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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 30, 1892. 



CANADIAN DUTY ON GUNS AND RODS. 



The following memoranda fully Bet forth the require- 

 ments as to duties on guns, rods and camping outfits of 

 Americans visiting Canada: 



Memorandum. No. 416 B. 



Customs Department, Ottawa, 17th Oct., 1890.— Collector of 

 Customs: You are hereby instructed to require entry and duty, 

 as provided by tariff, on all j?uns and other hunters' equipments 

 Drought in by hunting panieF, without any conditions tor refund 

 of the same, unless under special permission by this Department. 



J. Johnson, Commissioner of Customs. 



Memorandum. No 492 B. 

 Custom's Department, Ottawa, July 4, 1891.— Collector of Cus- 

 toms: Referring to Memo. No. 416 B of the 17ib October last, I am 

 now instructed by the Honorable the Minister of Customs to 

 authorize you to accept entry and duty on the guns, fishing rods 

 and other equipments of parties visiting Canada for sporting pur- 

 poses, with the condition that the duty so paid will be refunded 

 on proof of exportation of the same within a period of two months 

 from the date of entry. The said Memo. No. 416 B is hereby can- 

 celled. J. Johnson, Commissioner of Customs. 



Memorandum. No, 556 B. 



Customs Department, Ottawa, Jtme 14, 1892.— Collector of 

 Customs: Referring to Memo. No. 492 B, of July 4, 1891, re sports- 

 men's guns, etc., I have to direct that whenever any entry is 

 made under the provisions of such memorandum or whenever 

 any enquiry is made as to the conditions under which sportsmen's 

 outfits can be brought into Canada for temporary use, you are to 

 inform the parties bringing in such outfits or making such en- 

 quiries that tbey will be held strictly to the observance of the fish 

 and game laws in force in the Province where they may propose 

 to shoot or fish. In the case of parties entering at any pore in 

 Ontario or proposing to shoot in Ontario, you will call special at- 

 tention to a recent enactment of the Legislature of that Province 

 which, among other things, provides that: 



"No person not a. resident and domiciled in the Provinces of 

 Ontario or Quebec shall be entitled to hunt, take, kill, wound or 

 destroy any moose, elk, reindeer, caribou or other deer, mink, 

 otter, fisher, sable, beaver or any other game animal or bird re- 

 ferred to in this act, without having first obtained a license in 

 that behalf; every such license shall be signed by the chief fish 

 and game warden, and countersigned by the Provincial Secre- 

 tary or his deputy, and shall be in force for one season only, and 

 shall be subject to the provisions of the game laws in force in the 

 Province at the time t he said license was granted; the fee to be 

 paid therefor shall be 826, and shall be payable to the Provincial 

 Treasurer to be applied toward the expenses incurred in carrying 

 out the provisions of the game laws. 



(2) . "Every such person sball, on request by any person whom- 

 soever within the Province, at all times, and as often as requested, 

 produce and show to the person making the request, such license; 

 and if he shall fail or refuse to do so he shall forfeit any such 

 license he may possess, and shall if found hunting, taking, pursu- 

 ing, killing, wounding or destroying any such animal or bird, or 

 if on proof of the facts mentioned in the first sub-section hereof, 

 and upon proof of such request and failure, or of refusal, be 

 deemed to have violated the provisions of this section. 



(3) . "The Provincial secretary, any member of the Board of Fish 

 and Game Commissioners, the chief fish and game warden or any 

 of the wardens may grant a permit to a guest of a resident of the 

 Province free of charge for a term not exceeding one week." 



You will also inform all entering their outfits that if tbey 

 expect under the terms of the memorandum a refund of the duty 

 paid, it can only be granted on condition that the claim bears a 

 Canadian customs officer's certificate of identification and the 

 usual evidence of exportation. 



W. G. Parmelee, Commissioner of Custom*. 



Wants a Gun Store. 



