
StRirED Bass.—From the eastward along the Elizabeth 
Islands, off Rhode Island and Massachusetts, come marvel- 
lous stories of big fish. Mr. Willy Post took a monster 
weighing seventy pounds at Newport—so the rumor says— 
and yet striped bass haye been taken (in seines) that 
weighed 150 pounds! But, egad! seventy pounds is a large 
fish to land on a trolling rod and fine tackle. Genio must 
look to his laurels. This rather overlays his ‘fifty-six 
pounds.” 
The striped bass have just begun to work their way down 
to this latitude, and will soon furnish grand sport. The 
veteran Andrew Clerk and his squire, Mr. Abbey, went 
down last week tothe Jersey flats, their favorite fishing 
ground, but saw no sign. Bass, however, have been taken 
in limited numbers off the mouth of Coney Island Creek. 
About the Ist of September we shall hear from the main 
“army, of which these are merely the advance squad. 
On Friday last, below Communipaw, in Cayen Channel, 
a striped bass weighing sixty-three pounds was caught. 
The fish are running remarkably heavy this year. 
SALMon.—While we in many portions of the Middle 
States have suffered so much from drought as to cause the 
springs to run dry and the rivers to fail in their supply, the 
streams and water courses in Canada have been more than 
abundantly full ; and as a high state of water (not too high) 
improves rather than deteriorates Salmon fishing, the sea- 
son now closing has been unexceptionally good. The fish 
have been larger in size and greater in number. Indeed, 
they are said to have been more numerous in the St. Law- 
rence tributaries than at any time during forty years past. 
This gratifying improvement is undoubtedly due to the 
persevering efforts of the Government in restocking and 
protecting the rivers. In overhauling our data we note that 
General Arthur, of the New York Customs Department, 
and a friend, took upwards of 270 salmon on the Nepissi- 
guit in the course of a month’s fishing, the fish in nearly 
every instance being very large and fat. Two rods took 
130 salmon in twelve days on the southwest branch of the 
Mirimichi. Ten different parties have visited this river the 
present season, and all had great success. One man killed 
thirteen in a single day. In this stream, as in the Nepissi- 
guit, the fish were unusually large. In the Gaspe district 
Messrs. Clerk, Abbey and Stanton, of this city, had fair 
luck, considering that Mr. Abbey fished only a couple of 
days. They took fifty-four salmon on Grapid River within 
a fortnight, averaging thirteen and a half pounds apiece. 
The largest weighed thirty-two anda half pounds, caught 
by Andrew Clerk. Fred. Curtis, of Boston, has been fish- 
ing the St. John, (du Sud.) He took fifty salmon within a 
fortnight. Harbeck (Henry) has been trying his luck in the 
Romaine (Lord’s River), on the coast of Labrador, and cap- 
tured eighteen fish the first three days out. On the third 
day he took six fish before breakfast ; but he kept a part of 
them for dinner. Dr. Patterson’s score, on the Grand Cas- 
papediac, Gaspe, shows forty-nine fish in eight days’ fishing, 
twenty-one and a half pounds average ; heaviest fish, thirty- 
five pounds. On the Moisie Dr. Hamilton, with Mr. Turner 
and friend, fished six days and hung up from ten to fifteen 
fish each day ; unusually heayy. And so the fish have run 
throughout the Canadian waters. In Nova Scotia, how- 
ever, some of the rivers have not yielded their usual re- 
turns. Gentlemen who visited Gold, Middle and East 
rivers complained that they took no Salmon, and only a few 
grilse. We have no private intelligence of the early fishing 
in those rivers, but the fact that the parties referred to took 
grilse shows plainly enough that the full grown Salmon had 
done running when the fishermen arrived on the ground. 
The editor of this paper has endeavored in vain to impress 
upon anglers the importance of going early to the rivers of 
Nova Scotia. Even February, with its running ice, is a 
more favorable month than June. 
We have some strange intelligence from the lower St. 
Lawrence. A gentleman of high official position, who has 
been fishing the Ste. Marguerite, a tributary of the Sague- 
nay, by courtesy of its lessee, Robert Hare Powell, of Phil- 
adelphia, gives a left handed compliment to the Hon. Dave 
Price, the owner of the fishing rights, who, it seems, is 
taking pay from anglers for fishing privileges, while reap- 
ing at the same time a pecuniary harvest from his’set nets 
below. We quote bodily from the letter : 
“‘We were the first rods on the river, and expected good sport, but partly 
owing to the high state of the water, and partly to the wholesale system 
of netting carried on at Tadousac, we only killed one fish. I did not even 
getarise. Mr. Price’s people were taking one hundred and eighty in one 
haul at Tadousac. There were several American gentlemen fishing with 
Mr. Powell on the Northwest Branch, and they were nearly as unfortunate 
as ourselves. They complained much of Mr. Price and his nets. It cer- 
tainly does seem preposterous that aman who leases the river to other 
gentlemen, and calls himself a sportsman, should net so unremittingly, 
thereby totally preventing the fish from ascending the river.” 
