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CU8 men; on his mind it was not only indelibly fixed, but 
was associated with me, while I, as a man of the world, had 
forgotten that I had told him of it. There are men whom I 
knew as boys half a century ago that memory only retains 
their names and some idle remark or story, such as Mr. Zie- 
genfuss retained in this instance. It was a word outside his 
vocabulary and used entirely outside his lite cijcle, and he 
never forgot it. 
When we organized the National Eod and Reel Associa- 
tion, which held the famous fly-casting tournaments on Har- 
lem Mere, in Central Park, New York city, as secretary of 
the Association I sent a circular to Mr. Ziegenfuss and he 
promptly joined, as did Mr. John A. Roosevelt and Judge 
J. S, Van Cleef, of Poughkeepsie, and others of neigboring 
towns. Mr. Ziegenfuss never took part in the contests of 
the Association, but was always ready to act as judge or re- 
feree if asked, as he was sure to be. He struck up a great 
liking for Reuben Wood and his brother Ira at these tourna- 
ments, and went fishing on Oneida Lake with one or both of 
them. 
Mr. Ziegenfuss died some five or six years ago. His last 
letter to me, dated Thursday, May 32, 1890, said, after the 
formal address: "Hey, Rube! tet me know if you can 
meet at Zach Du Bois's next Tuesday night. The dam 
there, which was always low, is now broken. Below the 
dam, and north of it, is a good quarter of a mile of pools 
where we can cast the fly. The trout are small and rock 
bass are abimdant, but if you will meet me there we will 
fight out our differences about fishing up stream or down, 
and will discuss the colors of flies to be used on dark or 
light days, and a whole lot of other things which I have in 
my note-book to fire at you," 
Something interfered with this meeting and I never saw 
him again. Fred Mather. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Heated Term. 
Chicago, 111., July 3.— One of the singular things about 
human nature is that mingled joy and misery which the aver- 
age citizen evinces during a spell of hot weather in his local- 
ity. Especially marked is this frame of mind in Chicago, 
the city of superlatives. This week it is hot, extremely hot, 
awfully hot in Chicago. Prostrations occur in the streets 
very frequently, and last night five men shot themselves — 
driven to insanity by the heat. Yet the average Chicago 
citizen mops his brow with a smile, pointing out with pride 
the fact that it is hotter in his town than it is anywhere else 
on earth. This same feeling of delight in a high thermome- 
ter exists all along the track of a hot wave. 
One of the immediate results of the heated term here has 
been a great exodus from the city to the country. All the 
summer resorts are crowded, and there has been more fish- 
ing tackle sold in Chicago this week than in the month or 
more immediately preceding. 
At this time I recall a description given by my friend Mr. 
Divine of the manner in which they shoot doves in Tennes- 
see, with the assistance of a fan and a bucket of sangaree. 
With the thermometer high up in the 90s, one may be par- 
doned for having visions of green fields. Just now it occurs 
to me that the most delightful situation of life would be to 
sit on the banlc of some icy stream, with one's feet in the 
water, with a long glass of lemony liquid in one's hand, 
watching the trout jump under the edge of the alders, and 
listening betimes to the strains of the "Cavalleria Rusticana." 
The Chicago River is a fine stream, but it does not purl, and 
it has no trout. As the hot day comes on, threatening an- 
other season of suffering and suicide, I cannot help compar- 
ing the gad ending of these city slaves with that noble 
euthanasia of that Kentucky gentleman whom I mentioned 
some years ago in these columns. This gentleman, a certain 
colonel, whose latter name makes no difference, was found 
dead in one of the ice cold caverns of his estate. Through 
this cavern there trickled a Uttle crystal stream, lined with 
fragrant beds of mint. Hither the Colonel had repaired 
when he saw that his hour was near, taking with him a jug 
of Bourbon whisky, some glasses, and some other things 
needful in the preparation of that delicacy known as a mint 
julep. Indications pointed out that he had probably con- 
structed several juleps from the material thus comfortably at 
hand. He had taken off his shoes and allowed his bare feet 
to dabble in the cooling stream, and when found he was 
quite dead, with a peaceful smile upon his face, his very to_es 
full of mint, and the remains of a julep in the glass still 
clasped fondly in his hand. How noble, how inspiriiig a 
death like that, compared with the tawdry horror of an fend 
inflicted by a pistol shot in a wretched city garret 1 And yet 
there are green fields in Wisconsin, and in Michigan many 
beds of mint, and if one find the Colonel's jug not convenient 
or desirable, at least he may the mint and the water. And 
he may whistle the "Cavalleria Rusticana." 
