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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 4, 1903. 
fishing is liable to get into trouble. He left his friends 
practically out of the game, Mr. Thompson having a 
thumb which seems to be broken or dislocated and which 
became so badly swollen that he could not do any fishing. 
Mr. Lester lost a thumb nail, and all of them appear to 
have had a good deal of difficulty with the reel handle. 
Mr. Von Lengerke says that the sport is very keen, but 
has a good many features of hard work connected ^vith it. 
Sometimes a tarpon heads seaward instead of running up 
into the Pass, as was the case with Mr. Lester's fish, and 
when the boat is once taken out into the Gulf the sport is 
almost too rough for comfort. There seemed to be no 
dimimition of the tarpon supply in this famous district. 
The fishing is done both by trolling and still fishing, the 
latter being perhaps sometimes close along the jetties, in 
case of high wind from the Gulf. 
Wrinkles, 
My, friend, Mr. B. K. Miller, Jr., of Milwaukee, writes: 
"I have run across two new ideas connected with trout 
fishing;,, at lea.st they are new to me. First, to clean fish 
without a knife and without opening the fish : loosen the 
gills and then pull out the entire internal organs carefully. 
Result, fish clean and not mutilated. Second, instead of 
attaching an eyed fly to the leader, in the usual way, with 
a jam knot, turtle hitch or other knot, hang the fly loosely 
on a loop made at the end of the leader. I have not tried 
this thoroughly, but the fly bobs around most alluringly." 
The method of cleaning trout which Mr. Miller men- 
tions is practiced to some extent in the Lake Superior 
country. It leaves the fish less disfigured, and from all T 
can learn in quite as good shape for keeping as when the 
body is opened in the usual way. As to M)-. MiUer's 
.scheme of putting on an eyed i{y, I don't believe he will 
find it so successful as one which leaves the fly attached 
to the snell or leader more rigidly. This alluring bob- 
bing around is what some of the tackle sharps 'wish to 
guard against, as it allows the fly to get its barb up over 
the leader and otherwise to mix things. I remember to 
have seen some very learned discussions on these matters 
in the English angling papers, and the concensus of 
opinion there seemed to be that an attachment which left 
a sort of loose joint at the bend of the hook was not so 
desirable as one similar to the usual eyeless hook as 
mounted on gut. 
New Trout Tfp. 
I met my friend, H. Wood, to-day, and he is recently 
back from a certain exploration in the northern country. 
He says that at Seney, a little deserted lumber vdlagc 
seventy miles east of Marquette, on the Duluth, .South 
Shore and Atlantic, he heard of a stream which .seems to 
be very little fished and which ought Id be a very good 
fly-fishing river. This is the Little Fox, a stream of 
which, I confess, I never heard before, lie says that his 
informant at Seney told him that he and two friends 
caught 300 trout on the Little Fox on their last trip. 
They were worm fishermen, but the informant said that 
the "Little Fox would be a good one for fly-fishing, and 
that it could be waded with fair comfort. The trout ran 
up to iVz pounds. If they will come anywhere near a 
half pound, and if the stream can be waded, and if one 
can cast a fly there with any sort of comfort, this water 
is very much worth watching. It is twelve miles out 
from Seney, over a fair road, but one has to camp out 
on the stream. 
Dope Would Not Work. 
Our revered angling friend and companion, Colonel 
Bill Haskell, got into trouble the last time he was out 
fishing with ]\Iayor Harrison and other distinguished 
gentlemen of this citj^ It seems that Colonel Bill had a 
friend who customarily carries his fly dope in a collapsible 
tv.be, similar to one in which gun grease is vended. By 
mistake Colonel Haskell got hold of a tube of gun grease ' 
instead of fly dope. He did not discover his mistake, but 
did discover that, in the words of the journalist, ho 
was the cynosure of every eye in the mosquito contin- 
gent. 
Amateur Fly-Tying. 
