FOREST AND STREAM. 



[3vLY 29, 1893. 



THE CHICAGO FLY-CASTING CLUB. 



The club held a regular meeting in tihe Grand Pacific 

 Hotel, Chicago, on the evening of July 18. The president, 

 Mr. Geo. W. StreU, presided. Seven members were pres- 

 ent. The minutes of the last meeting were read and 

 approved. Mr. W, H. Thurston's resignation was accepted. 

 The secretary reported ten or twelve inquiries in respect 

 to World's Fair tournaments of the club, from New York, 

 Vermont, Maine, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Iowa and 

 lUinois. A balance of $226.09 was reported on hand, out 

 of which $101.54 is deducted for an overdraw on account 

 of the Walton House, which sum will be refmided. The 

 Walton House cost $594.54, and $30 additional for the pier. 

 Of this sum, $275 have been raised and $100 more sub- 

 scribed. The shortage is placed at $259.54. Some schemes 

 for raising the money to meet tliis shortage were proposed. 

 One was that each member should contribute 10 cents, 

 then each should write to two of his friends, those two to 

 two friends respectively, and so on in geometrical pro- 

 gression until the fourteenth series, when the debt would 

 be exceeded by the receipts. This was objected to on the 

 score of its charitable aspect. In the dog world, I do not 

 think it would be practicable for material reasons; first, 

 because after the third or fourth series had been 

 passed there might be some compound vicarious friend 

 who did not have two friends of his own, and in 

 any series there might be a good friend whose dimes 

 were not present, or whose giving was absent. Mr. 

 Clarke proposed that the members pay what they could 

 and trust to sportsmen's generosity to pay the balance. 

 Mr. Smith suggested that the club get what revenue it 

 could by renting space in the Walton House for adver- 

 tisements. He further made a motion that the chaii-man 

 of the executive committee draw up a statement of the 

 Walton House fund and learn from such members as 

 had offered contributions how much they would con- 

 tribute. By motion, the president and chairman of the 

 executive committee were appointed to select for the 

 house and place thereonjsuchsign and inscription as would 

 identify it and designate its purpose. The one informally 

 considered was as follows: "Chicago Fly-Casting Club's 

 Fishing House. A facsimile of the Izaak Walton and 

 Charles Cotton fishing box on the River Dove, England." 



It was carried that a photograph of the club house be 

 made for the frontispiece of the constitution and by-laws, 

 rules, programmes, etc. It was carried that the four 

 hundredth birthday of Izaak Walton be honored by the 

 club with a picnic and banquet, at Momence, on the Kan- 

 kakee Eiver, $1 per plate and $1.50 for round trip railroad 

 ticket. Members are privileged to invite their gentle- 

 men friends. 



Arrangements will be made if possible with dealers in 

 sportsmen's goods to secure exhibits to be placed in the 

 house, with Mr. WHkinson in charge to practically iUus- 

 trate as an expert the manner of using rods and tackle. 



B. Waters. 



OREGON NOTES. 



Portland, Ore., July 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 As anticipated by many, the arrest and prosecution of our 

 cold-storage game dealers by om- fish and game protector 

 proved a farce. The precedents suggested by Forest 

 AND Stream for consideration by the powers that be, if 

 ever presented or even considered at aU, seem to have 

 exercised little or no influence on the deliberations of 

 those whom our people have selected to construe the laws 

 and administer justice. Addison says: "There is no vir- 

 tue so tiTily great and god-like as justice;" and it may be 

 possible that justice in these particular cases is so god-like 

 and of such a transcendently superior quality, that not 

 only laymen but some lawyers may be excused for not 

 being able to apprehend the point or appreciate the 

 justice of the adjudication. Strange things are contin- 

 ually happening out here in Oregon; as for example, the 

 exhibition given by our last Legislative Assembly, which 

 so nearly upset the mental equilibrium of Editor Rey- 

 nolds, compiler of the Oame Laws in Brief, when he 

 undertook the job of reconciling its "Acts." The days of 

 miracles are past, and Mr. Reynolds cannot reconcile 

 these "Acts" any more than he can reconcile oil and 

 water. The best thing to do with them is to dispose of 

 them in job lots to the^highest bidder without guarantee 

 and without recom-se. 



