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INTRODUCTION.

A glance at the presentation page will reveal the fact that the pub-
lisher has not issued this volume for revenue only, nor for protection, but
principally for the good of the fraternity. Close inspection of the tints
and texts of the turning leaves, which have been pressed into use for better
preservation, may prove most pleasant and profitable to the reader; pleasant
because the artistic illustrations bring to mind pictures of free out-door
I'ecreation, and profitable because business may be increased by adopting
the suggestions made so plain that "even he who runs may read."

It was one of the modern philosophers who asserted that " nothing
succeeds like success," and judged by this standard the publisher and pre-
senter of the present volume is truly a successful man. He flourishes a
Blade more popular and powerful than the ancient " blade of Damascus,"
and no publisher of the present dav can show a brighter or better Ledger
than the one which comes from his ofiice. Mr. Boyce might not be
willing to stand forth and make this just claim in his own behalf, but the
editor of this work merelv admits a well-known fact and violates no con-
fidence in disclosing this open secret to all the world and the rest of
mankind.

Having given credit to whom credit is due m this respect, the writer
hastens to acknowledge his obligations to several of the standard authorities
on American field sports and fishing for material aid in preparing this vol-
ume. To Isaac McLellan, the poet-sportsman, due credit should be given
for most of the stanzas introducing the various descriptive sketches of the
game fishes, animals and \>irds of the United States. These poetical selec-
tions are, for the most part, taken from McLellan's excellent " Poems of
the Rod and Gun," a book of rare interest to anglers and sportsmen.

The well-known treatise, entitled " American Game Fishes," and the
practical book, " Fishes of the East Atlantic Coast," by Messrs. Louis O.
Van Doren and Samuel C. Clarke, veteran anglers, have likewise fur-
nished valuable matter, for which proper acknowledgment has been made
elsewhere under the several heads or chapters where the writers above
named are quoted.

In the arrangement of the subject-matter the writer has been guided
principally by the directions of the publisher — whose instructions to author,
artist and printer, were to spare neither time, labor or expense in the pre-
paration of a book to grace the library of the sportsman, the angler and
the man of business.

It has l)een the belief of Mr. \V. D. Boyce that a valuable work of
reference, combining the information hitherto attainable only by possession
of a sporting library, could be produced in attractive form, for the benefit
of busy men who have neither time nor inclination to make extensive
research for such facts.

The "Fish Tales" and "Hunters' Yarns," taken in moderation, with
spirited illustrations, ad lib., may serve as a prescription to drive away the
blues. Such, at least, is the design of the publisher and his fellow con-
spirator— F. E. Pond.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

In the compilmgand publishing of this little work I wish to acknowl-
edge the valuable services of Fred E. Pond, (Will Wildwood) the Secre-
tary of the National Game and Fish Protective Association of the United
States, who compiled, under my direction, the matter herein contained.
Also that of Wm. H. Schmedtgen, the well-known artist, whose work
herein speaks for itself and will be praised b}' all who see it. The com-
position, make-up, press-work and binding has been done by my valued
friend and former partner, Mr. R. R. Donnelley, who stands as the leading
artist-printer in Chicago.

The true cause for the publication of this book is to afford us an
opportunity to compliment our friends and show them that we will not
allow them to forget us. Trulv,

W. D. Boyce.

CONTENTS.

REMARKS ON ANGLING.

History of Axglixg, Writers, etc., . . . . 9-21

GAME FISHES.

Fresh Water Fishes, --.-.. 22-40

Salt Water Fishes, ...... 41-52

FISH TALES.

A Series of Remarkable Stories by well-kxowx Adver-
tisers, Advertisixg Agexts, Railroad Men, etc., (illustrated) 52-84

HUNTING YARNS.

Advextures, Anecdotes, Remixiscexces, etc., as told by per-
sons WHOSE XAMES WILL BE RECOGXIZED BY ALL WHO SCAX THE

Advertisixg Columns of Newspapers, (illustrated) - - 85-92

FISHING BY STATES.

Resorts ix Northerx, Southerx, Eastern axd VVesterx States, 93-98

FISHING BY nONTHS.

Seasons whex to Fish to best Advaxtage, - - - 99-101

HUNTING.

Four-Footed Game, .-...- 105-112

WATER FOWL,

Field Birds, - - - - - - - 115-120

THREE OF A KIND."

It is said that the fisherman, general advertiser and newspaper man
are " three of a kind." This I have always been told beats " two pair."'
The reason, however, I understand, they are entered in the same class, is
not so much because they do not always stick to the truth, but because
they are not always believed.

Seriously, there is a great deal of the same makeup in the true
sportsman and angler, plucky advertiser and hustling newspaper man.
The fisherman must often wait and make many casts before he gets
" a strike " — the general advertiser often casts his bread upon the waters
for years before it returns to him one hundred fold — the publisher must
keep everlastingly hustling or sink out of sight. Long waiting and
patience is a necessary characteristic of the " three of a kind." Quick
results are secured by advertising in Boycc's Big- Weeklies.

REMARKS ON ANGLING.

"A taper rod, a slender line,

A bait to tempt the fishes.
And in the shade of oak or pine
One may the wicked world resign

And all its sinful wishes."

'A gamy fight, a landed prize.
Perhaps a bass to mention.
And tho' the world may advertise
'Twill never out of art devise
A parallel invention."

' O wearied souls that sigh for peace

And search the town, e'er failing.
Here is unwatered bliss to lease,
With interest beginning to increase —

And 'sou'west' winds prevailing."

^'"T^ngling is probably the most ancient of out-
jreations. In the Apostolic days Peter
go a-fishing," and his brother disciples
responded, " we also, will go with thee." Before
the dawn of the Christian era angling was
enjoyed as a pastime, thongh it had not developed
mto a profound science. When the Divine hand
brought order out of chaos, created the earth, and
apportioned to the surface three-fourths water
and one-fourth of dry land, the relative importance of fish-
ing as compared with the sports of the field, was forever
fixed and can scarcely be questioned. It has been said in
favor of angling that " it is a one-handed game, that
would have suited Adam himself ; it is the onlyone by
w^hich Noah could have amused himself in the ark," and these truths
seem self-evident.

Of ancient angling, as practiced b}' the EgA'ptians, the Assyrians, the
Romans, and other races of ye olden time, little need be said in this volume.
It may be safely assumed that the majority of fishers in that past age
fished for food, not for pleasure. The angling appliances of the ancients
were so crude and coarse — as evidenced by the relics of this kind pre-
served in various museums — that it would be ridiculous to term their
method of fishing a " gentle art." Sinews and strings of raw-hide were
the ordinary fishing lines, and the hooks were roughly formed of bone or
metal. Respect for the reputation of the good and great men who inhab-
ited the earth when it was comparatively new, prevents modern authors

on angling from entertaining a belief that ,/
the fishes of old were caught "by^ mai»w*-
strength and ignorance," and the same rever-
ence for antiquity will of course banish the^,,:^^
satirical definition of old-time ang-
ling as " a stick and a string, with
a fish at one end and a fool at,
other." The writer will
the statement, however, ■
anglers of ancient days earned
more live, natural flies tWn artificial (5nes^^d^-itig:'fheir fishing excursions.
In the legends and lyrics presery-ed^cum grano sails — from the past,
references are made to mighty mythical anglers, worthy of a place at the
caiiip fire or in the club rooms of the modern association of Angling
Ananiases. Of one of those old worthies it was said:

" He baited his hook with dragons' tails,
And sat on a rock and bobbed for whales."

It is a pleasure to turn from the famous and the fabulous fishers of the
dim past, to the anglers and angling of a more recent period. Foremost
in the literature of angling stands that quaint and pleasing volume, " The
Compleat Angler," written by Izaak Walton, whose tercentenary was
celebrated quietly and appropriately, August 9, 1893, at the Walton
Cottage — a unique building, modeled after his famous fishing lodge on the
River Dove — and it is worthy of note that the great fly-casting tourna-
ment, held September 21, 1893, within the enclosure of the World's
Columbian Exposition, was contested on the lagoon in front of the same
cosy cot which had been erected there in honor of the world-renowned
angler and author.

It is a singular fact, though entirely in harmony with the eternal
fitness of things, that the earliest published treatise on the gentle art of
angling was written by one of the gentle sex, Dame Juliana Berners,
whose " Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle," issued in the year 1496,
antedated the work of our beloved Izaak more than one hundred and fifty
years. The instructions given by the venerable Dame are more curious
than concise or correct, as applied to the wants of scientific devotees of rod
and reel in the nineteenth century, but it must be borne in
mind that America had not been discovered when Juliana
Herners wrote her book, and the lady, although celebrated
for her learning and accomplishments, had not the gift of
prophecy to foretell of fish and fishing in the (then) unknown
but now "Universal Yankee Nation."

Although the precepts of the quaint treatise appear antiquated and
amusing to a degree, nearly all devoted lovers of angling will heartily agree
with the feminine philosophy embodied in the statement that many miseries
attend the sports of hunting, hawking, and fowling, and "dowteles thenne
folovvyth it, that it must nedes be the dysporte of fysshynge wyth an
angle that causeth a long lyfe and a mery." The conclusion thus drawn
may not be satisfactory, nor the reasons clear to a field sportsman, but they
are ample for the angling brotherhood.

Following down the line of famous English authors, from the days
of Walton to the present time, it will be found that most of the immortals
have published pleasant words relating to fishing as a pastime, and Sir
Humphrey Davy gave to the world evidence of his love for the theme
by writing that admirable work, " Salmonia, or Days of Fly Fishing ;"
while Prof. John Wilson (the inimitable "Christopher North") in his
Nodes Ambrosianae^ recorded some of the most attractive observations
on angling in the whole range of modern literature.

In America several prominent literary men of the past half century
have delighted the fishing fraternity with angling books and essays. Dr.
Geo. W. Bethune, the great divine, found time amid his more serious
labors, to prepare an elaborate American edition of Walton's Complete
Angler, and Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, diplomat and scholar, has written
several volumes on fishing as entertaining and instructive in their way
as are the thrilling works by his nephew, — the gifted Theodore Roose-
velt— descriptive of the wild sports of the West. The well-earned fame
of Charles Lanman rests equally upon his achievements as artist and
angling author ; while Henr\' William Herbert, the classical scholar and
novelist, is best remembered under the name of " Frank Forester," his
works on fishing and field sports taking high rank at the present day,
though his historical romances, upon which he believ^ed his literary repu-
tation must depend, are nearly forgotten by the reading public.

It is evident that a pastime which holds T^e /attention ajid warm
admiration of scliolarly men must have xx^\\c\\ ^o^^oi^'a^^
" passeth the understanding " of those who Jmve^
go a-fishing. The familiar adage, "spare ^tb^ X^<
has been misuntlerstood and the rod mis^.^§|
for many generations past. The propel" r|)(T few
the youth, in most cases, is not the birch bat the
bamboo, and this should be gently pliiced .wi-
the hand of the young student, with ^ jiidici
instructions as to the best times and "pi
conning his new lines, concluding ,witS-?^g

injunction that lie must never allow his fly book to cause
neglect of his school books.

Many born anglers have been driven almost to des-
peration, their minds and bodies suffering from the afore-
said misapplication of the rule and the rod. Give the
schoolboy a good hook and line and rod, w^ith occasional
holidays for their use, and if he is of the right sort he
will not " play hookey," nor will he miss his lines, or
require the use of the rod in the school room. If parents
and pedagogues would learn that there are times in the training
of boys when a rod in the hand is worth two on the back, and
that there are valuable lessons in the running brooks as well as in
books, the world would be better and brighter.

Recreation is not merely amusement and relief from toil. In
its best form — as for example, in angling — recreation literally re-
creates both mind and body; mental troubles vanish and bodily ills
mysteriously depart under the soothing influence of the forest
shade and the pleasant song of the brook. Nature is the true
healer, and the fishing rod is a magic wand to be waved over the
waters, for mortal man will never come nearer the perennial Fount-
ain of Youth than when he stands upon the brink of some crystal
trout pool, or close to a circling eddy, where the salmon leaps.

Any angler can vouch for the fact that it is not all of fishing
to fish. The alternate effects of sun and shade, the sights and sounds
along sylvan shores, the balmy breeze, the odors of pine and balsam and
the wild flowers of the wilderness — all these and a thousand other things
only incidentally connected with fishing bring health and happiness to
the ardent angler. In the words of Sir Edgerton Brydges :

" It is a mingled rapture, and we find
The bodily spirit mounting to the mind."

No other out-door pastime is so free from noise, tiu'moil and con-
fusion; so calm and peaceful, in the intervals or interludes of the
play — the periods between expectation and realization — when the chirp
)f' the^jjprfcket. and the carol of birds relieve rather than break the
lence^^nd the angler rejoices in moments of meditation,
quietly communes with the silent voices of Nature.
,. . ..{ileasant ballad entitled The Angler's Song, quaint
^1^. Wa. — as he signs himself at the end of the Epistle
iCatory of the " Compleat Angler " — the charm of
filing as a contemplative pastime is thus set forth :

Of recreation there is none
So free as fishing is alone ;
All other pastimes do no less
Than mind and body both possess ;
M}' hand alone my work can do,
So I can fish and study too.

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In an entertaining essay on the pleasures
of anu^ling, the late " Harry Fernwood" gave
tlic following comments on the theory and
piactice: _ "And so these men, whose teaefe-
jngs 1 would emulate, wore awa\- their days
.Iranquilly into the nineties. They saw their
.^letlows pursuing intangible spectres — tlTfe„
^^iK&^rse of avarice, and the sham hapjjiness of
-, wealth, under which, in the heyday of man-
hood, they sank out of sight and retfoTIection.
Not that it is foil}- to get riches. The acquire-
ment of fortune is all very well if not taken
in exchange for health, which is at all odds the greatest
of riches, of comforts, and of blessings. * * * The
human system is like a bow, which, in order to preserve
the tension, must be relaxed occasionally, and which becomes a worthless
thing when its elasticitv is no longer apparent.

" Why should Dame Juliana Berners write a work on angling?
Because she found a charm in it. Nor is she wanting in admirers of
her sex these five centuries past. On all my jaunts I meet the fairer
patrons of the craft. And proper it is for them — far better for their future
health than to become, like their fashionable sisters, listless, wan and
flounced for show, dozing away the genial warmth of a summer da}-,
invoking the ' tedious ' hours on speed, and then to vex with mirth the
drowsy ear of night, toying with fan and ammoniacal salts to coax the
senses back.

"'To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.'"

" When fatigued and worn by the cares of a sedentary profession I
have stolen away from the sultry town to some clear lake or stream, where
the dandelion flecked the new-made green, and the blossomed orchards were
fair to see. The sweet notes of the first birds of spring have cheered me
on the way, and my lure has gently rii:)pled the glassy pool ere yet the blue
smoke was curling from the cottage tops. I have known the struggle with
'the wiry genii of the stream, the sensations which thrilled my every nerve
w hen the hook was seized. The fears of losing the fish, and the hope of
safely landing him a prey to artful skill — the quietude of mind and rest of
body I have experienced in a day so spent, have altogether made me equal
to many an exigency of the daily
task. And that is why I am an'
.angler."

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William'^^/Porter,^atniliar-lv known ^^fi^^ork's Tall Son,"j[the
editor and fo^ndeD^^Of jth^^st, sport"; ni^n'^^^frtirn al tn Africa,): piiblished

m^y year

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.^ies

pastime. Thp foil^vin^g^x^ac^^e talien
nally appeaj^d iH^tli^ " "

the "J^im&s \//'. '/^¥/A
yfi ''^y-fishing lias been de
thjfe' ar^-lep's craft, atu^^nnqvt^
eTegan^a^j^ to' men of La-ic -n; i>^'i"i«

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ment mjuir

mind, .united ^/Co||^srimjnatof
you ^m^ \crx pre<)y^3«alpi.
never ' wjet /( 1 i nV^ tiKvl^akt-'
Fly-fishing require^ many
be eqximert'ated, a !i_;ht and-
thatf caiy>;|quint .-lia^;-ht,>^^^

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of /the^^er
St. Liawix-nce, trOut'
utmost per, f c L- 1 i < I n .
IS nQt-tr^iN^thc cow slip ha^
your ^riwqyal)6ted vv4^^e vk^fjr?^! notes of
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ov§r th^/si^rfac^e of

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tx thc^skeTches, which origi-

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iiifo existence, that trout,-afe ' iniHat^d;<I^:^^9on^ilficm^ rise freely to

the fly. You may seethem li>i^iij(g^^fl'^very diri^^on in the ponds of
I y.Nevv England; while on Long^sl^d, he that/ca^ot kill a few brace
at the close of a summer afternoon, or befcTre the sun gets up, should not
be allowed to wet a line."

" The gray and green drake, which nearest resemble the May-fly,
succeed it in their season, and are equally welcomed by 'Johnny Trout.'
The palmer family follow' in order, and may be used throughout the

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A taper rod, a slender line,
A bait to tempt the fishes,
And in the shade of oak or pine

One may the wicked world resign
And all its sinful wishes.

Geo. F. Bowex.

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them. Yet, for its length, it is nBt^'a *Bad brook. The trout are not
numerous, nor large, nor especialh^ fine, but every one you catch renews
your surprise that you should catch any in such a ribbon of a brook. Still
farther north is another stream, something larger, and much better or
worse, according to your luck. It is easy of access, and quite unpretend-
ing. There is a bit of a pond, some twenty feet in diameter, from which
it flows, and in that there are five or six half-pound trout, who seem to
have retired from active life and given themselves to meditation in this
liquid convent. They were very tempting but quite untemptable. Stand-
ing afar off we selected an irresistible fly, and with long line we sent it
pat into the ver\' place. No trout should have hesitated a moment. The
morsel was delicious. The nimblest of them should have flashed through
the water, broke the surface, and with a graceful but decisive curve
plunged downward, carrying the insect with him. Then \ve should in our
turn very cheerfully lend him a hand, relieve him of his prey, and admiring
his beauty, but pitying his untimely fate, buried him in the basket. But
he wished no translation. We cast our fly again and again; we drew it
hither and thither; we made it skip and wriggle; we let it fall plash like
a surprised miller; and our audience calmly beheld our feats.

Next we tried ground bait, and sent our vermicular hook down to
their very sides. With judicious gravity they parted, and slowly sailed
toward the root of an old tree on the side of the pool. Again changing
place, we will make an ambassador of a grasshopper. Laying down our
rod, we prepare to catch the grasshopper; that is in itself no slight feat.
The first step you take at least forty bolt out, and tumble headlong in the
grass; some cling to the stems, some are creeping under the leaves, and
not one seems to be in re^ch. YoM step again; another flight takes place,
and you ^yerJ^evy^ith ^fierce, pei^t^ation, as if you could catch some one
Vkrith y^oxxY.^^J^ovi c^jinot^thpu<>^h. You i)rush the grass with your foot

again. Another hundred snap
out, and tumble about in every
direction. At length you see
a verv nice voung fellow climb-
ihpf a >tc'ci)le stem. You take
good sixxix aim giab at him.
r? i-Yi^xjiitc^ the spire, but he has
juBipedfa safe rod. Yonder is
'another, creeping among some

^t^:^$^

have
and t
stalk

delicate ferns. With broad palm you clutch him and all the neighbor-
ing herbage too. Stealthily opening your little finger, you see his
leg; the next finger reveals more of him; and opening the next you
are just be^i^rmng to take him out w^ith the other hand, when out he
bounds and/ufivves you to renew your entomological pursuits. Twice you
snatch hjvOwiulls of grass, and cautiously open your palm to find that you

ass. It is quite vexatious. There are thousands of them here

climbing and wriggling on that blade, leaping off from that

ting and kicking on that vertical spider's web, jumping and

about under your very nose, hitting you in your face, creeping

shoes, and yet not one do you get. If any tender-hearted person

ndered how a humane man could bring himself to such cruelty as

le an insect, let him hunt for a grasshojjper in a hot day among

ass, and when at length he secures one, the affixing him upon the

hook will be done without a single scruple, and as a mere

matter of penal justice, and with judicial solemnity.

