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t would best serve mankind, leisurely toyed with his nap- 
kin and said; "Yes, I knew Harry Prichard well. He was 
a good angler because he was a successful one. As you say 
his theories seemed to be queer, but his practice appeared 
to bear them out. I have fished for troiit with him on Long 
Island and he sloshed his line around in the water just as 
you describe it, but he caught his share." 
"That's all very well," I rejoined, "but when a man tries 
to overturn all your beliefs and all the traditions of 
angling, I am disposed to listen to him, but expect him to 
prove his assertions. I can't take his ipse dixit witb only 
the evidence of one half day's fishing with him, as proof 
positive that the more splashing you make in the water 
the more trout you attract to your flies. No, sir! One 
fiwallow may make a summer boarder think that he has 
struck the ideal fishing place, but I can't swallow all of 
JEiarry's fishing theories. I was taught to 'fish fine and far 
off,' and it will take much, time and argument to make me 
adopt another course. One afternoon with Prichard can't 
di.sturb the teachings of a lifetime, even if he did happen 
to take more fish than I." 
Mr. Endicott had finished his chop, and looking sadly 
over the last bone, said: "Fred, Harry Prichard in life 
was a good angler, if a noisy one. He had most of the 
qualities which Izaak Walton ascribed to a good angler, 
patience, perseverance and a love of nature in all her 
moods. Harry Prichard had all of these traits, and, Fred, 
,my boy, you have them also; but Harry Prichard was 
honest and truthful, and I very much wish that you re- 
'gembled him in these, as well as in the others.'' 
Feed. Mathee. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
A MINNESOTA CENTER. 
AxESiANDETA, Miun — The hotel at Geneva Beach closed 
on Sept. 1 with the end of the outing and fishing season. I 
inclose a reduced township map of the vicinity, which will 
he a curiosity to those who have neverseen the like. "Within 
its limits are' over 200 lakes which fairly swarm with game 
fish, including both kinds of black bass, rock bass, wall-"eyod 
pike, pickerel, great northern pike, which run above SOlbs., 
and are usually classed as muscalonge, ring perch, croppiep, 
two kinds of sunfish, bullheads and whitefish. The latter 
are taken only in nets. In my lifelong experience of fifty 
years as an angler I have never seen'iuch redundant catches 
as are made in these waters. At an off hand estimate, 
8,000 fish, chiefly large-mouth bass, with a fair 
percentage of small-mouths have been taken here by our 
guests since June 1. The principal bait used is live frog, and 
the methods of angling are still-fishing and casting. The 
average weight of bass brought, in has been 21bs. ; none over 
Slbs. Bometimes fish will bite in one lake and not in an- 
other on the same day, so that parties going out together 
will have varied luck. Last week two gentlemen from Kan- 
sas City brought in 100 black bass, averaging 21bs. They 
were caught in Lake Ida. 2\one of the other lakes gave re- 
turns that day worth mentioning. These gentlemen kept 
their boatman busy taking oil fish from their hooks; first one 
and then the other. Not only were the big fish in schools, 
but hosts of fine individual flsh, presumably of this year's 
hatching, congregated in the vicinity. Swarms of minnows 
•were observed, which perhaps served to attract them. At all 
events, such a catch is phenomenal in August, when most 
ponds are in "bloom." I have not observed the bloom in 
any of these waters. 
Croppies are in great abundance and of large size in these 
Douglas county lakes, and afford daily pastime of a most 
exhilarating character to old gentlemen and boating parties 
of ladies, who never fail to briog in a goodly number. 
Croppies have been taking the hook without intermission 
from May to the end of August. Wall-eyed pike are in evi- 
dence. One young lady, Miss Grace Smith, a banker's 
daughter, of Ottawa, Kan., with her father and mother in 
the party, brought home from Victoria Lake four wall-eyed 
pike on Aug. 20 which weighed from 5 to Oflbg. Farmers 
take whitefish by the barrel in tbe fall, after harvesting is 
over. As the Slate law prohibits the sale of black bass, fish 
are something of a treat to those who don't go fishing them- 
Oae can hardly present a more acceptable present to friends 
than a box of black bass fresh caught. 
Our hotel at Geneva Beach has been the^ecipient of 311 
guests this season, representing thirteen States from Maine 
to Colorado. Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Minne- 
sota have the largest representation. Chickens and ducks are 
flying. Ducks are constantly trading between the laties. I 
expect James M. Green and Seymour Cunningham, of 
Washington, D. C, here any day after Sept. 1. Sportsmen 
can get what they want at the Letson House, in Alexandria. 
The proprietor is a director of the State Board of Agricul- 
ture, and a sportsman as well as a breeder of fiae shetp and 
thoroiighbrea horses. I think he will be able to put sports- 
men on to any game within reach. We have fine weather 
here up to Nov. 20. C. Hallock, 
Chicago Fly-Casting^ Club. 
