28 FOREST AND STREAM. [July so, i89i. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



IT is quite evident that the introduction of landlocked 

 salmon to the Maine lakes is going to be a success, 

 and of great value to the anglers who visit that region, 

 Quite a number of these fish have been caught this sea- 

 son; the latest on record being taken by Dr. Chas. Carring- 

 ton in Eangeley Lake. The doctor writes that his salmon 

 made a grand fight, jumping several times clean out of 

 the water and in every way showed more pluck than a 

 speckled trout. It was killed on a fly known as the 

 "yellow-moose" and was in excellent condition, weight 

 41bs. 5oz. 



About fifty of the guests of the Edgewood Park Hotel 

 (St. Lawrence Eiver) made up a fishing match the other 

 day; twenty-five on a side led by a captain. The result 

 was that a very large mimber of fish were killed in this 

 silly contest. Such contests, whether for the killing of 

 fish or game, should not be indulged in by sportsmen, in 

 fact I may say no true angler or sportsman woiild take 

 part in any such destructive work. The St. Lawrence 

 Anglers' Association ought to use theu- influence to put a 

 stop to the wholesale destruction of fish that takes place 

 every season on that river, and if possible, get a law passed 

 limiting the number of fish pei' day. It is the custom, 

 and has been for many years, for the fishermen when 

 they return in the evening to display their catches to an 

 admiring crowd, and their names and number of victories 

 are duly recorded in the local papers. They cannot possibly 

 use these fish and many of them are wasted. 



Dr. Howard, a well-known angler of this city, had 

 a curious experience not long ago Avhile fishing for trout 

 in the Adirondacks. He was casting over a large pool 

 one evening, using very delicate tackle and small flies, 

 when he had a rise from a very large fish. He hooked 

 him securely as he supposed, and the big trout made for 

 deep water, where he sulked. The Doctor put a little 

 pressure on the line, the fish gave two or three ugly jerks 

 and back came the cast with a Gift, trout hooked through 

 the tail and partly digested. The big one had swallowed 

 his smaller brother and his tail must have been in the 

 way of the fly into which hooked it when he struck the 

 fish. I had a curious experience in Pennsylvania once 

 somewhat similar to the above. I had enjoyed a good 

 day's fishing and was coming down stream on my way 

 home when I stopped to make a cast over a likely looking 

 pool. My tail fly was taken by a fingerling, and I reeled 

 him in slowly, hoping it would get off before I had to land 

 it. Suddenly a large trout darted for the little chap. 

 Caught him sideways: gave him a twist and swallowed 

 him head first. Then he lay there perfectly still, fanning 

 his big fins. As he started to swim off, I struck him 

 smartly and hooked the rascal and saved him. He was 

 an ugly lantern-jawed looking cannibal, very dark _ in 

 color, and I have no doiibt got into the habit of preying 

 on little trout and had been a terror to the stream for a 

 long time. Such fish will not take a fiy and are very 

 destructive. 



A large-mouth bass weighing 9lbs. 15oz. two hours 

 after being caught, is now being mounted at Sauter's, It 

 was kiUed on a 6oz. greonheart rod in Greenwood Lake 

 a few days ago. Scaelet-Ibis. 



AMERICAN ANGLERS IN CANADA. 



THE members of the Restigouche Salmon Club are re- 

 ported as overflowing with indignation at the action 

 of the Dominion government in netting the fish, for re- 

 productive purposes, at the mouth of their river. It is 

 claimed that these nets are so placed as to prevent most 

 of the salmon from running up the river, and report has 

 it that a very heavy action for damages will be entered 

 by the club against Her Majesty the Queen as represented 

 by the government of Canada. 



Sport has been very poor, however, this year upon all 

 the rivers flowing into the Baie des Chaleurs. Mr. Henry 

 Hogan, of Montreal, failed to kfll a single salmon in the 

 St. Anne River this season, though he fished it for a good 

 part of a week. 



