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[June 13, 1903. 
always open, and close examination will show the grub 
sticking out his head and a couple of sets of short and 
sturdy legs, by means of which he is able to accomplish 
locomotion. Putting some of these apparently inanimate 
bits on top of a rock, where the sun would strike them, 
we could see the little fellows stick out their legs and 
finally wriggle and squirm until they turned the whole 
case over and so got back into the water. 
Down in New Mexico, where I used to fish, we often 
used as bait the grub of what we called the willow fly. 
These cases seemed to be made of a sort of glue, with 
fine sand and very small pebbles. One would sometimes 
find a handful of'them attached to the bottom of a rock 
which he turned over in the stream. This form of "stick 
bait" was entirely different from the wood cases which we 
find in Michigan and Wisconsin. My recollection is that 
the grub of the willow fly was a little bit paler in color 
and rather larger than these Michigan larva:. 
For Wisconsin, 
Messrs. John Bates and Henry Wagner, of Chicago, 
this week left for a trout fishing trip of some extent out 
of Ellis Junction, Wisconsin. They expect also to take 
a few bass. 
Back from Washington. 
Mr. W. S. Phillips, of Chicago, this week returned from 
a hurried trip to Washington and the Puget Sound coun- 
try. He found time to do some fishing and took one 
trout, which I suppose was likely a sturgeon, and which 
weighed fifteen pounds. We in this country know noth- 
ing but baby fishes. 
Lock at Lauderdale. 
Members of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club who made 
the trip to Lauderdale Chain had fair fishing, but nothing 
very startling. It need not be said that they had a grand 
good time. 
The Ft re Marquette Trip. 
The Pere Marquette trip of the Chicago anglers will 
probably be. deferred until July, until the weather condi- 
tions are more favorable. So far the weather has been 
exceedingly bad for anglers of the middle West. 
Kalamazoo. 
I have at different times noticed with interest the beau- 
tiful Kalamazoo River, more especially in its course be- 
tween Battle Creek and Kalamazoo towns. I am told that 
this is a very prolific bass stream, the fish being small- 
mouths, and 'that the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo boys 
frequently make boating trips between the two towns. 
One or two friends here wish to make this trip, and the 
onlv cloud I can cast upon their prospects is the com- 
monly believed information that in the summer months 
the fish of this stream are wormy and not fit to eat. 
Some of the Battle Creek anglers bring them home alive 
and turn them loose in cold water for a while, after which 
time they are said to assume good condition. I am sorry 
these fish are not good to eat, for the stream seems ideal 
for fly-fishing, and I believe a boat trip with a fly-rod 
on that water would be a pleasant experience. 
The Wautoma District. 
Mr. C. P. McAvoy, of this city, came in the other day 
to ask for a good vacation country for himself and wife. 
He wants some bass fishing, but would not balk at a 
irout now and then. He had in mind some point on the 
Mississippi River, where he intended doing some fly- 
fishing for the famous small-mouths of that stream. The 
exceedingly high waters on the great river, however, 
would seem to put it out of an angler's plans. I advised 
Mr. McAvoy to go up to some nice farm-house near 
Neshkoro. or to drop in at Bean's hotel at Wautoma. or 
to try Benjamin's place near the White River. There 
are very many little trout streams near this place, and 
west of Wautoma there are a couple of lakes knowm as 
Silver-Crest. It is still a trifle too early for fly-fishing 
for bass along the lower White, but still one might catch 
an occasional bass even now. The beauty, restfulncss 
and healthfulness of this district give it considerable at- 
traction, and Mr. McAvoy, who already was somewhat 
familiar with the streams of that neighborhood, took 
counsel to go in there for his vacation. He_ will probably 
do considerable exploration, in company with either Art 
Bean, of Wautoma, or Carl Bartl, of Princeton, both of 
whom know that country thoroughly well. 
About Hooks. 
A friend of mine down in Kentucky sent me a nice 
bunch of round-bend Carlisle hooks, which he had 
specially imported at considerable expense of time and 
cash. He is very fond of this pattern of hook and 
thought he had the real thing. Now he writes me from 
Michigan that he tried them and had all kinds of trouble. 
