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been given. She offered a reward of $100 to the person 
who should find the man. A strong searching party was 
at once formed. Steve Morse and W. Mitchel, w.cUt 
known guides, finally found the lost cook. He was whit- 
tling calmly beside a fire that he had kindled. He said 
he knew that he was lost, and was bound not to stray 
any further away. He was sure that he would be found 
some time; was sure that he could not have strayed 
many miles from camp. 
There is nothing like enterprise at the opening of a 
big game season. This time the Boston markets have 
eclipsed themselves in this direction. By Saturday night 
Faneuil Hall Market had six deer from Maine hung 
up by the heels. That is doing very well, indeed, in four 
■days of open season, considering that it takes at least 
one day for transportation tor even nearer Maine, and 
then there is the hunting and dragging in — oh, well, 
there is nothing hke having one's agent out. There is 
nothing in the Maine game laws to prevent a sportsman, 
returning from Maine, sending his deer directly to 
Faneiiil Hall Market, if he so desires. He may be sure 
that they will huy it. 
The Massachusetts quail season, has started in pretty 
well. Hosts of gunners were out bright and early Tues- 
day. Many started for their favorite covies Monday, so 
as to be on hand Tuesday. Mr. J. H. Jones, of Boston, 
has had a kindly eye on his dog all summer, and has also 
had in mind two or three broods of quail. He went 
down to Lynnfield Monday ~night. Tuesday morning 
found him in the brush. He shot six quail, one wood- 
cock and one wood duck; considers this making a good 
beginning. He says; "My dog was wild, and I was 
worse." A number of Boston partridge hunters have 
I gone to different points in Maine. The region beyond 
Farmington, in the vicinity of Varnum and Clearwater 
Ponds, is a favorite resort, and one or two hunting par- 
I ties are there. In Oxford County, in the neighborhood 
of Paris and Norwai'. and farther up the Grand Trunk, to 
Bethel and Gilead, there is also a large territory of good 
partridge ground. In the vicinity of Mechanic Falls, 
Harry Pulsifer shot fifteen woodcock and two partridges 
in one day last week. Near Sabatis Lake, in Androscog- 
gin County, the gunners are pretty busy, and have se- 
cured a great many woodcock and quail. It is reported 
, that the duck are coming into Sabatis Lake earlier than 
usual this season. A Mr. Fred Meister has .shot several 
black duck already. These biids are expected to reach 
the lakes near the seacoast later in the season. 
Chatham reports say that the week was a good one 
for the gunner.-i. Old gunners say that it seemed like 
, old times to go out and get a good string of birds at 
every tide. Mr. Geo. H. Brown made some good bags 
there Tuesday and Wednesda}-. A number of gunners 
went down from Boston Saturday, on hearing the good 
reports. 
Mr. William Garrison Reed telegraphed Saturday, from 
Arthurette, N. B., that he will be at home, in Boston, 
on Tuesda}*; and will bring a fine moose head, a trophy 
of this hunting trip. Mr. Reed has made several trips 
to that part of the country, and the above is not his first 
moose by any means. Special. 
The Spoftsmen's Show* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The eighth annual Sportsmen's Show, held under the 
auspices of the National Sportsmen's Association, will 
open Wednesday, March 5, 1902, at Madison Square Gar- 
den, New York city, and continue until Wednesday, 
March 19. It will outrival any preceding show, with no 
exception. The plan as now arranged promises the most 
picturesque show and one complete in every feature that 
appeals to the sportsman and every lover of outdoor sport. 
One of the many new and attractive features to be pre- 
sented will be' the fly-casting conte.st. This contest will 
attract to the show not alone the many thousand fishermen 
in and around New York city, but also those from a dis- 
tance, so great is the enthusiasm among the lovers of this 
sport. There will be also rifle and revolver contests. 
