Sept. 9, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



211 



we tied the pole with which we raised and sunk the net. 

 These nets we used to make ourselves, using mosquito bar 

 for netting, which tore rather easily. I see that Messrs. 

 A. B. Shipley & Son, of Philadelphia, are making just 

 about such a minnow net, only they have a linen netting. 



There are also other good things in the general line of 

 anghng apphances which Messrs. A. B. Shipley & Son 

 show in their two cases in the pavilion. The bulk of the 

 exhibit consists of their specialty of bethabara rods, of 

 which they show among others a bethabara tarpon rod, a 

 Henshall bass, a combination, and a clever-looking tool 

 with reversible butt for combination work. The most 

 elaborate rod is the full-jeweled and gold-mounted beauty 

 in the special case, valued at $250. Yet another handsome 

 double enamel bamboo is interesting and fine, and you 

 have the more confidence in it after examining the sec- 

 tional showing the process of making, in which the whole 

 piece used is made up of the flint or enamel of the bam- 

 boo, which is not only used in strips, but in a veneer, 

 doubling the fabric throughout. The firm show, also, 

 numerous knick-knacks and handy things for the craft; a 

 novel hand support; tarpon snoods, one made of rawhide; 

 "hawser-laid" leaders; a gaflf, a fisher's knife, a hook 

 holder, with flies, books, reels, nets, useful tools, etc., etc., 

 in all a very useful and businesslike display of sterling 

 goods, 



A Bit of Color. 



Those passing by on their way to the Anglers' Pavilion 

 may see to the left of the main portal as they pass west, a 

 bit of color which catches the eye and might hold it for a 

 moment well enough. This is a modest case which con- 

 tains just nine flies, all salmon flies and all beauties, radi- 

 ant as only the salmon fly can be. This handsome display, 

 aU too small though it is, came all the way from auld Scot- 

 land, and was sent by Wm. Turnbull, of Edinburgh 

 town. E. Hough. 



A NEW-SUBSCRIBER OFFER. 



A bona fide new subscriber sending us $5 will receive for that sum 

 the FoBKST AND Stream one year (price 554) and a set of Zimmerman's 

 famous "Ducking Scenes" (advertised on another page, price 85)— a 

 89 value for 85. 



This offer is to -new subscribers only. It does not apply to renetDalt. 



For 83 a bona fide new subscriber for six months will receive the 

 F OBEST AND STREAM during that time and a copy of Dr. Van Fleet's 

 handsome work, "Bird Portraits for the Young" (the price of which 

 I 8.3 ) 



The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tues- 

 day. Coii'es2)ond&nce intended for publication should reach 

 us at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 



m Htfd ^iv^t fishing. 



visitors to our Exhibit in the Angling Pavilion at 

 the World's Fair should not fail to examine the 

 stock of "Forest and Stream" books which will 

 be shown by the attendant. 



WHERE FISH TEEM IN MICHIGAN. 



Ashland, Wm— Editor Forest and Stream: As I am a 

 regular reader of your paper and a crank on one subject 

 — fishing— and having fished a great many lakes and trout 

 streams in northern Wisconsin and southern Michigan, I 

 have concluded to try and repay some of my brother 

 anglei-s in the way of a fishing score. For some time I 

 had wanted to try Thousand Island Lake for lake trout, 

 having seen fish taken from there which were beauties. 



On a May Monday I set out, taking tent, boat and camp 

 utensils. At Watersmeet, Mich. , I picked up Wm. Revoy 

 as guide, and at State Line was met by Geo. A. Deland. 

 He loaded my boat and other things into his wagon and 

 we started to his camp, twelve miles distant. Thence, 

 the next morning, we started out in our boat for Thous- 

 and Island Lake, Mich., going through Mamie or Chain 

 Lakes for aliout three miles, making a portage of about 

 lOOft. into another chain of lakes, and then about two or 

 three miles, arriving at om- destination by 10 A. M. 



