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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 17, 1903. 
and elsewhere. Tliey are reported to he more numerous 
this year ihaii evier before. Witliin the limits of the village 
of Bennington three have been seen within a few days. 
The -open season, is tlie last ten days of October, and 
local gunners, as well as quite a number from outside the 
State, will try their luck on the 22d of the month. 
A Boston sportsman tells me a movement is on foot 
for the purchase of the camps, etc.. at Carry Ponds, Me., 
for the benrtit of a cluli of gentlemen who have been ac- 
customed to go there from year to year. This gentleman 
is a native of Maine, has had much experience in fishing 
there, and says he has always had excellent sport on these 
ponds. A consignment of salmon for stocking Tuft's 
Pond, Kingficld, lias been forwarded from one of the 
federal haicheries, and fishermen are likely to have im- 
proved sport there, although there have been quite a good 
nunvber of salmon captured this year, the largest 6^4 
pounds. Woodcock shooting is reported good about Clear 
Water, some of the best shots bringing in from 10 to 20 
birds a day. 
T\vo members of the State Association, A. D. Thaj^er 
and Dr. Martin, of Franklin, have formed a party of 
twelve big-game huiMcrs and left Friday evening for New 
Brunswick. 1 hear of other parlies that will go soon. 
The field trials of the Brunswick Fur Club will be held 
at IJarre the coming \veck, and will no doubt attract a 
large number of the devotees of fox hunting. 
Central. 
Wild Rice. 
PHTL.\DEt.rnTA.— Since the publication by the Gov- 
ernment of "Bulletin No. 50. Wild Rice." its uses and 
propagation. I have received numerous letters of in- 
quiry from diflerent parts of the country. "Where can 
I get good wild rice seed?" Charles Gilchrist, of Port 
Hore. Out., has an advertisement in Forf.st and 
Str'^nm. and probably may supply those who make 
application. ' " 
Mr. Edgar Tlrown h^s answered the question of how 
•1:6 rvl'int il. in the b-dleti" referred to. Tie has left little 
tn he writ fen on the subiect. I think, however, that it 
will grnw better in two inches nf water than in two 
feet, anil pro.bablv four feet woidd be fatal to nerfect 
development. Of this, however. I am not perfectly 
-sure. It will rertai'ilv grow in brackish water; that 
is. "w^ter of little salinity, where there 5s tidal action. 
In sh'.cpisb streams and nonds where r^arine and plant 
lif'=' is active, and in profusion, throw in as m"ch rock 
s?lt as scd. Twice the quantitv of s-ilt will do no 
harm. T Itave tried this successfully. The prime factor 
is patience and. perseverance. D. M. Hatxam. 
[For the rer<tdiIir-ation of the Wild 'Rice bulletin re- 
ferred -to. see Forest and Stream of Sept. 12, 1903.] 
Paste tt on Yoist Gun. 
E(f'f''<r Forest o"d Strraw: - - 
There is a li'tle imiice on Da<Te of the current num- 
ber COct. that T have thnticrlif miorVit he n'lt to a good 
use^hy some men ivho are in the habi*- of shooting: at al- 
rho^t -everything they see moving. The shape th^t this 
■ hotiee h^'s been printed in suggests a use for it: thqt is, 
tn r"t it' out and riaste it on the st^rk. or still better 
on the barrel, of the gun, just back of the rear sight, if 
it is a rifle. 
S'''oi-'ld there he hoth a riPe and shotgun in this 
man's armory, thpn put it on the shotp-im. or it mi"^ht 
pay to send ann+her cony of the paner and eet a notice 
"for e^ch gnn. Some county may ST<'e the exr<pnse of a 
cornrier's inn^esf in crincen"e''>''p of this notice being 
on the jrnn P"t in nn the gun bv -ill m«ans. We can 
read it in Mie ra^^r. but- we a'-e H-ble to forsret it when 
it is most needed. "Don't sho^t nntil yoii sf^e vour 
■'gome; and see that it 's ?rarne aud unt a rn-'n" is about 
eriod a niece of advice as can be gi'-^n in the same 
.number of words. Cabia Blanco. 
Tenth Annual Sportsmen's Show. 
T^e tenth antT'ial Snortsmep's Show will be held at 
Madison Sn-are Garden, Feb. to to March c;, Tgo4. 
