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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sbft. 18, 1897. 
"G. E. Shepherd, D. G. Porter, A. H. Eeeder, R. G. 
Craighead, D. E. Meed, Harry Loy, E. H. Bunstine, and Ed 
Beynolds, all of Dayton, 0., have been stopping at J E. 
Peeley's hotel on Round Lake, reached by a twenty- two 
mile ride from Fifield station. 
"These gentlemen were in Chicago last Saturday, and Mr. 
Shepherd, as epokesman of the crowd, said: 'One of our 
party landed a large muscallunge, early upon our arrival, so 
we fished Round Lake afterward, and were successful. 
There are muscallonge, Oswego bass and wall-tyed pike in 
the two lakes. 
"We caught ten muscallonge that weighed 2031bs. Mr, 
Keeder landed the heaviest, it weighing 26i^lbs. Dr, Porter 
and Mr. Craighead each caught one weighing 251bs. 
"We used a No. 9 Skinner fpoon, and seldom had bait. 
We fished in pairs, Dr, Porter and I leading the list for the 
greatest number of muscallonge, having caught seventy-five. 
"We shipped seventeen boxes to our families and friends." 
These fish that were shipped were subtracted permanently. 
I adduce the weights rather to show the catch than to call 
attention to the violation of the law, the provisions of which 
may or may not have been known to the Ohio men who 
wanted to remember their friends. 
Yet another instance of heavy fishing in Wisconsin appears 
in the columns of a local paper of East St. Louis this week, 
which mentions the catch made by Messrs "Leek and Wies, 
of this city ; Dr. G A. McMullen and Clark McAdams, of 
Alton." These gentlemen caught bass, pike and pickerel "to 
the tune of about l,0001bs., 4001bs. of which was distributed 
in East St. Louis." I do not cite this as another instance of 
law breaking, but only to show the amount of fish taken, so 
that we may have more food for reflection. 
Better Methods. 
Out in Minnesota the muscallonge have not yet been fished 
quite so hard as in Wisconsin. When Mr. H. G. McCart- 
ney first told me that he had established his Minnesota place, 
Kabekona Camp, I called to his knowledge the disastrous 
results of the former fishing policy in the muscallonge waters 
in Wisconsin, and begged him to use all his influence to 
make it the custom at his place to return to the water at 
once all 'lunge not needed for food or for especial trophies. 
He said that he would do this, and I am told by many gen- 
tlemen who have been there (not that I wish to claim fee 
least credit for that fact) that at Kabekona waters the ang- 
lers have, almost without exception, made a practice of put- 
ting back the fish they could not use. Of course, the keeper 
of a hotel cannot dictate to his guests, but it is pleasant to 
know that the guests at the camp have needed no dictation 
on this point. I have at hand a recent letter from this camp, 
written in duplicate to Mr. Geo. W. Davis and Mr. August 
Hirth, of this city, wbich will show a little about the ang- 
ling possibilities of new waters in the pine country of our 
middle West. The letier is written by F D. Heffron. The 
Mr, Raisbeck mentioned is from New York city. The com- 
munication reads: 
"Aug. 14, 1897.— This finds George Raisbeck and myself 
after ten days' sojourn at Camp Kabekona. We have had a 
delightful time and good success fishing, having taken over POO 
game fish, including bass, pike, pickerel and six fine muscal- 
longe. Kabekona is all that has been said for it, beautifully 
situated on Woman Lake, commanding a magnificent view. 
The appointments are first-class in every particular, and our 
treatment has been very courteous and most satisfactory. 
Mr. McCartney certainly deserves much credit for having 
established such a fine place for sportsmen. We heartily 
recommend it to any who may wish the very best place for 
fishing and shooting we have ever visited. We have, fished 
on fourteen difl'erent lakes, none of which are more than 
seven miles from the camp. Yesterday was our best day's 
catch, scoring 313 bass. To-day we leave for a little trip to 
Leech and Bemidji lakes." 
I append scores in detail of the above two anglers, as 
prepared by the camp keeper, also those of other anglers. 