Now then the trout are yonder. We swing our line to

the air, and give it a gentle cast toward the desired spot,

and a puff of south wind dexterously lodges it in the branch

of a tree. You plainly see it strike, and whirl over and over,

so that no gentle pull loosens it ; you draw it north and

south, east and west ; you give it a jerk up and a pull

down; you give it a series of nimble twitches; you coax it

in this way, and solicit it in that way, in vain. Then you

stop and look a moment, first at the trout, and then at your

line. Was there anything ever so vexatious.^ Would it be

wrong to get angry? In fact you feel very much like it.

The very things you wanted to catch, the grasshopper and

the trout, you could not ; but a tree, that you did not want,

you have caught fast at the first throw. You fear that the

trout will be scared. You cautiously draw nigh and peep

Yes, there they are looking at you, and laughing as sure as

ever trout laughed. They iniderstand the whole thing. With a

very decisive jerk you snap your line, regain the remnant of it, and

sit down to repair it, to put on another hook, catch another grass-

opper, and move on down stream to catch a trout.

But let us begin. Standing in the middle of the stream, your
short rod in hand, let out twelve to twenty feet of line, varying its length
according to the nature of the stream, and, as far as it can be done, keep-
ing its position and general conduct under anxious scrutiny. Just here
the water is mid -leg deep. Experimenting at each forward reach for

a firm foot-hold, slipping, stumbling over some uncouth stone, slipping on
the moss of another, reeling and staggering, you will have a fine oppor-
tunity of testing the old philosophical dictum, that you can think of but one
thing at a time. You must think of half a dozen; of your feet, or you
will be sprawling in the brook; of your eyes and face, or the br^iches
will scratch them; of your line, or it will tangle at every step; of your
distant hook and dimly seen bait, or you will lose the end of all your
ing. At first it is a puzzling business. A little practice sets things
right.

Do you see that reach of shallow water gathered to a head by a cross-
bar of sunken rocks? The water splits in going over upon a slab of rock
below, and forms an eddy to the right and one to the left. Let us tr
grasshopper there. Casting it in above, and guiding it by a motio*f
your rod, over it goes, and whirls out of the myriad bubbles into the ei
of the eddy, when, quick as a wink, the water breaks open,
a tail flashes in the air and disappears, but re-appears to th
instant backward motion of your hand, and the victim
comes skittering up the stream, whirling over and over, till
your hand grasps him, extricates the hook, and slips him
into the basket. Poor fellow ! you want to be sorry for
him, but every time 3'ou try you are glad instead. Stand-
ing still, you bait again, and try the other side of the stre
where the water, wiping off the bubbles from its face,
taking toward that deep spot under a side rock. There!
you've got him ! Still tempting these two shores, you take
five in all, and then the tribes below grow cautious. Let-
ting your line run before you, you wade along, holding on
by this branch, fumbling with your feet along the jagged
channel, changing hands to a bough on the left side, leaning
on that rock, stepping over that stranded log. Ripping a
generous hole in your skirt as you leave it, you come to
edge of the pett}^ fall. You step down, thinking only how to keep
your balance, and not at all of the probable depth of water, till you
splash and plunge down into a basin w^aist-deep. The first sens
tion of a man up to his vest pockets in water, is peculiarly fooli
and his first laugh rather faint; and he is afterward a little ash
of the alacrity with which' he scrambles for the bank. A
brings you to a sand-bank and to yourself. But while you arellin a scrape
at olie end of your line, a trout hns got into a worse one at the Hither. A
little flurried with surprise at both experiences, you come near losing him
in the injudicious haste with which you overhaul him.

" Cold, those rivers, as the fountains

From the wilderness that flow,
Cold as waters of the mountains,

Gelid with the ice and snow,
There amid the soft abysses,

Or the river's spring-fresh tide,
Gleaming, flashing, leaping, diving.

Shoals of lordly salmon glide."

The salmon family is considered the royal branch in tracing the
various species of game fish in American waters, and the sea salmon is
undisputed king in this line. It is not solely on account of size that the
salmon holds this honored position, for the mascalonge would prove a
formidable rival in this respect, but it is the combination of game qualities,
and particularly that of rising to the artificial fly and fighting for liberty
when hooked, with wonderful strength, activity and sagacity, making the
result doubtful to the last, that gives such zest to salmon fishing.

Although the salmon takes an annual outing, so to speak, in the
ocean waves, it is practically a fresh water fish from the angler's point of
view, as it is born in the clear cold rivers flowing to the sea, and returns each
season to the vicinity of its birth place, by instinct as unerring as that of
the carrier pigeon. No ordinary obstacle will stop the fish when ascending
his native river, and remarkable incidents are told illustrating the endurance,
perseverance and acrobatic powers of the salmon in overcoming the
natural and artificial barriers of the stream.

It is now believed by our leading naturalists that " the original habitat
of the entire family Salmonidte was in fresh water, and that it is the sea

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salmon which has become erratic— the -disturbances of 'I
having driven them out of their primitive inland possessions,
obedience to the law of evolution which requires posterity to
the same biological changes as their progenitors did, all salmon must be
born and live for a time, at least, in fresh water; hence we find our sea
salmon coming into the rivers and spending a large proportion of their
time in fresh water, seeking there a change of diet and hygienic treatment
against parasites and fungus." These observations, from the pen of a
practical angler-naturalist, appear reasonable and forcible.

The Atlantic salmon — considered the best game fish of the several
closely allied species — is described as follows by scientists, as to appearance
and general characteristics: Body moderately elongate, symmetrical, not
generally compressed. Head rather low. Mouth moderate, the maxillary
reaching just past the eye. Scales rather large, largest posteriorly, and
silvery in appearance. Coloration in the adult brownish above, the sides
more or less silvery, with numerous black spots on sides of head, on body,
and on fins, and red patches along the sides in the males; young specimens
(parrs) with about eleven dusky cross-bars, besides black spots and red
patches, the color, as well as form of the head and body varying much
with age, food and condition; the black spots in the adult often x shaped,
or X X shaped. Weight fifteen to forty pounds. North Atlantic, ascending
all suitable rivers and the region north of Cape Cod; sometimes perma-
nently land-locked in lakes, where its habits and colorations (but no
tangible specific characters) changed somewhat when it becomes, in
America, var. Sebago.

Salmon fishing is beyond doubt royal sport, and under present
conditions it cannot be enjoyed to the full extent by any American anglers
except those having royal incomes, as the Canadian tour, cost of fishing
lease, guide, boatman, etc., bring the expense well up in round numbers,
making the ordinary " silver lure " burdensome, good gold eagles being
preferable foi" the line of rapid transit. In the early portion of the past
century the Hudson river was a magnificent salmon stream, but the
changes wrought by time and the tide of commerce have so fettered it and
polluted the natural tide that it now leads to foi'tune more than to fishing.
The head waters of the Hudson have of late been restocked, and a number
of salmon of moderate size were taken last season below an impassable
dam, thus proving that if suitable fish-ways can be secured, and necessary
restrictions against seining put into effect, the river will again furnish
excellent sport for salmon fishers. Much credit is due to Mr. A. N.
Cheney, of Glens Falls, N. Y., for organizing a strong association to
promote the good work of restoring the salmon fishing of the Hudson.

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If properly supported success will be assured, and the movement will be
of incalculable value to the state whether considered from an angling or a
financial standpoint.

A few rivers in Maine and several streams along the Pacific coast
afford fair fly-fishing for salmon, but the large majority of American
anglers, seeking for sport in this line, visit the streams tributary to the St.
Lawrence, where the fishing exploits of such past masters of the craft as
Dr. Bethune, " Frank Forester," Robert B. Roosevelt, Charles Lanman,
Charles Hallock, and a host of other worthies, have drawn public
attention to the exclusion, almost, of minor resorts. Let us hope the day
is not far distant when our own rivers, judiciously restocked and protected,
will furnish fishing equally good for the recreation of our anglers.

It would be folly to attempt instruction, even as to the first principles
of practical salmon fishing, in a few pages devoted to this subject. So
far as primary lessons can be given in entertaining and instructive form,
the reader is commended to a careful perusal of Chas. Hallock's admirable
book, " The Salmon Fisher," and Henry P. Wells' " American Salmon
Fisherman" — two volumes full of interest and instruction for students
preparing to take the coveted degree of master of arts in the school of
angling.

Mr. George Dawson, in his captivating work, entitled " Pleasures of
Angling," gives a realistic description of the sensations he experienced in
catching his first salmon. After securing a rise, and gazing upon the fish,
face to face; beholding the cavernous mouth and bulging eyes of his finny
adversary, just rising from the depths, the angler experienced the feeling
of faintness, followed by electric thrills usual at this stage; and then,
exerting every effort to regain composure, he made a second cast.

The story is best told in his own words: "I had marked the spot
where the fish had risen, had gathered up my line for another cast, hg^ct'
dropped the fly, like a snow-flake, just where I desired it to rest^^i^lTen
like a flash, the same enormous head appeared, the §ame' o
revealed themselves, a swirl and a leap and a strike followed, fiji
salmon was hooked with a thud! which told me as plainly 'Jis
operation had transpired within the range of my vision, that if I 1
it would be my own fault. When thus assured, there vi^as excite
no flurry. My nerves thrilled and every muscle, assumed the* te
well-tempered steel, but I realized the full sublimity of the oceasiiCli
a sort of majestic calmness took the place of the stupid -inaeuou
followed the first apparition. My untested rod bent under the
a graceful curve; my reel clicked out a livelier melody than^v
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tensioned line emitted yEolian music as it stretched and stiffened under
the strain to which it was subjected; and for fifty minutes there was such
giving and taking, such sulking and rushing, such leaping and tearing,
such hoping and fearing, as would have ' injected life into the ribs of
death,' made an anchorite dance in very ecstasy, and caused anv true
angler to believe that his heart was a kettle-drum, evei'v sinew a jew's-
harp, and the whole frame-work of his excited nerves a full band of music.
And during all this time my canoe-man rendered efficient service in
keeping even pace with the eccentric movements of the struggling fish.
'Hold him head np, if possible!' was the counsel given me, and 'make
him work for every inch of line.' Whether, therefore, he took fiftv yards
or a foot, I tried to make him pull for it, and then to regain whatever was
taken as soon as possible. The result was an incessant clicking of the
reel, either in paying out or in taking in, with an occasional flurrv and
leap which could have been no more prevented than the onrushing of a
locomotive. Any attempt to have suddenly checked him by making
adequate resistance would have made leader, line or rod a wreck in an
instant. All that it was proper or safe to do was to give each just the
amount of strain and pressure it could bear with safety — not an ounce
more nor an ounce less — and I believe that I measured the pressure so
exactly that the .^train upon my rod did not vary half an ounce from the
first to the last of the struggle. Toward the close of the fight, when it
was evident that the 'jig was up,' and I felt myself master of the situation,
I took my stand upon a projecting point in the river, where the water was
shallow, and where the most favorable opportunity possible was afforded
the gaffer to give the struggling fish the final death thrust, and so end the
battle. It was skillfully done. The first plunge of the gaff brought him
to the greensward, and there lay out before me, in all his silver beauty and
magnificent proportions, my first salmon. He w^eighed thirty pounds,
measured nearly four feet in length, was killed in fifty minutes. It is said
that w^hen the good old Dr. Bethune landed his first salmon, ' he caressed it
as fondly as he ever caressed his first born.' I could onlv stand over mine
in speechless admiration and delight — panting wnth fatigue, trembling in.
verv ecstasy."

Summing up his afterthoughts on this occasion, the author adds:
" The victory was a surfeit for the morning. With other fish in full view,
ready to give me a repetition of the grand sport I had already experienced,
I made no other cast, and retired perfectly contented. The beautiful fish
was laid down lovingly in the bottom of the canoe and born in triumph to
the camp, where fish and fisher were given such a hearty welcome amid
such hilarious enthusiasm as was befitting ' the cause and the occasion.' '*
A thrilling incident, well written.

BROOK TROUT.

" Here, where the willowj thickets lave
Their drooping tassels beneath the wave,
There lies a deep and darkened pool
Whose waters are crystal clear and cool;
It is fed by many a gurgling fount
That trickles from upland pasture and mount,
And where the tree-shadows fall dense and dim
The glittering trout securely swim."

Of the brook trout — the justly prized 'salmon of the fountain' — it
may truthfully be said that 'tis the popular favorite among most lovers of
fly-tishing in the United States. Like the garnet the speckled trout
sparkles for the multitude, while that gem of the first water, the salmon,
gleams in its silvery lustre for the favored few. The brook trout is more
widely distributed, and therefore more generally known than any other
fresh water game fish of the first order, with the exception, possibly, of
the black bass.

The natural habitat of the speckled trout is the section of country
comprising the principal Eastern, New England and extreme Northern
states, along the Canadian border, and westward to the sources of the
Mississippi and those streams tributary to Lake Superior, where some
of the largest specimens are found, ranking in size and game qualities
with the magnificent trout of Maine waters. The southern range extends
to the foot-hills of the Alleghanies, and the headwaters of the Chatta-
hoochie, in Georgia, with a moderate number in the North C'"olina
tributaries of the Catawba. Many of the fish caught and recorded under
the name of brook trout in certain sections of the United States, belong
in reality to other species, and the local name, trout, is therefore a mis-
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odici s^«es-of game fish varies so greatly in. coloration and
the conditions of water and food acting upon the sensitive or-
• -'^^ Ul'Spk troiit with effect almost equal to that of light and
stBS^Upon thcTrhangeful chameleon. In streams flowing over gravelly
boj^tti and sand}' soil, and^'thrmjgh varied meadow-land and forest; or
where the foot-hills of the mountains give dash and sparkle to the rivulets
running down their slopes, the colors of the brook trout are brightest and
the form of the fish most beautiful. In sluggish waters, dark and
somber, shaded by heavy woodlands, the trout seem to belong to a differ-
ent variety, hence the confusion existing in local names and nomenclature.
An interesting and instructive exhibit might be made of genuine brook
trout, taken from twenty widely separated localities, entirely unlike in
character, and affording a family of fish apparently- representing a score
of species.

The majority of anglers are familiar, through personal experience or
published description, with the carmine-dotted appearance of the brook
trout. A volume would scarcely be sufficient to reveal the variety of
colorings, characteristics and modes of capture. As well attempt to de-
scribe the shifting scenes of a kaleidoscope, or give a pen-picture of the
varying tints and texture of the rainbow. The best method of studying
the sprightly salmon of the fountain is not through merely reading the
printed line, but consists rather in casting the silken line ' with neatness
and despatch,' directly to his home. If the invitation is delicately sent
and properly delivered the response will be prompt, and after overcom-
ing the natural diffidence and reluctance of your new acquaintance, you
may have the supreme satisfaction of placing him at your right hand —
the position of honor — -at your dining table.

The character of brook-trout fishing is as variable and fascinating as
the coloration and habits of the fish. Fly-fishing is of course the highest
and most enjoyable form of the art, though bait-fishing is by no means a
tame or dull recreation. In fishing with the fly there is perhaps more of
the picturesque, the artistic and scientific, but in bait-fishing a greater
amount of energy, pitience and perseverance may often be required.
One well-known authority, Thomas Tod Stoddart, even declares that
" worm-fishing for trout, when the waters are clear and low, the
skies bright and warm, requires essentially more address and experience,
as well as better knowledge ©f the habits and instincts of the fish, than
fly-fishing." Leaving this debatable question aside, there is sufficient
sport in either style of fishing to satisfy any except the most critical
angler.

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The trout-fisher at his best is one of the happiest of mortals. His
lines are surely cast in pleasant places, along the cold spring brooks,
where the mingled murmur of winds and woods and waters makes low
music to his ears, the changeful scene affords a succession of pleasing
pictures to the eye, and the velvet turf is like a carpet to the feet. Or his
steps may wander near the foamy cataract, the deep river, and quiet lake,
for the haunts of trout are found in a wide diversity of places. In the
vicinity of Ashland, Wis., for instance, a long rocky ledge overhangs the
shore of Chequamegon B^y, a short distance below the mouth of one of
the favorite trout streams of that locality, and some of the largest speci-
mens have been caught by a method known to the natives as "rock-fish-
ing," which consists in fly-fishing from a boat carefully propelled along
near shore, giving the angler opportunity' to cast his lure beneath the
beetling crags where the lurking trout lie in wait.

The science of fly-casting — -and it is certainly a scientific attainment
— may be partially mastered by tournament methods and practice, but
the critical test must be made at the trout-stream, where it will be found
that the angler has ample use for all his resources of accuracy and deli-
cacy, though he may usually dispense with the long distance cast that
wins all the grand-stand applause. The Chicago Fly-Casting Club very
properly gave precedence to points of delicate and accurate work, in
summing up the respective merits of contestants at the World's Fair
Tournaments, thus recognizing the most essential requirements for suc-
cessful fly-fishing, particularly for brook-trout.

In his practical treatise entitled " Where the Trout Hide," the
author. Kit Clarke, gives many excellent suggestions as to how, when
and where to fish with the fly, and the book therefore furnishes a valu-
able lesson for the novice in trout-fishing. To the V)Ook and the brook
the amateur may safely go for instruction.

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SMALL MOUTH BLACK BASS.

From Photograph.

Weight, 6}i Lbs.

Caught by W. D. Boyce,

August, 1894.

" In shallows of the river-reach

Where rock and pebbles chafe the tide,

Where o'er white gravel and the sand
The rushing waters foam and glide,

There oft the angler with his flj
Takes the black rovers where they lie."

The above lines from the poet-sportsman, Isaac McLellan, run
smoothly and bring to the mind a picture of black-bass fishing with the
artificial fly. This bold game-fish, formerl}- little known and less prized
by the majority of anglers, has within the past ten years been accorded its
proper place in the first rank, by reason of the spirited essays and graphic
descriptive sketches in the sportsmen's journals, and more particularly the
excellent " Book of the Black Bass," from the pen of our modern apostle
on this subject, Dr. James A. Henshall.

Two species of this distinctively American game fish, the large-
mouthed black bass and the small-mouthed black bass, are found in the
lakes and streams of the United States. The distinguishing features of
the two, as described by the author previously quoted, may be easily
observed, as " the angle of the mouth in the small-mouthed bass reaches
onlv to, or below, the eye ; While in the large-mouthed bass it extends
considerably beyond, or behind it." He also adds that the angler who will
bear in mind the difference thus : small mouth and small scales ; large
mouth and large scales, — will never be at a loss to identify the black bass
species.

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GmSt confusion exists, however, in various sections of the country

ifding\ the black bass. In the south both species are generally mis-

icalled y^ troti^^;" in portions of Kentucky it is know^n as the "jumping

percl>J!^"in^IortlT Carolina it appears as the "trout-perch" and "white

fon ; " in Virginia it is termed the "chub," and in the Northern States,

tTfe t^m bass is usually applied, some local appellation is frequently

le^'as " tiger bass," " buck bass," yellow or green bass, river, cove, lake,

)i^. marsh bass, and in some instances Oswego bass.

t-^e seen that the local names for the black bass are as varied
J^egraphical range of the two species, which extends to
r- '^^^--^arly every state east of the Rocky Mountains. In weight the small-
"^^^^^C mouthed bass ordinarily attains to about five pounds, and the large-mouthed
seven pounds, as a maximum, though occasionally larger specimens have
been taken of each kind, especially the latter species, which, in sovithern
waters, sometimes reaches sixteen pounds. The colors of the black bass
vary in different sections and even those caught in the same lake or stream
show considerable variation, but the prevailing tinge is an olive-green, dark-
est on the back, lighter on the sides, and nearly white on the belly.

