11, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE RAINBOW TROUT. 



Thp brook trout, mountain trout, speckled trout, or 

 golden trout, of California, having become famou=s in its 

 own country, was introduced many years ago into Eistern 

 waters, wherein it is commonly known as the rainbow. 

 The fish has been acclimatized also in Euroi)e and Japan. 

 Wisconsin, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York and 

 North Carolina now furnish suitable conditions for the 

 new-comer, and in some Pennsylvania streams the 

 jipecies thrives, multiplies and provides tine fishing. 

 Mr, Stewart has told in Forest and Stream how readily 

 the rainbow has accommodated itself to mountain 

 streams of North Carolina, and how it appears to take 

 unwarranted interest in the spawning of the brook 

 trout. Oar illustrations show an adult male from 

 Verona, Missouri, whero fry were introduced by the U. 

 S. Fish Commission in June, 1883, and a young specimen 

 from California showing parr marks. The rainbow was 

 planted in the Yellowstone Park in September, 1889. and 

 two years later Prof. Jenkins and Mr. Elwnod Hofer 

 found a number of lOin. specimens in Gibbon Kiver, both 

 above and below Virginia Cascade, near the place of 

 deposit. The iishing there was limited to the artificial 

 fly or the catches might have been larger. 



The rainbow grows to a length of 3ft , and individuals 

 of Bibs, are on record. The relation of the rainbow to 

 the steel- head or Gairdner's trout 

 is still open to question. Ten 

 years ago the writer called atten- 

 tion in Forest and Stream (J une 

 15, 1883) to the difficulty of dis- 

 tinguishing the young of these 

 two, and he finds no less uncer- 

 tainty in the problem to-day. If 

 the two are identical we should 

 use the older name, Gairdner's 

 trout, for the sppcies. It is well 

 known that the latter grows nearly 

 as large as the average Atlantic 

 salmon, which it resembles 

 strongly in shape. 



The rainbow feeds on worms, 

 insect larvge and eggs of other 

 SalmonidcB Dr. Livingston Stone 

 has given the following very in- 

 teresting account of its feeding 

 habits: "The California trout 

 roams about his watery hunting 

 grounds partly on his side, with 

 one eye directed to the bottom. 

 He is quite as dependent, and 

 probably more so, upon 

 the supply of food that is 

 beneath as upon the sup- 

 ply that falls from above 

 or floats on the surface. 

 Pie has another peculi- 

 arity also about feeding; 

 when he sees any food on 

 the bottom that looks to 

 him out of place, or has 

 from any cause a sus- 

 picious apppearance, he 

 wheels past it, and as he 

 passes the suspicious ob- 

 ject he strikes it a vigor- 

 ous blow with his tail and 

 then turns to observe its 

 movements. If there ap- 

 pears to be anything 

 •crooked' about it he will 

 not touch it, and will, 

 after striking perhaps 

 once or twice more witli 

 his tail, abandon it alto- 

 gether." 



Sijawning takes place 

 usually from January to 



May. The eggs are about one-fifth of an inch in diam- 

 eter and vary in color from light straw to deep salmon 

 Dink. A 31bs. female yields about 800 eggs. In water at 

 54° Fahrenheit the eye spots show in twelve days and the 

 eggs hatch in twenty-six days. The form of the embryo 

 can be seen through the shell four or five days before 

 the eye-spots appear. The females spawn in the Mc- 

 Cloud River when three years old. 



In the McCloud June and July are the best months for 

 fishing. 



The writer has found quiunat salmon eggs the most 

 attractive bait for the rainbow and others have hooked 

 many of the fish with grasshoppers. For fly-fishing 

 a brown-hackle and a white-moth were most effective 

 for "Coquina," while in Pennsylvania several of the 

 early brook trout flies were readily taken. For large 

 rainbows the flies must be as large as for black bass and 

 salmon and the gut snella increased in strength propor- 

 tionally. Owing to the gregarious nature of these trout 

 it is comparatively easy to fill a creel unless some of the 

 big tackle-smashers are encountered. T. H. B. 



Pointe Bleue to the opening of La Belle Kiviere, in the 

 Lake Kenogami district, some miles southeast of Lake 

 St. John. They were only absent three days from Rober- 

 val and this is the result of their two rods' work, and the 

 subject of a wonderfully fine picture from Mr. McCarthy's 

 Kodak: two trout of 4ilb8. each, fully a dozpn from 3 J to 

 S^lbs., and about 300 from lib. to l^lbs. Mr, McCarthy 

 writes that ho has had the grandest time this year in the 

 lake district that he has ever had, that he is completely 

 in love with the country and that there is no place like it 

 on God's footstool, 



Mr. Martin J. Chamberland and Mr. J. H. Hendricks, 

 manager of the Warwick Cycle Works, Springfield, 

 Mass., have just returned from the Metabetchouan, where 

 they have been fishing the waters of the Amabalish Club 

 with wonderful success. They brought back with them 

 some 1301 ba. of speckled trout, including a splendid fish 

 of 5ilbs. 



