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will make the Bank trips in that department remunerative, 
and prices have averaged fairly for the halibut fares. Th 
Georges fleet met with good success for the season ; receipts, 
925.W0 lbs. codfish and about 50,000 lbs. halibut.— Cape Ann 
Advertiser, June 14. 
Rhode Island — Newport, June 15. — Bass fishing from 
Rough Point is very fine. Largest, taken last week weighed 
from twenty-two to twenty-live pounds. T. J. F. F. 
Connecticut — We»t Hill Pond. — Lest any of our readers 
should be tempted by a communication in these columns, June 
6, to try his band on the bass in West Hill Pond this month 
of June, we appand this timely warning : 
“ Citizens of New Hartford, together with this club, give 
notice that we shall prosecute to the extent of the law all per- 
sons found fishing in this pond in the month of June, as we 
are fully determined to enforce the laws for the proper pro- 
tection of fish and game in this vicinity. 
“ Canton Rod and Gun Club." 
New London , June 17. — Trout fishing poor. Streams for 
sixteen rnilos are fished to death. On May 30, twenty-six per- 
sons fished the Great Brook in Groton, and two of the party 
had a boat. Go where you will, if you catch thirty fish in a 
day's jaunt you do nobly. Five and six are the average 
catch. Fykes and pounds have destroyed all fishing in the 
Thames River. The river is tilled with nets. Every farmer 
whose land borders on the river or around its mouth has his 
fyke, and his pigs are fed and his land manured with our best 
game and food fishes. Millions of 6mall striped and sea buss 
are annually lost to us in this way. Many salmon have been 
taken in pounds off Millstone and Black Points and off Nian- 
tic. I used for bait, during the month of May, for black 
bass, what is called here mummy-chogs, or salt water min- 
nows, and found them very effective. Caught 119 bass in six 
trips, smallest weighing twelve ounces, largest, 4r}lbs., besides 
returning all females not badly hooked. Misal. 
New York— Catskill, June 15.— Bass fishing at the Point 
yields good returns. Hook. 
New Jersey — Forked River, June 13. — The first blackfish 
of consequence were caught yesterday, Joel Barkalow and 
Geo. Wooley of this place taking seventy-niue with hook and 
line in a few hours, weighing from one to three pounds each. 
There are some blueflsh in the bay, but they will not take the 
hook unless the weather gets warmer. The baymen are 
taking a few small ones in their nets. Arthur. 
Sport at Seagirt, N- J.— On Sunday last at Seagirt, N. 
J., there was a grand rush of bluefish. They took the squid 
line ravenously, and large numbers were caught. The sport 
somewhat interfered with religious worship on that day. 
Kimey's Ashley House, Barnegat Inlet, June 16.— 10th, 
P. P. Gustine, James Malsead, J. Freese, 38 sheepshead. 
11th, Gustin & Co., 36 sheepshead ; II. Schroeder and J. T. 
Price, Philadelphia, 25 blackfish. No guests for blueflshing, 
some of our captains took as high as 40 per boat. 12th, Wm. 
T. Bailey, Camden, H. O. Wilber and Geo. A. Perks, Phila- 
delphia, 22 bluefish ; J. T. Price, 7 sheepshead. 13th, Bailey 
& Co., 25 bluefish ; Price & Co., 30 blackfish. 14th, Bailey & 
Co., 80 bluefish; Price & Co., 2 sheepshead. 15th, Col. Levi 
Davis & Co., of Bordentown, 22 bluefish; 75 sheepsheads by 
the professionals. 
Pennsylvania— Bristol, June 10. — The shad fishing season, 
closing to-day, has been very unremunerative to those en- 
gaged in it. The light run of fish, the multitude of nets on 
account of so many men being out of employment, and the 
trichina scare, made the average small. The salmon come3 in 
nicely for fancy fishing, but for an all-day bread-and-butter 
job a poor man would rather have plenty of shad. A barrel 
of salt shad in the cellar during a severe winter helps materi- 
ally in keeping the blood circulating until spring. S. 
