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FOREST AND STREAM. 
'[April 27, 1901, 
side of the bend (which is put on for trolling). With- 
out this curvature the minnow would be simply dragged 
through the water without any semblance of life; with 
it the minnow swerves and lunges about just like a 
maimed fish. Also the hooks used on the Seth Green 
gang were far too coarse. 
Cut 3. — is the ordinary Seth Green gang, B is one 
of our own design, C the minnow curved on a Seth 
Green gang, D the minnow curved on our own gang, E 
(in dotted lines) is the mouth of a lake trout seizing a 
minnow on a Seth Green gang without touching a hook, 
F is the same fish seizing a minnow on our gang and 
getting hooks G into its mouth. Our experience has been 
a little tug, scarcely perceptible, on a Seth Green gang 
and the minnow and fish are gone; on ours, the same 
little tug and the fish is securely hooked. 
Hook G should always be fastened into the dorsal fin 
of the minnow; it is then pretty sure to be taken well 
We give a cut herewith of the one we use. They are 
simple and easily made. 
Cut 6. — The Reel. AA are two pieces of plain pine 
wood, 14 inches long, 2 inches wide and Vs of an inch 
thick, shaped as shown in cut. BB are two round smooth 
bars of wood an inch in diameter, fastened at each end 
with a couple of screws. CC are two pieces of brass wire 
I inch from bars BB and fastened at the end with nuts 
or turned into the wood. The upper end of the line 
should be securely fastened to this bar in case the line 
has to be thrown overboard temporarily for any purpose. 
The reel acts as a buoy to mark the line. 
James Churchward. 
New York City. 
Fishing in Lake Keuka. 
Lake Keuka is one of the liquid gems that adorn the 
map of central New York, and is one of the most pleas- 
ing and beautiful lakes in the State. Its form is Y-shaped; 
the upper end lies in Steuben county and the two arms 
in Yates county. . The level of the lake is about 800 feet 
above the sea; its length from Hammondsport through 
the East Branch to Penn Yan is 22 miles, and from Ham- 
mondsport through the West Branch to Branchport 18 
miles. The country surrounding this lake is the cham- 
pagne district of America ; here, as in no other part of the 
United States, does grape growing and wine making en- 
froni the eastern part of the State?" We have carefully 
studied the question, and from conversations we have 
had with anglers and pleasure seekers, get but one an- 
swer, "It is an out-of-the-way place and takes a week 
to get there." This is correct, although two of our 
leading trunk roads run within half a dozen miles of the 
lake. Although it is only 300 miles distant from N»w 
York, it takes almost half as long again to reach it as it 
does to get to Chautauqua, which is nearly 450 miles 
from New York. 
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. runs 
first-class, fast trains to Bath — the transfer station to the 
lake. Here the traveler takes the Bath & Hammonds- 
port R. R. to the shores of Keuka Lake — eight miles 
distant by rail. The connections are such that the 
traveler has to wait anywhere from half an hour to four 
hours before he can get out of Bath again ; when he does 
eventually reach the lake, he has to wait another hour 
before the steamboat starts. This hour's wait is in a dirty, 
ill-kept depot or on a dock bestrewn with rubbish. It 
takes nearly half as long to get from Bath to Gibson's or 
Keuka on the lake, a distance of 20 miles only, as it does 
from New York to Bath, a distance of 300 miles. 
It is no wonder that the traveler or fisherma:n becomes 
disgusted and will neither pay this water a second visit 
nor advise any of his friends to undergo the same im- 
positions. If those in control of these loaal connections 
— the Bath & Hammondsport R. R. and the Keuka 
Navigatioii Company— tried to devise a plan whereby 
into the fish's mouth. Seventy-five per cent, of the lake 
trout we catch get this hook into their mouth some- 
where; fully 60 per cent, this hook and no other. We 
very much doubt whether the other hooks of our gang 
could not be advantageously discarded. Certainly the 
center one on the other gut could. We would be willing 
to put up a wager that if the dorsal fin hook only were 
used and the minnow bent with a piece of silk thread, 
more fish would be taken on this hook than on a Seth 
Green gang fully equipped. 
As there is no possible chance of striking a fish on 
300 feet of line, only the finest of hooks should be used. 
We make our gangs of Nos. 8, 10 and 12 hooks. No. 10 
we fancy are the best; with these sharp, fine hooks the' 
fish easily hooks itself. . 
The Whippletree. — This is also a device of our own — 
there are many others, but all have their disadvantages. 
What is required is a device where the fastening is ab- 
solutely secure and yet at the same time a leader can be 
taken ofif or put on it in a second. The advantage of a 
whippletree is that if a fish works around the main line 
the leader turns the whippletree, thus preventing the fish 
from winding the leader around the line. 
The necessity of being able to take off a leader quickly 
is: You hook a fish on one of the lower leaders and 
work your fish gradually in until you come to a leader; 
. if this leadeV is taken into the boat and remains attached 
to the main line, and the fish makes a run on you, you 
have either to let go of the line altogether or run the 
chance of getting a gang of hooks into your hand (as we 
have often done before designing our whippletree). 
