June 8, 1895.] 
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At the Sportsmen's Exposition in Madison Square 
Garden I noticed what I assumed to be the 
original painting, as it was in the exhibit of Chas. 
Scribner's Sons, the publishers of the work: but the 
attendant told me it was only a copy. There was another 
copy, I discovered later, in another exhibit. Both bore 
the artist's signature, and there was nothing to indicate 
that they were copies of the original. If nothing more, it 
was an evidence of the popularity of this particular pic- 
ture. Scribner's agent told me that he did not know who 
owned the original painting. 
There was another exhibit at the Exposition which in- 
terested me, as it was a mounted trout said to have been 
a native brook trout, and its weight was given at 13|lbs. 
I had no opportunity to examine the mounted fish, but I 
would be glad to know where the fish was caught, who 
caught it, etc., if any of the readers of Forest and Stream 
can furnish the information. A. N. Cheney. 
A BUDGET OF BOSTON NEWS. 
Boston, June 1. — The Chapman party, which lately 
returned from a salmon fishing trip to Weld Pond and 
Sebago Lake, met again the other evening for a dinner at 
the Boston Exchange Club as the guests of Charles A. 
Kilham. It proved to be a festive occasion and was thor- 
oughly enjoyed by all present. Anecdote and jest never 
lag wherf Harberger and Littleton are present, and these 
gentlemen were at their best on that particular evening. 
Arrangements to make an annual trip were talked over, 
and Grand Lake Stream was the place selected for next 
year. The following gentlemen were present: Dr. W. G. 
Kendall, Albert Bevuard, L, Dana Chapman, J. A, Little- 
ton, J. L. Harberger, Geo. R. Hall, Chas. A. Kilham, Com- 
missioner H. O. Stanley, W. C. Gregory and J. E. Mtigs. 
A 21-pound lake trout in one of Dame, Stoddard & Ken- 
dall's show windows one afternoon last week attracted 
the attention of very many passers-by. The fish measured 
just one yard, and was taken at Moosehead Lake by Dr. 
J. C. French, of Boston. It was caught in trolling on a 
4 0 Carlisle round hook, and took fully one-half hour to 
land. I believe it to be one of the largest lakers taken 
from these waters, at least I can find no record of a larger 
fish, and I think it tops the list. The Doctor had only 
been there a couple of days, and was out fishing with Orin 
Templeton for guide. He is to be congratulated on his 
great luck. 
Boston sportsmen had an opportunity during the past 
week to visit for a short time with that ever-popular 
Maine guide, Ed. Grant. It is not often that this gentle- 
man finds time to leave his native heath, but he has been 
on to New York as one of the party in charge of the 
Maine Central exhibit at the Sportsmen's Exposition. He 
could not pass through the Hub without stopping to see 
his old friends, and was well cared for during his short 
stay. 
The Duck Lake Club have just returned from the 
Schoodie Lakes, where they have been for the past two 
weeks. They had a glorious time and report very fair 
fishing. The largest salmon taken weighed 5£lbs. The 
largest togue lOilbs. This club has a home camp on the 
shores of Duck Lake, with a branch camp at the head of 
Grand Lake, and another at Pleasant Lake. An invita- 
tion to join the club on one of their pleasant outings is 
considered a great piece of luck, as their pleasant quar- 
ters and genial companionship are well known to all. The 
gentlemen and guests who made up the party just re- 
turned are H. O. Underwood, William B, Lamberc, H. L. 
Harding, Edward Read, C. W. Shaw, E. C. Johnson, G. 
W. Wheeler, and H. K, Brown. 
Pine Point Camp3, Weld Pond, Me., is the destination 
of a party of Boston men who left on Saturday last, in- 
tending to spend two weeks in fishing the waters of this 
beautiful lake. C. A. Woodward, business manager of 
the Oliver Ditson Co. ; Leon Keach, of the same concern, 
and H. F. Morse, Junior Grand Warden of Massachusetts 
Masons, make up the party who left on Saturday. They 
will be joined in a few days by Myron W. Whitney, the 
well-known singer, who is about returning from an ex- 
tended trip over the Megantic Preserve. Mr. Keach is a 
great lover of photography, and may be called an expert 
at the art. Last year this party made a trip over the 
King and Bartlett preserve, and the pictures taken of the 
crowd while there were both instructive and amusing. 
Dr. F. E. Greene, of Boston, leaves on Monday for his 
summer home on Long Island, Lake Winnepesaukee, IS. 
