Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JULY 30, 1891. 



J VOL. XXXVII.-No. 3. 



I No. 318 Bboadway, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



- The Merrimac Salmon. 

 Landlocked Salmon in Bisby 



Restocking li'dke Ontario. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tottrist. 



The Kanpacker and ttie Buck. 



Campers— and Campers. 



A Lonely Pilgrim in the 

 Rockies.— I. 

 Natural History. 



From the Alaska Seal Islands. 



What the Porcuoine Eats. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Wild Turkey Hunting. 



Chicago and the Wpst. 



Small Bores and Bis Bags. 

 Camp-Fibh Fuckerings. 

 Sea ani; Riv-er t* ishinq. 



Fishing in t&e Pioneer West. 



"Rocky Mountain Grayling." 



Blueflsh at Perth Amboy. 



Our Boats. 



Chicago and the West. 

 American Anglers in Canada. 

 Angling Notes. 



FiSHGULTUBE. 



California Salmon in Europe. 

 The Kennel. 

 Influence of a Previous Sire. 

 MastifTa at New York. 

 American Kennels.— m. 

 Beagle Training. 



The Kennel. 

 That Gordon Setter Field 



Trial Trophy. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 R«,nge and ftallery. 

 The Bisley Meeting. 

 A Twenty-Yard Target. 

 The Trap. 



The Hollywood Handicap. 



Pearl River Gun Club. 



Pennsylvania Association. 



Keystone Fourth Annual. 

 Yachting. 



A Deserted Pipr. 



2^ - Rating — 35ft. Corrected 

 Length. 



Eastern Y. C. Special Races. 



Corinthian Y. C. Sweepstakes. 



Briiish Centerboards. 



Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion. 



Dorchester Y. C. 



Cherry Diamond Y. C. 



Atlantic Y. C. Cruise. 



New York Y. O. Cruise. 



Edward Burgess. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Meet Transportation. 



Passaic River Regattas. 



New York C, C. 

 Answers to Coeebspondbnts. 



LANDLOCKED SALMON IN BISBY LAKES. 



IN February, 1889, the Bisby Club obtained from Fish 

 Commissioner McDonald 17,000 eggs of landlocked 

 salmon, and in April the fry, which were developed in the 

 Bisby hatchery, were planted in First Bisby and the two 

 spring ponds above. In April, 1891, a second deposit of 

 17,000 fry was made in the same waters. The results as 

 announced by the president of the club, Gen. R. U, Sher- 

 man, to Commissioner McDonald, are so remarkable that 

 we have obtained permission from the Commissioner to 

 publish them. No better return from artificial introduc- 

 tion has appeared anywhere outside of the natural habi- 

 tat of this salmon. 



The township of Wilmurt embraces 5,000 or more 

 square miles, almost all wilderness, containing many 

 lakes and streams of cold water, in which several of the 

 Salmonidce are native. Dace and other minnows are also 

 present in abundance and serve as food for the game 

 fishes. The First Bisby, into which the landlocked 

 salmon was introduced, is known to be 100ft. deep in 

 some places, with a bottom generally of compact sand, 

 in which certain water plants thrive. Insects and crus- 

 taceans suitable as fish focd abound. The lake trout 

 (Salvelinus namaycmh) is indigenous and rarely exceeds 

 lib. in weight, but a few of 41bs. to 61b8. have been 

 taken. In color they differ somewhat from the trout of 

 the Great Lakes and their flesh is always white, but no 

 specific differences have been observed between ttie two. 

 IhiriBg the last twelve years the brook trout, brown 

 trout, rainbow trout and frost fish (Coreganus quadri- 

 lateralis) have been introduced into Bisby Lake, and all 

 of them are doing well. The frostfish "is excellent for 

 .food and ia a favorite with the lake trout. The brook 

 trout has not made the showing naturally to be expected 

 from the largfe number (nearly 1,000,000) planted, for the 



landlocked salmon already makes a greater display in 

 the lakes, proving that it is peculiarly suited to these 

 waters. 



