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notice of the fish; but must confess to a little surprise 
at the story that dark flies are the best tor this night 
fishing in Scottish waers. 
Royal Anglers Again, 
King Edward has been seeking health and enjoyment, 
like so many of his humblest subjects, in fishing. Avoid- 
ing the excitement and sport of sahnon fishing, he has 
spent some time of la'e angling for brown trout on 
T.och Muick, accompanied by the Queen, the Princess 
Victoria and a party from Balmoral. The Prince of 
Vv'ales and his sister the Duchess of Fife, on the other 
hand, have been killing salmon in the Dee. 
More Heavy Trout. 
During the last days of the trout fishing season, which 
came to an end in Canada on Sept. 30, some extraordi- 
nary catches of speckled brook trout were brought to 
town. One of these was made in Lac Moise, on the 
Triton Tract, where the late Mr. A. N. Cheney was so 
successful a few years ago. Among the fish in one day's 
catch there of Mr. E. D. Church, of Wall Street, New 
York, were six fish, one of which weighed 6 pounds, 
two others 5^ pounds each, one 4^, one 4li and an- 
other pounds. All of these were taken ttpon the 
fiy. Three of the fish in the following daj''s catch of 
Mr. Church weighed respective]}' 5. 3 and 3 pounds. 
From the lakes of the Quebec Piscicultural Associa- 
tion, situated in the county of Rimouski, come reports 
of fall fishing almost equalling the above record of Mr. 
Church, and Mr. Sampson, who has just returned from 
the preserve, tells me that he had the enjoyable experi- 
ence of killing a double, which weighed nearly 8 pounds. 
K'ngfi hers and Cormcranls. 
T am constantly hearing complaints of the frightful 
havoc wrought among the young fish in salmon rivers 
by kingfishers, despite the measures taken against the 
winged enemies of the ky. Guardians on their way up 
and down Canadian salmon r-vers, in the performance 
of their duties, are now usually provided with guns, but 
seldom get near enough to obtain a shot at these ex- 
ceedingly clever winged anglers, who seeminglj^ know 
only too well how to avoid the traps set for them on 
the tops of poles set into the. banks of streams over- 
looking the holes frequented by the young fish. In 
Tasman'a the cormorants are arhong the worst of the 
winged enemies of fish, and there the Government gives 
a reward or bounty of a shilling a head for their destruc- 
tion. Last year this bounty was paid upon 450 cor- 
morants. The killing off of these birds in the southern 
island is chiefly for the protection of the rainbow trout 
introduced there from the United States, and of the 
sockeye sahnon, introduced from Canada. 
What Did He Do With Them? 
One of the Quebec news-papers reported a few days 
before the close of the trout season that a local angler 
had returned to town with a catch of 800 pounds of 
trout. There are still, unfortunately, a few people who 
gloat over stories of this kind. No true sportsman, how- 
ever, will be able to suppress a feeling of indignation at 
such wanton destruction. Unfortunately, there is room 
to doubt how far the law, as it at present stands in this 
Province, can be applied to cases of this kind. But ef- 
forts will be at once made to secure desirable amend- 
ments, as well in this as in some other respects. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
How I Caught the Liner. 
In the early part of the seventies I was engaged in 
propagation of salmon in the United States; a gentleman 
who was much interested in the work then being done 
decided to attempt the introduction of Scotch salmon 
into American waters. I was selected for this work, and 
in due course I arrived in Scotland, and on presenting 
my credentials to the proper authorities I was given 
permission to obtain what was needed. In due course 
I obtained all the salmon ova that I required, and then 
proceeded to get it across the Atlantic. The best line 
for this purpose was the Anchor Line sailing from Glas- 
gow. In due course I got the boxes containing the 
ova to Glasgow and placed in the ice houses on the 
steamship India; this was to sail about 10 A. M., but 
owing to some repairs to the machinery not being com- 
pleted, we were told that they would not start until 11 
P. M. that night, so during the day I amused myself 
as best I could. I got acquainted with some people, 
and as the ship was not to sail until 11 P. M. it was de- 
cided to go to the theater; this we did, and the play 
was very interesting, and 10.30 came very quickly. I 
said good-by to my new friends and started for the 
quay to get on board the steamer. When I arrived 
alongside there was some little commotion; it appears 
that one of the passengers had fallen into the water be- 
tween the ship and the quay wall, and was rescued with 
considerable difficulty. 
