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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 21, 1894. 
web to catch, flies and let the wasp3 and hornets break 
through. 
The fire was now fast losing its diffusing warmth, a 
chilly wind had sprung up from the northwest, the glitter 
of the jeweled sky rapidly fading, and soon a heavy fog 
enveloped us in its misty vapors. Our neighbor, not lik- 
ing the sudden atmospheric change, arose and bade us 
good night, and then we sought our tent to court the 
drowsy god, and with the lapping of the waves, which 
had a mournful sound, we fell asleep, and in happy dreams 
wandered along the silver sands of a babbling brook, 
where we "saw sweet faces, rounded arms and bosoms 
prest to little harps of gold," while they mused and whis- 
pered to each other, half in fear of our advent upon their 
isolated retreat. And so the dark, restful hours of the 
night wore pleasantly along till the gray of the dawn 
shone through a dense fog that had beaded every bush 
and spear of grass with its tiny globules. It was evident 
that our departure was to be delayed, for with the stiff 
breeze that was blowing and the dangerous coast to course 
it would be a foolhardy venture to advance. All night 
long the fog horn had sounded and in the early hours of 
the morn a steamer's whistle was heard, the shrill, sonor- 
ous noise of which was continued for a long time, much 
to the distraction of our auricular. Alex. Stabbuck. 
[to be continued.] 
BOSTON FISHERMEN. 
Boston, Mass., July 14.— Bass fishing is a good deal the 
order of the day with many of the Boston dwellers at the 
beaches this summer, while many of the sojourners in the 
country have taken their rods in hand. This idea is a 
growing one, and the proprietor of a summer hotel is 
fortunate, if his place is close by even good pickerel fish- 
ing. Norway Lake, in Maine, seems to be more noted 
than ever this year for its black bass fishing. The supply 
is unlimited, almost, and the place easy of access. Then 
there are the many ponds in Bridgton, all well supplied 
with bass. Reports indicate that the fishing is better than 
ever this year in several of these ponds. The celebrated 
Winthrop ponds are not forgotten, by any means, 
and they are particularly easy of access, with the noted 
Belgrede Mills ponds. Scarcely a day passes but what 
some Boston merchant or business man packs his rod, with 
his other belongings, and it is aired at some of the above 
ponds. Some of the ponds in Massachusetts are also 
being industriously fished this season. Mr. Bullard is a 
new convert to bass fishing. He is summering at Fal- 
mouth, and the ponds there afford him, with his friends, 
a good deal of sport. On Saturday, a couple of weeks 
ago, they caught 19 black bass of the small-mouth variety, 
the largest weighing 2 and 2£lbs. This success was at 
Mere Pond, I believe. 
Mr. Albert T. Sisson has recently made a new combi- 
nation in black bass flies. It has a yellow body and wings, 
with red wing covers and black tail. It is reported to De 
aking well. He called the attention of Col. Charles E. 
Fuller, an enthusiast at bass fishing, to it, and Mr. Fuller 
tried it with good success. Mr. Sisson has since named 
the fly the Col. Fuller. The Colonel went to Belgrade 
Mills this year and had great success with the bass. He 
usually goes to a lake in New Hampshire (Great East Lake, 
I believe) with his friends Mr. Boynton and Mr. Griffin, 
where they have camps. They will go there later. 
Some of the Boston salmon fishermen are having unusu- 
ally good success this year. The fishing at the Resti- 
gouehe is Jeported to be excellent this year. One fisher- 
man is reported to have killed nineteen salmon, averaging 
in weight 231bs. The fishing is also good at the Grand 
Cascapedia. Mr. Mitten has killed nineteen salmon there. 
Mr. A. H. Wood, ex-Gov. Russell and Col. Peabody are at 
the Miramichi. I have not yet heard that they are having 
great success. On the contrary, there is a report that the 
water is extremely low and the fishing poor. Mr. D. H. 
Blanchard is at his river, the Northpast Branch of the 
Miramichi. His friend Brown is with him. Mr. Richard 
O. Harding, so many years the friend of Mr. Blanchard, 
is rather out of heolth and scarcely equal to a salmon fish- 
ing trip. At present he is at Ossipee, N. H. , for a good 
rest. Joseph Jefferson will not visit his salmon river this 
year. 
