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the flash of the spoon would call albacore from 
greater distances and thereby give some advantage 
can be determined only by the use of two rods. 
With white sea bass the spinner seems to give 
some slight advantage. They are not afraid of it 
even when the launch is not moving and it is 
dangling in the water. While still-fishing or just 
moving they will come up and take the sardine 
quite regarless of’ the spoon. And when the 
launch is moving very slowly in shallow water 
and the bait dragging over the bottom I have had 
them strike. On the whole when fishing with 
sardines we have had rather more bass strikes 
on the spoon-bait than on the bait alone. 
Experiments with a spoon ahead of a flying 
fish were not carried far enough under compara- 
tive conditions to yield definite results. Plenty 
of strikes were had, but, then, plenty of strikes 
are to be had almost any day in the season with- 
out the spinner. 
It is when the fish are not 
feels pretty certain they are 
worth while to try first one device, 
There are yellowtail lurking about the island all 
the year round, but at times they are shy biters, 
such conditions call for the exercise of ingenuity 
on the part of the angler, and the spinner should 
be put in action. 
striking, but one 
about that it is 
then another. 

So far I have never tried a spoon with ,a 
flying fish for tuna, but there is no reason why it 
should not work successfully. The tuna is game, 
he likes a fast bait and he strikes viciously. A 
spoon ought to attract him. Furthermore, large 
tuna naturally prefer a large bait. While they 
take sardines, they are more apt to take flying 
scarce and: one is com- 
pelled to use sardines, the spinner has the effect 
of magnifying the bait, so to speak. From flash 
of spoon to tail of sardine the entire lure is 
twelve or more inches long, about the length of 
a flying fish. This may attract the attention. of 
the big. ones, and once in motion after the bait 
they may take the sardine rather than turn back 
with nothing. 
1 fishing with spoon and sardine it is well to 
have four or five all rigged and baited, so that the 
moment a fish is taken or a hook stripped a 
second hook can be snapped en the leader; for 
this quick work the safety-pin snap is indispens- 
able. 
When a fish is taken in the boatman need not 
wait to take the hook from the jaws, but can 
quickly release the snap at the end of the leader, 
put on a fresh bait and spoon and one can be 
off trolling even before the first hook is taken 
from the fish. Not unfrequently a second strike 
is had immediately. The sooner one gets a fresh 
bait in the water after landing a fish the better. 
The short delay required to release and bait a 
hook gives the fish that are nearly always follow- 
ing the one captured time to turn away. 
ARTHUR JEROME Eppy. 
fish. If flying fish are 

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Onondaga Anglers. 
THE 
results of the annual outing of the 
Anglers’ Association of Onondaga county, held 
recently, follow. This association now has a 
membership of more than 1,000, and is doing good 
work in fish propagation and protection. The 
prizes were all merchandise. 
Small-movth Black Bass.—J. H. Loomis and H. Ca'- 
vert, first and second, 16331n.; J. A. Warner and C. A. 
Smith, third and fourth, 165¢in; W. H. Fleury and E. 
W. Larrison, 16%4in. 
Large-mouth Black Bass.— George ‘Kirk, first, 17%4in.; 
G. W. Standen, second, 14%in.; W. S. Morey, third, 
1144in.; L. R. Minor, fourth, 103 shin. 
Pike.—John Welch 9314in. : Cc. M. 
Osborn, 2lin. ; W. 
O. Conger, 20%in.; M. H. ( 
Northrup, 4in.; C. W. 



