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[June 1, 1895. 
all they wanted for themselves and families by going out 
and shooting it, The veto is a great disappointment to 
the sportsmen of the State, and looked upon as an invita- 
tion for the market hunters in the pay of the cold storage 
companies to with renewed energy continue to bang away 
at the few birds that remain until none are left. 
Damages for Gun Frauds. 
Judgment was given on the 27th ult. at Melbourne, 
Aus. , in a suit brought by W. W. Greener, gunmaker, of 
68 Haymarket, London, for wrongfully making use of the 
name Greener upon guns not of the plaintiff's manufac- 
rure. The evidence showed that the practice had long 
prevailed, and the court awarded £5,500 as damages, ex- 
clusive of costs. 
Trailing Foxes. 
The following query and reply covers matters so novel 
in respect to fox-hunting that thelwholeis inserted in full. 
The queries asked by "E, I. B,," Gardner, Mass., are as 
follows: 
Can a hound trail either male or female fox at this sea- 
son of the year? 
Would the crossing of fox and bloodhounds be any im- 
provement to a foxhound? 
To this Mr. W. W. Titus replies as follows: 
Be fox matters, I will say that Major Val Young and 
Capt. Billy Young had a fox chase last week. They ex- 
perienced no difficulty running the grown foxes, one 
giving them a race of eight hours. All the others started 
went to earth after a short race. 
They found, however, that their dogs could not trail 
with any satisfaction the young foxes, probably one-third 
grown. The dogs would strike their trail and go tearing 
off in full cry, run over it and circle for a mile, come back 
to where they lost it" and hit it again, and dash off to 
make a complete loss. They decided the scent was very 
light, and that the young fox dodged worse than a rabbit. 
Regarding the foxhound cross on the bloodhound, W. 
T. Hunter, of Wheatland, N. D. , tried it and three of the 
pups came down here. They were no earthly good for 
either trailing man or varmint. 
No cross can improve the foxhound, except English fox- 
hound blood on the natives; but as many English dogs 
run mute, and at the best have choppy mouths and don't 
give it very freely, only such specimens should be bred to 
as are free from these faults. 
The English hounds excel in speed, have lots of stamina, 
and push hard for the front. They have a high-headed 
way of throwing their heads up on a hot trail and strad- 
dling the track, and at a run-over, circling till they hit it, 
perhaps a half mile further on, and so pushing sly Rey- 
nard from jump to finish. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHING. 
Charlestown, N. H., May 20.— I mail you to-day a 
sheet of the Manchester Mirror and Farmer describing the 
superb fishing of the first week in May at Pleasant Pond, 
in New London, about ten miles northeast from Sunapee 
Lake. 
This pond has always been famed for trout, but was 
stocked a'few years ago with salmon, and closed for five 
years absolutely. The result is to be seen to-day as shown. 
The brooks feeding this lake, which are the spawning 
grounds, are still closed, and to be kept closed for the 
present by law. 
If any of your New York anglers want to try it, they 
can go up the Connecticut River road to White River 
Junction, and then down the Northern Railroad of New 
Hampshire to Potter Place, or go up from Boston to Pot- 
ter Place over the Boston & Maine Railroad. 
We have no fish stories to tell here. Drought and frost 
have nearly exterminated the trout, and the town voted 
at "March meeting" to prohibit all fishing for trout for 
three years from May 14. This gave the boys a fortnight 
to try, but I heard of no success. One young friend of 
mine tried three brooks, covering ten miles of territory 
one day, without a bite! 
I went down myself on May 2 to a little brook which 
crosses the lower end of the village and is fed by cold 
springs, within a rifle shot of the main street, and took 
out ten trout in an hour, of which nine went back into the 
water as quick as possible. The other one was 7 or 8in. 
long, and I kept him for breakfast. 
I have heard of a few being taken in Vermont, but the 
catch has been very limited in number to what it used 
to be. 
I have no doubt your correspondent "Mascoma" has 
been to Lake Pleasant, and look to see a report from him 
m Forest and Stream. Von W 
Commissioner Wentworth, of the New Hampshire 
Fish Commission, writes the fetter to the Mirror referred 
to by "Von W." and he says: The first day of May found 
me at Pleasant Pond, New London, where they have had 
splendid success both with salmon and brook trout. There 
w - fcr ™ I ^ rfcle8 there from different sections of the State. 
