July 29, 1905.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Lobsters are plentiful in the waters north of Cape 
Cod, but they undoubtedly belong to another tribe and 
so do not mingle with those which inhabit the waters 
south of the Cape and along Vineyard Sound. 
These experiments, so far as determining the habits 
of these denizens of the deep, were a success, for they 
seem to prove that lobsters hatched south of Cape Cod 
do not go around to the northward of the Cape, and fur- 
ther that lobsters from Vineyard Sound wander down 
along the coast and probably spend the winter in the 
warm waters of the Gulf Stream. 
Some Large Sea Trout* 
One of my correspondents sends me the following clip- 
ping from tire Fredericton (N. B.) Herald: “Mr. John 
W. Fairley returned yesterday from a fishing trip to 
Boiestown, bringing with him five trout, the aggregate 
weight of which was 25 pounds. The largest of the lot 
tipped the scales at 6^ pounds. Mr. Fairley caught them 
in the Southwest Miraraichi, near Boiestown, and has 
every reason to be proud of his success.” 
In commenting on this itern my friend says : “These 
W'ere the so-called sea trout on their way up to the head- 
waters of the river after leaving Indiantown at the 
mouth of the Renous River, the smelts having spawned 
and gone back to the estuaries. The sea trout of Resti- 
gouche, Jacquet, Charlo and other rivers on the north 
shore are now leaving the tideway, and making their way 
up river. A party from St. John which annually fishes 
the Escuminac on the Quebec side of Restigouche, was 
too late this year, they found that the sea trout had all 
gone up stream. 
Apropos of sea trout, is it not surprising tnat .your 
Federal and State Commissioners, while destroying good 
fishing w'aters east and west by planting in them the 
hideous and worse than useless German carp, which have 
been a curse wherever introduced, have made no effort to 
introduce the Salmo trutta, or sea trout of the British 
Isles, which is so good a fish for the table and so gamy 
a one for the angler. Can you not induce your friends 
to direct the attention of the powers that be to this mat- 
ter ?” My friend further says : 
“Preceding your article in Forest and Stream is a 
chapter from ‘Hallock’s Fishing Tourist,’ with which I 
fully agree. As an old angler I w'ould rather see the 
salmon wiped out than the brook trout. I have had all 
the thrills that the salmon can. give the angler, having 
caught them from eight to. forty-five pounds on all our 
great rivers, but for real enjoyment give me the stream 
well stocked with trout.” 
Yes, my friend and Mr. Hallock are both right, and if 
the choice must come between losing the salmon and 
trout angling, the first named would have to go. While 
salmon angling is one of the grandest sports vouchsafed 
to man, it does not appeal to the poetic, the sestheti'c feel- 
ing as does that which comes to one who follows the 
smaller yet equally gamy denizens of the meandering 
brook or the mountain stream or lake. 
Let us hope that both will be left to us; we have none 
too many game fishes worth the striving for, or which 
can be taken with that most delicate lure — the artificial 
fly — and all of us should do everything that lies in our 
power to preserve these the grandest and the most beau- 
tiful species we have. 
The Susquehanna Bass, 
Sayre, Pa.^ — Susquehanna River fishing conditions 
have rapidly bettered during the past week, and within 
the last two days fishing tales have increased in dimen- 
sions and numbers. On the 19th inst., between Athens 
and Sayre, Ben Stone took from the Susquehanna seven 
black bass and as many pike, using lamprey eels for bait. 
Rhinebold, Fletcher and one or two other local river fish- 
ermen report excellent bass and pike fishing within two 
miles either way from Sayre. About one and one-half 
miles from Sayre, toward Owego, the Susquehanna 
spreads out a broad, fine bit of water, free from riffles 
and flowing smooth, from which some splendid bass and 
pike are being taken, the size of the latter fish running 
unusually large at this point. Following the river down 
past Ulster, where a number of notable bass grounds are 
to be found, and on through to Wyalusing and below, 
the bass fisherman should find plenty of good sport from 
now to the end of the season. The fame of Wyalusing 
seems to no wise diminish in the estimation of anglers 
who like fishing for the sake of the sport and who have 
no desire to turn an outing into a society function. There 
is sufficient of the ruggedness of primitive conditions 
about Wyalusing and its allurements tnat directly appeals 
to the man who likes to fuss about in old clothes and 
wear a slouch hat on the water when the sun swings 
high overhead. And perhaps better than all else the bass 
are in the waters at Wyalusing, and when the conditions 
are right the fish are to be had in plenty. 