The first plant, as stated above, was made in 1889. In 

 1890 the result appeared in salmon measuring uniformly 

 Sin, This season they are llin. long, present everywhere 

 in larger numbers and take cut bait, the fly and trolling- 

 gear with eagerness. They are especially abundant in 

 the evening, breaching a foot above the surface of the 

 water and gleaming like shafts of burnished silver. 

 Other Salmonidai retire to deep water on the approach of 

 warm weather, but the landlocked variety play and feed 

 at the surface. 



General Sherman finds that this fish has the habit of 

 working down stream during the spawning season and, 

 in order to prevent its escape into the second lake, the 

 outlet from First Bisby will be closed by a screen. It 

 may be that one thing more can be done to increase the 

 growth of the salmon in these lakes, the landlocked 

 smelt might be introduced from Maine or New Hamp- 

 shire, where it forms the very best food of salmon and 

 trout. 



RESTOCKING- LAKE ONTARIO. 

 TN om* issues of Feb. 26 and March 19, 1891, we gave an 

 -■- account of the popular movement for increasing the 

 supply of food fish in Lake Ontario and of the resulting 

 appropriation for a great hatchery in the St. Lawrence 

 basin, to be installed and directed by the Commissioner 

 of Fisheries. 



Commissioner McDonald has just gone over the region 

 in which it is proposed to locate the hatchery and will 

 decide which of the locations is most suitable for the 

 undertaking. It will doubtless be remembered that the 

 establishment is intended to accommodate 100,009,000 

 whitefish eggs and 1,000,000 salmon fry during a season, 

 which would give it rank as one of the largest hatcheries 

 in the world. 



Contemplating operations of so great extent, it is not 

 surprising that the Commissioner intends to protect the 

 Government's interests by refusing to begin until New 

 York assumes and performs the duty of protecting the 

 spawning grounds of the fishes and regulating the fishery. 

 It is certain that the depleted waters of Lake Ontario can 

 be made to swarm with valuable fishes by the means 

 of artificial culture, provided that these are allowed to 

 reach adult life and reproduce in safety. Now let public 

 sentiment gain the strength to enforce wholesome law 

 and we shall see Ontario coming back to its old place as 

 a productive lake. 



THE MERRIMAC SALMON. 



NOT only the Penobscot, but also the Merrimac has 

 had a greatly increased salmon run this year. The 

 obstruction at Amoskeag Falls has been partially over- 

 come by means of a flshway into which the salmon enter 

 with or without the assistance of agents of the New 

 Hampshire Fish Commission, While the mUls are shut 

 down, from Saturday night to Monday morning, there is 

 enough water passing through the fishway to make it ac- 

 cessible to salmon, but when they are in operation the 

 channel becomes inadequate and the fish collect in rock 

 pools, from which they must be helped into the fishway. 



Below Livermore Falls, near the Plymouth hatchery. 

 Commissioner Hodge nets salmon during the season and 

 places them in a large pool, where they remain until 

 ready to spawn in October. Here the large males become 

 very restless at times and show their quarrelsome dispo- 

 sition, while the females sulk and starve in silence. The 

 eggs are taken and fertilized in October and the fish are 

 then returned to the Pemigewasset, In the spring the 

 fry are deposited at Woodstock, and remain in the brooks 

 until the sea-going instinct leads them into the Merrimac 

 and off into undiscovered tracts of ocean, from whence 

 some persons think they will never again return to falter 

 at Amoskeag and fall at Livermore. 



It is true that the migratory instinct of the salmon in- 

 volves the fish in many dangers from savage enemies and 

 deadly pollutions; but their decimation begins and pro- 

 gresses most rapidly in those innocent-looking little 

 brooks in which the salmon passes its babyhood. Every 

 salmon stream observed by us is inhabited by an insig- 

 nificant but destructive little flish, whose special mission 

 is the extermination of salmon and trout. At Plymouth 

 this pest has been detected in the act of cliiabing up the 

 outflow froiu the hatchery. The name of^ this salmon 



destroyer is sculpin, miller's thumb, or blob, and its 

 work in a stream means desolation. If then, adult 

 salmon are wanted in the Merrimac, let the authorities 

 rear the fry apart from natural enemies until their size 

 will insure a safe journey seaward. It will cost- some- 

 thing, but the result will amply justify the outlay. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



