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soon afterward a rowboat cartie to our help, taking us 
on board and rowing us ashore. Of . course I got no 
more fishing that trip; my neck felt almost broken, and 
all the muscles of the neck and back were terribly 
strained and sore. 
1 have, some right to assert that pass fishing is not 
exactly a safe sport. Of course, it is not likely that a 
porpoise is g'oing to jump on another man very soon 
again, but still there are so many fish jumping down 
there, and as anglers increase, the chances of accidents 
increase so much that I think it is just as well to take 
a few precautions. My advice to all anglers doing pass 
fishing is: Use a good, strong, round-bottom boat about 
13ft. long by 4ft. 4in. wide; be sure and have an experi- 
enced guide, and never fish in the pass when there is 
not at least one other boat out fishing. Personally, I 
have fished many times alone in the pass, both by day 
and by night, but the unusual accident which happened 
this year has impressed on me the fact that it is not 
safe to do so. If an oar breaks, or if the boat is swamped 
or capsized, either in trying to gaff a fish or through any 
carelessness, or if any accident occurs which disables the 
boat, with the tide running out, there is absolutely notli- 
ing which could prevent the boat and its occupants from 
being carried out into the Gulf. 
To return to Charlotte Harbor as a harbor, it is most 
surprising to me that this place should have remained 
so many years without exciting the attention of the 
Florida railroad magnates. One hundred miles north 
the town of Tampa has been built up. The town itself 
is twenty minutes hy railroad from Tampa Bay, the 
port, - which itself is many miles up a crooked channel 
from the entrance to the pass. Now, Boca Grande, the 
entrance to Charlotte Harbor, is an absolutely straight 
line from the Gulf right into the harbor. As matters now 
Stand, without any dredging or any improvements what- 
ever a steamer of 20ft. draft can be taken over the 
bar at low water. Inside there are several, square miles 
of good anchorage for the largest yacht. On the east 
coast of Florida we find a railroad which, running from 
Jacksonville, comes down the whole Atlantic Coast line 
to Miami without passing one really good harbor into 
which any fair-sized yacht could be taken. 
It is remarkable, therefore, that Charlotte Harbor, 
with its splendid straight deep entrance, its large anchor- 
ing ground, and with deep water right up along the 
shore, should be neglected for so many j^ears and still 
be almost an unknown quantity. There is no finer place 
in Florida to put up a large hotel than on Gasparilla 
Island, which forms the northern side of Boca Grande 
Pass, and there is no better terminus to run a railroad to 
than Charlotte Harbor. Whether a hotel is built there 
•or a railroad run there is, however, immaterial to yachts- 
men. As the place now is, it forms the best rendezvous 
ior yachts of all sizes spending the winter in Florida 
wanting to get the best sort of fishing, both large and 
small. 
As regards tarpon fishing, Boca Grande can hold its 
own against any other pass on the Gulf or Atlantic. Mr. 
Wm. Littauer caught fifty -four tarpon in eight days' fish- 
ing, and Mr. W. H. Grenfell, who came over from Eng- 
land especially to do some tarpon fishing, was rewarded 
by catching exactly 100 in about twenty days' fishing. 
It must not be imagined that tarpon are the only fish 
to be caught in this pass. Every other sort of fish that 
frequent Florida waters are to be had here in abundance. 
Ice, water and fresh provisions can be had from Punta 
Gorda, only twenty miles ofif. Yachts having their own 
steam launches can send them up to Punta Gorda for 
supplies. It is not necessary, however, to do this, as up 
to May I a steamer runs daily from Punta Gorda to 
Myers, passing within five miles of Boca Grande. Pro- 
visions and ice can be ordered by letter, and a rowboat 
or launch can meet the steamer, which will stop and de- 
liver any stufif that is sent. I dare say that next year, if 
Boca Grande is patronized as much as or more than_ it wa.-> 
this year, there may be some sort of regular service be- 
tween Boca Grande and Punta Gorda direct. In fact, 
I was told that next year during April and May the 
steamer running from Punta Gorda to Myers would 
make the Pass one of its regulpr stopping places on the 
wav O. A. Mygatt. 
Landlocked Salmon of Sebago Lake. 
