Oct. 27, igoo.] 
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Roy Shoemaker, of Alexandria Bay, on Aug: 14, caught 
seventeen black bass, the largest of which tipped the scales 
at 434 pounds. He also landed six pickerel, one of which 
is said to have weihged 24^^ pounds. 
On Aug. 17 Oarsman Daniel Quinn, of Alexandria Bay, 
caught a 12-pound pickerel in the Lake of the Isles. 
About the middle of August a yachting party consisting 
of Louis Marx, Nathan Strauss, Isidore Strauss and A. 
Abrams, of New York city, guests at Alexandria Bay, 
and a few friends visited Watter son's Point and enjoyed 
a barbecue near that place. During the day a lo-pound 
pickerel was captured. About the same time Miss Ruby 
Fall, who was fishing in company with Capt. and Mrs. 
Kratzenberg, of Utica, near Wagoner's Point, caught a 
g-pound pickerel. 
Late in August James Chalmers, of Bay Side, and M. 
Bowling, of Virginia, while fishing near Fisher's Land- 
ing, captured in half a day nineteen pickerel, the total 
weight of which, was 54 pounds. On Aug. 2g the same 
anglers in the same locality took 454 perch, weighing in 
the aggregate 96 pounds. 
On Aug. 28 John Foley, of Clayton, and his brother, 
James Foley, of Illinois, with Louis Marshall as guide, 
made a fine catch of fish, including a 14-pound muskal- 
longe. 
F, W. Emery; of Boston, who spent the summer at the 
Hubbard House, Clayton, was out fishing sixty-two days 
prior to Sept. r, and succeeded daily in catching the limit 
allowed by law for black bass, which is twenty-four. H. 
G. Gould was his guide. 
John H. Dana, of Rocehster, while a guest at Alexan- 
dria Bay. early in September, caught a 12-pound pickerel 
Rev. W. li. Barton, of New York, who was the guest 
of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Campbell, of Alexandria Bay, the 
fore part of September, went out fishing one day with 
the Martin party and captured two fine muskallonge, the 
larger weighing 17 pounds. Miss Martin lajided one 
weighing 10 pounds. 
T. H. McCoy, of New York city, with Louis Minnoe 
as oarsman, went out fishing from Clayton one day dur- 
ing the latter part of September, and caught a pickerel 
weighing toJ^ pounds, one weighing 9^ pounds, one 
weighing 8 pounds and several smaller specimens, ranging 
from 3 to 6 pounds. He also caught a number of black 
bass, including one that weighed 2^ pounds. 
George H. Marsh, Harold D. Marsh and Roy Shoe- 
maker went out from Alexandria Bay the latter part of 
September and caught forty-seven fine bass, fourteen 
pickerel and six muskallonge. 
During the first week in October the Bergman party, 
who went out from Clayton with Albert Marshall as 
guide, brought in a 25-pound muskallonge. Mrs. Mann, 
with Charles Seymour as guide, landed one that weighed 
15 pounds. 
On Oct. 4 Joseph Churco and Ed Mennoe. of Clayton, 
captured the largest muskallonge recorded as taken during 
the season. It weighed 43 pounds. 
On the same day Albert Marshall and Cahlres Seymour, 
of Clayton, caught a muskallonge weighing 32 pounds. 
L. E. Fry and E. Denny, who went out from Clayton 
early in October, captured twenty-three fine pickerel. 
A gentleman from New Y^ork, accompanied by Oarsman 
McDonnell, of Cape Vincent, while trolling in Button 
Bay, landed a muskallonge weighing 27 pounds. 
William Howarth, druggist, of Utica, spent the past 
season, as is his annual custom, at his summer residence 
on Carlton Island, St. Lawrence River. In company with 
his wife, they remained there from June 16 to Sept. 20, 
and during that period had some splendid fishing, espe- 
■ ciall}^ for bass. Of course, there were many days on 
w^hich they did not go out to fish, but they went often, 
and almost invariably met with excellent success. In 
fact, they seemed to have the knack of catching bass when 
other anglers in their immediate vicinity failed. At times 
during the season they had guests visiting them, and 
the new comers, under the guidance of their host and 
hostess, also made big catches. A record kept at the 
cottage of the number of fish caught by members of the 
Howarth party during the season shows these totals: 
Black bass, .574; perch, 726; pickerel, 95; muskallonge, i; 
making in the aggregate, 1.396 fish taken. Certainly this 
is a great record in view of the fact that the fish were all 
captured with rod and line, and all were up to the full 
size prescribed by law. No bass less than 10 inches in 
■ length or weighing less than half a pound were kept, as a 
matter of course, and they ranged from 8 or to ounces 
1 up to 4yi pounds. The perch averaged from J4 to 1 
, pound, and ran from that to 2 pounds. They were very 
< plentiful and of good size. The pickerel taken did not 
run very large The largest one, which weighed 1214 
pounds, was caught on Sept. 6. The muskallonge was 
captured on Sept. 12 and weighed 16 pounds. The bass 
fishing was particularly good during August ajid Septem- 
ber. On Aug. 7 Mr. and Mrs. Howarth took twelve bass 
weighing in the aggregate 24 pounds. 
