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keep the hook from the bottom. Suddenly there was a 
'big strike on the guide's rod, which Mr. Gormley was 
holding. The fish proved to be a big one, and gave Mr. 
Gormley a great tussle to bring him to the net. At last 
he was landed, and it proved to be a salmon of i2 J /> 
pounds, the biggest ever landed below the Upper Dam. 
Immediately the guide disclaimed all notion of having 
been employed by Mr. Gormley, and claimed the salmon. 
Mr. Gormley is at a loss to know whether the guide would 
not have accepted pay for the day from him if the salmon 
had not been taken. 
Boston, June 9. — Fish and Game Commissioner Carle- 
ton of Maine will be a delegate from Maine to the Inter- 
national Fishery Congress, which is to assemble at Vienna 
Sept. 6, and also to the Eighth Annual Austrian Fishery 
Congress, which will be held at the same time. 
Mr. Charles S. Cook, of Boston, who has obtained con- 
trol of the hunting and fishing rights of 350,000 acres of 
wild lands in the vicinity of Holeb Lake, Me., says that 
his object is to form a first-class sporting club, made up 
of the lovers of such sports. He denies that he is to 
build a big summer hotel at Jackman. He proposes to 
limit the membership in his club to fifty, and has already 
a number of business men, who are enthusiasts in hunting 
and fishing, ready. to unite with him. 
Lake Auburn has recently been turning out some good 
catches. Over forty fish, trout and salmon, were taken 
on one of the best days, some of the fish of great size, in- 
cluding salmon up to eight pounds, and trout of five 
pounds. Sportsmen also claim to have seen salmon in that 
lake that would weigh well up to twenty pounds, but no 
form of bait or artifice has seemed to tempt the big fel- 
lows. There are complaints from reliable lovers of 
angling that the big trout and salmon are constantly 
passing over the dam and out into the Androscoggin 
River, and they believe that the Commissioners should 
furnish the gateways with suitable screens to prevent the 
escape of the fish. They claim to have watched and seen 
a good many large fish pass over the dam, and have found 
one salmon dead, below the dam, estimated xto have 
weighed twelve or fourteen pounds. 
Good catches of trout are being made at Moosehead. 
P. Carey, of Boston, stopping at Kineo, took over thirty 
trout on the fly in two days last week, the largest four 
pounds, a big one for that lake. Frank H. Patrick, of 
Cambridge; W. F. Perkins, of Boston, and H. S. Farmer, 
of Arlington, Mass., have been making good catches there! 
Very good catches are recorded at the various Rangeley 
resorts, including a salmon of 6% pounds to the credit 
of Mrs. S. Boothby, at Bald Mountain camps, Haines 
Landing; a 3^-pound salmon to Mr. M. J. Quinlan, of 
East Hampton, Mass., at Pleasant Island Cmps ; at the 
same camps a 6H-pound salmon caught from the wharf, 
by Mr. M. A. Dickinson, of Amherst, Mass. ; a 3^2-pound 
salmon by Mrs. Robert B. Low ; a 5-pound trout by Mr. 
Robert B. Low; Mrs. William Weaver. Rumford Falls, 
Me., a 4H-pound salmon ; Dr. J. C. Caldwell and Mr. J. 
A. Lawson, of Buckfield, Me., eleven trout, weighing 
from 1 to 324 pounds; Mrs. Edward L. Adams, New 
York city, a 4-pound salmon, from the wharf ; Mrs. C. H. 
Beaton, a 6-pound trout, taken at Toothaker Cove. At 
the Birches, Mooselucmaguntic Lake, some of the 
recorded catches have been a 5-pound salmon and. a 
3-pound trout to R. N. Burns; to the Jolly Four, con- 
sisting of L. T. Saunders, Costello Lippet and N. S. 
Lippett, of Norwich, Conn., and T. W. Riley, of Mystic, 
a 6-pound trout, with about thirty others of good size; 
Mrs. Dr. Stillings, a 3 and a 4 pound salmon; Mr. W. H. 
Chase, of Leominster, Mass., a 7-pound salmon; J. D. 
