March 20, 1897.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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nels or fishing apparatus of any kin^, in accordance with the provi- 
sions of this act. 
Sec. 5 Said game and fli=h warden shall have the same power to 
serve cjiminal process as ■sheriffs, and shall have the same rights as 
sheriffs, to require aid in executing process. Said warden may arrest , 
without warrant, any per.son or per.?ons caught by him in the act of 
violating any of the aforesaid laws for the protection or propagation 
of birds, game or fish, and take such person or persons forthwith he- 
fore a justice of the peace, or anj' other magistrate having jurisdic* 
tion, wno shall procped without delay to hear, try and determine the 
matter; and the same proceedings shall be had as near as may be, as 
in other criminal ma' ters. triable before a justice of the peace, or any 
other magistrate tia^lng jurisdi'j ion. Such arrests may be made on 
Stmday, in which case the person or persons arrested shall be taken 
before a justice of the peace or any other magistrate having jurisdic- 
tion, and proceeded against as soon as may be on a week; day follow- 
ing the arrest. 
Sec, 6. Said warden shall, in the month of December in each year, 
file m The office of the Auditor-General an account in writing, stating 
the days ano parts of days spent in the discharge of his duties, the 
kind of service rendered, and the places where rendered, and ihe ex- 
penses paid and incurred in the time of the discharge of such duties, 
that said amount as claimed had actually been expended and he had 
in no wise received return therefor, which account shall be verified 
by the oath of said warden stating that the same is correct and true 
in every par Jcular. 
Pec. 7. Said warden shall, at the close of each calendar month, file 
with the secretary of the Commonwealth arf'port in writing and in 
detail stating the service performed by him during the last preced- 
ing month, including an account of the suits commenced at bis in- 
stance, as herein provided for, the disposition made of the same, the 
result of any brought to trial, the amount of fines collected from each 
case, and the condition of any undisposed of, and any other particu- 
lars he may think proper; and no payuient for services performed or 
expenses paid by said warden shall be made until he shall present to 
the Auditor Genentl, in addition to the usual oath of performance 
and payment, a certificate from the said secretary of tne (Common- 
wealth" that he has made the report requli-ed by this act, The secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth shall cause the monthlj reports of said 
warden, or so much thereof as may be of interest to the public, to be 
transmitted annually to The Legislature when in session. 
Sec. 8. Said game and fish warden shall have the power to appoint 
deputy game and fish wardens, by and with tbe consent of. the 
boards- of Game and Fish Commissioners, in joinc session met, who 
shall have the same power and authority herein provided for the 
game and fish warden himself, subject to the supervision and control 
of and to removal by tbe game and fish warden. Said depuiy game 
and fish wardens shall receive $3 per day for each day actually spent 
in the discharge of their duties, under the direction of game and fish 
warden, and their actual expenses necessarily Incurred when so em- 
ployed; said $3 per day and expenses to be paid monthly on the war- 
rant of the Auditor-General, on the approval of itemized vouchers 
thereof, verified under oaih and ceriifled by the game and fish 
warden; but the number of depuiy wardens s;hall not exceed ten, 
and the total amount certified by the game and fish warden, and ap- 
proved by the Auditor-General, for compensation and expenses of 
deputy wardens in any one year, shall not exceed the sum of $3,000. 
Sald game and fish warden shall also have the power to appoint in 
each CO jnfy not to exceed three residents thereof as county game 
and fish wardens, who shall have the same powers in their respective 
counties as herein provided for the game and fish warden himself, 
subject to the supervision and control of and to removal by the game 
and" fish warden. The said county game and fish wardens maybe 
employed by individuals, clubs, corporations interested in the en- 
forcement of game and fish laws, and shall receive such other com- 
pensation as may be allowed and approved for by the county com- 
missioners of their respective counties. 
