JULY lA, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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AMERICAN FISHERMEN IN CANADA. 



ANunusuaUy laxge number of American anglers are 

 at present in Canada, both upon the salmon streams of 

 the far east and the trout and ouananiche waters of the 

 northern district of Quebec. On the Eestigotiche among 

 other members of the Restigouche Salmon Club, Dean 

 Sage of Albany and Mr. Caldwalder of New liorkand 

 Colonel Cutting have done fairly well. Other members 

 of the club now whipping the same waters are Arthur 

 H Weeks SFcretarv, John S. Kennedy president and Dr. 

 Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia. All report the fishing 

 slightly better than last year. As a matter of fact, the 

 shipments of salmon from the Restigouche th)8 year ex- 

 cef d by oyer a hundred boxes the shipments last year 

 up to the same date. Robert Goelet and Stanford White 

 the well known architect are fishing at Red Bank on the 

 Restigouche, where the former in one day killed eight 

 salmon ayeraging oyer SSlbs. each. Harry liolhns, Mr. 

 Vanderbilt's broker, has done well at Brandy Brook, 

 having killed thirteen fine fish in two days. The pools at 

 Indian House are being successfully fished by Mr. James 

 Breeze and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Purdy, Charles 

 Fearling and Captain Emmet, all of New York. Rev. 

 Dr. Rainsford has been fishing the Patapedia for nearly 

 a month, and Camp Albany on the, Restigouche has 

 yielded some famous fish to Abraham Lansing of Albany 

 and Dudley Olcott and C. H. Raymond of New York, 



The American anglers who have thus far fished the 

 Lake St. John waters this season are charmed with their 

 success, especially with the ouananiche. The run of 

 these fish into the Grande Discharge of Lake St. John 

 during the last week or two has been unyrecedentedly 

 large, Messrs. E. N, Coates and D. H. Coates, of the 

 Springaeld Fishing Club, took upward of a hundred 

 pounds of fish in one day at the Discharge at the end of 

 June, and also report the trout fishing as excellent in 

 their own lakes. Dr. J . Lundy, of Philadelphia, recently 

 killed twenty-five ouananiche- in one day, and Mr. and 

 Madame Petit, of Paris, took sixty. Messrs. James Cham- 

 berlain and W. H. Mathews, of Rochester, are at the 

 Alma Club on the Grande Discharge. Capt. Rose and 

 the T^ady Cecil Rose, of London, the latter a daughter of 

 the Earl of Cathcart. are making a long stay in the Lake 

 St. John district, and are at present fishing the splendid 

 ouananiche waters of W. A. Griffiths, Esq., in the Grande 

 Discharge, where some of the grandest sport is had and 

 the largest fish taken. The fish are here sometimes taken 

 up to eight pounds in weight, and those of three and 

 four pounds each are by no means uncommon. To take 

 equally large fish in Mr. Beemer's waters, anglers should 

 descend two or three miles below Scott's Camp. At 

 present the fish take bright and large-sized flies, chiefly 

 the professor, Jock Scott, silver- doctor, etc. Soon they 

 will require much smaller flies of the same character or 

 darker hues, and will probably be easily seduced by the 

 B. A. Scott, a new fly tied in close imitation from 

 ?8mples of flies taken last season in July and August 

 from the stomachs of ouananiche and supplied by Mr. B. 

 A, Scott, the manager of the hotels and fishing grounds 

 at Roberval and the Grande Discharge. 



Among others who have recently passed through Que- 

 bec on their way to the Grande Discharge are Messrs. 

 Euaene McCarthy, of Syracuse; E. H. Curtiss, Dr. Paul 

 F. Munde and Dr. B. H. Wells, of New York, and Mr, 

 Nowell, of the Boston & Maine Railway— all of them, 

 ■with the exception of Mr, Nowell, old-time fishers of the 

 ouananiche. 



