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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 8, 1903. 
seems far off to a Chicago man, though its excellence 
as a sporting country ought to bring it very close to 
the attention and to the hearts of sportsmen East and 
West 
The Greea Lake Couatty. 
Green Lake, in Waushara County, Wisconsin, is in 
one of the best known summer countries in the West, 
and is pretty well taken up by wealthy cottagers who 
reside in Chicago and other cities. It is a deep and 
cold water, and is famous for its tremendous small- 
mouth bass, this fish being taken in great sizes at 
times, usually by deep fishing. The Green Lake bass 
might almost be called by a finicky scientist a distinct 
species of their own. They are athletic, bright col- 
ored, red-eyed, fighting fish, very much prized by an- 
glers. The fame of these waters extends beyond the 
confines of the State of Illinois, as may be witnessed 
by the arrival in town yesterday of a party of Ken- 
tucky gentlemen who purpose spending some time at 
Green Lake and vicinity. These are Dr. Arch. Dixon, 
of Henderson, Ky.; Dr. L. S. McMurlay, of Loiusville, 
and Dr. J. Flexner, of the same city. These are names 
widely known in medical circles, even outside of the 
United States. All these gentlemen are anglers and 
are eager to learn something of the possibilities of the 
, lakes and streams adjacent to Green Lake. Meeting 
Dr. Dixon by chance, I told him what I could about 
that country, including mention of the fly-fishing for 
small-mouth bass on the White River between Prince- 
ton and Neshkoro, this being along the northwestern 
line close to Green Lake station. Dr. Dixon laid in a 
supply of bass flies and went away with fire in his eye, 
determined to undertake certain negotiations with the 
red eyes of that pretty stream. "If you are ever down 
in Kentucky, sir," said he, "it will give any of us 
pleasure to meet you and to show you what sport we 
have in our country." Hew very like that is to that 
singular, unvarying and beautiful feeling of hospitality 
which prevails throughout the Southern States. 
Good Bass. 
At Eagle Lake, Wisconsin, last week, Mr. W. F. 
White, of Chicago, was liucky enough to take a big- 
mouth bass weighing 4 lbs. 14 oz., this being the largest 
reported from Waukesha County this summer, so far 
as known. 
The Log of a Salmon Fisher, 
Mr. C. H. Davis, of Saginaw, is good enough to send 
in an interesting extract from the log of his late 
salmon trip on his river, the Little Pabos, Gaspe 
County, P. Q. In this Mr. 'Davis includes more ex- 
tensive mention of the singular incident reported last 
week of the salmon which broke away with the leader 
but was later killed. on the rod. The record mentioned 
is as follows: 
"C. H. Davis, June 22 to July 11, fished 15 days; W. 
S. Humphrey, June 22 to July 4, fished 9 days; M. W. 
Tanner, July 4 to July 11, fished 6 days. Total, 30 days. 
"Water very low during entire period, and big fish 
would not rise to fly. 
"Killed 41 salmon; weight 34614 lbs.; largest, 20 lbs.; 
average, 8.45 lbs.; killed 4 grilse, weight 12 lbs.; aver- 
age, 3 lbs.; killed 198 trout, weight 226 lbs.; largest, 4^ 
lbs.; average, 4.14 lbs.; total, 584J4 lbs. Average per 
rod per day, 19.46 lbs. 
"Log of July 7. — Warm and cloudy; showers after 3 P. 
M. Fished down river, leaving camp at 9 A. M. Fran- 
cois reporting one salmon in Cora Pool (10 rods above 
camp), Davis started in there, while M. W. Tanner, of 
Saginaw, pushed on down with his two men and canoe. 
For some unaccountable reason, presumably by reason 
of the unusually low stage of water and consequent 
change of currents, we had so far been unable to raise 
more than one fish in Cora, which fish, after the first 
rush, settled back and sullenly refused every fly offered 
him. We had cast over a number of salmon in this 
pool on previous days without result, but a slight rise 
in the water last night seemed to have effect, and to 
the surprise of Davis, this one came with a rush at 
first cast, got well hooked, and after the usual mad 
rushes and leaps came quietly to gaff, and was laid 
away on a bed of snow in the ice house in less thaa 
twenty minutes. 
