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photograph which 1 inclose. It shows five trout caught 
by F. C. Lamy and John Marquay in Ampersand Pond, 
twelve miles from Saranac Lake. The fish weighed 6j4, 
5/^, 5y2, aV^ and 3541hs., total 25^ lbs. The fish were ex- 
hibited at Saranac, and astonished everyone who saw 
them, as a catch of five brook trout averaging over Slbs. each 
is almost unheard of in this State. There is no question as 
to the authenticity of this catch. Mr. Lamy told me 
that the 'largest fish was taken on a No. 5 Iddney spoon. 
Other large catches have been made about Saranac, but 
nothing to compare with this record breaker. 
Throughout the woods the feeling seems to be general 
that the best season yet, in every particular, is at hand. 
Surely the pleasures of the woods are becoming more 
diversified, and while the game may be decreasing in 
parts, this j'ear will probably find more people enjoying 
the Adirondacks than ever before. Just now the flies are 
rather troublesome, but if you follow Mr. Chamber's 
advice in his "Guide to Canadian Fishing," and put a 
small phial of oil of Lemon Verbena in your vest pocket, 
you may enjoy the beauties of forest and stream un- 
molested. John B. McHarg, Jr. 
Rome, N. Y., May 81. 
New England Fishing. 
Boston, June lo.— Fishing trips continue to be in order, 
and a good deal of enjoyment seems to come from these 
trips, even to the just-initiated. H. C. William.s and C: T. 
Turner, neither of whom had ever fished before, came 
home from Newfound Lake, N. H.,the other day. They had 
fished for three days with the result of two or three big 
trout and a salmon for Mr. Williams of 61bs., and one for 
Mr. Turner of 4Hlbs. Both are converts to. angling, and 
will go again. Herbert D. Turner, of Arlington, and J. 
W. Fellows, of Boston, are back from a fishing trip to 
Newfound Lake. N. H. They had good luck, Mr. Turner 
catching two salmon — one of 8 and one of 41/^lbs. Mr. 
Fellows landed a lake trout of 7^1bs. They were there 
camp, Lake Mooselucmaguntic, came out on Monday, and 
immediately started for the Restigouche for a few weeks' 
salmon fishing. Mr. D. H. Blanchard, of Boston, will 
start for his river, the Northeast Branch of the St. Mar- 
gueritte, as soon as he gets word that the salmon are 
rising, which good news he is expecting daily. The fish- 
ing tackle people say that an unusually large number of 
salmon fishermen are fitting out. 
Better success with landlocked salmon is reported on 
Lake Auburn, Me. Mr. B. A. Dresser took a salmon of 
lolbs. there on Saturday. Mr. Henry Wetmore has landed 
one of 4lbs. and one of Sj-Slbs. Mr. J. E. Coombs has 
landed a good one, and hooked another which he believes 
to have weighed at least lolbs., but the monster got away. 
Boston, June 12. — There is no doubt that Canadian 
waters are yet to aft'ord sportsmen from the States the 
delights of angling which the too-severely-fished waters 
nearer home will ere long fail to give. It is a 
feature of the times that sporting clubs are forming and 
the control of Canadian waters being obtained. The 
Laiirentian Club is one of these. A membership of fifty- 
three, with a limit of sixty, I understand, is made up of 
thorough sportsmen. The club has obtained control of 
400 square miles of territory above Quebec, on the Batis- 
can River, and on the line of the railway from. Quebec 
to Lake St. John. The territory is well wooded and 
has many lakes and watercourses, all abounding in trout. 
Mr. Tausig, of Boston, an enthusiastic angler, and an in- 
fluential member of the club, is just back from his spring 
fishing trip, and his description of the fly-fishing would 
charm the angler who has to cast for hours to get a rise 
in Maine waters. This trip he fished two or three new 
lakes and ponds, and there are many others to cut port- 
ages to and fish. No very large trout have yet been 
taken, Mr. Tausig's largest this .spring being about 3lbs., 
but the supply is most abundant. This supply the club 
proposes to preserve. No trolling or bait fishing is allowed 
— only fly-fishing. Mr. Tausig found the Parniacheene- 
belle.to be just as good as in Maine waters, and this, with 
a silver doctor or Montreal arid brown hackel, made the 
ANGLING NOTES. 
FIVE ADIRONDACK TROUT AVERAGING OVER 5LBS. EACH. 
only two days, and are much pleased with their success 
in so short a time. 
Trips for fishing in Maine waters arc growing in popu- 
larity each season. Almost every day one meets with a 
merchant who is respectably browned and looks hale and 
hearty. Inquiry elicits the fact that he has been to Maine 
fishing, and an account of his trip is given with delight to 
a listener who has been there. Mr. C. T. Williams, of 
Boston, is home from the Rangeleys, where he is very fond 
of going. He visited the Birches, Mooselucmaguntic, and 
'had good success, taking several fine trout. Mr. W. J. 
Leckie, of Boston, has returned from his annual trouting 
trip to the Northwest Branch of the Penobscot. With 
Mr. G. W. Brown and others he is interested in a camp 
on a pond that they do not like to name, because "the 
fishing is too good to give away." This time the party 
consisted of James L. Richards, W. J. FoUett, Charles H. 
