Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal oe the Rod and Gun, 



Thbms, 84 A Yeab. 10 Ots. a Copt. I 

 See Months, 83. f 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 20, 1891 



j VOL. XXXVII.-No. 5. 



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CONTENTS. 



Bditobial. 



Salted Salmon Trout. 



Two Picturps. 



RestocTjing Lake Ontario. 



Pnap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Toubist. 



Alone. 



Camp Life on Muslioka Lake-i 

 EpQraim and Cherries. 



NATCTRAL HtSTOBT. 



Marine Biological Investiga- 

 tion. 



The Beaver and his Sunken 

 Wood. 



Rearing Quail in OonSnement 

 PenuBylvaiiia Notes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 Death Vallep. 



Westprn Wildfowl Grounds. 

 Chicago and thB Wf st. 

 "Bank-Grass Knoll." 

 Again in Briar Laud. 

 An Adirondack Squirrel Hunt 

 A Mississipp' River Adventure 

 Sea anjj Biveb Fishing. 

 Allurfne Chaims of Lml'vllle. 

 Af'er Mascalonge in Elbow 

 Bay. 



Canadian Angling Notes. 

 Tautog Fishing off Manomet 

 Point. 



St. Lawrence River Fishing. 

 Ansling Notes. 



FiSHCUDTURB. 



Late Spawning Shad. 



The Kennel. 

 Skin DiseaspF. 

 Euthanasia— Happy Death. 

 Bi^agle Training. 

 The Doom of Troeveetie. 

 More Corrections. 

 Hamiiton Dog Show. 

 Bars! is Fmportation. 

 Drugging Dogs for Shows. 

 What is a "Belgum" Setter? 

 Toronto Kennel Club Show. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Tbap Shootih«. 

 Range and Gallerv 

 New Jersey State Shoot. 

 The Trap. 



Standard Keystone Tourna- 

 m nt. 



Cleveland Traps. 



Brooklyn Traps. 



Eureka Club, 



Watson's Park. 



W^heeling. W. Va. 

 Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise, 1891. 



Volunteer and Grade. 



Corinthian Navy. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoe - Yawls and Canoe- 

 Yachts. 



A. C. A. Meet. 

 Answers to Corbespondbnts. 



Adirondack Number. 



/"VUR "Adirondack Number" of June 18 veas a pro- 

 ■ ^"^ nounced success. As we then said, the material 

 provided was more generous than we could make room 

 for, and several papers were left over for a second num- 

 ber devoted to the same subject. This will be our issue 

 of Aug. 27; and among the contents will be the follow- 

 ing, the first two having been annpuncBd for the former 

 number: 



The North Woods in the Fifties. 



A visit to the Adirondacks thirty-three years ago. By 

 J. H. D. 



Two Weeks at Spruce Lake. 



The experiences of foui- young fellows under tutelage 

 of a guide. 



The Upper Adirondacks in *56. 



By "Byron." 



The Wane of the Adirondacks. 



By Charles Hallock. 



The Cranberry Lake Country. 

 By D. H. B. 



Circumnavigating the Adirondacks. 



By " PiseCG," 



BESTOOKING LAKE ONTABIO. 



'X^HE necessity of restoring the fish supply of Lake 

 Ontario is most strikingly illustrated by tbe follow- 

 ing item from a Rochester newspaper: "A novelty in 

 Hamed's window is a genuine Lake Ontario whitefish, 

 something rarely seen these days." Mr. F. J. Amsden 

 reminds us that "fifteen years or so ago whitefish were 

 caught on our shores and peddled the next morning 

 through our streets, selling as low as 5 cents a pound." 

 The rapid decline of the fisheries of this lake may be seen 

 at a glancpi by referring to the Review of the Fisheries of 

 the Great Lakes, recently published by the Fish Commis- 

 sion. 



In 1880 the catch of whitefish was l,064,0001b3.; in 1885 

 the amount was only 90 7111b3. Lake trout in the same 

 period fell off from 569,7001bs. to 20.5101b8. The causes 

 of this deoidence have been the subject of heated and 

 fruitless discussion until recently the public demand for 

 restorative measures has resulted in the appropriation bv 

 the United States of $20,000 to establish a great hatchery 

 to restock Lake Ontario. Commissioners McDonald and 

 Blackford last month visited the region in which the 

 establishment is needed, and the former examined all 

 the sites proposed for the undertaking, but none of them 

 are suitable. The water is invariably too warm and the 

 supply inadequate for the purposes of a hatchery such as 

 the one proposed. When it is remembered that Com. Mc 

 Donald hopes to rear. I,000,0u0 salmon at a time besides 

 hatching many millions of whitefish annually it will be re- 

 alized that the water supply must be practically unlimited. 

 The Neosho, Missouri, station started its existence with a 

 spring flowing nearly 600 gallons per minute, besides a 

 collateral supply of several hundred gallons per minute 

 from another spring. It is hoped that some point on the 

 Salmon River will yet be found available for the new 

 establishment. Another subject of equal importance with 

 the location of the hatchery will come up for conference 

 in October between the sjjecial commission appointed by 

 New York and the Commissioners of the Dominion, and 

 that is the protection of fish in Lake Ontario, the terms 

 of the resolution carrying the appropriation by Congress 

 requiring such legislation before the funds of the Govern- 

 ment can be used to build a hatching establishment. 



TWO PICTUBES. 



RECENT advices from Brockville, Ontario, on the St. 

