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FOREST AND STREAM. 
(July 6, 1901. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Heated Term. 
Chicago, 111., June 29. — We have been favored here in 
Chicago for the last week with a section of the hottest kind 
of hot weather. The usual consequences of a heated term 
in a large city have ensued — deaths, prostrations, suicides. 
As to the latter, one cannot avoid the reflection how much 
better it would have been had the suicide gone fishing in- 
stead of committing suicide. Indeed, how much better it 
- would be for everybody suffering in the cities if, on the 
^appearance of such a spell of weather as we have had this 
week, they would slam down their desk tops and simply 
go out where life is endurable. Big cities were never 
meant as a living place for humanity, and the fact that they 
are such is simply one of those perversions not sanctioned 
by nature. 
As to the fishing pure and simple, or as viewed fi'ora 
the standpoint of returns, not so much could be said for 
^ this week. The hot weather has put the fish pretty much 
off their feed, and although a cool wave has made its ap- 
pearance to-day, it is hardly to be expected that the week- 
end parties will have much success beyond that of having 
a good time and a cooling off. The best results in bass 
fishing of which I have had any word in the last ten days 
is that reported by Mr. E. R. Letterman and Mr. A. C. 
Srnith, at the Lauderdale chain of lakes near Elkhorn, 
Wis., from which point the two above gentlemen re- 
turned this week. Their friend, Mr. F. N. Peet. came 
back a few days earlier than they did. Mr, Peet tells me 
that they had simply splendid bass fishing, and caught 
all the bass they cared to. They found their best successes 
in casting over the heavy weed beds with spoon hook and 
pork rind or frog bait. The bass were on the feed and 
bit ferociously at times, the sport for several days being 
of very fine and satisfactory quality. As to how many 
fish the party took, Mr. Peet declined to answer, excepting 
that he himself brought home three baskets full of bass. 
One angling store reports this week that it is outfiting 
about fifty anglers for the regular Saturday afternoon 
exodus to the Fox Lake chain and the lakes of lower 
Wisconsin. This will show something of the angling 
traffic'of this point in tiie summer time. 
Good Muscallunge* 
At last I get word of one decent muscallunge — indeed, 
the only good one I have heard about this summer so 
far. Mr. S. Pedlow, of this city, reports the news re- 
garding the fish. It was caught in Trude Lake, Wis., by 
William Simpson, of Milwaukee, and a friend, who were 
guided by August Eastman, of Mercer, Wis. The fish 
wais taken on June 15, and on the evening of the same 
day weighed 32 pounds, at which time it was weighed in 
Quinn's Hotel in Mercer. This is not a thumping big 
muscallunge, but 32-pounders are mighty rare these days. 
Michigan Grayling. 
Mr. George L. Alexander, uf Grayling, Mich., in a 
letter to a friend states that he has had some good fishing 
for rainbow trout in the Au Sable this spring, and on one 
trip was so lucky as to catch three nice specimens of 
grayling. He does not report any other grayling taken in 
his immediate neighborhood. He thinks the ISTorth Branch 
of "the Au Sable will not stand such heavy fishing as the 
main river. Mr. Alexander is trying to assemble a little 
party of friends for a trip down the Au Sable during the 
month of July, and is so good as to suggest that it might 
be a pretty good thing for Forest axd Stream to be repre- 
sented on this trip, in which opinion I cordially agree with 
him. 
The tendency of the news from the lower peninsula c! 
Michigan seems to be that on the whole the trout season 
has; not been very satisfactory. The rainbow trout can 
.still report progress in Michigan. The grayling situation 
is rpore hopeful than it was at this time last year or the 
year before, or the year before that. It is not to be im- 
agined that the grayling may be rated an angling fish in 
these, days, _ but its chief interest lies in the fact that it is 
not yet extinct and may at a later time become an angling 
possibilit}^ once more. 
Mr. F. H. Tinthoff and his friend, Mr. C. H. Harris, 
who fished in the Au Sable this spring, caught a few 
grayling, though not enough to amount to much as a 
ibasket of themselves, 
i 
Good Bass Fishing. 
