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FOREST: ANT)± STREAM. 
f Aug. 4, 1900. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Movements of "Western Sportsmen. 
Chicago, III, July 28.— Mr. R. H, Southgate, of the 
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, has outfitted extensively and 
left this week for a trip in Canada, where he will re- 
main some days. 
Mr J. C. Everett and a party of friends, of Highland 
Park," a suburb of this city, left this week for a trout trip 
on the famous Au Sable River of Michigan, to be gone a 
couple of weeks. . . 
Mr. H. Lee Borden and family, of this city, are this 
week absent on an extended pleasuring trip on the bt. 
Clair flats. Abundant outfit goes to them, and the sup- 
position is that the party are going to have a lot of sport. 
They have their own yacht along. . 
Mr. Robt. Pierce, of Topeka, Kan., outfits here this 
week for a fishing trip in Wyoming. . 
■ Mr. Abe La Fave, the well-known Manitowish guide, is 
in Chicago this week for a look around, according to the 
report of some of his friends. 
Mr. Wm. J. Mohr and family, of Chicago, have left for 
Lake Geneva, Wis., for a season of rest and fishing. 
Mr. Fred Gardner, of this city, is reported absent from 
his place of business here, and present at his place of 
pleasure on Trout Lake, Wis. 
An important party to start for the West this week if 
that headed by Mr. W. H. Bartlett, of the Board of Trade, 
Thev go to Estes Park, Colo., for a fishing trip. 
M"r. R. B. Organ is back from an unsatisfactory trip 
to Mukwonago, Wis., where he went with his friend, Mr. 
Wm. White, of Allisons. Mr. Organ could not get any 
one to row him when he got to the village except a 
boy who knew nothing but perch fishing. They went out 
on the old mill pond, the same pond of which I used to 
write when J. B. H. and I camped in that country, and 
where we caught so many big bass. The fishing has 
been so good there this year that many boats were out, and 
no one was left to guide Mr. Organ, who was a stranger 
to that water. He discovered just where the bass were 
lying — just where they were when J. B. H. and I fished 
there — under the floating bogs. He had only a light 
casting line with him, and what happened to him was 
just what .happened -to us when we began to fish there. 
He got a strike, the fish ran far away under a floating 
bog, the line broke at the strike, and that was all. See- 
ing that he was in a hard game and with poor outfit, Mr. 
Organ went back to the hotel and said he would go home 
if he could not get a guide. He couldn't, .so he came 
back the same day, and had no sport. Meantime his 
friend, Mr. White, was out on the same water, and as 
usual to good bass fishers on that water when accus- 
tomed to the wrinkles, he got some very big bass — six of 
them, one of which weighed 5 pounds 7 ounces. He got 
two of them in the same little creek which J. B. H. and 
myself first unveiled to the Chicago angling public, and 
which this year has been turning out many very big fish. 
Other boats on the mill pond got good bass the same 
day Mr. Organ was out — in fact, all the bass taken were 
good ones, almost nothing under 3 pounds. I have never 
found a bass country _which would produce so many big 
bass as this same region in question, where the Camps 
Forest and Stream were pitched for so many years. 
This same Mr. White, as earlier mentioned, has been 
getting a lot of nice bass in that same Waukesha county, 
While stopping at Tuohy's -place he got one day four basf 
that weighed 19 pounds total, and he caught one other - 
which he had mounted — one of the old moss backs thai 
weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces. It would seem that they are 
doing business with our time bass up in there this year. 
This has been an exceptionally fine year for bass in thai 
country, and for no reason that can be traced. The bass 
must have been local fish, for there is no way for them to 
run in there from any other country, and they are so large 
that they must have been there for some time. Yet this 
fine fishing comes after three or four 3'ears of very poor 
sport on those same Avaters. 
