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house, on the lower end of the preserve, and have two 

 other houses, used as camps, one four miles, and the other 

 twelve miles, up the river. The river is full of trout, 

 while there are a great many deer in the woods. Fores- 

 ters are kept who patrol the preserve to keep poachers 

 off: but as there is plenty of bunting all around it, this is 

 not so necessary as it would be in a settled country, It 

 was here, in this mountain solitude, away from the cares 

 of business that we spent two weeks seeking the wary 

 deer. As there waR no snow we did not have a fair 

 chance at them. We saw, by the signs, that they were 

 there; but had the pleasure of bringing only one away 

 witb us, The other pilgrims were a little disappointed; 

 but I had been in the same fix so often elsewhere that I 

 was well satisfied with the trip. If we did not bring out 

 a car load of game we had all that our families could use 

 before it would spoil, and we had seen the wilds of the 

 great wilderness of the Cheat River region, and the head 

 waters of the Mississippi basin. Two miles from the 

 club house is the Elk River which flows westward and 

 empties into the Kanawha, and thence into the 

 Ohio. If ever the opportunity comes, I want to get on 

 that ground when there is a tracking snow, and if I do 

 not get more venison it will not be my fault. "When we 

 met our friends at Pittsburg on our return the question 

 on all sides was, ' Who killed that deer?'' And that 

 question is still unanswered. — Homerus (Columbus, O.). 



"That reminds me." 



ONE day when we were fishing for black bass on the 

 Potomac the fish did not rise well to flies, so John 

 proposed to take my landing net and go into a field and 

 try to get some grasshoppers. He had been gone about 

 five minutes when I heard him shout, and a moment 

 later saw him clear a five-rail fence at one jump, and 

 never stopped running until he had reached me, crashing 

 and tumbling through the rank growth of weeds that 

 covered the bank of the river. I said, "What is it, John, 

 a rattler?" and all he could say in reply, between gasps 

 for breath, was— "Bull!" E. A. R. 



Another time two of us went bass fishing, carrying our 

 lunch in a tin pail. We ran our boat ashore and I wpnt 

 a short distance above, and wading in commenced fly- 

 fishing. In a few minutes I saw my companion, who had 

 waded in near where we had left the boat, making most 

 frantic efforts to get ashore, splashing through the water 

 and shouting at the top of his voice. I was startled, 

 thinking he had met with some terrible accident, such as 

 getting a hook in his body; and I made all haste possible 

 to get to him. He emerged from the water, threw down 

 his rod, rushed up the bank, throwing rocks and cusses at 

 something I had not yet seen. When I got within speak- 

 ing distance and asked for an explanation of his appar- 

 ently insane actions, he told me that a hog had gotten 

 into the boat and was eating our lunch. We proceeded 

 to examine the amount of damage done, and found that 

 the hog had thruut her snout right through the contents 

 of the pail, leaving the print of her nose in a cup of but- 

 ter that was in the bottom. As this seemed to be the 

 only damage done, and we were very hungry, shortly 

 afterward we eat the lunch. E, A. R, 



One summer a young man from Staunton, Va., was 

 making a canoe trip on the Potomac in a very small can- 

 vas canoe which was decked over all but a small cockpit. 

 Ned R., an enthusiastic fisherman and canoeist, happened 

 to meet the young man and asked permission to try the 

 canoe. Now Ned weighs about 240ibs., and there was 

 some discussion as to whether the canoe would carry 

 him; but as he was not afraid to try it his request was 

 granted. He got in and sat down, noticing as he did so 

 that he completely filled the cockpit, in fact had some 

 difficulty in passing certain obstructions on the sides, but 

 after passing them be seemed to have plenty of room. 

 He paddled up stream through a pool thirty feet deep, and 

 as far up the rapids above it as he could. He then turned 

 to come home, and feeling thirsty stopped at a spring for 

 a drink, but when he attempted to get out of the canoe 

 he found that he was securely fastened in. The obstruc- 

 tions he had forced his way by were screw eyes in the 

 gunwale, put there to fasten the tent to, and it was im- 

 possible for him to force his way out again. A terrible 

 feeling of his danger overcame him, and he paddled rap- 

 idly but very cautiously back to the landing, running 

 the canoe up on a sandbar and shouting lustily for help 

 to get him out of the "blamed thing." E, A. R. 



Baltimore, Md. 



The full texts of the game fish laws of all the States, 

 and Canada, are given in the Boolt of the Game Laws. 



Trout and Bass Fishing-. 



Wk have secured, for the private information of the readers of 

 Forest and Stream, knowledge of a number of streams and 

 lakes easily accessible from this city, where we believe that good 

 fishing for trout and black; hass may be had. The information 

 we shall Ire glad to furnish without charge to any reader of Forest 

 Aim Stream who will apply for it, either personally or by let'er. 



