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FOREST AND • STREAM. 
[May 11, 1895. 
covered a wide range and the success of the combination 
cannot but be assured. Messrs. Jewell and Loveland have 
landed the salted cod off Brackett's counter. Pray and G. 
B. Hoyt have clubbed the wily alewife in its haunts below 
the Squatoscott dam, the 'Fellows' have turbined the 
lordly eel at the rapids of the Coppyhole, and Nichols and 
L. G. Hoyt have cast for flies amid the odors of penny- 
royal and creosote, Signed. L. G. Hoyt for the com- 
mittee." 
The Dr. Libby party, of Boston, including Dr. C. H. 
Gerrish, of Exeter, N. H., have lately returned from a few 
days' fishing at Lake Winnepasaukee. The trip proved 
very enjoyable, and a number of trout were taken, the 
largest of which weighed 71bs. 
Mr. C. W. Willard, one of the Rhode Island Fish Com- 
missioners, and Capt. C. C. Maxson, both from Westerly, 
R. I., passed through Boston last week en route to New- 
found, Sunapee and Pleasant lakes. New Hampshire. 
They will spend about ten days fishing the three lakes. 
Pleasant Lake is located near Scytheville, and is the water 
recently spoken of in Forest and Stream as to be opened, 
after a long-closed season, on May 1. 
A jolly crowd, consisting of James Edgar, F. S. Thomas, 
E. Frank Swift, R. M. Fullerton and Willis Marble, started 
a few days ago for Lake Rocignolle, Nova Scotia. They 
expect to be gone about two weeks, and fly-fishing for 
trout will be the order of the trip, Mr. Thomas is a 
pioneer in Nova Scotia fishing, and under his able tuition 
those of the party who are making this for their first trip 
will speedily become experts in the art of fly-casting. 
Two other Brockton gentlemen, E. O. Noyes and J. 
Chipman, started for "Weld Pond, Me., on Monday last to 
try the salmon and trout fishing. They will be gone 
about one week. 
L. D. Chapman and J. A. Littleton, of Boston, with 
four other gentlemen, making a party of six, start next 
Friday night to try the salmon at Weld Pond, Me. As 
the fishing is reported excellent there, and the party are 
all veterans at the sport, no doubt there will be a great 
round-up of salmon. 
A large lake trout, on exhibition in the window of the 
Washington street office of the Boston & Maine R. R., 
attracted the notice of many people a few days ago. The 
fish was caught at Newfound Lake, N. H., by General 
Paul Lang, of Oxford, N. H., formerly a member of the 
staff of ex-Governor Goodale. It was caught trolling, 
weighed 151bs., and took a long time to land. This 
gentleman has a record, in 1894, at the same lake, of 
twelve fish caught, with a total weight of 1401bs. 
Hackle. 
Northern Michigan Trout. 
Detroit, May 4. — May opened with soft skies, balmy 
air and a mighty rush for trout streams of northern 
Michigan. Never', perhaps, has the fishing been better, 
during the first days of the season, thanks to the policy of 
the State respecting fish protection and the enforcement 
of the laws governing the same. The occupations of the 
conscienceless rascals who went in for dynamite and 
every other murderous method for destruction have de- 
parted. The vicinity of Baldwin, Mich., in Lake county, 
abounds in fine trout streams, and they are having plenty 
of visitors. Baldwin Creek, which flows through the 
town, Sanborn Creek, the Middle Branch, Danaher 
Creek and others are good trout waters; in the first 
named, a brown trout has been taken weighing close to 
51bs., while others of this excellent fish and of speckled 
trout have been taken at the mill dam and below, weigh- 
ing over 31bs. each. Rainbow trout also have been taken 
in this vicinity. Sanborn Creek has always been a 
fainter stream, and although thousands of fish are every 
year taken, there is apparently no diminution of the 
supply. 
In the Middle Branch, rainbow trout are the more num- 
erous, of large size, ranging in weight from 2 to 5lbs. In 
the Little Manistee, north of there, trout abound, and it 
is also a popular stream; though the fish are somewhat 
smaller in size, they make up in quantity what they lack 
in size. 
Around Reed City, the fishing has always been good, 
but the present season bids fair to break all records. A 
telegram from a friend received yesterday, tantalizingly 
states: "Everybody went fishing yesterday (May 1). and 
the catch was unprecedented, aggregating at least 2,000 
fish, brook trout, brown trout and rainbows. One Ger- 
man brown caught weighed 21bs. l2oz. dressed, within 
a mile of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway depot. 