Mr. Daniels, who fished Eagle Lake last Saturday he- 
fore breakfast, caught seven bass, in a little time, and 
one of these weighed 5 pounds plump — a very good fish 
indeed. Mr. W. P. Williams, of the sub-treasurer's 
office of this city, was another to have good luck this 
week, killing four heavy bass on the Mukwonogo Mill" 
Pond, within a short distance of where Mr. Organ was 
fishing. The latter gentleman is vowing revenge, and 
plans another trip. 
Mr. H. W. Perce, President of the Chicago Fly-Cast- 
ing Club, and his friend, Mr. George A. Hinterleitner, 
have returned from their two Aveeks' fishing trip at 
Christiana Lake, Mich. They had a very good time, and 
report 150 nice bass to their two rods during their fort- 
night's sojourn. 
Mr. M. P. Riley, fishing in Sand Lake, III, this week, 
in two and a half hours cauglit twelve nice bass, the 
heaviest weighing 3^ pounds. 
Mr. William Crandall, fishing in Fox Lake last week, 
succeeded in taking ten very good bass one morning. 
Mr. H. F. Crow and his friend, Mr. Frank Karr, fished 
Brown's Lake, near Burlington, Wis., this week. They 
Avere lucky enough to hit the bass Avhen tliey Avere rising 
and caught 169, Aveighing from iH to 2^ pounds. They 
had a very good trip indeed. 
Mr. A. H. Brown and Mr. C. A. Havens, of this city, 
are back from a very lucky trip to Hamlin Lake. They 
fished by trolling principally, and caught fifty-four 
pickerel, twelve bass and some good pike. They 
fished for four days and say. they lost a great many nice 
fish which struck. 
A very interesting fishing experience is reported by 
Mr. Bert Buell, who took nine small-mouth bass of an 
aA'erage Aveisrht of 2^2 pounds on Lake Geneva. Wis., this 
week. Mr. Buell used errasshoopers for bait, and one may 
imagine he enjoved fishing with this unusual bait for the 
gamiest of our Western fishes. 
Fly-Casting Toomament. 
Advice from the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club' says 
that Mr. W. D. Mansfield and one or two others of that 
club Avill be nresent at the Chicago tournament. It was 
hoped that Mr. Reuben Leonard, of New York, would 
also attend, but this is not likely. The tournament 
r\o doybt be f! yery pl?5isant and successfy] ^ffair, 
THE DELAWARE AT NARROWSBURG. 
The Big Eddy and the wall-eyed pike hole under the bridge. 
The Naffowsbufsy Pife*' »«d Bass Pocket. 
Narrowsburg, N. Y.— On the Delaware Rwer at Nar- 
rowsburg we find the pool known as Big Eddy, as it is 
considered the biggest and deepest eddy throughout the 
length of this grand river. Its greatest depth is about 
70 feet just in the center of that part of the pool below 
the bridge. This pool is probably the best piece of water 
for wall-eyed pike in the Delaware, and fish of 10 to 15 
pounds are not uncommon from this pool. They have a 
favorite spot which is along the foot of the walls of the 
two ledges by the bridge in about 30 feet of water. The 
first ledge runs out from shore about 15 feet on the 
Pennsylvania side ; it starts at the point of the rocks be- 
low the bridge, runs up under and ends about 50 feet 
above the bridge. The water drops suddenly to 30 feet 
from this ledge. The second ledge runs from just above 
the bridge on the New York side to the point above the 
bridge on the Pennsylvania side. This ledge is also cov- 
ered by about 12 to 15 feet of water, dependent on the 
state of the riA-er, and the water drops also to 30 feet, thus 
making tA\'0 walls forming tAVO sides of a triangle. It is 
along the foot of these walls in the deep water that the 
wall-eyes are found. The be.st bait for this Avater is small 
chubs, about 6 or 7 inches long. 
The bass fishing in this pool is first-class. It is simply 
impossible to say Avhich are the best points for them. They 
are found all over it. Some mighty big ones are here, too, 
waiting to be coaxed out. 
