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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[Oct. 23, 1897. 
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ANGLING NOTES. 
A Correction. 
In Fokbst akd Stkkam of Oct. 3 I made note of the fact 
that the first landlocbed salmon, or as I believe it should be 
called, ouananiche, had been caught in Lake George, and 
the gentleman entitltd to the credit of being the first to 
catch one of these fish which have been planted in the lake 
only three years was Col. W. D. Mann, of "New York city. 
About the time Fobest and Stkeam appeared containing 
my note the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission re- 
ceived a letter from Judge Joseph M. Deuel, of New York 
city, announcing that he had caught a 61bs. salmon in Lake 
George, and it was the first to be captured from the lake. 
The judge asked for a history of the planting of salmon in 
the lake, and as the correspondence came into my hands I 
replied, and asked if it was another fish from the one I had 
credited Col. Mann with catching. 
I have just received a letter from Col. Mann from which 
I quote: "My friend Judge Dfuel has shown me your letter 
of Oct, 6, which 1 have read with the greatest interest. It 
seems to me that if you can produce such fish in Lake George 
as the one caught people need not go to Canada for good 
sport, but will make our lake so popular that there will not 
be accommodations for the sportsmen who will go there. I 
do not know how the story got out that 1 caught the fish, 
but presume it was because Judge Deuel vras my guest fish- 
ing with me from my launch. The judge is an ardent fish- 
erman and will make big efforts next year, as I shall myself, 
to get another one of these salmon. I have killed a good 
many sea salmon in my time and other game fish. I never 
saw a fish altogether as beautiful as that one. He measured 
exactly 25in. in length and was exactly 61bs. in weight. A 
sea salmon of that length would have weighed considerably 
more as you know. In other words, this salmon was to a sea 
salmon as a yacht to a freight ship. He was so strong as to 
jump twice out of the water with 31bs. of lead. I hope you 
will be able to put many more of these fish into the lake 
this year. I doubt if there is any water on this continent 
better adapted to their culture than Lake George." 
I was first notified by one of the State game protectors of 
the capture of the 6lb. salmon, and afterward he called upon 
me and confirmed his letter. The game protector and a 
Lake George newspaper gave credit for the capture to Col. 
Mann, and I am very glad to make the correction and credit 
Judge Deuel with taking thefirst salmon from the lake. The 
U. 8. Fish Commissioner writes me that the salmon finger- 
lings for Lake George will be ready to start on their journey 
from Haine about Nov. 1. 
"By One Man In One Day." 
The words I have quoted for this sub-head are written 
under a half-tone cut, reproduced evidently from a photo- 
graph, which a friend sends to me. The picture itself is 
rather remarkable, From a pole, held up at either end by 
crossed oars, are stispended a lot of black bass, how many I 
cannot count accurately, but it is safe to saj^ something over 
100. At first glance it might seem to be the picture of a net 
fisherman's catch, but there is an air of prosperity about the 
two figures in the picture, apparently the man who commit- 
ted the slaughter and his oarsman, which upon further re- 
flection precludes this thought, and besides, net fishermen do 
not as a rule arrange their catches before the camera. There 
are three crossed fishing rcids with reels in the middle ground, 
and this with the comfortable- looking building in the back- 
ground, leads me to suppose that the picture is intended to 
be that of a real sportsman who with hook and line has in 
one day taken more black bass than he should have taken in 
a week's fishing, iiicluding Sunday. It is to be hoped that 
the prosperous-looking gentleman did not waste his fish, 
even if he had to sell them to dispose of them. It is becauf e 
men who consider themselves sportsmen will catch and kill 
more black bass and Ocher fish in one day than they have any 
moral right to kill, that I have been and am in favor of a law 
limiting the number of fish that can be killed in one day. 
There is always a howl about the doings of poachers 
who kill fish to fill an empty stomach or to 
procure the necessities of life, but when a well- 
to-do sportsman catches more fish in one day than some 
poachers would kill in ten days, it is a matter to be proud 
of apparently, and to be paraded before the public in 
a newspaper cut. Somewhere (here are mounted, prob- 
ably, four big speckled trout, or perhaps only the skins pre- 
served. I do not know where the man lives, nor do I know 
his name for a certainty, though I hope to obtain it. I 
wonder if when ihis man exhibits the skins or stuffed fish 
he explains to his admiring friends that he caught the fish 
when he knew he could make no good use of them, and 
skinned them, taking the skins^only away with him, and 
leaving the flesh to rot in a camp that I afterward occupied. 
