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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JXTLY l*?, 1897. 
made its annual June flsbing trip into Wisconsin, and on the 
Fourth of July held its sixth annual banquet at its head- 
quarters in the pleasant city by the Missouri, a large number 
of members and guests being present. 
This club was organized by Jjeavenworth anglers in the 
■wilds of northern Wisconsin in 1892, and one of its principal 
features is to haVe a big fishing irip every year and a dinner 
bn the return, that is always attended by over a hundred of 
the leading business and professional mien of the city. 
Four kinds of fish were served last ni^ht — muscallung'e, 
pic,kerel, pike and bass. 
After dining for an hoUr and a half, W. C. Hook, thfe 
president of the club, introduced O. B. Taylor as toastmas- 
ter. Speeches followed by J. R. Garrett, J. W. Hirst, E. Wi 
Snyder and others. 
W. C. Hook, who just returned from Wisconsin and 
brought in the fish for the banquet, made the principal 
speech. He started out by reading the constitution of the 
club, which states that its objects are to procure fish by 
bther tneans than putchase, and to encourage and promote 
Veracity among its memlfprs. The constitution makes it a 
fcapital offense for a member so impugn the veracity or credit 
bilit.y of another member before a stranger. 
Western Trout. 
, TThe i)enver Republican has the following despatch from 
Laramie, Wyo., date of July 3, from which it would appear 
that we in this part of the world are not really in a position 
to say very much about trout fishing: 
"A party of Union Pacific otiicials, guests of Assistant 
Superintendent Culrcss cf the* Union Pacific, mountain 
division, returned from the headwaters of the Big Laramie 
yesterday with one of the tinest catches of trout ever made 
in this vicinity. The total catch was 440 trout, the largest 
being a 7-pounder. Among the party were Superintendent 
of Motive Power J. H. McConnell, Private Secretary C. A. 
Coons, Superintendent of the Cheyenne Shops J. E. O. 
Hearne, Judge C. N. Potter of the Supreme Court, United 
States Marshall McDermott, R.S. Obertelder, Nebraska State 
Fish Commissioner, and R. H. Repath, of Cheyenne." 
Minnesota Fish Work. 
Superintendent W. H. Morgan, of the Minnesota Fish 
Commission, reports that some 20,000 fry of the steelhead 
salmon from California have been planted this season in 
Lake Superior. No bass fry have been put out, but 725,000 
"wall-eyed pike have been planted, and 546,000 trout fry. 
The largest quantity was placed in Winona county. This 
county is the paradise of the Minnesota trout angler. Fil- 
more and Olmstead counties rank next to Winona, and in 
consequence received the next largest amount of young trout. 
Of the 800,000 thai Supt. Morgan still intends to put out, 
these three counties will receive a large share. 
Divers Dynamiters. 
Along the lower part of the Kankakee River dynamite 
has this summer been used to considerable extent, as well as 
nets and spears. Many game fish have bsen killed, to say 
nothing of hundreds of carp. 
The TopeM Journal, of Kansas, has this despatch from 
Augusta, Kas., about the way certain persons destroy fish: 
"Wichita parties com-e over to the Walnut to fish. There 
could be no objection to this if they would obey the law, but 
they dynamite the streams, and lully l.fiOOlbs. of fish are 
shipped by rail or wagon every week from this city. The new 
Fish Commissioner lives in Wichita, and is said lo have been 
a successful fisher in the Walnut before his appointment." 
The Logan Journal, of Utah, advises the public that the 
dynamiter is not a product exclusively of the older parts of 
the United States. It has this to say about the ravages of 
the giant powder fiend :; 
"It is claimed that giant powder is being used by certain 
fishermen in sequestered places along Paradise Creek. Peo- 
ple from Brigham City, who have been up there on a day's 
outing, have found trout floating down the stream stunned 
and motionless, exactly as they would have done had they 
been blown out of their shady watery nooks by some reck- 
less fisherman. AH such law-breaking trout annihilators 
should be tenderly felt after Dy the loving arm of the law, or 
in a very few years these streams will be entirely stripped^ of 
the delicious trout. Some of the Cache county officera 
should be inspired to occasionally try their luek at fishing in 
those infested quarters.'" 
