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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 25 1896. 
water and he commenced to roll over. I was now in 
18in. of water near the head of a rapid at the lower end 
of the pool. I saw he was a heavy fish and dreaded fool- 
ing with him on the shallows, so I let my anchor down, 
grabbed my gaff and stepped out, as I could now lead my 
fish. I very soon had the steel into him. He was a fresh 
run 281b. male fish, and didn't I enjoy that cup of tea out 
of the old kettle, with a can of Boston baked vegetables. 
Then it made a smudge to keep off the few black flies and 
snoozed under the shade until about 4 P. M,, determined 
to try for another fish before leaving, for I was ,quite 
satisfied that they were there. 
When the sun began to touch the tips of the high hills 
I dropped the canoe quietly over to near the same spot. 
At my fourth or fifth cast I got a splendid rise, the fish 
coming well out, and before I had time to place the rod 
in the socket he was away up stream like a flash, run- 
ning full 50yds. to the foot of the upper rapid, and com- 
ing full 3ft._ clear of the water. As I feared he might run 
up the rapid I got anchor up, paddling up with one 
hand and reeling in with the other. No doubt the fish 
had often been there, lying in the aerated, broken water. 
When I got within 10yds. of him I began to press him so 
hard that I was actually drawing the canoe upon him, and 
when my cast came in sight I had to desist. He stood the 
pressure for a minute, running 10yds. up into the rapid. 
Finding this was harder still, he went off down pool, 
bound for his old resting spot. I did not want the fish to 
go there, as I fully expected to get another, if not ruffed 
out, and as the fish was now more tractable, I made out 
to keep him clear of the deeper water, quietly working 
to the lower end in very shoal water. After a few flurries, 
I found that I could raise his head clear, and stepping out 
on the beach, with a good, quick draw I had the fish high 
and dry. With a good strong leader it is no feat to do 
this, only the landing place must not be too abrupt. The 
impetus of the fish, combined with its own efforts to 
escape, actually forces it further up on the shore. This 
was a female fish of 2 libs., quite dark in color, having 
been probably six weeks in fresh water. I now again 
dropped over to the favorite spot, casting faithfully over 
it, and finally getting further down the pool. Not a sign 
could I get. As it was now sundown I applied for refuge 
to my kettle, 
By the time I had my lunch it was quite dusk, when 
right opposite I heard a fish leap. I could not see the ex- 
act spot, but judged by the sound. I then put on a white 
fly— a silver body having a small silvered propeller 
attached to its head. It was now fully dark, and I went 
on, not casting very often, but drawing the fly trans- 
versely across. I was just about reeling up when a fish 
rose outside in the shoaler water where I had not been 
casting, and about 30ft. from me. I went for him, draw- 
ing the fly pretty sharply. When within 15 ft. of the 
canoe he took with a rush. He seemed to be large, and I 
said to myself, the tug of war is to come now. I soon 
had my lead up and prepared to fight. I did not press the 
fish. He took very little line. All I feared was that he 
might dart under the canoe. However, he went for the 
rapid, and I made him bear a good share of the canoe. 
When he got into the quicker water he tried to lie there. 
Not for long though. He could not stand the pressure, 
but had to come down. I kept the canoe well to the shoal 
side of the pool, and it was a continuous give and take for 
ten or twelve minutes. At last he began to splash and 
roll over. I now left the canoe and walked down the 
shore to where I had landed my former fish. I was 
somewhat afraid to use the gaff; it is dangerous in 
the dark, and is just as apt to take the cast as the fish. 
So I did not hesitate, but got the fish under way; allowed 
no slackening, and to his surprise had him his whole 
length dry before he could realize it. He turned out a 
171b. male of about the same condition as last fish; prob- 
ably ready for mating. 
I now put down stream for McDonald's at the mill 
stream station to sleep the sleep of the just and dream of 
to-morrow, well satisfied with my day's sport. 
John Mowat. 
Campbellton, New Brunswick. 
Tto be continued.] 
SOME RANGELEY EXPERIENCE. 
Our party consisted of two medicos and myself, a news- 
paper man; and this being our first experience in the 
Maine angler's paradise, we learned some things (by ex- 
perience and expense) that might serve to help other 
novices who try the same thing. 
We thought we had arranged to have a steamer meet 
us at South Arm, Richardson's Lake, and therefore left 
Andover at 3 in the afternoon with no misgivings. A 
misunderstanding oaused us to remain at the boat landing 
all night. There was no shelter there then, and we slept 
under the stars and found "the canopy of heaven" a cold 
coverlid. It didn't help matters when, in the cold, gray 
dawn of morning, we found that there was a hotel a few 
rods up the lake and just hidden by a depression in the 
shore line. We did happen to have some pork in our lug- 
gage—our provisions had been sent on to Upper Dam — 
and catching a number of lib. trout we had a nice sup- 
per. 
