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wished to vary their sport to change off from tuna fish- 
ing to caribou hunting. The Reid Newfoundland Rail- 
way and Steamboat system can take intending visitors 
right to the waters where the fishing is to be had. In 
fact, at Port Blanford the railway taps the headwaters 
of the finest sound in Bonavista Bay for this big game 
fish. I will be glad to furnish information to any who 
propose coming, and will forward you later a colored 
chart showing the dilTereht fishing grounds and the 
absence there must be of any rough water on those 
grounds. Jon. Noseworthy. 
Eastern New York Trout Streams. 
Fishing was unusually good in July, owing to the 
abundant rainfall. 
It has been more like "old times" on the streams in 
Eastern New York and Pennsylvania, and some really 
good trout have been taken. 
Many of these well-known rivers flow at considerable 
elevations, and years ago maintained a low temperature 
in July and Aupast. 
They do so always in the upper reaches, but the warm 
water line had crept upward just as the frost line has 
moved downward in Florida during the last decade. 
This season we found the water cooler on July 6 
than it was at one time during the month of May. 
It is the best summer for fly-fishing we have had for 
many years and is full of- promise for the future, if fol- 
lowed by a good spawning season. 
If the earth is thoroughly saturated with moisture 
when Jack Frost appears, we may expect a long, cold 
winter. This should be favorable to fish life, in the 
absence of ice gorges and heavy floods. 
The recuperative power of a good trout stream is 
really wonderful. Last year the Willowemoc suffered 
from a great disaster. One of those preventable mis- 
chances that are so exasperating. A tank at the Wood 
Alcohol Works, above Willowemoc, emptied its acid 
into the stream, killing great numbers of trout. Big 
and little suffered alike, and it was thought that several 
years would pass before the loss could be made good. 
On the contrary, the fishing at De Bruce is now bet- 
ter than it has been for years at this season. With 
plenty of water the trout have run up from below, prob- 
ably, and as the Willowemoc has been regularly stocked 
with fry and yearlings, there was, no doubt, a large sar- 
plus to draw upon. 
In fact, the number of trout in many of our hafd- 
fished streams is far and away beyond anything we 
can imagine. It is only when some great mortality 
among the fish reveals the secret that we can realize what 
the stock must be. 
Summer fishing in our mountain streams is fascinat- 
ing sport, and with the cool weather we are having, 
August should be a good month. 
The fish are there, though you may not think so. 
Use fine tackle and have a good vai-iety of flies, size 
and color may make all the difference between a fair 
creel and an almost empty one. 
The white-winged coachman has always been a favor- 
ite, but his royal brother is preferred by many experts 
now. It may be taken for a glorified ant, or simply be- 
cause it is so pretty that the trout must have it for a nose 
jewel, but that is of no importance if it takes the fish. 
We usually prefer flies of more somber coloring. The 
Cahill is a good killer and all the tribe of duns. The 
Wickam's Fancy is an excellent fly at times, and the pro- 
fessor always of service. We usually tie the latter with 
a very pale yellow body. 
It is an old saying that the best fly is the one that is 
always wet or in the water, but it pays to make changes 
occasionally. 
Very large brown trout are now found in many of our 
streams, and they are dangerous ant;igonists. Just after 
a freshet, when there is till a shade of color in the water, 
is the best time for these big fish. 
If you locate one of them, it may pay to devote some 
little time to his capture. While very timid in low water, 
they are sometimes extremely bold after a freshet. We 
have seen one of these large fish rise slowly in plain sight 
and take a fly within fifteen feet of the angler. 
We think that they can fast for long periods, but 
when really on the feed are almost insatiable. They fre- 
quently take in the large case worms with theii: cover- 
ings. 
Special's remarks on the use of small flies for sal- 
mon and large trout in Maine in F. & S. for July 
26, were very interesting. Two years ago a friend 
wrote me that he had good sport at the Rangeleys 
when using the old Beaverkill fly on No. 8 hooks. 
He also returned a plain little fly I had given him, 
saying that it had killed the largest salmon. Tail a few 
sprigs of ibis over gold tinsel, peacock herl body, with 
red-brown legs, red-brown over white under wings and 
jungle fowl sides. ' 
The large fly has its place, howcA'cr, and no hard and 
fast rules can be made. To take large fish with small 
flies and light tackle is most satisfactory to a sportsman. 
It is much less difficult we think in boat fishing than 
when wading a big rocky stream. A good man with the 
paddle or oars fights almost half the battle. 
In i88s the parmacheene-belie was queen of the Maine 
lakes and was sometimes dressed on very large hooks. 
