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New England Angling and Anglers. 
30ston, July 27—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. W. J. Webber, of Boston, with a party of 
friends has been visiting at Long Pond, Pv 
mouth. Much of their time has been spent in 
fishing for bass for which this pond has a repu- 
tation. The water is noted for its clearness, and 
last Saturday while in bathing Mr. Webber 
noticed a good sized bass swimming about almost 
under his feet. He could not be driven away. 
Investigation showed them to be on his spawn- 
ing beds and admiration for his faithfulness in- 
duced them to move away. Later on the party 
tried him with a fly, but it was no use. A baited 
hook proved a better [ure and soon he was lying 
on the bank, proving to be a two and one-half 
pound fish. I should like to say that he was put 
back in the water, which would have been the 
handsome thing to do, but I am afraid I can- 
not with any semblance of truth. 
Fishing for blackfish or tautog along the Mass- 
achusetts coast has charms which many are not 
aware of. This bulldog of salt water is not par- 
ticularly handsome, but he is a fighter for every 
inch of his length and breadth. With light 
tackle the tautog gives the best kind of sport. 
They are often taken up to ten pounds in weight 
and one of these heavy fellows hooked on a light 
rod will give his captor something to do to 
stop his headlong rush for a hole in the rocks 
which is the first thing he attempts when the 
hook pricks him. Along the rocky shores of Mar- 
blehead and Cape Ann, near Scituate and below 
Cape Cod this fish can be found in mid summer 
in numbers. Mr. C. W. Purinton, the well 
known Boston broker, finds much pleasure in 
tautog fishing, his record fish being, I believe, 
fourteen pounds. 
Another rather despised salt water fish, which 
is now receiving considerable attention from 
anglers who know a fighter, is the pollock. He 
takes the bait vigorously and gets away on the 
jump as soon as he feels the hook. It is sport 
to land one on light tackle. The pollock. ranges 
in very decent numbers along the Massachusetts 
coast, but is probably at his best off the Maine 
coast. Mr. W. H. Beesom, of Nashua, N. lesles 
has gone to Southwest Harbor, Maine, to in- 
dulge in this fishing, and Mr. Dwight Blaney, of 
Boston, is already there. 
Mr. W. W. Smith, of Winchester, recently re- 
turned from a trout fishing trip to Rowe Pond, 
Maine. He has again left for that State, going 
this time to the neighborhood of Frenchman’s 
Bay on the coast in quest of more trout. He 
will spend a few weeks fishing the streams and 
lakes back from the shore. 
Messrs. Chas. W. Allen, of Boston, 
O’Hara, of a eee have returned 
bass fishing trip to Highland Lake near Bride- 
ton, Maine. The Bridgton waters are among 
the best and both men had excellent results. Mr. 
O’Hara especially is a most intense fisherman. 
If the fish are off their feed he wants to know 
why and goes to experimenting to find a reason. 
Long experience has taught him many ways to 
keep them coming, so that it is rare indeed that 
he returns with a hard luck story. Anglers who 
know Maine bass waters are aware that it is ex-. 
ceedingly difficult to get them to take the fiy 
in July, and yet these gentlemen had very good 
fly-fishing on many afternoons. The rest of each 
day was devoted to bait- -casting, a method of 
fishing at which both excel. 
Mr. Carlton H. Tomer, of Boston, has just 
returned from Lake Maranacook, Maine, where 
he has been bass fishing for two weeks. On his 
arrival at the lake he found the fishing very good 
and then for several days nothing could tempt 
them. During the last few days of his stay they 
began taking hold again, and on one morning he 
landed eighteen nice bass. He also landed sev- 
eral big square-tailed trout by deep water fish- 
ing. Mr. Tomer fishes Alfred Lake near Camden 
each spring for landlocked salmon, his desire 
being to get one heavy w eight fish for mounting. 
Next spring he is booked for Pierce Pond, where 
he believes his wish will be gratified. 
A party consisting of J. W. Flynn and G. T. 