He says : "I broke ten of them yesterday while fishing, 
and they all broke at the same place, seeming to be very 
brittle. I send you one, to show you just where they 
broke." The hook inclosed is broken just at the thin 
place under the barb. I should think a hook which 
would break ten in one day's fishing was a good thing to 
leave at home, or in England, whence they originally 
came. 
A good many of my friends are very fond of the Pen- 
nell bronzed hook, more especially that with the up-turned 
eye. This is a strong, keen hook with deep barb, and has 
great holding powers. It is said that under a fair driving 
test this hook will penetrate pine wood further than any 
other to which equal power is applied. I noticed a good 
many of the Saginaw crowd used Sne'ck side-bends. I be- 
lieve this is a good catching hook, though hardly think it 
has the power in holding the very heavy fish which 
would be gained by the thicker wire of the bronzed Pen- 
nell. The Sproat hook has the best reputation for strik- 
ing quality, as it is thought to be of ideal central draft. 
There are, however, Sproats and Sproats. I had a bunch 
of queen-of-the-water flies, or a sort of Sproat, which 
patterns seemed to be very attractive over in Michigan 
this week, yet I never missed so many fish in my life as 
I did on this particular fly. The point of the hook re- 
curved in so far toward the shank that in very many cases 
it not only failed to catch but failed to hold. I presume 
every angler has his favorite pattern. Just at present the 
bronzed hook is having a big run in this part of the 
angling world. As a matter of fact, almost any hook will 
do when the trout are well on the feed and are not com- 
ing short. It should not be forgotten, howeyer, that one 
of the great functions of a hook is to come intact out of 
a tree or a log, when perchance it is fastened there in- 
stead of in the anatomy of a fish. 
. Record Rainbow. 
Mr. John Bain, of Grand Rapids, Mich., last week, ac- 
cording to advice just at hand from John Waddell, of 
the latter city, was so fortunate as to capture an eight- 
pound rainbow trout. I have no details as to the incident, 
but that weight is record for the Pere Marquette. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Another Tame Tfotft. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In Forest and Stre.\m of May 23 I read with much 
in.terest an article by Mr. Chas. Cristadoro, "Wild Trout 
I have Met." 
I note, with sympathy, for this gentleman, his remarks 
about the big trout which made goo-goo eyes at him 
from the depths of a clear pool, for this experience has 
tried the patience of more than one fisherman, who, after 
repeated efforts with various kinds of bait, has gone home 
wondering why these big- trout failed to take the least 
notice of the many good things offered. I have heard 
many theories advanced why, at times, trout will not 
respond to the most urgent dinner call. But no matter 
about the real reason. The fact remains. I will say to 
Mr. Cristadoro, if at some future time he finds a pool 
where he sees the goo-goo eyes and hears the hearty trout 
laugh come bubbling up to the surface, "Go home; get 
your supper; and when the shades of night have fallen 
over that charming pool, add to your fishing kit a bulls- 
eye electric light and try them again. Flash that light 
over the pool, and drop your wriggling worm within its 
circle. You may not enjoy midnight angling, but if trout 
are necessary for breakfast you will have them." 
Now, a word about that tame trout which came to such 
an untimely death at Duluth. The world is wide, but 
printer's ink spatters over a vast territory; and should a 
copv of the Tribune containing that story fall into the 
hands of Mr. Ed. Grant, of the Rangeley Lakes region, 
I fear he would at once drop his rod and go gunning 
for his namesake in Minnesota. That story, with slight 
variations, \vas told years ago by Ed. Grant; only his 
tame trout did not slip from a log, but dropped through 
a bridge and was drowned. Now, Ed. is original. He 
enjoys a good story and knows how to tell one. The 
tame trout story is his pet piece of fiction, told in such a 
positive manner that no one but a fisherman could doubt 
it. And were he to know that some other Grant had 
been fooling with his little fish I fear he would be justly 
angry. Roxbury. 
