FO BEST 7 AND STREAM. 
tend races at home Raritaus beat Rugters College, June 13, 
for the championship of the river Warren Smith and Wal- 
lace will pull a three-mile race between July 10 and 20, on 
Bedford Basin, Halifax. 
* n( l ifiver fishing . 
FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 
FRESH WATER, 
Tront, Salmo/ontinalia. 
Salmon, Satmo nalar. 
Salmon Trojl, Salmo con finis. 
Land-locked -Salmon, Salma gloveri. 
Black Bans, Slicropterus salmoidcs ; 
H. nigricans 
Mnskaiouge, Knox nobtlior. 
Pike or Pickerel, Esox luciu s. 
Yellow Perch, Perea tlavcscens. 
BALT WATER. 
Sea Bass Ccntropristris atrarius. 
Sheepshead, Archosargue probato- 
cephalic*. 
Striped Bass, Roccus linneotus. 
White Perch, Morone anuricana. 
WeakUsh, Cynoscion regali-s. 
Bluetts)!, Pomatomus naltatrix. 
Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula- 
turn 
Cero, Cybium regale. 
Bonlto, o'arda pelamys. 
Klngtlsb, JU&nlicirrus ncbuloms. 
TROUT FLIES IN SEASON FOR JULY. 
Little Egg, Xo. 12.— Body and leet of orange and yellow, mohair and 
hare's ear mixed ; wings, bright hyaline, slightly mottled ; aetrc, same 
as wings. 
Lightning Bug, Xo. 10.— Body of equal parts, of dark brown, and black 
mixed, tipped with yellow; feet, of feathers from tho English grouse ; 
wings, doable, ihe Inner wing black, the onter wing a yellow brown. 
General Hooker, Xo. 9.— Body made of bright yellow and green, ringed 
alternately ; feet ; red hackle ; wings, of the tall feathers of the rnfTed 
grouse. 
Little Claret, Xo. 11.— Body and feet, dark claret mohair, slightly 
tinged with blue ; wings, of the bittern, or brown hen ; setm, dark 
brown. 
Claret Fly, Xo. 9.— Body, dark claret; feet, black; wings, of the brown 
hen. 
Fetid Green, Xo. 10.— Body, feet and wings, a pale green. 
Fisfl in Market— Retail Prioes.— B ass, 18 cents ; blue 
fish, 6 ; salmon, 18 ; mackerel, 18 ; shad, 40 ; weakfleh, 10 ; 
Spanish maokerel, 20 ; green turtle, 10 ; halibut, 15 ; had- 
dock, 6 ; king fish, 20 ; codfish, 6 ; blaok fish, 12 ; flounders, 8; 
porgies, 8 ; sea bass, 16 ; eels, 18 ; lobsters, 8 ; sheepshead, 15 ; 
Canada brook trout, 60 ; Long Island brook tront, $1 ; 
pompano, 75 ; whitebait, per pound, $1 ; hard crabs, per 100, S3; 
aoft crabs, per dozen, $1.60. 
Canada — Grand River, June 14. — The net fishing through- 
out the whole Qaspe District has been unusually good. The 
angling is just commencing. The salmon are not only nu- 
merous, but unusually large. We expect great sport. There 
has been an almost continuous rain during the ten days pre- 
ceding the 12th inst. Imbrie. 
Nova Scotia — Halifax, June 18.— Two anglers back from 
a Restigouche fishing trip, report salmon plentiful and fine, 
and they back up their report by showing 33 splendid speci- 
mens. They were only absent eight days. One of the fish 
weighed 36 lbs., and the average weight of the lot was about 
20 lbs. 
Salmon on the Restigouche.— The following letter from a 
correspondent is quite interesting. The presence of a fish 
bone in the stomach of the salmon would indicate, as the 
writer observes, t^iat the fish had but quite lately left the sea : 
Halifax, June 19. — While fishing on the Restigouche last 
week my companion killed a male salmon weighing 36 lbs., 
and upon opening it we found a part of the back bone of a 
small fish about two and a half inches long in its stomach. It 
was killed ia Cross Point pool about forty miles from the salt 
water. The Indians thought it was the bone of a caplin. 
