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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 9, 1898, 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHING. 



Lancaster, N. H., May 28.— This week I have a little 

 more comforting Dews in the fishing: line. It is a fact 

 that some trout have been caught this week, but it has 

 rained persistently and every day in the week, and some 

 nights, too. G. E. Lane, of this place, has been to Rich- 

 ardson Lake, Middle Dam; he went with the Littleton 

 party— Geo. Bellows, Arthur Dow and Geo. Whittaker, 

 Littleton; Forrest Collins, of Woodsville, and "Gib" Lane 

 of this place, comprising the party. Mr. Lane came 

 home to-day, bringing a nice lot of trout, one of them 

 weighing just 71bs. and measuring 26in. "Gib" says he 

 was "high-muck-a-muck" as regards size of fish taken at 

 that place this season. 



1 had a line from Bumf ord yesterday from First Lake 

 which says "there has been no fishing until to day; two 

 landlocked salmon were taken here, one of 34lbs. and 

 the other 41 bs," 



The hotel a.t First Lake is now open, and the new 

 houses at Second Lake will be open June 1. Rob, 



Lancaster, N. H., June 4.— This week has been the 

 most productive of fish of any this season. We had three 

 decidedly warm days, in which our old fishing compan- 

 ion, the mosquito, has made his presence felt. Some 

 good catches are reported and doubtless the fishing will 

 remain good during the month, as is usually the case. 



The 10th of June used to be the time for a party of 

 three or four Boston anglers to appear at the mouth of 

 Diamond River, Wentworth's Location, to try for some 

 of the big trout that came up out of the Magalioway. 

 There is the best of fishing there at such a time, trout 

 ranging in size from lib. to 3 or 3£. 



Ex-Gov. C. H. Sawyer, of Dover, Hon. E. H. Gilman 

 and G. W. Weston, of Exter, passed through here last 

 week on their way to Connecticut lakes for a few days. 

 They are likely to have some sport with the landlocked 

 salmon at First Lake as there are more and larger ones 

 being taken this spring than ever before. 



I think your correspondent, "Von W.," introduced the 

 first salmon to those waters some twelve or fifteen years 

 ago. For the first few years nothing was heard of them 

 and the effort was thought to be a failure, but they are 

 now beginning to bear fruit and this year Commissioner 

 Hodge has put in 20,000 and I think some were put in 

 last year; at all events there is fair salmon fishing at 

 Connecticut Lake this spring, with a prospect of better 

 in the future. 



Quite a party from Manchester are in at Camp Dia- 

 mond, Diamond Ponds, and judging from past experi- 

 ences the fishing ought to be fine there the past two days, 

 though I have heard nothing since the first of last week. 



The article in last issue of "our paper" signed by E, W. 

 Whitcomb, Farmington, Maine, is a mighty sensible 

 piece, and hits the nail right square on the head. I have 

 more than once been thoroughly provoked by the writ- 

 ings or sayings of people who occasionally spend a week in 

 the woods, and usually not very "far in" either in regard to 

 the growing scarcity of the large game of northern New 

 Hampshire and Maine, while it is a well known fact to 

 those who spend months in the woods and make a careful 

 study of such matters, that such game is more plenty 

 than ten or twelve years ago. The man who goes into 

 the woods expecting game to come into camp or hotel 

 office to be shot is about the only one who can reasonably 

 growl about the ' -scarcity of game." Rob. 



Woodsville, N. H., June 3.— It has been so cold that 

 no strings of trout of any account have been taken any- 

 where in the vicinity nor in the mountain region. Parties 

 just back from Middle Dam report fair luck and some 

 large ones, .notably one of 71b3. which was shown me. 

 Snow showed on Moosilauke last Sunday, so we have no 

 luck here. C, g, q._ 



GRAND SPORT IN CANADA. 



