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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 9, 1903- 
rapids of the river are certainly more gamy and sportive 
in their habits when hooked than those taken out of the 
quiet waters of the lake. The best of this fishing is 
usually done by sportsmen from Quebec, who know from 
past experience of the attractions of this pool, though it 
is rather surprising to me tliat it is not visited by larger 
numbers of American anglers. Its facility of access is 
very much in its favor. 
There are no indications, so far, of the breaking up of the 
ice on Lake Edward, and I would not advise a visit there 
by anglers before the 15th of May. I hear that several 
parties are booked to arrive there for the trout fishing in 
the last week of May and the first of June. About the 
same time several parties of club men are to pass through 
Quebec on their way to their fishing preserves. Among 
them are several members of the Amabalish, the Triton 
and the Metabetchouan Fish and Game Clubs. 
Anglers will be gratified to know that there has been 
much less illegal fishing through the ice this last winter 
than usual, thanks to the good work done and the watch- 
fulness displayed by the guardians of the Sportsmen's 
Fish and Game Protective Association of the Province 
of Quebec. While they have served as excellent deter- 
rents they have not succeeded in capturing any offenders 
against the fishery laws, though they undoubtedly would 
have done so had there been many violations of the law, 
for in running down offenders against the game laws 
they have been singularlj' fortunate of late, several of 
these having been fined from fifty to one hundred dollars 
each for killing moose and caribou out of season. 
Nepigon Trout, 
Anglers everywhere will rejoice to hear that there is 
no truth in the report recently set afloat by a Dulutli, 
Minnesota, paper to the effect that trout fishing in the 
Nepigon River was likely to be impaired, owing to a 
mysterious disease which, it was alleged, had been preva- 
lent among the fish; that the disease was gaining in 
virulence, and that hundreds of the fish were to be found 
dead on the shore daily. The Ontario fishery depart- 
ment directed the attention of their agent at Nepigon to 
the story, which he pronounced utterly false. No founda- 
tion can be imagined for the report, which must have 
been manufactured out of whole cloth, and it is a well- 
known fact that the fishing in the Nepigon had not been 
so good for many years past as it was last year. The 
Ontario authorities are evidently determined that it shall 
not be allowed to deteriorate, and will therefore again 
pursue the policy introduced last year of exterminating, 
as far as possible, "all such things as be devourers" of 
the game, to quote the words of good old Dame Juliana 
Barnes or Berners. Last year the work of destruction of 
the coarse fish in the river was carried on with such 
success that no less than 1,800 pike, 3S9 pickerel and 803 
suckers were taken and destroyed. 
New Bfucswick Salmon Waters Sold, j , ' 
Last week there was a sale of salmon fishing' y/^aters by 
the New Brunswick Government at Fredericton: Out of 
ten fishing leases advertised, onh' four were sold — two 
four-year leases and two nine-year leases. The four-year 
leases were the rafting ground reserve on the Resti- 
gouche and Metapedia River on the western bank from 
the mouth to the Quebec line. The former was bid in 
by J. W. Ayer, of Bangor, at the upset price of $50 per 
annum, and the latter by Frank Whitehead for the 
Restigouche Salmon Club at the upset price of $100 per 
annum. The nine-year leases sold were the Upsalquitch 
River and branches and the Northwest Miramichi from 
the mouth of Big Sevagle to and including Little Falls. 
Thomas Malcolm got the LJpsalquitch for the Resti- 
gouche and Western Railway at $1,600 per annum, $600 
in excess of the upset price. The Northwest Miramichi 
was knocked down to R. W. Armstrong, of Newcastle, 
at $70 per annum, $20 more than the upset price. The 
six other advertised leases were all offered, but there 
were no bids for any of them. 
Those not sold were: 
Four-year leases, to expire March i, 1907, Restigouche 
River: From head of tide up to L C. R. bridge, upset 
price $100 ; from Quatawamkebgwick River to Victoria 
county line, upset price $50; Quatawamkebgwick River 
from mouth to 15 mile tree, upset price S250; Quatawam- 
kebgwick River from 15 mile tree up to head (in New 
Brunswick), upset price $250. 
Nine-year leases, to expire March i, 1912: Pock- 
niouche River and branches, upset price $25 ; Green River 
and branches, upset price $50. E. T. D. Chambers. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
Saturday, contest No. 5, held at Stow Lake, April 
25; wind, S.W. ; weather, cloudy. 
