June 17, 1893] 
CONTENTS. 
N.B .—.411 rights reserved in articles published tn 
paper. 
Fisheries at tlie World’s Fair—British Exhibits 
Another Largo Pike ont of the Tost . 
The Spey — its Po.sition, and Rod Salmon Fisheries 
Pollack Pishing. 
Random Notes 
Scotch Notes . 
An Appendix to the Luncheon Basket 
New Fishing Stations on the Great Kastorn Rail¬ 
way-- Mildenhall . . . 
A Short Pishing Tour in Norway . 
The Rivers of Devon from Source to Sea 
Not a Red-Letter Day 
Waltoniana. 
Correspondence. 
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ANGLING AND CLUB GOSSIP. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 17th, 1893. 
THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION AND 
THE F. G. 
The Royal Commission of the Chicago Exhibi- 
* 19 " ®®ked Mr. R. B. Marston, Editor of the 
Fishing Gazette, to be one of the British Judges 
m the Department of the Fisheries, an honour 
Mr. Marston, with much regret, was obliged to 
decline for business and other reasons. 
FISHERIES AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. 
BRITISH EXHIBITS. 
By A COKKESPONDENT IN CHICAGO. 
A PEOMiNENT American angler asked me if I 
knew why England is so poorly represented in 
the Fisheries section of the World’s Fair. I said 
I really could not say. “ Well,” was his reply, 
“ I don’t think that in this case English people 
. can throw the blame on to the McKinley Act.” 
There is no kind of advantage to be gained in 
V discussing the reasons—whatever they may be— 
jfor our lack of appearance in the Fisheries section. 
It is more profitable to glance at the British 
exhibits, and so far as they go they are altogether 
worthy of notice. The thing is that they go such 
a dreadfully little space, even when one includes 
several exhibits pertaining to fisheries located 
elsewhere than in the Fisheries Building. What 
British exhibits there are in the Fisheries Build¬ 
ing will be found in Ur. James A. Henshall’s 
studiously prepared angling annexe. 
To begin there is a capital model of the Balti¬ 
more Fishery School at Cork, an institution 
.in which the Baroness Burdett Coutts has taken 
Jx keen interest. This institution came into 
existence in connection with the movement, 
headed by the Baroness Burdett Coutts, to revive 
the Irish fishing industry. It was established in, 
THE FISHING GAZETTE 
supported by private subscription 
and a Government capitation grant from Govern- 
ment under the Industrial Schools Act. A 
hundred and fifty boys are maintained in the 
home, and trained in all that pertains to the 
catching and curing and utilisation of fishes. 
Mackerel cured by the boys in the Baltimore 
school Is shown along with the model, and if only 
some of the boys had been present the exhibiti 
would even have been more interesting. To the 
right of the Baltimore model there stands a very 
prettily got up case of salmon flies from Mr. Wm. 
lurnbull, of Edinburgh. Although the selection 
of hooks is quite a small one, it includes some 
of those best known on Scotch waters. Mr. J. A. 
IVlaclean, of Pennycross, Argyllshire, illustrates 
his .system for communicating with fishing boats 
at sea. Also he shows plans of portable- fisher¬ 
men’s bothies, and a peat ice-house, and a model 
of a refrigerator designed to carry fish to market 
with a reduced waste of ice. 
Messrs.^ Anderson, Anderson and Anderson, of 
Queen Victoria-street, London, show a case of 
requisites for fresh-water fishing and angling. 
In the case are waterproofs, Buckland combi¬ 
nation wader.o, Cholmondeley Pennell over-knee 
waders, “ Norge ” serai-waders, leather-lined fine 
rubber knee and thigh boots, brogues, and so on. 
Perhaps the great interest of this case is the 
manner in which it illustrates the “ finish ” put 
on English angling requisites as compared with 
those of American make. “ English makers 
make their stuff both to look and last,” I heard a 
spectator remark. From the Abbey Mills, Red- 
ditch, Messrs. William Bartleet and Sons send 
an exhibit of needles, fish hooks, lines, floats, 
artificial flies, spinners, trolling spoons, &c. Mr. 
James Buchanan, Dale-street, Tradeston, Glas¬ 
gow, shows hooks, silk-worm gut, and other 
tackle pertaining to deep sea fishing. Messrs. 
McFarlane Brothers, Stornoway, have an exhibit 
of cured fish—red herrings, pickled cod, sun-dried 
cod, ling, saith, and Findon baddies. Cured fish 
likewise make an exhibit by Messrs. A. and J. Q. 
Corner, of Wick. 
These exhibits practically exhaust the show 
which England, Scotland, and Ireland, make in 
the Fisheries Building. Some little addition is 
made to them by the exhibits relating to fisheries 
shown in other parts of the exposition. In the 
Manufactures Building, Messrs. Barbour and 
Sons, of Lisburn, Ireland, have a case which 
includes fishing threads and nets. Tn their 
exhibit in the same building, Messrs. Finlayson, 
Bousfield and Co., Johnstone, Scotland, and 
Massachusetts, America, show salmon nets and 
gilling twines. Then the Belfast Ropework 
Company have fishing lines and netting twines 
among their varied exhibits in the Transportation 
Building. Messrs. Combe, Barbour and Combe 
(Ltd.), Belfast, include fishing lines in their case 
in the Agricultural Building. To return to the 
Manufactures Building, there are excellent cases 
of needles, hooks, and fishing tackle generally 
from two Redditch firms, Messrs. Henry Mil- 
ward and Sons, and Messrs, ll. Turner and Sons. 
