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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. it, T9O0. 
Tuna Fishing. 
Kelpie .^ends us this, from a late issue of the Los 
Angeles (Cal.) Times: Avalon, July 21.— At a recent 
meeting of the Tuna Ckib a committee was appointed tor 
the revising of the constitution, the unprecedented run ot 
tuna causing an enlargement of the membership to such a 
degree that within a few years if the mcrease coiitmues 
the" club membership will become so large as to be un- 
wieldy The committee made a report at a meetmg ot 
the club, recommending that the portion of the constitu- 
tion relating to admission to membership be changed so 
■ a'^ to provide that no person who is in business on the 
island, or who is in the employ of any business man on 
the island, shall be eligible to membership in the club, it 
is further provided that any gentleman of leisure wtio 
takes a tuna in accordance with the rules of the club, 
weighing too or more pounds, does not by that act alone 
become a member, but is only by doing so eligible to an 
application for membership, which application shall De 
made out bv the members of the Weighing Committee, 
who weigh his fish and which shall be submitted to the 
vote of the Admission Committee, which has full power 
to elect or reject the applicant. The club has also 
drawn the lines of admission to membership by deciding 
that any person breaking his tackle at any stage of land- 
ing a tuna shall be disqualified for membership. I he 
tackle must come in intact. -. 
The tuna fishers are tantalized by Ihc-siglit of myriad,s 
■ of the big fish, but it is a difficult matter to induce them 
(o take a bait. Only three were brought m yesttM-day. 
C. W. Chamberlain. W. T. Miner and Col. Eddy being 
the lucky fishers. Mr. Miner had a hard battle, and his 
fish had all the better of liiin, breaking his rod. and he 
was obliged to call for assistance. Mr. Paine responded 
;^nd found the angler suffering from an acute attack of 
"buck fever." as the hunter terms it. the man being in 
such a nervous condition that he was unable to handle 
(he reel. Mr. Paine soon landed the fish. 
Chappie had a gentleman out in his rowboat who fought 
H fish three-hours and then collapsed, completely used up. 
Chappie attempted to tow the fish to shallow water, but 
could not manage both boat and fish, and the fis1i was 
lost. , . ... 
Gil. Eddv this morning brought m a _tuna weighing 
li8 pounds^ his time being nine minutes./ He has lie- 
vome so e.xpert that he now rarely rec|uires ' tnore than 
Ion minutes for the landing of one of these big fish. His 
Iilan i'; not to allow the fish to get its "second wind. ' but 
follow it up with sneh energv ttiat the fish is dazed, and 
.Iteforcj- it can really l;ike in the sititation it ha^ been 
-taken in. ' : 
Canadian Angling Notes. 
At last the long wet spell is apparently over, and wilh 
the dry weather has also come some truly magnificent 
angling, particularly along the line of the Quebec & 
Lake St. John Railwav. where both trout and ouanamche 
of large size are taking freely. The. crowds of anglers 
that are now pouring into the countiy are giving the 
various club houses and cami>s a much more animated 
i-appearance. and some who went to scoff have remained 
Mo fish, as the angling has turned out much better than 
even the most sanguine ventured to hope, being unprece- 
-dentedly good for the season of the year. Tlie railroad is 
'^almost daily obliged to run about three parlor and sleep- 
ing cars to accommodate the travel, and it is likely that 
the tax upon its resources will be very greatly increased 
in a few days , , , ■ 
The trout fishing has all along been remarkably- good, 
considering the weather conditions, but at present it is 
simply marvelous. For instance, a few days ago Messrs. 
W. M. Macpherson. president of Mol son's Bank, and 
H. II. Machin, assistant treasurer of the Province of Que- 
bec, obtained on the lakes of the Stadacona Fish and 
("rai'iie (Jlub the finest fishing they have ever experiehce'd 
on these preserves. Within ten minutes Mr. Macpherson 
took n 6!/^-pound I'emale trout and Mr. Machin hooked 
■' ;md 'landed a male weighing 6j41bs. Though only out 
■Cor a short time, they took as many fish running from i 
1(5 6^ 2 pounds as they could conveniently bring home 
and only desisted to avoid being wasteful. 
- This reiiort tallies with those brought in by about every 
;mgier recently returned — in fact, it is greatly exceeded 
by some :bthers. all agreeing as to the size, number and 
gameness of the fish. 
The ouananiche fishing in the Grande Decharge. Lake 
St. John, is now at its height and is greatly sought after, 
great crowds flocking to the Island House. One gentle- 
man who was out a little more than a week captured over 
loo fish and could have taken many more had he so 
desired. The fising is good on the Mistassini, Peribonca. 