Not a few local anglers have this season gone to North 
Fair Haven, on Lake Ontario, and recently they have 
had exceptionally good luck, Messrs. Pieffer and Utter 
having caught plenty for themselves and friends at their 
last trip there, July 15. Pickerel, pike, perch, bass and 
an occasional maskinonge are the fish chiefly taken. 
Boats, bait, tackle and all necessary furnishings condu- 
cive to the angler’s comfort and peace of mind are ob- 
tainable right at the water’s edge, so that it is a compara- 
tively easy matter for the novice to get into right fishing 
relations at North Fair Haven, and it is not all fishing to 
fish at that sequestered lakeside haunt. The far vistas of 
water reaching away to the horizon’s edge and every now 
and then whipped into waves that break and shatter upon 
the shore with splendid energy, afford an inspiration and 
an uplift that inland waters fail to offer. Watermanship, 
and the fishing that requires live attention, are here to be 
learned. ■ 
From Cayuga Lake an occasional line advises that at 
LInion Springs and at Cayuga village bass, perch,' pick- 
erel, pike and maskinonge are being taken in numbers 
very nearly, if not quite, up to the standard of former 
years at this time of the season. Outfitting at either of 
the above points gives easy fishing within range of all | 
modern conveniences when one’s fishing togs are off. 
At the Ithaca end of Cayuga Lake conditions are not 
noraial yet, and the bass fishing is not praiseworthy. The 
June flood that literally swept the university city off its. 
feet played havoc with game fishipg interests, although 
it afforded many citizens an opportunity of going into 
their front door yards and grappling enormous carp from 
among the . submerged rose bushes and flower beds. As 
the season advances the bass angler may get some pleas- 
ant sport a little distance north of Ithaca on the east side 
of the lake. M. Chill. 
Fish and Fishing. 
Shipwrecked Sa’mon Fishermen. 
• Some of the salmon fishermen who recently returned 
from the rivers on the north shore of the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence were treated to an experience which was alto- 
gether outside of their programme. On their way up to 
Quebec, on board the very excellent new steamship Aran- 
more, the vessel ran upon rocks near Sheldrake, and as 
it was feared that there might be some delay in getting 
her off again, a steamer which was doing lighthouse duty 
for the Government upon that bleak and dangerous coast, 
was telegraphed for and took the passengers off, landing 
them, however, upon the south side of the Gulf, at Gaspe. 
Reports from the rivers are still incomplete, but many of 
the fishermen had fully average luck, and some of them 
much better than the average. Senator Proctor, who was 
fishing the Ste. Marguerite, was too early for the best of 
the sport, and left for home with only one fish to his 
credit. The Rev. Dr. "Yan Dyke, who was a little later 
on the same water, had excellent success, killing between 
a dozen and a score of fish, averaging over 18 pounds 
each in weight. The fish were more plentiful than for 
many years past. Lord Grey has also returned from his- 
fishing excursion to the Cascapedia, where he enjoyed 
very fine sport, killing some seventeen salmon, some of 
very large size. He will shortly fish some of the Anti- 
costi rivers as Mr. Menier’s guest. 
Ouananiche Still Plentiful. 
Ouananiche are still reported plentiful in the Grand 
Discharge, and a number of very good catches have been 
had during the last few days. Most of the anglers who 
have fished there so far in July have been Americans. 
Most of their fishing was done in the rapid waters of 
the Discharge, and this fishing ought to be good for some 
time to come yet, before the fish take to the middle of 
the lake. Many of them have ascended the rivers tribu- 
tary to the lake on the north side, and thither no doubt 
they will be followed by visiting fishermen who usually 
select the months of August and September for their 
canoeing and camping trips up the Peribonca, the Mis- 
tassini, the Ashuapmouchouan or some of their feeders. 
Since the setting in of the exceptionally hot weather of 
early July, the most killing flies are those which are tied 
in the small sizes, and these are what I am now recom- 
mending my friends to take with them into the Lake 
St. John country. 
