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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 29, 1906. 
viously it was simply known as one of the Three 
Lakes. It is a perfect gem of a lake, oblong in 
shape and less than half a mile long, and con¬ 
taining on one of its mountain-rimmed shores 
a commodious camp house connected by private 
telephone with Mr. Simpson’s main camp twelve 
miles away. Three years ago* Mr. Simpson 
planted a number of ouananiche fry in this lake. 
It already contained some excellent trout. The 
two fish have lived together in such perfect 
harmony that it is by no means unusual to take 
a trout and a ouananiche on the same cast, and 
sometimes they weigh over two pounds' each. 
The story of the introduction of ouananiche 
into the waters of Mr. Simpson and other sur¬ 
rounding lakes is quite an interesting one. No 
effort was made to obtain them from Lake St. 
John. The ova came in the first instance from 
New Hampshire, and the product of the New 
England landlocks (so-called) prove themselves 
to be in every respect identical with the ouan¬ 
aniche of Lake St. John, even to the increased 
gameness of the fish when transplanted into 
the cool, northern waters, as both the late Mr. 
Cheney and I have always insisted that they were. 
I caught one in Lake Madame Prevost the other 
day. weighing nearly three pounds, and the de¬ 
partment'is having it mounted to show what 
can be done in three years in the way of trans¬ 
planting ouananiche. This fish and others 
caught by our party in this lake were fully the 
equals in strength and fighting capacity of the 
Lake St. John fish, sometimes leaping dear of 
the water four and five times after being hooked. 
Only a small quantity of the ova was obtained 
from Mr. N 3 t. Wentworth, and New Hampshire 
lost nothing by the transaction which was'in the 
nature of an exchange, by which Canada’s 
neighbor received a quantity of the ova of the 
magnificent newly discovered “red” trout, closely 
allied to, if not actually identical with Salvelinus 
marstoni. The ouananiche fry received from 
New Hampshire was so small a consignment 
that it was hatched out in an improvised hatch¬ 
ery in the private residence of a prominent 
Quebec sportsman, Mr. F. Bender, of the well- 
known fur firm of Holt, Renfrew & Co. The 
fry, or at least a portion of it was then re¬ 
moved to .a private hatchery erected by Mr. 
Simpson some years ago, of which I shall have 
something to say in a future letter. In the 
course of time, the fish increased and were dis¬ 
tributed not only in waters belonging to Mr. 
Simpson, but also into some of those belonging 
to the St. Bernard Club, of which General 
Henry is president, and also into some of the 
Laurentian Club lakes. In 1905 ouananiche were 
caught in these latter waters weighing four 
pounds, and in Lake Blue, on the St. Bernard 
Club preserve, they have been taken up to three 
pounds. The plant was only made in these lakes 
in 1901. E. T. D. Chambers. 
Newfoundland Fishing. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I find that some tourists coming into New¬ 
foundland for sport in fishing and hunting are 
inclined to take for granted all that is said in 
our guide books, the one issued by the Govern¬ 
ment, the other by the Reid Newfoundland Com¬ 
pany; while others are inclined to discount largely 
what is said in them. A happy medium is per¬ 
haps the safer way. 
It is almost certain that what is said of each 
stream is true on what may be called rare oc¬ 
casions. For example, a Mr. Wilson, of Eng¬ 
land, after a few total failures, went from the 
Doyle house on the 17th of June, 1903, with the 
customary guide and came back with five salmon 
weighing 12, 10, 10, 10, and 10 pounds. The 
next day he went again and brought back six 
salmon weighing 14 7'A, 8, 8, \o '/ 2 and \2 l / 2 
pounds, also three trout weighing 4, 2and 2 
pounds. The next day, June 19, he went again 
and brought back four salmon weighing 20(4, 
17V2, 12and 10 pounds, also four trout weigh¬ 
ing 5, 2j-2. 2 and 1 pound. 