A Washington correspondent, B. A. B., sends us 
these extracts from a letter from North Windham, Me., 
under date of June 14, and telling of Sebago Lake fish- 
ing: 
Since I am here I have been on the go, going a-fish- 
ing, I put in long hours, from 3 and 4 A. M. until 
dark, and get the fish, and don't you forget it. Have 
caught salmon from 5 or 6in. in length, up to 4lbs. weight 
in the river, and have waded for hours in water up to my 
waist to get them. But for fun just sit in the stern of 
a boat and have a guide do the rowing, while you do the 
fishing. This is what I did on the 12th and 13th, and 
as a result there was a genuine smash of the record for 
fly-fishing. . Using a No. 2 sproat hook, a thunder-and- 
lightning fly (which proved to be a gee-whizzer), a single 
gut leader and a 40Z. split-bamboo fly-rod, we took two 
salmon in Sebago Lake. A coincidence it was, too, 
for about 7:30 A. M. on June 12 a fish struck and fought 
hard and steadily for forty minutes, when it yielded to 
gentle suasion and came to net; it weighed just I3lbs. 
The coincidence part of it is that in almost the same 
place, at about the same hour of the day, on the same 
rig, another fish was caught June 13, which fought 
nobly for forty-five minutes, and five hours after capture 
weighed just lo^lbs. They now grace the collection, 
calmly reposing in my landlady's wash-boiler. I hope 
they will keep well, but it is nearly a tropical heat here, 
90 degrees in the shade this 3 P. M. We are going to try 
them again to-morrow, starting at 4 A. M. 
I hope that one of the two fish above mentioned will 
be deposited in the museum; one, at least, for you have 
iitiver had a fish like them. They are "rippers"; both 
hook-jawed males. 
It is supposed thai Fishing for salmon is closed now, 
owing to the fish not biting, but all that' one has to do 
to get a salmon is to go where they are and fish in the 
right way, and they will bite even though their stomachs 
are full. The stomach of the loj^lbs. fish contained 
fourteen smelt. The 'most important thing is to liave a 
good giiide, as the fish have to be hunted for, and 
Sabago is not a small pond. Fishing is followed here 
while the smelt are running, but is generally given up 
as soon as the salmon leave their haunts of that season. 
At this time there are certain signs to tell where the 
fish are to be found, and a well-informed guide knows 
these signs, and bj^ reason of their experience can put 
you in reach of the fish, and as fine sport as one could 
wish for. Mr. Herbert Maines, of North Windham, is 
iny guide, and he is all right. - W. C. K. 
New England Fishermen. 
Boston, June 24. — ^Mr. William. G. Harding, foreman 
of the Boston Herald composing room, is a lover of the 
rod and reel, as well as the rifle and shotgmi. He has 
recently returned from a fishing trip to Lake Cobbossee- 
contec, in Maine, where he was accompanied by Mr. 
Theodore Ripley, of the Herald press room, and a couple 
of Boston Globe men. They had very little success with 
trout, but at last got on to some excellent bass fishing 
and had great sport off the rocks. They took about 
all the bass they cared for, and also thought that it would 
be a good idea to take some home to show their friends. 
They had them nicely dressed and packed in ice, and then 
in a case. They hired a countryman to take them over 
to the railwa}' station with his wagon. The case with the 
bass in it was stowed in the back part of the wagon. On 
the way they stopped at a saloon to get some refresh- 
ments. They invited the countryman to stop with them. 
The team was left standing at the door while the men 
went in. Coming out, there was no team to be seen. 
Horse, wagon, bass and all were gone. A few days after 
the team was found in another town. The case had been 
broken open. Maine is a prohibition State, but it was 
very plain that the thieves had thought that the case of 
fish was a case of liquor. The boys were considerably 
"cut up" about the loss of their fish, and are still unable 
to fully convince their friends that they actually caught 
any. 
Indeed, bass fising in Maine is giving good satisfaction 
this year. The Belgrade ponds are certainly becoming 
celebrated with Boston bass fishermen. Mr. E, J. Brown 
and Preston Lewis, both well known in shoe and leather 
circles, have just returned from a most enjoyable outing 
at Belgrade Mills. They caught all the bass they wanted, 
and are much pleased with the locality, this being their 
first fishing trip to that part of the country. They found 
a number of other shoe and leather merchants at the 
same resort, each having good luck to report. From the 
Sebattus ponds there come good reports of bass fishing. 
It seems that the pools below the dams have been un- 
fairly fished, and that the Commissioners have been peti- 
tioned to close these pools altogether. A hearing has 
been had and the pols have , been closed to all fishing. 
Now only fishing in the ponds is allowed, where good 
results are to be had, according to all reports. 