Mr. Miller and a friend from Westerly, R. I., caught four 
salmon and five brook trout averaging two pounds each. 
Ex-Mayor Beasom of Nashua took two salmon, catching 
them on a nine-ounce steel rod. These are the first salmon 
he has ever taken, but he handled them like a veteran. 
He is an artist with both gun and rod. R. F. Sargent of 
NewJLondon, and A. J. Cheney were two of the most suc- 
cessful fishermen. One old gentleman fishing not far 
from where I was had a strike from a salmon which took 
away a part of his line and broke the tip end of his rod 
He took the remainder of his line, fastened it permanently 
to the end of the second joint, making a combination like 
that we used to fish with when we were boys, for horn 
pouts and flat fish, and putting a live smelt on his hook 
commenced fishing again. In a short time he fastened 
on to another salmon in good shape; then the fun com- 
menced in good earnest, I can assure you. Another 
fisherman got into the boat and helped land the salmon 
which weighed between six and seven pounds. 
Capt. Gordon, of Potter Place, a veteran of the late 
war, a man over 70 years old, was upon the pond three 
days in succession, driving back and forth a distance of 
eight or nine miles a day, and fishing as persistently as 
any of the young men, I saw him land one large brook 
trout weighing between three and four pounds, which he 
handled in a manner, if you could have seen him, that 
would have done your soul good. One man made some 
suggestions about playing the fish. He was a man 50 
years old, I should say. The Captain told him he had 
caught trout before he was born. The two first days at 
Pleasant Pond, as near as I could learn, there were 
twenty-four salmon and ninety-four brook trout caught. 
If you or any of your friends want some good fishing, 
by going over the Northern Railroad to Potter Place, there 
taking a team to the pond, I have no doubt but that you 
could have some sport. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Hudson River Salmon. 
Scarcely a week passes that I am not asked about the 
salmon in the Hudson, and the people seeking informa- 
tion on the subject are so widely distributed that it can- 
not be considered a local matter. Mr. George Harris, of 
Fort Edward, told me a few days ago that a salmon be- 
came entangled in a net below the Troy dam only the day 
before I met Mr. Harris, and while the fishermen were 
trying to secure the fish it escaped. The salmon was be- 
lieved by a number of old fishermen who saw it to weigh 
401bs. Mr. Harris further informed me that a number of 
salmon had been taken in the nets just below the dam, 
and that they did not get away. 
The Mechanicville fishway was cleaned out this spring 
about May 1, and the Fort Miller fishway was cleaned and 
repaired; but as the first obstruction in the river, the Troy 
dam, now has no fishway, the salmon have scant oppor- 
tunity to try the fishways above. There is no deubt that 
the nets in the Hudson take a great many salmon every 
year that are not returned to the water, as the law directs, 
as there is no penalty for having the salmon in possession 
after they are illegally taken in nets. The language of 
the new game bill is the same as in the present law. 
The plant of salmon fry in the upper Hudson this year 
will be small, but the new Commissioners of Fisheries, 
Game and Forests will retain a few thousands of fry at 
the Cold Spring Harbor station and rear them to finger- 
lings at least before planting them. 
Fish Scores. 
Very lately I have had occasion to know something 
about the condition of some of the black bass waters of 
the country through letters from people who desire to re- 
stock overfished and depleted lakes and ponds. Perhaps 
if I say the number of black bass applied for in one year 
in New York State alone amounts to something like mil- 
lions, when it is only possible^to supply a few thousands, a 
fair idea may be obtained of the situation. 
I believe that a desire to make a big score is a most im- 
portant factor in depleting black bass waters. On my 
desk are two advertisements of two hotels in different 
States, and each to induce the patronage of anglers relates 
the scores made by visitors in previous years. For in- 
stance, one man is credited with an average catch per 
day of 40 black bass for eighteen consecutive days; an- 
other with 63 in two hours (and the card does not say that 
they were netted); "another with 330 in four days, while 
four men took 572 in two days. What becomes of the 
bass taken thus by wholesale? The publication of such 
scores may draw custom for a time, until the bass by 
reason of immoderate fishing become scarce, and then 
there will be a demand doubtless for bass for restocking. 
I ^imagine that the time will come when fish commis- 
sioners will be slow to furnish fish to be slaughtered in 
the name of sport, and that hotel keepers will be about 
the last to advertise that fish have been taken in numbers 
to make a netter blush in the waters near their hotels. 
