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■Tunc 27 — John C. Bailey, Jersey City, ciglity-one sea 
boss uml four sheep sit cad; Win. Williamson, Philadelphia, 
two sheepshead; Sam King, eleven sheepshead. 
June 28— Robert Laquere, New York, five sheepshead; 
j Hidgway, live sheepshead ; II. Soper, eight sheepshead; 
J. Soper, 'seven sheepshead; Samuel Hidgway, seven 
sheepshead; some II fteen other boats from three to seven 
‘ each. , , 
June 29— Robert Lacpiero, New York, seven sheepshead; 
S. Ridgwav, seven sheepshead; S. Glenn, seven sheeps- 
head; S. Soper, six sheepshead; E. S. Steeling and Win. 
Jacques. New York, four bluefish aud four sheepshead; 
E. A. Robinson and C. R» Rod-ers, Philadelphia, forty- 
live blaclctish and sea bass. 
June 3D— Robinson and Rodgers, Phdadelpliia, thirty 
sea bass; II. Soper, thirteen sheepshead; some forty boats 
out. running from three to eighteen sbeepeheod. 
July 1— John Soper, nine sheepshead; thirty boats, run- 
ning from three to ten , Win, Williamson, nine blueflsli ; 
Opt. 1J. Predmoro with party, seven bluefish. 
Bluefish arc very scarce. The porpoises have driven 
them out to sea. To-day a school came in, but fish are 
small, averaging two and a half pounds. 
Sea bass plenty, running from half pounds to three and 
a half pounds; Imals are catching from thirty to fifty per 
slack water. Sheepshead still numerous and running good 
size, not less than 200 to 300 taken daily from these 
grounds. 
Black fish have not put in their appearance. 
July 2d— Messrs. Rodgers and Robinson, have just come 
in and reported bluefish thick. They caught thirty. 
Minnesota. — Duluth, June 30 th. — A party of seven of 
us spent Friday last on Baptism River uml brought home 
eighty pounds of trout, the two largest weighing over 
three pounds each and the balance averaging a q uarter of 
A pound a piece. R. 
BLUE FISHING WITH ROD AND REEL. 
Albany, N. Y , Jane 28th, 1875. 
EoiTon Forest and Stream:— 
Unlit lust wee k I never could bring myself to believe Hint it would pity 
me to curtail nny of my time laid out. to angling for trout, black bass, and 
Blind, and devote It to trolling for blue fish; but In order to fully under 
Stand the merit* of the latter sport I accepted an invitation from my 
friend James A Tfnkhnm (n member of Die Arm of S. M. Tinkliam & 
Sons, Taunton, Mass.) to visit Monument, Buzzard's Bay, with him. 
Consequently. In answer lo his tclcgrnm that the flab were coming in, I 
took a night train and reached Die ground in time for the afternoon Ash- 
ing. We put up. by previous invitation, at the private residence of Cap- 
tain Nathaniel Burgess, who in former years had haipooned many a 
whale, and who now proposed to handle his yacht in such a manner as 
to afford ns « fair chance to show our skiil on smaller game. The plan 
of operations was that my companions were to llsh ill Die usual manner, 
with squid and heavy baud lines, and I lo use my 0-foot 1 (-pound striped 
bu>s rusting roil with Die squid. We returned for supper with eight bloe- 
flsh, taken on the hand lines. The writer struck four, but in each case 
Die tinny beauty succeeded in running up on tils line, and by some effort 
of the jaws, which lie cannot quire understand, flung the hook from his 
mouth. Feeling well satisfied that the landing of bluellsh with rod and 
reel and the ordinarily constructed squid would be only accidental, we 
set to work to improvise something clac. Tins was done by taking a 
wired snill hook about one quarter of the heft of the others (the 
only one we had), winding enough lend around Die snood to keep It below 
Die surface of Die water, wrapping about it dozen layers of cotton cloth 
around, anil covering with nil eel skin. Three inches above the barb this 
would bend In any direction, iii d ii was ilioughl Dint Die flsli could exert 
no pto'Miro siiiliciont to force the book from Ids mofli li. Wo were cor 
reel, us Ii brought the next flsli The wind was blowing fresh, and our 
little craft. In the hnnds of our gallant skipper, was sailing beautifully. 
