FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 32, 1895 . 
Yonder red-shirted man is a placer miner, and that stream 
of water he is so busy over is washing gold for him. The 
four men we see over there are also washing for gold, 
good yellow gold. On we go, stopping at length under 
the shadow of the mountain in a sycamore grove, where 
the horse was made comfortable. We ate a lunch, then 
put up our rods and went to fishing. 
It was the first time I ever wet a line in a mountain 
stream. How I did wish for Stephens and Jack. The 
cup of happiness had run over if they had been along. 
My two friends assured me that we would not have much 
luck, as the creek was too muddy, and getting muddier 
every hour, from the placer washings on the north fork. 
It was too true. Noon found us with only fifty trout, and 
no tale of the big one that got away. 
But it was glory enough to be out there in the carton, 
and as I lay in the shade after lunch, with the great 
mountains on either side, the rushing, roaring creek be- 
tween on its way into the Santa Ana and the Pacific, while 
far up the canon I saw a great patch of snow crowning a 
lofty peak, I felt that my lot had fallen in a pleas- 
ant place, for that day at least. T was nearly 
in the condition of a man I met on the wharf 
at; Long Beach. He was fishing for sculpin and had 
two of the "critters" on the wharf. "Are they good 
to eat?" I asked. He gave me a look of pitying contempt 
and said, "Good to eatl Why, I eat sculpin last night till 
I like to bu'st." We fished some more, then started home 
with a total catch of seventy-seven trout — no giants, but 
just ordinary, fair-sized trout. 
On the way home I picked, with the help of my friends, 
one of the little Spanish bayonet flowers. It was only 
12ft. high, a monster bouquet all by itself. I am drying 
the stem and intend to cut it up into pin cushions and send 
them to some of my friends as souvenirs of my first trip 
in the mountains of southern California after trout. 
Myron Cooley. 
Colton, Cal. 
OUANANICHE, TROUT AND SALMON, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Almost every incoming train and steamer from both 
south and west brings a number of anglers to join the 
legions of the fraternity at present whipping Canadian 
waters for salmon, trout or ouananiche. The steamship 
Octer, on Saturday last, took down a number of salmon 
fishermen to the different north shore rivers, and it is 
probable that on her trip of the 22d inst. she will take a 
much larger number. Some of them, including Dr. Mor- 
ris, of New York, will leave the steamer at Natashquan, 
the extreme easterly point visited by her, and will there 
take schooner for a month to fish a number of the un- 
leased and far easterly salmon streams that are so far but 
little known. Dr. Morris is at present at Lake St. John, 
enjoying splendid sport among the ouananiche of the 
Grande Decharge, where he made a marvelous catch this 
time last year. 
Kit Clarke, of New York, the author of "The Practical 
Angler," "Where the Trout Hide," etc., is here to-day, 
and leaves to-morrow for La Grande Decharge after the 
festive ouananiche. He will also fish the preserves of the 
Amabalish Fish and Game Club on the waters of the lower 
Metabetchouan, for trout, and will then luxuriate at his 
camp on Isle Paradise, Lake Edward, for some weeks. 
Beports from the various salmon rivers are to the effect 
that the first run of salmon this season is unusually large. 
In the Jacques Cartier, a few miles above Quebec, the 
highest tributary of the St. Lawrence now ascended by 
salmon, the first fish of the season, ono of lllbs., was 
killed on the 9th inst. by Dr. J. H. Henchey, of this city. 
Mr. Eugene McCarthy, of Syracuse, was here yesterday 
on his way to Ste. Anne des Monts River in Gaspe, where 
he will enjoy his first salmon fishing as the guest of Mr. 
Henry Hogan, of Montreal, proprietor of the stream. 
Lake Edward has already produced a number of really 
magnificient trout this season. Two six pounders and a 
number weighing five pounds each were brought to town 
last week by a party of Quebec anglers, and a number of 
American fishing parties have been almost equallv fortu- 
nate. 
