July 29, 1899.] 
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betcliouan. In the second pSol oiie fisli that I hooked 
jumped clear of the water twelve times, and no chub 
in the waters of the earth will do that. Strange as it may 
appear, my first ouananiche was caught on a bumble bee 
Oiy, and I never caught another on that fly. I had been 
:asting unsuccessfully with standard ouananiche flies at 
;he foot of the Grande Decharge, when Johnny Morel took 
from my book the bumble bee and asked me to try it, and I 
hen hooked and landed my first otmnaniche from that 
lyer. The ouananiche is a good, honest, graceful, game 
ish, and not the holy terror that he has been pictured in 
nk, and he does not smash tackle or escape more fre- 
uently than other game fish if properly handled. 
A. N. Cheney. 
New England Fishing. 
^Boston, July 22, — The people of Chandler's Mills, near 
jreat Pond, Me., are much disappointed. Dispatches to 
he daily papers say that Grover Cleveland and Joseph 
efferson have not been able to visit that noted bass fishing 
ocality, as intended, by reason of illness in the family of 
Vlr. Jefferson. The two have become almost inseparable 
mglers. They hope to visit the Belgrade and Great Pond 
lass waters later in the season. 
Mr. D. W. Farquhar, of Newton, will put his fishing 
rips this year all in at his pretty camps on the shore of 
iangeley Lake, where he is at present located with his 
■amily. Mr. J. D. Kinsley, of Newton, is at present at 
\ndover, Me., and taking in the local brook fishing, as 
veil as the bass fishing at Roxbury Pond. His wife and 
jliildren are with him. Later, he will occupy Camp 
Stewart, Richardson Lake. His son is to be accompanied 
jy a sclioolmate. The boys are counting greatly on the 
ishing and doubtless will stay till into September and 
ry for a deer, since it may now be done legally by 
.ampers, by buying a license. By the way. Commissioner 
Stanley says that a great many licenses to t.ike deer in 
September have already been applied for. 
The Snowman case, for guiding without a license, has 
leen taken before the full bench, at Portland, and has 
'cen argued on the question of the constitutionality of the 
;U)de license law. Judge Foster, not now a member of 
he bench, argued for Snowman. He claimed that there 
t^ould be "jttst as much reason in making a resident of 
laine take out a license for showing another a blueberry 
atch" as for showing hunters where to find game or fish. 
Ir. Carlcton presented the case for the law, arguing 
liefly upon the great benefit that law had already been to 
te fish and game interests of the State. The bench has 
le matter under consideration. 
Mr. H. W. Clarke, of Boston, may well be styled a 
eteran trout and salmon fisherman. He has recently 
eturned from his twenty-sixth consecutive annual trip to 
be Rangeleys and his twenty-third to the Mountain View 
■louse. One season he tried some of the Aroostook 
/aters, but came back to the Rangeleys again, though 
eing much pleased with the new fishing grounds. Old 
ttachments are strong. Mayor Quincy, of Boston, is in 
!ie Adirondack forests for a vacation. He is a fisherman 
00. Mr. A. G. Frost, of Boston, has been spending some 
me at the Rangeleys on a fishing trip. He had indifferent 
uccess til! he made several camping trips to other 
/aters. 
The rod and line smelt fishermen are having some suc- 
ess in the bays and inlets along the Massachusetts coast. 
Ir. Alden says that his son has taken several dozen at 
ach trip off Cohasset. Rod and line fishermen are also 
iking some mackerel in the bay, though they have been 
mall, and late reports say that they ai'e leaving. Maine 
tore fishermen say that striped bass are being taken at 
le mouth of Cathance River, Mr. Ed. Warren having 
tken three big ones there the other day. His success has 
;t the summer boarders to fishing. Recently Commis- 
oner H. O. Stanley was called to see "the salmon tr3dng 
) go up over the dam" at Augusta. Local fishermen were 
nthusiastic and glad that the salmon were at last re- 
trning to the Kennebec. After a good deal of trying 
ne was taken, when behold it was a big sturgeon. 
In the Forest and Stream of last week your corre- 
jondent F. H. Risteen, of New Brunswick, sees fit to 
:cuse Mr. L. Dana Chapman, secretary and treasurer of 
ic Megantic Club, of giving me false information in 
igard to the Canadian Government* having put the be- 
inning of the open season on moose, caribou, deer and 
irds forward to Sept. i. I need only refer Mr. Risteen to 
age 71 of the revised edition of the game laws of the 
'rovince of Quebec, which reads: "Open season for 
loose and deer (except in counties of Ottawa and Pon- 
ac) Sept. I to Dec. 31; caribou, Sept. i to Jan. i." 