The members of the Penn Fishing Club are going out 

 to their Metabetchouan preserve early in August. 



Mr. Eugene McCarthy, of Syracuse and Mr. Geo. B. 

 Green way returned by rail from Lake St. John on Thurs- 

 day. These gentlemen spent nearly three weeks in the 

 lake country, having not only enjoyed some excellent 

 sport among the ouananiche at the Grande Discharge, 

 but having been away up the Ouiatchouaniche, several 

 days' journey back from Roberval, to the height of land 

 which forms the watershed between the feeders of the 

 lake and La Croche, the headquarters of the St. Maurice. 

 They speak of the trout in all the waters that they fished 

 as having been very large and abundant. 



Descriptions of the country north of Lake St. John 

 from the pen of Mr. McCarthy have been accepted for 

 publication in early numbers of Outing. 



Some really marvellous sport with rod and line is re- 

 ported from this country this week. Mr. E. J. Myers and 

 Mr. Arnold W. Koehler, both of New York city, returned 

 to the Hotel Roberval from their trip up the Peribonca on 

 Sunday, after an absence of three weeks. The accounts 

 given by them of their success in fishing up the river and 

 in particular in Lake Tshotagama, read almost like fiction. 

 Mr. Myers caught a pike weighing 471bs. It was 53in. 

 long and 17in. in girth. Its mouth was llin. wide and its 

 tail 9in. broad. Mr. Koehler caught two ouananiche of 

 Slbs. each. They measured 27in, long. Mr. Myera brought 

 with him the skin of an 81b. trout caught in the lake. 13e 

 mentions as a specimen of the fishing at the lake, catch- 

 ing three ouananiche weighing 21 lbs., three trout weigh- 

 ing 171bs., and two pike weighing 231bs., all in an hour 

 and a half. Upon the river these gentlemen speak of the 

 wonderful leaps of the ouananiche at First Chute, Frazier's 

 Falls and other rapids and chuteg. 



Mr. Koehler has returned home to New York, but Mr. 

 Myers has started off on another ten days' trip up the 

 Ashuapmouchouan and down the Mistassini River. 



Mr. Hurlburt of New York and Dr. Smith of Brooklyn 

 passed through here to-day on their way to the lake, and 

 mtend to ascend the Peribonca as far as they can go in 

 two weeks. 



An Upper Canada journalist, Mr. Young, editor of the 

 Cornwall Freeholder, killed no less than 26 ouananiche 

 on Tuesday last at the Grand Discharge of Lake St. John. 

 An American gentleman killed 33 on the previous day. 



Recent rains have done much to improve the fishing at ^ 

 the Discharge, for during the first fortnight of this month 

 the water was so clear sport fell off considerably. 

 Quebec, July 35. E. T, D. CHAMBERS. 



BLUEFISH AT PERTH AMBOY. 



