July 34, 1897.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Carp In the Park Ponds. 
In common with a^reat many other people, the Park Com- 
missioners of Chicago at one tiine thought the German carp 
a highly beautiful and desirable tish, and an ornament calcu- 
lated to shine in the best society. Such is not now the be- 
lief. The carp which have been planted in the park lakes 
liave increased and multiplied, and they manage to keep the 
-« aters stirred up until it is of the general consistency and 
color of restaurant coffee. During the past month it was 
4ecided to have the park improved by the removal of all the 
<?arp from the lagoons, the experiment being made first in 
0-arfield Park. A professional net-fisherman from the lake 
was engaged, who agreed to take the carp for his pay. He 
worked for two days with a good force, but only succeeded 
in taking a very few carp. He declared that the weeds at 
the bottom of the water offered a refuge for the carp, out of 
which they could not be driven. Burrowing in the mud, the 
carp allowed the lead lines of the net to drag harmlessly 
above them. In consequence of this the professional fisher- 
man has thrown up his hands in horror, and we still have 
carp in our park lakes. Acclimatization is a good thing 
sometimes, but in the case of carp, Chinese and other foreign 
substances, its results are not always to be hailed with accla- 
mation. 
Cisco Season at Lake Geneva. 
One of the curious features of Western angling is the cisco 
season at Lake Geneva. These little fish appear at a certain 
time of the year, usually in June, at this favorite water of 
Lake Geneva. They run near the surface in schools of 
thousands, and are taken in great numbers by the long lines 
of boats which go out for the fast and curious fun of this 
'brief and curious form of angling. The fish bite for perhaps 
a week or ten days, then they drop down to the deep water 
of the lake and give absolutely no sign of their presence until 
the following year. This year the cisco run lasted for over 
four weeks, an unprecedentedly long time. One day in the 
last week of June six rods took over 1,000 cisco at Lake 
Geneva. 
I do not know of the presence of the cfisco in any other 
Wisconsin lake excepting Big Sand Lake, more than 150 
miles north of Lake Geneva. In Big Sand Lake ciscos are 
often taken by means of sunken gill nets, but I have never 
heard of their taking bait at that lake. 
New Warden for Missouri, 
Mr. A. J. D. Burford, of Burfordville, Cape Girardeau 
county, was, on June 28, appointed by Governor Stevens as 
State Game and Fish Warden, vice Jesse W. Henry, of 
Jefferson City. Mr Burford will find abundance of work to 
do along the naturally prolific waters of his State. 
In Montana. 
^ The Boulder River, near Big Timber, has offered fine trout 
fishing the past week. Messrs. C. N. Skillman, Ed Hall, 
Bert Snook and E B. Clark had exceptional luck on that 
stream, taking one 8 lb. trout, one of 6lbs., three of 51bs. and 
two over 51b3. They had twenty other 'fish running between 
2 and 41bs., the total making certainly a very fijie catch. 
In Wyoming. 
Trout fishing near Sheridan, Wyo., is now extraordinarily 
good. Tnere are a number of streams in the county which 
are well spoken of, but luck has been especially good in Big 
Goose Creek, from Beckton up to the canon. 
Trout on the Gunnison, Colorado. 
Mr. Milward Hewitt reports to the Denver press the fol- 
lowing results of fishing along the Gunnison River, Col. : 
"On Saturday last three trout were shown in Gunnison 
city aggregating 24ilbs., the largest being 10^1 bs., and from 
lola, the headquarters of the Denver Fishmg Club, I hear of 
one 71bs. , one 4^ lbs. Last Sunday Charles Shaw caught one 
of 61 bs. at the Stevens bridge, and the agent one of 4i]bs. 
Louis Pomel had sixteen one day last week in three hours, 
and thirteen another day in a few hours. A party of Gun- 
nison Fishermen at lola had a fine string one day last week 
from 1 to 71bs., and so ou, 
Michigan Commission Cut Down. 
There was a strong lobby of the market fishermen on hand 
at the last session of the Michigan Legislature, this lobby 
fighting the sportsmen element, who have sought to regulate 
the size of mesh to be used and the manner of fishing in tbe 
open waters. The result of this fight was that instead of 
the Fish Commission getting its usual appropriation of 
$55,000, it was cut to $15,000, this to last for the term of 
two years. If this result be the work of the market fishermen, 
it is difficult to see the wisdom of Iheir course. Mr, A. 