MAINE ICE IS OUT. 



THE ice is out of the Maine trout lakes. It went out 

 sooner than was generally anticipated, but no 

 sooner than was pleasing to some of the Boston fisher- 

 men. Thursday morning, May 5, I received a dispatch 

 from Mr. J . A. French, of Audover, saying that the ice 

 left Richardson Lake the night previous. Within an hour 

 from the receipt of the first dispatch, Mr. Prescott, of the 

 Mooselucmaguntic House, at Haines Landing, tele- 

 graphed me that "Ttje Mooselucmaguntic lake is clear of 

 ice this morning." This was good news to some of the 

 sportsmen, but others were scarcely pleased. In fact 

 they had not expected the ice to go" quite so soon, and 

 they felt as though something had, somehow, interferred 



with some of their arrangements. But the interest in 

 this item of the departure of the ice was great. Inquiries 

 rapidly came in by telephone to know if the news was 

 true. That evening another dispatch from Mr. C. A. 

 Dennen, landlord at the Kineo, announced that the ice 

 had left Moosehead. But it is a singular fact that up to 

 the time of writing this letter. May 9, no news has been 

 received of the going out of the ice from Rangeley Lake 

 proper. On Saturday morning, the 7th, Mr. C. Bissett, 

 of Geo. B. Appleton '& Co., received a dispatch from Mr. 

 Samuel Rano, already at Rangeley, saying that the ice 

 had not then left that lake. It is a fact that the ice is 

 generally out of Rangeley as soon as from any other 

 in the Rangeley chain, with the exception of Umbagog, 

 which always clears first. 



The ice is out and the trouting season is fully begun. 

 The parties are generally made up and the time set for 

 leaviog Boston. Some of them have already gone. The 

 Shattuck & Stevens party, mentioned in full in the 

 Forest and Stream last week, left Boston on Saturday 

 for Cinip Vive "Vale, in the Narrows. They are doubt- 

 less having fun fishing with ulsters and mittens on, and 

 in remarkably low water. Mr. J. A. French writes me 

 again that there has not yet been much of a rise of water 

 in Richardson Lake, and that he expects the greatest fish- 

 ing on record. But the lakes are reported to be very 

 slowly filling. Mr. French is open for guests at the 

 Upper Dam Camps. His old cook, famous with sports- 

 men nine or ten years ago, is with him. Mr. French and 

 bis son, Tom, are building a steamer at the South Arm. 

 The boat is to be 60 feet long with ladies' cabin, and 

 other conveniences of a sanitary nature such as these little 

 trout-lake steamers have few of them been provided with 

 heretofore. The Androscoggin Lake Transportation Co. 

 is also repairing one of its boats to run on the lake. The 

 boats on the upper lakes are reported in good order. 



The Foster party left Boston Monday morning for the 

 Birches, Mooselucmaguntic Lake, though they may give 

 the landlocked salmon a try for a day or two, if the ice is 

 out of Rangeley when they get there. Thisparty, as made 

 up at last, embraces Mr. C. Foster, of the boot and shoe 

 house of Lamkin & Foster: Mr. J. Fred Rogers, formerly 

 of Rogers & Sheldon; Mr. James T. Phelps, New England 

 agent of the National Life Insurance Co.; Mr. B. J. 

 Parker, fancy goods, Tremont street; G. W. Tngalls, of 

 Thayer & Ingalls. boots and shoes: James B. Field, of 

 Field, Thayer & Co., boots, shoes and leather; John A. 

 Henry, of John A. Henry & Sons, boots and shoes. Tne 

 party will make a stay of two or three weeks, and it is 

 scarcely possible that any company will make a more 

 enjoyable visit. Several of the gentlemen are old time- 

 ers at these lakes. Mr. Foster has been there each suc- 

 cessive season for many years, and has usually made fall 

 trips also. The eight men included in the party are all 

 there is room for, though three or four others desired 

 to go. 



TheH T. Rockwell party, one of the best known Boston 

 parties to visit the Rangeleys, will not start before the 

 25th or 26th of May. They are scarcely fond of fishing 

 in ice water. 



The fishing parties for Moosehead are not fitting out as 

 rapidly as usual this year, though it is a characteristic of 

 that lake that the fly-fishing is more generally appre- 

 ciated than the trolling, while the reverse is true of the 

 early fishing in the Rangeleys. The lovers of Moosehead 

 are more likely to go later. The Kineo Club, so well 

 known at Moosehead, will go late this year, as usual. 

 The first week in June is as early as this club will start. 