The Megan tic Club is pretty well peopled at this time 
with club members and their families. The ladies and 
children are more pleased with the surroundings than 
they could possibly be at the seashore. A large number 
more of the members, with invited guests, are to go in 
next month. Parties are regularly booked for their stay 
at the club camps. Several private cottages are to be 
built this year. Mr. L. Dana Chapman says that some 
very big catches of trout have been made at Massachu- 
setts Bog, one of the best fishing grounds at the Megantic 
preserve. One man caught between 10:30 A. M. and 3 
P. M. 302 trout. They were all taken with a fly. The 
new fire-places at the club camps are being built and 
guests this fall at the Megantic will have the pleasure of 
sitting by "roaring log fires." 
Mr. M. C. Dizer has just returned from a visit to Lake 
St. John after landlocked salmon. The degree of his 
success I have not yet learned. It must have been good, 
for sportsmen of his ability seldom fish in vain. Mr. 
Jones will start for Buckfield, Me., on his vacation this 
week. He will fish all the streams in that section, and 
few are better acquainted with them, unless it be ex-Gov. 
John D. Long, who was born in the same town. Both 
are great lovers of the rod and line. Special. 
Central New York Waters, 
Ithaca, N. Y.— Cortland county, whose wealth of 
brook trout streams is well known, has afforded the trout 
anglers unusually fine sport the present season, robust 
creels having been the rule. The recent heavy rain re- 
plenished many streams that ordinarily at this season are 
dry, and from some of these brooks some pretty good 
sized trout have been taken. Only recently from a small 
stream that runs through one corner of the lumber yard 
belonging to the Cortland Wagon Co., almost in the 
heart of the town, John Chamberlin took a half dozen 
trout running from 7 to 9in. in length. This catch was 
made before breakfast, and it is safe to say that Chamber- 
1 in, who is master of an airy and gentle line, has duplicated 
the feat on more than one occasion since. 
Tompkins county has also afforded the trout angler a 
good degree of sport. Charles Clinton is probably the 
most inveterate devotee of this line of sport hereabouts, 
and his field of operations is in the main located in the 
southeastern part of the county where sparkle some very 
enticing trout streams. 
The lake fishing so far has not been up to expectations, 
due in a measure, old anglers say, to the high water that 
has prevailed. In Cayuga Lake black bass are not at all 
active, and the bass anglers are simply awaiting the 
Queen of Luck to wink her other eye. Little York Lake, 
Dryden, Tully and Tisco lakes are affording good pick- 
erel fishing, the fish, though, not averaging large in size. 
In all the waters named better results are expected 
later on. M. Chill. 
NEWS FROM THE FISHING WATERS. 
Macon, Georgia. — We have black bass here and a good 
supply of brook trout in the mountainous part of the 
State. The shooting in portions of the State is good and 
game is plenty. B. 
Stevensville, N. Y., July 12.— Fishing is excellent in 
Stevensville Lake. Two were caught yesterday that 
weighed 91bs. 14oz. One caught to-day weighed 4lbs. 
8oz. Several other large ones have been caught which 
have not been weighed. 
BaBnegat, N. J., July 9. — Weakfish are very plentiful 
and have been biting all day. Two men took 68 between 
5 and 6 this P. M. , average to boats to-day 25, with 40 
boats out. H. G. Ebbickson. 
Habbisville, N. Y, July 10.— One day last week 
Ernest Held of Syracuse, N. Y., caught in the river near 
here more trout than he could get into his fish basket, 
averaging nearly fib. each, the largest weighing nearly 
lilbs. Yesterday Dr. Nearing and party, of Syracuse, 
caught nearly as many, the largest weighing over VAbs. 
Last Saturday H. E. Fox, of Adams, N. Y., caught 47 
fine trout in Wolf Creek, not far from here. Fishing is 
good around Forest Home and fine catches are being 
made almost daily. W. E. 
Hudson River Salmon. 
Game Protector Kennedy takes no stock in the recent 
stories published in the Troy papers of the increase of sal- 
mon in the Hudson. On the contrary, he says he believes 
they are decreasing all the time. His belief is based on 
the following facts: That the water below the State dam 
at Troy is too warm in June, July and August for salmon 
to thrive; that there is no fishway in the dam now, so 
that the salmon can seek the cooler waters of the upper 
Hudson; that fishermen on the lower Hudson are not 
finding them in their nets as frequently, for they see 
scarcely five a month, where a couple of years back from 
five to seven were found in the nets each day. 
Protector Kennedy has a theory for the successful 
propagation of salmon in the Hudson and says of it: "I 
would continue the stocking of the river and let the 
fishermen who earn their livelihood by the drawing of nets 
catch them without hindranoe. You would then find 
them on exhibition in the local markets, the people and 
the fishermen would get in the habit of seeing them, and 
would believe there was such fish there. Now it is re- 
garded as a fish story to say there are any of these fish in 
the Hudson River. Those that are caught are not re- 
ported, because the law makes it an offense. They are 
not thrown back, by any means. 