"Fred. D. Heffron and George A. Raisbeck arrived Tues- 
day, Aug. 3. Fished a little while Tuesday evening; 
Wednesday, 4th — 100 bass, pike, pickerel ; Thursday, 5th — 
A. M., 13 bass and pike, 2 bass 4irlbs., 1 41bs., 1 31bs. ; 
P. M., 23 bass and pike; Friday, 6lh— 126 bass, pike and 
pickerel, 1 muscallonge 351bs.; Saturday, 7th— 32 fish, 2 
muscallonge 251bs. each, 1 muscallonge 121bs. ; Sunday, 8th 
—83 fish, 1 muscallonge 17]b8. ; Monday, 9th— 57 fish, 1 
muscallonge 141bs. ; Tuesday, 10th— Broke camp; Wednes- 
day, 11th— 101 fish; Thursday, 13th- 30 fish; Friday, 13th— 
313 bass. These fish were all returned to the water except a 
few for eating. This is a correct account of fish caught by 
the above gentlemen m Woman and other lakes around 
camp. J. C. Abhton." 
Yet other records are : "Eight people here. Their catch 
yesterday was as follows (three did not fish): Johnson Bros., 
148 bass; Gentry and Taylor, 170 bass; Thompson, 70 
bass. They did not have frogs or would have CRught a third 
more. Monday, Aug. 33— Gfentry and Taylor, 96 bass yes- 
terday, average S^lbs. ; lots of them 41bs. and over in Hunter 
Lake. Clakk." 
Now if Mr, Smith will take out his pencil and go over the 
reports in these columns in the last two or three weeks of 
Forest ajstd Stream, he will find that he has added a good 
many tons of bass and muscallonge to the total he has 
already figured out. He may further add the scores of the 
unnoted anglers, in the unnoted waters,., in the unnoted 
weeks and months of the whole season, the unnoted destruc- 
tion as well as the unnoted though growing percentage of 
fish returned to the waters by the anglers who did not want 
to wantonly destroy the^n. About how many tons has Mr. 
Smith figured all this to be, working upward and outward 
from the knowa data at hand? Neither he nor I would dare 
to face the total of rod and reel fishing alone if we had it at 
hand. It is something enormous, no doubt. It cannot last, 
no doubt. I bear always in mind the statement made to me 
years ago by A. Booth, the big fish packer, and which I have 
often reiterated here, that if it were not for the restocking of 
the Great Lakes by the State governments there would be no 
market fishing in the Great Lakes to day, because the fish 
would all be caught. Yet these great inland seas would 
seem to be impossible of such diminution in fish life. How 
about the smaller lakes, rich though they be in game fish? 
Mr. Smith will not need, as he concludes, to read his answer 
in. the stars. He will be able to read it ten years hence in 
the angling records, which will then be dwindling. The 
game records, as he says, have dwindled from year to year. 
The fish will last much longer than the game. If the anglers 
will put back what they do not need the fish will last for- 
ever. If we would use our game and our game fish as we do 
our hens, we would have fish and game forever. Is this ask- 
ing too much, that we respect a prairie chicken as much as 
a yellow pullet, and a muscallon£;e^as]^much as a speckled 
hen? 
The Other Side of the Picture. 
So much for one picture, the side showing the wonderful 
natural abundance of the fish supply in certain favored parts 
of the country. For the other side, for the other picture, 
for the obverse of this flattering front, bear in mind always 
the story of the market fisher of the Great Lakes, and pas'te 
in the hat always the following chance newspaper clipping, 
which 1 take from the columns of the Salina Press, of Salina, 
Utah: 
"Salina fishermen have put away their rods and reels, and 
have given up all thouphts of angling. They are a disgusted 
lot of fellows, A few years ago Salina Creek was alive with 
trout; now not a fish is in the stream. Lost Creek used to 
be an angler's paradise; it, too, no longer furnishes sport to 
anyone. When unscrupulous parties discovered that they 
could obtain money easily from the capture and sale of 
mountain trout they gave no regard to law, but began a war 
of extermination. Traps, nets and explosives have been 
freely used in all our streams, and now they have become 
exhausted, A few years hence a mountain trout in south- 
ern Utah will indeed be a curiosity " 
The new Illinois fish law regulating the size of marketable 
fish was put in force for the first time known in the State 
last week at Momence, when J. D. White, known as "Tur- 
key" White, was arrested, charged with shipping a box of 
undersized bass to Chicago. 