Ashouapmocichouan and other rivers flowing into the 
lake. ■ 
J .;One gentleman who has just returned, from spending: 
- ieij -days at the Grande TDecharge took oyer lOO ouanan- 
JcJie in that time, many of them of very fine size. Other 
'catches almost equally fine are also reported, and alto- 
gether the ouananiche season now promises better than 
ever before. - . 
The late arrivals on the salmon rivers, like those upon 
the trout streams and ouananiche waters, have been 
very much more fortunate than the earlier visitors. Mr. 
Edson Fitch and party have returned from the Moisie. 
having enjoyed miich better sport than Mr. Vesey Bos- 
well and friends, who were there before, him. 
Dr. Alexander B. John.s6n. of New York, has returned 
by steamer St. Olaf from his river, the Jupitagan, where 
he killed sixty salmon and seven grilse, and the fishjng 
■ 'was still, excellent when he left the river. 
.Mr. J. .S. Kennedy, of New York, has had an excep- 
tionally good season, having killed between seventy and 
;- a hundred fish on the.Ristigouche and Cascapedia rivers. 
':On the latter mentioned stream the heavy salmon were 
•toitirid less gamy and active than those, of the Ristiguoche. 
• Mr. I. H, Stearns, of Montreal, and party report their 
■■•fishing on the Ristigauche this year at Chamberlain 
^Shoals to have been rather above the average. 
.:Mr. Dean Sage, Mr, James T. Cooper, Mr. Dicken- 
-■'SMt and others nave enjoyed .splendid sport this season 
..at Camp Harmony, on the Ristigoudie and the neigh- 
, .boririer pools. . ' 
Mr, Hodges, of Boston, mHi a party of friends ha§ 
returned from the Natashquan, where tliey enjoyed ex- 
cellent sport, and where the salmon were rising well 
when they left the river. 
L. T. D. Chambeks. 
Quebec, July 28. 
On the Abbitibbi Lakes. 
Lake Victoria, P. Q., July 30.— Six of us have escaped 
from New York and other sweltering spots into the back- 
woods of Ottawa under the shadows of the primeval 
forest. If there were not a fish within reach except the 
sociable .'^ardinc squeezed' into its containing tin and 
swamped in its native oil, it would be worth the coming: 
just to get away from the chains of business and the 
prophetic heat of the cities. But there are fi?h, for we 
have proved it. The Province of Quebec has leased to the 
Abbitibbi Fish and Game Club the fishing rights in Lakes 
Bittobee, Victoria, des Rats. Partridge and Little White 
Fish in the townships of Norllifield and Hincks in the 
county of Ottawa. 
Those who have no more than a geographical knowl- 
edge of the counties of the Province of Quebec may feel 
justified in the impression that they are no more than 
shoe-tie strips beginning at the St. Lawrence an'd stretch- 
ing aAvay indefinitely to tlie northwest to the land of the 
muskeg and the mystery of Hudson Bay. But Ottawa 
county has length and breadth and thickness, and there 
is room to turn. over at night without rolling out into the 
next county. We arc sixty miles back of the fire-swept 
city of Ottawa, at the end of the track of the Ottawa & 
Gatincau Railway — that is, at Gracefield— and then a 
further distance by team to our camp on the shore of Vic- 
toria Lake. There are six in our party, namely, L. 
Cantor. V. Husted. L. Ritchey, F. Powell. W. J. Carr and 
Gerhard S. Mariager. In this glorious climate we do not 
care whether school keeps or not. We have leased fish- 
ing on Lakes Abbitibbi and Victoria and Little White 
Fish; that is enough for us; there is water enough in 
Canada for a few more. The weather is fine. There is not 
a word to say as to black fly or other noxious insect. But 
the fishing!' Well, at this writing we have fished only 
one day as yet an'd Ave are not discouraged. After eating 
nntil vve fear that the-scales are beginning to show on our 
out.<ides. we began to strike a trial balance on the rest — 
those that we sent out to friends in Ottawa. Our freight 
liills show that we sent out as the surplus of one day for 
six rods, fifty-five bass, the largest weighing y/j riounds. 
and the very' smallest checking in at \j4 pounds. We are 
not bragging at all. but we register our unbiased opinion 
that the bass fishing is fine. Merry. 
New Jersey Protection. 
Edtlor forest and Stream: 
Perhaps the facts below communicated will not be 
judged of importance meriting publication, yet if game 
l)rotection is to be made a political issue, as it nnist be 
here to be made effectual, every sportsman in New Jer- 
sey should be informed of the difiicuities and opposition 
thai wardens who try to do iheir duty meet with, and 
from those who should sustain and aid them tiierein. 
The incidents are in part cold, but came to my notice 
only yesterday while assisting at an attempt to clear 
some of our bass waters of the carp nuisance. 