Anderson, Xnd., has a young fish and game protective 
club, and it needs one. Dynamiters have been steadily at 
work for weeks above the Broadbent dam, and many fish 
have been destToyed., x\mos Cobarn has been appointed 
deputy warden, and will have abundance to occupy his mind 
for a time. 
Some Seiners. 
At Kokomo, Ind., this week, G. W. Murray, of El wood, 
was fintd $35 for seining in the Wild Cat Creek. Deputy 
Weltner niade the arrest, and it is said he will now get after 
a lot of dynamiters who have been at work on the same 
stream for some time. 
Among the men who have this season been arrested for 
seining in the Calumet River are F. Lallae, H. Posselt, J. G. 
Garrett and Wm. Cadman. Each of these got oflf easy with 
$10 and costs. 
The Crawfordsville, Ind., Journalh.a& the following com- 
mendable talk to make to a few of its worthless citizens 
about unlawful fishing: 
"The attention of State Fish Commissioner Sweeney is 
respectfully called to the fact that a 40ft. seine, 12ft. deep, its' 
owmd and operated by Crawfordsville parties. The gang 
owning this illegal instrument went out the other night and 
by dragging the wattrs af the creek caught a tubful of fine 
bass. It was dead easy and great sport^ but if punishment 
is not meted out to them it will not be the fault of the legiti- 
mate fishermen, who are now on their trail with a hot stick. 
Some of the fellows owning an interest in this seine are 
hardly in a position to monkey with the law, and if they 
escape with a fine they may consider themselves lucky." 
Roar. 
The bold and honest utterance of the Crawfordsville Jour- 
nal is not imitated, as it might well be, in a recent roar by 
the Jerseyville Democrat of this State. The latter paper- 
thinks that the recent Illinois fish law, establishing a size- 
limit for all fish to be marketed, is very wrong, and remarks: 
"This section alone almost destroys an industry, which fur- 
nishes employment to hundreds of re en within the State." 
It would seem that these hundreds of men might be better 
employed than in destroying baby fish. But this is a fair 
/sample of the sort of sentiment wliich comes up from lower 
Illinois against any intelligent movement lor the protection. 
of either fish or game. There] is where we get our spring 
shooting laws killed. 
Fined. 
At Manistee, Mich,, Ed. Norman, Patil Bloch and Anton 
Fountain were fined each 15 and costs for unlawful trout 
fishing this week. 
Stole a Reservoir. 
Above we see a fevv instances of the daring of the morally 
destitute men who use dynamite and seines and all sorts of 
things to capture fish illegally. But there are other heights 
to which the unlawful fisherman may climb. For the benefit 
of the two-penny fish thieves of Utah, of Indiana, of Illinois, 
let me recommend the ingenuity of some enterprising thieves 
in Ohio, who were not content with such slow work as kill- 
ing a few hundred fish, but stole a whole reservoir full at 
one fell swoop. The names of the men alleged to be con- 
cerned in this bit of work are Willis Nethers, Fred. Marshall, 
Fet. Coulter, Benson Nethers, Ed. and Charles Mortimore, 
all living near Dresden and Prazeysburg, and they were ar- 
rested by Warden L. H. Reutinger. It seems that these men 
knew of a certain reservoir tributary to the Ohio Canal, 
known as Mortimore's Basin, in which numbers of fish 
abounded, and tliey conceived the notion that by cutting the 
canal bank they could drain the basin and thus get all the 
fish in it. They did so cut the channel through the "bank, 
and placing a wire netting across it, they caught a vast quan- 
tity of fish as they were drawn out by the current of water. 
What they did not take away went on out into a field near- 
by, over which the water spread, and the next day a wagon 
load or so of fish were picked up in the field. The fish thus 
destroyed were peddled out in the neighborhood of the crime. 