Mr. O, Von Lengerke, who has i^ecentlv returned from 
the! Neepeenauk on Lake Pucka way. Wis., reports ex- 
cellfent fishing in Puckaway Lake and the Fox River ad- 
joiiiing that place. He thinks that this spot is a splendid 
-place for the all-round sportsman there being bass fishing, 
duck shooting, prairie chicken shooting, grouse shooting 
and squirrel shooting, all within reach of that point and 
in the proper seasoiis. 
Grand Rapids Carnival, 
yir: Ben Bmh. of Kalamazoo, Mich., is taking charge 
of some of the details regarding the coming bait and flv 
casting contests which will be held in connection with the 
grand celebration and carnival at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
on July 3 and 4. A very liberal prize list has been estab- 
lished by the Grand Rapids citizens, and the entry to all 
the contests is free. Any and all sportsmen are invited to 
attend and to compete. It is the aim of the Grand Rapids 
nien to popularize the sport of angling, and Mr. Bush sees 
no reason why this should not become as popular as trap- 
.shooting. He requests that Chicago anglers keep in mind 
the dates ^nd come over to Grand Rapids and help boom 
the boomiest carnival that ever was pulled off. It has 
been^ a pleasure more than once to call attention to the 
quality of the sportsmanship of this beautiful little Michi- 
gan city of Grand Raoids. We doubt if there is a place 
in the United States of its size which has more sportsmen 
to the square inch or a better class of fellows. For any 
one who can leave the dear ones at home on the glorious 
Foiirth, Grand Rapids offers inducements of distinctly 
pleasing sort. 
For the"Moanta?n8. 
Mr. Bert Seaboldt. of Salt Lake City, Utah, an ex- 
,perienced, all-round sportsman and angler, is fn Chicago 
this week outfitting for a long trip in the monntains. Mr. 
Seaboldt. will be accompanied by Mr. C. H. Aldridi, At- 
torney-General under the administration of the late Presi- 
dent Harrison. The two are providing themselves with a 
splendid outfit at Spaldings', and will later in the season 
start for the mountains. They want trout and bear, and 
the entire likelihood is that they will get both, more espe- 
cially as Mr. Seaboldt savies the Rocky Mountains 
a plenty. 
Mr. Albert Hayden, of this city, starts in a few days 
upon an extended trip in Colorado, where he will spend 
several weeks, chiefly engaged in fishing for trout. Mr. 
C. H. Ferry, of this city, with his family, starts for Lac du 
Flambeau, Wis., to-day, and will be gone for a few weeks. 
Muscallunge will be his principal endeavor. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
The next meeting of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club will 
be held on July 13. This will be a re-entry day and will 
complete the first half of the 1901 schedule. All the mem- 
bers are requested to be present and make up their back 
scores. The club is two events behind the schedule owing 
to weather of an ttnfavorable nature, and Secretary 
Heston hopes that everybody will come on and finish up 
these back scores. The following scores were made at 
the last meet, June 22. 
Long Distance 
Bait Casting. 
Delicacy Ba: 
Fly. Feet. 
Per Cent. 
Per Cent. 
85 
87 7-10 
95 1-5 
I. H. Bellows 
100 
84 9-10 
94 2-3 
85 
86 2-5 
89 1-2 
85 7-10 
h! G. Hascall 
107 
95 1-5 
97 M 
96 1-5 
941-6 
84 1-5 
95 
G. A. Hinterleitner, re-entry.. 
93 1-5 
F. N. Peet 
104 
87 1-5 
is M 
79 1-5 
Tits 
81 1-2 
93 9-10 
84 1-3 
G W. Salter, re-entry,.,,.;... 
95 7-10 
^jr vv, c^aiter, re-cniry . ... 
Winning scores: Long distance fly, H. G. Hascall 107 feet; 
bait-castinpr, N. C. Heston, 96 1-5 per cent.; delicacy bait. F, N, 
Peet, 98 1-6 per cent. 
