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the branches; the leaves on the young saplings which had 

 just been cut had not faded, and formed a green wall on 

 both sides of the path, and on the lower side the water 

 deepened a little as it drew under the brush. 



I cast my bait into the ripple just above the brush, and 

 it went out of sight instantly to a vigorous pull from 

 below. When I pulled in return the hook caught in the 

 brash, and I lost my fish. Three times was this repeated, 

 and then he would bite no more. He had probably got 

 pricked. 



I lost my fish, but I shall never forget the picture, which 

 I can see now after the lapse of nearly sixty years when- 

 ever I choose to close my eyes and recall it. The rippling 

 water, the swaying branches, and the dancing sunshine 

 flickering through the leaves, come back to my vision as 

 clearly as if I stood there now, and remind me in my old 

 age that I had my share of simple pleasures and pure en- 

 joyment in my youth, and have no reason to repine if I 

 have now to fall back on my memories of those happy 

 days. 



I may have a few more bouts with the trout yet and 

 hope I shall; but I must go far away, where so-called civi- 

 lization has not despoiled Nature of all her bounties and 

 pleasures. Von W. 



ChablksTown, N. H. 



NIAGARA ANGLERS' BANQUET. 



Lookport, N. Y., June 20. — A time such as only true 

 anglers can have was enjoyed by the members of the 

 Niagara County Anglers' Club at the banquet last evening 

 given by the defeated but defiant Blues to the triumphant 

 but timorous Beds. The side beaten at the Youngstown 

 fishing tournament, as fully detailed in Forest and 

 Stream this week, provided the spread, and the winners 

 did the speech making. 



The announcement that Forest and Stream would have 

 a full account of the tournament and banquet was enthusi- 

 astically received, and the local agent was compelled to 

 send large extra orders for the paper so highly appreciated 

 by the banner fishing club of the United States. 



Mine host W. W. Stevens, himself an angler and prize 

 winner, had ransacked the four quarters of the globe in 

 order to set before his brethren all the delicacies of the 

 season. A feature of the menu were Chautauqua Lake 

 pickerel, no specimen weighing less than 151bs. stuffed. 

 After all had done justice to the feast, Capt. Nicholls of 

 the Blues arose and in a felicitous speech reviewed the 

 principal scenes of the annual excursion and tournament. 

 The following toasts and sentiments were wittily responded 

 to: 



Toastmaster, C. L, Nicholls; "The Victors," Capt. G. L. 

 Holmes; "The Vanquished," W. H. Case; "The Clam- 

 bake," H. C. Hulshoff; "The Club Badge," A. L. Smith; 

 "The Ladies," John Craddock; "Angling vs. Pugilism," 

 "Will E. Jenney; "Uses of an Eel Skin," Ed. Brown; 

 "Youngstown Beverages," W. F. Bennett; "Bass Fishing 

 and Catching," E. F. Smith; "Death of the Lobsters," 

 James Clifford; "Fishing Weather," F. J.Davis; "Ounces 

 Counted," W. A. Hixson; "How to Cook Clams," Joseph 

 Dumville; "Deep Lake Fishing," Jerome E. Emerson; 

 "The Club's Finances," Geo. W. Weaver; "Music on the 

 Water," Will R. Smith; "A Political Pull," M. O'Connor; 

 "An Abrupt Departure," F. K. Sweet; "Fish, Flesh, or 

 Fowl," Tom Eckensperger; "An Empty Creel," J. W. 

 Peuss; "Hulshoff as a Worker," James Rowe; "The El- 

 dorado," M. Wendover; "Clams in the Morning." Hon. 

 John F. Little; "The Niagara County Anglers," Hon. John 

 A. Merritt; "Our Niagara Falls Members," Hon. F. A. 

 Dudley: "Fishing at the Falls," Geo. Nye. 



The individual prizes as previously published in this 

 paper were awarded by President W. H. Case with suit- 

 able words for each winner. The responses were par- 

 ticularly happy^ M. H. Hoover. 



