t>EQ. 6, 1896.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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This lake has some advantages: the limitless quantity 
of food for the trout; the great extent and comparative 
security of the feeding grounds; but it has also serious 
disadvantages: the open pathway xip the stream to 
Oquoasoc waters; no means of access whatever from the 
lower lakes through upper dam. It is a generous con- 
tributor, but no receiver. 
The constant changes in the height of the water, mak- 
ing to-day a bar on which to drop the fly, and in a month 
water over it deep enough to float a guaboat, are a dis- 
turbing element. These things only illustrate the neces- 
sity of creative and preservative agencies if the fishing in 
this lake is to continue to be attractive to sportsmen. 
The guides in our Rangeley Lake region are a splendid 
Iwdy of trusty men and I wish them well. 
The hotels are as good as can be found anywhere and 
I hope will overflow with guests. Neither, however, for 
present gain, should be willing to kill "the goose with the 
golden egg." I have as much interest In the splendid 
lake country as any man living, having enjoyed a longer 
experience than any other. It has been for many years 
my paradise, my escape from worry and trouble, my only 
place for perfect rest and unalloyed recreation. This very 
fact impels me, in closing, to seriously and emphatically 
assert that if summer "plug fishing" in Mooselucme- 
gimtio Lake is not prohibited by law, in time serious 
results will follow. Wm. P. Frye. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Salmon Soawnlnsr in the Hudson. 
Since the first salmon were planted in the Hudson 
River in 1882 a grand total of 3,894,911 salmon fry and 
13,330 yearling salmon have been planted in the upper 
waters of the river. For several years after the first 
plant was made, and after the salmon had been to sea 
and returned to the river, their ascent was in a measure 
barred by the dam at Troy. Then fish ways were built 
at Troy, Mechanicsville and Thompson's Mills; and one 
season, when the dam was taken out at Fort Edward to 
be replaced by a new one, the salmon moved upstream as 
far as Baker's Falls, at Sandy Hill, the point to which the 
shad ran before there were dams in the river. During 
all the fifteen years that salmon have been planted in the 
Hudson nothing has been positively known about their 
spawning in the river. That they got through the 
Mechanicsville fishway and wandered into the Hoosick 
River was known; it was also known that they were evi- 
dently forced to spawn in the main river below Mechan- 
icsville before the fishway was built, for salmon smolts 
-were taken in bait nets above Troy, and once a large 
number of yearling salmon were found dead in the river 
between Troy and Mechanicsville. That was the only evi- 
dence forthcoming during the fifteen years that the 
salmon had spawned in the river or its tributaries. It 
was well known that they could not get up to their nat- 
ural spawning grounds above the millu and factories 
where the fry and yearlings were planted, for the dams 
:and natural falls without fish ways checked their ascent, 
and it was equally well known that they must have 
spawned somewhere, for they returned to the river each 
iseason frOin the sea, but where did they spawn? 
The shad fishermen who knew of this salmon in the 
liver, for some of them caught salmon in their nets, told 
of spawning beds here and there, but when the story of a 
salmon spawning bed was investigated it proved to be 
without foundation in fact. Last summer I heard a very 
istraight story of a large number of salmon being seen on 
a spawning bed in the main river the previous fall, but 
the location did not seem to me to be right for the pur- 
ipose. It is true that the fish might not have a choice 
when the time came to deposit their eggs, and they 
would make a bed in what would ordinarily be considered 
a most unlikely place ; so all the reports were investigated 
and nothing came of them until Mr. W. H. Hart, agent 
of the New York Central & Hudson River R, R , with 
whom I had talked on the subject during the summer, 
wrote me that he had heard of salmon being seen in a 
•creek some distance below Catskill. That was what I 
wished to hear, "salmon in a creek," and I began to think 
I might be on the right track. Armed with a letter from 
;Mr. Hart to a resident merchant near the creek, I made a 
-visit to the place and met the merchant. He never had 
.heard of salmon in the creek or in the river either, but 
referred me to a fisherman at the mouth of the creek. 