Lincoln, Neb,, June 20. — Our game is prairie chickens 

 and prospects for next September are better than for 

 years. We have good duck shooting and a fair crop of 

 quail. Snipe shooting was very good last spring. Lincoln 

 has a gun club of twenty members, and as we have no 

 gun store in town we have to send off for everything. 

 Lincoln with its population of over 50,000 has the best 

 opening for a gun store of any town west. The writer 

 will gladly give all information to a business man who 

 could invest from $1,000 to 2,000 in cartridges etc. — B. 

 B. B. 



ROD AND GUN AND CAMERA. 



As a recognition of the important place of amateur photography 

 n its relation to sports of the field and prairie and mountain and 

 forest and stream, the Forest and Stream offers a series of 

 prizes for meritorious work with the camera. The conditions 

 under which these prizes will be give a are in brief as here set 

 forth: 



There will be ten prizes, as follows: First 835. Second $20 

 Third $15. Fourth $10. Six of $5 each. 



The competition will be open to amateurs only.' 



The subjects must relate to Forest and Stream's field— game 

 and fish (alive or dead), shooting and fishing, the camp, campers 

 and camp life, sportsman travel by land or water. 



There is no restriction as to the time when the pictures may 

 have been or may be made— whether in 1892 or in previous years. 



Pictures will be received up to Dec. 31, of this year. 



All work must be original; that is to say, it must not have been 

 submitted in any other competition, nor have been published. 



There are no restrictions as to make or style of camera, nor aB 

 to size of plate. 



A competitor need not be a subscriber of Forest and Stream. 



All photographs will be submitteed to a committee, shortly to 

 be announced. In making their awards the judges will be in- 

 structed to take into consideration the technical merits of the 

 work as a photograph, its artistic qualities; and other things 

 being equal, the unique and difficult nature of the subject. 



Photographs must be marKed only with initials or a pseudonym 

 for identification. With each photograph should be given name 

 of sender, title of view, locality, date, and name of camera. 



The photographs shall be the p'roperty of the Forest and 

 Stream. This applies only to the particular prints s ent us. 



From time to time we shall reproduce by the half-tone process 

 samples of the work submitted, and should the interest in 

 Forest and Stream's Amateur Photography Collection prove 

 to be what is anticipated, we may ask for an expression of opinion 

 by a vote of all our readers after the manner of the successful 

 and famous "Camp-Fire Flickering Vote." Such popular vote 

 will be quite distinct from the aw aid by the committee. 



Additional Fast Express to *he Southwest via 

 Pennsylvania Railroad. 



In order to better accommodate the increasing traffic to the 

 Southwest, tht> Pennsylvania Railroad Company will, on and 

 after June 12, place in service a new fast train to Cincinnati and 

 St. Louis. The train, to be known as the Southwestern Express, 

 will leave New Yorklat 8:30 P. M. daily; Newark, to take on nas- 

 sensrers for the West. 8:56, Trenton at 10 03, Philadelphia at 11:10 

 P.M., Washington 9:10, Baltimore; 10:40, P.M., Harrisburg 2:05 

 A. M., Altoona 5:40. Johnstown 6:53, arriving at Pittsburgh 9:15 

 A. M., Cincinnati 0:15 P. M„ and St. Louis 7:00 A. M. the second 

 morning after having New York. It will be completely equipped 

 wi'h Pullman sleeping cars to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Mernpais 

 via Cincinnati, anrt coaches to Pittsburgh. A dining car will also 

 be attached at Altoona, from which all necessary meals will be 

 served. The Southwestern Express is the fastest and best 

 equipped train to the Southwestern territory, and will prove a 

 great convenience to travelers to the Mississippi River and 

 beyond.— Adv. 



Trout and Bass Fishing. 

 We 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 bass may be had. The information 

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

 and Stream who will apply for it, either personally or by letter. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Correspondent.'] 



Chicago, III., June 20.— Still we have rainy weather, 

 but of a jerky, squally sort, which leaves intervals for 

 hope. This mu3t be the new year of which the poet 

 wrote: 



"His childhood shall be froward, wild and thwart, 

 Full of sweet joys and stormy pleasures." 



