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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May io, 1002. 
Fish H ancf Fishing* 
Catching Lake Trout w"lth a Fly. 
A SEVENTEENr-POUNt) lake trout {Salvelinus namaycush) 
was captured in Lake St. Charles, near this city, a few 
days ago by an angler using a rod and short line with a 
minnow for bait. While it is not, of course, at all unusual 
for the lake trout to take, the minnow, it is very seldom 
that it is taken so near the surface of the water as upon 
this occasion. Except in the earliest days of spring and 
in far northern waters, namaycush is a resident of very 
deep water, and as most anglers very well know, is usu- 
ally to be had only by deep-water trolling. Yet there are 
instances on record where it has taken the angler's flies. 
One of these occurred a few years ago in the same Lake 
St. Charles to which reference has already been made. 
Mr. Lacon Walsh, of this city, noticed that swarms of 
minnows were leaping out of the water together at some 
distance from where he was fishing, and rightly assuming 
that they were fleeing from some powerful foe, he cast his 
flics over the surrounding water and was fortunate 
enough to hook a rising fish of large dimensions. It was 
saved after a struggle lasting nearly fifty minutes, and 
was found to be a lake trout of sixteen pounds. On this 
occasion, as upon that mentioned above, the catch was 
made almost immediately upon the breaking up of the 
ice, and it is rather surprising that more anglers do not 
cultivate the sport in question, though, of course, it. can 
only be had for a few days each year, and even then, in 
only comparatively high latitudes. The late James W. 
Mihier found that in Lake Michigan the "lakers" remain 
in the deepest part of the lake all the year round, except 
in the spawning season, which is usually about the end 
of October, so that fly-fishing for them thereabouts would 
he absolutely useless. 
There are a very few instances on record where the 
lake trout has been taken on the fly in the earliest days 
of spring in both Grand and Moosehead lakes in Maine, 
hut it is freely admitted that even in that latitude they are 
rarely taken with a surface lure more than three or four 
pounds in weight. In the always-cold water of the 
Nepigon, we have it upon the authority of Mr. W. H. 
Vail, of Cincinnati, writing in "Fishing "With the Fly," 
that Salvelinus namaycush will occasionally rise to the 
fly, and take it with much the same kind of a swirl as the 
speckled brook trout does. 
The voracity of these fish is most remarkable. Not 
even the monster predatory pike of northern waters has 
more sins laid to his charge. The whitefish make for it a 
'delicious morsel, but it devours almost all other species 
of fish of suitable size, not even refusing the burbut or 
lake lawyer. The stomach of a large specimen is often 
a perfect omnium gatherum. The statement has been 
repeated upon no less an authority than that of Dr. 
Tarleton H. Bean, that among the singular articles which 
have been found in the stomach of this trout are "an open 
iackknife (seven inches long, which had been lost by a 
fisherman a year before at a locality thirty miles distant),- 
tin cans, raw potatoes, chicken and ham bones, salt 
pork, corn cobs, spoons, silver dollars, a watch and chain, 
and in one instance a piece of tar rope two feet long. In 
the spring of the year wild pigeons have been found in 
their stomachs. These birds are supposed to have become 
bewildered in their flight over the lakes and have become 
the prey of the trout." 
Food SupplyTfof Fish. 
t Experiments of special interest to all students of fish 
life were recorded in a paper read at the last meeting of 
the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, by Dr. Henry B. Ward, professor of zoologv in 
the University of Nebraska. The stocking of Lake Erie 
for so many years past with millions of fish caused the 
question to be raised as -to whether there might not be 
more fish in the lake some of these da3^s than there would 
be food for. It was Dr. Ward's novel and rather diffi- 
cult problem to measure approximately the amount of fish 
fodder there* was in Lake Erie. He was assisted in this 
rather unpromising task by Professor Reighard. and the 
result ^of their investigations has convinced them that 
there is evenly distributed through the waters of Lake 
Erie enough fish food to warrant the Fish Commission 
in going on stocking the lake with fish by the millions 
for years to come. The two scientists had to invent 
their own appliances. The process consists in raising a 
net, which has been lowered from a boat, through a 
straight upward lift of ten meters. A fine gauze net 
strains the water, the residue of animal life collecting in 
a tiny trap in the bottom of the net. In the mouth of the 
net is a water meter, registering the quantity of water 
tested through an electrical recorder on the deck of the 
}oat. while an electrical registering scale records the 
weight of the food matter caught in the trap. 
Deep "Water Fishes. 