In Like Edward there have recently been some mag- 

 nificent catches of red trout. J.U.Gregory, Esq., re- 

 cently took a beauty nearly 6lbs. in weight, and has 

 splendidly preserved the skin. His nephew, Mr. Van 

 Felson, took on Monday last a number of handsome 

 specimens in the St. Anne River, from the preserve of 

 the Tourilli Fish and Game Club, up the line of the Que- 

 bec & Lake St. John Railway, and that notwithstanaing 

 the constant rain of the last few weeks, which has swollen 

 the riyers enormously. Two of these trout weighed re- 

 spectively 3| and olbs. E. T. D. Chambeks. 



QtTEBEC City, July 7. 



SALE OF TROUT IN CLOSE SEASON. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. W. L. Gilbert, in his reply to me in your issue of 

 July 7, appears to labor under the hallucination that I 

 will have my "hands full in preyenting the sale of culti- 

 vated trout in Connecticut at any season of the year 

 either dead or alive." Probably I have had more experi- 

 ence in prosecuting illegal trout fishermen and illicit 

 dealers in trout than Mr. Gilbert's "Connecticut attorney" 

 ever did. I have never as yet failed to cony.ct all persons 

 found violating Connecticut's "modified" (so called) law. 

 I fully understand how tenaciously some cling to the pro- 

 viso in our law which reads: 



That any person may take trout in waters owned by him for the 

 purpose of stocking oilier waters, or talie and sell any trout reared 

 in such waters. 



Undoubtedly Mr. Gilbert catches at the ellipsis in the 

 above c^uoted proviso. To understand the fish laws of 

 this State one needs to read more than one section. I beg 

 to call attention to Revised Statutes, 1888, Section 2,523, 

 which reads: 



Nothing in this chapter [Fishing in Ponds, Reservoirs! and 

 Streams] shall prevent the Fish (Jommissioners. or any person 

 authorized by them, from taking fish at any time and place, and 

 as they choose, for the purpose of science and of cultivation and 

 dissemination. 



Now I claim that without one of these permits no 

 person can legally sell trout in the close season. I am 

 ready to try conclusions with Mr. Gilbert's "Connecticut 

 attorney" to test my claim. 



The courts would construe the statute quoted by Mr. 

 Gilbert in accordance with the legislative intent; since it 

 is always to be presumed the Lsgislature designed the 

 statute to take effect, and not to be a nullity. 



HABIFOBD, Conn., July W. A. C. COLLINS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Disappointed in his efforts to legalize in Massachusetts 

 the sale of artificially reared ti'out during the months of 

 January, February and March, Mr. Gilbert has applied to 

 the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for infor- 

 mation about the law governing the sale of trout in this 

 District, and has been told that there is no law relative 

 to the sale of brook trout. It was incorrectly stated that 

 only about lOOlbs. of brook trout per annum reach the 

 city. It ja true the oaarketg have a, very small lot of trout, 



but the large clubs and hotels receive the fish in large 

 quantities from private preserves and distant markets. 

 "There is no prohibition of hook and line fishing within 

 the limits of the District at any season of the year," says 

 the Book of the Game Laws. It would appear, therefore, 

 that any kind of game fish can be lawfully sold in its 

 spawning season. This is only one of the many signs of 

 a benighted understanding among the District's law- 

 makers, and only here and in similar fossilized commun- 

 ities can the sale of unseasonable fish and game go un- 

 punished. 



Anglers' fishes in Washington comprise a goodly list 

 in the markets during April, May and June. The in- 

 spector of marine products reported the arrival at the 

 river front of weakfish (called sea trout), croakers, blue- 

 fish (called tailors), white perch, yellow perch, striped 

 bass, flounders, spots, Spanish mackerel, carp, ecup 

 (called porgies), sheepshead, drum, pike and black bass. 

 He might have added many other names, but these will 

 serve to show how extensively the game fishes figure in 

 the city's food supply. Only two black bass found their 

 way to the market, but hundreds of the spawning fish 

 were caught and eaten. Fario. 

 Washtnqton. 



SOUTH SIDE SPORTSMEN'S CLUB. 