H. He will be there during the entire season, only com- 
ing to the city about once a month to look after his busi- 
ness interests. The Doctor is a fisherman through and 
through, and has made some great catches of bass at the 
lake. Being near the White Mountain district, he also 
fishes the streams of that region for trout, and is well 
acquainted with all the best localities to enjoy his pet 
pastime. 
There are not many sportsmen better acquainted with 
the waters of the Upper Dam. Rangeley Lakes, than J, 
M. Niles, of Boston. He has visited this point many 
times, and always manages to get his share of rewards. 
With a friend he will leave in a few days on his second 
trip of this season, having returned but a short time ago 
from a trolling excursion to the same region. This time 
it ia fly-fishing, and may good luck attend his efforts. 
Decoration Day was ladies' day on Sebago Lake. So 
remarked a Portland friend of mine, a member of a fish- 
ing club with the Indian name of Ancocisco, meaning, I 
believe, ' 'place of rest." T. P. R. Cartland and wife, 
Hem:y Whitman and wife and PL A. Clay and wife, all 
of Portland, made up the Memorial Day party, and as the 
ladies had all the luck, my friend very appropriately 
named the day as their own. Mrs. Cartland landed a 
5£lbs. salmon, hooked and lost two nice fish. Mrs. Clay 
landed a 4ilbs. salmon and lost one. The fishing was ex- 
cellent all over the lake, and there were many parties out. 
A new club has just been organized, with camps at Spider 
Island. The membership at present consists of five each 
Boston and Portland men, all high-grade anglers. 
The L. D. Chapman party to the Megantic preserve left 
on Wednesday last for a ten days' trip. They will go in 
at the club house, and come down through the preserve 
to Eustis, stopping at all the principal camps, and fishing 
every good place where there is a chance to drop a line. 
Most of the party are old campaigners, there being, I 
think, but one member who has not been over the ground 
before. J. J. Henry, Horace S, Dame, L. D. Chapman 
and Myron L. Whetherbee, of Boston, and Geo. P. Kim- 
ball, of Nashua, are the men who make up the list. 
, B, F. Wild and wife. J. F. Wellington [and wife (the 
gentlemen well known in the coal trade in Boston), Geo. 
Macomber and wife, J. B. Viall and wife, and J. A. 
Faulkner and wife, of Lowell, have just left for a ten 
days' trip to Moosehead Lake. They will stop at the 
Kineo House, and the gentlemen at least will devote al- 
most the entire time to fishing, endeavoring to land some 
of the big lakers, similar to those which have been so 
freely caught at Moosehead this season. 
J. A. Littleton and Geo. R. Hall, of Boston, returned 
a few days ago from the King and Bartlett preserve. Mr. 
Littleton says he will know again when to go there after 
big trout. His trip this year was the earliest he has 
made, and he found the minnows crowding up into 
shoal water at the mouth of Bear Brook, the trout follow- 
ing after to feed on them. On June 2, Dr. F. M. John- 
son and three others will leave for the King and Bartlett 
camps. June 6, Chas. W. and W. J. Epting leave Phila- 
delphia for a trip through the fishing resorts of the Dead 
River region, ending up with a long stay at King and 
Bartlett. These gentlemen have visited the Dead River 
country several times, and aTe well known to most of the 
guides and many other sportsmen. They are cordially 
welcomed everywhere, and it may truthfully be said that 
no one can be more popular than the "Eptings." Mr. and 
Mrs. J. A. Littleton leave Boston on June 8 with a small 
party of friends, bound for King and Bartlett. To the same 
place later in the season Dr. and Miss Mary E.Van Zandt, 
Dr. T. D. Myers and party, and A. J. Wermelsdorf and 
family, all from Philadelphia. On June 15, from Boston, 
T. H. Rollinson and wife, E. L. Barry and wife, Geo. L. 
Tracy and S. Y. Nash. 
The Katahdin Iron Works, Maine, is the destination of 
a party of good fellows who left Boston a few days ago to 
fish this celebrated region. James S. Richards, Wm. F. 
Kimball, Jasper M. Keller, Frank N. Sleeper, and Wm. J. 
Follett, of Boston, and Wm. B. Tobey, of North Berwick, 
Me., are the men who compose the party, and the trout 
will have a chance to be hooked with skilled hands this 
time. " Hackle. 