The tremendous depth at which some of the lesser- 
known salt-water fishes have been found would almost 
furnish a theme for Jules Verne. One rather ceases, 
however, to wonder at these discoveries upon reading of 
Dr. Hiort's experiments in the North Sea, where he has 
found that cod and haddock are plentiful many thousands 
of feet below the surface of the ocean. It has been well 
observed that this discovery mav <=o!ve the mystery as to 
where the cod abides when he withdraws from the coast. 
Alreadv. the Newfoundland fishermen, who were taking it 
in_ shallow water near the shore less than a month ago, 
with lines not more than thirty to forty feet long, have 
to go much further out to sea for it now. as it recedes 
from the land with the progress of the seasons. IVTav 
it not be. too, that the great difficulty of tracing the life 
history of the salmon in salt water is due to the extreme 
depth of its ocean habitat? 
A Handsome Report. '"' 
Those who have # seen the last annual report of the 
N™-th American^ Fish and Game Protective Association 
will not be surprised to learn that there is quite a scram- 
ble for copies. In addition to the record of proceedings 
of the Association at its recent meeting at Burlington, 
Vt.. there are reports of the two papers read noon the 
pike-perch and the Canadian red trout, with illustrations 
of both fishes, portraits, and a rfeport of trfe discussion 
of the papers read. As the increase of membership per- 
mits of it, it is likely that there will be constant im- 
provement in the annual publications of the Association, 
All members of the Association who may> not have re- 
ceived a copy may have one on application to the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer, and new members joining the Association 
will be entitled to a copy each, as long as the edition, 
which is a limited one, holds out. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
New England Waters. 
Boston, May 2. — Fishing parties are getting to be nu- 
merous, and there is considerable enthusiasm, considering 
that the season is so very early. A party of six repre- 
sentative trout and salmon fishermen left Boston Tuesday 
evening for Farmington, Me. Thence they went by teams 
five miles to Clearwater Lake. They are the proprietors 
of Runaway Camp, which they completed last winter, and 
they go down this time to dedicate it, also to open the 
trout and salmon season at those waters. They started a 
day early in order to have everything reedy for catching 
the first salmon on the morning of May i. In the party 
are Messrs. F. E. Whiting, of the Boston Herald ; W. S. 
Hinman, Bert Hanson, Jack Loud, George Bradford and 
George S. Parry. The ice has been out long enough for 
the smelts to have done running, a condition most favor- 
able to good fishing. The owners of Camp Runaway have 
made an artificial trout pond at the inlet of Clearwater, 
which pond is in process of being stocked, and which is 
to afford the owners good fishing at all times in the 
season. 
But the big party for Clearwater started Wednesday 
evening. The exodus was by private car attached to the 
St. John express. From Portland the party went by 
special train to Farmington, where it arrived at 6 o'clock 
A. M., May I, the opening day of the trout and salmon 
season in Franklin county, Me. From thence the party 
was taken by teams, five miles, to Allen's Mills, on the 
shore of Clearwater, opposite Camp Runaway, noted 
above. Ed. Gay's boats and steam launch were in readi- 
ness for the party. Five camps had been pre-empted, and 
to the Boston boys the fun was equal to the novelty of the 
situation. Four days the sport lasted before the train had 
to be taken for home. The party was under the manage- 
ment of Dr. Heber Bishop, a gentleman well known to 
land and water sportsmen. He has twenty-nine moose to 
the credit of his rifle, and this year he has opened the 
season at Clearwater with a party of twenty-seven anglers, 
all business and professional men. No less than six doc- 
tors and no undertakers were in the party. The names 
are as follows: Dr. Heber Bishop, Sidney Conrad, Dr. 
Lewis T. Foss, George J. Raymond. Charles H. Sprague, 
M. A. Spear, I. G. Sternberger. Fred E. Hall, William 
E. Schrafft, George F. Schrafft, A. J. Mclntire, C. H. 
El well. Dr. S. R. Raymond, Henry E. Genond, C. W. 
Hutchins, Boston; Dr. Frank A. Darling. Dr. M. A. Cum- 
mings, East Weymouth; W. G. Bean. George A. Fernaid, 
Winchester ; Charles K. Foss, Haverhill ; E. Sterne 
Wheeler, Saugatuck, Conn.; Dr. G. W. H. Williams, 
North Grosvenor, Dale. Conn. ; Frank N. Ganong, S. H. 
Talbot, Cambridge; Merrill K. Green, Jamaica Plain. 
The salmon and trout in Clearwater Lake run from four 
to fifteen pounds. Largest salmon taken last season 
weighed I4 J 4 pounds. 