Booth, the most prominent market-fisherman on the Great 
Lakes, once told me that if it had not been for the efforts of 
the Slate Hatcheries of Ohio and Michigan there, would not 
be a whitefish to-day south of Lake Superior. The Michi- 
gan Commission, under its curtailed appropriation, will 
throw nearly all of its force out of employment. It will 
make a specialty for the next two years of brook trout and 
other game fish, and the market fish will be allowed to take 
care ot themselves. The Detroit hatchery for whitefish, the 
carp hatchery at Glenwood, the lake trout and commercial 
hatcheries at the Soo, and the wall-eyed pike and bass hatch- 
eries will be put out of commission, and the only hatcheries 
that will be maintained will be those for brook trout at Paris, 
Mecosta county, and at the Soo. 
Camping. 
Mr. Harry Lawrence Wilbur, of this city, asks me where 
he can go trout fishing, taking along his wife, for a camping 
trip. I recommended the Prairie River of Wisconsin, or the 
Au Sable River of Michigan. These streams are good for 
trout. As to camping out for a lady, the trout country, w ith 
its mosquitoes and flies, is about the hardest and most uncom- 
fortable that can be found. The Au Sable trip must be 
made by boat, with a new camp each day. it could be made 
by a lady, but few would think it enjoyable. E. Hough. 
1306 BoYOB BXJILDIN&, Chicago. 
A Large Bass From a Small Lake. 
New Yokk, July lo— Editor Forest and Strmm: Dr. H, 
A, Mandeville, of Orange, N. J., a member of the Bellport 
Gun Club, has recently had mounted a large-mouth black 
bass weighing Tibs., which he caught in Artist Lake, near 
Bellport. L. I. This fish very closely resembled a small- 
mouth, but after careful examination Dr. Tarleton H. Bean 
pronounced it a large-mouth. 
NEW ENGLAND FISHING. 
BosTOK, July 17.— Again the Maine trout and salmon 
lakes, ponds and rivers have been swollen to entraordinary 
proportions. The rain of early this week brought a July 
freshet unheard of, and the waters of northern and eastern 
New England are up to full banks. What this unseasonable 
rise will do for the fishing is a question. These is no doubt 
but what the unusually high position of the Rangeley, the 
Moosehead and other waters has prolonged trolling for 
salmon and trout till well into July, when it is generally 
about all done by the middle of June. What this additional 
freshet and high water will do remains to be seen. 
S. R. Morse, of Atlantic City, N. J., a camp owner on the 
shores -of Rangeley Lake, is reported to have broken the 
record of those waters for landlocked salmon last week, 
landing a big one that weighed IS^lbs. The fish was 30in. 
long and very, very deep, the largest salmon by 2U\}a. that 
has ever been taken from the Rangeleys. The Maine Fish 
and Game Commissioners are very busy with what may be 
termed a week of hearings. These hearings are mostly in 
regard to closing tributary streams to all fishing, 'fhey 
have invariably refused to close waters that are not being 
stocked by the State. A few rather bitter hearings are set 
down in regard to the question of fishways at certain dams. 
Black Bass fishing continues to be very much in order. 
D. W. Linnehan, of Boston, with a friend, spent a day at 
one of the ponds in Winchester this week with a catch of 
forty nice bass. The lucky sportsmen are rather proud, and 
mention that the curious part of the trip was that they met 
an old farmer near the pond. He saw their string of bass 
with considerable surprise, and remarked that he had lived 
on the shores of the pond for many years, and was never 
before aware that such a string of fish could be taken 
from it. 
Mr. E. C. Stevens, of Boston, is back from a nice fishing 
trip to Lake Dunmore, Salisbury, Vt. This time he was 
alone, except for a guide, but had excellent fishing. He 
took all the bass he wanted, catching thirty- eight on Mon- 
day, of good size. Pickerel fishing was also good. A 61b. 
pickerel was Mr. Stevens's largest this year, though he has 
taken larger ones there on former seasons, The lake seems 
to be particularly noted for the size of its pickerel. 
Mr. Frank F. Dodge is back from his first fishing trip this 
season to the camp owned by himself and Mr. Fadin, at Lake 
.Barrio, Nova Scotia. This lake is but little known to sports- 
men, being in the woods a long distance from settlement, 
approached by carriage road and on foot six or eight miles 
to Silver River, and thence to the lake by canoes. The fish- 
ing is all that the sportsman could wish "of small trout. Mr. 
Dodge will start his boys for a summer outing at his camp in 
a few days. He has a man there that can be trusted. Mr. 
Dodge and Mr. Fadin are fortunate in being able to purchase 
their camp lot outright, not being obliged to lease, as is 
almost universally the case in Maine. They are obliged to 
pay annually "one peppercorn" to the Crown for the use of 
their land. 
