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[JutY 4, 1896. 
NOTES OF BOSTON FISHERMEN. 
Boston, June 39. — Mr. George Linder and Mr. Charles 
H. Maynard have returned from a succeseful fly-fishing 
trip to Moosehead. That lake has behaved rather badly 
for them, so far as wind and weather are concerned. For 
days they were wind-bound and could not fly-fish at all, 
but when fair weather did come, as it condescended to 
do once in a while, the fishing was aU that could be 
asked. One of the party took a 41b, and a S^lb. trout oil 
the same cast, and this was considered victory enough 
for one trip. They also actually rose lakers to the fly and 
secured them. Mr. Linder has his best flies tied in 
Europe. 
Mr, Frank Raybold started for the Adirondacks Friday 
evening. He will go first to Chazy, where he will fish 
the trout brooks. Then he will go to Plattsburg and the 
Upper Saranac. 
E. Frank Lewis is as fond of the rod and rifle, and 
more particularly the woods, as any man in the world. 
Only three or four years ago he made his first trip to 
Maine. He is just back from his spring fishing trip. 
The party was made up of Mr. Lewis, Mr. Russell Bow- 
ditch Beals, Miss Fanny B, Lewis and Miss Rice. They 
went to Lincoln on the Bangor & Aroostook Railway; 
thence to Lee and by buckboard to townships Three and 
Four. They lived in tents during all of their three 
weeks' trip, and yet without danger to the health of the 
young ladies, neither over strong. They caught trout in 
abundance, fishing Dobsis Lake the most of the time. 
Mr. D. H. Blanchard has gone to his salmon fiver, the 
Northeast Branch of the Sainte Marguerite, Col. C. T. 
Keeler goes with him, and will remain for ten or twelve 
days, after which Mr. Richard O. Harding, of Appleton 
& Basset, has a standing invitation, and hopes that he 
shall be able to accept it. But so far the tackle trade has 
been so active that he could not get away. 
L. O. Crane inherits a strong love for rod and rifle from 
his father, "He will go fishing and stay all day without 
a bite," Heretofore his outings have generally been at 
the Adirondacks and Lake George, where he has secured 
big trophies, but he is now planning a trip to Maine and 
will start for Bemis this week, and may also visit Kenne- 
bago and other points. There is danger that he will never 
go to the Adirondacks again; such is usually the fate of 
sportsmen of that region who visit Maine under favorable 
circumstances. 
Mr. Oliver Ames is just back from the Rsstigouche. He 
reports excellent salmon fishing. Letters from the same 
preserve also mention the best fishing for years. Ex-Gov. 
Russell, with B. F. Dutton, has just returned from the 
Little Pabos. He reports lots of salmon and the biggest 
for years. He always has a good story of his fishing trips. 
This time he hooked a big one when casting for the shore. 
The big fellow took down stream for all he was worth. 
There was nothing for the Governor but to follow as fast 
as possible, down over stones and rapids, through pools 
and swift water. At last the fish was conquered, and the 
Governor was wet to the skin. The guide came up to 
gaff the salmon. The Governor cautioned him to be care- 
ful wliich he gaffed ; he was as wet as the fish and had been 
in the water about as much. He also indulged in casting 
one day with an 8oz. trout rod and a small fly, A salmon 
that must have weighed 201b8. struck and was hooked. 
Now came the trouble. The fish could not be held with 
so light a rig. The Governer called to three or four 
guides that were near. Two were stationed below the 
pool and two above. The fish would attempt to make a 
run out of the pool when the men would beat the water 
with oars and sticks and drive him back. At last he 
came to the gaff, but just as the guide was about to strike 
he rolled over and the small hook was out of his mouth. 
Those who think that Gov. Russell has been aspiring for 
the presidential nomination will here find that he has 
been doing something of an entirely different order. But 
presidents almost all fish. 
C. H, Olmstead, who is fishing the St. John at Gaspe, 
P. Q., in company with C, G. Sias and Geo. Talbot, writes 
moat glowing accounts of the sport there. They have 
been taking salmon of a4lb8., 171bs. and great numbers of 
14 and 151bs. • • 
Mr, W, J, Clemson, with three other rods, has been 
trout-fishing in the Trihon Tract, between Lake St, John 
and Quebec. A letter to Richard O, Harding mentions 
most remarkable fishing in that country, which is but 
little known to sportsmen. They have taken one Sflbs, 
equare-tail trout, one Tibs., two 6lb8., two4i^lbs., one4lbs., 
eight 31bs., a great many of 2lb8,, and more than JJOO of i 
and fibs. The party is greatly pleased with the country. 