Bemis, Me., May_3. — There are thirty or forty sports- 
men here, and fishing is beginning to be pretty good. 
But it will be a good deal better in a day or two. Supt. 
Lovejoy, of the Portland and Ru'mford Falls railway, 
opened the season Thursday, May i, by catching a sal- 
mon _ of three pounds right off the wharf here. That 
evening's train brought fifteen or twenty sportsmen; 
Friday morning the steamer's landing was lined up with 
fishermen, and sixteen trout were taken before break- 
fast. The largest, 4% pounds, was taken by J. P. Noyes, 
of Mechanic Falls, Me. ; he also took three others 
before 10 o'clock. C. E. Gould and D. E. Adams, of 
Boston, both have made good catches, one trout of six 
pounds; J. F. Chute and Mrs. Chute, of Portland, are 
getting trout and salmon. Dr. H. P. Merrill, of Port- 
land, who has had charge of most of the smallpox of that 
city, after Boston got through with it, is here. He was 
high line yesterday, catching two trout and six salmon, 
a beautiful string weighing about twelve pounds. C. E. 
Tower and Fred Boynton, of Portland, made a hand- 
some catch Friday, one trout and three salmon, the 
largest salmon and largest trout weighing three pounds. 
Frank Stanley, of Kingfried, and John Reed, with R. W. 
Trask, of Roxbury, Me., arrived on the train Friday 
evening at 6 o'clock. Enthusiastic sportsmen, they were 
out trolling and had two or three good trout before dark. 
Mrs. W. K. Moody, of Boston, landed* a three pound 
trout Friday. The thirty or forty sportsmen here are 
largely State of Maine people, with more expected next 
week. At the Birches, Mr. Leveseur, of Boston, and a 
friend opened the season Friday night; there were more 
arrivals, with a number to-day. 
Hain's Landing, Maine, May 3. — The season is open 
here several days earlier than ever. Landlord Page, of 
the Senate Cafe, Washington, D. 'C, came on here with 
all his help Thursday evening, almost a car full. Fishing 
has. started in well, with several good trout and salmon 
already taken on the Shark grounds, Stony Batter, and 
othet points. _ Fish and Game Commissioner Henry O. 
Stanley, of Dixfield, came Thursday night and has been 
having his usual good luck. He deserves it, if any man 
in the world; all the credit of stocking the waters of the 
State with landlocked salmon belongs to him. 
Middle Dam, May 3. — -The season has opened here 
most remarkably early. Richardson Lake opened several 
days before Mooselucmaguntic, but since the travel 
is nearly all via Bemis, sportsmen did not be- 
gin to get here till early this week. There are 
several here, and they are doing well at the Dam, the 
Pool and other points. Several have gone to B-Pond, 
where the fly-fishing begins about as soon as the ice is 
out. Boats are running regularly to the Upper Dam. 
Pleasant Island Camps, Cupsuptic Lake, Me., May 3. — 
The season here has been a surprise to us all. But sports- 
men are already arriving. Landlord Billy Soule is put- 
ting things to rights. Twenty-five or thirty guests are 
expected e*ily v 
_ _ Spbciai* 
New JefseylSalt'Wate^Fishmg^ 
Newark, N. J., May 3.— True to it> traditions, Manas- 
quan Inlet has developed the first bass fishing on the 
New Jersey coast. Thirteen so far have been taken, of 
which I have knowledge. More may have been taken 
which have not been made public, as some men on those 
as well as other grounds, take delight in hiding theil 
light under a bushel of their own peculiar construction. 
Why it is that the Manasquan is always in the lead must 
be left to conjecture, or to some future Walton to de- 
velop the mystery. The only theory so far advanced is 
that the Manasquan is in fact a river draining a large 
territory, while the majority of the inlets are merely 
arms of the ocean and empty out but small portions of 
fresh water, and do not offer the attractions. 
Weakfish have been taken in the pound-nets quite 
freely the past week. This is unusually early for them, 
as we ordinarily consider May 20 quite early enough to 
expect them. I have not learned of any plaice being 
taken yet, and they ordinarily precede the weakfish. f 
saw a monster mackerel in Wakinger's tackle store yes- 
terday; it weighed a trifle over four pounds. This, to 
me, was a phenomenally large fish; they may grow larger, 
but I never saw one. 
Asbury Park and Avon anglers are busy now in quest 
of the bass, but so far I have heard of no catches, which 
I would have done had anyone' been successful, as I am 
on the ground every day. Weather permitting, I will 
make my first cast of the season to-morrow, but expect 
to be forestalled, as my enthusiastic friend, Judge Wm. 
