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FOREST AND STREAM 
'[April 9, 1904. 
stroke must be firm and to the point. If using a rod one 
of two plans may be adopted. Either the rod top may be 
smartly flicked upwards through a good two feet, or else 
a couple of feet of the line may be pulled smartly back 
through the rings. The latter method will be voted 
heterodox by those stylists who say that the line should 
never be touched in any circumstances, being manipulated 
only with .the winch. In ordinary circumstances I am 
in perfect accord with this canon of angling, but there are 
cases in which striking a fish can be satisfactorily accom- 
plished in deep water (especially when the hook is not 
as sharp as could be wished) only in the way indicated. 
With hand-line fishing there is less difficulty. The line is 
held between the thumb and forefinger of the right 
hand, the hand being kept inside the gunwale, and the 
moment a bite is felt the clenched hand is drawn smartly 
towards the body, as firmly, in fact, as if the angler were 
pulling up a runaway horse. This may at first sight 
appear a considerable expenditure of energy to hook a 
fish, but it must be remembered that a great deal of the 
energy is dissipated by the depth of the water, the force 
of the currents, and the inertia of the lead and wet line. — 
F. G. Alflalo in the County Gentleman. 
News if om New Betn. 
, New Bern, N. C, April i. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Who do you s'pose I met here one day this _week? 
Give it up ? Well, it was Charles Hallock. Yes, it was ; 
old Charles Hallock, the man that gave Forest and 
Stream such a boost that it has never been able to stop 
itself since. 
I say "old" because, compared with us , young fellers 
of fifty odd or sixty, he is old. But you'd never imagine 
he had passed the three-score-and-ten mark, which he 
has, for his cheeks are as rosy, his eyes as bright, and 
his step as springy ("near about," as they say down here) 
as they were in the eighties when he was living in New 
Bern and booming it for all he was worth. 
It is just possible that your readers may hear from 
him shortly, for I told him a heap 0' things that would 
make good copy. 
I have been here for two or three months every winter 
since 1898, and hope to "do so some more," as the climate 
IS much milder than that of New Jersey and living more 
reasonable, while quail, snipe, ducks and deer abound in 
the surrounding woods and marshes. 
Thanks to the educational efforts of the Audubon So- 
ciety in spreading useful information about birds, the 
white and gray gulls which winter here have, by their 
tameness and increased numbers, added a great attrac- 
tion to the water front along the Neuse River. Thought- 
less men and boys no longer shoot at them from the 
river bank, and being unmolested they fly or swim about 
quite close to the sea-wall which skirts the promenade, 
and will fearlessly pick up scraps of food thrown to 
them. This, to strangers, is intensely interesting, and 
recalls the interest displayed by visitors to the Charles- 
ton Exposition in the flocks of wild ducks which found 
a safe asylum in Colonial Lake, and along the water- 
front of the famous South Battery. 
Fishing for black bass, whose local name is Welshman, 
is good now and getting better every day. 
Both live bait and spoons are used, and the fish run 
in weight from two to six pounds. Later in the season 
other kinds of fish are taken in large numbers, but the 
Welshman is the only game fish, strictly speaking, that is 
found in this vicinity. J. L. Kearny, 
(of Perth Amboy, N. J.) 
The Salmon of Bangfot Pool. 
Bangor, Maine, April 2.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The first day on which it is allowable to fish for salmon 
is April first, and on that day there are always several 
enthusiasts, who usually are- market fishermen, casting 
for the first fish of the season. This first salmon always 
brings a high price, about $1.25 a pound, and the fisher- 
men are very eager to land the prize, both for the pe- 
cuniary profit and the record. Nearly every year the 
first day records the first fish, and then there are times 
when it is a long time before the second fish is taken, 
while at other times April shows a fairly good record 
throughout the month. Old anglers contend that the fish- 
ing at this pool, once famous for its salmon supply, is 
better on those seasons when the leaving of the ice is 
marked by a freshet, but there is no freshet at all this 
year. Although the ice is so rotten in the river now, 
being in fact clear most of the way between the Bangor 
bridges and the sea, there has not been freshet enough 
to force it out thus far. Above the bridges there is an 
almost unbroken sheet of ice to the pool, and in the pool 
itself several boats are manned by the hardier souls, who 
have landed three fish to date. One, a trifle over 18 
pounds, was caught by Thomas F. Canning, the other 
two being a racer and a kelt. The ice will probably go 
clear to the dam before Monday, and after that date the 
fishing will be carried on with unabated vigor and per- 
severance. It is a bit unusual, that whether a man fishes 
for sport or market, he must use the artificial fly if he 
would have success with the aristocratic sea salmon, 
while in other fisheries the market fisherman frequently 
may, and does, resort to less sportsmanlike methods of 
Irring his fish. _^ Herbert W. Rowe. 