IHad he gone with me to vouch for me that I was not an 
officer of the law with a warrant for fishermen who had 
been netting salmon contrary to law, it w ould have saved 
jme some time. The fisherman knew nothing of salmon 
in the river or the creek, had never heard of or seen one, 
and furthermore he would not be likely to take salmon in 
his nets, for he did not use the kind of nets that would 
take salmon. It was an hour before the man would ad- 
tmit that salmon had been taken in some other man's nets, 
and some big salmon had been seen up the creek and one 
had been speared with a pitchfork. That was the only 
isalmon I knew positively about before I went there, and 
(if some boys had not speared that salmon with a pitch- 
fork I might not have known of the fish in the creek for 
^another year or longer. 
It was a goo<i day for a walk up the creek among the 
ihiUs— and a fine creek it was too, of clear, cold water, 
with gravel bottom, such as salmon would delight in if 
they should happen to find it in their search for spawn- 
ing beds. I had been referred to a man living a couple 
of miles up the stream who is an all-routnd sportsman, 
and when I reached his house found him at home. At 
first he was not inclined to be very communicative upon 
the subject of salmon, and I assumed that he was not 
quite sure that I was the man I represented myself to be, 
and of whose coming he had received notice. Finally 
the ice was broken, I established my identity, and the in- 
formation I sought began to flow. Without knowing 
positively that such is the case, I imagme that quite a 
number of salmon have been killed in the creek contrary 
to law during the past four years, as it is admitted in a 
general way that a few have been. The people killed them 
as a novel fish and then found out that they were pro- 
tected by law, with a heavy penalty for taking them 
other than with hook and line, and they kept very quiet 
about the fish being in the creek, bu^ ceased to break the 
law for fear of the consequences. The first thing to es- 
tablish was that the fish seen were actually salmon and 
not something else. My informant first saw a captured 
fish, which he described so accurately that it could be 
nothing but a salmon. This he judged to be a stray fish, 
but one evening in June he saw salmon jumping in a 
pool in the creek, and thereafter watched the pool. 
When he saw them first, in June, they were bright and 
silvery, but as we«ks passed they grew dark in color and 
some had ugly-looking heads and jaws. Sometimes 
twenty-five or thirty could be seen in one pool, and at 
other times more, depending upon the light and the water. 
They could be seen up to September, but he did not visit 
the pDol from September to November, and then he saw 
no fish; but the gravel in the rapids above the pool had 
been torn up, and there were ridges in the gravel across 
the current which he "could not account for." There 
were probably fifty or more fish in the pool, weighing 
from lOlbs. to perhaps 30 or more pounds each. The fish 
had been there four years in succession. Formerly there 
was a pulp mill at the stream, but it had burned down, 
and soon after the salmon were first seen. Since that time 
he heard of the salmon further up the creek, as there was 
a break in the dam where the pulp mill had been. 
The only break he made from beginning to end was 
when he asked me what gave the salmon such red-colored 
flesh, and I answered him without asking how he found 
out that they had red flesh. 
When he showed me where "something had disturbed 
the gravel above the pool and made ridges in it across the 
current," I walked back down the valley to the railroad 
well satisfied, promising to come again on another occa- 
sion. 
The Pike as a Poacher. 
Mr. Frederic M. Halford, author of "Floating Flies and 
How to Dress Them," and Other works valuable to the 
angler, has written a book recently upon "Making a Fish- 
ery," which I will have more to say about at another 
time, but now will refer only to one paragraph in it. 
Making a fishery is not building a fish hatchery, but 
relates to the caire of a river or portion of a river, or to a 
pond, to produce the best fishing. To make a fishery re- 
quires considerable thought and an expenditure of time 
and money, as Mr. Halford shows conclusively, although 
we in America are inclined to take for granted tbat if fish 
are planted in the water nature will do the rest. The 
destructiveness of pike, which we commonly call pickerel, 
is a fruitful topic in a general way, but Mr. Halford has 
given some figures on this subject which are of interest 
because they are not speculative. He says: "It may pos- 
sibly be imagined that the various estimates of a pike's 
capacity have been exaggerated, and I would therefore 
give the following examples of the undigested contents of 
pikes' stomachs as revealed by autopsy: On the 18 bh of 
April, 1893, wired a pike 9in. long; found tail of a partially 
digested trout quite 4in. long protruding from its jaws. 
