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of which would make it appear that it would be fully as 
appropriate to call it a lever net, if the operator did riot 
"squat" on the shore end of the lifting pole, 
Steelhead Trout. 
Commissioner Brice, of the United States Fisheries 
Commission, has assigned 75,000 eggs of the steelhead 
trout to the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of 
New York. The eggs came from the Fort Gaston station 
in California, and 50,000 were sent to the Caledonia sta- 
tion and 25,000 to the Cold Spring Harbor station on Long 
Island, and all have been hatched, successfully considering 
that one lot of eggs en route encountered the hot spell. 
The fry from the Caledonia station will be planted in Lake 
George, and the fry from Cold Spring Harbor will be 
planted in streams on Long Island flowing into the sea. 
They are the first of this species to be planted in New 
York. At one time the rainbow trout was declared to be 
the young of the steelhead salmon, as it was first called, 
but later on investigations proved the two fish to be 
separate species, and the steelhead was declared to be a 
trout and not a salmon. 
The steelhead trout is a large game fish growing to 
301bs. in weight, and is a better breeder in confinement 
than the red-throat trout, also called the black-spotted 
trout of the Rocky Mountains. This too is the only trout 
on this continent, according to Jordan, that is entitled to 
be called salmon trout, and even the name salmon trout 
has given way to steelhead. 
The lake trout, a fish which inhabits deep, cold lakes, 
and is never by any chance anadromous, is still called 
salmon trout in New York State, in spite of resolutions of 
the Fish Commission and repeated protests. 
Hewitt Pond. 
A few days ago the telegraph informed a large number 
of the daily papers that Hewitt Pond in the Adirondacks 
had been sold, with the land surrounding it, to private 
parties, who would erect a lodge on its shore, and the 
implication was that the pond would be closed to the 
public. At once a number of anglers who have fished 
Hewitt Pond for years were in a flutter. My first knowl- 
edge of the alleged sale was in a telegram, asking me if 
it was true, but I knew nothing about it except what the 
newspapers said. 
I have looked into the matter to this extent: Hewitt 
Pond is partly on lots 108 and 109, in township 26, E^sex 
county, and partly on lot 1, in township 30, of the same 
county. Lot 1 and lot 109 belong to the State, and they 
are within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park, and 
the State could not sell the tract if it wished to. I under- 
stand that the shore of the pond on lot 108 belongs to ex- 
Senator Collins and ex-Clerk of the Assembly De Freest, 
of Troy, and they would not sell it, and if they did it 
would not close the pond to the public. The pond is not 
far fromAidee Lain, and since I was a boy it has been 
open to those who wished to fish it. 
"An Angler's Basket." 
It seems but a few weeks ago that the English angling 
papers announced the death of T. E. Pritt, angling editor 
of an English newspaper and perhaps best known on this 
side of the ocean through his books upon the grayling and 
artificial trout flies. 1 can remember well the impression 
it made upon me when I opened Mr. Pritt's book, 'York- 
shire Trout Flies," in a book store in Boston, and saw the 
colored reproductions of what he believed to be the cor- 
rect flies for trout fishing, I thought they might do for 
England, for Mr. Pritt was an authority on the subject, 
but they would not do for America. To-day I have in 
my fly-books many of the flies portrayed in the volume I 
would not buy because I thought it useless to me. 
At Mr. Pritt's death he left the MS. of a book called 
"An Angler's Basket," and Rev. C. P. Roberts, M. A., 
president of the Northern Anglers' Association, has kindly 
undertaken to see the work through the press in the in- 
terest of Mrs. Pritt. The names of subscribers will be 
printed in the subscription copies of the volume. The 
price of the book will be six English shillings, and orders 
sent to Abel Hey wood & Son, 56 and 58 Oldham street, 
Manchester, England, will be credited to Mrs. Pritt. 
Maine Trout and Salmon In New York. 
At the New York Sportsmen's Exposition I fear that I 
unconsciously hurt Miss Fly Rod's feelings by referring to 
the condition of the large trout and landlocked salmon in 
the tanks of the Maine exhibit, but it was true that some 
of the fish had developed fungus, and some had been 
bruised by jumping from the tanks onto the floor of the 
garden, and it would have been difficult in my opinion 
to obtain an absolute clean bill of health for them from 
one f amiliar with fish in perfect condition. Miss Fly Rod 
was entitled to great credit, however, for bringing the fish 
to New Yora in as good condition as she did, for it is not 
an easy matter to transport such large trout and salmon, 
and the season was not favorable, for the fish had not 
recovered their form since the breeding season. 