All the gangways had been taken away, so I prepared 
to jump; the ship was not more than three feet off, so 
I could have had no difficulty in doing this, but just 
as I was about to spring a dock policeman secured me 
by the arm and stopped me, and I was forced to stand 
on the quay and see the ship start off without me. I 
found out that she had to stop at the tail of the bank be- 
low Greenock and take on some more cargo. I made 
instant inquiries about trains for Greenock, but found 
there was not any at that time of night. But to Greenock 
I was going to get by some means, so I started to look 
for a boat in order to row down the river. I soon found 
one, but the next thing to do was to get on board with- 
out attracting attention. It was dark, and an oppor- 
tunity soon presented itself. I slipped on board, cast 
off, and in a few minutes I was in the middle of the 
stream going down the river with oars and tide. Pres- 
ently I came close to a dock in which was a tug boat 
engaged in hauling some schooners out. This I got 
alongside of, and found that she was bound down stream. 
I slipped on board and gave the boat a shove, sending it 
adrift. I got in a dark spot, and kept out of the way" of 
the crew until they had made up their number and got 
well iate the §treaqi and op their way dow^ \Qyvax^ 
Greenock. As there was no one on the bridge but the 
captain, I climbed up to him and informed him how I 
was fixed. I found him a gentleman, and he said that 
he would do a'l he could to assist me. He said that he 
was not going to stop at Greenock, but there was a 
pilot in the next ship who was going on shore there, 
and that if I went with him very likely I would find some 
one who would take me oft' to the liner. So when we 
got to a favorable place in the river he slacked up and 
allowed the schooner to come alongside. I jumped into 
her rigging and scrambled on deck, where I found the 
captain and the pilot who was bound for Greenock. I 
explained what I wanted, and found both men good 
sorts. Toward morning we got near to Greenock, when 
the captain blew his whistle, and a boat soon came off 
to take the pilot ashore. We both got into the boat 
and soon landed at Greenock. Then commenced a 
search for a boatman. It was by this time about 4 A. M. 
x^fter some search we found a man asleep on some bales 
of wool. We woke him up, and he agreed to see what 
he could do. By this time it was blowing fresh and very 
dark; we got into the boat and pulled out of the dock 
into the open. As soon as we got clear of the dock the 
wind and sea struck us; in a short time we had run 
about three miles, dodging the ships at anchor as best 
we could. So far we had seen or heard nothing. We 
lay to under the lee of a barque and listened as well as 
we could. All at once we heard a big steamer blowing 
off steam about a mile off, so we made off in this direc- 
tion as well as we could and ran up alongside of a large 
steam lighter that was fast to the liner. There was no 
means of getting on board the liner by a gangway as 
all the cargo was got aboard by a whip, so the only thing 
to do was to get on board the lighter and from there 
on to the liner. I soon saw that as the lighter rolled 
her bridge came close to a fender; on to the bridge I 
got, and as soon as the roll came I jumped and landed 
on the ribbon that runs round the ship and close to a 
fender. I did not care then. I was on the liner, although 
outside. I tried to make some of the crew hear me, but 
the noise of the steam blowing oft' and the wind made 
it impossible for those on board the liner to hear me. 
Anyway, I felt quite contented. I knew when the lighter 
had finished discharging her cargo she would cast off. 
and then it would be quieter and I could make myself 
heard. But even then I could not draw their attention 
on the liner, and the rope that I was holding on to was 
passed through a hole, so that if I climbed up to the top 
I could not get aboard. 
After we started, the stoker commenced to throw the 
ashes from the stoke-hole overboard. I kept shouting: 
at last one of them heard me. They showed a light and 
saw where I was. One of the stokers then leaned over 
the rail while another held him by the legs. I was then 
soon hauled on board. After an explanation and a visit 
to the steward, I turned in. I found all my boxes of 
salmon ova safe, and in due course landed them in New 
York; they were hatched out and put in a stream in the 
State of New Jersey. — W. T. Silk, Pisciculturist, in Lon- 
don Fishing Gazette. 