The War Jn Wisconsin. 
It is a pretty fight that is going on up at Lake Winnebago, 
Wis., between the market fishers and the better elements. 
Much has been printed in Foeest and Stbeam over this 
little hotbed of protective work. The wardens have been 
assaulted, shot at, nearly crippled by the fi.shermen at times, 
but have still held to their work. The law has been defied 
and depised by the market men, and they have banded to- 
gether to break it, not only in part but in whole, with what 
color of success as has been shown. Just as the Tolleston 
Gun Club, of Chicago, has been the greatest example, in 
America of the coming preserve system wiih all the vicious 
attacks which are sure to be made upon it and which are 
sure eventually to fail, so has the little band of sportsmen at 
Lake Winnebago — unnamed, but not unorganized — in Wis- 
consin, given us the best idea of the coming fight between 
greed and seemly restraint in matters of the use of the fish 
supply of the country. The better men of the country, both 
in Chicago and about Winnebago, uphold the doctrine of 
restraint and conservation, as against the thoughtless waste 
and destruction of the old and unbridled ways. One of the 
best little editorials on protection I have seen for a long 
time outside of the sporting press was printed last week in 
the Menasha Breeze, ot Menasha, Wis., and it has the further 
merit of summing up the whole fight situation so well that 
it may be ofliered in full: 
' 'The fishermen of Lake Winnebago are as relentless of pur- 
pose, and as incorrigible as to discipline, as were ever the 
Sioux under their old chief, Sitting Bull. Personal defiers 
of the law they invoked its aid to secure the fish and game 
law of '95 declared unconstitutional. They waged war upon 
the Stale in the courts, and fought its deputies upon the 
water. They won, but the victory was a bootless one, as 
the next Legislature passed a similar law of a yet more strin- 
gent character. For some time many of the fisheimen have 
tried to completely ignore this last legislative enactment, but 
the deputy game wardens have been pretty active, and many 
arrests have been made and convictions secured. Now the 
fishermen have once more decided to resort to legal warfare 
and fight the matter in the courts. They are circulating a 
subscription paper in the endeavor to raise money to send 
an attorney to Madison. Where they got the 'sinews of 
war' for their long fight before is a mystery, but they did, 
and there is no reason to doubt their success in securing 
funds on this occasion. The Lake Winnebago fishermen 
are about the shortest-sighted people on earth. What benefit 
will accrue to them if they do succeed in having the present 
game law knocked out? Before they will have made tnough 
money to pay their attorney fees, the Legislature will meet 
again and pass another one. They will then have lost what 
little public sympathy they still possess, and future legisla- 
tion would certainly not be to their advantage. There are 
also other things to consider. Game laws are passed to pro- 
tect the game. If there was no danger of Lake Winnebago 
being fished out, the State would certainly make no end^iavor 
to restrict fishing. If the fishermen were allowed to have 
their way in the matter they would be the class in the end to 
suffer. In a few short years their vocation would be gone. 
If the fishermen would only sit down and consider these 
things from an unprejudiced standpoint, it might save them 
lots of trouble and they would be money ahead. On the 
base of their previous record, however, it is doubtful if they 
■will." E. HouOH. 
1306 BoYCE Bdh^ding. Chicago. 
Xiocating: Sea Fish. 
Knowxedge of the habitat of deep sea fish can only be 
obtained by feeling the bottom with repeated and laborious 
soundings, aided by that intuition which enables an experi- 
enced person to determine where they are by the color of the 
water and the configuration of - the land Codfish and some 
other species can be traced in part by following the bait fish 
upon which they feed .and which appear upon the surface 
and in the bays and estuaries at certain seasons. Sea fowl, 
seals, porpoifes and hump backed whales are of great assist^ 
ance to the investigator, indicating by their own presence the 
presence of other fish^ Charles Hallock. 
