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debted for judicious nurture of the plant until it came 
to maturity in a well-developed system of enforcement 
involving an annual expenditure of more than $10,000. 
Had any one predicted six years ago that the Legisla- 
ture of Massachusetts would ever ni'ake sueh ain ap- 
propriation for promoting a pastime that is considered 
by some of our matter-of-fact official as "a mere fad," 
he would have been pronounced a lunaitic. The most 
ardent devotee of out-of-door sport with rod and gun 
Avould have considei^ed the attempt useless M that time. 
But, little by little, the plan has been worked out, and 
the system of a paid warden service has be'en built up 
which, under judicious management, is likely to-be per- 
manent. This is only one of the new depairtures, but 
the one which is perhaps most highly appreciated by 
sportsmen. 
It was preceded by an increase in the number of 
sportsmen's clubs, an increase in the numbei; of fisher- 
men and hunters, the sowing broadcast ©f the- g^ospel' 
seed of protection by enthusiastic sportsmiem and by 
such publications as Forest and Stream, whose in- 
fluence has been very patent, and, last, but not least,, 
the pooling of issues on the part of the vairious local, 
clubs of the State, and the gathering up of these: 
scattered forces into one harmonious body, the Central. 
Committee for protection of fish and game. 
All these influences combined have been too- powerful, 
for legislators to ignore. Eliminate any. one of them., 
and the results achieved by the commission toward the: 
proper enforcement of fish and game laws would have 
been meagre in comparison with what has been ac- 
complished. To-day, besides much special and inci- 
dental efTort put forth by about 150 unpaid deputies 
there is a salaried force of fourteen men on call at alii 
times. 
If there is any other State in the Union that can 
show a greater gain for the fish and game department 
in the past six years, the writer does not know it. 
The record is creditable to both the captain of the ship 
and his crew. 
What the next six years will reveal, must depend 
chiefly on the sportsmen themselves. Whenever they 
shall all agree upon any measure and will show a 
united front, success is sure. That the late chairman 
had other plans for improving existing conditions is 
known to some of his closest friends and co-workers. 
One of the recommendations in the report has been in- 
corporated into the alien-license law this winter, which 
imposes a license fee of $15 on non-resident foreign- 
born persons for the privilege of hunting. Some other 
changes in game laws will receive attention after the 
adjournment of the Legislature. 
H. H. Kimball. 
New England Fishing. 
Boston, May 23. — Editor Forest and Stream: Last 
Tuesday I saw six very handsome square-tail brook trout 
in the window of Dame, Stoddard & Co. These were 
caught at Belgrade Lake, Me., by a party composed of 
Messrs. Edward Winchester and Josiah Oakes, of Mai- 
den and others, and ranged in weight from to 5 
pounds. 
Reports from various resorts are very cheering to 
anglers who are about starting. From Rangeley Lake 
Bank Examiner Timberlake, of Phillips, took a 6-pound 
trout, an unusual occurrence, as of late the most of the 
fish taken from that lake have been salmon. 
In the Damon party from Fitchburg are Messrs. F. I. 
Nichols, James H. Prince and W. O. Johnson, all of 
whom have caught salmon from Rangeley weighing from 
3V2 to pounds. Mr. F. J. Pierce, of Athol, has with 
him this season a New York friend, Mr. F. D. Peabody. 
Frank Harris and Reuben Wilbur are their guides. 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boothby, of Portland, have taken 
possession of their camp at Hirobsamcook for the sum- 
mer. 
At the Birches are a Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wardwortli, 
of New York, on a. bridal tour. The bride is proving a 
skillful angler, having brought to the net a 3-pound sal- 
mon. Three Bostonians are at Black Point Camp, above 
Upper Dam. They are J. H. Parker, Fred Newhall and 
Mr. Learned. 
The first to throw the lure at Bemis this season was 
Mr. H. B. Shaw, of Texas, who is having good success. 