CANADIAN ANGLING NOTES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Most of the members of the Metabetchouan Fish and 
Game Club, whose arrival here on their way to their pre- 
serves at Kiskisink was recently noted in Forest and 
Stream, have returned home after a most successful fish- 
ing trip, despite the steady rain that prevailed during 
most of the time that they spent upon their waters. The 
fish ran large and rose freely. Among others who joined 
the party at Kiskisink was the Hon. T. B. Reed, of Maine, 
ex -Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Messrs. Geo. E. Hart, Irving Atwood and Chas. Turner, 
of Waterbury, and Wallace Durand, of Newark, N. J., 
are having great sport at the somewhat newly formed 
No man turn Club, whose limits are thirty miles south of 
Lake St. John. Despite the rain I spent four happy days 
there with them in the early part of the week, enjoying 
to the full the best and wittiest of camping society and 
the grandest of fly-fishing. Mr. Durand topped the score 
with a four-pounder, while I remained in camp; but 
even better sport has been had since I left the 
limits. My friends expect to leave the woods on 
Wednesday next and to return in September. This 
club owns probably the finest trout waters in the province, 
and includes in its membership Mr. Bennett, the presi- 
dent, and Mr. Hooper, the vice-president of the Winches- 
ter Arms Company. It controls some thirty or forty 
lakes in which no white man has yet wet a line, and its 
main club house is beautifully situated upon a point jut- 
ting out into Lac des Commissaires, a handsome body of 
water 15 miles long, surrounded for the most part by lofty 
hills, the shores of the lake being wooded to the water's 
edge. The sportsmen now encamped in this ideal anglers' 
paradise are all adepts at the gentle art and familiar with 
all the famous fishing resorts of the Northern and Eastern 
States. Their sporting outfit is the most complete and 
certainly the most unique that comes into Canada, and 
ought to have had a place at the late Sportsmen's Exhibi- 
tion. 
Lake Edward has yielded some capital fishing this 
spring, and at least a couple of 5-pounders formed part of 
the catch of a party of friends which went home via Mon- 
treal on Thursday last, and included Fred Remington, the 
artist, of New York; J. W. Burdick, General Freight and 
Passenger Agent of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad; 
C. S. Weston, C. R. Manville and David Zieley. The 
number of American visitors to Lake Edward is increasing 
every year. 
Ouananiche fishing in Lake St. John is something mar- 
velous this year. A week ago a handsome 7-pound speci- 
men was sent here by Mr. A. W. Patterson, and a day or 
two later Colonel Montizambert, commandant of Que- 
bec, and Colonel George R. White killed, forty- 
two fish in one day in Ouellet's Pool at the 
mouth of the Ouiatchouan, where they were guests 
of the owner of the riparian rights, Mr. F. Ross, of Que- 
bec. Another day Col. Montizambert went out alone and 
killed eighteen fish before luncheon, running from 2 to 
5lbs. each, though he made splint-wood of one of his rods. 
Col. White is an old-time trout fisherman, but has now 
made up his mind that trout are not in it with ouana- 
niche, 
Owing to the immense amount of rain that has fallen 
here of iate, it will be some time yet before there is any 
appreciable fall in the waters of Lake St. John, and uutil 
then the fishing for ouananiche will be good both in the 
lake itself and also in the mouths of the Ouiatchouan and 
Metabetchouan rivers, I look for good fishing in the 
Grande Decharge to commence about the end of next 
week. Certainly by June 10 there will be no question of 
it. It will be at its best until about July 10. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec, June 1. 
Tarpon in Florida Waters. 
Jacksonville, Fia., May 25.— While at Fort Myers, 
Florida, the first part of the mouth, Joseph N. Patterson, 
of Philadelphia, caught twenty tarpon, including one of 
182lbs., which is the largest of the season. The same day 
he landed three others, which scored 154, 142 and 116lbs., 
equal to nearly GOOlbs., in one inning, and beating the 
season's record in size and aggregate weight, H. C. 
Ontario Black Bass Season. 
The Ontario black bas3 season will open the year at 
midnight of June 15. 
SOME FISHING NOTES. 
Blakesley Camp, June 1.— I am enjoying some very 
lively fishing at- Blakesley Camp (Douglass & Emery, 
proprietors), about eighteen miles from Eustis, Me., on 
the Spencer stream. The stream affords the finest kind 
of fishing at this time. The fish are small, but voracious 
and full of fight. They can be caught as fast as one can 
cast and take off. At Blakesley Pond the water has re- 
ceded so that trout rise in the liveliest fashion. About 
one-half hour's fishing this evening resulted, in eighteen 
beauties, running from one-half to one pound, and the 
rises would have pleased the most exacting. Anybody in 
search of a comfortable place to catch trout will do well 
to write Messrs. Douglass & Emery, Eustis, Me. 
Chart.es H. Meigs. 
Liberty Falls, Sullivan County, N. Y., May 28.— Trout 
fishing in the central branch of the Mongaup, from the 
old Kilbourne mill down, is good now this cloudy weather. 