Tu accordance with the suggestions of many of the 
exhibitors at former shows, it has heen decided to ad- 
herer more clocely for the ='-"->\v of TO04. to the lines 
.that w.9n for fts ea^-IIer exhibits so gre^t a deo-ree of 
pon-daritv among visitino- snort=rnen and such general 
saticfarti'^n a'-nonc exhib'tr>ri; pnr the coming show, 
PA ev^erirnerit.c; will be trif^d: the best and most oouu- 
lar featrres of the past nine ye-^r^ will alone be em- 
ploved: to thf^se. more sr>ace will be given, and srrpat 
eflpnrt exerted to make them conmletp in every detail: 
sro-ts nf tl-e wnnds atid the wafer, with eun. rifle and 
paddle ""P be attr^ cti\-elv exr«lnited. and everv induce- 
rpf"t will be offpred man'ifqct"rp'-s nf sr>ort5;rnen's sup- 
ph/'s— s-'-ns. rif^ps. revnlver«, pcl-'injer t^fkle. artirle= nf 
camn eruu'rinient. boats. Innn^lies. Cannes and sailing 
craft — to m^'-e evtensive exhibits of their product and, 
toprefl^er with their salesmen, to he present at the 
4hnw to meet old customers, and to form the acquaint- 
nvr'- nf new ones. 
There will be Pv-castin?. water cames. rifle and re- 
vnb-er sl-'nntiuff. trap shnotingr. disolays of game birds 
and animals, and the exhibits of camps. 
Pennsylvania Grouse. 
Messrs. PHre Brojs^.'of-Pocono. report a goodly sup- 
ply of ruffed pfroMse in the Pocnno covers, and an ex- 
cellent oiulonk for spo-t for the 1903 season, which 
opened on. Thursday of this week. 
Sourdnahunk. 
Wof?rr.sTrR. Mass.. Oct. Q.— Having watched the 
Great. Northern Paper Go.'s camp at Sourdnahunk 
sifice last Anril. when the crew went down river, and 
being in position to observe a good deal of the coun- 
try surrounding that r&gion, I thonght I would drop 
Forest and Stream a line. I notice in your columns- 
ahoUt i\m being. a ,f reat year for .bears.. .1 -think this 
is true, as the man with me and myself saw quite a 
number, and their tracks were in evidence everywhere 
around our camp and around other camps in the vicin- 
ity. William McLean, who owns a sporting camp 
at the lake, trapped a very large one at Black Brook, 
which is ten miles from Sourdnahunk Lake. Moose 
were very plentiful, and it was very common for us to 
see everywhere from six to ten every time we went up 
the lake. Even sitting outside the camp, Ave would 
often see one walking down the brook close by. The 
deer, driven by the fires which prevailed this summer 
toward the lake, were very plentiful also, Partridges 
were not too abundant, and we did not see many. 
The trout, for which Sourdnahunk Lake is famous, 
were about in the same humor as usual, and would 
bite on anything from a piece of pork to a bit of 
bark. Irwin Hunt, who has a sporting camp on Kid- 
ney Pond, right at the mouth of the Sourdnahunk 
stream, had several fishing parties, all of which were 
well pleased with their respective trips; quite a few 
of them got very good pictures of moose swimming 
across Kidney Pond. The fires played great havoc on 
many of the lumbering camps in that region (Bert 
Howe having three camps demolished, one at Black 
Brook and two in that vicinity). In clositig I will say 
that I think any one looking for a little moose hunt- 
ing this fall will do well to go to Sourdnahunk. as they 
being so plentiful there this summer, shows that there 
is some fine sport to be had in that region. 
■ Clinton Furniss, 
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All communications intended for Forest and SxRE.'iM should 
always be addressed to the I'orest and Stream Puljlishing Co., 
New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. 
J 
The Game Laws in Brief. 
is the standard authority of fish and game laws of the United 
States and Canada. It tells everything and gives it correctly. 
See in advertising pages list of some of the dealers who handle 
the lirief. 
How Two Ministers Went a-Fishing 
Fishing and apostleship, if we may judge from the 
early records, go well together — four at least of the 
chosen twelve being fishermen by occupation. And, in- 
deed, when one comes to make fair analysis, there would 
seem to be quite a number of points of resemblance be- 
tween the traits which should characterize fishers of men 
and fishers of fishes — such, e. g., as patience, perseverance, 
carefulness, caution, tact — to say nothing of truthfulness! 
