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The best three-ply cast for this season is an Abbey 
stretcher, green ilruko dropper, and cow dung for the lmud 
11 y. 
Although the streams of the interior arc not yet open 
for angling they are nevertheless rapidly purging them- 
selves of ice and snow water, and a fortnight will doubt- 
less find many of them in fair order. The ice still remains 
solid in all the interior lakes — two feet thick atChatauqua; 
three feet thick in the Adirondack^ four feet in Lake 
Pepin, Minnesota. Some reports will be found below, and 
these we shall give from week to week, keeping our 
readers as thoroughly posted as possible. We Iffeg our cor- 
respondents in all quarters to forward us prompt informa- 
tion on these points for the general good. 
— We are receiving constant reminders in various ways 
of the stir that is taking place among the anglers, who are 
everywhere making busy preparations for the approaching 
season, asking advice as to the selection of tackle, and 
where to go, and the condition of the water. The tackle 
shops are occupied constantly in filling orders, and the bud- 
ding Spring everywhere wears a roseate hue. Chapman, 
the celebrated “spoon maker" of Theresa, New York, 
whose advertisement so frequently makes a display in out- 
columns, is reaping a harvest, they say, by the sale of troll- 
ing tackle which will presently be in active demand for 
service, as soon as the ice in the lakes breaks up. The 
trolling season for salmon trout lasts only three or four 
weeks, and those who wish to avail themselves of this rare 
sport will have to take the month of May for it. The ice 
in the Adirondacks and the Mooschead Lake region of 
Maine usually disappears by the close of April, and though 
thick enough now, it is dissolving rapidly, and there is 
every prospect that the season will be no later than usual. 
Speaking of the Adirondacks, E. H. Wallace, of Syra- 
cuse, is revising his Wilderness Guide, and adding a cor- 
rect map, which we believe has been prepared by Mr. Ely 
from recent surveys of Vcrplanck Colvin, Esq., in behalf of 
the Slate. This guide and map ought to meet with a larger 
sale than Murray’s book. No person visiting the Adiron- 
dacks should fail to purchase it. 
Our readers have had some intimation lately of the 
“coming bass rod;” well |it has come! Yesterday we re- 
ceived by express one of those beautiful rods made by 
Ch is. F. Orvis, of Manchester, Vt., and which we believe 
to be unsurpassed by any wooden rod made. Its len»-th is 
nine and a half feet, in three nearly equal parts, the but of 
ash, and the middle joint and tip of lance wood. It has a 
good stiff back, which is wanted in bass fishing, and we 
feel assured would please that well known Western expert, 
“Oconomowoc." Mr. Orvis, however, must rig his rods 
with standing guides, and not rings, if he expects us to 
make a successfull east, “over our head," you know. This 
rod is a beauty, and we should feel proud to be its maker. 
The cost, as advertised, is §10. , 
Two packets of flies have been laid on our table for ex- 
amination. One from Conroy, Bissett and Malleson con- 
tains a dozen flie3 of the Mullaly pattern to which we re- 
ferred reccutly, as having the barbs of the hooks concealed 
between the wings. They are attracting considerable at- 
tention from their novelty. Abbey & Imbrie sent us some 
“blue bottles," which is early, considering the coolness of 
the season. We shall say nothing about them, as they can 
do their own blowing, — in the meat shops. 
fly the way, Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie have on exhibition 
in their aquarium at 48 Maiden Lane, some pretty speci- 
mens of salmon raised at New Hope, Pennsylvania of 
which we wrote recently. There is a three year old grilse 
and three smolts of the salar variety, and a pretty little 
part of the quinnat tribe. They will well repay inspec- 
tion. 
—Walter M. Brnckett, Esq., of Boston, has recently com- 
pleted duplicates of his celebrated salmon paintings, en- 
titled the “Rise," the “Leap," the “Struggle," and “Land- 
ed," which were sold in England for several thousand 
dollars, aud they will be exhibited next month utSnedecor’s 
new gallery in Fifth avenue. This same artist wishes to 
procure a salmon trout (confinis) for a study for his canvas. 
Who will kindly seud him one? 