Event Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, , Event No. 3. , Lure 
Feet. Percent. Acc. » Uel. f Net% Casting < 
H. Brown 100 
74.8 
84.8 
81.8 
83.2 
72.1 
W E Brooks . 98 
89 
82 
85.10 
83.11 
T. W. Brotherton.114 
87.4 
86.8 
91.8 
89.2 
95.5 
G. H. Foulks.... 79 
87.4 
8-3.4 
84.2 
83.9 
C. R. Kenniff.... 102 
89 
90.4 
80.10 
85.7 
96 
T. C. Kierulff.... 84 
81.4 
80 
89.2 
84.7 
77.4 
E. A. Mocker... 98 
90.8 
90.4 
81.8 
86 
G. H. Powers, Jr. ... 
88.4 
F. H. Reed 77 
83.8 
84.8 
85 
84.10 
P. J. Tormey.... 75 
90 
84.8 
75.10 
80.3 
9i.3 
C. G. Young 
87.8 
92 
85 
88.6 
93.9 
Judges, C. R. Kenniff, T. 
C. Kierulff; referee, G. 
H. 
Foulks; Clerk, Bruning. 
Sunday, contest 
No. 5, held at Stow Lake, April 
26; 
wind, N.; weather, fair. 
H. Battu 86 
86 . 
88.8 
70 
79.4 
80 
A. M. Blade 88 
37 
66.8 
72.6 
69.7 
W E Brooks 96 
87 
83.4 
72.6 
77.11 
T. W. Brotherton.lOO 
90 
85.4 
Y0.8 
81 
91.2 
G. H. Foulks.... 75 
85 
80.4 
71.8 
76 
A. B. Carr 
90.4 
86. 4 
KB. 8 
86.6 
H. C. Golcher... Ill 
77.4 
84.8 
83.4 
84 
C. R. Kenniff... Ill 
89.8 
91 
88.4 
89.8 
97.2 
T. B. Kenniff... 104 
86 
89 
85 
87 
86.1 
80 
71 
71.8 
71.4 
C. M. Patter 78 
79.8 
83.4 
75 
79.2 
93.1 
80 
74.2 
77.3 
93.6 
F. H. Reed 87 
89.4 , 
84.8 
86.8 
85.8 
C. G. Young 
87 
S8.8 
76.S 
82.8 
92.9 
F. M. Haight.... 78 
81 
64 
70.10 
67.5 
Judges, C. R. Kenniff, Q, H. Foulks; 
referee, T. 
H. 
Reed; Clerk, Bruning, 
Massachusetts Notes. 
Boston, May 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: A 
meeting of the board of management of the State 
Association was held on Thursday, April 29. The 
board voted that a meeting of the association be held 
in May, and arrangements have been made to hold it 
at the Nottingham, Huntington Avenue, on Thursday 
evening. May 21. 
It was also voted that the lavvs relating to the kill- 
ing of birds be printed on cloth in Italian for posting 
in all sections of the State where Italians are era- 
ployed. 
Mr. Kinney came from Worcester to be present at 
this meeting. Ex-President B. C. Clark was on hand 
as usual, and Dr. B. V. Howe, who seldom misses a 
meeting. 
A recent acquisition to the board, Mr. J. C. Phil- 
lips, of New Beverly and Boston, was present. Mr. C. 
W. Dimick was missed, as he has been away for some 
days on a business trip to Washington, D. C, and 
Columbus, Ohio. 
The bill to prohibit pickerel fishing through the ice 
has been defeated, and those who have expressed an 
opinion of the bill in the hearing of the writer say 
they are satisfied and some go so far as to say they 
are glad it failed of passing. Lovers of trout fishing 
in general have little regard for pickerel. 
President Reed, on Marston's Mills stream, Barn- 
stable, one day last week took 19 red perch, averaging 
10 to 12 inches in length, i trout weighing a poitnd, 
another a pound and a half, and a dozen pickerel, the 
largest about 2 feet long. 
Several severe forest fires have been reported in 
various parts of the State, which will cause some de- 
struction of what cover for birds the portable saw- 
mills have permitted to remain. 
From the Rangeleys and Moosehead the ice has gone 
out. Some of the Rangeley group were nearly clear 
on the 27th, but the correct date of the departing of 
the last ice floes, according to reports, must be set as 
the 28th. 
Already several anglers are trying the fish, but we 
shall not know with what success for some days. 
Some Massachusetts sportsmen not previously men- 
tioned by your correspondent, who returned from the 
Cape with trout, are Congressman McNary, Fred 
Gilpatric and Arthur Russell, of Boston, who fished 
Senator Nye's stream at Bournedale. Mr. Fred Has- 
call v.'ith Mr. and Mrs. Balch, of Boston, had good 
sport on Mashpee River. On account of the death of 
the former proprietor, Mr. O. M. Holmes, the Hotel 
Attaquin has been closed to visiting fishermen this 
spring. 
