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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Aug. 20, 1891. 



ST. LAWRENCE RIVER FISHING. 



CAPE VINCENT is probably the best fishing ground on 

 the St. Lawrence River, and the present season has 

 been a very fine one. Shice the middle of July, when the 

 influx of anglers began, there has been a great abundance 

 of bass and pickerel {Esox hicius), and as the season 

 advances the fish appear to be increasing in numbers. 

 Live bait is plentiful, andiihis is almost imiversally used, 

 either in still-fishing or trolling. Spoon hooks are spar- 

 ingly employed by some fishermen, chiefly when seeking 

 mascalonge. 



Black bass is the species most sought after and most 

 abundant. The fish weigh from 1^^ to 21bs. on an average, 

 but -ii and 5-pounders are also taken. The daily catch 

 varies from about 30 to 130 fish. The "high-liner" so far 

 this year is Mr, Snider, of Philadelphia, who on the 7th 

 instant took 186 bass. 



Pickerel are found in the deep channels, and are not 

 often caught when fishing for bass, which take the bait 

 nearer the surface. During the week of Aug, 9, catches 

 of 20 to 30 fish were reported, the largest specimen being 

 a 9-pounder. 



The best months for angling at Cape Vincent are 

 August and September, when this popular resort has a 

 lai-ge advent of sportsmen from New York, Philadelphia, 

 Jacksonville and other cities. X. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



MR. F. C, ANDREWS, a well-known Brooklyn angler, 

 has just returned from a fishing trip in Maine and 

 reports that the trout fishing at Grrant & Soiile's camp 

 on Beaver Pond is excellent and confirms the statement 

 that they rise well to the fly all through the summer 

 mouths, ' This section is more easily reached by way of 

 the R.ingeley and Kennebago lakes. By writing ahead 

 to Grant & Soule (P. O,, Rangeley, Maine), one of them 

 will meet the visitor and save the expense of taking in a 

 guide. A guide up there is hardly necessary, as any ex- 

 perienced fisherman can get all the trout he wants with- 

 out one. Board $3 per day, or .$2.50 including boat. Mr. 

 Andrews states that deer were never so plenty; they were 

 continually running across them or seeing them feeding 

 along shore. 



Black bass fishing is reported as being unusually good 

 at Henderson Harbor. 



The Daibj on the St. Lawrence reports the capture of 

 a 651b. sturgeon on a hand line and sta.tes that it is the 

 largest fish killed on a line on the St. Lawrence River. 

 The Daily is mistaken. On June 11, 1S35, Mr. Herbert R. 

 Clarke, of .Jersey City, killed a smooth- back sturgeon (on 

 an 8oz. split bamboo fly-rod and single gut leader) that 

 measured 66Ln. length,' 39in. girth, and weighed TBlbs. 

 This fish was hooked foul on a No. 2 fly, by a bass run- 

 ning under him. Mr. Clarke followed the fish in his boat 

 for over a mile and killed him a,f ter a struggle lasting one 

 horn- and five minutes. The fight and capture were wit- 

 nessed by a number of well known visitors at the Bay, 



The people who go around with loaded fire-arms on 

 fishing trips when there is no kind of game in season, are 

 naturally ignorant and just the class who are apt to get 

 into trouble. The last time I came out from the Blue 

 Mountain Lake I met a stage load of cockneys who were 

 blazing away with revolvers at telegraph poles, etc. It 

 never occurred to them that they might kill some innocent 

 berry picker. I was glad to hear that one of these gentry 

 had to pay pretty well for shooting a calf which he mis- 

 took for a bear. Scarlet-Tbis. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO. — Recently I commented on the singularity 

 of a catch of 15 small-mouth bass to one rod in the 

 Kankakee River at Mak-saw-ba Club. At that time I 

 had not seen any of the fish that were taken. A week 

 later Mr, Mussey, Mr, Cai-d and Mr, Dicks came back 

 from another trip, in which they were even more suc- 

 cessful than before. Mr, Card, for instance, taking 

 eighteen fine bass and wall-eyes on Monday, including 

 two wall-eyes that weighed 71b=. each. The two former 

 gentlemen brought in a nice basket of fish, and had in 

 their catch a number of the Kankakee "small-mouths'' 

 which they had been catching earlier. These fish 

 were not the small-mouth or genuine black bass, 

 such as are locally distinguished as " tiger bass," 

 having neither the red eye, the black, fine-scaled belly, 

 dark color and unmistakable configuration of that fish. 

