June 17, 1905.] 
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ments of the kind will be stopped at the border or con- 
fiscated on arrival at their destination, in virtue of the 
step taken by the State to prevent the success of the das- 
tardly netting of pike-perch in Missisquoi Bay. If the 
Government, which permits -the netting of these fish in 
that bay, continues the oresent licenses in Lake St. John, 
it will thus find that in the latter case as well as in the 
former one, the best market of the fishermen will be 
closed against them. 
Salmon Fishermen off for the Rivers. 
The salmon run in most of the Canadian rivers com- 
menced during the first week of June. A few fish were 
taken in the nets at the mouths of the rivers as early as 
the first days of the month, and as the water is quite low 
enough for fishing, most of the anglers are now hurrying 
down to their fishing grounds. Several have already gone. 
The north shore steamer which sailed from Quebec on 
Friday the 9th instant, took down quite a number of 
anglers. Among them were Mr. Robert E. Plumb, of 
Detroit, who has gone down to the Washecootai, and 
Messrs. Henry Sampson, G. S. Clark, of Teft, Weller & 
Co., and James Clark, of New York, with Ivers W. 
Adams, of Boston, who are fishing the Moisie, and who 
will be followed later by Ivers S. Adams, Henry Sampson, 
Jr., and a friend. To the Washeshoo have gone Dr. Wat- 
son, F. E. Smith and W. G. Sewall, of Boston, and fol- 
lowing them upon the same river will be Dr. Heber 
Bishop, United States Senator Buckley, of Connecticut, 
and D. J. Flanders, General Passenger Agent of the Bos- 
ton & Maine Railway. 
Mr. Robert Goelet and other members of the Risti- 
gouche Salmon Club are already at the club house at 
Metapedia awaiting the early fish. 
Mr. E. C. Fitch, of Waltham, is fishing the Romaine 
and Messrs. Edson Fitch, of Quebec, with Vesey Boswell 
and Dr. C. S. Parke will go down to the Trinity on 
June 19. 
Mr. Cabot, of Boston, and a friend are daily expected 
on the Grand River of Gaspe, and W. Molson Macpher- 
son, president of Molson's Bank, with I. H. Stearns and 
Stikeman, of Montreal, are at their camp at Chamber- 
lain's Shoal on the Ristigouche. E. T. D. Chambers. 
Johnnie Daly. 
Gaffer, Wit, and Judge of Good Things, 
AvALON^ Cal., June i.^ — Every one whO' has fished at the 
isthmus at Santa Catalina for the past ten years knew 
"Johnnie" Daly, the gaffer and professional sharker. 
He was a character— witty, good-natured and the "boss 
gaffer" on the little bay, where a lot of gentlemen were in 
the habit of angling for leaping sharks and who hired 
Daly to tow out the bait. 
"Johnnie" Daly died the other day; his gaflt hangs on 
the old shanty wall, but "Johnnie" left some poetry which 
it is supposed he wrote; anyway it was found among his 
effects carefully put away in an empty whiskey flask and 
:orked. The poem evidently describes a day's fishing — 
the going out early in the morning, the rising tide, the 
sounds of early morning, the hooking of a blackfish 
(orca), and a sea bass, judging by some of the lines. 
'Johnnie" Daly missed his calling. He was a good gaffer 
ind a judge of good whiskey, but better than either a 
3oet of no mean quality — that is, fishing poetry. Here is 
he poem. Sea anglers will probably understand it as 
'Johnnie" Daly did : 
THE GAFFER^'S SONG. 
Can you see the red beams rising on the bar, 
And the crimp-edged olive kelp leaves in the sun? 
Can you see the tides a-washing, 
Every beach and bog and crossing. 
While the wrack-grown rocks are sinking one by one? 
There you see the black fog creeping o'er the lea 
And the gilt-edged purple canons yawning wide. 
There you see the white gulls playing, 
Where the bull sea cubs are baying 
On the black rocks all a-swirling in the tide. 
Now you pay out, over-run or over-reel, fifty feet; 
And the long bronzed jointed leader has its turn. 
How it cuts the azure tide rip. 
Now it severs some sea light ship. 
As it follows gleaming brightly far astern. 
Did you see that knife-like fin* — five foot two? 
And the lavender half-circle on its back? 
Did you see the dam come rushing, 
And the maelstrom sea a-flushing. 
As the sunlight came blazed on its track? 
Did you see its coal-black skin, without a flaw? 
And the yellow spume that looked like mermaids' hair? 