Newspaper reports say that an Attleboro, Mass., sports- 
man made a very queer catch at Northwest Carry last 
week. He was fishing from the apron of the dam at 
Wilson's. He noticed a barrel in several feet of water. 
He could just see the bunghole, and out of curiosity he 
sunk his bait through the hole, when immediately it was 
seized by a fish. The fish was played till exhausted, but 
was too large to come through the bunghole, nearly 3in. 
in diameter. His curiosity prompted him to have the 
barrel raised, and with a saw the hole was enlarged till 
the fish could be got out, when, behold, a handsome 
trout of nearly 3lbs. weight. The theory is that the trout 
went into the barrel to feed when smaller, but growing 
all the time, had gone in once too many times and the 
last time could not get out. .Since that time, doubtless, 
the imprisoned fish had made considerable growth. 
Boston, June 26. — Trout and salmon fishing is getting 
to be rather uncertain in Maine waters, as it always 
does after hot weather. Still, if one reads the papers 
deA'oted to booming hotels and railroads, one would get 
the impression that every angler was getting all the fish 
he desired, when quite the reverse is the truth. Anglfers 
are reported to be having excellent luck, but when they 
return they tell me that they found the fishing positively 
poor. The trouble with these papers is that they men- 
tion only the success, while concerning the failures — the 
many days' fi§hing without a strike — ^they have nothing 
to say. 
Mr. M. H. Cttrley and Mr. Eugene Lynch, o£ Boston, 
are back from their annual trip to the Upper Dam. Mr. 
Curley says that the fishing was very poor, his catch 
being small and unsatisfactory. One of the papers says 
that he had great success. Mr. L. O. Crane also writes 
from the Upper Dam that the fishing is poor. D. E. 
Adams and Charles E. Guild, of Boston, had fair suc- 
cess the other day on Mooselucrnaguntic Lake. They took 
eight trout in a short time in the morning, the largest 
weighing 2%\hs. Trout are rising to the fly well in 
some localities, though there has been a good deal of cold 
weather, with one severe hailstorm. Walter B. Farmer, 
of Arlington Heights, has taken a salmon of b^lbs., and a 
trout of 3lbs. Dr. Heber Bishop and Dr. John L. Stetson, 
of Boston, have returned from a sitccessful fly-fishing, trip 
to the Megantic preserve. They mention good fly-fishing,, 
with often a trout on every fly in the cast. Dr. Al. Watts, 
E. P. Stone and Charles A. Shaw, of Boston, have also 
fished at the Megantic preserve for a couple of days with 
good success. Mr. Stone took a trout of 2i/41bs.. one of 
the largest for the season. Great fishing is mentioned at 
Carry Pond camps, a few miles above Bingham, Me. 
Report has it that in thirtj^-one days of the present 
season exactly 5,285 trout have been taken there. Good 
fishing is also reported from the Seven Ponds region. 
The season of black flies is mainly ovei:, and mosquitoes 
have ceased being verj^ troublesome. 
The Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game Association 
has just held its summer meeting at Rangeley. The 
meeting was honored by the presence of the Governor and 
his wife. K. C. Farrington and P. O. Vickery, proniineni 
fish and game workers, wei'e there, as well as the Fish 
and Game Commissioners. The meeting was very much 
in the nature of a summer outing and a good time, at 
low rates of fare on both transportation lines and at the 
hotels. But after all, such a gathering is fraught with 
influence in Maine, since it brings prominent gentlemen 
more in touch with the fish and game mterests. Speeche.* 
were indulged in, of course, with considerable congratula 
tion concerning the successes of the fish and game in- 
terests in that State. Commissioner Carleton spoke of the 
ounculties of enforcing the fish and game laws, and again 
advocated the subject of forcing all non-residents to 
procure licenses before being allowed to fish or hunt in 
Maine. Mr. E. C. Farrington also advocated the same 
thing, but the hotel and transportation men were evi- 
dently not in favor of any such measure. Many of the 
members of the Association and guests scattered through 
the various fishing resorts to try the angling for a few 
days. 
That the landlocked salmon is a fighter 'for the sake of 
dislodging the hook seems to be certain, and that he fre- 
quently leaps from the water for that purpose seems to 
be well established. Still, there is a good deal of question 
as to whether the hook really causes him much pain or 
inconvenience. A fisherman at the Rangeleys says that 
he hooked a big salmon the other day, but the leader 
parted just below the line before the fish was brought into 
the net. Immediately he commenced jumping out of 
water, evidently trying to shake out the book, actually ap- 
pearing six or eight times in this manner. But it seems 
that hecould not get rid of the hook, for two days afterward 
another angler hooked a salmon more than a mile from the 
same point, and after considerable leaping it was landed. 