Messrs. Green and Streit, of this city, who fished the 
other branch of the Marguerite in the latter part of July, 
took nineteen salmon in the course of two weeks, the set 
nets having been raised no doubt at intervals, or removed 
altogether for the season. 
Of Salmon, in many parts of the world, it is said that 
they will not rise tothe fly. As regards Newfoundland, this 
question may now be set at rest,forever—for Newfoundland, 
like the Pacific coast, has been misunderstood and misrepre- 
sented, chiefly by reason of neglect to investigate the subject. 
A letter on our table, from an officer of H. M. S. cruiser 
“Spartan,” reports having passed twelve days at Tassenger 
and Flat Bays, island of Newfoundland, in the course of 
which time many Salmon were taken by himself and ship- 
mates with the fly. More would have been taken but for the 
previously high stage of water, which amounted to a 
freshet—water doubtless corrupted by the inflow from the 
melting snows which could then (June) be seen sheeting the 
tops of the high table-lands, The thermometer rarely rose 
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above fifty degrees. Many large rivers flow into the bays 
mentioned. 
We have been disappointed by the non-receipt of a letter 
from the river Margaree, Cape Breton, one of the finest sal- 
mon rivers in the world, though but little known to anglers, 
TrovutT.—This delicious fish, in the sacrifice of its beauti- 
ful life, has afforded pleasure to thousands of anglers the 
past season. How many tens of thousands of trout must 
have been brought to hand throughout the country. As far 
as the record shows, they are now increasing in numbers, 
thanks to the numerous means and measures adopted by 
States, pisciculturists and private persons to propagate the 
species. The Adirondacks still seem to hold precedence as 
a favorite resort for would-be sportsmen ; and no wonder— 
for what other part of the globe can be found where all the 
appliances and luxuries of civilized life exist in the midst of 
primitive forests and primeval savagery ? The wild cat 
wails under the gaslights of Paul Smith’s caravansary ; the 
red deer drinks from the reservoir that supplies the mains 
that furnish the guests with water; and in the tangled 
thickets of the wilderness swamp novices might be irrecoy- 
erably lost and uselessly advertised for, while jaunty petti- 
coats are flaunted unconsciously along the beaten route not 
twenty rods distant. A rare combination this for the tyro, 
which permits him to feel the terrors ofythe jungle without 
being compelled to brave them—to enjoy the consciousness 
that he, with his guide, is a part of these weird, nerve-curd- 
ling experiences which will make his little brother quake 
and tremble at their mention when he emerges again into 
the settlements. Even Mr. Murray could not ignore the 
sublime sensation that was born of the thought that no 
human habitation stood within ninety miles of him, (as he 
states in-his book.) 
The reports from the Adirondacks are uniformly favor- 
able. The stage of water has been good and the fish of 
usual average size. More visitors than usual have made 
their headquarters at Schroon Lake. Our correspondents 
from Pennsylvania note a marked increase in the number 
of trout caught thisSummer,. For two years past the close 
season has commenced on August 1st, under the State law, 
and although the streams have been fished more than ever, 
the trout seem to multiply ; and doubtless the fishing will 
be still better next year. Two or three gentlemen who have 
visited the Cheat River country, in West Virginia, and the 
mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, speak in 
glowing terms of the fishing there. The trout are not 
large, but veyyabundant. Next season we shall encourage 
our sportsmen to reconnoitre in this direction, for the scen- 
ery is of the finest in America, and the sport assures full 
baskets. In Wisconsin the Wolverines have their favorite 
resorts. Their streams are very clear and cold, as we have 
learned by experience, when, after wading them for a couple 
of hours we found our limbs so numb that they were use- 
less to help us clamber up the banks. The following note, 
from Colonel Frank Hatch, a noted sportsman of the Bad- 
ger State, mentions some of the best trouting localities : 
La Crosse, Wis. June, 1873. 