Now, this has not been duplicated since, though 
this year an American gentleman left Doyle’s 
with a guide, and although he had never caught 
a salmon or grilse before, he came back with 
eleven grilse and one large trout. That was on 
a Saturday early in July. On Monday following 
he went again from Doyle’s and returned with 
the round dozen grilse. These are exceptional cases. 
But the experience of Capt. Grainger, of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y.; Mr. Cone, of Norfolk, Conn., and 
Mr. Stilton, of Winsted, Conn., in salmon and 
trout fishing come in a good second to the above. 
Until a few years ago all coming to our New¬ 
foundland streams to fish apparently came for 
pleasure. Recently it has developed that some 
were fish hogs—they do not come any more, that 
is, some of them, because they cannot get great 
numbers of fish at will. Others come making 
it a business proposition ; they want to catch all 
the salmon possible to smoke and take home with 
them. Grilse and trout are no object. And these 
people make it disagreeable for the true sports¬ 
men who come for pleasure, to enjoy our rare 
scenery and pure air; because they claim that, 
while they are camped near a pool, no other 
person has a right to fish in that pool; whereas 
all pools are free to all. There are no riparian 
rights, whether by purchase or possession. There 
is no possession. 
It is true that some gentlemen have acquired 
land property adjacent to good pools for the pur¬ 
pose of building a shelter thereon to be used 
while fishing when too far to return to a hotel; 
but these do not claim exclusive privileges, that 
is, not all of them (one party failed to enforce 
exclusiveness), and have been known lo retire 
from their pool when the rod of a stranger ap¬ 
peared in sight. I should be pleased to record 
that all “do likewise.” 
These things happen on the Great Codroy 
River or Grand River, as it is called, on which 
are very many excellent pools extending from 
near Doyle’s to the Forks, about eight miles of 
pools, and up the North and South branches 
nearly fifteen miles more. And this river is one 
of the earliest. Salmon and trout begin to 
come into tidal waters about the latter part of 
May, but are seldom up in the pools before the 
5th of June, and are not numerous till they have 
time to collect. They do not come into the river 
at any time in sufficient quantity to raise the 
river perceptibly. You can always get a boat 
or canoe through them. I never beard of a sal¬ 
mon coming into a boat of its own volition but 
once. James Doyle. 
Doy e’s, Newfoundland, Sept 7. 
Vitality of a Small-Mouth Black Bass. 
Easton, Pa., Sept. 22.—On Wednesday of last 
week Mr. J. F. Nightengale, of Easton, Pa., while 
fishing at Mt. Minsi, three miles above Portland 
on the Delaware River, caught a small-mouth 
black bass weighing four pounds two ounces. 
The bass was put in a pool of running water 
to be kept alive until the following day when Mr. 
Nightengale was to return home. It was taken 
out of the pool, put in a ten quart bait pail, 
driven to Portland three miles, where the water 
was poured off and a small piece of ice about 
as large as one’s fist was put in, it being thought 
that in this way it would be kept cold. 
Mr. Nightengale then took the electric road for 
Easton, leaving Portland at 2:15 and arriving in 
Easton at 4:15, the bass being without water and 
about half doubled up in the pail at least two 
hours and a quarter. 
When he arrived at his residence, in taking 
the bass from the pail, he noticed it to wriggle 
slightly. He then put it in a tub of running water 
and last night it was as lively as ever. 
E. H. Green. 
He Saved the Rod. 
One of Forest and Stream's friends who was 
in San Francisco at the time of the -earthquake 
and fire, but who was not heard from for a long¬ 
time afterward, and then while living in another 
city, writes that with his wife he had the night 
previous to the shake-up returned from a fish¬ 
ing trip, and being tired, he had not unpacked 
his suit case, which with his favorite fly-rod, 
was left on the floor of their room. 