A few days ago I saw the same lot of fish at the New 
York Aquarium, and Miss Fly Rod would have been 
pleased to see them as I did. The bruises of the acrobatic 
salmon were nearly healed, and the fungus w as nearly 
gone from the big trout that was the worst of the lot in 
this respect, and all were in good health and taking on 
flesh rapidly. Fortunately the fungus had not eaten 
through the skin of the fish when they came into the 
hands of Dr. Bean, the director of the Aquarium, and he 
placed them in salt-water tanks with the result that I 
have stated. The water was nearly the full strength of 
sea water in its saline qualities. 
An English fishculturist has stated that he kept a trout 
(fario) in salt water for twenty-one days without injury 
to the fish. I think there is a trout in the New York 
Aquarium that has been in salt water for a year, 
but I may have confused the time with that of a trout 
I saw at the Central Station of the U. S. Fish Commission 
in Washington, which was kept in salt water for more 
than a year. Why the English gentleman should con- 
sider it remarkable that a fresh-water trout would live for 
twenty-one days in salt water, and note it in his book, I 
cannot say; but our common brook trout run down into 
salt water when they have the opportunity and remain 
until they are coated with silver. The sea trout of Can- 
ada are only the fontinalis that have made a journey to 
the sea, and put off their sea livery of silver and resume 
their spots when they have returned to fresh water, The 
trout at the Central Station and the one at the aquarium, 
however, have not put on the silver of the usual sea-run 
fish. This is because the surroundings of the fish in the 
tanks are so like a brook that there is no change in color- 
ing the fish, which quickly adapts its external coloring to 
its surroundings. This is an indication that a brook trout 
at sea does not remain at the bottom , or if it does, that the 
bottom is of white sand. 
Years ago in this journal I told of trout in fresh water 
that never tasted salt water putting on the silvery mantle 
over the spots. The trout ran down from a mountain 
stream into a lake where the bottom was of white and 
glistening sand, and there they turned as silvery 
run fish, and remained so until they returned to the brook 
and discarded the silver for their normal coloring. 
The trout in that stream do the same thing to-day, and 
the natives living there still swear that they are two kinds 
of trout totally different. 
Dr. Bean will have an opportunity at the aquarium to 
show how many different colors trout may assume at will 
by changing the colors of their environment. 
A. N. Cheney. 
NEWS OF BOSTON ANGLERS. 
Boston, May 16. — A friend writing me from Bangor 
under date of May 11 says that the fishing at the Bangor 
Pool during the past week has been very fair. About a 
dozen large salmon have been taken during that time 
and the indications point to a continuation of the sport. 
Several anglers from other cities have been fishing there 
recently, one of the most prominent being Archibald 
Mitchell, of Norwich, Conn. ThiB gentleman may truth- 
fully be called an expert on the Bangor salmon fishing, 
having fished there each spring for many years. He 
passed through Boston on his way home a day or two 
ago and called on me during his short stay at the Hub. 
With J. M. Johnson and W. A. Briscoe, of Norwich, he 
has been fishing the pool during the last ten days, and 
the party captured eleven fish. Mr. Mitchell landed five, 
weighing respectively 7, 10, 21, 22, 22ilbs.; Mr. Johnson 
three, weighing 11, 19, Sllbs., and Mr. Briscoe three, 
weighing 18, 21, 24lbs. There were eighteen fish in all 
taken during their stay at the pool, and the eleven taken 
by the Norwich party speaks well for their skill and per- 
severance. Although fairly successful in this year's fish- 
ing, Mr, Mitchell thinks the fishing at Bangor is gradually 
growing poorer, and without a determined effort is soon 
made to limit the seining down the river the pool will 
soon cease to be an attraction foi anglers. Time and 
again during the last few years I have heard of intentions 
to protect the Penobscot salmon, but these intentions 
have borne but little fruit as yet, and I fear will not until 
it is too late. I hear that F. C, Ayer, of Bangor, has 
done no fishing at the pool whatever this season, although 
in past years he has devoted many days to the sport and 
has always been very successful. Mr. Ayer will go to the 
upper waters of the Restigouche later on, accompanied 
by his son. Mr. Mitchell will leave about June 1 for the 
Restigouche, to fish the Grog Island pools. He will stay 
there during June and probably a part of July, and will 
be joined by Mr. Ayer at some time during his stay. 
A feature of the fishing at Rangeley since the ice went 
out, according to a letter received by a Boston man 
from a friend who is at the lakes, is the fact that the 
salmon havel)een rising freely, while the trout have been 
very backward. Mr. C. H. Edson has received a message 
from his friend Henry Hobart, who, with his daughter, 
is at the lakes, saying that they have taken four salmon, 
two of 7ilbs. each, one of 8ilbs., and one of 31bs. The 
news caused Mr. Edson to decide that he wanted a part 
of that kind of sport himself, so he will leave to join Mr. 
Hobart on Saturday. The Tuttle party, consisting of R. 