All things must end, and so early the next afternoon 
saw us at Upper Dam ; and here is pointer number one. 
Unless you have much baggage, so much that you can't 
handle it yourself, fight shy of the honest lumbermen at 
Upper Dam. We paid $1 for transferring four or five small 
bags and bundles a distance of 100 rods. Our objective 
point was Buckfield Camp, which is situated on an island 
at the head of Mooselucmaguntic Lake, about a mile from 
Senator Frye's camp and Lake Cupsuptic. On our way 
up, when Oapt. Barker's little steamer was making ten 
miles an hour, Dake, a member of the party, fired at a 
loon with his Winchester. The distance was fully fifty 
rods, the boat was far from still, but he killed the bird 
and it now adorns Dr. T.'s office in Eockville, in the Nut- 
meg State. 
We spent several days around the lake without meeting 
with much success; but we finally were enlightened as 
to the popular game. We had been fishing with flies, 
ordinary-sised baited hooks, etc., and caught few trout;, 
other sportsmen were landing fish weighing from 3 to 
91bs. It was this that led us to investigate, and we found, 
that the success was due to these facts: A large pickereL 
hook is "bent in" to the line, it is baited with half a dozen 
or more fat, wriggling angle worms; the man with the 
rod and reel takes his seat in the stern of a boat, an ex- 
perienced oarsman pulls the boat slowly and easily about; 
the "good places;" the speed is just sufficient to keep the 
hook and worms near the surface at the end of 50ft. of 
line. Result — big trout. One was landed 100yds. from 
Our camp, and we went over to the Haines Landing 
Hotel to see it weighed; 91bs. flat; another tipped the 
beam at 9Jlbs. Hundreds were caught in this way, rang- 
ing from 1 to 5 lbs. A Philadelphian and his son caught 
lOOlbs. of trout in one day — thank God we're not all hogs! 
We discovered that Mooselucmaguntic furnished big 
fish, Rangeley Lake numbers, and Richardson the biggest 
and finest. That the time to be at the lakes for sport is 
early in June. That angle worms are $1 a quart. That 
the hotels are good and rates fair. If anything in this 
helps a fellow angler to more successful sport I shall feel 
repaid. Novice. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION. 
Boston, April 17.— Editor Forest and Stream: Between 
fifty and sixty members of the Massachusetts Fish and 
Game Protective Association enjoyed a very profitable 
meeting at the Copley Square Hotel, Thursday evening, 
16th. Dinner was served at 6 o'clock, and at its close 
business proceeded, President Clark in the chair. The 
following new members were elected: Andrew J. Bailey, 
H. D. Littlefield, Thatcher Magaun, F. H. Richards, J. Q. 
A. Field, Edgar S. Darr, Fred. A. Foster, Arthur F. Luke, 
Fred. S. Risteen, George E, Bruce, George L. Tracy, Clar- 
ence A. Woodman, George M. Woodman, Dr. M. A. Mor- 
ris, Thomas H. Rollinson, Dr. William Ferguson, W. P. 
B. Weeks. An excellent musical programme, arranged 
by Mr. Walter C. Prescott, a member of the Association, 
was very much enjoyed. Mr. Smart, for the committee 
on the enforcement of the fish laws, called attention to 
the recent arrest of parties for seining smelts in South 
Shore waters, and congratulated the Association that the 
authorities had finally made a beginning to put a stop to 
a nefarious practice that had been going on to a greater 
or less extent for years. In the case referred to the work 
of detection and arrest was very cleverly done by mem- 
bers of the district police, the men being caught in the 
very act of drawing their seines. Dr. J. Frank Perry 
gave a very interesting talk on dogs, their treatment when 
sick, and the effect of drugs, poisons and tonics upon 
them. 
I regret being obliged to chronicle the passage by the 
Legislature of the lobster law, making the legal limit 9 in- 
stead of lO^in. President Clark and the committee on 
legislative matters were indefatigable in their efforts 
against the bill, but as in many other cases they found it 
much easier to tear down than to build up. The main 
argument for the bill was that as Maine and Rhode Island 
allowed the taking of 9in. lobsters, Massachusetts should 
do the same. There was a hard fight against the bill in 
the Senate and it was finally passed by only one majority. 