ON THE SALMON RIVERS. 



Mossy Cliff Camp, St. Johns River, Gaspe, P. Q., June 

 14.— Editor Forest and Stream: I am away here on the 

 north shore, and perhaps a few lines concerning the 

 salmon fishing hereabouts would not be amiss to some of 

 your readers. I am with Mr. John Fottler, Jr., who with 

 Mr. Ivers Adams, control this water. We left Boston on 

 the evening of June 4, and soon found on the train Mr. 

 Phillip Moen and Mr. Geo. Blake, of Worcester, Mass. , 

 bound for Mr. Moen's preserve on the Little Cascapedia, 

 our party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Fottler, Miss Pauline 

 Fottler and myself. Mr. Moen and Mr. Blake made a 

 royal addition thereto, and we had a splendid time nearly 

 to our destination. We came by rail via St. John to 

 Dalhousie, thence by steamer to Gaspe Basin. At Dal- 

 housie our party was augmented by Miss Dutton and 

 Swett, of Boston, en route for the Little Parbeau, Mr. 

 Murdock and friend, of Chicago, for the York River, and 

 Mr. Tappin, of New York, for the Dartmouth. 



We arrived at Gaspe Wednesday night, 6th inst., and 

 Thursday afternoon saw us safely at Mossy Cliff Camp, 

 twenty miles up the St. Johns, a most beautiful and 

 romantic spot. 



The salmon had struck the river ahead of us, but Thurs- 

 day evening's casting failed to raise one. 



Friday morning Mr. Fottler had two rises but failed to 

 hook one. In the evening I secured the first fish, a 17- 

 pounder, which could not resist my Durham-ranger. 

 Saturday we killed three fish weighing respectively 19, 10 

 and 121bs. Tuesday Mr. Fottler killed a handsome fish of 

 181bs. weight. 



Last evening we both had a novel experience. Mr. F. 

 went up the river and I went below. My first pool pro- 

 duced no rise, but the second (Still Pool) was a trifle dif- 

 ferent. I struck a fish a few minutes past 6 o'clock and 

 it was a quarter to 9 when he was gaffed and laid in the 

 canoe. We had decided the first half hour that he was 

 foul-hooked and was a big fish, so we were not surprised 

 when we found the fly firmly embedded in one of the 

 small fins back of the throat. It was the greatest fight I 

 ever had and I wonder that I saved him. When we got 

 back to camp Mr. Fottler had been there some time, and 

 what was our surprise to learn that he also had foul- 

 hooked a large fish and after nearly an hour's fight had 

 killed him. The two fish lying side by side looked as 

 near alike as two peas, and each weighed 221bs. I think 

 this a very curious incident and one worthy to be chron- 

 icled. 



Thirty minutes' walk from our camp, right up the 

 mountain, and I might say planted fairly on the mountain 

 top, is a beautiful lake nearly circular in shape and quite 

 a. mile across. It is alive with the most gorgeous colored 



speckled trout I ever saw; and they take the fly in a way 

 to satisfy the most exacting angler. They are small com- 

 pared with some of our Maine trout (running from J to 

 lib. in weight) but they make up in color and gaminess 

 what they lack in size. 



Take it all in all this is an anglers' paradise. The 

 beautiful river and lake and mountains and woods leave 

 nothing to be desired. 



By way of Gaspe we hear that the season on both the 

 York and Dartmouth is a trifle early yet, neither Mr. 

 Murdock nor Mr. Tappin having killed many fish. 



Should anything more occur of interest I shall be glad 

 to apprise you of it. J. W. B. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Correspondent,] 

 Across the Range. 

 Chicago, 111., June 15. — Heavy tidings come from Ft. 