Spawning of Trout. 
The time at which trout begin to spawn will vary 
slightly under different conditions of temperature, and 
the different species of trout will spawn at different 
periods in different localities, but the Buckland Museum 
had last fall three species of trout in the same water and 
the spawning period was noted in each species. Brook 
trout (foniinalis) began to spawn Nov. 15; the eggs began 
to hatch out Jan. 11; finished Feb. 10. Loch Leven trout 
began to spawn Nov. 22; the eggs began to hatch out Jan. 
21; finished Feb. 13. Brown trout began to spawn Nov. 
26; the eggs began to hatch out Jan. 30; finished Feb. 23. 
At first the water temperature was 42° Fahr., falling to 
35% and at the finish of the hatching it was 39°. 
To Canada. 
Yesterday, seated in the smoking compartment of a par- 
lor car on the D. & H. R. R., was a party of men rolling 
along at forty or fifty miles an hour in the direction of 
Montreal. General Passenger Agent Burdick, Superin- 
tendent Manville, Frederick Remington the artist, the 
writer and three others filled the compartment. The talk 
was of fish and fishing big trout, little trout and ouana- 
niche. And naturally, too, for with one exception the 
gentlemen were going to Lake Edward and Lake St. John 
for the fishing to be found there. The one exception was 
the writer, who was going home to work, with no imme- 
diate prospect of catching ouananiche or anything else. 
Less than a week ago a friend in Montreal wrote me': 
"I wish to learn when you may be expected to wing your 
flight northward. Everything is ready, and fishing (trout) 
has begun in the St. Maurice and Laurentian Club terri- 
tories. There is no use discussing the 'prospects' or 
'catch' in these localities, as the fishing is always very 
good; but most of us like to wet our lines at this particular 
season of the year, be it only for a few days. I know that 
is the case with myself, therefore I shall probably go to 
the Laurentian Club next week. After that, say the 10th 
of June, I shall leave for the Godbout and Mistassini" 
(this is the river flowing into the St. Lawrence, not the 
one of same name flowing into Lake St. John) "for salmon. 
Can you join us on this particular trip? * * * We 
would leave Montreal about the 10th or 11th of June, and 
be at the Godbout in thirty-six hours. Bring an ordinary 
salmon rod (or two), not a very heavy rod, as fish do not 
run as large as in the Restigouche and Cascapedia, but 
they are much more numerous, and are generally fished 
for by^wading or walking along the banks, Per- 
sonally, I like this kind of work much better than 
canoes. Standing up or sitting in a canoe for a 
couple of hours or more, casting away, is rather 
monotonous at times, besides one is generally confined 
to a single pool; but when you can wade the shallow 
parts of a stream as you would a trout brook, and perhaps 
land and gaff your fish, the general result is, I think, very 
satisfactory ; the exercise one gets, too, is more beneficial 
and the sport is much less dangerous. Old John Mowat 
is writing splendid articles in Forest and Stream, is he 
not? He knows a thing or two about salmon. Now write 
and say you will be with us soon after we telegraph for 
you." 
If it is not heart-breaking to decline such an invitation 
as that, particularly as I have been looking forward to it 
for some months. I do not know how to describe the 
feeling which I have. But the writer of the invitation iB 
a most generous angler and he has provided for some 
future fishing, about which I hope I may tell the readers 
of Forest and Stream. 
Books upon Fishculture. 
Frequently I have been asked to recommend some book 
upon fishculture, and I have always replied to such 
queries that Stone's "Domesticated Trout" was perhaps 
the best text-book to be obtained at a moderate cost, that 
gives the information sought by the amateur fish breeder. 
I now have two queries asking for the latest work upon 
fish breeding that is not too expressive for ordinary 
pockets. The latest and best work is "An Angler's Para- 
dise and How to Obtain it," by J. J. Armistead, 
proprietor of the Solway Fishery, Dumfries, Scot- 
land. It is an exhaustive work, based upon 
Mr. Armistead's long and successful experience 
as a fish breeder. I wish that every angler in the country 
could read the chapter in this book entitled "Pond Life," 
and our fish breeders could also read it with profit. The 
book is published in England, but I presume that Forest 
and Stream will import it for anyone who desires to pur- 
chase it. The price would be about the same as for "Do- 
mesticated Trout." I will quote one paragraph from Mr. 
