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hour and fifty-five minutes with a 36-pound fish anothtr 
fish of 33 pounds, one of 28, and a number of smaller 
ones, which left an average weight, however, ot 19/2 
pounds. Mr. Joncas and Mr. Lavoie, two companions, 
did almost equally well, and would doubtless have done 
much better, but that their guest was always compelled 
to occupy the best of the pools, with his young daugUter, 
who has two good salmon to her own credit. 
The salmon season has been a very satisfactory one. 
It is estimated that Mr. J. J. Hih and party took out of 
the St John River, on the north shore of the Gulf nearby, 
half a ton of fish on their fly-hooks. The run of fish to 
the St Paul River in Labrador was so large that one 
man. and his son secured in nets a hundred barrels of 
fisH 
Mr. Sam Ehrich, of New York, has had good sport on 
the Nepisiguit. ^, , , , ,j ^ , 
Mr. James R. Wilson and Dr. Shepherd, of Montreal, 
have been very successful this season on the Grand Pabos. 
It was the Doctor's first experience in salmon fishing, and 
he was fortunate enough to land a fish of 42 pounds, after 
a struggle of three hours. 
. F H Daniels and party, of Worcester, Mass., have had 
good sport on the Little Cascapedia, and Messrs. Law, 
Patterson and Small have done well on the Godbout. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Qdebec, Aug. 10. 
New England Anglers. 
Boston, Aug. 11.— Mr. John G. Wright's fishing on 
the north 'shore of Lake Superior was not so much of a 
success after all. The trip by steamer was delightful. A 
tug was chartered to take the fishermen to Bolkow Bay, 
and from thence they were to fish the river entering the 
bay When they arrived at the bay they found that a 
jam or boom of logs completely blocked the entrance to 
•the river's mouth. There was nothing for it but to make 
a landing below and tramp through the woods for five 
miles to the river. This was done with considerable dif- 
ficulty, and after reaching the river the trout fishing was 
unsatisfactory. Conditions were against the fishermen 
and Mr, Wright sent his rods home by express and put 
• in the time saihng about on the fine steamers that ply 
the lake. At the entrance of some of the bays, partic- 
ularly the Sou, the pickerel or pike fishing was good, but 
Mr. Wright went out for trout fishing. Now he says 
that the whole of a fishing trip is in knowing exactly 
where one is going. 
Mr. E. C. Stevens, of Boston, is putting in some time 
pickerel fishing at Lake Dunmore, Salisbury, Vt. He 
came home the other day with a bad bite on his hand. 
It was that of a big pickerel. In attempting to remove 
■the hook, after the fish was in the boat, a vicious snap 
of the cruel jaws caught the fisherman's hand. The pick- 
erel weighed 5 pounds. Mr. Stevens says that it vvas all 
the one they got hold of that morning and he did not 
care to tackle another in exactly the same way. Mr. C. 
A. Brown, who is summering in Plymouth, finds some 
good bass fishing in the ponds there. There is a kind of 
a close masonry about exactly where these bass are 
caught. The forunate fishermen say, "In the Plymouth 
ponds" and stop there. When one remembers that there 
are dozens of ponds in the town of Plymouth the feeling 
is that the information is not very definite. Bass fishing 
is fair in the vicinity of Falmouth, with some tautog 
being taken. Bluefish are positively scarce in Buzzards 
Bay so far this season. 
Mr. N. C. Manson was in Boston Friday on a flying 
trip from Camp Leatherstocking, Richardson Lake, Me:, 
where he is summering with his wife and brother. He 
reports the fishing remarkably good for those who 
know how to find it. The fishermen at the Upper Dam 
are having pretty fair luck, but of late some of them 
have been fishing the West Arm, in deep water, and have 
been taking a good many trout. The water in Richard- 
son Lake is at spring height and the report is that the 
Union Water Power Co. is going to keep it so for win- 
ter use. This is widely different from a year ago, when 
they drew of? some 20 feet of water and there were no 
rains to fill the lake till nearly spring. It is a fact that 
high water is good for the fishing in any lake. The 
weather is remarkably cool there, while they have had 
showers and rains almost every day for six weeks; no 
drought. The woods are almost as full of water as in 
the spring. A curious storm occurred there a week ago 
last Thursday. A big shower came up over the moun- 
tains. Soon it burst in the form of fine hail, which 
actually drifted to a depth of several inches in the vio- 
lent wind When it was over Mr. Manson went out and 
gathered panfuls of snow or fine hail and pelted his 
wife and brother with snowballs. Aug. 2 the mercury 
fell IS degrees in eight minutes, going down to about 
40 and slaying there over night. 
