Ekin 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JUNE 16, 1906. 


he will be joined by Mr. F. S. Hodges, of 
Boston, and Mr. Chapman, who landed at New 
York from Europe by the Celtic, on Sunday 
last. 
Mr. John Manuel, of Ottawa; Mr. Law, of 
Montreal, and party, who control the salmon 
fishing of the Godbout, have left here for their 
river by north shore steamer. 
St. Bernard Fish and Game Club. 
The annual meeting of the St. Bernard Fish 
and Game Club took place at the club house at 
Lake Saccacoma, on Monday, June 4, and passed 
off most harmoniously, General W. W. Henry, 
U. S. Consul at Quebec, having been unani- 
mously re-elected president, and Mr. Brown, the 
newly appointed postmaster of Montpelier, Vt., 
“secretary. Early the following morning the 
club house had a narrow escape from destruc- 
tion by fire. A small mill close by took fire 
and was entirely consumed, and all the members 
of the club in camp and all their guides turned 
out to fight the flames, thus saving their own 
property. 
A number of splendid trout weighing between 
three and four pounds have already been taken 
out of some of the lakes of this preserve this 
spring, notably out of Saccacoma and Violon. 
The fly-fishing opened very late there as else- 
where in Canada, but is now at about its best. 
Mr. R. H. Brown, who has recently returned 
home to New Haven, reports the best of trout 
fishing at present on the preserves of the 
Nonantum Fish and Game Club, of which he 
is president. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 
Massachusetts Anglers. 
A host of Massachusetts anglers have made, or 
are now making, trips to Maine and New Hamp- 
shire. One party just back from Roach River 
(Moosehead), Me., included three prominent 
members of the State Association, Dr. M. A. 
Morris, the well-known moose hunter; Thomas 
H. Hall, “Our Tom,’ as every one calls him, 
the author of the celebrated song with which your 
readers are familiar, “Just One Bite;” Mr. Frank 
Hopewell, leader of the “Hopewell Club,’ and 
Mr, Nathan F. Tufts, of Charlestown, who has 
usually accompanied Dr. Morris on his moose- 
hunting trips. Mr. Hall was accompanied by his 
wife and his thirteen year old son, Murray F. 
Mrs. Morris was of the party, Mrs. Hopewell 
and her daughter, Miss Crosby, and Mrs. Bradley. 
Tom says, in his usual modest way and with his 
accustomed generosity: “For myself, I desire no 
mention of the trip, which was in every way 
delightful, but I would like everybody to know 
we were most hospitably entertained by the 
Sawyer family at the Roach River House, and 
were inspired with a desire to become more 
familiar with the beautiful climate, superb scen- 
ery and attractive sports of the place. All found 
the fishing excellent, the squaretails taking the 
fly ‘with avidity. Mr. Tufts took fifteen of them 
in one day’s fishing.” 
Glowing accounts of the sports at Kineo are 
at hand. On Tuesday, May 29, more than 300 
pounds of fish were brought in, and for the week 
a total of 2,000 pounds. A catch of fifty pounds 
is credited to the Moose River Reform Club, in- 
cluding Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Waring and others, 
of New York; Mr. George C. Brooks and others, 
of Boston; and Mr. George Tenney, of Methuen, 
Mass. Among the half-dozen members of the 
“Camp Comfort Club,” recently returned with 
ample spoils, is Judge Wilfred Boster, of Boston. 
The Leominster party, headed by A. A. Tisdale, 
of that place, made a remarkable record for togue, 
eight fish, weighing seventy-five pounds, taken 
one morning by three members of the party; one 
fish weighed twelve pounds, and one sixteen and 
a half pounds. A merry party of New York and 
Boston gentlemen, with their wives, has taken 
possession of Camp Sunshine. Mr. E. H. Out- 
bridge, of New York, with his family, will occupy 
his new cottage, just completed. 
Mr. N. C. Nash, of the State Association, has as 
a companion in his camp at Green Island Mr. 
F. A, Seamans, of Salem; Mr. and Mrs. F. S. 
Snyder, of Winchester, Mass., are entertaining 
as guests Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith, of Newton 
Centre, at Mr. Snyder’s private camp at North- 
west Carry. 
In the Dead River region the season has been 
late, but many sportsmen are going in now and 
are getting good sport. One of the old-timers at 
this resort, Mr. James Bratten, of Philadelphia, 
has taken possession of his camps at King and 
Bartlett Lakes. Times are lively at the Range- 
leys, but I must defer writing details till later. 
The Middlesex Club is to hold a strawberry festi- 
val at Winchester next Monday evening. 
Vice-President A. B. F. Kinney has recently 
returned’ from a four days’ fishing trip to the 
Bangor pool, where he captured three salmon— 
two of them in one day. He fortunately brought 
to gaff all he struck. His largest weighed twelve 
pounds; the others ten pounds each. He says: “I 
must confess I never had more enjoyable ex- 
perience after game fish than in taking those 
salmon.” 
fly used have been on exhibition in his store 
window. He does admit, however, that when the 
alternative was presented of getting a ducking in 
three feet of water or letting go his rod and 
losing the salmon, he chose the former. We 
should not expect him to do anything else, know- 
ing him as well as we do. H. H. KimMBatt. 