I whs standing at the stern casting to the right and the left. Said my 
friend Wilbur, 'Yon do not cast according to Frank Forester " Ire- 
plied "How cau 1 when about all I can do is to keep my balance, and, 
furthermore, the Captaiu Is in my way ." "Cast as far ns yon can over 
there. " tald the Captain; whereupon, forgetting everything but how to 
get out my line long and well, I brought Die but of my rod with trenien 
dona force iigulnst the skipper’s sculp, knocking liis lint into the sen, 
nev. r more lo know its former plate. My Hue nevorUieless went out up- 
wards of 150 feet, sod almost immediately u hlueflsh struck and wus fas- 
tened. Before the crutt vns stopped 100 feet more of line was freely 
given Die Il-li, and lie was handled as a trout would be under llko circum- 
stances, mid landed deliberately when well tired out . a II of us were now 
satislled that with hooks rigged npon Ihis principle there wonld be no 
difficulty in taking hereafter as many blueflsli as with tbo bund Hue. 
Having accomplished the object of my trip, and my lime being circum- 
scribed, I look Die first train for home, resolving to try it again, perhaps 
next time at Barncgat Inlet. W. W. Hill. 
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FISHERMAN’S LUCK IN MISSISSIPPI. 
Coiuntu, Mis?., June 16th, 1875. 
KniTon Forest ani> Stream:— 
'Tis lerrtbly hot, but the Grur.ge outlook is good. We have hud splen- 
did r..lii» and genial sunshine. The disciples of ihc gentle Izaak are out 
every day cusllng iheir linos with indifferent success. Duncan Elgin and 
I tried it ihc other day, albeit I am not much of a fisherman. We rose 
with the lark, in fact before him, and having loaded up our buggy with 
commissary stores, not forgetting the inevitable tin coffee pot, and an 
Alrxiphunnic, in case of an attack by a feroclons water moccasin or 
cotton mouth, we were off before the town waked up, Charley and I in 
the buggy mid John on the liurrlcance deck of a horse, When we 
reached Die si ream, three miles out, called through courtesy n river, we 
found It backed up from a mill dam, on account of a rain a few days 
before. We wished the mill wns'nt worth n dam, and It really ts’nt. 
Our Ashing was spoiled for that day at any tale; but like Bogg’s motlier- 
In law, we had come to stay. So gelling out the basket we kindled a 
lire, made a pot of splendid coffee, toileted some breakfast bacon on Die 
end of u cane, ai d then went for Die rest of the breakfast with appetite? 
sharpened by our ride aud the fresh morning air. Wo enjoyed it Ihor- 
ouglily, 1 can assure you . It was a reiutmsceuce of those day? when we 
always breakfasted under the treea-that Is if there happened to be any 
uround, and the commanding Goneral* on onch side wore exchanging 
cast iron compliments. Wo never had such breakfasts Dim; hard tack 
and sow abdomen was tbo usual bill of fare, with sometimes an tutre* of 
wormy beans or blue and nunly rice aud corumejil coffoo to wash It 
down ; mid trull the cornmoal coffee we three bad drank during the war Imd 
been poured nil at once Into the river at its present stage of water, it 
would have cnrrledtho mill away below ns, dam and all. 
We tried the flsli, but were not rewarded by n nibble. John and I had 
brought our breech loaders, and as the young squirrels were large enough 
to kill, and were reported to bo quite plcuty, wc left Charley with the 
horses and went after the squirrel?, The ground was scratched Into 
Utile holes all around, where they lind grabbled for nuts and acorns; but 
we could not see a squirrel. Wo moved on cautiously under tbo Im- 
mense forest trees, looked and listened III vain; weut to some mulberry 
trees that were mid lo swarm with squirrels— not one to be seen At 
lust 1 raw one about a hundred yards off running along a fallen tree nl 
top speed. He reached the foot of a giant red gnui, ran up to the top 
twig, and sailed ucross an intervening space between tills tree and on 
enormous pin oak, as if lie hud been shot from a cannon. I fired at him 
in mill nlr as ho went across. Ho perhaps heard the report of tbn gun. 
