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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 15, 1893. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[Prom a Staff Correspondent.} 



Camping at Gogebic. 

 Chicago, 111., June 3.— Not long ago I wrote Mr. S. D. 

 Thompson, who has lately opened public quarters and 

 cottages on the north end of Lake Gogebic, to learn some- 

 thing about the facilities for camping parties in his neck 

 of the woods. This I did partly for myself and m part for 

 the benefit of a gentleman and his wife, who were de- 

 bating over the question of a two months' residence under 

 canvas at Gogebic, and who were somewhat deterred by 

 reports that the shores of the lake are not suitable for 

 camping. Mr. Thompson replied as follows May 29: 



You can find excellent camping gi-ounds on Lake Gogebic, as good 

 as any place. It is a mistake about the shores of the lake bemg too 

 high. You can find first-class camping grounds right close to our 

 house, and I assure vou that I will do all in my power to make you 

 comfortable, and will' furnish you with all Iciuds of supplies at cost. 

 You can obtain everything you want from me and not be robbed. I 

 shall take especial pains to make your stay pleasant if you come rn 

 my vicinity. AVill nicer you at the station with the steamer and trans- 

 port you and j'onr traps all right to first-class camping grounds witiun 

 a mile of the house, or even nearer should you pi-efer. At the same 

 time you will be located on good bass fishing grounds and withm easy 

 distance of excellent trout streams. 



I sincerely trust that you will come, also Mr. B. and his wife, be- 

 cause I want you to know this country and can guarantee you a good 

 time and lots of fish. I have had quite a number of people here 

 already and some good catches have been made Messrs. H. F. Dillon, 

 E. E. Bennett and D. W. Mulvane, of Topeka, Kan., have just left here 

 after a two weeks' stay, during which time they had excellent Ashing, 

 taking in one day forty-seven black bass that weighed ISGlbs., largest 

 one weighing SJ^lbs. Mr. Eobt. Hammell (Chicago Board of Trade 

 man) and his wile are staying here now, but are a couple of days away 

 to the Cascades for trout. 1 expect they will bring in some beauties, 

 as the trout caught there ai-e all large. Mr. Arthur T. Whitman and 

 wife will arrive this T. M. Mr. W. is secretary of the Northwestei-ii 

 IfertiliKing Co. at Union Stock Yards. Mr. E. L. Baker and wife of tlic 

 J. I. Case Threshing Macliine Co., at Racine, have just left after a very 

 successful week's black bass fishing. 



One thing noticeable is that nearlj^ all the fish caught so far ai'e 

 large ones. I trust that you will come up and take some of them. 



Mr. Thompson is himself a fishei'man, and I feel a bit 

 inclined to advise Gogebic tourists to go against his game 

 at the Instep House, the more so because of his frank dis- 

 claimer of intention to rob visiting sportsmen. There has 

 been too much disposition toward robbery at Gogebic and 

 many other places in our north country. Of this I had 

 some experience last week, about which I intend to write 

 as soon as I have time. 



Fly-Casting Tournament. 



The Chicago Fly -Casting Club met Friday evening, and 

 listened to the report of the tournament committee. It 

 was decided to appropriate $180, $50 each for three cham- 

 pionship medals, tor competition in a world's tournament, 

 to be held about Aug. 9 (Walton's birthday), and $10 each 

 for three club medals. Mr. C. F. Johnson was chosen 

 captain of the tournament team, he to choose twelve men, 

 the same to go at once into practice. The first club con- 

 test will be held Wednesday next, at Washington Park. 

 The Walton Lodge is well along, thanks much to Mr. E. 

 E. Wilkinson's personal work. Director-General Davis 

 holds out good j)romise that a platform for casting may be 

 erected over the water near the lodge. 



Anotlner Ciiicago Club. 

 The Waltonian Club, capital stock $100,000, with|50,000 

 to be paid in, has been organized, with grounds of about 

 10,000 acres about the Interval Farm of Mr. C. E. Rollins, 

 near Wausaukee station, Wisconsin, on the Milwaukee & 

 Northern E,. R. This project was mentioned in an earlier 

 issue. Next Wednesday night, Mr. Rollins, accompanied 

 by Messi-s. C. F. Johnson, H. L. Stanton and Chas. Lough- 

 ridge, of Chicago, with Col. Choffey, of Kentucky, will 

 leave for a week's trip at tlio club grounds. It"is pur- 

 posed to spend about $35,000 in a hotel and cottages. Mr. 

 Rollins was interested in the organization of the Wausau- 

 kee Club. The gi-ounds of these clubs are about 250 miles 

 north of Chicago. The attractions are trout, bass and 

 deer. It is a pleasant summer country and in the center 

 of a good fishing region. 



