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a very large run also in September, while between these 
dates smaller schools keep coming in. 
The)' appear first in Myra Bay, some fifteen or twenty 
miles south of Sydney, then work their way into Sydney 
Harbor, with the tuna following. They are very plentiful 
near Scatterie in September, but the bay there is not quite 
so well protected as is Myra Bay; beside, at that time 
the weather is more uncertain; nevertheless, as far as I 
can learn, the conditions there are by no means too un- 
favorable for the tuna fishing. One would not, though, be 
able to fish continuously day after day as he could in 
Myra Bay and Sydney Harbor during July and August. 
My informant advises that for the Myra Bay fishing, 
sportsmen go by train from Sydney to Myra Gut, and 
then by boat a couple of miles to Round Island, and stai- 
at the house of Mr. Geo. Dillon, where good boats and 
(experienced boatmen can be procured. This fishing 
ground is Avell protected from all winds except those 
w^hich^come from the east. 
Scatterie, fourteen miles from Myra Gut, is reached by 
small sailboat or occasional tug. The bay there is open 
•only to the east, but it is larger than Myra Bay. The 
herring spawn in September at this place. Good boats 
and boatmen can be had there also, and it is probable 
that the lighthouse keeper would be pleased to take care 
of several sportsmen, 
I think that, if the tuna fishing here be given a fair 
'trial b}' some of your readers, and if they will take the 
^trouble to write up their experiences for your columns, it 
would not require many years to make these waters as 
fashionable a resort for tuna fishermen as are those 
around^Catalina Island. 
Unfortunately for me, my work will take me to British 
Columbia this summer, so I cannot start the ball rolling, 
much as I might desire to do so, but next j'ear, and for 
several succeeding years, it is possible that business will 
bring me here during the summer months ; and, if it does, 
you may be sure that I shall come provided with the best 
obtainable outfit for undertaking the capture of the great 
albicore, J. A. L. Waddell. 
Fish and Fishing. 
Death of Dean Sage. 
The recent death of Dean Sage, of Albany, from apo- 
plexy, in his fishing lodge at Camp Harmony, on the Ris- 
tigouche, has caused deep regret among anglers and the 
lovers of angling literature everyw^here. and serves to 
recall the decease of other prominent fishermen under 
very similar circumstances. Col. Walker, M. P. for Lon- 
don, Ont., died a few years ago on the Grand River of 
Gaspe, having been suddenly stricken down while playing 
a salmon. The sudden death of Governor Russell, of 
Massachusetts, in the fishing camp of Mr. Dutton, of 
Boston, whose guest he was at the time on the Little 
Pabos River of Gaspe, is a still more recent event, and it 
ns only about three years ago that Mr. Charles Hope, of 
Montreal, died in camp on th^ Moisie. 
Next to his own home, it is natural that the angler 
■should hold his iishing lodge in higher estimation than 
.any other earthly resting place, and if the summons which 
comes in time to all of us should find us away from 
Liome, I knoAV of no other locality whence the angler 
would rather be called to cross the bar than the camp 
by the side of his favorite stream. I have before me at 
this moment, a letter written by the daughter of a dear old 
friend who died in his Canadian fishing lodge nearly two 
years ago. The writer of the letter says : "Was it not 
beautiful that his last days could be spent in the place 
^dearer to him than any other spot on earth?" May not 
the same thought prove a consolation to others similarly 
bereaved? 
Camp Harmony, where the late Dean Sage expired, is 
most picturesquely situated- at the juncture cf the Upsal- 
quitch and the Ristigouche, and at the time of his decease 
he was accompanied by a number of his dearest friends. 
Not more beautiful, certainly, than many of the river 
stretches of the Ristigouche and its tributaries is "Coquet' s 
Lovely Water," of which Thomas Westwood has so feel- 
ingly written in the following lines from his "Dying 
Angler" ; 
"In the blest land of heaven, they say, 
' Are rivers fair beholden; 
f That by God's throne flow murmuring on 
I .• O'er opal sands and golden. 
' My lot may be those streams to see; 
But, O dear son and daughter! 
Shall I ne'er cast a backward glance 
To Coquet's lovely water?" 
It is a somewhat strange coincidence that Mr. Sage's 
death should have been almost contemporaneous with the 
appearance of his latest book. Like many another ^vriter 
upon his favorite sport, the deceased was an enthusiastic 
collector of angling literature, his library of works on 
fish and fishing having been one of the most interesting of 
private collections, since the presentation of that of Mr. 