At any rate he seemed absolutely frantic, and hurled himself from tree 
to tree with perfect recklessness. In his mad flight be started up an- 
other, anil they ran a steeple chase until they reached a tree over John, 
when llio Parker belched forth right and left, and they bit the dust. The 
bides of tliO'-e squirrels afforded a fearful proof of the awful penetration 
o a orkur gun. They were the two oldest and toughest pater/amUlases 
In North America. I shot a loggerhead turtle ns we went back to the 
camp, where, after having devoured the rest of the commissariat, and 
drunk up nil the coffee, we harnowed Euripides and "lit out" f, jr home, 
having had some flah for diuner-but they came packed in tin boxes. 
John and Charley are out to-day. I passed. My new "Tolley” came 
the day before yesterday. 'Tis a thing of beauty, and when you talk 
about poi*o and balance, and lines of beauty, and "coming up nil right’” 
and lining the figure, and all that sort of thing. Its got thorn all, and 
more too. I'll tell you how it shoots when the mercury gets off Its 
present ldght. Guvox. 
THIS FLY ANDJTHAT FLY. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
A year or so back, when writing ont the instruction* for Incipient fly 
tyers which appeared In your column*, I Intimated, or perhaps threat- 
ened, an article on flies with the nbove title. I say “threatened” be- 
cause I am disposed, while I humor aud laugh at the prejudices anil no- 
tion? of fly Ushers, to chide thorn kindly for their fastidiousness on points 
that arc not in llio least essential Mr II. t'hnlmoodely Pennell, an 
angler of bug and varied experience, lu Ills "Modern Practical Angler” 
declares that It is vanity and vexation of spirit, this multiplication of 
names and vurictic? of combinations of "fur and feather," and settle? 
down to three simple trout flics— If flies they can lie called— and avers 
that. Iliey meet all the necessities or Die angler These, at described and 
depicted in his book, are three simple, bristly-looking hackles— brown 
yellow, and green— the lint of the hackle forming rather a bushy tail, 
and the remaining portion the logs of the so-called fly Many old anglers 
who consider a great variety of flics, and this or that ffy fora particular 
season, os sheer nonsense, and who seldom have more than six or eight 
varieties In their book, thiuk that Mr Pennell rather “runs It iu o the 
ground " And although there is much good sense in his theory, which 
he says is founded on practical experience, I also am of their opinion. 
His yellow and brown I have tried with success— the former as stretcher 
for evening aud on streams clearing just after a rise, and the latter a 
dropper on very small book? on One water, or on a bright day. Bln 
green I have never tried, fancying it looked like, the fragment of a leaf 
blown into the water; and yet it way do execution. 
In one of yoar issoes of lost Summer you remarked that there were 
four or live hundred different kinds of flies having established names 
Mr. Pennell says there are over eight hundred in England besides nn- 
meroua impromptus and nondescripts without names. Hnwjfur we have 
added to this host on this side of the Atlantic it would be difficult to 
guess, Some of them are named after the inveutors, viz.: The Green 
fly, the Whltnoy fly, the Jewel fly, the Abbey fly, Ac. Now, I have had 
a good many fine bovs, sons of old friends, besides an omnibus and a 
canal boat, named after me, but I have never had the honor of standing 
godfather to a trout fly, uml of the thousands I tie have never aspired to 
name one after myself. A friend of mine, an eminent old poacher, who 
professes to be a fly Usher, hut who invariably detaches hi? flies and 
puts on a worm when he gets out of sight in starting for Die stream, was 
once complimented by u tackle maker in naming a fly after him— "the 
Williams fly’’- and at the fishing quarters where we have chanced to be 
together, 1 have frequently had my attention called at early mom to my 
friend Williams digging worms in the garden; and so the earth worm at 
lost came to be recognized us the "Williams fly." k l would ask nny fisher 
who visits the rivers of the Dominion which of the three sulmon flies, 
figured and colored in Mr Pennell's book, li« would select, partienlariy 
if the water was low, the "silver.” ihe "gold." or the "rainbow. 
Either would suit the writer if he wished lo scare the salmon out of the 
pool. 
