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FOREST AND STREAM. 
IJULY J, 1900. 
too high at that time, and the season apparently late, since 
on Jtine 10 there was still to be found some snow in the 
gullies. Then the fish came up, and for the next week 
the two rods had magnificent sport, Mr. Mershon killing 
thirteen fish and Mr. Harvey twelve, not counting kelts, 
and not counting any fish not actually brought to gafif. 
Mr. Harvey had three fish, each of which weighed over 
30 pounds, and Mr. Mershon killed one which weighed 38 
pounds. It was bitter hard to leave such fishing at its 
best, as they found it necessary to do. On Saturday, 
June 23, fishing for two and a half hours, all the time they 
had left before leaving time, they landed three nice fish. 
Mr. Mershon promises fuller particulars regarding this 
some time. The Cascapedia seems to be keeping up its 
record for big fish. 
Ohio River Moscallunge. 
Some time ago I reported the capture in Tygart Creek, 
Ky., of a very large fish, over 20 pounds, which was 
taken by the Dupuy brothers, of Ironton, O. They had 
of this fish was brought here, and was eventually sent to 
the Forest and Stream office East for investigation, and 
•is was determined to be the head of the genuine muscal- 
lunge. This week I met here in Chicago Mr. W. R. 
Dobbins, of Hvmtington, W. Va., who has fished all that 
country along the Ohio, and who says he has had grand 
sport there, fishing for these big '"pike." He had never 
fished for muscallunge in the North, but said that these 
"jumping pike" had been described to him by others as 
muscallunge. He once caught in this same Tygart Creek 
three "pike," whose weights were respectively 16, 12 and 
9 pounds. He says that April and October are the best 
times to catch these big fellows, and he always fished for 
them with a big white sucker for bait. He describes a 
fish which appears to be almost identical in habits with 
our Northern muscallunge. 
The Au Sable. 
Mr, J. Edmund Strong and Mr. E. F. Selz, of this city, 
have just started for a canoeing and fishing trip of a 
week or more. They go to Eau Claire, Wis., and will 
run the Chippewa River, thence to the Mississippi, and 
the Mississippi River as far down as Prairie du Chien. 
They should have a very pleasant trip, and if they care 
to fish ought to have some very good sport. 
These are the two gentlement whom I mentioned earlier 
as having gone to the Au Sable River, of Michigan. 
They found it undesirable to attempt to run that stream, 
on account of its being full of logs, and so went in for a 
iishing trip, going into camp about twelve or fifteen miles 
beicw Grayling. By the kind assistance of that thor- 
ough-going sportsman, Mr. George R. Alexander, of 
Grayling, their arrangements for guides had been made 
beforehand, and they were lucky enough to have Archie 
Babbitt to take them' in. They had what was called a very 
poor fishing, l3ut what they thought was very good fish- 
ing. Some of their takes of trout were 56, 44, 26, etc., 
for a day, and it seemed to them that the fishing was good 
enough for anybody, though Archie Babbitt said it was 
getting so poor that he was going to pull up and make 
camp further down stream. 
Going. 
Mr. Charles Antoine, of Von Lengerke & Antoine, 01 
this city, purposes taking a good long trout trip next 
month. He will probably take the advice of Mr. Marble, 
of Gladstone, Mich., and will make a boating trip on the 
Escanaba River, going in at .Swanzy, running the stream 
around the big bend and coming down some thirty or 
forty miles south of Swanzy. In this way he will have 
nearly a week's work ahead of him, and will get into a 
part of 'he river Vt'hich runs through a very wild country 
at some distance frcTm the railroad, and difficult of ac- 
cess. This should produce some good fish. His in- 
formant says that 16 and 20 pound fish are not rare on the 
Escanaba, which is one of the best wild streams of the 
State. ^ 
Mr. W. L. Wells, head artist of the Chicago Tribune, 
and his friend. Mr. Graham H. Harris, of the Board of 
Education, will start the second week in July for a try 
at the small-mouth bass fishing on the Mississippi River 
above La Crosse. I am to try to have a day with these 
gentlemen, and shall enioy watching them if I go. Mr. 
Wells has never fished for bass with the fly. Mr. Hams 
has had a big experience in that line, and is perhaps just 
a little skeptical regarding my stories about the ex- 
cellence of that fly-fishing for bass out there. I am not in 
the least uneasy as to his ultimate verdict, for I have 
fished bass a few myself, and I never saw such fighters 
on anv water in the country. 
Last week Mr. Harry Miner and Mr. J. A. Gammans 
went in for their regular trip to the lakes above Burling- 
ton, Wis. Mr. Gammans took fifty-three bass and Mr. 