Boston, Aug. 13.— The latest fishing report- is of a sal- 
mon of six pounds, caught by the veteran angler. T. B. 
Stewart, who is summering at the Upper Dam, Me., as 
usual. A big salmon was also hooked at the Birches the 
other day, but escaped just as the net was being put 
under him. He was estimated to weigh twelve or fifteen 
pounds. Better fly fishing is reported at Billy Soule's 
pleasant Island camps. Late Moosehead reports are of an 
improvement in the fly fishing there. The wardens there 
are after the killers of a bull and a cow moose, the bodies 
of both of which have been found floating in the water. 
The cow moose was evidently shot through the head. 
A big moose recently ran into the city of Bangor, Me., 
and finally brought up in Mount Hope Cemetery. It 
seems that he was looking after the last remains of some 
of his kindred, but sportsmen suggest that he should have 
gone into the taxidermist's shop there. But later Water- 
ville, Me., has carried off the palm for having big game 
close at hand. The other evening the proprietors of one 
of the millinery stores of the city were talking with some 
carpenters about repairs to be made, when they heard a 
big crash in the back room of the store. The crash was 
followed by the rattle of hoofs on the hardwood floor. 
Investigation showed the presence of a deer that had 
crashed through the window of the room. The animal 
immediately rushed into the front shop, when the car- 
penters attempted to catch it. There it went through 
another glass door, or window, and gained the street. 
It then ran up one street and bounded into a gentlfeman's 
grounds, where it hid in th^ sfinibbery, f^nd could not hp 
found. It is evident that the deer was being chased by 
dogs, and running down the back way in the rear of the 
stores on Main street, had sought refuge m the millinery 
store not being aware but what the glass window was 
empty space. It had been badly cut, probably by the glass, 
since it left considerable blood in the store. The Fish and 
Game Commissioners and wardens say that they are 
having much trouble from the chasing of deer by dogs 
that happen to come near to the farms and settlements. 
They find that both the shepherd dogs and collies will 
chase deer whenever they happen to find them. They 
have been obliged to order several dogs destroyed. This 
is very displeasing to the owners of the dogs, and they 
swear vengence on the inoff ending deer. Indeed the 
Maine papers mention one farmer of some political influ- 
ence as coming out and proclaiming: "Down with all 
game laws. Stop all appropriations for the protection of 
fish and game and the payment of wardens and commis- 
sioners." He is trying to get a hearing, and will work 
to send men of his own stamp to the coming Legislature. 
He says that the farmers get nothing for the sum paid by 
the State, while a lot of drunken and immoral men are 
drawn into the State to hunt and fish. Besides debauch- 
ing the people with whom they come in contact, they ren- 
der it unsafe to be in the woods during the hunting 
season ; their guns and rifles not only killing one another, 
but endangering the lives of everybody living in and near 
the game sections. Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Fahhfol Horse. 
Chicago, III., Aug. ii.~The other day, while walking 
along the street, I saw a Httle group of persons gathered 
about some object which served, as sometimes almost 
anything will serve, to draw together a city crowd. It 
was only the body of a horse, a dead horse. It was a 
large, white horse, though not of any distinguishing qual- 
ity to command especial attention at that stage of its 
career. It was lying with its head on the curb, and its 
troubles were over; so much for sure. The harness was 
already stripped from it, and no doubt made ready for 
some other horse, which was, perhaps, glad, or sorry, to 
take the place of the dead one. It was only one of the 
little brute tragedies, I was about to say one of the brutal 
tragedies, of city life. : 
Yet this horse had a story. ^ He was a hero of a horse. 
For a good many years he had drawn a horsecart in the 
fire department, and he was intelligent, faithful, trained. 
There came a call for the horsecart, a run for a little, 
nasty, fire in some back alley. The day was hot, the way 
a bit long for an oldish horse. The big white horse paid 
no attention to these minor details. It was his business 
to run with the cart, and he ran, full and fair up in the 
harness every foot of the way. When the driver pulled 
up at the edge of the curb, and the men began to unreel 
the hose, the old horse gave a sigh, lay down with his 
head on the stones, and died. He was a dead horse then. 