Did you see its dark eyes gleaming. 
And remoras on it streaming, 
As it flung itself high up into the air? 
Over yonder in the eddy there's a swirl, over there. 
Don't you see the fin of sea bass in the spume? 
Catch the glint of golden scale flicks, 
Hear the sob of ghostly reel clicks, 
As the fish turns quickly off the shore for room. 
Fifty yards of well stretched hemp line, running out. 
Singing, screaming, backward reeling on the sea of foam. 
Now 'tis sounding, reel resounding. 
Then there comes a mystic pounding 
From the deep, deep abysmal fishes' home. 
In it comes, but always fighting, to the gaff. 
Dashing madly to the steel-voiced music of the reel. 
But in its shadow swims a sea mate. 
Shark voracious; ugly, ingrate, 
Plunging, striking, biting for its meal. 
Then the g^iffer sinks his gaff pole in the sea; 
And the angler, quick responding to tne sign, 
Reels it short, and gives the butt. 
While bass sags on the gut; 
Then it leaves that maddened angler all his line. 
. SENQIt X. 
*6ood description of the orcg or filler yhale, 
Massachusetts and Maine. 
Boston, Mass., June 10. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Some other changes in Massachusetts laws are as follows : 
°f a Carolina or a mourning dove is for- 
bidden. The killing of a Bartramian sandpiper or upland 
plover, prior to July 15, 1910, is also prohibited. The law 
for protection of deer is amended by forbidding the 
having in possession a deer killed in Massachusetts." 
Section 3 of the revised laws, which relates to the au- 
thority of the Commissioners, is amended by inserting at 
the beginning of the section the following: "The Com- 
missioners are empowered to appoint deputies." This ad- 
dition grew out of the fact that in a certain case of prose- 
cution for violation of game laws the authority of the 
board to make appointments was called in question. 
Senate bill 348 as enacted authorizes a town to adopt 
a bylaw forbidding the taking of pickerel in any other 
manner than by "a naturally or artificially baited hook 
and hand line," and to fix a suitable penalty for "viola- 
tion thereof." 
Section 68, chapter 91, of revised laws, and chapter 364 
of the Acts of 1904 (relating to pickerel) are repealed. 
A law was passed designed to protect the trout and sal- 
mon of Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester. It prohibits the 
taking of fish other than pickerel between Sept. i and 
April I for a period of five years in certain designated 
portions of the lake and its tributaries. Between April 
I and Sept. i no fish except pickerel may be taken other- 
\yise than "with a single hook and either a hand line or a 
line attached to a rod or pole held by hand, with bait, 
artificial fly or spoon." The change in the quail season, 
mentioned in a former letter, taking off October from the 
open season, is commented upon favorably by nearly all 
the hunters seen by your correspondent since the bill was 
enacted. The section referred to has been also amended 
further by the addition of the following proviso: "Pro- 
vided, however, that any person, firm or corporation 
holding a permit from tlve Commissioners on Fisheries 
and Game may sell or have in possession live quail for 
purposes of propagation within the Commonwealth." 
On the whole, the sportsmen and the Commissioners of 
the State have reason to be quite well satisfied with the 
result of their labors in the line of legislation the past 
winter. A few who look upon the fox as the arch-enemy 
of game birds, as well as of domestic fowl, would have 
been better pleased had a bounty been put upon foxes. 
Not a few vvould have been glad to have seen the bill 
providing for a hunter's license enacted. Apparently the 
time has not yet arrived for such a measure to win, for 
although as the bill was drawn the owner of land was 
not required to take out a license in order to shoot on his 
own premises, the bill was strongly opposed by the farm- 
ers, one of whom stated to the committee that if such a 
law were enacted the result would be a general posting of 
the farmers' lands. 
The result, of course, would be that the sportsman 
would have no more chance to get birds, etc., here than 
he would have in England, where shooting privileges are 
beyond the reach of all except the landed proprietors. 
If public sentiment were such as to make a license law 
acceptable to the farmers, it seems to the writer, that it 
would help in protecting game, but until our agricultural 
friends are sufficiently interested in game protection to be 
willing to take their medicine with the rest of the com- 
munity, the effect that a license law would have is at least 
problematical. 
• Members of the Old Colony Club, several of whom are 
also affiliated with the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, have been able to hold all the restric- 
tions heretofore existing against commercial fishing by 
nets and seines in Buzzard's Bay, and although the club 
has lost one of its strong pillars by the death of Mr. 