Now that fish must have come up very quickly from the sea 
to have not digested the fish. It is, I believe, very unusual to 
find anything in the stomach of a salmon in fresh water. In 
eight days, with two rods, we kilfed 33 fish averaging 22 lbs 
each. G. W. 
New Bruns wiok. — Just in from a week at Kilburn Lake 
where troutiag is excellent. I took 28 Speckled trout in two 
hours last Monday afternoon. Largest weighed 2 lbs. 6 oz., 
and gave me some good fifteen minutes work. N. S. Dickey 
and W. W. Curtis, of Boston, were with me for the week. 
Jno. Stewart, Supt. of N. B, & C. R., of St. Stephen, was our 
guest two days; At Skill Lake the other day two of ' us 
caught forty laud-locked salmon in one day. C. L. W. 
Maine— Hachias, June 20.— Eighty eight trout, four ounces 
to two pounds weight, i9 the catch this season up to June 15. 
Some nice dinners, I remember, as well as the catching. 
S. B. H. 
Massachusetts— Ashburnham, June 18.— Some good 
strings of trout have been caught here lately. Oue basket of 
seventeen weighed fifteen pounds, and one of fourteen 
weighed thirteen. Largest single trout, two pounds, which 
is large for brooks fished as they are here. H. C. D. 
Movements of the Fishing Fleet. — The number of fish- 
ing arrivals at this port the past week has been 77 ; 44 from 
Georges, 14 from the Bank9 and 19 from mackereling trips. 
The receipts from the Banks have been 257,600 lbs. codfish 
and 253,500 lbs. of halibut. The Georges fleet have met with 
continued good success for the season, the receipts amounting 
to 1,056,000 lbs. of codfish and 43,000 lbs. of halibut. The 
reports from the mackerel fleet are indicative of poor success 
thus far on this shore. The season, however, has not far ad- 
vanced, and a good spirt would quickly change the makerel 
fishery, aud cause rejoicing among the owners and the fisher- 
men. The first Bay fleet of forty sail are now getting ready 
and will soon be away . — Cape Ann Advertiser^ June 21. 
—Two Gloucester fishing schooners have fitted for a sum- 
mer trip to the Greenland coast halibut fisheries. This is the 
first trip to those grounds since 1873. 
FisniNG at Hell Gate.— B as9 fishing at Hell Gate has 
afforded sport for a week past. On the 18th seventeen were 
caught. Mr. Wade caught twelve, average two pounds; Mr. 
Irwin two, one five anil one two pounds, and Mr. John 
Rodgers, the champion of 82 and 25 pounds last year, caught 
one weighing 7J lbs. 
Superb Salmon.— At the invitation of Messrs. Abbey & 
Imbrie, the well-known manufacturers of fishing tackle, we 
ailed on Mr. Sutherland, of Liberty st., to look at some of the 
finest salmon we have seen for a long time. These fish were 
caught by General Arthur, Collector of tho Port of New 
York, and by R. G. Dunn, Esq. Seven fish in all had been 
For For at and Stream and Rod and Gun. 
BLACK BASS FISHING. 
caught in one day by these able fishermen in the Cascapedia. 
The largest fish weighed 50 pounds, and was 4 feet £ inch in 
length, with a girth of 2 feet 3. The other fish weighed 38, 
35 and 28 pounds. The fish were all clear run fish, in superb 
order, and had been only three days en route from the river. 
What a whizzing of tackle, what a clicking of reels, what a 
bending of upper and middle joints there must have been, and 
how the butt must have been called into play 1 and then the 
gaffing, and the excitement, aud the doubts and fears, and the 
triumph about it ! All these things were recalled to mind, as 
we saw these slabs of silver, with fins and tails, lying all 
quiet and peaceful on Sutherland’s marble floor. 
