FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 2, 1898. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Success of the Fly-Casters. 
Chicago, 111., June 18. — In my supplement to the 
report of the fly-casting tournament at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., last week, I had occasion to speak of the luck 
of those of us who fished the Boardman under the 
guidance of Col. Fox and Mr. Widdicomb. Since then I 
have had word from all the different parties who went out 
from Grand Rapids to the streams for a try at the trout, 
and it seems that the Boardman party was about the 
lowest of the lot. Mr. Fred N. Peet tells me that he and 
Mr. John Waddell, fished the Pere Marquette, getting 
off at the Roby tank, some 2>4 miles from Baldwin. 
They were on the stream three days, and were so, lucky 
as to meet the big rainbows for which we were all of us 
searching. On the first day they caught nearly all rain- 
bows (twenty rainbows and only one speckled trout). 
The next day they took about two dozen fish, half rain- 
bows, and on the third day had three rainbows in their 
baskets of about thirty trout in all. They found the 
river in good condition, and had a most enjoyable ex- 
perience. Mr. Peet says that his host, Mr. John Wad- 
dell, of Grand Rapids, is the best trout fisherman he ever 
saw on a stream, and it was to Mr. Waddell's rod that 
the best fish fell, one weighing 3^>lbs. He lost one fine 
rainbow, which seemed nearly 2ft. long as it showed in 
the water, but took yet another fish of 2^\bs., and 
several that went over 2lbs. Mr. Peet caught one weigh- 
ing 2 l / 2 \b?,., and also several that would go over albs. 
Their take was by all odds the handsomest made by any 
of the fishers. 
Mr. Eber Rice took out Mr. Smith, of Chicago; Mr. 
Frost took Mr. Blackmail, of Chicago, and Mr. Harry 
Ketchum and Judge Burlingame r of Grand Rapids, also 
went along. All these fished the Little Manistee, near 
the railway crossing, and they had fine luck with the 
trout, though taking no rainbows. The average was 
about 20 to 30 trout to the rod each day, Mr. Smith tak- 
ing 46 in his fishing. They brought down nice baskets, 
but had nothing especially heavy. 
Mr. Rogers took up Mr. Hascall, of Chicago, and they 
went out on the Pere Marquette, near the hatchery, 
Mr. John Power, of the hatchery, going with them. 
They had plenty of brook trout, but. only small rain- 
bows. Their average was in the Sin. class, a few larger, 
but nothing very startling in weight. They report a 
grand time on the river, which was in good condition. 
Next to the Pere Marquette the Maple seems to have 
been the lucky stream for the visitors and their hosts. 
I have already mentioned the take made t>y the party of 
railway officials in whose special car we traveled to and 
from the Boardman, at Mayfield, on the Grand Rapids & 
Indiana Railroad (not the "G. R. & T." as the proof 
reader of Forest and Stream had it last week). After 
these gentlemen left the Maple to come home, Messrs. 
D. G. Henry and his guest, Mr. Fred Divine, of Utica. 
stayed behind for a little more fishing. I saw Mr. Di- 
vine at Cleveland day before yesterday, and he says that 
he had the finest sort of sport. He and Mr. Henry 
caught in all about 250 trout, 14m. in length being the 
largest, but the average very good. The last day they 
filled their baskets early and quit on the stream, saying 
they had enough and taking down their rods. They found 
Professor and Queen of the Waters the best flies. I 
presume their take was perhaps the second best made 
by the parties, and that of Mr. Waddell and Mr. Peet 
the best. The latter angler is very enthusiastic over 
the big rainbows, which he says are regular whirlwinds 
on the rod. He also says that no one better than Mr. 
Waddell knows how to handle one of them in the heavy 
water of such a stream. It was necessary to turn loose 
and follow the fish down stream, as though it were a 
salmon. 
All in all, the gentlemen of Grand Rapids may feel 
very proud of their tournament, and also proud of the 
sport they showed the visitors who came to see them. 
They are certainly in the heart of a great angling re- 
gion. 
Reports from Many Waters. 
Chicago, 111., June 25. — The angling season in this 
part of the West sprang into sudden activity within the 
past couple of weeks, and reports come in from many 
waters. I have word from Fay Buck, of Buck's resorts, 
Manitowish, Wis., and he says the fishing for muscal- 
lunge is good, lie caught three fish, weighing lolbs. 
each, before breakfast on the day he wrote, this week. 
This was at the Divide resort. Bass fishing on those 
chains is also good. 