One of the rainbow trout weighed 22oz. and was taken 
about one block from the railway station" — and . so it 
goes. It is awfully exasperating to be obliged to forego 
all thi3 great sport, but it's a good thing to remember — if 
you can't go, "why take the Forest and Stream and read 
about it." B. 
"One Better." 
Wabasha, Minn. , May 3. — Editor Forest and Stream: I 
have just returned from a trip over in Wisconsin, in the 
vicinity where the incident occurred regarding the bear 
. and old rifle, with the string attachment, of which I 
wrote to you some time ago. 
The friend with whom I went had always succeeded in 
catching a larger trout than I, and on our first afternoon 
out'J succeeded in landing among others, after a hard 
fight and a troublesome time in a drift pile, a handsome 
trout 16in. in length and weighing 21bs. Soon after, I 
met my friend on the stream below as the shadows were 
gathering, and on his inquiring of my success I replied, 
"One little one," intending to surprise him when we 
arrived at camp. 
I passed on down the stream and soon went to camp, 
and on arrival fastened my big trout by the door in full 
length, so that it would show off to good advantage and 
attract my friend's attention when he came in. 
He soon after arrived, and looking at my trout said, 
"Ah, you rascal, you tried to fool me, didn't you, but I 
can beat that," and he reached down in his basket and 
pulled out a monster trout, held it up side of mine, and it 
measured 18in. and weighed 31bs. I didn't say anything, 
or do anything, but just sat down and looked at them. 
Wapahasa. 
The Wabasha Herald comments on the fish caught on 
the occasion referred to by "Wapahasa": "Perhaps the 
finest string of trout ever brought to this city was ex- 
hibited by Major Jewell to-day. They are part of a 
catch made by himself and Geo. F. Benson, of Lake 
City, in Rush Creek, Wis, Three of the largest weighed 
a fraction over 61bs., two weighed 51bs., and the largest of 
the lot, 31bs. 
Central New York. 
Ithaca, N. Y., May 2. — The trout season in this part 
of New York is proving a great success. Some splendid 
catches have been made by local anglers. Recently W. 
H. Willson and Arthur Post took seventy trout in one 
day from a stream near Slaterville. Mr. Neil and a 
friend, one day last week, caught forty in the same 
locality. Other studious disciples of Walton have scored 
well-filled creels from points near McLean, Harford 
Mills, Speedsville and Slaterville. A iriend at'Cortland 
writes me that some remarkably fine catches have been 
mad6 in Cortland county. 
L ike fishing has hardly begun yet. The local dailies 
note the taking, by a local fisherman, of a 14-pound 
salmon trout from Cayuga Lake. 
► A plant of 800,000 pike-perch from the Government 
hatchery at Washington, and 300,000 muscallonge from 
the Caledonia hatchery, will very shortly be put in 
Cayuga Lake. 
A good many pickerel, I am told, were shot in the 
marshes here this spring by a certain class of gunners, 
who excused their presence there by the contention that 
they were duck hunting. 
That prolongation of the wildfowl season was a fatally 
bad business for pickerel, as well as for the ducks. 
M. Cbill. 
f ' Forest and Stream " Fishing' Postals. 
Wolfboro, N. H. , May 1.— The ice went out of Lake 
Winnepesaukee April 26, and fishermen from out of town 
commenced to arrive here Monday. Lake trout are bit- 
ing better than ever before and are very fat. Landlocked 
salmon are also caught averaging about 4lbs. ; trout 3 to 
81bs., once in a while a larger one. The largest ever taken 
here weighed 20jlbs. Fishermen make their headquarters 
here at the Sheridan House, kept by Tom Lees, an old 
sportsman well known throughout New England. 
Horn. 
Central Lake, Mich., April 29. — A thirty- pound mas- 
kinonge was taken in Central Lake, April 26, by deep 
trolling. It is very unusual to catch these fish so early in 
the season. Kelpie. 
Night Fishing. 
ApROros of night fishing for trout, I may say, that two 
years ago I ran across a queer little character down at Blod- 
gett's Mills, four miles south of Cortland, N. Y., who was 
known through all that country round as an eminently 
successful trout- angler, and who, furthermore, did all his 
fishing at night. This man derided the idea of angling 
for trout at any time other than between 8 P. M. and 5 
A. M. M. Chill. 
The Main Ice Out. 
a [Special to Forest and Stream.] 
Boston, Mass., May 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The ice went out of Moosehead May 5, and the boats are 
running. The ice left Mooselucmaguntic tc-day. This 
clears the Rangeleys three or four days earlier than ex- 
pected. The trout fishermen are on the move. 
