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FOREST AND STREAM. • 
[June 29, 1907. 
New EngUnd Angling and Anglers. 
Boston, June 22. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Newfoundland salmon fishermen are now 
getting ready to leave for the island. A few, 
who did not take into account the lateness of 
the season, are now on the ground and paying 
dearly for their haste. The experience of Mr. 
hred. Burlen, of Boston, is worth relating. He 
left home June 4, stopping at St. John for a 
day, and then hurrying on to Sydney, Cape 
IJreton, where, as he expresses' it, he could have 
walked a mile out oh the harbor on the ice. 
He went immediately to the steamer Bruce. 
1 he trip over proved an eventful one, for the 
stout_ vessel had to light her way through float¬ 
ing ' ice fields nearly all of the distance. He 
arrived at Port-au-Basque in the teeth of a gale 
so strong that the railroad officials refused to 
start a train for twenty-four hours. His desti¬ 
nation was Robinson’s, which he reached June 
8 one day late. Here again the coast was lined 
with ice under which the salmon were obliged 
to pass to get into the river. Mr. Burlen thought 
the outlook rather discouraging, but had not yet 
begun fishing. 
A. B. Morine with son and daughter spent a 
few days in Boston this week preparing for a 
trip to Newfoundland. The party left on June 
21 and will go direct to Robinson’s for the fish¬ 
ing. They will also fish the Humber. Mr. J. 
Otis Wardwell, of Cambridge, Mass., will leave 
with a small party in a few days for Newfound¬ 
land. They will fish many of the best waters 
for salmon and sea trout. 
Mr. C. B. Barnes, Jr., of Boston, is just back 
from his salmon pools on the Grand Cascapedia 
in New Brunswick. He was on the river nearly 
two weeks and found the fishing exceptionally 
poor. His score consisted of eight bright fish 
and thirty kelt including one each 30 and 36- 
pound fish. There is still much snow in the 
woods and a couple of warm days raised the 
river considerably. Mr. Barnes reports the fisli- 
ing on the Restigouche and Metapedia as very 
poor up to- the time of his leaving for home. 
Major C. W. Hinman, of Boston, is back from 
a two weeks’ camping trip on the Liverpool 
River in Nova Scotia. He had excellent trout 
fishing and returns well pleased with everything 
but the weather, which was cold and rainy dur¬ 
ing his entire trip. 
The fast growing popularity of the Belgrade 
Lakes in Maine is a source of regret to many 
of the older anglers who remember these Jaeautr- 
ful waters when nearly every visitor was*a fish¬ 
erman, and the fashionable hotel with its host 
of summer boarders had not arrived. At the 
present rate of progression the fisherman will 
have to migrate to “pastures new” if he wishes 
to leave bqhind the “kicker boats” and excur¬ 
sionists. As for the fishing itself, stringent laws 
to protect the bass must be enforced if the 
amazing number of small-mouths are to be 
saved. The trout seem able to care for them¬ 
selves, but the bass are hammered without let¬ 
up during the entire season. Messrs. J. S. P. 
Alcott, of Boston, and Herbert Wells, of South- 
boro, have just returned from a week’s trip to 
the Belgrade lakes. They devoted the time en¬ 
tirely to fly-fishing and together scored about 
thirty bass per day. 
At this season Boston is an outfitting point 
for anglers from all parts of the country. Parties 
bound for the Canadian Provinces, Maine and 
northern New England, are quite sure to spend 
at least a few hours here en route. Messrs 
Walter B. Hatch, Jas. Marsh and Fred. R. 
Green, all of New Milford, Conn., passed through 
the city on June 21. They will .spend two weeks 
at Carvill’s camps on Spring Lake, Maine. An¬ 
other, who stopped off for a short time, is Mr. 
L. Westervelt, of Kansas City, Mo. This gentle¬ 
man, while no stranger to Maine, had never 
fished Grand Lake and stream and was bound 
for that region to try it out. 
Mr. Huntington Lee, of Pittsfield, just re¬ 
turned from Pierce Pond in Maine, reports only 
fair fishing, although the fish taken were large. 
At West Carry Pond he found the trout increas- 
mg in size and number. The thermometer regis¬ 
tered about forty degrees with singular con¬ 
sistency during his stay and the fishing was 
indifferent. Mr. E. M. Gilmore and a friend, 
both of Boston, have reached home from a week’s 
trip to Sebago. They scored fifteen salmon 
ranging from two to five pounds. Mr. Gilmore 
has left town again with his friend C. F. Dan- 
forth, going to Dan Hole Pond, N. H., to try 
deep water fishing for heavy salmon. 
Hackle. 
Casting at St. Charles, Ill. 
The Fox River Valley Bait-Casting Club will 
hold its third annual outing and basket picnic at 
Pottawatomie Park, St. Charles, Ill., June 30. 
Dates of the other two tournaments will be an¬ 
nounced later. T here will be five events at each 
tournament. Amateurs only. 
First—Quarter-ounce delicacy. 
Second—Half-ounce distance and accuracy. 
Third—Half-ounce long distance. 
Fourth—-Distance and accuracy fly-casting. 
Open to all. 
Fifth—Half-ounce distance and accuracy. 
A silver cup for each event to the. one hav- 
ing the best average for the three tournaments 
as first prize. A suitable second and third mer¬ 
chandise, prize will be given for each event. An 
entrance fee of $1 for the four amateur events. 
A fee of fifty cents for the open for all. Weights 
will be furnished on the grounds. Events start 
at 11 A. M. 