The favorite natural food of the bass consists of crawfish and min-
nows — the former preferred — though the various flies are seized with
avidity, during the season when these appear over the surface of the
waters. Black bass fishing on the inland lakes and rivers, whether with
the natural bait or the artificial fly, is a most exhilarating pastime. Stream
fishing is preferable for most anglers, as the methods employed — wading,
• or casting from the shore — give greater variety of scene and an opportu-
nity for more exciting play, than lake fishing from a boat. Reef-fishing,
about the Bass Islands of Lake Erie, which forms a distinct branch, differ-
ing in most respects from the ordinary bass-fishing, is enjoyed by many
anglers who annually visit the resort, and catch large fish under the ledges,
in water ten to twenty feet deep.

In fly-fishing a rod ten feet and three inches in length, and of seven
and one half ounces weight is recommended by Dr. Henshall. The rod
should be stiffer than one used for trout-fishing, as the bass are usually-
much larger than the brook trout; the reel a single-action click-reel; and
the line an enameled, braided silk fly-line, with a carefull}'^ selected leader,
about six feet long, and a moderate sized fly of brown, red, black, gray or
ginger hackle.

The charm of this branch of angling is graphically described b}' Dr.
Henshall, who remarks that in stream-fishing the angler " has the birds
and flowers, the whispering leaves, the laughing water — old and genial
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whose company is never dull. There are no harsh or discordant sounds
on the stream — nothing to offend the eye or ear. Even the kingfisher's
rattle, the caw of the crow, the tinkle of the cow-hell, the bark of the
squirrel are softened and subdued and harmonized by the ripple of the
stream and the rustle of the overhanging trees. All is joy and gladness,
peace and contentment, by the merry shallows and quiet pools of the flow-
ing, rushing stream. The swish of the rod, the hum of the reel, the cut-
ting of the line through the water, the leap of the bass, seem somehow to
blend with the voices of the stream and the trees on its banks, and to speak
to the angler in louder, though sweeter, tones than on open waters ; such
sounds seem to be more intensified or heightened in their effect by some
mysterious acoustic property of the stream and its surroundings. And the
occasional 'pipe of peace' in some shady nook or sequestered spot, where,
stretched at full length, the angler watches the nicotine incense assuming
all manner of weird shapes as it ascends toward the tree-tops, while he
indulges in fanciful day-dreams, with the cool breeze fanning his heated
brow — the soft ferns resting his tired limbs! Yea, verily, this is the fish-
ing beyond compare."

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MASCALONGE.

From Photograph.

Weight, 28 Lbs.

Caught by W. D. Boyce,

August, 1894.

"For earliest sport try the waters in May,
The mascalonge then will be leaping in play;
But better, by far, is the fishing in June,
When weirdly re-echoes the cry of the loon;
Or, if you prefer the sweet by and by,
Bring the rod and the reel in sultry July."

Chief among the members of the pike family is the mascalonge — a
giant in size and a game fish of high order. In Canada and along the
border line in the United States, the name "maskinonge" is much used,
and the fish in the other sections is variously known as " muskallonge,"
" niasquinongy," etc. The derivation of the name is from the French
masque allonge ("long face"), the Chippewa term, " maskinonge," having
similar meaning.

In size the mascalonge takes rank with the salmon, attainmg a weight
of from forty to fifty pounds, and Dr. E. Sterling records an instance of
having speared one, nearly fifty years ago, weighing eighty pounds Fish
of this species weighing twenty pounds are quite common, and specimens
of forty pounds weight are no rarity in suitable waters where fishing has
been indulged in only to a moderate degree. As a means of identifying
the mascalonge — which closely resembles the larger pike and pickerel in
certain respects— an angling authority states that the difference may be
easily detected by observing the gill covers. The lower half of cheek
and gill-cover in the mascalonge are destitute of scales, while the pike
has the cheek fully covered with scales, and in the pickerel it will be
observed that both cheek and gill cover are grown with scales.

The range of this species is quite extensive, from the St. Lawrence
in the East to the upper Mississippi in the West, and southward to the
Tennessee River. It furnishes good sport to the angler, and as a food
fish is superior to other members of the pike family. Trolling with live
minnow or artificial bait is the favorite method of fishing for mascalonge,
and when taken with a bass-rod the play is exciting. The fish, particu-
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face in the attempt to get free from the hook, and although much inferior
to the salmon, whether as a game or food fish, it is one of the best of
inland fishes. A live minnow or frog will prove a good lure in trolling or
casting for mascalonge.

The admirers of the species have christened this fish " the tarpon of
the North," and he is sometimes called the "tiger of the fresh waters," but
under any title he is a valiant fighter, a bold, fierce biter, and worthy of
the angler's attention in the lake or out of his native element, on the ban-
quet board. Strong tackle and cool, skillful play are essential to success
in capturing the large specimens, and a forty-pounder, after furnishing a
ro\'al battle for a half hour or more, will grace a hall or club-room excel-
lently, if well mounted by a taxidermist.

THE SEA BASS.

" Wide off Long Island's yellow beach,
Where fisher's plummet scarce may reach,
Deep-sunken in the depths of brine,
Where sea-weeds all the rocks entwine,
Where kelp its beaded ribbon flings,
And the black mussel closel}' clings,
Atid sea-dulse their long tresses flaunt,
There the dark sea-bass makes his haunt."

Fresh from the water the sea-bass is considered a good food fish, but
its flavor soon fails and becomes insipid. In like manner the resistance of
the fish against capture consists in one weak flurry, when it yields tamely
and comes to the surface like a dead weight.

In coloration the sea-bass is beautiful, being dark blue, with gills of
scarlet tinge, the inside of mouth bright yellow, and the abdomen pale
blue, with spots of various shades covering the body. The fins are large,
and the body strong, though rather coarse in outline. The sea -bass is not
abundant in northern waters, though it was in former years caught in large
numbers along the coast of New York, New Jersej' and Massachusetts.
In weight the sea-bass runs from one pound to three pounds. It inhabits
the deep water, is a bottom feeder, and is usually caught, in northern re-
sorts, during October or early in November. The flood-tide is the best
for sea-bass fishing, and sandworms and clams are favorite baits.

PIKE AND PICKEREL.

"By blue lake marge, upon whose breast
The water-lilies love to rest,
Lurking beneath those leaves of green
The fierce pike seeks his covert screen,
And thence with sudden plunge and leap,
Swift as a shaft through air may sweep.
He seizes, rends, and bears away
To hidden lair his struggling prey."

Pickerel-fishing is a sort of intermediate branch in the art of aiig-l'iu
It is. a degree higher than perch or rock-bass fishing, and several dcgreetp.^^
lower than trout and salmon fishing, in the estimation of skilled de\^6t
of rod and line. The pike and pickerel, however, furnish sport foi" me
multitudes of fishermen remote from the streams and lakes affording black
bass, brook trout or salmon -fishing.

The habitat of these closely allied species of the pike family c^iverji
perhaps a wider geographical range than any other variety of fish worthy
of classification under the head of American game fishes. They arc fmi
in most of the inland lakes and rivers, of the Eastern as well as the \\^es;t-
ern states, and nearly every man or boy familiar with any kind of fiie^h
water fishing wall recognize one or both of the species readily, although
the confusion of fish lore is such that their identity is often as badly mixed
as that of the two Dromios. To make "confusion worse confounded," the
pike-perch is in many localities popularly supposed to be the true pike, and
the genuine pike passes for pickerel. No one need err in identifying
either of two last-named — i. e., pike and pickerel — -if the simple test
named in the article on the mascalonge be borne in mind.

It may not be generally known that pickerel will occasionally rise to
the fly — though fly-fishing for this species would be a very uncertain and
unsatisfactory sport. It is only an incidental by-play when fly-fishing for
black bass, and under such circumstances will be found a novelty, interest-
ing by way of variety. The pike, proper, will seldom, if ever, rise to the
fly, but is a bold biter and will take the minnow, frog, trolling spoon, or
other bait, in a ravenous manner, and furnish exciting play. The pike
sometimes attains a weight of eighteen or twenty pounds, and in a few
instances fish of this species have been taken weighing twenty-five
pounds.

Professor Jordan describes the members of the pickerel family, five in
number, thus : "Common Eastern pickerel (green pike); snout much

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prolonged, front of eye about midway in head ; coloration green ; sides
with net- work of brown streaks ; found in streams of Atlantic States. —
Hump-backed pickerel, elevated back and broad, swollen ante-dorsal
region; colors plain (olive green); found in Western States. — Banded
pickerel or trout pickerel ; snout much shorter than in preceduig ; eye
nearer snout ; color, dark green ; sides, twent}^ blackish curved bars ; rare-
ly a foot long ; home, Atlantic streams. — Little pickerel, or Western trout
pickerel; size and form of preceding; more slender; color, olivaceous
green above, tinting to white below; sides, curved streaks instead of bars;
black streak in front of eye as well as below ; abundant in Western
streams."

WALL-EYED PIKE.

" The wall eyed pike so phanlom-like
In waters clear and cold ;
Its heavy strike like driven spike,
Its silvery scales and gold."

The pike-perch, more commonly known as the wall-eyed pike, is
common in the Northern and Northwestern states, where the species is a
popular favorite with boy-anglers, among whom the fish is regarded as a
prize. The usual weight is from two to five pounds, but large specimens
are sometimes taken weighing nearly thirty pounds. Although it is not
considered a game-fish, of any special merit, the pike-perch is a food fish
of better flavor and finer flesh than the ordinary pike and pickerel.

In still or sluggish watei's the wall-eyed pike, when hooked, shows
little activity and is not regarded with favor by anglers, but in swift
streams the character of the fish is entirely different. It is usually taken
either by still-fishing or trolling, the latter method, of course, giving the
best sport. The fish are abundant in many Western lakes and streams,
and as an edible fish it is held in deservedly high estimation.

The form of the pike-perch is compai atively slender and graceful,
particularly in specimens of moderate size, and the general resemblance of
the various species of the perch family can be readily traced in all, from
the so-called 'wall-eyed pike' down to the common yellow perch familiar
to almost every youthful angler. The local name of " wall-eye " is sug-
gestive of the large staring eyes — perhaps the most noticeable feature of
the pike-perch. On the sides the scales are usualh' of an old gold tinge,
fading to silvery white beneath, furnishing a combination to satisfy any
bi-metallic angler in this respect, whatever his opinion may be as to the
game qualities of the fish.

THE GRAYLING.

" I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling."

Among all the species of the finny tribe that furnish recreation for
the angler, no other perhaps is so ethereal and dainty, so graceful in form,
fin and outline, or so delicate in tints, as the grayling. In the waters of
the United States — principally in the streams of Michigan — the rise and
fall of the grayling has been remarkable, the species having risen rapidly
in public estimation with a proportionate falling off in supply since angling
writers first described and eulogised the American variety, about i860.

The scientific name, Thymallus^ applied to this species of the family
SalmonidiE, has reference to the odor of thyme, so marked that in England
the grayling is called " the flower of fishes." The Michigan variety sel-
dom weighs more than a pound and a half, but the elegant form, the
delicate shades of silver gray, olive brown and pale blue, and above all the
magnificent dorsal fin, rising to the height of two inches, extending in its
curved outline about one-fourth the length of the fish, and dotted like a
waving banner with purple spots surrounded with greenish tints — com-
bine to make the grayling a thing of beauty.

The great dorsal fin is the chief mark of loveliness, and the general
appearance of the fish is thus described by a prominent ichthyologist :
" The sun's rays, lighting up the delicate olive-brown tints of the back and
sides, the bluish-white of the abdomen, and the mingling of tints of rose,
pale blue and purplish-pink on the fins, display a combination of colors
equalled by no fish outside of the tropics."

The range of the grayling in the United States appears to be limited
to Michigan and Montana, while the Arctic species is comparatively abun-
dant^in the polar region. In Michigan the fish have diminished at an
alarming rate during the past fifteen years, so much so that fears are enter-
tained that it may be exterminated if better measures are not adopted for
its protection and propagation — the latter being difficult to accomplish,
as the best fish culturists fail in this branch of the work.

In angling for this dainty fish the tackle and methods are almost iden-
tical with those used in trout fishing, and the grayling in many instances is
found in the same streams with the brook-trout. The American book of
the grayling is yet to be published, but when it appears, if prepared by an
enthusiastic and practical angler, the work will prove a welcome addition
to the library of the fly-fisher.

LAND-LOCKED SALMON, ETC.

" With foam and splash tumultuous

It dashes on its wav,
Past black, basaltic ledges,

Past boulders, moss'd and gray ;
Now dark it sleeps in shadow,

Mid overhanging woods,
And now reflects the heaven

In cool transparent floods."

It is now conceded, beyond question, that the land-locked salmon in
its structure and natural character is almost identical with the true
salmon, from which it differs but little except in size and the habit — nat-
ural or acquired — of remaining in freshwater throughout the year in-
stead of making an annual pilgrimage to the sea. Many of the lakes
and rivers inhabited by land-locked salmon have dire^F^and easy outlets
to the sea, but the fish voluntarily remain, in most instance^ near the
place of their birth. n

In size the fish range from two to seven pounds, though occas^nally
a heavier one is taken. The list of local names by which it is kii«pwn
would puzzle a novice. In Maine it inhabits the systems of the Sebec,\St.
Croix, Presumpscot and Union rivers— the latter a tributary of tlje
Penobscot — and the fish is known in that region as the Sebago SalmoA,
and the Schoodic Salmon; these titles indicating the lake and river most,
frequented by the land-locked salmon. In the Lake St. John and Upper
Saguenay region of the Province of Quebec, the popular name is the
\Vi|giieiishe, W^ananishe, or Ouinaniche. Mr. Eugene McCarthy, a prac-
: ffcal authortty on the subject, accepts and adopts the latter appellation in
tiis boOl^ " The Leaping Ouananiche." The species is also found in the
lakes (Si Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in which
latter^j^ province the fish is strangely enough called the "^ra^hr^g^^al- ^
though the resemblance is almost wholly imaginary.

Re'g?ir^fTtg the'g'ariiie qualities of the ouananiche, it is a fish equal to
its kindred the --ea salmon, so called, due allowance being made for the
superior size of the latter. Mr. J. G. Aylwin Creighton, a careful ob-
server, remarks that while watching a fish hooked at the head of Isle
Maligne, round which the fiercest rapids of the Grande Decharge sweep,
^ll4iS^ profoundly impressecl with the remarkable strength and pluck of
«the ouananiche. Standing thirty feet above the water the angler could
see the fish plainl}', in the clear stretches between the white-crested rollers,
fighting its course up a series of inclines with straight steps of three to
foin- feet.atL^^op of each^ ant] then, after resting a moment on the sum-

mit of the fall, dash off like a flash into the full strength of the down-
current, from whence the fish was steered into a little cove, and there,
fighting until strength was gone, finally lay exhausted on the surface.

Other varieties of the salmon family, differing mainly in size and
form, with the same general characteristics, do not require special de-
scription here. On the Pacific coast there are several species more or
less prized among the anglers of that section.

A western writer classifies the salmon of the Pacific into five species,
namely: the quinnat, or tyee salmon; the kisutch, or blue-back salmon;
the nerka, or sawqui salmon; the keta, or cultus salmon; the quillayute,
or oolahan salmon. The first two species, and the last-named, afford
good sport, their respective value as game fish being indicated by the
order in which they are named. Trolling and still fishing are the
principal methods of capture. The quinnat salmon often attains a weight
of one hundred pounds, the blue-back salmon twenty pounds, and the
quillayute about six pounds.

Of the smaller species, allied to the common brook trout, there are
three that may be referred to as distinct in the region westward of the
Rocky Mountains. These species are the California brook trout or
rainbow trout; the Rocky Mountain or Yellowstone trout, and the Rio
Grande trout. The habitat of each is indicated by its name, and their
general character is very similar to the brook trout, the principal differ-
ence being in coloration. Many local names are given, as salmon trout,
lake trout, bull trout, sea trout, glacier trout, yellowstone trout, geyser
trout, cannibal trout, and the like, each having reference to some place or
pecuHaritv distinguishin^^some one of the three species.

■^^HE CHANNEL BASS.

"But bright, O Florida, the waning year
Smiles o'er thy waters and thy cloud-lands clear;
The fowler comes thy swarming flocks to thin.
The angler comes the luring spoon to spin,
To take by sandy beach or marshy grass
The tarpon, grouper, or the channel bass."

The channel bass is a familiar and highly prized fish in the waters off
the southern coast of the United States, where it is known as the red
drum by Virginia anglers, the spotted bass by South Carolina fishermen,
and the red bass by natives of Georgia and Florida.

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By nature the channel bass is bold and omnivorous, the smaller spec-
imens running in schools and following the angler's lure, frequently, to
the side of the boat. The fish vary greatly in size, running from one
pound to fifty pounds weight. Striped bass tackle is well adapted to
channel bass fishing, and the methods are similar.

The Halifax River and Indian River Inlet are favorite resorts, and the
months of April and May yield excellent sport on the coast of Florida for
lovers of rod and reel. The fish run largest, however, in midsummer,
when they are caught in quantities by hand-line fishermen.

THE WEAKFISH.

" But yet a cruel fate prepares
For them its fierce destructive snares ;
The fishers with their swarming boats
Spread out their mesh seines and their floats ;
The yacht sweeps round them with the sail
Or stoops the sea-hawk in the gale,
While flashing bait and trailing line
Drag them reluctant from the brine."

The weakfish, or squeteague as the Indians call him, is a handsome
game fish, symmetrical in outline and rich in colors, its scales shining with
the seven cardinal hues. The prevailing tint is blue, and the general ap-
pearance of the fish is thus described by ichthyologists : On the back and
sides are spots arranged in transverse order. The color of the top of the
head is greenish blue; inside of the mouth yellow; gill covers lustrous
silver ; on lower jaw a salmon tint; fins of different coloration — dorsals
brown ; pectorals yellowish brown; ventral and anal are orange.

The southern variety of weakfish is known as the salt water trout, and
both kinds afford excellent sport for anglers. The summer months, July
and August, are best in the North. A fine linen line is used, with a light
bamboo rod, a large reel, a good leader, with light swivel sinker, and two
hooks of large bend, baited with shedder crab, shrimp, hard clam, or
piece of menhaden, to complete the outfit. The weight of the weakfish
runs from two poimds to sixteen poiuids. Favorite fishing grounds on the
Northern coast are at Atlantic City, Newark Bay, Princess Bay, Long
Island Sound, mouth of Delaware River, and the Narrows.

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,::/.■:

" O silver-sided fish — the king

Of all that swim the southern se
The skillful angler's vaunted art

Too oft is triumphed o'er by thee,
For naught avails his deadliest hook,

His trolling spoon, his braided line,
His manly strength, his Conroj' rod.

To drag thee vanquish'd from the brine."

The silver king — as the tarpon of the Florida coast is often termed —
furnishes beyond doubt more exciting sport than any other species of sea
fish taken with the rod and reel. As the largest of the herring family the
tarpon is often called the king herring, and the prodigious strength, amaz-
ing activity, and endless endurance of this armored knight errant among
game fishes, combine to make him a most coveted prize in the estimation
of adventurous anglers who possess the skill to handle the long line, and
the financial ability to carry a long purse well filled.

The late Col. F. S. Pinckney ("Ben Bent"), in his entertaining and
practical volume entitled "The Tarpon, or Silver King," supplied a treatise
giving elaborate instructions for catching this game fish. Other popular
angling writers, notably J. Mortimer Murphy, of Sponge Harbor, Fla.,
and Dr. Charles J. Kenworthy ("Al Fresco"), of Jacksonville, have contrib-
uted valuable articles on tarpon fishing to the sportsmen's journals and
standard magazines, so that the pastime is familiar, theoretically at least, to
the majority of American anglers.

