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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 22, 1907. 
The Fish We Didn’t Catch. 
Warrenton, Va.. June 8 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Our last Legislature made the open¬ 
ing day for bass in the Shenandoah June 1 in¬ 
stead of May 15, as formerly. This corresponds 
with the bass season in the Potomac. And what 
an opening day it was. Certainly the heavens 
seemed to have opened the flood gates, for it 
rained and rained, and then it rained some more. 
For years it has been my aim to have a try 
at bass on the first day under those two dams 
at Riverton. Some weeks ago I got a letter from 
my friend, “Joe” Kenner, telling me to come on 
June 1 and he would have the bait, and it did 
not take me long to write and accept that in¬ 
vitation. Many of your readers will remember 
“Joe” and his good wife, who- formerly owned 
and ran the hotel at Riverton, and no fisher¬ 
man ever left that hostelry without words of 
praise for the many acts of kindness shown them. 
I knew that June 1 would be in the midst of 
court, still, by trying some cases and getting a 
convenient judge (to whom I made a frank con¬ 
fession, and who is a fisherman himself) to carry 
over some others to the following week, I thought 
I could make it. Thursday, May 30, was as 
ideal a day as the good Lord usually gives to 
us mortals, and I was to leave on Friday. When 
the time came to start and I had ordered my 
buggy hitched to take a twelve mile drive to a 
railroad station and thus save a much longer 
railroad ride, it began to rain. Quickly chang¬ 
ing my plans—not fancying that rainy drive—I 
took the seventy-five mile train trip, thinking, as 
many a fisherman has thought before and will 
think again, it will be clear to-morrow. On the 
train I met Mr. Dangerfield, of Alexandria, Va., 
who was going to Riverton to fish with our 
mutual friend, “Doc.” Wilkins. 
Joe and his son met me at the end of my 
destination and it was but a few moments be¬ 
fore my fishing outfit was transferred to his 
buggy, and minnows, which he had convenient, 
placed in my bait bucket, and a short drive to 
his comfortable home. A hearty welcome from 
Mrs. Kenner and a good supper awaited me. 
And then we talked of old times, the fish we had 
caught, the fish we were going to catch to-mor¬ 
row, but ever and anon pausing between sen¬ 
tences to listen to the pattering of the rain out¬ 
side, and it was getting so- cool that some one 
wanted to know if it might not be snowing in 
he morning. Presently to bed, with the promise 
from Joe to awake me in ample time, if the .rain 
had stopped—if? Unless my memory fails me 
Shakespeare had something to say about that 
word of two letters. There was nothing left 
me except to come home on the next train, 
promising to come again and hoping for better 
weather next time. 
I think it is in “The Mill on the Floss” where¬ 
in it is stated that: “Mr. Tulliver was, on the 
whole, a man of safe traditional opinions, but on 
one or two points he had trusted to his unas¬ 
sisted intellect, and had arrived at several ques¬ 
tionable conclusions—among the rest, that rats, 
weevils and lawyers were created by Old Harry.” 
Being a lawyer, possibly old Harry was to- blame 
for it all. One often reads a good luck story; 
I thought I would change the order—and, hence, 
therefore, inasmuch, whereas, etc. 
C. M. White. 
Canadian Fish and Fishing. 
Quebec, Canada. June 15 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The fishing in Lake Edward during 
the last week has been much better than in any 
spring for years. Some remarkable catches have 
been brought to Quebec within the last few days. 
One of them, a three hours’ catch, included ten 
fish, the total weight of which was 35 pounds. 
Nine of these were caught by Mr. David Wat¬ 
son, of Quebec. The tenth fish weighed 4L2 
pounds and was killed by Dr. Coleman, of New 
York, on. a Parmachene Belle, which had been 
tied by himself. 1 his fish was a noble specimen 
and put up a game fight. The doctor was cast¬ 
ing with a very light rod and took nearly twenty 
minutes to kill his fish. The water in Lake Ed¬ 
ward is so clear and the fish are such epicures 
that it requires some skill to bring them up to 
the fly, and the majority of anglers therefore 
content themselves with catching them with bait, 
for which they always seem to be ready. There 
are no lake trout in Lake Edward. Neither does 
it contain any of the chub or ouitouche that are 
such a nuisance to the fly-fisherman in some of 
the other lakes of this northern country. The 
only trout in the Lake Edward series of waters 
is Salvelinus fontinalis, the American brook 
trout, though one who is not personally aware 
of the large run of these fish in Lake Edward 
is naturally inclined to doubt the correctness of 
the classification. Messrs. Gale, Jordan, Lee and 
Odell have also- made large catches of Lake Ed¬ 
ward trout during the last few days, and the 
fishing ought to- continue at its best for the next 
month or so. The lake is over twenty miles 
long, so there is no danger of overcrowding. 
Visitors to Lake Edward should wire Mr. Row- 
ley in advance of arriving at the lake, so- as to 
insure the avoidance of disappointment in the 
matter of guides and canoes. 
Last Sunday morning a splendid caribou 
THE LATE EDWARD S. OSGOOD. 
Whose death was announced in these columns last week. 
plunged into the water less than a hundred 
yards from the Sandy Point Camp on Lake Ed¬ 
ward, swam across the lake and disappeared in 
the bush on the other side. 
