May 28, 1894.] 



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As he rose, somewhat subdued, there stood "Kingfisher" 

 over the fence, shaking his fist at him and calling him all 

 the bad and uncommon names his imagination could 

 recall or invent. Meanwhile, I was rolling oyer the 

 ground and holding my sides, that ached with the 

 laughter the scene provoked. 



"Your turn next!" viciously shouted "Kingfisher." 



The warning startled.me. Sure enough I was on the 

 same side with the bull and further from the fence than 

 "Kingfisher" when he began his interview. Taking a more 

 circuitous route, and never once attempting to argue the 

 matter with so stubborn an animal, as my friend had 

 done, I finally climbed the fence and rejoined him, with 

 scarcely so much as a side glance thrown my way. I 

 never believed in attempting to show a bull the error of 

 his ways, and in trying to induce him to repent, and I 

 don't believe "Kingfisher" will repeat the experiment. 



Further up the brook, under the roots of a big tree on 

 the edge of the woods, we added more trout to our basket, 

 and going to Alexander's, near by, we borrowed a boat, 

 and stowing the "iron-clad" on board in dismantled con- 

 dition, returned to camp. I repeated the bull episode to 

 the boys, but, vary as I would, could never give a version 

 that was satisfactory to "Kingfisher," His recital of it in 

 Forest and Stream has some faint resemblance to the 

 facts, but very faint. 



There was one phase of ' 'Kingfisher' s' ' traits that was ever 

 constant — he was perpetually hungry. Whether born so, 

 we cannot say, but added to that other prominent trait of 

 addictedness to cold water, the combination proved a 

 source of frequent comment in camp. When we returned 

 from trouting a pang of hunger suddenly seized him 

 when Furr casually remarked ' 'the camp that day had 

 feasted on richest viands — four or five courses." He began 

 a search of the larder, demolished a pudding and was pro- 

 ceeding to make other things scarce, when he was vigor- 

 ously informed he must curtail his lunch or hang. He 

 said he preferred to hang. 



The incidents of Robin Nest Camp were many— most of 

 them aptly detailed by "Kingfisher's" pen — but the time 

 came when Furr and I were due for the homeward jour- 

 ney, and as we left camp on the mail wagon for Traverse 

 City the boys gave us "three cheers and a tiger." 



Joyous days have been those spent in the camps of the 

 Kingfishers. Around them memory loves to linger as the 

 bright spots of life — the places where all unwelcome 

 thoughts were put aside. Some of the faces that were 

 frequent around the camp-fires are no longer there — old 

 Danny Sloan, Lou Snider and Billy Whetzel have crossed 

 the dark river, and Windeler, Schroll and others have 

 dropped into other paths. It is not likely the writer will 

 be able to join the round-up this summer, nor perhaps for 

 some years to come; yet as the day approaches for each 

 Northern outing, the spirit will chafe to be free with the 

 gang again. Old Sam. 



BOSTON MEN OFF FOR MAINE. 



There is very little brook fishing in Maine this spring. 

 Many of the trout brooks are as dry as August. This dry 

 weather is also hurting the lake and pond fishing. Fires 

 are raging in the Moosehead region. So dense has been 

 the smoke coming from the shores of Moosehead Lake, in 

 some sections, that the fishermen have been troubled a 

 good deal. Fires are also burning in some parts of the 

 Rangeley region, in the Coplin Township and in the Eustis 

 region. There are also extensive forest fires in the eastern 

 part of the State. Rain is the only salvation for miles of 

 forest lands: and it is to be hoped that the welcome rain 

 will have come before these lines are read. One whole- 

 some lesson is to be received by the sportsmen from these 

 fires, and that is the greatest care in regard to camp and 

 cooking fires. Such are the reports as a ride, but Mr. B. 

 J. Akerman of Brooklyn, N. Y., telegraphs his friend Mr. 

 Patridge, in Boston, that fishing has begun to be good at 

 the Upper Dam. Late reports from Moosehead mention 

 heavy gales from the northwest, as well as the forest fires, 

 with poor fishing. 



One of the best fishing parties to annually go from Bos- 

 ton started Thursday evening. The party is made up of 

 L. E. Pierce, Stearns R. Ellis, Geo. A. Pales, James H. 

 Davis, F. H. Bowles, M. J. Conant, Edward Shumway, F. 

 W. Morrill, W. F. Robinson and Dr. Foss. This party is 

 the same as has been engineered by Mr. Pierce for several 

 seasons, and is justly termed the produce party, since its 

 members are largely engaged in the Produce trade. The 

 party is to be quartered generally at Kineo, going out in 

 the morning on fishing excursions and returning in the 

 evening, by steamer. The spokesman of the party, Mr. 

 L. E. Pierce, informs me that fish stories may expected. 



The fishermen of Lake Auburn, in Maine, are delighted. 

