SlAY 35, 18»8.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE MMNE ICE IS OUT. 



The ice is out of the Maine lakes at last, and the trout 

 3f'ason of 1893 is fully opened, A telegram to the Boston 

 Herald, on Friday evening last, from Mr. O. A. Dennen, 

 of the Kineo Hotel, announced that the ice had left 

 Moosehead Lake. This clearing of the ice was nineteen 

 flays later than last year. The same day a telegram 

 muounced that Umhagog, the lower lake of the Range- 

 ieys, had cleared of ice. This news was enough to put 

 (hi sportsmen on the qui vive, and some of them took the 

 ^rams Saturday morning for the Eangeleys and for Moose- 

 head. Among these were the Stevenses, mentioned in 

 th(^ FoEEST AKD StreajM last week, as always among the 

 irst to be off. Mr. C. P. Stevens has been up Richardson 

 Lalie on the first steamer for many seasons, and doubtless 

 jijfjceeded in doing so this year. 



The telegraph annoimced on Saturday evening tliat 

 Fiicliardson Lake was clear of ice, and the other lakes in 

 ;hfi chain have stace cleared. J. B. Marble telegraphed 

 Jie on Sunday that Rangeley Lake cleared that morning, 

 yi I-. J. A. French, of Andover, has the Upper Dam camps 

 igain this season, and his son Tom is again running their 

 jteamers. Richardson Lake was fifteen days later in 

 jlearing than last year, it having been first clear of ice on 

 ihe 5th in 1892. But the late clearing of the lakes in 

 Maine makes promises of good fishing. Sportsmen say 

 ihat "the trout will be hungry, having been shut up under 

 (he ice so much longer than usual." Again, the water is 

 remarkably high hi aU the Maine trout and salmon lakes, 

 iie result of the late heavy rains and the late melting 

 mows and ice. By many this is looked upon in a favor- 

 Ible light, so far as fishing is concerned. It wiU be re- 

 iaembered that the water was remarkably low in these 

 ^me lakes and ponds last year. 



One of the parties to be off early this week is headed by 

 vV". B. Nelson, of the Lynn police. At Mooselucmaguntic 

 jake he is to meet his fishing friends, who have been 

 'own to Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, for land- 

 )cked salmon. They were to meet Mr. Nelson, at Moose- 

 iiomaguntic, according to announcement by telegraph, 

 nd then they are to take in a few of the trout. These 

 tther gentlemen are Mr. Mansfield, the well-known Lynn 

 latter; Mr. Beggs, of the firm of Beggs & Cobb, one of the 

 axgest tannuig concerns in the country, and Mr. Joseph 

 loyet, also of Lynn. 



The lumber trade of Boston and New England, in fa,ct, 

 s to be represented by one or two fishing parties this 

 ieason. Each man in one of these parties has an office in 

 ;he party, from angleworm-digger and bait-fixer u^^ to 

 Jamp-cleaner and genei-al provider. The grand object of 

 ;he party is to move the ice out of Kennebago Lake on 

 May 30, according to the programme, but alas, the ice 

 leaves before that date. The gentlemen's names are Mr. 

 Barney, Mr. Goss, Mr. Blanchai-d, Mr. Rich, ]\Ir. Howe, 

 Mr. Kennedy, Mr, Palmer, Dr. Bell, Mr. Pooker and Mr. 

 Norton. 



Another part}' from the lumber trade will be headed by 

 the gentlemen of the Guilford Lumber Co., of Guilford, 

 Me. This party Avill go to Moosehead Lake about May 25 

 md will remain some ten days. Mr. A. S. Percy is the 

 Boston man of tlie concern, and Mr. P. McDuff is the New 

 fork man, and both are to be in the fishing party. 



Mr. Charles Z. Basset, of Appleton & Basset, with his 

 party, as mentioned in the Forest and Stream last week, 

 will start for Haines Landing, Mooselucmaguntic Lake, 

 an ^Thursday of this week. Mr. E. D, Pecker, a well 

 known Boston stock broker, has concluded to join the 

 party. 