It_ will probably pay anglers and campers visiting this 
territory during August and September to take kodaks 
with them, for an unusually large number of moose, cari- 
bou and other game have been seen in the woods this 
summer, and are liable to be met at any time. The 
beneficial effects of protection have nowhere been more 
forcibly demonstrated than in this part of the country, 
where so many prosecutions have been taken, and so 
much careful detectival work and guardianship done by 
the officials of the Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Protective 
Association of the Province of Quebec. 
Mr. Boardman, editor of the Railroad Gazette, New 
York, has been a guest of the Metabetchouan Fish and 
Game Club, and has also gone to Lake St. John for 
ouananiche fishing. 
Death of General Dashwood. 
A friend sends me a marked copy of a paper contain- 
ing a notice of the recent death, in the Isle of Wight, of 
General Dashwood, a well known English angler, who 
has fished in both Canada and Newfoundland for many 
consecutive years, since his first voyage across the At- 
lantic, as a young officer in the British army, in 1862. A 
book, descriptive of his sport, was published by him in 
1871, under the peculiar title “Chiploquorgan,” which is 
the Indian name, in the Milicite dialect, for the crooked 
stick on which the kettle is suspended over the campfire, 
and which is held by the red men in superstitious regard. 
He was, from all accounts, a most successful sportsman, 
though he boasted but little of his luck, and was rather 
given, on the other hand, to minimize the opportunities 
for sport in the lands visited by him, thus drawing down 
upon himself the intense hatred of the Newfoundlanders, 
many of whom go so far as to say that he was actuated 
by a desire to keep rival sportsmen out of the country. 
Be this as it may, however, there is no doubt at all that 
he did a real service to that country in pointing out the 
necessity of a proper system of fish and game protection. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
An Adventure with a Tarpon, 
On Saturday morning last, at Johns Pass, R. D. Jack- 
son, M. L. Stoner and W. L. Straub, all well known and 
at least two of them_ reliable citizens — for this is no 
“yarn”-— were fishing for tarpon in a good-sized dory 
taken on a cruise for such purposes. The tide was go- 
ing out strongly, and they anchored the boat to save 
work. Jackson occupied the oar seat, Stoner the middle 
and Straub the stern seat, all facing the stern and watch- 
ing their lines lying out with the tide, Straub with his 
feet sticking out over the stern. 
Jackson got a strike, and, with a whizzing of the reel 
and whistling of the rushing line, his tarpon leaped high 
in the air about fifty feet to the stern of the boat. He 
gave a full view— a good, fair-sized tarpon, probably five 
and a half or six feet, and weighing probably 100 pounds. 
Stoner and Straub started to reel in to avoid tangles, 
when the crash came. In a seemingly incredibly short 
space of time after the tarpon splashed into the water 
again a cloud of spray and a gleam of silver flashed up 
about three feet away and came over the boat’s stern So 
terrific was the speed and lightning-like the apparition 
that Straub could not. even throw up a defensive arm. 
He received the monster fish full and fair and went back- 
ward down into the boat as if felled by an ax, his feet 
and legs still upon the stern seat, the tarpon lying par- 
tially between them and partially upon his body, thrash- 
ing furiously. 
It was all over in a moment, the tarpon flopping over 
the side of the boat, throwing Jackson’s hook as he went, 
‘^^^^PP^aring almost as he came. Straub was. decid- 
edly down and out, and when raised up by Stoner was 
found groggy, but not seriously injured. One ankle and 
leg were battered and bruised considerably, and his left 
side and head so banged that he was entirely out of busi- 
ness for the rest of the day. 
as in all escapes, the danger lay in what 
might have been. The tarpon came up so close that it 
was in a vertical position and struck its victim broadside. 
If it had come up further off and struck him head on — 
100 pounds of fish at the terrific speed behind that pointed 
head would kill a stronger than the Times man. Or, if 
it had come from one side Straub would have gone put 
of the boat instead of into it, and in his dazed condition 
very possibly could not have stemmed the tide. Or, if 
the other boat— a light skiff — had been in use, it must 
certainly have been capsized with all hands. 
