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FOREST AND ' STREAM^ 
[Aug. 8, 1898. 
Carp Fishings. 
Ithaca., N. Y. — Recently Forest and Stream invited 
infurcuation coaceraing carp fishing. Ibhacans have for 
the past two oi* three years had ample opportunity to 
study the habits, edible qualities and fighting propensicies 
of the carp. 
Through some source not clearly established the Ithaca 
end of Cayuga Lake has become densely inhabited by this 
species of fish. They have wallowed well up into the 
larger lake tributary streams, so that at the present time 
it is no unusual incident in the serene and uneventful 
routine of the angler's life to catch carp of from 8 to 201b8. 
The average weight, however, runs from 2i\hs, to 5 and 
6lbB. There seem to be two distinct varieties inhabiting 
the local waters, the regular German or scaleless sort and 
what is locally termed English or the scaly variety. 
The fellows who claim to know a thing or two about 
the edible qualities of carp, who apparently linger as bliss- 
fully over a plate of plebeian carp as over a dish of the 
dainty and roseate brook trout, stoutly adhere to the con- 
tention that a bit of properly served carp is a delicious 
morsel, the German slightly leading the English variety. 
Certain it is, at all events, that the people who make it a 
business to market these fish encounter no difficulty in 
disposing of the supply. Personally I am not disposed 
to go upon record in favor of the carp as a food fish. In 
an unthinking moment I exchanged 15 cents of hard- 
earned coin for its supposed value in a carp, scaleless, 
short of stature and thick set, which I joyfully con- 
veyed home, where, according to the directions of 
those experienced in cooking these finny specimens 
that have to be seawater-logged, parboiled and otherwise 
reduced to a state of palatability, the fish was prepared 
and finally reached the table. I took a moderate section 
of him, and in due time succeeded in passing my plate for 
a second installment. But candidly, the fish was far 
from savory, in the way I have been used to measuring 
the significance of the word. Insipid, dry, vapid, the 
flesh of the carp is amply deserving of all the considera- 
tion implied in Shakespeare's line, "flat, stale and un- 
profitable." And a great many people living hereabouts 
so regard him. 
The most alluring bait for trout, as applied to the fish- 
ing in this locality, consists of chunks of potato boiled 
8lightly,or, in the language of the rural cJie/, "done hard." 
Attach the sinker to the end of the line, according to the 
style of the veteran carp catcher, fasten two or three 
ordinary No. 3 hooks by leaders onto the line some 18 or 
20in. above the sinker, slip on a big, highly colored bob- 
ber, and there you are, ready to successfully angle for 
carp, provided you have some sort of a pole handy to tie 
the line to. 
Those who use fly-rods solemnly aver that the carp is a 
sturdy fighter. I have repeatedly witnessed some pretty 
sharp struggles between heavy-weight carp and an excited 
party using a light fly-rod. Even the party with an ordi- 
nary stiff bait rod frequently has to do a lively turn to 
land some of the big ones common to these waters. The 
general verdict is that Cayuga Lake carp are a good bit 
gamy, and that a fine dash of sport seasons the catching 
of them. As the cricket's voice grows louder and autumn 
draws on apace, the carp will again begin to bite freely. 
They appeaif to be taking a midsummer snooze at present. 
M. Chuj.. 
C rCmcAGO, 111., July 28. — Can you tell me the method of 
catching German carp and bait used? I am expecting to 
visit a place where they are plenty, and my friends tell 
me they are unable to catch them. F. A. W. 
[For carp fishing use black bass hooks, 0 to 4. Grass- 
hoppers, maggots, larvae of wasps are used for bait ; also 
grains of wheat or bark y , or pellets of wheat or corn bread 
mixed with cotton.] 
Lake Cobbosseecontee Black Bass. 
•Boston, July 2Q.—i:ditor Forest and Stream: If any 
reader wishes "a week off" for black bass fiahing he 
should not hesitate to visit Lake Cobbosseecontee, and 
stop with Mrs, Jackson at East Winthrop, Me. I have 
just returned after five days of the best bass fishing I ever 
experienced. Caught them every day. Friday, A. M., 
had five fine ones to carry away as evidence, three weigh- 
ing respectively 3^, 3f and 41bs. each; also caught two 
pickerel, each weighing over 21bs. This was my morning 
catch. 
Strangers should get Archie Jackson to show them 
where to fish the first day or so, and then you can go it 
alone. 
The beat way to get there from Boston is via Kennebec 
steamers Sagadahoc or Kennebec, leaving Boston daily 
at 6 P. M. Buy ticket via Hallowell or Augusta to Win- 
throp, Me., but stop over when you reach the Cobbossee- 
contee House, near the East Winthrop post office. 
