JUNB! 1, 1898.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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BOSTON AND MAINE. 



Boston, May 26. — ^The fishing parties are numerous 

 since the ice has cleared from the Maine lakes. Even 

 some of the fishermen who ha,<i made up their minds to 

 forego fishing this spring and go to the World's Fair 

 instead, have repented and are fitting out or have gone. 

 The beautiful weather has been too much for their courage. 

 I do believe that if it had been cold and rainy, not nearly 

 as many would have started for their old fishing haunts. 



Mr. H. H. Moses, of the wool trade, has started for Tam- 

 worth, N. H. From there he will go to the Connecticut 

 Lakes for a fishing trip. Then he will come back to 

 Sebago Lake, in Maine, and with Charlie Robinson, of So. 

 Windham, wiU try the landlocked salmon. Charlie Robin- 

 son is a friend with about all the wool trade, being a wool- 

 len manufactui-er, as was his father, Tom, beloved by 

 everybody. Mr. Moses has a record of a lOlbs. salmon 

 somewhere in the landlocked salmon lakes. 



Mr. Gerome Hilbourn, manager for Gilman Bros., in the 

 wholesale drug trade, and H. J. Pettingill, eastern agent 

 of the Postal Telegraph Co., went to-day to Inglewood. 

 One or two fishermen have already returned from those 

 "happy hunting and fishing grounds," and they declare 

 that they are pleased. Some of them have taken "almost 

 too many" trout and landlocked salmon. 



The Camp Stewart party left Boston on Friday evening. 

 In the company are Mrs. M. T. Farley and Mr. Farley, of 

 Farley, Harvey & Co., Mr. H. S. Kempton, of the Boston 

 HeraM staff. Miss Blanche M. Stanley, of Newton, Miss 

 Hayward, of Brighton, and Mrs. Emma Moody and Mr. 

 Moody, of the Boston Herald. 



One of the largest and best known fishing parties of the 

 season left Boston on Friday evening for the home of the 

 Inglewood Club in New Brunswick. This is the fifth 

 annual trip of the club members and ofiicers, as well as 

 guests. They went in their private car, and a happier 

 party can scarcely be imagined. They were merchants 

 and business men, starting on a well earned vacation. 

 The club's preserve is attaining considerable popularity 

 among anglers. The preserve embraces some twenty-five 

 lakes and ponds, in which are brook trout, EngUsh brown 

 trout and landlocked salmon. Sea salmon fry have re- 

 cently been placed in these waters, and an extensive fish- 

 way constructed, promising additional attraction to sports- 

 men. One party has just returned from the preserve, 

 and reports extremely high water but excellent fishing, 

 and a large catch of landlocked salmon and trout. 



The party leaving Friday night consisted of the follow- 

 ing well-known business men: Heriry P. Brigham, E. 

 Noyes Whitcomb, James I. Wingate, Cyrus T. Clark. Ed- 

 ward S. Barker, Dr. F. M. Johnson, Henry K. Porter, J. 

 Merrill Brown, Wm. H. Saywood, Wm. H. Mitchell and 

 J. T. Dyer, of Boston; Harry B. Moore and Charles H. 

 Adams, of Jamaica Plain; Andrew S. March, Samuel 

 Shaw and Dr. James Utley, of Newton; Albion H. Brown 

 and Henry E. Wright, of Somerville; Leroy S. Brown, 

 Rufus C. Cushman, Herbert F. Sparrow and Henry D. 

 Yerxa, of Cambridge; S. F. Hicks, of Arlington; J. Nel- 

 son Parker, of Billerica; Geo. C. Moore, of North Chelms- 

 ford; John A. Faulkner, of Lowell; George D. Finley, of 

 New York. ' s 



Mr. Harry B. Moore is not unknown to the readers of 

 FOKEST AND STRE.OI for some of the good stories he has 

 told. Others are Ukely to grow out of this trip. It is 

 well known that he has been taking a vacation in story 

 telling, in order to go a-fishing. At the breakfast table 

 the other morning his mother reprimanded him for some 

 of his stories, and Harry felt hurt about it, since he had 

 supposed that for some days he should have been par- 

 ticularly respected for the amount of truth he had told of 

 his former fishing and gunning expeditions. His cousiu , 

 Geoi-ge C. Moore, mentioned above, with Harry will be 

 very likely to go to some lonely lake by themselves, and 

 if on the way out they spring any good, practical jokes 

 on each other the Forest and Stream: shall have them in 

 due season. 