Any person who hinders, obstructs or interferes with, or attempts 
to hinder, obstruct or interfere with the said game and fish warden, 
or any deputy or couH'ty warden in the discharge of any of his duties, 
shall be deemed guil y of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof 
shall be fined not Jess than $\0 nor more than $50, shall be confined 
In the county jail until said fine and casts are paid, provided that said 
imprisonment shall not exceed thirty days. 
THE CEDAR RIVER, IOWA. 
Though nearly one-half a century has elapseti since the 
settlement of that portion of Iowa (especially Mitchell, Floyd 
and Chickasaw counties) througa which the Cedar Riyer 
flows, it still retains much of its picturesque scenery and 
ideal camping grounds. 
Boating, bathing and fishing are still pleasurable pastimes, 
and the adjoining prairies hold forth inducements to the 
sportsman in the way of jack rabbits and prairie chickens; 
while the wooded sections are frequented by the quail, 
pheasant, cotton-tail, gray and fox squirrels. Dticks antl 
geese, in their migrations both spring and fall, furnish good 
shooting, often lasting several days during their flights. 
Charles City and all of the towns and villages along this 
stream from its source (sixty miles north) and as far south 
as Waterloo (fifty miles south) have their flouring mills and 
various water-power companies All the dams that cross 
the Cedar this whole stretch of 120 miles have no runways 
for fish; thus their natural habit of rimning up in time of 
June and spring freshets and dropping back during the sum- 
mer and autumn months is balked. Although there is a 
law that requires all corporations to place fishways in their 
respective dams, up to the in'osent time it has not been 
enforced. 
Native game fish, pike, pickei'el, bass (black and rock), 
are yet quite pi ntiful considering these impassable barriers 
and the wholesale slaughterwith spear, which was lawful up 
to four years ago. 
The Slate Fish Commissioner caused to be placed above 
the dam some five years ago a few hundred Oswego hAHS and 
crappies and their growth and yearly increase are quite 
noticeable. Specimens of the bass have been caught weigh 
iug 4ibs, One year ago 25,000 wall-eyed pike eight days 
old were placed below the dam. 
Splendid strings of pike and bass were taken from these 
waters last season. Pike are more numerous below the dam. 
Twenty-nine that weighed 65lbs. were caught the first week 
in October. Dtu'ing the freshet in .Tune the largest wall eyed 
pike known to this region was caught with bare hands by a 
Mr. Jennings; weight, iGilbs. 
Notable among the fisn taken in 1896 were eleven pike 
weighing 631bs. , and two black bass, one of 6^ and the other 
biibs. The two big bass were taken one day apart, and in 
ihe same place, eighty rods above the dam, in 9 or 10ft of 
water. The O^lb. bass took the second prize of $15 ofliered 
by the Black Hawk County F'uh Club for the next largest 
bass caught in the State for '95, whether a member of their 
club or not. 
The very best fishing for black bass in this region is at 
Floyd, six miles above Charles City. There is good water 
for three miles above the Floyd Dam, and it is here that 
parties camp for weeks during the summer. Greatledges of 
limestone, 40 to 60ft. high, alternate along its shores'. In 
many places these walls are so abrupt and free from soil that 
nothing but the gnarled, scrubby red cedar can find root 
here. Most of the fish taken are caught with rod and line. 
The silk phantom and the gang-hook spoon are used, wliile 
soft crabs are in demand for bass fi?hiug in July and 
August. The chub and shiner constitute the principal bait 
for the majority for all kinds of fish. 
The best catch of the season was made by Dr. Sitzer, with 
a casting rod, using a small patent frog. His remarkable 
catch has already been published in Forest and Sthbam 
(Oct. 17), namely: six black bass, weight l&Jlbs., in foriy- 
five minutes. These bass were caught by wading and cast- 
ing 100ft. below. 
Over 2,000 bass were taken last season' at Floyd, aside 
from a goodly number of pike. 
