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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[March 12, 1904. 
AND Mvm mniN" 
Arefar's 1 8-Pound Trout. 
During the early summer of 1902 I had the pleasure of 
meeting your correspondent Arefar, and a friendship was 
formed between us which I treasure most highly, and 
which I trust will always endure. 
After being accorded the privilege of looking over the 
doctor's fly-books, rods, reels, etc., which for safe keep- 
ing and protection against the dry California climate were 
carefully stored in his cellar, he showed me a io>4-pound 
rainbow trout preserved in a large jar occupying a place 
of honor in his office. He had taken that beauty with an 
8-ounce rod and on a No. i royal coachman fly in Crystal 
Creek, Pelican, Oregon. To look at this fish was a treat, 
as I had never seen a true trout of that size. The doctor 
then told me of a close fishing co-partnership which for 
the past twenty years had existed between his "pard 
Jimmy" and himself. During that period they had never 
missed spending their month's vacation at either Echo 
Lake, Cal., or Pelican Bay, Ore. 
During my frequent visits to his office, the Doctor, 
with set purpose, would recount some of his experiences; 
sometimes he would be engaged in trying the six-foot 
leaders — which he made from carefully selected Spanish 
gut — in preparation for his departure for Oregon on his 
annual vacation with Jimmy. Each day as I left his 
office the Doctor would say, "Better come along, son." 
I stood the pressure as long as I could, but at last, driven 
to the verge of insanity, one morning I told the Doctor 
that I was with him. 
Having but a few days in which to make my prepara- 
tions, I secured a list from him and started for 'Frisco to 
"rig out." The Doctor's parting words were: "Be sure 
it is good and strong; don't bring cheap tackle to Peli- 
can." I was fortunate in securing at a great bargain an 
8-ounce Bethabara rod in addition to my other tackle, 
so that I felt prepared for any emergency. 
Three days later I arrived in Ashland, and the next 
evening, after a fifty-mile stage drive, landed at Pelican 
Loop, the Doctor and Jimmy having arrived two days be- 
fore. They reported the fishing as only fair ; but when 
I saw on the grass a dozen fish taken that day that would 
run from two to eight pounds, I determined that if dur- 
ing my ten days' stay hard work would do it, I should kill 
a few of the big boys or die in the attempt. Hansen be- 
ing the only available boatman, was engaged by the part- 
ners from year to year, but the Doctor was kind enough 
to send him out with me the following morning, in order 
to give me some idea as to the fishing grounds. There 
being absolutely no ripple on the bay, I was told that I 
could not expect the fish to rise; but every few seconds 
the boat would disturb one of the monsters, which, with 
a swish of his tail, showed as he dashed away his resent- 
ment at being disturbed in his siesta. liansen kept saying, 
"Don't get excited, there are lots of them." 
There is an unwritten law among the legitimate anglers 
who fish from the lodge that no fish under two pounds 
shall be kept, unless too badly hooked. The following 
morning I went out alone and during a "ripple" which 
lasted about twenty minutes took six, only one of which 
was "over count," he weighing 3>4 pounds. During the 
following week I had varied luck. My best day was in 
Crystal Creek, which empties into the bay near the lake, 
and about two miles from the Loop. On that day I 
brought home nineteen fish, weighing between 2 and 4^2 
pounds each. 
I found royal-coachman, marsh-brown, brown-hackle, 
klamath, rooney-bug, and black-gnat to be the most kill- 
ing. Two days before I had to leave, I went out deter- 
mined to kill a few large ones to take out with me, but a 
dead calm destroyed my plans. The next day found the 
same conditions, so the Doctor kindly suggested that I 
join them, and try for a big one with a spinner out in the 
lake. 
That morning I passed about thirty minutes in a fisher- 
man's ecstasy. I was in the bow, next came Jimmy, then 
Hansen the boatman, the Doctor in the stern. The latter 
was using his g-ounce Leonard, Kentucky reel, and large 
spinner. We had picked up two or three fish, the largest 
weighing about 6 pounds, when suddenly the Doctor 
struck, and then began a battle royal such as very few 
have had the happiness to witness. The Doctor had out 
about 75 feet of line when the fish struck, and before 
he could settle down to work and give him the butt, 
his highness had taken out another hundred feet. At the 
first check we saw a flash of silver about 200 feet astern, 
and out he came, three feet out of water if an inch, and 
with a vicious shake of his noble head he tried to rid 
himself of his bonds. The Doctor — cool as the proverbial 
cucumber — quietly puffed at his cigar, never for a second 
losing command of his prize. The moment the fish re- 
turned to his element, he made another 75-foot dash that 
nothing could have stopped. Then out again in his noble 
fight against that 9 ounces of tried bamboo in the hands 
of a prince of fishermen. Six times within ten minutes 
did he leap more than his length out of water, the last 
one seeming to me as furious as the first. Then the 
butt began to tell. Slowly but surely we saw the begin- 
ning of the end, and the gamest fish that ever swam was 
gradually forced to submit to the will of as perfect a 
legitimate fisherman as ever cast a fly. , Carefully, inch by 
inch, the Doctor gained on him, the boatman always keep- 
ing him properly plage4. Inch by inch did that grand 
fish fight for liberty. Sulking, tugging, but never gaining 
a bit of slack. Suddenly, when we thought him about 
gone, and when within a few feet of us, he saw the boat, 
and as we were preparing net and gaff he' suddenly made 
another fifty-foot dash, bringing from the Doctor the only 
words he had spoken, an exclamation of surprise. 