NEW YORK, July 20.— One day last week I met two 

 old followers of Izaak Walton, Mr. Wm. Pitman 

 and Mr. Wm, Barnett, who have a most enviable reputa- 

 tion in their neighborhood of catching fish when others 

 cannot; and receiving an invitation to go with them on 

 one of their trips, and with an understanding that they 

 would show me how to catch them and would give me an 

 occasional "show," I accepted the invitation. We started 

 on the 5:50 A. M. train, N. J. C. R. R., ticketed to Perth 

 Amboy. John Davison, our boatman, met us on arrival 

 of train, and soon had us on board his skiff and on the 

 fishing grounds ready for fishing, i very quickly learned 

 the way my instructors rigged their tackle, baited hooks 

 with shedder crabs, and cast. The casting part I am no 

 stranger to, as they soon found out. I was watching 

 every move on their part for a new wrinkle, and with our 

 lines overboard we were wondering what would be our 

 luck. Would it be the old story? Boys, you know what 

 I mean. Weakfish were what we were fishing for. In a 

 very short time I had a bite, and what a bite it was. I 

 commenced to reel in, and when I got the fish near the 

 boat be objected to being landed without a fight; and as 

 my experience in fishing has been that when fishing with 

 light tackle for heavy fish you had better not attempt to 

 be too much in a hurry, I gave him the line, and when I 

 thought he had enough of that kind of business com- 

 menced to reel him in, and again got the fish near the 

 boat. I was lifting him in when my snell parted. Well, 

 I lost the fish, and got a cold blast of "I told you so" and 

 "That was no way to haul in bluefish." The proper way 

 to do was, I must keep reeling in until I got the fish near 

 the boat, and with a one great, grand effort — yank him 

 in regardless of tackle or anything else. 



I accepted the advice, put on my leader a genuine 

 bluefish hook, cagt again and got another bite. I com- 

 menced reeling in just the same as I did the last fish, got 

 him near the boat, he objected just the same as the one I 

 lost. I gave him the line when he wanted it and took it 

 Avhen I wanted it. Oh, what a grand time I was having! 

 Talk about game and sport! I was just happy fishing in 

 my old-time glory, giving and taking. Finally I was told 

 to take him in, and I did so. "That is the way to do it," 

 came in chorus from three of a kind. They forgot about 

 the giving and taking, and I was just as well satisfied. 

 Every one to their own taste. 



The fish finally stopped biting, and for an excuse, I 

 suppose, om' boatman said sharks were around. We 

 counted our fish. Novice had 16, Mr. Pitman and Mr. 

 Barnett together had 34. This closed a day of grand 

 sport to me, and I write to my brother sportsmen telling 

 them all I know, and trusting if they go to Amboy they 

 will have the same good luck catching bluefish with rod 

 and reel as I did. I would like to ask a question. Can a 

 fisherman drown a bluefish? Salt-water fishermen tell 

 me you cannot^ H. C. W. 



OUR BOATS. 



Dear Forest and Stream: 



I wish somebody would invent a boat that would 

 answer all the requirements of our fishing camp. At 

 present, to serve all our purposes, we have only one large 

 log driver's boat, 30ft. long by 5ft. wide, and that weighs 

 a ton; a punt 12ft. by 3|ft., one bark canoe that will 

 carry six persons and baggage, one ditto to carry three 

 and at a pinch four, a wooden dugout not fit to carry 

 anybody, but immensely useful, and a cedar skiff that 

 two careful persons can keep right side up by 'giving 

 close attention. All I require is a boat that will carry 

 eighteen or twenty persons and go ahead under sail 2ft, 

 for every one that she falls off to leeward, instead of vice 

 versa, as the barge does, handy for a nice little partie 

 carree besides the two boatmen, like the large canoe, 

 light to paddle like the smaller one, that can be haxiled 

 over no end of sharp rocks without damage like the dug- 

 out, perfectly safe for children to fool round with like 

 the punt, and light enough to be carried over long por- 

 tages like the skiff. 



Do you know, Mr. Editor, of anybody who makes a 

 craft combining all these qualities? I have looked all 

 through the Forest and Stream in vain for an adver- 

 tisement of it. I want to buy one. 



Each of the boats has some peculiarity that I would 

 dispense with if necessary, especially if we leave her 

 where she bumps against the rocks for a day or two. The 

 large canoe objects to being paddled in less than four or 

 five inches of water, and the small one has seen such 

 varied experiences that her bow is twisted one way and 

 her stern the other, while her bottom is corrugated with 

 ribs"and protuberances without number. When the wind 

 blows a bit one man alone in her has a good many calcu- 

 lations to make before he can be certain where he will 

 arrive. 