I would hke to ask "Podgers" to state the extent of his 

 observations on the matter of salmon feeding in fresh 

 water. I am satisfied from his published expressions that 

 he believes that they do feed; and probably there is no 

 other man in the United States, who has had better op- 

 portunities for observing. I believe that salmon feed 

 while in fresh water, notwithstanding the positive 

 assertions of the most eminent ichthyologists in the 

 country and the dicta of the U. S. Fish Commission, and 

 I have heretofore published some facts that seem to bear 

 me out in the assertion. To-day I received a letter from 

 Mr. W. H. Lewis, of eastern Oregon, something like 500 

 miles from the ocean, from which I quote regarding this 

 subject: "By the way, I told you I would keep my 

 weather eye open for proof of salmon taking food while 

 in fresh water. In the month of April last, in North Fork 

 of Meachem Creek, above WiUmr Station, Thos. Whitting- 

 ham shot and killed a 3ft. salmon; and when opened, in 

 its stomach was found a trout about 4in. long. This was 

 in presence of Charles Overly and D. Dickinson. Whit- 

 tingham is now working on section at Wilbur, and 

 Overly is section foreman at North Powder." Mr. Lewis 

 told me last spring, that he had seen the stomachs of 

 many salmon with food in them and then promised to 

 procure for me the afiidavits of men to the same effect. 

 When received I shall ask Forest and Stream to give me 

 a hearing. 



This will probably go of record as the coldest year in 

 the history of Oregon. Most certainly will this be the 

 case unless the fij;eman soon begins to pile in his com- 

 bustibles and poke up his fires. So far it has been some- 

 thing more than five degrees below the coldest ever 

 before known. As a natural consequence the moimtain 

 streams have been full and cold all through the spring 

 and early summer so that now, when fly time proper is 

 upon us, we find the streams full'of fine fish. We hear 

 good reports from every direction. The pan-fisherman 

 (bad luck to him,) has not been "in it" this year, and for 

 once the fly-fisherman is happy. Next Saturday Mi'. J. 

 Robert Mead, Billy Newman (the "Billy" of happy 



memories,) Mike, my wife and myself leave for a two 

 weeks' vacation in the Molalla counti-y. I'll bet that we 

 have a good time. S. H. Greene. 



FLY-CASTING RULES. 



Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 



I. — AU competitors shall be members of the club. All competitions 

 shall be managed by the tournament committee, who shall elect a 

 captain to enforce its orders. 



II. — All rods used by competitors must be singlehanded rods and 

 not exceed lift, in length, and all casting shall be done single-handed 

 only. 



III. — Competitors may consult their own inclinations in the choice 

 of casting lines; but such lines must not be knotted or weighted; one 

 knot for fastening line and leader shall be allowed. 



IV. — Competitors shall use a single gut leader of not less than 6ft. 

 in length. 



v.— The flies used by competitors shall be furnished or approved by 

 the tournament committee. One fly only, of not larger than No. 5 

 size, shall be used, 



VI.— The members of the tournament committee shall appoint a 

 timekeeper at each contest, whose duty it shall be to allot the contest- 

 ants their respective turns, time the 'duration of each competitor's 

 casting, and observe that the rods and tackle are at all times during 

 the contest in accordance with the rules and requirements of the 

 club, and that each competitor when casting does not advance beyond 

 the marked boundary. 



Vn.— Three members of the club shall be appointed as judges by 

 the members of the tournament committee present, decide the merits 

 of the cast in accordance with the rules. Any member making re- 

 marks to the judges, or detracting their attention in any way whUe 

 the contests are in progress, or the attention of a member while cast- 

 ing, shall forfeit all rights and be suspended for .30 days. The decision 

 of the judges shall be final. 



VIII. — The contests shall consist of three events, namely: 1, fly- 

 casting for distance and accuracy combined; 2, long distance fly-cast- 

 ing; .3," black bass bait-casting for distance and accuracy combined. 



IX. — The judges shall suspend from the contests, for the day on 

 which it occurs, any member found guilty, in their opinion, of conduct 

 unbecoming a gentleman. 