Black bass fishing is reported good in Sunapee Lake, New 
Hampshire. Mr. L. O. Crane is at home from a short stay 
at that lake. He found all the bass fishing he desired. He 
landed a bass weighing S^lbs. there Monday. Almost every 
time he went out he took about all the bass he desired. He 
fished with the fly altogether, using in his cast the parma- 
cheeue-belle, coachman and brown-hackle. This may be 
a new cast to some bass fishermen, but it did well with Mr. 
Crane. Special. 
But Some are Fishing Still. 
A MJlS I Have Fished With, and who is so fortunate as 
to have survived it, is now successfully persuading the 
salmon of New Brunswick that a diet of feathers, tinsel, 
pig's wool and feathers is more palatable and wholesome 
than the small fish and crustaceans that have comprised 
their ocean menu. When I dropped into Conroy's last week 
to look over some tackle, he said to me; "Major Fred, there 
was a party of anglers in here last week discussing your arti- 
cles in FoHEST AND STREAM, and one man remarked ; 'In 
reading those articles I've noticed that nearly every man who 
ever fished with Mather is dead, and I think that I wouldn't 
care to fish with him.' How is this? Is he right?" 
"Surely he is right, Thomas," I replied. "A generation 
of man is thirty years and few reach the limit of three score 
and ten. You must not forget that my first sketch was of 
Reuben Wood, whom I fished with just fifty-seven years 
ago, when he was a boy of a dozen or more years and I a 
child of seven; Reuben lived to be sixty-two years old, even 
if he did fish with me. Port Tyler lived to be nearly eighty ; 
Geo. Dawson died at seventy ; Ira Wood at fifty-three; Bill 
Patterson, Guyon, Fish and "Jack" Sheppard are living, 
while Alvah Dunning is still an Adirondack guide nearly 
ninety years old, not. to mention Charles Hallock, who is 
just five months and eleven days younger than I. Put these 
facts before your friends, Tom, for I don't care to pose as a 
hoodoe " 
"That's a new way to look at it," said Tom, "we some^ 
how forget that you were born so long before us; but tell me 
about your friend on the Restigouche who has been taking 
all these big salmon. " 
"My friend who is now there fishing is one whom I have 
written up in . Forest and SxREAii, and he and I fished 
together more than fifty years ago. He sent me a 251b. 
salmon this week, and it came through from Matapedia in 
good shape. Oh, no, Thomas, the old boys are not all dead ; 
there's good leather in some of them and they wear well.' 
Tell that to your friends next time." Fked Mathek. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
Chicago, July 17. —Editor Forest and titream: The score 
of our club contest to-day was as follows; 
Long Distance Distance and Accuracy aad Bait Casting 
Fly, feet. Acc'y, per cent. Del'cy, per cent, percent 
W. H. Babcock.. 75 m% Siy. 
1. H. Bellows.... 80 76' 8b°a 94" 
L F.Crosby .... .... fO»» 
J. M Clark mA Sd-i 
B. W. Good sell.. 100 8B% 91 ' §3^ 
C. G. Ludlow.... 77 m% 80U 73 
G. A Murrell.... 77 am, 74 w,*^ 
F. N. Peet 88 89U 85 91 
G. W. Strell .... ?o« 
H. G. Hoscall '"" 7.5* 
H.W.Perce .... 721. 
E. C Smith ; » 
M. D. Smith ... .... So" 
L. G. Stiles , ... 
T.D.Whitney. .... ;;;; 
Holders of medals: Long distance fly, B. W. Goodsell; 
distance and accuracy, F. N. Peet; accuracy and delicacy,' 
B. W. Goodsell; bait casting, G. A. Murrell. 
6. A. Murrell, Sec'y, 
Green Mountain Notes. 
Milton, Vt., July 12.— Bass fishing in this section of the 
State is uncommonly good this year. A party came in last 
week from: the mouth of the Lamoille with heavy strings, 
averaging 3 and 41bs. The baits used were minnows, frogs,' 
and helgamites. Pike are being brought in in large num- 
bers, a party of three gentlemen taking over seventy in less 
than four hours; the bait used was small frogs Trout are 
fairly numerous, but the excellent fishing in Lake Cham- 
plain has drawn most of the fishing population there, so the 
trout streams have received scanty attention in this part of 
the State at least. 
The Lamoille River bids fair to become a good fighting 
ground for those who love the wily salmon trout. The 
stream was stacked with fry of that variety a few years ago, 
and several good strings of medium-sized tish have been 
taken. In some parts of the river, in shallow water, small 
trout, 3 or 4in. long, fairly swarm, promising good sport at 
some future time. 