That was why they took the harness off from him and 
gave it to some other horse. 
The old horse had been chained to business all his life. 
He never quite got to the place when, after a time, he 
•was going to take a vacation. He had been a good faith- 
ful servant, and always pulled up in the collar. After a 
•time he was going to see Ijetter days. Maybe he does now. 
He was going, after a while, to be turned out to pasture 
:now and then; but they never quite got around to that 
part of it. He was a fine horse, splendid horse, worth a 
heap of money, because of his intelligence and his train- 
ing and his gameness. He's dead now. 
It's a good deal that way with men, when you come to 
think .about it; " ! 
If you can't go fishing while you are alive, what chance 
have you got when you are dead, and another wearing 
•your harness? . " , 
And yet what a kick there was in that good right foot ! 
•Why didn't he kick, jUst a little? Why didn't he reflect, 
just a little? : _ 
He's .dead now.. He was a fine horse, grand horse, very 
good, very faithful, very intelligent ; and very dead. Ap- 
parently he will be dead for a considerable term of years.. 
Had he read "Omar Kliayam," he might have gone fish- 
ing, and so perhaps have missed that particular fire. I 
wish he had. There ought to be something better in life, 
or in death, for a horse or a man, than to end his life in 
the harness, and die with his head against a stone. 
A Record of Heat. 
Chicago is always breaking records, in one thing or 
another, and when she can find no other records to break, 
she breaks her own. This past week has broken the Chi- 
cago record for sustained heat, the thermometer hanging 
around the 93, 94, 95 and 96 hole almost all the time. The 
usual lists of deaths and prostrations are printed daily, 
and it has been only the hardy who could say that the heat 
did not seriously trouble them, Under such conditions, 
such a thing as sport is hardly to be thought of, though 
a great many have left the city in order to get to the 
cooler country, and have taken their fishing tackle along 
as well as their ducks and bathing suits. All above here, 
and far out into the Northwest, the hot wave has been 
hanging on for a week, and the end is not yet, though 
rains are falling in Minnesota, and a shower here in Chi- 
cago to-day has created the hope that things are soon to 
improve. The outlook is poor for good fishing this week, 
though it is likely this is the last serious hot spell for the 
Northwest this season and that we shall soon have the 
beginning of the fall. 
It has been a bit wonderful, when one comes to review 
the season, to note how the bass fishing has picked up in 
spite of heat and dry times, in all the lower Wisconsin 
country. At first the season started off badly, but it has, 
if anything, improved, and has been good even in sultry 
August, when the bass have needed a palm leaf fan more 
than they have a square meal._ The good old Fox Lake 
chain still turns out bass and pickerel for those who know 
how to go after them, and to all appearances will keep 
on doing so for some time to come. 
Perhaps President Nat Cohen of the State Fish Com- 
mission has something to do with it. It is very likely, for 
the commission has been steadily planting native fish 
right along, not monkeying witli ^rout and ring-tailed 
wonders from the Old World, but just plugging along, 
seining a few carloads of native fish out of the bayous, and 
dumping them into places where they will do most good. 
Mr. Cohen was good enough to give this office a call this 
week. He is as full of enthusiasm, as ever, and reports all 
things lovely. j 
"Who, What and Where. 
Mr. C. W. Smith, of this city, had a nice little trip to 
Grass Lake last week. He got fourteen pickerel and 
twelve bass in two days, his biggest pickerel weighing 
734 pounds, and his biggest bass 4% pounds. _He had 
eighty-five pounds of pickerel — not a bad showing for a 
water within sixty miles of Chicago, and fished by thou- 
sands of anglers every season. 
Mr. Chas. 01k has again hied him to Lake Villa for a go 
after the bass. He is getting to be one of the regulars. 
Messrs. L. F. Crosby and Mr. Harry Miner are going 
up again to their favorite Avaters, Wind Lake and Wa- 
bassee, out of Burlington, Wis. They got forty-seven fine 
bass on their last trip in there. Mr, Miner has been up 
once nearly every week during the summer, and has 
caught several hundred bass in there, more than anyone 
of whom I have records this season. 
Much has been said of this Wabassee and Wind Lake 
country, but not everyone knows all about it and its ac- 
commodations. It is best reached out of Burlington, Wis. 
