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away with our hooks, I realized that we were now to 
have the best sport of the day, for we were to do 
battle with the kings of their class. The sport was 
grand, with my companion on one side and I on the 
other, we frequently pulled in magnificent fish, fighting 
and pulling from the same pool. And so it went till the 
yellow sunlight had ceased to Illumine islands and water. 
Eight o'clock found us seated in the quaint home of 
our boatman. We were the possessors of thirty-nine 
bass and one pike, and huge appetites. I would give 
a good deal to have a picture of that scene. The log 
cabin was divided into three rooms, of which the middle 
was the dining room-. Here and there were hung guns 
and fishing utensils; in the corner stood a combination 
dresser or sideboard which must have been a hundred 
years old; the walls were decorated with old-time 
daguerreotypes; at the foot of the bed in another room 
was seen the old-time spinning wheel which had spun 
for many a year. 
The next morning found us in Ottaw r a, where we were 
the center of an admiring group at the Hotel Cecil. 
The news of our splendid catch soon spread, and the 
fishermen and critics shortly appeared — the fishermen 
to congratulate and the critics to dissect our work. ' 
We had caught so many big, heavy, thick-shouldered 
fish, some weighing at least 6 T / 2 ]bs., that when the bag 
was emptied into the basket these fellows seemed to 
liave worked their way to the top as though to display 
their beauty. The "ubiquitous funny man" on observing 
this drew the attention of the assemblage to it, and pro- 
ceeded to investigate the bottom of the basket, and 
found there several equal to if not larger than those on 
top, and his consternation, when he found the occasion 
removed for the exercise of his constitutional and valued 
prerogative of guying, was laughable to behold. I spent 
a few days after this viewing the sights of the capital. 
The Parliament buildings are elegant. I was particu- 
larly struck by the vim and enterprise of the merchants 
of the little town. Most of the streets are wide and 
regularly laid out, and thoroughly macadamized and 
asphalted, making it a paradise for riding, driving and 
bicycling. 
As the train pulled out of the Ottawa depot I thought: 
T shall return for another outing on beautiful Blue Sea 
Lake and its sister waters. W. J. McEvoy. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Lake Trout. 
There is a belief existing that while most species of 
trout prey upon their own species, the lake trout, namay- 
ou&h, is exempt from cannibalism. How this belief 
gained ground I cannot say, but I have been assured 
over and over that it was true. Of course it is not true, 
but the most remarkable case of cannibalism in lake 
trout was told to me this summer by Mr. Harry Wat- 
rous, the artist, who has his summer home on Lake 
George, and who is the president of the Lake George 
Fish and Game Association. Mr. Watrous was watch- 
ing some men suspected of illegal fishing, when he 
saw something white on the water, and going to it 
found a lake trout about 15m. long apparently choked 
to death by another fish. This fish proved to be a 
lake trout, and when it, the other and second trout, was 
opened, it also had a small trout in it its stomach. 
Truth, particularly in matters pertaining to fish and fish- 
ing, is stranger than fiction. 
Sea Salmon in Fresh Water. 
When the work of stocking the Hudson River with 
sea salmon was commenced in 1882, the fry were planted 
in trout streams far up at the headwaters of the river, 
more than 100 miles above tide water, with impassable 
dams and falls intervening. The work was finally dis- 
continued in the streams so far above tide water, and 
the plants of fry and yearlings were made in streams 
nearer to the sea. Several years after the final plants 
were made in the upper waters, I heard of "salmon 
trout" being caught in Millington Brook, near the 
Glen, a stream never used for planting salmon. There- 
after from time to time 1 heard of other salmon trout 
being taken from the stream, which was always a fam- 
ous trout brook, but which had never been planted with 
any kind of fish. Little heed was paid to the reports 
For the reason that people are given in some regions to 
applying wrong names to the fishes, although I was 
told that in this instance they were fish I had planted. 
As I had never planted fish of any kind in the stream, I 
assumed that the "salmon trout" were bright trout which 
had run up from the river after a visit to the white 
sand in the main stream. 