Generally there has been considerable comj^laint of 

 poor fishing in the streams in New Hampshire this spring, 

 but later the reports are better. A friend informs Mr. J. 

 W. Chickey, of the Boston Herald, that he has had ex- 

 cellent sport of late in the vicmity of Laconia. Mr. 

 Chickey hopes to join this friend for a day with rod and 

 line not many days hence. Special. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Oor)-eapondent.] 

 A Big Raid. 

 Chicago, IU., May 24. —On last Saturday, State Fish 

 Warden Fernandez, of Wisconsin, completed about the 

 largest raid ever made on the illegal net fishermen of 

 Lake Winnabago. He burned over 300 nets, as under the 

 new law he is authorized to do. The confiscation was 

 made at Oshkosh, and the Northwestern, of that city, has 

 the following interview with Warden Farnandez, who 

 says: 



"There is a fishermen's association in this city to which 

 aU respectable fishermen belong. The lower class of fisher- 

 men do not belong to this organization, and so are not 

 bound by its rules. Last season, during the period in 

 which fishing with nets was allowed, the nets of the re- 

 spectable fishermen were stolen by men not in the associ- 

 ation. Ninety -five per cent, of the nets taken this year 

 have been those which were stolen from the respectable 

 fishermen last year. The fishermen did not like the pro- 

 visions of the law last year, and so made another law 

 which they thought was better in every way. Accord- 

 ing to the old law the game warden, after' taking the 

 nets had no authority to desti'oy them, but was compelled 

 by the law to advertise the sale of them, and at an ap- 

 pointed day, sell them for wliatever he could get for them. 

 In many cases the very men from whom the nets were 

 taken often bought them back again. The new law says 

 that all nets, as soon as taken must be destroyed, and 'it 

 gives any one, man or boy, the privilege of taken nets 

 from any of the bodies of water and desti-oy them with- 

 out saying anything to anybody." 



Wisconsin is not a bad State when it comes to practical 

 laws. 



Bass are Biting:. 

 Mr. Fred Knightheart, of the Central Hotel, of Mo- 

 mence, 111., writes me that bass fishing is good at 

 Momeuce now. The C. & E. I. Railroad renews its special 

 rate of las-t year, $1.50 round trip, and the Chicago anglers 

 will soon be having sport on that pleasant bit of water. 

 On the lakes to the north of here the bass have begun to 



take bait and fly. It is better sportsmanship to wait till 

 well in June. The season can not be an eai'ly one for 

 spawning, 



Mr, J. E. Fisher, of Riverside, Ind. , in a letter to this 

 office, says: "There has been a big rmi of fish up the 

 Wabash River this spring. More bass went up this spring 

 than have been noted for several years. Some of the boys 

 have made big catches. The creeks would run clear be- 

 fore the river would, and the bass would go in the creeks 

 to feed. We have kept out most of the nets and stopped 

 the dynamite. Some of our supervisors have the sand to 

 arrest the violatore and make the fur fly every chance 

 they get, but we haven't enough of that kind." 



Trout in tine Nortin Country. 



The waters of upper Wisconsin and the North Peninsida 

 are now lower and clear enough to fish. I have word 

 from a lumber camp, the Brule, that the fishing is good. 

 Some good baskets have been taken in tlie streams around 

 Watersweet. From the AVhite River I have not heard, 

 but the best fishing there is early, before the sucker 

 spearers have driven away the trout. The next two weeks 

 should show some trout reports. The C. E, Hollins party 

 had good success in the Wausaukee coimtry. 



Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, representative of the U. S. Fish 

 Commissioner at the World's Fair, has accepted an invita- 

 tion to go after grayling on the Au Sable in June. 