Miner thirty-six. I think these catches were made in 
Tishagon Lake, or Wabassee, mentioned last week as 
t( ing little fished and very excellent bass waters. To-day 
Mr. Miner and his friend Mr. La Parle start for the same 
territory ior their regular weekly trip. These gentlemen 
have been having the best bass fishing in there which has 
been found anywhere near Chicago this season. This is 
the best tip I have for bass fishing, and it seems to be ot;e 
well worth pasting in one's hat. 
Mr. C. S. Lawrence, of this city, goes to-day for a trip 
to Tishagon Lake, and unless the hot weather has put the 
fish down he ought to get his share. _ 
Mr. A. H. Newkirk, of this city, has left for a bass 
fishing trip over in Michigcin. though he does not tell 
what lake he intends to visit. 
Mr. H. L. Field, of this ,city, has left lor Glen Lake, 
Mich., where he will have a try after the bass. 
' Mr. P. J. Burrows, of this city, has gone to Lake Mm- 
netonka, Minn., and will spend some days exploring the 
waters of that big and beautiful inland sea. . 
Mr. F. R. Barnheisel, of this city, has left for a couple 
of weeks at North Manitou Islands. Mr. Barnheisel is 
manager of the H. H. Kohlsaat rapid-fire lunch system 
in this city. , , . . , , ^ p ^ 1 
Mr. Lawrence H. Smith, of this city, has left for Lake 
George, New York. He may catch some sun fish there, 
for T can testify that I have seen sunfish in that lake. 
Mr. William C. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan., and Mr. 
H F Lang, of Kansas City, passed through Chicago this 
week en route to Plum Lake, Wis., where they will have a 
go at the 'mtiscallusge if fortune favors them.. 
Mr. Felix Castle, of St. Louis, outfitted here this week 
for a trip to Trout Lake, Wis. 
Mr. F. Brennerman, Chicago, left this week for Wood- 
ruf¥. Wis., where he goes for a fishing trip on adjacent 
waters. 
^ Mr. Charles Storebraker, of Philadelphia, stopped in 
Chicago this week on his way for a little trip to Delavan 
Lake, Wis. There have been some few* bass caught at 
Delavan this week, and perhaps the visitor may get a lit- 
tle fishing. 
Mr. Howard Atkinson, of Wabash, Ind., outfitted here 
this weelc for a trip to Wisconsin, going in at Rhine- 
lander. 
Mr. C. W. Halderman, of Marion, Ind., goes to the 
same point also. 
Mr. E. D. Belknap, of Chicago, has gone for a few 
days to Eagle Lake. Wis. 
Gov. John R. Tanner, of Illinois, left yesterday for 
Denver, where he will be gone ten days. He is accom- 
panied by John T. Peters, Secretary of the State Board 
of Charities. They are outfitted for a fishing trip and will 
make the most of their stay in the mountains. The daily 
despatches say that they are going after "big game," but 
the daily dispatches are probably wrong. There is a faint 
recollection of an earlier big game experience of Gov. 
Tanner in Colorado, on a game preserve. 
dCi Chicago Fly-Casting Qob. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club holds a practice meet to-day 
at Garfield Park, north lagoon. These practice meets of 
the club are being very well attended this summer, and 
have resulted in several new additions to the club member- 
ship. The platforms on the north lagoon are in use not 
only on Saturdays but on nearly every evening through- 
out the week. It is only about six weeks now before the 
time of the big tournament of the Chicago Fly-Casting 
Club, and the boys are getting on a good edge for the 
competitions of that event, which will be of great interest 
in every way. 
Comer on Frogs. 
A curious and somewhat amusing com-mercial situation 
exists in Chicago to-day. We have all sorts of corners 
here in Chicago — corners on wheat, corners on pork, 
corners on corn — -but this time it is a corner on frogs. 
There is a regular industry in one or two of the sporting 
goods houses here in supplying live bait frogs to the bass 
hshermen who go out each week from the citj^ These 
frogs are bought wholesale from a man in the southern 
part of the city, who has boys out all over the countrj' 
catching them for him. This general merchant sells the 
frogs to the retail stores, who put them out in nice baskets 
at 25 or 30 cents a dozen for the angler. There is one 
good retail house here which sells most of these frogs, but 
perhaps under the circumstances I might as well not 
mention the name. There is also one department store 
which runs a tackle counter, and which supplies frogs. 