Very lately I met on the train Mr. Albert Thomas, ex- 
county treasurer of Warren county, and a well-informed 
sportsman, who told me that a salmon of 4lbs. had been 
taken in Glen Brook, and that he saw the fish and recog- 
nized it as a sea salmon, beyond question. He then 
added that nearly every season for a number of years 
before the 1510. law was passed he had caught salmon 
up to a nound or so in weight in both the Glen and Mil- 
lington brooks. Ten years or more ago sea salmon fry 
were planted in the Glen Brook, which flows into the 
Hudson from the right bank, while the Millington flows 
from the left, but their mouths are not far apart. The 
only explanation that. I can give of this condition of 
affairs is that the salmon have bred in the Glen Brook 
without going to sea, for had they gone to sea they 
could not have returned to the stream mentioned, and 
(hat from the Glen Brook they have wandered to the 
Millington Brook. There is in fact no other explanation 
to be given, for I am sure that it is more than ten years 
since any salmon frv were planted in the upper Hud- 
son contiguous to the streams I have named, and there 
is no chance for them to get back from the sea once they 
have descended the river, and as fish of a pound weight, 
and now four pounds, are annually taken in the 
brooks, they must have bred in the streams and become 
what is generally called landlocked. 
Last June, while salmon fishing on the Ristigouche. 
Mr. Archibald Mitchell gave me a clipping from a 
Scotch newspaper, containing a summary of a report by 
a commission of experts and scientists that had been 
investigating the life history of the sea salmon. Among 
other things the report took the ground that the sea sal- 
mon was a fresh-water fish that had acquired a sea-going 
habit, and that its habitat was originally confined wholly 
to fresh water. I know that this is not popular, but why 
not? The eggs of the sea salmon will die if placed in 
salt water, and so will fry when first hatched, and that 
should not be a characteristic of a salt-water-fish. The 
sea salmon will breed in fresh water without ever going 
to sea, as we know from the late Mr. Mowat's experi- 
ments m Canada, and the landlocked salmon is the sea 
salmon that has not acquired the sea-going habit, so it is 
not particularly strange that sea salmon planted in 
Glen Brook should remain there and breed without 
going to sea. Nevertheless it is a curious fact. 
midges. The formula of tar, penny royal and vaseline 
is a very old one, but my informant says the proportions 
in his formula are somewhat different from those com- 
monly used. He states these as follows: 
"Vaseline, 2oz.; pure pine tar, ioz.; oil penny royal, 
ioz. Have druggist mix cold in a mortar. First add 
tar to vaseline, mix thoroughly and then add oil penny 
royal. Apply freely to all exposed parts. Use as often 
as may be necessary. This mixture does not evaporate 
from face and hands as soon as most of the preparations 
I have tried." 
,„„. *j E. Hough. 
1200 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
Ristigouche. 
One evening last spring I was at the Ristigouche 
Salmon Club on my way home from the upper waters 
when Mr. Percy Baker, the superintendent of the club,' 
asked me why I always spelled and pronounced the name 
of the river Restigouche, and T said because I supposed 
it was correct. He produced an old map and several 
papers more or less antique, to show me that the 
correct spelling of the name was Ristigouche, and here 
I make amends for spelling it the other way. 
A. N. Cheney. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Westerners in Canada. 
Chicago. 111.. Sept. 24.— Mr. J. M. Oliver, an attorney 
of this city, who takes many sporting trips of a very 
delectable sort, this summer spent the month of August 
on the Nepigon River, and reports a most delightful 
experience. Others of the party were Judge Showalter 
? r f U. S. Circuit Court, Chicago; Judge Bunn, of the 
U. S. District Court, Madison. Wis.; Attorneys W W 
Evans and Wm. H. Holder, of Chicago, and Mr John 
Knight, of Knight & Marshall, Chicago. Mr. Oliver 
says that he was told there were more parties on the 
river this summer than Avere ever known there before in 
any one season. They went to Camp Robinson, fishing 
from Hamilton to Split Rock, it being the custom on 
that stream for parties to respect the camos of others, and 
not to intrude on their territory. The largest trout 
taken by any of the party was one of 61bs. 2oz. by Mr 
Knight. Mr. Oliver's largest fish was slbs. On one 
day he took eighteen trout, averaging 2i41bs. Mr. 
Evans one morning took twentv-nine fish, 2^ to slbs 
weight Judge Bunn, who, like" Judge Showalter, is a 
very skilliul fly-fisherman, frequently landed fifteen to 
twenty fish daily, of 2 to 4lbs. They found the Jock 
Scott and Lord Baltimore flies the most killing. Of 
course no one dreams of using anything but the fly on 
the Nepigon. There were thirty parties on this stream 
in the month of August, among others that of Gen. 
r\oble, tormerly of President Harrison's Cabinet- the 
Speaker of the Parliament, of Ottawa, with many bank- 
ers, etc. Mr. Moore, of New York city, who is now 
out at Dawson, N. D., shooting ducks, was on the 
Nepigon 111 August. 