No flies or mosquitoes have yet made appearance in our 

 trout country. By Aug. 1 5 the pest is nearly done. In 

 some years one is never bothered at all. I have never had 

 trouble with mosquitoes but once in my fishing in the 

 Wisconsin and north Michigan woods. That was at the 

 Eagle Waters in July, E. Hough, 



909 Securitt Botlding, CJhicago. 



TROUT IN CONNECTICUT. 



Notwithstanding the exceedingly dry faU and the 

 universal beUef that thei-e would be no trout fishing this 

 spring to speak of, I hear of a great many good catches 

 fully equalling the average of former years. 



Myron Church and two friends at Thorn aston brought 

 in fifty-three trout that weighed 761bs.; another man 

 walked out a little way and brought in a large basketful 

 by dinner time. 



Henry Wildman and Mr. Breston at Kent caught eighty- 

 seven trout that weighed 351bs. , in four hours. 



AVillie Soule, son of County Commissioner Soule, caught 

 three trout at New Milf ord weighing respectively lilbs. , 

 lilbs. and lib. ; this was good for any one, more particu- 

 larly good for a "ten-year-old." 



Several pound-trout have been caught at Canaa.n, Corn- 

 wall, Norfolk and Winsted. I also heard of one 31bs. 

 trout caught at Great Barrington, over the line in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



By the way, all of the trout fry for the whole State of 

 Connecticut come from the Taconic Trout Ponds at Shef- 

 field, Mass, This is a most remarkable hatchery, having 

 water from a boiling spring sulficient to run a saw mill, 

 filling ninety -six pipes l^in. in diameter under an 18in. 

 pressm-e. The spring and brook for a long way never 

 freeze in winter and are about an even temperature the 

 year through. They have hatched this year 1,500,000 

 brook trout, 240,000 brown trout, 155,000 lake trout and 

 108,000 Atlantic salmon. About 500,000 of the brook trout 

 belong to the State. 



There is a good deal of dissatisfaction manifest regard- 

 ing the unequal distribution of the trout fry and the get- 

 ting of some of them to be put into posted waters. This 

 the Commissioners try to guard against as much as pos- 

 sible, but still there is a lot of growling. 



If we could only have an Sin. troat law instead of the 

 present "Gin. for sale" law, which does not amount to any- 

 thing, all tliis stocking brooks year after year would be 

 needless, Notliks. 



The Second Largest Tarpon. 



Mr. a. M, McGregor, of New York, who owns a beau- 

 tiful cottage here adjoining Prof, T. A. Edison's place, on 

 Saturday last. May 6, caught with rod and reel a tarpon 

 weighing 1961bs. The length of the fish was 7ft. lin., and 

 it girthed 4ft. 2in, , a fine specimen of this wonderful game 

 fish. By skiUful handling he brought the fish to gafl' in 

 25 minutes, and the word skillful is used in its fullest 

 sense, for it requires skfll and careful man'ipidation to 

 land one of these monstrous fish, their weight and 

 strength sufficient to break much stronger lines than are 

 used in taking them. Mr. McGregor has been very suc- 

 cessful in tarpon fishing this winter, haWng landed 13. 

 Mrs. McGregor is also the possessor of a rod and reel 

 all her own, and often accompanies her husband and son 

 on their fishing excursions. She, too, has acquired the 

 art of tarpon fishing and has landed six, averaging nearly 

 lOOlbs. each. Their son, Mr. B. B. McGregor, has caught 

 one; a pretty good showing for one family, who only fish 

 semi-occasionaUy. Tne following is a record of the tarpon 

 taken by Mr. McGregor's family the past winter: 



Length. Weight. 



Dec. 29. A. M. McGregor eft. 9in. 1331bs. 



Feb. 9. Mrs. A. M. McGregor 4ft. 9m. 461bs. 



Feb. 25. Mrs. A. M. McGregor oft. 7in. 851bs. 



Apr. 1. A. M. McGregor 6ft. 1311bs. 



Apr. 5. A.M. McGregor 6ft. .Sin. 12nbs. 