Hall and John Touleman, with Mr. Leckie and Mr. 
Brown. They had excellent fly-fishing, taking all the trout 
they desired. This party never fishes with bait of any 
sort — only with the fly. Such is the rule of the camp, and 
the gentlemen, all prominent merchants or bankers, are 
justly proud of their achievements. Large trout are not 
taken, because not in the pond, but always a plenty of 
them. One of the earliest of Boston fly-fishermen is Mr. 
Frank F. Dodge, who owns a camp on a lake in Nova 
Scotia. With his wife and son and a friend they visited 
this lake early in May and found excellent fly-fishing, the 
party taking several "good ones" and all they wanted of 
fair size. Mr. Dodge grows more enthusiastic over his 
location every year. The fly-fishing is early. The guides 
are trustworthy and have not yet been spoiled by sports- 
men with longer purses than good sense. Mr. Frank 
Wise, of Boston, and Mr. Charle Boss, of Meriden, Conn., 
have recently returned from their second or third annual 
trout-fishing trip to Tusket River, Nova Scotia. They go 
first to Yarmouth, thence to Brazil Lake, thence to Tusket 
River. Here they had good sport fly-fishing, with some 
trout of very good size for that country. They are fond of 
camping out there, though they can stop at farmhouses at 
very reasonable prices, and everything possible is done for 
their comfort. They have no trouble with the customs 
officials, who seem willing to do all in their power for 
sportsmen from the States. 
The salmon fishermen are fitting out for their rivers, 
and some of them have already gone. Senitor Frye, with 
Senator Chandler, who has been a guest at Mr, Frye's 
ideal cast. Mr. Tausig fished Lake Alex and Lake Eau 
Claire, the later, as its name indicates, noted lor its clear 
water. It has been considered heretofore almost too clear 
for good trout fishing, but Mr. Tausig was able to take 
some most beautiful trout there of good size. 
Considerable catches continue to be reported from the 
Rangeleys. Mr. C. T. Duncklee, of Boston, has been 
there, fishing at Bemis and other points. He took over 
thirty fish, one a trout of Slbs. C. E. Barker, of Lynn, 
took a salmon the other day while fishing from the Upper 
Dam wharf, Richardson Lake. It weighed over 7lbs. Dr. 
M. F. Galvin and J. J. McNulty, of Boston, have had good 
success at the Birches. They have also visited Seven 
Ponds, where, in a half-hour's fishing, Mr. McNulty 
landed twenty trout. Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Thayer, of 
Boston, have made a remarkably good catch of fish, in- 
cluding fine trout of 2lbs. each; four, 3lbs. ; four, 3^1bs. ; 
one, 4lbs. ; one, 4^1bs. ; one, s^/^lbs., and one salmon, 3lbs. 
Mr. T. B. Stuart, of New York, an old-time angler at 
the Upper Dam, is there for his annual outing. Mr. C. PI. 
Haynes, of Boston, has taken over seventy fish at the 
Upper Dam this season. One day's catch was five sal- 
mon, weighing 25lbs. Mr. Eugene Lynch and M. H. 
Cui-ly, of Boston, are at the Upper Dam, and having 
their usual good success. A hearing is to be held at the 
Upper Dam on Saturday, before the Fish and Game Com- 
missioners, on a proposition to stop all night fishing. 
Reports from Kineo, Moosehead Lake, say that fishing 
is better there than ever. The L. E. Pierce parly, of 
Boston, or, as it is familiarly called, "The Moosehead 
Total Abstinence Club," is again out of the woods. Gen- 
erally good fishing is reported, though some members did 
not have great success. The party this year was com- 
posed of Commodore L. E, Pierce, Boston; IT. C. Dil- 
worth. East Orange, N. J. ; W. F. Perkins, Wakefield, 
Mass. : E. Smith, Warren, Mass. ; C. W. Cheeney. S. R. 
Ellis, J. H. Davis, W. T. Bullard.. G. A. Yates, Boston; 
B. J. Nelson, Worcester; Frank Fitzpatrick, Cambridge; 
F. M. Dean, St. Albans, Vt., and J. E. Dilmas, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 
Good sport is reported from Rangeley Lake. The other 
day the guests at the Rangeley Lake House were watching 
from the piazza five boats with fishermen, all Avithin 
speaking distance. Within half an hour six salmon had 
been taken, all in the boats at the same time. 
Mr. Wni. B. Smart, of Boston, is off for his annual fly- 
fishing trip -to Redington, Me. Special. 
Kipling Kills Pacific Salmon with the Fly. 
Last season while fishing for salmon in the Resti- 
gouche, the conversation turned one evening to the Pa- 
cific salmon, and a gentleman present made the statement 
that he would wager $10,000 that he could go to a Pacific 
Coast stream and kill Pacific salmon in the same manner 
that he had that day killed Atlantic salmon with the fly 
in the Restigouche, and I thought when- he made the 
statement that he could do exactly as he said. The 
wager was not for the purpose of making money, as he 
explained, but he wished to be assured if he succeeded of 
suflicient return to pay the expenses of the trip, for he 
would go simply to decide the matter, for it was generally 
understood that Pacific salmon would not take the fly. 