Page 77, same book, reads : "Open season on partridge, 
ept. 15 to Dec. 15; ducks," pages 77-78, "Sept. i to 
arch 31; divers, Sept. i to April 4." As the informa- 
m given me was given particularly in reference to 
'egantic members and in connection with other notes 
garding the same club, the matter does not seem to be 
I much of "an odd specimen of fiction" as Mr. Risteen 
:signates it. 
Mr. L. Dana Chapman is not only well posted as to 
;h and game matters, but he is also a hard man to follow 
1 a woodland tramp. His recent flying trip through the 
egantic preserve would be termed a "record breaker" 
f those in touch with long distances in the woods. He 
ially covered the entire preserve, in the continuous route 
; took, in eighteen hours. The distance was forty and 
le-half miles, all on foot, except four or five miles of 
moeing. One Boston man took alarm when he reached 
ustis, though he had planned the trip with Mr. Chap- 
an. One of the guides told the Boston sportsman that 
be undertook to follow Mr. Chapman he would be "a 
:ad man" before he got half-way round. 
The late fly-fishing has its advantages, even if liable to 
; not quite up to that in the earliest season. The sports- 
an's whole family can join in the outing. Parties to 
e more_ distant mountain resorts of Maine for fly-fishing 
"e now in order. Mr. H. A. Phinney, his wife, Mr. F. S. 
rost, Mr. W. G. Peck and daughter, and Mrs, Helen 
H. Dolliver, all of Arlington, are off to Round Moun- 
.in Lake on a fly-fishing trip. Mr. Frost, though over 
iventy years of age, is a devotee of the camera. He 
* Our correspondent probably intended to write "the Provincial 
overnment of Quebec," and this not to apply his statement to 
le other provinces. 
was always the mentor of the late George T. Freeman, 
and together they have produced some remarkable pic- 
tures of natural as well as historic scenery. Good pic- 
tures of the Maine woods may be expected from tliis 
trip of Mr. Frost. 
Fly-fishing is reported still to be holding out well at 
the Rangeleys. At Billy Soule's Pleasant Island camps 
Mr. H. W. Smalley, of South Framingliani, took forty- 
five trout during his stay of one week. The fourteen he 
saved weighed from i to 2lbs. each. Mr, A. J. Hobbs has 
taken seven doubles, one pair getting away with a strong 
leader between them. At Bemis and Haines' Landing the 
fly-fishing has been better the past week-. 
Late Bangor reports say that the salmon season on the 
Penobscot has been a failure. Very few have been taken 
from the pool by anglers, and the netters "down river" 
have not made half their usual catches. Those most 
familiar with that river and its salmon interests say that 
the greater need is a close time of from two to three days 
a week, to allow part of the salmon to reach their spawn- 
ing beds. During the close time all weirs should be open. 
The New Brunswick rivers have some protection of this 
sort, and the salmon are greatly benefited thereby. From 
July 15 to April i all weir and net fishing is closed on 
the Penobscot, though hand and single line fishing is al- 
lowed till Sept. 15. It is contejided, however, that the 
salmon start up the Penobscot early, and that to almost 
eiitirely stop them from going up during all the spring 
and early summer will soon destroy the whole stock. 
Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Western Angling and Anglers. 
Chicago, III., July 21. — Until to-day this has been a 
week of extreme heat, and the weather has apparently 
set the bass down. We would hardly expect to meet the 
best of sport now until cooler weather comes at the close 
of summer. About as good luck as I have heard of re- 
cently was that of Billy Payson, of Chicago, who has been 
fishing at Hartland, Wis. Mr. Payson caught sixty-seven 
bass in three days. He used a bass fly above a live 
frog, and casting in this way he had seven double strikes, 
of which he landed three pair, lost two pair and landed 
two half-pairs. He found this lure very taking for the 
big-mouths. 
Mr. Joel Kinney, of this city, has sent down a nice 
box of bass from Trout Lake, Wis., and among them were 
some lake trout. The box is sent without explanation, 
and no one knows how he got the lake trout, which are 
very rarely taken there except in the early spring. 
Mr. John Watson hns been fishing again at Maksawba 
club house. He found the water too high for bass, but 
caught four catfish which weighed 2Slbs. 
Messrs. Harry E. Goebel and C. B. Cleveland, of 
Chicago, have gone on a fishing trip to the waters in the 
neighborhood of Manitowish, Wis. 
Mr. N. W. Andrews, of Chicago, has gone for a' trip of a 
few days at the Cheneaux Islands. 
