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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AVQ. 27, 1891' 



ANGLING NOTES. 



MANY disappointed fisliermen wlio frequent the Great 

 South Bay are growling over the scarcity of fiah in 

 that favorite piece of water. A few weeks ago the fish- 

 ing was excellent, but lately it has been very poor, and 

 the fishing boats lie idle at Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip and 

 Patchogue while their cajjtains curse the pound nets, 

 seines and fish traps which they, no doubt justly, claim 

 ruin their business. It seems hard that hundreds of people 

 should su-ffer in order that the few should profit. Scill 

 there is a fair supply of the coarser fish such as sea bass 

 and flcaiuders, even if the bluefish and weaktish are not 

 to be caught. Satiu-day is always a great day on the bay 

 and if the weather is pleasant and there is the slightest 

 show for tiah, the sloops and catboats swarm around the 

 fishing grounds?. About the youngest fisherman I have 

 yet seen on the bay, is Master Douglas Hartshome, and if 

 there was ever an enthusiastic fisherman, he is one. His 

 struggles with a flounder nearly as long as himself on a 

 light rod were very funny. But it is a good thing to 

 encourage youngsters to take up fishing, and it is sure to 

 keep them out of mischief, particularly as they grow up, 

 for they will never give up angling if they onqe acquire a 

 taste for it. 



For the benefit of those who wish to try the fishing in 

 the Great South Bay, I add a list of such boatmen as I 

 happen to know of personally, but I wish it understood 

 that there are very many others, only these I happen to 

 know of: Jolm T. Doxee, P. O. address Bay Shore; Frank 

 Phelps, Mojiroe Ryder, Bartlett Hortou, " Cliarles Still, 

 "William Day ton , all of Patchogue. The usual charge is 

 |5 per day. "'"Bunkers" (menhaden) are $1 per 100. Satur- 

 day they are al ways busy and must ba engaged several 

 days ahead. 



Messrs. James M. Breese and J. Louis Webb have been 

 trying the landlocked salmon at the Grande Discharge. 

 They report the fishing excellent, though many up there 

 were meeting with poor success from want of jjroper flies, 

 Thesalmon were feedingon a small natural fly and wanted 

 a close imitation. Most of the anglers were" fishing with 

 large salmon flies and could do nothing with them. Mr- 

 Webb took the largest fish that has been killed there this 

 season, weight 8 lbs. He used a 7oz,, 8-section bamboo fly- 

 rod and it took 36 minutes to kill the oiiananiche in the 

 swift water. They saved some specimens of these flies and 

 sent them to Messrs. Abbey & imbrie to be copied. 



SoaKLET-Ibis. 



FISH IN MAINE WATERS. 



MR. DANIEL GUNN, of Boston, one of the best 

 known printers of the Hub, is a veteran trout fisher- 

 man. The FOEEST AND Strbam has already heard of him. 

 It is be of whom it is related that he caught at one of his 

 outings in Nova Scotia, a trout, a perch, a haddock, a 

 halibut and a sea serpent, all at one cast— the first three 

 are true. But he dearly loves to fish, and he contrives, 

 in the midst of a very busy life, to snatch a few days 

 from the cares of business each season, to spend with rod 

 and line. This year- he took a Boston friend with himself 

 and a Pliiladelphia friend of both also joined them. They 

 went by train to Montreal, thence down the St. Lawrence 

 to the mouth of the Saguenay by steamer. They stopped 

 at Tadousac, and there they obtained a guide and a sail- 

 ing and rowing craft for up the Saguenay. They found 

 that the wonders of the Saguenay had never been half 

 told them. The depth of the river is something surpris- 

 ing, 1,000ft. having been sounded only a few rods from 

 the shore. The shores are lined with the most wonder- 

 ful clifEs. From their boat they could look upward, al- 

 most perpendicularly to the height of 500 to l,006ft.. 

 where there were huge holders, wanting but the action 

 of a single crowbar, apparentlv, to send them bounding- 

 and crashing down into the boat. But it was sea trouf 

 as well as seeing that they were after. In the coves and 

 under the bold shores, as they moved up the river, either 

 on the flood or ebb of the tide, they would cast their flies 

 and they secured all of the gamey sea trout they desu-ed. 

