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FOREST AND STREAM. 



,0eT. 1, 1891. 



WASHINGTON ANGLERS. 



MR. CHAELES H. LAIRD, of the tJ. S. Post Office, 

 had a yery successful trip to Point of Rocks la?t 

 week, when his party succeeded in taking upward of 100 

 bass. Mr. Laird says that ttiese fish ran the best of any 

 he has seen from the Potomac, and he has caught bis 

 share of them. Quite a niimber were taken weighing 

 from ?, to 51bs. each. Mr. Wet^fel, another of Washing- 

 ton's well-known a)iglers, spent a day at Riverton laet 

 week, but was not so successful, securing only 5 bass. 

 Mr. H. A. Parker, of the Smithsonian Institution, reports 

 sood bass fishing in Goose Creek, Virginia. _ He captured 

 9 one day, while another gentleman, fishing the same 

 stream, took 18. The first were not so large, weighing 

 from f to lib., but as Uncle Thad. Norris used to say of 

 smair trout, "they were veritable firecrackers."' Mv. 

 Parker also caught a nice bass off the sea wall at the foot 

 of Seventepnth street. 



Yellow perch fishing is opening auspiciously. It is in- 

 teresting to watch Capt, Blake, of the Mount Vernon 

 steamer, fish for perch from the Marshall Hall dock. Of 

 course the fish are small, but make up in numbers what 

 they lack in size. 



W. C. Kendall, of the U. S. Fish CommisBion, called a 

 few days ago and told us some interesting things about 

 the Chesapeake. Capt. Piatt, of the steamer Fish Hawk, 

 has preserved the skin of a 5ft. tarpon, which was netted 

 at Cape Charles City. Trout (weakfish), botli spotted 

 and plain, were observed at Crisfield early in September; 

 a good many Spanish mackerel were present also; those 

 taken weighed from 1 to Slbs. each. Croakers, spots and 

 sea bass were in their usual abundance. 



Messrs. J. H. Parkhurst and Clifford Wright bad fi-ne 

 sport at Coltoii"s Farm, near the mouth of the Potomac, 

 early in the month. Silver perch or yellow tail (BaircU- 

 eUachryHura) were taken in large numbers. It is an ex- 

 cellent fish, and very abundant in the Chesapeake and its 

 tributaries: as far as we are aware the silver perch is 

 never found in fresh water. It is a small member of the 

 weakfish family, and is not so closely related to the 

 white perch as its appearance would lead one to suspect. 

 The largest we have seen measured 9in. and weighed 

 about ilb. BONAET. 

 Washington, D, p., Se^t, ?6. 



A Black Bass weighing SJlbs. was caught in the Dela- 

 ware, near Egypt Mills. Pa,, by Mr. H. 0. Ford during 

 his September fishing. The abundance of young bass of 

 the year gives promise of fine fishing in the future; the 

 shores of the LTpper Delaware are lined with these little 

 fishes. 



St. Louis Notes.— A couple of weeks ago some of the 

 members of the Calhoun Hunting and Fishing Club, 

 finding gar-pike so abundant in the Giiead Slough, ob- 

 tained permission of the fish warden to seine out the gars. 

 They made one haul and got over oOOlbs. of the reptiles, 

 and the next day stai-ted to make another haul, when the 

 sheriff swooped down on them, and in spite of the fish 

 warden's permit they were each fined $10. Illinois offi- 

 cers seem to be on their mettle in a manner that would 

 even satisfy Brother Hough. . . . The State Fish Com- 

 mission of Missouri have a t the St. Louis Ex-pOvsition a 

 fine display of native fishes in two lar^e tanks. Another 

 small tank has a beautiful lot of rainbow trout also taken 

 from Missouri waters. The fish exhibit attracts as much 

 attention as anything in the exposition. — Aberdeen. 



CuTTYHtTNK Bass. — Cuttyhuuk Club, Cuttyhuuk 

 Island, Mass., Sept. 20, — Editor Forest and Stream: 1 

 note in your issiie of Sept. 17 under the head of ''Cape 

 Cod Notes," that "a party of four caught fifty scup and 

 twenty-two sea bass in about two hours, using cut men- 

 haden for bait." Oa the 17th, in Buzzard's Bay, off 

 Quick's Hole, I caught in loss than two hours fifty-four 

 scup and twenty-eight sea bass with menba.den and lob- 

 ster for bait, to say nothing of the large cunners, flukes, 

 and old maids (skate) caught by me at the same time. 