Along the coast of the United StateS the habitat of the tarpon is from
Texas to the Georgia line — the favorite haunts being in Florida waters,
especially St. John's River, Tampa B:iy, Tarpon Springs, Punta Rassa,
Calooshatchie, and the Homosassa Rivers. Among the Florida Keys the
tarpon may be found at all seasons of the year, and in spring and summer
the fish are abundant in many of the rivers and along the coast of Florida.

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Tlie tackle for tarpon fishing must be remarkably strong, and during
the past ten years (marking the period of time since the species first came
into prominence in the category of game fishes) — tarpon rods, reels, lines,
etc., have been invented by American manufacturers to meet the rapidly
increasing demand. Tarpon fishing in Florida, like salntion fishing in
Canada, now attracts a host of distinguished devotees eager for records
and recreation. Dr. Kenworthy, describmg the sport in his graphic style,
says: "We frequent!}' read of the excitement attending the capture of a
bronze backer or a speckled trout, but those who give their experiences
should hitch on to a tarpon, and thev would discover 'music in the air'
worth recording ; for the capture of a silver king is a bright spot in a fish-
erman's existence, and a fact worth referring to at a camp fire."

A strong, pliable split bamboo rod, seven to eight feet in length, and
of one joint; a Cutty hunk linen line of fifteen to twenty-one threads in size,
and a multiplying reel of the best quality, capable of holding at least six
hundred feet of strong line, are of first importance in the way of tackle. To
complete the outfit a good supply of strong Limerick or O'Shaughnessy
hooks, snoods of piano wire or treble braids of strong cotton line; a ser-
viceable gaff, and other appliances of minor importance will be required.

For bait the mullet is generally taken — sometimes whole, and some-
times only a portion of the fish being used. The bait is allowed to sink to
the bottom, in water perhaps eight feet in depth, and the \boatman and
angler anchored some twenty-five yards away are constantly on the qui
vive to begin the battle as soon as the silver king leaps froinX the water,
which he will almost invariably do upon feeling the prick of t^e hook in
his gullet. During the first wild flurry the angler can o£fer\but little
resistance, as the series of turns and furious leaps endanger the tackle
most at the beginning, but when the 'vaulting ambition' of the tarpon has
'o'erleaped itself,' and the struggle is carried on under instead of above the
water, the angler can put his rod and line to the test in order to tire and
eventually bring his adversary in reach of the gaff. No finer finny tnophy
ever graced a table — or adorned a tale — than a well-mounted silver ^ing,
gorgeous in his own shining armor, and lying

" Like a warrior taking his rest,"
Bravest and boldest, brightest and best.

" It is a brave, a royal sport,

Trolling for bluefish o'er the seas;
Fair skies and soaring gulls above,

A steady blowing breeze;
A shapely yacht whose foaming prow

The bellowy plain divides,
That like a gallant courser speeds

Far, free o'er ocean tides."

The bluefish has been called the Spanish buccaneer among game
fishes of the sea, by reason of its piratical habits, its wanton manner of
pursuing its prey — killing smaller fish, principally menhaden or moss-
bunkers, in vast numbers, and eating but a small portion of those that
are slaughtered. The ocean pirate, variously known as the skipjack,
horse mackerel, snapping mackerel, etc., is a valiant game fish, deservedly
prized whether on the line or on the banquet board, and all along the
Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine the coming of the bluefish is
eagerly awaited by anglers and widely heralded by the press each season.

In appearance the bluefish is strong and symmetrical, with graceful
curved lines indicating agility and speed. The color is steel blue above
and white or greenish white underneath, while the mouth is large and the
edges well filled with very sharp teeth, enabling the fish to seize and
sever the mossbunkers with great ease. In size the bluefish varies
greatly, according to season and locality, the ordinary range being from
fourteen to thirty-two inches in length, and from one pound to fifteen
pounds in weight, though an instance is recorded of the capture of a
specimen weighing twenty-five pounds. This fish was caught in 1874,
with rod and reel, at Cohasset Narrows, by Mr. L. Hathaway.

It is a singular fact, noted by naturalists, in various works on ichthy-
ology, that the appearance of the bluefish along the Atlantic coast of the
United States northward of Carolinas has been irregular. In -southern

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waters the species has perhaps been amoncr the oldest finny inhabitants,
but the northern migration, beginning in early spring, has never been
regular until within the past sixty years. At present the bluefish ranks
next to the striped bass in game qualities, among the sea fishes found in
the vicinity of New York and Massachusetts, and in the commercia
fisheries, it is exceeded in value only by the codfish and mackerel.

The most popular method of fishing for bluefish is squidding or troll-
ing. This consists in trailing a spoon or squid of ivory, bone or metal, at
the ehd of a line some three hundred feet long, the motive power being
a fast sailing sloop or cat-boat, handled by a capable seaman. A heavy
sinker should be attached to the line, and some fishermen use a trolley
sinker with a large hook set in the end. The schools of bluefish can
usually be located by the large number of menhaden jumping from the
• water in their efforts to escape from the pursuers, and the soaring gulls,
frequently hovering close to the surface to pick up the mangled remains
of victims killed but not eaten by the ocean pirates, will also point the wa}'
for the angler.

A rising tide is considered the best stage of water for bluefishing, but
either extreme of the ebb and flood tide ma}' lead on to fishing of good
quality. Chumming is a method of fishing also adopted by many sea
fishers, the style being similar to that emplo\^e<l in surf fishing for striped
bass. It is said that the bluefish will frequently take the fly — and keep it!
If you "have any to bestow, he prefers the large ones, of bright and
assorted colors," thus proving his gay and festive nature as a blue blooded
buccaneer of the high seas. The bluefish strikes fiercely, and from the
instant he is hooked until he is brought to boat the " fun is fast and furi-
ous." He fights till the last gasp, sometimes breaking the surface, then
rushing deep into the ocean caves, and varying his defensive tactics by
darting from side to side, and occasionally coming forward at full speed,
overrunning the hooks. Taken all in all (if he is taken at all) the bluefish
is a game fish of high rank, and a food fish of excellent quality. ^_^ ^^^_ ^-

-.,— ^=5!35^^5^i^^Sia®l»^»B!BK»«f-

- -. ^ - . ^

te^:&iD BASS.

ilf-^Wileie icy currents sweep the banks
h— the shores of Labrador,
nny myriads swarm the seas,
feed by every shore;
noblest, bravest of the race,
striped bass holds foremost place."

fishing have very appropriately termed the striped bass

saijiion of the surf." In size, game qualities and as a food fish, the

stri|)ed bass or rock-fish of the Atlantic coast deservedly ranks with salmo,

the leaper. Sea fishermen, enthusiastic over the wild sport enjoyed amid

^^^e ocean spray, declare striped bass fishing the grandest and best recrea-

^-^■^-^Op' in the whole realm of angling.

'-'^ In appearance, this salt water representative of the bass family is

• •'' ^symmetrical and handsome. He is described as "cylindrical, tapering;
"' the upper part of the body of a silvery-brown color, the lower part of the
sides and abdomen of a beautiful clear silver color; eight or more longi-
tudinal black bands on each side, commencing just back of the opercula,
the upper bands running the whole length of the fish, the lower ones ter-
minating just above the anal fin," In size, the striped bass ranges from
one pound to one hundred pounds, and an old angler declares that the
" delightful uncertainty " in this respect is one of the great charms in this
branch of fishing, giving ample scope for all the pleasures of hope and
anticipation.

The geographical range of the fish is quite extensive along the
Atlantic coast, but the majority of striped bass taken with hook and line,
are caught between Cape Cod and Chesapeake Bay. In no other kind
of fishing is there such keen rivalry among anglers for the distinction of
catching the largest specimen of the season — the honor of "high-line" or
" high-hook," as it is usually termed, referring to the greatest fish or the
highest number taken. Records are carefully kept by the principal fishing
clubs along the Atlantic sea-board, notably, the Cuttyhunk, Squibnocke,
Pasque and West Island — showing the weight and number of striped bass
caught by the various members from year to year. These records are
properly verified, and thus placed outside the category of " fish stories."
Around Manhattan Island, in the East River, Harlem River, the
Hudson and New York Bay, are several of the celebrated resorts for
striped bass fishing. Hell Gate, a turbulent, foaming channel where the
Harlem joins the East River, is probably the most noted locality for the
sport in the United States. Several of the prominent angling authorities

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of America — viz.: "Frank Forester," Genio C. Scott, Hon. Robert B.
Roosevelt and Francis Endicott— derived their practical knowledge of bass
casting from fishing bouts among the swirling eddies of Hell Gate. Large
fish were frequently taken there, twenty-five to thirty years ago, but the
average catches now are much smaller in numbers and in size, as the fishers
have increased ten- fold and the fish have decreased in these waters in
almost like ratio.

The term " rock-fish " is often applied to the bass, by reason of the
pertinacity w^ith which this game fish clings to rocky channels and reefs,
where the waters are churned into spray and foam by changing winds and
tide. The smaller bass run together in considerable numbers, and are
therefore known as school bass, w^hile the larger specimens are more " sub-
lime and solitary " in their movements.

Of the various methods of bass-fishing, the prime favorite among
skilled anglers is surf-fishing, or chumming as it is sometimes called,
although the " chumming" is really the work performed by an assistant,
in scattering pieces of menhaden broadcast over the waters to be fished.
One of the first requisites to success, on the part of the angler, is the abil-
ity to make a long and accurate cast in any direction desired. A bona fide
cast of two hundred and sixty and one-tenth feet was made by Mr. W. H.
Wood, at the tournament of the National Rod and Reel Association, at
Central Park Lake ; the tackle being such as is commonly used in bass
casting, substituting a two and one-half ounce sinker (the average weight
of a lobster tail or menhaden bait), in place of the ordinary lure. A cast
of less than one hundred feet is seldom successful in surf fishing for striped
bass, and long casting will always win, other chances being equal. The
angler uses a strong pliant rod, nine or ten feet long, with a large triple
multiplying reel holding about four hvuidred feet of line, best linen make.

The bass fisher usually takes his stand on a small platform, a short
distance from shore, enabling him better to reach the haunt of the striped
bass at flood tide. Poising his rod, and throwing it back with perhaps
three feet of line for play, the angler makes a slow but firm movement
forward of the tip, the line spins out rapidly in a graceful curA'c, and the
bait falls easily some two hundred feet away. When hooked, the striped
bass is game to the last, and the acrobatic feats he performs, leaping, div-
ing, darting here and there among jagged rocks, struggling for liberty like
a runaway race horse with the bits between his teeth, give the excited
angler no rest till the fight is won — or lost.

Trolling for bass is another popular style, sometimes with the rod, and
occasionally with the line and bait trailed behind the boat. The veteran
Louis O. Van Doren says of a peculiar method of fishing witnessed by

himself : "Often we see a solitary boatman leisurely rowing and holding a
long and heav}^ line in his teeth (a sure sign, I take it, that they are his
own). How any one's jaws can stand such a strain, I do not know; no
doubt though, enthusiasm gives them three-fold strength. I have seen
such a lone fisherman rowing along with the stillness and imperturbable
gravity of a sphinx, suddenly drop his oars, take the wet line from between
his teeth and after a struggle, bring to his basket a three or four-pound
striped bass. Imagine what a tooth-pulling strike such a fish must have
made."

Fly-fishing, too, may be successfully practiced for a limited season
and under favorable conditions of wind and water ; but trolling and surf-
casting are tl)e;rnethods employed by most anglers in striped bass fishing.
Either styl^ should, in the proper season, afford sport exciting enough to
satisfv/tne most ambitious fisher.

(ji the localities for striped bass fishing, brief mention has been made.
Qiitside of the imm^iate vicinity of New York City, some of the noted
places are Martk^ Vineyard, Block Island, Montauk Point, the Elizabeth
Islands (iiidiiding celebrated Cutty hunk) and the rocky shores of Massa-
chus^t^, Connecticut and New Jersey. Along the coast in the sections
indicated, lovers of sea-fishing are in ecstacies when the run of the salmon
^' of the surf is at its height, usually in August and September.

"~ THE MANGROVE SNAPPER.

ng be the tackle, for the saw-like teeth
cut yoiuL^ij^-\vp«ii gut like razor edge,
fd The mangrove to beguile
rom submerged roots, else hook and fish are lost,
For swift it rushes for its secret hole,
And fights and struggles hard while life remains."

This species of fish, a native of southern waters, derives its name
from the habit of hiding under the submerged roots of the mangrove,
where it lies in wait for its prey, usually the small mullet. It is not a fish
of active habits, but is very shy, and the usual method of fishing for this
species is to make long casts from the boat, allownig the bait to drop and
sink near the holes which it frequents.

The mangrove snapper bears quite a striking resemblance to the
small-mouthed black bass, and like its fresh water cousin is an excellent
game fish. The ordinary size is from one-half pound to five pounds, but
under favorable conditions it grows considerable larger, up to perhaps ten
pounds. It feeds freely at night, and in cloudy weather, and ^furnishes
good sport for the angler if he can keep it away from the roots, its natural
shelter, for which a rush is made as soon as the hook is felt.

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THE BONITO.

" In all the warmer waters of the world,
The skip-jack swarming shoals are seen,
Where the Sardinian Island rest,
In Mediterranean tides serene.
And where the tumbling billows pour,
Along America's southern shore;
While dense by rocky northern coast
Wanders the countless host."

From his general resemblance to the mackerel family, th«
skip-jack, is often palmed off upon unwary purchasers as
Spanish mackerel, although the latter is far superior as a game i^sh tuid,-%s
a table delicacy. The bonito is coarser in every respect — in form, fiii^ai^^
flavor, and the angler easily detects the difference in species. " ^^^^

Although heavier in proportion to its size than the Spanish mackerel,

the bonito is still a symmetrical fish, swift in its movements, and a bold

biter. In color it is of a dark lead tint on the head and sides, while under-

neath it is an ashen gray. The fins are dark-blue, except the ventral fins,

'which are white." Six or eight stripes, parallel, run along the sides of the

fish. . . :

The bonito usually reaches the northern shores in August and Sep-
tember, at the same time and frequently in company with the bluefish.
Anglers often take the bonito while fishing for bluefish, as it will snap at
the same bait, and in fact makes almost as desperate resistance when on
the line.

Trolling is the principal, almost the only method of angling for the
skip-jack, and when time and tide, wind and weather, are favorable, the
sport is sufiiciently exciting. During the two summer months mentioned,
the bonito is quite abundant as far north as Cape Cod, and in no waters of
similar latitude is it more plentiful in season than in Massachusetts Bay.

THE BLACKFISH.

" Wherever by extended shore
The rough rocks sow the salty deep,
Wherever kelp and seaweed cling
And crab and starfish crawl and creep,
The blafckfish find a lurking place,
Deep in the waters at their base."

.Although not highly prized as a game fish, by scientific anglers, the
blackfish or tautog is an important member of the finny tribe, an excellent
food fish, and a ready biter to reward the efforts of juvenile fishers along
the wharves.

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The blackfish, as indicated by the name, has a black tinge, especially
along the back, fading to gray on the sides ; the head is large, the back
arched, giving the fish a clumsy appearance, but he resists capture in a
vigorous manner, and the larger specimens, ten to twelve pounds in
weight, are considered prizes even by expert anglers.

As the tautog is one of the earliest of sea fishes to visit Northern
waters, arriving in April and remaining until late in October, it is a
familiar favorite with the boys and with anglers of larger growth who do
not hold tenaciously to the creed that no fish are worth angling for except
those that will rise to surface lures. The blackfish feeds along the bottom,
in swift, rocky tideways, and narrow channels — the Harlem Kills and little
Hell Gate being famous resorts for New Yorkers fond of tautog fishing,
though in recent years the species is not found in large numbers near the
metropolis.

The best bait for this kind of fishing are sandworms, clams or fiddler
crabs; the hook should be of heavy wire, and rest within perhaps a foot
of the bottom. With such appliances — similar to the tackle used for weak-
fishing — good numbers of blackfish may be taken at Montauk Point, at
Barnegat, off Long Branch or Rockaw^ay.

THE KINGFISH.

"Off where the slender light-house lifts,

Like sheeted ghost, above the surge,
Casting its warning flames at night

Far to the dim horizon's verge,
Round sunken reef and hidden rock

Where shells and sands inlay the floor
Of ocean, there the kingfish glide

And the sea's secret worlds explore."

In Southern waters, where the kingfish is abundant, it is known as the
whiting, and in other localities it is termed the barb, but under whatever
name it may be designated it is a dainty morsel for the epicure and a gal-
lant fish for the angler. Fifty years ago, when William T. Porter, " Frank
Forester," Dr. Bethune, Genio C. Scott, and William C. Prime formed a
famous angling coterie in the Atlantic metropolis, the kingfish was found
in abundance in the vicinity of New York City. Now it is comparatively
scarce in that locality, but in South Bay and off the New Jersey coast it is
found in fair numbers during the summer season.

For its size, as compared to other species, the kingfish is one of the
gamest inhabitants of the sea. It is long and tapering, and is distin-
guished for the size of the first dorsal fin, which is high, and adorned

with a long ray. In colors the kingfish is beautiJrW', varying from a
silvery red on the back to blueish white on the abdomen, and the fins are
brown, olive and yellow.

In angling for kingfish the tackle is very similar to that used for
weakfish, and the favorite baits are sandworms or shedder crabs. Al-
though not a large fish — the range in size being from one to five pounds
— the kingfish is gamy in nature, taking the bait boldly, and, when
hooked, struggling bravely until brought to boat. The incoming tide is
best for the sport, and off the Southern coast the localities for fishing are
numerous. In the North the best known points for this branch of ang-
ling are Long Branch, Barnegat Inlet, Atlantic City and the south shore
of Long Island.

SPANISH MACKEREL.

" Loveliest of all the tribes that swim

The ocean's salty tides,
The Spanish mackerel sweeps the seas,

And like a meteor glides;
It speeds far off the harbor bar,

Where tides are cool and deep.
Shunning the shoals that skirt the shore,

Where the swift bluefish leap."

In delicacy and beauty of color and outline the Spanish mackerel
might be found w^orthy the title of the ocean grayling — lacking that dis-
tinctive mark, the banner-like dorsal fin. The fish is very symmetrical in
form, and the tail or caudal fin is deeply forked, giving an appearance of
swiftness which is in keeping with its movements. It is not often taken
by anglers off the coast of the Eastern or New England states, as the
fish is found usually in deep waters, farther from shore than the bluefish
or striped bass, and is therefore more difficult to locate or pursue. Farther
south the fish is more frequently caught, the tackle and stj'le being similar
to those used in fishing for bluefish.

Mr. Van Doren, a veteran salt water angler, says of mackerel fishing:
*' Though sometimes caught by fishermen while bluefishing, yet when a
trip is made especially for mackerel it is best to change the bluefish tackle,
substituting a smaller spoon and lighter sinker. The Spanish mackerel
takes the bait with a snap, makes a short and gallant fight, and when he
yields, gives up thoroughly,^ having no more struggle in him. Off the
Southern coast, the capture of Spanish mackerel with hook and line is
practiced frequently and with success. The baits used are the same as in
bluefishing, and the months when the mackerel appear on the Jersey and
New York coast are August and September."

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THE SHEEPSHEAD.

"Patient and motionless he waits,
Unmindful of all meaner prize;
His hand upon the humming line,
Fixed on his task his eager eyes;
The tiashing bluefish may rush by,
The pig-like porpoise tumble near,
The dusky shark may lash the foam.
And sturgeon from the wave leap clear.
He heeds not — but awaits the jerk
Of sheepshead, down below that lurk."

It is for the hotel perhaps more than for the hook that the sheepshead
is prized, but there is considerable skill required and a fair amount of
excitement found in fishing for this species. The name is derived from
the appearance of the mouth and projecting teeth, givnig the fish power to
"graze" on the molluscs which adhere to rocks, sunken logs, stakes, etc.
This peculiarity is taken advantage of by natives along the Virginia coast
who form pens by driving split stakes into the bottom of the sounds or
inlets, arranging these stakes in a circle or square, and the molluscs attached
thereto form an irresistible attraction for the sheepshead during the annual
run or migration of the fish.