The adventure is related at some length here, not to 
make conspicuous any names, but because it was a very 
remarkable occurrence, and one that, unless fully ex- 
plained, could hardly be credited by our readers who are 
in no wise acquainted with the sport of capturing the 
giant tarpon or silver king.— St. Petersburg (Ela.) 
Times. 
Tatpon Breeding in Florida. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your July 22 number an article on tarpon states 
that the tarpon does not appear to breed along the 
continental coast of the United States.” On the Gulf 
Coast of Florida, from Cape Sable to Tampa, there are 
numerous creeks where tarpon spawn, and where, until 
the freeze of 1894-5, all sizes of young fish could be 
seen in schools— fish from i to 25 pounds. These young 
fish are found in either fresh or brackish water. 
_ In 1891 a party of six, with guides, on two sloops 
visited Surveyor Creek in FebBrary, and fished for 
tarpon. “We went up the creek in ^all light-draft boats 
until in the narrow part of this creek and saw fish from 
10 pounds up. 1 hey would take no bait, but since 
then with spoons they have been caught as small as 
5 pounds. 
The writer of the article of July 22 estimates that a 
tarpon attains the weight of 100 pounds in three years. 
If such is the case, how is it that at the same season, 
we find in the same section tarpon of i, 3, 10. 25, 40, 
50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 pounds? I do not believe that 
a loo-pound fish attains that weight in ten years. 
In the Myakka River there were hundreds of fish 
killed by the Dec. 27, 1894, freeze and left all along its 
banks, and they were of all sizes. I saw them myself. 
This river has just begun to contain a few tarpon, and 
It has been ten years. 
The last freeze killed a few there which were all 
under-sized. These fish are not frozen, but a strong, 
cold norther blows out of this shoal stream most of 
the water, leaving only that in the deep pools, which is 
chilled to about 50 degrees and causes them to float, 
and thus they die and are with the incoming water 
blown ashore and are food for buzzards and eagles 
^ C. A. D. 
Camp Candlestick.* 
Toronto, Out., _ July 15. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have used a candlestick such as that described by E. M. 
Johnson in Forest and Stream of July 15, for years 
when camping. When birch bark is not available a piece 
of paper answers equally well. Soldiers in camp use a 
bayonet stuck in the ground, the socket, which passes 
oyer the muzzle of the rifle, forming a socket the rio-ht 
size to hold a candle. j_ j_ 
A plant of 30,000 salmon fry has been made in the 
Courtney River, on the eastern coast of 'Vancouver 
Island, B. C. 
One of the bequests in Joseph Jefferson’s will was of 
a Kentucky fishing reel to Grover Cleveland. 
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Iowa Field Trial Association. 
The announcement and entry blanks of the Iowa Field 
Trial Association may be obtained by addressing George 
C. Cooper, Secretary, Lock Box 55. Des Moines, la. 
ihere are three stakes provided, the Derby, the All-Age 
and the Subscription. 
The Derby Slakes, for setters and pointers whelped 
on or after Jan. i, 1904. Entries close Aug. i, 1905. Purse 
$300, divided so, 30 and 20 per cent; $10 forfeit; $10 for 
starters. ^ 
The All-Age Stake is for setters and pointers whichi 
have not won first place in any open stake in any pre- 
vious year. Entries close Aug. i, 1905. Purse $300, di- 
vided 50, 30 and 20 per cent; $10 forfeit; $10 for starters. 
The Subscription Stake is for setters and pointers. 
Open only to dogs that have won a place in competition 
m field trials. Nominations to be made on or before Aug. 
I, 1905; $10 forfeit; $15 additional to start. Purse, the - 
forfeit and starting fees, divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. 
The trials begin on Aug. 15, near Grand Forks. N. D. 
The week following, at the same place, the North Dakota 
Club will hold their field trials, and will offer guar- 
anteed purses, and a subscription stake. 
This should appeal to the industrious trainers, the ones 
who are in search of business and reputation instead of 
for trouble or ease, or both. 
The famous and excellent field-trial judge and handler 
Mr. W. W. Titus, has consented to act as judge. 
An expensive Kabbit. 
A New Rochelle, N. Y., man who visited Strouds- 
burg, Pa., last week, anticipated the rabbit shooting sea- 
son, and for killing one rabbit paid to Squire Joseph 
Evans $21.75. ■ ^ 
