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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 28, 1894. 
NEWS FROM THE FISHING WATERS. 
Rich Lake, Newconib, Essex County, N. Y., July 17.— 
While trolling on Rich Lake to-day I caught a pickerel 
which weighed 121bs. and measured 3ft. It is the largest 
fish caught in the lake for several years. 
Cora M. Coote. 
Woodruff (Reynolds), Wis., July 15.— At Camp Edge- 
water, Gresham Lake, the week's catch was: Fourteen 
muskallonge, smallest 71bs., largest 261bs.; 240 bass, 2 to 
61bs, ; 310 pike, average 31bs., largest 8&lbs. Pi-ospects 
good. We put back in water muskallonge weighing less 
than 51bs., pike albs., and bass I J-lbs. Caught by W. A. 
Stiles, E. C. Smith, John Wardlaw and C. J. Child, 
Barnegat. N." J., July 21.— Mr. C. G-. Endicott, of 
Jersey City, just came in to the Clarence House, at 1;30, 
having fished oco hour, and took 38 fine weakfish. He 
reports all boats catching them lively. Average over 
21bs. Bluefish are reported to be in the bay also. They 
had to stop fishing to catch the train for home. 
Jos. L. Higgins. 
Liberty Falls, Stevensville, N. Y., July 21.— Mr. R. 
Cardona, E. M, Mundy and W. G. Davies, of Brooklyn, 
were out two and a half hours on Stevensville Lake, and 
caught a large string of pickerel, 3 of which weighed 
5-Jlbs. , 5£lbs. and 51bs. 
New Hampshire Trout Fishing. 
Claremont, N. H,, July 14. — I saw the recent com- 
plaints of "Mascomy" and "Von W.," that they could not 
catch any brook trout. I have been thinking and won- 
dering why. Now I am a regular crank for trout fishing 
(and the Forest and Stream is to blame for it); and I 
have no trouble in getting all the trout my family can 
eat, and give away many a meal to my friends. For in- 
stance, I have been three half-days fishing in Little Sugar 
River, in the very town where "Von W." resides, with 
the following results: First half-day, 51 trout that filled 
my 101b. basket. Second half-dey, 45 trout that filled a 
101b. basket; largest weight lib. 2oz., after arriving home. 
Third half-day, 33 trout, smallest 7in., largest llin. I 
have been many times to small brooks in this vicinity, 
and my smallest catch was 16 trout, all above 6in. I have 
no use. for a 5in. trout, even if the laws of New Hampshire 
do allow it. My trout have all been caught with a Rube- 
Wood, and brown-palmer and j'ellow-palnier fly. I use 
the yellow fly only in high roily water in heavy rains, 
with a No. 5 shot attached next to loop in sinew to sink 
the fly a very little on account of muddy water. I always 
use a fly even in thick brush and alders. Of course, I 
cannot make a cast, but let it float with current. Tell 
"Von W." and "Mascomy" not to give up. Try again. 
I always have a good time, even' if I don't catch many 
trout. I never went fishing yet without seeing some- 
thing or learning something new to me in nature, and 
that paid me better a great deal than it would to catch 
two or three hundred little trout four or five inches long. 
I could write of many things I have seen and learned 
when on my hunting or fishing trips. I have hunted 
and fished for thirty years, and if I have my health I 
mean to for thirty years more — fish or no fish; game or 
no game. When they are all gone I can look around and 
see something to interest me. 
But we can save some fish and game yet by applying 
proper means. No use to put law on trout for three or 
five years; that will not do it. One good drought destroys 
more trout in one season than all the fishermen in five. 
It is the destruction of our forests that is killing out the 
trout; the mills and the refuse also. 
I once saw a trout stream that had become dry, all but 
one large hole, and that was alive with trout, which had 
taken refuge there. A week later I visited it, the hole 
had dried up, and I should judge that there were 500 
trout all dead. 
If you catch a trout under 6in., take him carefully 
from the hook, put him back into the brook, catch him 
again some other day, when lOoz, he will weigh. 
I vote for stopping the sale of game every time. These 
are a few remedies. I might mention many more; but 
enough for this time. - Columbia. 
Trout Tickling. 
You may remember that not so very long ago I called for 
the evidence in re trout tickling, expressing myself as a 
doubting Thomas of much time and size. Please allow 
me to say in closing that the evidence is in. Plenty of 
it. It is entirely satisfactory, or convincing, rather. It 
comes flat-footed and in a sort of catapultian way from 
Denver and South Carolina and Chicago and New York 
and several other places, and then "Kelpie" and Mr. 