On Aug. 10 Mr. and Mrs. Howarth, accompanied by 
A. C. Salisbury and Dr. J. G. Kilbourne, of Utica, who 
were their guests, went out in two boats and caught 
twenty-eight black bass in the forenoon and fifteen in the 
afternoon. Seven of the bass then taken weighed 32 
pounds, an average of 4^/3 pounds. 
On Aug, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Howarth landed nine bass 
which averaged in weight 3% pounds apiece. 
On Sept. 2 Mr. and Mrs. Howarth and their guests, 
Theodore M. Glatt and John Carberry, of Utica, caught 
ten black bass, which weighed 29^^ pounds, and two 
pickerel, one weighing 7 and the other 9 pounds. This 
was all done in the forenoon. 
The black bass fishing in Lake Ontario at and near 
Cape Vincent has been better than has ever before been 
known. Some of the oarsmen there who go out with 
fishermen and are fortunate enough to have patrons who 
angle solely for pleasure, are allowed to sell the fish they 
catch. They are readily disposed of at the fish house at 
Cape Vincent, and black bass bring S cents a pound. 
The revenue of the guides is thus often largely increased. 
One oarsman who accompanied a New Yorker frorn Tune 
IS to Sept. I made a good thing out of the sale of fish, 
as they caught nearly half a ton of bass during that 
period. Another guide, who was in the employ of a 
-Sportsman during the season, did even better than that, 
for their aggregate catch amounted to one and one- 
quarter tons of bass, and the fish were sold at 8 cents a 
pound, the former receiving the proceeds. 
Trolling with spoons is commonly conceded to be the 
most effectual method of capturing the muskallonge, and 
those of gold, silver, brass and copper are used accord- 
ing to the weather conditions. When the sun shines 
brightly a copper spoon is considered the proper thing. 
When there are occasional clouds a gold or brass one is 
used, and in case it is a dark, lowering day the silver 
spoon is favored. Many of the most popular spoons are 
constructed of two metals, showing one on the face and 
another on the reverse, while some show the metal only 
on tiie face, and are painted red inside. Large hooks made 
of coarse wire with three or four barbs, one placed an 
inch under the others, and the whole heavily dressed with 
quill feathers, are i-ecommended for muskallonge fish- 
ing. Stiff trolling poles, cable laid linen trolling lines, 
strong silver gimp leaders with a swivel at either end, 
and good, reliable reels, are also among the desirable 
articles in an outfit. Trolling spoons and minnows are 
used for pickerel fishing, and for black bass and perch, 
minnows and crabs form tempting bait. 
W. E. WOLCOTT. 
Utica, N. Y., Oct. 19. 
Mice for Bass Bait* 
Princess Bay, N. Y., Oct. 18. — Edilor Forest and 
Stream: I saw a question to-day in Forest and Stream, 
put by "Seldom," of Providence, R. I. It is "Who ever 
heard of house mice for bait for bass?" 
I can inform "Seldom" that I ti'ied them for bait over 
thirty years ago and seldom failed to catch a bass as lonw 
as the bait held out. How I found out that mice would 
be a good thing for bass was thus: On the old farm, 
in Hampshire county, Mass., we had in the barn- 
yard a large hogshead with one-third sawed off, and set 
in the ground about 18 inches, and from a nice cool 
spring on the side of the mountain we led the water to 
this. We boys always had fish in it, sometimes bullheads, 
perch and pumpkin seeds, etc. One day I caught a 
fine black bass out of the Connecticut River, and I 
thought I would take him out to the barn and put him in 
the "watering tub," as we called it. We used to feed him 
worjTis, liver, etc.. imtil one day we boys found a nest of 
young mice in the barn with their eyes just opened; so 
I suppose more out of deviltry than anything else we took 
them out to the "tub" to sec if they could swim. They 
CFuld nicely, but al'ter the first one was about in the 
middle of that artificial lake the bass had him. Then we 
put' in another, and it met the same fate, and so on until 
the 4oass had eaten five small mice. The fish would prob- 
ably weigh about i?4 pounds. 
After that when I found a nest of mice I would always 
manage to bring home a good string of bass; but I 
never advertised it around amongst the other boys of 
the neighborhood. This is only my experience; perhaps 
others used the same lure 100 years a.go. But of all the 
young mice I found I used to give the pet bass in the 
barnvard watering tub, one or two out of every litter. 
