June io, 1911.] 
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Newark Fly- and Bait-Casting Club. 
The plans of the Newark, N. J., Fly- and 
Bait-Casting Club have this season taken new 
form. Early in the year the club leased the Fox 
Hill Lakes, near Butler, N. J., famous black bass 
waters, and since the season opened, on May 20, 
a number of the club members have fished these 
lakes, with fair success. One of them captured 
a 7J4-pound bass, another a 4k+-pounder, both 
big-mouths ; and small-mouth bass weighing 2^2 
and 3 pounds were landed last week. 
lo-day, June 10, the first club casting contest 
will be held at Weequahic Lake in Newark, com¬ 
mencing at 2 o clock p. m. Other ciub contests 
will be held there on July 8, Aug. 12, Sept. 30 and 
Oct. 14 with an open contest on Nov. 7. An 
open casting contest will be held at Fox Hill 
Lakes on Labor Day. On Sept. 16 the annual 
Interstate tournament will occur at Weequahic. 
If for any reason it becomes necessary to post¬ 
pone a regular club contest, it will be cast off 
on the following day at the Orange Rod Club 
house on Cable Lake, reached via Lackawanna 
railway and trolley. 
On Sept. 16 there will be cast off the ties un¬ 
decided last Election Day. In case only one of 
those who tied appears, the prize will be for¬ 
feited to the one who is present. 
Landlocked Salmon in Black Lake. 
Hammond, N. Y., May 29.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have noticed your comments on the 
appearance of landlocked salmon in Lake Michi¬ 
gan in a rather sudden and unexplained man¬ 
ner and was awaiting the explanation, when much 
to my surprise on the morning of the 8th of this 
month one of the market fishermen, Stanley 
Froman, came up to the house with a live fish 
in his landing net, stating that he had just 
caught it while trolling a short distance below 
our landing. He said that he did not know what 
it was, and asked if I could tell him. I recog¬ 
nized it at once as a landlocked salmon such as 
I had seen in Canada, and to make the identi¬ 
fication sure and verify my statement I compared 
it with the cut of a female landlocked salmon 
opposite page 232 in the second annual report of 
the Commissioner of Fisheries, Game and Forests 
of the State of New York for the year 1879. It 
was a perfect reproduction of the cut with the 
addition of a few dark spots on the fish’s tail, 
and this fish was a female carrying two pretty 
well developed sacks of roe. 
This body of water, Black Lake, is about 
eighteen miles long and receives the Indian River 
as a feeder at the head and empties through the 
Oswegatchie into the St. Lawrence at Ogdens- 
burg, N. Y. If there has been stock planted in 
any of the feeders it might have come down 
stream; otherwise it must have come over the 
dam at Ogdensburg. There may have been other 
specimens taken in this lake, but if so I have 
not heard of it. H. A. Morse. 
[As early as 1801 laws for the protection of 
salmon in that part of the St. Lawrence water¬ 
shed lying in New \ork State were enacted by 
the Legislature of New York. These laws re¬ 
ferred to the Oswego, Grasse, Raquette and St. 
Regis rivers and smaller streams. The erection 
of dams that would “prevent salmon from fol¬ 
lowing their usual course up said streams” was 
prohibited on streams flowing into Lakes On¬ 
tario, Erie and Champlain. It appears that no 
laws relating to salmon in the Hudson were 
enacted prior to 1770. Even then it seems to 
have been understood that Atlantic salmon were 
occasional rather than regular frequenters of 
the Hudson. 
DeKay wrote in 1842 that the salmon were 
only found in New York on the St. Lawrence 
slope. They appeared in Lake Ontario in April, 
he said, and left it in October or November. 
They were formerly very abundant in the lakes 
in the interior of the State which communicated 
with Lake Ontario, but artificial impediments 
thrown in their way have greatly decreased their 
numbers, and in many cases caused their total 
THE EARLY angler's RETURN. 
Photograph by Edward Breck. 
destruction." He says also that in Oneida Lake 
he saw sa mon weighing ten to fifteen pounds. 
Salmo salar sebago, the landlocked salmon of 
Maine, were put in numerous Adirondack streams 
during past years. These are larger than the 
ouananiche of the Saguenay River and its tribu¬ 
taries, which debouche into the St. Lawrence 
River further east in Quebec.— Editor.] 
The Fisherman’s Journal. 