There must be an end to everything, and we then saw 
that the last run was like the breaking of a noble heart, 
and again the fish was headed for the waiting net, and at 
a word from the Doctor we landed eighteen pounds of 
rainbow, after one of the gamest battles I ever witnessed. 
After taking a gill hold and giving him his quietus 
with the "medicine stick," we gazed, lost in admiration, 
at the king of all fish — a rainbow trout fresh from his 
native waters. The Doctor told me afterward that during 
the battle I acted like a fool; but experience having 
taught me how dearly a fisherman loves to be told how 
to handle his fish, I was most careful not to offer any 
suggestions, even if I did show excitement. The Doctor 
was by far the coolest man in the boat. I weighed the 
prize and he went 18 pounds strong. 
The next morning I was obliged to leave for Ashland, 
taking the big fellow with me, after having spent ten ab- 
solutely happy days. C. Meredith. 
Fish and Fishing. 
" Masfcinong6 ** is its Name. 
Following up the agitation which the undersigned, in 
company with several other friends of Forest and 
Stream has conducted in the columns of this paper, in 
support of the uniform use of the original Indian name 
"maskinonge," it will doubtless be satisfactory to the 
angling fraternity, which is so often confronted with 1 
perplexing assortment of etymological forms of this fish's 
name, to learn that the newspaper press and the govern- 
mjcnts of the various States and Provinces in which this 
fish is found are now being asked, in accordance with a 
resolution to that effect, passed by the North American 
Fish and Game Protective Association, to assist in bring- 
ing about the desired uniformity. The resolution bear- 
ing upon the subject was moved by Mr. L. O. Armstrong, 
of Montreal, the well-known dramatizer of "Hiawatha," 
and was adopted, after reference to the executive of the 
association, as follows : "That all governments in their 
statutes, as well as the press, be requested to assist in 
establishing the name of the fish which is sometimes called 
m.uskellunge, maskelonge, and muskinonge, to be always 
and everywhere maskinonge, which has been fixed upon 
as the right name in the Dominion of Canada statutes, 
and the pronunciation of which is practically the same as 
that of the Ojibway word maskenozha, as found in Long- 
fellow's "Hiawatha," which is a classic in schools on 
both sides of the boundary line." 
Maskinongy or maskinonjay is a much nearer repre- 
sentation of the correct pronunciation of maskinonge than 
Longfellow's form of the word, but due allowance must 
be made for poetic license, and for the fact that the name 
is not supposed to have originated with the special people 
of whom the poet of the affections sung in this particular 
epic. Longfellow's vocabulary of the Indian names em- 
ployed in Hiawatha tends to show that it was not the 
maskinonge but the pike that he referred to by the title 
of maskenozha. In the body of the poem he causes 
Hiawatha to address the pike both as kenozha and 
maskenozha, while the former is given in the vocabulary 
as the equivalent of the pickerel, and the pike is made to 
answer to maskenozha. 
I have already pointed out in the course of a paper pre- 
pared for the Royal Society of Canada, that kinonge in 
the Algonquin language signifies a pike, and mask or 
maskh ''something differenig from," as an ugly or de- 
formed specimen. Jordan and Evermann quote Mr. W. 
H. Henshaw as giving mask, ugly; and kinonge, a fish; 
and Mgr. Lafleche, late Bishop of Three Rivers, and for 
many years a missionary to the Northwest, asserts that in 
the dialect of the Saulteaux, maskinonge is the name 
applied to Lucius masquinongy, and means, literally, a 
pike differing in some respects from the ordinary type of 
the fish, or an ugly or deformed pike. When we con- 
sider how "many American anglers and others have mis- 
taken. larg-e pike for maskinonge, it is not very surprising 
that the^Indians who had been accustomed to the pike 
before SjCeing the maskinonge should have considered it 
to have 'been simply an exceptionally large pike, and to 
have named it accordingly. 
Dr. James A. Henshall credits Mr. Fred Mather with 
having investigated the origin and etymology of the word 
to a greater extent than anyone else up to his time, and 
with having, as a consequence, deliberately favored the 
Chippewa form of the name — maskinonje, as opposed to 
the French derivation — Masque allonge, and its varia- 
tions. Yet in spite of this fact, and of the priority of the 
Indian Qver the French nomenclature. Dr. Henshall clings 
to the ' supposition that "common consent and custom 
have decreed among the majority of anglers that it is 
mascalonge, and mascalonge it will be for generations to 
come ;" notwithstanding which, Jordan and Evermann do 
not even recognize the existence of such a name at all, 
giving only masquinongy, muskallunge, maskinongy, 
jnyscalonge, maskinon|e,, mask^cjosha, and raask-kinonge. 