On the a7bh of September, 1893, a pike 7ilb8. was taken in 
the nets; the contents of its stomach were as follows: Two 
small pike about 9in. long, nine lamperns, five bullheads, 
and a trout about l^lbs., with only head partially digested 
and tail protruding from its mouth. March 26, 1894, a 
pike llin. long, wired in a hatch hole, had three lam- 
perns, two bullheads and two yearly trout in its stomach. 
Oq Oct. 3, 1894, a pike 3 Jibs., taken in net with tail of 
trout quite fib. in its mouth. The trout was scarcely dead 
when taken from the pike's jaws. Take these four ex- 
amples, multiply them by the thousands of pike in a 
neglected trout stream, consider the rapid rate at which 
they increase, and no further argument can be needed to 
demonstrate the paramount necessity of declaring war to 
the knife against Esox lucius." 
In New York State we are not troubled to any great 
extent with pike in trout streams, but pike have made 
their way into trout ponds and lakes where nature never 
intended they should find habitat, and where they can be 
kept down only by vigorous warfare waged against them. 
A neighboring State is not so fortunate, so the Fish Com- 
missioners of the State told me recently, for many of 
their streams, trout streams, are infested with small 
pike. One of the Commissioners wrote me about a plant 
of trout. He was on the train with the shipment of 
trout when it arrived at its destination and concluded to 
go and see where the fish were going to be planted. He 
found that the messenger had been directed to plant the 
fish in a pool that was full of "pickerel," and he would 
not allow the trout to be planted there. In one lake in 
this State there are lake trout in abundance, and also pike, 
but during an investigation extending over a number of 
years I have found but one case where pike were caught 
with lake trout in their stomachs. On the other Land, 
one lake trout was caught in another lake with eleven 
young pike in its storhach. A. N. Ohenev. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday, 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 
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FIXTURES 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Dee. 8 to 11.— Augusta, Ga.— Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock Associ- 
ation. J. W. Killingswortli, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15 to 18.— Central Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 
tion's show, Lansing, Mich. C. H. Crane, Sec'y. 
1897. 
Feb. 2 to 5.— New England Kennel Club's annual show, Boston. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
, Deo^4.--Athen8, Ala.— Dixie Red Fox Club's second annual trials 
J. H. Wallace, Sec'y, Huntaville, Ala. 
1897. 
Jan. 11.— Tupela, Miss.— Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y. 
Jan. 18.-West Point, Miss.-U. S. F. T. 0. winter trials. W. B. 
Stafford, Seo'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
Nov. 8.-Carlisle, Ind. -Union Field Trials Club second annual 
trials. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
METROPOLITAN KENNEL CLUB'SISHOW 
The Metropolitan Kennel Club's experience at its show, 
held in Brooklyn, N. Y , Nov. 24-27, has been such that 
the club has decided to make this an annual aflfair. At 
first — that is, on the first day of the show— the attendance 
was very light, and it began to look as if Brooklyn people 
didn't care much about dogs, and as if nobody wanted to 
go to Brooklyn even if they were likely to find a few 
good dogs at the end of the trip. On Wednesday the 
accounts of the show in that morning's papers had 
evidently aroused people to a sense of what was going 
on ; from Wednesday evening until the close of the show 
the attendance proved so thoroughly satisfactory that, as 
stated above, the Metropolitan Kennel Club will hold a 
show annually in Brooklyn. 
The place chosen for the exhibition of dogs was the old 
Thirteenth Kpgiment armory, corner of Hanson place 
and Flatbush avenue. Beyond the fact that the light 
was poor, particularly on those parts of the floor outside 
the circle of light thrown from the skylights in the roof, 
the selpction of the place for holding the show was a good 
one. Of course the appointments did not compare with 
those at Madison Square; there was something dilapidated 
and forlorn-looking about the hall where once one of the 
crack regiments in New York State paraded and maneu- 
vered. The show ring was ample, and being immediately 
under the skylight the light was excellent. The dogs 
were benched and all arrangements made for that pur- 
pose by Spratts. The aisles between the benches were 
wide enough to permit of free passage, except where 
some more favored dog attracted more than its share of 
attention. 
The class of dogs was unquestionably high, while the 
entry list reached somewhere in the neighborhood of 700. 
