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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June io, 1905. 
when a shark was towing the boat with the rope m this 
groove, I amidships holding the line, a man at the oar to 
steer, the sport was exciting, as it was always a race at 
full speed. ,. • 1 t 
In such a run I once stood holdmg the line m place, i 
had hooked the shark from a school, enticing him by the 
baiting-up process, and knew that it was of large size. 
As we rushed -away I saw on either side a number of 
large tiger sharks of the band that were racing along not 
five feet below the surface, sides tipped up, eyeing the 
boat. . , , , . 
Such an escort was not particularly pleasing, even to 
anglers callous on the subject of danger from sharks, and 
in a few minutes the game made a sudden rush to port, 
careening the boat so violently that it dragged her down, 
and despite my utmost endeavor, the rope slipped from 
the notch and went over the side and the boat began to 
^^I had a sheath knife at hand, and more than once 
touched the rope, but my companion succeeded m hau ing 
the boat around, head to the game, and I got the line 
back with the boat a third full of water. Several times 
I had this experience, but it was never successful, we 
were never capsized. This shark towed us out the ship 
channel and headed out to sea. It literally subdued all 
the vanity I had accumulated as a master ct sharks; 
it "walked away" with us, and to haul the boat over it 
was apparently impossible. Two miles out I met a barge 
coming in and hailed her. She caught my Ime, and the 
ten or more men caught the water with their oars and for 
a second held the unseen giant, and then— tell it not m 
Gath— the rope broke. , , , . a 
I determined to see if a large shark could be tamed, 
and hooking one at the same place, after a long struggle 
brought it to the boat, where it seized the keel and 
crunched it, leaving several of its ivory serrated teeth 
clinging to the wood. We towed it m, and by the aid 
of a number of negroes hauled it over the tide and 
wooden breakwater of the moat, using a large plank for 
the purpose of an incline. •, , •, t ^ 
When on the summit the men held its tail while i sat 
astride of its body and "neck" and performed the dental 
operation of removing the hook— a most difficult per- 
formance, as the shark persisted in clinching it and I 
was forced to pry its mouth open and place a block of 
wood between its jaws. 
Little wonder that a shark can bite so cleverly, the 
jaw of this individual, which later I had cleaned and 
dried slipped over my shoulders easily, contained thir- 
teen rows of teeth, the first one erect, the others lying flat 
and all perfect saw-knives, their edges being serrated. 
When the jaws gripped anything all the rows stood erect, 
a guillotine of tremendous power. 
Removing the hook I knocked out the block, and as 1 
sprang away and the men cast off the tail guy, the man- 
eater rolled into the water of the large mclosure, making 
a savage rush which brought its muzzle m violent con- 
tact with the brick sea wall. This appeared to be suffi- 
cient, as apparently the shark came to the conclusion that 
it was caught and swam contentedly along the side of the 
wall with an eye cast upward. 
I kept it here several months hoping to tame it, and 
while I could fasten to it by canvas loops and it would 
tow a skiff and likewise capsize it, it cannot be said to 
have exhibited any special domestication. ^ From the first 
it refused to eat though tempted with various kinds of 
food ; doubtless it did take some of the fish thrown to it 
daily, but I never observed the act, and most of the food 
was afloat the following day and taken out. I believe 
that the spirit of this gallant fighter was broken, and in a 
few months it died. It must have weighed nearly two 
thousand pounds, being of enormous bulk. This experi- 
ment was attempted a number of times with various large 
sharks, always with the same success. 
New England Waters. 
Boston, Mass., June 2.— The Grafton Country Club 
gave its third annual horse and. hound exhibition on 
Decoration Day. It is estimated that no less than 8,000 
people gathered to witness what proved to be some very 
exciting races. Mr. Harry W. Smith, of Worcester, the 
chief promoter of the show, won the steeplechase but 
fainted just as his mount crossed the line. Otherwise- 
than this rather startling occurrence and some harmless 
spills in the high jumps, the day passed without mis- 
haps and the great throng declared it the biggest day 
for horses and dogs that Worcester county had ever 
witnessed. In the high jump Mrs. Pierce, on Robert 
Bruce, cleared 5ft. gin. Of late, horses and hounds are 
well to the front with many Bay State sportsmen. 
The hotels and camps in the Rangeleys are filling up 
rapidly. Senator Frye and daughter are at the Frye 
camp on Mooseluckmeguntic, and the Senator still holds 
the record of taking the largest trout on a fly ever 
caught in that lake, 10 pounds and some ounces. 
Capt. R. A. Tuttle, of Boston, is entertaining several 
friends from New York in his cottage at Lake Point. 
Their guides are Charles and Eben Harnden, Joe Lamb 
and Isaac Tibbetts. 