Mrs. Bartleman, who has spent several summers at the 

 Mountain View House, foot of Rangeley Lake, leaves this 

 iveek for the same point. Her son John is already there, 

 iiaving gone early in April. Mrs. Bartleman is generally 

 successful in the streams about the mountain View with 

 the fly. But alas for the laws that protect the trout! One 

 af the streams she most delights to fish has been perpetu- 

 ally closed to all fishing. The wisdom of the last Maine 

 [jegislature believed that stream to be one of the trout 

 aurseries of the lakes below and so it is perpetually closed. 



Mr. Samuel Hano, of Newton, Mass., is already at the 

 iRangeley Lakes, where he has gone early to put' his new 

 Qami:)3 in order at Quimby Pond. His family will follow 

 tiim later. 



Sportsmen who have visited the 'Rangeley Lakes, and 

 more especially The Birches and Bemis Camps, wiU be 

 greatly pained to learn of the death of Florence Ella, 

 svtfe of Capt. Fred C. Barker, on the 12th of May, aged 

 J9 years. Mrs. Barker was the daughter of H. T. Kim- 

 sall, of Rangeley, but better known as the proprietor of 

 iie Mountain View House. By her genial ways and lov- 

 iig, spotless fife she had endeared herself to everybody 

 n the lake region and had become the light of the camps 

 it the noble-hearted Capt. Fred as well. Sportsmen 

 have paused to shed tears of heart-felt sympathy for 

 3apt. Barker. Hundreds have mentioned their sympathy 

 md desire that Forest and Stream pay this tribute to 

 "ler and her bereaved husband. 



The G. W. Wadsworth party, formerly the Eugene 

 Dlapp party, has dwindled to two or three since the death 

 af Mr. Clapp. This year it will contain only Mr. G. W. 

 Wadsworth, Mr. Haskins and possibly Mr. Paine: they 

 will leave for Haine's Landing, Mooselucmaguntic, about 

 bhe 30th of May. 



Mr. David H. Blanchard, so well known to the readers 

 uf Forest and Stream for his efforts last year to have less 

 of netting in the New Bruuswick salmon rivers, will start 

 for Lake Winnepesangee on Wednesday with his daugh- 

 ter. He goes to the camps of IMr. Rohn Jones on that 

 lake. Mr. Jones and family left on Satm-day for the same 

 )lace. Mr. Frank Haynes is to join the party. Mr. 

 Blanchard is also preparing for a visit to his salmon river. 

 t Mr. Claude H. Tarbox, with his brother-in-law, J. Orin 

 Bailey, and a couple of friends, recently tried the river at 

 iByfield for pickerel. They fished one day and returned 

 with thirty-thi'ee fine pickerel, the finest string from that 

 river for a long time. 



Senator W. P. Frye, of Maine, was to leave his home 

 in Lewiston for his camp on Mooselucmaguntic lake as 

 soon as the ice was out. Mrs. Frye goes with him. He 

 is also to have for a guest Senator Chandler, of New 

 Hampshire. Senator Frye walked into Dame, Stoddard & 

 Kendall's the other day, and introduced the Senator from 

 New Hampshire to j\lr. Henry C, Litchfield, and the latter 

 sold him an outfit. It seems that Senator Chandler is a 

 beginner in the art of fly-fisliing in Maine, but under the 

 tutorship of Senator Frye lie is likely to make rapid 

 progress 



The Patridge party, that has visited the Rangeleys for 

 a number of seasons, is somewhat broken up this year. 

 Mr. Patridge is not going to the Rangeleys at all. He will 

 visit the ponds in Winthrop later, for bass fishing. His 

 physician forbids his taking the cold and chilly draughts 

 connected with fishing early at the Rangeleys. His friend, 

 Mr. Ackerman, of New York, with his son, wiU probably 

 start for the Upper Dam about the 26th of May. 



Special, 



ANGLING NOTES. 



A Little About Several Things. 