 They were, upon the other hand, not to be described as 

 large-mouths, though the general bronze color of the 

 upijer parts and whiteness of the belly would seem to so 

 class them. Yet the mouth considered alone would class 

 them as small-mouths. The angle of the jaw did not ex- 

 tend nearly back to the eye, and the total size of the 

 mouth was about equal to that in a sma,ll-mouth of the 

 same weight. These fish were the same as the bulk of 

 the catch in the Fox Lake region, where many anglers 

 call them "small-mouths," because then* mouths are 

 smaller than those of the big-mouths. Dr. Bartlett, I 

 believe, says these are small-mouth bass, but this was not 

 when a specimen was present. It chanced that in the 

 same basket the angler had two specimens of doloviieu, 

 the gemune small-mouth, such as could not by any possi- 

 bility be mistaken. They had also a half-pound specimen 

 of the genuine big-mouth. I wish Forest and Stream 

 would classify this common mid- way fish for us, and if 

 necessary we will send photograi)hs or a specimen. The 

 discussion bids fair to tear up Chicago, and two ffictions, 

 the big-moitths and small-mouths, are rapidly growing 

 into Montagu and Capulet prominence. 



Another question I remember to have been asked of 

 Forest and Stream which was not answered, and that 

 is, to what weight does the genuine pickerel attain? "We 

 would not look on the great Northern pike in this lati- 

 tude, and yet, "pickerel" of over 201b3. weight are not 

 infrequent in the lakes of northern Illinois, in streams of 

 middle Iowa, and also in rivers of Indiana below here. 

 These "pickerel," indeed practically all the pickerel 

 running from 3 to Gibs, weight or over, such as fall in 

 upon an average summer day's fishing, have the cheeks 

 and giU-covers scaled only on the upper half. Are they 

 pickerel, or pike? Does the genuine i^lckerel ever weigh 

 over lOlbs., and if so, how heavy does it grow? I must 

 ask pardon of Dr. Bean if these questions were answered 

 definitely in his admirable articles on the Esoddce, which 



were most admirable in that they enable the reader to 

 take a fish in his hand and come somewhere near telling 

 what it is— a quality not possessed by many books on fish 

 andanghng, E, Hough. 



[All of the pickerels have the cheeks and gill-covers 

 completely scaled; in the pike the cheek is scaly and the 

 lower half of the gill-cover naked; the mascalonge has 

 no scales on the lower half of cheek and gill- cover.] 



An Illinois Catfish.— a live catfish weighing eighty- 

 five pounds was caught in the river near Quincy last week 

 by two moulders while in bathing, reports the Meredosia 

 Neivs. The moulders saw it swimming near the surface 

 and threw a stone at it, stunning it so that it came to the 

 surface. One of the moulders then got on it and paddled 

 it ashore. Coming from any ctheisijfriend of ours than 

 the genial secretary of the Illinois Fish Commission, we 

 should have felt inclined to doubt some of the little details 

 of this exciting story. You see, in this region the stone 

 catfish is a mere pigmy, just the size for black bass bait; 

 but here is a giant that would make bait of a dozen black 

 bass and still feel the pangs of hunger. No, in this cli- 

 mate such a yarn generally wilts, moulders and falls into 

 a state of innocuous desuetude; but in the exuberant at- 

 mosphere of Quincy the boulder they throw the bolder 

 they grow, till even the catfish comes up from below, 

 with broadening smile, and likens while his esteemed 

 fellow citizens blow, 



Salmon in the Merrimac— Concord, N, H., Aug. 12, 

 1891. — E. B. Hodge, of the Plymouch Fish Commission 

 said to-day that there are now more salmon in the Merri- 

 mac River than at any time since the Lawrence dam was 

 built 40 years ago, and he thinks, even further back than 

 that. In one day he caught 22 fine ones at Plymouth. They 

 are, however, being mercilessly slaughtered by the dozen 

 at Garvin's Falls, at the mouths of the Suncook and Sou- 

 cook rivers, and at other points. Speaking of the agree- 

 ment existing between this State and Massachusetts, Col. 