And what a lake it is. There are sixteen islands; each 

 island has rocky bars running out in some du-eotion or 

 other, and always to deep water. We camped on the first 

 island we came to and put up our tent and made arrange- 

 ments for several days' stay. While the guide and I were 

 doing this, Mr. Delano said he would see if the fish would 

 bite. In an hour's time he returned with two lake trout 

 of 4*1 bs. and 3lbs. 



At noon started out to test the water I had so long 

 wanted to try. I had a No, 11 Bristol steel rod, a No. 1 

 Natchaug silk line and a 4^^ Skinner spoon, Mr. Delano 

 said, " Rather light for such fishing as we have here." 

 But the following will show that it was heavy enough for 

 the work laid out. 



Score. May 16. — Justjlet out about 50ft. of line. 

 Something struck rather heavy, and at noon I took one 

 Lake trout of 6ilbs., 1 P. M. one of 6lbs., 1:33 one of 51bs., 

 1:48 one of 4iHbs., 2:35 one of 31bs,, 3:55 one of 21bs., 5:40 

 one of 21bs., 5:55 one of 3:Hbs„ 6:20 one of 81bs., 6:35 one 

 of 4Jlbs. 



While I was doing this •Mr. Delano turned up with one 

 which weighed 131bs. 



May 27.— Commenced at 6:05 A, M, At 6:35 A. M. one 

 lake trout of 21bs,, 6:57 one of 31bs., 8:27 one of oilbs., 

 10:00 one of 5ilbs., 10:10 one of 5lbs., 11 :05 one of ^^lbs. 

 Started out at 1 o'clock, after dinner: 1:35 one lake trout 

 of 7+lbs., 1:35 one of olbs., 1:45 one of 5.Vlbs., 1:55 one of 

 3lbs,, 2:10 one of 4lbs., 3:23 one of 3ilbs., 3:47 one of 8lbs., 

 3:00 one of S^lbs., 3:23 one of 4lbs., 4:03 one of Slbs., 4:33 

 one of 3llbs., 5:45 one of 3lbs., 6:05 one of 6lbs. Then I 

 was tired out and went to supper. 



TJmrsday, May 19.— 1 began at 7:10 A. M. At 7:35 one 

 lake trout of 2Ubs., 9:50 one of 4lbs., 10:03 one of 31bs., 

 10:13 one of 81bs., 10:35 one of 31bs., 10:43 one of 3+lbs., 

 11 one of Silbs., 11:03 one of 4ilbs., 11:11 one of Oilbs. 



At 11:30 went to dinner and commenced at 2:45 P. M. 

 At 2:55 one lake trout of 3 lbs., 4:05 one of 3+lbs., 4:57 one 

 of Silbs., 6:30 one of 4.ilbs., 7 one of 81bs. 



May if.— Commenced at 5:57 A. M. At 6:06 one lake 

 trout of 21bs., 7:20 one of 31bs., 7:37 one of 4ilbs., 7:50 one 

 of olbs., 9:15 one of 2abs.. 9:35 one of 121bs., 10:35 one of 

 2ilbs, 11:03 one of 31bs., 11:10 one of S^lbs., 11:30 one of 



3^1bs., 11:30 one of 3ilbs., 18 one of 41bs., 12:17 one of 

 9ilbs., 13:38 one of 2*lbs., 1:07 one of 3ilbs. 



I quit fishing at 1:10, having in the four days hooked 

 64 fish and landed 59. I then broke camp and returned 

 to Delano's; stopped allnight>and returned to the railroad 

 with 2551bs. of fine lake trout, which were distributed 

 among the M. L. S. & W. boys between Watersmeet, 

 Mich,, and Ashland, Wis. 



The waters between Delano's and Thousand Island 

 Lake are beautiful and beyond desci'iption. Large and 

 small-mouthed black bass, green bass, broak and lake 

 trout are all foimd close to Delano's; and mascalonge may 

 be had within fom- hours. These make it a desirable 

 place for such cranks as I am. Lake trout wiU not bite 

 good from June 15 until after Sept. 1, nor until the water 

 begins to get cool, but fishing wiU then be good until it 

 freezes up. J. B. C, 



ANGLING NOTES. 



A Wrinkle. 