The winners in the different classes, in the vast majority 
of cases, came to Brooklyn with reputations already made 
on other benches; but many of the judges expressed 
their opinion that the quality of the "young blood" was 
rather more than up to the average. 
The judges in the sporting classes were: Pointers, Mr. 
Charles Heath; American foxhounds and beagles, Mr. 
Herman F. Schellhass; English foxhounds. Eoglish, Irish 
and Gordon setters, Mr. John Brett; spaniels, Mr. A. 
Clinton Wilmerding; greyhounds, Mr. H. W. Hunting- 
ton. The other classes were placed in charge of gentle- 
men equally capable of settling the questions as to who 
should have the blue ribbon and who should wear the 
red. The awards were as follows; 
ENGLISH SETTERS.-OHALLKNaK-Dog-*; let, Warwick Kennels' 
Albert Ranger.-OpBiN-Z>off8.- 1st, Mrs. L. McK. Garrison's Freckled 
Monk; ad, D. J. Peters's Robin Goch; 3d, Oak Grove Kennels' Count 
Dick. Reserve, H. Pape, Jr.'s. Critic Bitches: 1st and 3d, D J 
Peters s Robin's Juno and Robin Cora; 2d, Oak Grove Kennels' Monk's 
Nun. Reserve, J. Dumas's Nellie Noble Gladstone. 
IRISH SETTERS -CHALLBNGB-Dogs; 1st, Oak Grove Kennels' 
champion Kildare. Reserve, J. M. Bullock's Pride of Patsy. Bitches: 
1st. Oak Grove Kennels' Queen Vic. Reserve, J B. Blossom's Del- 
'f^'»^^ -P'P^^--pogs; l8t, Woodbury Kennels' Rockwood; 8d and 3d, 
J. B, Blossom's Bronx II and Londonderry. Reserve, E J Whlt- 
lock's Mayor Wurster. Bitches: Ist and 2d, Oak Grove Kennels' 
Duchess and Kildare Doris; 3d, J. B. Blossom's Rosevelt. 
GORDON SETTERS.-CHALLKNGE-Doffs; Ist, Miss 8. A. Nickerson's 
Count Noble. Reserve, O. Schafer's Wang Ivanhoe. Bitches: 1st J 
Qrahana s Lady Gordon. Reserve, J. B. Blossom's Heather Bee' — 
OTES—Dogs: 1st and 2d, J. B. Blossom's Heather Bruce and Doc: 3d 
J. Meyer's Sport. Reserve, B. F. Lewis's Dick. Bitches: 1st and re^ 
serve, J. B. Blossnm's Venus and Sally Beaumont; 2d. E H. Morris's 
Qlenmount; 3d, Miss A. Lewis's Leola. u, r.. n. morns b 
POINTERS.-CHALLKNGB-Dogs; 1st, G. W. LovelP's Shotaway: 2d 
Westminster Kennel Club's Sandford Druid.— Open— Doos (551 bs and 
oyer): Ist, L. A. Van Zandt's Hanck's Lad; 2d, F. A Hodeman's 
Ridgeview Regent; 8d, J. C. Bergen's Princess Lad. Reserve Dr H 
B. Anderson's Master Rush. Bitches (SOlbs. and over): 1st, G Fereu- 
son's Beggie; 2d, F A. Hodgman's Daisy Bell; 3d and reserve, L C . 
Sr"'J^ i.-^^'^y ^®^^J.'^'' Cluelph. Doffs (under 551bs): Ist. Q. S 
Mott 8 Su- George; 2d, A. M. Harper's Jack ^ent; 3d, G. Muss-Arnolt's 
^^^T'^; ^- ^- Jr.'s, Captain. Bitches cunder 
50108.): Ist, Mrs. R. K. Armstrong's Brighton Flossie; 2d, B. A. Faif- 
bairn's Lass o' Yoka; Sd, G. S. Mott's Belle of East Chester. Reserve. 
Q. W. Lovell's Cyrene. 
, Pv^^Fo T°5. Purposes— Challkngk Cover SSlbs.)- 
1st. Dr. J. S. Bradbury's Drayton Warwick.-Irasa WATBB-OPEN-lst. 