Fly-fishing for ouananiche in the Grand Dis¬ 
charge will open shortly. Both the Hotel Rober- 
val and the Island House were to have opened 
on the 10th or 12th instant, for although there 
has been goc-d fishing in the Lake St. John, for 
nearly a month past, not enough anglers take 
advantage of it to warrant the opening of the 
big hotels until the American arrivals for the 
Grand Discharge fly-fishing commence to- appear. 
It is scarcely probable that the best of the fish¬ 
ing for ouananiche will be on this year before 
the 20th to- 25th of the month, for the water is 
still high and cold. For the next few weeks, 
too, anglers will do well to come supplied with 
larger flies than is customary, the lateness of 
the season and the heavy rains being sufficient 
to insure higher water than usual for some time 
to come. 
A party from Meriden, Conn., members of the 
Metabetchouan Fish and Game Club, and their 
guests, passed through Quebec a few days ago 
on their way home from Kiskisink, where the 
fishing was described as marvelous. Large trout 
were very plentiful and rose eagerly to the fly. 
Senator j.- P. Allds, president of the North 
American Fish and Game Protective Association, 
is daily expected at present on a trout fishing 
expedition to the St. Bernard club lakes and to 
Mr. Charles Simpson’s lakes in the northern part 
of Maskinonge county. U. S. Consul W. W. 
Henry, of Quebec, and Mr. Ferd. Chase, of the 
Adirondacks, are expected to- accompany him. 
Very few salmon fishermen have yet left for 
their rivers, the run of fish being late. A few 
members of the Restigouche and Cascapedia sal¬ 
mon clubs are going down this week, but none 
of the north shore fishermen have left yet for 
their rivers. The steamer Arranmore’s place 
has been taken by the steamer Restigouche, which 
is running in conjunction with the King Edward. 
Mr. J. J. Hill will go- down to St. Jean River 
on his steam yacht, which is not expected here 
for ten or fifteen days. E. T. D. Chambers. 
Newfoundland Salmon. 
In the annual report of the Department of 
Marine and Fisheries of Newfoundland for 1906, 
just issued, the following appears in relation to 
the salmon fishery: “Notwithstanding the fact 
that some of the streams are reported to have 
been regularly and persistently poached, they 
show no apparent decrease in productiveness 
since last year. Net fishing was not carried on 
to any great extent. The sportsmen who fished 
the well known rivers in this vicinity were 
amply rewarded, some of them praised in al¬ 
most extravagant terms the climate, the sport, 
and the delightful hospitality of the people. It 
was not an uncommon sight to see, the past 
season, a wealthy American seated at a bare 
deal table sharing his salmon with the family of 
a fisherman who had cooked it for him in New¬ 
foundland fashion. There is good reason to 
believe that the lure of the salmon pools will 
bring next year a greater number of sportsmen 
to this section, where they have every op¬ 
portunity of pursuing undisturbed the pleasure 
of the simple life.” 
Some of the principal catches reported are 
interesting, as showing the size and number of 
salmon taken by anglers: 
Mr. Stanley Henshaw, Providence, U. S. A., 
June 8 to July 3—18 salmon, 174 pounds. 
Mrs. Stanley Henshaw, Providence, U. S. A., J 
June 8 to July 5—5 salmon, 55 pounds. 
Miss E. Nicholson, Providence, U. S. • A.,. 
June 23 to July 4—7 salmon, 50 pounds. 
Captain C. M. Granger, New York, July 25 
to Aug. ic—5 salmon, 60 pounds; 47 grilse; 13 
trout. 
Mr. F. F. Downward, England, June 6 to 
July 6—22 salmon, 234 pounds; 10 grilse. 
Col. Weston and friend, Halifax, June 5 to 
15—11 salmon, 10 to 12 pounds. 
Col. Strachan and A. C. Mitchell, England, :| 
June 20 to July 6—19 salmon, 230 pounds; 13 
grilse. 
Major and Mrs. Ashburton, England, June 
26 to July 12—11 salmon, 105 pounds; 38 grilse. 
R. A. Murray, Boston—12 salmon, 173 
pounds; 6 grilse. 
R. B. Job and father, St. John’s—11 grilse, 
35 pounds. 
Captain Rhodes, London—20 salmon, 178 
pounds; and 16 grilse. 
Colonel Ward, London—21 salmon, 202 
pounds; and 12 grilse. 
William Duffin, Halifax—7 salmon, 93 pounds;- 
and 5 grilse. 
Mr. Sladder, St. John, N. B.—12 salmon, 130 
pounds. 
Mr. Tucker, St. John, N. B.—14 salmon, 115 
pounds. 
Rev. J. Herton, Boston—5 salmon, 52 pounds. 
Mr. Chas. Walker, Boston—5 salmon, 38 
pounds. 
Lord Howick, Canada—2 salmon, 20 pounds; ;| 
28 grilse. 
Lady Sybil Grey, Canada—2 salmon, 27 
pounds; 11 grilse. 
Colonel Ward. England—12 salmon, 114 
pounds. 
Mr. R. Murray, Scotland—2 salmon, t 6 
pounds; 2 grilse. 
Captain Rhodes, England—5 salmon, 39 
pounds. 
Edwin Wood and party, New York—2 salmon, 
37 pounds; 26 grilse. 