The fishing in Lake George, N. Y. , this spring has been 

 remarkable, not only for the number of lake trout taken 

 but for tlie unusual number of large fish that have ap- 

 peared in the scores; and by large fish I mean lake trout 

 weighing 14 to lOlbs. each. These are large fish for this 

 lake, where for years 17lbs. was the maximum weight, 

 a 12-pounder a prize, and one of ISlbs. a rarity. 



A curious thing about the fishing has been that one 

 piece of water about twenty-five acres in surface area has 

 furnished the best of the fishing and most of the large 

 trout. This place is between Green and Crown islands 

 and extending around to and in front of the Sagamore 

 Hotel dock on the fii-st named island. This has not been 

 noted heretofore as trout water, and some paxts of it are 

 shallow, so shallow that a trout of 151bs. was caught 

 where the water was only lOft. deep. It was quite ap- 

 parent whj'- the trout were there, for the whitefish 

 swarmed the water in immense schools, but why the 

 whitefish should visit that particular part of the lake in 

 hordes, that is, what special food took them there, has not 

 yet been discovered. The bait used by the trout troUers 

 was whitefish, and one fisherman who had nothing but 

 cliubs in his bait bucket, which the trout ignored, 

 weighted a minnow gang and cast it into a school of 

 whitefish and in this manner hooked and secured six 

 whitefish of proper size for baiting his gang. This will 

 give an idea of how the whitefish swarmed. Generally 

 whitefish are seen all over the lake, each size schooling by 

 itself, and when the water is still, they may be seen break- 

 ing the sm-face in all directions. 



Two fishermen, Mr. E. P. Moore and Calhoun S. En- 

 chis, of Glens Falls, while trolling for trout May i, near 

 Sabbath Day Point, hooked a black bass, smaU-mouth, of 

 Slbs. , by far the largest black bass ever taken from the 

 lake. Mr. Moore tells me that the bass was caught at the 

 surface where the water was deep, at least he thinks so, 

 but in this he is probably mistaken, as he was fishing 

 from a steam launch and was not familial- with the 

 sounding. The bass was a female, big with spawn, and 

 was returned to the water alive. 



In more than twenty years I have known of but two 

 black bass being taken by trout trollers in May. As a 

 rule the May fishing is done at the surface of very deep 

 water, although I recall a year when we found trout on a 

 shoal feeding on yellow perch, but that was years ago, 

 before whitefish were planted and the round whitefish 

 native to the lake were scarce. In 1883 a friend who had 

 never trolled for trout went to the lake with me in May 

 for the spring fishing. His boatman was a good oarsman , 

 but knew little or nothing of the shoals, and every possible 

 direction was given to him where to go and what to do. 

 He came into the cottage at noon one day and announced 

 that he had caught a black bass at the surface where I had 

 told him the water was lOOft. deep. This I doubted, so 

 much so that my friend rowed me to the place where his 

 boat was when he felt the strike and asked if the water 

 was lOOft. there, and I said it was about that, and asked 

 him how much line he had out at the time, and he replied 

 about 200ft. , and I asked him to row 200ft. to the point 

 where the bass took his bait. This he did, and when I 

 told him to look over the side of the boat he was surprised 

 to find he could see bottom. The date was May 11, the 

 fish weighed 4lbs., and was a female fuU of spawn, and, 

 as my journal reads, ''might have spawned in six weeks." 

 There was deep water around the shoal, and the fisher- 

 man, not knowing of the shoal, supposed he had taken a 

 black bass where the water was 100ft. deep. 



May 6 there was snow along the sides of the hills at 

 North River and North Creek, the terminus of the Adir- 

 ondack railway, and the streams were so high and thick 

 that no brook trout had been taken up to that time. 



A. N. Cheney. 



Canandaigua Angling Contest. 



The third annual fishing contest of the Cana,ndaigua 

 (N. Y.) Rod and Gun Club will take place on Thursday, 

 June 15. Porter F. Leach, of West Bloomfield, and Scott 

 R. Sutton, of Naples, will act as caj)tains of opposing 

 teams. The rules governing the contest are as follows: 



Rule 1. Only members in good standing in the Canan- 

 daigua Rod and Gun Club will be permitted to enter the 

 contest. 