All these men are now out on bail, and one of them thinks 
he can prove an alibi. It will be very desirable for all of 
them to prove alibis or jump their bailbonds and leave, for 
it happens that they can, and very likely will, be prosecuted 
for an isffense worse than the.illegal taking of fish. To cut 
the bank of any canal is in Ohio a felony. The men will 
very likely take a trip to the Penitentiary. It is not always 
thai genius brings happiness. 
Weights of Columbia River Salmon. 
In the month, of June there were received at Vancouver 
from the upper Columbia River five salmon which weighed 
225lbs. The largest of these weighed 531bs. There were 
other specimens, all of the Chinook salmon, weighing 57, 56, 
49lbs. No wonder they don't take a fly. If they did the 
fishing would be too good to be true. 
FIshlne Clubs. 
The Paul Jones Fishing Club has been organized this week 
at New Orleans, with the following otiicer8':Col. J. H. Hoff- 
stadt, president; Edraond Noris, first vice-president; Dan 
Young, second vice-president; VicVindon, secretary; Louis 
Hackemiller, treasurer, and Wm. Evans, sergeant-at-arms, 
and Wm. Petefield, commissary. 
The Schoor Lake Fishing Club, of Waterloo, III., elected 
the former year's officers at their annual meeting last Week, 
as follows ; " J. J. Koenigsmark, president; Dr. Fike, vice- 
president; F. Durfee, secretary; F. Jobusch, treasurer; John 
Lutz, R. Wolf, P. Bremser, H. Wallhaua and H. Murphy, 
trustees; M. C. Rodenberger, custodian. 
Bass. , 
At Pearl Lake, Wis., in Waushara county, bass fishing is 
very good now. Wm. Brill, of Bel-lin, last week caught a 
olb" bass, and nearly everybody has had luck. 
At Lake Winnebago, Wis,, the sport at black bass and also 
at white bass continues very fine. One party caught eighty- 
five bass near Fond du Lac last week. 
John Parmelee, of Chicago, went fishing up at Manito- 
wish. Wis., last week. His friend Mr Upman, of Chicago, 
guyed him about his skill, and offered him 40 cents a pound 
for all the fish he caught. Mr. Parmelee sent him down 
lOOlbs. by express as a starter, and Mr. Upman drew his 
cheque for $40. He doesn't want any more now. 
E, HotJGH. 
1206 BoYCE BuiLDTNO, Chicafrot 
ANGLING IN CANADA. 
Editor Forest and Utream! 
Lake Edward has yielded, this spring, and continues to 
yield many of the large size brook trout for which it is 
famous. Among those who have lately had splendid sport 
are Mr. Harry Brown of Albany and his wife. They are 
stopping at the Laurentides House, and besides trying the 
deep water of the lake itself very successfully for some of 
its monster fish, have enjoyed good fly-fishing upon newly 
opened-up chains of lakes and their connecting streams, a. 
short distance to the west of the big lake. Other American 
anglers who have done well here this season are, Mr. and 
Mrs. H. S. Brown, Scranton, Pa. ; John L. Borston,' 'Bur- 
lington, Vt.; and W. E. Hervey and J. C. French, M. D., of 
Burlington, Vt. Messrs. Clement H, Cox, of London, 
England; H. C. Foy, C. H. B. Caldwell and Major 0. P. 
Waldron, of the same place, bave also made gooa catches 
during the last few days at Lake Edward. 
Messrs. J. D. Frink and C. L. Aiken, of Springfield, have 
had good sport at the lakes of the Amabalish Club. 
The Triton Club is making large strides in membership and 
promises to be completely filled up at a very early date. 
Some more large fish have been taken on the tract since the 
date of my last letter, but the record fish therein reported, of 
a 91b. trout l;aken with the fly, by the Hon. W. B, Kirk, of 
Syracuse, has not yet been broken there. 
Dr. Porter, of Bridgeport, has acquired fresh territory, 
tid joining that of the Metabetchonan Fish and Game Club, 
near Lake St. John, and is establishing a new club. 