Great sport can be obtained fly-fishing either in the 
rapids above or below the pool. The most seductive fly 
for bass we ever ran across we call Johnny Wright's 
fancy, because we believe it has no name, and Avas in- 
troduced to us by Mr. Wright, manager of the fishing 
"~ Gaylord CIttfa Hatchery, 
. To-day I met on the street the Menominee giant, Mr. 
Fred M. Stephenson, President of the Gaylord Club, of 
Wisconsin. Mr. Stephenson was looking husky as usual 
and done to a very nice broAvn. He tells me he has been 
fishing trout a good deal round the Gaylord Club, and 
they are having splendid sport on the South Pike. He 
also says that Gaylord Club is completing plans for ex- 
tensive propagation of trout and bass, which will be 
liberated in all the Avaters of that region, not only the club 
preserve Avaters, but the open waters accessible to the 
public. The Gaylord Club is going to ask the Wausaukee 
Club to co-operate in this Avoi'k, and betAveen them these 
two organizations can do an immense amount of good in 
that part of Wisconsin. Mr. Stephenson is a hustler, no 
matter what he undertakes, and there is not the slightest 
doubt that this work.Avill be carried on successfully. Mr. 
O'Brien, late of the State Fish Commission, of Wis- 
consin, Avill have the hatchery in charge. 
Garp* 
Mr. OsAvald Von Lengerke is recently back from a fish- 
ing trip on the Kankakee River at Water Valley, where he 
stopped at the cottage of Mr. F. R. Bissell, of this city. 
Mbt-haAang anything else to catch, the two Avent carp fish- 
ing. This beastly fish is an Old World and also a Ncav 
Jersey acquaintance of Mr. Von Lengerke, and I think 
he is the only man in Chicago who has a good word for 
the carp. The twO' fi,shed for this animal with a bait of 
dough, and they caught eight or ten very good carp. The 
fish itself is said to be shy, and to be a very hard fighter 
when hooked. Mr. Von Lengerke says that they skinned 
their carp, salted and peppered them, laid them aAvay on 
the ice, and the next morning fried them for breakfast. 
According to his story the carp Avas found good to eat, 
and he declares the fish is undervalued by cArerybody out 
here. Charlie Antoine says that in France they used to 
catch carp out of the muddy pools, and then put them in a 
clean fountain of Avater for a couple of weeks, to wash 
the muddy taste out of them. The Kankakee itself is not 
a pearly fountain of delight since the carp have taken 
possession of it, and I should think that any fish taken in 
that .stream noAv Avould be all the better for being well 
laundried, as Mr. Antt)ine suggests. There is no use 
kicking about this thing, I suppose. We may as well be- 
come reconciled to the carp as our game fish and the 
RngUsh sparrow as our game bird. 
A Disappointing Start. 
For some weeks Messrs. Graham H. Harris, President 
of the Board of Educa+ion, of this city, and his friend, 
M'r. W. C. Haskell, of the Building Inspector's office, 
haA'e been planning a good trio out into the Rnckv Moun- 
tains. Mr. Harris has ifcver teen in the Rockies, al- 
though he has fished with the fly over the best of our 
Northern waters. Mr. Hflckell on the other hand, is verA' 
familiar with narts of the Rnr-kies. and is a good mountain 
man. He Avas to be the guide on this occasion, and t^he 
party w^s to start from Butte Citv. eroing thence to Vir- 
ginia Citv. and over on the headwaters of th#^ Jeffer- 
son and Madi='^n. thenre into the Yellowstone Park and 
south to the Henry's Lalce country, the whole trip to 
occupy 513? weeks, and naturally tg o'ne of ^he most 
Enlarged sketch of the water under the bridge. 
tackle department of Von Lengerke & Detmold. 
The predominating color of the fly is black. We found 
that Ave could get as many bass on a cast as we had these 
flies on the leader. They are simply irresistible. 