The fish is somewhat uncouth in appearance, with its large head, huge
projecting teeth and back arched in a great hump, a large dorsal fin run-
ning nearly the entire length, armed with strong sharp spines which can
be raised or lowered at will. The sheepshead is beautiful in color, how-
ever, and is a rare delicacy as an article of food — these qualities relieving
the fish of the charge of absolute ugliness.

A stout rod — similar in size to the striped bass rod — a multiplying
reel, braided linen line, with swivel and tracing sinker, a double gut leader,
a stout hook with short shank, baited with shedder crab or soft clam, will
be found a good outfit for still fishing, the usual method of catching sheeps-
head at Barnegat, Rockaway Beach, Long Branch, Atlantic City, South
Bay, and other popular angling resorts. A taut line is necessary to enable
the angler to feel the slightest nibble, as the sheepshead is a cautious
feeder.

'•/S^-

There were knights of shot-gun and rifle,

Disciples of rod and the reel,
Each telling some tale as a trifle ' ,/

To add to the company's Aveal.
There were stories of camping and shoofiing,

All told with abandon and zest,
But the fish tales seem'd to be suiting

The taste of the brotherhood best.

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A^^^tty part^r. of iJ. anglers, eminent
in their respective^ lines o|<^ business, ^rf^t^
eqvii^lly fanxpus 'fpr skiU in listing their
■fishjtig/ lines Ui p,l«tian^r|4^ces, had
Jasseofifeled on the Tpahl^V JiOl^-^iire^gf&at
Xaitvfeiess Ri/t er^l^the North, and were
,>e«^5^ing t§§&gfl^'\ous sppr^^H^'-be had

W-iis incumbent" upon "each^n^M^ber to tell
** an o'er true tale," or fish st6rvri^fere-
-4j|;6^1cing ^Sip^and_ the following col-
lectfon froiii^ the Records of the historian
of the party, can^^be:;taken c««?^^raf«o
salis,, or with due faith in the everlast-
ing truth of fishing fables in gen&ral,
and these in particular.

WONDERFUL LEAP OF A SALMON.

One of the old members of the chib, Mr. A. W. Courtney,
related the following story. Living, as I do, in the city of Buffalo,
I have had many opportunities for fishing in Lake Erie, and enjoyed
some exciting sport there, but the most thrilling experience of my
life in the fishing line was in the rapids below Niagara Falls. Probably-
few anglers are aware of the fact that in years gone by salmon could be
found in comparative abundance all along the Niagara River, up to the
falls. Perhaps the salmon have vanished there now, as I understand is
the case in the Hudson, where the salmon fishing was good in my boy-
hood. I was a rather wild and reckless youth, given to daring exploits,
and it was an ordinary amusement of mine to fish the Niagara River in a
birch bark canoe. My familiarity with the sunken rocks and my skill in
avoiding the wildest whirlpools enabled me to escape the fate of Capt.
Webb, and other unfortunate adventureis. ^

On one occasion I hooked a very large salmon, and
contrary to the usual custom or habit of the species, he took
his course directly up stream toward the falls, and I failed
to check him, though I exerted the fullest resistance of' the
rod and line. As we neared the falls, I felt confident that he
would turn, but he still rushed onward until I could feel, the
spray of the great cataract in mj' face, and note its powe%S|^
magnetic attraction drawing my frail craft into the awful
vortex of boiling waters.

In my experiments I had contemplated the pop^^fli^^^^^^''"^fjl'
such a calamity as this, and was prepared to avoid iK Along j^'
the bottom of the canoe was a strong hickory slao, perhaps jv"
half an inch in thickness, and running the full length of flie 'Jj
boat. In the center I had placed a powerful spiral spruig, /
covered by a circular piece of wood one foot ijQL. diametei:^-V'
Stepping upon this I touched a side lever, and was thrown
into the air with amazing force, at a slight angle, as I had
previously adjusted the spring with coolness and precision,
estimating that it would carry me to the immense rjocfafirt* the
brink of the falls.

The force was barely sufficient to throw me upon the rock,3vh^e !'■
found a foothold, and having eased the line which went spinning from tW
reel with amazing velocity, during my ascent, I was prepared to continu
the battle with the salmon. After a short run down the stream the salmon

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turned, and when some twelve feet distant from the foot of the falls made
the most wonderful leap ever recorded, striking the water again just above
the crest, and my multiplying reel served its piu-pose excellently, giving
the fish very little, if any, slack line. To make a long stor}^ short, I will
merelv add that the salmon was quite exhausted with his wonderful effort,
and was drawn almost unresistingly into my landing net, which I had
fastened at my belt and loosened for the occasion, just as the giant game
fish turned upon his side and would have floated down the cataract if I had
not taken him in just at the right instant.

My adventure was witnessed by but a few people, onl)'^ one of whom
is now living ; but I always bless their memory for the aid rendered in
rescuing me from my perilous position. If any skeptic doubts the accuracy
of mv story in a single detail, I can refer him to the life-like picture drawn
upon the spot by an artist who witnessed the affair, and through whose
kindness the picture will be reproduced in the faithful chronicle of adven-
tures bv sea and shore.

A FIGHT WITH A BROOK TROUT.

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You have all no doubt heard of the monster
trout of the Maine lakes, where they grow to
an almost fabulous size, quietly remarked Dr. A.
T. Sanden, of New York. I had an adventure
up there last season, and can vouch for the game
r^ qualities of the brook trout in that region. I was
fishing in one of the Rangele}' lakes, and had
caught perhaps fifty trout of large size, but my
^':-^'^^- ambition was, if possible, to break the record.

F ^ After experimenting with the various flies, which

I carried in my fly book, I at last selected a large
and gaudy one, nearly equaling a salmon fly in size, and made a cast in
a localitv where the guide ' assured me some of the largest trout con-
gregated.

A rise and strike immediately followed. I knew by the vigorous
manner in which the trout took the fly that I had a fine gamy fish at the
end of the line. Such rushes and wnld leaps for liberty you j^erhaps never

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saw. All the tactics familiar to experience^,! anglers were
tried in this battle for supremacy, and at the end of half an
hour I was nearly exhausted. I stood in tne bow of the
skiff, and the trout in his swift gyrations would spin mc
round and round until 1 felt dizzy and weak. ^Thcn a^^nin
he would leap from the water, sometimes jumping over
the boat, and apparently trying to entangle the line about
my neck for the purpose of strang-
ling me. Sometimes he would leap
back and forth, forming a perfect
curve perhaps fifty feet in extent, and
hi^ njjp^v.qBfin}:]iW>cere so -ifapid that 1
seemed to see a rainbow of colors before my
eyes. Once he struck the boat, and the shock
nearly threw me overboard.

The guide shared my excitement but man-
aged to keep an outward show of coolness, and his de\lcrit\ in
the boat prevented it from being overturned. At last, after a
fierce struggles the trout was brought within reach of the landing^
carefully lifted into the boat, where we found by using the pocket scales
which I had brought with me that the fish weighed a full half pound, and
I have always believed that he was even heavier when making "Wk fight in
the water. , ..

A COAT TAIL AND FISH TALE.

Well, I never had any great luck in fishing, said
Mr. George H. Reager, of Philadelphia, but I once had
a rather peculiar experience down on the Lycoming in
Pennsylvania, with my friend Sylvanus. We spent
the whole forenoon fishing, but the sun shone hot, and
neither of us had caught a fin. Finally I stopped for
lunch, put my basket on the l)ank, and sat down on a
log over the stream, in a shaded nook. I hadn't been
there a minute when I felt a jerk at my coat tail, but I
knew it was my friend, trying to startle or scare me, so
I refused to look around. I just gave my coat a pull
and loosened it, and then went on with my lunch.

This happened several times, until finally my
patience was exhausted and I jerked my coat tail away

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spitefully and turned to give Sylvanus a lecture for his nonsense, but bless
you, he vvan't there. Then I looked up at my basket on the bank, and to
my surprise it was full of fine trout. Every time I had jerked my coat
tail I flopped a fish into the basket, for I foinid that the barbless hook,
baited with an angleworm, was hanging out through a rent in my pocket
with about a foot of line, and I had been doing a good stroke at still fish-
ing without knowing it — "and a very good record for the 'Lie-Coming
River,' too," interrupted a listener.

THE REMARKABLE TROUT FRY.

That is somewhat similar to an incident which I recall, said Mr. S. B.
Smith, of Dauchy's Agency, one of the quiet men of the party. Three
of us, schoolboy chums, were trout fishing in northern New York, and the
duties of cook were filled in rotation by each of our trio. On the day
referred to, I filled the position of cook, and arose early to prepare break-
fast. I partially kindled a camp fire, stuck the keen-pointed, sharp-bladed
knife through an overhanging branch, and underneath this placed a board
at an angle, and drew a rough outline of a man, with a silver spoon fastened
in the crevice representing the mouth.

After this boyish prank, designed to amuse my comrades when they
should come out of the tent, I hung the frying pan above the slow fire,
and proceeded to the stream, some ten yards awav, hoping to catch a few-
trout for breakfast. I fished by main strength, not by skill, in those days,
and although three large trout seized the hook in rapid succession, I lost
every one by yanking the rod fiercely and sending the fish spinning through
the air, tearing the bai^b loose.

.Becoming discouraged, I was about to return to the tent, when Rob,
who had come to the camp-fire, told me to look out for
the frying fish or they would be burned to a crisp.
Each of the trout I had hooked went in a semicircle,
struck the sharp point of the projecting knife, which
opened the fish neatly, and in sliding down the board
the viscera was removed by the spoon, so that all fell
into the frying pan, properly dressed for company,
S^iSand done brown for the table, when I returned.

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AN AIRY FISHING TOUR.

My fishing propensity, said A. L. Tiiomas, of Lord & Thomas, proved
to be the foundation of my fortune. By incHnation, almost by instinct in
fact, I am opposed to shooting or fishing for the markets, but in the instance
referred to, I think you will all agree with me that my course was entirely
proper. I was one of the pioneers in the Lake Region of Minnesota, and
owned a small farm, but like many frontiersmen my tastes led me to
indulge more in the wild sports of the West than in the occupation of a
farmer. In one of the lakes, near my farm, the pike grew to large size,
and on two occasions I had hooked a monster which broke away, leaving
me vexed and more determined than ever to catch him. Finally I decided
to put out a long string of set lines running nearly across the lake, and
having no special use for a large quantity of fish, I intended to liberate all
except the big pike, which I was after.

I rose early the next morning after setting my lines, and found an
immense flock of wild geese on the lake. There was a great fluttering
and commotion as I drew near, and upon loosening the rope upon which
the short lines were attached, the entire flock of geese rose into the air. I
had fastened the rope to my wrist, intending to haul in the fish, but to my
astonishment many of the hooks had been taken by the geese, and I was
carried up into the air trailing after the largest assemblage of fish and fowl
I had ever seen. The geese rose to a dizzy height, and then started
directly for the North Pole, as nearly as I could estimate.

My position was not a pleasant one, though it was sufficiently exciting.
After flying several miles in this manner, the weight of the fish and myself
seemed to tire the geese, for they gradually' settled down, and finally, much
to my relief, the rope became tangled in a huge branch of a hollow tree,
which had been broken off at the top. Into this hollow tree I fell to the
depth of perhaps ten feet, and discovered that I was standing knee deep

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in honeycomb, though fortunately the bees had forsaken the tree. The
rope had become loosened from my arm, and I saw no prospect of escap-
ing from my strange prison. Suddenly I heard a prodigious scratching
and scrambling outside, and looking up saw a large bear descending back-
ward into the hollow tree. I drew my knife, and as the bear came within
reach, grasping him firmly, made a sharp stab which had the effect of
starting bruin out again. As he reached the top, I took a firm hold with
one hand and with the other pushed the bear forcibly, overbalancing him
so that he fell to the ground, striking on his head, and his neck cracked with
a report like a pistol.

I then gathered my scattered senses (together with the geese and fish),
and was delighted to find that my home was only a mile distant. By the
aid of my horses and wagon I collected the fish and game, shipped them
to the best market, and from the proceeds of this shipment and the money
received for a ton of first-class honey, I established myself in business.
From that day to this I have been able, whenever it was necessary, to
catch my fish with a silver hook.

A STRANGE ARTIFICIAL GROWTH.

Not many years ago, said Mr. Frank Alden, of Cincinnati, I owned
a private fish preserve, and was fond of making experiments of various
kinds in fish culture. A favorite hobby of mine was to observe and
record the growth of different species each year. In doing this I fastened
a metallic tag to the fish, describing the date, conditions and size of the
specimen. As a novelty I once attached a brass whistle to a small black
bass, weighing one pound, and one year later caught the same fish, and
was surprised to observe a most wonderful phenomenon. Not one of vou
could guess the remarkable change that had taken place in that length of
time. No, the weight of the fish had not increased so greatly as you
suppose, in fact, the fish still weighed one pound, but the whistle had
increased in size and tone to a large fog horn.

A SOMEWHAT REMARKABLE STORY.

I was passing down Main street, in Rochester, New York, a few
days ago, said Mr. Palmer of the H. H. Warner Co., of that city, and my
attention was attracted by a large crowd in front of one of the prominent
restaurants ; edging my way into the crowd, I beheld a large washtub
filled with some of the finest specimens of black bass I had ever seen. A
placard informed the observer that these black bass had been caught by
Mr. John M. Ives, of our company, a day or so before in a creek fifteen
feet wide, near Oak Orchard, a country village, about forty miles from
Rochester.

Being a lover of game fishing I stepped in to critically examine the
fish; after the closest scrutiny I failed to discover a single mark on any of
the fish that would indicate they had been caught with a fish hook, and I

immed iately
mind that Mr.
friend of his
the fish in a
hastened over
establish m e n t
Ives, and our
was as f o 1 -
"Hello,
are pretty nice

made up my
Ives or some
had caught
seine, and I
to the Warner
and met Mr.
conversation
lows :

John, those
fish over thei-e

in the window on Main street, and I am puzzled to know how you caught
them, for I cannot find a hook mark on them."

" Well the fact is, I was rowing up the stream at night with a lantern
brightly burning on the seat before me ; I felt something strike the
bottom of the boat, and upon investigation found it to be a five-pound
bass. Before I could recover from my surprise another bass fell in the same
manner, and this strange phenomenon continued quite a while. You see
the fish were attracted by the bright light, and they jumped out of the
water at it, and fell m the boat."

" This is all right John, but is it not remarkable that the fish did not
jump clear over the boat.?"

" Not at all. You see I was rowing in the center of the stream and
the fish jumped in from both sides at the same time, striking their heads
together while over the boat, and fell in an insensible condition. They
kept up this strange proceeding until the oil in the lantern gave out, and
the light disappeared. I am well satisfied that I could have caught a great
many more if the light had lasted longer."

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This story may sound rather strange to any person not acquainted
with Mr. Ives, but if there be any " doubting Thomases," I would say
that Mr. Ives will not only vouch for this story, as being the truth, but he
is in a position to prove it beyond a shadow of doubt, as I have seen the
lantern myself; and Mr. Ives, if necessary, will make an affidavit that the
lantern is now in his possession, this convincing evidence removing every
question as to the truthfulness of this story.

THE MUSICAL BASS.

The freaks of nature, both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms,
including of course the little fishes in the brook, seem to me really marvel-
ous, said J. L. Stack, the St. Paul Advertising Agent. For instance, at
Dellwood lake in Minnesota, which I have owned for many years past,
an incident occurred that has entireh' changed the habits and characteristics
of the black bass inhabiting it. About ten years ago my partner and myself
were capsized while sailing, and by a singular coincidence each of us lost
a fine gold watch. These watches were exactly alike, and a musical
attachment playing the air of " A Life on the Ocean Wave," had been
placed in the chromometers by special order. The watches were stem
winders, and this particular tune was played each hour in the day.

Of course we both supposed our w^atches were lost beyond recovery,
but last season while fishing in the lake, after an absence of several years
from that locality, I caught a monster bass, and you can imagine m}- aston-
ishment at finding my watch snugly stowed away in the department of the
interior. More singular still, it was in perfect order, keeping accurate
time, for bv some peculiar movement on the part of the fish, the watch had
been kept constantly wound up. I found bv comparing the time with the
watch I carried at the hour of catching the fish that it had not varied two sec-
onds during all the years it had been carried by the bass. The chain, by
the way, the bass carried in a sort of negligee fashion, partly hanging
through his gill.

But the most wonderful part of the whole affair I discovered later,
after catching a few more bass in the same locality. It appears that my
partner's watch had also been swallowed by a black bass, and in course of
time, through the mysteries* of scientific propagation, this musical watch
attachment had become hereditar\', and every black bass taken in that lake
was found to be his own timekeeper, and occasionally the fish danced the
Fisher's Hornpipe to their own music in a most amusing manner.

THE ADVERTISING FISH.

Several years ago, when I was living in
Texas, I had a somewhat unusual experience,
quietly remarked Mr. Wm. C. Hunter, advertis-
ing manager of Boyce's Big Weeklies. I am a
hunter by nature as well as by name, and spend a
considerable time in sport with tlie gun and rod.
On the occasion referred to I was in the Indian
Territory, the guest of " a squaw man" at
Eufala, and we started on a fishing trip in the
Choctaw nation. Arriving at our destination
we prepared to worry the festive bass. No
sooner did I cast than a large 5^-pound bass
jumped out of the water and took the hook in
ten minutes I landed him. I held him up to show my friend, when I noticed
a peculiar marking on the belly of the fish, caused by the veins showing
through the skin. In a moment my friend caught a bass about the same
size and similarly marked. Upon looking at the strange marking we
found the veins formed the letters B pW. We tried in vain to solve the
meaning of the veins and started to fish again, and in three hours we
caught ninety- three bass, every one marked the same as the first two. I
never solved the enigma until about three years ago I told the story to Mr.
Boyce, and he smilingly informed me that the letters represented the words :
Blade, Ledger, World — Best Paying Weeklies. I saw the connection at a
glance.

Mr. Boyce is up to all new schemes for advertising, and I would like
to know whether he "fixed " the advertising fish, or whether it was simply
a freak of nature, calling the attention of sportsmen to a well-known fact
among advertisers.

A LIVELY SPIRIT OF SPIRIT LAKE.

I once had quite a severe fright while fishing by moonlight on Spirit
Lake, Iowa. I was usually quite successful in night fishing, and as my
business kept me from enjoying the sport during the day time, I nearly
always devoted a few hours each evening to angling, said Mr. C. E. Ray-
mond, of Chicago. On the night referred to, a large fish — apparently —
seized the hook, and then began the most remarkable struggle I ever ex-
perienced. Sometimes the creature was out of the water, sailing along with
flapping wings of fins for a distance of fifteen or twenty yards, when it
would dive again, all the time making the most vigorous attempts to

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it would utter a weird and mournful sound that could be heard for miles.
I am not naturally superstitious, but this caused nervous chills to ci'eep
over me, as the legends of Spirit Lake were of such a character that I
imagined I might have caught the ghost of some departed lake monster.
Finally, after about fifteen minutes, the creature was secured, and I dis-
covered it to be a large loon, while the attendant excitement nearly made
me a lunatic.

FUN. WITH FLYING FISH.

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Mr. Lyman D. Morse, of the Bates & Morse Agency, considered the
the most unassuming member of the club, told the following modest tale :
For the benefit of my health I took an ocean voyage, a few years ago,
and to fully enjoy my trip I carried a complete outfit for fishing and shoot-
ing. Our ship was a sailing vessel, and we lay becalmed for a week on
the line of the equator, with the midsummer sun fairly boiling the sur-
face of the ocean, so that it seemed like an immense seething cauldron.
This condition of affairs was very monotonous to everyone except the
cook, who made the best of it by doing a little deep-sea fishing every day,
and cooking his fish in the ocean brine as he held them at the top of the
water for a moment.

dng fish were too sharp to be caught by still fishing, and too
s^itt/ to 'be lingering around near the boiling point, which was only
^lybut^rffoot in-depth. Large schools of these fish could be seen in
/sfagioys directions, dar':ing up through the hot surface water, and cooling

their fins and bodies by a long flight in the
shadow of our sails. The fish became quite soci-
able, and evidently had a larger degree of intelli-
gence than most members of the finny tribe.

