June 33, 1898. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Lakeside, caught 9 bass'in one day tliat weighed 321bs. 

 One of these, if I am not mistaken, was a 6-pounder. A 

 day or two after he caught 9 that weighed 181bs. The 

 Liliputians, with their manager, Mr. Rosenfeld, are stop- 

 ping at this house. Mr. Rosenfeld has made several good 

 catches, but Lottie CoUins's admirer, Mr. Adolph Zink, 

 threatens his laurels. The latter is a great fisherman for 

 his inches, and is going to get "that big one" yet. 



Little Fritz Ebhardt is quite a hunter. He has a neat 

 little double barrel shotgun of .44 caliber, that only weighs 

 31bs., and he handles it as if he knows how to use it. Last 

 Friday morning he killed two snakes with it, and won the 

 admiration of the lady members of ths company. 



In a few minutes' fishing last Saturday the writer caught 

 3 bass and 3 pickerel. They were caught trolling with a 

 No. 4 Buel spoon bait. Taken on the whole this promises 

 to be an unusually good season at Greenwood, and larger 

 catches than any mentioned will probably be taken as the 

 summer advances. B. 



OUR BOSTON NEWS BUDGET. 



Boston, June 19. — Boston anglers are making ready and 

 departing. _ Mr. D. H. Blanchard. with his daughter, is 

 about leaving for his salmon river, the northeast branch 

 of the St. Marguerite. ]\Ir. Richard 0. Harding, a number 

 of years and so faithfully secretary of the Massachusetts 

 Fish and (lame Protective Association, will spend a couple 

 of weeks' vacation with Mr. Blanchard, probably early in 

 , tlie trip, but he may be hindered till well into July. 'Mr. 

 Blanchard will be at his river for a couple of months at 

 least. Mr. E. Rollins Morse, of Boston, will also be a guest 

 of Mr. Blanchard. Mr, Walter M. Brack ett, the salmon 

 artist, with Mrs. Brackett, is now at his salmon preserve, 

 just beloAv that of Mr. Blanchard. He will remain for the 

 entire season. Mr. E. C. Fitch, president of the Waltham 

 Watch Co., will fish his salmon preserve, on the Upsal- 

 quitch, this season. Mr. Archibald Mitchell, of JSTorwich, 

 , Conn., has gone to the Restigouche. Mr. John Fottler, 

 Jr. , one of the best known anglers and sportsmen of Bos- 

 ton, has gone to his salmon river, or the one he owns in 

 ^ company with Mr. I. W. Adams, of the Boston Net & 

 Twine Co. The river is the St. Johns, at Gaspe. Mr. Fot- 

 . tier will doubtless remain for a couple of months or more. 

 !• He takes his family with him. 



One of the happiest trouting parties of the season was 

 to leave Troy and Keene, N, H. , on Tuesday for Range- 

 ley. From that noted trouting town they were to make 

 their way to Kennebago, there to catch trout with the fiy 

 for a couple of weeks. The names of the party are Mr. C. 

 W. Whitney, of the dry goods trade at Troy: Mr. Whit- 

 comb, the box ma-nufacturer at Troy; State Fish Com- 

 missioner Kimball, of Keene, and Charlie Stone, the 

 hardware dealer at Keene. Merchants and manufac- 

 turers like those in the above party are greatly benefitted 

 by their annual fisliing outing, and they most heartily 

 enjoy it. Mr. Whitney is also a lover of hunting. Every 

 season he takes a number of foxes, and he is one of the 

 most enthusiastic at the sport. Living where he can reach 

 the neighborhood of good fox hxm ting in a short time 

 with a good team, he often takes in a reynard or two of a 

 frosty morning in winter. 



Mr. James Kinsley, of Waverley avenue, Newton, with 

 Mrs. Kinsley and Master Percy Kinsley, will spend the 

 summer at Andover, Me., stopping at Cushman's. Mr. 

 Kinsley is a great lover of brook fishing, and Master 

 Percey, only seven years of age, is as much of an enthusi- 

 ast as his father. His record of trout was a good one last 

 year, and it is likely to be better tliis year. 