One of the first stories I ever heard in relation to Alaska 
after the purchase was made by this country, was of the 
old Scotch Admiral who said, "Let the Yankees have the 
blank country; the saumon will not rise to the flee." 
■prom that time until this I have not heard of Pacific 
salmon being taken with the fly (except that possibly 
Admiral Beardslee did write me that he killed a fish or so 
when he was in Alaska with the Jamestown, but of tliis 
I am not sure now), although I know of a number of 
efforts in this direction — one by a well-known Eastern 
salmon fisherman — until a few days ago someone left on 
my desk a copy of Kipling's "American Notes," and 1 
opened the book to find that Kipling has been successful 
in killing Pacific salmon with the fly. Twice I read the 
chapter to make sure that my eyes had not deceived me, 
but he states clearly and positively that his salmon were 
killed on the fly. There is no mistaking that Kipling is a 
fisherman. The chapter to which I refer begins; "I 
have lived! The American Continent may now sink 
under the sea, for I have taken the best that it yields, and 
the best was neitlier dollars nor real estate." The "best 
that it yields" was a Chinook salmon, or several of 
them, and how the salmon were killed is told as perhaps 
only Kipling can tell it. First his companion "California 
let the gaudy fly drop in the tail of a rifile, I was get- 
ting my rod together, when I heard the joyous shriek of 
the reel and the yells of California, and then 3ft. of living 
silver leaped into the air far across the water." 
There is no mistake about the fly in this case, nor in 
the next. Kipling's own: "I went into that ice-cold 
river and made my cast just above the weir. * * * 
The next cast — oh, the pride of it. the regal splendor of 
itl The thrill that ran down from fingertip to toe! 
Then the water boiled. He broke for the fiy and got it. 
There remained enough sense in me to give him all he 
wanted when he jumped not once, but twentj' times, be- 
fore the up-stream flight that ran my line out to the last 
half-dozen turns, and I saw the nickled reel-bar glitter 
under the thinning green coils. My thumb was burned 
deep when I strove to stopper the line. I did not feel it 
till later, for my soul was out in the dancing weir, praying 
for him to turn ere he took my tackle away. And my 
prayer was heard. As I bowed back, the butt of the rod 
on my left hip bone and the top joint dipping like unto a 
weeping willow, he turned and accepted each inch of slack 
that I could by any means get in as a favor from on 
high. There lie several sorts of successes in this world 
that taste well in the moment of enjoyment, but I ques- 
tion whether the stealthy theft of line from an able- 
bodied salmon who knows exactly what you are doing 
and Avhy you are doing it, is not sweeter than any other 
victory within human scope." 
There is much more of this told in inimitable style be- 
fore the salmon is finally landed by being thrown on the 
banks bj' the hands of the fisherman, for Kipling would 
not have the fish gaffed, but finally the fish is killed and 
Kipling sings praises to him : "The beauty, the darling, 
the daisy, my salmon Bahadur weighing I2lbs., and I 
have been seven and thirty minutes bringing him to bank I 
-He had been lightly hooked on the angle of the right 
jaw, and the hook had not wearied him. That hour I sat 
among princes and crowned heads greater than them 
all." 
It is all well worth reading, and even re-reading; but a 
little further along there is a very suspicious admis.sion 
for a man who has been killing salmon with the fly, and 
here it is : "Then Portland took my rod and caught some 
lo-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an un- 
known leviathan." 
This may be a pirated edition of Kipling's book; the 
spoon may not be in an authorized edition, but in the 
volume before me the spoon is as much in evidence as the 
fly, except that the spoon is mentioned but once and the 
fly twice. Now, what I would really like to know is this : 
Were the salmon killed on a fly or on a spoon? If I 
can find out I will, in return for the information, give 
Mr. Kipling what I believe to be sound advice — to kaep 
his hand off his line and not try to stopper it when his 
fish is running, if he wishes to contemplate his serene 
higlmess dead on the bank as a daisy and a darling. 
Aquaria for Schools. 
During the past winter I one day received a letter 
asking about fish and plants for an aquarium, and how 
to care for the fish and plants. Up to this time I have 
received over fifty letters upon this subject, all asking 
for about the same kind of information, and what the 
future will bring me no man can tell. It was some 
weeks before I found out how the school teachers of the 
country happened to be writing to me for aquarium fish 
and plants, but. the following letter is a fair sample of 
all, and contains the why of it: "I saw in the Teachers' 
Leaflet from Cornell University that those who wished to 
obtain fish to study should write to you, and that you 
would tell what species are suited to life in still water, and 
how to get what you do not furnish, and how to take 
care of them. I would like to make an aquarium for 
school use, and I would like information as to how to 
stock it, what plants to use and what fish to keep." 
Thus far I have faithfully replied to all questions, but 
to-day the stenographer asked if I expected to keep up 
the burden through the summer, and therefore I hope 
that the school teachers who have not written and have 
a desire to write are readers of Forest and Stream, for 
I would like to say to them that the State of New York 
does not rear aquarium fish of the kind they would ask 