In one county, and that one of the largest and best 
natural game covers, with extensive waters stocked at 
State expense, but two arrests were made. 1 know that 
at least three of the very rankest and most persistent, 
bold and defiant of poachers and sooners are at work 
there and will keep at it till midwinter. Attention has 
lieen called to them especially, to no purpose. The Avar- 
dcn visits that part of his territory perliaps twice, per 
haps once, a year — never heard of further attention — and 
this quite likely in connection with private bu.siness in 
which engaged. Then, too. the seiners, etc.. seem to , 
get the tip in advance. Tf there are deputies' their work ■ 
is kept mighty quiet j never heard of it. In this county 
nineteen arrests were made, with eighteen coinictions, 
and this by one oflicer. 
Two deputies, employees of onr boss ringstcr, will 
neither attend to any call or resign, as .superiors desire. 
They block the vvay lor those who would serve (no pay 
attached). A sou of a wealthy ixilitician. a defiant vio- 
lator, arrested after repeated warnings and fined by his 
own ccusin as magistrate, would have caused the war- 
den's turning down and out could Gov. A'oorhees have 
accomplished it. but (he Commissioners sustained the 
stitf-backed oflicer and the fine had to be paid. Keep 
your eye on Voorhces and see if he does not hcund this 
man as he did Protector Shriner. 
Westfai.l. 
Bass Bait for Muskalongfe. 
Three years ago Mrs. Piper told John, her husband, 
that M'hen he fished for muskalonge he should use a small 
bass for bait. 
"And what do yon know about fishing, my dear?" 
asked John, in a tone that indicated he could be tolerant 
of any idiosyncrasies that characterized Mrs. Piper. 
'T know a great deal about fishing," answered Mrs. 
Piper, truthfully. "Of course. I have never caught many 
fish, but that does not seem to me at all necessary. One 
can read, and onie can have theories. Besides, I have a 
husband and brother-in-law that talk the matter over 
occasionally, and my hearing is good." 
"Where did you get your information about baiting for 
muskalonge?" asked John. 
" I read about it in Forest And Stream. A man was 
fishing in Georgian Bay. He was fishing for bass. He 
fciund he had a very large fish on his line, and when he 
got it into the boat — well, perhaps it was before he got 
it in— he found it was a muskalonge. When he detached 
the hook from the m_outh of the fish he found a black bass. 
It seems the bass took the hook all right and the mus- 
kalonge seized the bass." 
"That's a very pretty fish story, rny dear,'' said John, 
patronizingly.' 
"Well, I have not finished. This man was so pleased 
with his discovery that he used bass for bait for the 
rest of the season, and he caught a lot of muskalonge." 
"Well, I guess David and I will stick to the ol^ baits." 
answered Joh^^ 
That was three years ago. This sunnner John was 
fishing at Red Lake, in northern New York. He wrote 
home that he had lost a 20-pound muskalonge, Wheii 
he came back to Ohio, David said, "How was it, John, 
about that 20-pound muskalonge? Great pity you lost it." 
"Well, that was about the queerest thing that I ever 
had happen," said John. "I was pulling in a black bgs-; 
and that muskalonge took the bass for bait. Hie jumped 
out of the water, and we had a good look at him." 
Mrs. Piper did not say anything, but she told David's 
wife about it over the telephone. F. L. W. 
The ^^Kingfishers.'* 
Aeter "samplin' the fishin' " for five or six years past 
in Wisconsin and Canada, we have concluded to go back 
to our first love, the old "Fishing Line," reaching into 
the Petoskey and Grand Traverse regions, over which 
we checked our "calamities'' for twelve or thirteen years. 
The fishing in this region is plenty good enough for 
any but a fish hog, whether for bass, trout, maskinon^e 
or the "festive bluegill." to say nothing of the splendid 
camping places, and the finest springs in the world. 
We go a-fishin' on Aug. 4 over the G. R. & I, Ry. 
to Traverse City, Mich., whence we take wagons to 
Carp Lake, and will make camp at our old Robin's Nest 
camp of '91, an account of which trip was published irt 
Forest and Stream, with a picture of the camp. 
The fishing in Carp Lake is reported better this season 
than for several years, and it goes without saying that 
Ave are looking for some good sport with the bass and 
bluegills, leaving out of account the swarms of rock bass 
and "pearch" that infest the lake. 
"Fishin' fur bluegills" with a, light trout rod and two 
or three flies is Cpl. Culbertson's /'chief, divarsion" when 
camped out, and he has proini?ed to keep the camp in 
"meat." 
At Robin's Nest we expect to take solid comfort, for 
right under the bank in front of the tents is a famous 
sgring, and for a hundred yards or more up the lake 
shore arc a dozen others, ranging in coldness from 54 to 
46 degrees; and our neighbors furnish us with the best 
of inilk, buttermilk tor the asking, butter, eggs, chick- 
ens; vegetables "an' sich'" for the "equivalent." 