[The tale of a fish caught, tamed and taught to live 
on dry land, has been told of many different fish by many 
different fish story builders in many places ; but the claim 
is made that the original story as told in this country was 
the Forest and Stream translation from the Swedish of 
a story of a herring which followed its master about on 
dry land and eventually fell from a bridge and was 
drowned. This was printed, it must have been, ten years 
ago.] . 
Fishing: Temperance. 
Consistency requires those of us who are right minded 
fishermen to reasonably limit ourselves as to the number 
of fish we should take on favorable days. On no ac- 
count should edible fish be caught in such quantities as 
to be wasted. By restraining ourselves in this matter we 
discourage in our own natures the growth of greed, we 
prevent wicked waste, we make it easier for us to bear 
the fall between what we may determine upon as decent 
good luck and bad luck, or no luck, and make ourselves 
at all points better men and better fishermen. — Grover 
Cleveland in the Independent. 
A Tagged Jewfish Heard From. 
Tarpon, Texas, May 30. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
On the 27th inst. Mr. C. E. Gast, of Pueblo, Colo., landed 
a jewfish bearing a tag inscribed as follows: "Aransas 
Pass 1903. Report to Forest and Stream. W. B. 
Young. New York." This fish was tagged by Mr. Young 
about April 10. W. A. Farley. 
Flxtttrea. 
Oct. 6-9.— Danbury, Conn., Agricultural Society's show. 
Nov. 3-G.— New York.— Annual show of Ladies' Kennel Associa- 
tion of America. . , , »t it, i 
9— Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec'y. 
Kennel Diseases. 
After an interval of some months, "Kennel Diseases, 
their Svmptoms, Nature, Causes and Treatment," by Ash- 
mont , has superseded "Dogs, their Management and 
Treatment in Disease." Excellent as was his first work, 
"Ashmont" (Dr. J. Frank Perry) has placed it under a 
total eclipse by the scope, profound, yet concise, "iforma- 
tion contained in his later work, "Kennel Diseases. His 
first work contained 208 pages; his later work contains 
424 pages. The whole work, aside from the author s 
comprehensive technical knowledge of diseases and their 
treatment, is markedly sterling good sense. The work is 
for the information of the layman, and therefore, as near 
as may be, it is written in language easily understood by 
ail In his preface the learned author gives the keynote 
to his theme, as follows: "In attempting to popularize 
medicine— for the guidance of non-professionals— a com- 
mon fault seems to be failure to particularize,^ and thus 
leave far too much to conjecture. In endeavoring to ob- 
viate this I may have gone over the line and indulged in 
what might seem to some to be needless repetition. But 
if so no real harm can have been done; and in the matter 
of doses, especially, my readers can scarcely go wrong. 
There are no specifics in canine practice. That is, no 
medicines which are sure cures always for the same dis- 
eases. Indeed, in many instances, a medicine which has 
cured a large number of cases may prove valueless in the 
next case, although it might seem precisely like the others. 
Again, cures can be effected only in stages, as it were. 
That is, one class of drugs will accomplish a certain 
amount of good and no more, and another class mu.st be 
employed to secure greater gain." This will commend 
itself to all serious thinkers for its soundness. The work 
is divided into three parts, "The Sick Quarters," "Princi- 
ples of Medicine," and "The Practice of Medicine," the 
latter including every disease to which the dog is sub- 
ject. Published by Little, Brown & Co. For sale by 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company. Price, $3.00. 
fdchting. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1903. 
Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice 
of errors or otnissions in the following list, and also changes which 
may be made in the future. 
JUNE. 
Atlantic, 90-footers, Sandy Hook. 
South Boston, club, City Point. 
12-13-15-16. Manchester, trial races for selection of challenger for 
Seawanhaka cup, Manchester Harbor. 
New York, fifty-seventh annual, all classes, off Sandy Hook. 
Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 
Boston, club, South Boston. 
Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian, club. Oyster Bay, 
Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont. 
Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 
Jamaica Bay, club, Jamaica Bay. 