 Their biggest story teller has been vindicated. A big fish 

 — long supposed to exist there — has been taken. Mr. 

 Warren Frost, of Auburn, has established the reputation 

 of Lake Auburn forever, besides winning for himself the 

 championship. He has landed a landlocked salmon from 

 that lake weighing 13|lbs. Lake Auburn is proud, and 

 Mr. Frost is proud, and well he may be. Here is also a 

 vindication of the rapid growth of the salmon family, 

 where food is plenty, for landlocked salmon have been in 

 Atiburn but a few years. Fish Commissioner Henry O. 

 Stanley will doubtless inform the Forest and Stream as 

 to how long that lake has been stocked. 



Mr. Charles Z. Basset, of Appleton & Basset, with his 

 friend Mr. G. N. Smalley, will leave Boston this week for 

 their annual fishing trip. They go to Billy Soule's, Cup- 

 suptic Lake, as usual. They are joined this year by Mr., 

 R. L. Everett. Good trout are likely to be taken by this 

 party. Some of the fishermen will remember the 4 and 

 51b. trout they took on the fly there only a season or two 

 ago. Mr. John J. Pew, of Gloucester, started on the 17th 

 for Billy Soule's. Mr. E. S. Boss and Eugene Atwood, of 

 Stonington, Conn., and Q. A. Atwood, have gone to the 

 camps at the lower end of Kennebago Lake for a week or 

 more of fishing. Mr. Herbert Dumarsq and C. B. Gookin 

 are now at their camp at Duck Lake, in Maine. What is 

 known as the Tuttle Party left for Mr. Tuttle's beautiful 

 camps, Lake Point Cottage, at the lower end of Rangeley 

 Lake the other day. In the party were Mr. R. A. Tuttle. 

 Mr. C. A. Hutchins, and Mr. G. H. Sampson. Col. Har- 

 mon, of Connecticut, was not of the party this year. Mr. 

 E. C. Fitch starts this week for his salmon river, the 

 Romayne, on the north Bhore of the Bay of the St. 

 Lawrence. 



The first fishing party of the Megantic Club left on 

 Friday. Among the number were Dr. Heber Bishop. 

 Ralph Peacock, A. C. Risteen, L. Dana Chapman, M. N. 

 Smith, Chas. A. Read, Edward S. Beach, Geo. H. Burt, 



R. M. Seymes, G. P. Way, C. J. Woodbuiy, A. W. San- 

 born, M. L. Wetherbee, F. L. Came, L. C. Hacall. It is 

 expected that another party, mainly of- New York mem- 

 bers of the club, will leave for the spring fishing early 

 this week. Some good catches are expected, and two or 

 three weeks of good sport is assured there, since the 

 waters are not being fished except by members and in- 

 vited guests. Promiscuous fishing and crowds are the 

 bane of the public Maine trouting waters at the present 

 time. 



The first fishing party for the Inglewood Club waters, 

 in New Brunswick, left Thursday. In the party were 

 Mr. Andrew S. March, president of the club; Henry E. 

 Cobb, Col. C. A. Hopkins, G. C. Crocker, Jacob P. Bates, 

 the Rev. M. Slack, and others, making nine or ten in all. 

 This may be considered a group of Boston representative 

 men, and the Inglewood may justly be proud of it. But 

 the large party of the season for the same preserve is not 

 to leave till June 1. 



Mr. Chas. S. Robertson with his friend John B. Vial], 

 are to start early this week for their annual fishing trip. 

 They go to Brookway, in New Brunswick. It is in the 

 vicinity of McAdam Junction , and not far from Maine. 

 They are to join Mr. Elijah Clark there and Mr. Hayden 

 Sargent. Mr. Clark is well acquainted in the section he 

 is to visit with his friends. Mr. Robertson and Mr. Viall 

 have found excellent fishing there before. Their advices 

 report that the season is unusually early, otherwise they 

 would not be off till the first of June, since it is fly-fish- 

 ing they desire. Mr. Robertson is a great lover of rod and 

 line, and his annual trouting trips are always successful. 



Some of the very latest reports from the Maine waters 

 indicate unusually early fly-fishing. But these reports 

 must be taken with a degree of caution. Trout are being 

 caught on the fly. Oh, yes! But how is it? Do the trout 

 rise to the fly? It is a cheap trick, and one that no honest 

 angler would stoop to. But it is being practiced this 

 season by green fishermen who desire trashy newspaper 

 notoriety. The papers must say that th e trout was ' 'caught 

 on the fly." One's friends must be advised that the trout 

 was "caught on the fly." The fly is tied on to the trolling 

 leader just above the minnow or worm bait. Bah! Give 

 us the plain truth! Let us talk about fishing with just as 

 much reason and truthfulness as we do about other 

 matters of life. Special. 