As anticipated in my last letter, Messrs. Hart, Durand, 
Turner and Atwood enjoyed even better sport during the 
latter part of their stay at Lac des Commissaires than for 
the first few days alter their arrival. They took a number 
of four and five pound fish and had a good time generally 
The rest of the boys tell a good story at the expense of 
' papa Hart. One morning all chipped a dollar each 
into a jackpot for the benefit of the guide of the man who 
should take the biggest trout that day. The fish were 
weighed at night, and Mr. Hart who held the jackpot paid 
it over to his own guide in virtue of his big fish of 4jrlbs The 
largest fish from the other canoes were none of them far 
behind, and it appeared to Mr. Atwood on comparing 
them subsequently that it was strange why his should 
have only turned the scales at 3ilbs. Mr. Hart promptly 
weighed it again to convince him, when it was quickly 
made clear that he had erroneously read 4ilbs. as \ and 
that Atwood's guide was entitled to the jackpot. "George" 
promptly paid the second jackpot out of his own pocket 
and also bought a bottle ot wine on his return to Quebec' 
to mark his appreciation of the joke. ' 
There has been on'exhibition here for some days past at 
a tombola in aid of the Quebec Amateur Athletic Associ- 
ation, a superb oil painting of a brook trout, presented by 
Walter M. Brackett, of Boston. This specimen compares 
favorably in point of artistic perfection with any of the 
larger and more ambitious works of his brush. It is a 
male fish in prime condition; not in what appears to 
many upon canvas the almost exaggerated high coloring 
that marks its breeding livery in the height of the 
season, like the deep crimson and gold of late autumn 
leaves and Kreighoff 's pencilings of Canadian fall scenes, 
but an every-day midsummer fish, with the familiar 
bright-colored spots upon its variegated sides, the chang- 
ing from the dark olive green, almost black, of its verniic- 
ulated back to the light silvery sheen of the under part 
of the side, where it is met by the more than soupcon of 
the August and September red belly. It is one of the 
most ideal representations of the average fontinalis that 
was ever placed on canvas, and its eye alone is a living 
picture. The soft, hazy indistinctness of the background 
eminently serves to bring out into strong relief the perfect 
figure and markings of the fish. 
Martin Howe, a farmer of Laval, only 15 miles north of 
the city of Quebec, came to town this morning with a 
magnificent bear skin and a story of an exciting bear 
hunt. Howe was working yesterday afternoon in a field 
near his home when his attention was directed to a com- 
motion among his sheep in a neighboring field, due to the 
action of a large she bear accompanied by a couple of 
cubs, a,nd who was chasing the plumpest of his flock. The 
farmer rushed into the house for his gun, which unfortu- 
nately has but a single barrel. However, he took so good 
an aim that mother bruin received the ball full in the fore- 
head and fell to the ground mortally wounded. But 
what was the farmer's surprise to find himself in the 
presence of three other full-grown bears outside of the 
two cubs, all after mutton. He rushed back to the house 
for more ammunition and hurried off his children to a 
neighbor's for assistance and a rifle. Meanwhile, how- 
ever, all the bears had disappeared but that which was 
stretched lifeless upon the ground, and it was growing 
too late in the evening to follow them for any distance 
into the woods. 
Those in the habit of fishing and shooting in the Lake St. 
John country will be glad to hear that Crown Lands Com- 
missioner Flynn, who drafted and passed through the 
Legislature the law establishing the National Park Pre- 
serve in the interior of the country to the east of the line 
of the Quebec & Lake St. John Railway, has just liberated 
there several fine specimens of the small red deer that 
thrive so well on the south shore of the St. Lawrence and 
in other parts of Canada, as well as in Maine. 
Information just received from Lake St. John is to the 
effect that the ouananiche season is fully open at the 
Grande Decharge, and has been good all week. J. Nelson 
Parker, of Boston, killed twenty-six ouananiche with the 
fly in one forenoon, once successfully landing two at a 
time. In the morning and evening fishing of two days, 
Dr. and Mrs. Brown, George F. Gregory, Calvin G. Sey- 
mour and Arthur Beebe, of Syracuse, killed seventy 
beauties. The Misses Olin, of Kalamazoo, Mich., have 
also been very successful. E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec. June 13; 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Deep Trolling for Brook Trout. 
Recently I learned that a man of my acquaintance had 
returned from fishing one of the Adirondack ponds, bring- 
ing six brook trout weighing a little over 181bs. Knowing 
the pond, and that it contained large trout which rarely 
took any kind of a lure, I was curious to know how these 
particular trout met their fate, and I found that when 
the trout refused various kinds of bait still-fishing, the 
fisherman arranged a trolling line with heavy sinker, as 
in lake trout trolling, and with a phantom minnow for a 
lure trolled near the bottom, with the result that he caught 
a number of large trout. This took me back in memory 
more than a dozen years to another Adirondack pond 
known to contain large trout with a reputation for not 
biting, but a gang baited with a chub, exactly as for deep 
trolling for lake trout, and heavily weighted to take the 
bait near to the bottom, was the means of taking several 
trout weighing from 3 to 51bs. each. Any one who is not 
above deep trolling for brook trout in ponds may act upon 
this hint with pleasurable results. 
Vaulting Black Bass. 
