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forest and stream. 
scribed the tussle crave doubts of either the story or style 
of fish he was catching stole o’er me. I have had mauy a 
salmon hereabouts on an eight ounce rod, aud landed many 
a twenty pounder with a twelve; but this was a little loo 
strong, eveu for a fish story, and it occurred to me that my 
friend was a blarsted liar, or at least was blessed with a 
powerful imagination. Things were getting to that point 
when to listen was to admit my credulity; to dispute was 
probably the most successful method of getting into a row 
and as my narrator, I observed, wore his six-shooter as 
does everybody down in that part of the country, and for 
the mnttcr of that in any part of it — I concluded' to avail 
myself of the great American principle that a drink set- 
tles fill things, and proposed irrigation— a proposition that 
did not seem to hurt the feelings of my narrator of that 
tale of a fish in the least. On the contrary, he arose with 
some alacrity, and pouring out five fingers good of the 
fearful beverage that the place afforded, tossed it off with 
a nod and remark, “Ougli." After a gasp or two lie recovered 
his equmimity, mid settled down on his chair to wait na 
tiently for the next streak of luck in the shape of an invi- 
ta .on to drink I departed for a livery stable, and engaging 
a team to he at the hotel door in fifteen minutes, hurried 
338,“ *> 
have had the finest fishing l n the w&M i,e8 ? bov ® wo could 
357 
said: l .°. WQ for a week. His — 
"I just know that i °J a V- Cek - Uis ,nan 
where to make amends for th/& h - M sI, PP ed 0,r somc ' 
>ng it out on some troutst^ and >* hav- 
and r believe I will adorn if r e . , . dea ls a g° od °nc, 
Truckco and Lake Tahoe F .tt 1 ? VI # J ake a n,H U P t0 
Sierras, only a day’s ride ^ a " e “ L e af Lake, &c„ up in the 
flali in o’* Iwian . I u,e rail. I know all about that 
"'ivv.il mu uuit's iiurnca 
back to the house, on the way encountering tlie Medico 
doing a little shopping. He had opened negotiations for a 
frvimr nun with vmur • r. . e . ; 
frying pan, with a view to broil a trout for lunch under 
the shady greenwood tree. Subsequent overtures for 
crackers and cheese, accompanied by proffers of coin met 
witli unqualified success. We started hack for the hotel 
the Medico shouldering the frying pan, and I bearing un- 
der one arm ft paper of crackers, under the other a section 
of cheese The Medico vanished to put himself inside his 
stunning fishing clothes, while I sat myself down in a chair 
literally waiting for the wagon. As f 8ttt there smoking a 
cigar, I espied a scody-lookmg individual a block distant 
having that imp damp squashy appearance of a wet man' 
carrying »y the gills a ftsli-a large one, at least two feet in’ 
length. I was giving the fish the closest scrutiny possible 
at that distance, and wondering what kind of a one it. could 
be It/ lion n il/\7in.r eloni... I 1 - : . . 
fishing; been there before If! 1 A 1 ? 0 " 11,1 aho,lt lba ‘ 
time. It is a «riorh,„» S T d ne , ver fa,led >< a ve a good 
lake your dinner at six six m - tl,c inorni,, g at >d 
an hour bind »i .i,„ „„ „L._.. thousand feet in tlie air, and ln 
TrucS “ru°. .TXte S’- 
brag a bit, nor te’l b i ^nr S . V niy Uoxt ’ nnd 1 W0I >'t 
trip to Kern River for-chubs mak ° ftm ° nds » r tho litUe 
uua ' PODOERS. 
Propagation op 
when n, dozing, slecpy-looking mun in an adjoining 
chair remarked, ‘‘There’s Hank Johnson; he’s been a fish- 
I Inn nwxiiniii' T .. I I 
, ........ u-'"iiouu, I1U a lit M 
in this mornin , I see, and only got one trout.” At the 
word trout I bounced out of my chair and sped across the 
street around the corner where tlie man aud fish had di«- 
ttppcarcd nnd caught sight of both as they entered a «■»- 
loon. When I arrived tho man was leaning lazily against 
I the counter, and the fish lay on the floor. I think negoti- 
ations had been opened with a view to imparting the fish to 
f the barkeeper as a circulating medium to represent the 
I amount of coin necessary to the acquirement of a drink 
I immediately made for tlie fish as it lay j„ j ts i, u „ e ' 
I portions extended on the door. At the first glance a cold 
W perspiration broke over me, ns warm as the inorninn- was 
I I stooped down and scraped off the dirt and leaves and if 
I did not go into a conniption it arose from the slight cir- 
[ cumslanco of being a man instead of a woman, i recov- 
ered in a moment, as it (lashed across me that this could not 
he anything but what it was, and I said to tlie damn ee ,,- 
tleman, “ What-ah-what kind of a fish do you call this?” 