We kept liim (J sa.y him) five or six years. Those were 
happy days. 
100 $pommen'$ finds. 
Some of the Qaeer Discoveries Made fay Those Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
23 
J. A. Spaulding and party, of St. Louis, while out hunt- 
ing in the swamps near Madison, Wis., discovered a 
female hermit who lives in a hollow tree in the center 
of the swamp. She appeared to be about thirty-five 
years old, and to be insane. She fled from the hunters, 
who were unable to overtake her. 
24 
George Johnson, who lives four miles south of Hise- 
ville, Ky., went coon hunting, and the dogs chased a 
coon up a large poplar. After daylight Mr. Johnson 
cut the tree, and, after killing the coon, returned to the 
.stump to get his axe. In the hollow of the stump he 
found a stone jar which contained ^3,700 m gold coin 
and two gold watches. These were undoubtedly placed 
there by the famous guerrilla. Bill McGruder. One of 
the watches is. marked "J. B. L." and has been identified 
by J. B, iessenberry, of Glasgow, as his. Mr. Lessen- 
berry was relieved of this watch in the spring of 1862 
by Bill McGruder and his gang, who bound Mr. Lessen- 
berry behind the counter in a barroom in Glasgow, and 
after helping themselves to all the whiskev thev wanted, 
went through the cash drawer and took the watch. A 
few days later they were met by Col. Frank Wolfered, 
who killed several of them and chased the others to the 
mountains of East Tennessee. 
25 
The Phcenix (Ariz. Ter.) Gazette relates that "Parties 
out deer hunting ran across an old ruin on the top of the 
highest mountain nine miles north of Phcenix. It is 
of stone, and some -of the walls are still standing ten 
feet high. The old building, or buildings, covered an 
area of about two acres of land. The large stones around 
the place are covered with hieroglyphics." 
26 • 
A curious law suit is exercising the minds of the 
judicial authorities of a French provincial town. Some, 
time ago two sportsmen went scouring the country 
round with gims. dogs and ferrets, when suddenlv they 
saw a rabbit bound out of a hole, and with it, wonderful 
to relate, a coin of the sixteenth century. The sportsmen 
picked up the piece of money, and being unable to ascer- 
tam Its age or origin, took it to the local cure and 
maj'or. Being by this time enlightened as to its value 
they returned the-next day to the spot, and after groping 
about, hit upon a number of other coins, accumulating 
a collection of about 100 specimens, almost all of Italian 
workinanship, and bearing effigies, among others of 
Francis de Medici, Duke of Etruria, 1585 ; of Ferdinand de 
Medici, as well as of Philip the Second of Spain 
Henry IV., and other high and mighty potentates— both 
native and_ foreign. The owner of the ground has taken 
action again3it the tvi^o sportsmen for the recovery of the 
collection. 
he Mmnet 
Fixtures. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct 30.— Senecaville, O.— Monongahela Valley Game and Fish 
Protective Association's sixth annual field trials. A. C. Peterson, 
Sec'y. Homestead, Pa. 
Nov. 7.— Hampton, Conn.— Connecticut Field Trials Club's field 
trials. J. E. Bassett, Sec'y, Box 603, New Haven, Conn. 
Nov. 7.— Jamesport, L. I., N. Y.— First annual field trials of the 
Pointer Club of America. R. E. Westlake, Sec'y. 
Nov. 7-8.— Lake View, Mich.— Third annual field trials of the 
Michigan Field Trials Association. E. Rice. Sec'y, Grand Rapids, 
Mich, 
.Nov. 12.— Bicknell, Ind.— Third annual field trials of the In- 
dependent Field Trials Club. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, 
Ind. 
Nov. 13.— Chatham, Ont.— Twelfth annual field trials of the In- 
ternational Field Trials Club. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 13.— Harrisville, Pa.— Central JBeagle Club's annual field 
trials. A. C. Pater.son, .Sec'y. 
No. I.^i-IG.— Riley, Ind.r-Second annual field trials of the Riley 
Field Trials Association. T. L. Graham, 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'v, Greenfield Hill, Conn. 
Nov. 20.— Robinson, III. — Illinois Field Trials Association's sec- 
ond annual field trials. O. W. Ferguson, Sec'y, Mattoon, III. 
Nov. 20.— Ruthven, Ontario, Can.— Second annual field trials of 
the North American Field Trials Club. F. E. Marcon, Jr., Sec'y, 
Windsjor, Ontario, Can. 
Nov. 27.— GlasRow, Ky.— Kentucky Field Trials Club's annual 
field trials. F. W. SamueK Sec'y, Louisville, Ky. 
Nov. 30.— Newton, N. C— Continental Field Trials Club's sixth 
annual field trials — Members' Stake. Dec. 3, Derby. Theo. 