We have heard much about the leaping powers of the 
small-mouthed black bass, but almost without exception 
such power is displayed when the bass is hooked. The 
black bass can jump when it is not hooked, and jump in 
such a way as to establish the fact that it is a very know- 
ing fish. Not very long ago the water in a canal feeder 
in the western part of New York was drawn down for the 
purpose of making repairs to the feeder; and as it con- 
tained black bass, the men from Caledonia hatchery were 
sent to secure such bass as they could for the purpose of 
distributing them in other State waters. A net was set 
from bank to bank across the bottom of the feeder, and 
another net was drawn toward the fixed net; and as the 
nets were brought nearer and nearer together it was found 
that a large number of bass were imprisoned; and about 
the same time they also discovered that they were trapped 
and they swam to and fro seeking means of escape. Sud- 
denly some of the bass went with a rush at the approach- 
ing net and jumped clear over it, and others followed as 
a flock of sheep follows a leader. It was almost impos- 
sible to secure any of the fish, as they would jump the 
net every time it was drawn. 
Beach Bass Beds. 
The Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of New 
York is engaged in experiments to hatch black bass arti- 
ficially. The applications for black bass call for more 
bass than the State can furnish, for as a rule the adult 
bass now distributed have to be purchased, and it is not 
only difficult but expensive to furnish the fish to fill the 
applications, and for this reason the attempt is being made 
to rear them artificially, and there is reason to believe that 
in the end it will be successful. A few days ago one of 
the men of the Commission was sent to a bass lake to ob- 
tain spawning fish if possible, but they were not to be 
found just at that time. He did find a number of spawn- 
ing beds, and from these secured a few thousand of im- 
pregnated eggs— eggs that had been impregnated natur- 
ally." The curious part of the affair is that he did not find 
a single black bass on or near the beds guarding them, as 
they should have been doing. Another curious thing was 
that the eggs obtained were not particularly glutinous, less 
so, in fact, than the eggs of pike perch. 
Caledonia Fishing Club. 
Visitors to the Sportsmen's Exposition at Madison 
Square Garden, if they were anglers, doubtless noticed the 
Pair of brown trout mounted in the exhibit of Mr.Fraine, 
of Rochester. I am not now sure as the fish bore any 
legend to tell where they came from, but whether they 
did or not they came from the waters of the Caledonia 
lushing Club, and one weighed, in life, a fraction over 
lllbB., and the other a fraction over lOlbs. There was in 
the same exhibit a rainbow trout of 91bs. and a fraction, 
which came from the same waters, all of which is evi- 
dence that this club is fortunate in being the possessor of 
such fishing waters. Should there be any lingering doubt 
on this subject, one has only to stand on the club house 
veranda and look up and down Spring Creek and into the 
creek itself to be fully convinced that it is one of the best 
fishing streams in the whole land. There are brook 
brown and rainbow trout, as numerous as any angler 
could wish, and then they take a lot of fishing to reduce 
them to possession, and it must be artistic fishing, too. 
For day fishing the finest of drawn gut leaders and' flies 
tied on Nos. 16 and 18 hooks are used, and by careful 
handling they bring good trout to the boat well. Oc- 
casionally a trout will rise and take flies and leaders in a 
way to make the angler think he is fortunate to save his 
rod and reel. For night fishing flies of a size ordinarily 
used on other waters for day fishing are used, and 
it is at night that the larger trout are taken. Nearly 
every section of the country has boats for fishing which 
are in a way peculiar to that particular section, though 
more or less related; but the boats of the Caledonian Club, 
with their anchoring attachment, are not related to any 
other boats that I know. Flat-bottomed, square at the 
ends, made for one, with the oarsman's seat covering a 
fish well, there is at the right hand side of the seat a 
pole and a hole. The hole goes through the seat, the 
well and the bottom of the boat, and the pole goes 
through the hole. Jab the pole down hard and it goes 
into the bottom of the creek and anchors the boat; when 
anchored lift the pole and the boat floats down with the 
current. The whole thing is as handy as a pocket in a 
shirt and seemed to have been designed for that gently- 
flowing creek with its wealth of educated trout. 
It is often said that we in this country use coarse 
tackle, but the tackle used on the Caledonia Club waters 
is as fine as any used in England, and the club members 
know how to use it. ^ A. N. Cheney. 
THE NIAGARA COUNTY FISH DAY. 
Lockpoet, June 10. — The Niagara County Anglers' 
Club, which, with a membership now of 240, claims to be 
the largest fishing organization in the United States, held 
its annual excursion and tournament at Youngstown, Fri- 
day, June 7. Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the historic 
Niagara River, was the scene of much fun and a genuine 
club outing, but the black bass were unusually shy. Some 
large ones were caught, but the big score made by both 
sides depended to a great extent upon yellow perch, white 
bass, herring, rock bass and pike. Only thirteen black 
bass were caught as against nearly 100 last year. Seine 
fishermen have been doing quite effective work on the 
river, and to their depredations is attributed the poor 
fishing this year. Later something will be said of the 
crusade against the pot-hunter in this district. 