 Hodge said it was generally thought that its provisions 

 cost New Hampshire considerable money, while the f ct 

 is that the matter has been so arranged that the general 

 government has footed the bills, and it has not cost this 

 State a cent. Moreover, it was this agreement with 

 Massachusetts which alone made possible the establish- 

 ment of the first fish hatchery in this State. — Boston 

 Herald. 



Sault Ste. Marie Troitt,— The Sault Rapids and the 

 small streams in the vicinity of the town have long been 

 known as famous for trout fishing, but it remained for 

 two American gentlemen from Memphis, Tenn., Mr, C, T. 

 Brooks and Mr. W. Lee Beard, to discover one of the best, 

 if not the best, trout fishing grounds in the district of 

 Algoma, and that right on the boundary of the town, in 

 the St. Mary's River in the vicinity of the Shingwauk 

 Home. These gentlemen caught at that place, with fly 

 bait, last week, a string of the finest speckled trout ever 

 brought to the Sault, one of the beauties weighed olbs, 

 and 2oz., they were all large fish. This is Mr. Brooks' 

 second summer at the Sault, and he is delighted with the 

 place as a summer xesoxt.—Saidt Ste. Marie (Ont.) Ex- 

 press, Aug. 8. 



Bltjefish were plentiful in Boston Bay last week, and 

 some have been caught with hook and line. They have 

 traveled as far to the eastward as Portland, They drove 

 all the mackerel out of Gloucester Harbor through the 

 canal into the Squam River. The best way to catch them 

 here is by means of a drail. I have s"een 13 bluefish 

 caught in one hour behind a boat sailing 3 knots. The 

 fishermen like eel skin for bait on the hook, leaving lin. 

 of the skin dangling free. Some tie menhaden slivers on 

 the hook, but eel is the favorite. The bluefish is con- 

 sidered a bad fish here because it drives all other kinds of 

 fish off the coast.— S. J. Martin (Gloucester, Mass., Aug, 

 9). 



Mackerel have appeared in large schools on the 

 Lathrop street beach, at Beverly, Mass., and amateur 

 fishermen have caught liundreds of them with hook and 

 line. Any kind of bait served to catch Ihern, as they 

 were ravenously hungry. Two men took about 100 in an 

 hour. 



A Taittog weighing 171bs. llfoz. was caught by David 

 Carruthers at Fresh- Water Cove, Gloucester, Mass., says 

 the Gloucester Times. This was one of the largest fish 

 of the kind ever taken in the locality. 



All communications must reach us by Tuesday 

 of the week they are to be published; and should 

 be sent as much earlier as may be convenient. 



A Brook Trout weighing lib, looz, and measuring 

 17|in, in length was caught recently by Wm, Hills, of 

 Ipswich, Mass. 



LATE SPAWNING SHAD.— While at Fort Washington, 

 Md., on the Potomac River, last May, we found tlie Unitecl 

 States shad hatchery about closing a season which was be- 

 low the expectatioa of the siiperiutendent in its yield of 

 eggs. Cold weather and clear water in the midst of the run 

 caused a very small catch of shad la the upper river, and it 

 was then believed that late spawners would make their 

 appearance whea the conditions became favorable. We 

 learn that on July 31, long after the flsh are supposed to 

 retire to deep water, a fine roe shad measuring ISin. in 

 length and fiin. in depth, was caught in the Potomac and 

 sold to a Baltimore firui. This is a conhrraation of the 

 theory held by Mr. Worth at the end of the Port Waahing- 

 ington season. — B, 



Hunting anb FisnrifG tk thk >-'obthwest.— Are you plar- 

 ning for an outing tbis summer ? Have you t-ver Jookeii up the 

 frtDinus resorts of the Northwest ? It is not an exaggeration to 

 say that the best huu tins: and fishing grounds in Movth AmPi-ica 

 are found in the territory tributary to the Korth'-rn Pacitic Rail- 

 road. The lake. p%rk regiou in Minnesota affords pickerel, pike, 

 bass and mascalonge; rock bass are found In numerous streams, 

 and deer, elk and bear abound in the forest regions; antelope are 

 found in Xorfch Dakota. The Snowy. Bitter Roo-, Giazy, Kocky 

 and Cascade Mountains are the home of moose, elk, caribou, 

 cougarp. Rocky Mountain sheep axid goat and other laige game, 

 while all of the Northwestern States abound in feathere'i game. 