Several parties have been up in the Wisconsin 'lunge 
country, and with good success, though I do not hear 
of many fish. The average of the Wisconsin muscalhmge 
this year has not been above iolbs., if indeed so large as 
that, and I imagine the average weight grows less each 
year on those waters, which are fished a great deal. 
Mr. Jacob Rehm, of Blue Island, 111., has just returned 
from a ten-days' fishing trip at his camp on Rice Lake, 
Manitowish waters. He reports the fishing good, though 
the water is still high and roily. 
Most of the 'lunge landed were small, running from 
7lbs. to olbs. Some good catches of 6 to 81b. pike were 
made. He caught between thirty and forty bass, rang- 
ing from iy 2 to 4>41bs. Many of the fish were returned 
to the water. 
Master in Chancery Charles T. Farson, of Chicago, 
with Messrs. McHugh and Burges, of Oak Park, HI., 
have just returned from a week's fishing trip at Pike 
Lake, Wis. The water was unusually high. One day's 
catch was eighteen muscallunge, thirty pike, and three 
bass, the 'lunge running up to about iolbs. In one 
day on Pike Lake Mr. Farson landed a iolb. pike, a i2lb. 
and a 13II3. 'lunge. 
A Milwaukee party, consisting of Dr. R. G. Richter, 
J. P. Murphy, W. E. Furlong and A. T. Shay, spent 
some time in the same vicinity, and in two days they took 
sixty-four fish in all, including twelve muscallunge. The 
'lunge run under iolbs. each. Most of these were taken 
from Thompson and Tucker lakes. 
A party consisting of B. W. Sherman, Chas. T. Farson, 
Ambrose Risdon, Jacob Newman, Dr. Fred Fish, Clif- 
ford White, have arranged for a week's fishing trip, which 
they will spend at Pine Lodge, on Tomahawk Lake. 
They go about the middle of July. 
Messrs. J. L. Flanerry and C. G. Aken, of Chicago, 
have returned from Kabekona Camp, in Minnesota. On 
June 17 the former caught one 'lunge which weighed 
32lbs., and Mr. Aken killed another that scaled 22lbs. I 
think 32lbs. is the record weight (a tie) at that place 
this spring and summer so far. At the same place, or 
rather in a little unvisited lake reached by a portage, Mr. 
Ben Bingham and his wife, of this city, took in one day 
320 black bass to their two rods, thus breaking the record 
of Mr. Raisbeck and his friend, made last summer, if 
any special interest may be said to attach to that fact. 
Mr. Bingham uses but one fish out the number taken, all 
the rest being returned to the water. He says they could 
have caught 400 if they had wanted to, as the lake was 
alive with them. There had been no fishing there to 
amount to anything. Mr. S. M. Sutherland, of this city, 
reports that on his trip to these same waters about 
Woman Lake he caught fifty-seven bass in sixty-seven 
minutes. No ruling has yet been received from the State 
Fish and Game Commission on this sort of fishing. The 
law says only fifty fish shall be "killed" daily. 
The party of Chicago anglers who returned from 
Kabekona last week brought out with them 500lbs. of 
fish, muscallunge and bass, these all taken by Dr. H. TL 
Frothingham and wife, Mr. Bingham and wife, and Mr. 
J. M. Oliver and friend, there being five persons in 
the party coming out. The report from these visitors is 
that the 'lunge have quit biting for a while, though the 
bass fishing is too good to be good. 
Mr. McCartney has sent out instructions to his men 
at Kabekona Camp to be strict in the observance of 
the law, and under no circumstances to pack for any 
one leaving the State more than the fifty fish pi-escribed 
by law. He has put on the doors of the rooms the 
article clipped from Forest and Stream bearing on ex- 
cessive fishing, and he means to keep within the law and 
within sportsmanship all the time. 
In regard to law breaking, a curious set of circum- 
stances comes to light regarding this same chain of 
Minnesota lakes, which may be of interest to the State 
Fish Commission. , On one of his trips out from this 
camp, Mr. -H. G. McCartney found at Pine River station, 
waiting for the train, a supposed sportsman and his 
wife, who reported that they had been camped for some 
time on a lake well known to Mr. McCartney, near the 
place of a certain old fisherman, who once used to fish 
for market there until he was shut off. This "angler^ 
had five barrels along with him, big pork and whisky 
barrels, filled with ice and fish. He said that all his fish 
were black bass, and that he had kept them in good shape 
at his camp, and was now taking them down to his home 
in Minneapolis, "for his friends." He was talked with 
about the fishing, and asked if he was not afraid to take 
out so many fish, and answered that he wasn't afraid of 
anything. He said it was not against the Minnesota law 
to take these fish out to a town within the State, and that 
he only wanted to show his friends that he had good 
luck. At the camp Avhere this man had stopped Mr. 
