July 6, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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and fly. Among the best known are the Forteau. 
Pinware, Red Bay, Mary’s River in St. Lewis 
Bay, N. E. River, White Bear Arm, Partridge 
Bay, Black Bear and several rivers in Los Water 
Bay. 
Anglers who have fished the Mary’s River, 
Alexis and Gilbert rivers speak very highly of 
the number and size of the salmon, sea trout and 
mud trout to be had there. 
Most of these rivers have been visited an¬ 
nually by the officers of the British warships, 
and with this exception very few, outside an 
occasional venturesome British or American 
angler, have ever been there. 
They are easily accessible by coastal steamer 
or yacht for anglers who desire remoteness from 
the busy haunts of man, but as it is so much 
easier to fish our local streams, very few go that 
way. Reports from these rivers show that the 
fishing must be great. One man with a friend 
filled a canoe in four hours, fishing with a fly, 
with immense mud trout, while L. Mott, a noted 
American yachtsman and angler, describes in 
glowing terms the capture of a 36H-P°und sal¬ 
mon by Mrs. Mott after a gallant struggle of an 
hour’s duration. 
The scenery here is described as being most 
majestic in its rugged grandeur, and those com¬ 
petent to judge say there is nothing in Norway 
to equal it, but the greatest attraction of all to 
American visitors is the summer climate of 
Labrador. It is warm without being hot, and 
bracing, and the cool night breeze insures re¬ 
freshing sleep. 
I feel confident that if Americans only re¬ 
alized how cheap and easy it is to enjoy ideal 
summer weather, we would have thousands of 
visitors to the tens that come now. 
When one cannot “go a-fishing’’ it is a 
great relief even to talk about it to someone 
else. The weather here is beautiful now, ideal 
summer conditions existing, and the temptation 
to drop everything and hie away to wander 
through woodland glades to the music of sing¬ 
ing waters is almost too great to be resisted. 
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Angling for Whirling Dun 
W HIRLING DL’N asks a question in the 
last issue of Forest and Stream and 
mentions my name, so I feel in duty 
bound to answer it as best I may. 
I do not think that I am far from the truth 
when I reckon that the yellow-winged fly he 
mentions, as being imported with other pat¬ 
terns, was a “yellow Sally.’’ The natural fly is 
quite common upon some English waters in its 
season, even having been reported in great clouds 
upon London’s River, the Thames. The fly was 
very possibly tied by Cummins, of Bishop Auk- 
land, North Britain. That is, I judge so from 
the description of the wings, the color of which 
seems to be its chief merit in this country. 
If the yellow fly seen flitting up stream is 
the one most common upon our streams at that 
time and later, it is one of the caddis flies and 
often appears in considerable numbers. It is 
very active and flutters on the water; at times 
often disappointing a trout that has risen at it 
in a leisurely manner. There are several ways 
of imitating it, but if one has the color of the 
body and legs and wings of a light shade, he 
can usually rise the fish that are taking it. 
By THEODORE GORDON 
The trout have a better time and rise more 
surely at other species which float steadily upon 
the current. The fish can then poise themselves 
a few inches under the surface and suck in every 
fly that floats over them if they want it. If 
well on the feed, they usually stuff themselves, 
yet can go without food for a considerable time. 
I opened trout last summer that had no trace 
of food in their stomachs and apparently had 
not fed at all, or very little, during the long 
drouth. 
The insect life of the streams in this region 
has certainly recovered to a considerable extent 
from the floods and heavy ice of the year 1908. 
I noticed this the first time I went fishing, al¬ 
though at that time the water was high. This 
was most encouraging, not only from the ang¬ 
ler’s, but from the trout’s, point of view. With 
an abundance of insects and larva the trout soon 
get into good condition. The dry-fly man would 
not be very apt to enjoy himself if there was 
nothing but bottom food to attract the attention 
of the trout. 
With the rapidly growing army of trout 
fishers it would be well if the trout could enjoy 
a meal in peace occasionally, and this they are 
enabled to have where fly-fishing only is the 
rule. 
Not long ago I had a day on a well known 
stream, and the very few good trout killed on 
the floating fly were full of minnows and other 
bottom food. As I did not pursue them with 
bait of any sort, my sport was poor, but they 
came on to surface food again in a few days. 
1 he supply of small trout in the streams is 
very satisfactory, and shows that the little fish 
distributed by the State hatcheries have made 
themselves at home. If we could protect the 
watersheds of the streams and their small tribu¬ 
taries, allow a few trees to grow instead of re¬ 
moving every one that can be sold for any pur¬ 
pose, we might check the ravages of floods which 
more and more tend to make of them torrents 
at one season and wide beds of stones at another. 
No one who has not visited these mountain rivers 
at intervals for many years can quite realize what 
changes have been wrought, and the damage 
done in many of the best reaches. 
I believe that in time (of course it would 
be lengthy) we can convert this country into 
something resembling the Sahara—just what has 
been done in portions of Spain and other coun¬ 
tries. Tripoli is said to have supported a popu¬ 
lation of 20,000,000 at the time when Rome was 
master of the ancient world. Now the inhabi¬ 
tants number something like 4000000, I believe. 
Where forests once grew there is now nothing 
but drifting sands and the ruins of palaces, villas 
and towns. 
Fishing Lines. 
The organization of the Joliet (Ill.) Fishing 
Club has been completed with a membership of 
two hundred. Fisfiing preserves with facilities 
for camping have been secured along the Du 
Page River between Minooka and Joliet. 
All city and county clerks of Illinois were 
supplied with the new seining licenses last week. 
They went into effect on July 1, which marks 
the end of the spawning season, and when sein¬ 
ing is permissible until May 1. The new per¬ 
mits carry instructions for seiners and revised 
fish law. Seiners are prohibited from obstruct¬ 
ing more than one-half of a stream at one time. 