Mather jump on top and pack the whole thing down, and 
— well, what can a doubter do but unconditionally sur- 
render and say he's sorry and won't do so any more? 
When a man of Mr. Mather's piscicultural completeness 
says a thing is so, it can't be any so-er. Debate is closed 
and we've got to sit down. I admit with him that I was 
about as ignorant on this subject as I well could be (and 
now I'm glad. I was), yet where have I been since I was 
knee high to a duck and caught my first trout among the 
hills of the Green Mountain State that I shouldn't have 
heard a word or read one (not even in Forest and 
Stream untiljcomparatively recently, where you get pretty 
nearly everything worth reading on fish) about this sur- 
reptitious, reprehensible, indefensible and wholly indecent 
way of inveigling trout? Trout, mind you, Salvelinus 
fontinalis, which I. have firmly and innocently believed 
since the "days that are no more" were the shyest, wari- 
est, liveliest, wildest, suspiciousest fish that ever flipped a 
fin. You may call it tickling, or seducing, or fingerloot- 
ing, or belly-soothing, or guddling, or ginniling, or any 
other abominable and outlandish name you choose, you 
can't get anything too low down. And now to be con- 
vinced by incontrovertible evidence that this fish (for de- 
scription see Starbuck in Forest and Stream Vols, 7-10) 
will willingly allow a great lout of a man (nothing per- 
sonal) to sneak up on it and with itching fingers tickle its 
stomach until it is completely lost to all sense of safety 
or anything el e, is mortifying in the extreme. Bah! I 
am ashamed, and sorry for the trout, and sorry I have be- 
come wiser — where ignorance is bliss, etc. Anybody want 
to go bobbing for eels or mud turkles? O. O. S. 
OZARKS, MO. 
Delaware Bass. 
Dinghan's Feriiy, Pa.— M. Hale Jones and Francit 
Childs. Jr., have been very successful in taking bass intht 
Delaware, every day bringing in a good number of very 
nice-sized bass— f , 1 and 21bs. P. F. Fulmer. 
Dingman's Ferry, Pa., July 17.— I give you the catch of 
bass made by Messrs. B. F. Blair and John Blair, of New 
York city, on July 16. In one day they caught 20 fine 
bass. R. Van Gorden. 
Lacicaw axen , Pike county, Pa. — I think it is owing to 
the natural diffidence characterizing the fisherman on the 
upper Delaware that you have not before had a report 
from this region. At the Delaware House are some noted 
bass and trout fishermen who have laid their catches on 
the grass of the lawn and seemed amply repaid by the 
remarks of admiration from the ladies without desiring to 
have their fame go beyond the confines of the hotel. 
There have been more small-mouth bass caught this 
summer than ever before known in this region. Trout 
fishing is fairly good back in the mountains. The best 
part of the upper Delaware for bi z bass is between Mar- 
rowsburg, N. Y., and Shohola Glen, Pa., a distance of 15 
miles. This stretch of the river can be easily fished in 
two days with an experienced guide, returning to the 
hotel each night. Best bait, catfish, helgramites and 
lam per eels; best hook No. 2 sproat. 
Recent catches are as follows: Mr. Frank S. Gray of 
New York (with Fred. Holbert, guide), caught 149 trout 
in Shohola Brook July 1; on July 6, bass fishing from 
Grassy Swamp to Delaware House, on four miles of river, 
he brought in 84 bass, four of the bass weighing over 
21bs. each. On July 8 he caught a string of 50 bass, the 
five largest bass weighing 17ilbs. The smallest of the 
large bass weighed 2|lbs. and the largest 41bs. 
Mr. James C. Byrnes of New York on July 12 landed a 
41bs. bass in Donovan's Eddy. 
But the record fish this season goes to Mr. Cecil Hodg- 
man of New York, who on July 14 landed a magnificent 
small-mouth weighing 5lbs. 8oz. This fish was caught 
below the Delaware & Hudson dam at Lackawaxen. The 
big fish was hooked in about 2ft. of swift water, aud ran 
out 300ft. of line to an eddy below tha rift. Mr. Hodgman 
followed in his boat and netted the fish after a long 
struggle, but not before the big fellow had jumped five 
times out of the water. Mr. Hodgman, as soon as he 
recovered from the effects of landing the big one, cast 
again and captured a 2£lbs. bass. One other large fish 
was caught by one of the natives in the same place, which 
weighed 51bs. 2oz. A large number of 2 and 31bs. fish 
have been caught, and the river is full of smaller fish. 
The best fishing comes in August and September. 
James Daly. 
Cobb's Island Fish and. Game. 