From the twenty-sixth annual report of the commit- 

 tees of the South Side Sportsmen's Club, of Long Island, 

 we find that the membership now numbers 100, which is 

 the limit of the organization. The ofiicers for the ensu- 

 ing year are: Roland Redmond , Pres.; W. Bayard Cut- 

 ting, Vice- Pres.; George P. Slade, Treas.; Francis 0. 

 deLuze, Sec'y; George G. DeWitt, Counsel. The four 

 honorary members of the club are: William H. Fur man, 

 William Nicoll, James Benkard and Samuel Shaw, 



The record book of the club shows 5,862 trout killed 

 last year. "The brook fishing was excellent up to the 

 close of tlae season, showing the wisdom of employing 

 the game keepers or wardens, as only three years ago 

 there was strong evidence of the stream having been 

 netted." A large amount of woodland was cleared with- 

 out improying the shooting. Many coveys of quail were 

 raised, but owing to the drought they concealed them- 

 selves in inaccessible covers. Deer have increased on 

 the property. Twenty-two were killed at and near the 

 boundary fence. 



Owing' to ill health Supt. James P. Swain was forced 

 to resign, and J. Brian Foulke was appointed in his stead. 



In the fish preseryes, during some necessary repairs, 

 eels entered and proved very destructive to the young 

 trout. One eel was killed containing 43 fry. By these 

 depredations the stock of fry was reduced to 7,000. and 

 it became necessary to buy 20,000 from the Tuxedo Club. 

 In order to keep out these marauders concrete floors are 

 being laid in the preseryes. In the upper brook a, 213 

 trout were killed averaging in weight 3t^z, The average 

 of the other 2,649 trout was 12^oz. Of the 193 rainbows 

 killed the heaviest weighed Bibs., 12oz. 



"Of late years the number of large fish taken from the 

 pond has been small, and upon examining the reports it 

 was found that since three year-old fish have been turned 

 out instead of two-year-olds, the fishing in these waters 

 has declined. It has now been decided to turn out mainly 

 two-year-olds, keeping only about 1,200 until three years 

 old. These will be put out for the early fishing. Experi- 

 ence has shown that after natural food becomes plenty, 

 the old fish are hard to lure with artificial fly. 



The members of the fish committee are Roland Red- 

 mond, John G. Hecksh^r and George P. Slade. To the 

 report of the committees are appended the charter, con- 

 stitution, by-laws and fishing rules ot the club, the rules 

 of the executive committee and the special provisions of 

 the new game code of 1892, Art. VII., relating to Kings, 

 Queens and Sutiolk counties and Long Island Sound. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FISHING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I see in your issue of June 23 Mr. Ramon E. Wilson, of 

 San Francisco, sees fit to criticise my letter of April 7, 

 and to make many erroneous statements regarding the 

 same. If Mr. Wilson is capable of reading a letter intel- 

 ligently, and will refer to my letter, he will note that I 

 referred to the trout fishing in this State as being good. 

 I am familiar with and haye fished in some of the north- 

 ern streams Mr, Wilson mentions, but have yet to find a 

 better stream for trout than the San Gabriel. To be sure 

 many fishermen would not come south so far to find trout, 

 and no more would the angler here journey to the "north- 

 ern citrus belt" for that purpose. My letter was meant 

 to giye the most conyenient places where the fishing was 

 good, and not out-of-way places like Tahoe, Donner, In- 

 dependence, the Klamath, etc., which are practically out 

 of the State. Mr. Wilson mentions some places where I 

 do not think there are any better fish than catfish, and 

 the statement made by me that the fresh-water fishing in 

 the Eastern and Southern States is far superior to the 

 fishing here, and that practically trout were the only 

 fresh-water yariety worth angling for here, remains a 

 fact despite Mr. Wilson's numerous doubts. 



1 brought a fine rod with me when I came to this State 

 ten years ago, and after sppnding a small fortune in tips 

 and repairs, I now leave it at home when I so fishing, 

 and take a couple of light bamboo poles. If Mr. W. will 

 refer to my remarks about the purchase of tackle, he will 

 see it referred to salt-water, and it is a fact, as any one 

 who will inyestigate will find, that it is impossible to get 

 a fine salt-water outfit— such as one will find at Mills or 

 Vom Hofe's— in this State. Therefore I say, bring your 

 salt-water fishing tackle with you. 