Henry R. Reed, one of its wealthiest and most interested 
members, the officers and members may be counted on to 
come to the rescue whenever danger threatens the inter- 
ests of the hook and line fishermen and the boatmen of 
the bay towns. Another loss severely felt by the club 
was sustained in the decease of its president, Mr. Joseph 
Jefferson, who had always manifested a deep interest in 
the organization and its objects. Fortunately there is still 
left that prince of sportsmen, Grover Cleveland, who has 
for many years been President Jefferson's right bower in 
the work of the club. 
The summer meeting of the Middlesex Sportsmen's 
Association was held at Historic Hall, Lexington, on 
Monday evening. The entertainment provided was an 
illustrated lecture by Prof. Wm. Lyman Underwood, of 
Belmont. His subject was "A Strange Story of the 
North Woods," which proved very instructive and enter- 
taining. It was the story of a little bear cub from its 
birth, when it weighed less than a pound, to the state of 
a nearly full-grown bruin. Its mother was killed in the 
winter nest under an old hollow pine stump, and the 
woodsmen on pulling out the carcass found the little 
baby bear, probably less than two- days old. 
So much were they interested in the newcomer they 
took it to camp and the wife of the cook in the lumber- 
men's quarters who had a babe at the breast was able to 
supply the nourishment needed to keep the cub alive. 
There was no other resource, and the good woman was so 
touched by the helpless condition of the little brute that 
she actually treated it as one of the family, and for weeks 
and months it was the playmate of the five little humans 
that constituted the juvenile part of her household. As 
this all occurred in a region of Maine to which Mr. 
Underwood had made many trips as a sportsman and 
hunter with camera, he was apprised of the facts and at 
once determined to become the possessor of the cub if 
such a thing, were possible. At first, although much in 
need of money, the matron declared she could not part 
with it. In the dead of winter Mr. Underwood went into 
the woods and had the pleasure of forming the acquaint- 
ance of the members of the family and finally did succeed 
in securing the little bear. 
On the screen he showed winter scenes in the north 
woods and the semi-domesticated cub doing the most 
amusing things imaginable. The audience of over a hun- 
dred men was greatly pleased and frequently applauded 
the good points in the narrative and several of the views 
which were all of a very high order. ' 
In taking nature-pictures Mr. Underwood holds a place 
in the front rank of such artists. At the close of the lec- 
ture, which occupied an hour and a quarter, three cheers 
were given for the lecturer and he was unanimously 
elected an honorary member of the association. 
ihe secretary. Dr. J. W. Bailey, of Boston, read a re- 
port on various business matters including the attendance 
by several members before the committee on fisheries and 
game in opposition to the bill to include December in the 
open season for quail shooting. 
• Although hardly more than two years old, the associa- 
tion has a membership of 225, and is one of the most 
vigorous and active in the work for which it was organi- 
ized. _ The president, Mr. A. S. Mitchell, of Lexington, 
like his predecessor, Mr. N. J. Hardy, of Ariington, is a 
hustler, as is also the secretary, who, although having a 
arge dental practice, is never too busy to attend to legis- 
lative hearings or anything else that interests sportsmen. 
Ihe treasurer is Mr. James R. Mann, of Arlington 
Heights. The vice-presidents, O. W. Whittemore and E. 
S. Farmer, of Ariington, Dr. F. M. Lowe, of Newton, 
and Mr. E S. Barker, of Winchester. Another of the 
officers IS Mr. F. N. Young, of Arlington, who, with sev- 
eral friends, made the famous trip last year to Maine in 
an automobile bearing an improvised house in which the 
occupants slept and ate while making the rounds of vari- 
ous resorts. Another is Mr. Henry Wheeler, of Concord, 
who holds a position among the sportsmen of that historic 
old town and vicinity analogous to that held by Emerson 
among philosophers and Thoreau among naturalists, 
l^rom such men and many others equally active, repre- 
senting Cambridge, Somerville, Belmont, as well' as the 
towns previously mentioned, much good work for true 
sport is to be expected. 
President Mitchell is also one of the officers of the 
American Canoe Association, the Eastern Division of 
which holds a meet at Cochituate Lake, Natick, on Tune 
17-18. > , J 
Deputy Warden Nichols, of North Adams, has con- 
victed a fisherman for having short trout— by the change 
m the trout law last winter Berkshire comes into line with 
the rest of the State— for which he was fined $10. 