T-he latch string is always hangin' out, "figgerativejjr 
speakin'.'" at the Camp of the Kingfishers, and if any 
brother of the rod happens along hungry and athirst, let 
him stop 3nd we'll bi-eak up a hardtack or two aiid give 
him a "suti"' out of a A'ial that has been cooled in a 
spring of 46 degrce-s temperature. 
' ' KtwiEtsnEK. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting: Club. 
Medal contests, series kxkj. Saturday, contest 
held at .Stow Lake. July- 28. Wind, strong we^t ; 
foggy : ■ 
No. to. 
weatlier. 
Kvent 
Kvent 
Event 
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
No. 4, 
Distance, 
Accuracy 
, ' — - 
Krent No. 
8, 
IvUrf 
Feel 
Per cent. 
Acc % 
PcL % 
Net % 
Casting^ 
Hallti 
% 
71.8 
79. 10 
59 
Itrootcs ... 
Ill 
.*<9 
Hti.S 
77 
lirotlierton 
.... 116 
iifi.l 
85 4-S 
Carr 
X9 
. 8!^. ■ 
l<i ■ 
- 97 3 
" " ' ni 
.'J't.S 
9< J . S 
77.11 
84.1 
T.oveU . ., 
..... 12.5 
ft'. 
8K.4 
S4.2 
86.:: 
.% 15 
Muller 
..... 104 
31. 4 
87 
79.2 
83.1 
10?. 
88.8, 
76.x 
82.8 
Judges, 
Battu 
and Young; 
referee. 
Muller ; 
clerk. 
Smyth. 
Medal 
contests. 
series 
1000. ■ Sundav, 
contest No. 10, 
held at St 
ow Lake, Julv 21 
3. Wind>> strong "west';.Aveather, 
misty and unsatis 
factory : 
9S 
87.4 
92.4 
73.4 
82.9 
51 
Broolcs . . . 
102 
78 
87.8 
7;t.4 
80.6 
Brotherton 
120 
92 
87.8 
78.4 
• 8:? 
Daver.koscjj 
103 
92.4 
S8.4 
7(v10 
82.1 
, . 127. ( 
5 94.4 
90.8 
75.10 
- • 8i«..:! ' 
Lovett . . . . 
127 
9(1 
86.8 
83.4 
Sn 
.98 
Mansfield . 
.94 
9') 
76.8 
84.10 
' 95.4 
Muller .... 
;.';.' .' m 
.92 
89.8 
75.10 
82.9 
Roos 
87 
7).S 
81 
R6.8 
73.10 
Young . . . 
m 
94.4 
.42.8 
80.10 
86.9 
roulks . . . 
95 
72.8 
88. S 
73.4 
81 
Judges. 
Battu 
and Y 
onng ; 
referee. 
Muller,;, 
clerkf 
Smyth. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
.ScoRE.s of the second competition, Aug. 4, (.>wing to 
the extreme heat and th.e low water the competition AVa; 
not completed : 
Long Distance Accuracy 
Distance and Accuracy, and Delicacy, 
Flv, Feet. Per Cent. 
T H Bellows.....'. 92 951-3 
L I Blacknian 75 
C F Brown 81 
H Greenwood -86 1-3 
H G Hascall 98 97 
N C Heston 78 
E R Lettennan 93 
F N Peet 106 91 
H W Perce... - 72 
A C Smith 87 931-3 
H H Ainswortli 721-3' 
Per Cent. 
95 1-3 
86 
95 0-6 
Bait 
Casting. 
Pfr Cent. 
9734 
93 
-96 1-fi 
Holders of Medals — Long Distance Fly, F. N. Peet; 
Distance and Accuracy, H. G. Hascall; Acctiracy and 
Delicacy, F. N. Peet , „ 
Batnegat Sea Fishing. 
Barnegat City, N. J., Aug. 4. — Half-way down the 
Jersey coast, where Barnegat Bay water rushes out to 
meet the sea, and where Barnegat Light raises its tall 
shaft skyward to warn the mariners from, the treacherous 
shoals, is where the greatestr fishing of the north At- 
lantic coast is to be found. Here the red drum, 6r channel 
bass, are caught in large numbers. It is safe to say that, 
at least a hundred of these big and gamy fish were caught 
during July. The biggest catch of drum was by Edward 
Hooley and Bert Brooks, of New York, who were ottt 
Avith Captain Henry Eiseman in Hooley^s yacht. Crescent. 
They chummed with menhaden bait, and from the school 
of drum that gathered about them they landed twenty- 
three. William T. Bailey, of Camden, has had excellent 
luck with these fish. Another successfhl drum fisherman 
has been Mr. E. G. Chandlee, of Philadelphia, whose 
fifteen-year-old son,_ Edward, by the way, has two imm 
to his s<iore,^ one weighing 23 and one 26 pounds.. 