John Bartlett to Harvard University. His book plate, in 
v'hich a salmon holds the place of honor, illustrates the 
estimation in which he held the king of fresh-w;ater fishes. 
Many anglers have longed to see that masterpiece of pis- 
catorial literature, issued by Mr. Sage in 1888, and en- 
titled "The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fisheries," and 
have never seen it. Nor is this a matter for much surprise 
when it is recalled tha,t the edition of this richly illus- 
trated folio was limited to 105 copies, of which five w;ent 
to public libraries, fifty w'ere for private presentation, 
twenty-five were for sale in the United States, and twenty- 
five in Great Britain. I learn that the lamented author 
has utilized much of the text of this beautiful book in his 
contribution to the newly issued volume. 
Killing Doubles. 
I had quite a novel experience the other day in the 
Grand Discharge, while fishing from a canoe with Johnny 
Le -^ard as guide. The ouananiche were rising so freely 
to the fly that Lessard more than once urged me to take 
one of the flies from my line and fish with one only. We 
had rises at both flies almost as often as single fish, and 
the time required to exhaust a double rendered the guide 
somewhat impatient, until he saw that it was sport and 
flot g, big score that I y(as after, Th§ lightness of the rg^ 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
and tackle, and the roughness of the water in which the 
fish were rising, immediately below the Grande Chute of 
the Discharge, necessitated our canoe being paddled into 
the still water of some quiet bay before Lessard could 
net the fish when two large ones were struck together. 
Lessard is one of the most expert netters that 1 have yet 
encountered. He never, as in the case of trout, attempted 
to net the two ouananiche together, or to .secure the lower 
one first. With the net in one hand, ready to be slipped 
under the lower fish, he waited his chaftce to pass the 
fingers of the other hand under the gills of the upper one 
whenever I had so far drowned him that the line Would 
hold his head out of the water. Of Course it was often 
necessary to make several attempts before succeeding iti 
lifting both fish into the canoe together. But not once 
was a fish lost during the process of netting, despite the 
usually very dangerous character of the tactics etftployed 
by the guide. Very often he had barely darted his hand 
upon the upper fish when the lower otte started off with a 
wild rush to the depths of the bay. So agile and feady 
was Lessard,^ however, that the monleftt there was the 
slightest strain upon the line from the lower fish, his 
bold was relaxed, and the upper one was dragged down 
along with it. Out of five doubles hooked in one day, only 
a single fish escaped, and in this case the hook was torn 
from its mouth. Never before had I seen the landing net 
so deftly and so successfully handled, 
A Thiity-Potndef. 
I picked up a newspaper the other day and saw a pic- 
ture of a fish being taken out of the water of a Newfound- 
land stream in a landing net. Below was the legend 
"Landing a tliirty-pounder." The landing net w^as of the 
ordinary size, and might in case of necessity serve for the 
purpose of lifting out a five or six pound fish. The fish 
in the photograph from which the picture was produced 
v;as a grilse a little over three pounds in weight. The 
typographer or engraver had evidently mistaken three for 
thirty, but the blunder was a disagreeable one for the 
v.'riter of the ilhistrated story, whose name was printed at 
its foot, and the author of the error was certainly not an 
angler, E. T. D. Cir.\MBERS. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Lake Minnetonk.a, Minn., June 26. — ^Extremely heavy 
rains have prevailed over the Northwest for the past 
v/eek, the days being fairly alternated, bright weather and 
driving rainstorms, the summer being thus far what is 
known as a cool season in this region. Lake Minnetonka, 
great sheet of water as it is, has times of high and low 
water. This year it is high, and the fishing is 
])erhaps on that account better than usual. While 
one would not call this a sporting water, there 
are bass here, and the local market-fishers — let not 
Sam Fullerton think there are no market-fishers on Minne- 
tonka — nearly always manage to get good strings of bass 
when they go out for themselves. When they are taking 
out a "sport" they are not always so sticcessfuL" 
Mr. Albert Bruning, a friend of mine, who is spending 
his summer here, manages by diligent fishing to take 
enough bass to supply the wants of a table of four or 
five persons. He casts frog in the shallow waters along 
tlie rush beds. He does not seem to get any good bass — • 
that is to say, good to catch — though the small ones, a 
pound or so in weight, are the best to eat. The market- 
fishers and boatmen tell me that the bass have already 
gone out to deep water, and that they get most of their 
iish on the reefs. Minnetonka does not average a deep 
water, but the lay of the bars is useful to an angler after 
June I. 