Upon both the Tourilli Club's limits and the Jacques 
Gartier River, trout fishing has proved very good this spring, 
but not above the average. 
Fishing for ouananiche is about at its best just now in 
the Grande Decharge. It opened late, like mostl of the other 
■angling this year in Canada, and may therefore be expected 
to last longer than usual. No exceptionally heavy fish are 
yet reported, but the rising fish are plentiful. This fishing 
will doubtless be better in July than it has been in June, 
The fish are aigo running into the great northern feeders of 
Lake St. John, and from this date on to the end of the 
ouananiche season upon Sept. 15, the sport of fishing 
for them ought to be good in Lac Tschotagama up the 
Peribonca, at the fifth falls of the Mistassini, and in the 
other northern resorts of the ouananiche desciibed, with 
the method of reaching them, in "The Ouananiche and its 
Canadian Environment." An unu&nlly brisk ouananiche 
reason is expected this summer and fall in the Lake St. John 
country, for with scarcely an exception the salmon fishing'in 
Canada this year has been quite a failure. The Rev.' Dr. 
Rainsford, of New York, is4iere on his way home from the 
Restigouche and reports the fishing very poor. Another 
member of the Restigouche Salmon Club, who spent three 
weeks on the river, only killed three fisli, and Mr. A. N. 
Cheney, who recently visited the river for purposes of 
investigation, together with Mr. Burdick, of Albany, was: 
fortunate enough to have some very fair sport there. He 
returned home last week. Dr. F. W. Campbell and Mr. I. 
H. Stearns, of Montreal, have fished Chamberlain Shoals on 
this river as usual, but report poor luck. Much the same 
kind of a story comes from all the south, shore streams. The 
fishing on the north shore has been rather better, but nothing 
like what it usually is. This is principally accounted for by 
the prevalence of strong east winds at the time the fish gen- 
erally enter the rivers, which has kept them away from the 
coast. In all the streams, the run of salmon is much later 
than usual tfiis year. Mr. Pike, of New York, is at the 
Romaine, and so is Mr. Hodges, of Boston. Messrs. .las. 
Law, of Montreal, and .John Manuel, are fishing the God- 
bout with Thos. Peek and Robert Patterson, and Mr. A. C. 
Henry, has also fished with them. They had taken over a 
hundred salmon up to the end of last week, with an average 
weight of between 15 and 161bs. Messrs Vea^ey Boswell, 
of Quebec, and Chas. Hope and Andrew A. Allan, of Mon- 
treal, and E. D. Poland, of Philadelphia, arc on the Moisie, 
the newly acquired river of Messrs. Boswell and Hope. Mr. 
Edson Fitch, of this city, instead of fishing his own river 
this year, has been the guest of the two latter gentlemen for 
the last three weeks and reports a heavv catch, the bulk of 
the fish taken exceeding 2Blb?. in weight. Up to the end of 
last week the total catch on the river was 1 22 fish, Mr. John 
D. Gilmour and his son. Master Dudley Gilmour, are having 
great sport with both salmon and sea-trout on their river, 
the Trinity. While their guest last week 1 was lucky enough, 
to kill some twenty salmon, which is much below the aver- 
age taken on the river at this time of the year. The largest 
fish was only 21 lbs. Captain Wilberforce, A. D. C. to the 
Governor-General, is now fishing the Trinity with Mr. Gil- 
mour, and Dr. Johnson and wife, of New York, and E. C. 
Fitch, Esq., President of the Waltham Watch Company, 
are fishing the Romaine, Mr. John Brown and Master 
Ritchie, the Becsic, and Major Collingwood and wife, of 
England, the Mingan. The Mistassini is being fished by a 
party of Americans, who up to date have only killed nine fish; ■ 
E. T. D. Chambeks. 
Quebec, July 2. 
BOSTON AND MAINE. 