The executive committee calls members’ atten¬ 
tion to the following: 
“During the past three years a large number 
of game fish have been planted in Fox River, 
and the results of our work in this direction 
are already beginning to bear fruit, particularly 
so in regard to the wall-eyed pike. The sup¬ 
plies came from both the State and Federal Gov¬ 
ernments, and we have promises of more assist¬ 
ance from both of these sources in the near 
future. 
“From - suggestions to, and co-operation with, 
Hon. Mr. Cohen, president of the Illinois State 
Fish Commission, a marked improvement in the 
fish laws from the view point of the angler has 
been secured, as will be shown by a compari¬ 
son of the old law with the one that will be¬ 
come operative July 1, 1907. 
“Two annual outings have been held which 
have been greatly enjoyed by the members and 
their families. Several arrests and prosecutions 
have been made for illegal fishing, and more will 
be done along this line, a's more funds are col¬ 
lected that can be used for this purpose. We 
have distributed from time to time among our 
members instructive and interesting printed mat¬ 
ter, with the hope that it would stimulate in¬ 
terest in the clean and fascinating sport of ang¬ 
ling. 
“The provisions of the fish laws are not alto¬ 
gether adequate for their enforcement, and we 
therefore found it advisable on several occasions 
to pay special deputies from the.club funds for 
enforcing these laws. A little later it is hoped 
to get some permanent deputies und-er the con¬ 
trol, of the club, and secure at least a portion 
of their remuneration from the State. We are 
working along these lines and hope to have some¬ 
thing good to report before long. 
“Our constitution does not provide for any 
annual dues, and to successfully carry on the 
work we have in hand we find it necessary to 
ask our members for assistance. The following 
plan has been suggested; that is; for each pres¬ 
ent member to try to secure one new member—- 
a membership blank being enclosed for that pur¬ 
pose herewith. If you cannot secure a new mem¬ 
ber, and you desire to help the good work along, 
send fifty cents or more (the price of member¬ 
ship) and we request that you send all such con¬ 
tributions and memberships to our Secretary, 
Mr. Fred J. Wells, at Aurora. 
“We now have nearly 1,600 members up and 
down the Fox River Valley, which is a power 
for good morally, and the fact of our having 
such a large membership has helped us effec¬ 
tively in other directions. 
“We hope our members will make a special 
effort to aid us in securing members, so we may 
have both their influence and the small amount 
of their membership fee, which multiplied many 
times will be of great financial assistance to us.” 
An Election of Angling Club Officers. 
1 he Santa Catalina Island Tuna Club, of 
Avalon, Cal., at a recent meeting elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers: President, Prof. Charles Fred¬ 
erick Holder; First Vice-President, Mr. Thos. 
S. Manning; Second Vice-President, Colonel C. 
P. Morehous; Third Vice-President, Mr. Wm. 
H. Burnham; Recording Secretary, Mr. Lafay¬ 
ette P. Streeter; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. 
F. L. Harding. These gentlemen, with Messrs. 
Thomas McDowell Potter and Alfred L. Beebe, 
comprise the board of directors. 
This world-famous organization is now con¬ 
ducting its annual sea angling tournament with 
a list of prizes such as gold medals, silver cups 
and plate for catches of a variety of marine game 
fishes. The rod record for blue tuna stands at 
251 pounds, caught by the new second vice-presi¬ 
dent in 1899, while the Japanese or yellowfin tuna 
record on 9-ounce rod reaches 65 pounds. 
Among the honorary members are Theodore 
Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland,' Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke, Charles Hallock and others of national re¬ 
nown as fishermen. The newly elected adminis¬ 
tration determines to rejuvenate the club spirit 
and to encourage the universal use in southern 
Californian waters of the lightest tackle, and the 
habit of liberating at the boat side such captured 
game fish as are not required as food or for the 
taxidermist. 
All communications upon the club’s business 
should be addressed to the corresponding secre¬ 
tary, F. L. Harding, 512 Arcade Building; Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 
Motor Boats and Bass. 
East Berkshire, Vt., June 22.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Owing to the cold late spring, fol¬ 
lowed by extremely hot and dry weather, trout 
fishing in this vicinity has not been up to its 
usual standard, but now that the drouth is 
broken we may expect to have better sport after 
the “weasels of the fountain.” We have so 
named this fish, as we have recently several 
times witnessed a trout hunting a minnow. It 
followed its quarry relentlessly through shallow 
water with its back at times half out of water 
until it finally tired its victim out and secured 
a firm head hold and then retired to deep water 
to enjoy its afternoon lunch. 
One of our deputy wardens reports that as he 
was watching a black bass spawning bed that 
was in about four feet of water a motor boat 
came along and ran over the bed, and that the 
violent churning of the water stripped every egg 
off the stones and completely destroyed it. This 
accounts for the rapid decrease of bass in some 
of our inland lakes where summer campers and 
others have this kind of water craft. A single 
boat of this kind can, during the bass spawning 
season, destroy every spawning bed by cruising 
around near the shores. 
So far there have been but few 'violations of 
the fish and-game laws in this vicinity this sea¬ 
son- Stanstead. 
Mr. Lawrence’s Luck. 
It is seldom that brook trout and striped bass 
can be fished for in the same waters, but Mr. 
Robert B. Lawrence, president of the Anglers’ 
Club of New York, fished for both in one of the 
Long Island rivers last Saturday. He had pre¬ 
viously made careful plans intended to result in 
the basketing of some unusually large brook 
trout whose hiding place he knew of, but al¬ 
though he was on hand early in the morning, it 
happened that the big fellows were not in the 
humor to take his lures, although later in the 
day a fellow club member caught some large 
ones, while Mr. Lawrence had to be satisfied 
with four nice one-pounders. 
Later on he tried for striped bass further down 
the same river, but caught none. The same ex¬ 
perience was had by other anglers on the island, 
who say it is still too early for that locality. 
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