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nothing since the first two or three fish were taken early 
in the season. 
July 2. — i he latest terror to the Moosehead sportsman 
and camp and hotel owners is that the lumber people seem 
determined to raise that lake, in order that a greater 
storage of water may be saved for the mills below. The 
mill men contend that the annual period of low water may 
he avoided by raising the dam at tlic outlet. The Kenne- 
bec Water Power Company contends that it has the right 
to a flowage that will furnish a supply of water through 
the season, but the camp o-wners and lovers of scenery, 
aware of what flowage has done for the Rangeleys. will 
fight against the raising of the dam, even to carrying tlie 
matter to the next Legislature, where there promises to 
be a bitter fight. It is said that if the proposed flowage 
is allowed, some of the camps and hotels will be in the 
water, unless moved back. Even a few feet more of 
water will do great damage. 
Considerj^ble trouble is being experienced in several sec- 
tions in Maine from dogs, running deer. Shepherd or sheep 
dogs seem to be giving the most trouble, and that too near 
the settlements, rather than in the forests. There are a 
great many deer near the farms, and even near to the 
villages, and the shepherd dogs seem to have taken to 
worrying them. In the vicinity of Dixfield two or three 
dogs have had to be put out of the way. In the neighbor- 
hood of Rome and Smithfield, and even down to Belgrade. 
Game Warden Clark is reported to be having much trouble 
in keeping the dogs out 'of the woods. They seem to be 
determined to worry the deer, if not to kill them. A num- 
ber of dogs have been destroyed by the warden, and 
parties are to be brought into court for allowing their 
'dogs to run at large, after being requested to keep them 
in by the warden. In one instance a deerhound is re- 
ported to have been brought into the vicinity of Smith- 
field and Belgrade by a young .sportsman from New 
York. He has been warned not to allow his dog to run 
at large in the woods, but has declined to comply with 
the request of the warden. The warden will shoot the 
dog if caught under suspicion of running deer, and tlic 
young man threatens the man who dares to shoot his dog. 
The outcome is being watched by citizens and other sport.'^- 
men. Another guide has got into trouble and been ar- 
rested by Game Warden G. M. Estey. of Rangeley. He 
is a resident of Lang Plantation, and has persisted in 
guiding without a license, although warned not to do so. 
The open season on white perch in Maine began July i 
To the trout fisherman this is not an important item, but 
to the farmer's boy and the summer boarder it means a 
good deal. It is barely possible that about as many per- 
sons engage in white percli fishing on the lakes and ponds 
in Maine as belong to the 'guild of regular trout fisher- 
men. Women and children delight in the sport, especially 
at the summer resorts. A Middle Dam report says that a 
trout of 7 pounds has been taken there on the fly. A. F. 
Willard, of North Stratford, Vt.. was the captor. Fly- 
fishing at Moosehead is reported much better, and will be 
likely to last for several weeks. Over two tons of trout 
and togue have been recorded at the various Moosehead 
resorts for the season, Kineo holding by far the highest 
record. Black flies and midges have been making 'the 
life of the sportsman miserable for the past two weeks, at 
most of the Maine a.nd New Hampshire fishing resorts, 
but it is sure that the worst is over, and the woods will 
be free from black flies in a few days, while mosquitoes 
trouble but little in the woods of northern Maine after 
the middle of July. Mr. H. W. Clark, of Boston, has 
returned from his twenty-sixth season at the Mountain 
View House. Rangeley Lake. His record was fort^^-six 
salmon, all over 3 poimds, with many trout. His largest 
weighed 7}i pounds. Streams in the White Mountain 
region are now being fished by the guests of the hotels. 
The Amonoosuc River is one of the best of the trout 
streams rising from Mount Washington. Mr. Frank 
Wilder, a guest at the Fabj'an House, is reported to have 
just taken a trout from that river weighing 5 pounds with- 
in a few rods of the hotel. Speci.vl. 
Little Robbie Shaw and the Tarpon 
Out on the north jetty, at Capt. Bettison's, at 4 P. M., 
Friday, reports the Galveston (Tex.) News of June 25, 
there was a fierce fight between a very small boy and a 
very big fish. Here is what one of the spectators writes: 
The little man, with a light lancewood rod and 200 yards 
oi line, stood out on the platform, making unsuccessful 
casts for mackerel, but got catfish for his pains; but the 
game changed. A huge tarpon took his bait, and his 
reel sung out as the line smged its Avay through the 
guides. Surely the little man in Knickerbockers had a 
big fish and an army contract on hand. There was the 
usual rush of volunteers to take the lad's rod from him, 
and the same avalanche of advice as to how to play 
him, what to do and what not to do. But up spoke an 
old sportsman:- "Let the kid alone. It's his fish and his 
fight! Let him win or lose, but let him alone, and make 
your bets as you please, but this is to be a fair fight be- 
tween the boy and the fish." And it was. 
