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[Nov. 14, 1903. 
AlaskaTGame Heads. 
Seattle. Wash., Nov. 7.— A party of Scotch and Eng- 
h'sh gentlemen, wlio spent the entire summer in the 
Cook's Inlet country hunting moose, mountain sheep, and 
the other big game of that country, has returned to Seat- 
tie. In the party are Lord Elphinstone, of Scotland; P. 
B. Venderberl, of England; Andrew K. Stone, represent- 
ing the American Museum of Natural History; and C. E. 
Radclyffe, of the British Museum. They brought back 
with them some very fine specimens of the big game 
of Alaska. 
New Yotfc Game in New Jersey. 
Two sportsmen of Little Falls, N. J., were heavily 
fined one day last week for haAnng game in possession 
before the New Jersey season was open. Their plea was 
that they had brought the game home from Sullivan 
county. New York. This Avas only to say that in addition 
to breaking the law of New Jersey by having game in 
possession in close season, they had broken that of New 
York also by exporting game. The New York statute 
explicitly forbids the taking of game beyond its borders. 
Nova Scotia Moose* 
SoxjTH Brookfteld, Nova Scotia, Nov. 4. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: Since writing you before there has 
been a large number of moose shot in this district. Bears 
are beginning to put in their appearance again. Hope to 
have a good report on them. Clifton Hardy and Fred 
McLeod killed a moose last week that weighed, when 
dressed, 000 pounds. His antlers from tip to tip spread 
over five feet. This is the largest moose yet killed this 
season. G. S. 
The Wild Docks. 
Large quantities of ducks are reported to have come in 
the Sound near Oyster Bay, Great South Bay, Bamegat, 
and Chesapeake Bays. While some very fair bags have 
been taken, the birds are not stooling well during the 
pleasant weather. It is expected that fine shooting can be 
had after the next storm. 
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 Brief. 
Fish and Fishing. 
The Fishes of New York State. 
There is likely to be a big scramble for copies of the 
paper by Dr. Tarleton H. B"ean, Chief of the Department 
of Fish and Gaine_ at the World's Fair, St. Louis, on the 
''Fishes of New York," reprinted from the Seventh Re- 
port of the State Forest, Fish and Game Commission. It 
includes, of course, the information contained in the same 
author's paper on the ''Fi.shes of Long Island," published 
in the Sixth Report of the State Commissioners, or at 
least so much of it as refers to the food and game fi-shes 
of the island, which is about all that the majority of the 
readers of this column care much about. Not only is this 
paper of value because of the difficuhy nowadays of ob- 
taining copies of previous works on the subject by 
DeKay and Mitchell, but it is the most complete and up- 
tc-date work on the matters of which it treats, and is 
printed and illustrated as none of its predecessors have 
been. Much successful investigation has been carried on 
since the days of DeKay and Mitchell, and the result of it 
all, so far as the food and game fishes of New York are 
concerned, has been taken advantage of by Dr. Bean in 
his preparation of the present report. With the exception 
of the late Mr. A. N. Cheney, Dr. Bean is the first promi- 
nent authority on fish and fishing to enlighten the gen- 
eral public as to recent efforts to introduce the different 
varieties of the Pacific Coast salmonidaj into the waters of 
New York. There have been occasional official reports 
from the different State hatcheries by Mr. Annin and 
others, but these have not obtained very general circula- 
tion. . So far, if we except the case of the rainbow trout, 
which was first planted in eastern waters more than two 
decades ago, there is no satisfactory proof of the success 
of the experiments in the east with the sahuons of the 
Pacific Slope, such, for instance, as has followed the in- 
troduction from Europe of the brown or German trout, 
■Salmo fario, and of the Salmo trutta levenensis, or Loch 
Leven trout. The Quinnat or King salmon, which is the 
largest of its kind, was introduced into some of the New 
York lakes a few years ago, and while the practicability 
of rearing this species in fresh waters without access to 
the sea has been satisfactorily demonstrated in France by 
Dr. Jousset de Bellesme, director of the aquarium of the 
Trocadero, in Paris, the results of the experiments with 
the same fish in New York waters are as yet unknown, 
though the outlook seems to be more favorable since the 
change of method by which larger fish are employed for 
transplanting purposes. Both the steelhead and the red- 
throat or Lake Tahoe trout now .exist in New York 
waters, but it is too early as yet to say how they will suc- 
ceed there. Anglers and net fishermen taking any unusual 
looking trouts or sahuons in the lakes or coastal streams 
or bays of the Empire State, may be able to render an 
interesting service to piscatorial science by reporting the 
fact, with a specimen of their catch, to the office of 
Forest and Sti?eam, the director of the New York 
Aquarium, or the superintendent of one of the State fish 
hatcheries, as may be most convenient. 