OntCAGo, Aug. 22. — Editar Forest and Stream: Here is 
the record of our last contest. Please note the fact that Mr. 
Goodsell cast the fly 110ft. TJiis is the direct result of the 
visit we received from JVIr. W. D. Mtinsfield, of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 
Long dis- Distance Accuracy Bait 
taoce Hy, and acc'y, and aeFcy, casting, 
feet. percent. ,percfint. percent. 
W. H. Babcoclt,..^..M., 79 76 
C.H. Chad wick.... £5 68 79 
L. F. Crosby 'JQi^ 8(>\ 
B. W. Goodsell 110 Si'J^ rsi. 
E. D. Letterman.,,,; ,, ... iiS.% 7i34 U\ 
C. A. Lippincolt .„.^..,,,.. 78 84 S'H 91 
C. G. Lualon-.., ...,;,..,,„. SO 91 91B,„ 783 
G. A. Murrell 75 86}^ %'<%' 91^^ 
F. N.Peet , „.,,:.,.. 9S 90>5 93^8 
J. E. Strong:.....,,,,,.... 7 9 8 6 87^.^ 89- 
M. w. stnitii.... slu ss^,, 95 
H. G. Hascall........... f4^ ai'j ' 
Holders of medals: Long distance fly, Uupdsel!; distance and accu- 
racy, Ludlow; accuracy and delicacy, Feet; bait casting, ML D. 
Smltb. 
Cayuga Lake Fishing. 
Ithaca,, N. Y., Aug 2S.— Fishing at this end of Cayuga 
Lake has been decidedly "flat, stale and unprofitable" of 
late. At Union Springs, howevei-, where all good anglers 
go, perch fishing has been phenomenal, large catches being 
almost daily reported. Pickerel have lately been running, 
and some especially tine ones have been t;aken. Probably 
Union Springs has furnished more satisfactory angling thus 
far this season than any other point along the lake. 
M. Chill. 
I^entucky Ahelers. 
0hica6o» Aug. 28. — Advices from Frankfort, Ky., state 
that the local Kingfishers, Messrs. Chas. I^urr, S. B. Smith, 
Frank Stagg and Edmond Rodman, have returned from a 
month's trip in the North. Messrs. George L. Payne and 
Frank Cannon will return this week. They report good suc- 
cess and a fine time. 
The Cuvier Club, of Covington, Ky., met last Thursday 
for the purpose of incorporating as a working body, with 
powers to break up illegal fishing in the Licking River. 
Indiana Streams. 
State Fish Commissioner Sweeney, of Indiana, has this 
week started a campaign against the strawboard and paper 
mills, which have been polluting Indiana streams. He will 
proceed first against the E iton and Albany Strawboard com- 
panies on the Mississinewa River, and if he can obtain pirbper 
evidence will then go after divers other companies. 
The upper Kankakee River, of Indiana, has this suriinaer 
been offering exceptionally fine fishing. Mr. R. B. Organ, 
of this city, has been down a number of times and had fine 
sport with the small-mouth bass. On difl'erent davs he took 
twenty-two, sixteen, seventeen, etc., to say nothing of a lot 
of pickerel. This was at Maksawba Club. At the same 
grounds Harry Booth took twenty-five small-mouth bass in 
one day. 
Wisconsin Waters. 
There are three camps of fishermen from Dayton, O., 
located on the Manitowish chain of Wisconsin, and all re- 
port fine success. Julius Wehner, fishing on Pre? que Isle 
Lake, on one day took twenty- one bass, one of AiVoa. The 
next day he caught three, weighing 4-J-lb8. each. la Mus- 
calioDge Lake he took five bass weighing 181bs. 
Mr. J, C. Hahne, also of Dayton, O. is in camp on Pike 
Lake, west of Fifield, Wis. He reports the finest fishing 
that could be asked, a number of muscallonge weighing 
from 8 to 1.51b8., and one weighing 251bs. 
Messrs. Porter and Shepard, of Dayton, O., who are. also 
fishing at Pike Lake, Wis., on Thursday last shipped home 
to Dayton lOOlbs. of musca.flonge. I hope that these gentle- 
men carefully looked up the Wisconsin law, which I find 
forbids the shipping of any fish whatever, and only allows 
201hs. , or two fish to be taken out of the State in personal 
charge. Other Dayton men in camp at Pike Lake, Wis., 
are E. S. Reynolds, Harry Loy and B. 1E. Mead. I trust 
each of these gentlemen will at least carefully read a copy of 
the Qaine Laws in Brief hQfove x\i?,hiag into print "vvith the 
story of his illegal shipments of fish. 
Colorado Fish. 