Tooke, 19%4in.; S. W. Rose and Ney dete pees tied, 19Vin. 
Pickerel._F. W. Hamilton, 26in.; G. F. Yorke, 25 
ire 'C, Fish, 25 1-16in.; Philip Reifert, . 
Hogan, 24 5-l6in.; G. F. Yorke, Jr., f 
Brook Trout.—A. L. Bishop, 9in.; : Daley, 7%4in. 
Brown Trout.—A. W. Perrier, 1534in.; A. P. French, 
1414 in. 
Lake Tro sut—S. T. Betts, 2014in. 
Perch >, F. Scripture, 11 15-16in.; P. A. Wood, 
115 i “s. 'T. Fowler, 1144in. 
Rock Bass.—D. R. Cobb. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See ade. 
New Prgland Angling and Aviglerst 
Boston, July 6.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Midsummer fishing near Boston consists chiefly 
of bass, pickerel and perch, and in a country so 
thoroughly covered with streams and lakes, it 
is not strange that some really good fishing can 
be had. It is largely a question of where to go. 
Hundreds of men who, through lack—perhaps— 
of both time and money, cannot go to distant 
points may be unaware that-right at home, so 
to speak, results of a very satisfactory kind can 
be ae It only needs a little advice to start 
with on what waters to visit and good judg- 
ment regarding the style of fishing to adopt. 
Within a few miles of Boston are several ponds 
or lakes, any one of which is practically sure 
to afford excellent sport to the bait-caster. As 
a means of getting bass this style of fishing far 
excels any other during the summer months, 
and is coming rapidly into favor in the East, 
Owing chiefly to greater depth of water it is 
not so prolific in results as in the Middle West, 
but there are always many places in our lakes 
where conditions are right and, generally speak- 
ing, when one gets a strike by this method, it 
is a big one. 
Casting helgramite for bass with a fly-rod is 
another ntethod which often yields a sure re- 
ward. If the bass won’t take hold, fish along 
the edge of the lilypads and grass for pickerel— 
no mean fish after all if your tackle is light, 
At another time try perch see with a five- 
ounce fly-rod and ‘“garden-hackle”’ for bait. 
In Massachusetts these fish average large, and 
it is surprising how much of a fight one of them 
will put up when hooked on real light tackle 
There are few indeed who cannot devote at least 
a couple of days now and again to fishing, and 
it is to this large class that information regard- 
ing where to go is important. The following is 
an incomplete list of some of the waters within 
easy reach of Boston: 
Great Pond, North Andover, permit from 
Water Board needed. Jenkins Pond, near Fal- 
mouth; Ponkapog Pond, Milton; Assawompsett 
Lake, Middleboro; Meadow Pond, Natick; Dug 
Pond, Natick; Sauntaug Pond, South Lynnfeld ; 
Quannapowitt Lake, Wakefield, permit~- from 
Water Board needed; Cochituate Lake, Natick; 
Hurd’s Pond, Wayland or East Sudbury; 
Gleason’s and Leonard Ponds, South Framing- 
ham; Archer’s Pond, Wrentham; Long Pond, 
Plymouth; Massapoag Lake, Sharon; Long 
Pond, near Falmouth; Great -South’ Pond, 
Plymouth; Crystal Lake, Gardner. In addition 
to those mentioned there is Fairhaven Bay on 
the Concord River, near Concord; and the Sud- 
bury River, near Wayland and beyond. On 
both of these streams good pickerel fishing can 

be had, and heavy large-mouth bass are oc- 
casionally taken. : 
Mr. Arthur Hill, of Melrose, leaves on July 
13 for a two weeks’ trip to China Lake, 
Vassalboro, Maine. This lake has a 
tablished reputation for large bass. 
Mr. W. Beesom, of Nashua, N. H., one of 
a party of four has just returned from Grand 
Lake, Maine. The total score of six days’ fish- 
ing for the party was 10 salmon, three lake trout 
and one squaretail. A large proportion of these 
fish were returned to the water, a practice which 
is rapidly growing in favor among the sports- 
men who visit eastern Maine waters. 
Mr. Winthrop Parker, of Burlington, Ver- 
mont, a St. Bernard club member, passed 
through Boston this week bound for the pre- 
serve, where he will spend the next three weeks 
fly-fishing for large trout. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Martin, 
on July 3 for a long trip into the Canadian 
Northwest and Alaska. They will go through 
to the Pacific first to coniglee some necessary 
outfitting and then with guides and a full camp- 
ing complement will start for the interior, at 
first for the fishing and later for big game 
shooting. Mr. Martin has just returned from 
Newfoundland and Quebec, where he has been 
fishing for salmon. He reports the salmon 
scarce and fishing exceptionally poor. In New- 
foundland it was necessary to scout for new 
pools occasionally, as the heavy ice of last 
winter and later freshets altered the streams in 
several places where good fishing used to be had. 
near 
well es- 
of Boston, left 