We never offered the most costly salmon flies in ex- 
change for our blonde belles, and they seemed fascinat- 
ing in all states and conditions of weather and water. 
A northwest wind is the breeze of breezes on a Maine 
lake, and we remember driving tandem with the parma- 
cheene-belle and scarlet-ibis, when the fun was fast and 
furious. What a combination for the Brook fisher who 
has been studying entomology. 
The plain little flies had their day, however, when the 
lake was without a ripple and the trout rose under the 
long shadows cast by the late afternoon sun. 
As one grows old, we care less for numbers and more 
for size and quality. We are satisfied with a few good 
fish, thinking more of the futu^ of our sport and of 
those who will follow us. Theodore Gordon. 
All communications intended lor Forest and Stkeav shoul4 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream ISnblishing Co., Ne^ 
Fish and' Fishing. 
The Salmon Season of 1962» 
The salmon season fioW drawing to a close has heen 
one of the most peculiar on record. The. early March 
thaws seemed to presiige an early and long fishing season, 
and undeterred by the later leBgthy lingering of winter 
in the lap of spring, a ilunlber of American salmon fisher- 
men left for their rivers very early in June, only to fihd 
that the water was too high to be fishabte. . The fesiilt 
was that those anglers who had Hot uiilimited time at 
their disposal left the best fishing of the season behind 
them wfhen they had packed up their rods and gone home. 
,'\.s soon as the rivers fell to their normal level, which, iti 
consequence of the long-continued and heavy raii\s. aVeIs 
not till late in the season, the fish f03.e fi"cely, and Beinig 
very abundant in all th& best fivers, afforded better sport 
than has been eXpefieticed for some years past. I hear 
that the fishing oh the waters controlled by the Risti- 
gouche Salmon Club, though late, was excellent, and that 
no fewer than eighteen hundred fish were killed during 
the season in the Ristigouche and its tributaries. 
Among the earliest anglers on the Catiadian salrtioii 
streams this year were Mr. Iveirs. W. Adanis aild pSrty, 
who went down to the Moisie.oh jtiile t, arid Prof. Johh- 
son, of New York who left for the jupitagan about the 
same time. The latter fiver being much smaller than 
the Moisie. fell .Very much moire quickly, and Dr. johilsph 
enjoyed e^ccellent sport fairly early iti the seasoti. The 
Moisie party were twenty-eight days oil the river before 
they took a fish. Thett the sport was fast ahd furious. 
The same experience fell to the lot of the fishermen on 
nearly all of the north shore rivers. Mr. E. C. Fitch, of 
Waltham, and his two friends only killed thirty fish oh 
the Romaine during the whole mohth of Jurie, while in 
July it was quite easy to take as many in one day. One of 
Mr. Fitch's salmon turned the scales at forty-one pounds. 
Mr. Mortott Paton, of New Yoric, who fished the Trinity 
with a couple of friends, reports that his party look piily 
eleven salm.on during their first three \veek3 oh trie fiver, 
and in the following four days killed twenty-four. Mr. 
J. J. Hill, who has soitte of the best waters on the north 
ijhore, was obliged to return home before the fishiiig was 
at its best. Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke femaiiied loiig 
enough on the Riviere-des-Truites to kill soWe thirty s^il- 
mon. and Mr. F. S. Hodges, of Gostori, \vas the last to 
leave the Natashquan. Mr. R. E. Plumb, of Detroit, Was 
one of the fortunate anglefs who enjoyed the sport of 
kings on this most spofty of Canadiail sEllfflptl fiVgfs. 
It was generally supposed by lishei-meti that the heavy 
floods in the spfilig of the year, after the arrival of the 
^almon in the estuaries of the rivers, had so befouled the 
water that the fish had for the most part remained out of 
the streams just so much longer than usual. But from 
the enormous number of fish found in the upper waters of 
the rivers as soon as the floods subsided, and from _ the 
fact that many of them, were far from Wearing the bright 
livery of freshly run salmon, 1 im inclined to think_ that 
instead of being kept out of the streams, most of the 
early arrived fish took advantage of the high Water to 
quickly overcome the usual difficulties encountered by 
them on their way to their spawning beds. 
Even on the' Grand Cascapedia there were sorrte blank 
Azys in the early part of the season, though as a whole 
the summer of 1902 was one of the most .successful ever, 
experienced on the river. Such of the members of the 
Cascapedia Salmon Club as desired to do so had no diffi- 
culty whatever in reaching their limit of seventy-five fish. 
