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tricians for insulating a splice in electric wires. 
It is cloth gummed and rolled. After the reel 
is in place and the lock band shoved up tight, 
wrap the entire distance from the lock band to 
the raised flange on the end of the reel seat with 
seven or eight thicknesses of tape. It won't be 
in the way, so put on plenty. It sticks itself, the 
heat of the hand softening up the gum. 
In cod fishing, with a big, heavy wood reel, I 
go one better. I have two little sticks 4% inch 
thick concaved so that they fit the reel seat well 
and just long enough to reach from the lock band 
to the raised flange at the end of the reel seat. 
When they are laid in place I wrap them with 
plenty of tape, much the same as a surgeon binds 
a splint on a broken arm. I have never had the 
band slip the least bit with them, and I have 
never been without them that the band didn’t 
slip. It can be put on in five minutes and is, if 
put on right, there to stay till taken off at night 
after the day’s fishing. 
Thanking Mr. N. and my other new-found 
friends for what they have done to help me in 
my first lessons as an angler, and in hope that 
this little wrinkle will be of some use, I am, with 
best wishes for yourself and paper, 
Harry C. Monr. 
Boston and Maine. 
Boston, Mass., May 19.—Editor Forest and 
Streams Several trout weighing from 114 to 2 
pounds have been taken this spring from the pre- 
served streams in Wareham leased by _ the 
Tihonet Club. Constant stocking by the club for 
several years has been the means of furnishing 
good fishing. An attraction for some is found in 
the good squeateague and tautog fishing often 
found within easy reach of Wareham and Onset. 
Tautog have been running unusually large this 
year. Miss Anita Sands on Thursday last had 
the good fortune to capture one which weighed 
10% pounds—the largest taken this season, and 
believed to be the largest ever landed by a 
woman, , 
From Ashland, N. H., it is reported that two 
of the largest lake trout ever caught in Squam 
Lake were taken by Mr. M. M. Morey, the vet- 
eran fisherman of that region, and his friend, Mr. 
S. Thompson, Each weighed 15 pounds. 
Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived at 
Tamworth on Friday and were met by a large 
crowd, in which were many prominent citizens 
of New Hampshire. Mr. Cleveland is not apt to 
miss the early fishing. He has passed the last 
two summers in Sandwich, and last fall he went 
over into the adjoining town of Tamworth and 
purchased a couple of hilltop farms, one for him- 
self and one for Dr, John H. Finley, president 
of the College of the City of New York. 
In a letter to ex-Governor Bachelder, pub- 
lished in the “Summer Homes” book of the State, 
Mr. Cleveland says: “It is a subject of unani- 
mous congratulation in our family that, by the 
purchase of the Tamworth farm, we are fairly 
anchored as summer residents in the State of 
New Hampshire.” 
Down in Maine. 
Owing to the low temperature that has pre- 
vailed the season has been unusually backward, 
but in some of the more favored sections there 
has been good sport. Good catches are reported 
from Greene Lake, from which a week ago in one 
day forty salmon and trout were taken, some of 
them weighing from 4 to 10 pounds each. Two 
Bangor fishermen have taken six salmon and four 
squaretail trout, whose total weight was 50 
pounds, from Branch Pond. A planting of 100,000 
togue fry has recently been made in Greene Lake. 
The United States Bureau of Fisheries is to 
place upward of a million brook trout in Maine 
waters within the next few weeks. Sebago is to 
get at least 50,000 salmon; lakes near Farming- 
ton 85,000. Sebago will also receive 150,000 trout, 
the Rangeleys 100,000, the waters of a dozen 
other sections from 20,000 to 30,000. 
At Belgrade the first trout of the season was 
taken a week ago by the well known Bangor 
angler, Adelbert Peavey. Lake Sebasticook, Pe- 
nobscot county, has for years afforded good perch 
fishing, and salmon and trout are on the increase. 
In order to prevent the fish from going out at 
the lower end of the lake the town authorities 
have voted to expend $1,500 in screening the 
outlet. 
At Clearwater the camps have been filling up 
for several weeks. Late reports attribute good 
luck to Dr. Bishop, Mr. Wheeler, of Saugatuck, 
Conn., P. E. Whiting, a Harvard student, and 
others, : 
Grand Lake Stream is furnishing many salmon, 
but, as usual, they run small. Mr. E. F. Cald- 
well and friend of New York, in a few days took 
174. Carry Pond fishing is improving daily since 
the ice went out May to. 
On May 11 eight sportsmen with five guides 
left for Spauldings Camps on Pierce Pond. They 
report eight salmon from 5 to 9 pounds and three 
trout from 5 to 6 pounds. Fishermen at the 
wharf got forty-two trout in a little more than 
an hour’s fishing. 
From Round Mountain Lake the ice went out 
May 10, Rangeley Lake House was opened on 
Monday, the 14th. Sportsmen began to arrive at 
Bemis while the ice was solid on the 8th. The 
ice broke up and Captain Barker started with his 
steamer, the William P. Frye, for Upper Dam. 
Mr. D. E. Adams while at Bemis got a 7%4- 
pound trout fishing from the wharf. 
H. H. KIMsatt. 

Concerning the Jackfish. 
SHELDON, Vt.—Editor Forest and Stream: We 
have here in our northern Vermont waters the 
three kinds of pike—the maskinongé (Esox 
nobilior), the great northern pickerel, or, as Dr. 