Frawley. of Bridgew ater, and F, C. Chadwick 
and S. F. Stevens, will in a few days enter the 
woods from Mattawamkeg, going on a canoe and 
camping trip up the West Branch of the Penob- 
from a 
and F. J.- 
scot. They will make a permanent camp near 
the base of Mt. Katahdin and spend four weeks 
fishing the surrounding country. Mr. and Mrs. 
H. B. Clewley, of Woburn, leave on July 28 for 
eastern Maine. They will go in camp on Dobsis 
Lake at a spot which they have visited before. 
Both salmon and trout fishing are generally good 
at Dobsis and when they leave, late in August, 
it is likely they will come back to civilization by 
canoe through Lower Dobsis and Grand Lake 
to the stream. 
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shields and daughter, 
of Brookline, Mass., will leave next week for 
a month’s stay at Round Mountain Lake, Maine, 
one of the most beautiful spots in New Eng- 
land. Mr. Shields is an earnest and devoted 
fly-fisherman and will there have a chance to 
follow the sport each day, for the frout, though 
small, are both plentiful and gamy. 
Mr. E. H. Wood, of Boston, is back from a 
three weeks’ vacation spent at Connecticut Lake, 
N. H. He made his headquarters at Metallic 
Lodge, First Lake, going into the Dead Diamond 
for some of his best fishing. Mr. Wood scored 
a large number of trout during the trip, a num- 
ber sufficiently large to satisfy the most exacting. 
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Morrow, 
ville, are at Mirror Lake, N. H., for a few weeks. 


This water is really a part of Winnepesaukee 
and affords some most excellent bass fishing. 
Mr. Morrow writes me that he is having very 
good results and I° understand that the mid- 
summer fishing at all of these lakes, including 
Winnesquam and Asquam, has been very good 
indeed. ° HACKLE, 
Boston, July 27—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The name of Mr. Wm. Dehon King, of Newport, 
R. I, and Manomet, Mass., president of the Ply- 
mouth Fox-Hunters’ Club, will be remembered 
by readers as. that of the author of “A Descrip- 
tion of My Moose Hunt in New Brunswick” in 
verse which appeared over Mr. King’s signature 
a few years ago in Forest AND StrEAM, I was 
very glad to accept an invitaion to ‘accompany 
him upon a trip combining business and pleasure 
to Waterford, Vt. 
Leaving St. Johnsbury, July 19, we were driven 
to the summer home of Col. E. B. Parker who 
had extended to us an invitation to visit him and 
enjoy the trout fishing to be had on his premises. 
The Colonel owns a large farm through which 
run two trout streams, and on one of these he 
has built a dam which gives him a pond, several 
acres in extent, w hich is literally tee with trout. 
His place is known as “The Willows’ from the 
rows of willow trees which line the road on 
either side and furnish abundant shade to the 
pond. 
A more grateful retreat from mid summer heat 
could hardly be imagined, which combined with 
the genial hospitality of our host and the oppor- 
tunity to take as many trout as we pleased, made 
our visit a most delightful one to both Mr. King 
and myself. 
On Tuesday I passed several hours with Col. 
H. A, Thomas, fish and game commissioner of 
Vermont. One of his greatest difficulties is to 
secure efficient wardens. Under the system in 
vogue there is one warden named by the com- 
missioner. for each county who in turn has the 
selection with the approval of the commission, of 
a certain number of deputies. Wardens are al- 
lowed two dollars per diem for the time they 
are actually employed in the service of the State 
and their expenses. With the small amount ap- 
propriated for his department ($7,500) he has 
great difficulty in doing all that should be done 
in enforcing the laws and stocking the waters, 
but he is planning to purchase 30,000 fingerling 
trout for fall distribution this year, One of his 
most active wardens is Mr. Harry Chase, who 
recently haled a, summer resident from New 
York and a native into court at Bennington on 
the charge of having venison in their possession 
in the closed season. The Colonel mentioned the 
fact that through the courteous assistance of a 
Boston sportsman he had been able to procure 
a supply of fresh water smelts from Maine to 
put into Lake Caspian, where he has planted land- 
locked salmon. While in St. Johnsbury T learned 
that my friend, Dr. Henry A. Newell, and sev- 
eral other prominent citizens of that place are 
of Somer-- 
‘dorsed the 
that lake, which furnishes fine 
devotees of the rod and reel. 