"The 'drift net' fishermen go in pairs and share alike. 
They catch and keep everything and neither 'peaches' on 
the other because their interests are mutual. The seine 
fishers who generally employ ten or a dozen or twenty 
men to draw the seines always give orders to throw 
all salmon back. They dare not do otherwise, as thoy 
have a band of men with them who are generally of the 
tougher classes that will not or cannot get other work, 
and the Commission sent out a circular last year to the 
Hudson River fishermen, asking, among other things: 
'Did you catch any salmon? if so, what did you do them?' 
The replies were that the fishermen either caught none 
or else all that were caught were thrown back into the 
river. The fishermen are not fools by any means. Now, 
if they were allowed to catch them, the stocking kept up 
and the fish given a chance to get over the State dam at 
Troy, the fishermen would show their catches, and find- 
ing it a profitable fish to have in the river, would unite 
with the Commission in trying to protect and propagate 
it. Then it would be time to enact a law. As it now 
is, only a few are caught and they are concealed. Why. 
I believe that if the fishermen were once convinced that 
salmon could be raised in the Hudson, they would help 
pay the cost of stocking the river, and as protectors their 
services would be invaluable. As it is now, they are de- 
creasing every year, I think, and will soon be run out 
despite all our efforts." — Albany Journal. 
A Queer Catch. 
Taunton Station, Mass., July 7. — A unique catch was 
made here July 4 by Mr. Robert Sawyer of Waltham. 
While fishing for white perch in Taunton River more or 
less successfully , with a 9oz. split bamboo rod , Mr. Sawyer 
had a tremendous strike. After vainly endeavoring for 
some time to land his catch, which, by the way, put up a 
pretty strong fight, Bob turned to me and remarked, "I 
gotter whale." If this broke the spell or not I do not 
know, but at any rate his catch, as he spoke, landed him- 
self by crawling upon shore. Robert had an enormous 
muskrat on the end of his line, firmly hooked about half 
way up the tail. It was probably caught as he was pull- 
ing up preparatory to making another cast. 
Black bass and trout fishing is moderately good here. 
Pickerel have had to take it all winter. The unemployed 
in the factories have taken advantage of the hard times 
and have about ruined the fishing in most of the ponds 
here by fishing through the ice. Neither age nor sex 
were spared. A large number of the French population 
have been fishing every day since October last and are 
salting down pickerel, perch and bullheads in anticipa- 
tion of no work and a hard winter before them. But 
after all, I would be no true sportsman to grudge them a 
bit to keep their families from starving, even at the ex- 
pense of a little pleasure to myself. And I am sure all 
the fraternity will agree with me. P. W. P. 
Tarpon in Mexico. 
Somebody ought to try the tarpon fishing in Tampico, 
Mexico. The fish were feeding there in November, but I 
had no tackle for them. Aztec. 
Sturgeon Bay Fishing. 
My wife and I have just returned from a glorious trip 
on Lake Michigan. Leaving Milwaukee at noon, we en- 
joyed a sail over the clean cold water, and were cooled 
by breezes that made us forget we came from a place 
where the thermometer said 98 in the shade. We ate 
and slept and read, and rested and got cool, enjoying 
every moment till noon next day, when we exchanged 
our floating home for one on the shore at Sturgeon Bay, 
a beautiful sheet of water connecting the waters of Green 
Bay and Lake Michigan. 
After dinner we went trolling for pickerel, but they did 
not respond, so we went to an old wreck and caught a 
few rock bass, and then across the bay to catch perch — 
and we caught them; and would have caught them all 
day as fast as we could take them in; nice ones too, 
weighing half pound to a pound, and good enough for 
anybody to eat, but we thought half a bushel was enough, 
and quit at that, though there seemed to be as many in 
the water as when we began, but this was the best of the 
perch fishing, for we found they were so plenty and so 
common that we could not give them away; and it is no 
sport to catch fish that will not be used. The next afternoon 
we trolled some more, and my wife caught three goodly 
sized pickerel. The next morning I went out at 4 -o'clock 
and trolled till 7, bringing in eight pickerel and a great 
appetite for breakfast. There is said to be great bass fish- 
ing at the other end of the bay, but we did not visit it. 
