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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July I, 1905. 
and went to different points upstream, some taking one 
side and the others the opposite. Some distance up 
and we strike a clearing, where a party has a herd of 
about two hundred Angora goats, that appear to thrive 
on the browse found in the forest, and which return 
regularly to the ranch every evening and perch pic- 
turesquely on the stumps about. Further up, the cedar 
thicket is left behind, and the stream passes through a 
hardwood district easier to traverse. Returning, near 
dusk, upon comparing notes, we found about fifty trout 
of the legal limit of seven inches and upward had been 
retained, as the result, and the tired party were glad to 
again take boat and row back to the inn, where a good 
supper refreshed, and an evening a,t whist and pinochle 
entertained until retiring time. At breakfast the trout 
were nicely servd, and all felt repaid for their exertion. 
At the hotel during the greater part of the season was a 
pleasant company, hailing from Ohio, Indiana and 
Pennsylvania, several of whom had made this their 
resort for years. It was my first season here, and as 
it proved a panacea whereby I escaped asthmatic hay- 
fever, with which I had been afflicted the three preced- 
ing seasons, I arranged for storage of my boat and 
fishing equipment, and engaged quarters in advance for 
the next season, and on Oct. 15 took train for Cin- 
cinnati, after having had a very enjoyable outing. 
E. S. Whitaker. 
Carthage, Ohio. 
New England Fishing. 
Boston, Mass., June 24. — Mr. C. A. Taft has just re- 
turned from a trip to Rangeley, where he says he found 
the fishing good. He tells me that Rangeley Lake is 
proving more prolific of fish for the last two seasons 
than the other big lakes. He succeeded in landing a 7 > 4 - 
pound salmon and a number of smaller fish. 
Admiral J. K. Cogswell and wife, in company with 
Mr. Wm. A. Pierce and wife, of Portsmouth, N. H., en- 
joyed an outing of ten days at this lake and took fifty- 
eight salmon b^esides twenty-one trout, saving only as 
many as they wished for the table. The ladies of the 
party took several fish from 3 to 4 pounds in weight. 
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Halleck, of New York, have been 
taking their share of salmon, Mrs. Halleck securing one 
that weighed 4 l 4 pounds. Miss Sophia M. Freedman, of 
Boston, with Card Hinckley, guide, had the good fortune 
one day to net a 3^ and a 5-pound salmon. Another 
Boston lady, Mrs. W. K. Corey, with Eben Harnden, 
guide, took a 4l4-pound salmon. An automobile party 
from Newton, Mass., that has been doing the lake region, 
consists of Frank E. Stanley and wife, Mr. and Mrs. 
George Hall and E. M. Hallett and wife. 
Mr. C. P. Stevens, of Malden, mentioned in a former 
letter, continues to enjoy the fishing, and has made a 
computation from the records by which he finds that 
seventy-four fish entered give a total weight of 284 
pounds, an average of 3% pounds each. 
Mr. J. J. Brigham, of Springfield, Mass., with E. 
Hinckley as guide, has taken a 6^-pound salmon. 
Several successful Boston anglers are Mr. Samuel O. 
Lunt, C. A. Hubbard, H. H. Chandler, Alexander Jack- 
son, G. T. Howard and two sisters. 
Dr. C. W. Packard, of New York; Prof. Wm. A. 
Packard, of Princeton, and Dr. Charles A. Packard, of 
Bath, are enjoying their annual outing. 
Ed. Grant’s stories and good fly-fishing are drawing 
many to Kennebago and Beaver Pond. In one of the 
parties at Grant’s are some half dozen police captains 
and inspectors from the Hub. Just out from these camps 
is V. F. Prentice, of Worcester, with his guide, Bert 
Herrick. Charles W. Porter, of Lynn, has just gone into 
his camp at Dodge Pond, accompanied by his daughter 
and her husband, Mr. L. M. Atherton, of Boston. 
Anglers from many cities are moving from point to 
point among the score or so of favorable locations made 
easily accessible by the extension of the railroad to 
Oquossock. 
Our old friend, Hon. H. O. Stanley, who deserves to 
be remembered with eratitude by every devotee of the 
rod, has visited Moosluckmeguntic Lake. Mr. Clement 
R. Hoopes, of Philadelphia, takes home a 9-pound sal- 
mon with smaller ones. Billy Soule has had my esteemed 
friend. Col. C. E. Billings, of Hartford, at Pleasant Isl- 
and camps for several days, and right sorry I am not do 
have been there at the same time. His visit calls to mind 
a few delightful days at Billy’s two years ago, while the 
genial Colonel was there. A 7-pound salmon will give 
the guests something to talk about, and the Colonel 
something to recall with pride. 