The trade exhibits will occupy space on the gallery, the 
main floor being taken up with exhibits of camps, guides, 
woodsmen and trappers, live game animals, game birds 
and game fishes, railroads and hotels from fishing and 
hunting sections, log cabins and new features of life in the 
woods. J. A. H. Deessel, Gen. Manager. 
New Bf«nswick Moose. 
Fredericton, N. B., Sept. 30. — Yesterday T. G. Strong 
and party, of New York, passed through the city from a 
hunting trip on the Miramichi. The party were delighted 
with their trip and most enthusiastic over New Bruns- 
wick as a field for sportsmen. The deer and moose heads 
forwarded to New York testified to their luck. Mr. 
Strong was induced to come to this Province _ through 
reading the contributions of the late F. H. Risteen in 
Forest and Stream. 
"Wild Rice. 
Mr. Charles Gilchrist^ of Port Hope, Ont., who wrote 
the other day that a storm had devastated the wild rice 
fields in his vicinity, from which he had expected to 
gather a crop for export, sends us an interesting photo- 
graph of a bunch of wild rice grown in a pot in a back 
yard. It shows stalke from 5 to 9 feet high. Mr. J. D. 
Hallans, the grower, reports that every stalk was well 
headed with large grains. This shows, as Mr. Gilchrist 
says, that the rice will grow if properly planted. 
New Jersey Game* 
Bayville, N. J., Oct 4.— The black duck are beginning 
to come. The rains have done little harm to the quail 
crop, as all the flocks are large. Tide-running weakfish 
are here in goodly numbers, and are very large. 
Herb. 
All commimtoations intended for Fo&£SX and ^thsav should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co.j and 
jjot to any individual connected with the paper. ' . 
mid ^tv^r S^sJiing. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will fiiid it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest and Stream. 
On Quebec Trout Lakes. 
Having often seen your notice, "Report your luck to 
Forest and Stream," I thought I inight try my hand 
with the pen, and hope it will be of interest to some. 
The latter part of last May and the first two weeks of 
June I spent trout fishing in the Province of Quebec, and 
I can truly say that I had the most enjoyable trip of 
the kind that I ever took. I believe I am capable of 
judging what a good trip is, as I began to fish when I 
was ten years of age, at Bolton, Lake George, with the 
hotel fisherman, Finckel, and had the pleasure of seeing 
him take a pound bass with rod and line — the largest 
bass I ever saw caught. That was in 1877. Since 1877 I 
have never missed a year for trout. I fished at Lake 
George until 1879, then I spent ten years in the Adiron- 
dacks, and during which time I fished and hunted in 
nearly all parts of those woods, but mostly in about Blue 
Mountain and Raquette Lake region. After this I began 
making trips to the Maine woods, fishing at the Upper 
Dam, Rangeley, and some of the ponds about there; 
then I made a trip in from Moosehead Lake for nearly 
three weeks. Again I was one of the original members 
of the Pohoqualme Fish Association of Pennsylvania. 
So you can see I have had plenty of opportunity to 
judge, and I believe that Quebec is certaiijly the fisher- 
man's home. It is hard to cotApare this vast region with 
the Rangeleys. The Ran.geley Lakes have fine fishing, 
but, hke most places, they are a little uncertain. But 
when it comes to size, Rangeley is first in the land, I 
believe. Then I was fishing one year with my friend. Dr. 
Norton Downs, at Camp Bellevue, Upper Dam. The 
seven largest fish we took weighed 35 pounds. 
If you look at the latest map of the Province of Que- 
bec, you will see straight lires running north and south 
WHERE THE BIG ONE GOT AWAY. 
to the River St. Lawrence, and at the northern end of 
each district you will see a blank map with no rivers, 
mountains, or lakes. It was here that I did my fishing. 
No surveyor has ever put level here, nor woodsman an 
axe. It is a country full of game — moose, caribou and 
trout — ^with all the fur-bearing animals that Canada is so 
noted for. 