 About the same names will make up the party as on 

 former seasons. The Linder party will doubtless go a lit- 

 tle earlier than the first of June, ahead of the starting 

 time of the Kineo Club. The Harry Moore party will not 

 go to Moosehead this year, but will visit the preserve of 

 the Ingrlewood Club in New Brunswick instead. 



Mr. John G. Wright, well known in the Boston wool 

 trade, will leave this week for Moosehead. This will be 

 Mr Wright's first experience with Moosehead Lake trout, 

 though he has fished a great deal in Maine waters. He 

 has fished the R tngeleys, but not so much of late years. 

 He is much interested in the Cjmmodore Club, at Moose 

 Lake, in Hartlend, Maine. He has been there this spring, 

 as already mentioned in the Forest and Stream, to see 

 what could be done toward stocking Moose Lake with 

 landlocked salmon, by means of its tributary streams, 

 unfortunately, pickeral are in the lake. He met the 

 Maine fish commissioners while in the State, and received 

 a good deal of encouragement. Mr. J. F. D winell, of the 

 well known coffee house of Dwinell, Hay ward & Co., 

 will visit Moosehead this spring for trout fishing. Mr. 

 Dwinell is "an old timer" at the Rangeleys, but of 1 ite 

 years he has had a good deal of business in regard to 

 town affairs on his hands, and his fishing trip3 have had 

 to be passed. But he has found time to visit Upton, 

 Maine, nearly every fall for partridge shooting. He 

 thinks that he will try Moosehead this year. The size 

 of the lake strikes him favorably and the method of 

 getting about in steamers, without the trouble of row- 

 boats. Parties go out with steamers in the morning, 

 carrying canoes and guides, and return in the evening 

 by the same method. 



Mr. Reuben B. Foster, of the firm of Foster & Weeks, 

 is one of the most genial of fishermen. Born among the 

 hills of Old Oxford county, Maine, and having consid- 

 erable early experience with her bears, as well as trout 

 streams, the love of rod and line, shot gun and "camping 

 out' 1 has clung to him till well up to 60. His bright 

 stories of camp and fishing have sometimes been laid be- 

 fore the readers of the Forest and Stream, and always 

 acceptable, if we may judge by the way more has been 

 called for. But it is not a pleasant story I have f rem Mr. 

 Foster this time. He has been on the sick list since 

 Christmas. Early in the winter he went to Florida, 

 with Mrs. Foster, both in hopes of great benefit from that 

 most genial of winter climes. He filled his grip and his 

 pockets with fishing tackle that Mrs. Foster did not 

 know about. But, alas! he has not been able to use it. 

 He has several times dreamed of beautiful trout streams 

 and thought in his dream that never again should he be 

 at loss to know just wbe~e to go to fish. But itsually he 

 has awakened from thes^ dreams only to find the distress- 

 ing cough and the pain in his side. He reached Boston 

 again the other day, declaring that he is better, but very 

 weak. May good health come again to him. 



Later.— An Associated Press dispatch announced on 



Monday morning that Rangeley Lake had cleared of ice. 



Mr. A. A. Sargent, wife and son, have gone to Camp 

 Haverhill, Mooselucmaguntic. Mr. Sargent is a citizen 

 of Haverhill, Mass., and the mainstay of the same name. 

 He is an enthusiastic angler, and, best of all, he likes to 

 take his family with him. 



The Magee party is one of the best known and the best 

 organized of Boston parties to visit the Maine lakes every 

 season. The party includes some of Boston's first 

 merchants, as well as men of wealth. About the same 

 members are going this year as on former seasons. Ladies 

 are foremost in the company, as they always should be, 

 and sons and daughters are included. They are booked 

 for Haines' Landing, as usual, but they will not start 

 before Miy 25, or thereabouts, at which time a full list of 

 names will be given. As now made up. the company in- 

 cludes Mr. A. N. Parlin, of the Magee Furnace Co.; Mr. 

 John Magee, of the same company, wife and daughter; 

 Mr. Frank A. Magee and wife, also of the same company ; 

 Mr. RufusF. Greeley and family; Mr. Amos M. Kidder, of 

 Plymouth, and family; Mrs. Dexter D. B >wman, of New- 

 ton. This company is not partial to cold weather for trout 

 fishing, though the records of some of the members com- 

 pare favorably with the best. 



Trout fishermen about the Bay State continue to show 

 some very good records, but it is generally done in pre- 

 served streams. Mr. C. A. Jones, president of the 

 Woburn Savings Bank, has a stream in Billerica that he 

 has fished on three or four occasions this spring with 

 good success. He has already caught twenty-six trout 

 from the stream this year. He caught eight on his last 

 trip, the largest well up into the pounds. These catches 

 are the result of restocking, done by the same gentleman. 