Also pickerel fishing. In Stevens Lake, 11 miles from 
here, one of our boys caught 46 pickerel yesterday that 
weighed 19ilbs, Prospects are good. 
•E. A. Gregory. 
Sebec, Me., May 27.— Parties that I have had with me 
the four days I have been up the lake since Sunday, May 
19, have saved 43 landlocked salmon. More than half of 
them would weigh 31 bs. or better each. None were killed 
of less than lib. I call this good fishing. 
Frank A. Jordan. 
Long Island.— Babylon, N. Y., May 30.— We caught 
between four of us 1751bs. of fish. Flounders, sea bass and 
blackfish in profusion; and three weakfish weighing on 
an average of 41bs. Jacob Eidt, Jr. 
St. Lawrence River, — Clayton, N. Y., June 1. — Bass 
fishing opened magnificently here. About a dozen boats 
have been out for two days, average catches being from 
20 to 40 fish per boat; size and quality of fish the best I 
have ever seen among the Thousand Islands, the tackle 
being used is very light; 4£ or 5oz. rods, G or H lines, 
with Skinner No. 2, casting spoon in front of a minnow. 
Prospects most favorable for good fishing from now for- 
ward. James Churchward. 
Clayton, N. Y., June 1. — The Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries has sanctioned a change in the fisheries regu- 
lations which will be welcomed by anglers. Heretofore 
the regulations have prohibited fishing for bass until 
June 30, The amended regulations will permit the 
catching of bass on June 15 in the Provinces of Ontario 
and Quebec. Our season is opening big, bass and pickerel 
biting freely. I have reliable reports of this, and of the 
taking of 2+ to 3-pound bass. This noon I saw a fine 
string of pickerel and bass that were caught in a few 
minutes from the dock here. Yotjr Comrade in Arms. 
Canandaigua, N. Y., May 28. — The sixth annual fish- 
ing contest of the Canandaigua Rod and Gun Club will 
be held Thursday, June 20.. It has been the custom 
among fishing tackle and other sporting goods houses to 
contribute prizes to be contested for by members of the 
club. Our organization has about three hundred mem- 
bers. S. 
Anglesea, N. J,, June 1. — Sea fishing here is excellent 
now; large catches of sea bass have been made. The 
season is wide open and there are bigger fish in the sea 
than ever came out of it. S. 
Parasites in Fishes. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Last summer, in Lake Champlain, I caught at various 
times some good-sized perch, which I thought would be 
good eating, but was infoi'med by the people living there 
that they were not good to eat in the summer, as they had 
worms under the back or caudal fin. Then others would 
say that if they were caught out in the deep water, where 
it was colder, they did not have these worms and were 
good to eat. While at Lake George I caught a great 
many fair- sized perch, but not so large as the Lake 
Champlain perch; but at Lake George they know nothing 
of the worms being in perch, and eat them of all sizes 
and at all times. Bat I must confess that my desire to 
eat perch had been a thing of the past, after I heard of 
the Lake Champlain worm theory. 
I expect to catch more perch of course in due time, and 
am very desirous of knowing if they do have the worms 
as herein referred to, for it seems strange to me that a 
fine, healthy-looking and active fish can be so affected. 
If you can enlighten me on the subject I would fully ap- 
preciate it, and sincerely hope to hear from you in your 
next number if possible. Apropos. 
[Such parasites are not uncommon in perch, bass and 
other game fishes. They are believed to be quite harm- 
less, and the fish may be eaten with impunity.] 
The Sum and Substance of a Fishing Trip. 
Boreas River, Adirondacks, N. Y., May 26. — As I went 
a-fishing yesterday for the first time jn years, I thought I 
would write and tell you about it. Two of us started at 
about 2 o'clock, went about two miles up the Boreas River, 
came to a place where the water seemed to be ah>e with 
fish. There were a dozen at a time, or more I think, bob- 
bing their heads out of the water. I could catch them just 
as fast as I could bait my hook and haul them in for quite 
a few minutes, but when the sun would shine very bright 
they seemed to go away for a few minutes, but would soon 
return. We caught ninety-one nice ones. On our way we 
saw some deer runways, where the deer run to the river 
when chased by dogs and hunters in the fall of the year; 
also some noted watches, where the hunters sit and watch 
for the deer to be driven to them to kill. The place was 
also pointed out to me where Dell LaBier killed his first 
deer, a nice large buck; also where Hu-mie Brace (one of 
the best guides) killed his large deer. We arrived at our 
starting place between 5 and 6 tired, but with such a nice 
mess of fish tiredness was soon forgotten when our friends 
began to admire our trout. Myra J. LaBier. 
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