They were fishing for the above from June 5th to the 18th, 
Fly-fishing is the rule with them, and the trout rise with 
remarkable activity and force. It is suggested that this 
region is yet to become great for the trout and salmon 
fishermen. Special. 
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Talcott have just returned from a 
two weeks' trip to Belgrade Mills. They have had a 
charming time and enjoyed the fishing very much, get- 
ting a great number of bass, all with the fly. While 
casting at the mouth of a small stream Mr. Talcott hooked 
and landed a brook trout weighing 2|f lbs. He has always 
felt satu>fied that there are larger trout in these ponds, 
and has had his belief proven both by his own experience 
and that of Messrs. Rickett and Curtis, the first of whom 
landed two at one cast, one of 4| and another of 21bs., 
while the latter captured a beauty of 4^lbs. Some ill- 
advised persons put pickerel in the ponds some years ago, 
and these piratical fellows have nearly cleaned the trout 
out. Now the bass are having their time at the pickerel, 
and the trout will get another opportunity to thrive. A 
great number of trout streams empty into the ponds, and 
as they are all protected by a law closing them for quite 
a long time the trout ought to do well. 
The Haverhill anglers have been having a good time 
with the bass up at Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire, 
Charles J, Halpen and City Treasurer John A. Glines 
landed over 100 in one day, all taken with the fly. Mr, 
Halpen mentions his cast, which was gaudy enough, being 
a scarlet-ibis, Parmachenee-belle and Col, Faller. Other 
Haverhill men who were at the lake at the same time 
were Horace G. West, Seth C, Bassett, Enoch H, Howes 
and ex-Alderman Frank E, Watson. They all did well 
and think Lake Wentworth about the right place to go 
bass fishing. 
The average man who goes fishing in Maine returns to 
his home satisfied with his luck and the locality be has 
visited, but I had the pleasure of listening to a Boston 
man (a day or two since) who thinks he has found and 
visited one of the best places that lies out of doors. A. 
F. Clark, having occasion to go to Caribou, Me., on busi- 
ness, was induced to make a trip to Square Lake to try 
the fishing. This beautiful sheet of water is nearly fifteen 
miles long and four or five mfles wide, and as for the fish- 
ing, well, according to Mr, Clark, it is just right. His 
first catch of trout included six, which tipped the scale at 
21 Jibs., and they were beauties too. Another feature 
which should always go with good fishing is picturesque 
scenery, and this abounds in plenty around Square Lake, 
There are several other lakes connected with this body of 
water, namely: Eagle, Cross and Mud lakes, all of which 
are deep in the green woods, and said to be well filled with 
trout, 
I think the region must be all that Mr, Clark claims, 
since I have the evidence of another Boston man who has 
been up_ in that country — in fact, only just returned, T, 
H. Rollinson, of the Oliver Ditson Co,, accompanied by 
Mrs, Rollinson, spent two weeks in the neighborhood of 
Big Fish Lake, and judging from his vivid description of 
the trip he surely reached there and captured some of the 
big fish for which the lake is named. He went first to 
Ashland, and then by team to Portage Lake, ten miles 
north of there. From this point the journey continued 
in canvas canoes — which he states are both strong and 
broad of beam — and was paddled by the guides five miles 
up the lake to Fish River, which is practically dead water 
for a distance of four miles. Above this the canoes were 
poled for two and one-half miles, and about three hours 
more of paddling brought him to the lake. The camps 
are managed by Peterson, McNally & McKay, all noted 
guides of the region. Good fishing can be had on the trip 
up the river, and in the Thoroughfare, just before reach- 
ing the lake. The trout run from 2 to S^lbs. , and are very 
game. In the lake they reach 4 and 5lbs. Mr. Rollinson 
remarks that a 51b, trout in these waters is as long as a 
Rangeley 8-pounder, and fights according to his length. 
The lake is five miles long, with an average of one mile 
in width. It is surrounded by high ridges covered with 
green timber, and the scenery is magnificent on all sides. 
The camps — while not up to those of the Rangeley and 
Dead River regions — are rapidly improving, and he thinks 
the whole locality will soon be acknowledged as a sports- 
man's paradise. 
U. S. Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, passed 
through Boston on Wednesday en route to the salmon 
rivers of the provinces. He goes first to the northwest 
Miramichi, then to the Nepissiquet, and winds his trip up 
on the Tobique waters, being a member of the Tobique 
Salmon Club, 
F. A, Larkin, of New York city, has just completed his 
annual fishing trip to Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, It 
is nearly all bass fishing up there, and the party of Mil- 
waukee men with whom he has gone for many successive 
years had the best luck of their experience on this trip, 
A large steam launch was their traveling conveyance, 
and tents were taken for camping out. Three hundred 
and sixty-four bass, all over 21bs, , were captured before 
they stopped counting. They are all expert bait casters, 
and it is a lucky bass who escapes capture if his presence 
is suspected anywhere neat the boats of this party. 