A 6^-pounder fell into John Fraser’s net. Minnows 
prove more tempting than worms just now. As usual, 
when the Colonel left Billy’s he made for Tim Pond, 
where trout, though not large,- are never scarce. Two 
skillful fishermen from Brattleboro, Vt, W. H. Childs 
and C. W. Dunham, have taken a good number of trout 
from B Pond with flies. Some of your readers know 
this pond is accessible from Middle Dam and from Lake- 
side on Umbagog Lake. At Square Lake two Boston 
anglers are Messrs. W. E. Blodgett and N. A. Norcross. 
This resort is in great favor with anglers of eastern 
Maine. Many guests are there now from Houlton, Cari- 
bou and Bangor. Mr. McClellan, of Newark, N. J., re- 
cently had a novel experience on Cross Lake Thorough- 
fare, the result of which was when he returned with his 
guide after a day’s fishing he had something besides fish 
to show, viz., a large lynx. A lad thirteen years of 
age, son of Dr. Boone, of Presque Isle, recently took a 
6-pound square-tail from Square Lake, one of the favorite 
resorts in Aroostook county. 
From Kineo, the “dramatis personse” are somewhat 
changed, but the events are the same as for the last few 
weeks, the only difference being that fly-fishing is now 
the prevalent method. The Snyder and Mead party in a 
stay of ten days at Mr. Snyder’s camps recorded 150 
trout. 
Messrs. F. W. Tufts, J. B. Thomas, F. B. Allen and 
J. L. Sneckner have been the representatives of New 
York anglers. Dr. F. H. Jenckes, of Woonsocket, R. I., 
has taken togue weighing 8 and 10 pounds. Several Bos- 
tonians, Messrs. John Riding, George C. Brooks and H. 
E. Raymond, members of the Moose River Reform Club, 
have had good sport, taking many large trout and togue. 
Mr. C. W. Whiting, of Holyoke, and Mr. Lawson 
Ramage, of Monroe Bridge, have been to Cancongomock 
Stream’ where they got a good string of brook trout 
weighing from 3 to 4 pounds. They report seeing many 
moose and deer. They came so near one big bull moose 
they said they could have touched him with a fly-rod. 
Mr. F. G. Crane, of Dalton, and Mr. H. A. Francis, of 
Pittsfield, have gone into the woods on their annual 
camping trip. Other visitors are Thomas F. Stoddard 
and bride, of Cohasset, Mass., on a honeymoon trip ; J. 
W. Whepley, of Washington, D. C. ; C. P. Russell, of 
Greenfield, Mass., and Mr. J. F. Russell, of New York; 
also A. F. Hanson, of Boston, and Fred S, Parker, of 
Bedford. 
Another lake in high favor with the few who have 
visited it in years gone by and which is likely to become 
more widely known in the near future, is Onowa. From 
its waters Wm. A. Bradley, of New York, has recently 
taken a laker of 13 pounds. Central. 
Fish and Fishing. 
After Salmon aud Ouananicbe. 
Earl Gray, Canada’s new Governor-General, like his 
predecessor, the Earl of Minto, is quite a sportsman. In 
fact, there have been very few Governors of the Domin- 
ion, in recent years, who have not at least been followers 
of Izaak Walton. All, with the possible exception of the 
Earl of Aberdeen, made the acquaintance of some of 
Canada’s salmon streams, while Lord Dufferin, the Mar- 
quis of Lome and his wife, the Princess Louise, and Lord 
Stanley, now the Earl of Derby, were skillful anglers. 
Few of them ever tempted the ouananiche, however. 
This is what Earl Gray proposes to do next month. First, 
he intends to have a few days’ salmon fishing with Mr. 
Price, of Quebec, and early in July will try his hand for 
the first time upon the leaping ouananiche. On his way 
to Lake St. John, His Excellency and party will stop over 
at Lake Kiskisink as guests of the Metabetchouan Fish 
and Game Club, to enjoy the hospitality of the beautiful 
club house there, and the splendid trout fishing in the 
adjacent waters. The .invitation of the president of the 
club, ex-Governor Chamberlin, of Connecticut, was ex- 
tended for him to His Excellency by Gen. W. "W. Henry, 
United States Consul at Quebec, who will probably ac- 
company the vice-regal party to the club limits and look 
after their comfort on behalf of the president and mem- 
bers of the club. 
All the members of the Metabetchouan Club who were 
in camp some time ago have returned home, fully satisfied 
with their sport, which was of a very high order this 
spring. 