The Luck of a Fisherman. 
ls the days of long ago, when flintlocks were 
used on guns, the cow horn was the style of 
the ammunition carrier, and sportsmen’s clothing 
was not made as now to meet the especial needs 
of hunting, there lived in Milford Haven, on the 
Chesapeake Bay, retired from the tempestuous 
voyages of the ocean, an old sea captain, who 
loved to tell the experiences of his sea travels, 
and his adventures with his rod and gun. 
He was known to be one of the best of fisher- 
men, and rarely came home with an empty basket. 
He once related to me a curious story of finding 
his hawk bill knife on the day after it was lost 
overboard as he was cutting a piece of crab 
with which to bait his hook. He said he little 
dreamed of ever finding that knife again, but 
mext day, as the tide and wind were moving just 
about in the same direction as on the day prev- 
ious, he went out at the same hour, dropped 
anchor in the same spot, and caught the self- -same 
hawk bill knife with his fishing hook almost im- 
mediately on casting his line overboard. ° 
As he was returning home, he discovered a 
large flock of black ducks feeding on a pond or 
inlet near his home, and, as he always carried 
his gun with him for any emergency that may 
arise, he secreted himself behind a clump of 
bushes to await a more favorable time for getting 
more than one duck at the shot. The tide was 
up nearly to the top of the bank, and as he lay 
down flat on his back, feet foremost, he fired at 
the bunch, with the result of getting eleven ducks 
out of that flock with a single shot. 
This was the last shot he made with that flint- 
lock gun, as he found that the charge in the gun 
was so strong it blew out the breech, which was 
never replaced. The old captain passed over the 
river many years ago. C. Foster. 
The St. Croix Salmon Pool. 
In our issue of March 31 was printed a corres- 
pondence between Dr. E. Hindon Hyde, of 
this city, and certain fishery officials of Maine and 
Canada respecting the St. Croix River, Mr. Hyde 
complaining of the existence of conditions in- 
imical to the salmon supply, and the several 
officials displaying a masterly inactivity in per- 
mitting the conditioris to continue. The corres- 
pondence is recalled bya note from L. S. Tobie, 
A. G. P. A. of the Washington County Railway, 
who writes from Calais under date of June 8; 
“Referring to your detailed and sundry corres- 
pondence relative to the St. Croix salmon pool 
in your edition of Saturday, March 31, 1906, it 
may interest the sportsmen to know that the fish 
have been very plenty at the pool this spring. 
On Thursday Mr. Robert C.. Lowry, of New 
York, caught three, and other parties have been 
making good catches. The fish average about 
eight to twelve pounds, and I understand one 
was taken in the St. Croix Pool this year weigh- 
ing twenty-two pounds. Mr. A. H. Stupert, our 
The six-foot leader and silver doctor _ 
master mechanic at the shops which aré near the 
pool, thought he would try his luck at the pool 
Wednesday night, and his line had hardly touched 
the water before he had a strike and finally 
landed his fish, a ten-pound one.’ 
In Newfoundland. 
SaLMoN have been fairly plentiful around the 
coast. One man in April, who captured the first 
fish in his net, brought it to Government House 
and there disposed of it for fifty cents per pound. 
He then bought a barrel of flour, a tub of butter, 
tea and other groceries for his money—not a 
bad morning’s work for the fisherman. Salmon 
was selling last week for forty cents per pound; 
this week for twelve, and probably next week the 
price: for delicious saimon will reach five cents 
and stay there. 
During the last session of the Legislature the 
Inland Fisheries law was amended to enable the 
Governor in Council to appoint an Inland Fish- 
eries and Game Board that will have sole control 
of all game and game fishes. This is a step in 
the right direction. It will mean the supervision 
of the rivers and barrens and the guides and 
wardens by a body of independent sportsmen, 
who will appoint wardens, etc., free of the con- 
trol of the politicians. Under the present system 
a fishery or game warden is appointed because 
he has a puil with the Member, and not for any 
special qualifications for the office, which he may 
possess. The originators of the scheme are all 
ardent sportsmen, and if the selection of the 
Board is left to these gentlemen it will be strong 
and representative. The danger is that ornamental 
men may get on it in the beginning, and impair 
its usefulness at the very outset. Waleo 
Crayfishes in Maine. 
WintHrRop, Mass.—Qne day last summer on the 
Aroostook River (Me.), as we beached our ca- 
noes to prepare dinner. I noticed crawling about 
in the shallow water among the rocks what I 
took to be crayfishes. I captured one, and found 
it to be as as I thought. Recently it occurred 
to me that I had never before seen crayfishes in 
New England outside of aquaria. 
That it was a crayfish I had no doubt, for the 
crayfish is to me a familiar object, and I know 
of no freshwater crustacean with which it is 
likely to be confused. Those which I saw in the 
water, and the one in my hand were about two- 
thirds the length of the full grown crayfishes of 
the West and South. 
If these were not crayfishes, what were they? 
Are they found in any other New England rivers 
or streams? Can anyone suggest GB De 
-into the Aroostock river? 
[Fishing Industries” says that “no crayfishes”’ 
have ever been found in the New England States, 
excepting in the- extreme western parts of Ver- 
mont and Massachusetts and in central Maine.’’| 
Bluefish at Barnegat. 
BARNEGAT City, June 8.—Barnegat City is 
awakening to its wonted summer activity. 
Cottages and hotels are open, and guests are 
booking for the summer. Captains are reporting 
boats in good order and ready for business. Blue 
fish are in the bay; some very good catches are 
reported, JAMES H. RoMaAtIn. 
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