 Yesterday afternoon from one of the stands on our island 

 I took three striped bass, 20i, 18 and laflbs., 54ilbs. in 

 all, in less than two hours, also one bluefish 5|lbs, which 

 (bluefish) we do not count. In July I caught while fish- 

 ing for bass thirteen bluefish, Bmalli-st 5Hb3., largest 

 131b8,, all taken with a light rod.— Heney P. McGowN. 



A Big Champlain Bass — St. Albans, Vt., Sept. 36.— 

 The largest bass of the small-mouthed species ever known 

 to have been ca-ught in the Great Back Bay of Lake 

 Champlain, was captured near Samson's Lake View 

 House, on Woods bar, so-called, on the 24cb inst. bv Mr. 

 Jos. M. De Vean, president of the Mount Morris Bank, 

 New York city, John Armstrong guide. The fish xveighed 

 5-|lb8. At the same place and same day Mr. A. F. Troe- 

 scher, of New York city (Joe Armstrong guide), caught 

 two large bass, one weighing -If lbs. and the other S-Jlbs. 

 Mr. De Vean also caught a pike that weighed 9|lbs. He 

 declares it was about as gamy a fish as he ever caught 

 here. The 5f lb. bass was photographed by Miss Troeecher 

 and is to be mounted by Mr. Goron, Vermont's celebrated 

 taxidermist, for Mr. De Vean. — H, L. Samson. 



Black Bass Fishing in the Upper Potomac is very 

 good at present, and members of the South Mountain 

 Fishing Club just returned from a successful trip say 

 that the number of young bass of the year is unutually 

 large; the conditions were favorable for the spawning 

 and the early life of the fry. The chief difficulty now 

 lies in the bait supply, which is hard to get. Tho famous 

 stone catfish of the Susquehanna, although it occurs in 

 the Potomac, seems to be absent from the region near 

 Harper's Ferry, and the fishermen lack this desirable 

 bait for the bass. The silvery minnow, the favorite of 

 the anglers, is growing so scarce as to make its capture 

 unreliable.— B. 



Black Banded Rudder Fish.— Gloueester, Mass., 

 Sept, 13.— The Italian bark Andrea Lo Vico, loaded with 

 salt from Trapani, has been here about a week, and ever 

 since she was docked a strange fish has been seen around 

 her rudder. Capt. Collins calls it a black-banded rudder 

 fish; it is about a foot or 15in. long and is considered a 

 curiosity by all who see it, — E. F. L. 



West VmoiNiA Bass. — Dr. Henshall tells us that Fort 

 Spring, West Virginia, is a capital headquarters for bass 

 fishermen. I'ort Spring is on the Greenbrier River, be- 

 tween Alderson and White Sulphur Springs, A good 

 stopping place is at Robt. Curry's, one mile from Fort 

 Spring, and right on the river., 



FfAIW-BOW TROUT PLANTING. 



DURING the past few years hundreds of thousands of 

 rainbow trout fry (Saimo iridcus) have been liberattd 

 in many of the srreams, ponds and lakes of Pennsylvania by 

 the State Fish (Jommis'sioner, aiul onl3' in very rare instances 

 have they been known to propagate naturally. I am in- 

 formed that about three yeai's after the following named 

 ptxblic streams were stocked rainbow trout fry were discov- 

 ered in them in a, thriving condition, and in nearly every 

 instance is colder than is to he found in the general run of 

 Pennsylvania streams. Ilollister Creek, Wayne county: 