He did not even have the decency to bury the evi- 
dence of his having violated the rules of the club whose pre- 
serves he was fishing. It is said that in camp a man will 
show exactly how he is constituted and what is in his com- 
position, but perhaps this man, being alone, thought he 
could do as he pleased and no one would be the wiser. The 
desire to exhibit one's catch or .o have it photographed is, I 
believe, responsible for the destruction of many splendid 
fish, and the sooner the States and Canada have a law regu- 
lating the number to be taken in one day by one man the 
better it will be for the future of fish supply. It is a good 
rule to observe: When you see a photograph of a lot of fish 
caught apparently to skin the water for exhibition purposes, 
avoid the place where the fish were caught when you desire 
to go fishing and get fish. 
The Claret-Parson. 
A correspondent asks me to give him the dressing of the 
claret-parson, and from his reference to trout fishing in the 
same connection, I assume that he means a troui fly, 1 
know of no trout fly of that name. There is a salmon fly 
called the claret-parson, but I imagine it is not a standard 
fly, as 1 do not find it in the lists of Eoglish fly-dressers. 
It is, however, in Kelson's list, and he describes it as fol- 
lows: 
Tag— Gold twist and dark yellow silk. 
Tail — A topping. 
Butt — Black hare. 
Body — Claret silk. 
Ribs — Gold tinsel. 
Hackle — A claret hackle. 
Throat — A medium blue hackle. 
Wings — Golden pheasant tail, swan dyed yellow, scarlet 
and blue gallina, widgeon, mallard and a topping. 
Horns — ^Blue macaw, 
Chteks — Chatterer. 
Head — Black wool. 
It will be seen that this is a very elaborate fly in its dress- 
ing, and if one tries to tie it in ordinary trout fly sizes it will 
prove a difficult operation to get all the feathers in place. 
"The Candlestick-Maker" 
Some weeks ago, a gentleman asked me if there was a fly 
called the "candlestick-maker," and I told him that there 
was a salmon fly so called ; but he did not ask for the dress- 
ing, and I did not give it, as I was awav from my bureau of 
information. I will give it now from Kelson's list, as I no- 
ticed it when looking up the Parson: 
Tag — Silver tinsel (oral) 
Tail — Ibis and summer duck. 
Body— Three layers of black silk, followed by black seal's 
fur. 
Ribs - Silver tinsel. 
Hackle — A dark, fiery brown from seal's fur. 
Wings— Double jangle and two toppings. 
Head — Black wool. 
This is. Kelson says, one of the oldest standard salnaon 
flies. Mrs. Marbury, in "Favorite Flies and their Histories," 
says: "The baker is one of three celebrated salmon flies, 
viz., the butcher, baker and candleslick-maker. The 
butcher is more used and better known than the other two," 
Albino Bullhead. 
An albino bullhead was captured in Lake Champlain a 
few days ago with hook and line, and was exhibited in a 
store in Port Henry, where it attracted considerable attention, 
as it was the only albino fish ever seen in that section of the 
country. 
Perhaps the most curious albino that I ever saw among 
the fishes was a small-mouth black bass, and it was a partial 
albino. One side of its head only was white, and it made it 
a striking-looking fish and served a good turn besides.^ I 
was watching black bass at spawning time, and this particu- 
lar bass had a brood of young, so it was an easy matter to 
keep track of it and determine the time that that particular 
fish watched over and brooded its young. 
Trout and Salmon. 
Dr. John D. Quackenbos, writing me from SuuapeeLake, 
N. H , says: ' The Wentworth boys have already taken 
fifty-four brook trout and twenty-three ouananiche. Nets 
spread only two nights. The trout run from 1 to 5lbs. each, 
and are nearly all females. The ouananiche run from 6 to 
141bs. each, and are nearly all males " 
At first glance it might seem that this would indicate that 
female trout and male salmon preceded the other sex of their 
respective species to prepare the spawning beds: but this does 
not follow, for male trout have been known to precede the 
females from a pond to the spawning stream more frequently 
than the reverse. The nets mentioned are set in the lake at 
the mouth of Pike Brook, on which the State hatchery is sit- 
uated, and the fish were making their way into and up the 
stream some week or two before the actual spawning sea- 
son, when they were stopped by the net and the hatchery 
men. 
Recently I read the conclusions of a Scotch fish breeder 
after twenty-five years' experience, and he says that he br- 
lieves that at least 75 per cent, of all salmon and trout eggs 
deposited naturally are destroyed at once. As an average of 
95 per cent, or more of all t ggs taken artificially are hatched 
into healthy fry, it can be seen what an improvement artifi- 
cial methods are over nature's methods at the outset. 