The Delaware Catfish. — The catfish of the Delaware 
are favorite game fish with many anglers who suppose them 
to have nine lives. However that may be, a plague has come 
upon them and they are dying in great numbers. An im- 
portant branch of study is opened in connection with these 
fish epidemics which are so often reported as destroying scores 
offish. We invite the fullest information from our readers 
who may chance to notice such fish mortality. 
Maryland— Baltimore, June 11.— We are taking a few 
bass from Lake Roland, nine miles from this city. A party 
from Oakland visited the Blackwater last week and caught 
800 trout. The perch have not run up Bush River this spring. 
Will. 
Virginia— Leesburg, June 12.— Last Monday a little eight- 
year-old boy took two eleven-inch trout, and his brother, 
nine years old, took one about the same length ; beat “ Papa, " 
who took one eight-inch trout, and “ Uncle Willie," who took 
none. A few bass have been taken from the Potomac by par- 
ties who claim that possession in Virginia of bass taken else- 
where is not a violation of the law. J. W. 
Leesburg, June 15.— Fifteen large bass yesterday taken 
from Potomac, largest four weighing over three pounds. 
Weather fine. Our law makers must try again if they want 
to protect the bass in spawning time. T. W. 
Tennessee — Columbia, June 8. — Col. Geo. Connor and Mr. 
M. Dowson returned from Buffalo last week, showing a creel 
of thirty-five or forly trout and perch (rock bass). Messrs. 
Gordon, Moore, Tilford, White, McFall and Porter returned 
Friday night from the mouth of Blue Buck on Swan, a place 
familiar to Tennessee anglers, well satisfied with their catch. 
Val. 
Columbia June 14.— Messrs. Tilford, Baily, Postmaster 
Hughes and Caldwell went to Swan Creek Monday and re- 
turned Thursday, the creek being too high. They caught 20 
very nice ones during their stay. A fisherman fishing at 
mouth of Bear Creek caught 103 pounds of fish in one night ; 
they were mostly blue cat. Val. 
Nashville, June 13. — Saw a catfish to-day, which was 
caught in the Mississippi, and weighed llOlhs.; head measured 
18in. in length and 12in. in width. J. D. H. 
Florida — Orlando, June 1. — Messrs. E. A. Richards, C. 
F. McQuaig, and H. Burke have just returned from a trip to 
Lake Okechobee. They report all kinds of game and fish very 
abundant. Hexagonal. 
I llinois — Chicago, June 8.— You know the volume of 
wuter passing over the water-shed at Elk Rapids, Michigan. 
It has always seemed to me a place where land-locked 
salmon would be found. The water is cold and clear, with 
just enough dash and swirl to suit these fish. I know they 
have been caught in nets just a few miles below the rapids in 
the bay, weighing nine or ten pounds, yet have heard of but 
one being caught iu the rapids, and frpm the description given 
by piy friends I concluded it was a true laud-locked salmon. 
Mr. Jerome said some time since: "They ought to show 
themselves in the summer of 1878.” I am very anxious to try 
my 6kill against one of them, and would like to lie over 
there and try them. Many thanks for your kind advice re 
garding flies. 
Since writing you I have received a letter from my Elk 
Rapids frieuds. They tell me that some fine speckled trout 
have been caught in the race just below the dam, and above 
Mr. Noble's house on the islund. The fishing up there has 
opened very fair. Wirt Dexter, our famous Chicago lawyer, 
with a party of friends, are up there fishing iu the lakes aud 
streams in the vicinity. Our worthy friend, llolubird, caught 
a "whale” May 28. He was having a few hours' fishiug, 
when he struck a bass measuring 21$ inches long. It made 
things lively for him for a few minutes. I am pleased to see 
Mr. Chandler has given us the promised letter on bass fishing. 