—A correspondent of the New York Timm, signing him- 
self “W. L. W., of Bay Shore, Loud Island, presents some- 
very strong arguments, supported by facts, against the 
passage of the proposed law to prohibit the use of pound 
nets in the Great South Bay. The argument advanced in 
favor of the law is that the uets are set in and across the 
inlets, capturing all the fish, and preventing their pussnge 
into the bay. The objector denies the assertion. lie says, 
to set nets in the inlet is simply an impossibility. One 
might os well try to set one ucross Hell Gate in the East 
River. There is not a pound net within two miles of the 
inlet, and so far from their use causing a diminution of the 
fish, they have never beeu so abundant for five years past 
as they were last year. The fish chiefly caught in these 
nets are weakflsh, porgies, moss-bunkers, aud Spanish 
mackerel. 
—John Cummings, of Utica, N. Y-, has presented Seth 
Green, the great fly caster of America, one of his best split 
bamboo fly tods. Seth pronounces it one of the best pro- 
portioned aud best made rods he has ever seen — one that 
means business. 
—Messrs. Shattuck and Jones, of Fanueil Hull Market, 
Boston, huve lmd on exhibition a monster codfish, weigh- 
ing just uinety six pounds, which was caught on the 
Middle Bank, about twenty miles off Boston Light. 
New IlAMPsrriKE, April Ut —Last year the ico broke up 
at Wiiinipcsaukeo on March 20th, and hut little snow re 
mained in the woods in the most Beclucled nlnccs. This 
year at date the ico was still firm and about three feet 
thick. The extreme cold weather of the Winter has had 
the effect to prevent much fishing through the ico. so that 
the finny inhabitants or the lake have been left to quietude 
aud increased chances of reproduction. M. 
Connecticut.— J. S. Brookway, of Willimantic, Conn., 
caught a trout somewhere in that State, last week, which 
measured twenty-four inches nud one half long, and seven 
inches deep, and weighed six pounds aud a quarter, lie 
was trolling for pickerel with a minnow at the time. The 
fish was sold at the Parker House, iu Boston, for $5. The 
Worcester Pirns is our authority. 
Florida, New Smyrna, March 1ft. — Two or three game 
associations are forming in this Htatu. Will notify you 
"'hen fully organized. Weather very warm; fishing very 
good for shcopshead, boss, blucfish, &i\- Most of ilie 
guests are leaving now. Mr. S C. Clarke, your corres- 
pondent, is still here aud busy fishing. O. J. A. 
Louisiana, New Orleans, March 2ft. — Croaker, red fish 
and slicepsheud fishing is good iu Lake Pmitehartrain, in 
front of Mandeville. One day last week I caught 101) 
croakers in two hours from a bout with a baud line, to- 
gether with two red fish and two sheepshead. L. 
California, San Francisco , March 28. — Next Thursday, 
April 1st, our trout season commences. We have still a 
few fine trout streams within a day's ride of litis city. 
The grilse, aud larger salmon fishing In the hay still holds 
pretty good. A few have beeu tuken of seven, ten and 
eighteen pounds weight, by rod fishing. When these fish 
disappear from these grounds, hitherto unfrequented by 
them, 1 will let you know. Some say about twenty years 
ago sulinou were iu these same waters in goodly numbers. 
E. J. HoOFF.lt. 
Fishing Matters. — The number of fishing arrivals for 
the week ending April 1st, was forty-seven — forty-four 
from Georges and three from the Grand Banks. The 
Georges-men bring in good fares, averaging about 50,000 
pounds cod and 1,000 pounds halibut. Total receipts of 
codfish, 2,000,000 pounds. Bank h&lihut in moderate 
supply, the receipts of the past week being about 125,000 
pounds, which have met with quick sale, mostly at $ 1 ) and 
§4.50 per cwt., for white and grey. The receipts of 
Georges cod thus far, this season, are not more than one- 
third as large as those of la3t year, for the same period, 
and the market is very firm in consequence. 
The Newfoundland and New Brunswick frozen herring 
fleet have completed their season’s work. The business 
has been prosecuted without loss of vessel property, and 
hut two lives have beeu sacrificed. The herring have met 
with re idy sale at remunerative prices, and the season, as 
a whole, has proved a profitable one to the fleet. Tin- 
Second trips of a portiou of the New Brunswick fleet 
proved unsuccessful, owing to the failure of the late catch 
there, the vessels being obliged to return without cargoes. 
An Eastport, Maine, dispatch says:— The frozen her- 
ring business is over for the season, and 1ms been very un- 
profitable for the fishermen, the catch having beeu very 
light and most of the nets having been lost in the ice. 
Wlmt to do for bait? is now the question amoug the 
Georgesmen, the herring having given out. 