A. Tuttle, W. N. Boylston and C. F. Hutchins, of Boston, 
and E. H. Sampson, of New York, with two or three 
other friends, leave for the Rangeleys in a special car on 
Saturday morning. They go to their old headquarters, 
the Lake Point Cottage, at the outlet of Rangeley Lake. 
Last year Mr. Boylston made a phenomenal score in one 
day's fishing — a regular record breaker— and he has every 
hope of duplicating it on this trip. 
On Friday evening, W. L. Emery and G. R. Whitcher, 
of Brockton, Mass., started on their sixth annual spring 
trip to Moosehead Lake, They go first to Greenville, at 
the foot of the lake, and taking one of the small steamers, 
which they have chartered, will cruise around the lake 
ten days, fishing all the best places. They have two 
guides engaged and will live on the boat, and, according 
to Mr. Emery's statement, it is the best fun on earth. 
Dr. J. C. French, of Boston, has just returned (a per- 
fect picture of health) from a winter's shooting trip to 
Texas and Arkansas. He has had great sport with the 
wild turkeys, and killed one immense gobbler of 32lbs. 
weight. He thinks these birds about the smartest speci- 
mens of wild game he has ever hunted, and has so much 
admiration for their ability that he suggests placing them 
on the American dollar instead of the eagle, which he 
thinks Btupid as compared with his favorite. The Doctor 
is now planning his summer campaign of sport, and 
leaves Boston in a few days for Moosehead, From there 
he will go to the Katahdin Iron Works, then to Lake Ed- 
ward, and the Grand Discharge at Lake St. John in Can- 
ada. 
The Boston Athletic Association have purchased a half 
dozen canoes and will place them on the Charles River at 
Riverside for the benefit of members who wish to use the 
paddle. In addition to the club purchase several indi- 
vidual members have ordered separately, and it now looks 
as though the B. A, A. colors will be a common sight on 
the Charles this summer. 
There is a regular thinning out of Boston anglers going 
on now, and every man who can possibly get away from 
the iron grip of business has either left for the lakes or is 
planning to go very soon, J. B. Carpenter is one of the 
fortunate ones who has a fair future before him. He 
leaves on Sunday for the Schoodic Lakes, intending to re- 
turn after ten days only to prepare for going away again, 
with the idea of devoting the entire summer to fishing 
and its attendant pleasures. Waldron Bates is another 
Boston man who will try hard to enjoy himself with rod 
and reel during the next few weeks. Bar Harbor will 
claim him first, and while there he will have the pleasure 
of trying the Mount Desert streams and ponds, which, by 
the way, have a good reputation for trout, He expects 
to run up to the Bangor Balmon pool quite frequently, 
and between the two places ought to find fishing enough. 
Business or other causes may for a time compel a man 
who enjoys fishing to abandon his annual trips, but a i 
soon as these causes are removed his mind reverts to the 
old scenes and he seizes the first opportunity to brush up 
his tackle and get away to the old waters. An example 
of this kind has just come under my observation in the 
person of T. D. Blake, of the Blake Pump Co., of Boston, 
who left a few days ago for Grand Lake in Maine. He 
used to go there a great deal years ago, but has not been 
for seven years. It is needless to say that he entered into 
this trip with the keenest enjoyment, and I trust his suc- 
cess will be so great that he will feel well repaid for the 
seven long years of inaction which he has undergone. 
The Bangor and Aroostook country is reaping a fair 
harvest of sportsmen now, and there are many inquiries 
as to the best fishing waters of that region and the best 
way of reaching them. One of the largest parties I have 
heard of that is bound for northeastern Maine will leave 
on Sunday night and consists of B. and F. T. Fuller and 
Frank Crane, of Boston; Dr. A. K, P. Harvey, of Somers- 
worth, N, H ; Samuel Shaw, of Brockton, Mass., and two 
or three other gentlemen. They will enter the woods at 
Stacyville on the B & A. R R , then to east branch of 
the Penobscot, and up that stream twenty miles to their 
camps. Every man will have his own canoe and guide, 
making each individual independent of his companions. 
They will be away about two weeks and are well enough 
equipped to achieve great results. 
A letter from Harry M. Pierce, under date of May 12, 
states that the ice went out of Big King Lake on the 9th 
inst. This is the chief lake on the King & Bartlett pre- 
serve, and Mr. Pierce prophesied clear water on May 10, 
as mentioned in Forest and Stream two or three weeks 
ago. He adds to his letter that the fly-fishing on the day 
after the ice went out was the best he ever saw. Three 
111b. trout at a cast were quite common, and he honestly 
thinks he could have filled his boat had he so desired. 