W. D. T. 
MioniGAN.— Messrs. Hazeltine. Nelson and Thompson, of 
Grand Rapids, aud Mr. Fox, of Boston, had a glorious time 
on the Jordan— 1,300 trout in six days. Northern Michigan 
offers unusual attractions to anglers and invalids. H. 
Wisconsin— Neenah, June 11.— Mr. E. W. Gillett and two 
ladies caught 160 bass and pike yesterday in Lake Winebago. 
R. 
Wilderness Wisconsin.—' There are hundreds of localities 
in Wisconsin which have never been fished by the angler nor 
visited except by the aborigines. Even the Government Sur- 
veyor has skipped them. The officers of the Wisconsin Cen- 
tral Railroad, which runs through a primitive wilderness for 
more than half of itp 350 miles of line, being enthusiastic 
sportsmen, are making extended investigations in the woods 
along the route and sending in explorers to search out the 
fishing places. Col. Henry Pratt, the General Passenger 
Agent, has permitted us to copy the following letter from one 
of their survpyors : 
Ashland, Wis., June 6, 1878. 
Capt. H. Pratt : 
In accordance with your request and Mr. Bacon's order, I 
have visited the big falls of Bad River, also English Lake, and 
have made very close inquiry about the small lake I spoke of 
as being near Silver Creek Station. This lake is claimed by all 
to be No. 1 bass fishing. You will see from the map inclosed 
that it is only two miles from Brunsweiler, where tbe trouting 
is best on that stream, and that it is only one-half mile from 
Trout Brook. From the lake to each of these streams Davis 
promises to mark a trail. He has a good boat on the lake. 
The trail to the lake leaves our track at the second telegraph 
pole north of Trout Creek Bridge. Bass fishing was found to 
be good on English Lake. There is a good birch canoe on the 
lake said to belong to some Indians— this is the only thing 
there is in the shape of boats. There is a good road from 
Penokee Station to Peter's Homestead, within one mile of the 
lake, and from there to the lake is a good plain trail. Distauc^ 
from railroad station to lake is about three miles; much of the 
way up and down quite high hills. And now for the big 
falls of Bad River— certainly the grandest thing I ever saw. 
Tyler's Fork emptying into Bad River is what makes the 
falls. It is certainly well worth the trouble of going to see 
them. They are about two miles from the railroad crossing 
of Beaver Brook. From this point there is an old timber 
road cut to within three-quarters of a mile of the falls. From 
this point to the falls is through about as bad a windfall as 
the country affords, besides being up and down high hills and 
without some patience aud lots of Christian fortitude a man 
had better not make the undertaking. The falls are so located 
that it is difficult to get in position to make an intelligent esti- 
mate of their height, but they are certainly over 75 leet, aud 
I would not be surprised to know that they measure 100 feet. 
Strangers should not try to make this trip without a guide ; 
O. W • Davis, Silver Creek, would he a good guide. 
T. M. Willis. 
P. S, There is a path cut to the Bad River Falls, and Mr. 
Davis, of Silver Creek, is to make a trail to-morrow from the 
bass lake to the trout streams a mile or two each way from it. 
How a Fish Grows. — About three months ago we pub- 
lished a modest, unpresuming, little account of a bass, caught 
by a very innocent person, which weighed 58 pounds. In one 
week that same fisherman was said to have caught a bass 
weighing 85 pounds. Three weeks afterward a Western paper 
made that fish grow to 185 pounds, and now it comes to us 
from California weighing 581 pounds. A bass will increase, 
then, in ninety days exactly 437 pounds. Truly a Bastodon 1 
Trout Photographs. — Wncu one fat trout says to another 
fat trout “ Going to sit for your picture to day ?’’ it is not 
speaking after the manner of men. The question really 
means this: “Do you expect to-day to be jerked out of this 
aqueous sphere into a higher and more etherial one, where all 
good trout who have grown big and fat down here, as it 
is every trout's duty to do, have their photographs taken ?" 