Special. 
(ff;?mi unci <$ist( jffrotetition. 
MAINE GAME AND FISH INTERESTS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
An article appeared in your paper of March 23 from 
Manley Hardy, of Brewer, Me., in which he criticised 
the work of the Maine Fish and Game Commissioners 
somewhat severely, which is nothing new for him, and 
which we have always passed by unnoticed. Neither do 
I now propose this as an answer to Mr. Hardy, but 
strictly for yourself; nor should I have taken any notice 
of Mr. Hardy's article had you not indorsed it so strongly 
in your editorial of March 30. It is you I am answering 
and not Mr. Hardy. If Mr. Hardy has any grievances or 
suggestions to make, if he will present them to the proper 
authorities, who are the Commissioners of Fish and 
Game, they will be treated with proper respect and care- 
ful consideration, but we will not belittle our department 
by answering any communications of this kind through 
the newspapers. Throwing mud may be all right for 
boys, but not for gentlemen, "even if you have the most 
ammunition on your side." 
In your editorial of March 30 you say, "It cannot for a 
moment be thought that Mr. Hardy is either ignorant or 
prej udiced. On th« contrary, there are few men in Maine 
who have so wide an experience as he has on the protec- 
tive question. He is able to look at it from the point of 
view of the guide and the woodsman, and also from the 
point of view of the dweller of the city and the summer 
visitor. Statements such as those made by Mr. Hardy 
cannot be brushed away by the denial of any man, how- 
ever worthy. Nor can they be explained by the state- 
ment that no sufficient appropriation is made by the 
State." 
Now, Mr. Editor, this seems to be a pretty sweeping 
assertion, making him a kind of Webster's Dictionary in 
regard to fish and game matters in Maine, and beyond 
dispute. Well, you may be correct, but from what I have 
seen and known of him — and I have known him for 20 
years, and used to often see him in Bangor — and from 
anything he has ever said to me, or of any interest 
he has ever shown in the fish and game of Maine, I have 
seen only in his articles in Forest and Stream, Neither 
have I ever known of his giving any information or as- 
sistance to the Bangor Commissioner. I live some dis- 
tance from Bangor and do not know so much about the 
transportation of game, by personal observation, as I do 
at this end of the State, where we have no trouble of any 
amount in that direction. But let us dissect Mr. Hardy's 
statements and see if they will stand investigation, and 
see if your estimate of Mr. Hardy is correct. What I 
shall write you will be the truth, stated fairly and can- 
didly, and which I can substantiate by the evidence of the 
best men in Maine. 
Some years ago you published a long series of articles, 
from Mr. Hardy and his daughter, well written and read- 
able. Among them were many thrusts at the Commis- 
sioners, for what reason we never knew. I do not intend 
to go back and take up old manuscript only partially; the 
reason why I do so is that a part of his assertions date 
back several years. 
He says trout were then and are now openly sold at 
Augusta in close time, and goes on and says, "I saw them 
on the bill of fare at the Augusta House. Senators and 
Representatives were eating them. I saw a large quan- 
tity of trout openly displayed at Augusta for sale. When 
I stated the facts to Commissioner Stilwell, he promised 
to investigate. The result was that he told me he had a 
letter from a warden, to whom he said he wrote to look 
the matter up, that there had not been a trout in the 
market for the winter. To-day a gentleman told me he 
ate trout at the Augusta House week before last. Our 
Commissioners often visit Augusta and cannot help know- 
ing this." The largest part of this is true. That which is 
not true spoils the rest. I can best illustrate by telling a 
story. I once went fishing with the proprietor of a fash- 
ionable hotel in Maine for trout and white peich. In a 
deep pool we found a lot of suckers, from which we filled 
our baskets. On the bill of fare for supper we had white 
perch. We caught no perch ; the hotel people had bought 
no perch; they looked like suckers; they tasted like suck- 
ers; they were suckers in their native element, yet on the 
bill of fare they were white perch. The Augusta case is 
a fae simile. I examined these fish at Augusta myself. 
Have seen them there and elsewhere often. They are 
not trout; they are not togue; they are unlike anything 
we have in Maine. Mr. Stilwell was right when he told 
Mr. Hardy no trout had been in the market for the win- 
ter. It was none of our business what they called them 
on the bill of fare at the Augusta House, and if Mr. Hardy 
was stupid enough to eat them and call them trout, 
he is not the man he has the reputation of being in the 
columns of Forest and Stream, at least, or that I took 
him for myself. If he is the ichthyologist he has the 
reputation of being and calls those fish trout as specified 
in the law, he is entitled to horn No, 1 in that dilemma 
he has manufactured. If he ate them and thought them 
trout, the other horn is also his. 