 Three pounds was not an unusual weight for individual 

 trout, and they caught one of five pounds weight, and 

 several that weighed over four pounds. 



This was not Mr. Gunn's first experience with the sea 

 trout, as the readers of the Forest and Streabi doubtless 

 remember; but to Mr. Tuttle, of the Standai-d BottUiio- 

 Co., his friend, the sport was entkely new. The sensa^ 

 tion of a 3 -pound trout leaping out of the water, as m- 

 Tuttle threw his flies toward some beetling clift" around 

 which the tide was rushing, was a new one to this gentle- 

 man, who had heretofore beea familiar with small trout 

 in the fresh-water lakes and streams. And then when 

 the monster became impaled on the hook by a well- 

 dhected strike, the sport was rare in the extreme. But 

 the strike of the season was reserved for Mr. Tuttle. It 

 seems that in his outfit he had a large multiplying reel 

 with some 150ft. of heavy line, and that at first he began 

 using this reel on his fly-rod— a rig altogether too heavy. 

 Mr. Gunn chaffed him somewhat on the size of his tackle, 

 and remarked that a smaller reel and less line would 

 doubtless answer, since they had taken nothmg that 

 required a very great amount of line; the sea trout not 

 being noted so much for rimning as for fighting on the 

 spot, as it were. Mr, Tuttle finally came to the same con- 

 clusion, and about the third day out he aijpeared with a 

 • smaller reel, on which he had about 50ft. of small line. 



The next day they were well up the river, where the 

 sport was good. Mr. Gunn was fishing from the boat, 

 while Mr. Tuttle was casting from the rocks nearly oppo- 

 site. Mr. Gunn beard a great splash. Then Mr. Tuttle's 

 reel sang out with a perfect buzz. A great fish whizzed 

 by the boat and do\yn the stream till Mr. Tuttle's liiie 

 was all out in no time. Mr. Gunn looked. Mr. Tuttle 

 stood erect upon the great rock, holding the very end of 

 the line in his fingers, actually detached from the reel, 

 lie had caught it as it snapped from the fastenings, and 

 he was holding the great fish that was leaping and gyrat- 

 ing like nothing they had had on the trip. Mr. Gunn 

 suggested to the guide that he go where the fish was 

 leaping with the net and render all the assistance possi- 

 ble. Mr. Tuttle I. eld on the best he could, and as good 

 luck w^ould have it, the line did not part again, and the 

 guide, a stillf 111 fellow, worked the net under the fish. It 

 proved to be an Sib. salmcn, Mr. Tuttle wanted to start 

 directly home to tell his friends of his good luck. But 

 the other persuaded him to stay a few days longer. The 



party returned a week ago, happy with their fishing and 

 full of praises of the wonders of the Saguenay. 



The Rob Roy Canoe Club, of Boston, has been spending 

 its vacation at Great Pond, about 13 miles south of Water- 

 ville. Me. The members of the club have been camping 

 on an island in the pond, where they have camped for 

 several seasons past. It is getting to be a feature of Maine 

 lakes and ponds that their shores are lined with tents and 

 cottages in the midst of the summer season. The Rub 

 Roy Club have selected Great Pond as thek summer 

 camping place because there are a number of ponds and 

 lakes in the vicinity, in the towns of Belgrade, Winthroo 

 and Monmouth, that are reached by easy portages. These 

 ponds are nearly all stocked wiih bass and pickerel. On 

 the shores of Great Pond a number of Waterville prom- 

 inent citizens own cottages. Among these are Mr. Frank 

 Webber, of the firm Webber & Philbrick; Messrs. Hayes, 

 Cornish and Bassett, Judge H. W. Stewart, Dr. Crosby, 

 F. F. Graves. Mr. Webber has this season put a $500 steam 

 launch on the pond for private use, and, with Captain 

 Elanchard as pilot, the party enjoy many fine outings. 