Messrs. Joe Downey, Dan Quirk, A, H. D'arrow, W. S. 
Burley and H. C. Castreal, all of Chicag:o, have returned 
from an angling trip near Minocqua, Wis. Mr. Downey 
caught a muscallunge weighing 32j41bs., and four smaller 
'lunge. Mr. Quirk took nine 'lunge, the largest iSlbs. 
Mr. Darrow took seven 'lunge, the heaviest 22ll)s. Mr. 
Burley caught several 'lunge, his heaviest being i61bs., and 
Mr. Castreal caught three 'lunge, the heaviest being i4lbs. 
Other fish, pike, bass, etc., were taken by this party. 
Mr. Warner Arms, of Chicago, left this week for an ex- 
tended trip to the Georgiati Bay, Ontario. 
Mr. Arthur Orr, of Evanston, is now at Watersmeet, 
Mich., on a fishing trip. 
Messrs. O. von Lengerke and W. H. English leave to- 
morrow night for a short trip after bass, but have not yet 
chosen their locality. 
Mr. Paul Van Dyke, of Princeton, N. J., is in Chicago 
this week planning for a Northern fishing trip. 
Along the Mississippi. 
The Clinton Herald, of Clinton, Iowa, says that the fish 
are biting splendidly all along the Mississippi River near 
that point, and also in the bayous and sloughs along the 
Illinois shore above Lyons. Bass, catfish, pike and white 
perch are mentioned in the list, and it is also said that carp 
are biting well. One loses confidence, however, in the 
accuracy of the informant in this case, upon reading the 
sage advice on how to catch carp. "Nothing will tempt a 
hungry buffalo or German carp like a dough ball, and 
many are now being caught with this kind of bait, al- 
though they will not turn up their nose at a good fat nrin- 
now." It is possible the reporter means to say a good 
fat worm. 
Concerning Carp. 
Mr. A. Lent, treasurer of the Austin Powder Company, 
at Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been havigg some sport 
on the St. Clair flats, and he writes me as below regard- 
ing a matter which is of certain importance to the anglers 
of that region: "In a recent issue of your paper there 
appeared an article on carp. Will you kindly tnail copy 
to Henry L. Avery, Pearl Beach? He is situated on the 
North Channel, some three miles distant from Pearl 
Beach, and in a locality where the best of fishing and 
duck shooting may be found. Mr. Avery is a thorough- 
bred sportsman, taking great interest in all that pertains 
to gun or rod. The carp appear to be gaining a strong 
foothold in the waters of the St. Clair Flats. He is 
greatly interested in the question of how to dispose of 
them and thereby preserve l3oth game fish and birds." 
I am sure I don't know what can be done to help Mr. 
Avery out of this dilemma. So far as I know there has 
been no way discovered by which the German earn can be 
exterminated after it has once gained a foothold in any 
given water. This fish has ruiiied the Kankakee River and 
many of the Indiana lakes which were formerly fine bass 
waters. Lately I told of the experience of a gentleman 
who this spritig shot many scores of these carp on the 
marsh where he was duck shooting, near Toledo, O. He 
called attention to the fact that these fish were ruining the 
duck marsh, and indeed this is to be feared for the St. 
Clair Flats, as well as that the bass fishing may be in- 
jured. For this interloper, brought to this country by one 
of the most absurd mistakes that ever damaged American 
sport and sporting interests, there can be nothing but 
execration. Inasmuch as he is a traitor and full of 
treason to our ancient traditions, I know of no better 
handling than to apply to him the doctrine of that Union 
general who said, "If any man attempts to pull dovra the 
American flag, shoot him on the spot." When you see a 
carp, kill him, not necessarily to eat him, but as a guaran- 
tee of good faith. If any reader of Forest and Stream 
knows how to get the carp out of the St. Clair Flats he 
will be criminal if he holds his peace. 
Fishing Up and Down the Potomac. 
Bucktnn Dam. 
Between Strasburg and Riverton on the North Branch 
of the Shenandoah is the little station of Buckton. Just 
below this arc the ruins of a rude dam of loose stone 
some 6ft. high and so old that the pool above has filled 
with the years' floods, until it is a long stretch of wading 
water, but too shallow to hide the bass comfortably, and 
so they arc not plenty. A half-mile or more below is a 
pool called the Irishman's Hole, in which local legend 
has it an unfortunate from "that emerald set in the ring 
of the .sea" lost his life before the war, which is the date 
from which all modern history is reckoned. Tliis pool is 
about 2oft. deep, and is the winter home and summer 
resort of all the big bass for that five-mile stretch of 
water. They sometimes wander far afield for forage, but 
their permanent home is here, and here they mostly stay 
until some one drops them a line from above with an 
irresistible postscript. 