Picksley, New York, salmon of 6, 3 and 4 pounds. At 
the Upper Dam, Hon. Albert Daggett takes the credit of 
the 12^-pound salmon, already noted in this article, as 
having been taken on the guide's hook, with Mr. James 
R. Gormley in the boat and hooking the fish. It seems 
that the guide, George Thomas, was in the employ of 
Mr. Daggett, who had gone to Rumford Falls for the 
day. Not every sportsman cares for credit of that sort 
At the same resort Mr. Eugene Lynch, of Boston, has con- 
tinued taking trout and salmon on the fly, landing up to 
5'A pounds weight. L. E. Croix has taken a salmon of 
6'4 pounds, and one of 3% pounds. Mr. Charles Good- 
ndge has caught a trout of 6y 2 pounds; Mrs. W K 
Moody, trout of 4K pounds. 
Ex-Governor Burleigh, of Maine, has lately received 
word trom the U. S. Fish Commission that 150,000 trout 
try have been deposited in the. lakes and ponds of his 
district, chiefly in Somerset county. The waters are 
Otter Pond, in Bow Town; Chase Pond, in Boscow 
Rowe Pond m Pleasant Ridge ; Mayfield Pond, Mayfield \ 
Little Pond. Franklin ; Hancock Pond and Sand Pond in 
Embden. It is fortunate that the U. S. Government 
hatcheries have put in these trout, for the Maine Fish 
Commission has done next to nothing in trout hatching 
tor the past few years, devoting all its energies to sal- 
mon hatching. Anglers declare that the waters where the 
salmon have been put are losing their prestige as trout 
waters. It is the common remark that trout are becoming 
scarce at the Rangeleys, while salmon are on the increase! 
. . Special. 
Fish and Fishing. 
• ^i U . EJ ^ C ' Canada ' J une 7-— Angling and literary circles 
in old Quebec have enjoyed the all too brief sojourn here 
for the last few days of a most welcome visitor in the 
person of the veteran Mr. Charles Hallock. Sir James 
M. Lemoine Dr. George Stewart, F. R. G. S. ; Commo- 
dore J. U. Gregory, Mr. G. M. Fairchild. Jr., and the 
writer are only a few of the old-time friends and ac- 
quaintances of the genial sportsman-author who were de- 
lighted to meet and greet him here once more. 
Some of the first ouananiche of the season arrived in 
town from Lake St. John while Mr. Hallock was here and 
it was difficult to repress a smile at the memory of the 
fact that while Mr. Hallock had fished for the fresh- 
water salmon of the Grand Discharge nearly forty years 
ago and. had described them over thirty vears ago in his 
fishing Tourist, a new generation of American anglers 
dreamed that they had discovered it, and an ichthyologist 
whose reputation should have assured him immunity from 
imposition upon his good faith, had been misled into ac- 
cepting and perpetuating the absurd pretension, 
These first ouananiche of the present season were taken 
in the well-known pool at the mouth of the Ouiatchouan 
River, one of the earliest fishing grounds for the fresh- 
water salmon. They are very fair specimens, weighing 
on an average over three pounds each. It is yet too early 
to fish for ouananiche in their chosen waters of the Grand 
Discharge, and as the present season continues to be very 
late, it will be quite time enough for anglers to reach the - 
Discharge in the third or fourth week of the present 
month, in order to get the cream of the fishing. 
Fly-fishing for trout still continues poor on account 
of the high water, and the best of it is yet to come. 
There has been no warm weather here since the month of 
April. 
General Henry has returned to town from his club 
lakes at St. Bernard, where the annual meeting was 
held last week, at which the genial General was re-elected 
president, sixteen members being present. Several of 
these are remaining on the limits of the club until the fly- 
fishing gets good. A few good fish were taken by troll- 
ing, some of them up to nearly four pounds in weight, 
but very few rose to the fly. 
From Lake Kenogami three trout were brought to town 
this week, weighing over seven pounds each. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
The Trout in the Tank. 
NoRTHwooD, Herkimer County. N. Y., June 2. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: In front of Will Light's hotel up on 
the West Canada Creek, there is a watering tank about 
fifty feet in circumference. In it he has fifteen or twenty 
common-sized brook trout taken out of the West Canada. 
People come along and look at them just the same as 
they look at trout in all such tanks of the Adirondack 
region. But for show is not the chief reason Light has 
the trout there. It's business with him. 
I was over there one afternoon just after several sports 
had pulled in from Utica for a few days' fishing. One of 
them said : "Well. Bill, do you suppose the trout will bite 
good to-morrow ?" 
