My Boy's Surprise* 
(Lines on a huge pickerel from the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence 
River.). 
Oh! he was a princely iish — ■ 
Bravely caught; 
N'er -was such a royal dish 
Ever brought. 
All hearts leap'd with glad surprise 
When he came; 
And could hardly trust their eyes, 
'Twas so game. 
What a giant frame and fin 
To behold! 
Armor'd scales o'er mottled skin. 
Rich as gold. 
Long he stemmed the mighty tide — 
Swift as light; 
Darting through the waters wid" 
With delight. 
Often near Niagara's roar — 
Free as air. 
He hath played and kissed the shore ■ 
Prone to dare. 
So among the lakes and isles 
He hath grown, 
Where sweet Nature with her smiles, 
Loves her own. 
Stewan, of New York, in the role of an entertainer. 
That he '.iid the honors well there is no question, but if 
he could have seen some of the other veteran anglers be- 
hind tlie cairps in the darkness shedding tears because 
the dreaded dress coat had at last invaded their beloved 
Upper Dam, he would have wished that he had not done 
•^o. A Mrs. Wellniau. of Cleveland, broke the salmon 
record of Pleasant Island Camps one day last week by 
bringing in a fish of that species that weighed 8 pounds. 
\t the Birches Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cooley had great 
sport last week with salmon. At one time they both 
had fish hooked, nnd when the fish were landed each 
weighed 4 pcnnds. Mr. Cooley also landed a 6-pound 
■.almon. From the same ramps Miss Patterson, of Rose- 
.nont, Pa., recently landed ^ trout weighing 6 pounds, 
and the same day her friend. Miss Chapin, caught one 
of 7 pounds weight. Mr. and Mrs. William Irwin, of New 
York, have been stopping at Spring Lake, Flagstaff. 
Mrs. Irwin landed, while there, a salmon of 5 pounds, 
the largest taken there for the season. Mr. and Mrs. 
.Arthitr Cole, of Boston, have been enjoying the fishing 
at Reddington. One day they had an experience that 
was not down on the programme, however. They had 
just got a big troul- over the side of the canoe, when the 
hoolc became disengaged. Both were afraid that the 
trout would go overboard, and both made a grab for him 
at the same instant. The canoe lurched in the direction 
they had both leaned and threw one of them out that 
way. No sooner was it done, when, deprived of the 
weight of one of them, it as suddenly lurched the other 
v.'ay, throwing the other out on the other side. Both 
are pretty good swimmers, however, and. coming up on 
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Speeding through the waters clear 
One bright da3', 
Lo! tliere comes revolving near 
As at play, 
What his vision thinks to see 
Fishes small; 
And a-hunger'd quick doth he 
Take them all. 
But, alas! it proves a bait — 
Shining bright; 
Hooked within his jaws — too late. 
Save for flight. 
Quick as lightning's flash he turns — 
Plunges deep; 
Shakes to loose the bait he spurns — 
Pain'd to keep. 
Tight the line hauls in — by hand — 
Thine, dear boy. 
Till the struggling fish you land, 
Wild with joy. 
Yet this lesson, who wdll learn. 
Fish 6r man — 
True from false things to discern 
When we can. 
RoGKR II. Lyon. 
New England Fishing. 
Boston, Sept. 2. — The hearing .before the Maine Com- 
missioners of Fisheries and Game in regard to regulat- 
ing fishing in Rangeley Lake was held at Rangeley, 
Friday. It seems that the petitioners, largely citizens 
of Rangeley, v/ith well-kn.own sportsmen, who make their 
summer homes there, have concluded to narrow their re- 
qttest down to Rangeley Lake and ponds in that imme- 
diate vicinity, and not attempt to include the other lakes 
of the chain below. The petition, which is supported 
by F. S. Dickson, of Philadelphia; L. M. Leach, of 
Washington, D. C., and many others, asks that Haley 
and Gull ponds be screened at their outlets; that ali 
trolling and bait fishing be prohibited in Haley and Ross 
ponds, and that fish may be taken at such ponds only 
by casting with artificial flies; that all plug or still fish- 
ing with bait on Rangeley Lake, be prohibited; that all 
trolling with bait or otlierwise, on that lake, be prohibited 
between July i and Sept. .30; that the use of all gang 
hooks be prohibited on that lake, and that it shall be 
unlawful to use any device whereby it is possible for a 
fish to be stntck by more than a single hook. The peti- 
tioners showed by statistics that fishing in Rangeley is 
rapidly falling off, a fact which everybody giving the 
subject careful attention is ready to admit. A number 
of speakers opposed the restrictions. In one of the 
strongest speeches of the occasion the speaker said that 
the way to help the supply of fish is to stop the early 
spring fishing, or a great deal of it. He would have the 
season begin late in May, and close Sept. 15, instead of 
Sept. 30, as at present. The hotel interest, together with 
the transportation interest, is against any restriction that 
shall endanger business in the least. Prominent guides 
also oppose the restrictions asked for by the petitioners. 