The same report as to the quality of the fishing comes 
from nearly all the northern waters this year. Mr. A. W. 
Hooper, of Boston, killed a number of trout between 
3 and 5 pounds in weight in the early part of June on 
the limits of the Nonantum Fish and Game Club. He 
reports that the early fishing above and below the new 
dam at the outlet of Lac des Commissaires was very 
good, and that he also killed very heavy fish in Big Ear 
Lake. 
Lake Edward is so much the vogue this year that there 
are nearly fifty guides out at present upon the lake and 
surrounding waters with angling parties, all of whom are 
having good sport, the usual proportion of 4 to 6-pound 
fish having already been reported. 
Mr. Walter Scott, of the Quebec Bank, Quebec, has 
been giving the lie to the indolent anglers who excuse the 
ease with which they take the big trout of Lake Edward 
with trolls and bait by the plea that it is not possible to 
catch them in any other way. Mr. Scott spent an even- 
ing in fly-fishing on the lake last week and returned to 
camp with a dozen beauties in his creel. 
Salmon fishermen are hurrying down to their rivers 
on receipt of telegrams from the guardians to the effect 
that the fish are in the rivers. The height of the water 
in the early part of the month induced the belief that the 
fishing would be fairly early this year, and this has 
proved to be the case in most of the rivers. The nets are 
doing remarkably well along both coasts of the gulf, too 
well perhaps for the good of the rivers and of angling 
with rod and line, and salmon is cheaper on the Canadian 
markets at present than it has been for some seasons past 
at this time of the year. Montreal dealers quote it in 
their circulars at fourteen cents per pound. 
Salmon Fishermen en Route. 
Mr. Walter Brackett, of Boston, and Mrs. Brackett 
passed through Quebec on the i6th inst., en route for 
their camp on the bank of the Ste. Marguerite. Mr. 
Brackett was joined here by Mr. Hooper, who is sharing 
his salmon fishing this year. 
On the branch of the same river fished by the^ Ste. 
Marguerite Salmon Club, several members, including Mr. 
Gard. Lyon, of Oswego, N. Y., are in camp, and at latest 
advices from the stream, were daily expecting the ar- 
rival on the river of other members, including Senator 
Proctor and the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 
Several members of both the Ristigouche and Casca- 
pedia salmon clubs are already on their respective rivers, 
but the list of names has not yet reached me. Nor have 
any reports as yet of the nature of the fishing. 
The commodious and elegant camp of Lord Mount- 
stephen at Grand Metis, and the splendid fishing of the 
Metis River, which have been shared in past years by so 
many different members of the royal family of England, 
are at present being enjoyed by a party of New York 
fipanciers, including Messrs, John W. Sterling, H. E. 
Gawtry, George R. Sheldon and J. C. Bloss. 
The first steamer crossed Lake St. John to the ouan- 
aniche fishing grounds of the Grand Discharge on June 
20, the day upon which the Island House was opened 
for the accommodation of anglers. I have been told 
briefly that the fish in the Discharge are very plentiful, 
but that no very large ones have yet been taken. This 
fishing ought to be at about its best by the time that these 
lines appear in print. Dr. Watson, the well known Bos- 
ton surgeon, and Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have taken 
up their summer residence in their fishing camp by the 
side of the Grand ■ Discharge. Among the first of the 
casual visitors this, -season .to. the Discharge was Mr. Geo. 
Donaldson, of Harrisburg, Pa., counsel for the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad. 
Salmon River Possibilities. 
•Considering the many unsatisfied demands for salmon 
fishing that come from every part of- the United States 
and Canada, it has rather surjlrised me that there has 
been so little comment upon the Maine salmon proposi- 
tion contained in the letter of March 15 last addressed to 
Forest and Stream by Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New 
York. Do not . the American anglers of means, who have 
sought in vain for salmon fishing in Canadian waters, 
realize the opportunities which the doctor has brought to 
their notice? Personally, I am unacquainted with the 
rirers to which Dr. Morris refers, but I have friends 
who know at least some of the streams in question, and I 
know enough of the general plan proposed by the doc- 
tor, and of the satisfactory manner in which a somewhat 
similar one has worked in the case of well known Cana- 
dian waters, to feel perfectly satisfied that there is “a 
good thing” in both speculation and salmon fishing, in the 
suggestions of Dr. Morris. 