There is no hotel, but J. L. Larson's farm house on Wa- 
bassee Lake will take in guests. This lake is sometimes 
called Minister's Lake, because a parsonage was once 
built there for the pastor of a Norwegian church. This 
lake does not show such big bass as Wind Lake, but the 
latter can be reached in a short time, and boats can be 
obtained within fifteen minutes' walk of Larson's house. 
It is a quiet, restful sort of place, and as may be noted, 
can produce bass upon occasion. 
Two Kings. 
The 37J<2-pound muscal lunge which was reported caught 
very early this season at Sand Lake, Wis., by Dr. Baxter] 
of this city, who went in with O. von Lengerke and Chas. 
Lester, has been mounted and is now shown in the win- 
dow of Von Lengerke & Antoine's store. It is as hand- 
some a 'lunge as I ever saw, and is the record fish for 
Wisconsin this year. It is surely a kingly-looking fish 
and a monarch of the fresh water sea. Next to it in the 
same window is a good tarpon, 103 pounds, which vvas 
taken by Mrs. Coon of this city. Here we have the king 
of the salt water game fishes, and a very nice show the 
two kings make. 
Some Michigan Grayling* 
Very interesting is a photograph which is this week 
sent in by Mr. Joseph Horner, manager of the Consumers' 
Ice Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., a photograph which 
shows four fish. A dozen years ago it would not have 
been regarded with much interest, but it is a curious thing 
to-day, because the fish are grayling. It seems that the 
grayling are not really all gone, but are very few and far 
between. Mr. Horner says, in his letter accompanying the 
picture: "T send you a photograph of my first grayling. 
I was anxious to get a few before they were all gone. 
The four shown in the picture are the result of two days' 
work on the Manistee River, the fish being fair specimens; 
from 10 inches to 12 inches long. I got one, on a fly, not 
three inches long, but the largest ones took salted mirl^ 
nows. I heard you were looking for grayling, so thought 
I would console you with this picture of some grayling, 
at least." 
It is too bad that there can be no way to save this 
species. The thought comes all the more naturally, be- 
cause Mr. Horner speaks of taking a very small grayling, 
whicli would seem to indicate that the fish did breed at 
least to some extent last year. 
The thought comes all the more naturally, because Mr. 
Horner speaks of taking a very small grayling, -vvhich 
would seem to indicate that the fish did breed, at least 
to some extent, last year. 
Chisago Fly-Casting Clab. 
Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Lovett are expected early in the 
week from 'Frisco and will be kept here as long as pos- 
sible after the meet is over. 
E. Hough. 
Hartfobb Building, Chicago, 111. 
Barnegat Fishing. 
Barnegat City., Aug. 13. — Sportsmen this week have 
been dividing their time between the fishing and the snipe 
shooting. The flights of snipe are not very strong as yet, 
but there have been enough to make it interesting. 
There have been but few surf fishermen here this week, 
and as a consequence the catches of red drum have not 
been large in numbers, though some of the drum caught 
have been large in weight. One weighing 36 pounds was 
caught by Mr. Brown, of Camden, surf fishing in prefer- 
ence to using a boat. He also caught an 8-pound striped 
bass. Two other men named Brown from Woodbridgo, 
N. J., are well to the front in striped bass fishing. Their 
catch included one of 21 pounds, one of the largest caught 
this summer, and another of 14 pounds. 
At this place one can take his choice of the kind of 
fishing he Avants. If he is a novice, he generally goes out 
in the bay for weakfish, which anybody can catch with a 
common bamboo rod, using shedder crab or shrimp for 
bait. If he is an angler, who enjoys the sport of landing 
a gamy fish, he may try surf fishing for striped bass or 
for red drum. Still others chum for the drum, and try 
the slews and channels for the striped bass. Others think 
that the sheepshead offer the most sport, and they are 
content to wait all day anchored off the point in the chan- 
nel for a bite or two. Several have been caught lately, 
their weight running from 8 to t2 pounds. Mr. Ridgway 
has been the most successful so far at this kind of fishing. 
"Uncle Cale" Parker, who for many years was the best 
sheepshead fisherman on the coast, is getting too old and 
too feelDle to follow his favorite sport any longer. 
Fishing outside and in the inlet is also very good. Out 
on the banks the sea bass are biting rapidly. It is current 
report that John Adams, a handline fisherman, made 
seventy ■dollars last week catching sea bass on the banks 
find shipf inf them to the city marlcets. -"yhere they only 