The Southern muckerel fleet will commence fitting away 
next week. Some thirty sail of seiners will run fresh 
mackerel to the New York market. There is yet u con- 
siderable stock of last year's mackerel on hand, which 
will necessarily oiSect the price of the new salt catch. 
Lust seasou, the new mackerel came in on an empty mar- 
ket, and were iu good demand at $10 and $12 per barrel. 
The seal fishing fleet will be so late in arriviug on the 
sealing grounds, this seasou, that the catch will undoubt- 
edly be small. 
Seals iu large numbers have recently been sceu in Buz- 
zard’s Bay. 
In Ibis State everyone who catches smells from this 
time to the first of Jane, is liable to a fine of one dollar for 
every smelt found in his possession. 
The Grand Bankers report lurge fields of floating ice on 
the Banks ou their last trips. 
The Beverly fishing fleet, this season, will number 
twenty-six vessels. —Cape Ann Advertiser, April 'id. 
Jlnswct[S j£o Correspondent^. 
J. D., Washington, Conn.— We ha^e no knowledge of the publication 
to which you icfer. 
Arnold Buiiobss.— S everal letters for you at this office. I’lerwo for- 
ward your address. 
F., New Haven.— What author do you consider the bent lo fotlow In 
training a setter pup? An#. “Pinks, Hutchinson and Muyhuw," edited 
by Frank Forester. 
Osoaii. — Will it injure a setter to feed him cither dry Indian or out 
ineul, or Indian and out mixed, one-half of each? He will readily vat 
either. Ans* We consider the above good, wholesome food. 
D. A. B. G., Fort Edward.— Can yon luform mu how to cement a patch 
on my tent? Ans. Allow plenty of margin at the edges and double 
stitch the patch on. No cement would hold in bod weather. 
B. B., Augusta, Me.— I wish some information about the Cocker span- 
iel, their manner of working, where I can obtain one, and the probable 
expense; ulso about what size they are? Aus. Address "Springer" at 
this offleix 
W M. I)., Saranac.— Can you tell me where I can procure the rules 
and regulations of rille shooting, or those regulations which govern the 
matches ill Crecdmoor? Address Nultoual Itlltc Association for copy of 
lust Annual Report. 
F. S. M , Boston. —Will yon please luform me of the reputation of 
Cooper's guns, of Londou? What kind of shooting Is to he had ui Nan- 
tucket in August? Ans. Good. 2. No shooting on Nantucket In Au- 
gust, except bay snipe. 
J. Kidd, Wyoming Territory.— I received your reply to my question 
about the gun and rlllc. I)o you consider that rille as effective as tlie 
Sharp's sporting rifle at long range? Ans. Wc consider the lie Illy ex- 
press rille equal lo the best lu use for sporting pu-poses. 
Gordon. St. Louis —How many eliceis of pii|»er i sample enclosed) 
would be considered excellent penetration for a 10 boro bn-och loader, 
with 4 drachms course Orange duck No. 4 powder and 1 oz. No. I) shot. 
Aus. At 40 yards 38 or 40 sheets will be good penetration. 
Lhm Fisukr, Flemington —I would like to know If the blue dun and 
blue bottled nrtiilcliil fly Is tbe same, and the description of Ilium) Aus. 
TUey are as different as can be. You can dud blue bottles on the butcher 
stalls ns soon as hot weather comes, blue body, block hackle and slaty 
wings. The blue dun has a grayish wing and hackle andaduubody. I 
sometimes whipped with silver Unset aud sometimes not. J 
BrrKR. Sharon, Pa. —Are you sufficiently acquainted with tho R. C. 
Grvengnu to venture an opinion os to It turrit-? They are classed High 
whero i hey are in use, and l am about to purchase one? Am. Our ex- 
perience with tho Green gun Is sufficient lo enable us to say that they are 
good. 
C. P. W„ Brooklyn - PI.- a«o Inform me whero a good map of tho Adi- 
rondack- anil a work on fly making might he procured, suiting prices of 
each? An«. Ely's map, at Colton'-. 172 William street. 7b cent*. No 
book lu Ihlaoouniry on fly nuking. Sec Nurrl-’ Instruction* printed lu 
PoiuesT AND Stiicam last May 
P It., Albany. -Whore can I get sornp choice egg- for setting? Have 
you the black Spanish and white Leghorn- ? Ans. Wo are not lu tho 
poultry line, but If you will address Mea-rs. Kirby A Burlingame, No. 12 
Court londt street, this city, they will supply you. 