 Yellowstone, the announcement of the death of Lieut. L, 

 Daniels, one of the younger officers on duty there under 

 the superintendent of the Park. Capt. Anderson, under 

 date of June 5, states that Lieut. Daniels left the post for 

 a trip to Gardiner, Sunday, May 27, starting for home 

 about 11 P. M. At 3 A, M. the following morning he 

 was found about a mile from Gardiner. He was uncon- 

 scious, and had apparently been thrown from his horse 

 and dragged a short distance. He never regained con- 

 sciousness, and died the Thursday afternoon following. 

 "This, of course," writes Capt. Anderson, "has cast a 

 damper over everybody." It well might do so. Lieut. 

 Daniels was a blithesome, open-hearted soul, a thorough 

 soldier and a gentleman in the highest sense of the word. 

 His death leaves it impossible to repay the many courtesies 

 shown the representative of this paper by him during the 

 recent visit at the Post, which was his abiding place. 



The Majority Claims Another. 

 Mr. C. C. Lamos, whose recent sudden death by pneu- 

 monia at his summer place at St. Jo, Mich., so startled 

 his many friends in this section, was a type of the well- 

 to-do modern city sportsman, up to date and generous in 

 his tastes with himself and all around him. He was a 

 member of the Horicon and other shooting clubs of this 

 city, where he was known also in business circles as a 

 successful man. 



A Near Thing. 

 Mr. F. L, Stanton, manager in the West for the Nat- 

 chaug Silk Co., of Willitnantic, New York and Chicago, 

 was recently the pilot into Wisconsin wilds of Col. J. D. 

 Chaffee, president of that company; Mr. O. S. Chaffee, of 

 Willimantic, Conn., and Mr. D. E. Adams, a manufac- 

 turer of Boston. Mr. Stanton was anxious to show his 

 friends some sport, but fortune was against them seriously 

 from the start, and at lengtn only let them off with what 

 was a most narrow escape from a fatality. They met 

 high wind, cold weather and poor sport at Lake Vieux 

 Desert, and got no 'lunge of consequence. On the day in 

 question Mr. Stanton saw Mr. Adams strike a heavy fish, 

 and as the fish left the water twice it was plainly seen to 

 be a very large one. Mr. Adams went on playing the fish, 

 and as it was growing cold and the water was very rough, 

 the other boats left him and went on in to camp. About 

 an hour afterward repeated calls were heard, and those 

 on shore at last discovered that Mr. Adams and his oars- 

 man had met with a capsize. They were two miles out 

 in a bad sea. Two guides put out to them and found Mr. 

 Adams's guide on top the overturned boat. The guide 

 could not swim. Mr. Adams was in the water holding on 

 to the boat with one hand. He was heavily pressed, had 

 on hip boots, an overcoat and a mackintosh, He was a 

 good swimmer and a gritty man. He had been in the 

 water an hour and a half when the rescuers came up, but 

 he had hung on to his rod and played his fish all that 

 time, and moreover had the 'lunge still fast when the 

 boat came up. He told the men to take his guide aboard, 

 and they did, and then he told them to land his fish. 

 They got the 'lunge up alongside the boat, a 401bs. fish, 

 and instead of gaffing it tried to pick it up with their 

 hands. Of course the fish struck the side of the boat and 

 broke away. Mr. Adams then found that the boat would 

 not carry all four, even if he could have gotten into it, 

 so he ordered them to tow him ashore, which was done. 

 He was in the water over two hours. When he got out 

 where the air struck him he chilled through, became un- 

 conscious and nearly died. The party worked with him 

 nearly all night, and at last got him through after a very 

 near thing of it. Mr. Stanton and Mr. Adams then came 

 on out of the woods. Mr. Adams writes from the East 

 that his health has not been hurt by the trip. The inci- 

 dent leaves us to believe that while the quality of the 

 Boston sportsman is all that could be asked, the educa- 

 tion and ability of the Vieux Desert guides might be 

 largely improved without serious injury. 



Will Make the Trap. 