Good Fishing. 
For some mysterious reason this seems to be an exception- 
ally good season for the angler in many parts of the West. 
Bass fishing has rarely been better in Wisconsin, even in the 
lower and much fished lakes. Billy Tuohy writes from 
Eagle Lake, in Waultesha county, that he has not for ten 
years seen so many or so large bass taken at Eagle Lake. 
From the lakes of upper Wisconsin, in the pine woods coun- 
try, continuous reports of large catches of bass and wall-eyed 
pike come in, as well as reports of an unusual number of 
mascallonge. In Wisconsin, Mr. G. W. Gillette took eighty- 
four bass in a day and a half last week. The bass season is 
now at its height also in the streams south and east of Chi- 
cago, such as the Kankakee, the Kalamazoo, the Grand, etc. 
In every way the anglers are now radiating from Chicago 
and this vicinity, and there is every reason to believe that 
they will have a very fortunate season. 
Good Work of the Wisconsin Fish Commission. 
Superintendent James C. Nevins finished on June 30 his 
report for the Fish Commission of the State of Wisconsin. 
It appears that the waters of the State have been well taken 
care of, and that 62,409,075 young fish have been distributed 
Of these 2,325,000 were brook trout. Over 1,000,000 rain- 
bow trout were planted in different streams. A Chicago 
paper in commenting on this fact, states gravely that rain- 
bow trout were "not indigenous to Wisconsin waters until 
planted by the Commission." The rainbow trout has done 
very well in Wisconsin and is now generally distributed in 
that State. In the past most of the trout hatching has been 
done at the Madison hatchery, but there is a new hatchery 
at Bayfield, where there is a wild stream owned by the State, 
offering some nine miles of trout waters for the hatching 
operations. This hatchery has as yet not been used to any 
great extent, although it has hatched some 10,000,000 lake 
trout fry. It is thought that Bayfield hatchery will be a 
great success, and that the trout raised in the State stream 
will be more normal and more vigorous than any raised in 
the warmer streams thus far available. The Bayfield 
hatchery received its appropriation four years ago, and the 
work there is regarded with much interest by the Commis- 
sion. The superintendent says that when this hatchery is 
completed it will be the largest and best one in the world. 
It is curious to note that in the utilization of this natural 
wild stream at the Bayfield hatchery the same method is 
used which 1 mentioned last week at the Kinne Creek Trout 
Club, at Wingleton, Mich. In each case the young fry are 
placed in a nursery stream before distribution. Here, in 
perfectly natural surroundings, the young trout grow up 
strong and vigorous, and in far better condition than they 
would be if confined in artificial pens. There is no doubt 
that this method is successful., both in the private enterprise 
and in the public one. So far as is known the idea was 
arrived at independently in each case. 
The Wisconsin Comraission reports fish distributed in the 
following numbers: Wall-eyed pike, 30,250,000; whitefish, 
18,500,000; lake trout, 10,375.000; brook trout, 2,235,000; 
rainbow trout (approximated), 1,050,000, 
Mascallonsre Hatohlnflr. 
It is popularly supposed that the mascallonge ia not a pos- 
sible subject for fishculture, and that when the natural sup- 
Dly is exhausted it can never be restored by artificial means. 