At the Gilman cottage, Mrs. Gilman, of Haverhill, is 
making a short stay prior to its occupancy by Colonel 
Hilton and family, of New York. The Colonel has leased 
the place for five years and will have a steamer of his 
own, an automobile and quite a retinue of servants. He 
is making extensive _ changes and improvements with a 
view to the purchasing of the establishment later on. 
Mr. Benjamin Reason, of South Byfield, Mass., has 
purchased Deer Park Lodge of Mr. Parkhurst, and with 
his family and several New York friends is passing a 
portion of the season there. 
A party from Putnam, Conn., has taken one of the 
Mountain View cottages. In the party are Dr. and Mrs. 
John J. Russell and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dady. 
Mr. H. W. Clarke, the veteran Boston fisherman 
(eighty-nine years old), who has been a regular visitor 
for some forty years, is again enjoying his favorite sport 
pn Rangeley Lake with Nick Ggilvie as guide until Dave 
Haines, his old guide, closes bis present engagement. 
Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Judkjns, of Lynri, have beien at 
Upper Dam, and Mrs. Judkins took a 6-pound salmon 
and a s>2-pound trout. In hal| an hour's fishing the 
Doetor took two trotit fksM weifK^d 5 pouijkis ®aci?. 
Their record for seven days was eighty-one trout and 
ten salmon. 
Mr. John B. Watkins, of New York, has in his party 
at Upper Dam the author, Richard Ingalese, and wife, 
-and Mrs. Charles Gibson. Another old-timer at the 
Rangeleys, Mr. Loring Coes, of Worcester, is enjoying 
the forty-seventh yearly visit at the age of ninety-three. 
Two visitors from Boston that seldom fail to put in 
an early appearance on the fishing waters are Messrs. 
Frederick Skinner and Alexander Jackson. 
The Rangeley Lake House has sometimes been called 
"The Paul Smith's of the Rangeleys." It was the scene 
of the wedding of proprietor Marble's daughter. Miss 
Lucy Leona Marble, to Mr. Ralph Talbot Kendall, which 
took place on June i. Many prominent persons from 
Maine, Massachusetts and New York were present. The 
couple will visit several southern resorts on their honey- 
moon trip. 
Mr. Fred R. Carney, one of the managers of the Bos- 
ton Symphony Orchestra, is building a cottage at Moun- 
tain View. When completed it will be one of the finest 
on the Oquossoc, with ample rooms, open fire-places, etc. 
Messrs. J. Ackerman and F. Vorenberg, of Boston, 
with two New York friends, have been domiciled at Bald 
Mountain camps and found the fishing good. 
Dr. D. E. Adams, of Boston, who visited Bemis four 
times last season, is now there with Col. J. J. Chaffee, 
of Willimantic, Conn. 
Several parties from Portland, Waltham and Hartford 
are meeting with good success at Dead River ponds. 
Among those making a tour through the Rangeley and 
Dead River regions are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ames, of 
New Bedford. Of the long list of pleasure seekers at 
the various camps on the lakes the names of a few others 
will be recognized by some of your readers as old 
friends; for instance, J. R. Marble, of Worcester; W. N. 
Marble and W. H. Inman, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. 
James G. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tedcastle, of 
Boston; H. A. Dill, of Newton Centre, and H. B. Reed, 
of South Weymouth. Dr. W. C. Halleck and wife, of 
New York, have taken several good salmon. Mr. and 
Mrs. H. H. Chandler, of Boston, accompany Mr. and 
Mrs. Jackson, and are taking a good number of fish. 
Quite a large party of physicians went over the Rum- 
ford Falls Railway to Bald Mountain, Saturday, includ- 
ing Dr. J. F. Rowell, Dr. George Wells, Dr. F. C. 
Lowell and others, together with Gen. Merriam, of the 
United States Army. Dr. H. E. Emmons got the largest 
trout of the season, 7 pounds. 
Ex-Governor Frank W. Rollins and Mr. H. H. Dudley 
and son, of Concord, N. H., are at the Birches for a stay 
of two or three weeks. Their guides are C. Turner 
and Russ Spinney. Dr. and Mrs. George A. Craigin, of 
Boston, are occupying Camp Mischief, and Mr. and Mrs. 
J. A. Hutchinson are in Sunset Cabin. 
Among the newcomers at Clearwater are H. F. Par- 
sons, of; Lowell ; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Shepard, Mr. and 
Mrs. S. S. Vinal, of Boston; Dr. and Mrs. H. A. 
Souther, of Milton, and R. C. Lawrence, of New York. 