The Bass Are Beginning. 

 Mr. J. R. Payson of this city has caught seventy -two 

 bass and pike so far this spring, fishing at Twin Lakes, 

 Wis. Ml-. F. B. Davidson has had fair sport at Momeiice! 

 Mr. C. F. Johnson, of the Waltjnian Mfg. Co., with 

 Messrs. J. and Arthur Rossiter, spent four days in the 

 Pox Lake region, taking in all forty bass. The season is 

 not yet fuUy on, but the bass are beginning to bite. 



Trout This Weelc. 



Trout fishing in Wisconsin and the north peninsula 

 should be good this coming week, barring heavy, local 

 rains. Good advices and personal inspection the past 

 week sliow that the streams are rapidly reaching the 

 proper stage. The trout are moving out'from imder the 

 dams into the riffles and pools, and are rising much more 

 freely and boldly than any time before during this season. 

 They are just beginning to take the fiy keenly enough to 

 make sport. 



A Princely Gift. 



One day this week news came over the wire that the 

 town of Fargo, N. D., was in ashes, That same day there 

 started from Chicago to Fargo a carload of provisions It 

 was sent by one house, that of Montgomery Ward & Co 

 and it went not by freight, but by the fastest express. It 

 had no C.O.D. on it, but was absolutely free, the princelv 

 gift of this unique Chicago firm. Among other thin^-s 

 this car contained lo.OOOlbs. of flour, 10 barrels of bacon, 

 10 barrels of ham, 10 barrels of corned beef 2 00011)s of 

 sugar, l,0001bs. of rice, oOOlbs. of coffee, SoOlbs. of tea. 

 The resom-ces of this great house in the sportin"- goods 

 trade may be argued from its action in a matter like this 

 One likes to write of magniflcent things, and this was 

 magnificent. 



We have over 400 customers in Fargo,' said Mr W C 

 Thorne, the youthful-looking but long-headed ' yoiint^ 

 gentleman who is manager of tliis house, "and we wanted 

 . them to feel that we would do as we had been done by 

 The car went as fast as it coidd go short of telegraph the 

 day after the fire, and I heartily hope it may' be of benefit 

 to them out there in their trouble." 



I asked Mr. Thorne how the State of Dakota steod in 

 order of magnitude of trade with the house, and he re- 

 phed: 



"The DaJcotas are good States for us— among the first. 

 The order isl hnois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas. theDakotas, 

 iexas and Colorado. Singularly enough. Florida is the 

 eighth or nmth State in volume of business for us It 

 omes from all over tlie Union." 



June .9.— The dispatches have the following: "Spring- 

 field. 111. , June 5.— Ex-Representative George Langford, 

 of Havana, who was a member of the Thirty-fourth Gen- 

 eral Assembly, is slated to be made State Fish Commis- 

 sioner to succeed Col. Bartlett, of Quincy. It has been 

 understood that Mr. Langford would also succeed Col. 

 Bartlett on the United States Fish Commission, but there 

 is now some doubt about this." 



If He Has No Family? 



The Sni Ecarte Club, of Hannibal, Mo., send me the 

 following invitation: 



"Yotuself and family are cordially invited to attend the 

 annual fish fry of the Sni Ecarte Hunting and Fishing 

 Club at their club house, Friday, June 16, 1893.'' 



The above is all right, and I know I can eat as much 

 fried fish as anybody, but I don't like such careless allu- 

 sions to a fellow's family. Suppose he didn't have any 

 family, he couldn't come and eat fried fish at all. This 

 basis IB unjust. Fried fish ought to be open to the world. 



A Practice IVIeet. 



A few members of the Chicago Fly;Casting Club met 

 for the first club contest at Washington Park last Wed- 

 nesday. Mr. Elmer E. Wilkinson won the club medal, 

 casting 68ft. Mr. B. W. GoodsaU was second with 65ft. 



Are Starting Out. 

 The fishing season is now on, the fish are rising well, 

 both bass and trout, and a number of parties are starting 

 out. Wausaukee Club is sending up a good delegation to 

 its pretty lodge in the pine country. Mr. W. H. Comstock 

 tries the Kankakee Saturday. A 'party goes to Twin 

 Lakes (near Genoa Junction) and yet another to the Mad- 

 ison Lakes, Wisconsin. These should have pleasant sport 

 if the good weather holds. On the whole it has been a 

 late season, and the tackle dealers also report this. 



In tine East. 

 Mr.W. E. Pond, representing the Horton Manufacturing 

 Co., makers of the Bristol steel rod, teEs me of a trip with 



"FOUEST AND STREAM" PISHING POSTALS 



ATLANTIC CITY DBIIM AND DKUMMERS. 