"I don't know. I'll tell you in the morning. They are 
biting fair this afternoon." answered the old Bisbee guide. 
In the meantime Light had been looking out at the tank 
in front. "But what makes you think they are biting well 
this afternoon ?" .asked the fellow. 
'"Why," said Light. "I know by those fish out there in 
the tank. I tell by them the time to go fishing, just the 
same as you tell the time of day by your watch. When 
I see them acting just right, if I want a mess of trout I 
take my rod and I never fail to bring home a mess. If 
they aren't acting just right, I know there isn't any use 
of going, whether I want them or not." 
Whereupon the sportsmen laughed heartily, while Light 
grinned comfortably. 
Several days after I met one of the sports above the 
slip banks. I hadn't had very good luck, and asked him 
how about the watering tank that day. 
"Say. by Jove. I never saw the beat of it. Day before 
yesterday Bill went out to the tank, watched it for a mo- 
ment, came back and said: 'Well, boys, I don't believe 
you will have very good luck to-day. You will get a few, 
bat not many.' We all laughed again, but when we got 
back we had just 'a few, but not many.' Yesterday Bill 
went out to the tank and watched the speckled beauties 
a while, looked up with a broad grin and said, 'Gentle- 
men, you're going to get a good catch to-day,' and by 
thunder we did !" 
"What luck to-day with you. anyway?" he continued. 
"Not much," said I, "only a few." 
"That's just what Bill said this morning — 'Not much 
luck to-day, boys.' Don't it beat the deuce?" 
E. A. Speaks. 
he Menml 
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 Field Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) third 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, Onl. 
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 annua] trials. F. 
W. Samuel, Sec'y, Louisville, Ky. 
Nov. 20. — Manor. L. I.— 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 annual 
trials. C. E Raiiehn. Sec'y. 
Dec. 1.— Washington C. H, Ohio.— American Championship 
Field Trial Club's second annual trials. Chas. B. Cooke, Sec'y, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Dec. 1.t , — . —.—Interstate Championship Field Trial 
Association's second annual trials. C. D. Cooke, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15.— Huntsville, Ala.— Alabama Field Trial Club's (member 
of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. John 
F. Fletcher, Sec'y, Birmingham, Ala. 
— • — •- — — — . — • — -~ We , ster " Field Trial Association's sec- 
9»4 *aaui>l tnajs. C. W. pities, Sfp'y. ' * 
Kentacky^FteidjfeTrials. 
Louisville, Ky., June ^—Edit ;• Forest and Stream: 
The Kentucky trials will be held at Glasgow Nov. 17. 
Two $300 guaranteed stakes have been opened for Derbv 
and All Age dogs. The club's addition of 50 per cent, to all 
money over the guaranteed value will make the stakes 
worth $500 each. 
Sam Brown Hays. 
Acting Secretary. 
The K. F. T. secretary has issued a circular letter as 
follows: 
Louisville, Ky.. May 28.— The Kentucky field trials 
will be run at Glasgow, Ky., on Nov. 17, and indications 
point to the most successful of all the meetings held at 
this hospitable old town. Reports from the resident mem- 
bers there indicate that quail will be unusually abundant, 
and every former visitor knows of the hearty Kentucky 
welcome to be received. 
Our stakes will be guaranteed to be worth $300 each, 
and will have an additional value in the distribution of 
50 per cent, of all entry and starting fees over $300. We 
expect each stake to be worth $500, and believe this inno- 
A-ation of adding money to the guaranteed value of the 
stakes will be appreciated by all owners. 
We trust you will honor us with your entries and that 
you will be present at the trials. Major J. M. Taylor, Mr. 
Christie Churchill and possibly Judge Zell Gaston, who 
were such satisfactory judges last season, will again 
officiate, and this is a guarantee that the best dogs will 
get the money. 
The stakes will close on Sept. 1, and entry blanks will 
be sent you in due time. The two open stakes will be 
the Kentucky Derby, for all setters and pointers whelped 
on or after Jan. 1, 1001, and guaranteed to be worth $300, 
and the Free-For-All, for all-aged dogs, guaranteed to 
be worth $300. To each stake 50 per cent, of all money 
paid in over $300 will be given. The money will be 
divided 60, 30 and 10. 
Please send us an entry. Make check payable to the un- 
dersigned and date it Sept. 1. Send as soon as possible. 
Sam Brown Hays, 
Acting Secretary. 
