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FOREST AND STREAM. 



j April 18, 1893. 



WISCONSIN TROUT STREAMS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Having noticed the article in your issue of March 9, on 

 the "Brook Trout of Wautomia," by E. W. Hubbell, I am 

 prompted to add my testimonial iji behalf of those fine 

 fishing waters. "Wautomia is in fact the centre of a fine 

 trout district, all developed in the last ten years, through 

 the effoi-ts and pei-severa,nce of such men as Judge Bugh, 

 who for a number of years represented this district in the 

 State Legislature. 



There are about a dozen streams and tributaries in this 

 vicinity, all well stocked with trout, w-hich run much 

 larger in size than those in the natural trout streams 

 further north. 



Wautomia may be reached by making about a twenty 

 mile drive from Berlin on the C. M. & St. P., or by driv- 

 ing about the same distance from Princeton, the present 

 terminus of a branch of the C. & N. W. 



Now that the open season is agaiu at hand, and the 

 spring awakening brings to us all dreams of pleasant 

 places, leaping trout, and bright sunshine, and iu our 

 reveries we are carried again to the scenes of last season's 

 triumphs, and when the desire to go ahshing amounts to 

 a fever which consumes all arguments of business, I hope 

 my friends of the rod and angle will pay this favored 

 locaUty 1 visit. 



The Po. IS House, kept by "W. A. Bugh, is a comfortable, 

 home-like ^'iRage hotel, plenty good enough for any true 

 angler. Around the great stove in its cheerful ofiice, or 

 on its broad veranda, are gathered every evening the local 

 and visiting sportsmen, discussing the day's success and 

 the relative merits of the fishing at Gallager's Bridge, 

 Denning's, or Lunch Creek. The professional guide is 

 met with only in his most primitive form, and is in no 

 way a nuisa,nce. A few villagers there are who may be 

 induced at a moderate recompense, to foi-sake his potato 

 hoeing, and with grub worm or other humble lure, will 

 generally take more fish than the most accompUshed 

 visitor. 



A wide bridge on the main street spans the sti-eam a 

 few rods below the hotel; under this I have often peeped 

 while waiting for my breakfast or team, and watched a 

 dozen or more speckled beanties swimming in native 

 freedom. Good fishing may be had just below the village 

 when the mill is nmntng, but parties usually drive out 

 about three miles to the main stream. Lunch Creek is a 

 fine quiet stream flowing through brush and meadow land, 

 a httle further from town. Ten miles to the southward is 

 another deep stream well stocked with rainbow^ trout, 

 from which the 51bs. 7oz. trout alluded to in Mr. HubbeU's 

 article was taken. Visitors will hardly expect to take 

 many trout of this size, but there are plenty caught of 3 

 and Bibs, weight. 



I could regale my readers with tales of wonderful 

 catches, at the serious risk of being put down as a disciple 

 of Ananias, and so wUl simply say in conclusion, "go and 

 try it." Some may object to my thus assisting in giving 

 away a good thing, but the territory is so large, and the 

 care taken in protecting and restocking each year by the 

 residents so thorough, that there is little'danger that these 

 streams will ever be greatly over-fished. E, J. Buknside. 



RiPON, Wis. 



BOSTON AND MAINE. 



The opening of the trout season in Massachusetts is 

 agaiu proving to have been altogether too early, especially 

 for the northern and western part of the State. The 

 streams and ponds in the northwestern sections of the 

 State are still in a condition not favorable to fishing with 

 the fly, and but very few trout have been taken. Mr. 

 Claude H. Tarbox, of the Chamber of Commerce, and who 

 lives in Byfield, has tried the streams faithfully in that 

 section for trout, liut v<dth most unsatisfactory re.sult,s thus 

 far. He is a great lover of the angle, as well a.s an ex- 

 pert, and if there were trout to be had he woifld be pretty 

 sure to get them. He spent Fast Day, April G, on a stream 

 where, he says, he has generally succeeded in taking trout. 