We have a number of salmon fishers in Chicago 
™ ou g; h t th ey need to travel a long way tor their sport 
Mr. Murdock, of Murdock & Fisher, Chicago, has a 
lease on a Quebec stream in the Gaspe Basin coun- 
try and Mr. Jas. L. High, a noted Chicago lawyer 
(author of the work "High on Injunctions"), in partner- 
ship with Judge Hitchcock, of St. Louis, has a very de- 
sirable lease on the Nepissiguit River, in New Bruns- 
W1C £' As near as 1 can le arn, it costs about $12 a minute 
to fish on any of these expensive leased streams, and 
newspaper men have to use stop watches. 
After Bass. 
Messrs Fred N. Peet, Jim Clarke, Geo. Morell, H. 
G. Hasca 1, A. W. Smith, A. R. Letterman and C. F. 
Conly, all of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, spent a 
day on Deep Lake, near Lake Villa, III., this week, 
averaging six or eight bass each, Mr. Hascall having 
the credit of a gib. pickerel. 
'Lunge and Great Northerns. 
In another column I have mentioned the trip made by 
Mr. McCartney and Mr. Jennings, of Chicago, into the 
country adjacent to Leech Lake, Minn. Here they went 
into Thunder Lake, and had all sorts of fun with the 
Great Northern pike, of which on two days they took 
a great number, each day getting at least ten fish which 
would run over islbs. each. They got two good ones 
one i7lbs. and one i7Klbs. They say that these fish are 
the hottest sort of fighters, and run and jump as well 
or better than the muscallunge. They think a 61b Great 
Northern pike will outfight a lunge of the same weight 
Mr. McCartney says he has read a lot about hearing the 
"line cutting through the water," but that never in his 
life before did he actually hear a line cut or hiss in. the 
water until he got to playing these pike, whose swift 
runs were a revelation. He says there is no mistakin°- 
these fish for the pickerel which make such a nuisance 
in those waters, for a. pickerel will not fight at all 
whereas a pike is never doing anything else after being- 
hooked. , & 
As to the supply of muscallunge in Minnesota, the 
records of the Woman Lake chain show that 225 muscal- 
lunge were taken by the 125 Kabekona guests last year 
Not a very big per capita showing, yet the fish ran 
very heavy in average. This year there were 175 to 200 
anglers in there at last accounts, but the total number of 
muscallunge did not run so large. In late fishing reports 
from there, there were only fifteen muscallunge taken 
in fifteen days, but they were big fellows, nearly all over 
2dbs., some of 28. 29 and 3olbs. It seems a peculiarity 
of those waters that one catches very few small mus- 
callunge. Sometimes a day would pass and no one 
would bring in a 'lunge, but when one did come it was 
very apt to be a big one. 
Dope. 
I have often mentioned the good fly dope whose 
discovery is to be attributed to Col. Fox, of Grand 
Rapids, Mich. Another gentleman, who writes from 
Kalamazoo, the same State, sends me the formula for a 
fly done which he says he finds very good to keep off 
mosquitoes, and deer' Hies, though he' has not tried it on 
Codfish and Chowder. 
Boston, Sept. 26— Oct. 1 opens the Maine season on 
deer and greater preparations are being made by hunt- 
ers than ever before. Now' that the deer shooting sea- 
son is about to open again, if a thrill of caution could 
be sent through the nerves of every man or boy who 
proposes to use a gun! Never shoot till you are dead 
sure as to what you are shooting at. There is almost 
always time for a safe and sure shot. Nothing is 
gained by shooting nervously, and at every moving ob- 
ject, while the chances are many that you will either 
wound or kill your brother hunters. 