Hackle. 
On a Stocked Stream. 
I HAD just got my rod together, and was hooking on a 
worm, when the owner of the brook, a sturdy and some- 
what iU-looking farmer, appeared on the bank beside me. 
I offered a short salutation, and received one in return 
considerably shorter than my own. 
"Any trout in this brook?" I asked. 
"Chock full on 'um." 
' 'You allow fishing here, of course?" 
"Yaas, ef the pay is all right." 
"How much?" 
"Five dollars a trip, now she's stocked." 
"Oh, she's stocked, is she? Well, I'll give you, |5: in 
advance, too." 
He pocketed the money, and I swashed down the brook, 
a basketful of half-pounders swimming before my dazzled 
vision. In the first three miles the only bite I had was 
from my coat pocket. I spent an hour casting in "The 
Pool," another one through "The Cut" and finished out 
the afternoon skirmishing around the shores of "The 
Pond." Then night came on, and I was glad. If ever I 
have an evil deed to perform, anything like murdering an 
able-bodied farmer, I prefer to do it after dark. On my 
way to the station I stopped at the house of the farmer 
and inquired for him, 
"Pa's gone tur the village," said the boy; "he got some 
money turday, so he's gone over tur git some groceries," 
"Your father told me the brook was stocked," I said 
fiercely, 
"So 'tis." 
"I don't believe there's a trout in it over one inch long," 
"I don't nuther," said the boy; "pa didn't stock it tell 
las' summer," — Philadelphia Ledger. 
Men I have Fished with. 
The announcement under this title in the last Forest 
AND Stream brought two valuable contributions to the 
biographies of Reuben Wood and George Dawson, As 
these are among the first they are very acceptable. If 
friends will respond to the appeal for items in the Uves of 
men mentioned last week as promptly as they have done 
in the two instances named it will be a great help. Who 
Jinows about the old bachelor, semi-hermit, hunter and 
trapper, Port Tyler, of Greenbush, N, Y., his early his- 
tory and the date of his death? I have a store of anec- 
dotes of him, but lack the points named. He comes into 
the series early, and so the items are needed soon. Next 
week the series will begin with the late Reuben Wood, of 
Syracuse, N, Y., who passed his youth in Greenbush. 
Items in manuscript or newspaper clippings may be sent 
to me at No. 63 Linden street, Brooklyn, N, Y, 
Feed Mather. 
The Kingfishers in 1896. 
The Kingfisher party, which will number a full dozen 
this season, contemplate going to Burt Lake for their pis- 
catorial outing. The lake is about twenty miles beyond 
Petosky, and was formerly noted fishing waters. Old 
Hickory said that was the location he had mapped out, as 
it promised a greater variety in fishing than other local- 
ities they have had under contemplation. Brook trout 
and grayling are in many of the streams that pour into 
it, and then again they are not far away from telegraph 
and mail facilities. Some one or two of the party are 
quite eager for the capture of muscallonge, and desire to 
influence the party for the waters where the gameful fish 
so proudly rove and grow to such magnificent proportions. 
Go where they will, they will have an avalanche of sport, 
even if they occasionally have to start a searching party 
for a "lost man" or two. Alex, Starbuok. 
American Fisheries Society. 
Glens Falls, N. Y.— Editor Forest and Stream: At the 
last annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society it 
was resolved to restore to the published transactions of 
t'ne Society the list of deceased members which it was 
formerly the custom to publish therein, and which, per- 
haps by an oversight, has been omitted for a few years 
last past. 
I will thank the members of the Society if they will 
consult the printed transactions and inform me of the de- 
cease of any active, honorary or corresponding member 
enrolled in any year since the creation of the Society, as 
I find that the last printed list of deceased members is im- 
perfect to my own knowledge and must be so to the 
knowledge of other members. 
A. N. Cheney, Recording Sec'y. 
"Uncle liisha's Shop." 
Fountain Point, Mich— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Would it be fair to ask Mr, Rowland E. Robinson to tell 
us what the women of Danvis were doing while Uncle 
Lisha and associates were in camp? 
Tell him there is a heart-broken widow here getting 
more real comfort out of "Uncle Lisha's Shop" now than 
from all other human agencies. 
Nature is God's great restorer, with time and duty. 