Mr. Jeptha G. Dunlap, of San Jose, California, wants 
to know about the McGinty and Bucktail flies, as men- 
tioned in these columns. The easiest way will probbaly 
b(-: to send him samples of these patterns. Mr. Dunlap is 
good enough to send me a couple of flies of his own mak- 
ing, both very prettily done. One he calls the Garrard, 
after a friend of his. The dressing of the latter fly is as 
follows : Body scarlet worsted, tipped and" wound with 
silver tinsel; tail, two narrow sections consisting of three 
or four barbs from the soft black white-tipped wing 
feather of the widgeon; hackle, light blue, the same as 
that of the .silver-doctor; wing, breast feather of Cali- 
fornia valley quail. Mr. 13unlap sends me a few of these 
breast feathers of the California quail," which he thinks 
might be serviceable with some of our freaky Eastern 
trout; I will take pleasure in trying the flies, although 
they stem a bit bright for most of our fishing here. I 
have usually found the brighter flies to do best in wilder 
streams, where the trout are not fished so hard, and where 
they were native and not planted. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111, 
Tfowt Fishing: at Canadensis. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
On my recent visit to the mountains of Pennsyl- 
vania, I met Mr. Wesley Price, of the Spruce Cabin 
Inn. It was his intention to wire Forest and .Stream 
that day that the trout fishing with them was good. 
The streams are about normal, and some good catches 
are being made. The Broadhead, famous for big ones, 
is yielding up a goodly number of big trout; most of 
this stream can be fished with flies. T. E. B. 
but I have heard of no cases in the Eastern States where 
they have been used for this purpose, which seems to 
indicate that the West is more advanced than the East 
in methods of detecting crime and criminals, as well as in 
some other matters. Jos. W. Shurter. 
Gansevoort, June 22. 
Canadian Salmon Fishing:. 
Mr. David T. Aberceombie has just returned from a 
month's fishing and camping trip at the Piscicultural 
Association's preserves near Bic, Quebec. 
Mr. Abercrombie was in camp during the season of 
forest fires, and much anxiety was felt by their- party ; for 
two full weeks they didn't see the sun. The salmon fish- 
ing was very poor owing to low water; trout, however, 
were plentiful, and good fishing was had. 
It was Mr.- Abercrombie's intention to visit Labrador, 
but a storm caught them and they lay at La Havre, N. S., 
one week, and then returned. At this point several grilse 
were taken weighing to lo^ pounds on the average. 
The salmon fishing has been universally poor. The 
low water at the times when the fish should go up stream 
for the spawning season, kept them back, Mr^ A^er- 
5_3!!pm|)ie reports taking just three salmon. 
'h^ Menml 
Fixtures. 
Oct. 6-9.— Danbury, Conn., Agricultural Society's show. 
Nov. 3-6.— New York.— Annual show of Ladies' Kennel Associa- 
tion of America. 
Nov. 9.— Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Seo'y. 
Bloodhounds and Man-Huntings 
Editor Forest and Streams 
I note the inquiry of your correspondent, Henry De 
Varigny, in regard to bloodhounds and man-hunting, and 
the replies of Marshall Bond, Coahoma, and others, which 
give some interesting information respecting the use of 
ihe common American foxhound in tracking escaped con- 
victs in the Southern States. 
I do not think I can do better than to refer M. De 
Varigny to the Century Magazine for June, 1889, and also 
to the same magazine for June, 1902. In the former num- 
ber he will find a valuable history and description of the 
English bloodhound, written by the noted English breeder 
and fancier, Edwin Brough, who also gives his method 
of training his dogs to hunt "the clean boot." 
In the latter number he will find an entertaining and 
well written article entitled, "Bloodhounds in America," 
written by J. D. Howe and Charles E. Duffie, in which 
the address of several prominent American breeders of 
bloodhounds is given, and also a history of numerous 
cases in which the famous dogs of Dr. J. B. Fulton, of 
Beatrice, Neb., have tracked criminals with unerring cer- 
tainty. 
Beyond all question the least understood dog of the 
present day is the English bloodhound. To the majority 
of persons the mention of his name suggests an enormous 
brute, ferocious and bloodthirsty as a man-eating tiger. 
As a matter of fact, the exact reverse of this is true, for 
the English bloodhound is the most affectionate and trust- 
worthy of dogs, and excels all others in intelligence and 
value as a companion and friend. He is, par excellence, 
the gentleman's dog, being cleanly in his habits, and in 
his peculiar style one of the most beautiful of dogs.. 
But in nothing else does he excel so greatly as in his 
wonderfully acute sense of smell. I have had no ex- 
perience with bloodhounds in hunting men, but have seen 
something of their work on game animals, and will relate 
one episode which came under my observation which will 
serve to illustrate the almost miraculous power they pos- 
sess which enables them to trail their quarry under the 
most adverse conditions. 
It was at Chain Lakes, Hamilton county, New York, 
in 1889 during one of my annual deer hunting trips with 
a party of my friends. We were stopping at Chain Lakes 
House, kept by Arvin Hutchins. It was in the days when 
hounding was lawful, and as I now remember it, there 
were about forty deerhounds on the premises at the time. 