The Smelt of Lake St. John. 
There are landlocked smelts in some of the Canadian 
lakes as well as in the United States. Those in Lake 
Memphremagog, on the borders of Vermont and Quebec, 
are probably identical with the Osmerus mordax of the 
Atlantic Cogst and Gulf and River St Lawrence, Tboie 
m Lake St. John present a beggarly, half-starved appear- 
ance as compared with the St. Lawrence fish. They more 
nearly approximate to the smelt found by Cope in V/ilton 
Pond, Kennebec county, Maine, and described by him as 
Osmerus spectrum, in 1870. They are a favorite article of 
diet with the ouananiche, which, it has been suggested, 
might attain a larger size if a superior variety of smelts 
was planted in the lake for their benefit. The matter has 
been brought, more than once, to the attention of those 
rnainly interested in the matter, but no action has yet been 
decided upon. 
The Desiructiveness of Pike. 
There is much more than the importation of a better 
variety of smelts into Lake St. John that might be done 
for the safeguarding and improvement of the fishing in 
northern Quebec. It will be remembered that Dame 
Juliana Berners im.pressed upon her readers the duty, not 
only of busying themselves to nourish the game as much 
as possible,_but also to destroy all such things as be de- 
vourers of it. And experience in every part of the world 
goes to prove that in the matter of both fish and game, it 
is as necessary to prevent the increase of their destroyers 
as it is to encourage their own natural increase, some- 
times by artificial means. Loch Leven, in Scotland, of 
the fishing of which beautiful body of water Sir Walter 
Scott discusses so entertainingly in "The Abbott," and 
Doctor John Duncan Quackenbos has painted us so ex- 
quisite a word picture, supplies an interesting case in 
point. In addition to the sporting, pink-fleshed trout 
for which its fame is world-wide, the lake contains both 
pike and perch, the last-named variety being very plenti- 
ful and affording excellent sport. From one cause or 
another the pike have been gradually gaining the upper 
hand in Loch Leven during the last two or three years. 
During the decade 1882-91 an average of 15,000 trout was 
killed with the rod on Loch Leven in each year, and the 
average individual weight of the fish was a little over 
14 ounces. In the following decade the average number 
for each season was 18,000, while the weight had fallen 
to 12 2-3 ounces. In .1902, 8,000 trout were caught that 
averaged over one pound in weight, while during the 
last season the numbers dwindled down to 2,000, the aver- 
age weight having risen to a shade under i pound 6 
ounces. It seems that during the period 1882-91, the cam- 
paign against the pike was carried on assiduously, and 
even more zealously in the next ten years, when the num- 
bers increased while the weight declined. The figures for 
igo2 and 1903 show that the smaller trout are falling an 
easy prey to the pike, and that only the heavier and 
stronger fish have a chance to escape their remorseless 
enemies. The spread and vigorous growth of weeds have 
been mentioned as contributing causes to the recent in- 
crease in the number of pike in Loch Leven, and undoubt- 
edly weeds do interfere with netting as with other 
methods of destruction. The same condition of affairs 
exists in the Peribonca and some of the other northern 
rivers of Quebec. A vast number of these water wolves 
have been destroyed in various ways, both in the Peri- 
bonca and in Lake Tschotagama, but no systematic work 
of the kind has been carried on for some time past, and it 
goes almost without saying that water weeds interfere 
materially with it whenever it is attempted, because it is 
just in the stretches of rivers and portion of lakes where 
weeds abound that Lucius lucius selects his lair. On 
several English lakes, however, this difficulty is got over 
by the successful use of patent weed cutters, worked by 
machinery. Several of the young fish from the Roberval 
hatchery have been planted in some of the tributaries of 
the Peribonca, and there is no doubt that a large propor- 
tion of this output merely serves to keep the pike in good 
condition and assist them to put on weight, it being prin- 
cipally in the Grand Discharge that the output of the 
hatchery has succeeded in most largely increasing the 
supply of ouananiche. 