That was just what happened to a fish, whose years should 
have taught him wisdom, up iu a Quebec, Ont., trout stream. 
He weighed three pounds ten ounces, was twenty-one inches 
in length, twelve inches in girth, and “took a beautiful pic- 
ture." Mr. JohuT. Moody, Superintendent of tbe New York, 
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, tells us that there are 
better fish in that same stream than have yet been caught out 
of it, which we leave for our trout-miuded reader to prove for 
himself. 
Angling in Central Pabk. — The fishing season at Cen- 
tral Park is just now at its height. Few of the afternoon 
strollers in the Park ever dream of this fishing, which, from 
its extent and importance in the domestic economy of many 
interested families, may be termed an industry. That is, be- 
cause ninety-nine ramblers out of one hundred keep their 
eyes wide open, and so see nothing. The one hundredth, if 
he be more astute, seeks a bench at the water’s edge, shuts his 
eyes, and straightway beholds strange things. Creeping 
along with the caution and cat-like tread of the crafty red- 
skin, silently steals the small boy, with scanty dress aud ca- 
pacious pockets. The gray-coated “ cop ” i 9 not in sight ; 
no one near except the One Hundredth, aud he is fast asleep! 
The small boy's baud dives into ouo capacious pocket, and 
briugs forth a string, to which is attached a cunningly bent 
pin-hook. Another hand dives into auother capacious pocket 
aud briugs up a piece of dough. This is for bait. Then, 
.pucker than we can tell it— a final scout-glance all around 
and an assuring look at the slumbering O. H. -the bait 
touches the water, a catfish seizes it, is jerked out, aud disap- 
pears head first down into the depths of one capacious pocket. 
The whole operatiou, so far as the dozing O. II. can judge, 
consumes about three seconds and is repeated Just four times! 
Then, with two squirming, wriggling catfish in each capacious 
pocket, the small boy, like a fishing smack with a full cargo, 
takes the stralghtest way for home, and before the somno’- 
leut O. JL has tairly finished his dream, is back again, ready 
for another cargo. If, just after the sixteenth catfish has 
found its way into the capacious pocket, tho suoring O. H. 
suddenly opens his eyes and thinks to intimidate the small 
hoy into going shares, there are just three thousand chances 
to one that there will be no small boy in tho whole Park. 
Then the O. H. may conclude that he was asleep after all. 
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A FEW HINTS ON BASS FISHING. 
CniOAOo, June 8, 18T8. 
Mr. Editor.— A perusal of the Interesting letter In your last issue, 
slgued ”G. C.," on bass llshlng, has given me amt several pcrsoua'l 
frlemls much pleasure, and I hope you will Induce him lo lan« another 
bass for tho delight ol your readers, it has been mv good fortune for 
many summers past, and ocoustoually a winter In Florida, to undergo 
the samo experience ho so delightfully dotalled, and I once thought 
while reuding I recognized tho Identical snail that once milled my 
temper. He liaa led his pupil through most of tho scrapes a now beginner 
naturally falls into, and with a kindly hand sets him aright. To onu who 
has llshed for bass but little, I advise the catting out of that article, and 
pastlug It in ills llshlng hut. It la the most Instructive article you have 
yet published. Who “tt. C.” lfl la a mystery to me, but the fraternity 
owes him thanks. He was so busily employed Instructing his pupil 
that he did no Ashing himself, and I thought It proper to stoto my ex- 
perience on one point which may have been overlooked by somo of 
yoar readers. 