“The Fisherman’s Journal” is a handy book¬ 
let designed by Elmer Russell Gregor, whose 
frequent contributions are read with interest by 
the Forest and Stream family. The purpose of 
the book is given in three words, “Records 
stimulate memory.” There is an index in wlrch 
various fishing trips are numbered to corres¬ 
pond with the blank pages that follow. Each 
number refers to two pages. On one is the 
serial number, the locality, the time taken, the 
railway, station, conveyance and the fare; varie¬ 
ties, length and weight of fish taken; the baits 
used, names of waters fished; hotels, guides and 
cost. The other page is left blank for remarks. 
Ihis book is 5^ x % l / 2 x V 2 inches in size. It is 
strongly bound in cloth and is substantial enough 
to be filed in the angler’s library after its pages 
have been filled with records of many pleasant 
trips. 
Kansas City, Mo., May 29 .—Editor 
and Stream: Below are the scores made 
club at Troost Lake, yesterday: 
One-half ounce accuracy: 
„ „ Per C’t. 
E. G. McLean. 98.8 
W. L. Rock.99.G 
J. C. Kerner. 98.4 
E. M. Meier. 98.4 
E. E. Guenther. 98.4 
J G Hollingsworth... 98.3 
One-quarter ounce accuracy: 
... T Per C’t. 
W. L. Rock. 98.7 
H. Cheney... 
H. Pitken... 
H. Doyle. 
C. Viquesney 
B. Robinson.. 
W. Woolworth 
Club. 
Forest 
by our 
Per C’t. 
. 97.8 
. 97.5 
. 97.3 
. 97.1 
. 9(5.5 
. 96.3 
98.7 
98.1 
98.0 
97.6 
E. M. Meier.. 
E. G. McLean. 
F. B. Robinson 
C. H. Cheney. 
Accuracy fly; 
£• i 1 - C iY ne y. 98 9-15 
J. G. Hollingsworth. 99 
” • L- Rock. 9S s . 15 
e. B. Robinson_ 98 2-15 
E. G. McLean.98 1-15 
C. Kerner. 
C. Viquesney. 
E. Guenther... 
H. Pitkin. 
Per C’t. 
.... 97.3 
.... 96.8 
.... 96.5 
.... 91.0 
E. 
E. 
U. 
J- 
M. Meier. 
E. Guenther... 
H. Hosterman. 
C. Kerner. 
96 6-15 
96 14-15 
96 10-15 
96 7-15 
In practice, J. W. Bramhall made a score of 
99 8/IS Per cent., accuracy fly. 
At a meeting held on the 'lake it was unani¬ 
mously decided to transfer the two remaining 
meets which we have scheduled for Troost Lake 
to Rock’s Lake, as the conditions at Troost are 
very unsatisfactory. 
I hope that we will be able to report much 
better scores after we commence casting at 
° cks ' E. G. McLean, Sec’y. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
Chicago Ill., May 28 .—Editor Forest and 
stream: The following scores were made May 
27-28: J 
One-qumcr ounce accuracy bait: 
D. R. Linder. 97 .6 
£ • N. Peet. 01 : q 
Mr. Kleinfeldt . 93 ’q 
O. E. Becker. 9 s 9 
F. P. Naylor. 982 
H. W. Perce."I" 90 
E. R. Letterman. 97 8 
0 °r& e : 0 UnCe : 1 l°?f o dist - C e M b ^: 
-T- IN. Deer.128 
*Mr. Kleinfeldt 142 5-21 
F p- S ecI f er . 118 5 - 18 
tV Y- N ^ yIor .117 4-5 
Ti. VV. Rerce. 93 2-5 
Dry fly accuracy: 
T Peet. 99 1-15 
tt' 4- L ° omis .98 10-15 
H. VV. Perce. 9s 6-15 
Salmon fly: 
F. N. Peer. .*124 * 
Long distance, 5%-ounee rod: 
F. N. Peer.^ 4 ' 
H. W. Perce. 95 
♦Visitor. ° 
J. M. Smith. 9 S q.is 
D R' ,? l, I red .9S 1-15 
•la K. JLinder. 97 
M. Smith. ^1V5 
J. M. Smith. 
Feet. 
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John Hohman, Sec’y. 
A Thames Rainbow Trout. 
The most interesting item from the Thames 
this week is the report of the capture, at Sun¬ 
dry, by G. Griffin, of a rainbow trout of about 
three pounds. Evidently all the rainbows paced 
in this river have not gone back to America— 
Anglers’ News. 
Anglers’ Club of New York. 
The June meeting will be held on the night of 
the 13th at the Hotel Navarre, when a program 
of contests for the summer will be arranged. 
1 hese will be cast off at the club platform on the 
big lake near 77th street, Central Park 
