July 14, 1894.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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cessful salmon fishing season upon the Moisie. The king 
of game fishes has run very freely during the last month 
up the North Shore streams and an unusual quantity of 
salmon has been taken in nets. The fish has sold in this 
city by the pound down to 12£ cents, though the opening 
price was 40 cents. 
Sea trout are reported j>lentiful at Tadoussac. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec City, July 6. 
NEWS FROM THE FISHING WATERS. 
Forked River, N. J., July 3. — Capt. Geo. D. Harring, 
yacht Clara, with Mr. H. C. McDougall, editor of the 
Newark Sunday Gall, made a catch yesterday of 19 very 
fine weakfish, tide runners, largest weighing 4|lbs. 
July 4. — Capt. Geo. Wooley, J. M. Howard, of Brook- 
lyn, and J. S. Campbell, of New York, made a catch 
■ to-day of 18 very fine weakfish, 2 striped bass and 3 blue- 
fish in one hour. Capt. Geo. D. Harring and party — 
Tbos. P. King and Geo. C. Wright, of Brooklyn — made a 
catch to-day of 21 large weakfish in one hour. Both par- 
ties from Riverside House. B. E. Eno. 
New York. — Striped bass fishing has been good in the 
Hudson River in upper New, York city, Riverdale, Yonkers 
and beyond. M. 
Oswego, N. Y., July 4. — Fishing for black bass and 
pike-perch good. Two of the latter caught last week, one 
weighing 91bs., the other ll£lbs. W. L. Hoskins. 
New London, N. H., July 4.— A. N. Cheney took a 
3£lbs.. Sunapee saibling last week — the largest fish of the 
species so far heard from. F. H. Davis. 
Camp Lake, Wis., July 2. — Mr. J. W. Millar, of Chicago, 
fishing one day, morning and evening, caught eleven 
black bass, gross weight 27^1bs., and two pickerel 32in. 
long, weight lOlba. each to an ounce. J. H. McVey. 
Ventura, California, June 22. — Trout fishing is poorer 
in this locality than at any time in the past fifteen years.. 
Last winter was a drouth throughout southern California, 
and our streams are now dried up and full of moss. 
A. J. C. 
Woodbourne, Sullivan County, N. Y., July 8. — I 
thought I would inform you of a catch of brook trout a 
friend of mine, Mr. Ely Garret, and myself took from 
the Neversink River in Sullivan county, on July 5. We 
started about 4:30 A. M. and left the stream at about 3 in 
.the afternoon, between which hours we strung 296, 
weighing from £ to 4£lbs. ; of the latter we caught five. 
All were mainly caught on the professor, coachman and 
royal-coachman flies. Richard C. Cahill. 
Fishing on the Muskoka Lakes, 
Port Cockburn, Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Can. — Fishing 
for black bass is not legal until June 30. I have had good 
luck with wall-eyed pike, called here pickerel, and with 
salmon trout. Two gentlemen from Chicago have made 
good scores. They use a curious tackle for salmon trout 
in this lake. A stout trolling line with a No. 2 spoon 
weighted with about 2 to 31bs. of lead does the trick. The 
salmon trout are now in very deep water and this is the 
only way they can be caught. There are several lakes in 
the near vicinity which have an excellent reputation for 
big bass, and as soon as the legal season is in 1 will report 
to you. Evening from 6 to 9 P. M. is the best time for 
fishing. Bait seems to be very scarce and I would recom- 
mend sportsmen to bring with them a large box of worms, 
which are the best bait for bass and pike. I have been 
very successful with a No. 4 Clayton spoon. 
Port Cockburn (pronounced Coburn) is situated on the 
head of Lake Joseph and is reached by steamer from 
Muskoka Wharf. I would recommend that round trip 
tickets be purchased from Niagara Falls. By leaving on 
the 6:15 P.M. on the Lehigh Valley R.R. prompt connec- 
tions are made and New Yorkers can reach here the fol- 
lowing day. The trip on the steamer from Muskoka 
Wharf is a most delightful one of six hours' duration. 
Dinner and supper is served en route. Weather here is 
cool, about 70° during the day, and there are no mos- 
quitoes nor black flies. L. S. H. 
Fish in the Ohio. 
Central City, W. Va. — There does not seem to be any 
concern along the Ohio about the violation of the fish 
laws, as nets and other unlawful devices are used with- 
out the shadow of protest. Dynamiting is done in the. 
tributaries, and while the voice of law-abiding people is 
against it the hand of the law is quite unclosed. Perhaps 
the offenders are hard to indict, for they are sly. 