A genuine sea salmon has lately been taken in the 

 Piscataquis River, Maine. Yornig salmon were put into 

 a stream, tributary to the Piscataquis, above the dam at 

 Foxcroft several years ago, since which time nothing has 

 been seen of them till the one mentioned above was taken 

 the other day at a point known as Ryder's Cove. It was 

 believed generally that the many dams in the river had 

 proved too much for the fish, but the taking of this one 

 will give those interested in stocking the river new 

 courage. Special. 



SMALL-MOUTHS NEAR CHICAGO. 



I HAVE had experiences this June and first week in 

 July that gave me more sport and more bass than I 

 have had for many seasons, and that only two hours' 

 ride from the city. Frank Kuhns and myself took a run 

 out to McHenry, 111., on the Fox River, June 12, fished 

 one day, capturing 17 fine small-mouth bass. On June 20 

 we repeated tlie trip, and met with even better success. 



The McHenry Hotel is blessed with a proverbial old 

 salt, who has fished the Fox River 30 years, and has a 

 penchant for telling those bent on the 'sport that they 

 can't get fish unless they follow his principJea and fish as 

 he fishes. The sample of bait he displays to us was in 

 shape of a fly (his own product, thank fortune), and when 

 it strikes the water you would think some one had winged 

 a canvasback. We didn't use it, and, contrary to his pre- 

 dictions about our wrong bait, methods and weather, we 

 made the finest catch, we think, of the season. I will say 

 here, that all of our catches have been the famous tiger 

 bass, only when Kuhns gets a pickerel streak. 



June 27 I extended an invitation to Mr. Antoine (of the 

 sporting goods firm of Von Lengerke & Antoine) to visit 

 these grounds, and we made still a better catch, with 

 wea,ther, methods and all, according to the proverbial, 

 against us. July 3 Mr. von Lengerke accompanied me. 

 where we spent the 4th and another day. We took 24 

 bass, all small-mouths, and one pike in the two days. 

 The size of the fish caught every trip ranged from fib. to 

 3ilbs. I have caught gamy fish, but the ones we cap- 

 ture at McHenry, in the Fox River, are the gi-eatest 

 fighters I have ever had the pleasure of angling for. We 

 tried all kinds of bait, and had fair success with minnow; 

 but when Mr. Antoine introduced a bait he called the 

 patent bait, then we threw up our hands. The bass 

 seemed to recognize something in it new and delicious. 

 Saturday next a party of four will make the trip for the 

 fifth time. We will show our credentials— when we re- 

 turn. 



The writer wishes to say to the angler who can only 

 drop out for a day or so, Don't pass McHenry if you want 

 sport. Work the river down anywhere to Algonquin, 20 

 miles below, and you will find such sport as few dream 

 of, it being so close to Chicago. But you must work, for 

 the bass are not captured by sitting in a boat, anchored. 

 I have sat in boats with many of our fine Western ang- 

 lers, but have never before met a more perfect master of 

 the rod than our genial friend Mr. Antoine. 



G^^. Kenton. 



FISHING IN ILLINOIS. 



FISHING with hook and line has been superb in Illinois 

 River. Very fine bass fishing has been the rule 

 through the season at several points. I believe that in 

 some localities on the Illinois in this Stcffle better catches 

 have been made than at any of the famous fishing places 

 of the Northern lakes. At Lagrange locks, four weeks 

 ago, a party of three took with rod and line 175 black 

 bass and striped bass {Roeaus chrysops) in a morning's 

 fishing. The bass are the small-mouthed species. Tiie 

 striped bass weighed from lib. to l|lbs. and were very 

 gamy. A large number of wall-eyed pike, weighing 

 from Slbs. to 71b3,, have been caught here. At Harawna 

 fine fishing has been the order of the day at Copperas 

 Creek locks and Spring Lake near by. The bass fishing 

 was as good as one could want, a shigle rod taking 25 to 

 30 in a few hours. On Kankakee Rivej- I am informed 

 that bass fishing has been excellent at Momence; on Fox 

 River it is better than for years. I look for the best fish- 

 ing for years this fall along the river. I do not get time 

 to do much myself, but take a lively interest in the sport 

 and keep myself posted. S. P. B. 