CONNECTICUT BLACK BASS. 



Hartford, June 5. — Editor Forest and Stream: Prob- 

 ably Connecticut can furnish as many valuable streams, 

 ponds and lakes, according to its area, as almost any State 

 in the Union. We have just won a victory for the black 

 ba.ss interests, which, I think, has been as lively a struggle 

 as any one bill of like nature has caused in some time. 



I started the ball rolling by drawing a bill which pro- 

 vided for a close season during May and June, against 

 taking at any time except with hook and line, and pro- 

 vided a fine of $10 for every fish found in any person's 

 possession during close season or taken except with hook 

 and line. This fine was amended by adding the words 

 "not exceeding," but we did not think it worth while to 

 oppose it, since the gentleman who proposed it was in 

 favor of the general provisions of the bill and a much 

 respected member of the House. Private waters were 

 excepted in a separate section, so that if a defendant can 

 prove he took them from Ms pond he is not liable. 



All our game and fish laws that are general throughout 

 the State "make an exception of the owners or occupant 

 under lease; therefore, it was thought proper to make this 

 conform with the others. Then, the farmers own most of 

 the land where game and fish exist, or are riparian own- 

 ers; and if they will use the sportsman as one gentleman 

 should another, we will be glad to do the same. 



Also, the intention of the bill was to prevent spearing 

 and taking by similar device the fish on their beds when 

 they were spawning. Om- old law was lamentably weak, 

 as it simply forbid "taking from the waters of the State." 

 That meant a poacher must be oavight in the act, which 

 was next to impossible; therefore, it meant very little. 



The Committee on Fisheries changed the order of things 

 a trifle and reported it to the House as a substitute bill 

 and unanimously recommended its passage; but it was 

 immediately jumped on by several representatives, who, 

 b}^ the way, have since become conspicuous for their 

 efforts to defend the pound fisherman, and presumably 

 these gentlemen learned that Mr. A. C. Collins appeared 

 before the Committee on Fisheries in its favor while they 

 kept away, and so thought it a nice opportunity to ' 'sit 

 on him." But Mr. Collins has too many friends in this 

 State to be "sat on" so easily, and the result was the 

 Senate rejected the amendment and the House concurred. 

 Do not pine, We are grateful for the courtesy of the 

 committee, especially their House chairman, Dr. Mc- 

 Knight, of East Hartford, as also tliat of many others, 

 both in the Legislature and outside. 



But the struggle will bear its fruit; we have made up 

 our minds what we get we must fight for, and will be jjre- 

 pared. We have some trout interests to be looked after 

 and I hope some gentlemen of more influence and greater 

 powers than myself will start it. We have some beauti- 

 ful streams, the most conspicuous being the Farmington 

 Jliver, With the construction of a few suitable fishways, 



which the statutes amply provide for, and a generous 

 stocking, the Fish Commissioners could ti-ansform this 

 picturesque stream into a paradise for trout fishing. Mr. 

 E. E. Warren, game and fish warden of Litrlifield county, 

 has watched it and its tributary streams f.^ithfuUy, and if 

 the Fish Commissioners would do their shai . there would 

 be no better resort. There is a large appropriation for 

 trout in the Legislature now, and if passed we expect our 

 Fish Commissioners to do something toward building up 

 the fishing in waters where the public can get the benefit 

 of a public expense. If they do not look more closely to 

 public interests there will be a hvely time next session to 

 know where these fish go. 



_ Allow me to thank you for your very valuable contribu- 

 tions, both through your paper and by letter, regarding 

 bass, and we feel assured it helped greatly. We are 

 sorry Forest and STKE^uyi cannot catch bass in Connecti- 

 cut, but can assm-e him there are many who can. I hope 

 this wiU meet the approval of all true sportsuien. 



Charles W. Hall. 



A NEW HAMPSHIRE CURIOSITY. 



"FOEEST AND STEEAM" PISHING POSTALS 



Send us a postal card report of your own luck, your partner's luck, 

 your neighbor's iwcfc, your father-in-lmu's luck. And— her lUck. 