 He tried them faithf idly, by every means of angling that 

 he is acquainted with, but with no trout. Coming away 

 from the stream, he concluded that it was altogether too 

 early, and that he would try them later. If he could see 

 any trout "lying around loose," and he had had his "tom 

 cod tongs" there, he woidd have tried "tonging them." 

 Mr. David S. Plummer, with his son, spent Fast Day on a 

 good brook in the town of Orange, with a result of only 

 three trout. He, too, concludes that Fast I)a.y came too 

 early this year, for on the same brook a year ago he had 

 good sport on the day appomted by the Governor for fast- 

 ing and prayer. The chances are, however, that Gov. 

 Eussell went afishing himself on that day this year. But 

 he can be exciised, since he is a great lover of angling, 

 and since he has asked the Legislature to abandon Fast 

 Day altogether, and make a good, handsome legal holiday 

 , instead, when everybody can go afishing and laot be in 

 danger of oflending the over particidar. The solons of 

 Beacon HiU have not granted his request, however. 



Mr. L. Dana Chapman, with Dame, Stoddard & Ken- 

 dall, with his friend Harry Crocker, were on a famous 

 trout brook at East Falmouth on Fast Day. They had 

 good sport, taking twenty-nine trout, weighing from -} to 

 lib. They could have done much better but for the fact 

 that the brook had been fished several days in succession 

 before they were there, with a result in one case of some 

 eighty trout to a line. Like all the rest of the sportsmen 

 who fish the streams on the Cape, they do not like to have 

 the name of the brook published, though this one is a 

 brook not open to the pubhc. Mr. J. Eussel Eeed fished 

 somewhere in Wareham on Fast Day, but with what re- 

 sults I have not yet learned. M. Greo. D. Appleton, son of 

 Geo. B. Appleton, of Appleton & Basset, showed a very 

 handsome dozen brook trout in the window of the firm for 

 several days last week. They were taken from a cran- 

 berry bog stream on the Cape, in the town of Bourne. 

 This is said to account for the beautiful red markings of 

 this string of trout. Those who fish these cranberry' bog 

 streams declare that this red shading of the trout they 

 get is a feature of those waters. They even go so far as 

 to say — ^^dth a wink in their left eye — that it is "the juice 

 of the cranberries, you know." 



Fish and Game Commissioner Henry O. Stanley, of 

 Maine, writes me that he is glad that the Legislature of 

 that State has at last adjoiu-ned. It has been a heavy task 

 to watch and prevent foolish and harmful legislation. 

 He says that, with the exception of the change in the 

 game laws permitting the killing of cow moose, he does 

 jiot consider that any serious barm has been done. The 



appropriation for the propagation and protection of fish 

 and game has been increased, together with the fines 

 being decreed to the work; so that the Commission is in 

 really better shape than ever before. He tliinks that Dr. 

 Wentworth will be an able a,nd an earnest addition to 

 the Commission. His letter also says that the Commis- 

 sion has a goodly supply of sea and Sebago salmon fry, 

 with a large number of trout fry. These wdl be kept and 

 fed till next October, before being turned loose in the 

 lakes and streams to take care of themselves. The Com- 

 mission followed this plan at Auburn last year with good 

 success, raising fully 75 per cent, of the fry to the size of 

 the redfin chub, or -3 to 4in. in length. Fish reared to 

 this size are counted much better than turning them out 

 the first year, to be destroyed by all sorts of aquatic ene- 

 mies. Their operations of rearing will be carried on this 

 season at Eangeley, Aubm-n, Sebago and Oakland. 



Commissioner Stanley is a great lover of the rod and 

 line, as well as much interested in the culture of fish, and 

 the restocking of depleted waters in Maine. This has 

 doubtless led to the erroneous idea that he is Fish Com- 

 missioner, while his colleague is Game Commissioner. 

 The Commission of that State is not divided in that way. 

 Both commissioners are equally commissioners of fisheries 

 and game, and they work together. But it is a fact that 

 late in the life of Mr. Stilwell the great burden of labor 

 fell on Mr. Stanley's shoulders, owing to the fll health of 

 his colleague. 