Cobb's Island, Va., July 20.— Cobb's Island, which is 
situated about ten miles from the mainland, off the coast 
of Virginia, is yielding good sport this season. Rev. 
Thomas Dixon, Jr., in company with Mr. Ashby Jones, 
on July 5 caught 25 red drum aggregating in weight 
7501bs., while at the same outing they also captured 125 
immense bluefish within three hours. For sea. trout fish- 
ing I think this place cannot be excelled, for I myself, in 
company with several other gentlemen, made an extremely 
large catch. One party went out to-day and brought in 
120 large trout, while the several boats, five, I think, re- 
turned with a total of 080. The names of the different 
parties and their individual catch are as follows: C. O. B. 
Cowardin 200, Geo. Rinehart 128, B. F, Franklin 79, 
Steven Beveridge 99, Mrs. E. M. Thompson 174. 
Shark fishing is also very much indulged in. I went 
out yesterday and the boatman hooked a tolerably large 
one, while in another boat a gentleman caught one 10ft. 
in length. The shooting is very fine, there being any 
quantity of jack curlew, grayback, yellow-shanks, calico- 
back and snipe in general. The gunners have been re- 
markably successful for this season of the year.* Next 
week when the tides make very high, there will be found 
here the finest shooting on the Atlantic coast. This is the 
only place I have ever visited where the sport is so mag- 
nificent, surpassing my expectations in every regard. The 
sportsmen, many of whom are here at 'present, find very 
pleasant and agreeable accommodations. H. B. Rasoh. 
Fishing in Stores. 
Here is an interesting note which has evidently been 
delayed by floods and strikes: LaCamas, Wash., June 14. 
— A few days ago many of the Portland wholesale houses 
on the river front were obliged to vacate on account of 
the encroachment of the flood, and every one old and 
young followed in the footsteps of good Father Walton 
and went fishing, In all of the stores where the water 
was not too deep might be seen men and boys in pursuit 
of the fish. One house put up fishing notices and ex- 
cluded the public, thus making a fine haul of some thirty 
fine trout averaging 1-Jrlbs. in weight. Another had the 
good fortune to capture a large salmon by dextrous use 
of oars. 
The Columbia and Willamette rivers are higher than 
ever before — so far as known. This brings it 5ft. above 
the highest water of 1876. Both rivers registered 35ft. 
and a fraction. E. W, R. 
Moosehead Lake. 
Kineo, Me., Mount Kineo House, July 17. — We send 
part of the catches of trout here for the past two days. 
There were several parties who brought in strings of two 
or three whose names we did not get: 
July 16, 31 trout caught by Messrs. G. A. Worth and S. 
H. Watts, New York city. 
July 16, 23 trout caught bv S. I. Abbott, Waterville, 
Me. 
July 16, 9 trout caught by J. H. Lewis, Bangor, Me. 
July 17, 32 trout caught by Charles L. Edey, New York 
city. 
The fish weighed from { to 21bs. each. The fishing here 
has been excellent this spring and summer. There is 
every prospect of a big season. O. A. Dennen. 
Narragansett Pier Striped Bass. 
Narragansett Pier, R. I., July 17.— The largest striped 
bass taken so far this season was captured Tuesday night, 
10th inst., by Ernest Knowles, a local fisherman, and 
weighed 311bs. about two hours after being taken from 
the water. 
St. Augustine Big Fish. 
St. Augustine. Fla. , July 16.— The big fish in the waters 
adjacent to this town have been making themselves talked 
about recently. One day while one of our business men 
was standing in the surf on Anastasia Island he was at- 
tacked by a shark, which seized him by the calf of his 
right leg. The swimmer threw himself on his back, 
kicked vigorously and made for shore. He has spent a 
week in bed and is now out on crutches. 
A whale is pot a fish, but here is a whale item : A young 
sperm 2ift. in length, came into the harbor the other day, 
lost its bearings among the oyster bars and mud banks 
between here and Matanzas and went aground. It was 
discovered by Capt. Ed. Allen, who towed it to town, 
where it excited much interest. It was taken over to the 
North Beach, where our amateur whalers set about trying 
out the oil, but the sharks made such inroads upon the 
prize that the enterprise was not much of a success. Two 
of the sharks caught were in the 14ft. clas3. Coquina. 
A soldier of St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, met 
with a very painful accident yesterday morning while 
out fishing. He had just landed a large catfish, when it 
struck his foot with one of its fins. The fin penetrated 
the sole of his shoe and went deep into his foot. It 
fastened the shoe tight to the foot so that it could not be 
removed. The soldier was taken to the barracks hospital 
for treatment. — Florida Mirror. 