I CAME across in my tackle trunk a device, if it may be 

 so termed, that I once improvised and have since used to 

 save leaders. It is such a simple thing that I presume I 

 never before thought it worth mentioning. For bait-fish- 

 ing I use what our EngUsh brethren call a "trace," wMch 

 is a gut leader (although a trace may be of gimp), with 

 several swivels tied in between the gut lengths. The 

 trace is intended in England for spinning, but I have 

 found it the best kind of a leader for bait-fishing for 

 black bass or any other fish lured with a live bait, be it in 

 still-fishing or trolling. Long ago I discarded cast sinkers 

 in still-fishing and live minnows were to be used, as a 

 couple of split shot on the trace with the swivels were 

 enough to keep the bait fish below the surface, and at the 

 same time this weight did not prevent the bait, when 

 hooked under the back fin, from roving over quite a bit 

 of water. On occasions I have found my tackle book to 

 be without traces when I have desired to use bait fish in 

 my fishing, and I have been obhged to use leaders in- 

 tended only for fly-fishing. Such a leader, after it has had 

 split shot pinched together on it, is ruined for fly-fishing, 

 for if the shot are removed and the strength of the leader 

 is not impaired, the flat places left by the shot make it 

 appear weak, and they are imsightly. In a trace it is of 

 no consequence, for once the shot are on it there they re- 

 main until the trace is done for. 



On one occasion I was fishing for landlocked salmon 

 where the fish grow to upward of 15lbs., and found it 

 prudent to put on a new trace, and found I had none in 

 the boat heavy enough, I opened a fly-book and the 

 leaders were nearly all light ones, and I was forced to use 

 one of Forest & Son's salmon leaders made for fly-fisliing. 

 It seemed to me to be httle less than sacrilege to squeeze 

 together on it a lot of split shot that would take my bait 

 to the bottom. I had some gut lengths looped at each 

 end for attaching looped bass flies to a leader in trolling, 

 and I took one of them and put the shot on it and then 

 fastened the snelled hook to one loop and the leader to 

 the other, and thus saved my leader. The gut length 

 with the shot on it may be taken out or put in as occasion 

 demands, and it is a convenience as well as a saving of 

 leaders. 



From Over the Sea. 



English newspapers quite generally recognized the fact 

 that Izaak Walton was born 300 years ago the ninth of 

 the present month of August, and The Sketch, of London, 

 issued on Aug, 9, verj- appropriately devoted several pages 

 to "The Walton Tercentenary," all prof uselj^ illustrated 

 with subjects relating to Walton's life or death. The text 

 consists of an interview with Mr. R B. Marston, and it is 

 quite apparent that the writer and interviewer is no less 

 than the famous "Red Spinner," Mr. William Senior, 

 angling editor of the London Field. The interview con- 

 cluded by making reference to an announcement which 

 lately appeared in Forest and Stream, and the following 

 is an extract: "In the course of further conversation Mr. 

 Marston, sounded as to his opinion of American editions 

 (of Walton), said that on the whole Dr. Bethune's notes 

 were the most practical, and Lowell's preface to a more 

 i-ecent edition a deUghtf ul essay. 'The Compleat Angler' 

 is only a classic, however, among English-speaking peojile; 

 the only translation has been a German rendering of the 

 'Ephemera' edition. As to cheap issues, the price of the 

 first edition in 1653 was 18 pence, but the cheapest ever 

 published was the 3 penny publication in Cassell's National 

 Library, edited by Henry Morley. 'You know,' said Mr. 

 Marston, 'that the only portrait we have is Huysman s 

 painting in the National Galleiy, and that has been copied 

 and worked up in all manner of ways. My photogravures 

 speak for themselves.' " 



Mr. Marston refers to the illustrations in his ' 'Lea and 

 Dove" edition (the 100th) of Walton, which is the most 

 sumptuous even issued, and which cost |;10,000 and 

 upward to pubUsh. Continuing, the writer in the Sketch 

 says: "When the type of the "Lea and Dove" edition 

 was distributed, and the decks generally cleared after the 

 work was done, the plates were converted by Mr. Marston 

 into a few presentation boxes. The unregenerate, I 

 believe, use them for cigare. As a brother of the angle 

 one came my way, and it is sacred to the choicest salmon 

 flies, in which moth enters not, nor does rust corrupt. 