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Andrews, of Swampscott, have 
arrived at their cottage for the season. They and many 
others are taking good catches of salmon and lakers 
ranging from 3 to 12 pounds. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. French, 
of Webster, S. D., are finding good sport at Square 
Lake, where last year Mrs. French took a record break- 
ing square-tail weighing 9^ pounds. Hon. Joseph Coult 
and party from Newark, N. J., all experts with rod and 
reel, are sure to capture good creels. 
Moosehead is making a record fully abreast with 
former years. Frank X. Fitzpatrick, of Cambridge, an 
annual visitor for fourteen years, with Fred S. Lufkin, 
of Gloucester, and two others, one day at Spencer Bay 
took fifty-four brook trout that weighed, collectively, 96 
pounds, ranging from i to 3^ pounds each. On the next 
day, in another portion of the lake, they landed forty 
trout that weighed 83 pounds. It is needless to say that 
while out they attended strictly to business. Another 
paTty of eight, the Tisdale party from Leominister, in a 
little over two hours got thirteen trout and fourteen 
togue whose combined weight was 75 pounds. Mrs. F. 
C. Ayres, of Boston, took an iii'^-pound togue. A. D. 
Thayer, of Franklin, and J. E. Tweedy, of North Attle- 
boro, members of the State Association, are accompanied 
by their wives, and secured thirty-two fish on their first 
day out. N. C. Nash, of Boston, has taken a 14-pound 
togue, and his companion, Mr. F. A. Seamans, of Salem, 
took one a half pound heavier. C. M. Harriman, of Bos- 
ton, with other members of the Whale Club of New 
Bedford, is having good success. Mr. Charles A. Jones 
and family have taken possession of their cottage for the 
summer. Among those who .have just arrived at the 
lake are: Messrs. F. E. and H. C. Eaton, of Waltham, 
and Mrs. M. A. Barron and Miss Sweetser, of the West- 
minster Hotel, Boston. 
Gen. E. C. Farrington, of Augusta, had in his party 
last week Mr. H. J. Phillips, of "Boston, who landed sev- 
eral trout and a togue weigliing 10 pounds. Judge S. C. 
Strout, of Portland, has misse-d but one season in thirty- 
three years and is an expert fly-caster. 
Think of throwing oyer an 8-pounder! But this is 
what Mr. C. S. Messervey, of Bangor, was obliged to 
do after taking nineteen trout, in order to keep within 
the law. 
Members of a down east fishing club got a big string 
of eighty fish that weighed 146 pounds. 
Messrs. Charles Stetson and Theodore Hoague, of 
Boston, fished chiefly with the artificial fly and in six 
days took 250 trout and togue. Mr. J. G. Wildman, of 
the Foster party, says he thinks the fishing as good as it 
was ten years ago. But the weather this year while the 
party vvas at the lake, he says, did not average as good 
for fishing as he has experienced some years. This may 
account for the fact that the total catch this year was 
pot quite equal that of the party in 1899, when four rods 
in eight days got 458 pounds ; this year five rods in thir- 
teen days took 497 pounds of fish. This season they had 
only two days when the weather conditions were abso- 
lutely perfect. 
* Hon. Charles G. Washburn and his brother. Rev. H. 
B. Washburn, of Worcester, took upwards of 50 pounds 
in three days. Mr. A. W. Chesterton and two compan- 
ions from Boston, captured 100 good fish during three 
days' fishing. 
The Mayoon Watson party, of Gloucester, as usual, is 
at Sebeomook. Mr. Heard Colby and brother with G. 
P. Herrick, all of New York, and George F. Brown, Jr., 
of Boston, have gone into the wilderness to Mr. Colby's 
private camp at Mud Pond. Official business took Com- 
missioners Carleton and Brackett to Grand Lake Stream 
the other day, and, although the rain was pouring down, 
the chairman could not resist the temptation to try the 
fishing, and he was well rewarded by the capture of a 
couple of togue of 8^ and 10%. pounds. There are sev- 
eral parties of Massachusetts anglers now at that resort, 
among them Dr. M. A. Morris, of Charlestown, and 
three others, D. G. Wing and wife, of West Newton; 
N. H. White and wife and Miss Mary Lewis, of Brook- 
line; Dr. Edward D. Hartwell and several others of Bos- 
ton. 
A Fish Commission car has just been dispatched from 
the Orland hatchery with 125,000 Oregon salmon to be 
planted in the Saco and Piscataqua waters. Streams 
and lakes near the hatchery will receive 50,000. From 
the Upper Penobscot hatchery no less than 700,000 sal- 
mon have been shipped to waters in different parts of 
the State. 
Bangor and Ellsworth fishermen have taken many sal- 
mon from Greene Lake the past week. Shinn Pond, 
reached from Patten, is receiving attention from Mr. B. 