Mrs. W. C. Stevens, of Rumford Falls, has taken two 
trout oi and 534 pounds. Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Gree- 
ley, of Boston, with Charles Turner as guide, are in good 
luck, Mrs. Greeley taking a trout that weighed 6^ 
pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Appleton, of Haverhill, have 
to their credit a 5J^-pound salmon and two trout of more 
than 4 pounds each. Mr. H. H. Fielding and two com- 
panions from Brunswick have taken fifty trout and sal- 
mon. ^ 
Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Thayer, of Boston, have visited 
the Rangeleys every season for twenty-five years, and are 
now located at the Barker. Here also are to be found 
Mr. J. F. Greenery, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Manning and 
Mr. W. E. Lawless, of Boston, and several Portland 
fishermen, all getting trout and salmon ranging from 3 
to 5 pounds. 
At Upper Dam are several fishermen, among them Mr. 
and Mrs. W. D. Nelson and Mr. Wm. La Croix, of 
Lynn— the latter, with Eben Hinckley as guide, has taken 
an 8^-pound salmon. Mr. Nelson is an old-timer at 
Upper Dam. 
Good sport is reported in waters near Spring Lake 
Camp, Flagstaff, several 4 to S-pound trout and salmon 
having been taken by anglers from Phillips, Lewiston 
and Portland. Ned Stanley and friends from Dixfield 
took forty-eight trout and salmon during a stay of six 
days at Weld. Several Augusta gentlemen have had good 
success at Cobbosseecontee, one of them, Mr. Guy 
Lancey, getting three salmon and two trout weighing col- 
lectively 14 pounds. Col. E. C. Farrington took a fine 
bass and salmon. 
The proprietor of the Augusta House, Mr. H. E. 
Capen, in one of the Belgrade lakes has taken three 4- 
pound trout besides a number of smaller ones. 
In Great Pond Mr. Damon, of Rome, Me., has taken 
one trout of 8}i pounds and another 8 pounds 2 ounces. 
Two other men caught in one day seven trout that 
weighed 29!^ pounds; on the same day there were forty 
large trout brought in with but few boats out. Mr. 
Harry Sackett, of New York, took four that tipped the 
scales at 22 pounds, and his fishing companion took five 
weighing 28 pounds. Horn Pond, near Cornish, Me., is 
giving surprises in the number of trout and salmon taken 
this season, although none of them quite come up to 4 
pounds. Sebago salmon recently taken weighed from 8 
to io>4 pounds. 
Reports from Square Lake tell of a salmon that 
weighed 13^ pounds, and a laker 17^. A party of four 
brought in 60 pounds of salmon and square-tails ; another 
party of three returned with 40 pounds. 
At Kineo fishing is approaching its prime, and will 
continue good till about the end of June. On warm days 
there is some chance with the fly already, but most of 
those' taken are caught with bait. Mr. George H. Greeley, 
of Bangor, has been an early^ visitor at Moosehead for 
forty years, and was one of the first party to arrive at 
Kineo this year. Others who are enjoying good sport 
are the Foster party of Boston, W. G. Brown and three 
others of Gloucester, Mass., and several from Bangor 
and Portland; also Henry Lord, of New York, who will 
iremajn through the sumnier. Many tfout exceed jn| thp 
record liimit of 3 pounds, and togue from 5 to 14 pounds-, 
have been taken. 
Col. 1- K. Stetson, Hon. A. R. Day and two other- 
well-known Bangor men recently returned from Sugar- 
Island, Moosehead, bringing all the trout the law allows.. 
Hon. Russell Sears, former mayor of Quincy, Mass., with, 
three others caught thirty-nine good fish one day, and on. 
the following day they took seventy, including a 12-pound, 
togue. 
Mr. F. H. Lathrop, of Boston, is having the 8-pound: 
square-tail which he took at Belgrade, mounted in Ban- 
gor, and Mr. G. F, Singleton has placed his 13-pound 
landlocked salmon caught at Belgrade with the same 
taxidermist. 
A party of eight, including Dr. A. J. Rowell, of Port- 
land, and one of five including Mr. Ackerman, of Boston, 
are now at Pleasant Island Camps, on the Cupsuptic. Mr., 
E. V. R. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., is at his camp,, 
Millbrook Lodge, at the head of Upper Richardson. 