St. Lawrence Fishingf. 
Watertown, N. Y., March 27.— Editor Forest and 
Streani: In your issue of March 26, Dr. C. E. Latimer 
asks what causes the difference in the fishing on the St. 
Lawrence River. I claim that it is the absolute prohibi- 
tion of netting in these waters. Why does he have better 
success in those distant waters? For the reason that in 
those waters the use of nets is permitted at certain sea- 
sons of the year for the removal of the coarse fish, many 
of which are the natural enemies of the game fish. I 
would suggest that the Anglers' Association of the St. 
Lawrence River, instead of meeting next summer and 
passing the "usual resolution," select a committee of in- 
telligent sportsmen to investigate this matter as to why 
the fishing is so much better in those distant waters. In 
Chaumont Bay we have a practical demonstration of 
benefits of the removal of the coarse fish ; our fishing has 
improved each year, until now we have the best small- 
mouth black bass fishing in the State. Just so long as 
the anglers of the St. Lawrence let law protect the stur- 
geon, eel, lawyer, bullhead, sucker, mullet, sheepshead, 
rock bass, perch, and sunfish, just so long will their 
fishing grow poorer each year. I guarantee that if 
the provisions of Sec. 74, of the game laws are ap- 
plied to the St. Lawrence River, the doctor will not have 
to go to those distant waters to get a mess of fish. 
W. H. Tallett, President, 
Jefferson County Sportsmen's Assn. 
Maskinongf^ ct Maskenozha. 
Montreal. — Editor Forest and Stream: I have fished 
since boyhood among the Ojibways for maskenozha (as 
Longfellow spells it in his lines, "When he saw the fish 
rise upward, saw the pike, the maskenozha") and among 
the French settlers for maskinonge, and I have never 
heard among either of them the term "mascalonge" or 
"muskellunge," which are to me, clearly, corruptions of 
the Ojibway word, as "Chippeway" is a corruption of 
the word "Ojibway," and like that a corruption that is 
not liked by the Ojibways. The Ojibways have named 
our river.s — the Mississippi, for instance — and our lakes 
to a large extent, and to me it seems very clear that their 
pronunciation, or the French, which is almost identically 
the same, is the correct pronunciation. I do not think 
ithat "common consent or custom" should establish an 
error; but in our northern country at least there is no 
common consent as to mascalonge. That word has been 
imported and taught to the guides by the importers. I 
am very sure that from eastern Ontario to the mouth 
of the St. Lawrence, among French and English alike, 
and to the west of the Ottawa as far as Lake Winnipeg 
among the Ojibways and English and French the words 
in general use are maskinonge according to the French, 
and maskenozha according to the Ojibways. 
In the United States there are admittedly five ways 
of spelling the corruption. Which is the correct? 
J. O. Armstrong. 
Texas Tarpon. 
Tarpon, Texas, March 28. — I inclose you record of 
tarpon caught from 17th of March to 26th : 
F. S. Parmelee, Omaha, Neb., one.. 
J. R. Wainwright, Pittsburg, four. 
W. B. Young, New York, eight. ■ - »' 
D. T. Beals, Kansas City, four. - . 
Geo. R. Barse, Kansas City, four. 
Lee Clark, Kansas City, one. 
Miss Violet Coen, Chicago, one. 
Miss Virginia Gillette, San Antonio, two. 
Geo. W. Jones, Kansas City, two. 
W. E. Thome, Kansas City, one. 
J. E. Cotter. 
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Vifgmia Field Trials Association. 