Events. 



No. 1. Fly-Casting for Distance and Accuracy Combined —The cast- 

 ing shall be done at three Gin. buoys, 45, 50 and 55ft., 5 casts at each 

 buoy; ties, 3 casts at 55ft., and 5ft. further for every additional tie. 

 The distance of the fly from the buoys at each case shall be added 

 together and divided by 3; the total shall be deducted from 100, which 

 shall be the percentage. The one having the highest percentage shall 

 be declared the winner. 



Each contestant shall be allowed not over 30 seconds in which to 

 extend his line. Time shall be called on the back cast. 



Should any emergency arise not covered by these rules or the gen- 

 eral rules of event No. S, the judges shall be allowed to use their dis- 

 cretion in settling the matter. 



No. 2. Fly-Casting for Long Distance.— Each contestant shall be 

 allowed 5 minutes in which to cast for distance. He shall stand upon a 

 given marked point and make his cast paralled with a line of buoys 

 placed in the water at measured intervals. The length of the casts shaU 

 be measured from the standpoint of the contestant to the spot reached 

 by his fly. The competitor who makes the longest cast shall be ad- 

 judged the winner. No other than fair overhead casting shall be per- 

 mitted. Switch or roll casting shall be barred. Should any competi- 

 tor whip off his fly he shall replace it with another one. No cast shall 

 count when the fly is missing. In case of a tie, the contestants whose 

 scores are tied shall contest 3 minutes more. 



No. 3. Black Bass Bait-Casting for Distance and Accuracy Com- 

 bined. — The casting shall be done on land, in a straight court 30ft. 

 wide, a tape line running the full length equi-distant between the 

 boundaries. 



(1) Only practical fishing tackle allowed, otherwise no restrictions. 



(2) All casts shaU be made single handed, that is with one hand 

 only. 



(3) The weight cast shall weigh i.^oz. 



(4) Each contestant shall make five casts for record, three trial casts 

 bemg first allowed. 



(5) The average of five casts shall constitute the record. 



(6) Casts shall be measured as follows: If within 1ft. of either side 

 of the tape line full measure shall be counted; for every foot over 1ft. 

 awajf from the tape line, one point shall be deducted from the length 

 of distance cast; thus, if the weight lies 3ft. away from the tape Hne 

 at the 140ft. mark, then 138 shall be credited; if 15ft. away from the 

 140ft. mark, then 126 shall be credited, andso on, the foot to be counted 

 nearest which the weight lies; no fractions allowed. 



(7) The general rules for fly-casting, where they do not conflict with 

 these rules, shall apply. 



No. 4. Black Bass Casting for Distance.— Whenever the tournament 

 committee so decide, an event for record only may be added, to be 

 known as long distance black bass bait-casting. 



Potomac Notes. 



Washincton, D. C. — Black bass fishing has not been 

 so good between the city and the Great Falls. Further 

 up the river it has been better. A veteran angler says 

 that there is too much bait in the river in the way of live 

 minnows, making the fish independent of the half dead 

 offerings of the hook and hne fishermen. 



One of our fishing clubs is about to erect an establish- 

 ment on the Potomac at Harper's Ferry. 



Brother Mohler experienced a new kind of milk shake 

 last Sunday. He drank the milk first and had the shake 

 an horn- later. The can from which he had a glass of 

 milk was emptied and from the bottom there rolled out 

 an innocent little salamander some three or four inches 

 long, dead, and apparently not quite so fresh as the milk. 

 Then Brer M. experienced his shake, lost his supper and 

 the glass of milk. 



This httle salamander {Spel&rpes ruber) is known as the 

 "spring-keeper" in Virginia, is protected by farmers as of 

 good to their springs, freeing them from insects, etc. , and 

 is generally common from Maine to Nebraska, east of the 

 Alleghanies south to the Carolinas. Bart. 



The Fisherman's Delight. 