 Rooky Mountain trout and grayling are caughi in the Yellow- 

 stone, G-allatin. Madison, Jefferson, Clark's Fork and Green 

 rivers, affoiding unrivalled sport. An interesimg nn-nphlet, 

 "Game Preserves of North America," can he ohraintu nee on 

 application to Chas. S. Fee, G. P. & 1. A. of the Northern Pacific 

 R. R. at St. Paul, Minn, Descriptive publications concerning 

 Yellowstone Park, Pacific coast and Alaska will also be mailed ou 

 receipt of application, referring to Fobbst and Stream.— J.cit). 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 1 to 4,— Second Annual Dog Show of the Kingston Kennel 

 Club, at Kingston, Ont. H. C. Corbett, Secretary. 



Sept. 8 to 11.— First Annual Dog Show of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Club, at Hamilton, Ont. 



Sept, 14 to 18.— Toronto Industrial Eshibition Association Third 

 International Dog Show, at Toronto. C. A. Stone, Sec'y and Sunt 



Sept. 22 to 35.— luaugural International Dog Show of the Mon- 

 treal Exposition Company, at Montreal, Canada, Entries close 

 Sent. 8. J. S Robertson, Secretary. 



Sept. 33 to 26.— Inaugural Show of the Blue Grass Kennel Club, 

 at Lexington, Ky. Rosers Williams, Sec'y. 



Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.— Third Annual Dog Show, in connection with 

 the Central Canada Pair, at Ottawa, Ont. Alfred Geddes, Supt. 



Dec. 4 to 8.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the Northern 'llhuo'is 

 Pnultry and Pet Stock Association, at Rockford, 1^1. 



Dec. 10 to 14.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Prtjeport Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Freuport, III, T. E. Taylor. Sec'y. 



Dec. 30 to ,Ian. 2.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Mohawk 

 Valley Poultry and Kennel Club, at Gloversville, N.Y. F B 

 Zimmer, Sec'y, 



1893. 



Jan. 5 to 9.— Annual Dog Show of the South Oamlina Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at Charleston, S. O. Berj. Mclnness 

 Sec'y. 



Jan. 13 to 16.— Second Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Kennel Association, at Columbia, S, C, F, F. Capers, Secretary 

 Greenville, S. C. 



Feb. 9 to 12.-Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah Ken- 

 nel Cluo, at Chicago, 111. Jolm L. Lincoln, Jr., Sec'v. 



Feb. 23 to 26.— Sixteenth Annual Dog Show of the* Westmiufter 

 Kennel Club, at Kew York. .Tames Mortimer, Supt. 



March 1 to 4.— Dog Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, at 

 Philadelphia, Pa. F. S. Brown, Sec'v. 



March 15 to 18 — Second Annual Dog Sbow of the Duqueane 

 Kennel Club, at Pittsburgh, Pa. W, E. Littell, Sec'y. 



April'! to 10.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston. Mass. E. H. Moore. Sec'y 



April 20 to 23.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kenntl Club, at Lns Angeles, Cal. C, A. "^immer. Sec'y 



May 4 to 7 -Annual Dog Show of the California Kennel Club 

 at San Francisco, Cal. H. L. Miller, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 2.— Inaugural Trials of the United States Field Trial Club 

 at Bicknell. Ind. P. T. Madison, Indiansf^olip!, Ind., Sec'y. 



Nov. 10.— Second Annual Trials of the International Field 

 Club, at Chatham, Ont. W. B WeJls. Se.i.'y. 



Nov. 16.— Eastern Field Trials Cluirs Thirteenth AnnualTriala, 

 at High Point, N. C. Members' Stake Nov. 12. W. A. Coster, 

 Seeretary. 



Nov. 23.— Irish Setter Club's Field Trials, at High Point. N. C 

 G. G. Davis, Secretary, Philadelphia. Pa. 



Nov, 2S.— Gordon Setter Club's Field Trials, at H^'gh Point, N. 

