jVIay i8, 1901.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Pleasant Island camps the fishing has began in good 
earnest. Some new cottages have been built on the main 
land, reached by a foot bridge. All the regular visitors 
are booked and many new ones. At Haines' Landing a 
number of new cottages have been built, and one of the 
Standard Oil people, from New York, with his friends, is 
to occupy three or four of them. At Rangelcy the sal- 
mon fishing began early. Mr. A. H. Proctor, of Salem, 
with his friends Breed and Northly, have built a cottage 
on the southeast shore of the lake. Mr. Proctor and Mr. 
Northly were down a week ago, as soon as the ice was 
out, to look after their camp arrangements, not thinking 
of fishing. But finding a rod and line rigged up, Mr. 
Northly got into a boat for a ■ few minutes before the 
train started to take them home on Monday. The result 
was a trout of 3 pounds, the first of the season. Since 
that time Miss C. T. Crosby has taken several. Other 
fishermen are arriving, and the register at the Rangeley 
Lake House will soon be full, if applications are an indi- 
cation. Let fishermen think of it who went to Rangeley 
twenty-five years ago, by rail to Farmington, then by 
stage twenty miles to Phillips. Here .'^topping over night, 
they took that terrible stage ride of twenty-six miles ov^er 
Beech Hill, landing at Greenvale, more dead than alive, at 
the close of the second day. To-day the journey is made 
in parlor cars from Boston to Farmington, and then by 
to again joint their rods and go at it. Mr. Greenleaf made 
a catch of ten trout, the largest 4 pounds, and Mr. Farnum 
did almost as well. The little steamer and the dead 
fires under her boiler were forgiven. 
Calais, Me., reports say that fishing in that section has 
begun in good earnest. At Grand Lake and Grand Lake 
Stream some very good catches are being made. The wind 
has blown very hard a good deal of the time, but better 
fishing has seldom been known, when the sportsmen have 
been able to get out at all. Good catches are reported as 
follows: E. P. Boynton, Boston, 17 fish; M. Hartley, 
Boston, 39; Thomas Lincoln, Jr,, Quincy, 14; W. H. 
Allen, Newtonville, 26; G. H. Brown, Boston, 33; Dr. F, 
M. Johnson, Boston, 14; Herbert H. White, Cambridge, 
14; Charles Lewis. Cambridge, 8 ; John C. Tailor, Boston, 
10. Reports from Sebago speak of poor fishing. Big 
salmon seem to be plenty in the lake, but the smelts are 
running, and the salmon are feeding on them, declining 
any other bait. Lake Auburn reports also say that the 
fishing is poor, whether by reason of the cold weather 
and higher water it is not well understood. Salmon seem 
to be plenty, and the anglers are very likely to have sev- 
eral successful days yet. One salmon of 5 pounds was 
reported taken there last week, and a few trout. Good 
fishing is reported at the Bangor salmon pool ; the best 
ever recorded for any one week. The total weight of 
A CATCH AT TAMPICO. 
tht little "twb-foot" in arrow uage to kangeiey. At 
Rangeley there were hotel accornmodations for half a 
dozen, on a pinch. To-day the Rangeley Lake House, on 
a beautiful point overlooking the lake, will hold 250 guests. 
Paily trips to all the other fishing points on the lakes are 
easily made by steamers. Such is the march of progress, 
and the fishing interest has done it. In the State of Maine, 
are the hotel and camp people aware of how much they 
are indebted to the Forest and Stream, that has been 
modestly telling about this fishing all these years ? Where 
would the fishing interest be without the newspapers? 