S-' ■ • S Doctor —CLUMBBB—OPEN-Dofl's.' Island 8d. H. Jarrett's 
Major Gilfeather and MacGregor. Bitches: 1st and 2d. H. Jarretfs 
Glen wood Greeting and Susie.-FiELo-OpEN-Doffs; 1st, 2d and 3d. 
Miss Anabel Green's WardleworthSnreep, Fashion and Darkest Africa 
Reserve, R P Keasby'a Black Knight. Bitches: 1st and 3d, Miss Ana- 
bel Green's Zulu and Mee; 2d, J. Ogden's Princess Bolus Reserve, 
Toon & Thomas's Endecliffe Myrtle. "ddd. vc, 
COOKERS.— CHALLENQHi-Dog's.' 1st, Swiss Mountain Kennels' Goldie 
S. Bitches: 1st, Swiss Mountain Kennels' Gabrielle.— Open— Black 
—Dogs: Jst, Swiss Mountain Kennels' Josephus: 2d, J. B Risffs'a 
Jake W.; 3d. F Croker's Terry; reserve, Mrs^ F P bolt's RMfdall 
w ^"J; ol^^A ^^^-^^ Mountain Kennels' Dart; 2d, Q. Greer's 
Woodland Belle; 3d, C & D. Priest's Trilby II ; reserve, Mepal Ken- 
nels' Mepal Beetle.-OTHER than BLACsi-Doffs.- Ist, G Greer's Brook- 
side King; 2d, W. T. Payne's Tansy; 3d, Swiss Mountain Kennels' 
?f n^^'^^^o'"!*''?- Robertson's Robertson Rufus. Bitches: 
1st, T. McK. Robertson's Red Dolly; 2d, W. T Payne's Tansy; 3d, Mrs. 
F. F. Dole's Edge wood Beauty; reserve, G Greer's Brookside Queen. 
GREYHOUNDS — CHALLKNGK—lst, Woodbaven Kennels' chamDion 
Spinaway; 2d. Toon & Thomas's Southern Belle. Open— Z>oos; ist. 
Woodhayen Kennels' Woodbaven Surprise; 2d, Weeks & Turner's 
S^ringhill Elpctris; 3d. Penn Square Kennels' .«hamrock. Bitches: Ist. 
Woodbaven Kenne s' Dolly Dollar; 2d, Miss Ada L, Seeley's Grace; 8d' ■ 
Woodbaven Kennels' Princeconla; reserve, Woodbury Kennels' Belle. 
Pupmes: l»t,2d and 3d, Charles M. Higgins's Viva, Leo and Vega. 
ENGLISH FOXHOUNDS.-OPEN-lst: B. P. LeWis, Jr.'s, Frieldly. 
AMERICAN FOXHOUNDS.-lst, B. F. Lewis, Jr.'s, Commodore. 
BEAGLES^— Challknqb— Ist, J. Lewis's Baffler. Open— Doos; Ist, 
Hempstead Florist; 2d. Hempstead Furrier; 3d. Hempstead Truman' 
reserve. Protection Kennels' Laicfc's Boy. Bitches: 1st, G. Laick's - 
Gypsy; 2d, W. E. Deane's Lady Glen wood; 3d, Hempstead Purity. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
Messrs. C. Tucker and J. M. Avent made a match at New- 
ton, N.C. , for $100 a side. Count Gloster against Peconic, the 
race to be run at Newton; but as fifteen days were allowed 
from the time the match was made to determine whether 
the dogs would be in fit condition, all the conditions 
are favorable for a no race. 
Mr. C, E. Buckle sold Daisy Croft (Antonio— Daisy F.) 
to Mr. H. T. Payne. He also purchased Gleam's Ruth, 
and will take both hitches with him to California on his 
return. 
Tony Boy, running in the Subscription Stake of the 
Eastern Field Trials, is by Antonio out of Laundress. 
Mr. Mortimer writes of the loss of Hope Noble: "Miss 
Nickerson's Gordon setter Hope Noble, which made his 
escape from the Brooklyn Dog Show on the morning of 
Tuesday last, has not been recovered. The dog got away 
by the breaking of his collar and therefore had no collar 
or stall number on when he escaped, but he had on a 
black cloth cover, trimmed with black braid. Any in- 
formation which will lead to his recovery will be thank- 
fully received by me. Jas, Mortimee, Hempstead, L. I." 