QuTNcy, 111., A ug. 14. 



Ambee Fish at Cape Cod.— Among the occasional 

 summer visitors to Cape Cod is one of the amber fish of 

 the Southern States and the West Indies, belonging to 

 the genus Seriola of the books. There is native to the 

 waters around Cape Cod a small banded fish of this 

 genus, but the one here mentioned is very much larger 

 and rarely found so far north. In August, 1890, Mr. 

 Vinal N. Edwards obtained in Buzzard's Bay the first one 

 seen in the vicinity of Woods HoU. On Aug. 1, 1891, a 

 very large example, 3J-ft. long, was caught at Menemsha, 

 on Martha's Vineyard; its weight is 251 bs. This was 

 kept alive for two weeks, and ha3 now been sent to 

 Washington, where it will be used to make a flexible 

 cast to form part of the Fish Commission exhibit at the 

 World's Fair. The collection of casts now in process of 

 making by Mr. F. S. Denton for the Commission will un- 

 doubtedly prove one of the most attractive features of 

 the exhibit at Chicago, and it will be capable of trans- 

 portation without breakage — a desideratum never real- 

 ized heretofore. An amber fish resembling the one here 

 referred to is figured on Plate 108 of the "Fishery Indus- 

 tries.''— B. 



Madison Rivek Q^xtiang.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I have noticed hi Forest and Stre.am, lately, several 

 articles on grayling in Montana. In the fall of 1889 I vvas 

 camped in the Madison Basin, near Marshall's Ranch, a 

 few miles from the Park. While there I caught a good 

 many grayling with a fly in the Madison River very near 

 our camp. The flies with which I had the best luck were 

 brown-hackle, black-gnat and coachman. At evening 

 they rose quite freely to these flies and afforded good 

 sport. I inclose a photograph of the largest one I caugnt, 

 it weighed something over 21bs., and you can sec for your- 

 self that this fish was no whitefish, but a true grayling. — 

 Harry N. Candee. [The photograph represents the 

 grHyling {ThymaUiis ontar tends), as our correspondent 

 states. This fish is known to be abundant in the Madison 

 below the junction of the Firehole and Gibbon: it is said 

 to occur also in Gallatin River.] 



Merbimac River Salmon.— Nashua, N. H., Aug. 19.— 

 Friday, Aug. 14, two salmon were caught at Nashua, 

 weight, 8 and lOlbs,; Monday, Aug. 17, two of about 

 Slbs. each. I did not see the fish, but my informant did. 

 He stated that they were caught by Mr. Chas. Davis 

 with a, fly, at Cromwell's Falls, about four miles from 

 this city. Mr. Davis also raised and hooked another one 

 as large as the other two put together. He was fishing 

 from the shore and lost him after playing him some 

 time. Salmon are seen here each year, and occasionally 

 a small one has been taken, but these are the first I have 

 heard of as taking a fly. The river is very low at pres- 

 ent.— B, 



Marked Bass.— Dr, E. H. Cook and F, W. Sanborn of 

 Norway, are persistent fishers for bass. Some 150 bass 

 have been caught by them and returned to the waters of 

 Lake Pennessewassee. That they may know their fish if 

 taken again each puts a different mark on the fish he 

 takes. Dr. Cook's brand is a notch cut in the upper part 

 of the tail, and that of Mr. Sanborn is a notch in the 

 lower part of the tail. If you take bass with these brands 

 or notches on them you will know who they belong to. — 

 Lewiston (Me.) Journal. 



Bass for President Harrison.— Lake View House, 

 Vt.— Mr. Francis Kain, of the U. S. Treasury, New York, 

 and Mr. Harry C Ives, of Bridgeport, Conn., guests of 

 Samson's Lake View House, St. A-lbans, Vc, have the 

 honor of donating their morning's catch of twenty-three 

 large black bass fcoex-Gov. Smith, of St. Alban='. Vt.. and 

 they will be served on the occasion of the visit of Presi- 

 dent Harrison and Redfield Proctor. Secretary of War, 

 on Tuesday, Aug. 25,— -H. L. Samson. 