There is good fishing at Bemis, foot of Mooselucma- 
guntic Lake, Me. The fishing is altnost always first there, 
and some very fine strings are being taken. State of 
Maine fishermen were generally the first on hand, and are 
getting the cream of the spring catch. Fishing is easy, for 
it is done right oft" the steamer wharves, within a few 
rods of the railway station. Among the earliest catches 
made last week, Hon. John P. Swasey, of Canton, led oiT 
with a trout of 3H pounds ; H. O. Davis, Rumford Falls, 
trout of 4 pounds ; Frank A, Hesiltine, of Phillips, trout 
of 2j4 pounds; Leonard W. Hills, Portland, ten trout 
largest pounds ; F. H. Richmond, Rumford Falls, 
several trout, one of 2V2 pounds; Joseph Dupill. Mexico, 
seven trout, largest sYz pounds. Walter Hinds and a 
friend from Portland have been at the Birches, where 
fishing is just commencing to be good. John A. Green- 
leaf, of Lewiston, and his friend, H. F. Farnum, were 
coming dowm the lake on Wednesday with a view to 
Catching the train for home. They had not had much 
luck at either Upper Dam or Mill Brook, having taken 
onl}'- a trout or two. As things sometimes go on the early 
trips on these lakes, the fire went out under the steamer's 
boiler, and they were stopped. To reach the train was 
not possible, and Mr. Greenleaf. who is a stone con- 
tractor and a very busy man, as well as a great lover 
of the rod and line, was a good deal disgusted. But there 
was no help for it, and they would be obliged to stay at 
Bemis over night. Just as the little steamer made a slow 
landing, they saw sportsmen fishing oi¥ the wharf. A 
inaB pulle4 o\\t a trout of ,3 pounds, It 4>4 teke lopg 
the catch for the week was over, 1,000 pounds, the fish 
weighing from 14 to 30 pounds. Mrs, William A. Munroe 
caught two salmon last week, both weighing about 20 
pounds each. Both fought savagely, but were finally 
landed by Mrs. Munroe, who has fished several seasons 
at the pool. Mrs. Geo. Willey has not had much ex- 
perience at the pool, but she has succeeded in landing a 
25-pound salmon, after a hard fight of over an hour. This 
is one of the largest fish of the season. From Snow 
Pond, in Kennebec county, Mc, comes the report of a 
trout being taken weighing a little over 8 pounds, a per- 
fect brook trout. It was 25 inches in length and 13 
inches broad. This is the largest fish ever known in that 
section. Fishii^g is better at Cobbosseecontee. Dwight 
L. Higgins captured last week a salmon of 6?4 pounds, the 
largest salmon of the season at that lake. Fish and Game 
Commissioner Carleton has been fishing there. He caught 
eleven trout in four hours, and during the same time 
other parties took fifteen or twenty. Adjt.-Gen. John T. 
Richards, another State official, who has been fishing at 
Cobbosseecontee, has broken the record thus far, captur- 
ing three trout, the united weight of which was nyi 
pounds. 
Plymouth, N. H., reports are of good fishing at Win- 
iiisquam Lake, where some good salomn are being taken. 
On Winnipisaukee, along Saunders' Shore, in the town of 
Guilford, some good salmon are being taken. One of 8 
pounds Avas reported there last week, to the credit of a 
Boston fisherman. Henry H. Whitman, Allen H. Moses 
and H. T. Coyverse, all of Boston, have been fishing and 
camping in the vicinity of Dorchester, N. H., and have 
brought home with them about 20 pounds of trout. Fish- 
ing contimies good at the Weirs, and sportsmen do not go 
away empty-handed. It is estimated that the weight of 
the salmon and trout already runs well up into thousands 
of pounds. The New Hampshire Fish Commissioners 
are well pleased with the success that salmon are making 
in tlie larger lakes and ponds of the State. Reports say 
that over 500 pounds of trout and salmon have been taken 
in the vicinity of Alton Bay during the week. Newfound 
I'^^Mp Ib showing up as w^^U as Visual thi? year, ^ood, 
big lakers and some salmon are being caught. H. E. Gero 
and A. B. Kelley, of Plyinouth, and A. L. Richardson, of 
Boston, landed five salmon last week, the united weight of 
which was 10 pounds, as well as three^ trout of 4%, 4^2 
and 5 pounds. They fished in the vicinity of Bristol. At 
Grove Hill Farm there have been registered the past 
week George F. Richardson, Newton, Mass. ; Dr. F. G. 
Kuhl, Woonsocket, R. I.; J. P. Morse, Boston, and 
Samuel Way. Each has -caught some good fish. 
Special. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
The Yellow-Hacklc for Saltnon. 
There is a large blue envelope, cloth-lined, and bear- 
ing on the outside "Forest and Stream Angling Notes," 
that is always on my desk. It is not always the same 
envelope, for even cloth-lined envelopes will wear out, and 
when this occurs the worn one is replaced by another 
new but similar one. Into this envelope I put all sorts 
of things — letters, clippings, memoranda, made in all 
sorts of places; flies with histories, queries and notes on 
bits of paper or backs of envelopes to serve as reminders. 
When there comes an evening that I can sit down at my 
desk at home, I do some fishing into the interior of the 
big envelope, and then do the writing that I try to do as 
often as once a week imder the heading "Angling Notes." 