The Canadian angling season i=s now at its height. Not 

 only has it opened this spring some days earlier than 

 usual, but there has been much greater success on all the 

 streams and lakes than there was last season. I am 

 scrawling these rough notes sitting on a 30x20in. box of 

 ouananiche and surrounded by equally large original 

 cases of fresh caught trout in a baggage car of the train 

 for Quebec on the Northern & Lake St. John Railway. I 

 helped in an bumble way to fill the box I am sitting on. 

 with that right good fellow and genial traveling compan : 

 ion R. M. Stocking, of the general railway and steamship 

 office opposite the St. Louis Hotel, Quebec, so well known 

 to all American anglers visiting Canada, as principal 

 seductor of Lake St. John's famous fresh-water salmon. 

 At the risk of appearing egotistical, and since it may in- 

 terest some of your readers to learn what kind of sport 

 there is now to be had among the ouananiche, I may say 

 that in two hours and a half of fishing yesterday afternoon 

 friend Scocking and your humble servant killed a baker's 

 dozen of fish over which I am now sitting, weighing in 

 all slightly over 401bs. Over half a dozen fish were taken 

 and returned to the water uninjured. 



This is a fish story of course, but it is one the correct- 

 ness of which can be vouched for by two well-known ad- 

 mirers of Forest and Stream— Mr. Chase, banker, of 

 Waterbury, and president of the Waterbury Watch 

 Company, and Mr. Wallace, of Ansonia, Conn., both 

 members of the Metabetchouan Fishing Club, who were 

 fishing in the same pool during the execution with much 

 the same results. That pool is a dandy. Nothing more 

 picturesque can possibly be imagined, "if you will let me 

 locate it for your readers, it is the Ouellet Pool at the 

 Ouiatchouan River, a mile below the falls of that name, 

 about 100yds. from Mr. Ouellet's residence and immedi- 

 ately above the iron railway bridge of the railway. In 

 the distance are the falls, close at hand is the lake, above 

 the pool are foaming rapids, and disturbing the surface 

 of the£water are the gamy ouananiche jumping in pursuit 

 of their favorite flies, which yesterday were the Jock- 

 Scot, the professor and the silver-doctor, in pretty much 

 the same order as herein mentioned. 



Almost equally good sport has been had during the past 

 week at both the mouth of the Metabetchouan and along 

 the westerly or Roberval shore of Lake St. John. When 

 the waters of the lake falls, this fishing in the lake itself 

 and in the mouths of tributary streams will cease until 

 the autumn, and the fish will in the interim hold high 

 carnival among the seething waters of the Grande Dis- 



charge. As it is now raining heavily and the tributary 

 streams of this inland sea are pouring in large volumes 

 of water, I am of opinion that this sport will continue as 

 at present for at least from fifteen to twentv days. But 

 should anybody want to know definitely about this before 

 starting out for it, I am permitted to say that Mr. B. A. 

 Scott, of the Roberval Hotel, will promptly reply to any 

 and all telegrams of inquiry. It was a wire from him, 

 received at 3 o'clock last Tuesday morning after prema- 

 turely sneaking away from a press dinner at the St. Louis, 

 that sent me three hours later up to Lake St. John, and I 

 do not khow how sufficiently to express my gratitude to 

 him either for his thoughfulness on this occasion or for 

 kind consideration manifested by him during our stay in 

 the land of the ouananiche. 



I have scarcely time to tell you a quarter of what I 

 should about the marvellous results of this week's trout 

 fishing all along the line of the railway. All the way 

 down to-day our train has been picking up scattered 

 parties of anglers from the various lakes and club houses, 

 until boxes olfontinalis lie around me piled up in tiers 

 half a dozen and more deep. Messrs. Chase and Wallace 

 have gone back to their lakes at Kiskisink, where thpy 

 had splendid sport last week, as also did Mayor W. B. 

 Hincks and F. W. Benham of Bridgeport, Conn, and U. 

 S. Consul Ryder before them. Ten more members of the 

 club are expected here to-morrow. A large party of the 

 Springfield Club are also reported on their way here. 