Prom present indications, it looks as though shooting 
would be unusually good in Vermont this fall. Duck are 
nesting in large numbers in the marshes, or, as they are 
locally called, "slango" along the lake. Plover and snipe 
are also plenty, but woodcock are not numerous. Par- 
tridges, too, are plenty, and nearly every patch of woodland 
contains at least one brood of these shyest of nature's chil- 
dren. It is gratifying to note that the English ringneck 
pheasant is doing well in this State, They appear to be a 
very hardy bird, enduring our severe winters well, and bid 
fair to become as numerous as the grouse- 
Vermont hunters are eagerly awaiting the open season for 
deer that begins Oct. 1, and continues one month. From 
reports from various sections of the State, deer seem to be 
quite abundant, particularly in the central and southern 
portion. It is rather a pity that the old law could not have 
remained in force a few years longer, so that the deer might 
have multiplied unmolested. As it is now, the deer are so 
tame that it will be no hard task for a good shot to bag 
them, and I fear the first season will see them wellnigh ex- 
terminated. Happily, however, the law is as-nearly right as 
it is possible to make a game law, and hunting with dog, 
jack, salt-lick or trap, are prohibited, as well as the killing 
of deer without horns. Possibly the deer will survive this 
autumn's host of hunters and become a permanent fixture of 
the State, but that remains to be seen. Kenewah. 
Bass Fishing' in Bay of Quinte. 
Belleville, Out., July 16.— The following will give 
your readers an idea of what bass fishifig is like in the Bay 
of Quinte at present, On Wednesday afternoon last the- 
Forest and Stream Club held their first bass Asking competi 
tion of the season, for prizes given by the club for largest and 
second largest catches of bass, and by Mr. C. N. Sulman, a 
member of the club, for three largest bass caught during the 
season. The conditions prescribe not more than two men in, 
a boat; to leave the harbor not earlier than IP. M., return- 
ing not later than 10 P. M. ; fish to be counted and weighed 
at a certain boat house; anglers to troll, still-fish, or with the 
fly or bait casting at will, but not to use more than one line 
at a time. Twelve boats took part, and, although several 
boats failed to secure any bass, the fishing was good, thirty- 
three fish being caught. The fish, however, were small, and 
the veterans were once more easy winners. The results 
were: 
Largest catch— W. Ormond and Major Casswell, thirteen 
fish. 
Next largest catch— W. P. Clarke and John Haslett, five 
fish. 
Largest bass— R. Burke and H. P. Day, 21bs. 7oz. 
For the Sulman prize, for the three heaviest bass, Messrs. 
Burke and Day weighed in three which weighed 51bs. 7oz. 
At Trent Bridge, a few evenings ago, Mr. John Garneau 
went out on the River Trent, and in less than an hour he 
was fortunate in catching twelve maskinonge. A boy, the 
evening previous, captured in twenty minutes two 'lunge, 
one weighing 12lb3, R. L. B. 
Rangely Fishing-. 
Rangely, Me., July 12.— Ihav.e noticed a number of ar- 
ticles in your paper in reference to the fishing this year at 
the Rangeleys. I have been coming here for five or six 
weeks vacation for the past five years, and have never found 
fishing so good as last year and this. 
We have caught two 8lb. salmon, and about twenty that 
weighed from 3 to 7lbs. We have also caught a number of 
trout running in weight from 3 to 4ilbs. On Saturday, 10th 
inst-, while fishing with me, with Ernest Ross, guide Prof 
S. R. Morse, of Atlantic City, N. J., took a 13^ lb. salmon. 
This is the largest landlocked salmon ever taken by hook and 
line from the Rangeley waters. The large salmon was 31in, 
long, 20in. in circumference, and 9in. spread of tail. A Mr, 
Winship, about the same time, caught a salmon that weighed 
131b3. There were a number of salmon taken on the 10th 
that ran from 4 to 6lbs. This is the fishing on the Oquossoc 
or Rangely Lake. I have been here since June 17th, and 
have had fine sport. 
We never get five or six large fish any one day, but, with 
one or two exceptions, we have had sport enough each time 
we have been fishing. This may be of some interest to your 
readers who are visitors to this section. W. A. Palnce. 
Maine Guides in New Brunswick. 
Mr. R. S. Barker, Chief Game Constable, Fredericton, 
N B., writes: "I cannot see any reason why you should not 
bring Stale of Maine guides with you. It would not be 
necessary for them lo have a license provided they did not 
carry guns. 1 presume you would have local guides as 
well." 
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