2. Fishing is restricted to Canandaigua Lake, its inlets 

 and outlet. 



3. All fish must be caught between the hours of 12 

 o'clock, midnight, and the hour of reporting. All fisher- 

 men must report with their fish at the Town House on or 

 before 9 o'clock P. M. All fish presented later that 9 

 o'clock P. 31. wiU be barred and shall not be counted. 



3. Each and every fish must be caught by hook and 

 fine, or rod and line— the line, or rod and line, handled, 

 a,nd every fish landed, by the contestant only. 



0. No set line, or other devices than those mentioned 

 ahove, will be permissible. 



6. A supper will be provided on the night of contest, 

 for contestants only, which supper must be i^aid for by 

 the contestants on the losing side. 



7. No person will be allowed more than one prize. 



8. The size and weight of the fish, and the amount each 

 one scores, shaU. be as follows: 



Length, Score. Length. Ocore. 



Inches. Points. Inches. Points. 



Trout, German 



8 



40 





12 





14 



40 



Perch 



6 





8 



30 



Bullhead 



8 



Pike 



...13 



40 





6 





12 



20 



Sunfish 



6 



Chub 





8 







Each contestant wiU score one additional point for each 

 ponnd of fish caught. 



The shoi-t sea sunfish, not the fresh-water sunfish, looks 

 more hke the dissevered head of another fish than the en- 

 tire animal, and is an uncanny sight, 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[Prom a Staff Correspondent.'] 

 Michigan Bass. 



Mr. Geo. M. Kilmer, Jr., of Lansing, Mich., has the fol- 

 lowing to say in regard to the fly-fishing on the Grand 

 River, of the south peninsula: 



"In the Forest and Stream of April 27, I notice the 

 interview with B. O. Bush of Kalamazoo, in regard to fly- 

 fishing in the Grand River. He recommends below 

 Lansing near Grand Ledge. I have fished that stream 

 from where it rises to its mouth. There is as good fly- 

 fishing above Ijansing about a mile and a half, as any- 

 where on the river, and in fact there is fly-fishing all 

 along the stream from head to mouth. There are lakes 

 all around Lansing where the fly can be used with success 

 on black bass, speckled bass and rock bass, but there are 

 but very few who use the fly. Live bait is generally 

 used." 



The above I recommend to the many Chicago gentle- 

 men who in a short time wiU be anxious to know where 

 they can find some good fly-fishing for bass. 



Trout Waters. 



Mr. M. R. Rogers and Mr. J. A. Hanley, of this city, 

 inquire for trout waters where they can cast a fly. Un- 

 less one goes to the extreme North to such streams as the 

 Brule, the Escanaba, the Little Oconto or the Hke, the 

 best advice I could give woidd be to try the White River, 

 near Princeton, Wis. It is almost too early yet, I pre- 

 sume, for good fishing. 



In Chicago. 



May SO. — Senor Carlos Ramirez, of the City of Mexico, 

 is spending some weeks at the World's Fair in Chicago. 

 When he returns to his country he wfll represent, among 

 other American products, the Colt's gun, to which he 

 takes a fancy. Seiior Ramirez says that the best way to 

 get rich, so far as he knows, is to go into coffee planting 

 in the tierra teniplada, say in Tamaulipas. It takes 

 about seven years to get a plantation started, but after 

 that one rapidly becomes disgustingly rich. A few 

 thousands of dollars are needed for the start. The coffee 

 coimtiy is also a good game country. 



Mr. E. H. Kniskern, representing the Wilkes-Barre Gun 

 Co. , is in the city for a few days, and is spending the time 

 in making many pleasant acquaintances among the craft 

 in Chicago. He goes to Milwaukee from here. 



Mr. Harry P. Morgan, of Harrisburg, Pa., is a well 

 known shooter of that city. He has come to Chicago for 

 a while to see what is new, and is enjoying the Fair be- 

 times. 