The novel device consists of an attachment which can 

 be afl&xed to a fishing pole and which indicates or records 

 every nibble as well as a bite. The line runs over a dial 

 journal in such a manner as to raise or lower the dial, 

 thus pointing out not only the number of nibbles but the 

 variety of fish desiring to leave the water. All the fisher- 

 man needs to do is to look at the indicator when he hears 

 the alarm bell, and if the fish is of such A^ariety and size 

 as he desires he simply pulls it out and sets his hook 

 again. If the variety or size does not suit him he simply 

 "presses a button and the fish does the rest." The whole 

 is neatly inclosed in a glass case. On the opposite side is 

 another indicator showing the weight of the captive fish. 

 The device recorded 401bs. on the trial test as applied in 

 the presence of witnesses and in the Okaw's mm-ky 

 waters. The device may be seen at any time by calling 

 upon the inventor, Robt. Sattley. River rights for sale. — 

 Bethany {lU.) Echo . 



Fishing at "the Cape." 



Here's a record of one day's fishing at the Cape, On 

 Thursday last, John Wallace, of New York, captm-ed 58 

 bass weighing 581bs; his son, Allen Wallace, caught 60 

 weighing 591bs. ; Winfield Brewster came in with 150 bass, 

 1201bs. in weight; John Fisher was the next man, with 

 102 in number, weight 931bs. ; Geo. W. Weeks, of New 

 York, was also lucky, taking 98 which weighed 981bs. ; E, 

 Bender also came in with 36 exceedingly fine ones. These 

 are only a few of the good catches that are made daily. 

 Surely we are correct when we say that for good bass 

 fishing come to the Cape. — Oape Vincent (N. Y.) Eagle, 

 July 13. 



"FOEEST AND STEEAM" PISHING POSTALS 



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

 your neighbor's luck, your father-in-l<iw''s luck, ^nd— her luck. 



Fine View, Clayton. N. Y., July 18.— The largest fish of 

 the season was captured by John Young opposite Fine 

 View about 8 this morning, when a 30-pound muscaUonge 

 was landed after a hard battle with the gamy fish. John 

 Young is the captain of the Gad About, a yacht owned by 

 Hon. George N. Kennedy, of Syracuse, ex-Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of the Fifth Judicial Disti-ict. who is now 

 at his cottage at Thousand Island Park. The engineer of 

 the yacht is C. P. Knight. They started out along this 

 rnorning to get some ntiinnows. and the captain had his 

 hne out while they were opposite Fine View. A big mus- 

 callonge came along and gobbled the Gardner M. Skinner 

 bait, mistaking it for a breakfast feast of flies and angle- 

 worms, and then and there got himself into trouble. The 

 hook caught the old fellow firmly in the jaw, and his pres- 

 ence at the other end of the line was soon felt by the cap- 

 tain, who began to pull in on his line. He came along the 

 first 50ft. peacefully, but afterward he resisted and showed 

 fight, taking a plunge toward the bottom of the river. 

 The captain played with him for a long while and finally 

 got him up near enough to the surface of the water so that 

 they clubbed him over the head with an oar and stunned 

 the big fish. Just as they got him alongside the yacht the 

 hook became unfastened from his jaw and the fish was at 

 liberty to gUde away, but before he could collect his wits 

 he received a stunning blow from a club and was then 

 easily hauled into the yacht. The white flag was then 

 hoisted on the yacht, a signal that a muscaUonge had been 

 captured, and the Gad About steered away for Thousand 

 Island Pa,rk with her big fish and proud captors. The 

 yacht Ella, owned by J. W. Oliphant, of Brooklyn, sighted 

 the white fiag on the Gad About and ran alongside of her 

 to see the catch. One of the passengers on the Ella offered 

 Capt. Young $10 for his prize, but he refused. This mus- 

 caUonge tipped the scales at 301bs., is 4ft. Sin. long, and 

 has a girth of l9in. — Troy Times. 



Sheldeake, N. Y., July 17,— Messrs. Peter Clark and 

 James O'Neil, of H. B. Claflin & Co., N. Y., caught forty 

 very iine pickerel and black bass. Largest weighing 

 4ilbs., mostly all run nice size. Ed. Misnkr. 



Little Rook, Ark., July 17.— On the afternoon of 15th 

 inst., J. M. Pemberton in Old River, fourteen miles from 

 this city, took three bass at one cast. They weighed Si, 

 3, 3ilbs, How's that— Sflbs. at a cast? Jos. W. Irwin. 