Good catches have been the usual thing at Grand Lake 
Stream — from six to twenty salmon a day are brought in, 
This is a popular resort for Boston anglers. Dr. George 
C. Ainsworth, of Boston ; Mr. H. A. Miner, of Maiden,, 
and Mr. Edward Reed and party are now there, and sev- 
eral others start to-morrow. 
Dr. McGann, of Aiken, S. C, passed through Boston 
this week en route for Moosehead. H. G. Priest, pro- 
prietor of the Hotel Preston, Smampscott, and Hon. 
Harry Russell, of Cambridge, have left for Kineo. 
From Holderness, N. H., I learn that the Asquam 
lakes are coming to the front this season in their trout 
yield. Recently, Mr. Chase Woodman, with two Ash- 
land friends, captured four trout that weighed 38 pounds 
■ — the largest was caught by Mr. Woodman and weighed 
15 pounds. 
Mr. Lawrence Ford, of the Boston & Maine R. R., took 
two large ones from the lake, and with Supt. Cummings 
and Col. C. H. Cummings, of New York, he has taken 
some fine strings from the Sandwich ponds in the heart 
of the Sandwich notch. 
Mr. Jacob Wirt has as guests in camp at Clearwater 
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. C. Pillsbury, of Boston, and they 
are getting fish. Clearwater is well to the front for large 
salmon and lakers. Mr. Ed. Jackson got what is claimed 
to be the largest string ever taken last week — four sal- 
mon that together weighed 32^4 pounds. Central. 
ten years' operations of the hatcheries. He showed from 
the Blue Books that, in the year 1874, the year the hatch- 
eries were started, the catch of salmon in New Bruns- 
wick was 3,214,182 pounds. When Mr. Wilmot, the late 
superintendent of fishculture, made his last report in 1894,: 
,after twenty years' operations, the catch was only 2,280,- 
468 pounds, although more men and more nets were em- 
ployed in the fishery, both on the coast and in the rivers.; 
In the eleven years that have since elapsed Prof. 
Prince, Mr. Wilmot's successor, has been in charge ; more' 
hatcheries have been built and all have been operated on^ 
a scale unknown in the history of the science. The Pro-; 
fessor's report for 1903 gives the catch of salmon in New 
Brunswick as 1,456,175 pounds, after 129,286,200 young 
salmon have been planted in her rivers. In the face of 
these facts and figures from the Departmental reports, it 
is difficult to see on what Mr. Chambers' conviction rests, 
as it is to ignore the fact that, as artificial culture has 
increased in New Brunswick, the catch of salmon ■ has 
decreased. 
If Mr. Chambers will extend his examination of these] 
Departmental reports he will find a similar state of things 
in the Provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia, where the 
catch of salmon has steadily declined ever since artificial 
hatching has taken the place of natural propagation. 
The Old Angler. 
SussFX N. B., May. 'H. 
I 
Are Salmon Decreasing 
Brunswick ? 
in 
Newl 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of May 20 your generally well informed 
contributor, Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, tells us that salmon 
in New Brunswick rivers are not decreasing, and he 
quotes from the last report of H. E'. Harrison, Fish In- 
spector for the counties of Kings, Queens, Sunbury, 
York, Carleton and Victoria, through which runs the 
River St. John and its great tributary, the Tobique. _ 
Inspector Harrison, strange to say, does not consider 
that a steadily decreasing catch in all these counties 
since 1874 indicates any decrease in the stock of salmon, 
but is rather of opinion that a decrease in the annual 
catch implies a better run of fish in the rivers, while Mr. 
Chambers expresses his own conviction that the Inspector 
is much more correct in his conclusions than are those 
who show from the reports of the Commissioner of 
Fisheries that, since fishculture has been depended on to 
keep up the salmon stock, the catch has decreased from 
75 to 100 per cent in all the rivers where hatcheries have 
been in operation. 