McCartney found a spot where the fish had been cleaned, 
and he says there was about a barrel full of the entrails 
which had been thrown into the lake. Tt was certainly a 
very heavy catch that was thus disposed of, one very 
far beyond all sportsmanlike limits. Mr. McCartney 
says that he could not help thinking, in view of the com- 
pany this man was in, and the way he acted, and the 
amount of fish that he had, that this might be a new way 
of the dealers to smuggle bass out of the woods into the 
market. It is unlawful to sell black bass in Minnesota. 
This tl" is given for what it is worth. Its chief interest to 
Forest and Stream lies in the fact that there still exists, 
without any shadow of a doubt, a man, a sportsman or at 
least one claiming the name of sportsman openly, who 
does not scruple to take away from the waters where he 
has fished the amount of five barrels of bass, probably in 
actual weight of fish something like a ton. The man 
who would do that might as well be a market fisher, and 
add respectability to his calling. Such a performance 
cannot in these days be called sport, or any part of 
sport. I could not learn the name of this man. nor could 
my informant, but I hope some day Sam Fullerton, of 
St. Paul, will learn it and will keep an eye out for its 
owner. 
At Fox Lake, Wis., the bass fishing is still going on in 
good shape. The season lias been good there. At Lake 
Geneva, so I am advised by a friend, the bass have quit 
the shallows and gone to deep water, so that the fishing 
is not so good. At Fox Lake, 111., this is the case near- 
ly always by this time in the summer, and I presume that 
the bass cannot now be taken so easily, though T once 
in a while get word of a good basket coming down from 
that chain, which lies near Lake Villa and Antioch. 
At Lake Okauchee, Wis., Messrs. Walter Dupee and 
Charlie Lester caught a 171b. pike, after something of a 
hard fight. Every once in a while we hear of one of 
these big "pickerel" being taken in some lake in lower 
Wisconsin. 
Last week Messrs. J. Nagle, Max Rahr, J. Miller and 
W. D. Richards, of Manitowoc. Wis., and Messrs. J. S. 
Vilas, W. Watson and two others whose names I did 
not learn, from Kaukauna, with Mr. W. S. Drake, of 
Milwaukee, made a very good fishing trip on Planting 
Ground Lake, near Three Lakes, Wis. On one day they 
caught eighty-six black bass, and on another seventy- 
five, but did not get any 'lunge. 
Bass fishing at Gill's Landing, on the Wolf, is re- 
ported to be good this week, and at this point one may 
be sure of small-mouth bass in reasonable quantities. 
E. Hough. 
1206 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
First Fish — "How are you getting on?" 
Second Fish — "No luck at all. The man at the end of 
that line is an idiot?" 
First Fish— "What's the trouble?" 
Second Fish — "I took the bait an hour ago, and I've 
been waiting ever since for him to put some more on." — 
London Judy. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on 
Tuesday. Correspondence intended for publication 
s>wuld reach us at the latest by Monday, and an much 
mrlter as practicable. 
A Michigan Trout Stream. 
New York, June 23. — Editor Forest and Stream: In 
your issue of April 16 I noticed a list of fishing waters 
in Michigan, along the fine of the G. R. & I. R. R., and 
having entered into communication with the anglers of 
Michigan familiar with those waters, I made a visit to 
Michigan during the first of this month. As you re- 
quested a report from those of your readers who visited 
any of these streams and found the fishing to be especial- 
ly good, I venture to submit the following. I am 
prompted to do so, further, by the fact that I find my 
name mentioned in your issue of June 25, in a letter 
written from Mayfield, in a manner which, while I am 
sure it was not so intended, might be interpreted as im- 
plying an infringement on what I consider the proprieties . 
in fishing. 
I visited the Maple River at Pellston, on the line of 
the G. R. & I. R. R., and stopped at a small road house 
very well kept by a Mrs. Walters. The name "river" is 
a misnomer, for the stream is an ideal trout "brook," as 
we call it in this section of the country, having a gravelly 
bottom dotted with pools and very easy to wade, unless 
the water should be too high. This, however, was not 
the case when I was there. I reached Pellston on June 
5 and stayed until June 13, and I append a table of my 
catch during that time: 
June 5, 67 trout; afternoon. 
June 6, 58 trout; afternoon. 
June 7, 105 trout; all day. 
June 8, 68 trout; afternoon. 
June 9, 78 trout; all day. 