The fish was well hooked. That was much. Down 
from the platform came the boy, and over the slippery 
rocks, his rod bending double at every plunge of the fish. 
Capt. Bettison got into an open boat, and the boy fol- 
lowed him, taking a seat in the stern— and the battle was 
on. 
A camera would have shown you a little tighth-grade 
scholar, with clear cut features — the face of a thorough- 
bred, with a fighting chin. He was as silent as the fish, 
but all the sunshine had left the lad's features. His lips 
were set, his teeth hard against his lips. There was noth- 
ing in the face but determination, and it gave forth onlv 
one expression: "It is my head or thine." And so Rob 
wise far beyond liis years in the wiles of fish and the way 
to take them, was battling with a tarpon. 
Five or six times the huge fish leaped his length into 
the air, and all the line the reel had .gathered went out in 
another bolt. Here the boy's reel got in trouble; the 
crank bent back so that the handle showed only about a 
quarter of an inch between it and the end; it was prac- 
tically jammed. He could only gain line by turning the 
reel with tliumb and finger, the handle being out of the 
fight. Still, with bleeding fingers and the same set look 
and the same little thoroughbred face, saying "It is mv 
head or tlnine," the fight went on. " 
For every piove of th? fish the bov had an answer, aihd 
it came swift. The fish towed the light skiflf as if it were 
a cork, making some swift dashes far under the boat. 
This was nicely thwarted by the boy with the rod and 
Bettison's skillful oars. The fight had lasted nearly an 
hour. The boy and fish were still at it. Finally the silver 
king, gathering himself tor a final effort, made a dash 
for the freedom of the open sea. He failed, and finally, 
after a few dying and despairing struggles, the huge and 
vanquished thing turned its large and silvery scales up 
to the setting sun, which flooded them over with a golden 
sheen as they towed him to the club house and landed 
him. Time one hour and three minutes. The fish rpieas- 
ured 5 feet 6 inches. 
The anglers at Capt. Bettison's gave the game boy an 
ovation as he came up the steps. The sunshine had got 
back in his face. It was pale, but triumphant. He made 
no plaint of being tired nor of his arms being out of their 
sockets. 
Said a man from Illinois, who brought fancy tackle 
a long way to catch a tarpon: "Kid, let me swap names 
with you for twenty-four hours." Said another: "I 
would have .given $500 to have landed that fish." 
So Rob gets a tree ride on Capt Bettison's boat. He 
gets a new reel from his father, who witnessed the fight. 
He gets a new title from "Slim," who says "Rob is a sure 
dead game sport," whatever that means. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
American Fisheries Society. 
Dei PROiT, Mich., July 1. — Editor Forest and SfreaM: The 
American Fisheries Society will hold its annual meeting 
at the U. S. Fish Commission Station, Woods Holl, 
Mass.. July 18, 19 and 20, The society will he called to 
order at 10 o'clock A. M., July 18. 
The opportunities for advancing the objects of the 
society were never better than at the present time, and the 
place of meeting presents unusual facilities for observing 
ihe practical work of marine fishculture and scientific 
inquiry. 
tj. S. Fish Commissioner Bowers wrtes: "It will 
afford mc pleasure to extend such courtesies as are pos- 
sible to the . members of the society by -placing at their 
;i''sposal for one or two days the steamer Fish Hawk and 
the schooner Grampus, besides the launches and sail- 
boats attached to the station." 
The Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fisheries 
cordially invites the society to visit the oyster beds in 
Narragansett Bay, and to be the guests of the Commis- 
sion at a Rhode Island clam bake. 
If opportunity is oft'ered without conflicting with the 
reading and discussion of papers, a visit to one of the 
commercial trout hatcheries not far distant from Woods 
Holl will be arranged. 
Many papers have already been promised: to give an 
idea of what may be expected a partial list of the names of 
those who will present papers is given below: 
John G. Rnge, Florida— Sponge.s. 
.r. A. HeiLshall, Montana— .Subject to be named later. 
•i:.. A. Birge, Wi.sconsin— .Subject to be named later. 
A- -Ohio— '^''le Benefit of Fish Exhibits at Expositiou.s. 
A. C. Babbitt, Michigan— The Michigan Grayling. . 
r.- I?oy:n'"&- Oregon— Propagation of the Pacific Salmon. 
tlark, Michigan— Subject to be named later. 