If Mr. Chambers will consult these reports he will find 
that in 1874, the year the hatcheries were btfilt, the catch 
of salmon in the St. John River counties was 539,200 
pounds, while in the report for 1903 the catch is given 
as 334,940 pounds. In the interim between these two 
reports 59,410,200 young salmon from the hatchery have 
been planted in the main river and its principal tribu- 
taries. 
Mr. Chambers is probably not aware that under date 
of May 28, 1883, the late Commissioner of Fisheries, W. 
F. Whitcher, in a letter in your columns, pointed out that 
Prof. A. J. Malmgren, since dead, but at that time the 
highest authority in Europe on fishculture, had recom- 
mended that the artificial hatching of fish be discontinued 
as a Government work for the reason that in no country 
in which . it had been pursued could any substantial re- 
turns for the public expenditure be shown. Mr. Whitcher 
showed, from the official reports of the Department of 
Fisheries, that ho practical results were visible from all 
the millioits of youpg salrr|p|i that ha4 bee|i planted in 
Fishing Waters Near New York^ 
It is seldom that New York anglers have a spring like' 
the present one. Fishing tackle dealers complain that 
Ihey have made fewer sales than usual to their local trade 
because of the weather condition, although their regular 
customers in other parts of the country have ordered, 
an average quantity of tackle, and the southern trade held 
on well into the spring months. 
When the trout fishing season opened in nearby Statesi 
fewer anglers than usual took advantage of the oppor- 
tunity to fish, for reports from the small streams were: 
not very encouraging, and those who went out found the' 
streams very low and trout rising less than they expected.! 
There were some reports of good luck from Pennsyl- 
vania' waters, and from the few open and some of the; 
preserved waters on Long Island, but most of the au- 
thentic reports had to do with small catches and equally! 
ifff small trout. About the middle of May several reports^ 
'j came in from the streams that flow into the Delaware; 
River, referring to average catches, but anglers who werej 
familiar with these waters doubted their accuracy in some 
instances, saying they had not had such luck there in 
recent years. 
Last week the information to be had in this city' waf 
to the effect that the trout fishing in the vicinty of Liv- 
ingston Manor, Sullivan county. New York, was good;' 
This was after the few light rains that fell a few days' 
previously. Similar reports came from Delhi. Evidentlj, 
some catches were made in the Willowemoc, but most 
of them were from the Beaverkill. From Esopus, or 
the Hudson, reports of fair catches were received, but 
the waters were not mentioned. In the vicinity of Esopuf 
there are several small streams, notably the Wallkill 
Black, Swartz, Rondout and Esopus creeks, and several 
small lakes. Fair luck was reported at the same timt 
from Brewster. Fallsburg, also in Sullivan county, is thf 
objective point of a number of local anglers early in thf^; 
season. This is on the Neversink River, and above the 
town the fishing is best. There are some native trou'i 
in this stream, but it is believed that the brown troul 
planted there have nearly exterminated the natives. The 
brown trout sometimes run quite- large, but above 33/; 
pounds they can harly be expected to take the fly. 
The New Jersey end of Greenwood Lake is now open 
to anglers for black bass, which will take the fly earl 
in the season, and the east shore of the Delaware belov; 
Port Jervis is also open, but the upper river will not b- 
open until June 15, although there are numerous smal 
feeders of this river that contain trout, notably the Mon; 
gaup River above Port Jervis ; Ten-mile River, at Tustey 
Post-office; Beaver Brook and Half-way Brook, neai 
Barryville; and the Neversink north of Port Jervis. 
One of the nearest lakes to this city where bass maj 
be caught is Lake Mahopac, in Putnam county. Thi 
season opens June 15. This lake is fished a good dea- 
but there are some good bass still in it. 
Lake Oscawana, near Peekskill, is another nearby lab 
in which both bass and pickerel may be caught in seasoi; 
and it is a beautiful place to go. , 
There is a small lake on Verplanck's Point, on tbj 
Hudson just south of Peekskill, where an occasional baj; 
an(i pickerel rnay be t^ken, but as tl^ere is so much veg«, 