I don't think the Ohio is nearly as good as the Hudson 
for the pleasures of the angler. Huge catfish are often 
taken weighing lOOlbs. or more. I have tasted once of 
this mammoth Pimelodus, but did't like it. There is a 
fish caught with hook and line in the Ohio which affords 
capital fun, if not the most dignified sport. I allude to 
the skip-jack. To what family it belongs I cannot tell. 
It is altogether an attractive fish, not on account of its 
variety of color, for it is not variegated at all, but it is 
beautifully silvered and is well formed. The flesh is good, 
but — well, too Napoleonic to suit the best, as in it are many 
bony parts. It is often caught the size of the Hudson 
River herring and sometimes much larger, but generally 
not larger than a white perch. Some call it the fresh- 
water herring. It resembles that fish and also yields its 
life about as quickly when out of its natural element. 
N. D. Elting. 
[The skip- jack is the Clupea chrysochloris or golden 
shad.] 
The Greenbrier. 
Staunton, Va., June 30. — I have just returned from 
my two weeks' annual trip with the Greenbrier Fishing 
Club to the headwaters of Greenbrier River, W. Va. 
Found water very low, and streams dwindled to mere 
rivulets — fishing not up to average in consequence. Still 
we bad very fine sport for the first three or four days, as 
following score for trip will show: Bumgardner 157, 
Webb 127, Beall 123, Bell 67, Cooke 56, Elder 32; total 
562. Trout were of good size, very game and rose readily 
to the fly. F. R. W. 
AHFive Pound Thud. 
A number of big pickerel have been taken from Turtle 
Lake the past few days. T. H. Goodhue caught one that 
weighed about 141bs. OUie Worm took in three 6- 
pounders in one day, and a day or two before he landed 
one with Henry Clark's help, which is called a 20-pounder. 
Of course, no one but a very narrow-minded man would 
want to know the exact figures. The scales on which it 
was weighed had a capacity of only 151bs., and the fish 
brought them down with a thud which OUie thought sig- 
nified 51bs. Henry Clark was willing to be as generous 
as the scales and add fifteen to the fifteen which they 
weighed. Geo. Sperbeck said the fish weighed I81bs. and 
17oz. But that is neither here nor there, he was a big 
one and as good as he was big; to this fact the writer is 
pleased to be one of many to testify, and that moves him 
to remark that it is all superstition to suppose that a big 
fish is not as good to eat as a small one of the same 
ppecies; the reverse is the case — a big fish is mature, while 
the small one is only vealy. A pickerel in waters where 
food is abundant, can grow to a weight of 30 or more 
pounds, and be a better table fish at 25lbs. than at two or 
three. On Monday, T. H. Goodhue took out a string of 
eight weighing in total 561bs. — Whitewater (Wis.) Re- 
gister, July 5. 
Along the Jersey Shore. 
Asbury Park, N. J., July 6. — During the week last past 
I have canvassed pretty thoroughly all the fishing points 
of note between Perth Amboy and Absecom, N. J. , and I 
am much pleased to find a marked improvement all along 
the line. Weakfish are fairly plentifnl in Barnegat Bay, 
and are beginning to take the hook. Of course so early 
as this, few if any but school fish of small size are taken; 
the large channel runners come in later. Dr. George B, 
Herbert took nine striped bass at Manasquan Inlet last 
Saturday, weight 2| to 9ilbs. each. While at Morgan Sta- 
tion Mr. P. A. Schanck of Brooklyn, made an enormous 
catch on the previous Saturday of the same species. I 
will not give the number; it would not look well in print, 
but I have the account from his own lips, and verified by 
another gentleman. Altogether the indications are all 
right for good sport during August and September along 
the entire coast that this is due to the fact that the 
pounds were set much later in the season than formerly 
is unquestionable; regarding which and how the views of 
a great many pound owners are changing I shall have 
somethin ^ to say later on. Leonard Humt. 
^tihmlture and ctfish ^rohction. 
Warden Mover's Good Record. 
Away up on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, 
in Clinton county, amid the mountains of Pennsylvania, 
lies the little railroad town of Renovo, built, fostered and 
controlled by railroad monopoly; and for this reason it con- 
tains a floating and mixed population. Here may be found 
Irish, Swede, English, Scotch, Dutch, Jew, negro, Chinese, 
Pole, Hun, Italian. This conglomeration of humanity may 
be classified a« the law-abiding Christian element; those who 
believe in doing as 1 say, not as I do; the outlaw, who cares 
nothing for his word, regarding neither god, law nor the 
devil, and who is living in portions of this country where 
they have neither laws nor officers elected to fill positions 
required by the law. Among this mixed and diversified set 
law and order would naturally be at a discount, and up to 
the time of the appointment of a police force for the town, 
WARDEN KNOS MOSBR. 
detectives for the railroad service, and fish and game wardens 
for the community at large, people could not consider them- 
selves safe, or in other words, could not be off their guard 
for any length of time. 