When you arrive at Gardiner the large river steamer 
stops, and you are transferred to the Delia Collins for 
Hallowell or Augusta, where a stage line connects with 
the boat for East Winthrop and Winthrop. 
At Gardiner, to relieve one, you can take the electric car 
for either Hallowell or Augusta, and there await the arri- 
val of the Delia Collins. 
Both stage lines wait for the arrival of the boat, and 
your baggage can go up via boat. 
I think the route via Augusta to East Winthrop is 
preferable. 
This is one of the places where their "claims" are not 
greater than the sportsman will realize. 
Geo. Eehwald. 
Crogebic Bass. 
Mr. W. B. Kniskern, of the Chicago & Northwestern 
Railway, sends us this report of bass ac Gogebic Lake, 
Wisconsin: 
"Fishing is much better than it has been for years dur- 
ing July. Since the 11th inst. twenty-seven small-mouth 
black bass have been brought in, weighing S^lbs. and over; 
total weight, 120flbs.; average weight, 4.471os. This does 
not include those weighing less than S^lbs. I want to call 
your special attention to the remarkable average of nearly 
4i^lbs. The number of boats that have been out daily 
during that time has been from one to three. This un- 
usually good fishing in July is very encouraging for 
August and September. " 
Mr. Von Ijengerke's Bass. 
Mb. J. VON Lbngerke, of New York, has taken a day 
or two off each week, for several weeks, devoting them 
to bass fishing in some of the waters in Sullivan county, 
New York. He reports satisfactory success, and the sea- 
son has been one of his most successful. On his return 
from each trip he has been able to show a string of fish 
of enviable size and number. He reports that the small- 
mouth took the fly greedily up to three weeks ago. His 
star performance was the catching of a 4i^lb. small-mouth 
bass on a G^oz. rod. In his store he has an outline draw- 
ing of this fish, a true pattern taken from life, though 
bulbous in places and of tremulous outline in others, as if 
it were nervous when having its portrait taken. The said 
portrait bears all kinds of legends of a scoffing or doubt- 
ing nature, written by several of his friends. Mr. Von 
Lengerke stoutly maintains that he is strictly truthful 
about his shooting and fishing stories, and that the fish 
was 19^in, in length, though as he pressed the rule a bit 
too close when measuring it, it was fairly 20in., and it 
thus was a good fish. This is worthy of the attention of 
those who try to make their fish larger. 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS, 
Sept. 1 to 4.— Kingston Kennel Club's bench show. H. C. Bates. 
Cor. Sec'y, Kingston, Ont. 
Sept. 7 to 10,— Binghampton Industrial Exhibition's sixth annual 
bench show, C. H. Barrett, 8upt. 
Sept. 7 to 11.— Rhode Island State Fair Association's fourth annual 
show, Providence, B. I. 
Sept. 7 to 11.— Toronto Exhibition Association's eighth annual show, 
Toronto, Can. 0. A. Stone, Sec'y of bench show. 
Sept. 14 to 17.— Montreal Kennel Association's bench show, Montreal, 
Q. Lanigan, Sec'y. 
Sept. 1 5-18.— Orange County bench show, Newburgh, N. Y. Kobt. 
Johnston, Sec'y. 
Sept. aa to 34. —Milwaukee Kennel and Pet Stock Association's second 
annual dog show, Milwaukee Louis Steffen, Sec'y. 
Sept. 22 to 25.— Queens County Agricultural Society's bench show 
MIneola, L. I. J. idortimer, Manager, Hempstead, L. I. 
Oct. 6 to 8.— Daobury 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. O. H. Crane, Sec'y, 
FIELD TRIALB. 
Sept. 2.— Morris, Man.— Manitoba Field Trials Club. John Wootton, 
Sec'y, Manitou, Man. 
Sept 7.— Kennedy, Minn,— Continental Field Trial Club's chicken 
trials. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 19.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual hound trials, Barre, Mass. 
Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y, 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. I.— Natloonal Beagle Club's trials. Qeo. 
W. Rogers, Sec'y, 250 W. Twenty-second street, New York. 
Oct. 28.— Greene 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 
Steffen, Sec'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10.— Leamington, Out.- Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont. 
Nov. 10.— Greene County, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's trials. L. O. 
Seidel, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16. — National Fox Huntiner Association's third annual trials 
Bardstown, Ky. F. J. Hagan, 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. 23.— Newton, N. C— U. S. F. T. Club's faU trials. W. B. Staf- 
ford, Sec'y. 