One who likes camping and a rough time can find it 
here. It is not like most districts I have been in, because 
you can cannot come out the other side if you travel for 
a few days. In Quebec you can travel along as you want, 
and if you go north, the first house you may see will be 
at Hudson Bay, or east of that you may see no houses, 
but come out on the Arctic Ocean. So you see, it is a 
question of how much time you can spend. You do not 
have to look for a place to get away from your neigh- 
bors; all you have to do is to go, and if you go long 
enough j'-ou will be where there is no danger of being 
shot, and you will not be coming out on the other side. 
My friend, Mr. Zimmerman, who is an enthusiastic 
fisherman and, like all good fishermen, was looking for 
a place to fish and have a quiet summer, and regain his 
loss of energy from too hard work during the winter, 
stumbled into the woods of Quebec and found the place 
that I am going to write about. There are lots of just 
such spots as he found and I dare say better ones, so I 
hope my readers will not ask me the exact location, but 
if they desire to see fish will try to find one for them- 
selves. The country is large and full of lakes, rivers and 
streams. Outside of a few preserves and the salmon 
streains, one can go for miles and fish until tired, and no 
one will bother. I am told that as you go down the St, 
Lawrence River the trout fishing improves, simply be- 
causce it is never fished. At certain seasons in this part 
the sea trout come in, and they give fine sport, and it is 
not much tro-uble to get permission to fish in salmon 
streams for them, as they bother salmon fishers very 
much at times. 
W^hen my friend Zira told me of this spot of his I be- 
gan to wonder how it cpuld be." I had my Rangeley trips 
in my mind, and this-^wB» my standard. He was very 
quiet" about it, and careful not to get my hopes up too 
high; but fiofdly, after we got started, he told me in a 
■^Ty quiet way of his that he would show me more fish 
than i ever saw, and as the train moved on he began to 
show more signs of enthusiasm and was growng younger 
as we traveled north. We wer^ met by the two guides, 
Joe, an Indian, quick, straight, bright disposition and as 
stfonf as an ox; Philip; a French-Canadian, strong, 
short, and of heavy build, and quiet, but always in a good 
humor. Both were willing to do anything in their power 
to make us have a good time. 
Our home camp was on a beautiful sheet of water, 
four miles long and nearly half a mile wide, having on 
one side mountains that, in places, were nearly straight 
up and down. The spot was particularly favorable, be- 
cause it was a center for good rivers and lakes, and we 
could go in different directions and not retrace our steps. 
My friend Zim certainly used a true sportsman's skill in 
camping here. It is the most beautiful lake I saw; was 
alive with fish, and afforded fine camping ground. On 
a point jutting out into this beautiful lake Zim had had 
Joe and Philip go in during the winter and build a little 
log camp, so that we could be comfortable in rain or 
shine. It was rough, but well built, of logs throughout, 
and had a fireplace which was our special pride. Here 
we slept and took our meals, but all cooking was done 
outside. The first night we took enough trout for sup- 
per and breakfast. The next morning" we left the home 
camp and pushed through a chain of lakes, connected by 
a fine river, witli the most beautiful pools and rapids 
that it has ever been my good fortune to see. The water 
was boiling, roarivg, tumbling along at such a rate that 
it was impossible to hear ourselves shout at the top of 
our voices, and in these pools we found trout every- 
where. We took lunch by the side of a pool that netted 
us many fine fish, and one that required great skill to 
handle "big fish in. Zim finally hooked the big one of 
them all, a good 4V2 to .5-pounder, and had him for about 
five or ten minutes. Joe. Philip and myself stood in 
quiet water, where evpry little bit he would run in and 
jump or make a rush for an old tree top, so we had 
lots of opportunities to see him. He was so full of fight, 
and so big, we were afraid to put the net under him until 
he showed some signs of giving up, as he was well 
hooked, and it looked like only a question of tirne before 
he would be on dry land. I supose all these things were 
running through his mind, because he played a trick 
that looked Hke a last effort, and saved his life. He ran 
up the foam to Zim's feet, and got right in the worst 
of it, and suddenly began doing acrobatic feats for about 
seventy-five feet down stream, and his last jump brought 
back an empty hook. I never was so disappointed about 
a fish, and felt sorry for Zim, to think the fish could get 
the belter of him just when we thought he had him all 
but on dry land. I hope he will be there next May, and 
if he is, he wants to look out, because Zim has him 
marked. 