"Davis and his crew then started down to look for 
Tanner, and around the second bend found him in ear- 
nest confab with his men on a little island at Bogan 
pool. It looked like trouble as we drew near, and sure 
enough it was, as Tanner had found three salmon in 
this pool, and getting a few quick rises from one, fin- 
ally got fast to a bright 8i/4 pounder, just in from the 
sea, after which a few runs and leaps had succeeded in 
parting the line from the leader (the knot slipped), and 
they were mourning the loss of such a fine fish, to say 
naught of the three-dollar Boyd leader. Tanner's fish 
was cavorting about the pool, stirring up a large num- 
ber of big trout that were lying about, and occasionally 
leaping out of water in his efforts to free himsefl from 
fly and leader. A council of war was immediately con- 
vened on the island, and Davis suggested that an effort 
be made to recapture the fish, and action was com- 
menced at once by Francois taking the end of Tanner's 
line in his teeth, and putting out with Oliver and the 
canoe. They began to give chase. Tanner's boat join- 
ing in and following up the other boat. Tanner holding 
his rod, Davis guarding the riffle at lower end of the 
pool. Up and down the pool, up the Bogan and back 
again went fish and canoes. This continued for half 
an hour, when Mr. Salmon, after an attempt to run 
down the shallow riffle, returned to the pool and 
sought to hide under a log and limb, four feet under 
water. Oliver held the canoe steady, while Francois 
■skilfully lifted the free end of the leader with his gaff, 
and quickly joined same to the end of Tanner's line. 
Then slowl}'- drawing the line backward, so as to get 
the fish clear of the limb, the canoe was swung clear, 
leaving Tanner once more in command, and the bright 
and shining beauty, after a few more gallant struggles 
for freedom, was brought safely to gaff. 
"Oliver, in his thirty odd years with salmon fishers, 
said he had never seen this trick successfully performed 
J)ut once before, an4 *i5 Ff^ncojs remarked, we gave 
the fish fair play, as he could easily have been gaffed 
in, as could one of the other two, which hid in the 
Bogan with his head under the bank. The day's rec- 
ord was: 
"Davis, I salmon in Cora Pool, 8^^ lbs.; i salmon in 
Stump Pool, 7J''2 lbs. Tanner, i sahnon in Bogan Pool, 
8J4 lbs.; 21 trout, 24^^ lbs. 
"Salmon, before entering the rivers, are usuallly pre- 
ceded by a small fish, called the capeling (I believe is 
the name), upon which they gorge themselves. This 
year the capeling had not appeared up to July 12, 
and the salmon are still stringing along, coming in, 
and are not quite as fat and fine flavored this year as 
usual, but good enough to eat, as I can truly assert, 
having had them on table at lea-st once every day for 
three weeks." 
Moscallunge and Frog, 
Mr. Sam J. Ryan, of Appleton, Wis., writes in com- 
ment on the late statement regarding frog bait for 
muscallunge. "I notice 3'ou say 'One does not recall 
any instance of a muscallunge being taken on frog 
bait.' On Big Lake, in the Manitowish waters, two 
years ago I took a twelve-pound muscallunge with 
frog on a small bass hook, and on a seven-ounce rod. 
I picked up the fish just beyond the tlioroughfare lead- 
ing from Round Lake. I cast in the mangled frog 
again and raised another muscallunge, but he did not 
take much interest in the dead bait. If I had been 
able to find another live frog in that entire country I 
am sure I would have had more fish." 
Of course nearly every one has taken pickerel, that 
is to say, great northern pike, on frog bait, more es- 
pecially when used as a bait below a spoon. The frog, 
for one reason or another, is not commonly used by 
the muscallunge fishers of the Wisconsin district. 
Perhaps here is a tip very much worth bearing in mind 
by muscallunge anglers. 
For Tomahawk District, 
Judge Warwick Plough, of the Circuit Court, St. 
Louis. Mo., has for many years made trips into the 
muscallunge district of Wisconsin. In a letter at hand 
he says: "I shall hope, during the first Or second 
week in August, to get away for a trip to Tomahawk 
Lake, near Minocqua. Mr. Southgate, of the Audi- 
torium Hotel, Chicago, has a cottage near the North- 
western railroad, on Lac du Flambeau, northwest of 
Minocqua, where I understand there is fine fishing. 