No attempt has been made at hatching mascallonge until 
very recently, but there appears reason to believe that the 
problem can be and has been solved. The Wisconsin Com- 
mission employed Frank W. Cheeney, of Jamestown, N. Y., 
a mascallonge expert, who was stationed at Lost Lake, 
twenty-five miles from Hay ward. Here there were obtained 
3,200,000 mascallonge eggs, of which from 65 to 95 per cent, 
were hatched in the lake water, which produced the parent 
fish. 
Over 1,000,000 mascallonge fry have been distributed in 
Fond du Lac, Green Lake and Sawyer counties. It is yet 
too early to know what will be the success of this attempt to 
raise mascallonge. 
The work of the Wisconsin Commission is not solely one of 
fish-hatching. The white bass distributed are usually adult 
specimens taken in nets just before their spawning season. 
It is interesting to note, also, the practical method of distrib- 
uting black bass — the same which has long been in practice 
in the State of Illinois. The Mississippi River in Wisconsin 
— as in Illinois — is lined with shallow bayous, into which 
black bass and other game fish run in the spring, and where 
they deposit their spawn. The receding waters leave mil- 
lions of young fish landlocked, and these the workmen of 
the Fish Commission seine out in great quantities and trans- 
port to other and more fortunate waters, 
Chicago Fly-Castlnsr Club. 
Messrs. Murrell, Peet, Babcock, Johnson and others of the 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club, are deep in preparation for the 
tournament of that organization, which, as earlier stated in 
Forest and Stream, will occur Aug. 18 and 14. The meet 
will be at Garfield Park, one of the pleasantest places of 
the city, and quite suitable for the holding of the tourna- 
ment. The casting will be done on the north lagoon of the 
park. There will be six events, each provided with proper 
prizes, as earlier stated, and in the total covering nearly all 
the features of desirable fly-casting. The roll-casting will- 
be something to be witnessed with interest by Chicagoans 
and others. It is expected that Mr. Mansfield, of San Fran- 
cisco, who recently broke the long standing record for dis- 
tance in fly- casting, will be present, as well as many others 
from different parts of the country. We look for a pleasaat 
and successful event. 
FIshlnjE In the National Park. 
Lieut. Elmer Lindsley, Sixth Cavalry, Ft. Yellowstone, 
sends the following timely communication on the fishing 
resources of the National Park, for which I wish to thank 
him. He seems to show foundation for the mooted title of 
"angler's paradise," and all who know the Park can appre^ 
ciate his enthusiasm. He says : 
"The Yellowstone National Park furnishes more miles of 
fresh water fishing to the acre, with better fishing as to qual- 
ity, quantity and variety, than any other spot on earth. 
"Nature seems to have designed it for a 'real angler's par- 
adise,' and her generous gifts have been ably and intelli- 
gently supplemented by the U, S. Fish Commission in 
'planting,' and the Superintendent in 'watering,' if I may 
use that expression, and God has given a bountiful increase. 
"The Park is the source of three great rivers, the Mis- 
souri, the Yellowstone and the Snake; and its numberless 
cold, clear mountain streams and glacial lakes are admirably 
adapted to trout of all species. Many of the streams in their 
lower courses are the natural home of Sahno myTcisit, the na- 
tive trout of that region; but where the waters leave the 
great volcanic plateau the cataracts form an impassable bar- 
rier to the ascent of fish, so the upper courses of all the 
streams were originally devoid of fish life. A notable ex- 
ception to this is the Yellowstone Lake, and that part of the 
river above the falls, these waters being abundantly stocked 
with the mykiss. As the falls (365ft. in height) form an ab- 
solutely impassable barrier, the explanation is sought and 
found m the fact that at a comparatively recent date (from a, 
geological standpoint) the waters of Yellowstone Lake 
drained through Snake River to the Pacific. It was then 
abundantly stocked with the mykiss of the Pacific slope, and 
when the outlet became dammed up by ice or other natural 
agency the lake found a new outlet in the opposite direction, 
and so the mykiss crossed the continental divide by natural 
means. My authority for the above statement is Professor 
Arnold Hague, of the U. S. Geological Survey, who has 
probably studied the natural features of the Park more thor- 
oughly, and knows them more accurately, than any man 
alive. But to return to our fishes. Since 1889 the U. S. 