Judge White, of Warrenton, who has shown his love 
for this part of the river in these columns, and who re- 
members it when with a single companion he could get 
Tuore than a half-gross of good bass here in a day's fish- 
ing, was here on the last day we celebrated, initiating his 
little son into the mysteries of the gentle craft, 
The boy was Iticky in the enjoyment of privileges tliat 
do not come to many youngsters. Good water, good 
weather, good fish consideration and a loving coach. His 
line moved away with the certainty of big game, and he 
was keen to fasten at otice, but the Judge quietly forbid 
him. "Wait; give him line; don't hurry. When he starts 
again strike him," and the boy did with all his little 
might, and it was enough. The bass, a 4-pounder, started 
for headwaters at a rate that robbed his captor of any 
sense of victory; the reel whizzed, the handle was striking 
his knuckles at every revolution and the blood stream- 
ing down his fingers completed his demoralization, and 
he danced up and down in the boat shouting for his 
father to take the rod. "I can't." But when the fish was 
finally landed he had so far recovered as to boast that he 
had struck him anyway, and "Don't tell mamma I didn't 
catch him" ; and the next one, half as large, he managed 
by his lonesome. His ambition now is to kill a big one 
without help, and the chances are good he will not have 
long to wait. 
As we were skirting Doerflinger's Pool, the next one 
below, trying to entice a bass out of the shady nooks on 
the marrgin, we saw itnder the spreading branches of a 
great sycamore an overgrown frog, a boomer, sitting on the 
sloping nuid bank, apparently lost in reveries of childhood's 
happy hours on the banks of the Nile. The branches were 
low and reached far out on the water, but an underhanded 
sweep luckily landed the No. 4 Hawthorne within 6in. of 
hitn with the snell on his neck. He gave a surprised 
wriggle, sat up and showed his breastpin, with a sly 
glance at the tempting looking cricket alongside. A slight 
twitch turned the fly over, and at the first sign of anima- 
tion the frog, with a croak, pounced on the luckless in- 
truder. When we boiled our coffee for the noon-day 
lunch, froggie was broiled on the coals and was so tooth- 
some under these conditions that we shall have an eye 
open for the balance of the family after this. 
Just above this pool is Catlett's Ford, and while we 
rested here and hired a small native to bring us a bucket 
of fresh milk from a nearby spring house, there came 
down to the water a patriarch bestriding a likely looking 
cob, and stopped a moment to chat. My chum's boat- 
man, who looked about seventy, hailed him and re- 
called himself to the elder by saying, "I'm your cherry 
boy." He explained to us that nearly half a century ago 
he had been employed by the other and directed to take 
a couple of baskets to a neighbor's and pick them full 
of cherries. A dance was to come off somewhere in the 
neighborhood and he could not resist the temptation, so he 
hid the baskets, hurried home to fix up, and went down 
to the dance. The old man came with the wagon, bor- 
rowed some baskets and picked the cherries himself. 
They both laughed over the incident, which seemed to 
us like a whiff of the little hatchet epoch, and then the 
rider, who announced that he was eighty-four, rode 
through the ford. We remarked his erect seat - and he 
said, "They call me the colt-breaker yet." It was in- 
teresting to note the careful way in which his horse trod 
among the rolling stones of the rocky bed of the stream as 
if feeling not only his way but his responsibility. 
Not far from this in a shallow the other boat picked 
from the bottom of the river a flattened stone, washed by 
the floods of a thousand storms and worn by its jostling 
neighbors of the centuries into the rude likeness of a 
ploughshare, and there grew up about that stone a fairy 
story of aboriginal art. The savage ancestors of Poca- 
hontas, long before Columbus plowed the deep, had used 
this primitive implement. With a disposition that builds 
its opinions by resistance, adverse argument only con- 
firmed the absurd theory. In vain it was suggested that 
no evidence existed that the nomads of this region ever 
utilized animal power in cultivation; that only proved 
ignorance, did not establish a condition. Or that in the 
roclcy soil the soft stone would not last a furrow; that no 
known appliance coidd fasten or control so rude an imple- 
ment : more ignorance. Or that the stone, which was not 
basaltic but sedimentary, would pull in two with the 
slightest strain; all was useless. Stone hoes and stone 
axes, why not stone plows? and that alleged stone plow 
is now on its way by easy stages to archsiological 
experts, and woe betide them if they find in it no relic of a 
red-skinned hayseed. 
If my friend had his way, this stone should lie set up at 