If these early days, set for peace and sunshine, are so 

 wild and thwart, what shall we expect for the harsh 

 days of fall and winter in this annus irce? 



The fishing situation shows improvement. The bass 

 are well done spawning in some of the warmer waters 

 and are beginning to bite quite well all over northern 

 Illinois and southern Wisconsin. The Madison lakes 

 have sent down some fine baskets of large bass, and 

 Messrs. Willard, Bingham andHeikes, who have mingled 

 trap shooting and bass fishing so successfully, are dis- 

 posed to think that Wisconsin is the greatest place on 

 earth. Mr. Bingham told me they caught sevtnty-fiv>e 

 small-mouths in a day. 



Of trout not so much can be said. I d© not know of 

 any catch of 1 rge trout this season yet, though many 

 heavy catches of small ones have come in from the mid- 

 way waters of Wisconsin. The logging drive is now in 

 progress on some of the best streams of that State and of 

 the north peninsula of Michigan. The second drive is 

 now passing Stager, on the Brule. 



From now on we have every right to hope for improve- 

 ment in our fishing, but for bass we must still go to the 

 lakes, for our rivers continue irritated. 



Mtjkwanago, Wis., June 22, — This morning, from the 

 top of the lofty bluff where we are encamped, we saw 

 the spirit of Phantom Lake, in form a wild, harsh-laugh- 

 ing loon. Thrice it circled the silver sheet of water, 

 thrice it called aloud and then departed, knowing all was 

 well. 



All is indeed well. If there be a lovelier spot in all 

 Wisconsin than this I have not found it, and if there be 

 on earth a prettier camp than ours I fain would look 

 upon it. Our hill is so high that we overlook the tallest 

 trees that line the beach and catch a vista beyond the 

 water of rolling, timbered hills. The lake itself, as I 

 write, lies flawless as any perfect mirror, and all about 

 its edge, a mile from our point of view, the shadows of 

 the trees are as sharp cut in the water as the trees them- 

 selves are in the air. There is not yet a human habita- 

 tion on these shores, saving our two Proteanj^tents 

 and the wider canvas of a party of enthusiastic youths 

 who belong up Waukesha way. Where the blue grass 

 meets the woods on the old Indian lookout hill our camp 

 is set, half in sunshine this morning and half in shadow. 

 We have a Nessmuk fireplace, enough wood for our 

 modest fire, and at thefootjof our bluff we have choice of 

 two springs of living, bubbling water, one of iron tonic 

 and one of pure sweet water, clear as air. A bowshot 

 from either spring we can, on half an hour's notice, 

 catch half a dozen little bass, half to three-quarters of a 

 pound each, just right for broiling, and hard and sweet 

 as any bass that ever grew. We can take a boat through 

 the outlet and row down to town for supplies of tobacco, 

 sugar, coffee and the side meat of commerce, or we can 

 cross the lake to a certain farmhouse, with a red barn, 

 and there obtain butter, eggs and cream. If we wish 

 wild sport there be big bass in the mill pond to our right 

 and also in the winding creek above it. 



If we wish exploration, we can in the season of high 

 water go by boat up Mukwanago Creek to the forks above 

 the bridge, and thence as we wish to Lake Beulah or 

 Eagle Lake. Among the islands of the latter water we 

 can find temporary camping places enough, and thence 

 make forage after trout; for there are trout in Waukesha 

 county if you know where to find them, and we do know 

 where. On the marshes between here and there is many 

 a cackling rail bird, if we cared to shoot them now; and 

 below the little village where you get your tobacco and 

 bacon runs the Fox River, wherein you may obtain wall- 

 eyes and small-mouths if you like. We have rush fish 

 for frog, clear water for minnow, and gravel bottom for 

 fly-fishing in the lake. We have pretty scenery on every 

 hand, and water so good that it is shipped to all the world. 