At the ''Wood Pile.*' 
Mr. John D. McLeod, of Milwaukee, dropped 
in at Chicago Tuesday last for a little visit. Mr. Mc- 
Leod left Milwaukee on Friday for his weekly visit to 
the Wood Pile, as he has rather shabbily, named the 
exquisite little lodge owned by Mr. Miller and himself on 
their preserved stream, the Pine River. Mr. Mcleod 
invited two or three Chicago friends to join him this week, 
but unhappily every one of these gentlemen was unable 
to go, Mr, Graham H. Harris had a prior engagement 
and left the middle of the week for a bass and muscallunge 
trip at Manitowish, Wis. Mr. Hempstead Washburne 
and family have left Chicago for the season, and are now 
residing in their cottage at the Huron Mountain Club, on 
the south shire of Lake Superior. 
Angler Poet, 
M!r. John S. Zimmerman, of Chicago, who has occasion- 
ally' appepared in the columns of the Fore.st and Strkam, 
is well known among his friends as a toucher of the lyfe. 
His Chicago publishers announce this week the apoear- 
ance of a book of poems by Mr. Zimmerman, entitled "The 
Rubaiyat of Mirza-Mem'n." The version is stated to con- 
tain 131 quatrain's in the form immortalized by Edward 
Fitzgerald. 
E. Hough. 
Haktfobd Buildikg, Chicago, 111. 
San Francisco Fly-Castmg; Qtab** 
Medal contests, .series 1901, Saturday, contest No. 6, 
held at Stow Lake, June 22 : 
Events Event Events 
No. 1,' No. 2, No. 4. 
Distance, Accuracy,- , Event No " , T^ure 
Feet. Per cent. Acc. i Del. % Net i Casting^ 
-Battn 80 71.8 88.8 75.10 79.9 56 
Brooks 100 91.4 91.4 69.2 80.3 
Everett 109 85.8 Sfi 75.10 80.11 
Grant 99 79.8 88 70 79 70.fi 
Mansfield 94.4 94.4 74.2 84.3 92.7 
Moclcer 98 87 94.8 75.10 85,3 
Muller 103 91.4 89 80 84.6 
Yoxxne: 100 86 92 75 83.6 70.8 
Smvtti 81.8 85.4 73.4 79.4 
Judges, Everett and Muller; referee, Mansfield; clerk, 
Smyth. 
Sunday, contest No. 6. held at Stow Lake, Jtme 23. 
Wind, northwest; weather, warm and clear: 
, , 87 
81.4 
90.8 
74.2 
82.6 
69.fi 
Blade 
, , 78 
80 
60.4 
69.2 
64.9 
,, 100 
84 
87 
63.4 
75.2 
Brotherton . . . 
.. 110 
81.8 
90.8 
75 
82.10 
Daverkosen . . 
.. 105 
89 
81.?, 
75.10 
78.9 
106 
S9.8 
88.4 
75.10 
82.1 
,. 92 
74.8 
62.8 
73.4 
68 
103 
SO 
77 
73.4 
75.2 
65.11 
. 121 
84.4 
90.4 
74.2 
82.3 
Tsenbruck 
., 70 
B KennifF 
, 100 
76*" 
77" 
74;2 
75!? 
C R Keniff . . 
. 99 
79 
87.4 
74.2 
80.9 
87.7 
91 
91.4 
76.8 
84 
83,2 
Mocker , 
.. 95 
85.4 
91 
7 5 
83 
. 98 
87.8 
81.8 
75.10 
78.9 
S^yth 
82.4 
78 
78.6 
77.9 
90.8 
S9.8 
75 
82.4 
Young 
., 90 
94.8 
83,8 
76.8 
80.2 
Judges, Young and Turner; refereCj Mansfield; clerk, 
Smyth. 