'T^HAT comforting tenet of the angler's philosophy, that 

 -■- it is not all of fishing to fish, is of ancient origin and 

 worthy of respect because of its age. Here it is in the 

 treatise of Dame Juliana Berners, as written four hundred 

 years ago: 



For he maye not lese at the moost, but a lyne or an hoke, of 

 whiche he maye haue store plentie of his owne makynge, as this 

 symple treaty se shall teehe hym. Soo thenne his losse is not 

 greuous, and other grey ffes maye he not haue sauynge, but yf ony 

 fysshe breke away after that he is take on the hoke: or elles that 

 he catche nou?ht; whyche ben not greuous. For yf he f ayl le of 

 one he maye not faylle of a nother, yf he dooth as this treatyse 

 techyth; but yf there be nought in the water. And yet atte the 

 leest he hath his holsom walk and mery at his ease. swete ayre 

 of the swete sauoure of the meede iioures: that makyth hym 

 hungry. He hereth the melodyous armony of fowles. He seeth 

 the yonge swannes: heerons: duckes: cotes and many foules wyth 

 theyr brodes, whyche me semyth better than alle the noyse of 

 hounriys: the Wastes of hornys and the scrye of foulis that hunters: 

 fawkeners and fowlers can mak. And yf the angler take fysshe: 

 surely thenne is there no man merie than he is in his spyryte. 



We have improved on the spelling since the Dame's 

 "Treatyse" was printed in 1486, and our fishing tackle is 

 finer nowadays, but the sentiment is there; and who 

 shall say that it will not hold good for another four 

 centuries ? 



It appears from the interesting little story told in our 

 "Chicago and the West" letter this week that that city is 

 not a whit behind New York in the illegal sale of game 

 by restaurants and hotels. In fact, all over this beauti- 

 ful country the same traffic in game out of season is car- 

 ried on. In Chicago they serve July prairie chickens at 

 Kern's, in New York Delmonico dishes up woodcock in 

 the spring, at Narragansett Pier and Bar Harbor the 

 summer hotels provide immature quail and grouse; in 

 staid New England villages where college girls lunch, as 

 at Ban's in Northampton, Mass., the June bill of fare 

 includes quail on toast. It always has been so and the 

 remedy is difficult of discovery. If the Illinois Associ- 

 ation shall press the case against its whilom President 

 Kern, the moral effect cannot fail of proving salutary; 

 but in Chicago as in New York efforts to suppress this 

 digraceful game traffic are at the best spasmodic and 

 ineffectual. 



In a New Jersey shore town the other day a man died 

 of hydrophobia, it was said, caused by the bite of a pet 

 cat. Thereupon the people of the town began an unrea- 

 soning war of extermination against all cats, the entire 

 feline tribe being held as accursed because of the one that 

 inflicted the bite. As the New Jersey townspeople with 

 cats, so the human race with snakes; because a few 

 reptiles are venomous and deadly, mankind wages war 

 on the entire ophidian species ; and harmless and beauti- 

 ful and graceful and useful creatures are crushed beneath 

 the heel, victims of an antipathy founded on ignorance 

 and misconception. 



And'now they say that the prestige of lawn tennis is 

 beginning to fade; that the game has become so scientific 

 that the less expert are losing interest in it, the fad ia 

 declining, and tennis will take its place with croquet, 

 archery and Newport fox hunting and the dead political 

 booms of the past. Meanwhile angling is growing in 

 popularity, and the ranks of the fishermen are increasing. 

 There are two recreations— fishing and shooting — which 

 never grow old; they have a sure lease of life; they wiU 

 last so long as nature herself shall have [a charm for 

 man. 



A curious instance of the clashing of diverse industries 

 is afforded in the impending ruin of the fisheries of Sag- 

 inaw Bay, Mich., where the famous fish supply is being 

 destroyed by sawmills and salt block refuse. In the win- 

 ter the salt factories deposit their refuse on the ice; in the 

 process of time this waste has been deposited over the 

 spawning beds. 



Mrs. Stagg's biggest-on- record tarpon has been mounted 

 and will be exhibited at the World's Fair. Do the tarpon 

 fishermen propose thus to permit a woman to carry off 

 the honors in sight of the natioha of the earth ? 