Ex-President Cleveland and Joe Jefferson were fre- 
quently entertained by Mr. Holmes. Prof. Myron 
Whitney, of Watertown; Fred Hubbard, Bert Hubbard 
and Frank Farquhar, of Newton, and Dr. T. W. Proc- 
tor, of Boston, have met with fair luck in Cape waters. 
Fine catches are reported from eastern Maine and 
from New Hampshire. W. L. Goodwin, of Boston, 
took one salmon 1014 pounds, another 8j4 from Greene 
Lake, while J. T. Gardner, of Boston, in one day took 
four salmon with a total weight of 30 pounds. The 
same day his companion, Wm. T. Jenkins, of Boston, 
caught three, weighing in the aggregate 17 pounds. 
At Lake Hebron, Mr. H. O. Stevens, of Boston, took 
a lake trout that weighed 9 pounds. Reports from 
Grand Lake came in so rosy that the Clearwater 
Club decided to go there. Will have more about their 
trip and some other things next time. 
Central. 
In Maine Waters^ 
Bangor, Me., May 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
This has been a great week in the history of the inland 
lakes of Maine, since they have opened unusually early, 
following in the lead of the lakes nearer the seashore, 
several of which were before reported open, having 
been clearing from ice at various dates between April 
I and the present writing, according to location and 
conditions. 
Moosehead and the Rangeleys, about the last to 
clear from ice except those in the very highest alti- 
tudes, opened during the week, the former breaking up 
completely by Tuesday, the 29th, and the steamers ar- 
riving at Greenville Junction from Kineo on that day 
were only about six hours from the time when, in 
1902, the boats steamed down to the wharf. The fol- 
lowing morning the first party, the well-known Greely 
party from Bangor and Massachusetts points, arrived 
and went to the head of the lake in their chartered 
steamer, where they will put in a fortnight or ten 
days with the fish. The Rangeleys cleared the 28th, 
M'hich beats the record for those lakes, as in 1902 the 
fishing could, so far as the ice was concerned, begin 
the 29th. Thus the more famous lakes of Maine are at 
last all open, even if not in the best of condition to be 
fished. 
Here at Bangor, the devotees of the salmon pool 
have worked steadily all the week, as for the previous 
fortnight, and with slightly better results. Two fish 
have been taken, one by Charles Hodgkins, who holds 
the record for the first and largest fish thus far this 
season, and who captured on Thursday of this week a 
salmon weighing 22j^ pounds. The other fish was taken 
earlier in the week by Arthur E. Weeks, of New York 
City, and weighed 15 pounds. 
But while these are all the fish that have been taken 
at the pool, and the weirs down river have been equally 
barren of results, there have been salmon caught in 
the Penobscot, and big ones, too. It was but a few 
days ago that a young fellow, a law student from an- 
other city, went down to High Head, opposite South 
Brewer's principal stream, the Segeunkedunk, and 
with a cockroach for bait, on a line carrying a sinker, 
caught and landed a salmon of good size. His suc- 
cess was infectious, and the next day or so, another 
law student who wanted to unite the shades of Wal- 
ton and Eros in a grand effort, cut him a "pole," at- 
tached to the end of the pole a piece of fishing line 
with a hook tied to it, baited his hook with a piece of 
fresh pork and invited his young lady to go fishing 
with him at the big High Head wharf, which is really 
a good place to go for results, since many landlocked 
salmon are liberated during the passage of the logs 
through the dam at Hines' Pond and thence, via the 
Segeunkedunk, find their way into the Penobscot and 
are frequently caught there during the running of the 
drive. As they sat and watched the water, which was 
very high, it being flood tide, a salmon broke not far 
away, and the young fellow cast his bait, which gleamed 
red and white, out upon the water toward the break. 
Almost immediately it was seized, and then began a 
tussle between the fish- and the fishing couple, the latter 
winning after a desperate fight, which he innocently 
told the writer, lasted all of fifteen minutes. It took 
both of them to drag the fish over the edge of the 
wharf to safety, and it was so heavy that it snapped 
the eight-pound scales on which the man tried to 
weigh it, so suddenly that fish and scales dropped out 
of his hands. Owing to his innate chivalry, the fish 
was not weighed, but was presented to the delighted 
young woman, and for several days the young man, 
whose bashfulness is only exceeded by his truthful- 
ness, wouldn't tell anyone of his catch because he 
thought he would not be believed, as he had always 
thought that it was understood among fishermen that 
salmon could only be caught at the pool with an ex- 
pensive rod and flies. The next day he fished at the 
same place and caught a small salmon, probably a 
grilse, or perhaps a landlocked salmon from Hines' 
Pond, but a week of further effort failed to bring an- 
other sea salmon to his hook. 