A Mtiskrat on the Fly, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I recently received a letter from the celebrated Adi- 
rondack guide, Charles O. Bartlett, of Saranac Lake, 
who probably knows as much about the Adirondacks 
as any guide now living, and as he gives me therein a 
very novel experience in fly-fishing, I thought the read- 
ers of Forest AND Stre.am would be interested to learn 
of a new kind of fly-fishing introduced in the North 
Woods by guide Bartlett. He writes me as follows: 
"Well, I must tell you of my fishing experience last 
Saturday. I went down to the saw mill dam, near the 
Au Sable RiJi^er, fly-fishing. I commenced casting, when 
I saw a muskrat swimming from the dam over toward 
the flume, about twenty feet below me, so I made three 
casts for him, and the third one struck the water about 
four inches in front of him, and I jerked and hooked 
him about one inch back of his jaw. and if ever I had 
fun it was then.- First, he pulled for the flume, but could 
not make it; and then he turned and went to the bot- 
tom in about six feet of water, and he everlastingly did 
scratch the bottom, Finally, he came up and went for 
the dam, and landed on a smooth, flat rock, and then I 
could hold him. He then turned and swam toward rae, 
and I knocked him on the head with a club. You 
would have thought to have seen the rod, that I had a 
lo^pound trout on. After this experience, I went fishing 
in earnest for trout, and caught a brook trout weighing 
2 pounds and io ounces, and also a rainbow trout weigh- 
ing I pound and. 14 ounces. The rainbow trout jumped 
three feet out of water when hooked, just like the land- 
locked salmon at the Adirondack League Club." 
S. A. 
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O/'i'-in' orernn. Forest and S'Bseaw. 
'Mid Reef and Rapid.-XIV. 
^ BY F. R. WEBB. 
"I AM afraid we won't reach Bear Lithia to-night," said 
George, as he struck match after match on the base of his 
match box, held under the shelter of his hat, in a futile 
effort to Hght his pipe, the rain meanwhile trickling gently 
down the back of his neck, as the overhanging boughs 
were by this time thoroughly saturated, and the only pro- 
tection they now afforded was to break the force of the 
storm. 
"I think not," said the Colonel, "if this continues much 
longer." 
"It is not apt to rain long when it rains as hard as it 
does now," I said. 
"How far is it?" asked Lacy. 
"Well, it's about three miles from here to the Elkton 
dam, and about two »more from there to Bear Lithia — 
say five miles in all." 
"What time is it now?" asked George. 
"Ten minutes to five," I replied, as I consulted my 
Waterbury. 
"I expect we might as well give it up, then, and go into 
camp at the first good place," replied George. "It's full 
latp enough now to make camp, and it will be nearly or 
quite dark by the tinie we reach Bear Lithia." 
"Oh, I think we'll have time enough," I replied. "You 
must remember that we will have no supper work to at- 
tend to at Bear Lithia, as we are to be the guests of the 
house, and will, consequently, take our meals there, and 
all we will have to do will be to put up our tents, which 
won't take long, and can be easily done by lantern light 
after we come back from supper, 'if we wish," I replied ; 
"besides, it is pretty much all swift water and rapids from 
here down." 
"There's the Elkton dam with its slack water and its 
portage," he objected. 
"I know it ; but the dam is a low one and easily 
portaged, and the back-set is hardly half a mile long, witii 
a current dear through it. Besides, I don't know of a 
single good camp place between here and there." 
"What's the rnatter with going on then?" said Lacy. 
"We can't get Wet in these rigs, and really might as 
well be-shoving along as lying here under the trees." 
"Well, there are three rapids between here and the 
dam," I replied. "One is broad atid shallow and one is 
very rough and rocky, and all are long, and I don't like 
to tackle any of theta with this rain beating up the water 
.so and obscuring the channels. We'll need to take ad- 
vantage of all favoring circumstances to run them all 
right." 
"That's a fact; I didn't think of that," admitted Lacy. 
"Weller was capsized in the rough one last month when 
he and Shepherd made their cruise," I continued. 
"Was that the place?' asked George. 
"That's the place," I replied. 
"The boys told me it took half the night to dry his 
blankets out," added Lacy. 
"I shouldn't wonder," replied George. 
"The rain's slacking up now, and will soon be over," 
observed the Colonel. 
This proved to be the case, and in ten minutes more 
we were able to pull out from under the dripping trees, 
and by the time we had rotmded the bend below and 
were dancing swiftly and merrily down the first rapid, the 
rain had all passed over and was sweeping, in a rapidly 
receding gray veil, on down the valley, with the moun- 
tain ranges on either side of the river crawling up out of 
it at a brisk rate, their towering summits still enveloped 
in the heavy cloud masses, which hung lowering over the 
entire heavens, while white, fluffy patches wreathed and 
eddied along their rugged flanks, as though torn like fleece 
from the sides of the storm, as it swept along through the 