The appointment by the State Commissioners, in the year 
1890, of Enos Moyer as fish and game warden for this section, 
was a move in the right direction. 
For the first three years Mr. Moyer worked comparatively 
alone, from the fact that the people in general and sheriffs 
and constables in particular believed him to be employed by 
"monopoly," and that everything he did was detrimental to 
their interests. Even the courts of justice and officers con- 
nected therewith thought him to be a humbug, something 
to be rid of as soon as possible: and in consequence so con- 
strued the laws as to compel him to withdraw many cases 
which otherwise might have been decided in his favor. 
There are exceptions to all rules, however, and special 
mention should be made of Sheriff Fullmer, of Lycoming 
county, and Sheriff Ishler, of Centre county, as well as Officer 
Westbrook of Lock Haven, who were the most faithful as- 
sistants Mr. Moyer met in all his travels. 
The sheriffs of many counties appeared to forget that by 
neglecting to lend their aid to Warden Moyer in enforcing 
the Act of Assembly regarding illegal Ashing contrivances, 
they laid themselves liable to arrest for misdemeanor of office. 
Notwithstanding all this opposition, Mr. Moyer has made 
more arrests, brought more violators to j ustice, destroyed 
more illegal fishing contrivances, such as traps, walls, nets, 
wires, fish-baskets and outlines, than all other fish wardens 
in the State combined, for the same length of time; and in 
so doing has waded more snow, traveled more miles on foot 
and alone at all hours of the day and night, and along more 
different streams in Clinton, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, 
Dauphin, Lebanon, Lycoming, Northumberland, Perry, 
Potter, Snyder and Union counties, than any other warden 
would have done under the same circumstances. 
Mr. Moyer has planted in the streams embraced in the 
counties mentioned millions of fish, consisting of pike, one 
season alone to the number of 1,150,000, and thousands of 
trout each successive year, besides replenishing the moun- 
tains with game. 
iJ$A warden, it may be said, carries his life in his hands, espe- 
cially so when he has a suspect and is compelled to follow 
him at once, without a warrant or assistance, to his home or 
place of concealment for his illegal game, which is likely to 
lead him a long chase over the mountains, through dark 
ravines, into a new section of country, traversed by him for 
the first time perhaps, where night overtakes him, leaving 
him without shelter and very often without food. A sly bul- 
let may also be looked for from an unexpected quarter; for 
who but the guilty one knows where the warden is just at 
such a time? 
The writer remembers several instances of this kind, the 
particulars of which it is not policy to mention, as the par- 
ties are desperate characters, having followed Mr. Moyer for 
miles, threatening to kill him if they were brought to trial; 
and who, after being by the courts of justice allowed to go 
free of punishment, have openly boasted of their conduct. 
At one time he has had as many as eleven men under arrest 
before an alderman for illegal fishing, who, promising ven- 
geance hereafter, pleaded guilty and settled, though most of 
them became his staunch friends afterward. 
At annother time in company with officer Westbrook he 
left Lock Haven, following the waters of Fishing Creek, in 
Nittany Valley, in pursuit of a gang of Italian desperadoes 
who for months had been making it a business to dynamite 
the streams, thereby capturing the fish in most of those 
waters. These men belonged to a gang of railroad laborers 
who were employed in the grading of a new road in that val- 
ley. The gang numbered at least 100, all of whom for 
months had bid defiance to the neighborhood. These parties, 
after being held in jail for a time, were allowed to go free, 
inasmuch as those who were to testify to their guilt had 
been paid to leave the country. 
Mr. Moyer has, at the present writing, under arrest a 
would-be English Lord who, having several hundred acres 
of land in Lycoming county, seeks to enact and enforce the 
laws of Old England by placing screens both above and 
below upon a stream which flows for a distance of about two 
miles through his land, neither rising nor emptying upon 
the same. The screens being five in number, the first screen 
is placed upon the upper boundary of his land, directly upon 
the line. The second screen is placed at a suitable distance 
below the first screen, the third and fourth in like manner, 
while the fifth or last screen is placed a few yards above the 
lower line or boundary of his land. 