It Is a well known fact that bass moving in schools have what might 
be termed pathways, and one In Ashing over what ho supp isea to be 
good ground, often has to wait until the Ash arrive at that point (I am 
speaking of still Ashing), and after a short time of vigorous biting, u lul 
occurs, for the Ash have gone on. Now, tho point Is to keep t hem with 
you ns long as possible ; aud when two are Ashing from the samo bout 
the school can, with due Judgmeut, bo kept sometime by taking ad- 
vantage or their curiosity or voracity, whichever attribute it may bo 
that cuuses other Ash to follow almost to the surface a captive. If \ 
and B are Ashing together, we will suppose A has hooked a hnss, and 
Just about tired him out. Should A laud his bass, the balanoe of tho 
school, not seclDg B’s hook, muy move off. But If— before A lands Ida 
boss, and whllo he has him woll under control— B moves his bait near 
A’s bass, somo of the school, evidently thinking the hooked bass, In hla 
struggles. Is after B’s bait, will rush up and take It. At this point, both 
have hooked a bass. B should keep his Osh 1 q the water until A has 
landed his aud put on fresh bait ; and then drop It near B’s Usli, who 
probably, Is still surrounded with cariosity hunters. The chances are 
that A will again hook a boss. I have seen tills kept np uutll six 
seven have been taken from a school. w. C. Eagan. 
—An old fisherman on the Lehigh (Pa.) tells how to catch 
black bass, which are now iu season. " Black bass,” he says, 
“ will first nibble gently at tbe bait, and will frequently draw 
tbe float away under water. But wait— the float comes back. 
Suddenly he seizes and darts off. Don’t pull— give him play’. 
Suddenly he stops — he swallows the bait slowly. Now a 
quick pull and you have him." This is good advice. 
The English Trout Fisher.— There are two classes of 
trout-fishers, the oue who haunts the impetuous rocky 
moorland and mountain-stream, aud the other who affects 
ruther the duller streams of the southern and midland dis- 
tricts. The pursuit of either is beautiful iu its way. The 
former, perhaps, sees nature iu her wilder aud more un- 
adorned garb, aud iu most cases has no need to ask for or 
obtain permission ; though uufortunutely this privilege 
which formerly wus very generally enjoyed by the public in 
the north and in Ireland aud Wales, is now being rapidly 
curtailed, and stream after streum, loch after loch, is year by 
year shut up aud forbidden to the public. This is greatly to 
be regretted, but in many instances the public has deserved 
it. It is a singular thing that while Englishmen are at home 
und in serious business costume, they have a wonderful re- 
spect tor property aud its righis ; they recognize the laws of 
trespass and damage to the uttermost ; but once put them in- 
to a shooting-coat and a wide-awake, thick shoes, and a gen- 
erally free aud easy costume, and their notions of tho rights 
of meum and tuum become as free and easy us their clothes, 
and it is quite marvelous what a lot of really wanton mis^ 
chief they can do, and the nuisance they can mukc of them- 
selves. No one who has not lived in a tourist track can form 
any idea of this, and, as regards the streams, “ all’s fish that 
comes to net," and nothing in season or out of season, big, 
or little, comes amiss, nor uuy mode of fishing either. The 
result is that the streams are reduced to a very low ebb in tho 
number and size of fish, where they are free to the public 
and at all easily approachable. Still there are localities yet 
where the wandering angler can, if he be skilled in the use 
of his weapons, and the day and water favor him, drag from 
the streams a respectable creel of trout, though it is harder 
and harder to do every yoar that passes, und to carry it 
through he has to resort more and more to bait fishing, aud to 
trust less and less to the artificial Uy. But supposing all to 
be fairly satisfactory, a scramble up some well plenisbed 
burn, away up among the wild hills which border the val- 
leys on the upper part of the Tweed say, is a delightful way 
of passing a day ; and notwithstanding the bulk of your 
trout will hardly run three or four to the pouud, with a.i odd 
pounder or two, aud a half-pounder now and then, the con- 
stant change, tne heavenly air, so soft and yet so bracing, 
the entire surroundings of scenery and wild life well repay 
one for the fatigue, even though a four or five mile walk over 
the hills to one's inn alter the sport is over should be the 
wind-up .— The Week. 