Mr. Geo. H. Cutting, a Eichardson Lake, Me., guide 

 and lumberman, wrote under date of April 7 that he had 

 just come out from the lakes, wliere he had been putting 

 in ice for Camp Stewart. He found the ice 38in. thick of 

 clear, blue ice. The woods are fidl of snow, and it was so 

 cold there that he could not paint boats. One boat 

 house, standing under a hiU, had to be shoveled out of a 

 big snowdrift, the roof being covered. This almost as- 

 sures a very late opening of the Maine trout lakes this 

 season. The thickness of the ice, when compared with 

 other seasons, would indicate that it would be June 1 

 before these lakes would be free from ice. But doubtless 

 warm weather will intervene to reduce the ice rapidly, 

 bringing the season up to a little later than the average, 

 which is about the 13th of May, for these lakes to clear. 

 Mr. John Bartleman, who has spent several seasons at the 

 Mountain View House, at the foot of Eangeley Lake, is 

 the first sportsman on the ground this year, having 

 reached Eangeley last week. Special. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST, 



[F)-ovi a Staff Corresjwndent.] 

 Figures for Gov. Altgeld. 

 Chicago, m., April 8.— Gov. John P. Altgeld, who 

 thinks a Fish Commission that costs $7,000 a year is "a 

 useless and expensive board," would do well to look over 

 the following figm-es, given mo by Mr. W. P. Andnis, 

 secretary of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission: 



"Minnesota appropriates 110,000 a year for our Com- 

 mission," said Mr. Andrus, "though next year we expect 

 $15,000. Our Legislature seems anxious to get all the 

 information it can on these matters and shows a marked 

 tendenc}' not only toward liberality with the Com- 

 mission, but also toward the making and enforcement of 

 stricter laws. In this it is Avarranted, if you Uke, not 

 only for reasons of sport, but for commercial reasons. 

 Few know the actual commercial value of the fish and 

 game of a State. In the last two years of oiu- work in 

 Minncsot.°. we have planted fish enough to come, at a 

 value of 6 cents a pound, to $500,000, 1 suljtnit that this 

 is a good investment on |10,000, or even $15,000. 



"We attempt to protect the doer of om- State, and com- 

 mercially they are well worth it. In 1891 there were 

 shipped out of Minnesota, not to speak of the amoimts 

 used within the State, 10,000 saddles or carcasses of veni- 

 son, which averaged $10 a saddle. In 18i)^ there were 

 shipped 6,300. This would make a. total value for two 

 years of $163,000 for one sort of game alone. Such a 

 source of revenue ought not to be wantonly wasted, if for 

 commercial reasons only." 



Mr. Andras vs as the original promoter of the movement 

 to secure a imifoi-mity in the game ia Minnesota, the law 

 Dakotas. Iowa and Wisconsin. The law was [jassed in 

 Scmth Dakota, was vetoed ui North Dakota, was badly cut 

 up by the Legislature of Wiseonsui, has reached its third 

 reading in Minnesota Legislature, and will be taken up in 

 the next session of the Iowa Legislatm-e. It is a good 

 la,AV, and is especially strong in the executive clauses. 



Mr. Andrus takes up the value of only one sort of game, 

 and leaves quite out of the question the birds and wild- 

 fowl Avhich are sold and held or shipped from Minnesota. 

 Yet I know of one freezer in a Western State wliich holds 

 between 6,000 and 10,000 dozen quail, worth $3.50 a dozen; 

 2,000 dozen prairie chickens, worth $7 a dozen, and the 

 owner alone knows how many plover, snipe and ducks. 

 I presume it far within bounds to say that 30,000 dozen 

 ducks are killed annually in Minnesota, worth |3 to $6, or 

 perhaps $12 or $15 a dozen for the rarest grade, the can- 

 vasback, only a few of which are killed, of course. Fur- 

 thermore, as to the freezers. I know of two more in the 

 same State, and of another just across the line, in anothej 



State, and of several here in Chicago. The game trade of 

 Chicago probably runs $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 this year. 

 The fish trade figures are not so easUy obtainable, but 

 they are enormous. 