 Faint outlines of the etching still remain on the bur- 

 nished sides of this copper coffer and an inscription on 

 the lid tells the story: 'This box is made from the 

 plates from which the illustrations of the 100th edition of 

 the "Compleat Angler," by Walton and Cotton, edited by 

 R. B. Marston, were printed in 1S89.' 



" Leaving the editor fondling his treasured editions, I 

 caught a glimpse through the door of a gi-oup of five 

 bonnie boys and girls with Mater and governess on the 

 lawn, which prompted the remark: ' So they have been 

 making an increase to your famfly, have they?' My 

 victim looked so startled that in mercy I added, ' I refer 

 to that new Canadian trout which our old friend Cheney 

 has, in your honor, christened Salnio {Salveliiius) mars- 

 toni. I saw it all described in the American press, and it 

 is said to be the most beautiful of the charrs. You are 

 really a most fortunate yoimg man. You edit a paper, 

 have brought out the best edition of Walton, kill trout 

 when others fail, go a-fishing with William Black, name 

 your eldest girl Loma out of friendship to Blackmore, 

 have a new fish fastened on you, and are dialogued for 

 the Sketch.' " Mr. Marston has stated in the quoted inter- 

 view the price at which the first edition of Walton was 

 issued, and I have given the cost of Mr, Marston's one 



hundredth edition, and on Aug. 9, Inst, the anniversary 

 of Walton's birth, Pickering & Chatto, the London book- 

 sellers, wrote to Mr. Marston that they had that day sold 

 a copy of the first edition of Walton to a bookseller at 

 Cleveland, 0., for £335, or about .$1,175. 



This reminds me of the very last letter that I received 

 from the late Thomas West-^ood, peace to his ashes, and 

 may kindly, loving thoughts of this ' 'Nineteenth Century 

 Walton" ever abide in the minds of men, in wliich he told 

 me of the sale and dispersion of his books, his "little 

 ones," as he called them. He said: "I scattered my 

 thousand volumes over the world. New York got the 

 best of them. I think New T'ork gets the best of most 

 rai'e and curious things now-a-days. I have never ceased 

 to regret having parted with my collection, Blackstoned 

 be the day when that insinuating and pertinacious EUis of 

 Bond street rang at my beU and foimd me at home, and 

 administering a philter to my imconscious self (he must 

 have administered a philter!) which so steeped my senses 

 that he appropriated then and there my 'little ones' — 'aU 

 my httle ones,' and left me desolate. * * * Moral. 

 Never part with a coUection if it is a good one. Good 

 things, rare things, curious things, are sure to increase in 

 value, besides being a joy forever." The advice of the 

 author of "The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler," "Bib- 

 liotheca Piscatoria," etc., etc., is safe, surely, to follow. 



Fisherman's Luck. 



I read a dispatch a short time ago which stated that 

 Robert Lenox Banks, -Jr., of Albany, son of Gen, R, L. 

 Banks, president of the Lake George Fish and Game 

 Protective Association, which has done so much to re- 

 stock Lake George with lake trout, had made the largest 

 catch of lake trout ever taken from Upper Saranac Lake. 

 He caught in one day twelve trout weighing ISOlbs., the 

 largest weighed 181bs. A few days later he caught four 

 trout, weighing respectively 30, 14, 15 and 91bs., or a total 

 weight of 581bs. Reading this remarkable score took me 

 back in memory four years to another day of trout flsh- 

 ing on Upper Saranac Lake, when Mr, Banks was also 

 liigh hook. Early in the morning seven boats were 

 drawn up on the float at Saranac Inn and seven guides 

 waited for the appearance of their fishermen, who were 

 Dr. S, B. Ward, his brother, Mr, Grange Sard, Mr. R. L. 

 Banks, Jr., Col, A. H, Belo and Wm, D, Cleveland, of 

 Texas, and the writer. The time was May, but the sky 

 was cloudless and the sun hot with no prospect of wind, 

 and altogether the prospect was so unpromising for fish- 

 ing in comfort that Dr. Ward, his brother, and Mr. 