Matubii — I can't flud out that Clark has any grayling spawn, or Is 
going to have any, as stated twice lately In your Answers. Have got 
Impatient, and will start for tho Au Halite next week. Will slay unlit 
tin. 15th and get what t can? Ans. We have Mr. Clark’s dicular adver- 
tising grayling fry nud spawn for sale. 
1-. M. W , Rhode I -laud Will a lit gauge breech loader, weight six 
pounds, give as deep penetration with 3 drachma powder and 1 os. No. 
3 -hot. as a No. 10 gauge, weight 8 pounds, I drachma powder and I) on. 
anme «l/.o shot ? What gauge gun do you consider host adapted for anlpo 
shooting? What for woodcock? Ana. 1 . No. 3. For snipe, wood- 
cock and quail wo prefer a 18 gauge gun. 
An Old hruvuiinnn, Donvlllo, Vn. — Can yon Inform mo how tho 
Springfield carbine performs a- a sporting rifle, and also whirl would bo 
lb" best «"d surest plan lo obtain one? Cart they bo pureha-ed by pi t. 
vale citizens? Alls. The ball (or the Spi In Held ear I I I,,., I, f,„ 
-porting purposes. Tho Bullard carbine, for -alo by U. C. Squlros, No. 
1 C'otirUnndt street, itl $18, will answer your purpose. 
I, kook, Baltimore — Cun yon give mo any Information concerning the 
whereabouts of Waters A Son#, piper hoot builder*? Their old nddu-st 
wa* Troy, N, Y., but I have written them twice and have received no 
reply (bin you procure for mo Ponrce's Kennel Club B >ok, and at what 
cost? An#, Messrs. Waters A. Sons' address Is Troy, N. Y. Your let- 
tots must have miscarried. For l'oarie'a Kennel club stud Book, ad- 
dress Field office, No. iHil Stroud, Londou; prloe 18 shilling# sterling. 
Hanovkr, Hanover, N. H,— Can I get u breech loading gnu for about 
$10 or$lf. that will do good shooting for such aiine a# I- found In Cen- 
tral New llumpdilruF Whom make? Which would bo tho best gun fur 
that price, u muzzle or n breech loading gun? Ann, You can gel from 
persons advertising lu our paper a good, serviceable, breech loading 
double gun, central fire, for $43, nullable for the section of country lu 
which you shoot. Wo would recommend a double breech loader. 
Coatant Kkadkii, Mlddlotown.-I* surveying a good bu-lnes# to 
h-urnf Is there plenty of that kind of work? What la the best work on 
surveying and civil engineering, and what I- the price? Ati«, Surveying 
Is an excellent business lo leant, particularly If your inlml Is mathe- 
matically Inclined. There Is always a demand for surveyor- In our 
Western States. For book- we would auggert Davis andGlllosple; on 
civil engineering, Rankin, or Malian For catalogue and price- uddtust 
I). Van Nostrum!, 23 Morray street, tills city. 
W. II. II., Kllonvllle, S'. Y — I have heard or read of a patent dog muz- 
zle; one that I- comparatively comfortubto to tho animal and a perfect 
safeguard against pol-onlug. Where can t purchase such n muzzle and 
w lint mea-urements aro roqnl-lto In ordering one? The dog pot-ouur It 
making his rounds here. The good (logs become III# victims, as Is al- 
ways the case, while the worthies# curs escape. Aus. The patent mnz/lo 
to which you probably allude is manufactured by J. T. A J. Mesercnu, of 
this city, and I- a light, comfortable and useful muzzle, hut would not 
prevent a dog from picking up poison. If you will give u» the size of 
your dog's head, wo can lutven muzzle made which will answer your 
purpose. 
William, Cambridge — 1. What L the best kind, tongth nnd cast of 
litre for salmou; also kind and size of hook, and kind of flies? 2. Will 
muiiiu Uno do for troiU? 3. Kind and length of Unu for trolling? 4. Hlxo 
anrl cost of a good p-e-ket compass? 3. Whore Cun a good pocket nrap 
of (.'aliforuln bn had. and cost? 0. Would n hunting knife, 8 Inch 
blade, be a good size for general use In hunting? Ans. I. Take forty 
yards of waterproof silk salmon line and long splice It Into 100 yards of 
linen Im*- lino, with 0 ft . gilt leader; flies, tho Jack Scott, Fair/, Silver 
Doctor, nnd Silver-Grey Doctor, medium. 2, Nut much. 3. Ouo hun- 
dred j nrde braided linen lino, that will not klulc. 1 Compa'sus of all 
sizes and prices; we have one about us largo as a watch, which ha# a dial 
on It by which to tell tho time, when the sim shines. Cost $1. 9. 