Fishers of Men and of Ffsh. 
A friend who was talking with me the other day about 
\yalton's intimacy with so many bishops and other dis- 
tinguished churchmen, and of the love of angling dis- 
played by the clergy generally, related the story of two 
friends who recently fished for salmon together on the 
Bonaventure River. One was an Episcopalian minister, 
the other a Roman Catholic priest. After several unsuc- 
cessful attempts to raise a salmon in one of the pools, 
the Episcopalian handed his rod to the priest. At almost 
the first cast the latter rose and hooked a handsome fish. 
"You see," he said, turning to his Episcopalian friend, "to 
be a successful fisherman, it is before all things necessary 
to make sure of being in the direct line from St. Peter." 
Prominent churchmen in England are quite as much 
addicted to the pleasures of angling as those of America 
are, and only to-day I read that the Bishop of London 
and the Bishop of Bath and Wells have been among the 
recent anglers in the Tay, and that both prelates suc- 
ceeded in landing some salmon and grilse from that river, 
while the guests of Lord Blythswood at Ballathie House 
near Stanley, Perthshire. 
The Lobster and the Eagle. 
As an excuse for dragging a lobster story into this 
column under the heading "Fish and Fishing," I can at 
least claim that much of the contention between the 
French and the English over the French shore difficulty 
in Newfoundland hinges upon the point as to whether or 
not a lobster is a fish, since the French fishermen claim 
the right to build lobster factories on the treaty coast in 
virtue of the clause of the treaty authorizing them to 
erect buildings for drying their fish. 
The fisherman in this case was one of the white-headed 
eagles popularly known in Newfoundland as a grip. The 
story is told by Colonel Haggard, with whom I visited 
Newfoundland a few years ago in search of salmon. 
"John Stroud, one of our guides, and I," says the Colonel, 
' were sitting on the rocks by the seashore watching the 
grip soaring around in circles, when suddenly we saw 
him dash down into a pool of water close by us on the 
beach, and reappear holding an enormous lobster in his 
talons. He was an old lobster, with a huge claw white 
with barnacles; but the eagle had him clutched firmly 
around the back, and at first we could see the huge claw 
hanging helplessly down, the barnacles shining white in 
the sunlight. Only for a second, though. The ripples 
on the recently disturbed pool had not yet died away, the 
large drops of water had not ceased to fall upon its 
surface from the soaring eagle's feathers and the captive 
lobtser alike, when the latter suddenly awoke to the 
seriousness of the situation, and to think whh that appar- 
ently helpless creature was to act, for he was a lobster 
of action. Up came the great white barnacled claw, and 
seized the eagle round the neck. The grip had got the 
grip now with a vengeance. There was a furious flutter- 
ing and beating of his wings, a melancholy squawk issued 
from his choking throat, and then, tumbling and rolling 
head over heels in the air in a confused mass, down came 
eagle and lobster again splash back into the pool. We 
rushed forward, thinking that we could perhaps in some 
way secure both combatants, as the splashing of the con- 
flict continued in the shallow water. But we had hardly 
time to pick up a rock apiece to heave at the eagle, before 
the lobster, feeling himself at home again, let go his hold. 
Now, with his neck all torn and devoid of feathers, away 
flew the bedraggled eagle to a neighboring cliff, while, 
still brandishing his enormous claw in defiance, the lob- 
ster remained smiling at the bottom of the pool. But the 
grip will doubtless tell you, if you meet him, that the 
lobster fishing in Newfoundland is very poor at present, 
and that he is going to give it up, as the game is hardly 
worth the candle." 
Riparian Ownership in Canada. 