Bass in the Bay of Qulnte. 
I KNOW that there are good fishing grounds in Lake Cham- 
plain, and the fishing ground of the future will possibly be 
Georgian Bay, but to-day there is no finer fishing ground for 
black bass on this continent than the Bay of Quinte from 
Sept. 1 until the middle of October. 
Mr. MacPherson, son-in-law of John Roach, took quite a 
large number of bass last year at Northport weighing from 
41bs. to 51bs. 3oz., and I have taken many bass weighing 
4f lbs., which is the highest that I have ever seen taken in the 
Bay. Trenton and Northport are the points of attack, C. 
Bass at Plymouth Rock. 
Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 13. — The bass fishing about here 
has been fairly good during the summer, a number of 4 and 
5-pounder8 having been taken from Billington Sea by differ- 
ent parties. The prize fish of the season, however, was a 
small-mouth black bass taken Sept 10 by Mr. Lyman Ward 
from Darby Pond, weighing 51bs. 14oz. C. C, Hood. 
The New Jersey Coast. * 
Wabetown, N. J., Sept. 5.— Mr. T. L. Hagston, of Mass., 
and Mr. J. B. Hagston, of New York, are spending a few 
days at the Bay View House, bass fishing. Their catch has 
been twenty-two one day, and twenty-four next. 
J. BL BiBDSALL. 
The fishing holds good at Asbury Park, Barnegat, and all 
along the Jersey coast. It is the salt-water anglers' oppor- 
tunity of a lifetime. 
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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 4.— Danbury, Conn,, Agricultural Society. Q. M. Rundle, 
Sec'y, Danbury. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 25. — BrunswicTr Pur Clnb's nintb annual trials. 
Nov. 1.— Dfjde Red Fox Club's third annual meet, Waverly, Miss. 
Nov. 1.— New England Beagle Club's trials, Oxford, Mass. 
Nov. 2.— Monongahela Valley Game and Fish Protective Assooi- 
ation's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 8.- Union Field Trials Club's triab, Carlisle, Ind. 
Nov. 9.— Central Beajrle Club's trials, SLarpsburg, Pa. 
Nov. 9.— Peninsular Field Trial Club's trials, Leamiogton, Ont. 
Nov. 15.— E F. T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
Nov. 16.— International Field Trials Club's eighth annual trials, 
Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 22.— U. S. F. T. Club's autumn trials. 
1898. 
Jan. 10.— U. S. F. T Club's winter trials, West Point, Miss. 
Jan 17. — Continental F. T. Club's trials, New Albany, Miss. 
THE MANITOBA TRIAtS. 
The trials of the Manitoba Field Trials Club were run on 
chickens at Morris, Man., commencing on Sept. 6. Hot 
weather and scarcity of chickens affected the trials unfavor- 
ably, as in the previous week. So far as trials on chickens is 
concerned it was very fragmentary and inadequate. As be- 
tween the range, speed, judgment and industry of the better 
dogs as compared to the poorer, it was an easy matter to 
decide, but as between the best dogs, one with another, in 
their work on chickens, the data was too meager for satis- 
factory conclusiouB. Mr. Thomas Johnson, of Winnipeg, 
famous as a breeder, owner and amateur trainer of setters 
and pointers, and a contributor also to the sporting litera- 
ture of America, judged alone. He managed and decided 
the competition very well under the unfavorable circum- 
stances. He proceeded with more deliberation than most 
judges, which in the excessively hot weather was rather an 
advantage than otherwise. 
There were but few visitors In attendance: Mr. and Mrs. 
Bell, of Pittsburg, and from Winnipeg were the following: 
Messrs. Wm. Whyte, Gen. Supt. of the Canadian Pacific R. 
R., J. A. M. Aikens, J. A. K. Drury, C. Girdlestone, E. J. 
Bennett and M. Christie. 
The Amateur Stake. 