.A.fter dinner we pushed on down the river, fishing all 
.good pools, and crossing some fair-sized lakes, and finally 
made camp for the night on the banks of the river and 
in front of a fine piece of water, where we took many 
fine trout I do not want my readers to think that we 
were "trout hogs," because we were not; we kept only 
what fi.sh we wanted to eat; the others were unhooked 
and returned, tmhurt. All our fishing was done with a 
fly. . . 
One thing that made this trip so mterestmg was the 
fact that the guides did not know where to fish any more 
than we did; they knew the country, but only fished for 
food when in the woods, or for bait for traps in winter. 
When we would ask them where to fish they would say, 
"Fish all over, or, lots fish everywhere." I remember 
when we were going down the river we found a long, 
still water, for several miles, and Joe was asked about 
the fish in some likely looking places, and he would say, 
"Don't guess no fish, never catchum," but that he would 
look out. We had not gone far when Joe, whose canoe 
was first, stopped suddenly, and. pointing to a swirl, said, 
"Me see big trout jump so!" We loosened our lines and 
began to cast, and at the first cast Zim hooked and 
landed two fine trout of about 2 pounds apiece; and I 
was doing busines? of the same kind. So here, where 
we least expected it, we took a fine lot of fish, and then 
pushed on, as we were in a hurry. After this we began 
to look about to locate them. My method was to let 
my flies trail on the water, and if we got a rise, to stop 
and cast; and it never failed. In this way I found two 
or three fine places. We traveled along like this through 
lake and rivers, catching trout at all times and all places 
right in the heart of a wilderness that was a wilderness. 
It certainly was a glorious time to be there; the trees 
were just breaking bud, and while we were watching them 
from day to day. one could fairly see them swell and 
break. I have often read of spring in the North coming 
in with a bound, but this was my first sight of it, and it 
was glorious. One day we would go down a river, the 
trees and bushes bare, and in a few days go over the 
same ground and see it all changed to a beautiful, soft 
green. Besides the coming of spring, we had the joy of 
listening to the song birds, as they came along — and 
such songs and notes I had never heard before — I never 
knew we had such beautiful songsters in America. This 
certainly was God's country, and just as He made it, 
full of beautv and full of life; the birds, animals and fish 
are undisturbed. Some of these lakes do not see a canoe 
from year to year; and when we did meet a moose he 
would look at us as if he were wondering what we were, 
and where we came from. One day we ran across a cow 
and bull moose standing in a river, and got within sev- 
enty-five feet of them; they looked at us long enough 
for us to cry their picture three times; but I am sorry to 
say. that when the picture was developed the view was 
beautiful, but the moose somehow were not to be seen; 
we had missed them. This was the chance of a lifetime. 
On our way back to the home camp we revisited the 
river and lake? and took many trout of good size. We 
were in a hurry, and did not stop long, as we expected 
to make this trio again. While we were crossing the 
last lake Isoward home, I had my flies trailing in the mid- 
dle of the lake, when suddenly my reel sang out; this 
gave us the tip for fish When we got in position I found 
we were over a long sand bar, about two feet under 
water, ; which suddenly nient into deep water. On my 
first cast I hooked t^vo trout; one weighing 2j4 pounds, 
the other about a pound. After this, whenever we went 
by :his point, we always took a few trout of fair size. 
When we got back we took it easy for a few days, fish- 
ing along the lake shore at such times as we saw fit. 
Here we would have fine sport at sundown. Zim was 
ftiore fond of this than any" other spout.- It was a beau- 
tiful time of day, the birds were singing their evening 
9ong, the teons were feeding and constantly making thf 