I don't know that I have anything to say against the 

 punt. She does sit a little low in the water, and when 

 the lake is very rough people get splashed, but that is not 

 of much consequence. Neither can I complain much 

 about the dugout. Maybe she is a wee bit cranky, so 

 that it is prudent, if one would be perfectly comfortable 

 in paddling her, to kneel down in the bottom, which,_ how- 

 ever, usually has two or three inches of water on it, for 

 she is never bailed out except with a paddle. Otherwise 

 she does very well. She isn't handsome, not the least 

 little mite in the world, and we don't use her when we 

 are in a hurry to get anywhere, for she isn't naturally a 

 fast traveler. I have no objections to the skiff either, 

 except the propensity she has to tip over and the possi- 

 bflity that, being made so light, we may sometime put 

 our feet thi'ough the bottom and get left in the wet. So 

 I want a boat that will combine all the good qualities of 

 all these and have none of the objectionable ones. If you 

 cannot tell me, Mr. Editor, where to find it I shall 

 despair of ever getting one. 



Meanwhile we must get on the best we can, which 

 perhaps is not so very badly after all. If everybody 

 wants to go cruising at once they pile into the barge, 

 which is big enough to take the whole lot. If there are 

 only four or five or six they go in the punt. The small 

 canoe answers for women and boys who want to amuse 

 themselves along the shore, for since a tree fell on her 

 when she was hibernating in the woods one winter aud 



crushed her down tcvabout fom- inches in height she has 

 never entirely recovered her original shape and is nearly 

 as flat-bottomed as the punt. I am afraid that her rheu- 

 matism will be so bad that she will have to be retired 

 emeritus. I shall be sorry, for she has been my compan- 

 ion a long time and never attempted to part company 

 with me but once. It was all her fault, the little dis- 

 agreement we had on that occasion. I wanted her to go 

 in the middle of the stream, but she took a notion to go 

 under some alder bushes where the current was stronger, 

 although there was not room for both of us. The con- 

 sequence was that I didn't go; and when I picked her up 

 further down the river she looked as if she wished she 

 hadn't gone either. I wasn't much acquainted with her 

 in those days, but after I learned more of her disposition 

 we got along very well together. G. de Montauban. 

 Quebec. 



Colorado Trout.— Berthoud, Col., July 20.— I re- 

 turned a few days ago from my annual trout fishing trip 

 in the Big Thompson canon. Frank Rhodes, W^ill Chap- 

 man, my son Frank and myself broke loose fi'om our 

 work on the ranch, and took to the hills for a few days' 

 sport with the trout, and to spend the glorious Fourth in 

 the shady dells of the grand old Rockies. We went into 

 camp in a beautiful grove on the banks of the Big Thomp- 

 son on the evening of July 3, and while Rhodes and Will 

 pitched the tent and made camp comfortable, Frank and 

 I jointed our rods and made a shoi% trip up the roaring 

 Thompson for trout for supper. Our success was very 

 good, as we returned in a short time with twenty-five 

 nice fish, which made the party a fine mess for supper 

 and breakfast. We remained in camp here until the 

 afternoon of the 5th, having grand sport, catching enough 

 trout to keep the camp well supplied, and a nice mess to 

 bring home where we put them on ice in the ice house, 

 keeping nice and fresh tmtil used up. The trout caught 

 on this trip were the nicest I ever caught in the Thomp- 

 son, most all of them measuring 8 to iSin. in length, a 

 great many of them being 11 and 12in. On the second 

 evening as Frank and I were i-eturning to camp, Frank 

 came near stepping on a large rattlesnake; he soon spoiled 

 the head of the snake and pulled off' the eight rattles. 

 We saw considerable game signs while on our trip. A 

 number of other parties from Berthoud and vicinity have 

 been up fishing at different points with moderate success. 

 —A. A. K. 



OuEiDA Lake FisiUfra. — Syracuse, N. Y.— Inclosed 

 herein is a clipping from one of our city papers. This 

 shows what protection is doing. I myself caught 54 pike 

 and 6 perch in three and one-half hours. Others have 

 the same results when fishing on Oneida Lake.— Henry 

 LoFTiE. Report reads: A stranger in town might have 

 taken the Amos Hotel for Fulton Market last night. 