Please inquire about this if convenient." Can any one 
give information of the desired sort? My own im- 
pression was that Flambeau Lake was pretty hard hit 
by the reservation Indians, but then one can never 
tell where the big ones are or when they are going to 
begin feeding. 
Drowned by a Catfish. 
I heard yesterday of a singular incident which hap- 
pened on the Mississippi River near La Crosse. One 
of the river fishermen, by the name of William Renz, 
was out doing some night fishing, probably set line 
work, well towards the middle of the big river. He 
found himself fast to one of the big Mississippi river 
catfish, and in the struggle which followed the attempt 
to get the fish into the boat Mr. Renz was pulled over- 
board, caught in the current and drowned. 
Fish Slaughter in Indiana. 
The White River of Indiana has been in its time 
a splendid angling stream, containing among other at- 
tractions black bass which rise to the fly. It passes 
through a well settled district of the State and offers 
water power to several large factories. At Anderson, 
Indiana, are extensive straw board works, of course 
employing chemicals, and of course also discharging 
their poisonous refuse into the nearest stream. The 
result has of late been most disastrous to the fish life 
in the White River, and dead fish have lined the shores 
to such an extent that the Board of Health of Ander- 
son has been obliged to collect them and burn them. 
About 14,000 pounds of dead fish were thus burned this 
week. We are a strange people, we Americans. We 
tolerate so much. 
The Boss Story. 
At Delavan Lake, Wisconsin, last week, a gentleman 
whose native modesty demands suppression of his 
name, performed a rather singular feat. While out 
bait-casting for bass he caught a live woodchuck. I 
have known bass fishermen thus to catch steel traps, 
muskrats, bullfrogs, bitterns, and other strange out- 
fits, but I never did hear of a man catching a wood- 
chuck while bait-casting with frog. I trust these New 
England gentlemen who take the woodchuck seriously 
enough to go out after him with a rifle will now mend 
their ways and pursue him in the far more sportsman- 
like method of the rod and reel. 
Is the Sand Fly an Animal? 
Evanston is a suburb of Chicago. Poundmaster 
Frederick Warren gets Soc. for everjr dead animal which 
he removes from the public streets of that village. 
There are four hundred million dead sand flies on the 
streets of Evanston. Now Mr. Warren is very anxious 
to know with legal accuracy whether or not the sand 
fly is an animal. If it is he can quit work pretty soon. 
Doings at Oshkosh. 
Mr. J. D. Carr, for the Winnebago Gun Club, of 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, writes pleasantly as below, under 
date of July 24: 
"Commencing August 22, and continuing for a week, 
there's goin' to be somethin' doin' at Oshkosh. The 
Common Council of the city has appropriated $500, 
which will be largely augmented by private subscrip- 
tion — more than doubled — for the proper observance 
of the semi-centennial of this city, the ceremonies to be 
held on Thursday, August 27. The Inland Lakes 
Yachting Association holds its annual regatta here, 
commencing Saturday, August 22; and last, but not 
least, the Winnebago Gun Club will hold its annual 
tournament August 23, 24 and 25. Now, I knoT,v that 
you have a soft spot in your heart for Oshkosh. If 
you could make it convenient to attend this series of 
good sporting events I am sure, if you did not enjoy 
yourself, the fault would not be entirely ours. You 
might slip a bass rod or two into your outfit, with 
other proper fixin's for seducing the small-mouth, and 
if conditions were favorable you might enjoy bass fish- 
ing on some of the finest waters in the world. By the 
way, one of the numbers on the semi-centennial pro- 
gramme is an address by Reginald Oshkosh, grandson 
of the old Chief Oshkosh. ^ 
"We expect you to say 'yea, verily.' " \ 
I'm sure I wish I could, but cannot yet tell. 
Try the Feather Duster. 
Mr. J. E. Allen writes from Alpena, Mich.: "One 
good turn deserves another, and since you have done 
me one good turn, now please do the other. Accom- 
modate me with some of the feathers you mention in 
the Forest and Stream." 
If I remember correctly, Mr. Allen refers to the 
make-up of the McGinty fly. The wing is the white- 
tipped turkey wing, and I think if he will go to the 
nearest feather duster he can find consolation. 
