July 25, 1903.] 
and drones is most heartily detested by the faithful fol- 
lowers of old Izaak, among whom may he numbered many 
of the shining lights of art, literature and science. 
These wise men avoid the pretentious resorts of fashion 
and folly, and repair to camp beneath the woodland's 
shade, where they revel in flannel, trout, and the care-free 
life of the forest, to emerge iti a month or so ruddy with 
health and vigor. W. C. Squier. 
[tE BE eONCLUCED.] 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Fishing on the Michigan Pine. 
Chicago, III, July 18. — Mr. Wm. T. Church, who was 
of a party of Chicago anglers who last week made a 
camping trip on the Pine River of Michigan, is kind 
enough to send nie the following account of the pro- 
ceedings. Others of the party show confirmatory en- 
. thusiasm, and the feeling seems to be among the Chi- 
cago visitors that this beautiful river is one very much 
worth revisiting. It is a typical Michigan sand-bot- 
tomed stream with deep water and big fish, and regard- 
ing it, Mr. Church goes on to say: 
"Ten miles from the station of Tustin, under the 
leadership of John Waddell, ably seconded by Col. E. 
C. Fox and Mr. Shelby, all of Grand Rapids, the party 
went into camp on the banks of as beautiful a trout 
stream as ever flowed. That so large a number of ang- 
lers could find fishing waters within reach of a fixed 
camp may occasion surprise. But the Pine River is 
so tortuous in its Avindings that many miles of water 
may be fished within walking distance of any chosen 
point. By dividing the party one-half to the waters 
up stream and the other down stream from camp, and 
having the fishermen enter the river at dift'erent points, 
each found ample space. 
"The fontinalis predominate in this stream; a very 
few grayling are still found there; and the rainbows, 
which have been introduced, are taken in varying num- 
bers on every day. During the first three days of the 
outing the fish were rising slowly under a bright, clear 
sky and warm sun. Enough fell to every rod, however, 
to more than supply the camp, and on the fourth day 
some very fine catches were made. Up-stream, from 
the camp, the river flows through green timber, over- 
arching the waters so as to almost exclude the sun, 
then through a broad meadow, where the fly rnay be 
cast from either bank. The bottom is sandy, with but 
few gravelly riffles, and with many clay holes. These 
latter are of a peculiar formation. The hard, white, 
slippery clay, which supports the sandhills, has been 
laid bare, and by the action of the waters dug out, leav- 
ing deep, shelving pools, favorite hiding places for 
the old lunkers, but full of danger to the wading fly- 
caster, Mr. Chadwick, of the Chicago contingent, had 
tbe idea that he could go through these holes with his 
waders on, and had opportunity to demonstrate his 
ability. A sloping boulder at the upper edge of one 
hole pitched him head first into a deep blue pool 
framed in smooth white clay. He did not tarry to 
measure its depth, but clutching his rod and net 
ploughed through the cold current 75 feet to shallow .. 
water. When overtaken by his fishing partner, he was 
bailing out his waders, and calling for something 
warmer than sunshine. 
"Our camp was located near a bridge in a little used 
road. For seven miles down stream the river is one 
succession of rocky riffles and sandy-bottomed pools. 
There are no long runs, but bend follows bend with a 
high sand bluff on one side and a low wooded point 
on the other. At the July stage of the water this por- 
tion of the riyer is ideal. 
The river is fed by springs and spring brooks from 
its source to its mouth. In places groups of three to six 
large springs may be found. Good camping sites 
abound. Running the river in a light boat is exciting 
and pleasurable. Throughout its entire course the 
water is sufllciently free to afford easy casting. The 
large fish are there to invite patience and skill, while 
some of the smaller fontinalis are colored as brilliantly 
as Mexican opals. A few of this species have learned 
from the rainbow to Iea,p from the water as well as to 
fight in it. 
"The writer's experience oil this Tiver began in 1896, 
when with a single companion he drifted it from Luther 
to its mouth. These days on its head waters have 
confirmed the impressions then formed that spite of its 
rapids and dangerous holes it is a delightful stream for 
lly-fishing. 
"The members of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, who 
had the good fortune to enjoy the late trip, were 
Fred. N. Pcet, H. G. liascall, I, H. Bellows, A. C. 