 Mr. Jas. Irwin has sold out the Hotel Richelieu at Little 

 Rock, Ark., and was recently in Chicago for a few days 

 looking around, but slipped away to Kansas City before I 

 got to see him half as much as I wished. I hope he will 

 locate in a good game country again when he next settles, 

 for it would be a shame for so ardent a sportsman to be 

 cut off from good sport. Mr. Irwin says that his father, 

 of Kansas Citv, Mo. , is going to patent and manufacture 

 the minnow trap mentioned in these columns earlier as 

 his invention. Mr. Irwin, Sr., says he believes it is the 

 only really practical minnow trap he ever saw. 



Go Fishing. 



The Sovereign Visitor, of Omaha, Neb., sizes Forest 

 and Stream up about right when it says: 



"The Forest and Stream is the most able and readable 

 paper of its kind in America. While devoted to the rod 

 and gun its columns bubble over with bright items of in- 

 terest to everybody. We clip at random from a recent 

 issue the following bright item : 



".'Change the subject. Leave off the chit-chat. Break 

 the chain. Get out from the humdrum. Go fishing. 

 There are waters persuasively purling for you. There are 

 violets blowing for you in the meadows, and. anemones 

 and star-flowers glowing for you in the shade of the hem- 

 locks. There are fish gleaming for you in the streams. 

 Go fishing.' " 



The literary editor of Forest and Stream is a corker if 

 he would only try. You are liable to strike a good thing 

 any minute in Forest and Stream, and it's a cinch you 



get more than $4 worth in a year. The advice to go 

 fishing is worth more than that, if followed. 



Along: the Mississippi. 



A Dubuque, la., market-fisherman advises the seining 

 of the bayous and sloughs left cut off by the receding 

 waters, and the i-eturning of the cut-off fish to the river. 

 The old Fish Commission of Illinois knew this before 

 and annually planted millions of young fish in that way, 

 which is one of the most practical forms of fishculture 

 along a stream like the Mississippi. 



Fish Commissioner Delevan, of Monticello, writes to the 

 Dubuque Times and states that the laws of Iowa do not 

 prohibit fishermen or anybody else from seining in the 

 Mississippi, or any of its ponds or lakes on the Iowa 

 shore. He says that Illinois has such laws, but Iowa 

 has not. No man can be successfully prosecuted for 

 seining on the Ohio shore. 



At Princeton, 111., Monday, thirty-two persons were 

 arrested by Fish Warden Blow for violating the fish laws 

 by fishing in an illegal manner in the Illinois River. A 

 telegram says that Warden Blow notified the proprietors 

 of the Red Mills that if their dam in Bureau River was 

 not provided with a fishway inside of ten days he would 

 blow it up with dynamite. 



The Dubuque Times of June 14 says the fishermen are 

 going to sue Warden Blow for damages for destroying 

 their nets. Fish Commissioner Langford, of Iowa, is also 

 threatened similarly. This is the same old bluff. Let 

 them sue if they want to. It still remains true that a 

 burned net holds no fish and over burned nets there will 

 be forty bluffs to one suit, and a very questionable win 

 in that, as the plaintiff must come into court a confessed 

 law-breaker. In law he cannot have "clean hands. Let 

 the warden go on burning the nets and let the fishermen 

 proceed with their bluffs, if they like. 



Judge Hoyt, who tried the Lansing, Iowa, fish cases, 

 differs from Judge Brannan, of Muscatine. The latter 

 does not favor the market-fishers. The former does. The 

 Supreme Court, of Iowa, will decide. E. Hough. 



909 Security Building, Chicago. 



The Adirondacks. 