The commissioners reserved their decision. It is not ex ^ 
pected that they will grant nearly all that the petitioners 
ask for, but that something maj^ be done to better protect 
the trout and salmon, and to increase the stock in that 
lake. ^ 
Boston fishermen have lately been somewhat surprised 
at the size of black bass of the small-mouthed variety, 
shown in the window of the Ivers-Johnson store for a 
day or two last week. The fish weighed 8^4 pounds, and 
it is agreed that it Avas a monster for that species of fish. 
It was caught in Lake Winnipisaukee, N. H., by Mr. 
J. E. Hill. Fishermen familiar , with that lake say that 
there are more like it there. Fishing at the Rangeleys 
is reported to be holding out remarkably well. Septem- 
ber is looked upon as a favorable month for fly-fishing, 
and many of the anglers will stay till the first of October, 
to get deer hunting. Fishing and camping parties are 
constantly departing from the principal resorts at Moose- 
head and the Rangeleys. for the lakes, ponds and streams 
farther back. These parties generally return well satis- 
fied. But, alas, for the days of corduroy hunting and 
fishing suits, and old clothes! Swell entertainments, with 
ladies in full dress and gentlemen in dress coats, are 
common at the Moosehead hotels, and at most of the 
Rangeley stopping places. Until of late the Upper Dam 
has been held by the real sportsman, who does not care 
to dress up for dinner, but a swell function was held 
titer? the other evenirig, with the veteran angler, T, % 
either side of the canoe, they clasped hands over it and* 
found it sufficiently buoyant to sustain them till a neigh- 
boring • fisherman, seeing their plight, came to their 
rescue. Sptjctal. 
San Francisco Fly-Castingf Club. 
Medal contests, series 1901. Saturday, contest No. lo, 
held at Stow Lake Aug. 24. Wind, light west; Aveather.' 
Avarm and clear: 
Event Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, , Event No. 3 , Lure 
Feet. Per cent. Acc * Del. % Net % Casting* 
Battu 89 87.8 91.4 78.4 84.10 72 10-15 
Brotherton ... 110 89.8 87.8 79.2 83.5 94 9-15 
Edwards 87 89 88.8 73.4 81.6 83 
Mocker 91 86 86.4 70.10 78.7 
Muller 100 93.4 88 75.10 81.11 
Reed 90 91.4 89.4 71.8 80.6 
SmytJi 88.4 87.4 76.8 82.2 
Young 93 91.4 90.8 75 82.10 
Judges, Birotherton and Mocker; referee, Muller; clerk, 
.Smyth. 
Sunday, contest No. lo, held at Stow Lake Aug. 25. 
Wind, west; weather warm: 
Battu 
92 
86.4 
90. 
,4 
78.4 
84.4 
. 100 
94 
86 
70.10 
78.5 
Brotherton .. 
. 122 
89.4 
88. 
.4 
78.4 
83.4 
Blade 
. 73 
87.4 
74 
65 
69.6 
Daverkosen. . 
. 108 
91 
91. 
,4 
79.2 
85,3 
102 
92.4 
91. 
,8 
75 
83.4 
Haight 
89.4 
92 
81 
86.10 
Heller 
. 99 
89.8 
61. 
,4 
81. 8 
71.6 
Huyck 
. 98 
91.8 
84. 
4 
71.8 
78 
]< Kennif 
, 105 
88.4 
84. 