Boston, July 10.— Black bass fishing is very much in or- 
der at this time, and those who can visit the best bass waters 
are usually successful. The Belgrade lakes and ponds in 
Maine are very popular with bass fishermen, and never moie 
80 than this year. _Mr. H. C. Sanderson and Mr. William 
M Farrington are just back from a fishing" trip to Great 
Pond, at Belgrade Mills, Me. Both are much pleased with 
their success. Mr. Sanderson, at least, was not much accus- 
tomed to fishing for bass with a fly, but they struck the pond 
just right, In one day they caught nearly 200 baas, the most 
of which they returned to the water. They landed some of 
over Slbs. They were told at the pond that theirs had been 
about the first success of the season, the weather having been 
backward, and the season cold. White perch fishing was 
also fairly good on several of the ponds in that section. 
There are also goocl reports from Maranocook and Annabes- 
secook lakes in Winthrop, with the bass fishermen having 
good sport. 
The trout fishing season in Maine is by no means over, 
though the movement of sportsmen in that direction is not 
quite as marked as early in the season. At Mooselucmagun.- 
tic Lake the trolling for trout has been unusually good of 
.late, though that part of the sport is usually over before 
July 1. But this year the cold weather and high water has 
kept up the trolling, and good catches are still being reported. 
Mr. Greenleaf, of Lewiston, Me., and his uncle, from Albu- 
querque, New Mexico, were at that lake over the 'Jlh, and 
caught a good many trout. Mr. A. R. Beadle, of Spring- 
field, Mass,, and R. P. Whiting, of Lewiston, Me., went in 
lo Bemis, and then up the lake .July 3, and came out the 5lh. 
They had remarkably good luck, taking nearly SOlbs. of 
trout. Both were greatly pleased. 
• A week or two ago a fox chased a little fawn down to the 
lake, near Capt. Fred C. Barker's camps at Bemis. The little 
fellow took to the water, but was soon rescued by the men 
at the camps. It had been wounded by. the fox, and was 
nearly exhausted. It was cared for that night, and immedi- 
ately took to drinking milk, which was offered it. It has 
become very tame, is growing rapidly, and has become a 
great pet. Of buttercups it is especially fond, and it is a 
pretty sight to see Capt, Fred's little daughter of four years 
feeding it with flowers. The number of cameras that have 
been aimed at the little animal is great, and some good pic- 
tures should result. Indeed, the camera is getting to be the 
favorite weapon of lady sportsmen, and they are enjoying 
it, with the promise of something better hereafter. Mrs. 
Edward B. Hill and her daughter, of New York, were to 
try snap shots at live deer at some of the ponds in the 
Rangely region last week. Their guide, Lyman E. Moor, 
has several mapped out, 
Mr. Galen C Moses, of Bath, and president of the R F. 
and R, L. R. R., fished from the Birches July 5 with, good 
success. Mr. Gcorge S, Wright, of Boston, with Mrs. 
Wright, son and daughter, are at the Birches, and having 
good success in fishing. Good reports of trout come from 
the vicinity of the Kalahdin Iron Works, in Maine. Mr. G. 
W. Kimball, clerk of the late House of Representatives, on 
Beacon Hill, and Isaac H. Edgett, Assistant Secretary of 
State, with a friend, returned last week from a successful fish- 
ing trip to Chairback Pond, under Chairback Mountain, near 
Mount Katahdin. One day they caught 15a trout, returning 
all of the smaller ones to the water. Other days they had 
good success. Their fishing was all with flies. Mosquitoes 
and black flies were their chief sources of regret, with 
minges at night; but the fishing more than made up for the 
discomfort. 
Trout fishing on the Cape is not very satisfactory of late, 
though Boston merchants and business men go doVn theie 
as often as they can get away, and always take their rods 
along. They try the fishing faithfully, but success is the ex- 
ception since the warm weather begun. 
Mr. Henry G. Litchfield, with Dame, Stoddard & Kendall, 
was the recipient of u beautilul specimen of brook trout the 
other day, and showed it in the firm's window on Washing- 
ton street. It weighed .5flb9. and was 19iD. long; one of the 
finest specimens of plump, t&m&\e Salmo fonlinaliH oaa viiW 
see in a series of many fishing trips. It came from Maine, 