A rival of this concern is still another big department 
store, and these two have lately waged a merry war in 
the frog market. Both have at times adv'ertised live bait 
frogs at 3 cents a dozen. Of course, no retail store can 
meet any such price as that, and of course no one can 
sell, buy or catch frogs at 3 cents a dozen. The, store 
W'hich started the cut on frogs got itself disliked by the 
others who handled that commodity. The big frog mer- 
chant and his corps of catchers supplied all of these con- 
cerns with their frogs. Now is where the corner came 
in. Neither the retail store, the first department store nor 
the wholesale frog merchant liked to see the price of frogs 
cut down so low, yet what could the frog merchant do 
when he was offered his price by the competing con- 
cerns? He had to sell the concern, or at least offer to 
sell them. This latter department store, as usual, has to- 
day put out a big advertisement in the daily papers offering 
frogs at 3 cents a dozen, doing this on the strength of 
their contract with the frog merchant to bring in his 
frogs on Saturday, as he usually does.- In some curious 
way, which it is not necessary to understand, the frog 
merchant this morning failed to deliver the goods, and 
the department store \yhich advertised frogs at 3 cents a 
dozen is up in the air, with its flanks resting_ on nothing in 
particular. There is only one wholesale frog merchant 
doing business in bait frogs around here, and methinks it 
would tax the resources of even a big department store to 
send out and catch a thousand frogs at 3 cents a dozen 
between now and night time. There are to-day just S,ooo 
frogs for sale in Chicago, and they are controlled by the 
retail store above mentioned and the first department store 
also above mentioned, which did not see any fun in selling 
frogs at 3 cents. There is a good deal of quiet laughter 
going on among the boys over this situation. The corner, 
however, is not to be used to raise the regular price of bait 
frogs, but only to raise the price above 3 cents. M'hich even 
the" closest purchaser must admit is a trifle low. 
From the East, 
The Dominie, of Newark, N. J., which his real name 
is Beveridge, and the same is a shooter, is in Chicago 
to-day. and is getting acquainted with the shooters, fishers 
and other sportsmen of the city. E. Hough. 
HAjtTFOHD Building, Chicago, lil. 
Rangelcy Lake Fishing:. 
Rangeley, Me.. June 28.— Never before at this time of 
year has Rangeley Lake, Rangeley, Me., seen sUch ex- 
cellent fishing. On Tuesday, June 26, over 75 pounds of 
salmon weighing from zV^ to 9 pounds vere landed. 
Francis Wells, of Windsor, Conn., captured the 9-pounder. 
Thursday morning Horace Porter, of the Laurel-in-the- 
Pines, Lakewood, N. J., one of the most enthusiastic fish- 
ermen in the region, set out at 8 o'clock and returned in 
less than one hour with a handsome landlocked salmon 
just 29 inches long. 15^4 inches girth and weighing exactly 
10 pounds. Mr. Porter tussled just forty minutes with 
his prize, and has sent it to a taxidermist for mounting. 
Don't Have Toi 
In Camp Sixteen Miles from l^omnm^.— Editor For- 
est and Stream: There is one advantage we have here 
away from mails (I'm sending this by a returning guide) 
and" magazines— we don't have to read Barnes Tommy 
and Drivel And that's something. Refugee. 
Canadian Angling Notes. 
The excessively dry weather of the past spring and early 
summer has now given way to equally excessive rains, and 
the result will be a further postponement of the best of 
the fishing season here, and at least one Quebec sports- 
man, Mr. Veasey Boswell, has found this to his cost, his 
river, the Moisie, having been found to be 9 feet higher 
than ever before, and several of the camps were flooded. 
The fishing in consequence was ruined. Mr. Boswell 
had Mr. Biddell, of Philadelphia, for hia guest. 
Messrs. David Blanchard, of Boston, and W. D. Wind- 
sor, of Philadelphia, have left to try their luck on the 
Marguerite. 
However, from sdme of the south shore salmon rivers 
very fair reports have been received. On the Bonaventure 
River, for instance, Messrs. J. E. Liveruois and J, W, 
Larue have had the best fishing in their experience, ma- 
king a splendid catch, far above the average. They sent 
up to their families many fish -.over 30 pounds in weight. 
Mrs. William Foster, of Boston, and her son, Mr. Wm. 
H. Foster, have left for Lake St. John, where two Amer- 
ican gentlemen, Messrs. Fred. C. Loebs and Fred C. 
Young, of the American Brewing Company, Rochester. 
N. Y., had had some very fine luck. They took twenty- 
eight ouananiche in one day, many of them weighing 
4 and 4^ pounds, and the best were recently exhibited in 
the windows of the V. & B. Sporting Goods Company's, 
store. 
Messrs. Coates, Haldreth and Sternes, of Snringfield, 
have returned from a very pleasant visit to the Kiskissink 
Club and the Grande Decharge, where they had extraor- 
dinary ouananiche fishing. 
Mr. J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway, 
has left for his salmon river, the St. John, of the north 
shore, for which he pays a rem^al of $3,500 a year to the 
local Government. He is accompanied by his two sons, 
L. W. Hill, vice-nresident and general manager of the 
Eastern Railway. Minnesota, and Walter J. Hill, and Dr. 