Greenwood Lake. — Bas9 and pickerel still afford fair 6port, 
a are ^? or ? successfully taken with trolling spoon than with 
a Uy. The hotels are in perfect order and already well pat- 
ronized considering the weather of the past month, aud only 
require a few bright, warm days to fill up. The Montclair 
and Greenwood Lake Railway deserve great credit for the 
promptness and regularity with which they have run their 
trains despite the discouraging influences of a late rainy sea- 
son and consequent light pleasure travel. Every provision is 
made for the comfort and convenience of the traveling public, 
the elegant Pullman parlor car “ Phaetou,” Mr. Gilbert con- 
ductor, being regularly run on the 4-.30 p. m. train to, and the 
7 a. m. train from, the lake, at the remarkably low rate of 
twenty-five cents extra fare. It is currently reported that the 
company contemplate making at an early date a reduction in 
the rate of fare to Greenwood Lake, of which, when done 
due notice will be given. Gbeenwood. * 
—Fishing reports from the Thousand Islands record fair 
sport with rock and Btriped bass and pickerel. 
New Jbr9EY —Forked River, June 24.— Bluefleh, sheeps- 
head and weakflsh keep all hands busy. Arthur. 
Barneqat Inlet, Kinsey's Ashley House, June 23.— Sheeps- 
head, blueflsh, blackflsh and sea baas are the catches now 
B. 
Tennessee— Memphis, June 20. — Fish have been biting 
freely in the neighboring lakes for some weeks past, and 
many fine strings have been shown. Hopefleld and Marion 
Lakes have become depleted from the constant and out-of- 
season attacks of pot-fishermen, and afford sport no longer. 
Ten Mile Bayou and Burnt Lane hardly uphold their reputa- 
tion of former seasons ; but Blackfish is the Mecca of the ini- 
tiated. One man caught 150 black bass trolling in one day. 
Trout (bass), white or speckled perch, bream, goggle-eyes, 
(crappie or dominicker), striped bas3, etc , are found there in 
incredible numbers, and are caught with but little trouble; 
P. C. H. 
The Flint River Squadron— Nashville, Tenn., June 13.— 
This is the rather peculiar name of a club of four gentlemen 
who pass a great deal of their time angling during the season. 
They often go out for two aud three weeKs together. Their 
last expedition was to Flint River, striking it at a point near 
Winchester, fishing down to near Fayetteville. They have a 
large boat, capable of carrying all their camping outfit, and a 
smaller boat of Bond’s make for excursions up the smaller 
streams. The Flint is a tributary of the Tennessee River, 
ana is one of the best stocked streams in the State. The 
water ia free-stone, very clear aud cold, and has been less 
seined and trapped than any other one I know of. They took 
a great many trout (bass) and perch. Mr. Goodrich tried 
artificial flies, and trolling with a silver-spoon bait. As fly 
fisbiDg was a novelty in that part of the country, considerable 
curiosity was manifested as to tho result. The spot first, 
fished in was a mill-pond, from the dam of which Mr. G 
made his casts. Although the water was exceedingly Clear, 
and he in that exposed position, at the second cast he took a 
fine perch (here called goggle-eye), and at tho third a striped 
bas9. Several striped bass were afterward landed, one weigh- 
ing nearly three pounds. The fly used was black body with 
white wings. Quite a number of fine trout (bass) were taken 
while trolling. In a few days the club start off to Elk River, 
another tributary of the Tennessee. This they will descend 
to the mouth, a distance of nearly 200 miles, where they in- 
tend launching their boat. They are to have as guests two 
gentlemen from New York, one of whom has already fished 
with this club before, and who says he knows of no place 
North where he can have such sport as he enjoyed on his first 
visit here. I have made diligent inquiries from a number of 
sources, which, added to my own knowledge of the country, 
and I can safely say that there are few localities better adapted 
to the sportsman than our State. Gould we induce the Legisla- 
ture to pass protective laws and have them enforced, it would 
not be many years before our streams would all be full of 
magnificent fish. J. D. H. 
