other products prepared from fish. 

 255. Methods of, and models, other representations of appliances 

 for preparing oil and manures from fish. 256. Sea and fresh- 

 water pearl shells; mother-of-pearl, manufactured; pearls sorted. 

 257. Preparation and application of sponges, corals, pearls, shells, 

 and all parts and products of aquatic animals, etc., to purposes 

 useful and ornamental, with specimens. 258. Appliances for car- 

 rying fish, and for preserving fish during transport or otherwise, 

 and models of the same. Models of fish markets and appliances 

 connected with the same. 



Group Ul.— Fishculture. 



259. The history of fishculture. 



260. Hatching, breeding, and rearing establishments, including 

 oyster and other shell fish grounds. 



261. Apparatus and implements connected with fishculture, and 

 for transporting fish and fish ova. Food for fry. 



262. Representations illustrative of the development and pro- 

 gressive growth of fish. 



263. Models and drawings of fishways and fish ladders. 



264. Diseases of fish, with special reference to their origin and 

 cure. Models and drawings. 



265. Processes for rendering streams polluted bv sewage and 

 chemical or other works innocuous to fish life. (Illustrated by 

 models and drawings.) 



266. Physico-chemical investigation into those qualities of salt 

 and fresh water which affect aquatic animals; investigation of 

 the bottom of the sea and of lakes, shown by samples; acquatic 

 plants in relation to fishing, etc.; researches into the acquatic 

 fauna (animals of the several classes, preserved in alcohol or pre- 

 pared, etc.); apparatus and implements used in such researches. 



267. Acclimatization of fish. Marking of introduced fish for pur- 

 poses o£ identification. 



268. Statistics of the results of fishculture. Specimens of fish 

 artificially propagated or introduced. 



Striped Bass at Havre de Grace on Saturday, 

 April 2 were unusually plentiful, we are informed by Mr. 

 W. de C. Ravenel. Several thousand were seen in one 

 lot and these were nearly uniform in size, weighing from 

 8 to 51bs. All of those examined by Mr. Ravenel were 

 males of remarkable fatness. Philadelphia and Baltimore 

 at the time were glutted with striped bass. About the 

 same date white perch were taking the hook pretty freely 

 at Washington, D. C. The bait used, worms. Shad are 

 running in the Potomac and excursions for planked shad 

 have begun. 



Trout Killed by Lime.— The discovery of thousands 

 of dead trout, from 2 to 14in. long, on the banks of the 

 Homowack and Mountaindale brooks when the ice went 

 out about the beginning of April, caused intense indigna- 

 tion among the anglers of Ellenville and Newburg. The 



destruction of the fish was total and was due to placing 

 lime in the streams by way of revenge upon the New 

 York gentlemen who were endeavoring to protect leased 

 portions of the brooks. This so-called infringement of 

 natural rights of fishery at any and all times by warning 

 off trespassers led some fiendish residents of the locali- 

 ties to the perpetration of a dastardly outrage. Let us 

 hope that Fish and Game Protector Kidd may identify 

 the miscreants and turn them over to the scorn of their 

 honest fellow men and the penalties of the law, 



Potomac Notes. — Washington, D. C. — Anglers are 

 getting ready for the white perch fishing. Some have 

 already been hooked, and a larger number netted. A 

 good run of shad occurred in the river April 1, and seines 

 thirty miles down did right well. A good many rock- 

 fish and perch were also taken in the seines. Sunday, 

 April 2, was a very warm day, and Monday, too. A big 

 run of fish is now expected. Many things pro and con 

 are heard here concerning close season for black bass in 

 the Potomac, While many anglers are ready and only 

 waiting for clear water, a few others are willing to hold 

 off and give the fish a chance to spawn. The Legislature 

 of Maryland has passed a protective law for bass; it now 

 remains to be seen whether or no it will be enforced. 

 We hope so.— Bon. 



New York Bay Fishino.— Shad flies have been swarm- 

 ing along the shore of the bay since the latter part of 

 March, and old fishermen regard them as a sign of a great 

 run of fish . Striped bass are to be expected in force if 

 we may judge from their abundance in waters not far 

 distant. Deputy Harbor Inspector Capt. F. A, Tappan is 

 steaming about the bay looking after the garbage dump- 

 ing scows in order to protect the fishermen , and offenders 

 against the law will find swift punishment for their mis- 

 deeds. 



Lake Trout for Lake George.— The new fish car 

 Adirondack arrived at Lake George, March 31, with 500,- 

 000 lake trout fry from the Caledonia hatchery. The fish 

 were deposited in the lake the same day by John D, Wal- 

 zer, and the car left the lake April 1 on its return trip. 