BAINERTDC4E, Pa., Aug 13.— There has been no fishing 

 in the Susquehanna River at this place for a month or so 

 on account of high and muddy water; but the stream is 

 now getting down to fishing order. I was out yesterday 

 and to-day and caught only two bass: but if "the river 

 continues falling and clear it should soon be in good con- 

 dition.— J. T. B. 



Manomet, Mass., Aug. 22.— Miss Alice Davis, of Chi- 

 cago, eleven years old, caught the biggest tautog: of the 

 season at this place last week. It weighed 711bs., and 

 she laaded it without assistance. — J. M. 



Tarpon in Long Island Waters.— Mr. Thos. H. Terry 

 caught a tarpon at Long Bsach, Long Island, N. Y,, last 

 week. It measured 8ft. lOin., and weighed SUlbs. 



FISHCULTURE IN MEXICO.— The department of Fo- 



mento is giving special attention to pisciculture. It has bad 

 the streams and lakes of the country examined and reported 

 on by competent persons and made arrangements for the 

 acquisition of large quantities of tish and fish eges. The 

 breeding will be commenced at once under government aus- 

 pices and private individuals who desire to engage in pisci- 

 culture will be supplied with fish and eggs. Mexico is not 

 particularly well supplied with water courses, but there are 

 numerous lakes in the country, but even in the latter fish 

 are scarce and not remarkably palatable. The stocking of 

 all the streams and lakes of the country with palatable fish 

 would add immensely to the food supply and be the means 

 of promoting a trade which would give employment to thou- 

 sands of people and which is at present unknown except on 

 the coasts. It is .sincerely hoped that the government ex- 

 periments in pisciculture will prove successful in every 

 resnect.— I7ic Two RcpuMics, City of Mexico. 



A city boy who went to spend a few weeks with his uncle, a 

 Leominster farmer, was instructed how to catch woodchucks 

 in a steel trap for his amusement. The first mornine; the 

 boy brought one all right. The second morning he "came 

 into the yard and called out: ''See here, uncle, I have got a 

 black .ind white one this time, and it smells dreadful. It is 

 awfully pretty, but I can't stand it to drag it any longer." 

 The boy changed his clothes in the ham.—Fitchhurg Sentinel. 



Foe years past a stork and his mate have regularly built 

 their nest in the park at Schloss Ruhleben, near Berlin. In 

 order to ascertain whether the stork was always the same, 

 the owner of the Schloss ordered a steel ring, with the name 

 of the place and the date, 1S90, engraved on it, to be fastened 

 round his left leg. This spring he returned with a ring on 

 the other lee:, too— a silver one— bearing these words: "India 

 sends Germany her greeting." 



HanMNG AND Fishing in the Nobthwest. -Are you plan- 

 ning for an ontiDg tuls summer? Have you ever lookeii up the 

 famnus resorts of the Northwest V It is not au exaggeration to 

 my that the best hunting and fishing grounds in North America 

 are found in the territory tributary to the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road. The lakp park regiow in Minnesota affords pickerel, pike, 

 bass and niHseaior'SP; l ock bass are found in numerous streams, 

 and deer, eJk and bear aboui'd in the forest resions; antelope are 

 found in North Dakota. The Saowv. Bitter Roof, G'azy, Rocky 

 and Cascade Mi.UDtains are the home of moose, elk, caribou, 

 couearp. Rocky Mountain sheep and goat and other large game, 

 while all of tte North western States abound in feaihere't game. 

 Rocky ^ir.nr.rriin tjoul and grasling are caught in the YeJIow- 

 stoiur ■ : , rJadiEon, Jefferson, Clark's Fork ani areen 

 Tiv^. _ uLr-:valled sport. An in teres ling pamphlet, 



'•GriTii,; i-Tv.M-1'.-cs ot North America," can be otrfained free on 

 application to Uhas. s. Fee, G. P. & T. A- of the Northern Pacific 

 R. R. at St. Paul, Minn. Hesrn'ptive publications concerning 

 YellowBtone Pai-k, PauiQc coast and Alaska will also be mailed on 

 receipt of application, referring to Forest and STRBAir.— ii^dv. 