Shortly after the earthquake shock the house 
took fire. Our friend tried to open a closet, in 
which were his wife’s and his own street cloth¬ 
ing, but the door was jammed by the settling 
of timbers and it could not be opened. His wife, 
therefore, donned a bath robe and hurried out, 
while he struggled into his fishing clothes, 
grabbed suit case and fishing rod and followed 
her; but she was nowhere to be found, and for 
four days he believed her dead until an adver¬ 
tisement in a daily paper brought husband and 
wife together again. 
Meanwhile he tramped continually, hoping to 
find his wife, and everywhere he went he was 
good-humoredly ridiculed because of his fishing- 
rod, which, however, he would not trust out of 
his sight, for at that time it represented all he 
owned in the world, everything else having been 
destroyed. 
Trout and Minnows. 
New York, Sept. 17. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: I see that in Forest and Stream Mr. 
Lemmon intimates that in his section two trout 
have so forgotten their proper dignity as to stoop, 
or better, dart to conquer darters. Perhaps the 
pursuit of this remarkable sort of food by the 
local fish is due to the peculiar flavor afforded 
by the stiff fins said to be possessed by their prey. 
Then, possibly, insects were scarce, and the fon- 
tinalis were starving. I cannot imagine a sensible 
trout taking one of those piscine paper of pins, 
unless in need of a toothpick after his craw¬ 
fish luncheon; and this seems to be what the fish 
mentioned by Mr. Hardy was using the Aquar¬ 
ium minnow for. With all due respect to The 
Outlook, 1 would like to have it mention a min¬ 
now having “a sharp dorsal fin.” The magazine 
probably meant a small perch or bass. Go to! 
Avaunt! Talhurst and Flint, of Essex county 
trout brooksj still insist that Adirondack fonti- 
nalis consumes neither small trout or real min¬ 
nows. 
We believe every word of The Outlook story, 
of course, including the wink, and are even pre¬ 
pared to swallow its spine-rayed minnow tail-end 
first, washing -it down with good old Niersteiner. 
Peter Flint. 
The Kansas City Casting Tournament. 
A tournament will be held by the Kansas City 
Bait and Fly-Casting Club on Oct. 7, on Rock’s 
Lagoon, Kansas City, Mo. The events, governed 
by the rules of the National Association of Scien¬ 
tific Angling Clubs, recently organized, will be 
a.s follows: 
Event 1 : Accuracy and delicacy fly-casting at 
40, 50 and 60 feet. 
Event 2: Distance and accuracy bait-casting, 
quarter-ounce weights, at 60 70 and 80 feet. 
Event 3: Long distance fly-casting, the longest 
cast to count, no limit to rod or line. 
Event 4: Distance and accuracy bait-casting, 
half-ounce weights, at 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 feet. 
Event 5: Distance and accuracy, half-ounce 
bait-casting, in a V-shaped court with tape line 
in center, every foot the weight falls from the 
tape to be scored a demerit of one foot from his 
distance score, the average of five casts to count, 
the largest cast made to go on the record. 
Attractive prizes will be given. Members of 
other clubs are expected to be present. Further 
information can be obtained from the Preki.dent, 
F. B. Robinson, 824 Delaware street, Kansas City, 
Mo. 
New York Casting Tournament. 
At the business meeting of the Anglers’ Club 
of New York, held Sept. 11, it was decided to 
affiliate with the National Association of Scien¬ 
tific Angling Clubs, and Chancellor G. Levison 
was named as the member of the executive com¬ 
mittee of that body. 
Arrangements were made for the tournament 
to be held by the club at The Pool, in Central 
Park, Oct. 12 and 13, and programmes can be 
had from G. M. L. La Branche, 30 Broad street, 
on the Secretary. Perry D. Frazer, Forest and 
Stream, 346 Broadway. Casting platforms for 
the use of club members are now ready on both, 
The Pool, in Central Park, and on the lake in 
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The programme is 
given on page 485. 
'[’lie club’s membership now exceeds fifty, with 
several on the waiting list. 