Miohigan — Grand Rapids, June 15. — Trout fishing in our 
northern streams is good. Parties from this place and abroad 
are flocking thither, and it is estimated that at least two hun- 
dred fishermen are now on the Jordan, Rapid and Boardman 
rivers and their tributaries. A small party from here re- 
turned last week from a few days’ trip to the Jordan, and 
brought with them 160 pounds of brook trout averaging half 
a pound. Another party of two from here has just returned 
from the Boardman, near Mayfield ; absent four days, and 
caught 400 fine trout. Musquetoes have not been troublesome. 
Fine pickerel and bass fishing in Grand River, and in nearly 
all the small lakes surrounding this vicinity and in the 
northern part of the State. H. B. W. 
Wisconsin— Neenah, June 18.— The fishing here in Lake 
Winnebago is excellent ; never saw it better. Black and sil- 
ver bass, pike and pickerel caught in large numbers and of 
extra good size. A few shad taken, A gentleman and two 
ladies at Roberts' summer resort the first of the week, in two 
days with hook and line caught 301 bass and pike, and your 
correspondent went out fishing Thursday the 13th, noon, and 
caught sixty bass and pike. This I call good sport. C. 
“Kill Your Fish When Caught."— A nother corres- 
pondent, signing “ Grim," of Pottsville, Pa., recommends the 
method of inserting the finger in the mouth of the fish, and 
bending the head backward, almnBt parallel with the back, 
when the spinal column is severed at the neck, and life be- 
comes extinct almost instantly. 
"To sit upon tno river's brink 
And see ruy quill or cork down sink, 
With eager bue of perch or dace.” 
Walton. 
T HE most remarkublo circumstance about all the writing 
on the subject of llshiug, is the extreme reticence of all 
the writers as to definite information upon the subject of 
the kind of lines to use, the bait to use, and the size o( hooks. 
One honorable exception, leaving out garrulous old Izaak, is 
“ Hallock’s Gazetteer," thau which no belter compend can be 
found in the world. Of rare literary excellence, it is practi- 
cal in all its details, aud should be iu in every angler’s bauds. 
As to black bass fishing : In the first place, there is very great 
confusion iu the nomenclature of many game fish. In the 
“ Elkliorn,” a stream in the blue grass regiou of Kentucky, 
there is a fish called bass. Ho is uo more Like u bass thuu a 
salmon is like a red perch. Long, slouder, and as game as u 
speckled trout, he is tho prince of all the game fish for hard, 
stubborn fighting, and quick, subtle movements, which dis- 
concert the ordinary angler, aud leave him outlines fuming 
upon tho bank, over the loss of “The flue9t buss, sir, iu Ken- 
tucky.” 'The same fish can be found iu “ Fork Lick," a 
tributary of the Licking. They are not yellow boss, nor are 
they black bass. You see I believo iu “ yellow " bass. I do, 
natural history to the contrary. To tell me that tho slender, 
finely formed yellow bass is only a black bass, but of a differ- 
ent gender, k to stultify me aud all other anglers. I have 
caught yellow bass aud black bass out of the same stream, and 
have gone home aud studied them. They are distinct fish. I 
believe it; aud were this not a paper iu which scientific dis- 
cussion would be out of place— that is. I did not start on 
science — I would give the reasons for the faith that ia in me. 
Should auy French gentlemau wish to break a lauce with me 
on this subject, he is invited, with all due courtesy, togivo his 
opinions in Forest and Stream. I promise him some fuels 
that will startle the one-bass theorists ; and I promise him 
that, if confuted, I will yield, if not gracefully, at least cheer- 
fully. I have caught bass, black and yellow, striped and 
spotted, and green, with fine reels and rods, and give me a 
long light cane in preference to anything in the shape of a 
rod. A cane eighteen feet long, oue inch Iu diameter at the 
butt, with a perfect taper to the end, which should not be 
larger than a knitting-needle, is the roil of rods for bass fish- 
ing. Now take three strands of the very coarsest black silk 
that you can find, twist them thoroughly, lay them cable 
fashion, wax them, and you have your line. Make the three 
strands twenty feet wheu you commence twisting, aud your 
line will be seventeen feet long when you have finished. Make 
five or six such lines and cary them with you. Put a buck- 
shot at the bottom, six inches above the hook, which should 
never be larger than No. 5; salmon hook : use a cork if you 
fish in still water, and if not, not. Hook your minnow 
through the back tin, and here your small wired hook does 
the work, for it does not kill your minnow. Fish on the bot- 
tom if you fish in the spring of the year, and half way if you 
fish in autumn or summer. 