Don’t know, except of Stuto Secretary, or of U. s. Engineers' Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C. a. Too large— six Inches Is long enough; 
should huvo u bone handle and lie heavy. 
B. T. K. I* , Trnckoo, Cal . — Where can I obtain Information In regard 
to tho Injury donu to trout In streams on which saw mills are situated 
by the sawdust which Is discharged Into them? Wo are situated on the 
Truckco River, la which them are most excellent trout, Our -aw mills 
—and they uro vury largo and numerous— discharge their sawdust Into 
this stream. Those who are Inlore-ted In the fl-h bualnasi have com- 
plained of this act, which they donoinluato a "nuisance,” nnd the Legis- 
lature of the State of Nevada have sent a memorial to Congress a-ltlng 
for measures to prevent Hits rut-alien. Many claim that Hie dam* In the 
river uro the only obstacles, nnd that the sawdust In Itself does not Injure 
tho fl»h. I should ho very glad to lourn where any Information founded 
ou experience may ho obtained? Ans. Asa rule It may not he so much 
the sawdust Itself which causes the mischief of which you complain, as 
the accumulation of It, which sometimes extends to several feel below 
tho surfuce, and In tor fores with the spawning buds of the fish. In your 
cu«u, however, If the lumber sawed at the mill" l» rot wood, we are of 
the Impression that It would lo Itself, from the known properties of tlio 
wood, he sufficient to poison the wuter and de#troy the flair. Legislative 
action appear* to ho the only nn-uus of relief at your disposal. 
8BTTr.it, Savannah, (la,— I notice writer* state that where sellers are 
liver, or liver and white In color, It Is considered a# being a bad sign, 
showing a strain of the water spaniel. I would like to know what found- 
ation they have for Ibis theory, ns up to the prusent(tlmo no one lias pro 
tended to say what the color of the original setter was. 1 have scon It 
published that the liver and White Irish setter, or land spaniel, ha* been 
bred for over two hundred years In one family In Ireland. This I should 
think sufficient to prove that such is the natural color of the dog, Ans 
NVe are a-loiilslied that any one at this day should think a dog not lllOr- 
oughbred because his color Is liver, or liver and while. More than forty 
years ago, while living lit Trenton, N. 3 . we bred a flue Imported while 
setter hitch named Cora. to Orou»e. n famous liver nnd while double 
nosed setter dog. Irani which wo c»luhllslie<l a strain of setters, many of 
which wen* liver and whl'e, and among tho descendants of said d ig 
Grouse were Chief Justice Beardsley's Holla, Coin. Stockton's lluJ, 
Dsbncy Carr's St. Lotus) Cone, Tlico. Morford'- Glenn, nnd a host of 
others of as good dogs ns ever lived, of ar y color*; and then sasln, la 
regard to liver and w hit*- »ottor-. let os say that Bride of the Bofd -r, llm 
splendid setter lately Imported by C'lias. II Raymond, Ksq., directly 
from the Laverock Kennel, t« a liver and white dog. 
Autk-i.k- At.-cMTKD Tilts Wim -A Queer Turtle, by Plsceo; In- 
sect Life, Nos , and 0 , by Kotiks; Fish Hatching Apparatus, by T. B 
Ferguson; 1‘l.tol Practice, by Brandon; Kastarn Partridge, by John Da 
Runes; Thundering H- Bores on Clio Potomac, by Duke; Incidents In 
Mexico nnd Cuba, by K, Knox Penn; Land-locked Salmon of California, 
by K, J. Hooper; New Shot Cartridge-, by Sionev; Kngllsb nnd Ameri- 
can Yachts. by Be idy About; Off the Line, try R.; Snips Shooting In 
Virginia, by Gay, Mlsee luny. by Olllpod Quill; l«ob-ter Transportation 
Overland, by Living-ton Slone; Yachting Note*, by II; Doric* and Pi- 
lot's Canoes, by W, D.; Docked Tall* nnd Bench Show-, by Pitch*! ; 
Twin Lake*, by Plscator; Salmon on the Rampage, by Llvtngslvu Stout; 
The Bluck water, Region, by Alleghany. 