Morris calls it, jackfish (EZ. lucius), and the com- 
mon pond pickerel (EZ. reticulatus). The mas- 
kinongé and the pond pickerel are considered 
good food fish, their flesh is white, hard and firm, 
but the jackfish is a fresh-water shark, a miser- 
able long, slim, slimy fish with flesh soft and as 
rank as Limburger cheese. It is always on the 
feed and will take anything, from a toad to an 
old boot heel. When our fishermen hook one it 
is knocked in the head and either thrown out to 
rot on the lake shore or hung up on the nearest 
tree as a malefactor. We have a fair knowledge 
of the northern waters from Prince Edward Isl- 
and, on the Atlantic, across to Vancouver Island 
on the Pacific, and the only place that we ever 
heard the E. lucius called a good food fish was 
once at Port Arthur, Ont. There a lady said that 
they were preferred to the lake whitefish. Here 
in Vermont they are considered at any season of 
the year inferior, if possible to be so, to the com- 
mon black sucker, and one of our wisest laws 1s 
that which makes it a misdemeanor, with a fine, 
to place them in any waters where they are not 
already. 
The E. lucius is a common fish in the Canadian 
waters of Lake Erie, and where he is the most 
numerous, in the vicinity of Port Rowan, Ont. 
The German carp has come in in such numbers 
as in some localities almost to completely de- 
stroy the feeding grounds of the redhead and 
canvasback duck. The jackfish has not kept the 
carp in check there. 
The weights of the different pike in our Ver- 
mont waters are: The maskinongé, from 3 to 
50 pounds, average about 12 to 15 pounds; the 
jackfish run from 1 to 16 pounds, average weight 
5 to 7 pounds; the pond pickerel from % to 5 
pounds, average 11%4 to 2 pounds. We get in 
some of our creeks a fish of the ancient Ganoid 
family, called a mud or dogfish, that is so rank 
that a frypan that is once used to fry one of 
these fish in is never used for anything else, as 
the flavor eternally clings to it, and still there are 
more of the habitants that eat this fish than there 
are those who eat the Esowx lucius. They say 
that there is something to the dogfish, while there 
is nothing but skin, bones and musky flavor to 
the other fresh-water shark. STANSTEAD. 
WE wish when people go out of town on fish- 
ing’ trips that they would go round. the other 
way; it is pretty hard under most favorable cir- 
cumstances for us to keep at work right now.— 
Florence Times. 
The Trout Stream. 
CLEAR as the icy crystal of its source, 
Cool as the molten snowflake by its course. 
Leaping like the charger in the race, 
Seething at the boiling caldron’s pace. 
Jewels sparkling, set in rainbow tints, 
Diamonds flashing in the sun rays’ glints. 
Somber shadows near the shelving rock, 
Threatening shallows near the torrents shock. 
By emerald fir and pine tree hid from sight, 
*Neath mossy fern from rocks obscuring light. 
Foaming, rushing, dancing on in glee, 
Upon its rocky racecourse to the sea, 
Here safe from skillful rod and reel and fly 
In Nature’s haunts, game speckled beauties lie. 
OnI0, D. W. McGLenen. 
Sullivan County Notes. 
NEVERSINK, N: Y., May 21.—My letter in 
ForEST AND STREAM last week should have been 
dated Neversink, not Beaverkill. The fishing 
during the first three days of last week was de- 
lightful, there was a good hatch of natural flies 
and the trout were rising freely. On Thursday 
came a burst of summer weather, with a tem- 
perature of 86 degrees in the shade. On Friday 
the thermometer registered 88 degrees. This is 
very unusual at this high altitude, but the spell of 
torrid heat will not last long. There is some- 
thing unnatural about hot winds from the north- 
west and they have not been conducive to good 
fly-fishing. I understand, however, that the 
upper reaches of the Neversink are doing much 
better than heretofore, but hereabouts the trout 
are decidedly off the feed for the time being. 
It is too early, apparently, for evening fishing, 
as I tried the river without much success after tea 
on Friday evening. My best fish for the week 
was 2% pounds on a small quill body fly on 
Wednesday afternoon. All that is required now 
is a good thunderstorm to clear the air, which is 
oppressive. THEODORE GORDON. 
Lake Sunapee. 
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 19.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: I have received several letters dur- 
ing the past week telling me that the fishing at 
Lake Sunapee, N. H., is very good this season. 
Quite a number of squaretail trout from 2 to 4 
pounds have been taken, also Lake Sunapee trout 
as large as 4% pounds. The salmon have not 
taken hold very well as yet, although a few have 
been taken from 4 to 9 pounds. 
Most of the fish have been. taken by trolling, 
although still-fishing is the favorite method with 
many when they can procure smelt for bait. 
The Forest House at Blodgett’s Landing has 
been opened for the last three weeks to accom- 
modate the early fishermen, and plenty of bait 
can be secured there. Gro. H. GRAHAM. 


“Angler” vs. “Fisherman.” 
New York.—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 
think that it might lend to the “gayety of na- 
tions” if you would get some of your piscatorial 
readers to theorize, if not explain definitely, as 
to the origin of the word “angler,’ and why it 
denotes a higher order of fishing than the name 
“fsherman’’—as a “rod” is superior to a “pole.” 
Does it come from the implement or the user? 
Thus Gay, in a poem, writes the line: “Intent, 
his angle trembling in his hand”; and so, as the 
old histories tell us, England derived its name 
from Angel-land, Angle-land, anglers. 
Will bamboozlers be the future word to de- 
scribe fishermen? I know that I have often been 
bamboozled by fishermen. J. E. H1npon Hype. 
THE value of the Fish Commission Bureau’s 
efforts to increase the supply of game and food 
fishes in the interior waters has been strikingly 
illustrated in Colorado, where a number of non- 
indigenous trouts have been thoroughly estab- 
lished. The principal fish thus introduced is the 
Eastern brook trout, which is widely distributed 
in the State and probably exists there in greater 
abundance than in any other State. Colorado has 
now become the Bureau’s chief source of supply 
for the eggs of this species, and nowhere else is 
it possible to collect such large quantities of eggs 
from wild brook trout. 