Fish Food. 
Last May I quoted from a letter of Mr. Thomas Ford, a 
fish breeder in Lincolnshire, England, whose establishment. 
Manor Fishery, has been favorably known for many years 
on the other side of the water. In a more recent letter from 
Mr. Ford, he says: "I have tried rainbow trout for the first 
time this season, and have so far obtained almost perfect 
results. 1 put down 6,000 fry only in a pond about ISyds. 
by Syds., and with rather an inadequate flow of water. The 
water is clear as crystal and the fish now (September) run 
from 2i to 6in. in length. They would be larger, but the 
pond is overstocked. So far as I know, I have not lost fifty 
fish. I feed them twice a day only, and inclose a specimen 
of the food I am giving them. It is all meat and they eat it 
ravenously, and it seems to suit them better than it does 
fario. I will later write you more on the feeding question. 
The specimen of food (marked No. 2, as it comes in var- 
ious sizes from No. 0 up to No. 10, for fish from the fry 
stage when first taking food through the mouth, up to 
adults), has scarcely any odor, and is of a light brown color, 
and in particles looking for all the world like fine, granu- 
lated smoking tobacco. Mr. Ford says that it largely floats 
on the water, and it appears to be a most desirable form of 
fish food if the cost is not a bar to using it in large quanti- 
ties. 
Mr. Senior In Canada. 
My friend, Mr. Wm. Senior, angling editor of the London 
Meld, made a visit to Canada during the past season, made 
it so quietly that 1 was about to say a surreptitious visit, and 
disappointed a number of friends, who did not even know 
he was on this side of the water until he had returned. 
Returning from the Restigouche, where I had been salmon 
fishing. Dr. Drummond told me in Montreal that Senior was 
over here. I told him that he was in error, for Senior had 
written me that he did not know whether it would be his 
good fortune to attend the British Association meeting, but 
if he did it would go hard with him if he did not meet me 
at my home and have some fishing with me. 
Then Chambers wrote me from Quebec that the papers 
had announced that Senior was in Toronto, but I told 
Chambers that he was dreaming. Now I have convicted 
Red Spinner by the evidence of his own pen, for he writes 
in the Field oi catching his first mascalonge in Canada. 
(A few words as to the spelling of the name of this fish, for 
I have been asked a score of times why I did not spell it 
some other way. I do not know how many years ago it 
was, but there was a time when the spelling of the name of 
the fish was agitated in the angling newspapers, for there 
are half a dozen different wavs of spelling it; but Dr. Beau, 
speaking as the editor of U. S. Fish Commission publica- 
tions, or as the icthyologist of the Commission, or both, said 
mascalonge, and I have adhered to it from that day to this, 
and propose to adhere to it as long as I write it, although 
the printer does not always let it stand as I write it,) 1 am 
very glad that he has had this experience, even if he sorely 
disappointed me by not advising me of his visit in advance. 
Having caught his first mascalonge, he is in a position to do 
me a great service. Mr. Alfred Jardine, who is the great 
pike fisherman of Great Britian, said in the Oazette {LoixdoTa) 
that when I wrote of the mascalonge, pike and pickerel, 1 
evidently meant the same fish at different stages of growth! 
Now, if any other English angler should say that the pike 
and mascalonge are the same, I have only to say, ask Senior. 
Without going into details, Mr. Senior says in his very in- 
teresting description of his fishing in the Province of Ontario: 
"The fish (mascalonge) is, in a word, the great pike {Esox 
nobilion), and it is to all intents and purposes possessed of the 
general characteristics of the Esocidax family. Oar old 
friend Esox lucius occurs in Ontario waters, and the Indians 
call it Kenosha, While the pike pro er is, however, com- 
mon to both sides of the Atlantic, the mascalonge is con- 
fined to the basin of the St. Lawrence." In this latter state- 
ment Mr. Senior has been misinformed, for the mascalonge 
is found elsewhere, particularly in Wisconsin, generally 
called the Great Lakes region, and in New York and Ken- 
tucky, where it is called Kentucky pike. Its distribution is 
comparatively limited when the distribution of the pike ia 
considered. Mr. Senior caught several mascalonge and de- 
parted from the usual method employed in their capture 
when he used a phantom minnow for a lure with light rod 
and line. I say usual method, for he says he found the use 
of the trolling spoon universal. While in Canada he learned 
of a mascalonge of 1401bs. in weight, the head of which was 
taken to England by a steamship line (who furnished the in- 
formation) in a whisky cask. For years I have been on the 
trail of all the big fish I could hear about, but here is a 
bigger fellow than any I have been able to discover that 
sailed under the name of mascalonge. It is intimated in the 
article that Mr. Senior has had a try at our black bass, and I 
shall be curious to know how our fighting fish appealed to 
such an eminent and all around angler as Red Spinner. 