.4 
68.4 
7C.-I 
T Kierulff... 
. 87 
71.4 
78 
64.2 
71.1 
Mocker 
. 100 
88 , 
81. 
,4 
70.10 
76.1 
Muller 
109 
90.8 
85 
75.10 
80.5 
Reed 
87.4 
93. 
,4 
75.10 
84.7 
86.4 
91 
75.10 
83.5 
Smvth 
89 
86. 
,4 
79.3 
82.8 
Isenbruck . . . 
. 90 
94 
8S. 
,4 
82.0 
85.5 
. 73 
Golcher 
129 
9:i 
92: 
,4 
75 
8.3. 7 
Judges, Muller and Turner; referee, Reed; clerk. 
Smyth. 
Michigfan t'ishingf "Waters* 
Haktford. Mich., Sept. 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Quail are very plentiful and the chicks are very large 
and strong for this time of the year. T have just re- 
turned from the northern part of the State, where I went 
to try the wary trout, and I had a delightful time. I 
caught all I cared to : but they ran small ; out of 150 trout 
not one weighed I pound. I fished on the splendid Board- 
man and on Cedar Creek, ten miles Avest of Traverse City. 
I fished on Yuba Creek, twelve miles northeast of 
Traverse City. Trout are very plentiful in all the streams, 
but an 8-inch trout is considered a good one. The last 
day of the trip I spent on the Little Manistee, in Lake 
county, and found it the finest trout stream I have seen 
yet — just large enough, with sw-ift riffles running over 
rocks, and deep pools all the way. The Pere Marquette 
Railroad crosses at Iron, seventy miles north of Grand 
Rapids. There are other streams equally good in the same 
vicinity. In Pine or South Branch of Big Manistee trout 
and grayling are plentiful, while in the numerous lakes 
all kinds of fish are p'entiful. One may catch bass and 
pickerel, green bass, blue gills and perch, till one is sick 
of it. I was so well pleased with the streams and lakes 
that I bought forty acres in the Little Manistee just to 
have a place to go and fish and hunt. There are only 
fift)^ Avaters in the township, six miles sqtiare, so fish and 
grouse are plenty. St'i.uv.VN Cook. 
A Lobster Conviction, 
In a case brought at Port Jeft'erson, L. I., Sept. s, 
against Bruce Nelson and John Casey, of Connecticut, by 
Game Protector John E. Overton, the defendants were 
convicted of violating Section 128 of the game laws in 
taking lobsters near Crane Neck Point, in waters of Long 
Island Sound belonging to New York State. 
The defendants were fined $20 and ordered to remove 
their traps. ■ 
Camps of the Kingffishers. 
Cincinnati. O.. Sept. 7.- — Editor Forest and S-tfeam: 
In "The Kingfisher Camp of 1901." this week's issue, there 
is an omission — typesetter's fault, of course— that de- 
stroys the sense of a sentence, as it were. After the word 
"not." 189th page, line 21 from the top, last column, read 
"safe to let the 'yonngsters' go out, except on a," etc. 
[Sept. 14, 1901, 
m mi^ ^. : Eels'ifotllJapan, 
We have received from the Smithsonian Institution, as 
a reprint from the Proceedings of the National Museum, 
"A Review of the Apodal Fishes or Eels of Japan, with 
Descriptions of Nineteen Ncav Species. By David Starr' 
Jordan and John Otterbeim Snyder." 
— ^» — 
American Canoe Association, J900-J90I. 
Commodore, C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Can. 
, Secretary-Treasurer, Herb Begg, 24 King street. West Toronto, 
Canada. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street and JWtntie A, 
Bayonne, N. J. 
Division Officers, 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Henry M. Dater, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Rear-Com., H. D. Hewitt, Burlington, N. J. 
Purser, Joseph F. Eastmond, 199 Madison street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., C. P. Forbush, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Rear-Com., Dr. C. R, Henry, Perry, N. Y. 
Purser, Lyman P. Hubbell, Buffalo. N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Louis A. Hall, Newton, Mass. 
Rear-Com., C. M. Lamprey, Lawrence, Mass. 
Purser, A. E. Kimberly, Lawrence Experimental Station, 
Lawrence, Mass. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., G. A. Howell, Toronto, Can. 