It now goes to the Governor, and if it should become a 
law I am willing to go on record as making the predic- 
tion that within five years the very men who were so 
anxious for its passage will be foremost in wishing for its 
repeal. 
I have lately been overhauling my tackle and find it all 
right for the coming season. In a few weeks I expect to 
visit a particular stream down in the Maine Woods that 
has never failed to yield a generous lot of the speckled 
beauties and will "report my luck" later on. 
William B, Smart. 
EHEU I 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Inclosed is an account of a horrid crime which comes 
from the columns of the San Francisco Examiner of 
April 6: 
"The largest catch that has been reported is that of H. 
R. Bowie and Louis Raffort, of this city. They fished the 
headwaters of the Austin, Pole Creek, Red Slide and Bear 
Pen creeks, all branches of the Austin, about eight miles 
north of Cazadero, and caught over 1,200 trout. Many 
were of fair size, but the majority of the fish were small. 
To fish these creeks one must drive from Cazadero to 
Trosper's ranch, where excellent board and lodging can 
be had for $1 a day. All of the creeks are within easy 
reach from this place." 
Of course the perpetrators, possibly very clever fellows 
in some other ways, should have their rods broken, and 
should be sent to the House of Correction and made to eat 
those fish only on Friday until they consumed them. I 
suppose they couldn't be convicted if the law was plain 
and they confessed to an honest jury. Hardly anj body is 
punished under game laws. 
There is another thing, not quite so depraved, which 
ought to be stopped. Forest and Stream is encouraging, 
when it ought to be correcting, some of its lively corre- 
spondents in their efforts to soil by ignoble use a very 
good Latin word by substituting it for a curse- word. 
Eheu finds an equivalent in our language in the simple 
and sad exclamations ah I and alas! I think if Forest 
and Stream will refer to books from which we learned 
our lessons in the classics in days when we had gotten a 
few years beyond pin-hooks, no encouragement was given 
for its use in the sense that Uncle Lisha Peggs used 
"dumb" when two "dodunks" scared the ducks in the 
Slang. If I am not too many days out of school, 1 think 
one pious Eneas, who skipped when Troy got too hot for 
him and made his way over to the African coast to make 
a mash of the Carthagenian Queen Dido, had occasion to 
use this word. There are some interesting details of that 
affair, games, etc., no fishing of our kind, 1,200 trout in 
lour days, because the fish in adjacent waters were large 
enough to swallow Jonah, which one did; the rest were 
generally sardines, upon which they fed. Anyway, after 
the Trojan masher had the African Queen well hooked she 
asked him to tell the story of the Fall of Troy and the 
sad tale of his woes. Very soon after he commenced he 
so filled up with grief and sad memories that he insufflated 
this exclamation, Eheu, into his account. 
He gave Dide the marble heart, according to the story, 
as the masher generally does, and took his Latin with 
Eheu over to the Italian shore ranched on the Tiber, 
probably trapped and tamed wolves, using the she ones 
lor wet nurses, and introduced Eheu and other nice words 
to society, but never taught anybody to think that ic had 
a "low down" meaning, and neither has it. Now I'll be 
glad if a Domsie will fish up some Latin texts and help 
Forest and Stream to put a stop to making bad slang of 
good Latin. G. B. C. 
Stockton, Cal. 
North Shore of Lake Superior. 
All lovers of the rod and line have heard of the Nepi- 
gon and its great brook fcrout, but perhaps few are aware 
that nearly every stream emptying into Lake Superior 
between Port Arthur and Sauit St«. Marie contains the 
toothsome Salvelinus fontinalis. The Steel River, east of 
the Nepigon, it by some preferred to the latter, but the 
Michipicoten or Missinabie is, I believe, the best of the lot. 
Its trout are not so large as those of the Nepigon, but are 
more susceptible to the fisherman's lures. It has not been 
much frequented. At the Hudson Bay post at Missinabie, 
on the Canadian Pacific Ry., canoes and guides may be 
obtained. The north shore of Lake Superior is at its best 
in the summer. In the spring the Muskoka District is 
very good, East of Huntsville, on the Grand Trunk Ry., 
at Hollow Lake (or, as the Aborigines call it, Kahweam- 
begewagamog)., there are both brook and lake trout; and 
in the northern part of the Township of Livingstone, on 
the border of the new Algonquin Park, there are several 
small lakes teeming with speckled beauties, while nearly 
all the streams flowing to the Ottawa from the Mus- 
koka District contain trout. Still further north, in 
the Temagamingue region, the sportsman may get 
black bass, bear, lake and brook trout in abundance. 