A special train of four cars carried the Lockport mem- 
bers via the New York Central to Lewiston, and at 
Niagara Falls they were joined by the Cataract City rep- 
resentatives. Western Passenger Agent Edson J. Weeks, 
of Buffalo, always takes especial care of the anglers and 
adapts the time of his flying trains to their hours. Leav- 
ing here at 6 A. M., the special reached Lewiston, thirty 
miles, in exactly forty minutes, including the stop at Sus- 
pension Bridge. The return was made at 8:45 P. M. 
The steamer Onen carried the expectant and merry 
party of anglers to Youngstown, eight miles down the 
river. A more perfect day could not be desired by the 
immortal Izaak himself. On the parade grounds near the 
fort the boatmen were lined up, with blades flashing in 
air like the spearmen of Philip's invincible phalanx. 
All who cared to contest for the banquet to be given by 
the defeated party were chosen by Capt. W. J. Jackman 
or Capt. W. E. Wicker, leaders of the purple and the 
white. The sides were as follows: 
Purple — Capt. Jackman, chairman Republican county 
committee; C. W. Hatch, W. A, Williams, William 
Cocker, M. N. Haskell, Burt J. Ferguson, A. Raphael 
Beck, E. F. Smith, Charles L. Nichols, M. H. Hoover, 
C. F. Smith, Bert A. Wayman, O. D. Prudden, F. K. 
Sweet, Thomas Eckensperger, Hon. John A. Merritt, 
ex-Assemblyman John F. Little, A. L, Smith, George E. 
Emerson, John Wilson, L. H. Lureman, Will Hoag, 
David Bruce, W. W. Stevens, Ed. Brown, Joseph Dum- 
ville, Jr., W. H. Clark, Superintendent Public Instruction 
Emmett Belknap. 
White — Capt. Wicker, J. E. Emerson, John H. Crad- 
dock, John Hittenmeyer, D. E. Brong, Dr. C. N. S. 
Ringueberg, G. Louis Holmes, James H. Staats, Walter 
Rider, John Klopp, W. R. Compton, Dr. E. W. Gantt, 
Benj. F. Steele, Hon. Guthbert W. Pound, State Senator 
F. N. Tryor, Ed. Williamson, George S. Gooding, W. E. 
Huston, Chris. Wolf, Cleland A. Ward, Supervisor 
Charles A. Warren, W. F. Bennett, Dr. W. B. Rice, Jake 
Fisher, Albert H. Stevens, Dan McKim, W. E. Shaeffer, 
F. O. Alliton. 
All day long the battle waged fiercely, with fortune 
favoring the two sides alternately. Ex-Assemblyman 
Little lead off with a three-pound black bass and his boat 
accordingly was decorated with the high hook banner. 
The trophy soon was captured, however, by W. E. Hus- 
ton and fell finally to the lot of A, L. Smith. The victory 
was claimed by the purple, score 3,725 to 3,707 — the 
closest contest in the history of the club. On a techni- 
cality the white based a claim of four and the controversy 
. has been referred to a committee of three, to take evidence 
and report next .Saturday at a meeting of the club. The 
banquet will be given the latter part of the month at the 
Niagara House, and by unanimous vote the editor of 
Forest and Stream is invited to grace the occasion by 
his presence. 
At 6:30 P. M. the steam whistle summoned the contest- 
ants to unjoint their rods and present their fish to the 
scorekeeper for the count and the individual prizes. 
Uncle Sam's soldiers looked on while Judge Daniel E. 
Brong made the awards, which usually had to be decided 
by the scales. The prizes were won as follows: 
Largest Small-mouth Black Bass — First prize, O. D. 
Prudden: second prize, A. L. Smith; third prize, Burt J. 
Ferguson; fourth prize, C. W. Hatch. 
Largest String Black Bass — First prize, W. E. Huston, 
also winner of club gold badge; second prize, J. E. Emer- 
son; third prize, Jake Fisher; fourth prize, John Klopf. 
Largest String Perch — First prize, C. L. Nicholls; soc- 
ond prize, John A. Merritt; third prize, C. A. Warren. 
Largest Perch — First prize, F. O. Allison. 
Largest String Mixed Fish — First prize, M. H. Hoover; 
second prize, E, S. Brown; third prize, A. H. Stevens. 
Guests' Prizes— First prize, Alfred M. Little; second 
prize, David E. Tice. 
Boatmen's Prizes— First prize, No. 24; second prize, No. 
26. 
The consolation prizes will be awarded at the banquet to 
be held at a future date. 
RULES. 
1. Hours for fishing — On arrival until 6 P, M., at the 
option of each angler. 
2. No two contestants on the same chosen side for the 