It is evident that Mr. Pennell has not the least shadow of faith In th 
routine system-1. certain flies for certain seasons, or in Dio theory of 
strict imitation. He divests fly fishing of all humbug, and believes that 
trout ure attracted mid rise at anything of reasonable size anil propor- 
tions moving on the water and that resembles insect life; that the March 
brown or the May fly when trout rise Treely will kill in August, and that 
the ted ai.d brown hackle, the May fly, or any good standard fly is ef- 
fective all Summer. I have had so far this season a week's Ashing, five 
In the party. I went more for Die frolic than the fishing, and gave up 
the water pretty much to the youngsters, and observed that the whip or 
neither wns In all respects the same as that of the others, and all had 
reasonable sport for so early in the season. There are certain cardinal 
rules, of course, which must always be observed— i ? . larger and gayer 
flies for full water and cloudy day?, and smaller and darker for flue water 
and bright duys, but as lo this or that being the fly to the exclusion of all 
others, it is all nonsense. A young friend, who has been reading Ronnldi 
• Fly Fisher's Entomology' ’ is in search of rabbits’ whiskers to make the 
tails of some green drakes lie i? tying 1 suggested n few long fibres of 
a black hackle, ns the trout would not be exacting in that one particular, 
or suspicious of being imposed on. But tie wished to be exact and fol- 
low Ronalds. Three or four years ago I happened in at a tackle store 
where the fly maker was just completing an order for four dozen with 
the wings pointing forward. He said the genl|gman who left the order 
was explicit in his directions to have the wings in that position, and 
handed me the sample fly, laughing as be did so. I found that the wings 
Imd been tied on first, pointing forward; had been bout back after the 
hackle wns on, and insecurely fastened. I supposed it to be a case in 
which the angler meeting with no success early lu Ihe day, and contin- 
ually casting, at last whipped Ihe fastening of the wings loose, causin 
them to point forward, and Die trout beginning lo riso and being well on 
the feed wore ready for anything. After finding good sport with re- 
versed wings, of course he ordered a few dozen tied in Dint way, suppos- 
ing them lo be much more nliracilve. About ns ridiculous an idea ns the 
new Invention of tying the wings beneath to conceal the hook, as if 
trout were always suspicions of the hook; and us some would construe 
Darwin, having received such caution from their progenitors. No, my 
brother antler, a trout never makes a feint and then turus back because 
he sees the /took. It is because be sets you. or thnt your combination of 
fur and feather is not the “Simon pure"— Dint you re "a foolin’ on hlni " 
But if it is still water, as on u pond or lake, let n brisk breeze ruffle the 
surface and you may likely fool him with a certainty. 
An angler whose outfit I furnished a few days since said he did not 
care to have more than six or eight different kinds of flies, but went on 
selecting from my stock until the number embraced twenty varieties 
IIu said ho “might want them, and they were so pretty.” And so it is 
with most of us; for although we may confine onr practice to three or 
four kinds, we "might want” a certuin fly, and they do look pretty 
against the clean parchment In a book, partienlariy so if arranged on 
Mr Hyde’s lately invented metallic catches for holding them In tho 
right position, with the gut straight Aud here let me say that Mr. It 
has riipplii d n great want In this particular He not only Invented these 
catches, but he had a (lie made to stamp and shape them, and gavo the 
of -ale for them to Mr. Brnlimrd. of Muidon Lane, and all for the 
T ';t\ h S he 11 y fishing community. Of course, Mr. Editor. 
some years ago in lunch: 
" Ye Sunberrye fysher bn* flie* or nil feathers. 
For all sorts of seasons, in all sort.* of weathers. 
Flies when ye Springtide Is blnstrio and showerie. 
Flie? when ye Summer is gmssle mid bowerle. 
|- le? wlmil ye Autumn 1? golden and graiuie. 
For hot weather, cold weather, nilstlu or ratnie. 
Bed spinner, Palmer, black peacock and gray. 
Yellow dun. goldeu dun, March brown, and May, 
Sand fly and stone fly, nnd ulder and gnat 
Black midge and marlow bug- all round his hat 
TuADDers Nowus, 
J/nswep go gornspondenty. 
S N " I'dndon, Ontario — Wc can get a tame black bear for you for 
one year old. 
J M..N. \ —For answer to your query regarding rifle tcama we would 
refer you to Mr J. s. Conlln, No. 93ft Broadway. 