Bayfield and Ashland, on the east shore of Lake Superior, can be 
reached by steamers from Duluth, in an eighty mile ride—or by boat from 
any point, on the chain of great lakes from the East. 
Bayfield excels for easy access to various steamers along the Lake Shore, 
and beauty of scenery, and good fellowship. Here are good hotel accom- 
modations, guides, boats &c., and splendid rock-fishing in going to and 
from the various streams that pour into the lake every ten miles. These 
streams admit of fine boat-fishing near their mouths, and splendid stream- 
fishing farther up. Very large trout are taken in these waters, many 
Ashland has the same facili- 
ties, except it requires greater expense and trouble to reach the sporting 
grounds. Bayfield is considered the finest location on the lake, and here 
you can find a class of people that spread hospitality on a broad gauge 
weighing three and a half and four pounds. 
plan. Refer to Sam Fiffield ‘‘ Bayfield Press, Col. Wm. H Knight, 
famous Jim Chapman and Gen. T. J. L. Tyler. Ican only add that whoever 
likes to throw a fly, or use a landing net, will find all the sport they want at 
this point. Fishing in the interior of our State is fast playing out, on ac- 
The best "points to 
visit at present are Menomonee, Dunn Co., and Hudson. Both these 
count of milling, logging and railway constructions. 
points are reached by rail from Chicago over the North Western Rail 
road and West Wisconsin Road, in a twenty-four hour’s ride. 
omonee we find the famous ‘Tea Gardens” situated on Wilson’s Creek, 
ten miles from M. This place is fast acquiring reputation for the nwmnber, 
more than the size of its trout. The Tea Gardens have an established 
hotel that is devoted to sportsmen who. visit there. Aside from this, 
many other streams, all tributary to the Chippewa and Menomonce 
Rivers, are to be found in this locality—and chicken hunting in season 
cannot be sufpassed. John H. Knapp of Menomonee will gladly give in- 
formation concerning future developments, At Hudson the ‘Baldwin 
House,”” Amasa Walker proprietor, will attend to sportsmen, and in no 
place cafi a few months be put in better. Hudson is situated on the Lake 
St. Croix River, and all the streams are well stocked wlth trout. 
Yours Respectfully, FRANK Harcu. 
Buacx Bass.—There are no finer black bass waters in 
the world than in the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota. A 
spoon, a gang, a scarlet fly, a bit of red rag, or a piece of 
porkyare all acceptable ‘to this bold biter; and he is so 
gamey that when we have succeeded in landing a large one 
from our eight ounce bamboo, after twenty minutes play, 
we hardly know where to place our preference—whether 
on this cavalier in green and gold, or upon the dainty trout 
in his ‘‘speckled pride.” 
Bass fishing has been unusually good this season. Mr. 
A. G, Atkins, Secretary of the Caw Caw Club, has -been 
doing a good business the past two weeks, having taken 
several hundred in Lake Winnebago with the fly. He 
brought fifty-seven to basket in a single day, which is heavy 
work for this species of game fish with light tackle. Let 
us see. Ten minutes to the fish—six in fifty-seven goes 
nine times and three over, which we will throw off for time. 
Nine hours steady fishing! Wonder if he stopped for 
lunch ? We can’t beat that here in the Middle States, but 
we notice that our bass fishing is improving, and that many 
lakes recently barren now give good returns, in consequence 
of their having been restocked. At Lyme, Connecticut, the 
bass fishing has been splendid. Anglers at Pharoah, Paradox 
and Schroon Lakes, Adirondack region, have had fine sport. 
. 
Jish, and not catch weeds and lily-pads. 
Of these two points 
At Men- 

Some of the lakes of northwestern Pennsylvania have done 
well for the first time in many years. 
Serpentine Lake, in Minnesota, and all the lakes around 
Brainard, within a radius of thirty miles, are alive with 
bass, waiting for gentlemen of leisure to come out and take 
them. Residents are too busy to give much time to sport. 
If the sportsman will take this month or the next he can 
combine bass fishing with “chicken” shooting. 
The ‘Caledonian minnow” with large grabs, has proved 
a killing bait, and will become a favorite. The “Page fly,” 
a nonentity with scarlet wings and shoulders of the guinea 
fowl] plumage, almost always kills. Well—a bass will take 
anything when he is in biting humor. 
We have been shown a trolling spoon which will take 
The hooks gather 
in, and have to be compressed laterally to make them spring 
open. Pulling upon them lengthwise will not spring them. 
It is the snap of the ‘‘beggar’s” jaws that does it, you 
know. Black bass are in season until ice comes. 