.1. J. Stranhan. Georgia— Subject to be named later. 
,f. C. Parker, Michigan— Subject to be named later. 
• S^'^u. J-i'^.'^^"^*' M'chigan— The Value of Brook Trout Planting 
m Public Waters. • ' ■ 
.T- H- Steere, Michigan— Subject to be named later. 
. f •t,^^''^'^"' I'lmo's— The Value of the Carp as a Food Prod- 
uct of Illinois waters. 
T-acob Reighard, Michigan— The Breeding Habits of Fishes. 
JMvmgston Stone, New York— The Spawning Habits of the 
hturgeon. 
H. C. Bumpus Rhode Island— Progress in Lobster Culture. 
Massachusetts— The Breeding Habits and Gfowtla 
01 tne Clam. 
W. T. Thompson, New TJampshire— Brook Trout Fry: A Re- 
sume of Methods. 
Bushrod W. James, Pennsylvania— The Value of the Closed Sea- 
son for Fishes and Game. 
Woods Holl enjoys special advantages, being the 
terminal of the W^oods Holl branch of the N. Y., N. H. 
& H. R. R., from Boston, and the stopping place of the 
numerous steamboats plying between New Bedford, West 
Chop. Cottage City and Nantucket, and connecting with 
the boats of the Maine S. S. Co., plying between New 
'i^ork and Cottage City. Round trip tickets from Bos- 
ton to Woods Holl and return to Boston can be pur- 
chased. 
Persons interested in the work of the society are invited 
to become members. • 
John W. Tetcomb, Pres., 
^ ■ St. Johnsbur}^ Vt. 
Seymour Bower, Sec'3-, 
Detroit, Mich. 
How Shall He Protect His Screens? 
New York.— Editor Forest and Stream: Can any of 
your readers tell the most practical method of protecting 
screens on a trout pond dam from freshets, driftwood, 
and especially from ice coming down on freshets? My 
trout pond is a dammed up brook flowing through five 
miles of such a hilly country that February is liable to 
bring big freshets. I have made arrangements ta extend 
the screens so as to take off all the water I think that will 
come. But skeptical natives say the ice, driftwood and 
leaves will clog things up and carry away my whole lay- 
out. I have been told that in Canadian rivers they pro- 
tect wheels, etc., in rivers by putting two overlapping 
booms m the river, one on each .side, to rise and fall with 
the water, and inclined at a sharp angle with the current 
and that this arrangement takes care of the heavy stuff and 
leaves too. But an engineer tells me that this 'will never 
protect my screen, as the heavy stuff would push under 
and over a 12-inch square 'boom. Has anvbody made a 
study of this subject? Also, what size trout will o-et 
through a winter screen made 54-inch iron rods placed 
^•ertlcalIy X4 inch apart ? ' - C. D. L. 
A Pennsylvania Brook Trout. 
Gettvsburg, Pa., June 27.— The largest brook trout 
caught this season in Adams countv Avas taken from 
Conococheague Creek, near Graeft'ensbiirg, Saturday, June 
23, by Elmer D. Stover, of Cashtovvn. It measured idjA 
inches in length, and weighed ounces. 
F. Mark Bream. 
See the list of good thmgs in Woodcraft in onr (^v. cols. 
Slow Fishing. 
Chica(,o, III., June 30. — We have had such an extraor- 
dinarily hot spell of weather out here for the past week 
or ten days that the fishing has been a trifle below par 
in moit of our better known waters. I mentioned the* 
departure for the Manitowish country of some of the 
members of the Wishininne Club, Messrs. Graham H. 
Harris, president of the Board of Education: Mr. J. V. 
Clark, of the Hibernian Bank; Mr. George E. Cole, 
president of the Municipal League, and Mr. Charles 
Dennis, of the crockery trade. These gentlemen started 
out something over a week ago with the full determina- 
tion of having the best time that ever happed. They 
concluded to extend the term of their trip, and figuring 
that they would need more supplies telegraphed for ad- 
ditional outfit by the time they had got as far north as 
Milwaukee. They made a camping trip, going in on that 
pretty body of water known as Pappoose Lake, part of 
the Mamtowish chain. They found that the dam was up 
and the water raised so much that the fishing was spoiled. 
At any rate, and for whatever reason, the fish would not 
rise. Even the wall-eyed pike were dull. Of course 
the party got all the fish they needed to eat, and really 
more, for they brought home about 50 pounds or so with 
them; but they had no sport of consequence. They 
caught some small muscallunge, but no good ones, a little 
boy, son of Mr. Hawkey, of a camping party nearby, 
making the record, a 20-pound fish, which broke his rod 
and came near pulling him into the lake. Mr. Harris,, 
who stuck to the fly-rod, caught one muscallunge on the 
fly, and at one cast took two small-mouth bass, whose 
combined weight was over 6 pounds. The weather came 
off very hot and the woods were on fire all about the lake. 