To while away the time it occurred to me
that we might have some amusement by attaching
small flags to the fish which we caught, and in a
short time we produced a combination which gave
a surprising effect by starting a dozen different
fish fi'om the boat at one time, with the emblems
of twelve different nations. The fish evidently
enjoN'ed the sport, and would return voluntarily
to be placed in line and take a new flight, with
waving banners in the air.

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

Mr. J. B. Rose, of Chicago, known as the modest man of the chib,
told the following story : In my youth I was a more persistent and enthu-
siastic angler than at the present time, and I shall always keep vividly in
mind the exciting incident I am about to relate. After completing my
college course I devoted three months' time to out-door sports, principally
fishing, and during my rambles with the rod, located a very large fish in a
deep pool, below the rapids of White River, so called on account of the
breakers and foam along the frequent cascades.

I had observed, on more than one occasion, the huge form of this fish,
always in the same pool, breaking the surface as he feasted on the natural
flies, or leaping in play when the rising or setting sun tinged the waters,
but he seemed insensible to the attraction of my best lures, and most taking
ways. My summer outing was nearly over, and I determined on a final
effort to catch the king of the pool. As I approached the spot I observed
that he was taking his morning meal in dignified leisure, but to my con-
sternation a colored gentleman of African descent was just preparing to
cast his primitive hook and line, he being partially shielded from view by
the overhanging boughs and a huge boulder which intervened between us.
The colored angler evidently had the right of way in the fishing line,
and I decided to watch developments. His bait was a live minnow, and he
prepared with due deliberation to make his cast where the large fish had
been rising. His first cast was unsuccessful, and he retrieved the line by
jerking the pole backward, evidently intending to throw his bait a little
further up the stream at the next attempt. His whole mind and energy
seemed bent on the capture of the fish, and subsequent developments
proved the mastery of mind over matter. By some means the pole struck an

overhanging branch in its backward
cast, and the line wasdiverted from the
course intended. The minnow was
jerked from the hook, which flew
backward and struck the angler
fairly in the eye. The pain must
have been excruciating, but sojntent

was he upon the work before him that the forward cast was made exactly
in accordance with his original intention, the eye was jerked from its
socket and fell in the water at the spot which he had intended to reach
with the minnow. The fish seized it eagerly, and then began a most
remarkable battle which ended, by my assistance, in the capture of
the fish.

During my college course I had made a special study of the human
eye, with the intention of becoming an oculist, and the knowledge thus
gained proved of great value to me in this emergency. Fortunately my
case of instruments had been placed in my coat pocket, and observing
that the eye of the fish was almost identical in size and color with that of
the angler, I determined to make a remarkable experiment in surgery.
Carefully removing the eye from the fish, I placed it in the socket from
which the negro's lacei'ated optic had been torn, and connected the
severed nerve so deftly that within a few minutes, the negro was able
to take a glance at the fish with the borrowed eye taken from the fish
captured. At the present time scarcely any difference can be detected
in the eyes of the colored angler, except that the one transplanted from
the fish has a slight " cast" in it.

BUFFALO SHOOTING ON THE WING.

Perhaps you never heard of shooting buffalo on the wing, said Mr.
Conrad Budke, of St. Louis. I do not, of course, mean the wild buffalo
recently described in the Saturday Blade^ referring to a long-lost herd dis-
covered somewhere out West. The kind I have reference to is the buffalo
fish, to be found in the Southwest. It is one of the gamest fish in Louisi-
ana. The bayous overflow all the flat country, which at certain seasons is
covered to a depth of about twelve inches, affording excellent feeding
grounds for the buffalo fish.

The local sportsmen and planters manage to have excellent sport in
this way: On finding a herd — I mean a school — of buffalo fish, the
chase begins. Upon reaching the board fences, which run across the over-
flowed fields, the fish take flying leaps, and gunners stationed along the
line pick them off by snap shots. Some of the expert shooters use repeat-
ing rifles, and it is very exciting sport,
especially
fromthewater -;

fences, the -'/ ''k^^*_*'J^---l —fl~^^ boats, submerged brush
heaps, and '^"^^^^^^^L^^l^^ i - ^ --* even the dwarf trees grow-

ing along the -t-'^^^^~~^ '- lowlands.

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^\ when the buffalo, arising
(Kry ^j^ on all sides, fly over the

A GOOD ELECTRIC EEL,

Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, gave the following interesting story : I
do not, as a rule, reveal any of my business secrets, but as we are all brother
anglers, and as my success in life is so closely identified with fish and fish-
ing, I will relate a little story, ' not necessarily for publication, but as a guar-
antee of good faith,' — to use the newspaper phrase. Many years ago,
before I became a practicing physician and specialist, I was fishing in a
certain locality which it is not necessary to name, as I might by so doing
give some shrewd practitioner a chance to establish himself as a competitor
in the same line of business with myself.

After making a moderate catch 1 was about to give up fishing for the
day, when a strange fish took my bait, and upon attempting to remove it
from the hook I received a shock which convinced me that I had captin-ed
an electric eel, or more correctly, perhaps, an electric eel had captured me.
The violence of the electric shock nearly prostrated me, but I recovered
sufficiently to remove the eel from the hook, using a pair of gloves in doing
so. The fish seemed to be very intelligent, and I placed it in a pail of
water, and carefully took the specimen home alive.

While a medical student I always had great faith in electricity, where
properly administered, and here was an opportunity to make use of the
magnetic current from a natural source. My first study was to com-
pletely domesticate and educate the electric eel. Within a short time the
eel, which I kept in a small tank, would come to me in response to a beck-
oning call, and by degrees I learned him to control the electrical power
which he would communicate to me, or through the medium of a wire, in
proportion to the amount of pressure brought to bear upon him. I now
began advertising my electrical cure for various diseases, and with the
eel concealed, yet under perfect control, I performed some almost mar-
velous cures, establishing my reputation throughout the United States.
The power of the fish in this direction developed wonderfully with prac-
tice, and by the aid of a few assistants and a simple system, I have treated
no less than one hundred patients at one time, the sole source of electric-
ity being my electric eel.

At one time when the electric light plant of our city failed tempora-
rily, I offered my assistance, and for two nights supplied a brilliant light
to all portions of the city, but this proved to be a severe strain upon my
eel, and I would not repeat the experiment for love or money, as I value
the health of my medical assistant too highly.

Many of my brother anglers have marveled at my success in fishing,
but the secret, which I have never before revealed, is simple. Within the
butt of my fishing rod is a commodious cavity, extending nearly the
w^hole length, giving room for my electric eel, w^here he rests comfortably,
covered with a thin laver of moss, which I keep constantly moistened. In-
stead of an ordinary silk or linen line, I use a minute and almost invisible
wire. This is conducted through the rings into the butt of the rod, and a
small electrical bell tinkles within whenever a fish strikes the hook. My
electric eel immediately seizes the end of the wire, and the electric shock
invariably causes the fish to make a convulsive leap out of the water, after
which, by regulating the current, I can have several minutes exciting
sport, if desired ; or where the fish is an extremely large one, a concen-
trated shock will deprive him of power at once, and make him an easy
victim. I use the same tackle whether fishing for black bass, salmon, or
tarpon, and my friends have been astounded to find such large fish could
be caught upon such a delicate line and light rod.

On one occasion I caught a shark weighing perhaps a thousand
pounds with less effort than it would require for an ordinary angler to
land a two-pound trout. I would not hesitate, if I were a betting man, to
wager one thousand dollars that I could land a whale easily with my
electrical fishing apparatus, though of late I am very careful to avoid test-
ing the full powers of my faithful accomplice in the angling art.

THE SYMPATHETIC SAWFISH.

The shark has an evil reputation in all parts -oflh^worid, j^mm-ked
Mr. C. F. David, the Boston " attorney at advertisirtg/^^^^^'^^*^'^ ^ very
grateful recollection of a service done me by the
sawfish, which is a sort of cousin of the shark
family. While prospecting for pearls and
coral, many j-ears ago, I was suddenly caught
by a large devilfish, and would have been
killed undoubtedly if I had not been liberated by The savvlTsTv. " This
fish seeing my critical situation, immediately attacked the devilfish,
sawing off every arm of the sea monster, and allowing me to reach the
surface, nearly dead. In fact I was so severely injured that I could not
swim, and the sawfish rose underneath me and carried tpe ashore on his
back in a very gentle manner. I have never been fully convinced whether
this action was mainly out of sympathy for me, or to spite the devilfish,
which is, no doubt, a natural enemy of the sawfish.

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AN ENCOUNTER WITH A SHARK.

That puts me in mind of an adventure I had some years ago off the
Fhorida coast, remarked Wm. Hill, the watch man at Chicago, who "pays
the express." My principal object in visiting Florida was to enjoy the tar-
pon fishing, but incidentally I found much excitement in another direction.
Sharks were exceedingly plentiful, and I finally concluded to vary the rec-
reation of tarpon fishing with a cruise after these cruel sea pirates. Pro-
vided with strong tackle and a capable boatman, I anchored my skiff near
the inlet where quite a number of sharks could be seen daily, frisking about
in the surf, ready to battle with man or fish. My previous experience had
especially fitted me for an encounter of this kind. During fifteen years of
my life I had been an active speculator, and was thus brought into daily
contact with the worst variety of land sharks, and I knew the sea sharks
could not equal them in craft or cruelty. In my experience with land
sharks it was not an uncommon thing to see one of them swallow a whole
railway line and a million acre land grant without change of countenance.

But to return to my story. After catching a few comparatively small
specimens I was beginning to long for something more exciting, when sud-
denly a monster shark was seen a short distance away, apparently in just
the mood for war. He swallowed the bait, and the strong line went spin-
ning into the depths with a rapidity which could not be checked. This
could not last long. The line had nearly run off the windlass, which served
the purpose of a reel, at the end of the boat. It finally broke off short,
capsizing the boat and throwing myself and assistant into the water. I at
once seized the vanishnig end of the rope, and, strange as it may appear,
swam to the shore, drawing the shark after me and landed him safely on
the beach, where, upon measurement, he was found to be twenty feet in
length. Since that time I have never been afraid to cope, single-handed,
with the largest of the species to be found in the ocean, but have found
the land sharks more difficult and dangerous to handle.

A RARE CATCH.

" Well," remarked Mr. Draper, of Geo. P. Rowell's Agency, " Mr.
Fred Ringer, of our agency, and I took a day off last season and went
down to Geneva lake for a quiet fish. We obtained a boat and rowed out
to the middle of the lake and made ready for business. Putting on a live
frog Mr. Ringer made one of his famous long distance casts. A gull see-

ing the flying bait made a swoop for it and sailed away. Mr. Ringer saw
five hundred feet of mist-colored silk line reeled away into the heavens in
a most amazing manner in the wake of a pair of broad white wings that
flashed in the sun.

" What on earth have you caught? " I cried to mv friend.

" Blamed if I know," was the qiuet reply, as the whizzing reel spun
round, "but I think I have got a cherubim ! "

A RAILWAY FISHING LINE.

Perhaps you never heard how our railway obtained the
name of the fishing line, said Mr. F. H. Miller, of the C.
M. & St. P. R. R., Chicago. It happened in this way:
" One of the officers of the road, accompanied by a friend,
went up to a favorite lake on a fishing trip several years
ago. They were fishing for black bass and mascalonge. Each one
caught a large number of black bass, and several mascalonge of fair size,
but this did not satisfy them. They \vished to bring home one of the
large specimens known to inhabit the lake, as a well-mounted mascalonge
in a street window is the best kind of advertising for any railwa}'^ line desir-
ing the patronage of anglers. I should have explained that our line, at the
point referred to, runs along near the border of the lake for some distance,
and then turns at an angle into the wilderness.

One morning Mr. B and his friend started out on a hand car from

a little way station, inteixling to take a fishing boat upon arriving at the
lake to enjoy a few hours sport among the mascalonge. Just for amuse-
ment Mr. B threw out the trolling spoon and perhaps twenty yards of

line, as the hand car drew close to the lake. The artificial bait began spin-
ning swiftly through the water, and in less time than it takes to tell it, a
huge mascalonge had seized the lure. The fish turned in its course, after
running out in the lake a short distance, and swam along parallel with the
shore at marvelous speed. By some means the line became tangled in the
handle bar of the hand car, and the mascalonge led the anglers a race along
that half-mile course that would put to shame the best efforts of an Amer-
ican Derby winner at Washington Park. The water frothed and foamed
in the wake of the fish, and the hand car dashed along the rails like a
lightning express train. '

When the point was reached where the railway line diverged from
the lake shore, it was expected that the line would break, but its strength
proved equal to the emergency. The hand car was running at the rate of
a mile a minute, and the fish was drawn ashore before it had time to use
its great power of resistance. The mascalonge was, of course, not familiar
with this overland trail and in floundering through the underbrush and

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A NEW FISHING REEL

Speaking of popular fishing resorts, remarked Mr. T.
G. Wiles, of Kansas City, Mr. C. M. Lucas, my partner in
the Advertising Agency business, and I once conducted a
hotel for anglers and sportsmen in northern Missouri. Game
was abundant in that vicinity, and several species of game
fish could be found in the lake and river near the hotel. The
experienced anglers visiting that region always secured large
catches of fish, but frequently some ambitious men from the
cities, having no knowledge of fish and fishing, would be disappointed, as
their efforts in the way of angling reminded one of the old time style of
flailing on a threshing floor. This of course frightened away the black
bass and other game fish, so we were obliged to invent something which
would secure a well-filled creel for each one, as we could not afford to lose
their patronage.

We were quite expert in fly fishing, and we quietly manufactured
something in the form of a windmill, and attached to each arm of this
unique fishing machine a good length of fine line, and by way of bait would
place a neat artificial fly at the end of one line, a grasshopper upon the next,
and other attractive lures upon the remaining lines. With a good breeze
the fishing apparatus would work automatically, and everything was so
adjusted that the baits would fall ujDon the water as light as a thistle down.
When there was no breeze, an assistant was employed to run this fishing
reel, and some of the largest catches of game fish in that region were, in
this way, made by men who knew nothing about practical angling.

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For those who preferred still fishing, we had another system, which
worked equall}^ as well. A dozen tame ducks, each having a line attached
to one leg, would be j^laced in the water at some suitable point, and when
a fish seized the hook the duck would swim directly for the boat. Some-
times the struggle would be a severe one, but with the aid of the boatman
the duck could always be depended upon to win. Unfortunately, we never
obtained a patent on either process, and I expect it has been adopted by
many other hotel proprietors throughout the country.

FISHING ON A FOG BANK.

Mr. Frank B. Stevens, of Boston, referring to a peculiar incident in
his fishing career, said : My favorite branch of angling has been that of
sea fishing along the Massachusetts coast. Striped bass fishing and blue
fishing furnish excellent recreation for me. The heavy fogs have at times
interfered, to some extent, with my sport, especially when out a short dis-
tance at sea m a light skiff or sailing boat. However, I survived the dan-
gers of the sea, and in reality the greatest peril I ever encountered was
when surf fishing for striped bass and casting from the shore, my position
being upon a high ledge of rocks. The fog, which was almost impen-
etrable, had crept down gradually until I could scarcely see the curling
waves which dashed in against the rocks below my feet.

I was perfectly familiar with the locality and continued the sport, but
as the fog grew more dense I shifted my position, drawing close to the
edge of the rocks, the ledge seeming to extend farther into the surf at this
point than I had formerly supposed. Working my way gradually for-
ward and keeping close to the extreme edge, I finally secured a strike,
and wa? playing my fish scientifically, when the sun shining through a
rift in the clouds began to dispel the dense fog. As the fog began to
disappear over the bay and roll inland, I was astonished and alarmed to
find that in my eagerness to keep close to the edge of the rocks overlook-
ing the surf, I had gone entirely beyond the rocky cliff and was standing
upon the edge of the fog bank nearly a hundred yards from shore. The
waves were rolling heavily over the rocks below, and it was only by the
greatest exertion that I scrambled back, managing to keep pace with the
receding fog bank until I i*eached the rocks again. I lost my fish, of
course, but was glajJ to escape with my life.

AN O'ER TRUE TALE.

There is something truly marvelous in the ' moving adventures by
flood and field,' which form a part of the experience of ever}' angler and
sportsman, said Mr. Willard Everett, of Hood's Sarsaparilla fame. The
public seems to be skeptical, and these adventures, especially in angling, are
looked upon as fish stories. I will mention a little
incident which once occurred to me, when I was
fishing up in Vermont, where game and fish are
very plentiful. I was floating for deer, and shot at a
large buck, which stood in the edge of the lake, when
a monster trout sprang into the air between myself
and the deer, and the bullet passed through both.
The bullet went whizzing on, and as I was curious to
find where it finally struck, I diew the boat ashore
and discovered that the ball had entered a bee tree,
from which a stream of pure honey was flowing.
Closing the bullet hole with one finger, I reached
around with the other hand to find something to stop
the flow of honey. A cub bear, attracted by the scent of the honey,
was just approaching, and seized my hand, biting it quite savagely. In
my excitement I caught hold of the cub and threw it backward several
yards, breaking its neck and at the same time killing three partridges.
On returning to the boat and looking for the deer, I found that the buck
upon being shot had made one plunge forward into deeper water, and in
doing this had struck five large trout, which were impaled upon the points
of his antlers. Although I had started out for a hunting trip, it resulted
in making quite a successful fishing tour.

A FIGHT BETWEEN BULLHEADvS.

Most varieties of fish seem to be born fighters, with the nature of
cannibals, remarked Mr. Marcus Wight, of J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell,
Mass. The most furious fight I ever observed between fish was on the
upper Mississippi. It was by two bullheads of large size. The water was
quite clear, and I could observe every movement plainly. Before each
attack the bullheads would rise to the surface and utter a peculiar bellow,
and then rush at each other with a savage fury, shaking their horns in a
manner similar to that of their bovine kindred on land. To me it mat-
tered little which of the bullheads won the battle, but I could not help a
feeling of sympathy for the vanquished fish, after seeing him thrust and
gored almost to death by the victor. The water was stained with blood
for some distance around, and the sound of the conflict could be heard
over the waters for many miles.

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FISHHAWK VS. FLYING FISH.

•

The tishhawk is a most inveterate enemy of all the smaller species of
fish, and it is seldom that any inhabitant of the water can hope to battle
with this bird with any expectation of success, said Mr. Pettingill, the
Boston Advertising Agent. However, I once noticed a strife between a fly-
ing fish and fishhawk, which resulted in a victory for the former. The
fishhawk had pounced down on the flyingfish, which escaped the talons
of the bird, and then began the struggle for life. Of course the flvingfish
might have avoided the battle by remaining deep in the water, but the
unprovoked attack had evidently aroused its anger. The hawk hovered
close over the water, and the fish, with remarkable agility, would fly at it
from beneath, and finally it struck the bird in the middle of the body, pass-
ing entirely through, and killing the fishhawk on the spot. It was quite
an exciting affair, and my sympathies were with the flyingfish from the first.

NO USE FOR THIS COUNTRY.

The salmon in the streams in Washington and Vancouver will not rise
to a fly like their sportier cousins in Maine, said Dr. A. H. Haves, of Boston.
When the boundaries between the United States and the British posses-
sions were being surveyed. Great Britain sent a Sir W as h^r repre-
sentative to look over the territory, and to make a report to her Majesty

the Queen. Sir W was an ardent sportsman, and seeing so manv

salmon in the streams, he started after them with a fly, but the fish came
not up for the fly, neither did they bite any other artificial bait, and Sir

W 's opinion of the country was expressed in his official report to the

Queen, as follows : " The blooming country is not worth a d n, the

salmon there will not rise to a flv."