I have good news this week for ouananiche fishermen, 

 and in fact for all visitors to the Grande Discharge of 

 Lake St. .John. The splendid new iron steamboat has 

 made a successful trial trip on the inland sea, and now 

 crosses it daily from Roberval to the Discharge, making 

 the distance of 34 miles in about an hour and a half — a 

 Favina: of an hour in the passage. The Mistassini cost 

 $45,000 and has accommodation for 400 passengers. 



Mr. E. J. Myers, the New York barrister, ascended 



Raikbow Teotjt (YOTrN&). 



CANADIAN ANGLING. 



The remaining salmon fishermen are rapidly leaving 

 the streams. Mr. Blanchard, of Boston, came up from 

 the Marguerite on Monday, having killed 10 fi-*h in his 

 second stay of 10 days in camp. Mr. Walter Brackett's 

 fishing on the same river was very poor. He went home 

 to Boston last week. The Prime Minister of Canada, Sir 

 John Abbott, is just home from the Restigouche, where 

 he found the fishing poorer than ever. A little more 

 readiness on his part to meet the views of experienced 

 anglers in the matter of fish protection would insure bet- 

 ter sport for Canadian a,s well as for Americxn anglers. 

 . Lieut.-Gov. Angers and Major Sheppard, of Quebec, have 

 been the guests for 10 days past of Lord Stanley on the 

 Cascappdia River, The Lieutenant-Governor took 10 

 fish and the Major 13. Lord Stanley, while fishing with 

 them, killf d 11 salmon. His Excellency will remain on 

 the river until about S^pt. 1, having a cottage at its 

 mouth which he will occupy after the fishing season is 

 over, 



A fortnight ago T wrote you a. report of the wonderful 

 fishing done by Dr. Lundy of Philadelphia and Eugene 

 McCarthy of Syracuse in the Ouiatchouan and Ouiatch- 

 ouaniche rivers. Last week these persistent sportsmen 

 piade their way with a couple of Indian guides from 



RAINBOW Trout (Adult). 



quite recently the great river from which the steamer 

 takes its name. He was absent from Roberval about a 

 fortnight, and made some remarkable catches of trout and 

 ouananiche. After the next fortnight I believe that 

 anglers in search of the best ouananiche fishing would do 

 better to ascend some of the tributaries of Lake St. John 

 than to fish the Grande Discharge. The best streams for 

 this purpose are the Peribonca, tbe Mistassini and the 

 Asbuapmouchouan. E. T. D. Chambers. 



QuBBEC, Aug. 4. 



NEW ENGLAND FISHERMEN. 



Boston, Aug. 4, — At the seashore resorts this season 

 there seems to be more than the usual amount of fish- 

 ing, and the participants seem to greatly enjoy it. Mr. 

 E M. Gillam, commercial editor of the Boston Adver- 

 tiser, is a good deal of a sportsman. This season he is 

 spending the summer at Beachmont, as usual. Early in 

 the season he purchased a good boat, and with his wife 

 and friends the salt-water tishing is being tried with a 

 good deal of success. The other day some sixty pounds 

 of cod and hsddock were the result of a single outing. 



Mr. C. W. Leonard was formerly a partner in the suc- 

 cessful firm of dry goods jobbers of Jackson, Mandal & 

 Daniell, now Chatman, Kendall & Daniell. Mr. Leonard 

 was tempted to go into the manufacture of dress goods 

 at Bennington, Vt., where he has had a good deal of suc- 

 cess. But he dearly loves to fish, and every opportunity 

 that can be caught from the carPs of a very busy life is 

 given to his favorite pastime. He is training his boys in 

 the same direction. This spasou his family is-summering 

 at Rookport, Mass., at the Turk's Head Inn. Mr. Leonard 

 goes down there as often as possible and takes the boys 

 out fishing. On a trip the other day they fished for 

 perch and tautog from the shore with rods. Mr, Leonard 

 likes this much better than fishing from a boat with hand 

 lines. On the day in question his liUle son Charlie R., 

 only 6 years old, was with him, with his brothers aged 9 

 and 11 years respectively, a cousin of 11 years, and two 

 young fripnds of 13 and 14 years. In order to excite the 

 boys Mr. Leonard ofliered prizes as follows: 1 cent for 

 the first perch, 5 cents for a jperch ovpr 13in. in length, 

 and 10 cents for the largest tautog. Little Charlie's black 

 eyes sparkled at this announcement, and he was quickly 

 at work fishing from the rocks, Soor he landed a perch, 

 the first one, and took prize No. 1, Later he landed a 

 perch that measured IS^-in, in length, the largest for the 



day, and prize No. 3 was his. Then, to cap the climax, 

 the little fellow soon hooked a big fish of some kind. In 

 fact it was so strong that his father found it necessary to 

 take the rod, it being evident that the fish was stronger 

 than the hoy. He played the fish carefully for several 

 minutes when be was convinced that even a man had his 

 hands full to handle the big fellow successfully. At last 

 the fish gave up and was drawn near to the locks, when 

 one of the bigger boys ran down, and taking the line in 

 his handi5, hy a careful jerk it was landed. It proved to 

 be a tautog weighing S^lbs., and little Charlie had won 

 prize No. 3. Mr. Leonard is at a loss to explain how it 

 could happen that the little fellow took all tlaree prizes. 