The thermometer was 98 degrees, whereas it was cool 
and pleasant in Chicago. Under these circumstances the 
party ignominiously broke camp and came home, where, 
they were greeted this week with derision by their 
fellow men of the Wishininne Club. It was said of Mr. 
Harris that as he presented a very touching appearance 
when seen about the camp-fire at night, broiling a salt 
mackerel, the only fish the party had been able to take 
one day. 
The above experience has been pretty much that of 
everybody who has gone out this week after muscallunge, 
and there seems little reason to doubt that the dull season 
for that fish has now set in. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mussey 
and Mr. John Haskell, who cariie' back this week from 
a long trip in Minnesota, appear to have had but poor 
.sticcess with muscallunge. 17 pounds being the heaviest 
for Mr. Mussey's boat, in regard to which fish the quali- 
fying remark should be made that it got away just before 
it was to be taken into the boat. The 17 pounds i% therefore 
to be considered structly live weight and on the hoof. 
The bass fishing was good — ^^very good. Mr. and Mrs. 
Mussey caught 178 bass in one day, all of which were re- 
turned to the water. This is the best bass fishing of 
which I haVe heard this summer, though some good 
catches have been made in the lakes in the pine woods of 
Wisconsin. 
Some Better Lock, 
Messrs. Jack Wiggins, Fred Wiggins, Clarence Gil- 
lette, Harry Stanton, George Franklin and J. D. Decker, 
all of this city, returned this week from a trip across the 
lake to a point which serins to be new in our sporting 
category here. They went to Hamlin Lake, about eight 
miles from Ludington, where they stopped with Mr. 
Gatke and had good accommodation and good fishing. 
Hamlin Lake appears to be one of those sand hill lakes 
ot the Michigan west shore which are connected by short 
rivers with Lake Michigan. There was fair bass fishing 
here, the best take being about thirty bass z day to three 
rods. The pickerel fishing was fast and furious, and 
one rod caught twenty-five pickerel one morning. The 
heaviest pickerel taken weighed 12^ pounds. The party 
was gone about a week, and in a couple of weeks more will 
go over there again, as they are all much pleased with 
the sport they had. 
Dr. McCann and Mr. Dickson, of Pittsburg, were 
mentioned at the time they passed through Chicago en 
route for the Fifield chain. . They passed through Chi- 
cago on their way home this week and brought to their 
friend, Pop Hirth, of Spalding's,, a muscallunge or so, 
each of which, according to Pop, weighed over 20 pounds. 
They report splendid fishing, the bass fishing b»ing such 
as they had never before seen. Mr. Hirth says that the 
largest fish taken by this party weighed 29 pounds. The 
proper discounts' on Pop's estimate will no doubt leave 
some very fair weights for the muscallunge which these 
gentlemen took. 
Mr. H. E. Goble and party, of this citv, have re- 
turned from their trip at State Line, Wis. Thev did not 
try for any muscallunge fishing, but got all the bass they 
wanted. Their biggest bass weighed 4M pounds., and re- 
.garding it Mr. Goble tells an interesting story. It seems 
that two of the party were using a canvas boat at the 'time 
they caught this big bass, and they tied the bass by a 
string to the gunwale of the boat when they pulled it up 
0n the beach to eat lunch. Imagine theis surprise a 
few moments later to find that the bass had pidled the boat 
off the beach and towed it out in the lake among ' the 
bulrushes! Thither they followed their craft, and at 
length rescued it and secured the fish. 
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Bissell, Mr. and Mrs. Tavlor, and 
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Beidler, all of this city, are just back 
from a trip to Lake Geneva, where they were guests of 
Mr. Beidler. They found the bass fishing very poor, but 
had great sport with the rock bass, of which there were 
thousands. This lake has been extensively planted with 
these accofnmodating little fishes, and tire angling for 
x\mm h very good. 
Back from the Cascapedia. 
Mr. W. B. Mershon is back from his summer salmon 
trip to his own leased waters on the Grand Cascapedia 
River, Quebec. Mr. Mershon took with him as his guest 
this year his friend Mr. Thomas Harvey, of Saginaw, who 
had never before done any salmon fishing. They left on 
June 5, and for the first twelve days after their arrival 
Q^ the stream they c(re\y a bisipl*; the water being 