Clayton, N. Y., June 10.— Although the weather here 

 has not been the most favorable for fishing the past weeks, 

 good average catches have been daily brought in, and the 

 prospect of a first-class season are good. I inclose the 

 scores, which are fairly representative of two anglers, for 

 the past ten days: Mr. C. C. Dorr, of Boston, Mass. (guide, 

 Sam Denny), .June 1st 18 black bass, 2d 27, 3d 38, 4th 13, 

 5th 7, 6th 23, 7th .5, 8th 14, 9th 25, 10th 29. Mr. W. Bunker, 

 New York (guide, Steve Legare), June 1st 31 black bass, 

 2d 20, 3d 18, 4th 17, 5th 18, 6th 16, 7th 38. 8th 28, 9th 33, 

 10th 43. Thirty out of the 38 bass caught by Mr. Dorr, on 

 3d inst., weighed 491bs. Mr. Bunker's catch of 7th inst. 

 included 8 weighing 201bs., and of 8th inst., 20 weighing 

 40lbs. This score also shows 8 bass as follows: One 41b., 

 two 3flbs. each, two 3ilbs. each, and three 31bs. each. 

 Mr. Dorr's catch is from his own rod, while Mr. Bunker's 

 also includes those taken by Mrs. Bunker, F. 



Manchester, N. H., Jime id.— Editor Forest and 

 Streara: As a result of the cold and wet spring, the 

 brook trout season in this section was late in opening, and 

 on account of the exceedingly cold, icy winter the catches 

 are small, much below the average of former seasons. 

 Some brooks, where in previous years the fisherman has 

 been bountifully rewarded, nothing responds to his al- 

 lurements. Others yield from 4 to 20, and I have a few 

 times heard of from 60 to 100 being taken in a day. Mr. 

 Frank S. Sutclille, principal of the Lincoln Grammar 

 School, and a companion, brought in the largest string 

 thus far reported, 160. They got them "over there." 

 When the crop in prospect from the new State hatchery, 

 now being established in this city, is deposited in our 

 near-by streams, I expect to hear of more satisfactorily 

 weighted creels returning from the trout and mosquito 

 lairs of southern New Hampshire. 



Col. Ai-thur S. Clarke, Maj. Harry B. Cilley, Mr. Wm. 

 R. Forsaith, Mr. Benj. F. Clark and Henry S. Clark re- 

 turned the first of the week from the northern part of 

 Maine, where they spent two weeks fishing. They report 

 very good success. Their largest trout weighed 51bs. 

 Two, three and four pound fish were plenty. 



A movement has been in progress for some time among 

 the sportsmen of the southern part of the State, petitions 

 circulated and presented to the Governor, also hearings 

 and discussions have taken place, looking to the appoint- 

 ment of a new man, both young and enthusiastic lover of 

 the practical use of rod and gun, in place of Elliott B. 

 Hodge, Chairman of the Fish and Game Cf)mmission and 

 Supt. of the Plymouth and Sunapee Lake Hatching 

 Stations for many years. The matter will probably come 

 before the Governor and Council at their meeting this 

 week. 