Tune 10, 79 trout; afternoon. 
Tune 11, 107 trout; all day. 
June 12, 54 trout; all (lav. 
June 13, 69 trout; 10 A. M. to 4 I'. M. 
Of these trout, I need scarcely say I returned to the 
stream all but ten each day that I fished, and as 1 used 
small flies, that is, a twelve to fourteen hook, I returned 
the trout practically uninjured. 
Of course, many of these trout were very small, but 
many of them also weighed a quarter of a pound, al- 
though I did not take any that weighed more than 
541b. The numbers given are valuable, however, as in- 
dicating how well the stream is stocked, and as a promise 
for the future. 
I was assured, however, that there were much larger 
fish in the stream, and I have no doubt that the informa- 
tion was correct. A number of the trout that I took 
were rainbow trout, which I learned were introduced 
into the stream three years ago. All of illy fishing on 
this stream was withi'ii a distance of a rive-mile stretch. 
The fish in this stream are particularly fat, and 1 found 
those that I took gorged with small minnows and caddis 
worms, showing that the fish have an abundance of most 
desirable food. 
On my return from the Maple River, I stopoed at the 
Pere Marquette in the hope of taking some of the large 
rainbow trout which I was informed were in that stream, 
but in this I was not successful, although I took a 
number of small fish — not enough, however, to make it 
worth while to keep a record. I fished the Marquette 
for three days unsuccessfully, and found the stream a 
very peculiar one. It seems to have a clay sub-bottom 
which is covered over in most places with sand, although 
in a few spots there is gravel. The clay bottom has 
been washed by the stream into long ridges on either 
bank, according to the direction of the current, and in 
the deep holes of rapid water thus formed the large trout 
lie. I saw four trout in one of these pools, and, as well 
as I could judge, the largest would weigh 5lbs., while 
the smallest would weigh 3lbs. 
I cannot speak too highly of the hospitality with which 
I — a stranger — was treated by the gentlemen of Grand 
Rapids composing the Fly-Casters' Club, and I am glad 
to be able in this way to return esnecial thanks to Judge 
Burlingame, of the Superior Court; Mr. Frederick 
Adams, of the Grand Rapids Evening Post, and Mi. 
C. L. Lockwood, general passenger agent of the G. R. & 
I. R. R., for their more than courteous treatment. 
J. E. Hindon Hyde. 
New England Fishing, 
Boston, June 24. — Women take to sport with rod and 
line eagerly when the chance is offered, and women 
readers of Forest and Stream are on the increase. 
Twenty women fish to-day where there was one twenty 
years ago. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Harberger, of Boston, 
have just returned from a very satisfactory fishing trip 
to the Rangeley section of Maine. Mrs. Harberger 
took, in the immediate vicinity of Billy Soule's camps, 
Cupsuptic Lake, two trout weighing 7lAlbs. and /lbs. 
respectively, and one salmon of 4^41bs. These, together 
with one trout of 5^1bs., taken by Mr. Harberger from 
Lower Richardson Lake, comprise the larger fish of 
the trip. To say that Mrs. Harberger is pleased with 
her success as a fisherwoman but poorly expresses the 
enjoyment she has got from the outing. Here let it be 
said — possibly for the one hundredth time — that the 
above-mentioned trout were all brook trout. The only 
reason for saying it is that only yesterday a gentleman, 
who should have known better, said thai Mrs. llarbcr- 
ger's trout were "lakers." There are no lake trout or 
togue in the Rangeley waters. 
The salmon fishermen arc getting away to their rivers 
and preserves. By the first of July the camps at the 
best rivers will generally be occupied. Mr. Francis 
Dumaresq, with his -friend Mr. Wharton, has gone to 
the home of the Marguerite Club, on the northwest 
branch of the river of the same name. Mr. D. H. 
Blanchard, a salmon angler much respected by all the 
guild, has gone with*, his daughter and family to his 
preserve on the northeast branch of the St. Marguerite. 
Later he expects Mr. Richard O. Harding down for a 
few weeks' fishing. Mr. Harding has been ill for some 
time, but his many friends of the Sportsmen's Show will 
be glad to hear that he is on the mend. Mr. Walter 
Brackett, the salmon artist, with Mrs. Brackett, has gone 
to his salmon preserve at the junction of the northeast 
and northwest branches of the St. Marguerite. 
June 26. — Peculiar luck ofttimes seems to- follow some 
sportsmen and hunters, while others stand idly by. Mr. 
Eugene Lynch, who hooked the salmon" that landed 
squarely in the boat of Mr, Porter, mentioned in last 
