June 22, 1895.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
banquet will be permitted to fish in the same boat. It is 
optional with members to enter in this contest. 
3. Each person will be allowed to fish with but one rod 
and line, two hooks and bait. Artificial bait allowed. 
4. Boats will be numbered and the persons drawing the 
corresponding number will be entitled to that boat. 
5. Agreeable changes will be permitted in the boats 
provided Rule 8 is observed. 
6. The high hoot banner will be in the boat having the 
largest black bass. 
7. Each person will be provided with a score card to 
record his entire catch thereon. The ca,tch must be ex- 
hibited to judges and scores handed to them at the close 
of the day's fishing. 
8. The rivalry will be decided upon points as given in 
the schedule of fish adopted by the club. 
Board of Directors— Transportation, C. W. Hatch, Chair- 
man. Boat, bait and guides, John F. Little, Chairman. 
Accommodations, John A. Merritt, Chairman. Lunch, 
Joseph Dumville, Jr., Chairman. Programme and 
tickets, J. E. Emerson, Chairman. Prizes, W. E, Huston, 
Chairman. Selling tickets, William A. Williams, Chair- 
man. Badges and banner, F. N. Trevor, Chairman. 
Judges for awarding prizes, David Millar, Chairman. 
Conductor, Burt G. Fergason, Chairman, 
Fish Schedule— Black bass 50, white bass 15, salmon 
trout 100, muscalonge 500, pickerel 25. herring 5, yellow 
pike 20, blue pike 15, perch 2, rock bass 2, eel 20, catfish 
and bullhead 15, suckers 5, sheepshead 20, sunfish 1. 
Fish and Game Protector Dan. N. Pomroy, formerly 
U. S. deputy marshal here, is doing splendid work in root- 
ing out the fishermen and pot-hunters who habitually dis- 
obey the fish laws in this city. Saturday morning about 
2 o'clock he arrested four men named Dick Johnson, alias 
"Bullhead Dick," William Schultz, Herbert Cleveland 
and John Price at La Salle. With three deputies he 
watched the pirates make three hauls with a 150ft. seine, 
and caught them red-handed. In a box were found 220 
small-mouth black bass captured in the three hauls by the 
pot-hunters. Three nets were destroyed. Protector Pom- 
roy has had several sensational encounters with the law 
breakers, and already has destroyed over a dozen nets, al- 
though he has been in office but six weeks. M. H. H. 
BOSTON AND MAINE. 
Boston, June 13. — Still the reports of good catches of 
trout at Moosehead continue to come in. Mr. and Mrs. 
B. F. Larabee are at the Kineo House. They are reported 
to have fished one day with a result of a dozen trout, the 
largest weighing 31bs. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Kimball, of 
Brookline, have recently returned from a three weeks' 
Btay at Lake Memphremagog, Vt. They were quartered 
at the Owl's Head Hotel. Mrs. Kimball landed a 131b. 
lake trout, her first success with a fish of that size, and 
the largest fish caught in that lake this year. 
Mr. Walter L. Hill is back from his Moosehead fishing 
trip and is as enthusiastic as ever concerning fishing in 
that lake. He was accompanied by Mr. C. W. Wilder, 
of Lowell, and H. B. Kirk, of New York. They had good 
fishing, taking all the fish they wanted, which was all 
they could use. They took a lake trout weighing 12ilbs. 
and a great many smaller ones. Mr. Hill mentions the 
fact of his having thrown back into the water a great 
many lakers, one weighing 3 or 41bs. The guide remarked 
that it was the first time in his experience that he had 
guided anybody who returned trout to the water. But 
Mr. Hill asked him what could be done with them if 
kept. He had had the sport of landing them, the fish 
were uninjured and why not return them, in order 
that some other fellow might Imve the sport of 
catching them again. They did the same with small 
brook trout, of which they got a good many; taking 
a string of over thirty in one day from a cove where the 
guides said that nobody was in the habit of fishing. Mr. 
Hill had the pleasure' of landing a trout of over 31bs., 
taken on the fly. Judge Wilson, of Washington, could 
not be with them, much as the party regretted the fact. 
He was hindered by important law cases, after having 
made all his arrangements to be with the party at Moose- 
head. It was Mr. Kirk's first excursion to Maine trout 
waters, and he is now a thorough convert. The party is 
credited with having taken a 61b. landlocked salmon, but 
the report is not true. They caught a very light-colored 
lake trout, and some of the uninitiated were ready to pro- 
nounce this fish a salmon in spite of its forked tail. An- 
other Boston gentleman, however, did take a 3*lb. genuine 
landlocked salmon or blackspot. Mr. Hill says that the 
Commissioners are putting a great many landlocked 
salmon and brook trout fry into Moosehead, and he has 
no doubt of the success of the landlockers, for the land- 
locked smelt are beginning to be seen in abundance. He 
visited the fish hatcheries at Moosehead and was agreeably 
surprised with the amount of restocking that is being 
done. 