Mr. James L. Reybold, salesman with Hyde & Wheeler, 

 was born in the Adiirondacks, His father was a pioneer 

 farmer in that part of the country, but really followed 

 hunting more than farming. His son naturally came up 

 with a love for the woods. Every year, at vacation time, 

 Mr. Reybold goes to what is left of the old haunts. At 

 this time he is taking his few weeks at the old homestead, 

 or near it, and his two sons, Will E, and Frank S,, are 

 both with him ; Will is a salesman at 101 Clinton st. , and 

 Frank is with his father. The boys, like their father 

 and grandfather, both take to the woods and waters, and 

 the gun and fish rod are the implements that suit them 

 best. They intend to do some camping as well as fishing. 

 Aug. 6. — Reports from the salmon anglers are more 

 favorable than early in the season, 

 when the water was so remarkably 

 high. Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the 

 actor, was seen in Boston the other 

 day. He was just back from his 

 salmon river, the Miramichi, 

 where, as already mentioned, he 

 has been for some days. He vis- 

 ited G. B, Appleton's tackle store, 

 and doubtless many of his theat- 

 rical friends, before going down 

 to his elegant summer home on 

 the shores of Buzzard's Bay. His 

 success, with that of his friends, 

 in salmon fishing, was good. The 

 party took 117 salmon, though a 

 great many of them were grilse. 

 His Excellency, Gov. Russell, one 

 of the party, as already noted in 

 Forest and Stream, took sixteen 

 salmon. Mr. Jefterson remarked 

 of the trip that it was a particu- 

 larly enjoyable one. A number 

 of trips were also made to trout 

 lakes and streams, with good suc- 

 cess in most instances. 



Senator Aldrich, of 

 Rhode Island, gave Con- 

 gress the slip the other 

 day, and last Tuesday 

 morning he left Boston 

 in company with a friend 

 from Providence, and. 

 Mr, Henry R. Reed, of 

 the Revere Sugar Refin- 

 ery, and was on his way 

 to Canada. The Senator 

 is a lover of salmon fish- 

 ing. When the gentle- 

 men left the Hub their 

 intention was to stop one " 

 day at Matapedia, and 

 try the salmon there 

 while waiting for trans- 

 portation to their desti- 

 nation, the St. John, at 

 Gaspe. There they are 

 the guests of Mr. Ives W. 

 Adams, of the American 

 Net & Twine Co., of this 

 city. Mr. Adams has one 

 of the best salmon pre- 

 serves in the Provinces on the St. John, at Gaspe. Very 

 good success has already been had there this season, and 

 up to the time of the departure of the Senator Aldrich 

 party fifty salmon had already been caught, and these 

 were all salmon and not grilse. Mr. Adams says that it, 

 is a peculiarity of this river that very few grilse are ever 

 taken. The section is also noted for its splendid sea 

 trout fishing. Mr. John Fottler, not unknown to the 

 Forest and Stream, as one of the most earnest laborers 

 in the cause of game restocking in Massachusetts, and as 

 one of the restocking committee of the Massachusetts 

 Fish and Game Protective Association, is now at the 

 same river. But he in due in Boston this week. He is 

 interested, with Mr. Adams, in the same river, I believe. 

 He has had good success in salmon fishing. There are 

 four or five camps on the preserve. The middle building 

 of one of these establishments was formerly a camp 

 built for Lady DulTerin, who, during the lifetime of Lord 

 Dufferin, was with him exceedingly fond of salmon 

 angling. There are also reports of several good catches 

 of salmon on the Nepisiquit, but I have not the names of 

 the fortunat'' ans-lers. 



Aug, <§.— Mr. R, B, Foster, an earnest lover of angling, 

 died at his home in Waltham -July 29. Mr. Foster was 

 not wholly unknown to the readers of the Forest and 

 Stream, since several of his quaint and delightful 

 angling stories have been told in its colums. He was 

 born in Bethel, Me,, 66 years ago, and reared on the 

 farm in that town, he early acquired a love for the woods 

 and waters which never left him. During his last sick- 

 ness his dreams, when sleep would come to his pain- 

 racked body, were frequently of angling, often accom- 

 panied with struggles to find the best pools in the 

 stream, and then a peaceful delight in landing the trout 

 he loved so well to take. He came to Boston when only 

 17 years of age and went to work for a. truck farmer in 

 Belmont. He married Miss Salome G. Earns, of Newry, 

 a town adjoining Bethel. The firm of Foster & Weeks 

 was formed in 1855, in the produce trade, and it is in ex- 

 istence to-day. Mr. Weeks survives his much-beloved 

 and respected partner. 



Mr. D. H. Blanchard, well known as the author of the 

 celebrated salmon anglers' petition, is back in Boston 

 from his salmon river, the St. Marguerite. He has later 

 had good success there, and makes a clean record of 

 twelve salmon, the largest weighing 37]bs. He received 

 a dispatch yesterday from his people at camp saying that 

 vhere were a good many salmon in. th© river, and he will 