lie turned around, and staring me full in the face with n 
look of astonishment, said- ‘‘Don’t you know?’’’ 1 said 
that it pained me to confess Unit I did not, ‘ Wall stian 
ecr. Hints what we call a trout down where I come from " 
I did not wait to enter into Hie merits of the fish or the li - 
■ cation that had tlie honor of claiming bim as a native I 
I rushed back to the hotel. The Medico had just emerged 
I in his toggery, immensely pleased with himself. I b 7iid 
[ blandly, “There's a chap over the way with a rouser of a 
I trout; just come in from the river with it." Tlie Doc says 
I “By George! I want to see it; is it a big one— a blister*” 1 
I said, “Verily it is. ’ Just then the landlord remarked 
■ “I've just bought ft raft of ’em of a chap that just drove 
I by with half a wagon load. Come with me, it vou want 
I toseeone." We followed him into the little back porch 
■ that constituted the larder, and there lay half a dozen— 
I trout! W ait and hear what the Medico said : “Good God ! 
I man, you don’t call those things trout, do you?” “Of 
■ courso we do; and if they are not trout, I’d like to know 
I what you would call them?” (Sarcastically.) “And are 
; these tho fish you catch in the river and call trout?” “Yes ” 
■ “Don't catch any other kind?” “No.” The Medico stag- 
I gcred, and leaning against a post, with a feeble voice 
I whispered. “Is my name S. ? Are you acquainted will! 
me?” •‘Yes." “Do I look like a man whose head was a 
little wrong?" “Yes; always did." “Do I look as if I 
■ was tight?" (Emphatically.) “Yes.” "Am I tight?” 
■ ‘‘Somewhat.” “Do I live in the city of San Francisco 
I and have I come 2. r >0 miles to this thriving settlement trout 
I fishing?" “You do; you have." “Will you assist me to 
| my room?" Tenderly we bore him un stairs to No. 3. 
t Laying him on tlie bed, he remarked, “What time did you 
say tlie train returned?” “Eleven o’clock to-nieht." “Will 
I you have the goodness to call me at half p;rst ten, land- 
I loril?" and covering up his head he rolled over and went to 
. sleep nnd slept that entire day, appearing only at sundown 
■ driven out by a tierce appetite. There was an expression 
of resignation on his face, a diluted grief. There was no 
allusion to fish, except wlieu wo came to load up, when 
I the rods were painful evidence of our purposes and intent. 
1 said, “Medico, this frying pan. this cheese, these oderifer- 
- oils herring; how about thorn?" lie meiely waved his 
hands — waved them away, as it were— and dove into the 
* omnibus; but I climbed upon top with Hie frying pan, and 
as we rode to tlie depot I let it. hang down and hump 
against the back of Medico’s head, it giving up a sonorous, 
bellfluous souud, as of two maleable metals coming to- 
f ether. I handed it down to him; ho would not take it. 
bumped him on tlie head witli it; he took it carefully 
■into the car and placed it in his section; and the cheese 
and tho herrings, and as it was warm there was a trial of 
■ strength between them. We turned in, and next morning 
found us on the ferry boat, the last stage of our journey. 
Several friends were curious about fish; wanted to know 
inhere they were. Tlie Medico denied that lie had been 
; “ailing — lmd not wet a line, which was true. Well, how 
I about these rods? Oh I those are not rods, surveying iu- 
l*trmnents, bcou down to Visalia surveying some Tide 
land. 