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BARTERING WITH A JEWFISH.

•

Mr. J.Walter Thompson, of New York, told an incident to illustrate the
fact, that fish, like men, have their strong personal traits. He said : " Down
in the South the jewfish is not considered worthy of special note or atten-
tion as a game fish, but on account of his size he sometimes furnishes much
excitement for fishermen. The jewfish occasionally attains a weight of
over five hundred pounds, and as it has great strength, will frequently
break a hook large enough to capture a shark. The jewfish has some-
times been called a giant perch, but I should prefer to translate his name
literally, and call him an aquatic Hebrew, on account of an occurrence
which gave evidence, to my mind, of the ability of the fish as a financier-

I had visited Florida to indulge in tarpon
fishing, and had bought the most expensive and
elaborate outfit obtainable. One quiet day, while
resting at ease in my steam yacht, I determined
to make a few casts from the boat, more for
practice than from any expectation of securing a
tarpon at this time, as it was not a favorable
locality for fishing. On making the second cast a monster jewfish took
the bait, and would have taken the line, rod, reel and all thereunto belong-
ing, if I had not succeeded in making a compromise. I knew that I could
not fight successfully against the giant strength of the jewfish, and by a
series of peculiar movements with his pectoral fins the fish conveyed to
me, in language almost as intelligible as words to one familiar with the
gestures of clothing dealers on Chatham street, that he would deliver, the
goods for a proper consideration.

I was not in a mood to barter with the aquatic Hebrew, but under the
necessity of the moment concluded it advisable to make a deal. Knowing
the intense love of gold on the part of both the land and water species, I
asked my assistant to hold up to the jewfish a glass aquarium filled with
handsome goldfish. I held up my left hand with three fingers extended,
to indicate that I would give three goldfish to recover my line and tackle.
The jewfish shrugged his shoulders and shook his head savagely by way
of refusal, and I immediately raised my bid to five, which was also
refused. I was finally obliged to give that jewfish the whole job lot of gokl-
fish to obtain my tackle again, although I always considered it an unfair
advantage unworthy of any except a salt-water Shylock, and I have never
associated with jewfish from that day to this.

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A LIVE ARTIFICIAL FLY.

Mr. Wm. Boyle, the " Golden Specific" man, of Cincinnati, referring
to scientific fly casting, mentioned the following incident in his career: I
was fishing in a rocky stream, where remarkable skill is required to secure
a full creel, as the trout were educated, so to speak, to avoid the ordinary
wiles of the angler. On the occasion alluded to, I threw a fly so far and
so delicately that, as it hovered close to the water, it took life and was
about to make use of its wings to soar away, vsrhen a huge trout, seeing it
rise from the surface, made a leap and turned the course of the insect's
travel from the upper air to the bottom of his throat. It is generally
known that natural flies originate from dead matter, and I had always
believed it possible for any man of inventive genius to transform a
handsome artificial fly into a live one, so my experiment simply proved
the theory.

ONE SWALLOW TOO MANY.

Speaking of live bait, said Mr. Chalmers, of the National Manufac-
turing & Importing Co., Chicago, I had an amusing experience a few
years ago in the lake region of Wisconsin. I was fishing for black bass,
with a bait rod, and having good sport, when suddenly the minnow fell
from the hook just as I was making a cast. As the minnow fell a swallow
darting by was caught on the hook, and dropped struggling to the water,
where it was seized by a large bass. I proceeded to reel in the fish, but
an instant later a huge mascalonge swallowed the bass, and the reel sang a
livelier tune than ever before. I felt doubtful about my ability to land the
mascalonge, but by careful work I exhausted the fish, and in about twentj'
minutes had the satisfaction 9f bringing it to the gaff and secured it in good
style. As a singular fact I observed that upon taking the bass from the
throat of the mascalonge and loosening the hook, the swallow was found
to be alive, and flew away as soon as it was liberated. I always regarded
it as an excellent illustration of the evil of taking one swallow too many —
a moral which amused the listeners at the expense of the narrator.

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THE PETRIFIED ANGLER.

While attending the World's Fair last summer, I observed with
much interest the lifelike figure of the Ideal Still Fisher, as represented in
the Government Building, said Mr. H. B. Humphrey, of Boston. It
eminded me very forcibly of the petrified fisherman, a negro, who has
l^en sitting from time immemorial on a rock beside the Emory River.
TFie pose, a half sleepy, half expectant attitude, is perfect, and one might
imagine this solid Muldoon to be a living angler in a somewhat rocky
dition. The story in brief was published some time ago in the Satur-
day Blade^ I believe, and I understand from the reporter of that enterpris-
ing paper that he would have vouched for the accuracy of the tale in
every particular, but for the fact that the petrified fisherman refused to be
interviewed, and would not give an afiidavit as to his identity. Such care
is vei'y commendable, but rare in modern journalism.

ERSISTENT BITER.

The homing instinct of catfish seems to be equal to that of domestic
cats, remarked Mr. J. R. Griflfitts, advertising manager of the C. B. & Q.
R. R. To illustrate this, I will relate a little anecdote. I was fishing in
a bend of the Mississippi River for pickerel, knowing that several large
ones inhabited that particular pool. By some peculiar fatality every time
I cast my line a large catfish took the hook, and as I did not care for this
species of fish I liberated it each time and placed it farther down the
stream, trusting that it would not trouble me again. Finally I became
angry at the persistency of the catfish, and cut off his head, throwing both
the head and body back into the river.

You know the mouth of the catfish is immense in the fullest sense of
the word, but I was surprised when I made my next cast to find that this
fish had swallowed his own body, which passed through the decapitated
head and by a sort of natural attachment was fastened to it again, and the
fish took my bait as eagerly as before. Seeing that the fish was deter-
mined to eat himself out of house and home, and become an outcast, I cast
him out on the bank and let him graze on the shrubbery until I completed
my fishing.

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Did you ever notice, said Mr. George G. Parvin, of Cincinnati, the
methodical habits of the various species of fish. It is, no doubt, on ac-
count of their systematic habits and custom that fish usually go in schools,
where they receive their education, fitting them for their respective w^dlks
or swims in life. I once noticed down at the inlet of Indian River, in
Florida, where the tide-water from the oceaii mingles with the fresh
waters of the stream, a wonderful congregation of fishes of all varieties.
Thev were leaping about in play, and over the waves I could hear the
sounds of the fish language in all their dialects.

There was the muffled drumming of the drumfish, the bellowing of
the buffalofish, the satisfied grunting of the hogfish, the neighing of the
redhorse, the barking of the dogfish, the caterwauling of the catfish,
and the bleating of the sheepshead, mingled with other sounds too numer-
ous to mention.

I observed, too, the characteristic movements of each species : the
floundering of the flounders, the soldier-like pace of the sergeant fish, the
dainty walk of the lady fish, and the peculiar grouping of the groupers;
but what interested me most was the grand review which took place just
before the fish party broke up. The swordfish brandished his sword and
led the way, while the sawfish saw that the drill was properly conducted.
The kingfish, upon a coral reef, reviewed the procession. The National
colors were borne by the red grouper, the whitefish and the bluefish, and
the music was furnished by the black drum.

The weakfish was assisted by the rockfish, and in regular order fol-
lowed the shad, in his shadow, the pickerel with a pick, the pike-perch with
his pike, the skip- jack skipping along, the carping sea-carp, the rock bass
looking rocky, the straw bass carrying straw, the calico bass in a calico garb,
the sunfish with its attendant shiners, the star fishes; the moon-eye, looking
moon-struck ; the lake lawyers and their twin pettifoggers, the bill fish, pre-
senting their bills; the shovel-nose sturgeon, shoveling his way; the horned
chub shaking his horns, and many other kinds of fish, each in its proper
place, in the unique procession. It seemed like a sort of watery congress
of all nations — a marine Midway Plaisance, with all the finny features
imaginable. A greater variety of scaly customers I never saw.

BROADSWORD FIGHT WITH A SWORDFISH.

My skill with the sword once saved my life, said Mr. L. S. Allen, of the
B. & O. R. R. It happened in this way. Soon after graduating with
honoi-s at West Point, I was taking a cruise at sea, and frequently whded
away mv time by practicing the broadsword exercise with one of the
officers on the vessel, who was quite an expert in the art. We wei-e prac-
ticing one day, when by an unlucky stumble, I fell overboard, still retain-
ing the swoi'd in my hand. Upon rising to the surface the first thing that
met my gaze was a swordfish not ten feet away, making directly at me.
My presence of mind did not desert me, for although I was entirely out of
my element and the swordfish had the advantage in this respect, I realized
that coolness might save my life.

The fight was, beyond doubt, the most peculiar one ever fought with
swords. My adversary was no novice in the science, and the vigor of his
direct thrusts was something terrific. I escaped injury as much by my
agility as by my skill in warding off his attacks. After receiving a flesh
w^ound and in return gouging out an eye of my antagonist, the battle
became fast and furious. At last I succeeded in blinding the remaining eye
of m}'^ enemy, and then I had him at my mercy. With one fierce stroke I
disarmed him, or in other words severed the sword from his vicious look-
ing head, and catching it as it was sinking, threw it on board the ship.

My'victory seemed to give me new strength and courage. Seizing
the now defenseless swordfish by one of his fins I swam easily to the side of
the ship, and when a rope was lowered drew him up with me to the deck.
I still possess his sword as a relic, and at the time was warmly congratu-
lated for my combined skill and strength. The swordfish was weighed
soon after I carried him on deck and was found to tip the beam at two
thousand pounds.

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A PATRIOTIC SPECIES OF GRAYLING.

Over in Michigan, said Mr. Charles H. Fuller, the Chicago Adver-
tising Agent, the principal game fish, or at least the most beautiful, is the
gravling. You know the scientific name of this fish is Thymallus
Tricolor^ the latter having reference to the three beautiful colors with
which it is adorned. For many years past I have taken great pleasure
in grayling fishing, and it occurred to me that by systematic breeding
the coloration of the fish could be controlled and modified, to a certain
extent, thus making a distinct branch of the species, peculiarh' American.

With this idea in my mind, I began a systematic and elaborate system
of fish culture, selecting the best specimens, and by a method originating
in my own brain, I finally succeeded in producing a beautiful combination
of colors. The dorsal fin of the graj'ling is its chief mark of beauty,
rising to a height of perhaps three inches, extending along the back nearly
half the length of the fish, and waving in the clear water like a beautiful
banner, with rainbow tints. In the arrangement of colors I have secured
a blending in regular order of the red, white and blue, and at the lower half
of the fin, close to the back, my new species shows the stars in perfect
arrangement, after the style of the American flag.

Having accomplished this, I determined to train the fish and put them
to practical use. Through careful breeding I have succeeded in obtaining
quite a number of grayling in which the pectoral fins and the caudal fin, or
tail, were abnormally developed. By proper encouragement the fish soon
learned to take prodigious leaps from the water, and finally developed into
a distinct variety of flying fish. They are also sensible to the charms of
music, and now it is my custom on the Fourth of July, on Inaugural Day,
and every other patriotic occasion, to call the fish from the water, bv the
aid of a band playing the inspiring air of the " Star Spangled Banner,"
to which tune my educated grayling keep perfect time, and flv over the
lawn in battalions to the admiration of all obser\ ers.

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A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.

That reminds me, said Mr. W. B. Duffy, the Malt Whisky man, of
an adventure I had once upon a time off the shores of Staten Island. This
was my favorite resort for striped bass fishing, and many a big one have I
.*4> — ^ . caught theie in former days. One afternoon I had

exceptionally good luck, catching several bass of fair
size, and after sunset, as I stood on a projecting rock
watching the rise and fall of the water, and listening to
what the wild waves were saying, a strange melody was
borne to my ears. It was soft and plaintive, with a
peculiar tone like that of an aeolian harp, and one could
almost imagine mingled with it a subdued siren song,
which seemed to come out of the depths of the ocean.
The words could not be distinguished, but the melody
was most beautiful. Finally it died away, and I deter-
mined to make one more cast and then return to the
city "by moonlight alone," in mv sail boat.

At this time I was using mossbinikers for bait, and
. making a long cast beyond the rocks was rewarded by
a vigorous strike, but the subsequent play was unlike
anything I had ever experienced. There was a down-
ward rush, followed by a rise to the surface, and a fierce
splashing, and something like a low moan came to my
^ . ^ , , ears, while a pale face seemed to appear above the waves,

WILL ^/\Cf^ iVfy H'P,,'/' weird and ghost-like. As this apparition sank from
/ lli/%^^^ sight the struggle was renewed, and with my heart
beating like a trip hammer, I strained the rod and line
until at length the spectre, for thus it seemed to be, reappeared close to the
rock on which I stood.

I staggered and fell, knocking out one of my teeth on a projecting crag,
and at the same instant the hook was torn loose, and the mermaid, as T now
discovered it to be, splashed back into the waves and disappeared. On the
flat rock where the hook fell was the only memento of my strange fishing
contest, a pearly white tooth, which I have had carefully polished and
formed into the scarf pin that has so often excited the curiosity and
admiration of my friends.

CHASED BY TIPSY FISH.

The railway men of the Northwest give glowing accounts hi the
superb fishing in that section, but you should participate in the fishing to
be had in the South to know the pleasures of genuine angling, said Mr.

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F. P. Reed, of theMonon Route. It is the custom among certain planters
down in Alabama, and on the Gulf coast, to bait deep holes and attract
immense numbers of game fish, which are then caught bv set lines. Angle
worms are often used, but Mr. Moonshine, who runs an illicit distillery
down there, gathered a lai*ge quantity of the small spiral still- worms, and
scattered them broadcast in the river near his home. With the worms was
quite a quantity of worked-out mash from the distillery.

The next morning on visiting the place, he found the river in terrible
commotion. A desperate, half-drunken conflict was going on between the
catfish, eels, pike, sharks and almost every other variety of fish known to
these w^aters. Mr. Moonshine fired several shots into the thickest of the f raj,
when he Avas instantlv attacked by the catfish, gars and other vicious fish,
and chased across the swamp to his own gate. The fright and nervous
shock so prostrated him that he made application for a pass to Wisconsin
or to ^lichigan, or to any northern state, where he could recuperate and
be free from the voracious attacks of fish.

I have heard that northern railway officials, jealous of our reputation
for unequaled fishing resorts, claimed that the man was chased by revenue
officers instead of fish, but the plain, unvarnished tale as it was told to me
by the planter was worth all the transportation we gave him.

SCIENTIFIC CAT FISHING.

Did you ever see a cat fish? inquired Mr. Grover Cleveland,
of Washington, D. C. I do not mean the ordinary catfish of
the waters, but a, cat that will catch fish. Some 3-ears ago I was
the proud possessor of a cat that supplied the family table with
trout, black bass, and other game fish, during the proper season.
~^~ This cat took to fishing as naturall}- as a duck takes to water.

Just at dusk our fishing cat would go down to the river, and after first cap-

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turing a grasshopper would carefully crawl out on a half submerged log,
and throw the bait perhaps two feet up stream. If a fish rose the cat
would immediately seize it, using his strong talons after the style of the
famous eagle-claw, which was used so successfully for fishing in years
gone by.

The cat seldom failed to retain his hold on a fish, and would drag it
along over the water to the shore in quite a scientific manner. After hav-
ing the benefit of two years' experience, the cat learned to select the best
natural bait, sometimes using frogs, and at other times grasshoppers or
large houseflies, and I have always regarded the sagacity and skill of that
feline angler with much admiration. I could never make the cat fish for
catfish, but he was a keen angler for game fish.

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" Tiic yarns ti^K the hunters were spinning,

"T?- While the anglers were spinning their reels,

^"Could not be, considered as sinning,

Though they lacked the magistrates' seals."

Speaking of athletic feats, said Mr. Ensign, of the National Adver-
tising Agency, New York, I recall a little incident that occurred during
my hunting experience in the Wild West. I was after grizzlies, and ordi-
narily had both my wits and mj- weapons about me, but this time, by
singular neglect, I started a short distance from the spot where my rifle
and hunting knife had been laid, and approaching a thicket was confronted
by the largest grizzly bear it was ever my good fortune to meet. I had
neither time nor inclination to run, as my coolness, courage and strength
were such that I felt myself the equal of any wild beast west of the
Rocky Mountains. The bear made a savage stroke at me with his paw,
but only succeeded in knocking off my hat, whereupon he performed the
scalp dance in a somewhat amusing manner, imagining, perhaps, that he
had removed the upper section of my skull.

The battle which ensued was more exciting than any in which the
celebrated " Grizzly Adams " ever participated. Having no weapons
except those with which nature had provided me, I was at a disadvantage
in regard to size and strength, but equalized matters by my activity and
science. The bear evidently desired a contest of the " catch-as-catch-can "
order, but I would not accommodate him. I parried and cleverly avoided
every rush and stroke, and in turn dealt old Ephraim a number of fierce
blows over the heart w^hich staggered him, and finalh* killed the monster
by a fierce upper cut, which broke his jaw and dislocated
his neck. Strange as it may seem, I escaped without a scratch,
though somewhat exhausted, aiid had the battle continued
much longer, I really believe I might have been slightly injured.
The bear's head has been tastefully mounted, and adorns a shield
at mv home, as proof of the accuracv of my storv.

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TALE OF A TIGER.

Tiger hunting is very dangerous sport, remarked Mr. John J. Byrne,
of the Sante Fe Road, in his usual quiet and unassuming manner. Some
ten years ago, while hunting in India, I had an experience which was more
thrilling than usual. I had left my rifle in camp and started for a spring
near at hand, when suddenly an immense tiger sprang at me, and I avoided
him only by my remarkable activity. I was not at all frightened, and on
the contrary, was very angry both at the audacity of the tiger, and at my
own neglect in failing to carry my rifle.

As I could not fight his Royal Bengal Highness single-handed, there
was nothing to do but to run, and I flatter myself there was an exhibition
of speed which has not been equalled before or since by any professional
athlete. At his first leap, the tiger barely missed me, tearing a fragment
from my hunting coat. We were so evenly matched in speed that at every
step I made down the trail through the jungle the tiger dropped in my
footsteps, scratching my hunting boots at each bound. This race was
continued for ten miles without any advantage being gained on either side,
and I finally escaped by leaping a chasm too broad for the tiger to follow.

My anger and excitement by this time were at the boiling point, and
the effect was to change the color of my hair from raven blackness to a
fiery red, which color it remained for three years. I still keep the hunting
boots, and can prove the truth of my story by the marks of the tiger's
claws. ^ /

FANCY SHOOTING.

My modesty alone has prevented me taking championship honors in
the way of fancy shooting, both with rifle and shot gun, said Mr. Geo. G.
Pouring, of New Haven. As proof of my skill with these weapons, I
will mention a few feats which I frequently perform with great ease.
One of my favorite recreations is duck shooting from a blind. In this
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with such precision that the birds fall into the open game bag at my side.
I invariably shoot the birds through the head, and on one occasion brought
down five in succession from a flock passing overhead, much to the sur-
prise of my companion as he saw one after another falling into the game
bag.

Many years ago, when comparatively a novice, I used the shot gun, and
by a peculiar system of loading, I charged the shells in such a manner
that the shot instead of making the usual pattern would fly in any way
I desired. For instance, in wild-goose shooting, the shot, at a distance of
50 to 75 or 100 yards, would fly in the form of a V, and in this
manner I have killed a dozen wild geese at one time, each bird being
shot through the head by a single pellet. That soon became tame
sport, however, as it required little skill except in loading, and I now
prefer the rifle for all kinds of wing shooting, and at all distances,
even up to half a
mile, at which alti^
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birds barely visible to
the naked eve.