Fish Commission has planted about 100,000 yearling trout, 
in the barren streams and lakes of the Park, and these have, 
with scarce an exception, grown and multiplied almost be- 
yond belief; so the angler can now take his choice of pursu- 
ing the native mykiss, the whitefish, or the rare and gamy 
grayling; or he may take the European brown trout (Von 
Behr), the Eastern brook trout {fonti?iali«), the rainbow 
{irideus) of California, or the ouananiche of Canada. 
"The summer climate is delightful, the scenery superb, 
and, as though the shade of good old Izaak Walton exercisedi 
a special guardianship over this region, there is such a com- 
bination of cold, snow- fed streams, with others fed by gey- 
sers and boiling springs, that the angler cannot only take a. 
fine trout on his fly at any season of the year, but he can, ia 
hundreds of places, drop him into a convenient hot spring 
and cook him without moving from his stand. 
"I have just consulted my map with a view to tabulating, 
for the leaders of Forest and Stream, the streams, with the 
mileage of each, which furnish good sport with each particu- 
lar variety ; but had to give it up. It would take half a page 
of Forest amb Stream. It will suffice to say, that from 
any hotel in the Park one can go out and have an excellent 
day's sport, returning to his hotel for dinner at night. To 
get real first-class sport with the grayling, however, one 
should take a wagon and drive about thirty miles from the 
Fountain Hotel to Dwelle's ranch, on the South Fork of 
Madison River. This is probably the best grayling stream 
in the United States now, and Mr. Dwelle will furnish good 
accommodations to .sportsmen at reasonable prices. To 
catch the ouananiche one has to take a wagon or pack train 
and camp outfit, and go one day's drive from the hotel and 
camp on the shore of Shoshone Lake; and this, by the way, 
is the only fishing proposition in the whole Park that is the 
least doubtful. Ttiis heretofore barren lake was stocked in 
1889 with the naymacush, and up to last season had never 
been fished 
"Last ,Tuly I cut a trail to the lake and took a boat there in 
a wagon. We camped on the lake shore, near the outlet, 
and saw the fish breaking about 50yds. off shore. The next 
day we fished for them with a fly and trolled with a spoon, 
but could not get a strike, though they are surely there. 
Since then I liave studied the ouananiche some, and hope to 
get after them again with live bait. 
"As to the accommodations for anglers in this region. 
The Park is reached from 'the East via the N. P. R. R. or 
the Burlington, and from the West via the N. P. or the U. 
P., which runs a stage line into the Park from Beaver 
Cafion, Idaho. Once within the borders of the Park, and 
the rest is easy and only moderately expensive. The Park 
Association maintains four first-class hotels, one day's drive 
apart, and they make reduced rates to anglers, who wish to 
stay in the Park longer than the necessary time for making 
the regular trip. The transportation company runs elegant 
4-horse covered coaches between the hotels, and at each 
hotel they keep buckboards and saddle horses for the use of 
tourists who wish to go fishing, while about the Park are 
several individuals who will furnish to a party of sportsmen, 
transportation and camp equipage, and guide them to the 
best fishing resorts. 
"All of these people do business in the Park under the 
supervision of the Government, enforced by the local super- 
intendent, which guarantees the sportsman or tourist against 
fraud or exorbitant charges. 
"I have been on duty here for more than five years, and I 
advise every angler to come here for his outing if hp can, 
and every angler who has arranged for the regular sight-see- 
ing tour of the Park, taking fiye days, should not fail to 
plan for ten days more, to enjoy the unparalleled sport with 
rod and reel." 
A Good Season. 