Armistead's book in view of the discussion in this country 
about fry and yearlings: 
"Stocking with yearlings is a simple and easy matter; 
any intelligent keeper can do the work successfully. But 
with fry it is an entirely different affair. It does not 
matter how intelligent the operator may be, unless he has 
a fair knowledge of what he is doing, the chances are that 
some mistake may be made which will frustrate his good 
intentions. I have now stocked the same waters with fry 
for many years in succession, and have got excellent re- 
sults, but they have been introduced at the right time as, 
well as in the right place, and in the right manner." 
In regard to lood for young fish — a matter of the great- 
est importance for fish of any age, and one that compar- 
atively little attention is paid to in this country — Mr. 
Armistead has this to say: "The natural food of year- 
lings, as indeed of fry, may be largely augmented by the 
introduction of various insects in their larval forms — not 
only those which inhabit the water, but also the soil andi 
its vegetation, and a study of flora and fauna therefore 
becomes very desirable. This applies not only to rearing 
or nursery ponds, but to streams and lakes, which may 
often be very materially improved by the introduction 
and culture of certain forms of life which were formerly 
non-existent therein. As appliedjto our natural waters, 
this subject becomes an exceedingly important economic 
question, which is well worthy of the thought and study 
which is being given to it. Some of our winged insects 
simply abound in their earlier stages in certain localities, 
and under peculiarly favorable conditions. To supply 
these conditions in contiguity to our fish ponds is a work 
of great importance, but which has as yet hardly been 
entered upon." A. N. Cheney. 
Denver Tarpon Record. 
They talk more of big trout records than of tarpon 
scores in Denver, but when a Denver man goes to Florida 
and has luck he does not attempt to conceal the fact. 
The Rocky Mountain News reports the achievements of a 
Colorado rod on tarpon: "Everybody in Denver who 
knows Capt. Jake Sedam knows that he is one of the 
greatest fishing experts in the West, and is also a lover of 
that sort of sport. Some time ago he and his wife took a 
trip down South for health and pleasure, and of course 
when the captain saw the beautiful blue ocean water off 
the coast of Florida his desires began to work on him 
and he soon was on the water. He reports tarpon fishing 
excellent, the fish running smaller than usual, but in 
great abundance. He has the scales of six of the largest 
he killed, and they are now properly mounted on a board 
in Bostwick's gun store in the Tabor block on Sixteenth 
street, and are marked as follows: March 6, 1071bs., off 
Mattleshea, 5 leaps, in one hour and ten minutes. March" 
8, HOlbs., off Mattleshea, 7 leaps, in fifty minutes. March 
9, 1201bs., off Nigger Head, 5 leapB, in two hours and thirty 
minutes. March 10, 1501bs. , Astero Bay, 9 leaps, in one 
hour and fifteen minutes. March 10, 971bs., Astero Bay, 
1 leap, in two hours and three minutes. March 17, 
125 Jibs., in first pool off Mattleshea, 4 leaps in thirty min- 
utes. While Capt. Sedam was not exactly high hook he 
was nearly so. Mr. Cole, of Plymouth, was first; Mr. 
Borden, of Chicago, second; Capt. Sedam, third. 
Parties from Philadelphia heretofore having carried 
off the honors, this season, with the exception of Mr. Sill, 
failed to score. Mr. Jones and Mr. Frishmouth — consid- 
ered the very best tarpon fishermen — were unfortunate in! 
the selection of localities. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
The Chicago Fly-Casting Club held a tournament on 
May 25 at Garfield Park, and will hold others on each 
alternate Saturday to Sept. 28. There will be four events 
in each contest, as follows: 1. Fly-casting for distance 
and accuracy combined. 2. Dry fly-casting for distance 
and accuracy combined. 3. Fly-casting for distance. 4. 
Bait-casting for distance and accuracy combined. Rods 
must not be over lift, long, and must not weigh over 8^oz. ; 
leaders not to be over 9ft. and lines not larger than E, 
Medals will be given for each event, the winners of the 
largest number of events during the season to possess the 
medal permanently. During August there will be a tour- 
nament open to the world. Rules governing all the con- 
tests can be obtained from Secretary F. B. Davidson, No, 
127 West Washington street. The club will go fishing at 
Lake Beulah, Wis., during the first week in June t 