^ Richmond, Va., March 28. — A meeting of the Virginia 
Field Trials Association, was held in Richmond, Virginia, 
recently. A good number of members were present. The 
main object of the meeting was to fix the date of hold- 
ing the trials for 1904, and to appoint a committee to 
select new grounds. The committee which consists of 
Dr. Leigh Buckner of Roanoke, Mr. E. P. Wilkins of 
Riverton, and Mr. Charles B. Cooke of Richmond were 
instructed to visit Martinsville in Henry county at the 
junction of the Norfolk & Western. and the Danville & 
Western, to look over the grounds and make all neces- 
sary arrangements, if they be found satisfactory. The 
date fixed for holding the trials was the week of Novem- 
ber 28, beginning Tuesday morning November 29. The 
club will add $25.00 to the purse, in open all-age stake. 
There was quite a discussion in this meeting of the 
question of requiring dogs to retrieve. Most of the old 
school dog men in Virginia think that a bird dog is not 
worth anything unless he will retrieve, and they lay great 
stress on this one point. The matter was finally com- 
promised by adopting the following rule : Retrieving 
shall be considered in the members' all-age stake only, 
in determining the winners. 
The following committee was appointed by the chair- 
man to select judges for the trials: Mr. Polk Miller, Mr. 
J. C. Tignor, and Mr. Chas. B. Cooke. Letters were 
read from the President, Mr. Geo. G. Herring, and 
other members, regretting their inability to attend the 
meeting. The club is in a prosperous and flourishing 
condition and is making a change of grounds solely in 
the interest of the association, and the desire to furnish 
plenty of birds. From the report of m'embers who are 
training young dogs and grooming their older ones, the 
1904 trials will be bigger and better than ever before. 
Chas. B. Cooke, Secretary. 
Points and Flushes. 
From a correspondent we have received information 
that a libel suit has been instituted on the part of the 
judges of the recent field trials at Grand Junction, Tenn., 
and by - the United States Field Trial Club, against the 
American Field Publishing Company of Chicago. The 
alleged libel is stated to have been published in the 
American Field of Feb. 6. 
A. C A. National Meet, Sugar Island, Thousand Islands/ St. Lawrence River, August 5-19, J 904. 
Red Dragon C. C» 
BY W. K. PARK, RED DRAGON C. C. 
On the west bank of the Delaware River, a few 
miles above Philadelphia, the Red Dragon C. C. re- 
joices in the possession of a typical canoeist's home. 
Here a number of congenial spirits meet, exchange 
ideas and give and take advice on things appertaining 
to aquatic life. Here they hold forth the year round, 
resting in the shady grove, or paddling, or sailing, or 
swimming, or perhaps, wrestling with an obstreperous 
"choo-choo" boat during the sweltering summer 
moirths. Here they shoot at clay targets, or skate, 
or tinker with canoes, or remodel launches and other 
craft during the dreary winter period. . 
T?he Red Dragon C. C, was formed in 1887 with a 
home on the New Jersey side of the Delaware. A year 
later the Keystone C. C. amalgamated with them under 
the name of the Red Dragon C. C. of Philadelphia. At 
that time they had headquarters at Cooper's Point, 
Camden, N. J. 
Canoeing became a popular recreation on the Dela- 
ware, and the membership in the new club grew rapidly. 
In December, 1889, misfortune frowned upon them and 
fire wiped out all their belongings. Undaunted by this 
blow they went to work and soon had a new home and 
a fleet of twenty new canoes, making the club stronger 
than ever. Additional members were received, and for 
more than a year the Red Dragons were happy and 
proparous. But a year later fire again visited them 
and a second time the canoeists saw their home anid 
fleet destroyed. 
Two such disasters was quite disheartening, and it 
was with much difficulty that the organization was 
held together. In 1891 the faithful few selected a home 
near Wissinoming, Pa., eight miles above Philadelphia. 
Six canoes and a St. Lawrence skiff comprised the fleet, 
and eight members were ready to again paddle agaiiist 
the stream of adversity and battle the tide of mis- 
fortune ultimately to reach a peaceful harbor. At this 
time Fred W. Noyes was commodore and A. S. Feni- 
more, purser. These men worked faithfully for the 
club's welfare, and to them much praise is due. Others 
who helped at that period were R. G. Fleischmann, H. 
C. Blumner, W. Gray and Dr. F. O. Gross. To the 
last named great credit must be given for his in- 
fluence in securing the present .comfortable quarters at 
Wissinoming. 
In May, 1892, the Red Dragon C. C. took possession 
of their new home and shortly afterward gave a re- 