Tadpoles as Bass Bait. 
Driving in Columbia county a few days ago with a gentle- 
man who is a devoted black bass fisherman, he said that if 
he could find twelve tadpoles he would be cock sure of 
catching twelve black bass with them, for of all the bass 
baits, minnows, frogs, crickets, crayfish, dobsons, grasshop- 
pers, larvse of darning needle, etc., etc., the tadpole was the 
surest ban all season where they could be obtained. This 
was a new black bass bait to me, and I wonder if it is used in 
other sections to any great extent, and with what success. 
I have mentioned in this paper that 1 found the best bait in 
the Delaware River to be young lamprey eels. In West Vir- 
ginia, an old fisherman told me the bait for big black bass 
was a black lizard, and he procured some for me to my dis- 
gust. In the Potomac, a young bullhead is the best bass 
bait, and in other portions of this big country perhaps some- 
thing else is the best bait: but if the tadpole should prove to 
be the universal best bait, thanks would be due to my Col- 
umbia county friend for the information. 
A. N. Chestey. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The BiKsest Trout. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 6.— Mr. W. E, Warren, of Fox Lake, 
Wis,, just back from a good trip to Colorado, left at this 
office a magnificent photograph of the record mountain trout, 
caught by Mr. Brown in the Gunnis n. This fish weigheel 
lalbs. even, and was a monster, though showing to be of 
symmetry and power. The photograph is one of the best fish 
pictures seen for a long time. 
Where the Bass Don't Hide, 
Messrs. C. E Anthony and Chas. Jernagin, of Chicago, 
are back from a two weebs' trip in Wisconsin, some twenty- 
five miles west of State Line. They did their fishing in Roche 
Lake, keeping only such fish as they needed to eat. In all 
the two caught over 1,000 bass. In four hours they caught 
205 bass, and in two hours they took 137, according to the 
story. The fish ran about 1 .Hbs. average, and as the above 
figures mean that each fisherman must have landed a little 
more than one bass each two minutes for the two he urs, I 
submit that the story is not at all a bad one. The sport, how- 
ever, was hardly to be called good. 
A party of Chicago gentlemen, including Messrs. John 
Branch, James Gormley, Charles Jenks, A. C. Paterson, 
Messrs. Taylor and Thompson, all of Chicago, are just back 
from Tomahawk Lake, Wis., where they had fair sport at 
muscallonge. The largest fish was taken by Mr. Branch, of 
the C. (-% N. W. Ry., a 'lunge weighing 3l|lb3, Mr. Gorm- 
ley had one weighing ISflbs., and a number of less weight — 
6J, I2i, U, IS^lbs., etc.— were taken by others of the party. 
A good many black bass were found in a little inland lake 
near by, and in one of the thoroughfares Messrs. Taylor and 
Thompson caught ten striped bass one day. 
Curiosities at the Minnesota Hatchery. 
There are a number of interesting sights to be seen out at 
the State fish hatchery near St. Paul, Minn., and I enjoyed 
very much a little trip 1 had out there a while ago with the 
State executive agent, Mr. Sam F. Fullerton. One of the 
sights of the hatchery is the penfull of albino trout, some- 
thing not to be seen in any other part of the world, in all 
probability. These trout, at first appearance, seem to be a 
school of goldfish, as one walks up to the edge of the com- 
paitment and looks in at them. They are over a foot long, 
and make a good big school of peculiar-looking creatures. 
The skin is a delicate pale color, but upon it may be seen 
clearly the red spots of the brook trout, the effect being that 
of a brilliant silvery fish, with decorations of carmine. All 
these albinoes are descended from one albino mother, whose 
oft'spring reproduce her coloration. When the eggs of this 
trout are fertilized by the melt of the brown trout, the result 
is a fish which is apparently a brown trout and which shows 
no albinism. There are few odder things in fishculture than 
these Minnesota albinoes. 
Another pen at the hatchery contains a lot of hybrids of 
the brook trout and lake trout, weighing as high as ^Vas, 