 On three tables, extending from one end of a room to the 

 other, were spread 159 pike, 17 perch and 1 pickei-el. This 

 display of fish represented the largest one day's catch that 

 has been made in this vicinity in many a day. A party 

 consisting of ex-Police Commissioner Nicholas Latterner, 

 Henry C. Peters, Gus Bloom, Wm. L. Baumer, Peter 

 Pfohl and Adolph Keller were the fishermen, and th© fish- 

 ing was done in Oneida Lake. The party trolled from 10 

 A, M. until 5:30 P. M. yesterday. The largest fish, a pike 

 weighing 5lbs., was caught by Mr. Latterner, The oars- 

 men were Elisha A. Smith, Nelson Smith and Hiram 

 Carter, who are connected with the hotel at South Bay. 

 Three boats were used. 



St. Lotjis, July 25.— A party of fishermen recently re- 

 turned from a trip to the Gasconade River report good 

 success and a fine catch of croppies and bass, the latter 

 averaging l^lbs. Joe Gettes, just returned from Lake 

 Minnetonka, shows a photograph of 103 fish, bass and 

 croppies, caught by himself and partner in three hours' 

 fishing just before a storm. It was the largest string 

 caught on the lake up to date. Jake Shriner spent three 

 days at King's Lake last week and caught twelve small 

 fish. David Hailman tried his skid at Gilead Slough and 

 reports nothing but gar pike. In upper Creve Cceur 

 Lake the bass and croppies have been biting freely the 

 past week. — Aberdeen. 



Bluefish are in great supply in the Great Soiith Bay, 

 Long Island. One boat last Saturday took sixty-three to 

 three lines in a half day's fishing. The luck was good 

 among all the boats that day. 



CALIFORNIA SALMON IN EUROPE.* 



CHAMBERLAIN VON DEM BORNE, after giving a 

 brief sketch of the salmon and the meagre returns 

 from the efforts to acclimate it in various coimtries, pre- 

 sents the following record of failures in the attempts to 

 introduce it into France and Germany: 



In Europe also the result is small. It was possible to keep 

 the fish alive several years at Radolfszell, Huningen, Starn- 

 berg and Pols Castle, and at Hiiningen about 1,000 eggs 

 and at Radolfszell 20,000 eggs were fertilized, but after three 

 or four years tbe California salmon died out. Id a lake at 

 Obragorzig in 1SS3 a 51bs, salmon was taken, which Herr 

 vonKalkreuth had bought three years previously at the 

 International Fishery Exposition at Berlin from Chief 

 Burgomaster Schuster. The California salmon hatched out 

 in the hatchery of the Schleswig-Holstein Fishery Associa- 

 tion in 1879 were planted in ponds and in small brooks trib- 

 utary to the Eider River. From the ponds 200 fish of about 

 3^Ib, each were deposited in the Wehrau, which flows into 

 the Eider. The fish were very vigorous and active. There 

 is no information up to this time that a fish of this kind has 

 been taken in the Eider. 



A more satisfactory result was expected in the great 

 aquarium of the Trocad^ro in Paris. Prom 1,000 eges which 

 the National Acclimatization Society delivered in 1S78 were 

 obtained-, in 1886, fish of 4 to olbs., which yielded 80,000 eggs. 

 From a letter of M. Raveret-Wattel we learned that the 

 embryos from the Aquarium were deposited in various 

 rivers of France, but as it seems without apparent result. 



From the river Aude only, which rises in the Pyrenees 

 and empties into the Mediterranean, it is reported that a 

 small California salmon was captured at its mouth. 



In a small pond at Reims, California salmon have been 

 kept seven to eight years, but they have yielded no eggs, 



* Extract from "Seehs Amerikanische Salmoniden in Europa 

 fiir den Irternal/ionalen Land und i'orstwlrtschaftlicheu Kon- 

 gress za Wien itn Jahre 1890 bearbeitet." Voa Max von dem 

 Borne. Berneuohen, Neudamm, 1890. 