When fishing at Narrowsburg the fisherman should stop 
at the Arlington Hotel. The proprietor is a sportsman 
himself, and takes excellent care of his patrons. Bevins 
has been our guide and oarsman in this water, and a 
better or more faithful guide never handled a pair of oars. 
We can more than strongly recommend him to any 
brother angler. The best fishing on the Delaware River ' 
is ahvays during August and September. ■ The route is 
via the Erie. C. 
interesting and delightful which could be imagined. The 
two were to be joined at the Madison country later by 
Mr. J. L. Ellicott, City Electrician, of Chicago, and the 
three Chicagoans were to complete the personnel of the 
party, Mr. Haskell, like a good mountaineer, scorning 
to take a guide. 
Such were the plans of the party, and the members of 
the Wishininne Club, Avhere all the above take their 
lunches every day. wished them joy yesterday, for the 
start Avas to be made this morning at 9 o'clock. What 
was tlie surprise of CA'ery one of the club to-day to sec 
Bill Haskell come sneaking into lunch by himself, Avith a 
sort of expression on his face which did not indicate 
that he was deliriously happy over anything. When asked 
Avhere Mr. Harris was, he replied that the latter had 
started all right at 9 o'clock, but that he had started alone. 
Mr. Harris had both the railway tickets, and he absent- 
mindedly told Mr. Haskell that they were over the St. 
Paul road to St. Paul, whereas they Avere really over the 
Northwestern road. Mr. Haskell went to the St. Paul 
Depot this morning as per advice, and like Mary's little 
lamb, lingered patiently about for Harris to appear. He 
didn't bear any further resemblance to the little lamb 
after that. Mr. Harris Avas meantime speeding blithely 
aAvay alone to the westAvard. into a country about which 
he doesn't knoAv anything at all. He wired Bill Haskell 
that he had sent the tickets back; and vaguely intimated 
that he might conclude to go on west of St. Paul alone, 
waiting for Mr. Haskell at Butte. 
"Well, if he don't wait at St. Paul for me," said Bill, 
"he'll neA^er see me at all, I wouldn't n'de across that 
Western plains country alone for a thousand dollars. I 
only took him along for company crossing the Bad 
Lands, anyhoAv. He don't knoAv what he's going up 
against, all alone in the car across the plains of Dakota. 
Hot? Say I am hot!" 
When last seen Mr. Haskell Avas hiking for a telegraph 
office to wire Mr. Harris to stop at St. Paul or take the 
consequences. He'll stop, and there will be peace in this 
sundered family in time. But it won't be Avhile they are 
shut up together on the cars. It would be fun to hear 
those tAvo, each blaming the other for the blunder, and 
each proclaimin.g his OAvn innocence ! 
By the way, Mr, Jos. Leiter — the Joe Leiter of wheat 
corner fame — is just back from the Leiter mine near 
Sheridan, and he has been fishing on the Jefferson and 
Madison, the very country where he and Mr. Haskell had 
such good sport seven years ago. and where it was planned 
to make the trip this time. Mr. Leiter says it would 
be no use to go in there now at all. The West is changing 
more rapidly than most people in this part of the world 
realize. The grangers have got the headwaters of the Big 
Muddy pretty much all under ditch. There isn't any 
Madison River — it's all run out in ditches. 
Mr. R. C. Brandon, of the Lord ^ Thomas advertising 
agency, with his friend, Mr. W. T. Davis, Chicago renre- 
sentative of the Kansas City Star, returned from their 
fi=hing trip near Rhinelder, Wis., somcAvhat distrusted. 
They struck the dull, hot season, and got no fishing of 
any consequence, even for bass. All the fish were down 
deep and would not strike at anything in spoon or bait 
that could be devised. They had trouble to get enough 
fish to eat. 
% Hough. 
HART?9|t» B^^npiKO, Chicago, lUj a ' 