We brought no fish, 'tis true; but we were posted oil 
Kern River trout, and wo had gotten over the fever to go 
.. ? re , ; , f l |da hed talking about going down and having a 
shy” at those big fellows. If I did not know that my 
friend Col. W. was a truthful man and knew trout when 
he saw them, I should have gone for his scalp on my re- 
turn. He is absent, hut on his return I shall interview 
him I think I have partially solved the mystery. He had 
flailed in the river iu tho momituiu range, where there were 
black bass from SS oZ £ 
property of the Blooming Grove Park AssOcSp inX 0 
fast as to Sr," anJ thelr pr ° ?Cny ,,a3 ' ncr ea8ed so 
lnfl» g 0d Sport t0 tbe an s ler a ‘ any time The 
w.uers Jr' 8 T " OW ° n their gravel beds in the shallow 
wmers along shore, protecting either their spawn or the 
r , I ai r ^ the Cft9c mjy be ‘ 11 is interesting to 
note Hie pertinacity with which they guard their precious 
dmoTr? 10 V . !g ° r WitU which the y awalTdepre- 
datorsand intruders of all kinds. They will freoueitly 
tl enVJr ? VGr them . freely six inches above 
then backs, and obstinately stand their ground. Sunflsh 
and such are compelled to keep their distance. There are 
hundreds of these bowl-shaped excavations, eighteenth 2 
thi lat ZT- 611 al ° ng tUe 8badow > sandy shores o? 
tl is Jake, which .very clear, and in the centre, some sev- 
euly feet deep, fed by bottom springs. Earlier in the sea 
son ,t would be very easy to collect their spawn for propa- 
gating experiments. It is dilBcult to peVccive why hLs 
cannot be cultivated as well as the salinoides. Y 
SglPisi 
ber of comfortable simm er i ' 0U8CS « lr ? 8 P rinkIed a nun,- 
Summer by H lc ir eitv n™L flc f l t0 in tl,c beat of 
ing both labors 2 * T,- tb0 bl ,V ff ’ “^look- 
‘ck which is only too s3l for '. de lghtfuny locult -' d bo- 
, Till wo made , U could do - 
to where Wood’s Hole wi W 1 • ,d f a ? 0f most of us ^ 
Capo Cod as au immente honi 1 “? ^ d ‘ Lo °bing upon 
the leg is embraced betwee^tLe' V nevVr mucb * 
sachusetts Bay, trendiue to 1 L l d ? ound and Ma «- 
pointing to the 7 north M SS UDd thc foot 
tbe lee of tho big toe- then W 00 K /I , 7l ^ g , snu S under 
rear strap. Across the L t d ■, n ° ,e 18 built on the 
yanl. and teyonTt ,o othiJtland- T,' ,eS ’ 18 Martha ’« Vine 
with Oak Bluff, Holmes’ Ho2 v«n, lea ? er8 co,n, uunieate 
ford on arrival of tS We’ S IJed ‘ 
and to duy’s Boston pupers it V 3 New York 
telegraph and ex P re£ ' P »n d I - n o’clock A. M., have 
drive on. But we P (lid’’nt roi.? n ' 1 a ' ght ,’ aaud y r « a d to 
and there’s water enough 3 L aTu bUt ‘° tish - 
our nets, from lumping sharks dow ,L ^"t comes to 
as even the weeds (algai) ft' j«-‘Hy fish, and 
gators^ Mnr^ 
B* Wt ye„, 
ng up the sound with her boat? 3 decks fi, g U SleH, ‘V 
three-legged chairs and tables, | e gg Jq consnlen^i P W . ltU 
inn Bkvwjirit ]iL- n .. *> conspicuouslv nomf- 
i n g s k y w a r dli k e°o* "w | ; 0 le* "cu rn s' * oV * I il S f P '. c 11 0 u s ^ y Point 
ting a difficult pas, we musMmvi ' el da ? cer8 ex «eu. 