Upper Saranac Lake, Axton, N. Y., June 18.— Fishing 

 was never more prosperous or successful in this section of 

 the country than at the present. From Rustic Lodge as a 

 center, sorties have been made of late in all directions 

 with the greatest success. Last week parties from the 

 house had great success in Round Lake, twenty minutes' 

 row from here. One alone of the party returned in the 

 cool of the evening with his basket comfortably filled with 

 about 401bs. of fierce-biting pickerel, none of which 

 weighed less than 3 or 41bs., while several weighed 8 and 

 lOlbs. Another reports the capture of an 18-pounder in 

 tne same lake at the same time. 



la another direction last week eight bouncing trout, 

 none weighing less than 31bs. and several from 7 to lOlbs., 

 from Tolmesby Pond, three hours' comfortable and pic- 

 turesque ramble by foot and boat from here. 



Only yesterday, at the same pond, our party reports the 

 result of the most interesting fishing of the season. As 

 the dial of the watch marked one hour from the time of 

 the iii»t aix>jj v$ tUo h'aib, i5o oa-rege «uu naxa-puiiiug perch 

 as a reward, not counting the small ones thrown back, 

 crowned their efforts, each weighing from J to lib. each. 

 As fast as the line was dropped the fish responded. Vast 

 schools could be seen gracefully gliding under water, 

 while here and there swarms would fill the surface. 

 Eight trout were also caught at this same fish, least weigh- 

 ing 31bs., heaviest lOlbs, 



But of all the fishing grounds the Upper Saranac com- 

 bines the most pleasure for the lover of fish and nature. 

 No lake in the Adirondacks seems to be stocked so well 

 with lake trout. This house reports some of the men 

 catching trout as high as 20 and. 221bs. each, while one 

 man has the record of I061bs. in one day. 



Samuel Craig Huston. 



A "Freak" Goldfish. 



There are many kinds of goldfish, and, with the ex- 

 ception of one shown in Mr. Thos. J. Conway's window, 

 on Broadway near Forest and Stream, all look alike. 

 Mr. Conway's fish differs not only from goldfish, but from 

 all other live fish. He wears no dorsal fin. Years ago a 

 live fish without a dorsal was discovered and watched 

 carefully while he lived, When dead his body was 

 stuffed and put in a musenm. According to Dr.Woodson 

 (who ought to know for he is in charge of the new 

 aquarium in Battery Park) it was never believed that a 

 fish could live and swim without a fin like the dorsal. 

 This fin is necessary to balance the fish when either rest- 

 ing or swimming. When swimming it is used as well to 

 propel the body; when resting, it holds the fish right side 

 up and keeps the fish from making a clam of itself. 



He worries along very comfortably without this bal- 

 ance fin. ^Four months ago he was floating with a great 

 herd of brethren in a Fulton Market aquarium. His com- 

 manding position among freak fish is also dependent upon 

 his mouth, as it resembles the mouth of a frog. He is a 

 trifle more than 4in. in length; his breadth from his lower 

 fin to the place where the upper fin should be, is lin. ; his 

 color is that of an ordinary goldfish. Along his back are 

 four ridges, the highest being just back of his head. The 

 dorsal fin, if started, may have been cut off by an enemy, 

 but there is nothing to show whether he is a crippled fish 

 or whether he just grew that way. When swimming he 

 moves with his head downward, and when rising to the 

 surface he appears with his tail at the top. The two small 

 fins under his neck move as fast as the blades of a centri- 

 fugal snowplow in a northern New York cold spell. 



Vermont Lake Trout. 



Newport, Vt., June 16. — Notwithstanding the hot 

 weather this has been the banner week of this season for 

 lake trout, everybody caught fish who went after them. 

 The Owl's Head Mountain House is at present the head- 

 quarters for quite a party of anglers, and they have all 

 had great luck. One gentleman from Boston caught five 

 one afternoon which averaged a little over 81bs. each. 

 Thursday afternoon Mr. Young, of Lowell, Mass., took 

 four in one hour's fishing which weighed 341bs. 



There have been two or three "big ones" taken in the 

 past few days but I have been unable to get reliable in- 

 formation as to the exact weight. Yesterday one party 

 brought in eleven weighing from 6 to 141bs. each. 



I hope to be able to report some good catches of base 

 next week. The open season came on yesterday. Rob. 