 C. L. A. Van Zinrit, Secretary, Yonkers, N. Y, 



Nov, 23.— Seeood Annual Trials of the National Beagle Club at 

 Nanuel, Rockland county, N, Y. F, W. Chapman, Sec'y 



Nov. 30.— Central Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 

 Lexington, N, C, C. H. Odell, Sec'y, 44 and 46 Wall street. New 

 York city. 



Dec. 14.— Philadelphia Kennel Club's Field Trials. Charles E 

 Connell, Secretary. 



1893. 



Jan. 10.— Second Annual Trials of the Bexar Field Trial Club 

 at San Antonio, Texas. G. A. Chabot, Sec'v. Amateurs only. ' 



Jan, 18.— Trials of the Pacific Field Trial Club, at Bakersfield 

 Cal. J, M. Kilgarif. Sec'y. 



.-Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Southern PieldTrials 



Club, at New Albany, Miss. T. M, Brumby, Sec'y. 



1 Field Trial 



HAMILTON DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



As I shall not have another opportunity of doing so before 

 the entries close for our coming dog show, I take advantage 

 of this chance to make a final appeal to American exhibit- 

 ors to lend us a helping; hand by way of making our show a 

 distinct and unquestionable success. 



There has never been a dog show here, and I am anxious 

 for that reason that the first one should be such as will 

 awaken an interest and give satisfaction to exhibitors and 

 visitors alike. If the show is successful and pays for itself, 

 as I have every reason to believe it will, there will be no diffi.- . 

 cultyin makina; it an annual fixture, and this is an end to- 

 Avhich I think I can legitimately appeal for help from our 

 friends across the line who love dogs. 



Our premium list has been carefully prepared and will 

 bear comparison, I think, t.nken all around, with any other 

 ou the Canadian circuit. We have had some applications 

 from friends who desired that alterations thould be made 

 and some of the classes added to, but we have decided to 

 make no change, in the belief that having once issued our 

 prize list it would be unfair possibly to some who might 

 not see them, if we made additions nr alterations thereto. 



We will give a good show, the dogs will be fed and benched 

 by Spratts, the prize money will be paid iustanter, and ex- 

 hibitors will have their comforts well looked after The 

 show has been well advertised in the American and Cana- 

 dian papers; it immediately precedes the big show in 

 Toronto, which is held only forty miles further away, and 

 can be reached in an hour by rail or boat, and it affords 

 therefore an opportunity for exhibitors not fotmd elsewhere. 



The Hamilton Kennel Club fought a desperate battle 

 single-handed lately with the Customs authorities in Canada 

 in behalf of American exhiiMtors, and they can repay us 

 now by helping our show along and making their entries aa 

 large as possible. 



One thmg I must repeat before closing this too long letter. 

 It is well known, of course, that the exhibitor-shows, not so 

 much for the sake of the value of any prizes he may win, aa 

 for the advertisement he thus acquires for his kennel and 

 stock. I have to point out that nowhere in America is there 

 to be found abetter market for dogs than in Hamilton, and 

 breeders may rely confidently on not only making sales, but 

 on booking orders for a time to come." I expect therefore 

 very many American entries, and give the fullest assurance 

 to exhibitors of a hearty welcome. A. D. Stewart, 



Pres. Hamilton Kennel Club. 



flAsnLTON, Canada. 



MORE CORRECTIONS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



A note has just come to me from Mr. A. W. Purbeck, of 

 Salem, Mass., in which he takes exceptioa to my statement 

 that Jolly Ranger beat Gem of the Season at Cleveland. I 

 did not mean at the bench show. Jolly Ranger was in the 

 open class. But at the time of that show the two dogs were 

 pitted against each other to run a course of 150yds. on an 

 avenue outside the show ground. They ran four heats, 

 Jolly Ranger won three heats and the last was a dead heat. 

 Mr. Purbeck's letter head shows a portrait of Gem of the 

 Season, and he appears to be a very fine specimen of the 

 breed. But at the present time Jolly R luger is not in the 

 pink of condition, but will be exhibited at the lench shows 

 this fall and will be open to challenge from any other dog 

 of his class. Mr. Ii-esoa will, however, allow his dog to run 

 only ia prize comnetitions, not for any wager whatever. 



J. MACKELCAN. 



ToBONTO, Canada. 



[We trust that this matter ia now settled to the satis- 

 faction of aU concerned.] 