It will not be out of place to mention here that the 
Maine Commissioners turned loose 12,000 brook trout at 
Bemis the other day. These fish were a year or more old, 
and are likely to be of more value than a great many 
turned loose as soon as hatched. 
Mr. George D. Clapp has just returned from a fairly 
suceessf ul trout fishing trip to the brooks in the vicinity of 
Jackson, N. H. He mentions extremely hot weather, 
however, and poor fishing some days. He came very near 
a sunstroke, but sought shelter in good time, A good 
work has been done in restocking the brooks in that vicin- 
ity. Mr. Clapp caught a great many trout that were evi- 
dently young, being small. These he returned to the 
water, so far as not injured by the hook. He thinks that 
it is the duty of everybody who fishes to return the small 
trout to the brook again. 
I see by the papers that some Maine sportsmen have 
been having good luck at Houghton's and the Four Ponds, 
taking a great many trout. They report; that there is "no 
possibility of these ponds ever being fished out." Trout 
fishermen will be glad to learn that Houghton's is on the 
line of the new Portland & Rumf ord Falls Railroad. This 
road is bound to be pushed through to Bemis, and will 
open up a new section to the trout fishermen. The road 
will also open a new way to the Rangeley Lakes, shorter 
and easier than either way now in vogue, and since the 
new road is broad or full guage, a parlor car can be run 
through from Boston to Bemis. I have it from Superin- 
tendent L. L. Lincoln direct that this road is bound to 
favor sportsmen. It has decided to check sportsman's 
boxes of trout as baggage, though the Maine Central 
xssued an order last winter that it would do so no longer, 
and so far as I am informed it still adheres to that order. 
The Boston & Maine has, however, issued no such an 
order, nor does it propose to do so. Hence a [sportsmen's 
box of trout, coming over the Portland & Rumford Falls 
road, gets to Boston without trouble. The Grand Trunk 
road is also putting a most liberal construction on what 
they will handle for sportsmen as baggage. It will carry 
guns, dogs, tents and paraphernalia to the extent of full 
weight of baggage, and above full weight allowed will only 
charge regular excess baggage rates. It will forward fish 
and game as baggage under the same regulations. Later 
I will give the Forest and Stream the full decisions of 
the roads running into Maine on the question as to what 
they will forward for sportsmen as baggage. 
June IS, — The trout and sahnon fishermen are medita- 
ting on the causes of their recent ill success. Generally 
the unexpected forwardness of the season in Maine is 
thought to be to blame. The hot weather is also blamed. 
Others declare that fishing at the Rsngeleys and Moose- 
head is rapidly "playing out." Mr. C. H. Andrews, of 
the Boston Herald, says that the only compensation for 
the exceedingly poor fishing he had on Mooselucmagun- 
tic Lake was the hooking and landing of a 31b. land- 
locked salmon. The guides tell him that the salmon are 
following the landlocked smelts down from Rangeley 
Lake. A good many of these smelts have been seen in 
Mooselucmaguntic this spring. 
Some good reports of fishing come from the home of 
the Inglewood Club, in New Brunswick. Mr*. Henry E. 
Cobb and Mr. Joseph W. Byers have just returned from a 
most enjoyable fishing trip to that point. They were 
there from the 6th to the 12th of J une. Mr. W. J. Follett 
received tangible proof that Mr. Cobb got some good 
trout. They were put up in such a nice way, and doubt- 
less novel to many trout fishermen, that it makes the 
matter worthy of mention. The trout were nicely 
dressed and wiped. Then they were put into a glass jar, 
a large one, and sealed as tightly as possible. On the way 
out they were kept in the ice chests of the trains and 
steamers. Mr. Follett is delighted with the way the trout 
reached him. Isn't here an idea, brother trout fisher- 
men? 
Mr. Andrew S, March, President of the Inglewood Club, 
has also been there for quite a while with Mr. Bert 
March. Doubtless Mr. March will go back for a season 
with the Follett party, which is mentioned below. 
On the evening of July 2 the steamer State of Maine 
will have on board a most happy fishing party as she sails 
away on her trip to St. John. Twelve staterooms have 
already been engaged by this party, which is in charge of 
Mr. W. J. Follett. It also includes Mrs. W. J. Follett, 
Master A. W. Follett, Jr., and Master W. Dana Follett, 
sons of W. J. Follett, whom he is training to be lovers of 
the angle. In the party will also be the following Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., people: Mr. and Mrs. John O'Donahue, Mr. 
and Mrs. George Howe, Miss Grace Horton, and Mr. and 
Mrs. Edgar W. Follett. Miss Horton's parents are of the 
celebrated Horton dry goods house in Brooklyn. The 
party 'will also contain Mr. and Mrs. James W, French, 
Miss Maggie French, Mr. John T. Lodge, and Master John 
Lodge, of Newton, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Veasey 
and Master Arthur Hall Veasey, of Haverhill, Mass., will 
also be in the party. 