B. Guild, has gone to the Avon grounds to-day, and if 
there is anything at all doing, ye bass is mighty apt to 
get into trouble at the busines end of his line. 
Leonard Hulit. 
Iowa Fish and Game. 
Des Moines, la. — By changes in our game and fish 
laws, enacted by the Legislature just adjourned, the 
pickerel and the festive catfish are placed among game 
fishes. I suppose this is intended to mean the blue or 
"channel cat," as no decent body out here eats the yellow 
or "mud cat." A sight of him is enough to turn a fellow's 
stomach. So now we can eat "channel cats," and count 
them among the piscatorial aristocracy. After all. a blue 
cat is not bad eating, fried nicely ; at least, I've been think- 
ing so for the last fifty years. Now that he is legallv pro- 
tected, he will be liked all the better. 
Another provision limits the daily catch of game fish 
to forty of any and all kinds to one person. 
Any party wishing to take from our waters, at any time 
and in any quantity, buffalo, carp, quillbacks, red horse, 
suckers and gar, can do so under the supervision of a 
•deputy warden with a permit. 
In "the way of birds, rail, plover, sandpiper and marsh 
or beach birds are added to the protected list. 
An effort was made to stop spring shooting of ducks 
and geese, but this failed to go through. 
The open season on squirrels was changed to begin 
Sept. 1 instead of June 1. A sensible change. 
Senex. 
100 Sportsmen's finds. 
Some oi the Queer Discoveries Made by Those Who Art 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
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A press dispatch from Kalamazoo, Mich., relates that 
Herman Hauslein, a hermit fisherman who lives on the 
banks of Wintergreen Lake, near here, came to Kalama- 
zoo with a queer exhibit. While fishing, his line be- 
came entangled in what he took to be an ordinary snag. 
In trying to loosen it with a spear he brought to the sur- 
face the skull and antlers of an elk in which were seven 
teeth in a fair state of preservation. In the skull was 
buried a crude iron tomahawk, minus the handle, which 
had evidently rotted away. On previous occasions elks' 
antlers have been found in Wintergreen Lake, but never 
before a skull or teeth of an elk. Hauslein was offered 
$50 for his find, but refused it. 
Jpta Rennet 
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Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 7-9. — Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society's show 
John W. Bacon, Treas. 
Oct. 21-24.— New York. — Ladies' Kennel Association of America's 
show. Miss M. K. Bird, Westbury, L. I., Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 26-29.— Philadelphia.— Philadelphia Dog Show Association's 
show. M. A. Viti, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Aug. 19. — Emmetsburg, la. — Iowa Field Trial Association's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fifth annual trials. Louis 
Stuehmer, Sec'y, Emmetsburg, la. 
Aug. 26.— Salem, S. D. — South Dakota FieM Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) ihird annual trials. 
E. H, Gregory, Sioux Falls, S. D. 
Aug. —.—O'Neill, Neb. — Nebraska Field Trial Association's 
inaugural chicken trials. _M. H. McCarthy, Sec'y. 
Oct. 27. — Paris, Mo. — Missouri Field Trial Association's (member 
of the American Championship Club), sixth annual trials. L. S. 
Eddins, Sec'y, Sedalia, Mo. 
Oct. 27. , Pa.— Monongahela Field Trial Club's field 
trials. A. C. Paterson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 3. — Robinson, 111.— Illinois Field Trial Association's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fourth annual' trials. W. 
R. Green, Sec'y, Marshall, 111. 
Nov. 3. , Mich. — Michigan Field Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) fifth annual trials. 
C. D. Stuart, Sec'y. Benton Harbor, Mich. 
Nov. 10. — Bicknell, Ind. — Independent Field Trial Club's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fourth annual trials. 
H. S. Humphrey. Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 10.— Ruthven, Ont. — North American Field Trial Associa- 
tion's (member of the American Championship Club) fourth 
annual trials. Richard Bangham, Sec'y, Windsor, Ont. 
Nov. 11. — St. Joachim, Ont. — International Field Trial Club's 
fourteenth annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 17. — Elizabethtown, Ky. — Kentucky Field Trial Club's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. F. 
W. Samuel, Sec'y, Louisville, Ky. 
Nov. 20. — Manor, L. L — Pointer Club of America's (member of 
the American Championship Club) second annual trials. R. E. 
Westlake, Sec'y, Scranton, Pa. 
Nov. 24. — Washington C. H., Ohio. — Ohio— Field Trial Associa- 
tion's (member of the American Championship Club) fifth annua] 
trials. C, E. Bau*tm. See'y. 
