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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 29, 1901. 
I have written this note to resent Dr. Merriam's appli- 
cation of the words "and others" to the principal wit- 
nesses against the sea lions, and to ask if Dr. C. Hart 
Merriam is so great that he can in a journal of science 
class such distinguished scientists as Dr. David Starr 
Jordan and Dr. Charles H. Gilbert as "and others." 
Steelhead. 
Stanford University, California, June 15, 
Glenmere Lake. 
Orange County, New York, 
Glenmere Lake is on the main line of the 'Erie Rail- 
road. It can be easily reached from three 'different sta- 
tions: Greycourt, 54 miles from New York. 4 miles from 
the lake; Chester, 55 miles from New York, 3 miles from 
the lake; Goshen, 60 miles from New York, 4 miles from 
the lake. It is sometimes advisable to use either Greycourt 
or Goshen, as many of the express trains stop at either or 
both of these stations, while they run through Chester 
without a stop. 
Glenmere Lake is undoubtedly the best pickerel water 
we know of, both as regards size and quantity of fish. 
We give a birdseye view may of the lake, an explanation 
of which will show why this lake is always so plenti- 
both Cases a little piece cJf the white belly of another fish 
should be attached to the hook as bait. No feathers of 
any description should be used. 
Now, with either Pat or Tom, the two hotel guides, we 
will take a turn around the lake, noting as we cast or 
troll along the shores the best points and holes. Starting 
from the boat house, we will hug the right-hand shore. 
As soon as our spoons are fairly out we expect to find one 
waiting for us under the shade of the willows, then an- 
other one or two from the clump of weeds where the road 
turns off to Florida. A little beyond this clump of weeds 
is an orchard on the shore. Just off the last apple tree 
down by the water is a deep hole. At this point we 
expect a big fellow, as it is a favorite spot of theirs. For 
about 100 yards from this hole the bottom is gravelly and 
the fishing only so so, but as soon as the fence is reachea 
the fishing is again good and continues so to the head of 
the lake. About 100 yards out into the lake opposite 
the next fence are a number of clumps of weeds. We al- 
ways get three or four trolling around and between 
them. From this weed bed up to the lower point of the 
bay is first-class water, both for trolling and casting. 
Some firi,e fish can be got by casting in among the weeds 
close to shore and alongside the cranberry bushes. All 
around the lower part of the baj^ is good casting ground. 
From the lower ppint of the bay to 100 yards above the 
upper boat house is the best stretch of trolling water in 
started and in time for lunch. The reader may ask how 
many fish we haA^e taken since we started ; we will say that 
we have on many an occasion taken over 100 in once 
thoroughly working around the lake, as above described, 
and this between morning and lunch time; and during the 
day over 200. The fact is, the lake is overstocked. We 
have no hesitation in saying that if one-half of the fish 
were taken out the quality of the fishing would be im- 
proved, for then the percentage of large fish — 3, 4 and 5 
pounds — would be greater than now, but as long as the 
Marsh remains to foster and protect the young fish all the 
legitimate fishing in the world, no matter how many an- 
glers fish the lake, will never materially reduce the quan- 
tity. 
Has any of our readers a taste for frogs' legs? If 
so, let him take Pat on a warm, still night and go up into 
the Marsh. With the aid of a lamp or torch a big fat. 
frog can be seen calmly sitting on every other lilypad. 
With a long bamboo pole having a couple of yards of 
copper wire and a big treble hook on the small end of 
the pole, the (frog) angler can in a short time get all 
he wants. If he be an expert in jabbing there is no 
reason why he should not return from the Marsh in 
two or three hours with a couple of hundred frogs. Pat 
is an expert in taking them off the hook. During a 
calm, warm afternoon they will also be found out on the 
lilypads. The outfit now will be Pat again, the same 
fully stocked. Were millions of dollars to be spent in 
producing a perfect breeding ground, Glenmere could not 
be improved upon. Running back from the island the lake 
has a long arm stretching up into the woods. Tliis arm 
of water is very shallow and thoroughly matted with 
weeds— so much so, that very few or none of the large 
fish go up far beyond its edge. This arm of shallow water 
is called the Marsh. Along the edge of the Marsh the 
big fish make tlieir beds and spawn. As soon as the fry 
make their appearance they instinctively take to the weeds 
and shallow water, where they are afforded perfect pro- 
tection, .so that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions-, 
of young fisli live througli their first year's existence, 
where in other less favored .spot.s they would have become 
the food of their cannibal brethren. The young fish do 
not appear to leave this nursery of theirs until they are 
about the size of railroad spikes and sufficiently strong 
to have a chance out in the body of the lake. 
During the spring and summer one of the best fishing 
spots in the lake is along the edge of the Marsh among 
the crandocks and the many clumps of weeds. The big 
fish lie here evidently awaiting the exodus of the little 
fellows. This ground cannot be trolled^ — the obstacles are 
too man}-^ and too thick— but excellent results can be ob- 
tained by casting. The farmers and local Waltonians 
always cover this ground very thoroughly by skittering. 