Rear-Com., R. Easton Burns, Kiiigston, Ontario, Can. 
Purser, R. Norman Brown, Toronto, Can. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Wm. C. Jupp, Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com., F. B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Purser, Fred T. Barcroft, 408 Ferguson Building, Detroit, Mich. 
Official organ, Forest and Si>keau. 
A, C» A. Twenty-second Annual 
Meet, 
Modlunta Island, Aug, 9 to 23. 
When searching for pleasant camping grounds for its 
annual meets the American Canoe Association is not 
bound down to any one place, but is free to choose with- 
in a very extensive area a new site for each annual 
camp, if deemed advisable by the administration in 
powei", but, -AV, a matter of fact, they do not as a rule wan- 
der very frequently from the vicinity of the St. Lawrence 
River, as three out of every four meets are held among 
the islands of the river in question, varied, however, by 
an occasional visit to some new and distant region. 
During the twenty-one years of its history and wander- 
ings the association has_ visited Lake George four times. 
Lake Champlain kmr tim.es, the Thousand Islands nine 
times, the seaside and the Hudson River once each, 
and the last year the meet was taken up to the far-famed 
and distant Muskoka region of Canada, and while the 
meet in that di.strict proved a success in many ways, yet 
it was the feeling of the majority of the members present 
that there was not a sufhcient difference between the St. 
Lawrence and Muskoka to warrant a return of the meet 
to the latter place. The atmosphere of the St. Lawrence 
is very similar to that of Muskoka, being clear and brac- 
ing, and it is also very much more accessible than Mus- 
koka. The question as to what division wotild have the 
meet of ipoi proved a somewhat diflicult problem to 
decide. At the meet of 1899 the pros and cons were dis- 
cus.sed, and it was decided that if the Northern Division 
was willing to take the meet of 1900 the Western Division 
would have the option of the meet of 1901; but on ac- 
count of the Westeni Division only having two members 
in arlevidfihce at the meet of Muskoka, and also being a 
somewhat weak division, there was no indication that 
they could handle the general meet, hence it was up to 
the Northern Division to again hold the meet in accord- 
ance with the regular rotation, as published in the Year 
Book. The Eastern Division were not prepared to han- 
dle it at presen<j nor did any of the other divisions, so 
the Northern Division accepted the proposition and the 
association elected Mr. C. E. Britton, of Gananoque, 
Canada, as Commodore, with the understanding that the 
meet of 1901 would go to the St. Lawrence River. 
Considerable difficulty was experienced at the start by 
tlie Commodore and Camp Site Committee in securing 
a desirable' camp site, as site.!^ were found to be few and 
far between, and the administration seemed reluctant to 
return to any of the prev'ous camping grounds. It was 
thought for a time that Sugar Island, the island which 
was chosen by the Executive Committee at the meeting 
in October. 1900, as the permanent home of the Asso- 
ciation, providing it could be secured for a reasonable 
figure, would be available for the meet of 1901, but, owing 
to some hitch in the negotiations for purchase, it could 
not be obtained in time to have it in shape for the 1901 
camp. 
The Camp Site Committee's troubles were, however, 
removed by the Commodore coming forward with the 
offer of the loan of his private island, which offer was 
quickly and gratefully accepted. 
The island in otiestion, Mudlunta (meaning half moon), 
is one of the prettiest islands of the St. Lawrence. It is 
one of the .Admiralty group, over ten acres in extent, 
situated about two miles from the town of Gananoque, 
between the Canadian and the Middle channels, and, as 
experience proved, made one of the prettiest and most 
convenient spots ^he Association has ever camped on. 
It was exceptionally well laid out, the two camps being 
seoarated by a level tract of land of considerable extent, 
whereon the mess tent, the camp store, barber shop and 
bath houses were well situated. The main camp "cora- 
prised some five acres of high and fairly level ground, and 
<o laid Out that all tents could be situated in every in- 
stance so as to overlook the water, thus, furnishing desirar 
ble and cool spots for all. There were an exceptionally 
large number of tents in Main camp, more than making- 
for tliat deficiency in tlie Sqyj^w foi^t, ' 