The present membership of the Club includes Mr, Cal- 
wallader, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Harry Hollins, Mr. H. 
De Forrest, Mr. John Kennedy, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and 
Mr. E. W. Davis, of Providence, but not all of them 
fished the river this year. Mr. Davis controls personally 
some of the best portions of the Grand Cascapedia, and a 
immber of other fine pools, including^ the water formerly 
fished by H. R. H. the Princess Louise, are the property 
of Mr. C. B. Barnes, of Boston. Both of these gentle- 
men fished the river this summer, and among others who 
had good sport there were Messrs. Mershon, of Saginaw, 
Mich. ; Mowen, of Philadelphia, and John G. Heckscher, 
of New York. Mr. Heckscher fished Avith Mr. Davis, and 
killed a splendid lot of fish. Mrs. Davis, than whom 
probably no lady angler has so many big fish to her credit, 
killed a 43-pound salmon in the third week of July, and 
several of her forty-four fish of the present season 
weighed forty pounds and upward. 
Killing Salmon at Night. 
An interesting peculiarity of the fishing in the Grand 
Cascapedia, toward the end of the season, when the water 
is clear, and the weather bright and Avarm, is the large 
proportion of fish killed after sundoAvn. The great bulk 
of the fish taken in July are killed betAveen 7:30 ahd 9:30 
at night. It is almost impossible to cast the- fly in the 
daytime in some of the pools of this and other south 
shore streams, without being observed by the salmon. 
Such fish as are successfully raised in the hours of sun- 
light, usually take a small black-dose. After 7:30 or 7:45- 
at night a large fly is cast. It is often tAvo inches and 
OA-er in length, the most killing patterns being found to he 
the silver-gray and dustj^-miller. Sometimes half a dozen 
fish are taken after sundoAvn by a single red, and Avhen, 
as frequently happens, the opalescent hues of the leaping 
salmon at the end of the line are seen by the silvery light 
of the moon,- the effect is weirdly picturesque. 
The Gift of a Fish Hatchery. 
Mv. C. H. Simpson, whose place of business is at Chat- 
ham Square, New York, but Avhose summer residence 
is among the Laurentian Hills in northern Quebec, has 
just made a very generous offer to the Fishery Depart- 
m.ent of that Province. Fishing, pisciculture, and the 
stocking of barren waters with rare forms of game fish 
life, are the chief amusements of Mr. Simpson upon his 
beautiful Canadian estate. For soma years past he has 
operated there a fish hatchery, in which he has artificially 
reared immense quantities of jwung fish for stocking the 
waters of his preserve. These have included, not only the 
common brook trout, but rainbow trout, ouananiche, and 
Jhc beautifiil Canadian red trout f,Marsfomi) . Having 
satisfactorily stocked the yirhole of his own waters, Mr. 
Simpson has generotisly offered the hatchery as a gift tQ 
the Provincial Government, providing it will undertake to 
operate it. The Department how has the matter Itrtdef 
consideration, ahd p.s there is much need for the work of 
an inland hltchery for assisting in the maintenance of the 
purely fresh-water game fishes of the Province, it is to 
be hoped that the offer Avill meet Avith ready aGCeptang^. 
Mi^stimmcf flies. 
i have had several letters of inquiry within the last 
fcAv days from anglers Avho intend to fish some of the in- 
land Avaters of this Province during the month of August, 
and who ask for information relative to the best, flies fof 
midsummer fishing in Canada, ^or otiahanichfe , fishiiig in 
the Grand Discharge during the remainder of the s8a- 
son, which ends on Sept. 15, I can confidently recorrimend 
the B. A. Scott, which is tied to represent an insect of 
Avhich these fish, seetn to be particukrly fond, and A^hicli 
abounds throughont . the heated tef rn oh the AVatef s of 
Lake St. John, "this insect is one ol those familiafiy 
known as shad flies. The artificial fly is intended to 
represent male .specimens of Brachycentrus fuUginosus 
(Walker), Avhich belohg .l:.o the fkrnily Sericostoniidce 
in the oi-def .A''<?M'0/»^^f*fl. The General Hooker, Avhich is 
an effective imitation of one of the Phrygdnidce or stohc 
flies, differs very little from the S. A, Scott, and is almost 
as good a killer. Both flies, and in fact all varieties used 
for ouananiche in the rhoHth of Ahgiist, should, be tied on 
Nos. 6, 7 of 8 hooks. Larger flies A^ill ceftaihiy at tiiiles 
attract the fish, even in the hottest weather, but the 
smaller flies are. the safer, and less likely to frighten the 
fish. A good deal of nonsense has been written about 
the difficulty of saving Ijlrge Ouananiche tippn sm,^il hooks, 
but I have seldom found atty trouble in killing thehi iipoll 
the smallest sizes of queen-of-the-water, professor, hare*s- 
ear. Reuben-Wood or Jock-Scott. There is no reason 
whatever why the ouananiche of Lake St. John should not 
be killed on as small flies as those described by Special in 
FoRESt Afro SxteAM of jiily 26 ds having beert success- 
fully employed Avith the same fish in Grand Lake Strearti, 
In the hottest and clearest weather of the short, hot 
Canadian summer, it requires, indeed, all one's skill to 
entice the ouananiche, and then, too, as Mr. Creighton 
so Avdl pilts it; "tf ydii tirtderstand the fine art of dry fly- 
fishing, and can maneuver a tiny dun on a li or 13 hook 
so as to look like the real article, and can also handle 
large fish on the fine tackle required, you will get good 
sport and the satisfaction Avhich comes of catching fish as 
Rfeynolds miiced his colors — -^Vith brains." 