Apr. 6. Mrs. A. M. McGregor 5ft. Tin. 851bs. 



Apr. 14. A. M. McGregor 5ft. lOin. 1131bs. 



Apr. 18. A. M. McGregor 6ft. lOOlbs. 



Apr. 25. A. M. McGregor 6ft, lOolbs. 



Apr. 25. B. B. McGregor 6ft. 3in. 12olbs. 



May 2. A. M. McGregor 5ft. llin. 1041bs. 



May 2. A. M. McGregor 6ft. lin. 1281bs. 



May 2. Mrs. A. M. McGregor 6ft. 3in. 1421bs. 



May 5. A. M. McGregor 6ft. 1041bs. 



May 6. A. M. McGregor 7ft, lin. 1961bs. 



May 8. Mrs. A. M. McGregor 5ft. Sin. 931bs. 



May 9. Mrs. A. M. McGregor Eft. 6in. 861bs. 



May 9. A. M. McGregor 5ft. lOin. 1301bs. 



May 9. A. M. McGregor 6ft. lin. loribs. 



May 10. A. M. McGregor 6ft. lOOlbs. 



— Fort Myers Press. 



London Gun and Fishing Club. 



London, Ont., May 11, — I have just returned from a 

 trout fish on our new preserve, second to none in western 

 Ontario. Three members besides myself caught 90 trou.t 

 in six hours, with several under-sized thrown in again, 

 all under 6in. being put back in the stream. The London 

 Gun and Fishing Club has 200 members, and our weekly 

 shoot takes place every Friday. Ontario stands second to 

 no county in America for sport and plenty of sportsmen 

 to enjoy it, but our American cousins are always welcome 

 to have an outing with us. T. G. Datey. 



Onondaga County Waters. 



The good work of the Anglers' Association in this 

 comity during the last few years is being appreciated by 

 that class of sportsmen who beheve in keeping within 

 bounds of the law. It has required considerable eft'ort on 

 the part of the club to detect lawless hunting and fishing, 

 and to bring ti-esspasers of the law within the reach of 

 the courts. The employment of a special game protector 

 by the club has done much good. Many lawless sports- 

 men have been apprehended and punished, and the result 

 has been to decrease the amotmt of illegal gaming in this 

 county. With the assurance of the sympathy of the com- 

 munity in theu- efforts, the Anglers' Association have felt 

 that they can stock the streams of this county with fish 

 and have the co-operation of law-abiding citizens to assist 

 in the execution and supporting of the law. At various 

 times during the past year fry have been placed in the 

 waters of this county. Including a shipment received by 

 Henry Loftie yesterday, one half a million fry have been 

 placed in the waters in this section. Yesterday 25,000 

 California trout were received by Henry Loftie, for dis- 

 tribution in the various suitable places in county. They 

 wfll be placed in small brooks emptying into Onondaga 

 creek. 



The fish were distributed under the direction of Pro- 

 tector Harvey Jackson, of the Anglers" Association. 



The shipment was distributed in Furnace Brook, in 

 Card's Brook at Onondaga YaUey, in Peck Brook near 

 Jackson Tavern, and also in the brook beyond Dorwin 

 Spring.— Syracuse Herald. 



New Hampshire Camps. 



COLEBROOK, N. H., May 15.— A. C.Wallace, of the Cole- 

 brook Fish Hatchery, has distributed 15,000 brook trout 

 fry to Berlin, 10,000 to Lancaster, 10,000 to Ashland, 15,- 

 000 to Greenough PonrI, 35,000 to Diamond Ponds, 30,000 

 in the Mohawk and other streams, and 30,000 landlocked 

 salmon to Coimecticut Lake. All the small fry will be 

 distributed by June 10. 



The sporting camps of the north country will soon be 

 opened for the accommodation of sportsman tourists. 

 Connecticut Lake House, Idlewild Camp and Sportsman's 

 Cabin at the Connecticut Lakes opened May 16. Camp 

 Diamond, at Diamond Ponds, opened May 18. 