F. Fuller and party of Boston. Mr. B. J. Green, of Bos- 
ton, has gone to his camp at Rockabema. Mr. C. K. 
Fuller, of West Upton, who has recently purchased the 
Wrenn camps at the pond, has gone in with three com- 
panions for an outing of a few weeks. 
Reports from Newport, N. H., indicate that visitors to 
Sunapee Lake are reaping a good harvest from the 
waters. Many of the cottages are already occupied. 
Mrs._ Carl Faelton, of Boston, has been superintending 
repairs on her summer place for several days. 
George M. Poland, Esq., who is the chairman of the 
Massachusetts Central Committee for protection of fish 
and game, and a member of the State Legislature, tells 
me he expects to make a trip to some of the streams he 
has fished in New Hampshire or elsewhere very soon. 
- Central. 
Fish and Fishing, 
Trout and Ouananiche are Rising in Canada. 
The trout and ouananiche waters of northern Quebec 
are down to their fly-fishing level and their temperature 
has reached the point at which the gamy salmonidse in- 
habiting them permit themselves to be coaxed by the fly- 
fisherman to come in out of the wet. 
In the pretty pool at the mouth of the Ouiatchouan 
River, the leaping ouananiche which are always so plenti- 
ful there at this season of the year, are now rising freely 
to surface lures, after having been satisfied for ten days 
or more previously with bottom feeding. In the shallower 
parts of the smaller lakes along the line of the Quebec 
& Lake St. John Railway and in the neighborhood of the 
St. Maurice, as well as in their discharges, frisky fontin- 
alis is just rtow "jumping crazy at the fly." The big fish 
stories are not yet coming in, but there will doubtless be 
plenty of them when the large parties of anglers now in 
camp begin to return from their spring outing. Gen. W. 
W. Henry, United States Consul at Quebec, is one of the 
first returning fishermen from the north this season. The 
General finds it difficult to get away for more than a day 
or two at a time, and his first outing was to Lake Ed- 
ward, where trout weighing from three to four pounds 
each fell victims to both his own rod and that of Mrs. 
Henry as well. Present appearances indicate that all the 
camps at Lake Edward will be occupied during the first 
part of June this year. 
A large number of members, of the St. Bernard Fish 
and Game Club, from both New York and Boston, are 
expected at the club house for the June fishing and for 
the annual meeting to be held on the first Monday of the 
month. 
Early Salmon Fishing Expected. 
Unless heavy rains set in within the next few days, it 
is probable that the salmon season will be early this year. 
The water in the rivers is lower than usual at this time 
of the year, though not so low as to make it necessary 
for the fish to await flood water to enable them to run 
up stream. I believe that the time at which they make 
their appearance in the neighborhood of the rivers does 
not vary much from year to year, though they do not 
usually approach either the estuaries or the neighboring 
headlands until near the time that the condition of the 
water is favorable for the ascent of the streams, and con- 
sequently are rarely caught in the nets very long before 
their entry of the rivers. The average opening of the 
fishing in the majority of Canadian rivers is from the 8th 
to the 15th of June. It will not be surprising, if present 
conditions remain unchanged, to hear of salmon rising in 
the rivers this year in the first week of June. 
Death of Mr. Richard Nettle. 
In the death of Mr. Richard Nettle, of Ottawa, in his 
ninety-third year, which occurred on the 23d of May last, 
Canada loses the father of her fishcultural operations, if 
not the pioneer mover in the practical work of fish pro- 
tection. Every collector of angling literature knows Mr. 
Nettle's "Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence," pub- 
lished in i857_^ Dr. Henry, Frederick Tolfrey, Charles 
Lannian and J^rank Forrester had published their sport- 
ing experiences upon certain salmon rivers during the ' 
two decades preceding the issue of Mr. Nettle's book, and ' 
their writings are still much prized, by sportsmen and' 
librarians alike. It did not occur to any of these angling 
authors, however, to direct public attention, as Mr. Nettle 
did, to the agencies which were then at work for the de- 
struction of the salmon in the rivers visited by them. The 
Rev. Dr. Adamson had read a paper in December, 1856, 
before the Canadian Institute on "The decrease, restora- 
tion and preservation of salmon in Canada," which was 
quoted by Mr. Nettle in his book, and afterwards em- 
bodied in Colonel Alejcander's "Salmon Fishing irt Can- 
ada." Mr. M. H. Perley, perhaps one of the most en- 
lightened authorities on matters pertaining to fish arid 
fishing which New Brunswick has produced, had pub- 
lished, it is true, several years previous to the appearance 
of Mr. Nettle's work, almost equally strong appeajs for 
the protection and restoration of the salmon $sheries, in 
his very valuable reports on the Fisheries of New Brtsns- 