Mr. Moorfield Storey and one of his sons will 
start in a few days for Cape Breton. The 
Margaree River, always reliable for salmon and 
sea trout fishing, is their destination. Last year 
the younger Mr. Storey captured two salmon 
almost at once after their arrival, each weighing 
close to twenty-six pounds. 
HACKLE. 
Canadian Fish and Fishing. 
QuesBec, July 6.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Not till July 3 did a steamer cross Lake St. John 
to the Grand Discharge, where the fishing is 
often quite good by “June 10 or 12. -While 
ouananiche have been more abundant than ever 
in Lake St. John ever since the breaking up of 
the ice, it will be well into the second week of 
July this year before the fly-fishing in the Grand 
Discharge will be at its best. 
This has been quite an exceptional spring for 
big trout in the Lake St. John country. Only a 
few days ago a Quebec angler took a 6% pound 
trout out of Lake Edward, where the fly-fishing 
has been better than for many years past. The 
Tourilli tract produced some very big fish on 
July 4. Messrs. Weir, Bruneau and Van Felson 
killed on Lake Long on that day three brook trout 
weighing respectively 7, 6 and 5 pounds, and one 
of 5 pounds was caught in the Montmorency 
River at Laval. 
All the dispatches from the salmon rivers on 
the south shore report a very backward season 
and extremely poor fishing; in fact, the Resti- 
gouche and Cascapedia have. yielded scarcely any 
fish at all. Some anglers have returned home 
after a stay of a fortnight on the river, without 
having killed a single clean fish. Mr. W. H. de 
Forrest, of New York, went up the river for 
a fortnight, but found no salmon in the upper 
stretches. The American members of the Resti- 
gouche Salmon Club have killed few fish. There 
is no doubt, however, that anglers who can spare 
the time to remain in camp for a week or two 
more will yet have good sport. 
Miss M. Barnes, of New York; Mr. J. Ramey 
and party of Boston; Dr. Mixters, of New York, 
and Mr. H. V. Meredith, of Montreal, are fish- 
ing for salmon at Matapedia. Mr. Louis Cabot, 
of Boston, is fishing the Grand River of Gaspé. 
Lord and Lady Grey and party are fishing the 
Mingan River on the north shore of the Gulf, 
and intend to proceed in the government steamer 
Minto down the coast as far as Labrador, trying 
some of the seldom-fished rivers. Premier Gouin, 
of Quebec, is expected to be the guest of Mr. 
Ivers W. Adams, of Boston, on the Moisic, 
which is, beyond doubt, the best salmon river on 
the coast. Dr. Freeland D. Léslie, of Boston, 
is now fishing with Mr. Adams, and the party is 
to be joined later by Mr. Adams’ sons and a 
party of their college friends, and Senator Nelson 
W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island. It is no unusual 
thing for salmon of 30 to 40 pounds to be killed 
in the Moisie, and twelve to twenty fish have been 
killea in a day on one rod. 
Mr. J. J. Hill left here on his steam yacht ‘ate 
in June for the river which costs him $5,000 a 
year for his ten to fifteen days’ fishing. ‘This is 
the St. John, nearly 500 miles below Quebec. 
The fish do not run large, but they are very 
abundant, it is no great trick to kill ten to 
fifteen in a day to one rod. 
Mr. E. C, Fitch, of Waltham, is fisiimg the 
Grand Romaine and- Messrs. Toland and Dr. 
Johnson, of New Ycrk, are on the Trinity. Mr. 
R. E, Plumb, of Detroit, and daughter, has gone 
down to the Natashquan, on which he has a cot- 
tage, and will later fish the Washeecoutai, more 
than 600 miles below Quebec, which he leases. 
The following members and guests of the Natash- 
quan Salmon Club are also in camp on the river: 
Messrs. S: Hodges, C. G. Tyler, Williams and 
Chapman, of Boston, and Mr. Johnson, of New 
Brunswick, N. J. 
No reports have yet been received from the 
north shore rivers. On the Ste. Marguerite, 
which is usually fished by Dr. Henry van Dyke, 
and where the members ‘of the Ste. Marguerite 
Salmon Club are fishing on one branch, and 
Messrs. Walter Brackett, of Boston, and Henry 
Russell, of Detroit, on the other, the fishing has 
so far been almost nil. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 



























































































