Big Chicken Crop in the Northwest. 
Chicago, 111., Aug. i.— During a visit to St. Paul, 
Minnesota, this week, talks with many different sports- 
men convinced me that there is going to be a fine crop 
of chickens in Minnesota and the Dakotas this fall. 
Warden Fullerton, who is just back from a tour in the 
upper part of Minnesota, says that that country will 
be alive with game this fall. He thinks that Ottertail, 
Douglas, Clay, Grant, Norman and Kittson Counties 
will be the best districts to visit. The hatch in these 
counties is splendid and the greatest care is being exer- 
cised by the corps of deputies to prevent any "sooner" 
shooting. It is about this time that the "sooner" be- 
gins to get anxious. 
There will be a little early shooting, of course, for it 
would be beyond human possibility to stop all of it; but 
it need not be stated that the wardens will be active. 
There will be birds in these counties of Minnesota 
when the season opens, and there will be good shoot- 
ing there for a week or ten days after the season be- 
gins. 
In the southern counties of Minnesota the crop is 
not so good this year. As may be remembered, we 
have had a very wet season in this part of the United 
States this summer and spring, and the nests were 
drowned out over a good part of Iowa and lower Min- 
nesota. A visitor would do better to keep further north 
and in the counties above mentioned. 
Sportsmen from North Dakota say that their 
chicken crop is going to be a record one. The senti- 
ment against excessive and illegal shooting is growing 
in this part of the Northwest, and there will be very 
many points along the Great Northern and Northern 
Pacific Railroads, in North Dakota, where fine sport 
with chickens and ducks can be had. There is rather 
an unusual abundance of local ducks. Weather which 
is bad for chickens is sometimes pretty good for ducks. 
In South Dakota the chicken crop will be as good 
as last year. Different residents of South Dakota 
towns reported at the St, Paul gun stores that they 
were quite satisfied with the prospect for the fall. The 
Milwaukee & St. Paul road is a good one to have in 
mind for South Dakota. 
The Aoto and the "Sooner". 
Deputy Warden A. S. Carmichael, of Lesoeur, Min- 
nesota, has an automobile. Rev. Henry Rifforty, pas- 
tor of a church at Lesceur, has a taste for quail. He 
wanted quail so bad this week that it just seemed to 
him he could not stand it any longer. The warden was 
out after "sooner" quail shooters and discovered Rev. 
Rifforty endeavoring to appease his desire for quail. 
The latter proved to be considerable of a sprinter, but 
the deputy followed in his automobile, overtook the 
offender, carried him to town and had him fined and 
reprimanded by Justice Distel. This is a hard world, 
and eke a speedy one betimes. E. Hough. 
Ashland Block, Chicago, 111. 
Rcwnhed by a Fish Stoty. 
Oyster Bay, L. L, July 30. — John Franklin has a hotel 
here, with a trout pond adjoining. He keeps his beer 
kegs in the pond. Recently a story was published that 
one of the kegs had sprung a leak, and that the beer flow- 
ing into the pond had reduced the trout to a disgraceful 
state of intoxication. 
This story was read by Mrs. Frederick Nottrott, who 
lives in Brookfield, Mo., and she wondered whether the 
John Franklin mentioned was the brother whom she had 
not seen for so many years. 
Mr. Franklin received to-day a letter from Mrs. Nott- 
rott in which she said that she did not know whether she 
was writing to her brother, but was anxious to find if 
they were related. Mr. Franklin says that he has no 
doubt that his correspondent is his youngest sister, whom 
he has not seen since June, 1863. He says he will write 
to her immediately, and if she proves to be his sister will 
pay her a visit at the first opportunity. — New York Times. 
Wisconsin Fishingf. 
Milwaukee, Wis., August i. — Sidney L. Knowles, of 
Lakewood, Ohio, and myself broke the record of one 
day's fishing at Oconomowoc, Wis., July 25. We caught 
three gar pike, three catfish, twenty-one bass and 119 
roach, a total of 146 fish, weighing 118 pounds. 
Mr. Sidney L. Knowles and wife broke this year's 
record of one day's fishing at Pewaukee Lake, Wisconsin, 
July 29, by catching ig bass and 102 roach, weighing a 
total of 98 pounds, Ed. Pullman. 
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