Speaking of large trout, one was caught in the Bear 

 Valley Lake weighing 12Jlbs. This trout was on exhibi- 

 tion in Los Angeles last year, and on its bed of ice looked 

 very handsome and tempting. I believe Gus Knecht of 

 the'Bear Valley Hotel caught it. 



In conclusion I will say whateyer I write is the result 

 of practical experience, and solely hoping to be of use to 

 some brother sportsman. C. B. Willis. 



Alhambba, Ga l-, June 29. 



In the Great Back Bay. 



St. Albans, Vt.— Lake View House. — In July: One 

 boat — 32 wall-eyed pike, 3 Northern pike and 7 bass. One 

 boat — 37 wall-eyed pike, 1 mascalonge, 9Jlbs. One boat — 

 20 bass, 1-Jlbs. to S^lbs. One boat— 13 bass and 18 wall 

 eyed pike, AU boats catching other small fish. Fishing 



H. L. SAiasoN. 



TyE ANGLING EXHIBIT. 



Now that the exhibition space in the building for the 

 Angling Exhibit at the World's Fair is nearly all allotted 

 to manufacturers and dealer's in fishing tackle, it is in 

 order to notify the anglers of the United States and 

 Canada that they can contribute very materially to this 

 exhibit. Individual .anglers and angling clubs can furnish 

 various articles that will add much to the completeness 

 and attractiveness of the display, in the way of i^aintings, 

 drawings and photographs of fishing scenes, club houses, 

 landscapes, etc., fish specimens, articles of tackle, etc., 

 which can be utilized in decorating the screens and walls. 

 It is hoped and urged that almost every angler will con- 

 tribute something to this display. A single article from 

 each angler woiild form an aggregation that would be 

 both unique and novel, and one that could not fail to be 

 exceedingly interesting to all who love the fisher's art. 



At the Pifcatorial Exhibition, held Feb. 18 to March 5, 

 1892, at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Loudon, there 

 were neatly 3,000 entries by anglers and angling clubs, 

 consisting of paintings, photogriiphs, drawings, fish speci- 

 mens, articles of tackle, etc., and it seems to me that 

 American anglers should do as much for the great World's 

 Columbian Exposition and make this feature of it a truly 

 representative one. 



The classification of the Exhibit is as follows: 



Gr<jup 39.—An()WW E.vlnbti. 

 Class S-l'^.— History and Literature ot Angling. 

 Hection 1 — Hooke, periodicals, poems, etc. 

 Sf ction 3.— Pa'ntinBi?. drawiugs, engravings, photCKraplif, 

 maps, eic. 



Section 3.— Anglers' troplnes, medals, prizes, etc. 

 Section 4.— Mounted fishea, flsh skins, fina, earbones, etc. 

 CTjAsr S-l-l.— Salmon Rods and Salmon Tackle. 

 Section 1.— Salmon rods. 

 Section 2.— Salmon reels. 

 Section JJ. -Salmon lines. 

 Section 1 —Salmon fliep, leaders, etc. 

 Section 5.— tiaffs, butt-reste, bags, etc. 

 Class 245.— Rods, Reels and Tackle for Bass, Trout, Pike. etc. 

 Section 1.— Bait rod?, flv rods, trolling rods, etc. 

 Section 3,—Matf rials and mountings for rods. 

 Section 3.— Multipb ing reel?, click reel?, automatic reels, etc. 

 Sedion Keel fittings, reel fiisreuings, etc. 

 Section 5.— Fishing lines; braided, twisted, laid. etc. 

 Section ti —Materials and dressings for lines, etc. 

 Section T.-Fisli hoolcs of all kinds, unmounteH. 

 Section 8.— Fish hooks, snelled and mounted, gangs, etc. 

 Section 9 — Aitificial flies and materials. 

 Section 10.— Silkworm gut, leaders, snells, gimp, etc. 

 Section 11.— Artificial minnows, insects, etc. 

 Sect'on 12.— Trolling baits, spoons, spinners, squids, etc. 

 Section 13.— Sinkers and swivels, all kinds. 

 Section 11.— Floatr, furnished lines, etc. 

 Section 15.— Minnow seines, nets, traps, etc. 