Deputies Nixon and McCarthy have put two men into 
court for having short lobsters at Dennis. Chairman 
Poland, of the Central Committee, has been able to clear 
the Ayer deputy against whom suit was brought for dam- 
ages by the shooting of a dog found chasing deer. It 
seems the dog was licensed but unfortunately for the 
owner had on another dog's collar. 
Commissioner Delano tells me that an unprecedented 
number of orders are coming in for fingerling trout to 
be delivered in the fall. Last year, he says, the Com- 
missioners were obliged to scale down neariy all the calls 
for them. A request for 1,000 was honored only to the 
extent of 400, and those asking for 500 got only 200. 
While the State has four hatcheries, there is but one 
where it is possible to rear trout to the fingerling stage 
the one at Sutton— and that is worked to its full capacity. 
Unfortunately, unlike Maine, New Hampshire and Ver- 
mont, Massachusetts has no hatchery run by the United 
States Government. In all those States the work of the 
Cornmissioners is supplemented to a large degree by dis- 
°^ fingeriings reared in the Federal hatcheries. 
Whether this fact has ever been brought to the attention 
of the Bay State members of Congress or not the writer 
IS unable to say. I am not aware of any valid reason whv 
Massachusetts should be slighted in the distribution of 
favors by the Government at Washington. Our anglers 
who have plenty of means and leisure are able to obtain 
recreation and sport from the waters of other States, and 
the provinces, but how about the toilers in stores and 
work shops — the men (and women, too) who are unable 
to spare weeks from business and make long journeys for . 
pleasure? For such, especially, every pond and stream 
within our borders should receive such attention as will 
develop its capacity fcr fish life to the utmost. The Com- 
mission of our Stale has issued scores of orders to owners 
of sawmills directing them to deposit no sawdust in the 
streams— we have k\<;islation to compel construction of 
fish-ways. But what do these measures avail if our 
streams are destitute of fish? When we think for a mo- 
ment of the yearly increase in the number of fishermen — 
the facilities for travel on electrics into regions hitherto 
remote from the centers of population, we see at once 
that in order to keep up the supply of fish, stocking on a 
liberal scale is absolutely necessary. Half a million fin- 
gerimg, trout planted each year in the hundreds of streams 
of Massachusetts is a small allowance to supply their 
needs. How shall we get them? That is a question to be 
answered by the sportsmen of Massachusetts. 
H. H. Kimball. 
From Maine. 
The Tisdale party from Leominster, mentioned in my 
last letter, has been keeping up its well earned reputation 
for angling, taking trout from 3 to 5 pounds, a togue of 
14 pounds and another of 17, besides a good lusty salmon. 
In the party making the annual outing of the Camp 
Comfort Club were Wilfred Bolster, Esq., son of Judge 
Bolster, of Roxbury; Hon. James Bailey, of Cambridge; 
J. Fred Parker, Assistant Secretary of State of Rhode 
Island, from Providence, and several prominent citizens 
of Central Falls, R. 1. Mr. Bolster took a 6%-pound sal- 
mon and Mr. Bailey a togue that weighed 11 pounds. A 
party of eight Bostonians, three from New York and two 
Maine anglers in a trip of ten days were able to land 300 
fish,_ several of which were above what is considered the 
minimum for a record, viz., 3 pounds. As the harvest of 
one day's labor Mr. A. S. Cook, of Brookline, and his 
companion brought in thirty handsome trout. Mr. F S 
Snyder with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mead, Mr. Geo. Whit- 
tier and Miss Ruth Whittier, of Boston, are located in 
Mr. Snyder's private camp and alternating bait with fly- 
fishing. At his camp on Moody Island Mr. Walter H 
Wesson is accompanied by Dr. L. Corcoran, Nathan D 
Bill, J. W. Kirkman, F. Harris and J. Shattuck, Jr., all 
of Springfield, Mass. 
Many of the guides at Kineo cherish pleasant memories 
of the late Wm. Ziegler, who used to make frequent visits, 
having a dozen or more guests and as many guides The' 
camp ground used by him is called Ziegler's Camping 
Grounds, situated on Eagle Lake, his favorite rendezvous. 
His fishing record for Aug. 20, 1894, was twenty trout 
weighing 69 pounds, taken in four hours at Socateau 
Pond. 
Jay Cook, Jr., of Philadelphia, has gone into his private 
camp, Ogontz, for the summer, the family to join him 
later. Pr, p. W, l^ranigan, whp v/ent tQ Qv^^d l^k? 