While fishing last Friday afternoon in a neighboring 

 town, I met with an experience that, while unpleasant in 

 some respects, ended happily and proved to me, as noth- 

 ing but personal exjoerience could, the existence of a 

 healthy, full grown country boy who, probably born and 

 reared in the immediate neighborhood of what is reputed 

 to be one of the largest and best trout streams of this sec- 

 tion, did not know of its existence. In company with a 

 friend I went to this brook, with the idea tliat I knew its 

 course. Two roads cross the brook a mile or more apart, 

 and he drove me to the crossing of the further road and 

 drove back and hitched the team at the crossing of the 

 road nearest home, with the understanding that we were 

 to fish and meet on the brook. Unconscious of the fact 

 that the brook had any branches, I took the side away 

 from the sun and worked away through brush, mud, flies 

 and mosquitoes — enough of either to have exasperated a 

 much better man than your correspondent, tiU I had 

 taken a half dozen pretty trout and begun to be aware 

 that my friend Fisher (by name and occupation), should 

 be in the vicinity, as I thought I had been far enough to 

 have reached the other road crossing, and began to suspect 

 that something was wrong in our calculations and con- 

 nections. Averse to taking back tracks, and oblivious to 

 having passed a junction of the stream I was on with the 

 one Mr. Fisher began on at his road, I hurriedly worked 

 along, till anxiety for my whereabouts overcame juy de- 

 sire for more fish, when I bimdled up my jiole for a 

 walking stick and changed my occupation to that of a 

 pedestrian, still following the brook, now coursing over a 

 steep grade of rocky country and through an old growth 

 of timber, until it was entirely lost in a large surface of 

 spring holes and rocks. Looking for the sun, then near 

 the horizon, I shaped a course which I judged would lead 

 in the direction of the team, and after a tedious tramp of 

 half an hour espied a farmhouse on a hill in the distance, 

 toward which I turned my steps. In that honse, on that 

 hill, lives the curicsity. He does not live on a road, but 

 on a lane that I suppose leads to a road if followed far 

 enough in the right direction. I found the "wonder" 

 out of doors, and to my question as to the direction it was 

 necessary to take to find the brook I had started to fish, 

 naming it to him, he answered, I have no doubt truth- 

 fully, that he did not know. I have struck hard luck in 

 my previous hunting and fishing experiences, but that 

 answer topped them all, and was for the moment a keen 

 disappointment to me as well as a surprise. I pitied the 

 fellow for the sport he was losing, and also inwardly 

 cursed him for his blooming stupidity, but neither helped 

 me out of my dilemma. BUndly I started do^oi the lane 

 on which his house was, till my path ended in a field a 

 mile or more away, in which was a house which I soon 

 found was one of New Hampshire's numerous deserted 

 homesteads. From there I saw another house, and again 

 I found there had been another desertion, but a highway 

 was at last in sight, which with joy I followed to the 

 fourth house in my search for information. There I was 

 delighted to find a man who could put me on the right 

 track. The place where the team was left proved to be 

 about one and one-half mdes away, which distance I was 

 not long in covering, there to find 3Ir. Fisher shouting 

 and waiting in the gloaming with fear and ti-embling. 



Our trip of fifteen miles home, with the nineteen ti'out 

 we captured, was a dark but quick one. While on our 

 way out we passed a partridge and a brood of a dozen 

 young, not more than a day or two old. The old bird 

 would not fly, but staid by her young, within a few feet 

 of us, a .subject of our unqualified admiration, and I hope 

 she may never fare any worse than then, as a result of 

 her affection and pluck. Patson. 



Hadley, Mass,, June 12.— We have a lovely home here 

 and a most excellent table — the best I have found yet, as 

 far as I've got. Mount Holyoke is only two miles off. On 

 Friday I went trout fishing in Sunderland and caught two 

 small ones. The man who directed us where to go, went 

 out Sunday A.M. to Hart's Brook and caught 25 trout, 11 

 of which weighed 81bs. It looks as if he turned the crank 

 the wrong way for us. Come up here and climb the 

 mountain (by elevator) and fish Hart's Brook, and see the 

 boys. o. 



Adirondacks,— North wood, N. Y., June 14.— To resi- 

 dents it seems as though trout in West Canada Creek are 

 growing more numerous each year. Three years ago our 

 most expert fishermen experienced difiictdty in getting a 

 meal of fish. This spring nearly all could catch trout 

 enough for a good meal without difficulty. This spring 

 a man here, besides doing his farm work well, caught 

 from $10 to .$20 worth of trout per week, which he sold 

 to his neighbors who did not care to fish. A pot-fisher? 