Mr. Harry Marlin, secretary of the Marlin Firearms 

 Co., who is in charge at Chicago for the firm's exhibit at 

 the Fair, leaves this week for a short business trip 

 among some of the larger Western towns, but will soon 

 return and put in the summer here. 



Mr. Harry Greener, son of the well-known maker of 

 the Greener guns, England, is here in charge of the 

 Greener exhibit. The English guns have a space by them- 

 selves in a different part of the Manufactures Building 

 from the American guns. 



Mr. C. W^. Dimick, of Boston, agent of the U. S. Car- 

 tridge Co., of Lowell, has been in Chicago on business 

 and pleasure a few days this week. 



Out of Chicago. 



Mr. C. C. Lamos and Dr. H. C. Buechner have gone to 

 Gaylord Club, Wisconsin, ti'out fishing. This is in the 

 Pike River country. 



The Fred Taylor party will start on its annual fronting 

 trix3 to the Norm .Johnson ranch, on the headwaters of 

 the Little Oconto, next week. 



Messrs. C. E. Rollins, C. S. Loughridge, A. M. Gflbert, 

 Wm. Borden and Dr. Hoyt left this week for a few days' 

 trout fishing at Mr. Rollins's place, Interval Farm, not 

 far from Wausaukee Club, Wisconsin. This is in the Mid- 

 dle Inlet country. The Interval farm and adjacent land, 

 in all 7,000 acres, wiU soon be turned into a club preserve. 



Mr. R. W. Cox and Mr. John L. Stockton purpose a 

 trouting trip before long to some waters known by ilr. 

 Stockton. 



Mr. D. W. Slulvane and Mr. H. P. DiUon, of Topeka, 

 Kas. , have outfitted here and gone up to Gogebic, Michi- 

 gan north peninsula. Th^y wiU go to Mr. S. D. Thomp- 

 son's new place, at the north end of the lake, just opened 

 this year. 



Mr. W. G. Beales, a well-known attorney; Mr. Brooks, 

 of Pitkin & Brooks, and ex-Congressman Adams started 

 to-day on a northern trouting trij), E. Hough. 



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LEWISTOWN RESERVOIR. 



Cleveland, O., May 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Although I have many years been a reader of your paper, 

 the best of its kind in the world, and during this time 

 have persistently in season hunted and fished whenever 

 my business would permit and wherever my money would 

 carry me that I could learn of any hunter's or fisher's 

 paradise, from the McKenzie in Oregon to Lake Worth in 

 Florida, I have never dared to try to put in print any of 

 these many seasons of recreation that are the brightest of 

 my fife. But as some reference has been made in yom- 

 columns to the Lewistown Reservoir, in my native State, I 

 want to say to your many readers that as a place in which 

 to catch the big-mouthed black bass I have never seen its 

 equal. 



A party of us left Cleveland on April 26 and reached 

 Hvmtsville on the evening of the 27th, and no small part 

 of the pleasure of the trip was the evening spent in the 

 delightful company of the veteran sportsman and fly 

 fisher, Judge IngaUs, of Huntsville. He keeps an ideal- 

 hotel for the sportsman, piresided over by himself and his 

 accomplished wife. HLs memory is stored with the rich- 

 est incidents of hunting and fishing life. He has Bob 

 White in confinement, breeding, to be at a later day 

 turned out to the fields ; a famfly of minks, consisting of 

 the male and female and sis: kittens ; fox and gray squir- 

 rels, together a happy community, and eighteen wild 

 geese, which the Judge has been in the habit of using as 

 decoys. Until the evening of Thursday the 27th I had 

 not seen him since one blustery night in July, 1890, when 

 we stood wet and cold on the bleak rock at the southern 

 point of Miohipicoton Island, on the north shore of Lake 

 Superior, gazing vainly over the vast expanse of water 

 for the return of our boat and friends to carry me to camp; 

 and as the shades were deepening into night this prince of 