There were nine entered to start, two of which failed to 
appear. The order of running was therefore different from 
the order of drawing. 
Hal, first, is a good-looking pointer, and on his work was 
easily the best dog in the stake. He ranged a useful width, 
had no idling tricks, neither frittering away time on false 
scents nor pottering in his bird work, and withal he worked 
pleasingly to the gun. He used his nose when ranging, car- 
ried himself well and showed accuracy, preci-sion and stanch- 
ness on point work. 
Ortolan, second, had a wide range, good judgment in con- 
ducting it and she carried herself well. She had no good 
opportunity on birds, and little of any kind owing to their 
scarcity. She, however, was always searching with atoen- 
tion and showed signs of being a good worker. 
Duke's Rush and Swab divided third and fourth. The 
former had a good range, though he beat out his ground 
very irregularly, sometimes going wide, sometimes nearby, 
yet he was constantly at work, and he .'•howed useful capa- 
bilities on birds, though he made some errors on them. Hia 
efforts were well sustained from start to finish. Swab had 
medium range, as a whole, and she had quite fair success in 
finding birds, but her manner of locating was inferior, and 
she made errors when they seemed easily avoidable, 
The class of the dogs in stake, as a whole, was much supe- 
rior to the average amateur stake, and in some respects it 
compared very well with the open events. 
Mr. Archibald made his debut as a field trial handler in 
this stake and he showed remarkable aptitude. He handled 
his dogs quietly, kept on the course properly and attended 
nicely to his own affairs. 
Owing to the scarcity of birds, the test was necessarily not 
so thorough on them as could be desired, 
Following is the order of drawing: 
Chimo Kennels' b., w. and t. setter bitch Ortolan (Orlando 
— Atalanta), C, F, Archibald, handler, with A. C. Reed's 
b, and w, setter bitch Ella Wheeler (Ponto— Swab), owner, 
handler. 
A. C. Reed's b. and t. setter bitch Swab (Manitoba Toss — 
Pitti Sing), owner, handler, with Chimo Kennels' o, and w. 
setter dog Larry Noble (Ezra Noble— Cornelia G.), C, F, Archi- 
bald, handler. 
Winnipeg Kennels' liv. and w, setter dog Duke's Rush 
(Duke of Manitoba — Cam Sing), W, C. Lee, handler, with 
Chimo Kennels' b, and w. setter dog Prince Piupert (Larry 
Noble— Atalanta), C. F. Archibald, handler. 
E. J. Bennett's b. and w. pointer bitch Tannis (Rector- 
Minnie) with F. G. Simpson's b., w. and t. setter bitch Miss 
Brandon (Gladiator II.— Cam Sing). This brace failed to ap- 
pear, 
W. Whyte's liv. and w. pointer dog Hal (Yacht— Pansy), 
G. B. Borradaile, handler. 
This stake was for all setters and pointers, the property of 
amateurs residing in Canada. Dogs which had won first 
Elace in any field trials of any previous year, or whose owners 
ave trained for money, are barred. All dogs t. be handled 
by owners or other amateurs. Prize, a handsome silver cup, 
presented by the patron of the club, his Honor, the Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of Manitoba. There were three places— first, 
second and third, 
Monday. 
A cool, moist wind blew from the east, and as compared 
with the previous week there were improved conditions in 
every way for better competition. In the forenoon more 
success rewarded the efforts of the dogs in seeking, though 
birds were far from plentiful. The day was clear and com- 
fortable. Few birds were found in the afternoon. 
First Round. 
Ortolan and Ella Wheeler started at 7:i6. Ella pointed 
uncertainly, then moved on, and two birds were flushed 
near by afterward. Ortolan flushed a bevy down wind on a 
wheat stubble. Up at 8:37. Ortolan was a very good ranger, 
and he ranged with sound judgment. Ella's range and pace 
were ordinary. 
Swab and Larry Noble were cast off at 8:33. Larry 
ranged wide, so wide indeed that he was much of the time 
beyond bounds, and showed imperfect interest to the gun. 
He found and pointed a bevy. Swab jqiued in thepoint, aa a, 