O W. D., Philadelphia.— To yonr inquiry about hotel* at Canandaigua 
wo answer— Mcanre. Cook and Wakcmnn have opened the Canandaigua 
Hotel, nnd propose, to make It a most desirable place of sojourn. 
Books — A correspondent offers a copy of Stonehenge’* "Shot Gun 
and Sporting Rifle." as good a* new, in exchange for $5 worth of other 
books. Address B. G. Burnet, Key Box It, Newark, N J. 
n. B. S . Newton, Maas. -Whore can I get a pair of Indian moccasin*, 
and hi what price! Ana. Send to Eaton A Co., 102 Nn*»au street; they 
have several kind* of Indian moccaslus-Cblppewa, Sioux, BlackfceL 
etc. Price, $2 to $ j. 
Five Sportsmen, Syracuse.-A party of fire persons wonld like to 
know what supplies to take to camp a week at Cross Lake, (between 
Onondaga and Cayuga counties, 1 July, 12th, 1875. Ans. We auswered 
this question fully in our lssuo of June 2Jtn. 
O J. T„ New York City. -Can yon furnish me the rules and regula- 
tions for rifle practice; al*o how lo consiract target?, and can yon fur- 
n sh score book*? What will be the com of ihern. and also rules for 
pigeon shooting? An*, Books sent by mail; please remit; 
Brazos, Murfreesboro.— Can you tell me If Cot. McCarty’s Big Haul 
Is to come off. and do you know of hi* whereabouts? An* We have 
not heard directly from the redoubtable Colonel since last March. Our 
Impression Is that the "hunt" will be no hunt. 
Yacutsmax — To bleach sail?: Spread Die sail* on a clean aurface and 
dampen (hem thoroughly and evenly; then rub common soap over 
them. Wot them again, and sprinkle fine powdered whltin: all over 
them, leaving the sails to dry. After tbev are quite dry, scrub and wash 
them in clean water. 
J, F. P.. Philadelphia.— I see In yonr list of publications several 
works on "taxidermy .” Which would you recommend oj tho beet from 
which to get a complete knowledge of the art of stuffing and mounting 
birds* Aus "Field Ornithology" is the best by long odds. Price 
$2.75. E H Crane, the cmbalmer, of Nile®, Michigan, will shortly 
issue a work on bis branch of taxidermy. 
Manhattan, New York.— Have any of your readers a good setter 
bitch, (Gordon preferred,) soon to be In heat, which they desire to cross 
with a very rare, beautiful black and tan Burger epaulet, thoroughbred 
and very large? The Issue would be just Die thing for our briar thickets 
and impenetrable woodcock and quail bogs. An*. Who will answer? 
Such a cross would make serviceable and handsome dogs. 
W 51. K., Cambridge. Mas* —Where are some good tront fishing lo- 
calities In Nova Scotia! Is there good tront fishing in Cape Breton, and 
if so where* Wonld yon advlsjj going to the aforesaid districts rather 
than to Runeely during August nnd September! Ads. Best In Nova 
Scotia Is Tnsket River, by steamer from Portland, Maine, to Yarmouth, 
N. S Plenty of trout in Cape Breton, too. Rangely fishing In Sepiom'- 
ber wonld be better than Nova Scotia, ns the Rangely trout remain In 
condition until October. For Tusket River, full Information, sec Forest 
and Stream, Vol. II., No. 18, page 271. 
Reader, Brockville — Is the Industrial Publishing Co.. 176 Broadway, 
still in existence! In February last, In reply to ono of their sdvertlae- 
ments thnt nuy one sending $5 or more for book? wonld receive tbo 
Technologist for one year freo. 1 sent them $5.25. I lmve in my po«*cs- 
sion a postal card dated March 8th saying my draft hod been received 
nnd tbo books would be forwarded, since which time I have heard noth- 
ing from them, although I have written them three times. The Techno- 
logl't comes to hand regularly. Ans. Some doubt as to your proper ad- 
dress ha? prevented yonr receiving the books. They will now probably 
come to hand 
Staoo.— To get to the Magnetawan yon will have to leave Toronto at 
seven o'clock A M. by the Northern Railway, reaching Severn Bridge, 
the terminos, at 1:15 P. M.; thence by Harvie A Millard's stage to Grav- 
enhurst, a distance or twelve miles; thence by steamer Niplasing to 
Rossean. where It arrives at abont ten o’clock at night. You then take, 
a rest at either Pratt’s Hotel or the Walker House, two good houses. A 
stage leaves Ros-ean every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for tho 
Magnetawan, a distance of thirty-three miles from Rossean, arriving in 
the evening of same day Fare from Toronto to Magnetawan about $6. 