 There may be better places for a week's stay out of doors 

 for tired folks, but just where those places are remains 

 in doubt, J. B. H and myself, who were here last year, 

 dared not try to find a better, and so came back to Phan- 

 tom Lake, This year our party numbers four, including 

 also T. B. W., known as the Chief- with-Two-Stomachs, 

 and A. H, H., who was with us for part of the time last 

 year. Here endeth the first chapter. We need a few bass 

 in this camp. 



Second Chapter. — We have the bass, five of them, 

 bright, clean little fellows. I wonder why it is people 

 say the fishing is not good here. Probably they don't 

 know how to fish. I wonder also how it is that four men 

 can eat as much as we do. We shall need more side 

 meat, more bass, more bread, and more everything else, 

 if this keeps up. 



June 23.— Yesterday afternoon was one of wild weather 

 and wild sport, the latter much in the way of a sur- 

 prise, though as for the weather we are used to two or 

 three thunderstorms in one afternoon. It came on to 

 rain as we entered the mill-pond, whither we went in 

 search of big bass, and it rained so hard that we had to 

 go ashore. Then there arose a high wind and lashed the 

 little sea into a stretch of white waves. We knew 

 enough of big bass to know that now was our time, and 

 po set forth among the islands along the hidden channel. 

 These "islands" are only floating bogs, held together by 

 grass roots and rushes, but along the square banks where 

 the channel cuts through you can look down in ten or 

 twelve feet of water and see great cavernous holes, 



washed out and running far back under the protecting 

 mass of roots. In these caverns there have dwelt, for 

 how many years no one knows, bass larger than any in- 

 habitant of the little village of Mukwanago or even any 

 alien angler ever knew before. Last summer we did not 

 thoroughly explore this singular country, but this after- 

 noon we did, and to our exploration was due an evening 

 of such sport at bass fishing as I confess I never saw be- 

 fore, nor do I expect soon to see such another. 



Harryman pulled the boat with J. B. H., and I rowed 

 for the redoubtable chief with the double alimentary 

 appliance. Harryman did not know the channel very 

 thoroughly, and for some time his boat did not do very 

 well. The Chief and I found out the secret of the caves 

 under the islands, and at the edge of these he cast his 

 frog. I never saw bass strike so savagely, run so far, or 

 fight as hard as these did, though I suppose this was 

 largely due to their great size. They averaged heavier 

 than any I ever saw taken in one boat. In two hours the 

 Chief took ten bass, of which one weighed 5|lbs. on our 

 pocket scales, three weighed 41bs. each, and one weighed 

 3|lbs. Seven fish of the lot weighed 361bs. I do not 

 think so many heavy bass are often taken iu so short a 

 time. As sport this was simply grand, for the country 

 was difficult, what with the rushes, the lily pads, and the 

 caves under the banks, and each bass in the boat meant a 

 stubborn fight, or more than one. 



At length the Chief absolutely refused to fish any 

 longer, and insisted on my taking the rod. We had 

 now come upon grassier water, and here the bass had a 

 lot of fun with me. I had six strikes in rapid succession, 

 and only got one of the six. We thought that these bass 

 were also very large, from the way they acted. It was 

 impossible to stop them on their runs for the lily pads, 

 and. once there they smashed things. Meantime "Harry- 

 man had taken up the rod in the other boat, and was 

 meeting similar misfortune, only landing two bass out of 

 a number of savage strikes. It was a wild afternoon. 

 All the big bass in the country seemed to be out, and in 

 full war paint at that. 