These grounds are now fairly accessible by Canadian 
Pacific Railway to the foot of Lake Temagamingue. 
Then steamer forty miles up the lake to the Montreal 
River. Then a day's travel by canoe with Indian guide, 
when one gets beyond even the outer rim of civilization, 
in the land of the moose, the bear and the beaver, to say 
nothing of the gamy denizens of the deep. Guides can 
be obtained from the Hudson Bay Company at Mattawa 
or Baie des Peres, and nowhere within reasonable dis- 
tance of railways is there better work for trolling line, 
fly -rod and rifle. The middle of May is the best time to 
take this .trip. The bear and trout seasons are then at 
their height, and in addition one escapes the black flies, 
which usually do not settle down to business until the 
first or second week in June. The lake itself is con- 
sidered one of the most picturesque on the continent, 
where there are the greatest and finest lacustrine basins 
in all the world. I am certain sportsmen who can afford 
the time and money will never regret a trip to any of 
these favored districts. S. R, Clarke. 
Toronto, 
New Jersey Fishers, 
Aseury Park, N, J., April 18.— The condition of our 
trout streams has improved very much during the past 
ten days, and both Pine Brook and the Hackhockson are 
being industriously fished. The catches so far, while not 
great in point of numbers, are entirely satisfactory as re- 
gards the size of the fish. Mr. J. Harson, proprietor of 
the hat factory at Eatontown, this week presented me with 
a fine pair of trout, lib. each, taken from the stream 
within 100yds. of his factory, and into which the refuse 
dye from his mill runs. It would not appear that that 
substance interferes much with the fish. In the stomach 
of one I found the shells of five snails, something I never 
before heard of and cannot believe to be of common 
occurrence, besides which the shell of an immense beetle, 
which must have been at least liu. in length when taken. 
Leonard Hulit. 
[The shells belong to a common lresh water mollusk of 
the genus PJiysa. There iB in England a species of trout 
known as the Gillaroo trout, whose stomach has become 
thickened by its habit of digesting hard-shelled mollusks 
until it has become like a gizzard,] - 
Horse Mackerel in Cape Cod Bay. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
For the information of your correspondent, A. N. Che- 
ney, I write to say that the horse mackerel abounds in 
Cope Cod Bay, or if he^does not exactly abound he at least 
frequents those waters. I know, because I spend my 
summers at Sandwich, and the fishermen thereabout not 
infrequently take them in their traps, where they are 
very apt to play the mischief with the seines. 
They follow up the common mackerel and I suppose 
prey upon them. An investigator as to their bait-taking 
preferences would probably have to feel his way, for I 
have never heard of any experiment in that direction, but 
Mr. Cheney will not be allowed to go without profes- 
sional advice, should he visit the Cape. C. L. N. 
A Beautiful Fish. 
A brook trout of singular beauty and of great size was 
brought into the Forest and 'Stream office on Tuesday 
last by Mr. R B. Lawrence, of this city. So far as known 
it is the record wild fish of the season for Long Island. It 
was caught by Mr. James L, Livingston, of Far Rooka- 
way, L, I., in the Mill Neck stream, down in the salt 
meadows. This Mill Neck stream is the property of tha 
Mill Neck Club, and is of course preserved water, but 1 1 
was a wild fish. The bait used was the plebeian aa e 
worm, and the capture was made at 4 P. M. on April 0, 
The fish measured SO^in. in length, girthed 12in., and 
weighed 3f lbs. It is remarkably shapely and very highly 
colored — a perfect beauty, in fact. 
WALTONIAN. 
"I go a-fishing," said Simon one day, 
'Tis good for the weary to rest, they say, 
And rest for the body and rest for the soul 
United will make one "every whit whole." 
And fishing's a sport that combines both in one, 
Though in it there's naught that's new under the sun, 
ButFoaasT and Stream, hill, msadow and dell 
Distill the sweet influence that makes a man well. 
The tramp o'er the mountain, the camp by the rill, 
The draught from the mountain, the bath by the mill, 
The comforting fire and music of streams, 
Invite to repose and to many pleasant dreams. 
The teaching of nature, the absence of man, 
Recreate the soul of the weary who can 
"Come apart for awhile," and on the green sod 
Hold uninterrupted communion with God. J. C. A, 
Salmon Fishing Fob Sale — Freehold; on the best fishing waters of 
the Southwest Mirimiohi River (Burnt Hill). For terms and particu- 
lars apply to Thomas J, Conroy, 310 Broadway, New Yorlc City.— Adv. 