 Perhaps. He enjoyed the scenery; he took as much 

 pleasure in landing a trout as any one, but he sold his 

 fish. To be a sportsman must one" give his fish and game 

 away when there are many ready to buy it? What dif- 

 ference does it make to a fish whether he is sold or given 

 away? He is dead and certainly cannot increase the 

 game supply. Raymond S, Spears, 



DiJsGMAN's Ferry (Port Jervis), Pa., June 14.— Trout 

 fishing during the week has been good. One of our 

 guests, Mr. W. D. Chalfin, of New York, took 39 trout on 

 Dingman Creek, near Stokes Meadows, weighing 1 libs., 

 in about five hours' fishing. Our streams are now in 

 splendid condition, good prospects for coming week. 



P. F, F. 



Greenwood Lake, New York, June 17.— The largest of 

 the season, Saturday, 17th inst,, caught by Leon Hazen, 

 son of the proprietor. Fishing off shore with angle worm 

 —weight 6ilbs. Bass fishing average 12 per day, aver- 

 age weight lilbs. Prospects good. Windermere. 



Clayton, Thousand Islands, N. Y,, June 17.— Black 

 bass fishing here first-rate. Fish numerous and average 

 good size. Mr. .John Bush, of Buffalo, N. Y., landed 84 

 black bass on 15th inst. J. G, Eraser. 



Henderson Harbor, N, Y,, June 16,— Mr. R, Heimsek, 

 Mr. Frank Harrison and W. P. Sinnock, of New Jersey, 

 have just left our place for home; having fished ten days 

 with remarkable success with the bass, saving only large 

 fish, putting back all spawners and small ones; nothing 

 less than l^^-lbs. kept, and their record was over 400. 



E. Tyler 



Blactc Brook (Rogers), N. Y., ,June 16.— Trout fishing 

 in brooks here is first-class now. The brooks have not 

 been fished as much for the past few years and the trout 

 caught now are larger and more of them. 



W. W. Pierce, 



Three Lakes, Wis., June 11.— In two days' fishing Dr, 

 Portee, Mr. Muchman and Mr. Mason caught 278 bass. 

 Largest, Iflbs. Average, 21bs. Fishing is good, eighteen 

 mascalonge caught by parties stopping at my place last 

 week. F. R. French. 



Sheldrake (Hurley ville). N. Y., June 17.— Some very 

 nice black bass have been caught in Sheldrake Lake, 

 weighing from 2 to 4^-lbs. and forty pickerel, weighing 

 from 1 to 3lbs. by E. Misner and John Matthews. 



E. MiSNBR. 



Stevensville (Liberty Falls), N. Y., June 19,— Frank 

 E Quimby, of New Jersey, caught one pickerel of 41bs. 

 lOoz. and one 41bs. 6oz. StevensviUe Lake is full of pick- 

 erel weighing from ilb. to 3ilbs. and there are a good 

 many caught which weigh more than 3lt>s. Prospects for 

 next week are very good. H. M. Stoddard, 



Lake Ridge, Huntsville, O, — Bass are biting in the In- 

 dian Lake, Lewiston Reservoir, some 4 and ^Xhs. bass 

 having been caught the last week. Fishing good. 



L. H. B. 



The SUk-Worm Gut Market. 



Redditch, June 7.— As the manager of our factory at 

 Murcia has just completed his purchase from the worm 

 breeders, your readers wiU be interested to know the re- 

 sult of the gut crop for this year. The quantity of silk- 

 worm gut produced is not more than half what was made 

 last year, as the price offered for silk rose from 120 reals 

 per arruba to 220 reals. There is an average production 

 of thick gut, so that for the present prices remain as 

 usual; but if the price for silk is maintained, as seems 

 probable, the prices of gut must advance next year 40 or 

 60 per cent. s. Allcock & Co. 



The Mountain Trout. 



Chaklestown, N. n , June Editor Forest and Stream- Your 

 compositors have re-revised my ballad of "Tlie Mountain Trout" In 

 an unexpected manner. They have rechristened the famUiar "noke 

 stalJc" of the me^idows and called it "Polk-stalk,^* after the ex-Pre.si 

 dent, and "yon stone" which I imagined as rippling the waters if? 

 presented to the angler as "your stone 1" " & "^^i a, is 



"Alas! what hidden perils swipe 

 The man \vho meddles with cold type," Yoa W. 