 Sard turned back from the float. The others put off in 

 their boats with the water like glass. In about half an 

 hour Mr. Banks said he would leave me to broil if I liked 

 it, and he turned back. Col. Belo, Mr. (Illeveland and I 

 fished all day and caught together nine trout weighing 

 53ilbs., the largest 13ilbs., falling to Mr. Cleveland. It 

 was a l^listering day, but when we looked at oiu* fish that 

 night we were rather glad that we had been blistered. 

 While we were at supper at the Inn Dr. Ward sent word 

 to come to his boat house as soon as we had finished, as 

 he wished ine to hold an inquest. Arriving there we 

 found stretched on two towels on the carpet a lake trout 

 of 191bs. loz, , which had been caught that afternoon after 

 5 o'clock by Mr. Banks, He told me that he was coming 

 down the lake to meet us and find what luck we had had 

 and struck the fish directly in front of the Irm and only a 

 pistol shot away from the float. 



Hudson River Salmon. 



A gentleman from West Troy tells me that a number of 

 salmon have been caught in the Hudson below the Troy 

 Dam within the past few days. The fish were caught on 

 the West Troy side of the river, near the canal of the 

 Roy Mills, The largest salmon weighed 381bs. and was 

 killed by John Oathout, of West Troy. The water has 

 been well "up" in the river for a week, and it has given 

 the fish a chance to go as far up stream as the present 

 fishways permit. 



A Big Yellow Perch. 



Whenever I meet Dr. Edward Eggleston I feel sure that 

 I shall draw a fish item out of him before I leave him. I 

 met him to-day and he surprised me by saying that he 

 himself had broken a fish record in Lake George by catch- 

 ing a yellow perch from the waters of Dunham's Bay that 

 weighed If lbs. This is, to the best of my knowledge, 

 about three-quarters of a pound more than any perch ever 

 before taken from the lake. A. N, Cheney. 



Lake Wayagamack Trout. 



Montreal, Aug, 38,— On the 13th inst,, at Lake Waya- 

 gamack, a beautiful island-studded sheet of water sixty 

 miles in circumference and situated in the territory of the 

 St, Maurice Club, 100 miles north of Three Rivers, there 

 were caught by four rods in three hours' fishing fourteen 

 speckled trout, weighing from 3 to 61bs, each. Four fish 

 killed (consecutively) by one rod scaled olbs, apiece. The 

 weather was, for the season, unpleasantly cold, with occa- 

 sional heavy showers of rain. This lake unquestionably 

 contains in its waters a greater number of large-sized 

 speckled trout than can be obtained in any similar body of 

 water on this continent; and the visiting party confined 

 their fishing entirely to one small bay. The largest fish — 

 a 6-pounder — contained in its stomach partlj^ digested por- 

 tions of whitefish, apparently the true whitefish of the 

 Western lakes; and to this exceedingly nutritious food is 

 due, no doubt, in great measm-e, the superior size and 

 general quaUties of the Wayagamack trout, W, H. D. 



Greenwood Lake 



Lakeside, Greenwood Lake, N, J, — Mr. B, Hamburger, 

 of New York, caught on Aug. 30 a black bass of 7ilbs. ; 

 Ml-. A. Courtin, of New York, on the 26th, one of 7lbs. ; 

 Mr. J. C. Jacobsen, of New York, on Aug. 26-37, forty 

 bass averaging 2fibs.; Dr. R. Vandenhenden, of New 

 York, is credited with an average daily catch of four or 

 five, running 31bs. average; and Mr. Nat. Rogers on Aug, 

 36 took twenty-one bass running 2lbs. There is a promis- 

 ing outlook for September fishing. R. L. Patterson. 



Wliere to Go. 



Anybody desiring information with regard to the hotels 

 advertised in Forest and Stream, such as rates, routes, 

 fishing and hunting opportunities, should addre.s8 Forest 

 AND Stream Information Bureau, where all reasonable 

 inquiries will receive prompt answers, 