 Hornbeek's Creek and Mill Creek, Pike County; Newville 

 Creek, Cixmberlaud county, and Tumbliag Run, Schuylkill 

 county. In fact the result of stocking public waters in Penn- 

 sylvania with this species of trout has been so unsatisfac- 

 tory that the State Fish Commission concluded to abandon 

 the hatching and distribution of them as far as practicable, 

 and to that pnd about two years ago nearly all of the breed- 

 ing iish, many of them weighing from 3 to Slbs. each, were 

 liberated in streams of a low temperature with tiie hope 

 that the conditions would be favorable and that they would 

 strive with our brook trout for the mastery and that the 

 result would be the survival of the fittest. As yet, so far as 

 I can learn, very little has been heard of these adult fish, 

 except one instance I call to mind, when Hon. H. C. Ford, 

 last summer, while fishing for black bass in Egypt Mills 

 pool, on the Upper Delaware, was greatly surprised when 

 he felt a vicious strike, and reeled in a beautiful lake trout 

 that touched the notch at 2}^lhs. Evidently this trout hud 

 felt cramped in the narrow limits of either Hornbeek's or 

 Mill Creek and moved down in search of wider range, and 

 probably more abundant food in the way of minnows to be 

 found in the river. 



la nearly every instance observers have noticed that these 

 rainbow fry linger about the place where they were liber- 

 ated from' one to two years, then mystei-iously disappear, 

 leaving no trace behind them and going no one knows 

 Avhere, 



In the month of August, 1888. I was, in company with 

 Col. Graves and Major W. D. Tomlin, of Dulutb, Minn., 

 both gentlemen being well known and enthusiastic anglers, 

 a guest of the famous Baptism River Club, at their com- 

 fortable club house, situated at the mouth of the Baptism 

 River, on the north shore of Lake Superior, and my banner 

 day was on that beautiful stream, where I killed three of 

 the largest brook trout it has been my good fortune to find 

 anywhere. The river takes its rise far back in the wildei*- 

 ness and its course is broken by several beautiful falls. 

 The first one is found about one mile from the lake; over it 

 the water tumbles fully 75ft. into a deep circular basin; 

 into this pool many monster brook trout ascend from the 

 cold waters of Sxiperior during the summer months and 

 find their progress stopped by the wall of rock before them, 



I have always believed that the disappearance of the rain- 

 bow trout from Eastern waters was attributable ta a wider 

 range sought for, and I suggested to Col. James N. Gran- 

 ger, a very active member of the Baptism River Club, the 

 advisability of trying the experiment of stocking the lower 

 stretch of their river with this species of trout, at the same 

 time explaining to him the peculiar habits of the fish. The 

 following winter Col, Granger, acting on the suggestion, 

 procured 10,000 rainbow trout eggs, hatched them success- 

 fully and liberated the fry in the Baptism below the lower 

 falls. 



A few weeks ago, in a letter received from Col. Granger, 

 he says: '"The rainbow trout which I planted in the Bap- 

 tism have been heard from, a number of the fish have been 

 caught off the stream this year. This proves the correct- 

 ness of your surmises that the waters of the streams on 

 the north shore of Lake Superior were adapted for that fish." 



If the rainbow trout seeks a wider range than is to be 

 found in the contracted limits of the trout streams of our 

 Eastern mountains, as it grows in size, it will find plenty of 

 it in Lake Superior; but it remains to be seen whether it 

 will return to the Baptism River to spawn or not. I am of 

 the opinion that it will be found in the river when the ice 

 breaks up next spring. John Gat. 



Washington, D. C. 



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FIXTURES. 



BETTER THAN AN ARMY WITH BANNERS.— The 

 United States Pish Commission does not make much noise 

 in the world, but it is adding more to the wealth of the 

 counti'y and doing more good than all the armies that were 

 ever organized. From time to time the JVetos has had occas- 

 ion to speak of the Fish Commission and the excellent ser- 

 vice it was doing in stocking the waters of Maine and New 

 England with valuable fish. Hardly a week goes by without 

 bringing fresh evidence of the good service it has rendered 

 the nation. And the work of the Fish Commission is not 

 confined to Maine or to New England. It extends all over 

 the country, and takes in Alaska, the despised foundling 

 which Mr. Seward adopted from Russia.— JBcoi go?' Daily 

 News. 



YEARLING CALIFORNIA SALMON.— The U. S. Fish 

 Commission now has at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 10,000 

 California salmon, which are to be distributed as yearlings. 