The contents of the envelope have been growing of late 
because I have rarely been able to sit dbwn at my own 
desk at home longer than to contribute to the contents 
from my pocket memorandum or traveling bag, and have 
lacked the time to make a draft upon them, .so this even- 
ing I have first of all been weeding the contents, for 
angling memoranda will sometimes get stale if not used 
in its proper season. One item is nearly a year old, judg- 
ing from the date of the letter containing it, but'it is still 
in sea.son, and I take it first. 
Mr. Archibald Mitchell sent Kfle a. letter wriffc'n lo liim 
by Mr. J. J. Dodds, and now I quote from it in part: 
"I was gratified to see in a recent issue of Forest and 
STRE.AM an account of your sttccess in^salmon fishing this 
season. Such sport is beyond my reach at present, still I 
am fisherman enough to feel the blood, tingle in my veins 
in reading Mr. Cheney's account, and can cheerfully con- 
gratulate you. In my la.st letter I beheve I mentioned a 
salmon fly Icnown to me by the name of yellow-hackle, the 
invention and pet fly of an old salmon fishing acquaintance 
in the 'North countrec.' During the interval I received a 
letter from him, inclosing one of the original patterns I 
refer to, and I now inclose it to you. It may interest you, 
although it is very evident that your own patterns are 
deadly enough for all purposes. It is not a gaudy fly, but 
I have seen it do some excellent execution at times when 
well-known standard patterns drew a blank. My old 
clnim says of the fly: T have improved on the old 
1/attern and now add a golden pheasant crest down the 
center, and also a jungle-cock feather at the cheeks, and 
find it an advantage.' He did not send me one of his 
latest dressing, as he had to tie them all on double wires." 
To me the peculiarity of this extract is that it is the 
first time that I have ever heard a fly designed purely 
for salmon fishing called a hackle, be it yellow or any 
other color. We have all sorts of hackles for trout fish- 
ing and a hackled fly has been considered strictly a trout 
fiy. Having no wings, it is supposed to counterfeit a 
caterpillar. The novelty of the term hackle applied to a 
salmon fly caused me to look at several lists of salmon 
flies — Farlaw's, Forest's and Cummings' among others — 
and I can find no mention of hackle in connection with 
dressings for salmon flies, nor does the name appear with 
either prefix or suflix. Unfortunately, the fly did not 
come to me with the letter, and so I do not know if its 
dressing bears out its name, but as a hackle does not 
liave cheeks I assume that it does not, and to call any 
salmon fly a hackle would seem to me to be. an innova- 
tion that would not be felished by the salmon fisherman 
who, perhaps, would not be displeased to admit it to his 
fly-box as the "yellow charcoal burner" or the "yellow 
cheesemonger," for a salmon fly is such a pretentious 
creation that it is not to be described merely as a hackle 
though it be red, white and blue, with polka dots of 
lavender and green. 
r^. Infant Ffsh. 
Lately I had something to say about killing baby trout, 
and entered a protest against the practice and tried to 
show why the little trout are protected by statute. A 
few years ago T entered a protest against the killing of 
baby whitefish the size of sardines and 'selling them in 
tins the size of sardine tins. It is true that they were 
advertised as cooked with tomato sauce, and however 
savor3^ the tomato sauce may have made them, it was no 
excuse for slaughtering hzhy fish. 
Now I wish to enter another protest, and this time it 
is against the killing of baby mackerel. Here is the ad- 
vertisement as I find it in a local paper: 
"■infant mackerel, 5 cents EACH. 
"We were sorry to disappoint many customers last 
week, but the demand for these fish was way beyond our 
greatest expectations. We are now prepared to fill all 
orders. Special price by the barrel." 
"Infant mackerel for five cents each" I Just think of 
the assurance of the advertiser. And by the barrel, too. As 
I knew the advertiser, I called upon him and expressed 
my opinion of his advertisement orally and in person, with 
an adjective thrown in occasionally to be impressive and 
to fill the gaps when other language or parts of 
language failed me, and concluded with Frank Daniels' 
oft-repeated question to the court jester in the "Ameer": 
"Aren't yoir ashamed of yourself?" 
Monster Fish. 
From Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, my brother sends 
me_ a photograph of himself standing by his yellowtail. 
which was, when taken, the record fish with hook and 
line, weight 44 pounds. This fish has since been exceeded 
in weight by one of 44^ pounds, 1f I am correctly in- 
formed by members of the family who have recently re- 
turned from California, but who are "not given to storing 
their minds with the precise weights of fishes as if that 
was the end of all things." This I was also informed as 
recently as this evening. I never have seep my sisters 
clinibip^ Ifpcs to study birds, aUhoygh tl^nir govnus soTiTi*''-' 