, "New York, Glen Cove cups. Glen Cove. 
Beverly, open sweepstake, Monument Beach. 
Larchmont, races for 90-footers, Larchmont. ■* 
Boston, Y. R. A., off Point Allerton, open. 
Dorchester, open, Dorchester Bav. 
19. New Rochelle, club, New RocTielle. 
Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 
Indian Harbor, 90-footers, Greenwich. 
Southern, Baldwin and Walker cups. New Orleans. 
Beverly, club. Monument Beach. 
Keystone, club, Woodmere, L. I. 
Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
Corinthian, first championship, Marblehead. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian, 90-footers, Oyster Bay. 
Atlantic, club. Sea Gate. 
Columbia, motor boat race, Am. P. B. A., Hudson River. 
New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
Chicago, handicap, Lake Michigan. 
Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay. 
Gloucester, N. J., annual, Delaware River. 
26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. 1." Sound, annual 
and specials. 
South Boston, club, City Point. 
New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
Boston, club, Marblehead. 
Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 
St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St. Paul, Minn. 
Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. 
Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
New York C. C, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 
July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. 
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Constitution w.as put in the dry dock at Erie Basin 
on last Saturday in order that she might be measured. 
The yacht was measured with fifty-eight men on board. 
Mr. Charles D. Mower, the measurer for the New York 
Y. C. did not give out the results of his calculations. 
Owing to the thick fog that hung over the lower bay 
on Monday, June 8, the race between Columbia, Constitu- 
tion and Reliance was abandoned. The three boats lay in 
the Horseshoe and made sail during the morning, but 
the fog rolled in so thick that it was impossible to start. 
As there was a fresh southeast breeze blowing and quite 
a steep sea running outside, it would have been a go.jd 
test for the boats, and it was a source of great disap- 
pointment to all interested that the fog prevented what 
might have been a very exciting race. 
Atlantic Y. C. Ocean Race* 
June I to 3. 
The first of three ocean races to be held by the At- 
lantic Y. C. this year, was started on the morning of 
Monday, June i, and finished in the early hours of 
Wednesday, June 3. Six schooners started and finished 
the 248 mile event, which was won on corrected time 
by the smallest of the lot, Kiwassa, owned by Messrs. 
H. B. Shaen and H. A. Rusch, of the Atlantic Y. C. 
By winning the event Kiwassa gets a beautiful 
trophy presented by Com. Frederick Adams, of the 
Larchmont Y. C. Mr. J. G. N. Whittaker's schooner 
Iroquois secured second prize and George Lauder, 
Jr.'s Endymion third. Both the latter trophies were 
offered by the Atlantic Y. C. 
The course selected was a long one, calculated to 
try out the craft in every way. It led from Sea Gate 
to the Fire Island Lightship, thence to Northeast End 
Lightship, off Cape May, and from there to the finish, 
off Scotland Lightship. 
But conditions on the first ocean race were excep- 
tional. It was like sailing on a summer sea with hard- 
ly enough wind or wave .to make the trip exciting. 
These conditions, of course, handicapped boats like 
Endymion, Iroquois, Fleur de Lys and Thistle, dis- 
tinctly at best in real ocean-going conditions. 
A gratifying feature about the event was that every 
craft finished the contest, and during the progress a 
majority of the contenders were in sight of one another. 
The courses and distances covered by the racers are 
approximately represented as follows: 
Nautical Miles. 
Craven Shoal Buoy to Swash Channel Bell Buoy, S % W 4% 
Swash Channel to Black and Red Buoy, S.E. by S 2^4 
Black and Red Buoy to Red Buoy No. 2, S.E. by E. V& E.... 1 
Buoy No. 2 to Fire Island L. V., E. by S .361/2 
Fire Island L. V. to N. E. end L. V., .S.VV. % S 100 
N E end L. V. to Barnegat Bell Buoy, N.N.E. % E 53 
Barnegat Bell Buoy to Scotland L. V., N. by E. 1/2 E 42 
Total distance 248 