The long, deep trolling line of Keuka is only an ex- 
aggerated Paternoster which was in vogue as far back as 
the immortal Walton, and was used commonly in his 
time for perch fishing. 
Instead of simply illustrating this whippletree, we give 
a series of cuts and sections showing how any one who 
can hold a pair of pliers in his hand can make one. The 
necessary tools are three pairs of pliers (flat and round 
nosed), cutters and a file. The material, one piece of 
14-gauge hard brass wire, 8 or 10 inches long (this is the 
bar on which the device is made), three pieces of mer- 
chant brass wire, i8-gauge, 6 inches long each. Mer- 
chant wire is not so hard and brittle as regular spring 
wire, and not so soft as to not have any spring in it. 
Cut 4. — Section i. A is a piece of 14-gauge wire ; B 
is one of the pieces of i8-gauge wire wound around A 
from right to left half a dozen times ; C is another piece 
of i8-gauge wire wound around A in an opposite direction 
to B. 
Section 2. Draw B and C close together on the bar 
A, then make two or three twists around themselves, as 
shown in D, leaving two ends E and F. 
Section 3. Turn end E (in section 2) up at right 
angles to bar A; then cut it off about 5^ of an inch from 
the twist. With a pair of round-nosed pliers turn the 
loop F — straighten out end F (in section 2) and then 
about ^ of an inch from the twist turn the eye G— cut off 
the end of the wire ^ of an inch beyond the loop F and 
turn the extreme point up, as shown in H. 
Now take the whippletree off of bar A, cut off the two 
ends B2 and C2 and with a file smooth off all ragged 
edges and points, also the points of F and EC. 
Section 4. Turn an eye K in the third piece of 18- 
gauge wire, winding the end around the bar two or three 
times L. 
Section 5. On the wire of section 4 string a glass 
beam M, then follow it with whippletree BB, finish off 
with turning an eye K2 on the top similar to the eye Ki 
on the bottom. The device is now ready for use. To 
attach a leader, pass the eye of swivel N (section 5) over 
the point H and down into the eye G, as shown in sec- 
tion 3; then spring down the arm under the loop F. If 
properly made, this light device will stand a strain of 30 
to 35 pounds. 
O (in section 5) is a g-foot single gut leader with 
gang P attached ready for a minnow. 
The following swivel sinkers should be carried for this 
line : 2-ounce, 4-ounce, 6-ounce and 8-ounce. The heavy 
ones are required for very deep water or where two lines 
are being used. 
Cut 5. — With two lines, weighted with two sinkers, say 
3 ounces and 6 ounces, two anglers can fish from the same 
boat, for' the set of leaders on line A will be from 20 to 
40 feet behind the leaders on line B, so that they will not 
get tangled, but should the long line A get a fish on 
it, the short one B_ should be taken in, otherwise occa- 
sionally the fish will run around the short line when 
nearing the boat. 
On account of the number of breaks, whippletrees, 
swivels, etc., on this, line, ^ sp^gial reel is necessary fo|- i\] 
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gross the entire population. It is also a region rich in In- 
dian traditions. Red Jacket's summer and winter resorts 
are pointed out to the tourist and stranger sojourning in 
this delightful spot. Tradition says that here Red Jacket 
rested, fished and hunted, but that no heartrending, re- 
sounding war-whoops echoed o'er this happy scene, for 
here he laid aside his tomahawk and other weapons of 
war ; here now, as of old, is peace and repose. But we are 
diverging from our subject, which is: 
Owing principally to the late Seth Green, Lake Keuka 
is one of the best stocked open fishing waters on this 
continent. The public, generally, know but little about 
the grand, exceptional fishing to be found in this lake. 
The question has often been put to us by hotel- 
keepers and residents along the lake, "Why is not the 
lake more frequented by New Yorkers and fishermen 
B 
they could keep the public away from this lake, they 
could do nothing better than follow their present methods 
of taking care of through passengers from the trunk 
lines. 
The lake nevertheless abounds in game fishes, and it 
well repays the angler who can afford the extra time that 
is required to get there tO' pay it a visit. 
Lake Keuka contains landlocked salmon or ouananiche, 
great lake trout or togue, California or rainbow trout, 
small-mouth black bass, wall-eyed pike, pickerel (East- 
ern pond), yellow perch, etc., etc., muscallonge (recently 
planted.) 
We herewith give a birdseye view of Lake Keuka, 
which we have drawn especially for the readers of For- 
est AND Stream^ marking what we have found to be ex- 
ceptionally good spots. ]^o doubt there are many others 
equally as good, but we have never fished them, as we 
could always catch all the fish we wanted on the grounds 
which we have marked. 
Grounds marked thus, - are where we 
fish for landlocked salmon, great lake trout, rainbow 
trout and w^all-eyed pike. 
Markings thus, x x x x: x x x, are bass, pickerel and 
perch waters. 
We will now give a little information pertaining to 
these marked waters. 
Landlocked Salmon, 
The best grounds for this fish are yet unknown, only 
two specimens having been recorded — both taken during 
the summer of 1900. One was taken in -Hammondsport 
Bay and weighed 4 pounds; the other, the first one, was 
taken half way between Gibsons and the Bluff — just above 
t.j]e center of the mouth of the West Brancl^-^ 