spectacle. The town«n3mL.i? ' ® P rescn ted a dramatic 
spectacle. The townsneon ,. Zr c T a dramatic 
sured us that we Tr^Xd'to iL in ti8h - as - 
r u, “ . w " c 
tog, a score-yes, an hundred bluefish 3 fl A barre , 1 of '"u- 
bass of fabulous weight were usual rewards 7 y n u £f d 
re so very common, when we got hern ,i . Uut alaa! as 
or other; it always is, and ufso we a e nS aTexT.lv*! I' g 
place yet ; it’s as usual, further off. Foriun y , - ,be 
before°u8. ° “ W ° Ure l °° early ’ ’ - 
Grayling Propagation in Bavaria. -Our Munich cor- 
respondent, W. 8 M., whose letter may be found on our 
edit rial page, makes the rather unexpected statement that 
grayling were artificially hatched in Bavaria ten years a«m 
ami used to stock other streams. “I make this statement ’’’ 
he says, as I see by your paper of Mar 6th that Seth 
Green is churned to have hatched tho first that ever were 
"niched. I can furnish you the facts if you like " Wo 
would be greati 7 interested to receive from our correspon- 
dent all the information upon the subject that ho can sup- 
door work and keep out doors; so we wernardr v 7 id f i ( n ' 
the government wharf before I started S bardl - 7 fa8t to 
fishing. No bait, nor squid, nor bol did ve ^1™?' b U0 ‘ 
outlines and big hooks The Snn mL, , n 11 juat 
nisiied a Land ct, and ihe ‘l„, “ V 
passed over the track, we, under the powerful steam I‘ Dg 
orated by our two strongest men at thecrank* gCU 
tdlv to the enstwniH . cra "K8. started rup 
A paragraph appeared in our last issue to the effect 
that the South Hadley fishway was a failure. We are now 
informed by Mr E. A. Brackett, fish commissioner for the 
blate of Massachusetts, that such statement was an error 
that so far as any evidence has been obtained, it all goes to 
prove the fishway to he a success, and that ail fish that 
show any disposition to go above the dam do so with per- 
feet ease. F 
stnp on which the railroad is built 5? foSncft 
several acres, alive with herrin» or rntlmr „ i'- a p nd of 
their way back through a ditch-like creek to the f 
few scoops with a dip net gave us nlomu nt L ■ . e 8ta - A 
strung out on the beach liaS a mile Ive “hove^nd Mauled^ 
The blucfish are attracted by tho herring running out an tu-e 
hoped our baits would do us well. Some Im™ ? d , f 
rapidly ; others hove, aud by a peculiar jerk known ™| U Jf 
the initiated, wriggled their hooS sliwly oS (ffieS 
again liove and n--nr..,i 1. . UIU - K - Utuers 
_ for Form and Stream. 
U. S. FISHERY COMMISSION AT WOOD’S 
HOLE. 
THE U - S - Flsh Commission have fixed upon this pret- 
A ty little attachment to Cape Cod for its Summer’s 
work, and so superior are its advantages to those present- 
ed l»y most points along our coast that it is probable that 
even a more prolonged research than tho limits of one 
Summer will permit may be accorded to tbe adjacent 
waters. Even tlie features of tho main land and of the 
adjacent islands — Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, No 
Mans Land, nnd others— furnish, from the peculiarities of 
the people in thought and habits, full material for lively 
and instructive magaziuo articles. 3 
The wit and shrewdness of the Cape Cod man or Nan- 
tucketer, are proverbial; how much more, then, may wo 
expect of curious revealiugs when the dredge and trawls 
of tho little Bluclight are set to work, and the brains of 
our scientific corps are stimulated and refreshed with the 
fish diet, tho cool sea air, and the quiet, homely aspect of 
every surrounding, freed from noise and excitement' 1 
We start at least under fair uuspices. Tlie villa-’-e is 
prettily situated along the hilly bluff which, from Nobsca 
again hove and waited for results. One plan Vas eauaUv 
successful as the others. Oue man can gm ' h f 1 , y 
the rest went home as light as they came Ti, r a fl ° Under; 
I tried this, then having*™ St o^iou rec^ved ZZ'nf 
0118 conirriini jifmnQ Im/M.iivn t .. « , lvea . irujicud- 
0118 congratulations because I had a bite, Igavelt un nml 
tried trolling, with equally as good luck. - P - d 
. Then we itevo- 
We 9°, u * d catch barrels of them 
IDll emir.-. I. C • . * • 
■n.uij 31HUHW1 luuug 1 no uuiy oiiiu which, trom Nobsca 
Lighthouse Point, bends around a little nearly land-locked 
larbor, which constitutes "Tho Little Hole'," points out- 
harbor, .. . Julius out- 
ward to the sound, then breaks off into a rush of whirling 
eddying tides, and uest of clangorous rocks, through which 
a narrow, well buoyed channel leads into the harbor of 
Wood’s Hole, where terminates the Old Colony Railroad 
and where all persons bound camp-mectlngward leave cars’ 
for steamboat. Across the Hole— as the rocky whirlpool 
is called— a little island with au Indian name springs up 
trending to tlie westward; then another, and close to the 
long, narrow, and beautiful island of Nanshou, covered in 
parts with noble groves of oak, under whose shelter and 
around w hose fastnesses the native deer roam and feed un- 
molested, till one fatal week, or longer, in Full wlieu, with 
a coterie of chosen friends, the owner of this magnificent 
estate, Mr. Forbes, calls upon tho forest to render its 
tribute, and his handsome country seat, with boats and 
yachts and wharf, to contribute to their eutertainment. 