An active game and fish club, with a salaried warden, 
will, we hope, do awa.y with unlawful hunting and fishing 
as practiced in this section in the past. Vajte SmMOiiDS. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Si^ns of Sprlnar* 
"Abotjt these day=i," as Josh Billings used to say in his 
almanac, the angler hegins to watch for signs to determine 
whether the spring is to open early or late. For months in 
this region his eyes have been directed chiefly downward to 
see where he placed his feet that he did not get a fall on the 
icy sidewalks; but now he is looking aloft to see if by chance 
the bright sun, high in the heavens, has induced a robin to 
wing his way north and perch witli the sparrows in the leaf- 
less trees, while it looks over the situation, and the snow, to 
decide wjaetlier it is rushing the season or not. All the long 
winter the angler has taken things as they have come — snow, 
sleet, rain, frost, have meant nothing to him, except that he 
must put on extra clothing, or a mackintosh, or carry an 
umbrella; but now it is different, for he watches the snow 
banks to see how rapidly they diminish, and he looks at the 
thermometer with interest, and turns the paper to "Old 
Probabililies" to see what is going to happen as to weather in 
the near future, and when the street gutters are running full 
of water he thinks of how the trout Isrooks are breaking up 
and running bankful with rain water and melting snow. 
We know what Tennyson said about a young man's fancy 
IP the spring and the fuller crimson on the lapwing's breast, 
but he seemed to know nothing about the fever in the blood 
of a man who is not young which indicates the appropch of 
spring as surely as the livelier iris on the burnished dove, 
"rhat glorious fever which no one dreads and for which there 
is but one cirre. The symptoms are always the same, and 
every one can diagnosticate his own case and save a 
physician's fee. A mild symptom is when the angler looks 
into the tackle shop windows, but this is not an infallible 
sign of the spring fever, for he is quite liable to look in at 
any time of the year; but if this is followed by an overhaul- 
ing of fly-books one may look next to see him going over his 
rods and other tackle, and if he gets out his fishing clothes 
and shoes the fever is near its height. He will turn to the 
fishing department of Forest and Streajm to see what its 
correspondents may have to offer as to probable indications 
regarding the opening of the waters in different sections, and 
he will peruse the advertisements of tackle dealers to see 
what they have to ofl!er that is new. Then he will send in 
an order for some flies and leaders, perhaps a new rod or 
reel, and when they are received he will be in what may be 
considered a critical condition, and the spring fever is con- 
suming him, and he must go a fishing or lose a lung, as that 
is the only remedy known- to the materia medica which will 
abate this peculiar and ever recurring fever. What a 
delicious remedy it is, and what large doses of it one can 
take without the slightest protest, and how efficacious it is 
to cure other ills than the spring fever, for the list is larger 
than the list of ills that the patented cure-alls are so familiar 
with When I saw the sparrows wateyng on Washington's 
. Birthday I pitied the poor things for not having a better 
knowledge of this northern climate, but yesterday two grass- 
hoppers were found kicking their heels in the sun on the 
south side of a barn, and before 1 write another line I must 
look at an old -pair of fishing shoes that gave out in Canada 
last fall and which I have not thought about since. 
Florida Fishing. 
With tbe approach of tbe season when fishing will open 
in the North the Northern angler who cannot avail himself 
of winter fishing in the South takes less interest m the fish- 
ing in Florida waters ; but two of the Fisheries, Game and 
Forest Commissioners of New York, Messrs. Charles H. Bab- 
cock and Hendricli S. Holden, have been taking a shoit 
vacation in the South, and have distinguished themselves by 
excelling previous records in kingfishing. Mr. Holden's 
father, Mr. E. F. Holden, and Wm. J. Gillette, of Syracuse, 
constituted the remaining members of the record-breaking 
fishing party. The largest fish weighed 201bs., and was 
caugiit by Mr. E. F. Holden, but the average weight of tne 
catch was lOlbs. Commissioners Babcock and Holden are 
accomplished fly-fishermen, with decided preferences for the 
tiout of the Adirondacks and Canada and the ouananiche of 
Lake St. John and the Saguenay, but Mr. Babcock tells me 
the kingfish on a reel makes one's blood tingle, and the sport 
is fast and furious when a big school is found. Both gentle- 
men are very enthusiastic about their Florida fishing, and saj^ 
they never saw such a sight as on the day that they caught the 
big kingfish at Miami. Fish would jump 10 or I5ft. out of 
the water, and when one fish was hookf d the rest of the 
school seemed to follow it until it was landed or it wt.s cut 
into bits by a shark. 