Jxily 8. — For some unknown reason the present year is 
proving an exceptionally good one for the anglers in nearly 
all of this part of the West. Not for a long time have the 
catch of muscallunge been so numerous or so large as they 
are this summer, and this seems to apply to all the waters of 
the upper West to which this fish is native. In Minnesota, 
as we-haye been, the 'lunge crop is extraordinarily abundant, 
and lip; ill Wisconsin, on waters which have for some time 
app^red to be fished out, the sport has been good for an un- 
usually long time. It is likely that the good fishing is to be 
explained by the long period of high water over much of the 
West early last spring. High water means good fishing, 
generally speaking. The excellence of sport with the rod 
extends not only to the muscallunge, but also to the bass and 
pike. Not at any time for a dozen years has bass fishing 
been so good as it is this summer over the greater part of the 
entire State of Wisconsin. 
At Kabekona camp in Minnesota we continue to hear of 
good takes of 'lunge, and of course in a 'lunge country noth- 
ing else counts, and the hundreds of wall-eyes and pickerel 
and bass are looked upon only as a tribulation. 
At Pelican Lake, Wisconsin, a number of 'lunge have 
been taken by different anglers the past month. Mr. J. H. 
Frem, of Antigo, Wis., during the past two weeks caught 
seveijteen 'lunge running from 8 up to 37ib3. Mr. Evans, a 
guest at one of the hotels, had one 'lunge of 26108. Mr. D. 
Williams, of Club House Point, has during the season had 
seventeen 'lunge, the heaviest being a grand specimen of 
371bs. weight. Mrs. A. McKenzie, of Eagle River, Wis., 
took a fine fish weighing 261b8. at Catfish Lake, near Peli- 
can, and in the same lake Mr. Jos. Flannigan got a still big- 
ger one, a beauty scaling B41bs. A. Lafave got one at Cat- 
fish Lake that weighed 381bs. Mr. Chas. Whitcomb, of 
Chicago, took on Pelican Lake a number of small 'lunge 
running in weights such as 5, 8, 9 or lOlbs. One of these 
small 'luDge had its lip nearly torn off from an earlier en- 
c'>unter with the spoon. Mr. Cbas. Dorman, of Kaukauna, 
Wis., had two fish, one weighing 13 and the other 15lbs. 
Mr. Clifford, freight auditor of the Chicago & Northwestern 
Railroad, with Dr. Moore, of Wheaton, 111., in one day got 
seven 'lunge of various weights and seventy-five wall eyde 
pike. Mr. John Branch, auditor of agents and conductors 
accounts, the same railway, with Mr. Chas. Jenks, both ii 
Evanston, 111., caught in one day ISOlbs. of pike and pickerel, 
and bass, having bass up to 41bs. and pike as heavy as 4ilb3. 
Messrs. A. C. Paterson and Geo. Sears, of Chicago, in one 
day, or rather one morning, caught thirty-five wall-eyes and 
quit because it was too easy. On Twin Lake, above Pelican 
Lake, Mr. Fred Wood, a guest of Mr. R. D. Peacock, in one 
day took twenty-eight fine bass and a number of pickerel up 
to 5lbs. weight. It is rarely that one hears reported the bass 
and pike catches from this upper country, because there are 
so many fish of this sort taken, and so easily, that it is not 
thought worth reporting. 
I learn that the catch of bass taken by Mr. C. R. Gillette, 
mentioned in last week's Forest and Stream, was made at 
Brown's Lake, just over the line in Wisconsin. Of these fish 
over seventy out of the eighty -three were small mouths, and 
the majority of the fish are reported as taken on the fly. 
Mr. Gillette says he never had such fishing. In shorty high 
water, fish propagation, or something, has given us the finest 
sort of angling this summer. Almost any way one wants to 
go, south to Indiana, north to Wisconsin, or east to Michi- 
gan, one may expect just now fine sport at bass and other 
fish. Thus 1 hear that Black Lake, in Michigan south pen- 
insula, is a splendid water for the bait-caster, though the big- 
mouth bass axe not very good to eat there at this season of 
the year. 
The Leavenworth Flshlnpr Club. 
The Leavenworth Fishing Club, of Leavenworth, Kau. 