Smith, Chas. Antoine, C. H. Chadwick and Wm. T. 
Church. Mr. Hascall was so much pleased with the 
stream that he chose to remain after the camp broke 
up, and he is there for a large part of his vacation. 
J(jlni Waddell has again shown himself a master in 
^■onducting a party as well as in the tournament, and 
on the stream. It is a pleasure to record of him that 
he had the largest catch, the largest individual trout 
•and the biggest bunch of gratitude of any man of the 
party." 
Mr. Waddell's largest fontinalis was 1^4 pounds, 
■others had several fish over i pound. All these trout 
arc of bright green back color, and very silvery be- 
neath. In these cold waters they fi.ght very hard. The 
Chicago men think the Pine of Michigan a very sport- 
ing water. 
Chicago Bass Fishers. 
Among good catches of recent date is that made by 
Mr. H. Bush, Chas. Sweeter and their friends, Messrs. 
Hull and Brooks, who took 100 bass in their late trip 
to Burlington, Wis. They did not fish in Brown Lake, 
which is near that town, but visited Wind Lake and 
Long I^ake. Wind Lake is a sandy-shored proposi- 
tion, without much cover for bass, and they did not 
do much in this water, but caught most of their fish 
in Long Lake. They describe their treatment at their 
Burlington stopping place as very kind, and intend to 
go back there at an esrly date. This Long Lake near 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Burlington, Wis., is not to be confused with' Lotiie 
Lake, III., which is another water much patronized by 
Chicago bass fishermen. ' 
_ On his last week end trip Mr. W. J. Benson, of this 
city, fishing in the old and very much hammered water 
known as Cedar Lake, near Lake Villa, 111,, caught 
the big-mouths on the run, and landed 26 fine ones 
during one afternoon. This is one of the best indi- 
vidual catches of the season. 
Mr. Chas. Lawrence of this city, with one friend, 
this week fished Como Lake, on the Chicago & North- 
western Railroad, and in one-half day's fishing they 
took an even 50 bass between' them. Theirs was one 
of the most fortunate boats on any bass water in this 
vicinity during the present summer. 
Mr. S. O. Wade, of Chillicothe, 111., fishing with 
some friends on the Illinois River last week, took some 
two or three dozen nice bass, and Mr. Wade says that 
that part of the country is much overlooked by Chi- 
cago bass fishermen, who might do very much worse 
than explore the prolific waters of the Illinois River 
and its adjacent lakes and bayous. 
Mr. H. W. Perce and party of this city leaves this 
afternoon for Long Lake, 111., where they have a tip 
which they think is going to be interesting. 
Mr. H. A. Bowman, also of Chicago, leaves to-day 
with a friend or two for Fox Lake, 111., for two or 
three days' fishing. 
Tarpon Talk. 
There are apparently few Chicago anglers who know 
a great deal about tarpon fishing, hence considerable 
interest attached to the mounted specimens of tarpon 
brought to town this week by Messrs. Oswald Von 
Lengerke and C. H. Lester, whose trip to Aransas 
Pass received earlier mention in these colunms. Both 
of these fish show a small dark hole through the lower 
jaw, where the hook bit through. Mr. Von Lengerke, 
speaking to-day of his experience in tarpon fishing, 
said that it was nearly always the case that a fish 
striking with the point of the hook against the bony 
part of the upper jaw would be pretty sure to get 
away. The lower jaw hold is much the safest of any, 
and a fish hooked in this jaw with the point and barb 
going on through, is pretty safe to be landed. Mr. 
Von Lengerke showed several hooks of the strongest 
bronze twisted, broken and bent by the jaws of this 
giant herring. The upper jaw of the tarpon is very 
blunt and is covered by the strong and projecting 
lower jaw. A man who hits one of these big fellows 
on a trolling line and hooks him fair, has got his own 
business cut out for him. The fish brought up by 
Mr. Lester and Mr. Von Lengerke are not record fish 
in the sense of being extraordinarily large. I think 
they were not weighed, but they approach the 6-foot 
mark, and both fish are very thick, stocky and well 
shaped, there being a great difference in the specimens 
taken in the Aransas Pass country. Mr. Von Lengerke 
thinks that this sport is bound to meet with greater 
and greater favor among Western fishers and is anx- 
ious to try it again himself. 