The Fish Commission plants a lot of bass and wall- 
eyed pike annually in these waters, but the results seem 
on the whole disappointing. A few wall-eyes have been 
taken here this spring, but not enough to call this an 
established pike water. Indeed, this seems to have been 
a water better suited to pickerel (great northern pike) 
than any other fish. Even yet we run across these things 
every once in a while. I have taken them up to eight or 
ten pounds weight, and must say they put up a bit of a 
fight; but they are not popular among the ladies of our 
camp, who say they taste too much like raw cotton. 
Crane Rooteiy. 
Yesterday, in the course of a tour of the upper bays of 
Minnetonka, we passed close to the timbered island known 
as Crane Island, and could see hundreds of birds already 
assembling for the night roo.st. The tops of some of the 
dead trees were covered with them. An enterprising boy 
of our acquaintance says that there were manj' hundreds 
of these birds, which nested on this island this spring, as 
well as a great many cormorants. Both these 
birds nest in the trees, and an enterprising photog- 
rapher, interested in what they nowadays call the 
new school of natural history, will no doubt get 
some interesting studies here. The cranes are big 
blue herons. We often see them standing here and 
there in the shallows, and there are enough of them to 
account for many a fish in course of a season. Once in 
a while w^e see a loon out in one of the bays or hear its 
wild laugh before a storm. We had never known of a 
loon nesting here, but it is A^ery likeb^ they do occa- 
sionally. 
Mississippi High. 
The falls of St. Anthony, w^here good father Hennepin 
and his boatmen stole the votive offerings, buffalo hides, 
etc, which they found left there by the native tribesmen, 
have long been cut and filed and bound down by the dams 
of the ruthless millers of the Twin Cities, so that their early 
beauty is evanished. To-day they show a- lot of water 
going over the many-faced dams, for the Father of Waters 
is on a bit of a rampage, and is rolling a great volume 
of stained water down the old channel way. I fear we 
shall not get that fly-fishing trip for bass yet a while, for 
the water is too high and the fish are scattered. We in- 
tended, on the advice of a Chicago friend, to get Henry 
Henning, or Louis Le Bras, boatmen at Alma, to take us 
out. Alma is a small place below Lake Pepin on the 
river. One cannot very well hire boats there, so it is well 
to remember the names of the above boatmen and fisher- 
men, who, of course, have boats of their own. The best 
libtel to" r^oieniber :for Mxm is the Turlington House, 
[July 5, 1902. 
Prescott, earlier mentioned in these columns as being 
worth notice for its fly-fishing for bass, is above Lake 
Pepin. It is coming up as a bass point, for the best of the- 
fishing used to be below that lake, or more properly 
speaking, that expansion of the Mississippi Rivet, Can 
it be that the protective efforts of the Fish Commission 
around Lake Pepin have resulted in its increase of bass 
higher up . the" river near the haunts of the market-fisher- 
men? 
Vet Veather and Bees. 
Thousands of stands of bees have been lost this spring 
in the West. The rain had the flowers and blossoms clean 
of their pollen and sweets, sO that the bees have literally 
starved to death, They have eaten all their stored hoHey, 
killed their drofles, even killed their qUeeti to cut down 
increase, but even so the famine has canght thenl sadly. 
The wet sprilTg has also been bad for nesting fame birds 
in the West. E. Hough, 
iHARtFoitD iStritDiNG, Chicago, III. 
New England Waters* 
Boston, June 21. — June 17 was a holiday in Boston and 
Charlestown, and some o>f the local lovers of rod and reel 
took the day for trips to nearby waters. Others went 
down the harbor on deep-sea fishing trips. The weather 
was favorable and the fishing for cod and haddock good. 
Mr. W. G. Harding and Mr. H. W. Brandenburg, of the 
Boston Herald composing room, went up the Sudbury. 
They tried for bass with several sorts of bait, without 
success, till Mr. Harding tried a green-professor in con- 
nection with a shiall spoon. With this lure he landed 
several small bass. But the success of the day came to 
Mr. Brandenburg's hook, baited with a live frog, on 
which he took a handsome bass of four pounds. An 
Arlington party is back from Moosehead — Edwin F. Far- 
mer and his niece, Miss Locke, of Arlington, Mass. ; 
T, X. Fitzpatrick, of Cambridge; F. Perkins, of Wake- 
field, and Mr. and Mrs. George Fales, of Boston. The 
fishing was fairly good. They caught a laker up to nine 
pounds, and another of six and three-quarter .pounds. 