CANADIAN ANGLING NOTES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Salmon fishermen are completing their arrangements 

 for going down to their favorite waters. Lord and Lady 

 Mount-Stephen are expected early next month from Scot- 

 land and will fish the Metis River, as usual. The Gover- 

 nor-General and party are to whip the Restigouche and 

 Mr, John Mowat has lately visited Ottawa to make all 

 necessary arrangements for their summer outing. They 

 will be towed up the river in a floating palace fitted up 

 like a palace car. Lord and Lady Aberdeen will not 

 likely visit Lake St. John for ouananiche fishing before 

 the end of August or commencement of September. 



Messrs. Frank Holloway, James L. Bell and other 

 Quebecers have had splendid sport already on the Stada- 

 cona lakes up the Quebec & Lake St. John R. R., a num- 

 ber of %i and 2f-pound trout having been killed by them. 

 From Lake Edward, as usual in the spring of the year, 

 come stories of fontinalis safely creeled up to and even 

 exceeding 51bs. in weight. 



American anglers bound for the Lake St. John district 

 are arriving here in large numbers, the first parties hav- 

 ing come up nearly a fortnight earlier than last year. 

 Yesterday a party of nine, mostly belonging to Meriden, 

 Conn., passed through by private car. They are all mem- 

 bers or guests of the Metabetehouan Fish and Game Club, 

 and have gone to their club house at Kiskisink Station. 

 Here they have been advised that the trout are now rising 

 freely upon the inlet to the lake and the adjacent rapids. 

 Some of i;hem are millionaires bound on having a good 

 time, and will remain at Kiskisink until the end of next 

 week. The members of the party are Messrs. John Flagg, 

 Samuel Dodd, John W. Coe, George A. Fay and Frank S. 

 Fay, Wm. B. Ives, C. P. Bradley, George H. Wilcox, all 

 of Meriden, Conn., and William P. Morgan, of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Mr. Frank Ross, president of the Quebec and Lake St. 

 John Railway, has just returned from a day's fishing at the 

 Ouiatchouan, with fourteen ouananiche weighing in all 

 close upon 601bs. The fishing here is likely to remain good 

 up to the end of the month. After June 1 I would urge 

 anglers in search of the best ouananiche fishing to cross 

 to the Grand Discharge. A large party of New England 

 anglers leave here tomorrow for the Ouiatchouan. 



E. T. D. Chambers. 



Quebec, May 18. 



NOTES FROM MOOSEHEAD LAKE. 



The Spring Fishing. 

 The spring fishing came on immediately after the ice 

 went out, and has thus far been remarkably good. There 

 have been several unusually calm, warm days; the water 

 in the lake is very low for the time of year; the amount 

 of fishing done last year was comparatively small, and 

 accordingly larger catches are being made this year. One 

 boat took lOOlbs. of speckled trout in less than a day's 

 fishing. 



At Sebec Lake. 



The landlocked salmon fishing at Sebec Lake was all 

 that was anticipated, and all that could have been wished 

 for, so far as number and size were concerned, but the 

 fish did not run up into the quiet water so much as usual, 

 owing no doubt to the large quantities of Bawdust and 

 refuse which come down from the mills above. This diffi- 

 culty will, however, be removed within a short time, if 

 there is any God in Israel. 



There has been a progressive increase in the size of the 

 salmon caught at the head of Sebec Lake from year to 

 year, owing probably to the introduction some years ago 

 of stock from Sebago Lake. Salmon of 7 and 7ilbs. were 

 common this year, and two 81b. fish were taken, one by G. 

 A. Bradman, of Abbott Village, the other by a Frenchman 

 whose name was not ascertained. There was not as large 

 a number of anglers at the lake as one would naturally 

 expect, only a few from out of the State putting in an ap- 

 pearance. 



Among those present were: E. H. Clark, Hartford, 

 Conn.; Q. A. Atwood, Boston; Gen. L. Barbour, Hartford, 

 Conn. ; E. S. Burr, Willimantic; F. H. Drummond, Abel 



Hunt and Dr. Hayward Stetson, Bangor; P. O. Vickery, 

 Augusta; Hon. Wm. T. Haines, Waterville; Dr. Hill and 

 Mr. Biake (president Kennebec Fish and Game Associa- 

 tion), Augusta; Dr. H. C, Vaughn, besides many others 

 from Dover, Foxcrof t and the neighboring towns. 



Both Capt. Crockett's Hotel and Frank Jordan's Camp 

 were well patronized; both afford fair board at the same 

 price— $1 a day — both have small steamers which they let 

 to fishing parties for $5 a day, in fact there is little to 

 choose between the two stopping places. One can be 

 perfectly comfortable at either place, but [of course you 

 can't expect the earth for a dollar a day. 



Early Fly-Fishing. 