After this no one need tell us very much about the bass 

 fishing here. The trouble is with a great many fishers 

 after bass that they do not understand the habits of bass, 

 and are not familiar with the projectile power of a well- 

 built casting rod. The black bass is a very shy bird, but 

 if you pitch a frog to him from a boat thirty or forty 

 yards away, he has no suspicions to trouble him, and, 

 barring selfish suspicions, a black bass is quite unscrupu- 

 lous about a frog. This is not the first time that the frog 

 and the casting rod have demonstrated themselves for 

 our party in waters where the residents thought there 

 were no ba3S. To-day the Chief had to return to the city, 

 and he took with him some of the heaviest bass. The 

 mayor and the Town Council of Mukwanago tendered him 

 the freedom of the city, and an admiring multitude fol- 

 lowed him to the train. "I'd like to know what them 

 Beulah Lake fellers would say if they saw this string," 

 said one leading citizen, It seems there is rivalry among 

 these hills. 



June $4? — W e are expecting company in our camp, and 

 so we needed some more bass. For eating purposes we 

 prefer the smaller bass out of the deep and cold waters of 

 Phantom Lake. We took a boat and in a short time 

 caught four nice fellows by casting among the rushes in 

 the shallow water. Our party of neighbors do not under- 

 stand why they cannot catch bass. This evening, for 

 experiment, I put my fly-rod together, and casting fly 

 from the boat while Harryman was casting frog, I caught 

 a fine strawberry ba3S, and a moment later caught a 

 strawberry bass and a black bass at the same cast, which 

 gave the little rod all it wanted to do. It seems probable 

 that we could have some fly-fishing here if we cared to 

 work for it. We are not working, but trying to forget 

 about work. As a camp of rest and comfort, with every- 

 thing needful near at hand, we would need journey far to 

 find a more fortunate location. J. B. H. came here sick, 

 but is already mending. There is no medicine like that 

 of the woods. E. Hough. 



POTOMAC NOTES. 



For the past two weeks the Potomac has been muddy. 

 Last records of bass fishing in it are for May 30, when 

 some fish were taken in the eddies formed at the junction 

 of the Shenandoah and Potomac. There are plenty of 

 bass in the river, and in the Monocacy, too. In fact, all 

 the tributaries, the SouthjBranch and Shenandoah, will 

 furnish good sport as soon as the water clears sufficiently. 

 Tappan, on the avenue, informs anglers as to the condi- 

 tion of the water by means of a bulletin board, on which 

 is recorded the state of the water at different points 

 within easy reach, and tells whether the bass are biting. 



Clev©, of Union Bridge, Md., under date of June 15, 

 writes: "Hammon Dern says come up; he will take you 

 out fishing; was out yesterday and caught 14, weighing 

 from f to lilbs, each. A month ago Dprn caught one 

 weighing o|lbs., and last Monday, the 13th, he took 11 

 nice ones. The fish are biting. How is a 5|-pounder for 

 Big Pipe Creek?" Certainly a large fish for that stream, 

 which is a tributary of the Monocacy. And I'll be there 

 just as soon as the cares of business will permit. 



That old veteran fisherman, J. T. Bare, writes from 

 Bainbridge, Pa., under date of May 30: "Suscmehanna 

 high: water muddy. Plenty of bass in the river; lots of 

 'salmon.' too. You may safely layout for a good outing 

 here this summer, and I shall be glad to let you know 

 when the fish are biting." 



Our anglers here are very bitter toward the G-erman 

 carp, which has become so abundant in the Potomac. 

 They claim that these fish (they are often called hogs) 

 roll or swim and plow over the nests of the bass and 

 devour many of the eggs. Their tough leathery sides, 

 it is said, protect the carp from the plucky bass, and 

 taken all through the carp is pretty roundly denounced 

 here. I was asked some time ago by an old gunner if 

 it is not highly probable that these fish are destroying 

 the haunts of the ducks. I advised him to investigate 

 t><e matter fully and report results to Forest and 

 Stream. 



Tne carp will stand most anything that a human 

 being will. Mr. Horan says that "The first year they 

 cleaned out the carp ponds the fish were all removed. I 

 caught a half dozen scale carp and threw them out on 

 the bank, securing them by passing a willow stringer 

 through their gills. The fish were left there on the 

 bank from noon until evening, when I threw them into 

 a fi3h-can and carried them home. Then I put them 