It would certainly seem, would it not, John P.. that 

 these fish and these bhds sell for some money, to say 

 nothing of the sport in the question? 

 ^ Now, there isn't a State in the Union that does not have 

 fish and game laws. The principle of preservation is the 

 same for either fish or game. Every other State in the 

 Union thinks it worth while to protect this property of its 

 own. 



Does John P. Altgeld, confessedly ignorant on all these 

 l^oints, know more than the game and fish commission of 

 Minnesota, more than the people of Illinois who created 

 the Illinois fish commission, and more than the people of 

 all the other States which have created and kept up similar 

 institutions? Before he ventures to squander, or to help 

 squander, this part of the wealth of the ])eople of 

 Illinois, will he kindly give us some reason, any reason, 

 any sort or size of a fractional reason why we shoidd 

 think him so very wise? 



A Sad Accident. 



A deplorable accident happened on last Monday, which 

 will leave Mr. Henry L. Hertz, one of Chicago's best 

 knosvn ?portsnieu, a crixiple for life. Mj. Hertz was at- 



tempting to board one of the abominable Chicago cable 

 cars, when a sudden jerk threw liim under the wheels. 

 His left foot was so badly crushed that amputation at the 

 ankle was necessary. It will be recalled that Mr. Hertz 

 lost a brother not long ago through an accidental gun 

 shot wound in the leg. This happened at Pistaqua Lake, 

 not far from the Northwestern Pleasure Club, of which 

 Mr. Henry Hertz is a member. Mr. Hertz has long been 

 prominent in the affairs of the Fox Eiver Fish Associa- 

 tion, and is an enthusiastic angler. A successful politician 

 of the better type, he is also an exponent of a broad and 

 thoughtful sportsmanship. His misf ortime wiU not debar 

 him from the joys of the outdoor air, and until he is able 

 to be about his many friends will give him ready sym- 

 pathy. 



Judge Caton's F?eminiscences. 



That venerable and hearty jurist and sportsman. Judge 

 J ohn Dean Caton, contributes an article in the May num- 

 ber of the Atlantic Monthly, from which the Chicago 

 Tribune makes the following extract: 



Until im-i Chicago had practically no e.\;istence except in name. 

 True, for many years it had been a place where furs had been 

 bought from the Indians and trappers, and goods such as their simple 

 wants required had been sold; taut beyond this, what we call com- 

 merce did not exist. A fort had been estabhslied in the early part of 

 the century, and had been occupied by a few United States troops, but 

 it had been abandoned in 1812, and it was still reiaembei'ed by tlie first 

 settlers that those troops and their famihes had been fallen upon and 

 slaughtered by the Indians before they had gone two miles from the 

 fort, and -while they were still within the heart of the present City of 

 Chicago. I am now writing on the very spot where that slaughter 

 took place, on the very soil which di-ank the blood of the women and 

 children who fell by the tomahawks andfknives of the "braves," while 

 their busbands and fathers were being shot down from behind the 

 sandhills bordering the beach of the lake. This event had made 

 Chicago known and talked about more than a score of years before 

 1833, but had been practically forgotten by anew generation; and 

 probably not one in a hundred, even of Americans remembered 

 name of the place. 



Judge Caton's Chicago residence on Prairie avenue 

 stands near the .spot where once grew the old Cottonwood 

 tree about which transpired the central and closing scenes 

 of the historic Fort Dearborn massacre. A memory and 

 an intellect such as his could have no readier inspiration 

 for speaking of the past. A brief carriage ride down this 

 same beach that saw the massacre, and AvJiat iuspiration 

 meets him for the present! Cliicago, 00 years ago an im- 

 known waste of marsh and sand, now in three weeks 

 throws open the doors of the grandest international ex- 

 position the w orld has ever known ! It was XJotent soil, 

 this sand. To Judge Caton, an actual resident, how 

 strange, how real, how impossible must seem the Aladdin 

 palaces of the White City. If the White City shall need 

 ajpology, let Judge Caton speak it, who lives over the heart 

 of a massacre which was not a reaping but a sowing of 

 life, yet which happened only in the yesterday of nations. 