If the warm weather continues it is almost certain that 

 the spring fly-fishing will come on at least ten days and 

 perhaps two weeks earlier than usual, and those who in- 

 tend to time their fishing trip so as to get fly-fishing 

 should govern themselves accordingly. There are within 

 my knowledge two ponds not far from here, accessible 

 only by a five mile tramp, where I have, and believe others 

 can catch trout without stint, until you are tired of it. 

 As these are both small ponds I do not think it worth 

 while to advertise them, but will gladly give particulars 

 to any Forest and Stream man, if he will write to me 

 for them. F. S. Bunker. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[JProni a Staff Correspondent] 

 The Mississippi River. 



Chicago, 111., May 11.— Mr. Alfred Hobbs writes me 

 from Dubuque, May 2: 



"The Iowa Legislature adjourned without enacting any 

 laws for the protection of fish in the Mississippi and 

 Missouri, so that so far as those rivers are concerned, there 

 is no law of Iowa to prevent any depredation by use of 

 seine, nets, dynamite or any device whatever. However, 

 thank heaven there are good laws in Wisconsin and Illi- 

 nois, and we will do what we can under them to prevent 

 the wholesale destruction that has been going on for the 

 past 10 or 20 years." 



The Mississippi Valley Association is doing good work, 

 and other States than Iowa should be prominent in the 

 work. It asks the aid and support of all States along the 

 great river against the wanton and reckless destruction 

 of fish life. * 



The Illinois State game warden, Chas. H. Blow, of Chi* 

 cago, is doing a lot of good work. He has proved efficient 

 and energetic and has a long string of scalps already. 

 Witness the following, from the Dubuque Herald of 

 April 20: 



"State Game Warden C. H. Blow, of Illinois, and his 

 deputy James First on Saturday captured three Muscatine 

 men seining for fish in the bayou opposite that town. 

 They were brought to Rock Island, and Magistrate Schroe- 

 der fined Dan Hoffman, William Wahl and George Hatton 

 $25 and costs each. On Monday the two wardens caught 

 August Miller and Andy Hoffman, two Davenporters, 

 catching fish by unlawful means, and Magistrate Schroeder 

 assessed $25 on each of them. State's Attorney Searle 

 represented the State in each of the cases." 



Kalamazoo Small-Mouths. 

 A Kalamazoo, Mich., report says: 



"The bait-casters are having great luck with small- 

 mouth bass in the Kalamazoo River. Monday, Al Rosen- 

 berg, of Kalamazoo, a fisherman known far and wide, 

 caught forty-six of the black fellows. 



The Fox Lake Chain. 

 The big-mouths have began biting in the Fox Lake 

 chain of lakes, and many parties have been successful. 



"Landlocked Salmon." 

 The "landlocked salmon" (Mackinaw trout) of the larger 

 upper Wisconsin lakes should begin to rise within the next 

 ten days, if the ice is not already out. Several parties are 

 going up for this and the early muscallonge fishing. 



Senachwine Lake. 

 Bass are now rising well at Senachwine Lake, on the 

 Illinois River, and parties should not overlook this water, 

 which has not been so much patronized by the bait casters 

 as it should be, for some very large bass are to be taken 

 there. This locality is reached by the Rock Island road, 

 to Bureau Junction and Henry. 



Minnesota Waters. 



Mr. J. I. Bamhurst writes from New York: 

 "Where can I find, in Minnesota, a place where I can 

 take my sisters and spend a couple of months next sum- 

 mer and get some fair trout or bass fishing, or both?" 



The Detroit chain of lakes still has good enough fishing 

 for anybody. Mr. C. E. Robbins, of Fargo, N. D., will 

 tell about accommodations there, cottages, etc. The 

 White Bear Chain, nearer Minneapolis, offers plenty of 

 cottages, very rural appointments, and a good many bass. 

 Itev. Myron Cooley, Detroit, Minn., will no doubt tell 

 about the trout and bass combination for which one must 

 go north, probably camping. All Minnesota is full of 

 lakes, and many of the lakes are full of bass. 



E. Hough. 



909 Security Building, Chicago. 



"Rodster." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I read Brother Starbuck's letters with a great deal of 

 interest. He is the equal of Holmes and the peer of many 

 I could name in the way of poetic imagery; but, "rodster," 

 don't you all think that is a bad term? Rod-man or rod- 

 woman would be more easily understood, and while it 

 might lose somewhat in poetry would convey the notion 

 (that is Yankee) that a man or a woman was handling the 

 rod. But "rodster" — who ever heard of such a term, and 

 where was it born into our vocabulary of fishing? The 

 term is not poetic, as is usually all of our brother's words . 

 employed to express his feelings, and when I come to 

 "rodster" the word takes all the vim out of me. But I 

 can well forgive Brother Starbuck because of his very 

 interesting letters. E, S. Young. 



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