LAND-LOCKED SauMon.—‘‘Old sports” generally choose 
May for the capture of this fish, but the present month and 
the next are equally legitimate, and the weather and concom:- 
itants more pleasant. The ‘‘Schoodies” or St. Croix waters, 
that divide Maine from New Brunswick, are the preferred 
localities, but we like the Sebec Lakes equally well. Take 
the Piscataquis Railroad to the town of Sebec. Good hotel 
there, and a little tugboat on the lake. Medium sized flies, 
as large as those used for grilse—a combination of black 
and yellow, are the most killing. The house of Andrew 
Clerk, Maiden Lane, New York, has four new patterns, un- 
known except to a few experts. It is difficult to choose be- 
tween the land-locked salmon-fishing of Maine and the 
bass-fishing of Wisconsin and Minnesota. 
GRAYLING.—This is a game fish peculiar to Michigan, so 
far as is yet known, which has been recently added to the 
sportsman’s repertoire. He takes the fly boldly. His haunts 
are most accesssible from Bay City. We shall speak of him 
more explicitly in future numbers. 
‘ ANGLING For SHap.—W. ©. Prime and Dr. Thad. Nor- 
ris seem to have constituted themselves delegates to de- 
cide the question whether the shad is a true game fish and 
free acceptor of entomological invitations when offered. 
We take decided ground with Mr. Prime, who maintains 
that they are, and with the more natural reason that fly 
fishing for shad was a favorite amusement of ours a dozen 
years ago in the Savannah river, at the head of the canal 
above Augusta. Fine sport could always be found on the 
rapids in the spring. We used a brownish fly always, and 
fished in the early part of the day or at evening—not be- . 
cause we knew that the shad would not take a fly in mid- 
day (for we didn’t), but because the sun was too powerful 
for comfort. 
Wi eR Po ee 
Blilitary Zlews. 
Desertions among the enlisted men of the arn.y for years 
have been very numerous; in fact they have increased so 
rapidly that it is time the government instituted a board of 
competent officers to investigate the why and wherefore of 
this reduction of the army. As it is, a large part of the 
time of general courts-martial is occupied in the trial of en- 
listed men, the majority of whom are charged with deser- 
tion. We hope the case of 1st Lieut. George J. Madden, 
of the Eighteenth Infantry, who was “ dropped” from the 
rolls of the army for desertion is not proof that the infection 
is extending to the ranks of the officers. A natural inference 
is that this officer has committed some offence so gross in 
character that he preferred desertion to trial by court, and 
the inevitable dismissal from the service. 
Major General Winfield §. Hancock, commanding 
the military division of the Atlantic, headquarters New 
York city, has changed somewhat his personal appearance 
since the time he was wont to be termed the ‘‘ handsomest 
officer of the army.” The invigorating air of Minnesota, 
his previous department district, has added much flesh to 
bones, and he now presents in body the rotundity of a first- 
class ‘‘ city father.” Allof which comes, we presume, of 
Regular habits. 
The dashing General Custer, Lt. Colonel of the Seventh 
Cavalry, has been ‘‘dockdd” the large sum of twenty-three 
dollars and fifty-seven cents by the War Department, for 
using the wires too much when the pen would have been 
more economical to the Government. The freedom of 
“Life on the plains” will sometimes make officers as well 
as other people reckless in expenditure. Still as the pub- 
lishers of the Galaay are gradually making the General rich, 
we presume so small a ‘‘dock” will not trouble or inconve- 
nience him in the least. ; 
Adjutant W. W. Cook, of the Seventh Cavalry, has been 
granted leave for six months, to ‘‘cross the sea.” He will 
take less time than this, of course, in crossing, but he won't 
come back and assume the duties of chief until the expira- 
tion of that time. He is not, to our knowledge, on any 
Government business. 
A board comprising Lt. Col. S. B. Holabird, D. Q. G., 
Major A. P. Morrow, Ninth Infantry, and Captain W. T. 
Gentry, assemble at San Antonio, headquarters Department 
of Texas, on or about August 15th, to locate sites. for forts 
and military posts, which the Secretary of War has been di- 
rected to purchase. In case of arupture with our old friend 
Mexico, the Government deem it expedient to be well pre- 
pared along the Rio Grande. In times of peace prepare fcr 
war—right iu this neighborhood. 
Promotion being too slow, 2d Lieutenant Chas E. Slade 
has resigned fromthe Fifteenth Infantry, 
General Stanley is in a fair way to establish a reputation 