Some of these dogs were owned by Hutchins, some by the 
guides who were working for the visiting sportsmen, and 
some by these sportsmen. Talk about music. We heard 
it there. The air was full of it and the mountains rang 
with it, when, on a frosty morning, tho.se forty dogs were 
clamoring to be unchained and taken into the forest for 
a day's hunt. One of these dogs was a thoroughbred 
bloodhound, with great big mournful eyes, low hanging 
ears, flews and dewlap, which were soft and sleek as satin, 
and 'his mien would have done credit to a supreme court 
judge. The bloodhound is a rare animal, and I believe 
none of the guides had ever seen a genuine specimen be- 
fore, consequently they were anxious to start him on a 
trail and see what he could do. His owner valued him 
highl.v, and consequently was somewhat reluctant about 
having this done, fearing he would lose the dog. The 
guides assured him there was no danger of this, as the 
deer would be certain to throw the dog off the trail by- 
crossing one of the many large lakes in that section, if 
not killed before they had' a chance to do so. To this the 
dog's owner said, "There is no water between here and 
the Atlantic Ocean large enough to throw that dog off a 
trail. Only the death of the dog or the deer could do 
that." However, his consent to starting the hound was 
finally secured, and the dog was laid on a trail. 
His quarry was driven to water at Third Lake at a 
l^oint where'it is about a mile in width. The deer was 
met midway in the lake by one of the hunters, who was a 
novice in hunting and shooting, and the result was a 
somewhat laughable race and shooting match terminating 
in the escape of the deer. And then came the wonderful 
work of the hound. Without the least pause at the shdre 
of the lake he plunged in and swam, following, as nearly 
as could be judged, the exact course the deer had taken, 
constantly giving tongue to the deep bell-like voice for 
which this breed of dogs is noted. _ _ 
Again the deer was driven into, the lakCj but this time, 
fortunately for the dog's owner, the deer took water near 
a watcher who had some conception .as to what the sights 
on his rifle were for, and the result of the second race 
was a dead deer. Ofi his way back to the shore of the 
lake the successful hunter met the hound swimming in 
the lake, and pulled him into the boat on top of his 
quarry. . . , 
This race furnished a topic for lively discussion around 
the fireside the following evening, and among the dozen 
guides and score of sportsmen there was not one who 
could say he ever before saw anything in the line of run- 
ning, or rather swimming, trails which equaled it. 
I understand the use of bloodhounds for tracking crim- 
inals-is becoming quite common in the Western States, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Several of us have told what we know of mau-hunting 
dogs, and the subject may not be worn threadbare yet. 
1 do not know if it has been or not. My first introduc- 
tion to these dogs was while T had the honor to be a guest 
at Andersonville Prison in 1864. I was sent there because 
I had been caught out on the skirmish line shooting at 
our brothers in gray. I had been in the stockade about 
two months, when I was taken down with the scurvy 
and had the good fortune to be sent out to the hospital 
when few of us could get to it. There the chief 
surgeon, Dr. White, soon had me cured again, then was 
kind enough to get me a parole of honor from General 
Winder, so that I need not go into the prison again. I 
could now go where I pleased as long as I kept inside of 
the outer guard line a mile away. 
I knew that there were bloodhounds here and hunted 
thein up. They were kept in a pen near headquarters, 
and were always kept tied and were never more than half 
fed. There ma^' have been a policy in keeping them half 
starved; at least I think so. I scraped up an acquaintance 
with them and began feeding them on corn bread; meat 
was too scarce just then to feed any to dogs. While I 
was feeding them one day old Captain Wirtz, our jailer, 
caught me at it and I Ihotigiit he would have a fit. After 
he had cursed me awhile in broken English (he spoke 
poor English), he told me if he ever caught me near those 
dogs again he would blow my blanked head off, and 
began to finger his pistol as if he meant to do it right 
there. That did not scare me, though. T was here under 
a parole from Winder and knew that he was far more 
afraid of Winder than I was of hini. 
"Do you know what i have these dogs here for?" he 
asked. 
"Yes," I know all about it." 
"Well, then, you keep away from them. I may have 
to send them after you one of these days." 
"You nn"ght as well not send them after me if I left, 
Captain. Those dogs would not hunt me now." 
He warned me again not to be caught feeding them 
after this, and I took care that he did not catch iiic, bm 
the dogs got fed as usual. 
