

AUG. 24, 1907.] 

FOREST AND STREAM. 

Over the cigars we talked it over again, after 
which we pulled out into the stream and radiated 
off among these thousand islands of pure de- 
light. This was indeed a day of days, as here 
I took my muscallunge. The lady, magnani- 
mous, had retired on her laurels and I had the 
field and the inside fishing all the afternoon, and 
we drifted and rowed around islands little and 
big, beautiful and picturesque. I distinguished 
myself by taking a pickerel with a Saint Patrick 
fly given me by Andrew Clerk. Several bass 
also fell to my lure, and suddenly when slowly 
drifting in the deep channel on the way home 
late in the afternoon, I had a strike which had 
a strange and alien thrill, a rapid knife-like dash 
around the arc of a circle. Bill saw it and pro- 
nounced it a “durned pickerel.’’ Bill was not 
remarkable for his vocabulary, but he had a 
genius for application. As my pickerel was a 
very lively one, I played it and then it sprang 
into the air. In a second Bill had it in the net, 
and hearing him laugh I turned around as he 
held up my first, last and only muscallunge, a 
miserable fish, hardly a foot in length, a lean, 
thin, cadaverous beast at that, yet it was barred 
like a tiger, and was a muscallunge, and had 
played like one. 
It was the custom at- this port of anglers in 
the heart of the St. Lawrence to throw to the 
winds a white flag when a muscallunge was 
caught, so that inhabitants of our island might 
gather and greet the angler and do him honor. 
This was the chance of my life, so I ordered 
3ill to raise the flag and we rowed slowly in 
to give the inhabitants a chance to congregate. 
As we drifted in I could see men and women 
coming down, and by the time the skiff ran into 
the little sunken dock half the entire community 
was there; the bringing in of a forty or fifty 
pound muscallunge was an event. I told Bill 
to defer the exhibition until I reached the rear 
of the crowd, and as he brought the box up, and 
with much eclat, laid my muscallunge on the 
grass, the crowd of anglers pressed forward. 
For a moment they were absolutely stricken 
dumb, then they turned. A wild desire for 
vengeance seemed to fill every heart, and as a 
man they started for me, but I had a long lead. 
If anyone to-days asks me if I have taken a 
muscallunge I reply with confidence, “Oh, yes,” 
but I must confess to the sympathetic reader 
that as small as was this muscallunge, it cost 
me more than any fish I ever caught; how, shall 
be nameless here and forevermore. 
CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER. 
Charles J. Godfrey. 
CuHartes J. Goprrey died on Aug. 6 at his 
home on Long Island. He was born in 1844 
in New York city and for almost half a century 
was prominent in the sportsmen’s goods trade 
He was educated in the trade by his father, 
whose assistant he was until he and his’ two 
brothers purchased his father’s interests. Later 
on, in 1869, his brothers retired and he con- 
ducted the business alone until recently, when 
his son, Charles J. Godfrey, became a member 
of the: firm, which is now known as the Charles 
J. Godfrey Company. 
For a great many years Mr. Godfrey handled 
firearms and ammunition, but in 1go0 fishing 
tackle was added, and with the increasing de- 
mand for all outing goods, the scope of the busi- 
ness became wider. After the Spanish-Ameri- 
can war he handled large quantities of war 
relics, largely wholesale. For a number of years 
his place of business was at 4 Warren street, 
just west of Broadway, but when the corner 
buildings were removed to make room: for a 
tall office building he removed to 10 Warren 
street. f 
Mr. Godfrey was a ‘member of the Harbor 
Island Shooting Club of North Carolina and a 
charter member of the-Hardware Club of New 
York city. Until his removal to a distance he 
was also a member of the Marine and Field Club 
and the Midwood Club of Long Island. He 
is survived by a widow, two daughters and a 
son. 
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PROF. 
CHARLES 
Bringing to gaff a fifty-pound white sea bass on a nine-thread line 
Color of Flesh in Lake Trout. 

BUFFALO, Y.,. Aug. 13.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Recently, while on a canoe trip into 
_the Canadian.Algonquin Park, we had the good 
fortune to catch some fine salmon trout from 
three to seven pounds in weight. Upon being 
cooked they varied greatly in color and we 
thought also in taste. 
Upon hunting for a cause, being cooked pre- 
cisely alike, our guide advanced the theory that 
the lighter colored ones—practically white—were 
not in such good condition as the darker ones, 
which were almost a salmon pink. Upon re- 
turning home and referring to Jordan and Ever- 
mann, | find they do not mention this point. 
Hie B: 
[It- is well known. that in. certain. localities 
the flesh of the brook trout is sometimes salmon 
color, and sometimes white, and in a number 
of waters the white flesh seems usually corre- 
lated with long slim form, while the red-fleshed 
fish are short, fat and chunky. Persons familiar 
with localities where these two sorts of fish are 
FREDERICK 
HOLDER. 
found, usually esteem the red-fleshed fish more 
highly than the white-fleshed. We do not know 
that any cause is given for such difference in 
color of the flesh. We do know, however, that 
similar differences are sometimes seen in brook 
trout in the same stream. It has been suggested 
that food may have something to do with this 
difference in color of flesh, but this seems hardly 
likely, when we recollect that the fish of the 
two sorts are caught in the same waters and 
presumably subsist on the same food. Your 
guide’s “theory” was a guess, and not a good 
one.—EDpITor. | 
A Prize Catch. 
On a recent fishing trip from Bergen Beach 
(Boegel’s), along with guide Nick Kellar, 
Thaddeus Clancy, of Laurel Hill, took a 1o-pound 
weakfish—the biggest caught in a number of 
years—and several other smaller ones, weighing 
from 4 to 5 pounds apiece. Also, Charley 
Murphy, of Blissville, caught eight fluke and 
fifteen weakfish, weighing from 3 to 4 pounds 
apiece 