Behold, there was a second hook and leader attached: 
identically the same hook and leader the other angler lost a 
day or two before. That the landlocked salmon alway.s 
leaps out of water is not established, however. I have 
seen two salmon landed this season at Sebago, and one at 
Richardson Lake, neither of which came out of water 
at all till brought up in the net by the guide. One of 
the salmon at Sebago weighed rolbs. and the other over 
gibs., and both were stubborn fighters, requiring nearlv 
half an hour to land them. SpECiAi.. 
Detour as a Fishing Point. 
Detour, Mich., June 18.— Editor Forest and Streain: 
Noting the query of Mr. J. E. Smith, of Caldwell, O., 
m Forest and Stream of 17th inst., I take pleasure in 
giving some information that may be of interest and 
value to others, as well as the querist. While hunting 
relief from hay fever last season I found it here, after 
failing at Petoskey, Mackinac Island, St. Ignace and both 
the Soos — American and Canadian. Of course I had my 
fishing outfit with me, trying it at all lake points where 
I stopped over. I found fishing but indifferent at points 
named, making but poor catches, except at the Snows, 
and if there are either bass or trout in those much- 
vaunted waters I failed to ' find them or to see any 
one who did. But I struck it fine here on my very first 
trial; also got immediate and absolute relief from hay 
fever, asthma. 
In this immediate vicinity bass of several varieties 
abound, and I have yet to go for them in vain, except 
when a heavy wind comes up, as it frequently does, be- 
fore we get to our mark. There are ten or twelve trout 
streams within a radius of ten miles, all of them literally 
alive with those gems of the waters. I caught none 
last fall, as I had no facilities fqr either getting about 
or trout tackle. This year I am back earlv, to remain 
till October, to fish, cruise and rebuild broken health; 
have a handsome new launch, 25ft. in length, 6sin. 
beam, 4 h.-p. motor, all working to perfection, and a 
strong, light clinker-built 14ft. tender. These, together 
with a complete outfit, give me fair equipment, and I 
anticipate a most enjoyable summer. I will be very 
glad to meet and greet Mr. Smith or any other good 
fellow-fisherman, and join in making it pleasant for 
each other. Bass, muscalonge, perch, "big" sunfish, 
I have already caught in my few days here, and the 
trout campaign opens with me in a few days. The 
season here is from May to September. 
Detour is an incorporated village of 1,000 inhabitants. 
Its only industries being fishing and lumber shipping. 
The people are most hospitable. It having never been 
a tourist resort they are not developed into the regula- 
tion piracy obtaining at the established resorts. There 
are two country hotels here, with excellent service, the 
rates being only $5 a week. Mr. Hitchcock, president 
of a lumber company and of village council also, be- 
lieves this a great coming hay-fever and tourist resort, 
and by July 15 will have a number of neat cottages to 
rent very cheap, and where meals will be served if de- 
sired. The location is at the very head of Lake Htn'on, 
mouth of St. Mary's River, the latter twentv-four miles 
wide here, and studded with' innumerable islands, large 
and small. It is just half-way between Mackinac Island 
and the Soo, and twenty-six miles above the Snows. 
We have daily mail and telegraphic communication, and 
three passenger boats stop here each day. Still, twenty- 
minutes' run of my launch, or thirty minutes' walk in- 
land, either, will take one into wilds as pristine as they 
were a thousand years ago. There are plenty of "In- 
juns" in^the vicinity, but if their forbears were "noble 
red men" the existing remnants are sadly degenerate. 
As. except when fishing or cruising, I have no occu- 
pation or cares, only to get health, it will afford me 
pleasure to reply to any letters of seekers of fish or 
relief from that_ curse of my past twenty-six summers, 
hay fever._ It will not reach me, nor any one else, here, 
for there is practically no vegetation, the very soil being 
limestone, and hay fever cannot thrive on stone, spruce, 
cedar, with three sides ice-cold water. 
Thomp Burton, 
P, S. — Georgian Bay is but a brief run for my launch 
from here, and I expect to make frequent trips there, 
investigating the fishing waters between the points. 
Good company alwa3's acceptable. B. 
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