Channel Bass at Harvey Cedars, 
New York, Oct. 4. — Editor Forest and Stream: We 
all read with much interest the pleasure many sports- 
men enjoy in Florida tarpon fishing and in Canada 
wrestling with big, gamy salmon, but in both instances 
we realize that that sort of sport costs much time and 
more money, while right at our doors there are big 
fish taken that delight the past masters, and wet the 
entered apprentice, yet we hear little of surf fishing 
along the Jersey coast where a 50-pound channel bass 
will take an hour's time from the strike to the gaffing. 
CHANNEL BASS AT HARVEY CEDARS. 
exercise 600 to 900 feet of line, tax the qualitv of a $25 
rod, and use up all the energy of a $50 reel, 'and make 
the average angler feel as though he had done a fair 
morning's work when the battle is over. 
While at Harvey Cedars this week I became greatly 
irterested in this sort of fishing, and through the cour- 
tesy of Mr. Lafayette Streeter, of Watertown, N. Y 
and Mr. Chas. Atkins, of New York hotel fame. 1 am 
enabled to give to the readers of Forest and Stream 
a bit of data that they should take the time to emulate. 
At the south end of Barnegat Bay, by the inlet on 
the coast, is found the old sportsman's resort, Harvey 
Cedars, and it is here that these big fish seem to be 
found in sufficient abundance to entertain many men of 
affairs until one wonders how long their partners can 
stand the strain. The writer had the pleasure of meet- 
ing, in addition to Messrs. Streeter and Atkins, Capt. 
Fenimore, of Philadelphia; Mr. Seger, of Asbury Park 
and "Rod"(ville); Mr. Johnson, from the same dear 
place: Mr. Wilson, of New York, whose oflice is in a 
high building near the Brooklyn Bridge, and Mr. Har- 
vey, of Ocean Grove. Others of their party had left, 
but left several holes in the sea before going, Mr. and 
Jvlrs. Frank Kimbsi^her, of ProQklyn; Mr. C. F. Shu- 
craft, of New York, as well as Mr. Atkins' friend, "The 
Count," known among his friends as the early riser 
and late diner. 
A record of this party's catch, I am sure, will be sur- 
pnsmg to many, but I give it, believing, as I do, that 
when it is fully known that within eighty miles of New 
York and seventy-five from Philadelphia, others may 
want to help the "rod makers" and make the line mills* 
run overtime: 
Sept. 21.— Streeter, two, 43 and 22 pounds. 
Sept. 22.— Atkins, one, 37 pounds. 
Sept. 22.— Seger, two, 16 and 23 pounds. 
Sept. 23. — Atkins, one, 15 pounds. 
Sept. 23.— Seger, two. 26 and 28 pounds. 
Sept. 23.— Streeter, three, 21, 20 and 18 pounds. 
Sept. 24. — Atkins, one, 21 potmds. 
Sept. 25. — Atkins, one, 36 pounds. 
Sept. 26. — ^Atkins, one, 36 pounds. 
Sept. 24. — Fenimore, two, 20 and 15 pounds. 
Sept. 26. — Fenimore, one. 21 pounds. 
Sept. 24. — Shucraft, one, 35 pounds. 
Sept. 25.— Shucraft. two, iS and 21 pounds. 
Sept. 24. — Kimbacher, one, 26 pounds. 
Sept. 25. — Kimbacher, one. 20 pounds. 
Sept. 24. — Streeter, two, each 43 pounds. 
Sept. 25. — Streeter, two. 41 and 40 pounds. 
It is to be regretted that the picture taken of seven 
of these fish could not be published, but the light was 
not good at the time of the taking, the accompanying 
one will, however, show "big game" enough to exercise 
with before breakfast. 