Almost all that has been said of oUaHaiiiehe is equally 
applicable to trout, which even in northern Canadjl grdW 
more or less shy of large flies in tlie midsummer months. 
For both ouananiche and trout, some of the most at- 
tractive tours that can be made in the months of August 
and September, are those up any of the great feeders of 
Lake St. John by birch bark canoe. 
E. T. D, Chambers, 
Delaware River Fishing. 
There was another rise in the Delaware River the 
night of Jnly 24, but it amounted to nothing and roiled 
the water not at all, so that it was still clearing next 
day. Our party Avas in camp midway of Crooked Rift, 
near Kellam, Pa., and in the little eddies alongshore we 
took some fine bass during our stay there. The farmers 
had told Us there Avas nothing but eels in that part of 
the river, and it was with some surprise that AVithin an 
hour Ave should land five nice bass, lose two and get 
three strikes that missed. A two-pound perch was also 
taken there. All of the bass were killed with No. 2 
Skinner spoons while casting in the rift and along the 
wiiloWs* 
There are two fine eddies near Hankins, in Sullivan 
County, both near the village, and good catches were re- 
ported from both of these. Then there is Hankins Creek 
nearby, Avhere one can catch a creel of trout if he is 
lucky and the conditions are favorable. 
BetAveen Hankins and Callicoon Station there are 
some glorious places fof bass and wall-eyed pikes Be* 
tween these two towns the river is quite rapid, as it 
twists and turns a great deal in passing betAveen narrow 
banks, and the rifts are strcAvn Avith large rocks on the 
Pennsylvania side, forming excellent hiding places for 
the game fish. One cannot safely wade these rifts, but 
casting from shore is possible, as a general thing. So 
far I have had the best luck Avith small spinners and a 
single hook, though a phantom niinnoAV has proved a 
successful lure. Live minnoAvs are successfully used, 
too, and these may be obtained in the numerous small 
streams that empty into the DelaAvare. 
There is a bridge at Callicoon, and a walk of a mile 
from the tOAvn will bring one to an eddy on the Pennsyl- 
vania side, where I saw bass as I passed by. It is at 
the lower end of an island, and within a half mile one 
may choose between two rifts and a fine .pool, all de- 
cidedly fishy in every aspect. At Callicoon this is knoAvn 
as good bass water. But there is a pool within ten min- 
utes' Avalk of the station Avhere good catches have re- 
cently been made. One Avas twenty-five bass to two rods 
in an afternoon. This pool may be reached by crossing 
the bridge and Avalkingt^down the shore road a short dis- 
tance. It is a short piol but a good one. It may be 
fished from shore or boat, and the rift below it during 
loAV water by Avading. 
Callicoon Creek enters the Delaware at this village^ 
but trout Avill hardly be found short of three miles from 
there, and bait is generally used. This creek has been 
stocked at different times with flainboAV, brown and brook 
trout. It is a pretty stream to visit. 
One can go to Kenoza Lake from Callicoon by stage, 
the distance being nine miles. There is good fishing 
for pickerel and bass, they told me at Callicoon. Swago 
Lake is but five miles distant, in Pennsylvania, and the 
fish are bass, pike, pickerel, etc. So far I have heard 
no reports from there. 
There were a few anglers on the river near Callicoon 
July 26 and 28, and the river was falling and growing 
clearer. On the 29th, however, heavy rains filled Calli- 
coon Creek, which in turn, roiled the river for a 4qgg 
distance. Then the pelaw^re rose steadily, and is i«lf 