Light and Dark Muscalloogc Waters. 
Judge H. W. Lincoln, of Ottawa, 111., is a muscal- 
lunge fisher of wide experience, and every season takes 
an extended trip to some part of Wisconsin. In con- 
versation with Judge Lincoln this week he mentioned 
a few points on muscallunge fishing which I do not 
hear commonly spoken of among our anglers. 
"I go very much into the Minocqua country of Wis- 
consin for my muscallunge fishing," said he, "and as 
you know, this is not very far from the Flambeau In- 
dian Reservation. Now the Indians do not fish for 
bass ver}'- much, nor do they angle even by trolling 
for muscallunge to any great extent. Their favorite 
way of taking the muscallunge is with the spear, and 
as they have practiced this little game for a generation 
or so up there, they have thinned out these fish in a 
great many of the better lakes. I don't need to point 
out that in a clear-water lake a spearsman can work 
to a great deal better advantage than in a dark or 
stained water. As you know, a great many of these 
Wisconsin waters are nearly copper color with the 
stain of the tamarack roots. The Turtle Lake waters, 
for instance, are very dark. At the same time a great 
many muscallunge are taken in the Turtle Lake coun- 
try. Now when I want to get a muscallunge, I don't 
go to one of the sandy or clear lakes. I hunt up a 
dark-water lake, and here, when the weather condi- 
tions are right, I nearly always succeed in taking a 
good muscallunge. Last year I found a little lake about 
thirty miles from the railroad, and was lucky enough to 
take a 34-pound muscallunge ■there, with several others 
over 20 pounds. If you want to get muscallunge don't 
go to the clear-water lakes, and, of course, don't go to 
the much-fished waters and to those which are easily 
accessible from the railroads." 
"It is the same way in regard to bass fishing," said 
Judge Lincoln, though not for the same reason. "If 
you want to get small-mouth bass don't go to the 
dark or stained waters. Keep to the bright lakes, those 
with sandy bottoms. Here is where you will get your 
fly-fishing for small-mouth bass. As an instance, I 
would mention Swamp Lake, some dozen miles or so 
northwest of Minocqua, where I have had very good 
fishing for small-mouth bass. On the other hand, if I 
wanted to take big-mouth bass I would stick to the 
dark-colored waters with mud bottoms, and water 
lilies and the like growing around the edges. For my- 
self I troll for bass with a little single hook spoon and 
a bait. Some of my friends cast for muscallunge with 
a sucker or other large bait, but my own fishing has 
been mostly done by trolling." 
There is much of apparent reason in what Judge Lin- 
coln says, and in any case his advice is the expression 
of an angler of many years' experience. This distinc- 
tion between the bright and_ stained waters might save 
a man quite a trip over a wilderness road into a coun- 
try with which one's guide is not fully acquainted. 
After *Lttnge. 
Mr. John O'Neill, of the City Hall, and a party of 
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his veteran friends, leave to-morrow for another mus- 
callunge trip in the vicinity of Minocqua, Wis. This 
is the same party with whom Mayor Harrison fre- 
quently_ goes for muscallunge, but I understand the 
Mayor is not to be with them on this trip. They near- 
ly always have good luck with the 'lunge. 
Back From Vacation, 
I presume there are few busier men in this country 
or in the entire world than Mr. James J. Hill, presi- 
dent of the Great Northern Railroad and a national 
figure in many other great enterprises. In spite of his 
many colossal interests Mr. Hill finds time to take 
his vacation every summer like any good American, 
and even makes it longer than the conventional two 
weeks. Yesterday he returned from a stay of a month 
on the New England and Northeastern Canadian coast, 
where he has been engaged in yachting and fishing. 
Mr. Hill has a salmon river and knows how to enjoy 
that and other opportunities for out-door sport. 
E. Hough. 
Ashland Block, Chicago, 1)1. 
That Mysterious Monster. 
St. John's, Newfoundland. — Editor Forest and Stream 
Col. H. Barkdull, in Forest and Stream of July ii, de- 
scribes a mysterious monster that he saw attacking 
a whale near Admiralty island, Alaska. His descrip- 
tion is very like that of the thrasher, familiar to all 
Newfoundland fishermen. It is a common sight on this 
coast to see a whale attacked by a thrasher in conjunc- 
tion with his ally, the swordfish. The latter gets under 
the whale and keeps him on the surface by prodding 
him with his formidable "sword," the thrasher mean- 
time thrashes him with a large fan-like fin, and the 
noise can be heard for miles. If the whale can elude 
the swordfish and sink beneath the surface he is safe, 
if not he often persihes from the results of the attack. 