These books are vivid gleams of nature bound by a master 
hand into beams of everlasting light. They belong with 
the gems of the English tongue, J. B, Davis. 
FIXTURES 
BENCH SHOWS, 
Sept. 7 to 11.— Rhode Island State Fair Association's fourtb annual 
show, Providence, R. I. 
Sept. 7 to 11.— Toronto Exhibition Association's eighth annual show, 
Toronto, Can. C. A. Stone. Sec'y of bench show. 
Sept. 14 to 17.— Montreal Kennel Asaociation's bench show, Montreal. 
G. Lanlgan, Sec'y. 
Sept. 23 to 24.— Milwaukee Kennel and Pet Stock Association's second 
annual dog show, Milwaukee Louis StelSen, Sec'y. 
Oct. 6 to 8 — Daabury Agricultural Society's show, Danbury, Coon. 
G. M, Bundle, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15 to 18.— Central Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 
tion's show, Lansing, Mich. C. H. Crane, Sec'y. 
FIEIiD TRIALS, 
Sept. 2.— Morris, Man.— Manitoba Field Trials Club. John Wootton, 
Sec'y. 
Sept. 7.— Kennedy, Minn.— Continental Field Trial Club's chicken 
trials, P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 9.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual meet. Bradford S. Turpin, 
Sec'y. 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. I.— Natioonal Beagle Club's trials. Geo. 
W. Rogers, Sec'y, 850 W. Twenty-second street, New York. 
Oct. 28.— Greeue county, Pa.— The Monongahela VaUey Game and 
Fish Protective Association's second annual, trials. S. B. Cummings 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 2 — Bicknell, Ind.— Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y. 
Nov. 2.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. W. 8. 
Clark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass. 
Nov. 10 —Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
Steflen, Sec'y, Milwaukee 
Nov. 10.— Leamington, Ont. —Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leamingr 
ton, Ont. 
Nov. 10.— Central Beagle Club's trials. L. O. Seidel, Sec'y, 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— E. F. T. Club's trials. 8. C. Bradley, Sec'y, 
Greenfield Hill, Conn. 
Nov. 17.— Chatham, Ont,— International Field Trial Club's trials, 
W. B. WeUs, Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 28.— Newton, N. C— U. S. F. T. Club's fall trials. W. B. Staf- 
ford, Sec'y. 
Dec 14.— Athens, Ala.— Dixie Bed Fox Club's second annual trials 
J. H. Wallace, Sec'y. 
DOG AND PICTURE. 
Philadelphia.— Editor Forest and Stream: I read 
with much interest in Forest and Stream of June 27 the 
reply with which Rev. Charles Josiah Adams honored 
my communication, published in your issue of June 13, I 
feel some constraint in joining issue on the subject of 
mental science with an authority so acknowledged and 
so eminent as is Mr. Adams, I feel it the more so as I 
am not certain that I know very much about the matter 
any way, though I have read a great deal about it and 
have given it much thought. Many of the authorities 
which I have consulted manifested unintentionally the like 
UQcertainty, Nevertheless, as my imperfect knowledge 
and my doubts may be shared by others, my attempts at 
a reply may confer a general benefit by inducing Rev, 
Mr. Adams to dispel them and all others of like nature 
entertained by any one else. 
At the very outset it is obvious that the discussion is 
necessarily restricted and hampered for sundry reasons, 
so that we are required to assent to much that is assumed 
as if it were a matter of fact. It would be useless to dis- 
cuss the objective and subjective world as it applies to the 
mentality of man, and then assume it as data in proving 
the mentality of the dog; first, because analogy, how- 
ever true and convincing it may be, is never a demonstra- 
tion, though it may be of use in establishing an inference. 
Again when the analogies are isolated and new to our 
experience they may be simple matters of coincidence 
and not truly analogous in a manner necessary to estab- 
lish the soundness of argument. 
To begin fairly, Rav. Mr. Adams and myself agree on 
the dog having the powers of cognition. I believe that 
the dog has the ability to reason, though in simple forms 
as compared to the ability of man to reason. Our diver- 
gence of views is at a point where the views of all psychol- 
ogists diverge — that is, when they attempt to define the 
inner workings of the mind, the subjective phases of it, 
the pure mentality; that is to say, in considering the 
workings of the mind within a man's own head and the 
minds of other men working inside of their heads. If we 
observe a man in deep thought, with no exterior action, 
we cannot tell with any accuracy what his thoughts are or 
indeed whether he is thinking at all. But in all that ex- 
teriorly designates the workings of the mind mankind is 
fairly well agreed. In such mental phenomena as are 
readily observable there is a uniformity in their action and 