But Mr. F. does’nt get all of his owu deer; they swim from 
the island, and many a fine buck has made venison for less 
dalutv palates. 
This island was, with the little ones mentioned, undoub- 
ted ourselves to tautoir. 
in the Hole.” So at iuTmense^ks^ b ° f ,hem 
fouad tho lavorile 
tide rusning like a rapid over the “split rock ” where we 
were to heave our anchor iuto the creek aud ho’ld on 
did, and could’nt much; but we at last caught fish' W« 
carried out ten pounds of lobster for bait, and wfLuJb 
home seven pounds of cuuners. Then we gave up Sni 
Ull a day or two ago, when great news of bluetish 7am in 8 
Captain Lays excitedly assured me that there w-u^noVnH 
of ’em over to Holmes’ Hole, ns ten „ , , eDcl 
rr? P t OUnd8 ti b0iird a 8mack - aMd caught em^very 
oue thA day That startled me. The Cap'ain bein^ 
fi™“' eX8 ?r imed ' clai ™ ed , tbat tbe “ best mau P go“’ni D et g 
five. How much do they average?” “YYa’ll full.. 
pounds apiece." I cyphered that up: Let the’othw nbe 
equal thc best man, throw in five fish apiece to make C v™ 
numbers and I asked him where they got the ether bno 
thousand pounds. That startled him lt 0 sheered off ami 
grumbled that he “gin it to me as he got it.” This was 
mild though, for the Captain, who is a regular old c3 
Cod skipper. He was telling the other night when fn 
ft fresh breeze the Weather Bureau observer here pro 
claimed a fifteen miles an hour wind-that he was once hi 
r n i»r‘ C h-° thul ; bowed four kundf ed miles an hour “ 
Cape Cod is a great place for “ye ancient mariner ” A n 
oilier one, whose yarns Lad astonished us not a little tobl 
me confidentially that old L. was “awful on yarns Yer 
could nt be heve much of anything Le told yer, ir yer 
a stranger." I believe him, thut time y “ 
Well, we manned the Rapid Transit, our cat boat-that 
is to say she is Chester’s-but he is such a generous ' ^ whole 
souled lei low (I mean Chester, of the Polaris parm that 
every one gets to looking on Chester’s property^ Hu e and 
services as public property-and started over for tbe Middle 
Ground. L:ist years lines, not property cured for soon 
enabled the bluchsh to cairy off to ocean’s depths the min- 
now squids, aud our luck was limited; still, we hud had 
biles plenty, and did bring home some fish— no matter how 
many. But we fitted up afresh, and since then huve kept 
our ice box well supplied; aud the tuutog, too, have begun 
to bite, aud our hsli car is no longer un empty waste 
It’s rather an object to catch fish here. Prices of'everv- 
hiug are outrageously high, aud the mess hilt has to he 
looked out for. I give you a few items.- Fish ail kinds 
ten cents per pound; meat, thirty cents; berries, forty cenm 
a quart, and other things prorata. That is tbe only fault 
we have to find so fur. The dealers are anxious to S rkh 
loo fast, and we have to assist U,em more than 011 F share 
lourii, 
’ PISECO. 
Ontario Shad. -T he Cobourg, Canada, Sentinel savs - 
Lately our townsfolk Lave beeu regaled with a novel 
kind ot small fish, which at first were supposed to be bir- 
ring, and which have been caught in large numbers by our 
fishermen, as well as in other places along the lake shore 