Harry is no trout hog, however, and all except enough for 
the needs of the table were placed back with care, I 
know a number of Boston men (myself included) who 
would have given much to have been with him on that 
occasion. 
E. S. Thayer, of Salem, Mass,, returned a few days ago 
from Newfound Lake, N. H., where he has been fishing 
for landlocked salmon. He landed three, and lost some 
others through not being strongly hooked. Mr. Thayer 
thinks he was a little too early, and will go up again next 
week to try again. Samuel and N. S. Wax, of Boston, 
who were at Newfound at the time of Mr. Thayer's visit, 
landed a 6lb. trout and a 5lb. salmon. Mr. Samuel Wax 
had one crushing disappointment which he cannot speak 
of without strong expressions of disgust. He hooked a 
very large salmon (estimated weight all the way from 12 
to 601bs.) and had him right at the side of the boat ready 
for the guide to lift in, when the ungrateful monster laz- 
ily flopped over on his side, the hook let go, and away he 
sailed, well tired out, I opine, but still in the swim. 
Hackle. 
Boston, May 18 — The first party of the season to the 
camps of the Duck Lake Club, at the Schoodics, is off, 
and a happy party it is. In the party are some of the i 
most prominent members of the boot and shoe manu- 1 
facturing trade, as well as merchants, and one member 
of the gun and fishing tackle trade. The party is com- 
posed of Herbert L, Harding. Geo. W. Wheeler, E C. ! 
Johnson, C. W. Shaw, H. R Brown, Edward Read, W. 
B. Lambert and H. O. Underwood, A party of eight would j 
at first seem unwieldy, but it must be remembered that I 
the club has three fine camps at the Schoodics: one atj 
Duck Lake, one at Pleasant Lake, and one at Grand 
Lake. Mr. Lyman Underwood is already at the camps, ij 
having been there for some days superintending the 
getting ready. The camps are all within a raduis of about 
18 miles, and each is provided with all arrangements for ' 
sport and comfort, and the party can easily be divided. 
All the members of the club speak in the highest terms of i 
what they enjoy there. The fishing is as good as reason- 1 
able men can ask for, while the camps are fitted for com- i 
fort with big open fireplaces. The club has a member- ; 
ship of 24, a full quota, with several on the waiting list. I 
One gentleman, who went there for the first time a yeari 
ago, is now an enthusiast, and has been counting much ' 
on his trip this year. Landlocked salmon are small there 
compared with Sebago, but they are gamy and fine eat- . 
ing. The lakers are mentioned as remarkably clean-built 
and good fighters, compared with the same fish in other 
lakes. 
The first party of fishermen to the home of the Ingle- 
wood Club, in New Brunswick, will leave Boston on the 
27th of May via steamer to St. John, and thence by teams 
to Inglewodd, 
Mr. Eugene G. Partridge hopes to get a few days of 
Rangeley fishing about the first of June. Later he will 
go to his camps on Anabessecook Lake, Winthrop, Me. 
His friend, Mr. B, G. Ackerman, of Brooklyn, N. Y,, 
early fled to the Rangeleys this year, with a party of 
friends and his son, C. C, Ackerman. In the party are 
also C. E. Saffron and J. B. Watkins. A year ago Mr. 
Ackerman had concluded to give the Rangeleys the "cold 
shoulder" forever. But the resolution has lasted him a 
year. So it is with many. The Brackett and Clark 
party is off for the Rangeleys, going on the 16 th. Mr. F. 
C. White, of Brockton, is in the party this year. Un- 
doubtedly the Upper Dam will be the headquarters of the 
party, where Messrs. Brackett and Clark have fished for 
so many years. The Ackerman party is also quartered 
there. 
E. H. Wakefield, Jr., is off for Dan Hole Pond, Ossipee, 
N. H., again. Mr. John E. Devlin is with him this time. 
They started Friday. This time Mr. Wakefield feels sure 
of a salmon, and a big one. All the spring the fish in 
that lake have refused to bite; indeed they have not been 
seen. But a report on Thursday said that they were 
"breaking in good shape all over the pond." Mr. C. S. 
Stearns, of Boston, fished Pleasant Pond, Scytheville, 
N. H., two days, April 30 and May 1, faithfully, 
with not a salmon to his creel. This pond was opened to 
fishing last year for the first time since restocking, and 
some very fine salmon were taken. But this year there! 
has been little success reported thus far. On the pond 
the day Mr. Stearns fished there were about eighty boats, 
with only one trout fib. weight taken. The pond is very 
easy of access from Concord and other cities, and the> 
danger is that it will be excessively fished. 
Mr. Chas. L. Bly and Mrs. Bly left Saturday for their 
first fishing trip to Round Mountain Lake this season., 
They are to be absent a week or more. The Mohawk 
Club will start for Round Mountain Lake on the 21st, in- 