—4 — - 
Yachting Fixtures, J 902. 
Secretaries and members of race committees will confer a favor 
by sending notice of' errors or omissions in the following list and 
also changes which may be made in the future. 
JUNE. 
14. Hull- Massachusetts, club, Hull, Mass. 
14. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club race for Centre Island Cup, 
Oyster Bay, Long Island Sound. 
14. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., open, New Rochelle, 
Long Island Sound. 
14. Bayswater, J. B. Y. R. A., open, Jamaica Bay. 
14. Kennebec, club, Bath, Maine. 
14. Quincy, club, Ouincy Bay, Boston Harbor. 
14. Beverly, club, Monument Beach, Buzzard's Bay. 
14. Hull-Massachusetts, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. 
14. Columbia, race to Michigan City, Lake Michigan. 
14. Corinthian, open, Essington, Delaware River, 
11. Winthrop, club, Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 
14. Boston, cruise, racing run, Boston to Marblehead, Mass. Bay. 
14-17. Boston, cruise, City Point, Marblehead, Gloucester and Hull. 
15. Boston, cruise, racing run, Marblehead to Gloucester, Massa- 
chusetts Bay. 
15. Bergen Beach, J. B. Y. R. A., open, Jamaica Bay. 
15. Gloucester, annual, Delaware River. 
16. Boston, cruise, racing run, Gloucester to Marblehead, Mass- 
achusetts Bay. 
17. Ouincy, club, Ouincy Bay, Boston Harbor. 
17. Atlantic, annual. Sea Gate, New York Bay. 
17. Boston, cruise, racing run, Marblehead to Hull, Mass. Bay. 
17. Hull-Massachusetts, Y. R. A., open, Point Allerton, Boston 
Harbor. 
17. Beverly, open, sweepstake, Monument Beach, Buzzard's Bay. 
17. Corinthian, club championship, Marblehead, Mass. Bay. 
19. New York, annual. New York, Lower Bay. 
21. Winthrop, M. Y. R. A., open, Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 
21. Corinthian, club, Essington, Delaware River. 
21. Duxbury, club, Duxbury, Massachusetts Bay. 
21. Corinthian, club championship. Marblehead, Mass. Bay. 
21. Norwalk, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., open, South Norwalk, Long 
Island Sound. 
21. New Bedford, cruise tc Marion, Buzzard's Bay. 
21. Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont, Long Island Sound. 
21. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club race for Centre Island cup, 
Oyster Bay, Long Island Sound. 
21. Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay, Sea Gate, N. Y, Bay. 
22. Wollaston, club, Quincy Bay, Boston Harbor. 
23. Eastern, open, Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
24. New York, club. Glen Cove, Long Island Sound. 
26-28. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., Oyster Bay, 
Long Island Sound. 
28. Beverly, club, Monument Beach, Buzzard's Bay. 
28. New York C, C, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay, Sea Gate, New 
York Bay. 
28. Ouincy, club, yuincy Bay, Boston Harbor. 
25. Kennebec, club, Bath, Maine. 
28. Indian Harbor, club, Greenwich, L. I, Sound. 
28. Corinthian, club, Essington, Delaware River. 
28. Duxbury, club, Duxbury, Massachusetts Bay. 
2S. Winthrop, club. Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 
28. Boston, Y. R. A., open, City point, Boston Harbor, 
28. Hull-Massachusetts, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. 
28. Wollaston, Y. R. A., open, Quincy Bay, Boston Harbor. 
28. South Boston, club handicap, City Point, Boston Harbor. 
29. Old Mill, J. B. Y. R. A., open, Jamaica Bay. • 
30. Bridgeport, Trial races for selection of representative for Sea- 
wanhaka cup contest, Bridgeport, Long Island Sound. 
For Cruising Yachtsmen. 
With the purpose of stimulating the interest in cruis- 
ing, and the keeping of a detailed log by cruising yachts- 
men during the- season of 1902, the publishers of Forest 
and Stream offer prizes for the best stories of cruises 
submitted to be published in Forest and Stream. It is 
believed that these will form not only entertaining records 
of pleasant summer days spent afloat along our coasts and 
waterways, but will furnish information of practical value 
to other yachtsmen making subsequent cruises on the 
same waters. 
Prizes will be awarded to the three best stories as fol- 
lows: 
First prize, $50.09. 