 Several Quebec members of the Laurentides and Stada- 

 cona Lakes are on board with tremendous quantities of 

 fish running from fib. to 31bs. The largest and reddest 

 trout shown up on the car are however a half dozen of 

 41bs. taken in Lake Edward by the Quebec Press Club, a 

 few miles north of the club house of the Paradise Fin 

 and Feather Club. E. T. D. Chambers. 



Among the Baggage, Miy 27. 



FOR MAINE TROUT. 



The Zinder party is one of the well-known Boston mer- 

 cantile parties to visit Moosehead every vear. These 

 gentlemen go for fly-fishing altogether; in fact, they 

 never fish with bait. The favorite cast of Mr. Zinder, the 

 leader of the party, is Parmachene-belle for tail fly, Dun- 

 can for dropper and Parmachene-beau for middle flp. 

 With this cast they are very niccessful at Moosehead. 

 The party charters a steamer for the trip. They left Bos- 

 ton Friday. The names of the gentlemen are George 

 Zinder, commission merchant; C. H. Maynard, in the 

 same office as Mr. Zinder; B.' Hurd, of the wholesale 

 grocery firm of Savill & Lomes, and Mr. Allen, junior 

 member of the well-known leather house of Allen^ Field 

 & Lawrence. 



One of the happiest fishing parties of the season left 

 Boston for the home of the Ingle wood Club Friday even- 

 ing. This party is really under the guidance of Mr. L3- 

 roy S. Brown, of Blaney, Brown & Co., a gentleman who 

 has taken a great deal of interest in the Inglewood. He, 

 with Mr. Fred Whiting, one of the junior proprietors of 

 the Boston Herald, is very active as member of the 

 house committee of the club. They have extended an 

 invitation to the Harry Moore party to visit the Ingle- 

 woods in New Brunswick this year, and hence the party 

 of the following gentlemen: Andrew S. March, president 

 of the Inglewood Club; Harry B. Moore, of the grain 

 trade Chamber of Commerce; Samuel Suow. of the Mur- 

 doch Parlor Grate Co.; Henry P. Brigham, New England 

 agent of P. Lorillard ; George C. Moore, manufacturer, of 

 North Chelmsford, Mass. ; E. Noyes Whitcomb, of B. & D. 

 Whitcomb, builders; H. T. Sparrow, of the Medford 

 Chemical Co.: Henry E, Cobb, of Brewster, Cobb & E^te- 

 brook; George B. Ford, cashier of the Commercial Na- 

 tional Bank; Harry O. Cutter and others. They left Bos- 

 ton Friday evening and were to reach the Inglewood the 

 following afternoon at about 4 o'clock. The Inglewood 

 restocking committee have ready to put in this year 100,- 

 000 sea salmon fry. There were also put in last year 

 100,000 landlocked salmon, brook trout and English 

 brown trout. 



A very jolly party from the Boston leather trade started 

 for The Birches, formerly Student Island, Friday. This 

 party was composed of Mr. R. E. Foster, of the Smith - 

 Foster Shoe Co., manufacturer and the mentor of the 

 party, so far as trout (in stories) are concerned; A. H. 

 Proctor, of Thomas Proctor & Co.; A. Frank Breed, .Jr., 

 of the well known shoe manufacturing concern of that 

 name; and E. D. Ropes, a gentleman who has been 

 buying hides on the east coast of Africa for Thomas 

 Proctor. Mr. Foster has visited the Rangeleys for many 

 seasons. Mr. Brepd has been there before, but to Mr. 

 Proctor and Mr. Ropes the trip is new. Mr. Foster's stories 

 — he tells true ones — have led to great expectations. 



Mr. N. G. Monson, of Bellows & Monson, is at his band- 

 some camp, Camp Leatherstocking, on Mollechunkamunk. 

 Mr. Wightman, New England agent of Carnegie, Phipps 

 & Co., has been into camp with Mr. Monson for a few 

 days. The fishing he found extremely poor and the 

 weather very cold. He was there during the snowstorm 

 of May 20 and 21, when 3 or4in. fell. 