When we first commenced to regularly fish this water, we 
did great work casting with Skinner spoons. It took 
but a very short time for the local fishermen to find that 
a Skinner spoon was by far a better lure than their old- 
fashioned skitter bait. To-day they cannot be induced to 
use anything else ; and really these local fishermen are 
experts in casting a spoon with their 18 and 20 foot reed 
poles. 
Some short time since large-mouth hiack bass were 
planted in the lake; they are now becoming quite plenti- 
ful, averaging about a pound each. There is not the 
slightest doubt that within a year or two Glenmere will 
lead all other waters as a bass ground, as she does to-day 
as a pickerel water. Large yellow perch are so numerous 
that the water appears to be literally alive with them. The 
best rigs to use, in Glenmere Lake are : For trolling, Skin- 
ner casting spoons, No. 3, silver and brass; for cast- 
ing, Skianer casting spoQn, No, 4J4, sUyer mid brass, In 
the lake. We have taken scores of double-headers just 
out_ from' the big oak tree below" the boat house, and 
again just off the boat house. We on one occasion took 
twenty-nine fish in thirty-one minutes in this stretch of 
water, and all good ones. It was almost an impossibility 
to get the spoon ten feet from the boat before a fish 
was on it, and often it was taken when only 6 or 7 feet 
from the boat. . * 
From the boat house the lake take.s the fbrm Of a large 
cove. Part of this Water is available for trolling, but 
the bulk is casting Avater. Some of the biggest fish taken 
in the lake comes from the cove, and are generally taken 
by casting into the holes among the weeds close to the 
shore just above the boat house. On leaving this cove 
we will hug the opposite shore and pass down on the in- 
side of the little rush island, where we generally get two or 
three fish alongside the rushes. On turning the corner of 
the bulrushes on shore we generally get three or four 
moi'e victims for the box. When down at the end of the 
bulrushes turn up toward the Marsh, keeping as close to 
the rushes as possible. Some big fish are annually taken 
here. From the bulrushes down to the end of the big 
island is magnificent water. The fishing is in among the 
crandocks and cranberry bushes. Should the angler catch 
the fish well on the feed at this spot, there is no limit 
to his catch. Having before noted the fishing around the 
mouth of the Marsh, we will start into Peddler's Cove 
from the last bunch of cranberry bushes on the outside of 
the big island. Peddler's Cove is one of our favorite 
spots in the lake ; there are always plenty of bass, pickerel 
and big perch in it. It is available for trolling, casting or 
bait-fishing. At the bottom and on the outside of 
Peddler's Cove there is a small island; the water is good 
all around it. 
After leaving this island we round Catfish Rock and 
generally get a couple before our lines are straightened 
out for the run down the lake. The deepest water in the 
lake is off Catfish Rock (t6 feet). The shore all 
the way from Catfish Rock down to the lower cove is good 
trolling water, and generally yields three or four fish. 
The lower cove generally adds three or four more to tlie 
box, and another three or four can be got along the shore 
from this cove over to the bathing pavilion. We round 
the pavilion and are at the boat house from which we 
long pole, but instead of a wire and treble hook, a couple 
of yards of linen line and a single hook, with a piece of 
red flannel on it for bait. It requires a good set of 
nerves to witness their enormous jumps for tlie red rag 
without a shock. There is quite a lot of fun chasing 
frogs in the Marsh, in addition to a dainty morsel for 
dinner or lunch. 
Tom is more of an expert fisherman than a frog 
hunter. He is of rather a peculiar race, his father having 
been a negro and mother an Indian. Tom is a magnifi- 
cent specimen of manhood, standing over 6 feet high, 
and broad in proportion. Some of his admirable trails 
are: An untiring worker, ever ready, willing, ■ obliging 
and polite, and a regular fish fox, Tom is worthy of any 
one's trust and confidence. 
When an angler is going to fish Glenmere Lake, it is 
just as well to write the proprietor, Mr. H. H. Cable, 
whose post ofiice address is Glenmere Lake Hotel, Florida, 
Orange county, N. Y., and let him know by what train he 
is coming and at what station he will get off. Mr, Cable 
will then send a rig to meet him. When at the lake it will 
be only a -matter of five minutes before he will find him- 
self pleasantly and agreeably situated, and perfectly at 
home. Although absolutely in the country, the hotel has 
telephone connection, so that any business man can have a 
talk with his office at any time he wishes. 
Before leaving this very charming little lake, which is 
one of the many artistic bits of water that dot and adorn 
beautiful Orange count}', we must take a glimpse of its 
more than beautiful surroundings. Glenmere Lake is on 
the borders of Goshen, a veritable land flowing with milk 
and honey. Some of the fairest lands conceivable arc 
in the vicinity of Glenmere. It would se.em that nature 
had done her very best to bestow her greatest gifts 
throughout this region. In driving from the lake to the 
village of Goshen, a distance of about four miles, we 
pass through a stretch of most perfect park-like land; 
nothing richer or more pleasing to the eye exists. From 
this rural gem we will take the opposite direction from 
Hie lake and pass through miles of forests and rugged 
mountains, until we look down on Greenwood Lake. .-3 
silver thread among the somber green lines of forest-clad 
mountains. This part of the country is wild and pic- 
turesque. Once more we will start frorn Glenmere and. 