 The trout were secured through the efforts of Gen. Robert 

 Lenox Banks, president of the Lake George Fish and 

 Game Club. 



Now that "WARM weather is at hand, and the snow haw gone, 

 the brooks are clearing themselves and we go a fishing. But 

 where? It is not time yet to go north or northeast, and so our 

 choice is limited to southwest or west. No railroad running out 

 of New York offers greater facilities for the angler than the Erie 

 line, which in its windings through the Alleghenys as it proceeds 

 westward approaches or crosses a thousand lakes, rivers, creeks 

 and brooks which abound in splendid fish. The angler may take 

 his choice of worms, minnows or flies, he may try for sunnies, 

 pickerel, black bass or trout, and if he is pa tient, industrious and 

 earnest, as each faithful disc'ple of old Izaak should be, he will 

 not return empty handed from his quest. The angler's pleasure 

 during his outing depends in very large measure on his surround- 

 ings. If his journey is comfortable and he is well provided with 

 the necessaries of life while on his trip, a fair degree of success 

 will leave him none but pleasant memories and a wish to repeat, 

 his excursion. The Erie road furnishes accommodations so com- 

 fortable as to leave nothing to be desired by its patrons. It is a 

 favorite line not only for those anglers who wish to visit near-by 

 waters, but also for such as are on their way further west to wet 

 a line in the blue waters of Lake Superior, or in the grayling rivers 

 of the Michigan peninsula, or in the hurrying streams which pout- 

 down from the continental divide. Shooters and fishermen travel- 

 ing westward should try the Erie.— Adv- 



New Fishing Tackle. 



Rudolph's Ventilated Tackle B^xes. Pocke f . Tackle Box. Glass 

 Minnow Trap. Adjustable. Bait Box, Chain Fish Stringer, Float- 

 ing Minnow Buckets, Floating Live Fish Net, Floating Minnow 

 Pocket. Ask your dealers to let you l^ok at these, it will pay you, 

 or send for illustrated circular to Rudolph Mfg. Co., Chicago.— 

 Adv. 



The Little Daisy Minnow Tbap is a labor-saving machine; 

 it saves you time and trouble, working for you while you wait 

 and sparing you the trouble and annoyance of wadiner about 

 through the mud and water. It is no trouble to use it, and it 

 catches the minnows sure enough. The inventor, Mr. Ed. C. 

 Wilson, is prominent in business and politics in Richland county, 



m.—jidv. 



FISHWAY CONSTRUCTION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am pleased to see that the fishway question is beginning 

 to receive the attention it deserves by both press and people. 

 This is demonstrated to me more particularly by the increas- 

 ing inquiries from many foreign countries, as well as the 

 United States, and also by the universal demand for the 

 "common sense" fishway bearing the name of the Rogers. 



The conditions presented by Hon. Marshall McDonald in 

 his recent letter are certainty some of the chief conditions 

 upon which fishways should be constructed when practica- 

 ble; but he has not carried the conditions far enough. Light 

 and simplicity should be added as very important funda- 

 mental principles. Light particularly, for many fish will 

 not enter a dark passage, as I have demonstrated by experi- 

 ment. A reasonable amount of light should always be pro- 

 vided— the more the better. The advantage of simplicity 

 will be shown further on. 



All of those conditions, together with the above, were, 

 years ago, covered by the principles of the Rogers fishway, 

 and it is to-day the only one having the entrance for the fish 

 on a line with the dam, this feature being covered by my 

 original patent. I will endeavor to give a brief outline of 

 some of the most important modes of construction, without 

 the use of illustrations, which are too large and numerous 

 for presentation here. 



When I began the study of this question, more than 

 twenty-five years ago, the first principle I found necessary 

 to master was the production of a simple artificial brook, to 

 represent nature as nearly as possible, with a current suf- 

 ficiently easy to allow any and all fish to ascend, and yet 

 with sufficient depth, volume and force of discharge to at- 

 tract the fish to the entrance. This thoroughly mastered 

 after years of experiment, the next problem was to devise 

 some means of placing the entrance on a line with the dam, 

 a principle which had ever been overlooked in all former de- 

 vices. This obstacle was overcome in a number of ways, to 

 the utmost satisfaction, and marked a new era in fishway 

 construction. 



By placing the fishway above the dam, on an incline of 

 about one foot in nine "or ten, from the lower face of the 

 dam, through and up to within a foot or eighteen inches of 

 the surface of the water (the walls rising^ about as many 

 inches above the surface), the whole being inclosed in crib- 

 work and covered with strips of timber with spaces between 

 for light, and with a suitable ice-head, this perplexing 

 problem was overcome so far as small wood dams were con' 

 cerned. Some other means, however, must be found fo 