 Lawrence River, inform us that the once famous 

 Union Park fishing grounds have been, up to the present 

 time, sadly unproductive, very few bass and pike having 

 been caught there. On the New York side, however, and 

 nearer the foot of Lake Ontario, at Cape Vincent and 

 Clayton, there are multitudes of both of these fishes, as 

 may be learned from a note in our angling columns, just 

 received from a correspondent at Cape Vincent. How is 

 this difference to be accounted for'r' Apparently by the 

 legalizing of the use of nets by the Canadian authorities 

 on the north shore of the river and the prohibition of 

 netting on the American side. It may be a good thing to 

 catch bullheads, but in doing so the game fish fall into the 

 same trap and probably never find their way back to the 

 river again. Last winter the mouth of Jones Creek was 

 beset with nets, fished ostensibly for bullheads. In the 

 early spring Clow's Bay was completely webbed with nets 

 of the same kind. In this month of August scarcely a 

 pike is to be found in this once prolific bay, and the bass, 

 which contributed mainly to the fame of the Union Park 

 grounds, have vanished, it is feared, almost beyond hope 

 of restoration unless prompt remedies are applied. Putting 

 two and two together it seems clear that netting bull- 

 heads is incompatible with the enjoyment of bass and 

 pike fishing, and it remains for the Brockville people to 

 determine, first, whetbev or not the explanation suggested 

 has a basis in fact and, second, whether it is not desirable 

 and more than desirable to effect a change in the present 

 fish law. 



SALTED SALMON TBOUT. 



npHE trade name of a fish is often very different from 

 -■- the name by which it is known to fishermen. 

 "Ocean trout," for example, is a canner's term for young 

 menhaden; "sea salmon" is a name now appUed to the 

 new preparation of tbe tunny or horse mackerel — a fish 

 reaching nearly half a ton in weight. In Labrador about 

 1,000 barrels of so-called "salmon trout" are salted 

 annuaUy and most oflhem are sent to New York, Boston 



and Gloucester. Some of these find their way eventually 

 into New England, whence several specimens were re- 

 cently obtained by Mr. A. N, Cheney, of Glens Falls, to 

 whom we are indebted for the opportunity of seeing the 

 fish. We had supposed that the salmon trout of Labrador 

 is the species described and figured in our Salmon and 

 Trout Supplement as the SalveKnus stagnnlis, or sea trout, 

 and so it is in part; but at least one other trout is salted 

 and sold along with the sea trout and that is the common 

 brook trout (Salvelinus fontmalis). It is highly probable 

 that grilse salmon are sometimes seined with the two 

 kinds of trout and go to make a part of the contents of 

 the barrel. We are led to believe this from the fact that 

 a specimen of tbe so-called imspotted sea trout of Canada 

 received by the National Museum proved to be a young 

 sea salmon. 



The Labrador sea trout is a very large fish, red-spotted, 

 and with a moderatly forked tail; it runs up the large 

 streams to spawn, but for commercial purposes it is caught 

 in salt water near the mouths of streams. It resembles 

 the Dolly Varden of the Pacific coast {Salvelinus malma) 

 and the golden trout of New Hampshire and Maine (Sal- 

 velinus aureolus) very closely in appearance and habits. 



The sale of this Labrador trout in salt is legal, but the 

 fish is really a brook trout and a very near relative of the 

 common red-spotted fontinalis. It may be also that the 

 sale of S. fontinalis in brine is not prohibited, but the 

 practice is woefully destructive and ought to be stopped. 

 In New Hampshire the brook trout (fontinalis) is identical 

 with the Labrador brook trout and the golden trout is so 

 nearly like the sea trout that few people can distinguish 

 one from the other. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



f N reference to the suggestion of "H. P. U." "that there 

 should be a reunion of the old friends and contribu- 

 tors to Forest and Stkeaji during the World's Fair at 

 Chicago in 1893," we are assured by Dr. Henshall, who 

 has charge of the Angling Exhibit, that this matter has 

 been already considered by Capt. J. W. Collins, Chief of 

 the Department of Fisheries, and himself, and that every 

 facility will be provided to render such a reunion not 

 only practicable, but pleasant and profitable, A recep- 

 tion room will be arranged with a register to contain the 

 name, home address and Chicago address of every angler 

 and sportsman who wishes to avail himself of the privil- 

 ege. Personal interviews and meetings between brother 

 sportsmen can be arranged by telephone or correspond- 

 ence, the means for which will be at hand. Also certain 

 hours of each day can be set apart, during which friendly 

 greetings could be exchanged, new acquaintances formed 

 and a spirit of universal good fellowship established, and 

 the esprit de corps of the angler's guild maintained. Sug- 

 gestions from contributors to FOREST and Stream are 

 in order and will be gladly received and duly considered. 

 It is especially desirable that anglers send their photo- 

 graphs with their autographs at bottom of card, to be 

 placed on the walls of the reception room. They may be 

 sent to Dr. J. A. Henshall, U. S. Fish Commission, 

 Washington, D, C. 



Many older visitors to the North Woods will learn with 

 genuine regret of the destruction of "Bartlett's" by fire 

 last Sunday. The brief report which has come to us says 

 that the hotel was burned in the morning, the seventy 

 guests losing clothes and luggage. Of all Adirondack 

 resorts this was one of the most cherished by the goodly 

 company of true anglers who year after year met there. 



From a tarpon fisherman of long and successful expe- 

 rience we have received an explicit piper on the require- 

 ments for that popular sport. It will be published at a 

 later date and cannot fail of being helpful to anglers 

 when fitting out for a winter on the west coast. 



Now that Kentucky has adopted her new constitution, 

 one of the provisions of which is that all laws shall be of 

 general application, we may hope to see decent game and 

 fish laws on her books. The existing statutes are a mass 

 of local regulations with no general observance. 



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