A case possessing very great interest for salmon fisher- 
men who pursue their sport in the Dominion of Canada 
is now engaging the attention of the Superior Court of 
the city of Quebec. The action has been taken by the 
Attorney-General of the Province at the instance of the 
Fish and Game Department of the Government, against 
Alexander Eraser and others, and seeks to have it de- 
clared that the salmon fishing of the Moisie with rod and 
line, which is valued at several thousand dollars, is 
vested in the Government,^ notwithstanding that the land 
on either side of the fishing pools was conceded many 
years ago. In the endeavor to enforce its claims to the 
proprietorship of the fishing rights, the Government some 
time ago leased these rights to a Canadian for $2,500 a 
year. The right of the lessee and his friends to enter 
op the river for the purpose of fishing it is denied by the 
riparian owners, and the present lawsuit is to test the 
interpretation of a judgment of the Privy Council in 
fishery matters so far as riparian rights are concerned, 
and_ to_ avoid conflict on the river. Incidentally, the 
navigability of the river is called in question, and the 
judgrnent in the case may affect the rights of the many 
American salmon fishermen who have paid out large 
sums of money for riparian rights in Canada. It is said 
that as much as $30,000 was paid for the fishing rights in 
the Moisie by the Boston party who, conditionally upon 
the title being good, purchased the riparian rights of Mr. 
Eraser, and many others are said to have paid quite as 
much and even more for the riparian rights to the fishing 
in certain portions of the Restigouche and other Canadian 
rivers. If the Government wins this case it will doubtless 
assert its rights in other rivers similarly circumstanced, 
but there is no doubt that whichever way the judgment 
in the Superior Court goes it will be finally appealed to 
the highest court in the empire. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Cincinnati Fishing Clubs. 
Cincinnati, O. — Situated as Cincinnati is, within easy 
reach of many excellent fishing waters, it is safe to say 
that probably no city in the country has as many fish- 
ing clubs and anglers. There are between sixty and 
seventy of these associations, each with a membership 
of at least ten, and in addition to their members, there 
are thousands of unattached anglers, these last includ- 
ing some of the most prominent professional and busi- 
ness men as well as those in humbler positions. Among 
them, may be mentioned the following: Mayor Fleisch- 
man, who visits the East each year and wets his line 
in the waters of the Catskills, or, in his yacht, enjoys 
the more exciting sport found in deep sea fishing on 
the broad bosom of the Atlantic. Prof. J. Uri Lloyd, 
the well-known author of "Strrngtown on the Pike," 
"Warwick of the Knobs," and other works, was one of 
the party of which ex-President Cleveland was a mem- 
ber, and wich visited Middle Bass Island, Lake Erie, 
early this season. Mr. Lloyd's camp is situated on this 
island, and during the season he employs a small 
steamer to take him to his favorite fishing grounds on 
the Canadian shore. The chief of the fire department, 
Mr. Abe Fuerst, is only one of many of the fire fight- 
ers who are lovers of sport with rod and reel. 
Mr. Alex. Starbuck, president of the Cuvier Club, 
spent the past season at Sea Gull, Ont, where he en- 
joyed good sport, although not so good as in previous 
years. The illegal net fishing, which is carried on, has 
reduced the number of fish greatly, and unless it can 
be stopped, this locality will, in a few more seasons, 
lose its reputation as a famous resort for lovers of 
black bass fishing. 
Joseph Chambers, a retired capitalist, has had a wide 
experience as an angler, and has fished in probably all 
the noted waters from east to west. He has caught 
the tuna at Catalina Island, Cal., and last year wet his 
line in the waters of Bacchewausung Bay, Lake Su- 
perior, and at Sea Gull. The past season he was at the 
latter place with Mr. Starbuck, and while there caught, 
in the St. Mary's River, a typical specimen of the 
small-mouthed black bass weighing 5 pounds 5 ounces 
and measuring 20>^ inches in length and 175^ inches in 
circumference. The specimen was also perfect in sym- 
metry, something unusual in big fish. Mr. Starbuck 
had a snapshot of the fish taken, and on his arrival 
home took the film and had reproduced a fac simile of 
it of natural size. This photograph he had framed and 
presented to Mr. Chambers. The picture hangs in his 
rooms at the Grand Hotel, where it is admired by his 
friends and serves as a perpetual reminder of a most 
pleasant outing. This catch of Mr. Chambers' is a 
record one, as for a number of years no Cincinnati 
angler has captured one of this species of that weight. 
Last year Mr. Fuerst caught one at Pelee Island which 
weighed 5 pounds, this being the nearest approach to 
Mr. Chambers' prize. 
Hon. T. A. Logan, well known ai|d universally liked 