The annual meeting of the Old Colony Club 
was held Friday, at Padanarum, on Buzzard’s 
Bay, at South Dartmouth. Although the morn- 
ing was rainy there was a gathering of 100 or 
more members and guests. 
Prior to the dinner a business meeting was 
held at which Hon, Charles S. Hamlin was re- 
elected President; Maurice H._ Richardson, 
Thomas Jefferson and John I. Bryant, Vice- 
Presidents; Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Secretary; 
now in camp on 
sport for 
George W. Jones, Treasurer; Horace S. Crowell, 
Wm. A. Nye, George I. Briggs, James L. Wes- 
son and several other well known citizens and 
summer residents of the Bay towns an executive 
committee. The dinner provided by C. W. How- 
land, consisted of. an old fashioned clam _ bake. 
President Hamlin, after cigars were lighted, 
called to order and reviewed the history of the 
club, alluding to the contest of last winter when 
an effort was made by the American Fisheries 
Company to secure a repeal of the laws so that 
the menhaden seiners could use their nets in the 
bay. He declared it the duty of members to see 
that the laws of Massachusetts as to’ the use of 
traps and pounds be enforced. 
He declared that, if reports are true, the police 
steamer Lexington is not enforcing the laws in 
Buzzard’s Bay and said the attention of the Gov- 
ernor should be called to the matter. 
Hon. Rufus A. Soule, of New Bedford, en- 
remarks of the president regarding 
the Lexington, which he was instrumental in hay- 
ing built to protect the fisheries of the bay. Mr. 
George I. Briggs, of Bourne, expressed the be- 
lief that the Cape Cod canal is soon to be built 
and that the “Shoals of Nantucket, instead of 
being an ocean graveyard, will serve the pur- 
pose for which they were intended, to prevent 
the encroachment of the sea on Cape Cod.” 
Gen. Charles H. Taylor told some anecdotes 
of the late president of the club, Joseph Jeffer- 
son, and made pleasant allusions to his compan- 
ion and fellow fisherman, Grover Cleveland. Ap- 
plications for membership were received from a 
Aes number of summer residents. 
The fishing at Onset and other bay resorts is 
excellent. Bluefish are becoming daily more 
plentiful, tautog, squeteague and scup are also 
abundant. At Tuckernuck Island Senator Lodge 
is taking plaice, scup and an occasional bluefish. 
‘An event in the lake region of New Hamp- 
shire was the midsummer meeting and tenth 
annual outing of the Belknap County Fish and 
Game League at Lake Shore Park on the 26th, 
when a shore dinner was enjoyed by a large num- 
ber of persons. Fisheries Commissioner James 
A. Donahue, of Rockland, Maine, has rounded 
up an organized gang of law breakers that have 
been destroying the business of honest fishermen 
in and around Passamaqtioddy Bay and the St. 
Croix River. CENTRAL. 

The Changed Times. 
Bay, -N. Y., July 26.—Editor Forest 
I hada letter from a girl the other 
the three score mark than 
she is to her ’teens. She was visiting in Hamp- 
shire county, Mass., lately, and took a_ walk 
around the old places that were familiar her 
fifty years ago. 
The old red brick 
so had all of the original people 
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day, but she is nearer 
school house had gone and 
save one on that 
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quiet street. This girl thought she would go 
to the old spring, back of where the school house 
used to stand, and get one more look at that 
familiar spot. There it was just the same as 
when she was a little girl, but there was some- 
thing new also. Deer tracks were abundant 
around the spring and she thought how many 
years it was since she was told by old people that 
when those old people were very young deer 
were to be seen in the same vicinity. 
It is with a large amount of satisfaction that 
I write this. I know it was a hard fight, but who 
is not glad that to-day Mt. Tom and its foot- 
hills are a safe refuge for animals and birds that 
a few years ago were extinct in that country. 
oe we 