You will observe that in Forest and Stream of March 
30 you have an article from a correspondent who signs 
himself "Chandler," who writes about those same Augusta 
trout and says the same thing about them as myself. His 
authority cannot be questioned in that or other fish and 
game matters in Maine. His place in the class of fish 
and game protection in Maine, and his knowledge of fish 
and game, is far in advance of Mr. Hardy's. He is intelli- 
gent and reliable, and has the confidence and respect, 
of every true sportsman at home and abroad. His testi- 
mony cannot be gainsaid, notwithstanding Mr. Hardy to> 
the contrary. 
Second — Mr. Hardy says, last winter a man selling 
salted trout, which he said came from Newfoundland, 
was arrested and fined; and that just such trout had been 
openly exposed for sale in front cf our markets; there 
was but little doubt but what they came from out the 
State, but it damaged the marketman to have them 
peddled, and the marketman must be protected. This is 
a misrepresentation. The facts are these: this was the 
first case brought to our notice. The man was arrested 
and convicted. He appealed from the decision of the 
court. The case is now before the full bench to decide 
whether salted trout caught in Newfoundland in open 
time can be sold in Maine. The man has paid no fine ; it 
is a question if he ever does. Would it not have been 
unjust to have gone on prosecuting like offenses and 
against advice of counsel till the courts have decided 
whetl er they can be sustained? 
Third — The assertion that the rich man is allowed to kill 
game to waste, and the poor man who kills to feed his 
family is prosecuted, is ridiculous and not worth wasting 
ink to answer. Mr. Hardy knows better than that him- 
self. 
He says, one of our prominent Bangor merchants offered 
to testify that he had paid money to a warden not to see^ 
ajdeer he was shipping to a friend, and gave the name of: 
the warden to whom he paid it. On this being told to a. 
warden he claims that he had authority from the Bangor 
Commissioner to look after all outside mat ers, and the 
offer being made to prove it, the answer was, "If you can; 
prove this you had better have the man arrested." 
This is a new phase of that dilemma and something un- 
heard of before. All I can say is, that I think he is mak- 
ing an assertion that he cannot back up and I believe is 
untrue. Can you believe a merchant can be found in 
Bangor who is fool enough, even if he had done what Mr. 
Hardy says, to testify to anything of that kind? Not only 
criminating himself and subjecting himself to a fine of 
$40 for illegal transportation, but for bribing an officer 
also, I challenge Mr. Hardy to produce the proof. If it 
is true he can do so easily. If it is true the Commissioners 
will be very glad to know it. 
Mr. Hardy says, one day Bangor would be full of deer 
and the next day none would be seen. This was repeated 
week after week with no local sale of any amount. That 
the people could not get any venison without buying a 
whole deer. This I presume may be true in a measure. 
What if it is? Is that any evidence that it was all illegally 
shipped to Boston or elsewhere? 
There is no law on our statutes to prevent every deer, 
moose and caribou brought into Bangor being bought, 
sold and shipped to Boston legally. You can go into 
Bangor in open time, buy two deer, one moose and one 
caribou and ship them to Boston or elsewhere. Any man 
going to Boston can do the same. There is no law to pre- 
vent. Do you suppose all the sportsmen coming to Maine 
kill all the deer themselves that they take home with 
them? Some of them, to my knowledge, do not. Often 
a deer will sell for more to some unlucky sportsman in 
Maine than it would bring in Boston market. I do not 
pretend to say that no deer are sent to market from 
Bangor illegally; but if Mr. Hardy knows so much about 
the illegal shipping of deer from Bangor, why don't he 
inform the Commissioners, which he has not done? He 
has no right to make any such assertions unless he knows 
it and can make the assertion good. 
In years past there have been complaints made that 
many moose and deer skins were bought in Bangor by 
local buyers, that were crust-hunted and killed in open 
time and their slaughter encouraged. Mr. Hardy used to 
be, if he is not now, one of the largest buyers of furs and 
skins in the State. Yet I am not ungenerous enough to 
say, nor do I for one moment believe he would engage in 
that nefarious traffic, yet we could say it with just as good 
grounds, to say the least, as he has accused us. 
You say statements such as those made by Mr. Hardy 
earnot be brushed away by the denial of any man, how 
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