This is such a common sight on our coast that I 
hesitate to advance it as a solution of the mystery 
surrounding Mr. Barkdull's monster, but from his de- 
scription I am almost sure it is the same. 
However, I advance this explanation till a better one 
'is forthcoming. . Newfoundlander. 
The description of "the mysterious monster" might ap- 
pear to fit that of the thrasher shark (Alopias vulpes), 
but the authorities say that the thrasher does not attack 
the whale. Says the Standard Natural History; "It is a 
migratory shark, but its migrations are dependent upon 
the shoals of mackerel, menhaden, herring or other fish 
on which it feeds. When feeding it uses the long tail in 
splashing the surface of the water, while it swims in 
gradually decreasing circles round a shoal of fishes which 
are ' thus kept crowded together, falling an easy prey to 
their enemy. Statements that it has been seen to attack 
whale? and other large cetaceans rest upon erroneous 
observations." 
In the Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United 
States, Natural History of Aquatic Animals, Dr. G. 
Brown Goode wrote : "The tales which are current re- 
garding the ferocious attacks of these sharks upon whales 
are apparently without foundation." 
In the same volume is given the following account of 
the killer whale or orcas ; which may be the creature about 
which Mr. Barkdull wrote : 
The killer whales are known the world over by their 
destructive and savage habits. Although their strength 
and speed render it almost impossible to capture them, 
they are of importance to the fisherman as enemies of all 
large sea animals, often putting them to flight at incon- 
venient times. The Atlantic species, Orca gladiator 
(Bonnaterre) Gill, was first brought to notice in 1671 in 
Martens' "Voyage to Spitzbergen." It is often seen on 
the New England coast in summer, driving before it 
schools of the blackfish or other small whales; it is a 
special enemy of the tunny or horse mackerel. Captain 
Atwood tells of the consternation shown by these enor- 
mous fishes when a number of them have gathered in 
Provincetown Harbor and the killers come in. They are 
a great annoj^ance to the Cape Cod people when they are 
trying to drive a school of blackfish ashore, and on the 
other hand often drive these ashore when they would not 
be accessible to the fishermen. They prey largely, too, 
upon the white whale in northern seas. In the Pacific 
there are tAvo species at least, the low-finned killer, Orca 
atra Cope, and the high-finned killer, Orca rectipinna. 
The latter, though rarely more than twenty feet long, has 
an enormous dagger-shaped fin, six feet high, upon its 
back, which towers above the surface when the aninial 
swims high. In fact the killer whales all have these high 
back-fins, by which they may be recognized at any dis- 
tance. 
Captain Scammon, in his "Marine Mammals of the 
Northwestern Coast," gives a long account of their habits, 
and of their fierce attacks upon the largest whales. The 
stories of the combats of the swordfish and the thresher 
shark upon whales have probably originated in such com- 
bats as these, witnessed at a distance and imperfectly 
understood. Captain Scammon writes : "The attacks of 
these wolves of the ocean upon their gigantic prey may 
be likened in sotiie respects to a pack of hounds holding 
the stricken deer at bay. They cluster about the animal's 
head, some of their number breaching over it while 
olhers seize it by the lips and haul the bleeding monster 
under water; and when captured, should the mouth be 
open, they eat out its tongue. We saw an attack made 
by three killers upon a cow whale and her calf in a lagoon 
on the coast of Lower California, in the spring of 1858. 
The whale was of the California gray species, and her 
young was grown to three times the bulk of the largest 
killers engaged in the contest, which lasted for an hour 
or more. They made alternate assaults upon the old 
whale and her oflEspring, finally killing the latter, which 
sunk to the bottom, where the water was five fathoms 
deep. During the struggle, the mother became nearly ex- 
hausted, having received several deep wounds about the 
throat and lips. As soon as their prize had settled to the 
bottom, the three orcas descended, bringing up large 
pieces of flesh in their mouths, which they devoured after 
coming to the surface. While gorging themselves in this 