The exceedingly cold, raw weather of the past week 
has prevented any remarkable results from most of the 
Maine lakes, the water being so cold that the fish do 
not rise readily. Still, excellent catches are reported 
from some places, notably Sebec Lake, the St. Croix 
lakes and Tunk Pond, the latter of which are nearer 
the sea and have been open for some time, long enough 
in fact, for the first chill of the water to be slightly 
moderated. 
At Sebec the fishing has been better-than it has been 
for many years at such an early date, although in gen- 
eral the fish have run somewhat smaller than last j^ear. 
The Prince party, from Waterville, caught all the law 
allows, and it is reported that one man had taken 30 
during his stay. When they came to pack up and start 
for home, after having cooked their salmon in every 
way they could conceive to make them slide down 
more easily each day, they found there were still sev- 
eral fish over the weight of 25 pounds, which the law 
allows one to transport, and their less fortunate neigh- 
bors were provided w^ith fish. Some of their fish, it 
was reported, weighed as heavy as 4 pounds apiece, 
and there were none less than a poimd. The Files- 
Trafton party, from Gardiner, had the trip of their 
lives, and landed a splendid string of beautiful fish, the 
heaviest going plump 7 pounds. 
At Tunk Pond, among other fishermen were W. W. 
Doane and Miss Doane, of Brewer, who are two as 
enthusiastic anglers as one is likely to meet in father 
and daughter, and both of whom look eagerly for the 
first opportunity of wetting a line in Tunk. They were 
gone two or three days, and caught nine salmon, a 
4-pound togue and a large trout. 
The handsome string of the season, however, and 
one which few men will duplicate, and none surpass, 
w-as brought into Bangor on the midnight train from 
Vanceboro, Friday. Robert B. Blair, of this city, and 
Dr. Pitt H. Jones, of Springfield, were at Duck Lake 
for a day or two, and fished in that lake and Junior, 
two of the best of the famous St. Croix system of 
salmon lakes, and parts of the original salmon basin 
commonly known among anglers as the Grand Lake 
waters, whence have come the majority of the salmon 
eggs distributed oyer this country by the United 
States Fish Commission. During their stay at the 
lakes they fished perhaps six hours in all, not over that, 
and caught x8 salmon, 4 togue and a pickerel. The 
salmon averaged about 2^4 pounds each when caught, 
and were most regular in size and very handsome fish, 
while the togue were all of good size. Mr. Blair 
brought his share to Bangor and placed them on ex- 
hibition during the day, with a surrounding of the Archer 
spinners and flies which were used in taking them. At 
one time, so he told the writer, he had a salmon on the 
spinner and another on the fly at the same time. No 
better fishing can be found in any lakes in Maine than 
can be secured in those of the St. Croix system from 
now until the 15th of July, but there will be little sport 
with the fly there until after June i. A letter from 
Grand Lake stream (in this same system), received by 
your correspondent this week, says that the salmon 
there are running about a half pound heavier this sea- 
son than last, and that among some thirty sportsmen 
there at that writing, about thirty salmon a day were 
being caught. This proportion will increase materially 
as the water warms, and soon the sport among the sal- 
mon will be fast and furious, throughout the entire 
system. It is noticeable that the salmon taken in the 
lower lakes of the system are not as large as some 
taken in the upper waters, and in Dobsis and Upper 
Dobsis, reached most conveniently by way of Lincoln 
or Winn, on the Maine Central R.R., there are large 
fish taken in fairly, good numbers up to the middle of 
August, and even to the close of the season in those 
waters, Sept. 15. 
Among the passengers to Moosehead of the past week 
were President Frank W. Kinsman, Jr., of the Hamilton 
Bank, New York citj', 'who, with his wife, his brother, 
Dr. F. G. Kinsman, and the latter's wife, of Augusta, 
went through to Roach Pond. Mr. Frank Kinsman has 
leased for twenty years a tract of land on the shore 
of the first Roach Pond, and there he will have built at 
once a handsome cottage, not of the log cabin style, and 
a second house for the help. There will be commodious 
sitting and dining rooms, an immense stone fire-place, 
chambers affording sightly views of the pond, and all the 
other features which make a cottage in the Maine woods 
charming beyond description. 
Other arrivals at Moosehead included Dr. C. S. Dunn, 
of Haverhill, Mass., and a friend, who have gone up to 
open the former's cottage, "Dunncliff," just above Har- 
ford Point, and at the entrance to the thoroughfare be- 
tween the mainland and Moose Island; Dr. L. F. Hatch 
and family, who will spend the summer at the Moose- 