It occurred to me to ask Mr. Streeter what they did 
with these big fish after they had taken them, and I was 
more than gratified to learn that they have them care- 
fully dressed and sent to charitable institutions of Phila- 
delphia, express prepaid. Nor is this record kept as a 
"fish jerking" record; it represents much sport and 
much rest. T g • 
Note.— D. M. White, of Harvey Cedars, will gladly 
answer any inquiries as to conditions for fishing and 
duck shooting at all times. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
A New Sort of Argling. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 4. — Here is something which every 
disappointed muscallunge fisherman ought to read with 
mterest. It is a letter from Mr. P. F, Stone, for many 
years a prominent sportsman here in Chicago, but for a 
year or so located at Munising, Mich., in the lumber 
. business. Mr. Stone has evidently kept his sporting 
eyes open as usual, and his letter in regard to this big 
lake trout fishing is interesting in the extreme. I only 
wish that I could take advantage of his kind proposition 
and make a run up there this month and get a little per- 
sonal experience in the game. Perhaps others will be 
able to do this. The letter follows: 
"If you will come up here and make me a little visit 
I will do my best to put you right on some big fishing 
that was new to me, and I think is new to fishermen 
generally. During the month of October the big lake 
trout come in out of the deep water on to shoals of 5 
to 10 fathoms and bite at most any bait, from a herring 
to a spoon. I think the boys would come in good 
numbers if they knew what was to be had. A year ago. 
in October, I saw three market-fishermen land between 
thirty and forty fish, of an average wefght of ever 20 
pounds each. They ranged between 15 and 40 pounds — 
most of them 20 to 25 pounds. The fish run larger than 
muscallunge, and are about the same on a hook. The 
fish mentioned were caught in about four liours. I was 
fishing at the same time and caught one. a 3"-Doundcr. 
I fished about an hour when I got him. and 
then quit. They are just beginning to bite now and 
the sport will be prime in a few days. j\Iy brothers 
and some of the Oconomowoc crowd will be up to try 
them soon. I think you could get a new idea if you 
tried them. I have a bang-up good launch which is at 
vour service and von will find all the other conditions 
O. K. ] 
"The drawback is wind}- weather from a northerly di- 
rection. The fishing is in the open water of Lake Su- 
perior, hence can only take place when the wind is off 
shore. The way to work it is to leave Chicasro when 
southerly winds are predicted for Upper Michigan. 
Train leaves Chicago at 8 P. M. fC. & N. W. Ry. coo- 
per country train) and reaches Munising at 9 A. M. 
next day. A change of cars is made at 7 A. M. at 
Little Lake, Mich. I assure you the fishing is O. K.. 
and will attract many fishers when they find it out. I 
expect to get from half to a dozen of these big fellows 
some morning within next ten days." 
Tips from an Eagl.sh Ai g'er 
T believe I said that my friend, Mr. John D. McLeod, 
of Milwaukee, made me tlie present of a little steel butt 
spear to screw into the end of my fishing rod. He has 
all of his rods equipped in this way and finds it a great 
convenience when doing any bank fishing. Perhaps Mr. 
McLeod or others may be interested in the tip which Mr. 
Cornwall Simeon, an English writer, gives in what must 
be an interesting volume, known as "Stray Notes on- 
Fishing and Natural History." I take these extracts 
from the Fishing Gazette. Mr. Simeon has a rod spear 
made with something of the bill hook form, pointed 
but with a recurved hole cut in the side, the iaws of 
this hole being sharpened to a knife edgeT In this way 
there is a cut-and-thrust spear head made. If you want 
to cut off a little twig which you cannot reach with your ' 
hand, you can drop this hook upon your bough or twig, 
give a little p-ull and oflf goes your tangled flj' — let us 
hope. 
^Ir. Simeon gives another interesting tip on how to 
loosen tackle which is hitched up. Take a stone, says 
he. and fasten it to a piece of stout string, which you 
should have always with you. Pitch the stone over the 
offending branch or weed and haul awaj'. This will 
very often clear your tackle, whether it be caught on 
some tree above you or out on some obstruction in 
the water. This same angler tells how to fasten dropper 
flies to a leader. He does not use the clumsy loops 
■which are found on tno§t of the flieg on? purchases q\ 