Three black drum caught at Atlantic City Pier, N. J., hy Mr. W. C 

 Lanning. See "Pishing Postals." 



a friend, Mr. Johnson, taken in New York just before he 

 left for Chicago this month. They Avent to Loon Lake in 

 the Adirondacks, but soon left for Black Lake via Morris- 

 town, and there they had fine sport, taking, the first day, 

 50 bass and wall-eyed pike, the largest bass weighing 

 lilbs. The second day they had even better sport, and 

 their two days' catch there was in all about 150 fisli. run- 

 ning as heavy as "54 11 )s. At Clayton they found the water 

 too high and the wind heavy. We do not have fishing so 

 good as the above anywhere about here. E. Hough. 

 909 Security Buii.ding, Chicago. 



Adirondack Trout. 



Clear Pono, Franklin County, N. Y., June 5. — ^There is 

 no place probably in the North Woods that offers as 

 much sport to the lover of trout fishing (bolli brook and 

 lake species) as Lake Clear. Though unknown to a large 

 portion of our fishermen, it has its regular patrons who 

 come each year. Only two miles from Lake Clear Station 

 on Dr. Webb's new road, it is easy of access for those 

 contemplating a fishing trip from the metropolis in com- 

 paratively a short time, considering the distance. In 

 May and June there is trolling for both varieties, and 

 during August fly-casting at the mouths of the brooks. 

 E. D. Griswold, of Brooklyn, prominent as an admirer of 

 the latter method, has here succeeded in capturing 18 one 

 afternoon wbieli dressed IGlbs., several weigiiing over 

 21bs. Louis U. PiLlsbury, warden of Blackvvell's Island, 

 and an old-time patron of these waters, killed 96 in four 

 days, 7 weighing over 2lbs. Lakers are equally as numer- 

 ous and are fast increasing owing to the large amount of 

 fry deposited each year. Messrs. E. E. Daiiino-, J. W 

 Gardner and H. Schneider, all of Troy, returned' liome 

 last week after a weeks stay, with lOdlbs. Hon. Henry 

 H. Porter, of New Y^ork, was"'equally as successfui after a 

 few days' visit. In looking over the hotel register this 



many others. Two 

 speckled trout taken from tliis lake four years ao-o by two 

 gentlemen from New Haven, and which now adorn the 

 oflice of Paul Smith's, weighed 5i and oflbs, each. These 

 are among the largest of their kind ever secured in the 

 North Woods, and bear testimony to the future in store 

 for Lake Clear. j_ q 



''Game Laws in Briefs June, 1S93, revised. Game and Fish laws 

 of all the States, Territorie.H and Provinces. Correct, reliable, hand 

 somely illmirated. Published by the -'Forest and Stream.'' Sold by 

 aU dealers. Price SB cents, 



Send lis a postal card report of your oivn luck, your partner's luck, 

 your neighbor's luck, your father- in-laio's luck. And— her luck. 



AsBURY Park, N. J., June 9. — The largest pickerel ever 

 taken in Deal Lake was captured Wednesday by Fred 

 Nelson of this place. It was a female weighing 6^1bs. 

 Our veteran angler, William Brumaker, of Trenton, N. J., 

 captured a 21 lbs drumfisli from our pier yesterday. King- 

 fish are numerous but they are all taken in the pounds. 

 None, so far, have been taken by the anglers. Prospects 

 are good from now on. L. H. 



Thousand Island Park, N. Y., June 11.— Mr. George 

 Penn, of the firm of Penn & Lee, of Syracuse, made a 

 nice catch of fifty black bass near Thousand Island Park, 

 River St. Lawrence, on Friday last. His friends at home 

 received them in good shape by express on Saturday. 



Inglehardt & Hadcbck. 



Neversink (FaUsburgh), N. Y^., June 9.— Two large Cal- 

 ifornia trout were caught to-day by Mr. J. Brown of New 

 York, one weighing lUbs., the other 21bs. 8o7,. They were 

 taken near Johnson's saw mill. He caught twenty-two 

 other trout ranging from 7in. up to 9in., the whole weigh- 

 ing 161bs. Prospects for fishing are the best this season. 



Frank Dean. 



Vermont.— Waterbnry, June 10, — Trout fishing now 

 on, though the season was very late. The fishing shows 

 no improvement over last year, to say the least, and the 

 general opinion among our fishermen is that our trout 

 are bound to go — and that soon. Six-inch law a dead 

 letter, as usual, and hundreds of small trout being talsen 

 away every week. But few large trout are taken here, 

 but many brooks are full of small ones — or were, when 

 the season opened. Lancewood. 