With such tackle 1 will kill more bass duy by day than the 
most enthusiastic lover of the reel aud braided lines aud 
ounce sinkers. Hus any oue who is a finished angler, even 
ever thought of the vast difference between pulliDg a fish 
whose weight you can feel all the time and pulling one whoso 
weight you can never feel in full, for fear that your rod 
should break or your liue snap ? In fishing, as iu all things 
else, as our years increase, we fall back upon a severe sim- 
plicity, characteristic of our infant days. I remember once, 
on a bright May morning, going to a mill in Kentucky, then 
famous for its bass fishing. Fittcen anglers, good and true, 
were standing on the dam, and these fifteen had caught nine 
fish. On a ledge of rocks, below the dam, stood two ragged 
boys, fishing with long, taper, sycamore poles! They had 
lines made of black flax, three strunds to the lino, and well 
waxed. They had a small rifle bullet on their line, and no 
cork. They had caught thirty fish, some of which would 
have weighed six pouuds, and they sold them to the gentle- 
men anglers of the rod aud reel, who threw their hues to 
within six feet of the place where the ragged disciples of the 
art piscatorial were "pulling ’em!" udo they caught nary 
one! Colonel, that lesson sunk deep into my uiiud. The 
water was very clear and bright, aud the buss were too sharp 
to be taken with lines that were large enough to hang a man, 
leaving out bass. And five rifle bulls on the liue ! And a 
painted cork as large ns my fist! Ecee signum! "But," 
says some timid brother of tbe rod, “will three strands of 
coarse black silk hold a bass?" Try it, brother, and you will 
thank me forever! The main reason for using such lines, apart 
from the question of scaring the fish, is the great increase of the 
sport. Of course, the smaller and the lighter the line you 
double your chances for bite9, and your fish pulls— seemingly 
—double as hard. But the rod must be fast— the rod I have 
named above— or say good-by to your line ; for a ha9s, 
when hooked®means business, and is quite as lively and game 
as a bream, with three times his weight. 
In such fishing there is true pleasure. No reel to foul ; no 
losing your fish at one hundred and fifty feet ; no execrations 
upon the man that made the rod, the line, the reel, but a 
quiet peace with all things. I know how pleasant it is to 
hear the click of the reel. I know how you feel when the 
fish makes his first leap for freedom, way down the river, un- 
der the overhanging branches of the big sycamore. I know 
with what exultution, having subdued his first wild rushes, 
you watch the line cutting the water and speculate as to 
weight. I know all this ; and yet, 1 prefer a light cane rod. 
But the most killing bait for bass of any kind— black, striped, 
rock or green— is the crawfish. The rock bass -called red-eye 
in Kentucky— feeds almost entirely ou crawfish, when he can 
get them. He— the “red-eye"— will bite at the leg of a 
“ peeler ’’ crawfish, when no other bait on earth can tempt 
him. He is a bold biter, and, with the tackle I have numed, 
g * Judge ^ Bibb? of Frankfort, Ky., by acclamation elected by 
the angling guild Fremitus Professor of the Gentle Art, was 
accustomed to say that “red-eyes" were only fit for women 
and children to catch. The Judge was an artistic ang er. 
All of his appointments were of the most exquisite character. 
From the burnished reel to the slender tip ot his long rod, 
all indicated the gentleman and true sportsman. But, fin- 
ished angler as he was, the Judge was badly beaten once on 
the Kentucky River. 
One bright morning in June, some thirty years ago, the J udge 
was seated at the mouth of a small creek that empties into the 
Kentucky River, now, as then, a famous fishing grountt. 
The sun had mounted high in the heavens, and not a single 
bite had rewarded the patient watch of the expectant angler. 
Hearing heavy footsteps behind him the Judge turned his 