 One-half of these are to be sent to the Battenkill, in Ver- 

 mont, a tributary of the Hrrdson, and the remainder will be 

 deposited in a stream on Long Island. It is confidently ex- 

 pected that the introduction of salmon of this size will soon 

 make an impression on our streams, just as the operations 

 in A^'ermont and elsewhere with yearling rainbow trout 

 have speedily proved successful. 



Joseph B. Frey, saloon keeper, on South Third street, and 

 William Bercaw were trout tishing up in Monroe county on 

 Saturday. While forcing his way through a thick clump of 

 bushes overhanging the stream Bercaw saw a good-sized 

 trout dart out from a bank of the creek and pass directly 

 beneath him. Working his way to a secluded nook a few 

 feet above, the angler cast a fly with such skill that in 

 a few seconds he caught and safely landed a speckled beauty 

 about lOiu. in length. He made a second effort, but could 

 get no more trout there. Well, the fishermen continued on 

 their wav until their sport had ended and then they seated 

 themselves to clean their fish, of which, of course, they had 

 a fine lot. On opening one of the trout the fish was found to 

 contain a diamond shirt stud. This caused Bercaw to look 

 for his diamond, when it was found to be missing. Then it 

 flashed to the fisherman's mind how fortunate he had been 

 —that in passing through the brush his diamond had been 

 forced from his shirt front: the trout he had seen dart in 

 front of him had swallowed the jewel, and then he had 

 succeeded in capturing the fish. To a reporter of the Express, 

 who incjmred of Mr. Bercaw conceraing the truthfulness of 

 the story the latter declared it to be a fact in every particular. 

 ^Enstnn (Pa.) Ex'press. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 29 TO Oct. 1.— Third Annual Do? Show, in coBnection with 

 the Central Caiiiirla Fair, at Ottawa. Ont. Alfi-pd fieddes, Supt. 



Dec. i to 8.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the Northern Illinois 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Aasnciation, at Rockfnrd. I']. 



Dec. ]0 to 14.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Freeport Poultry and 

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



Deo. 30 to Jan. a,— Fourth Antutal Dog Show of the Mohawk 

 Valley Poultry and Kennel Club, at Gloversvllle, N. Y. F. P.. 

 Zimmer, Sec'y. 



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Jan. f> to 8.— The New York and New Erglnnd Poultry and Ken- 

 nel Club's Dog Show, at Albany. N. Y. W. C. House, Fort Plain, 

 N. Y., Seo\v. 



Jan. 5 to 9.— Annual Dog Show of the South Oarr'linn. Poultry 

 atid Pet Stock ABSociation, at Charleston, S, C. Berj. McItineBS, 

 Sec'y. 



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

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

 Greenville, S. 0. 



Ff b. 0 to 12.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah Ken- 

 nel Club, at Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Sec'y. 



Feb. 28 to 26.— Sixteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at. New York. James Mortimer, Sunt. 



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

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



March 15 to 18 — Second Anotial Dog S>iow of the Duquesne 

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



Anril-? to 10.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Ker nel Club, at f?>nstoa. Mass. E- H. Moore. Sec'y. 



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

 fornia Kennel Club, nt Los Angeles, Cal. C. A. Sumner. Sec'y. 



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

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



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. Madison. Indianapolis, Ind., Sec'y. 



Nov. m.— Second Aunual Trials of the International Field Trial 

 Club, at Chatham. Ont. W. B. Wells, Sec'y. 



Nov. 16.— Eastern Field Trials Club's Thirteenth Annual Trials, 

 at High Point, N. C. Members' Stake Nov. 13. W. A. Coster, 

 SerretaiT. 



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

 Ct. G-. Davie. Secretary. Pbiladelpliia, Pa. 



Nov. 3B.-Gordon Setter Club's Field Trials, at High Point, N. 

 C. L. A. Van Zwdt, Secreiary. Yonkers, N. Y. 



Nov. 23.— Serond Anraial Trials of the National Besgle Club, at 

 Nannet, Rockland county, N. Y. E. W. Chapman, Sec'y. 



Nov. 30.— Central SMeld 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. 



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

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



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

 Cal. J. M. Kilgarif. Ser'y. 



.- Fourth AnnuHl Field Trials of the Southern FieldTrials 



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



LEXINGTON DOG SHOW. 