 Section 1<J.— Landing nets, net rings, gait.*, etc. 

 Section 17.— Creels, basket^', bags, live nets, etc. 

 Section 18.— Minnow buckets, crates, b.sit boxes, etc. 

 Section 19.— Rod cases, reel cases, butt restp, rod Iwlders, etc. 

 Section 20.— Tackle boxes, ta el? le books, flj" books, leader boxes, 

 etc. 



Section 31 -Insect repellers. fly oil, lly cream, head nets, etc. 

 Section ^2 — Tools, pliers, knives. Hies, oilers, etc. 

 Section 23.— Miscellaneous articles, ba'ancaf, disgorgerp, 



stringers, elearit g rings, drj lug reels, etc. 

 Section 24.— Accessories; fly wax, dyes, varnishes, stains.water- 

 prooftogs, etc. 

 CjjASS 247.— Anglers' Apoaral and Appurtenances. 



Section 1.— Hats, clnihing, wading pants, boots, shoes, etc. 

 Section 2.— Filters, cups, flasks, etc. 

 Class 348.— Anglers' Camp and its Outfit. 



Seocion 1 —Tents, portalile houses, camp furniture, hammocks, 

 cooking utensils, pack baskets, canned food, 

 lamp=, etc. 



Section 3.— Fishing boats, canoes, fish cars, etc. 

 I will take pleasttre in furnishing blank applications for 

 space, and all desired information as to details, etc., to all 

 who will communicate with me. 



Jamfs a. Hes shall. 

 In charge of Angling Exhibit. 

 No. 210 Tenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Fishing for Fun and Fishing for Money. 



Lock Haven, Pa.. July 4.— Trout fishing in all our 

 streams this season shows a great improvement over for- 

 mer years, and numerous large ones, for our waters, 

 have been taken. 



I captured with fly in McElhattan last month a 15 and 

 a 16in. trout weighing respectively li and l^lbs. 



We have a Fish and Game Protective Association, or- 

 ganized last spring, that is making great efforts to im- 

 prove the fishing in our county and to compel the ob- 

 servance of the laws protecting fish. 



It was reported that Clinton county applied for more 

 trout fry this season thaia the whole State could furnish. 



The grfatest obstacle we have to contend with in re- 

 plenishing our streams is market-fishing. Certain per- 

 sons are on our trout streams night and day catching 

 trout for sale to the saloons. They make a regular bitsi- 

 ness of it throughout the entire season, and of course be- 

 bome very expert and successful in taking trout. They 

 are bait-fishers. They are strongly suspected of using 

 dynamite or other illegal devices to fill their baskets. 

 They are the worst trout hogs we have — trout hogs for 

 money. We want a law to prohibit catching trout for 

 sale. . T. M. C. 



Fishing Incidents. 



A CORRESPONDENT of the London Fishing Qazette re- 

 lates: "I had hooked and was playing a roach, when I 

 saw hovering over it a kingfisher, which made a dash for 

 the fish, but, striking the rod instead, fell partly stunned 

 upon the water. I could have reached the bird with the 

 net, but thinking it might recover, let it float away. AU 

 at once there was a rush, a swirl, up flew the water, and 

 the kingfisher disappeared in the jaws of a pike.'' 



In connection with the incidents of overboard hauling 

 of fishermen by fish, noted by Mr. Cheney last week, read 

 this from the Brownwood (Tex ) Banner: "Several parties 

 were fishing in the Colorado River on the Brown county 

 line a few days ago. One man left the party in a skiff to 

 examine some set hooks. Not returning in due time hia 

 companions went in search of him. They found hia 

 empty skiff floating on the water. They then examiaed 

 the hooks, and upon one they found a 1351b. catfish and 

 their lost companion with the hook run through his hand. 

 It is supposed the man had drawn the fish up and tried to 

 take it off, but the fish in flouncing around had hooked 

 his captor and dragged him under the water." 



Blue fish in Great South Bay. 



The first run of bluefish came into Great South Bay- 

 last week. Some of them weighed as much as 12ibs., 

 and they were caught in large quantities near Sayyille, 

 I^ong Island, 