There is fortunately a complete argeement among scien- 
tists and writers on angling subjects as to the scientific 
name of the fish. Dr. Mitchill, according to De Kay, and 
Kirtland, as early as 1838, used the form masquinongy, 
and although it had later become almost universal cus- 
tom to class the fish scientifically as Esox nohilior, all 
the authorities, nowadays agree that in accordance with 
the inflexible law of priority, nobilior must now stand 
aside and give place to masquinongy, and that the scien- 
tific name of th-e fish must hereafter remain Lucius mas- 
quinongy. Now, there is no difference whatever between 
the pronunciation of the specific name masquinongy, the 
Chippewa form maskinonje given by Mather, and the or- 
thography maskinonge, contended for by the North 
American Fish and Game Protective Association. None 
of the Indian tribes whose nomenclature has been ap- 
pealed to in this connection, had ever, of course, reduced 
their name of the fish to writing prior to the advent of 
Europeans in America. The early French settlers in 
those parts of Canada in which the fish was found, re- 
duced to writing the names kinonge, a pike, and maski- 
nonge, an unusual or extraordinary pike, employing their 
own French system of orthography to represent, as 
closely as written characters could do so, the Indian 
pronunciation of the names. How carefully and how 
correctly this was done is shown by the practical identity 
of maskinonge with both Mitchill's masquinongy and 
Mather's maskinonje. Their pronunciation, as already 
shown, is identical, while the difference in their form is 
to be accounted for by the fact that the first mentioned 
is in strict accord with the orthographical rules of the 
language of those who first represented by written signs 
the sound of the name as pronounced by those who con- 
ferred it. While maskinonge follows the strict rules of 
French orthography, the construction of both masqui- 
nongy and maskinonje bears evidence of the best possible 
efforts to arrive at the same result of pronunciation with 
an Anglified spelling of the Indian name and of its pre- 
vious French form. 
The Government of the Dominion of Canada, in which 
the names originated, which possesses exceptional advan- " 
tages for investigating matters of this kind, owing to the 
common use of the two languages, has recognized the 
priority of the French form of the written word, and has 
incorporated it into its statutes. The river of the same 
name that flows into Lake St. Peter, which name has been 
extended to the tow n built at its mouth, and the county 
of which it is the chef lieu, was doubtless so called from 
the number of these fish taken in or near its estuary, and 
after their Indian name. 
It is not very often that the scientific specific name of a 
fish is so easily available for common use as in the case 
of Lucius masquinongy. Fortunate, indeed, would it be, 
were it otherwise, for endless confusion might then be ! 
•avoided in speaking or writing of fish and fishing. Here, 
then, is aiiother reason why we should welcome the op- 
portunity of an uniform employment of the name maski- 
nonge, which differs but very slightly, indeed, in its writ- 
ten form from the scientific name of the fish, and is 
identical with it in the matter of pronunciation. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Some Pi dmont Fish. 
A SIX-POUND jack or pike netted on the 21st of Febru- 
ary from the fine fish preserve of Herbert Lutterloh, Esq., 
of this city, has attracted comment among anglers by its 
unusual depth of body in proportion to its length, and by ' 
the entire absence of bar marks or spots, its complexion 
being of a solid greenish cast precisely like that of a 
small-mouth black bass. A difference was also noted in '{ 
the shape of the head and opercles, and tail fins (caudal), 
and some suggested that it was a hybrid — jack and trout 
(local for black bass), being together in the creek in eq ial 
proportion. This opinion, however, was modified by the j 
discovery that its chunky proportion was due to thei 
presence of two recently swallowed half-pound red horse, ! 
or golden suckers, in its maw, a fact interesting in itself 1 
as indicating that so long as there may be an abundance 
of this class of food, the trout and bass are likely to live, 
in amity, and not prey upon each other ; also because large 
quantities of the red horse were gill-netted, itidicating 
that they were running in schools, and that the jack fish ^ 
were following them. Those caught averaged two pounds j| 
apiece, and if intended to be swallowed, the predatory fish ; 
must be large in proportion. 
This Lutterloh preserve, is the finest in Cumberland 
county, and is laid out on Beaver Creek, a tributary of 
Rockfish Creek, which empties into the Cape Fear River, 
which is noted for its fine shad, the waters of all <-he 
streams being exceedingly bright and clear. There are 
no less than seventeen ponds in the vicinity of Fayette- 
ville, of which several are mill ponds, five are private;:! 
waters belonging to wealthy residents, and one_ to the ! 
Lakeview Club. These latter are all fine properties with 
all modern accessaries. There is also a wealthy fishing- 
and shooting club on Rockfish Creek, twenty miles below"! 
here, which includes several Fayetteville members. Duck 
shooting and striped bass fishing (Roccus lineatus) are 
quite above par there, as ex-President Cleveland dis- 
covered some time ago. 
AU the Cuniberl^nd County streams goiTie IxQVa the Ap-; 