It is not at all to be wondered at, therefore, that two 
friendly ministers, myself and one whose parish was 
located in northeastern Maine, near the Schoodic waters, 
a chain of some fortj' spring-fed lakes, should have found 
themselves possessed of a simultaneous desire to tempt 
with seductive fly some of the plump landlocked salmon 
(ouananiche) which abound in said waters, than which 
it is but simple truth to say -that a nobler or more gamy 
fish does not swim in any waters on this or any other 
continent. This is attested by the fact that often, on find- 
ing themselves "struck," they leap boldly some two feet 
out of the water preparatory for making strenuous battle. 
For the sake of easy distinction we will call the name 
of the local minister simply X. ; and as he was familiar 
with all the wilderness region and each of us had some 
skill wit'n the paddle, it was decided that we would dis- 
pense with the customary Indian guide and paddle our 
own canoe. This, of course, was to be a birch, that mar- 
vel of lightness and grace which only aboriginal skill and 
patience can properly fashion. A few sheets of white 
bark, a few slats of fragrant cedar, all bound together 
with the smooth, sinewy cotds of spruce rootlets ; a few 
spoonfuls of pitch on the lappings here and there, and lo ! 
all is done, everything staunch and trim and tight. 
Providing ourselves therefore with one of goodly 
dimensions m_anufactured by a branch of the Passama- 
goddy tribe residing on Lewys Island, and which floated 
on the water as light and dt^^ as a cork and as graceful 
as a young swan, on a certain day in the early fall of 
]8 — we proceeded to stoW away therein our guns, rods, 
tackle, tent, and provisions for a brief and happy cruise 
in that wilderness region. 
Up through Round Lake and Lewys Lake we passed 
till we came to the island, where were several birch 
canoes in process of construction by elderly men, some 
stalwart Indian youth skillfully shaping lithe maple pad- 
dles, to say nothing of sundry dark-eyed Indian maidens 
to whom our writers of early romance were so fond ofin- 
troducing their patient readers. 
Then on through Long Lake, Pokemoonshine Mountain 
looming up on the one hand and Musquash on the other, 
a cloudless sky of deepest blue bending over us, the 
water beneath being so pure and crystalline that pebbles 
could be distinctly seen on the bottom manj' fathoms 
below, while our canoe glided along as smoothly as a 
bird sailing through the air, the silence, being unbroken 
save by the rythmic lap — lap — lap of oiir paddles as we 
sped on our way. If there be any scene more restful and 
soothing to the tired man accustomed to walking the hot, 
dusty, city streets, or more fairy-like to one given to 
poetic fancies, I have yet to view it, It seems, in fact, 
to be a part of a new world, the old world with all its 
roar and hurry and rush and its manifold cares and 
worries being shut out and forgotten. 
An hour before sunset, on a green little knoll just 
above Little Falls our camping ground is reached. _ So 
we have ample time before the dark came on to pitch 
our tent and provide our bed of soft, elastic spray froip 
some thrifty young hemlocks growing hard by. Has it 
ever been your happy fortune to pass the night on such 
a fragrant bed, with the gentle stars shining through the 
open flap of your tent and the soothing murmurs of a 
nearby waterfall lulling every sense to peacefiil slumbers 
and happy dreams? If not, then it will be impossible 
even to iniagine how pleasantly the dawn of a new day 
breaks upon one, every faculty rejoicing in the sv^eet re- 
fj-esment of 'unbroTcen rest. , 
] Just a, icw casts of the fty ii? the quick crater aboyf tlie 
falls bring a couple of as relishable three-pounders as 
one could wish for breakfast, even had appetites been less 
keen than those sharpened by the paddling exercise of the 
previous day, and the tonic ozone of the bracing wilder- 
ness air. 
Then came the business of the day, X. carefully select- 
ing the place just above the falls where our two breakfast 
salmon had been captured, and myself a rock near the 
middle of the stream some dozen rods further up. 
And here occurred a inarvel which to this day I have 
been utterly uinable to account for, and which suggested 
the title of this communication. Was it luck? And if 
not, then what? Will some of my brother fishermen 
with a larger experience than my own please explain. 
Every once in a little while my fingers were made to 
tingle as by an electric shock as I felt that peculiar ner- 
vous vibration of line which every true sportsman knows 
so well, while the rapid whirring of the click-reel made 
a music more exhilarating than a Chopin waltz and 
sweeter to the ear than even a Beethoven symphony. 
Then X. would cry out: "What! Got another? I 
can't get so much as even a single rise." In fact the 
history of that autumn morning might be set down about 
as follows : 
Click! click! Whr-r-r-r goes my happy reel. 