Nor would the party be complete without the Cobbs and 
the Marches, as suggested above. Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. 
Cobb, Miss Lucy Cobb, Miss Helen Cobb, Master William 
Ely and others will make up this wing of the party. The 
March wing will include Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. March, 
Miss Claire March and Miss Leslie Field. 
The weather being fine the party will much enjoy the 
sail down the coast on the 3d. Stopping at St. John over 
night, the party will reach the Inglewood Club home 
about 11 o'clock on the morning of July 4. Mr. Follett 
has arranged to start fishing as soon as the company ar- 
rives. "Some trout must be had for dinner." 
Mr. Frank H. Robinson, of the Boston Chamber of 
Commerce, seems to have visited a new Eldorado for 
trout fishermen. In his party were Mr. Chace and Mr. 
Farley. They went to Portage Lake, in Aroostook 
county, Maine. From that lake they went up the river 
in canoes over 20 miles to Big Fist Lake, and camped on 
an island in that lake. There was not an inhabitant 
within 25 miles of them, though a couple of Maine sports- 
men had begun a camp on the lake, in which they staid 
one or two nights. They found the trout fishing all that 
could be asked for. They took trout every time they 
went out, taking some that were 20in. in length. Having 
no scales, they could not get at their weight. The lake 
they found to be nearly two miles long. Think of it, 
brother sportsmen, a trout lake of that size away in the 
unbroken forest, and full of trout 1 Their only wish was 
that some of the trout could be got out to their friends. 
Deer they found to be very plenty, seeing them fre- 
quently, and at one time five in a herd. Moose tracks 
they also saw in abundance. Special. 
At Blakesley Lake. 
Eustis, Maine, June 7. — I have spent the last ten days 
at Douglass & Emery's camp, onBlakesley Lake, some fif- 
teen miles from Eustis, Me., and have had rare sport with 
the trout. The weather has been warm, witn several 
cloudy days, and the fishing has been superb, notwith- 
standing the fact that the water has been a little high. 
The stream fishing has been particularly fine. Two of us 
whipped old Spencer Brook tor an hour yesterday, start- 
ing at the old dam at this place, and caught one hundred 
and twelve trout — mostly small, of course, but fighters 
every one of them, and in the quick waters of the swollen 
stream they put up a battle fully up to their reputation. 
Five and six would rise for the flies at once and double 
and treble catches were often made. For the streams we 
have had the best success with the red-ibis, professor and 
Jenny Lind flies. 
At Blakesley Lake we have taken our surfeit of trout 
running from 4- to 21bs. in weight. I never saw trout rise 
so vigorously to the fly. They leap a foot out of the water 
and are as quick as a flash. One almost feels as though he 
ought to have a rifle instead of a rod, so fierce is the attack. 
The successful flies for the ponds and lakes, with us, have 
been the parmachene-belle, the Jenny Lind, silver-doctor, 
red-ibis, coachman, professor and white-miller. The 
parmachene-belle is a wonderful fly for these waters. 
Deer are plentiful. We have seen numbers of them. 
Several bear have been caught. Partridges will evident- 
ly be plentiful this fall, judging from the number of 
drummers we have heard. 
The black flies and the sociable mosquito are in evidence, 
but not very troublesome. 
If your readers are looking for a comfortable place for 
fly fishing, where the beds are as good as the table (which 
is very good indeed), let them write Douglass & Emery, 
Eustis, Me. Charles H. Meigs, 
NEW FLORIDA TARPON WATERS. 
RoxBtTRT, Mass., June 10. — Editor Forest and Stream; 
I enclcse to you a copy of a letter one of my friends re- 
ceived from a Kansas City fisherman. Possibly it might 
be interesting reading, if you think ; but you can omit 
names and use the initials. Charles A. Dean. 
The letter, addressed to "R. W. J.," New Jersey, reads: 
"I am telling the shark story for a true one. It happened 
to Mrs. S. instead of myself, and, of course, it is not 
colored. She did have a large tarpon within 30ft, of the 
shore, when a shark rushed out on it and gulped it in at 
one gulp. I do not know how big the shark was, but it 
looked to be 20 or 25ft. long. 