. There is a great circus cut in Colorado over the fish law, 
which cuts off the supplies of the hotels and restaurants that 
profess ^0 receive fish from private ponds. Commissioner 
Swan has arranged a plan by which all growers of trout may 
ship to market. Each merchant must send to the Commis- 
sioner a duplicate of the shipping bill, showing the amount 
of fish shipped and the names of the consignees. All such 
fish are to be shipped in uniform packages, and each package 
to he registered. In this way it is thought there will be no 
covert breaking of the law. 
Utah Trout. 
At Deseret, Utah, on Aug. 23, Deputy Warden F. H. 
Rudy arrested J. Burton, J. J. Acomb, Wm, Leader and J. 
M. Wood for seining trout in the Jordan River. It would 
appear, indeed, that Jordan is a hard road to travel. 
Washington Warden. 
Mr. Little, of Aberdeen, Wash., has been appointed by 
Gov, Rogers as Slate ; Fish Commiisioner, succeeding Mr. 
James *Craw ford . 
Minnesota Muscallonge. 
Mr R. B. Organ, of this city, will next week join Mr. 
Martin Whitcomb, of Minneapolis, for a trip to Park 
Rapids, Minn. They will go to Sand Lake, fam'ous as the 
home of the "gray-spotted" muscallonge. They will, with- 
out doubt, reach magnificent fishing "and should also find 
some wildfowl shooting before their return. 
E. HOTI&H. 
1206 BoYOK Building, Chicago. 
The Potomac Bass. 
Dr George W. Massamore, assistant game warden, 
has just made an inspection of the bass-fishing grounds in 
the Potomac River. 
Before the passage of the tri-State protective law the pot- 
fishermen were doing all they could to exterminate the game 
fish in their efforts to make profitable catches Dr. Massa- 
more finds a great change in the conditions. On Wednes- 
day, Aug. 4, he started in a boat on the Potomac, twenty 
miles above Hancock, Md., and came slowly down the river 
to Harper's Ferry, reaching that point late Thursday after- 
noon of this week. On the trip he interviewed fifteen 
deputy wardens, all of whom said that the stringent law 
passed in the three States bordering on the river had proved 
effective. The people along the route had obeyed the law 
and no seioing had been done or trot-lines used. 
Many fishing parties from Pennsylvania have visited the 
banks of the Potomac, but they were invariably met by dep- 
uty wardens, who advised them of the new laws, and nets 
and trot-lines were discarded by the visitors, who found 
plenty of sport in fishing with rod and re^l while the water 
was clear. 
Dr. Massamore and Dr. W. S. Harban, of the Blue Ridge 
ana Woedmont clubs, took a day's trial at the fish in the 
river below Shepherdstown. Ttiey caught thirty bass. The 
largest, weighing 4i:lbs., was caught by Dr. Harban. The 
largest Dr. Massamore caught was 2^1bs, The general run 
of the flsh was from 3 to 31b8. The largest fish caught so far 
weighed S^lbs. 
All along the route the information was that the baSs were 
more numerous than in previous years. 
An attendant of a fishing club said he caught from 400 to 
500 small bass in the canal while fishing for halt minnows. 
The bass were put promptly back into the water. In netting 
minnows many large-mouth bass were caught. Dr. Massa- 
more interpreted this to mean that this species of bass, as 
well as th3 small-mouth game bass, are increasing under the 
protective laws. 
The canal waters also taught another leseon. In it were 
numbers of small bass. These, running up to 6in. in length, 
were of this year's spawn. Warden Massamore concludes 
that the bass find the canal waters suited for spawning, and 
that this adds anotber argumeht for the protection of thesfe 
flsh in the canal. 
Some of the old attendants, and the oldest fishermen, ad- 
vised the Maryland representative of the Game and Fish 
Protf^ctive Association that the flsh were multiplying rapidly 
under the new lawj and they predicted that the Potomac 
River would in a few years, be the river of rivers for fisher- 
men. 
MAINE TRIPS. 
Boston, Aug. 28. — Fishing trips are the popular thing ia 
Maine, and growing more and more so. If a merchant 
from Boston goes to Maine to see his trade, his clients, his 
friends or his relatives, he is pretty sure to be taken on a 
fishing trip somewhere, and fortunate is the visitor to that 
State who meets with the right sort; he is pretty sure of 
good fishing and a good time. Indeed, the boys are now 
laughing at a fellow drummer, who went down into Maine 
last week to see his sweetheart, and went on a fishing trip 
with her brothers. He got a good ducking and no fiah. But 
somewhere at a taxidermist's he hpught a stuffed trout of 
gigantic proportions, with the inapression conveyed that he 
caught the fish. But the boys want to know how tbe hide 
had time to become so dry. 
Mr. Alfred Kimball has just returned from 9, trip to Maine, 
ostensibly to look after his lumber trade. His shippers, F. M. 