Boston merchants are sportsmen; some of them dyed 
in the wool. Mr. Samuel Johnson, a man of successful 
business years, is a lover of yachting and fishing. He 
makes many trips off shore in his own craft, and with 
M °A, n r f TT , c , odfish . etc. Last week he invited 
Mr. Alfred B. Hall, another well-known State street 
merchant, to be with him on a codfishing trip off Na- 
hant to a celebrated fishing ground, well-known to 
some of the merchant fishermen. Mr. Hall caught a 
J 51b. pollock and Mr. Johnson followed him with a 
codfish of islbs. They fished earnestly till lunch tak- 
ing a barrel [full qf cod and a tub fulfbeside. A 'skate 
ot about oolbs. was also landed by Mr. Johnson The 
chowder, such as Mr. Johnson's cook knows how to 
make was the delight of the trip. Mr. Johnson remarks 
that taking many trips a year for several years, he has 
never yet made a trip to the point they fished when, bv 
persistent fishing, fish enough for a good chowder could 
not be obtained This, with the possibility of some of 
the good hauls frequently made, made a sport that "is 
good enough for anybody." On this trip a curious 
little episode was experienced. When more than a 
dozen miles from land a bird lighted in the deck of the 
yacht, apparently the female of the thistlebird or yellow- 
bird. It was evidently a good deal exhausted. At 
first no one disturbed it, but soon it seemed quite tame 
It would run between the legs of the men, and soon 
flew up on to Mr. Hall's knee, as he sat fishing- then 
mounted up to his shoulders and head. It did not seem 
atraid of anybody. It remained with them for some time 
then quietly flew away. It did not eat crumbs of bread 
thrown to it, but would dart like the fly-catchers evi- 
dently in pursuit of insects. 
A large delegation of the Appalachian Club is off for 
a iortrnght in the vicinity of Dixville Notch and the 
Rangeley Lakes. Mr. J. Ritchie, Jr., guides the party 
Boston marketmen say that a good many partridges 
are coming in from game hunters near home, but none 
yet trom Maine. A Lewiston, Me., letter says that the 
proprietor of Hotel Atwood got a good bag of par- 
tridges m the woods in the near vicinity of Lisbon He 
is about the only successful partridge hunter mentioned 
thus far " _______ Special. - 
Castalia and Toledo. 
Toledo, O Sept. 19.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 
Upper Castaha Club closed its season for 1898 on the 
15th inst, and the record shows it to have been the 
most successful in the history of the organization The 
register indicates that from the opening day, on March 
IS, to the close, on the date above given, the total catch 
^ Was 1v 5 / 32 ; with . an aggregate weight of 
I.9HJ61DS. , a little short of a ton. It is probable that the 
actual catch would run up to the latter figure, as in many 
instances fishermen hurrying to make their trains would 
leave the grounds without stopping to have their fish 
weighed and registered. Under the rules of the club, no 
hsh may be taken from the water which is less than 
Sin. in length, and the wonderful capacity of the stream 
as a trout producer is evidenced by the fact that the 
number of fish taken the present season is 1,303 greater 
than the total catch of last vear, while the excess over 
last year's weight is 575lbs. 
Toledo, whose fishermen invade all the waters of the 
country wherever a game fish swims, has recently sent 
a number of her most skilled "rodsters" into the Triton 
tract, and they returned home a few days ago much 
pleased with their new experiences. Three different 
Toledo parties were on the waters of this preserve at 
the same time, but so widely were they separated that 
only once did any two of them meet. The list included 
Will B. Geroe, Clarence Brown and Chas. B. Reynolds 
one party ; John Berdan, James Secor and Fred B. Shoe- 
maker, in another, and Noah H. Swayne T W Childs 
W. J. Walding, Rev. Emory W. Hunt and Frank W* 
Annin in the third. Mr. Shoemaker was fortunate 
enough to shoot a fine caribou shortly after the opening 
of the season. Jay Beebe 
[What an abominable word is rodster.] 
Mullet in Northern Waters. 
The striped mullet and the silver mullet migrate as 
Jar north as Cape Cod in summer, and sharks prev upon 
the large fish, while flukes capture many of the "young 
It is an interesting sight the jumping of the mullet 
when chased by an enemy, and sometimes apparently for 
the fun of it. 
When J recover from the stiffness and fatigue follow 
mg my rough -work I will send you something for pub- 
hcatlon on spearing sharks, skates, flukes, etc. and 
"hre-lighting strange fish at night. I have never be- 
tore been so struck by the scarcity of snipe of all 
kinds in this region. In only one place have I learned 
ot a flight of yellow-legs worthy of the name, and that 
was at Oak Island last Thursday, where about 100 vver- 
seen in a day, ' T< H B 