C. E. Smith. They came by rail to Ouebec. and here 
met their yacht, the Wacouta, upon which they leave for 
their river. 
Mr. Adams, of Utica. who made a fine catch of ouana- 
niche the other day in the Grande Decharge. reports that 
one fish of 4^4 pounds that he killed on a very light rod 
gave him forty minutes of splendid sport. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec, June 80. 
The Seven Ag-es of the Salmon. 
From the London Field. 
'Neath sheltering gravel laid, 
The EGG four wintry months securely rests,! 
Then, wriggling thro' th' incumbent mass, 
The FRY (a store of .food, in pouch, provided 
By kindly nature) lurks beneath the stones. 
Till, all consumed and stronger grown, t!i* PARR. 
Striped liked the pard, in pools and shallows sports 
Fox twelve long months, till genial May arrive, 
When, clothed in coat of silvery scales. 
Hiding the finger markings of the parr. ^ 
And moved by instinctive yearning for rfhi;* unfcn,qwii. 
The SMOLT floats downward till he finds, 
.\nd revels in, the stores of bounteous ocean. 
Returning thence a beauteous, lusty GRILSE, 
Breasting the rapids, leaping o'er the weirs. 
He seeks the well-remembered scenes of youth. 
One journey downward more, 
Another sojourn in the Sea, and then, iit last. 
The SALMON, glorious fish, swims slowly up 
To gravelly spawning beds, from whence, 
Leaving ten thousand eggs, a pale and sickly KELT 
Floats sadly downward to tua renovating wave. 
Fiztutes* 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Aug. 2L— Kmmetsburg, ia.— Third armual field trials of the 
Iowa Field Trials Association. M. Bruce, Sec'y, Des Moines, la. 
Aug. 28.— Sioux Falls, S. D.— Inaugural field trials of the South 
Dakota Field Trials Association, Olav Haugtro, Sec'y, Sioux 
Falls, S. D. 
Seot. 3-4.— La Salle, Manitoba, Can.— Western Canada Kennel 
Club's annual field trials. A. Lake, Sec'y, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
Sept. 6-7.— Brandon, Manitoba, Can.— Third annual field trials of 
the Brandon Kennel Club. Dr. H. J. Elliott, Sec'y. 
Sept. 11.^ , Manitoba, Can. — Fourteenth annual field trials ox 
the Manitoba Field Trials Club. Eric Hamber, Sec'y, Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, Can. , „. , 
Oct 30.— Senecaville, O.— Monongahela Valley Game and Fish 
Protective Association's sixth annual field trials. A. C. Feterson, 
Sec'y, Homestead, Pa, . ^. , , . , „, , , , , 
Nov. 7.— Hampton, Conn.— Connecticut Field Trials Club s field 
trials. T. E. Bassett, Sec'y Box 60S, New Haven, Conn. 
Xov. *7-8.— Lake View, Mich.— Third annual field trials of the 
Michigan Field Trials Association. E. Rice, Sec'y, Grand Rapids, 
Nov. 12.— Bicknell, Ind.— Third annual field trials of the In- 
^i=„endent Field Trials Club. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, 
^i*!ov 13— Chatham Ont.— T\velfth annual field trials of the -In- 
ternational Field Trials Club. 'W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trials Club s twenty- 
second annual field trials— Members' Stake. Nov. 19, Derby. 
Simon C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, Conn. . . , 
No 20 .—Illinois Field Trials Association s second 
annual field trials. O. W. Ferguson, Sec'y, Mattoon, 111. _ 
Nov 20 — Ruthven, Ontario, Can. — Second annual field trials of 
the North American Field Trials Club. F. E. Marcon, Jr., Sec'y, 
Windsor. Ontario, Can. , . , t ^ ,j ^ • i 
jjoy 20. , Pa.— Central Beagle Club's annual field trials. A, 
C Peterson. Sec'v, Homestead, Pa. 
Nov 22.— Glasgow, Ky. — Kentucky Field Trials Qub s annual 
field trials. Barret Gibson, Sec'y, Louisville, Ky. 
Nov 27— Paris, Mo.— Fourth annual field trials of the Missouri 
Field Trials Association. L. S. Eddins, Sec'v, Sedalia, Mo. 
Nov 30.--Newton, N. C.-Continental Field Triads Club's sixth 
annual field trials— Members' Stake. Dec. 3, Derby. Theo. 
Sturges, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill. Conn. 
A Dog's Thfce-Hundrcd-Mile Retoi-n. 
Fort Worth. Texas, June 23,— -I am a reader of your 
paper, and read a great deal about dogs. As you will 
see from this slip of our newspaper, I have a bird dog 
that I prize very highly. He is a large pointer, white and 
liver color. He has just made a wonderful trip. Some 
weeks ago I took him to the Territory to enjoy a hunt 