"What, still another ! Why don't they take my flies ?" 
Click! click! Whr-r-r-r! 
"Another one! What sort of fly are you using?" 
The information is given and X. changes his flies ac- 
cordingly. But with the change of flies there yet comes 
no change in luck. 
Click! click! whr-r-r-r! again sings out my reel while 
his remains tnost perversely silent. No wonder that at 
length his patience — though I am happy to say that not 
his temper — is almost exhausted, and that he cries out : 
"No fish here ! Those two which you caught for break- 
fast were the last of the lot. They have all gone up to 
your rock !" 
"Well," said T, "let's chailge places. I am sure I don't 
deserve all the luck." 
So the places were changed, but still the luck did not 
seem to change. "Click! click! whr-r-r-r!" my reel 
would keep going while his still was silent. 
At length X. cried out : "I believe that the luck is all 
in the flies — that some sort of happy spell has been laid 
on yours and one just the reverse has been laid on mine. 
Can't you spare me a few of your flies?" 
"With all my heart. Plenty of them. Here's my book. 
Take your choice and all that you want." 
But somehow the "happy spell" did not seem to fol- 
low the flies after they left my book. 
"Click! click! whr-r-r-r!" my reel would keep going 
while his remained as perverse as ever. 
I wish I could tell you all the various expedients we 
tried to break the unlucky spell of which my friend com- 
plained. Change of places, change of flies, change of 
rods, even change of reels and lines, all seemed to make 
no least difference. So that, when our day's labors were 
ended, more than a score of plump ouananiche graced 
my pile while only a meagre three were found in his. 
Now the problem is simply this : How to account for 
this great difference? How, on the one hand, was X., 
who had lived for years within twenty miles of Grand 
Lake Stream, had been there time and again, and who 
prided himself on being one of the best casters of a fly 
in all that region. And how, on the other hand, was my- 
self, an inexperienced angler, who had never so much as 
cast a fly till a single year previous, and with only a 
common rod and tackle, and yet the net results of our 
day's work stood as twenty to three. As I have said 
before, I have never to this day been able to account for 
the discrepancy. Had the numbers been just " reversed, 
the twenty being to his credit and the three to mine, I 
could very easily account for it all ; but, the case being 
as it is, makes it all a puzzle. Is there not really such a 
thing as pure unadulterated unaccountable luck? And 
now, after subsequent years have added somewhat to my 
piscatorial experiences, when I meet with poor success 
and come out second best, may I not give myself just a 
grain of comfort and say: "Well, it was all just that 
otlier fellow's luck?" 
Avery S. Walker. 
WsLtBSLEV HltLS, Mass, 
Trout Fishing at Night 
The trout has been persistently sought from the 
early morning until the darkening shades of night; but 
how many of us can boast of having taken him with the 
fly during the m.idnight hours? 
Night fishing is a mode of angling for which we are 
indebted to an old fly-tyer and fisherman who had his 
home on the banks of Spring Creek, a noted stream in 
western New York, This manner of fishing is very 
similar to our fly-fishing, except that the flies, which 
are several sizes larger than our day flies, are drawn 
much slower through the water. They are intended to 
represent the caddis fly, a fly which derives its name 
from the case or shell which the larvae constructs for 
itself from various foreign substances, including small 
sticks, stones, shells, etc. The grub lives under the 
water until it is ready to be transformed into the fly, 
is very voracious, devouring large quantities of fish 
spawn, and is extensively used by anglers for bait. The 
fly makes its appearance about the middle of June, 
although, like other flies, is subject to the season. It 
varies in color, having sometimes a brown wing, some- 
times a mottled, and still again being entirely white, 
when it is then known as the white miller. During the 
day it clings to the bushes along the stream, and as the 
shades of night begin to fall, makes its appearance. 
The night fisher rigs up his leader with the artificial! 
imitations of this tiy, which in his vocabulary are 
known as "night flies"; generally two, yet often three, 
but never more, as more would be difficult to cast. 
Perhaps in his inside pocket may be found a small box 
of worms, or more modestly "barnyard hackle." On 
this article discussion is forbidden, as it has some- 
what the scent of bait-fishing, nevertheless, a little bait 
on the lead fly often takes tlie trout where the bare 
fly fails. 
Thus equipped, the fisherman sallies forth. If the 
night is dark and no moon, so much the better. The 
favorite spot is rc^cli^ Just tsefore dark. The angler 