For the sake of emphasizing let me briefly recapitulate 
the contents of his letter. He tells us that the first six 
rivers to the west of the St. Croix River in Maine are 
all natural salmon streams, and that a few salmon ascend 
as far as to the dams every year still, in spite of sawdust 
and slabs. As an illustration of the fact that the country 
has been lumbered so thoroughly that the mill properties 
can now be bought at rates which would allow salmon 
fishermen to take charge of both the mills and the 
streams, the doctor declared that he had the offer of 
one mill property, together with control of all of the sal- 
mon water and several thousand acres of culled timber 
land that will become valuable again, for about $20,000. 
He tells us that he would have seized the opportunity 
himself, were it not that he has so many other interests 
that it would have been impossible to give the time to 
the development of this stream. 
For those who are totally ignorant of the character and 
cost of salmon fishing — like the party who recently wrote 
to a friend in Canada asking for a list of salmon rivers 
for sale, and saying that a party of his friends, twenty- 
five in number, desired to buy one at once so that they 
could erect a camp on it in time for the fall fishing— 
$20,000 may seem a good deal of money. To anglers who 
know something about sa,lmon fishing and its present 
cost, the sum mentioned will appear quite moderate, even 
without the value of the land and mill and growing tim- 
ber. Mr. J. J. Hill pays $3,000 a year for the lease of a 
river that is so far away from Quebec down the Gulf of 
the St. Lawrence that he goes down to it in a steam 
yacht. I have a friend in Quebec who pays $2,500 a year 
for a defective title to the fishing of another river, which 
he has not been able to visit for some years. As much 
as $25,000 in one case and $30,000 in another have been 
paid for single pools of the Ristigouche. Close upon 
$9,000 annually is received by the Government of Quebec 
as rental of only a portion of the fishing in the Grand 
Cascapedia ; and a single share in the Ristigouche Salmon 
Club, carrying with it the fishing of only one rod, has a 
market value of from $10,000 to $12,000. I know a Bos- 
ton angler who has refused an offer of $75,000 for the 
riparian rights to the fishing of a river controlled by him. 
Outside of the Penobscot there is scarcely a river in 
the United States that can rank to-day as a first-class 
salmon stream. The rivers referred to by Dr. Morris- 
one of the leading authorities on the subject — can be 
made excellent salmon streams. I know what protection 
has done for certain Canadian rivers— the Jacques Car- 
tier, the Murray and the Ste. Anne des Monts, among 
others — and I know that what has been accomplished 
upon this side of the international boundary, can be done 
just on the other side of it, too, under the conditions 
mentioned by Dr. Morris. 
I had a letter the other day from Mr. Charles Hallock 
which recalled this matter to- my attention. Mr. Hallock 
has knocked about the neighborhood of the rivers in 
queslion quite a bit since 1859, and appears even more 
enthusiastic about the matter than the doctor it. He 
tells me that he has eaten salmon out of the Dennys 
River all summer long, and no longer ago than 1898, and 
that he alsO' knows something of the other five rivers 
referred to. 
There are many men of wealth and affluence paying 
inordinate sums for Canadian salmon fishing, who might, 
at a comparatively small cost, control excellent fishing 
of their own after a few years of protection; and such 
opportunities can be had upon both sides of the inter- 
national dividing line. But I know of no present propo- 
sition to compare with that of Dr. Morris, and it is sin- 
cerely to be hoped that a few men of ample means will 
be found to come forward and undertake the great 
achievement of restoring these streams to their original 
heauty and value and of accomplishing so desirable a 
project of rescue and rehabilitation. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Capt. Gregfg's Shark Story. 
Tarpon ' .Springs, Fla., June 24. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I was greatly interested in Captain Gregg’s 
shark story, told in your issue of June 24. That is a true 
story. I know it, because I have heard it, with thrilling 
variations, ever since I first went to sea, in 1848.' I be- 
lieve in survival of the fittest, and the story that has 
lasted as well as the one in question must be true. Be- 
sides, I have met scores of men who had been eye-wit- 
nesses, also a great many who had turned the identical 
grindstone. For further proof I have seen the very jack- 
knife myself. It had' had some half a dozen new blades 
and several new handles, but it was the same knife alt 
right.' Tell us another one. Captain Gregg. How are 
you off for weather in New York? 'We have a surplus 
here, hot and moist, but the fish bite well. Tarpon. 
Texas Tarpon* 
Tarpon, 'Tex., June 15. — 'The' one-day tarpon record 
is now held by Mr. L. G. ' Murphy, of Converse, Ind.. 
who, on June 13 (Tuesday), succeeded in bringing to 
gaff twenty-fovir, The 'tarpon catch to date for this 
place is 960. - • ' ■ ■ -J. E. Cotter. 