Doc. 14.— Athens, Ala.— Dixie Red Fox Club's second annual trials 
J. H. Wallace, Sec'y, Huntsville, Ala. 
COURSING. 
Sept. 82.— Cheyenne Valley Coorsing Club's meeting, Sheldon, S. D, 
Dr. J. P. Aylen, Pres. 
Sept. 29.— Aberdeen Coursing Club's annual meeting, Aberdeen, 8. 
D. Dr. F. W Haragan, Sec'y. 
Oct. 6 -Mitchell Coursing Club's meeting, Mitchell, S. D. 
Oct. 21,— Altcar Coursing Club's meeting. Great Bend, Kan. T. W. 
Bartels, Sec'y. 
Oct. 28.— Kenmore Coursing Club's annual meeting, Herrington. 
Kaa. C. A. Bobinson, Sec'y. 
WHAT BECAME OF FIGARO? 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Everybody in St. Augustine and all the regular winter 
visitors for many years well knew Mr. Pierron, a French 
photographer, whose home was in the ancient city. For 
the last seven years of his life Mr. Pierron's constant com- 
panion had been his dog Figaro, which he had raised from 
a puppy. Figaro seemed to be a cross between a pointer 
and a large hound. His master lived alone in a building 
standing apart from others and close by the bay. Behind 
the studio was his bedroom and kitchen, so that Figaro 
grew up accustomed to French cooking and understood 
both French and English, although he was more attentive 
to the former, as it was for the most part the means of 
communication between him and his master. 
So they lived as inseparable companions until one day 
Mr. Pierron was stricken with paralysis and was taken to 
the hospital. Even then a most imheard of concession 
was made, and Figaro was admitted to his master's ward 
and scanned every face that approached him. 
After a while Mr. Pierron recovered so that he could 
leave the hospital, and with Figaro was once more seen 
about the streets, Figaro keeping close watch over his 
master's feeble steps. While at the house of a friend Mr, 
Pierron was again taken ill, and it soon became apparent 
that it was his last illness. He lingered several weeks, 
growing slowly weaker, with Figaro almost always at hia 
side. He would lick his master's face and hands as he lay 
on the couch and then lick my hand, seeming to under- 
stand that I was trying to do his master some good. 
As Mr. Pierron neared his end he became anxious as to 
what was to become of Figaro, and arrangements were 
made for him after he should pass away. 
A few days before his death he relapsed for the greater 
part of the time into a state of semi-consciousness, and 
Figaro all at once disappeared. 
He went over the Sebastian Eiver to the house of a 
Frenchman — a friend of his master's — who at first thought 
Mr. Pierron was dead and that the dog was wandering 
away. So he took him in, and learning that Mr, Pierron 
was still alive kept him for a day or two, although he re- 
fused ^11 food, and then at evening, coming in to see his 
old friend once more, brought the dog along. After he 
had crossed the bridge over the river, Figaro disappeared 
in the darkness, and the man, thinking he had merely 
hastened on ahead of him, thought nothing of it; but he 
did not appear again at his master's bedside, who lived 
but a day longer. Nor has he ever been seen since by any 
one, although inquiries and search have been made every- 
where. He was a dog so well known that he could not 
have been seen anywhere without being recognized. 
It is now some months since Mr. Pierron died, and the 
mystery as to the disappearance of Figaro is as great as 
ever. 
Did he recognize that his master was dying and so went 
away himself to die? His utter refusal to eat at the house 
of his master's friend looked like it. It is only another 
example of that most mysterious bond which binds dogs 
to men. W. 
Chicken Dogs. 
St, Paul, Minn. — Editor Forest and Stream: We gilt- 
edged sportsmen of America are not a little proud of our 
chicken dogs — setters and pointers — in the year 1896, and 
it is not strange at all that we think them the best in the 
world. At least we think them better than the dogs of 
the past. Our dogs now alive are more in evidence than 
the dogs which are dead and it is natural that we should 
think the better of the ones which are alive. 
It is doubtful whether the English setters of to-day, with 
all their fine feather and pretty color, and pedigrees 
bristling with t"he names of famous dogs, some so by merit 
and others by favor, could approach in practical useful- 
ness the old natives or cross breds of twenty-five years 
ago. Many of those dogs would hunt day after day and 
sometimes week after week. Such hunting was not deemed 
as especially remarkable. A dog which would work 
but an hour or two, after the manner of our latter-day 
ornament dogs, would not be considered as worth his salt. 
They were sensible dogs, too. They knew how to find 
birds by good management and were cool and free from 
excitement in their work. 