"I write this letter in particular to let you know that 
we have revolutionized the tarpon fishing. We had poor 
success at Marco, also at Myers. This thing of cutting 
up mullet and fishing in a mud hole a week for a bite is a 
thing of the past. So I will explain : We came up to Cap- 
tive Pass, and while we were badly fixed for trolling we 
had great success there. Mr. S. C. had twenty-four strikes 
in nine days and caught one. Mrs. S. had some seventeen 
or eighteen strikes and caught two. 1 had some twenty 
strikes and caught four. The way we fished for them 
was to cut the belly of a mullet as much in shape 
of a live fish as possible, and fish when the tide 
is coming in or going out with a circle sinker 
and piano wire snood some 6ft. long, and it 
should have double hooks. Of course, we account for 
losing so many that strike because the hook is seldom 
swallowed, but it is the grandest sport I ever saw. I 
have seen thousands of tarpon in Captive Pass in one day. 
For the truth of the statement you can call upon my wife. 
They came so close to the boat and flitted around so much 
that I have seen her take her handkerchief out to wipe 
her glasses dry. It is grand fishing. I believe next year 
there will not be room enough to anchor a fishing boat in 
Captive Pass. Mr. Vom Hofe and his party were with 
us. He is getting up a lot of hooks and snoods that we 
agreed upon and cut the plan for while there. 
As I wrote you before, I have put your gun in the best 
possible shape that I could, I hope you have received it, 
but I know it is in a rusty shape, as you know all things 
rust in Florida except memory of those who have met 
there. I killed a great many birds with it, for all of 
which I am much obliged. Myself and family wish to be 
remembered to you and your family, and we hope to meet 
you at Captive Pass next year. If you know Mr. D.'s 
address, after reading this letter, be kind enough to send 
it to him, as I know he is an enthusiastic tarpon fisher 
and would like to see it. I saw Mr, Jacobas catch four- 
teen tarpon, as many as four in one day. He had a kind 
of a double hook, three backed together, and I think this 
is the reason he was so much more successful than we. I 
used some large bass hooks that I had with better success 
than a single hook. We caught any amount of leopard 
sharks, which are as gamy as a tarpon. We also caught 
several kingfish, one 5ft. 9in. long. A. J, S. 
GREAT FISHING ON THE JERSEY COAST. 
Asbury Park, N. J., June IS.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The hearts of rod and reel fishermen are once 
more made glad by the presence in goodly numbers of 
the glorious striped bass. Fishing for that king of game 
fishes is just now particularly good at most all points 
along our coast. While in size perhaps they are not up 
to the standard of some years ago, yet their numbers are 
beyond doubt largely in excess of the three last past 
seasons. The average weights are 3 to 71bs. each. The 
heaviest weights of which I have learned were llf lbs. , 
which fell to my rod, and one of 17ilbs. to Dr. Herbert, 
of Manasquan. Characteristic of the never-ending 
vagaries which seem to be a part of the make-up of all 
members of the finny tribe, the bass almost totally refuse 
to take the shedder crab, usually the most killing bait to 
be used, and confine their attention entirely to the blood- 
worm. 
Fine fishing can now be had at many points along our 
coast, notably Elberon, Deal Beach, Asbury Park and 
Manasquan Inlet, The kingfish have just made their 
appearance in this locality, the last week witnessing the 
first of these highly prized fellows. J. D. Woodward, of 
Bradley Beach, so far holds, the record with seven at one 
tide, all taken in the surf with bloodworm. An occasional 
bluefish is seen, but so far none have been taken with the 
rod. One struck my bait while I was fishing for bass 
about a week since, but the gut leader was of no force in 
his knife-like jaws, and lost tackle was the result. A 
general review convinces me that the season will be one 
of positive delight to salt-water anglers. I will answer 
any communications of inquiry from readers of Forest 
and Stream in relation to "fishing points," hotels, rail- 
roads, necessary equipments, etc. 
Chief Warden Shriner has made several important 
arrests for illegal fishing in Barnegat Bay, and has sta- 
tioned deputies at various points to watch for violators. 
This is as it should be, and its continuance until due 
respect for the law is firmly established is a thing to be 
desired. 
N. B. — While closing the above the following self-ex- 
planatory message was handed me: "Caught at Avon, 
N. J., his majesty, a 20jlbs. bass, by Guild. — Foster." 
And so the record is now in the hands of Judge Wm. B. 
Guild. Leonard Hulit. 
Wisconsin Muskallouge. 
Three Lakes, Wis,, June 13. — The following score was 
caught at my place on the Eagle chain of lakes last 
week; W. J. Johnson, Edwin Wynn and C. H. Blair, of 
Chicago, eleven muskallonge, the three largest 151bs., 
221bs., 251bs. June 9, Gov. J. B. Grant, of Denver, Col., 
one lunge, 381bs. J. W. Moorse, of Chicago, in three days 
caught five lunge, largest 181bs. C. H. Blair, of Chicago, 
in one day at Butternut Lake caught ninety-eight black 
bass, largest 31bs. There was a large number of pike and 
pickerel caught also. F. R. French, 