Totman and H. E Totman, of Fairfield, took him on a fishing 
trip. They went to a pond in Albion, and had great sport with 
white perch, and doubtless a bass or two. To Mr. Kimball 
the sport was new, but all the more pleasing. Their guide, 
Mclntire, proved to be a jewel that had not been contam- 
inated by extra fees. He worked for t|ieir interests untir- 
ingly, first, last and all the time. 
Mr. W. S. Bennett has recently returned from a bass fish- 
ing trip to the ponds in Wiathrop, Monmouth and Readfield, 
Me. He is pleased with most of these ponds, and remarks 
that the bats, pickerel or perch fisherman can find many 
most desirable points for fishing at nearly all of the above 
waters. 
The September fly-flshermen, for trout, are getting ready 
for the Maine waters. Perhaps the first movement in that 
direction will not be as great as usual, many outings being 
put off! til! the last week in September and first week in 
October, when a taste of trout fishing and deer hunting can 
both !>e enjoyed legally. Special. 
New Jersey Coast Fishing. 
AsBURY Park, N. J., Aug, 28. — Never within the past 
nineteen years has weakflshing on the beach direct, as well 
as in the bays and rivers, been excelled. While we usually 
get a run during September and Ootober along the beach, 
tbus early are they in, and taking the hook freely from the 
piers and the beach. Sixty-five fine flsh were taken last 
night from the Asbury Park pier in little more than two hours, 
running large in size and in fine condition, I caught several 
of 4lbs. During the next two months the fishing should be 
all that the angler could wish for, as there is but one pound 
net with single pocket fishing in the vicinity, whereas in 
former years the ocean has been strung full of three and 
four-pocket nets. Bluefl^h are also abundant, taking bait ' 
and squid freely; every day now some are taken from each 
pier. In consequence, the market lirie men are happy, as 
they are reaping a rich harvest in cpinsequence of the ab- 
sence of the pound nets. Baruegat is alive with flsh. Capt. 
Sears, an old-timer on the bay, told toe last night he took 
during the past week several 7 and 91b. weakflsh in the bay; 
this is encouragement of a high degree and something rather 
unusual. I have arranged for an extended trip down the 
coast the coming month and hope to meet with some of tbe 
big fellows. As mentioned in last week's Forest and 
Stream, t he movements of the kingflsh have been most pe- 
culiar, owing to the numerous storms doubtless. I find 
.through correspondence that the bays to the north are alive 
with them and taking the hook readily. There is a matter 1 
have spent considerable time and taken great pains investi- 
gating in relation to the kingflsh, namely, their period of 
spawning. The past three years I have taken them from 
early June to late in September heavy with spawn. When 
and where is their period and place of spawning? Who of 
Forest and Stream's readers can answer? It would be a 
gratification to know. Leonard Hulit. 
The Arkansas Pearl Industry. 
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 33. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
A new industry is developing, in this country. It promises 
to rival Ceylon as a pearl. fishery. The pearls are taken from 
the ordinary fresh- water mussels. At Bald Knob a company 
has been formed, and has leased the lakes and is using a 
dredge boat. They wash the mud as well as open the mus- 
sels, the theory being that the dead mussels shed their pearls 
in the lake. They have found some very fine pearls. An 
inmate of the Confederate Soldiers' Home at this place went 
to some stream near here, which he prudently keeps secret, 
and got pearls which yielded him $600. He has got his dis- 
charge and gone into the business. While oa Cache River 
fishing, some ten days ago, with Judge Stebbins, we found 
the negroes all working the bars. "They had a number of 
small pearl8,but no valuable ones. The Judge found quite a 
large one, but it was defective on one side. Still, when set 
in a ring it made a very pretty piece of jewelry. 
The president of one of the banks here has a beautiful pink 
pearl as large as a large buckshot, that came out of a lake on ' 
his place. The craze is not equal to the Klondike, but it will 
be pushed till it is seen what there is in it. 
From present indications, unless the Legislature estab- 
lishes a close season on mussels they will soon be extinct in 
this State. J. M. Rose. 
Fell into a Tellowstone Geyser. 
Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park, Aug. 35. — George Ern- i 
shaw, of Philadelphia, whde walking into one of the pools 
in the rear of the Fountain Hotel yesterday, tripped on a 
stick and fell backward into one of the bottomless boiling ' 
geysers. He struck a ledge under 5ft. of water, and was ; 
slipping off its cone when he grasped a pole overhanging 
the edge of the pool, and with the assistance of those nearby 
was rescued. He was badly burned. 
Dolly Vardens. 
San Francisco, Aug. 23. — Some friends of mine have 
just returned from a fishing excursion up near the Oregon 
line, and report great sport. One of the party landed a 
Dolly Varden weighing 14f lbs. ; another was caught weigti- 
ing 121bs,, and several from 6 to 101 bs. Good flsiiiag lUat 
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