It will be gratifying to the many sportsmen who visit 

 the Dead Diamond River, Wentworth's Location, N. H., 

 to learn that Deer Lick Camp will be reopened under the 

 management of F, A. Flint, With late additions the camp 

 will accommodate forty, A new carry from the Aziscoos 

 House makes the camp more easily accessible via Cole- 

 brook, Dixville Notch and Wilson's Mills, Hatchet. 



Black Bass in Connecticut. 



CoLEBROOK, Conn,, May 15,— You are evidently not up 

 to the general feehng regarding bass in Connecticut, 

 They are held in no favor and if a vote of the fishermen 

 was taken they would be unanimous in favor of no pro- 

 tection at all. They rarely take bait or fly in Connecticut 

 as they do elsewhere and are the most uncertain fish to 

 catch we have. They have spoiled the pickerel, perch 

 and bullhead fishing in almost every lake where intro- 

 duced, and all would be pleased to see them exterminated. 



T. S. S. 



The Potomac. 



Washington, D. C, May 22.— Up imtil the 13th inst. 

 the Potomac has been muddy and the water cold, and no 

 fish to speak of taken, but since then some fine strings 

 have been caught. At the falls black bass and carp are 

 plentiful; several 6-pound carp were taken. Bass from 1 

 to 5 pounds were caught. The carp seem to prefer the 

 worm, while the bass are very fond of five minnows. At 

 the Little Falls a great many perch and bass have been 

 taken during the past week. p. O. I). 



Basswood Lake Trout. 



SowERBY, Algonia, Ont., May 20.— If any of you people 

 down South wish any good trout fishing they had better 

 come along at once. You can depend on six to seven 

 weeks' good fishing from this time. The season has com- 

 menced, water 3 to 4ft. higher than last spring and very 

 cold. This is the camp grounds w^here the Cincinnati 

 Kingfishers put up their tents last summer. G, F. D, 



Sullivan County Trout. 



Liberty, N. Y., May 16. — Andrew Beset caught seventy- 

 two trout, one weighing l-|lbs. Frank Dellemater caught 

 a fine string, one weighing 2ilbs. Frank Beaumont 

 caught one 2ilbs., and some fishermen from the city have 

 had very good luck. Geo. Cooper. 



American Fisheries Society. 



No. 53 Broadway, New York, May 23.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: The annual meeting of the American Fisheries 

 Society will be held Thursday, June 15, in the Michigan 

 Building, Jackson Park, Chicago. 



It is proposed that the Eastern members of the American 

 Fisheries Society go to Chicago and return by special train. 

 Arrangements can be made with the B. & O. for a special 

 train at a cost for round trip of S38, including Pullman car, 

 for each person. The train will leave New York Monday, 

 June 12, at 8 o'clock A. M., and will stop at Philadelphia for 

 Pennsylvania members, arriving in Washington at 2 o'clock 

 P. M. Five hours mil he spent in Washington, the train 

 leaving at 7 P. M. the same day and arriving in Chicago at 9 

 P. M. Tuesday, June 13. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 

 Saturday will be spent in Chicago, and the train will leave 

 that city at 4 P. M. on Saturday, returning by way of Niag- 

 ara Palls, arriving at Niagara Falls Sunday morning at 9:30. 

 Sunday will be spent at Niagara Falls, the train leaving at 6 

 o'clock Sunday night and arriving at New York over the 

 New York, Ontario & Western Railroad at 7 o'clock Monday 

 morning. The Pennsylvania members can leave train at 

 Niagara Falls and return home by the Lehigh Valley R. R, 



To get this special train 100 persons must subscribe, or near 

 that number. If but twenty-five subscribe we can have a 

 special car, but not a train. The advantages of a special 

 train are many, as the cars can be arranged to suit our own 

 convenience, and can be fitted up so that the ladies can have 

 one car for their own use and the gentlemen a buffet car. 



A number of members will take their familie.s, and mem- 

 bers can, if they wish, in addition invite one or more friends. 

 The committee on entertainment at Chicago will arrange the 

 programme there and secure hotel accommodations. Mem- 

 bers deciding to go should notify me at once. 



Edward P. Doyle, Sec'y. 