New Russia, N. Y., (Westport), Essex Coimty, July 19. 

 —Black bass and trout biting good. W. H. Scheper, of 

 New York, caught on July 17 forty-five brook ti'out in the 

 A. M. On July 18 twenty-one bass, weight from 1 to 31bs. 

 each. Fishing promises to continue good. 



Laverty Bros. (Hunters' Home). 



Me. J. L. MUNN, of the Saranac Club, Adirondacks, 

 caught three lake trout J uly 8 whose aggregate weight 

 was 481b3. Their respective weights were 121bs. lloz., 

 161bs. 8oz., and 191bs. They were caught trolling off 

 Johnson's Island in the upper Saranac, IVIr. Mimn's 

 guide was Hi Benham, 



Cortland, N. Y. — E. Robbins and a friend have just 

 returned from a short fishing venture in the Adirondacks, 

 near Mud Pond. Here is what they say concerning the 

 trip: "It's great work at the end of a fly-rod up there now. 

 The first afternoon we fished along a stream that was 

 fairly aUve with trout, the sport of pulling out the fine 

 gamy fellows soon got monotonous, and we went to 

 shooting at a mark. Fishing along that stream was just 

 like digging potatoes. There wasn't enough chance for 

 horse play and sizing up the scenery. We could have 

 caught wagon loads of trout had we cared to." 



M, 0, H. 



Cape Vincent, N. Y., July 21.— The bass fishing is as 

 good as ever, as you will see by the following: 



July 18. July 19. 



Mi-. Weekes, New York 123 Mr. Weekes, New York 101 



Mr. A. Wallace, New York 101 Mr. A. Wallace, New York 71 



Mt-. Mackev, New York 93 Mr. Mackey, New York 126 



Mr. J. Wallace, New York 86 Mr. J. Wallace, New York 90 



Mr. Thomson, New York 68 :ttr. Thomson. New York 91 



Mr. McKinley, New York 70 Mr. McKinley, New York .100 



Mr. Kerr, New York... 44 Mr. Kerr, New York 79 



Ml-. Robinson, New York 23 Mr. Robinson, New York ,. 99 



Mr. Ester brook, New Jersey... 87 Mr. Esterbrook, New Jersey.'. . 41 



C. T. Sacket, 



Berthoud, Col., July 17. — Just returned from a trout 

 fishing trip up Big Thompson Canon. Fishing only fair. 

 Fishermen too plenty. In a day and a half I caught fifty- 

 three, largest ^Ib. In years past I have taken three to 

 four hundred in two to three days at same place, all nice 

 ones. Best fishing to be had now near here is on the Lit- 

 tle Sault Paudrie, some forty miles in the mountains. 



A. A. Knott. 



Lake JVIbmphremaqog. — ^A friend writes me of the fish- 

 ing at Owl's Head, Lake Memphremagog: "The fishing 

 for lake and bi-ook trout is very good. Recently two lake 

 trout were caught weighing, respectively, 17 and ISf lbs. , 

 by stni-fishing, the grounds being previously baited. In 

 trolhng yeUow perch quite frequently take the spoon and 

 are of quite good size. The trout are in deep water and it 

 requires some little patience to catch them." S. T. 



On Chippewa Point* 



Messes. C. Herbert, Anthony and Charles Beebe, of 

 Gouverneur, N. Y. , spent a week in camp last March upon 

 the banks of the St. Lawrence River, in quest of ducks, 

 which fly in great numbers at that season of the year, 

 when the ice is breaking up. With Ed. Senner and Eb. 

 Forrester as guides, they walked across the ice on Chip- 

 pewa Bay, hauling their "duSle" on sleds, two miles to 

 the "Point" on which the camp was pitched amid a grove 

 of trees, which protected them from the cold winds which 

 sweep along these shores. The bow-house was located on 

 Broad-BiU Island about fifty rods from camp, and was a 

 most natural one of rocks, needing only a few branches 

 of pine to make it a perfect bhnd. Chippewa Point com- 

 mands an uninterrupted view up and down the river. 