Never Uo I hear of kingfish fishing but I think how, inad- 
vertently, the late Prof. Goode made me steal some other 
man's thunder hy ascribing to me in his book, "American 
Fishes," what some other man had written. The trouble is 
I do not know who this other man may be, nor did Prof. 
Goode when I called his attention to the error. He says: 
"Its great gameness (the kingfish), its beauty of color and 
form, and its excellent flavor, Mr. Cheney assures us, caused 
the loyal citizens of New York in colonial days to call the 
species the kingfish,' and in former times, when it was abun- 
dant in New Yora Bay, the kingfish and the small striped 
bass were the crowning glory of the old timd fishing." 
I regret that 1 never wrote anything of the Rind, nor did I 
write what is credited to me in the same chapter later on 
about tackle and the manner of fishing for kingfish. I have 
always expected that some one would accuse me of pilfer- 
ing his "instructions," for I had a copy of the book m my 
possession for some time before I discovered the error and 
informed Prof. Goode of it. He intended to make a coitcc- 
tion if the book ever reached a second edition, but now it 
will never be corrected by the author. 
Mr. Kowland Ward, of London, probably the most emi- 
nent man in his profession as a taxidermist, writes me that 
he will sail the middle of March for this country with hi» 
wife to try the tarpon fishing in Florida. Mr. Ward had 
heard of tarpon fishing in this country and had seen a 
mounted specimen, but did not quite know how to set about 
getting to the tarpon grounds, so he wrote to Forest and 
Stream ana got in return full sailing directions, and it is to 
be hoped that he will be successful in killing some tarpon 
when he arrives, as did another Englishman who came over 
and outfitted himself with tarpon tackle in this country at 
the suggestion of this journals 
Fl&h Laws. 
Every winter there is an increasing number of amendments 
to the game law of New York, good, bad and worse. It is a 
big^State, and it is a difficult matter to reconcile all interests, 
aside from the selfish interests. 
One bill that I noticed this winter had in it a clause that 
permitted spearing in one of the interior lakes when the fish 
in the lake were on their spawning beds, and I was told that 
tbe bill was introduced at the instigation of a fish and game 
clu.b, as they claimed that the fish — whiteflsh — could be taken 
by no other means. This bill got a great start toward final 
passage, when it ran against a snag of some sort It was 
whispered in Albany that Gov. Black had a fine new pen and 
penholder, with a supply of ink, on purpose to veto the bill 
when it came to him for approval. However this may be, 
the spearing clause was stricken out of the bill without any 
opposition that I coidd hear of. I have the best cossible 
authority for saying that Gov. Black is as much interested 
in the fishery interests of the State as he is in its forestry in- 
terests, and I believe that no bad fish and game legislation 
will meet with his approval, however well it may be con- 
cealed in verbiage. 
A bill has just been introduced by Assemblyman Eldridge, 
of Warren, which forbids trolling or fishing in Lake George 
from a steam or naphtha launch. This measure was recom- 
mended by the Fisheries Commissioners because there was 
almost a universal demand for such action by the residents 
of the region around Lake George. The claim has been 
made that some few owners of steam yachts catch more 
trout and bass, fishing to make big records for publication, 
or to have the fish photographed, than the occupants of a 
dozen rowboats, and that such fish, caught ostensibly for 
sport, are turned over to the guides, to be sold for their own 
benefit; and that in this way over a ton of trout found their 
way to market in one season from one steam yacht. Natu^. 
rally the rowboat fishermen conclude that they are out- 
classed, for they cannot skim the lake with rowboats as can 
the owners of steam craft. In the fall the steamboat owners 
can fish pretty much all the d<=sirable shoals in the lake in 
one day, while it would be difficult for one rowboat to cover 
one hundredth part of the water in the same time. 