Stiircres. .Seo'v. Greenfield Hill. Conn. 
Dec. 10.— Paris, Mo.— Fourth annual field trials of the Missouri 
Field Trials Association. L. S. Eddins, Sec'y, Sedalia, Mo. 
1901. 
Jan. 11— Greenville, Ala.— Fifth annual field trials of the Alabama 
Field Trials Club. John B. Rosenstihl, Sec'y. 
Jan. 21.— Benton County, Miss.— Tenth annual field trials of the 
United States Field Trials Club. W. B. Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, 
Tenn. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Nov. 13-17.— Vicksburg, Miss.— First annual bench show of the 
West Mississippi Agricultural, Mechanical and Live Stock Ex- 
position. John Dewhurst, Supt. 
Nov. 28-30.— Philadelphia, Pa.— .Second annusl bench show of the 
Philadelphia Dog Show Association. M. A. Viti, Sec'j'. 
Dec. 6-10.- Cincinnati. O. — ^Annual bench show of the Cincinnati 
Fox Terrier Club. J. C. Trohliger, Sec'y. 
1901. 
Feb. 26-March 1.— Cleveland. O.— Clevel'^tLd Kennel Club's annual 
bench show. C. M. Munhall, Sec'y. 
March R-9.— Pittsburg. Pa.— DuquestJe Kennel Club's annual 
bench show. F. S. Stedman, Sec'y. 
Training the Hunting Dog. 
By B. Waters, Author of **Fetch and Carryt A Treatise 
on Retrieving." 
Vn.-"HeeI/' 
"Heel" is the order commonly used to denote that 
the dog is to follow behind the shooter. There are 
constantly recurring occasions for its use, such as to 
keep the dog from aimlessly and annoyingly running 
about; to save him from expending his strength in work- 
ing out unfavora^ble or barren ground; to prevent him 
from intrusive visitations to yards and houses while 
passmg them, and to keep him generally in place when 
the shooter desires that he stop hunting. 
Special pains should be taken to teach perfect obedi- 
ence to this order, as it is essential to the best control 
of the dog at all times, and is particularlv useful when 
two or more dogs are to be handled atiekl together. 
The proper obedience to this command is not estab- 
lished till the dog will come promptly to heel when 
ordered, and there remain reliably and quietly till he 
receives the order or signal to go 011, and all this whether 
the eye of the trainer is on him or not. Restraining the 
dog at heel betimes serves also to rest him without any 
lessenmg of the day's sport. It also serves as- a pro- 
tection to him from the attacks of vicious curs, and 
from frittering away his time in visiting idle curs of 
social proclivities. 
Simple as is the act required in response to this order, 
and notwithstanding the ease with which it can be taught, 
few dogs are trained to obey it with even a reasonable de- 
gree of observance. Commonly as taught the dog comes 
dawdling in with contem])tuous castings to the right and 
left nosing about meanwhile, and, when he at last is at 
heel, if the trainer takes his eyes off him for a moment, 
he casts back to the rear, begins hunting in the wake 
of his trainer, paying visits to vagrant curs, or pottering 
about in search of bones and garbage. A eood thrashing 
is a great benefit to the offender in such "Instances. 
The first lessons in teaching this command may be 
given in the yard, or when taking him for a run in the 
fields. _ Then it is better to lead him with a cord which 
is heln in one hand Avhile the other hand holds a whip. 
At first he will go anywhere rather than behind his 
trainer, and may exhibit more or less obstinacy and 
resistance if his inclination is opposed. When walking 
along, the command "heel" is given, at the same time 
.lerkmg him toward the rear with the cord. If he after 
being forced to tlie rear, attempts to go ahead of his 
trainer, he should be whipped back to place, the trainer 
being careful to so hit him that he will endeavor to get 
behind lor safety. Then the trainer calmly resumes his 
walk, and any further attempts to lag behind or to for^e 
.-diead are to be thwarted as at first. 
If he is resolutely obstinate and resistant a spike 
collar should be put on him. Then if he charges ahead 
or sags in the collar in a refusal to go at air or if he 
.■struggles to escape, a pull on the cord will correct him 
and bring him into place at once. If he is persistent in 
charging ahead, a sharp .cut or , two with the whip will 
make him retreat to his place in the rear. 
At every correction' the command should be repeated 
so that he will learn to associate it with the act of taking 
his place at the heels of the trainer, and this should be 
persisted in till he will walk steadilv at heel. However 
no more punishment should be inflicted than is reallV 
needed to enforce the command. The regular repetition 
of the lessons and fidelity in enforcing obedience to 
details should be relied upon to teach steadiness rather 
than violence, long lessons and hurry. 
That is the first stage. When the cord and collar are 
removed, he may immediately attempt to exercise ' his 