Guides with canoos can be bad for $2 a day. 
T W. 11 , Newark. — What is the regular name for the white flsh that 
Dio Fish commissioners have stocked the headwaters of the Passaic with? 
Is the law against catching them up yet, and what is the best tackle and 
halt? The white flsh are now about *ix inches in length, and are shaped 
like a trout, but are white, and their flesh when cooked is white What 
is the Latin name of the sea tront caught in New Brunswick? I* there 
nny good fishing for trout on Mt. Desert Island, nnd what will be the 
best flic* for August there! Ans. Cannot ascertain that white fish (for- 
Koomu alh'K) have ever been placed lu the Passaic. White flsh do not 
take a hook Silmo Canadensis is Die accepted name for the sea trout , 
There 1* good trout fishing on Mt. Desert. Take steamer from Rock- 
land, Me. 
Brook Trout, Detroit, Mich -Will yon please inform a few of yonr 
readers how large the brook trout grows' f remember of readlngsome 
lime since of one caught in Maine weighing twelve pounds, which waa 
said to be a genuine brook trout, but I hnvr ray doubts about the spe- 
ties of the flsh, though not of the weight. Ans. There Is no doubt of 
the identity of tho Maine flsh to which yon refer, It having been attest, d 
to bv the first uaturolist? In tho country. It can be soon at the office of 
Page & Klilder. No. 10 Warren street, at any time. The largest brook 
tiont (fahno fontlnalU) thnt we have ever heard of. wa* taken In the 
Agwana ltlver. that empties into Lake Ncplgon. its weight and specie* 
are fully vouched for by Chevalier Le Ronde. factor of the Iludeon’e 
Bay Company at Ncplgon poet, who weighed the flsh himself. It weigh- 
ed seventeen pounds. We have his written affidavit. 
H W. B , Chicago. HI — A party with onr families wish to camp ont 
on the shore? ot Green Lake. Wis., between July 15th and August I5ih 
What flsh are most abundant there, and wbat game at that season? What 
is the ba?t bait and size for black bns* nnd pickerel, and what other 
tncKle would be needed (or Dio different kinds of fi,h found there? Ans 
Your Questions will be answered in our Sea nnd River department next 
week Also, wbat works are there published on Florida regrading its 
climate etc., ns a place of resort; who are the publishers, and what la 
the price? An?. For maps and books on Florida, uddress Dr. C. J. Kcn- 
worthy Jacksonville, Florida. The most valnnole recent Information 
of the climate, geography, and resources of Florida can be obtained by 
subscribing to tho Florida Agriculturist. Address the pnblUbere at 
Jacksonville, 
JAB New York -A rrlcnd and l intend to spend six or eight weeks 
i Canada this Pall. Can you tell me fora certainty if a box or case 
containing our guns and ammnniDon-a breech and muzzle loader 
apiece 1 OCX- paper shells, powder and shot sufficient for each, together 
w'lth a* few remaining arllclea-would pass through the custom house at 
Port Hope without duty being charged, or auy delay! It Is for onr per- 
sonal use only. Suppose they were to enter at Toromo.how would samo 
case be Dented? Aus. We telegraphed to Toronto and Port Hope for 
positive information. Toronto collector says If you come to that city 
there will be no detention or duty, provided assurances are given that 
ami niininmtl no? rhal il» am.,it... ...... 
there Will 043 uu U«Vtu«vu -- s.M rav K imu lUlfc 
uienslls are for sporting and personal use; that the smaller posts are 
re strict, as tho officers depend upon collections as part of their sal- 
ary though there should be no duty except upon loaded shells; no du J 
... iinnnf vmir appointment* oruuitU 