It was good enough where we were. We loafed and 
caught pickerel, and rested, and didn't care much for 
anything else; didn't even buy a paper every day to read 
about the great strike. 1 
From Sturgeon Bay we took a steamer for Mackinac 
Island, touching at various places on both shores of Green 
Bay, and at Manistique on the north end of the lake, 
thence across to Beaver Island, a quaint old place is its 
beautiful bay, and a quainter lot are its 900 inhabitants, 
all fishing folks. Mrs. Gibson has kept the only hotel on 
the island for the last thirty five years; and knows all 
about frying fish. All strangers stopping at the island 
are asked what business brings them there, and are looked 
upon with suspicion till they give a satisfactory account 
of themselves. In all respects, these waters are enjoyable 
in the summer season. Bracing climate, beautiful scenery, 
good fishing and cheap transportation on staunch steamers 
that are scrupulously Clean, and furnish good meals. The 
entire cost of living and traveling on these steamers does 
not exceed $4 per day, and a month's outing, starting from 
any of the Lake Michigan ports, making the entire tour 
of the lake (about 1,000 miles of sailing), stopping at vari- 
ous ports, costs less than $i00. O. H. Hampton. 
Trout and New Jersey Streams. 
Bbidgepobt, Conn., July 6.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
There seems to be a prejudice against the introduction of 
the European brown trout. Our native trout may be pre- 
ferable to the brown trout, but the repeated stocking of 
streams by the State Fish Commission with native trout 
has proven that they would be there until" they were all 
caught and that they could not themselves keep up their 
supply, and gradually the trout would disappear. 
I personally know of scores of fine trout streams in Pas- 
saic county, N. J., where all conditions are favorable to 
trout, yet there are no trout in them, and all that you 
could catch would be a few chub and minnows. Had the 
New Jersey Fish Commission Btocked some of the streams 
with brown trout, I feel confident that the result would 
have been different, and that those streams would now 
still contain trout. Again, if there is so much prejudice 
against the brown trout, why do not our Fish Commis- 
sioners try the red-throated trout for our stream s — that is, 
if the experiment has not already been tried? If they 
prove successful or not, they certainly should be given a 
trial. 
Last April L. Smith, E. Folley, B. Summers and myself 
procured 1,000 brown trout fry from J. Annin, Jr., of 
Caledonia, N. Y., at our expense, which we turned into 
a brooii leading into the Passaic River above Paterson, 
so if ever you hear of any of them being caught it will 
not be a mystery how they got there. 
If J. H. S., of Wyalusing, Pa., should prefer trout to 
black bass let him try the yearling brown trout for his 
pond; these would thrive there in spite of the bullheads 
now in it — I have it from the best authority, not from one 
but from several former natives of Forfar, Scotland, that 
the Forfar Loch at one time contained pike, perch and 
eels, and by the breaking of a dam some Loch Leven 
brown trout got into Forfar Loch and since that time the 
pike which were once very numerous have become very 
scarce. There are records of 6-pound trout that were 
caught in this loch, and there are more trout there than 
other fish. E. H. 
Lake Winnepiseogee Bass. 
Wolfeboeo, N. H., July 9 — This is my fourth season 
here, and I thought I would drop a line to inform your 
many readers that if they want good bass fishing this is 
the place to get it. My first season here was in 1888, when 
I remained for about two months, and during that time 
had some phenomenal catches, taking quite a number of 
4-pound fish and a great many 3-pounders. I spent about 
the same time here again in 188t>, and had just as good 
catches as in 1888. The management of the hotel in 
Kingswood Inn was so bad that I did not come again until 
18U3, when mine host Fred. S. McLaughlin became mana- 
ger and made it as it is now, a first-class house. I am 
here again this season and find the fishing just as good, 
My first day's trial for this season was last Friday. I cap- 
tured thirty that weighed from lib. to 31bs. But what is 
the most remarkable thing about the fishing here is that 
you always get some, never coming in empty-handed. I 
have fished in Lake Wentworth seventy-five times and 
have never been "whitewashed," I have taken the 
small-mouth black bass from many lakes in New York 
and the Thousand Islands, also in Wisconsin; but I 
have yet to find them anywhere so gamy as in lakes 
Wentworth and Winnipiseogee. Wolfeboro village is on 
the latter, and Wentworth is about ten minutes' walk 
from the Kingswood Inn. D. H. F. 
Owner of Fish pond (to man who is trespassing)— Don't 
you see that sign, "No fishing here?" 
Angler— Yes, and I dispul e it. Why, there is good fishing 
here. Look at this basketful. The man must have been 
mad who put that board up. — Chips. 