At the Fair. 



The Fair itself goes prosperously, and all sorts of unpos- 

 sible things are happening there daily in the most matter- 

 of-fact way. This week somebody imloaded a lot of 

 geese, over on the wooded island where Billy Hofer's 

 Boone and Crockett free hotel is. It is said that during 

 the spring Ihe lagoons will receive additions of ijehcans, 

 egrets, flamingoes, scarlet ibises, etc., etc. All these birds 

 will have a wing bone cut so they cannot fly away. 



In the IJ. S. Fisheries Dr. T, H. Bean is reveling among 

 aU sorts of salty tlungs, harpoons, blubber spades, mackerel 

 plows, lobster pots, nets, trawls, sails, boats, et id om. 

 The Gloucestei-, Mass., exliibit lately shipped is not yet 

 here, but the floors are fuU of boxes, bales and boatloads 

 of other sea goods, all can-fiilly guarded b}^ a bisected 

 dmnmy harpooner who looks twice as natural as life. 



Among the many boat models whicli lie behind the 

 glass doors of the big case in the TJ. S. Fisheries there sits 

 a tiny cedar canoe, which many would think also a model 

 and not an actual craft. Yet this was tlie actual -boat of 

 one of America's quaintest sportsmen— "Messmuk," of be- 

 loved memory. This boat, the old Sairey Gamp, Avfll be 

 loaned to Fokest and Streaim. and will appear after May 

 1 in the Fokest ^Usd Stream exliibit, which has the best 

 place ui the Anglers' Pavilion of the World's Fair Fisher- 

 ies building. 



Always Ahead. 



It seems probable that the Forest and Stijeam installa- 

 tion will be the first one in i.)kice in its iruikliiig. At tliis 

 writing its big Pompeian red screen is up and Jluished 

 and is surmounted hy a fac siDiile sign after the style of 

 the cover head of the paper, moose head and all. Thia 

 sign is 17ft. long, 4ft. Jiigh and is made of white birch. 

 Stop when you see the sign. Forest anp Stream will be 

 ahead then, just as it is now. 



A number of fine mounted heads are now in place in 

 the Forest and Stream installation. I would rather be 

 out snipe shooting than naihng up horns, and tliat is how 

 I come to know. Next week some more things will be 

 nafled up and nailed down and nailed on, and by May 1 

 the Forest and Stream house wdl be ready to receive 



its hundreds of ^•isitors .ind to show them some things 

 they never saw Ijefore. The visiting sportsman who does 

 not call will be black-listed. 



Dr. Henshall has assigned for neighbors to Forest and 

 Stream the Natchaug Silk Co., makers of fine silk bait- 

 casting lines, and just beyond Brother Johnson, of the 

 Waltonian Manufacturing Co., will show a nimiber of fly- 

 tyers actuaUy at work in making artificial flies. The 

 pavilion will be a great, rendezvous for sportsmen. For 

 one price of admission to the Fair they can look at Col. 

 Gay's Quaker trout, across the other aisle from Forest 

 AND Stream, and at Capt. CoUins's two pet alhgators from 

 Borneo. 



More than 150 Turks, 200 Egyptians, 50Singhale.se, a lot 

 of Japanese, Arabs, etc., arrived in town this week. So, 

 also, did three Zidus, each GJrft. tall. The civiUzed and 

 savage racees of the earth will all be rejiresented. There 

 are now on hand twenty donkeys from Cairo, Egyjit, and 

 nine burros from Colorado. A donkey is only anotlier 

 kind of a burro, as comparative phflology easdy estab- 

 lishes. Probably the Colorado sort is one of the lost tribes 

 of Egypt. Scientists will watch this reunion with interest. 



Got a Pull. 



Mr. Knud Kjaudson Ejiudsonson has started to row from 

 Bridgeport to the World's Fair. His confidence begets the 

 thought that he must have a puU somewhere. 



Beware the Umbrella. ' 



The daily papers this week report a suigular case of 

 suicide. The victim, it is said, "strapped a gun to the 

 bedstead and leaning against the muzzle he discharged the 