Anglesea, N. J., June 10. — The black drum fishing has 

 been unusually good on Delaware Bay two and three mUes 

 from the Cape May lighthouse. When the wind is south 

 or southwest many big fish (drum) have been pulled in 

 out of the wet; 18 were caught last week from the Iron 

 Pier in one day. The fishing will be good till J uly, and 

 the drum are caught at flood tide and young ebb. Tiie 

 supply of sea bass is still unlimited, but nobody can tell 

 where the weakfish and sheepshead have gone to. They 

 have not put in appearance off Cape May county. 



j. M. S. 



Atlantic City, N. J.— Last week eighteen drumfish 

 were caught on the pier that extends from the board 

 walk (Atlantic City's promenade on the beach) out into 

 the ocean. For 250ft. back from the end each side of the 

 pier is now lined each day with people, some fishing, and 

 others taking the benefit of the sea ah- and watching the 

 fishermen. In addition to the eighteen drumfish caught 

 last week were two weakfish, the first of the season, and 

 a great many bass, kingfish and flounders. The largest 

 drum, and the prize winner as far as heard from along 

 the beach, was caught by Mr. W. C. Banning. It weighed 

 T61b8. good weight. Jas. Boothroy caught six drum in 

 one day. Three of liis catch weighed over 1601bs. The 

 firet sheepshead of the season was caught in the Inlet on 

 Saturday by Mr. A. Adams, Sr. It weighed Tibs. Messrs. 

 Young and McSliea, the owners of the pier, have at all 

 times lines and bait for fishing, so a person can spend an 

 hourM)¥ a day just as suits him, and does not have to be 

 bothered with any preparations to fish. Habey. 



Bloominqburg, Sullivan County, N. Y., June 12.— B. B. 

 Williams and John Wilkin, of Middletown, N. Y., caught 

 this week 1,000 trout, the largest and nicest catch I have 

 seen this season, four days' fishing. Prospect good for 

 coming week. Thos. Perry and wife, Theo. Perry, Byron 

 Perry, Fred. Henry and lady, George Hunter, Alex. Skin- 

 ner, Wes. Decker, Chas. Worcester, chief engineer Mid- 

 dletown State Hospital, George Palmer, P. Van Gorden, 

 all of Middletown, N. Y., one day's fisKing June 10, 168 

 fine j)ickerel in Yankee Pond. Fishing good. 



Dell Case. 



Eagle River, Wis., June 9.— In the Twin t/akes "waters 

 Mr. C. L. Sherman, of Leavenworth, Kan., caught on 

 June 3, in three hours' fishing, 50 wall-eyed pike, weight 

 901bs. ; June 4 he caught in two hours' fishing 25 pike, 

 391bs., and one black bass l^lbs. Abe Steindler, of Leav- 

 enworth, caught on June 3 8 black bass, weight 14lbs. , 

 largest 41bs. B. F. K. 



Liberty, N. Y., June 6. — The trout fishing has been 

 poor for the last two or three weeks, although this wai-m 

 weather may make them hungry. Most of the fishermen 

 are turning tlieir attention to pickerel and are making 

 good catches in StevensviUe Lake, Revona Lake and Hills 

 Pond. I caught twelve in HiUs Pond weighing 211bs. 



Geo. Cooper. 



Neversink, N, Y. (FaUsburgh Station), June 13.— R. B. 

 MacLea, R. Kenneth MacLea and J. B. Burt fished the 

 Neversink two days; caught 330 trout. R. K. MacLea 

 caught two weighing 3f lbs., one l^lbs., the other 21bs, 

 Stopped at Fr eer's Hotel. H, S. Blake. Neversink, one 

 day's fishing. Hall's mill to covered bridge, about five 

 miles, caught 97. Fom- weighed olbs 2oz, lib. 15oz., lib. 

 8oz., lib. Icy/,, and 15oz respectively; total weight 171bs. 

 Stream just about right and good prospects for ten days. 

 Fish taking both flies and bait. My best catch on this 

 stream. F. Freeb. 



Port Henry, N. Y., June 2. — I returned last night 

 from a prospecting trip after some of the brown trout 

 that I have planted in the watei-s around here for the last 

 four or five years. In Towner Pond tliree were caught, 

 weighing resj)ectively 41bs. 2oz., lib. 9oz., the third by a 

 ma.n who measured his but did not have any scales, and I 

 could not get to him with mine; the fish measured 13in. 

 These fish were planted there four years ago this spring, 

 none being there before. In Duck Puddle I did not suc- 

 ceed in getting any, although they say that very large 

 ones haA^e been seen j umping there. Trout Pond, where 

 I planted both the brook and brown trout, and which had 

 some brook trout before, yielded two browns weighing 

 S^lbs., 2flb. and one brook of 2ilbs. weight. This speaks 

 pretty well for stocking, doesn't it? W. C. W. 