Shenandoah Bass. 
Bear Lithia, Va., July 18.— I will- tell you a little of 
the last fishing trip on the Shenandoah River, which is 
now in excellent condition. Three of us set out on 11th 
inst. at 8 A. M. The river is only a few minutes' walk 
from Rose Cottage, where we are stopping. Not a bass 
was caught until 11 A. M. ; and a little one at that. We 
had 48 bass by 6 P. M,, in size from 41bs. a piece down. 
The second day we caught 53 bass and the third day 
10 bass, one, the biggest weighing 3^1bs. and the balance 
about a pound a piece. The bait used were mud toms 
and helgramites. Fishing is a little better in this river 
now as it has been for several years past. The law is on 
bass in the Shenandoah River from April 1 to July 1. 
.Saturday evening we had a beautiful fox chase. A fine 
specimen of a gray fox was made a prisoner and let 
go at 9 P. M., 11 hounds and Somen following. The fox 
was caught in 2 hours 35 minutes. It was the most beau- 
tiful chase I ever witnessed, the dogs being close all the 
time. Chas. Reusoh. 
Ouananiche and a Stranger. 
Lake St. John, Quebec. — My score for two and one- 
half days of fishing in the Grande Discharge, with flies 
(silver-doctor and Jock-Scott), and near the Island House 
with small spoon, comprised sixty-six ouananiche, pike 
and a stranger. Largest fish 6^-lbs. ; total weight 105f lbs. 
The fish I call stranger was the shape of a pike but with 
bright red and yellow spots like a trout and very red fins. 
I have caught more than 1,000 trout, and this was the 
handsomest marked fish I pver saw. None of the guides 
ever saw a fish like it. It was very gamy, nearly hah 0 
the tim« in the air, acted much like salmon I have caught 
in the Penobscot at Bangor, Me. W. C. M. 
The Brown Trout. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In behalf of a number of interested fishermen, who are 
planning to stock our home waters with the European 
brown trout, I ask an expression from some one who, has 
had experience with this fish, as to how it compares with 
the native brook trout as a sportsman's fish. Salmo. 
Weakfish at Forked River. 
Forked River, N. J., July a3.— On July 20 Mr. H. C. 
Klemm made a fine catch of weakfish with rod while 
stopping at the Lafayette House. Mr. H. Koehler and 
wife enjoyed the same sport, as also a number of other 
guests. After this northeast storm sportsmen think the 
weakfishing will be good. A few woodcock have been 
killed here. L. 
^nhmlture and <$ish $lrotectian. 
A Menace to the Youghiogheny River Bass. 
Somerset, Pa., July 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: Not 
knowing exactly how to bring the matter forming the sub- 
ject of this article to the attention of the proper authorities, 
1 have decided to send you the facts, for publication in your 
paper, with the hope that you mil take such steps as may to 
you seem proper in the premises. 
Confluence, Pa., is a borough of several hundred inhabit- 
ants, situate in Somerset county, at what in years past and 
gone was known by the old Indian name of Turkey foot. 
The borough is located on the banks of the Youghiogheny 
River, with which river the Cassellman River and a stream 
known as the North Fork unite at a point a few hundred 
yards below Confluence. 
About eighteen years ago, I think it was in 1875 or '76, the 
Youghiogheny was stocked with black bass, and ever since 
that time that fish has been abundant and of goodly size. 
Last summer a great many bass were killed by "sledging" 
the rocks during a very low stage of the water in the 
Youghiogheny and the ot her rivers named above, and citizens 
inform me that they do not see so many large fish in those 
rivers as they have been in the habit of seeing at the same 
season in the past. 
Recently a company has located at Confluence for the pur- 
pose of erecting a steam tannery, covering with its buildings 
six acres of ground, and said to be the third largest tannery 
in the United States. The waste water and all the filth of 
this tannery will be run into the North Fork, and will cer- 
tainly contaminate the Youghiogheny for its entire course 
below Confluence, and of course will destroy all the fish in 
that stream's lower waters. The Cassellman River of course 
will not be contaminated by the waste from the tannery. 
The attention of the proper authorities in Pennsylvania 
should be directed to the facts set forth above, and some 
action promptly taken in order to preserve the game fish in 
the Youghiogheny River, as a few months will be too late, 
and the effects of the eighteen years past in supplying those 
three rivers and their various influents with game fish will 
be entirely lost; not only to the people along the banks of 
those streams, but to sportsmen from Pittsburg, Johnstown, 
etc., visiting them for pleasure or recreation. Amateur. 