Mr. L, A. Dow, with his friend Mr. Jordan, both of 

 Boston, has just returned from a successful trip to Suna- 

 pee Lake, N. H. They made a total catch of thirteen 

 trout, weighing from five to nine pounds. They were 

 lake trout, of course, the larger ones, but none the less a 

 good catch, as friends can testify. 



Mr. H. H. Crocker is off for Quinamisset (I am not cer- 

 tain about the spelling of the word) Pond in Falmouth. 

 With other friends he is interested in the control of this 

 pond, with the stream that flows into it. Considerable 

 pains has been taken in restocking, with good results. 

 Landlocked salmon were put in some years ago, but none 

 have ever yet been taken. 



I learn from good authority that the salmon pool lease 

 of the late Dr. Baxter, Surgeon-General of the United 

 States, on the Restigouche River, is for sale. Senator 

 Piatt is the administrator. I believe. Special. 



ANGLERS' ASSOCIATION OF ONONDAGA 



SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 10.— [Special to Forest and 

 Stream.] — The Anglers' Association met at their 

 rooms last evening. The attendance was good and it 

 was an enthusiastic session. Arrangements are well 

 under way for a fly-casting tournament during the State 

 Sportsmen's convention which will meet here. A large 

 number of desirable prizes have already been secured. 



The committee on fishing submitted report, recom- 

 mending that effort be made to have fish ways placed in 

 the several dams of the Otsego and Seneca rivers. On 

 the above recommendation the following resolution was 

 offered and adopted: 



Resolved, That the Commissionersof Fisheries be respect- 

 fully and earnestly requested by this Association to giv 

 this important subject their serious consideration, and 

 to use their official influence to have the Rogers fish way 

 placed in the several dams in the Oswego and Seneca 

 rivers from Lake Ontario to Cross Lake, 



Henry Loftie offered the following resolutions, which 

 were adopted: 



Resolved, That the congratulations of the Anglers' 

 Association of Onondaga be extended to the Fish and 

 Game Commissioners on their reappointment by Governor 

 Flower. 



Resolved, That said Commissioners be respectfully re- 

 quested by the Association, irrespective of party, to re- 

 appoint J. W. Pond as Chief Protector, and Henry Hawn 

 as a protector, in recognition of faithful, diligent and 

 successful services on their part. 



Resolved, That in the faithful performance of protec- 

 tive work executed by our deputy, Henry Jackson, of 

 this city, for the Anglers' Association of Onondaga, the 

 past year, we urgently request his appointment as a State 

 game protector; and that a copy of this resolution be sent 

 to the Commissioners. Henry Loetie. 



SEBAGO LAKE. 



1 PORTLAND, Me.— On Monday, April 4, word reached 

 me from a friend that he went up to the lake Sat- 

 urday morning, the ice opened in spots during the fore- 

 noon and in the afternoon he took the first fish of the 

 season, a 8-pounder, On Monday the Portland contin- 

 gent began to move in and during the week about fifty 

 fi3h were taken, ranging from 2 to Tibs. The following 

 Monday, April 11, a friend of mine took eight fine fish, 

 beating the record for the work of a single rod in one 

 day. During the next weeks the catch was larger. 



Several natural causes are credited with this increase 

 in sport. The lake is very low, 9ft. lower than last year 

 at this time, many places being dry where last year fish 

 were taken. For this reason the fish are not running 

 into the mouths of the streams, but are remaining in 

 the lake. Most of them have been taken with minnow 

 bait in the vicinity of Sandy Beach. Crockett's is the 

 favorite resort for our fishermen. The prices are moder- 

 ate, the fare and beds excellent and the company always 

 good. Many small private camps have been erected 

 about the shores during the winter and all are now occu- 

 pied. Crockett's may ba reached by the mountain divi- 

 sion of the Maine Central R. R., leaving the train at Mat- 

 tock's station. Spurwink. 



Salmon eor the Hudson — On May 3 there were ship- 

 ped from Cold Spring Harbor to Glens Falls, N. Y., 

 50,000 fry of the Atlantic salmon. The fish were planted 

 in Clendon Brook by Mr. A. N. Cheney. Since 1S84, 

 this little stream has received nearly 840,000 fry of the 

 sea salmon, besides 150 yearlings. In addition to these, 

 30,000 fry were planted" in Whipple Brook. Altogether 

 they would appear to form a slender colony and we can- 

 not forbear expressing the wish that the whole number 

 had consisted of yearlings instead of fry. The cost 

 would have been somewhat greater, but the reeults 

 would certainly justify the increased outlay. 