These dogs were much like the one I afterwards bad, 
part foxhound, and here in camp were not dan^?erous; 
but \ybcn on a man's trail, if they cairght him, th'.".- 
would tear him badly. T have seen men who escaped and 
were brought back there who were badly hurt by them. 
Cabia Blanco. 
facJtting, 
Yachting: Fixtures iot 1903. 
Members of race committee will confer a favor by seiidinK notice 
of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes wliich 
may be made in the future. 
JULY. 
1. Royal Canadian, Queen's cup race, Toronto and L. .S. A. 
regatta, Oakville. 
2. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
3. American, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
3-4. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 
3-4. Bav-Waveiand, Soutliern Gulf Coast Y, A., Bay St. Louis, 
Miss. . , I , _ L • , ; I I J j 
3- 6. Williamsburg, annual cruise. 
4. Corinthian of Marbleliead, special, open. 
4. Columbia, annual open regatta. Lake Michigan. 
4. Beverly, first Corinthian. Monument Beach. 
4. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. ! 
4. Seawanbaka Corinthian, club. Oyster Bay. 
4. Atlantic, club. Sea Gate. * 
4. Toledo Y. A., Monroe Piers. 
4. Chicago, race for Pfister cup and handicap race. 
4. Hartford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual, Saybrook. 
4- 11. Larchmont race week, Larchmont. 
5. Jamaica Bay, Y. R. A. 
6-7. Beverly, trial races for 21-footers for defense of Seawanliuka- 
Beverly cup. 
6-8. New York, special races for 90-footers, Newport. 
9-11. Beverlv-Seawanhaka. Beverly cup. Monument Beach. 
10-11. Jlobile', Southern Gulf Coa.st Y. A., Mobile, Ala. 
It Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 
11. Moriches, club. i 
11. Seawanbaka Corinthian, club. Oyster Bay. 
11. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
II Bensonhurst, Y, R. A. of Gravescnd Bay. 
11. Norwalk, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, special. ' ■ 
11. Corinthian, second championship, Marblehead. 
11. Eastern, run to Gloucester. 
13. Eastern, annual, Marblehead. 
11. Penataquit Corinthian, open, Bay Shore. 
14. Hempstead Bay, club. 
15. Eastern, cruise, Marblehead to Vineyard Haven. 
16. Eastern, cruise, Vineyard Haven to Newport. 
16. New York, fifty-eighth annual cruise, rendezvous Glen Cove. 
17. Eastern, cruise, Newport to New London. 
17-lS. Pascagoula, Southern Gulf Coast Y. A., Pascagoula, Miss. 
IS. Beverly, second Corintliian, Monument Beach. 
18. Keystone, club, Woodmere, L. 1. 
IS. .Atlantic, club. Sea Gate. 
18. South Boston, club, City Point. 
18. Penataquit Corinthian, special. Bay Shore. 
18. Indian Harbor, motor boat race. Am. P. B. A., Greenwich. 
18. Seawanbaka Corinthian, club. Oyster Bay. 
18. Corinthian, third championship, Marblehead, 
18. Savin Hill, club, Dorchester Bay. 
18. Canarsie, club. 
18. Riverside, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., annual. 
18. Corinthian of Stamford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound. 
18, Corinthian, 3d champ., Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
18. Winthrop, Y. R. A., open, Winthrop. 
18. Chicago, races for Warrington and Lillienfeld cups. 
18. Royal Canadian, L. Y. R. A., skiff races, Toronto. 
21. Inter-Lake Y. A., open, Put-In-Bay. 
22. Inter-Lake Y. A., open, yacht and power races, Put-In-Bay. 
23. Inter-Lake Y. A., squadron sail and auxiliary race, Put-in-Bay. 
24 Inter-Lake Y. A., open, Put-in-Bay. 
24-25. Biloxi, Southern Gulf Coast Y. A., Biloxi, Miss. 
25. Indian Harboi% club, Greenwich. . 
25. Beverly, cruise, rendezvous Monument Beach. 
25. Boston, club, Hull. 
25. Seawanbaka Corinthian, club. Oyster Bay. 
25 Royal Canadian, L. Y. R. A., skiff races, Toronto. 
25. Hartford, Y. R. A. of L. 1. Sound, special. 
25 Marine and Field, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
25 Hempstead Harbor, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
25. Bridgeport Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
25. Chicago, club. Lake Michigan. 
25. Penataquit Corinthian, cruise, rendezvous Bay S>hore. 
27. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 
27- 29. New York, Newport series, Jill cl^ss^s, Newport. 