Take for example Bismarck, owned by David Brooks, of 
Philadelphia. He was a dog famous from one end of the 
hunting country to the other as long ago as 1875. He 
galloped over the prairie in a steady swing without any 
distress, and could find chickens in a marvelous manner. 
And yet he was not much for breeding, being a kind of 
cross bred Irish with no great pretensions to beauty. In 
his eighth year he hunted with the same wonderful en- 
durance which always distinguished him. His owner 
hunted him day after day on chickens, and claimed that 
he preferred to hunt at all times rather than ride in a 
wagon, and that, he excelled all his companion dogs, find- 
ing from three-quarters to all the birds each day, regard- 
less of what dogs were against him. 
Alas! poor Bis. In his eighth year he fell a victim to 
the crowded express car, being suffocated with another dog 
while in transitu from State Center, la., to Philadelphia. 
So died one of the greatest of America's bird dogs, but not 
having the frills of fashion which so far transcend real 
merit, his name is unknown to a later generation, 
Old Timee. 
Queens County Agricultural Society. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
All the gentlemen who were invited to judge at the first 
show of the Q. C. A. S. have accepted, with the exception 
of Mr. W. H Joeckel and Mr. C F. Leiand. Mr. Eobert 
H. Burroughs, of East Orange, N. J. , secretary of the St. 
Bernard Club, has kindly consented to take Mr. Joeckel's 
place, ana a judge of Boston terriers will be announced as 
soon as possible. 
Most of the specialty clubs will contribute club specials, 
and among those already heard from are the following: 
The American Mastiff Club offers three club cups: One 
for the best American-bred mastiff (competition open to 
all), and one each for the best dog and bitch owned by 
club members. 
The St. Bernard Club offers a club medal for the best 
American-bred rough dog, one for the best American- 
bred rough bitch, and one each for the best American- 
bred smooth dog and bitch owned by members of the St. 
Bernard Club. 
The Fox Terrier Club offers $5 for the best smooth dog 
and $5 for the best smooth bitch in the open classes, also 
$5 each for the best wire-haired dog and bitch in the open 
classes (open to members of the club). 
The American Spaniel Club donates the usual prizes 
which accompany the adoption of its classification. 
The Boston Terrier Club offers three silver cups, value 
$10 each: one each for the best Boston terrier dog and 
bitch and a third for the best brace. 
Mr. Perry Tiffany offers $10 each for the best American- 
bred bull terrier dog and bitch over SOlbs. 
Mr. A. C. Piokhardt offers a silver cup, value $25, for 
the best pointer in the open classes. 
There will be many more to follow, of which I will 
notify you. Jas. Mortimer, Sec'y and Supt. 
PENINSULAR F. T. CLUB'S 
Breeders' Stakes. 
POINTERS. 
W. E. Hall's 1. and w. dog Jo-He (Plain Sam — 
Blondii ); breeder, M. C. Ketchiim. 
A. Harrington's b. and tkd. bitch Flit (Cobwebs — 
Diablanche); breeder, owner. 
C. H. Creighton's I. and w. bitch Clio C. (Plain Sam — 
Blondie); breeder, M, C, Ketchum. 
Leamington Pointer Kennel and W. D. Wigle's b. and 
w, bitch Maud W. (Plain Sam — Beppo's Mollie), and 1. 
and w, dog Joe Handy, same litter, and 1. and w, bitch 
Kate Field (Count Gra,phic-^Nellie Lansdowne); breeder, 
owner. 
Nat Stewart's b. and w. bitch Blacksie (Plain Sam — 
Blondie); breeder, M, C. Ketchum. 
James Black's 1. and w. dog Pat B. (Mont — Nell); 
breeder, V. Bachelor. 
ENGLISH SETTERS. 
H. Marshall Gray don's b., w. and t. bitch Heather 
Bloom (Dash Antonio— Bly); breeder, Stephen Lusttd. 
Fiahback & Baughn's lem, and w. bitch Grace Darling 
(Gladstone's Boy— Gath's Belle). 
T. G. Davey's lem, and w, bitch Grace (Prince — Lady 
Brighton); breeder, owner; and b. and w, bitch Lucy 
(Brighton Tobe — Norah); breeder, owner; and b. and w. 
dog Joe (Plain Sam — Beppso's Mollie). 
IRISH setters. 
Albert Drouillard's dog Frank (Fingaln— Fawn); 
breeder, owner. 
J. B. McKay's dog Drenagh (Finglas— River Roe), an4 
Foyle, same litter; breeder, owner. 