About 100 brook trout of good size were secured, most of 
them on the fly. No small fish were saved. A big laker 
was sent home to a friend in Arlington; one who pro- 
fesses to be a fisherman and to have caught about every 
sort of fish that is found in the Maine waters. Immediate- 
ly the fish was received it was put on exhibition for his 
friends to see, with the admonition to "Look at the splen- 
did landlocked salmon my friend has sent me !" There 
Avere df ubters about the identity of the fish, but the 
recipient was so sure that they had nothing to say. 
Immediately on the arriv^al home of the party, one of the 
leaders was interviewed as to that fish being a land- 
locked salmon. Behold it was only a laker, after all, but 
the receiver begged that it still be termed a salmon, lest 
his friends get hold of his mistake. 
There comes a shad story from Bowdomham Me., a 
I'oted shad town on the Kennebec. The first was caught 
ill a weir, by Moses Sedgley, of that town, and weighed 
JO^ pounds, just after being taken from the water. 
People acquainted with the shad trade say that this is 
one of the largest on record. 
Late Megantic Club letters tell of a salmon weighing 
five pounds, just caught at Chain-of- Ponds, It is certahi 
that the fish was less than six years of age. for the first 
salmon put into those waters was a little less than six 
3'ears ago. The rapid growth of landlocked salmon in 
waters where they are well fed is a source of satisfaction 
to fishcullurisfcSv J. O. Davis, stopping at the Megantic 
preserve, has recently taken a "square-tail" weighing 3^4 
pounds,^ At a recent meeting of the directors of the Me- 
gantic Corporation, action was taken looking toward the 
building at once of a new and larger fish hatchery. 
The Maine Fish and Game Commissioners have been 
holding numerous hearings. Their last decisions have 
been in the direction of restricting fishing. One of their 
last and n\Oh\ important is : "It shall be unlawful for any 
one person, in any one day, from July i, 1902, to take, 
catch, kill or carry away more than twenty-five white 
perch in all from any one or all of the following ponds: 
Mayfidd Pond, in Mayfield Plantation; Kingsbury Pond, 
partly in Mayfield and partly in Kingsbury Plantations, in 
the county of Piscataquis; South Pond in Brighton Plan- ^ 
tation, and Tomlinson, or Wyman Pond, in Somerset 
county. On petition to close Adams Pond, in Somerset 
county, to all fishing for a term of four years, the Com- 
missioners decided adversel3^ The petitioners for all the 
above restrictions set forth that fishing is excessive, espe- 
cially by local fishermen, and that the ponds are rapidly 
being "utterly fished out." 
June 30. — The dirty brown flies that settled on the 
Maine fishing waters in such numbers a year ago, have , 
been seen to some extent this year, though coming later, 
and not nearly as mmierous. They have been noted on 
the waters of the eastern part of the State within a couple : 
of weeks, and have been something of a nuisance to fisher- 
men, but their numbers are very small, compared with a 
year ago. It will be remembered that a year ago the 
Rangeley waters were literally covered with them, almost 
in windrows, the last days of May and first of June. This 
year but very few have been seen on those waters. There 
has been better fishing at the Bangor salmon pool within a 
week, with some good ones taken. One day last week Ed- 
ward Buck caught four salmon, the largest weighing , 
twenty pounds. Mr. J. H. Peavy. another expert angler ' 
at the pool, also caught three salmon, the largest weighing 
twenty-one pounds. The white perch season on Maine 
Avaters opens July i. and great fishing is promised. Fly- i 
fishing is at its prime on Moosehead Lake, with many 
good catches being made by Boston and New York parties, 
Fly-fishing is also improving at the Rangeleys. Mrs. \^', 
W. Coolidge, of Salem, Mass., stopping at the Rangeley 
Lake House, has made a record of one salmon of s% 
pounds, one of 6^4 pounds, and a trout of 6^ pounds. 
Mrs. E, S. Crocker, of Pittsfield, has secured a salmon 
of 3/^ pounds. At Haines' Landing some good catches ■ 
continue to be made. Charles Taylor, of Washington, ■ 
D. C, has landed five salmon within a few days weighing 
3/2 tg S pounds. Fly-fishing is beginning on the B^i^ i 
Lak?.. Mr. E. E. Thomas, of Boston, caught forty-nine 
in one afternoon last week, all of which he returned 
aliYe'to the water. Mr. S. C. Dizer, o£ Boston, has lately ( 
^eiturned from a trip to <|jrand Lakg/ Stream. He found ( 