THE inaugural show of the Blue Grass Kennel Club closed 

 Sept. 26, and for a first attempt in a new country the 

 management, and especially Mr. Roger Williams, the ener- 

 getic secretary , deserve considerable credit. The show pro- 

 posed and carried out in a short time, it needed some hustl- 

 ing to get such a number of dogs as 403 together, but those 

 who know the secretary and those who have heard of him, 

 are aware that he is not apt to let the grass gi-ow under hia 

 feet, and that they could depend on what he said. Consid- 

 ering the hot weather the arrangement of the benching was 

 admirably adapted to give the dogs fresh air and keep every- 

 thing sweet and clean without mirch disinfectant. The 

 .show was held under a covered track connected with Mr. 

 Brasfleld's sales stables out at the race track, a mile ont of 

 town. The shed was in the form of an oval, and allowed an 

 alleyway of some 1.5f b. between the inside and outside rows. 

 The'benching was the old style, without the partition, and 

 I must say that a quieter, more friendly lot of dogs I never 

 saw. Sometimes the mere fact of a partition sepai-ating two 

 dogs makes them inclined to fight, especially if they know 

 they cannot get at each other, hence the general ruihpus at 

 some of our shows. The numbering was hardly as good as 

 might have been, a straightaway course coitld easily have 

 been had, as the oval must have been over an acre in extent. 

 The center of this oval was uncovered, and is a grass field, 

 making an admirable place for judging, had the ring been 

 inclosed with rope or fence. This show wiis not held in con- 

 nection with the Charity Expo.5ition which gave fox hunts, 

 or rather chases, etc., on the track near by, still, one was 

 supposed to help the other. 



Major .1. M. Taylor took all the sporting classes, aud 

 Mr. Frank C. Wheeler, who will be remembered as hailing 

 from London, Ont., and an enthusiastic terrier man, passed 

 upon the non-sporting division, and there was little grumb- 

 ling heard. It was afternoon on Wednesday before the 

 form- r got to work on his big classes of setters and finished 

 them up. Mr. Wheeler did not commence till Thursday 

 morning, when it did nob take bim long to rattle them off, 

 or out we .should say. The commended cards must not in 

 many cases reflect on the judges, as they were particularly 

 requested to do the very best they could for every one. The 

 weather was all that" could be desired, and though the 

 attendance was never very large, still, the expensed being 

 small, there will not be much, if any, loss to the club. Mr. 

 Geo. Hill was all there with his jolly face, doing his best for 

 every one and helping the secretary with the benefit of his 

 long experience. Some distinguished visitors dropped in on 

 Wednesday. Among them were Gov. Brown, Lieut. -Gov. 

 Afford, Gen. Wade Hampton, himself an enthusiastic fox 

 huntFr; Gen. Don Carlos Buell, Senator J. C. S. Blackburn 

 and Congressman W. C. P. Breckenridge. With these few 

 lines I will pass on to a description of the cla,sses, leaving 

 other items of interest for "Dog Chat." 



MASTIFFS— (FRANK C. WHEELER). 



So far down South, and with the principal kennel busy in 

 Canada, one could not expect a very great show of quality 

 in these classes, all being local entries. The winner in dogs, 

 Wafe, turns his feet out, has light eyes, ears wrongly car- 

 ried, and has little mastiii type; Duke, second, has a snipy, 

 weak muzzle; Onandaga, vhc , I preferred to any in body, 

 but feet are poor; and Jack, he, loses behind, too straight; 

 Prince deserved a couple of letters, as he has a trtier type of 

 head than any shown. Louise could only get two letters in 

 the bitch class, wrong all over. In puppies a second went to 

 K. TJ., though he might have just as well have been first, as 

 he has a fair type of head and a very good front. 



ST. BTSRJTARDS— (FRANK 0. WHEELER). 



There is great room for improvement in this breed in this 

 .section, although at the same time it i.s not a dog for the 

 country, and native-bred orie."? will never amount to any- 

 thing, the climati- being too warm and enervating, and most 

 of them will run light and snipy. The winner in the open 

 dog class, Columbia Knight, is a good boned dog, moves 

 queerly, lacks blaze, but has a nice coat; Neubie, second, is 

 long-headed and shallow: Cerebus, vhc, is poor in color, 