A. N. Cheney. 
Salmon Reported Taken Through the Ice. 
Haddam, Conn. — Editor Forest and Stream: During iHe 
last of February I felt that some fresh fish fried brown in 
pork fat would taste very good ; and as a couple of young 
friends of mine had informed me that they had some fine 
bait fish, I told them I would furnish transportation to 
Cedar Pond if ihey would do the work; and this arrange-- 
ment being satisfactory, we went fishing through the ice. . I 
do not think it is right to catch any kind of fish in this State 
in the winter except eels, and would be glad if it were pre- 
vented by law, but you know the lines, "We know the rigbt 
and oft approve it too," etc. This was my case exactly; so 
we went fishing. We caught thirteen pickerel and four yel- 
low perch— no large ones, but all of fair size, and when 
cooked as aforesaid they were good; in fact, they were very 
good. 
Now, if this were all there was to the trip, I should not 
trouble you with it, but we had a very enjoyable day — saw 
numerous rabbit tracks in the snow, end several places 
where three or four partridges had crossed the road ; and got 
sight of one cock partridge that looked as large as a smnll 
turkey, as he stood broadside to us, with head up and out- 
stretched neck, with the snow for a background. These 
things were pleasant to see and assured us that when the 
autumn comes again the alders, the white birches and the 
sumacs will not be tenantless. May we be there to see. 
At noon we went to a farmhouse near the pond, and Ihe 
good old lady gave us a table on which we spread our lunch, 
and she kindly added a pitcher of excellent cider with which 
to moisten it. And now comes the part which induced me 
to trouble you : One of my young friends who is a hunter 
and a fisherman told me how last December, while fishing 
with "tip ups" through the ice on Salmon River, he saw a 
"flag" go up, and on taking hold of the line he felt that he 
had a very large fish, and pulling carefully he raised a salmon 
about half its length out of the water when it dropped off, as 
it was not hooked at all, but had held to the bait fish to be 
raised thus far. He said he thought it would have wtighed 
as much as 81bs. I had supposed that salmon left the fresh- 
water streams before winter set in, and did not know that 
they would take a minnow bait, though I must confess I am 
not up on salmon. Perhaps Mr. Cheney will tell us all about 
it. By the way, did not the Carman Biver trout that I tried 
to tell Forest and Stream about several years ago deserve 
a place among your big fish? Was the fish too big or the 
story too thinly authenticated? As I remember the story the 
trout weighed ISIbs., and I believtd it then; and I think I 
gave names of people then living at Brook Haven who could 
confirm the account. A. 
[We do not recall the statements regarding Ihe reported 
13lb. fish, hut it is safe to assume that it was not a brook 
trout. Can our correspondent give more specific informa- 
tion?] 
The Striped Bass Record. 
South Portsmouth, R. I. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Noting in a recent issue the weight of a striped bass for 
which was claimed, as far as known, the lecord weight of 
large fish of that species, I would state that on July 11, 1882, 
a striped bass was taken chum fishing on Sichuest Neck, R. 
I., with rod and reel by Wm. M. Hughes, of South Ports- 
mouth, R. I. It was weighed at the market of Wm. Law- 
ton, of Newport, in the presence of Chas. LawLon, Albert 
G.ish and Daniel R. Connell, and was found to weigh, after 
cleaning, 671bs. There is no doubt that this fish would 
have weighed over 751bs. undressed. This fish has always 
been known as the record tish for Newport, and, so far as 
known, is the largest fish taken in this section, concerning 
which the facts and weight of the fisli can be substantiated. 
W>i. M. Hughes. 
P. S —Dr. D E. Cone, of Fall River, Mass., saw this fish 
Tveighed, also Dr. McBurnie, of Philadelphia, Pa., before 
carrying to Newport, and it then weighed 6711bs. 
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