One other feature of the part taken by England 
in the fisheries section remains to be mentioned 
—although it is hardly an exhibit for the eye. 
'That is the reports of researches made by the 
Marine Biological Association during the years 
1887 to 1892. he continued.) 
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ANOTHER LARGE PIKE OUT OF 
THE TEST. 
By R. N. 
In last week’s Fishing Gazette there was a 
notice of a pike weighing 21Uh. having been 
killed below the bridge at Romsey. The day 
after, June 2, Mr. Medley, of Romsey, succeeded 
in killing a pike weighing 121b., length 35in. 
There is nothing uncommon in a fish of this 
size being taken, but perhaps the novel way the 
pike was caught is worth telling. The fish had 
been seen for more than a week below a large 
patch of weeds in mid stream, and opposite the 
entrance of another stream flowing into the main 
river. From the point made by the junction of 
this it was impossible to get a bait of any sort 
over him by casting. From the road, which 
forms the other bank of the river, it was just 
possible to send a bait over to where the fish lay, 
but as the pike was plainly visible from here, 
and had even attracted the attention of the 
general public, it was not likely he was going to 
take a bait, and he did not. There was a general 
feeling that the fish ought to be out of it, and as 
usual there were plenty of folk to advise. 
The keeper intended to set a trimmer from the 
island below, but this would require a boat or 
deep wading, and just now he is busy trimming 
the weeds after the May-fly. 
After some conversation with Mr. Medley (who 
is a very keen fisherman) last night, we thought 
we had contrived a plan to get this fish. To-day 
we had a most practical trial of our plan. The 
only live bait procurable was a small roach. With 
this and his rod and line, Mr. Medley stationed 
himself on the point of land nearest above the 
fish, while I took a position on the road opposite, 
where I could see the fish. The next thing was to 
establish communication over the stream. This 
was done, after a few failures (for the river is 
broad here), by throwing a stone across attached 
to a string. 
This string was tied on the rod line just above 
the float (an old bung), then, with my end of the 
string, I went down until the pike was in a line 
between us, and slowly drew the live bait out in 
the direction of the fish, Mr. Medley keeping a 
sufficient strain on his winch for the bait to clear 
weeds, which were well out of water here. 
When the small roach dangled immediately over 
where the pike lay we both slacked down, and 
in went the roach almost within a foot of the fish. 
Immediately there was a huge swirl in the 
water, and a general exclamation, “ He has got 
it,” for by this time, being on the public road 
and in the middle of the afternoon, of course a 
large audience had assembled. 
My end of the line, now become useless, was 
abandoned to the stream. It was mutually agreed 
to give him (the fish) ten minutes, while I pro¬ 
ceeded round to assist in gaffing him. However, 
on reaching the other bank—a good five minutes’ 
walk—I found to my disappointment that Mr. 
Medley had just reeled in the live bait, not 
much the worse for wear, the fish having dropped 
it. As the pike had taken the bait with such a 
will the first time,lwe concluded to try him again. 
The same manoeuvres were gone through with 
string and stone, I having to walk all the way 
back again. This time we agreed that it would 
be best to strike immediately the fish took the 
bait, as the two large hooks on a small bait gave 
a chance of them fixing themselves. 
The bait was let down in exactly the same spot, 
and this time the pike took it quite quietly with¬ 
out moving the water, although not very deep. 
Mr. Medley struck smartly and there was a 
mighty commotion, then two or three determined 
rushes, the fish in his plunges showing to the 
geiieral admiration of the audience. The weeds. 
which were being cut 
higher 
up, very soon 
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began to collect round the line and bung, the fish 
also buried himself in a mass of growing weeds, 
and by the time I reached the opposite bank 
everything seemed most hopeless. 
The rod, which was rather a slight one, had no 
power to move this mass of mixed weeds and fish. 
A countryman we tried to persuade to go in and 
stir up the weeds, got as far as divesting himself 
of his boots and socks, but, after wetting his 
feet and clutching on to bank, declined to go 
farther. I have an idea he w'as afraid of the fish. 
After this, there was nothing for it but a pull on 
the line—luckily a very stout one and new. This 
was done, Mr. Sledley reeling up the few inches 
we got at a pull. There must have been forty 
pounds of weeds alone on the line ! 
At last something seemed to give, and the line, 
with a huge bundle of water-crowsfoot at the 
end, came into the bank of the side stream. No 
doubt the fish made a bolt up, assisting, but as we 
could see nothing of this, naturally concluded by 
the sudden slacking of the line the fish was gone. 
But as Mr. Medley was stooping to clear some of 
the weeds, a yellow side showed out from under 
them, and Mr. Medley promptly sent the gaff 
home into this, and the next instant the pike 
was kicking in the meadow. 
For the time of the year the fish was in very 
good condition, having a remarkably broad back. 
This is another very good riddance out of the 
Test, and will save the lives of many a trout and 
grayling. 