Now, mark you, here is just where the rub comes in; the 
screener wishes all to know and believe he catches these fish 
on his own land, and of course considers himself not amen- 
able to our laws. As you see, he leaves just space sufficient 
on the stream below the screen and above his line for him- 
self or his hirelings to stand upon comfortably and fish or 
scoop all trout coming thus far up the stream. They are 
then made his by catching and transferring into captivity 
above the screen, and this is done both in and out of season, 
and for this reason has Warden Moyer placed him under 
arrest for the second time to stand trial at the next term of 
court. This same man charges all natives two cents per 
quart for all berries picked within the limits of his unseated 
lands. A negro with a shotgun is also standing guard to 
prevent fishing on streams in this neighborhood, and in 
order to test the legality of the above action of would-be fish 
monopolies the warden, after investigating the case, received 
instructions from Commissioner Ered W. Ebel, of Harris- 
burg, authorizing him to have several persons go immedi- 
ately and fish this stream. All of them were promptly ar- 
rested by the owner of the land. The case is coming up for 
trial at our next term of court and if gained by the warden 
and State Commissioners it will more than likely be a death 
blow to the fish and game monopolies now striving to form 
throughout this Commonwealth. 
Warden Moyer was born in Chester county at a small place 
called Sheeter Town, was reared in Lebanon, followed the 
towpath from the age of nine years until 19, when he began 
the trade of machinist. He came to this valley in the spring 
of 1875 and is still working for the P. & E. Company here in 
Renovo. Yet he is ready and willing to give his presence 
and assistance at all times in the service to which the Pish 
and Game Commissioners of the State have again appointed 
him. 
A suggestion or two may not come amiss, and may bear 
fruit at an early day. For instance, as so much money, time 
and labor is spent in propagating or hatching fish, would it 
not be policy to adopt plans leading to the better protection 
of them after they are hatched or sent into the hands or pos- 
session of others to dispose of? 
My plan in the case of the small fish is to establish a home 
for each and every warden and compel him to do nothing 
but care for everything within the limits of his appointment 
pertaining to his business. This in my opinion could easily 
be done by either buying or leasing a piece of ground con- 
taining living pure water sufficient to fill at least three dams 
or reservoirs, No. 1 dam, or reservoir, above to contain the 
fish when first distributed; No. 2 for those having gained the 
dimensions of two inches or more; No. 3, or final dam, those 
of larger growth, soon ready to be allowed larger waters. 
This last dam could be opened directly into the main stream, 
and then when these fish meet larger ones they would be 
able to take care of themselves. 
Time and again I have watched cans of small fish placed 
in waters new to them all destroyed by native fish within 
forty-eight hours after they were deposited. 
Will not Mr. Ered W. Ebel, who by the way is one of the 
most active and go-ahead Commissioners the State has ever 
had, profit by this suggestion and try to induce the other 
Commissioners to establish the first of these homes at 
Renovo? Who knows? McKEE. 
NETTERS BROUGHT TO TERMS. 
Cooks in New York. 
For many years Harvey Cook, Sr., who resides at Saratoga 
Lake, and his three sons, Harvey, Jr., or Jack, Ransom and 
Andrew, ranging in age from 23 to 35 years, have made a 
living for themselves and families by fishing illegally with 
fyke nets and set lines, thereby violating the game laws of 
this State. They have repeatedly been arrested, but by some 
hook or crook managed to escape punishment. It is claimed 
that their shipment of fish exceeded fifteen tons per year, all 
caught in Lake Saratoga, Lake Lonely and Lake Champlain. 
In September last, State Game Protector Barber caught 
Harvey, Jr., and Ransom raising a set line in Lake Lonely. 
The line was a mammoth affair, being over three miles in 
length and containing over eighteen hundred hooks. The 
protector seized the line and destroyed it, whereupon Harvey 
Cook, Sr., their father, immediately commenced a civil action 
against Mr. Barber for the value of the line before Justice 
Sullivan of this village. The justice decided against the 
protector, but the case was at once appealed. In February 
it was argued before County Judge James W. Houghton, of 
Saratoga, who reversed Justice Sullivan's decision with costs 
amounting to nearly $50, thereby sustaining the protector. 
Cook did not appeal the case, and an execution was issued 
against him for the amount and costs, but it was returned 
unsatisfied. Since last fall Protector Barber has pressed the 
Cooks so hard that they discontinued illegal fishing in Lake 
Saratoga and Lake Lonely, and two of the boys, Harvey, Jr., 
or Jack, and Ransom, removed from Lake Saratoga to Lake 