The Camp Stewart party left Boston Friday. W. T. 

 Farley, of Farley, Harvey & Co., dry goods jobbers, is a 

 guest of the party. The old-time members are Mr. Geo, 

 T. Freeman, of Harrington & Freeman, and Mr. and Mrs. 

 W. K. Moody. Mrs. F. H. Mudge expected to be with 

 the company, as usual, but was unavoidably detained. 



The Reding company of anglers was to start for Moose- 

 head Sunday evening. The gentlemen charter a steamer, 

 as many of the Moosehead trouting parties do; the 

 distances are too great for rowboats on this inland sea. 

 The company is composed of J. Reding, of Moore, Smith 

 &Co.. hat jobbers; a brother of Mr. Reding; Mr. C. H. 

 Denney, of New York and Methuen, Mass. ; Mr. J. S. 

 Hunt, of New York; Mr. H. B. Warring, of Yonkers, 

 N. Y. : and others. 



Mr. E. C. Fitch, president of the American Watch Co., 

 is a most enthusiastic salmon angler. He owns one of 

 the best salmon rivers in the Dominion, the Romayne, 

 South Shore, Bay of St. Lawrence. He goes to his river 

 this week. Last year he killed 65 salmon, and the pre- 

 ceding year 103. He sails from Montreal on his own 

 schooner yacht. Special. 



A Big- Shad from the Hudson. 



Rojjdout, N. Y., June 2. — A shad 36in. long, 3£in. thick 

 and weighing 91b. 3^oz., was caught in the Hudson 

 at Esopus recently. It is considered here to be the big- 

 gest shad ever taken from the river,— New York Times, 



SCUP IN OIL FACTORIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The following, in explanation of the recent utilization 

 of scup in the menhaden factories of Rhode Island, men- 

 tion of which has been made in Forest and Stream, is 

 extracted from a letter from Captain N. B. Church under 

 date of May 81: 



"In regard to the article in Forest and Stream, by 

 Mr. Reed, the facts are these: All of the traps from 

 Brenton's Reef to Seaconett, had, on the morning of the 

 13th of [May] all the scup they could handle. The custom 

 is, when fish are plenty and the price very low, to tow 

 these fish from the traps, which are stationed outside, to 

 the pounds that are used entirely for keeping the fish 

 alive until the market improves, and which are placed 

 inside out of danger from ordinary gales of wind and seas. 

 But on this occasion, when these pounds were all full, 

 there came in a very heavy sea; most of the pounds were 

 torn open and the fish in them escaped. But in Daniel's 

 case [the case of Captain D. T. Church, of Tiverton] bia 

 net was strong enough to stand the storm, but the fish in 

 it were so badly chafed that many of them died and [as 

 they were unfit for market] he took them to his factory 

 and ground them up. Of course, it would have been 

 easier to have turned them out and allowed them to drift 

 out to sea or on to the shores. But [Captain Church] did 

 what any man ought to do • the best he could do under 

 the circumstances." 



This is evidently one of those cases where "it is easier 

 to find fault than it is to do better." Any one at all 

 familiar with the fisheries cannot fail to know that gales 

 or heavy seas are liable to rise along our Atlantic coast 

 very suddenly, and that the best efforts of the fishermen 

 may prove entirely futile in controlbng circumstances 

 such as those which confronted the trap and pound net 

 fishermen of Rhode Island on the occasion referred to. 

 It is also well understood by all those having any know- 

 ledge of fishing, that fish which are chafed, injured or 

 killed by the action of the waves while they are confined 

 in pound-nets are not only unfit for market but it is 

 reasonably certain that those which are not dead would 

 die if turned out in the ocean. Under such circumstan- 

 ces it would be manifestly unwise, if not absolutely 

 criminal, when anything else could be done for the utili- 

 zation of the catch, to turn adrift large masses of dead or 

 dying fish, which, in a few hours, would strew the 

 beaches about Newport and soon become putrid, thus 

 polluting the air to such an extent as to make the adja- 

 cent shores practically uninhabitable. Any one, taking 

 a fair, unbiased view of the action of Captain Church 

 must concede that he was not only justified in what he 

 did, but that his action was, in the highest degree, com- 

 mendatory, inasmuch as he made a good use of material 

 that otherwise might have been wasted, and also pre- 

 vented the infliction of a disagreeable nuisance upon the 

 citizens of Newport and vicinity. W. 



ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BASS. 



The close season for fishing expired Monday, May 30, 

 Following are some of the catches brought in thus far 

 this week and which were all taken in the vicinity of 

 Clayton, within a radius of two miles: 



J. W. McCombs, with Steven Leyare as oarsman, 

 caught 21 black bass and one ten pound pickerel, Tues- 

 dav. Bisa would average Wlbs. 



Dr. F. M. Vebber, Charles'E. Cole, with Samuel Denny 

 oarsmen, in two hours, Tuesday afternoon, captured 11 

 black bass, averaging in weight 1 Jibs. 



C. M. Skinner, John Foley and Henry Webber, Jr., in a 

 remarkable short time Tuesday, succeeded in bringing in 

 21 black bass, averaging fjlbs. in weight, and one pickerel 

 lOlbs. On Wednesoay the above party took 51 bass and 

 one pickerel. 



J. W. Holberton and wife, of New York, guests of the 

 Walton House, with John Lalonde as oarsman, captured 

 28 fine black bass on Tuesday, and 20 on Wednesday. 



Bay Lilley, of Canton, Pa., guest of the Hayes House, 

 with Henry Webber, Sr., oarsman, caught 20 black bass 

 and 3 pickerel Tuesday, and 20 bass Wednesday. 



E. R. Smith and wife, of Sioux City, Iowa, guests of 

 the Walton House, with Frank Lsvery as guide, captured 

 40 good-sized black bass Tuesday and Wednesday. 



It is paid "that a good fisherman can catch fish any- 

 where." However this may be, G. M. Skinner and John 

 Foley generally bring home fish when they go after them. 

 It was not an exceptional case with them on Wednesday 

 when they started out with Henry Webber, Jr., as oars- 

 man, and after five hours' fishing, within two miles of 

 Clayton, returned with 51 black baEsand a 101b. pickerel, 

 the bass weighing 89lbs., an average of If lbs. each, the 

 largest of which weighed 2-ilbs. This case proves false 

 the old saying of the fisherman's luck. The catch was 

 displayed in front of the New Windsor.— On the St. Law- 

 rence, Clayton., N. Y., June 3. 



Ontario Fishing Seasons. 



Pittsburgh, Pa.— Editor Forest and Stream: In your 

 issue of May 526, under the head of "Toledo Notes," "Jay 

 Beebe" says that, "Under Canadian regulations the bass 

 fishing at Pelee and the other islands just north of the 

 international boundary has for many years opened on the 

 15th of May. * * * But this year the season was 

 changed so as to open on the 10th." Now, the territory 

 referred to belongs in the Province of Ontario, and the 

 laws of Ontario are said to forbid the taking of black 

 bass prior to June 15. If there are any Canadian regula- 

 tions which except the Pelee and adjacent waters from 

 the operation of the law, there are a good many United 

 States fishermen who would be glad lo know what they 

 are. I have made numerous inquiries among Canadian 

 sportsmen and Canadian legal authorities, and have not 

 found anybody who knows of any such 'regulations'." — 

 Geore H. Christ y. 



[The Ontario close season for bass is April 15 to June 15, 

 both inclusive.] 



A Crystal Lake Pickerel-Bass. 



The Nunda (III.) Herald correspondence from Crystal 

 Lake records: "Mr. Miller, of Chicago, who is stopping 

 at the Ashtou House, caught a pickerel that weighed 

 11 lbs. , Monday, and when cut open a baas l lin. long was 

 found inside;" and the man who sends ua the paper cor- 

 rects the report to say that the bass was I3in. long. 