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A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER.

While voyaging down the Mississippi last summer, said Mr. Ben
Jefferson, of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, I had a rather peculiar adventure.
I had camped for the night not far from the river, and lying beside the
camp-fire was preparing for a good night's rest. Finally a strange sensa-
tion came over me, as of some threatening danger, and an instant later a
terrible screatn,' evidently from a panther, sounded in my ears. The mon-
ster was immediately above me, judging from the sound, and as I glanced
upward I saw his eyes blazing like balls of fire, evidently in anticipation
of a feast upon my body. I seemed powerless to move, either fascinated
or appalled by the sight, and my next sensation was one of pain, as I felt
the talons of the beast at my head and throat. Exerting every energv, I
threw the monster from me, and as I did so another fiendish scream rent
the air. A slight explosion followed immediately after, and I saw, as I
awoke from m}' troubled sleep, that a spark from the camp-fire had fallen
into a percussion cap beneath the screech owl, which I had thrown
violently from its perch upon my head. The force of the exploded per-
cussion cap was sufficient to kill my terrible tormentor.

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ZIGZAG RIFLE SHOOTING.

My proficiency in billiard playing aided me wonderfully in mastering
the art of rifle shooting, said the quiet man, Mr. Frank Cheney, of
Toledo. Not the mere rudiments of the art, as in simply hitting the
bull's-eye at a reasonable distance, but in making caroms, so to speak. I
deem it very easy for any man with steady nerves and a clear eye
to make a straight score with a rifle at a thousand yards
distance, and therefore I determined to be the originator
of a new phase of rifle practice.

Beginning by the simple practice of "bark-
ing" squirrels, I gradually developed in skill until
I could hit a ten cent piece a hundred yards distant
— not aiming at the mark, but at a hardwood
tree situated at right angles to the target. The bullet woulSf"
glance from this to the edge of another tree and so on, in a
semi-circle, until it reached the desired point. Perhaps the
most difficult feat is to make the bullet take a zigzag course,
first to the right, and then to the left, with a flight as irregu-
lar as a rail fence. To show you what may be done in this
way, I will merely say that I once killed ten blackbirds at one rifle shot,
the birds being diagonally opposite, on both sides of a wood road
through the forest, and so accurate was my aim and estimate that with
the small 22 caliber rifle bullet the plumage was not touched, the eyes
only being shot out.

THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT.

Mr. John Jenkins, of Kansas City, who had been softly playing a
Harvard guitar, and listening to the stories, put in his lingual oar at this
juncture. Some ten years ago important business took me to the North-
west, where I remained several months, and devoted my leisure time to
field sports. Buffalo were then abundant, and on several occasions I had
good sport in their pursuit. Finally I decided upon an original plan,
principally for the sake of novelty, and at once put it into execution.
Taking the entire skin of a freshly-killed buffalo, with the head and horns
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which I could conceal myself, and by walking upon my hands and
feet closely imitate the appearance and movements of the bison.

Noticing a large herd moving toward the river, one fine morn-
ing, I cai^ef ully approached, having previously pi^epared a half dozen
revolvers within the framework of my dummy buffalo, the muzzle
of each revolver just penetrating through the skin, and firmly
fastened inside, with strings attached to the triggers. The herd
was moving quite rapidl}'^, and I stationed myself directl}^ in their
course, intending to fire a broadside and stampede the animals. At
the first round, however, the herd instead of scattering pressed on
more swiftly toward the river, and in a moment I found myself in
the center of a vast throng of maddened animals, parched with thirst
and eager to reach the water.

Escape ^vas impossible for me, but fortunately the ranks
pressed so closely together that I was carried along by the force of
the moving body, as by an avalanche. I fired several f usilades from
the revolvers as the herd shifted, changing my position toward the
rear, as the infuriated animals crowded past me. Apparently the shots
were without effect. To my horror, I soon observed that the course of
the herd diverted from their original course, was directl}'^ toward an
immense cliff overlooking the river, but I was unable to extricate myself.
The strong framework about me prevented instant death from the crush-
ing force on either side. Within a moment, as it seemed to me, I found
myself upon the verge of the precipice, and was forced headlong into the
stream amid the falling bodies of thousands of buffalo. The structure
which I had prepared was airtight, except the apertures I had made
through which I could breathe ; therefore, while the animals floundered
and many of them were drowned in the stampede, I floated down the
stream and over the falls a short distance below the cliff. Drifting near
shore, upon a sandbar, I was enabled to drag myself upon the bank where
I lay for a short time exhausted.

Upon glancing toward the river I saw that it was full of the dead
bodies of buffalo, and what was more surprising, all of my shots must have
taken deadly effect, as the current was red with blood. From that day to
this, the stream has been knfown as the Red River of the North, and the
last herd of buffalo was exterminated, greatly to my regret, in this singular
hunt which I had originated.

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A WONDERFUL LIFE PRESERVER.

Hunters, like cats, should have nine lives in order to safely undergo
all the perils of out-door adventure, remarked Mr. Upton, of the Oxford
Manufacturing Company, Chicago. This idea w^as suggested to me by
the fact that once in my "checkered career" a single shot from my rifle, at
a critical moment, saved my life at least five times. It happened in this way.
I was standing close to a craggy cliff, in a fine game region, with my rifle
in hand, when all at once a startled elk, running along the base of the
mountain, bounded almost upon me.

To avoid being trampled on, I leaped backward, firing the rifle at
the same instant, and to my surprise, as I fell, I heard a death yell, evi-
dently from an Indian some distance to my right. At the same instant the
ground upon which I had just stood crumbled and fell, opening a chasm
at least a hundred feet in depth, into which I would have been precipitated
had I remained there an instant longer. The falling of this section of
ground loosened a huge crag directly overhead, which dropped with terri-
ble force into the abyss, so that if I had by any chance escaped instant
death, I would have been crushed by the descending rock.

The elk, as I afterward found, had been struck by the bullet at the top
of his skull, stunning him, and as he fell forward his antlers pierced a large
rattlesnake, which was coiled ready to spring upon me at the point where I
had formerly stood. The death-cry which I heard was from an Indian who
had " drawn a bead " on me, and would doubtless have fired a fatal shot
had it not been for my bullet which glanced from the head of the elk and
struck the chief directly in the heart. This I have always considered
a miraculous escape, and a hunting adventure somewhat unique in character.

AN INSATIATE ARCHER.

My favorite amusement is archery, in fact, my friends sometimes
tell me that I " draw the long bow " too often, remarked Mr. Stanley Day,
of New Market, N.J. It is astonishing to note the skill which may be
attained by careful practice with the bow and arrow. I find it very easy
to kill birds on the wing, and frequently by the use of three arrows have
killed as many birds at one time. I also do curved shooting, usin|^
generally two arrows; each of the arrows has a curve, and will turn in a
half circle, one to the right and the other to the left.

I have become quite an adept in this style of shooting, and
can hit two bull's-eyes, each one hundred yards distant, and in
exactly opposite directions. This would seem to be a difficult feat,

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but I accomplish the act by standing midway between the two, and shoot-
ing out at right angles, aiming by intuition, and seldom fail to strike the
exact center of each target.

Once I adjusted the two arrows so carefully that in making a new
experiment each of the projectiles in its flight covered a complete semi-
circle, and met fifty yards behind me, the steel points of the arrow
heads becoming firmly fastened together. This I consider one of the
most difficult and scientific performances ever recorded in the line of
archery.

W JERSEY SNIPE SHOOTING.

My initiation as a snipe shooter over in New Jersey
was a memorable event in my sporting career, soliloquized
Senator Cornish, the organ manufacturer of Washington,
New Jersey, who seemed to be communing with himself
rather than speaking to the club members in the room. I
was fresh from the prairies of the West, and knew nothing
of shore or sea shooting in the vicinity of Gotham. One of my new found
friends informed me, confidentially, that the summer flight of snipe was at
its best on the Jersey marshes, and advised me to take a day off to try the
sport. Accordingh- I boarded an early train, engaged a native Jerseyman
as guide and companion, and in less than an hour was on the historic snipe
grounds at Pine Brook, made famous by Frank Forester.

My preconceived notions of snipe shooting seemed to be entirely
wrong. The Jersey birds did not fl}' up and away in a zigzag course,
with a " scaipe ! " " scaipe ! " as I had always supposed would be the regu-
lar order of things. These snipe just buzzed up around and toward me
from every direction, and my breech-loader was kept hot by the repeated
firing. Never since the celebrated blaze at Barnegat had such a single-
handed fusilade occuiTed on the clinging soil of New Jersey. I killed an
immense number of birds, and finally stopped after exhausting the ammu-
nition and myself. My genial guide had bagged the snipe, and he laughed
long and loud as he retrieved them for me, and witnessed my skill as a
sportsman.

Finally, when I came' to examine the wonderful bunch of birds I
found it had shrunk in size, and consisted mainly of gauzy wings
and long bills — in fact, Jersey mosquitoes! I added another bill
(denomination V) to the pile, handed it to my companion,
and as a parting act of politeness gave him my pocket pistol^
heavily charged with double-distilled "Jersey lightning."

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FISHING SECTIONS.

"The North for gra_yling, trout and bass,
The South for sea fish, and for tarpon ;
The East for salmon, pike and bluefish.
And West for mountain trout to harp on."

For convenience in briefly describing the spec
angling attractions of various localities, the states north
of the Ohio River w^ill be included in the Northern
groujj, those lying southward of that stream in the
Southern section, the region east of Ohio will be con-
sidered the Eastern division, and west of the
headwaters of the Missouri the Western portion

NORTHERN STATES.

The grayling fishing of Michigan, as enjoyed on
the Au Sable, the Hersey and Manistee Rivers, is a
branch of angling not to be had elsewhere in any por-
tion of the United States, except Montana. Information
with regard to the best localities, etc., may be obtained
by addressing Mr. Chas. S. Hampton, Petoskey, Mich.

For brook-trout fishing, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Mmnesota are the principal states in the North.
Among the best localities are those near Ashland, Bay- ^: C~

field, Noquebay, Sparta and Westfield, Wis.; Cheboygaii', Gogelw^Smilt
Ste. Marie, and Watersmeet, Mich.; Frontenac, Duluth, and Brule, Minn.
For information concerning brook-trout fishing in these states, the
reader may address Hon. S. S. Fifeld, Ashland, Wis., W. D. Tomlin,
Duluth, Minn., or Mr. E. E. Thresher, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Black bass are quite abundant in the lakes and streams of most of the
Northern States. Good fishing waters are near Huron, Sandusky, and
Tiffin, Ohio; Angola, Elkhart, and Pleasant Lake, Ind; Aroma, Kanka-
kee, and Waukegan, 111; Buena Vista, Okoboji, and Spirit Lake, Iowa;

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Bowling Green, Rock Castle Springs,
and Williamsburg, Ky.; Eldorado, Eu-
reka, and Parsons, Kan; Allegan, Battle
Creek, Coldwater, Elk- Rapids, Goge-
bic, Petoskey, and Sturgis, Mich; Alexandria, Big Lake, and Lake Pepin,
Minn.; Jamestown, Wahpeton, and Thompson, N, Dak.; Columbus,
|. Duncan, and Waterloo, Neb. ; Big Stone City, Dell Rapids, and Wilmot,
I S. Dak.; Eagle River, Florence, Montello, Oconomowoc, Sheboygan
\ Falls, and Summit Lake, Wis.
.^ Mascalonge fishing is excellent in the vicinity of Detroit, Glenwood,
Little Falls, Prior Lake, and Staples Mill, Minn.; Alanson, Mackinac
Island, Sault Ste. Marie, and Seney, Mich.; Butternut, Eagle River, Fifield,
Phillips, Woodruff, and Pelican, W^is.

For pike, pickerel, perch, and small bass, the angler may select almost
any of the lakes and rivers in the states mentioned, and be reasonably sure
of good fishing.

Accurate information in regard to localities, best seasons, etc., in these
states ma}' be had by enclosing self -addressed, stamped envelope to one of
the following anglers: Col. W. T. Dennis, Richmond, Ind; Dr. S. P.
Bartlett, Quincy, 111.; C. F. Bates, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Geo. A.Johnson,
Detroit, Mich.; Hon. W. David Tomlin, Duluth, Minn.; Dr. James A.
Rankin, Jamestown, N. Dak.; Dr. James A. Henshall, Cincinnati, Ohio;
J. N. Wass, Beresford, S. Dak.; Geo. F. Peabody, Appleton, Wis.

SOUTHERN STATES.

Tarpon fishing — for which the waters of the southern coast are most
widely celebrated — may be had at its best along the shores of Florida.
Several of the prominent resorts are on the gulf coast, in the vicinity of
Apalachicola, Cedar Keys, Punta Rassa, Homosassa, Pensacola, Tampa,
Charlotte Harbor, Tarpon Springs, and Naples. The tarpon is also found
along the coast of Louisiana and Texas, where it is known, locally, as the
" Grand Ecaille" (pronounced " grandykye," and signifying large scale
fish), and in some fishing towns it is termed the "savonilla."

Other popular sea fishes — notably the Spanish mackerel, sheepshead,
sea bass, etc. — are caught in abundance near Mobile, Ala. ; Braidentown,
Cedar Keys, Indian River, Jacksonville, Key West, New Smyrna, Pensa-
cola, and St. Augustine, Fla. ; Brunswick, Darien, and Savannah, Ga.; New
Orleans, La.; Mississippi City, Miss.; New Berne, Rodanthe, and Wil-
mington, N. C; Charleston, Georgetown, and Coosawhatchie, S. C;
Chincoteague, Hampton Roads, Norfolk, and Phoebus, Va.

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he fresh \virBer fishing is excel-
lei\t in man}' portions of tiie Southern
States, the principal varieties of fish
being- hhiclv bass, perch, pike, mullet,
and occasionally trout. A few of the
favorite angling resorts are: Broken

Arrow^, Decatur, Eutaw, and Wetumpka, Ala.; Corning, Eureka Springs,
Pine Bluff, and Van Buren, Ark. ; Cantonment, Enterprise, and Kissimee,
Fla.; Acworthy, Calhoun, and Powersville, Ga.; Vinita, Ind. Ter. ;
Bowling Green, Rock Castle Springs, ^nd Williamsburgh, Ky.; Raceland,
and Washington, La.; Hagerstown, Oakland, and Seven Locks, Md.;
Crocker, Jerome, New Florence, and Missouri City, Mo. ; Chama, Espa-
nola, and Fort Stanton, New Mex.; Clyde, Pigeon River, and Sylva,
X. C. ; Gourdins, Kingston, and Scranton, S. C; Boyce, Huntington,
Manchester, Reelfoot Lake, and Waverly, Tenn.; Kountze, La Coste, and
Waelder, Tex. ; Lexington, Riverton, and Wytheville, Va. ; Berkeley
Springs, Harper's Ferry, and Sleepy Creek, W. Va.

References: J. H. Hardaway, Montgomery, Ala.; Col. J. A. Wood-
son, Little Rock, Ark.; J. Mortimer Murphy, Sponge, Harbor, Fla.;
Harry C. Brown, Atlanta, Ga., Harry L. Means, Louisville, Ky.; Col. J.
R. Thornton, Alexandria, La.; J. A. Hartner, Orangeville, Md.; Geo. J.
Chapman, 720 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.; J. Minium, E. Las Vegas,
New Mex.; Edw. S. Latimer, Wilmington, N. C; V. O. Hendrick,
Huntingdon, Tenn.; J. B. Gilbert, Houston, Tex.; W. M. Williams,
Richmond, Va.

EASTERN STATES.

Bluefish and striped bass fishing t;ake first rank in the way of angling
along the coast of the Eastern States — squidding or trolling for bluefish
being a popular recreation in connection with sailing, and bass casting tak-
ing precedence over all other forms of sea fishing, among the scientific
anglers whose principal pastime is with rod and line on the ocean tides
from Cape May to Cape Cod.

For striped bass fishing a few of the popular resorts are near Milford,
New London, Southport, and Stonington, Conn.; Buzzard's Bay, Catan-
met, E. Marshfield, Fair Haven, and Woods Holl, Mass.; Newmarket and
Portsmouth, N. H.; Barnegat, Elizabeth, Sewaren, and Tuckerton, N. J.;
Canarsie, Mamaroneck, Giffords, Fort Hamilton, and Sheepshead Bay,
N. Y.; Block Island (via New London), and Warren, R. I.

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For bluefish, the resorts above named and many others on the Eastern
and New England coast, from Delaware Bay to Penobscot Bay. The
localities along the Atlantic coast, where bluefish, sheepshead, weakfish,
kingfish, and other species of sea fish are abundant, within the range speci-
fied, are literally too numerous to mention.

Brook trout fishing of excellent quality may be enjoyed in the vicinitv
of Andover, Litchfield, and Shepang, Conn.; Middle Dam, Parmachenee
Lake, Phillips, and Rangeley Lakes, Me.; Plvmouth, Renfrew, Shelburne
Falls, and Westfield, Mass.; Gorham, Laconia, and Salmon Falls, N. H.;
Dunnfield, Oak Ridge, and Vernon, N. J.; Alder Creek, Ausable, Adi-
rondack, Big Indian, Boonville, Callicoon, Canisteo, Deposit, and Wells-
ville, N. Y. ; Dingman's Ferry, Oakland, Shohola, Westfield, and White
Haven, Pa.; Abbott's Run, Greene, and Washington, R. L; Bel-
low's Falls, Morrisville, Summit, and Wolcott, Vt.

Black bass are abundant near Chopinville, Litchfield, and Win-
"sted. Conn.; Belgrade, Fryeburg, and Highland Lake, Me.;
Milford, Southbridge, and West Acton, Mass.; Alton, Centre
Conway, and Nashua, N. H. ; Dover, Lake Hopatcong, and
Weston, N. J.; Binghamton, Canaan, Clayton, Dunkirk, Green-
wood Lake, Lockport, Oswego, and Westport, N. Y. ; Erie, Free-
mansburg, Lackawaxen, Tunkhannock, and West Conshohocken, Pa.;
Cranston, and River Point, R. I.; Back Bay, Bellows Falls, Ludlow,
nd Sheldon, Vt.

For mascalonge a few of the favorite Eastern localities are Clayton,

Ogdensburg, and Theresa, N. Y.; Barton, and Newport, Vt. Other

', V varieties of fresh-water fish, /. e.^ pike, pickerel, perch, etc., are plentiful

V ^- in many lakes and streams throughout the Eastern States.

\^ References: Dr. E. P. Gregory, Waterbury, Conn. ; Edward M. Bland-

-^.' ing, Bangor, Me.; Walter M. Brackett, 41 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.;

^|/ Geo. C. Gilmore, Manchester, N. H.; Robert D. Foote, Morristown,

1 N. J.; Wakeman Holberton, 18 Vesey St., New York City, N. Y.; A. B.

^Shipley & Son, Philadelphia, Pa.; Chas F. Orvis, Manchester, Vt.

^p=fl^'^'^

if ully distritvTiit^d cjwex that vast area of country generally known
^r West," aire thousands of rivers, lakes and brooks filled wdth
me of the finest game fish in America. A few of the excellent fishing
localities ar^ enumerated iri the followmg list:
I ./For brook trout, rainbow trout, and mountain trout, Belmont, Chico,
iGlairville, Fulton, ^bne Fine, Monterey, Redwood City, San Mateo,

^^i^Soledad, and J^ndsor, Cal.; Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Cimar-
ronTTTelta, Golden, Gunnison, Idaho Springs, Longmont, Montrose, St.
Elmo, and Villa Grove, Colo.; Camas, Eagle Rock, Inkom, Rathdrum,
Sand Point, and Shoshone, Idaho; Avon, Billings, Butte, Custer, Elliston,
Gallatin, Garrison, Heron, Livingston, Park City, Ravalli, Red Rock,
Stillwater and Woodlin, Mont.; Carson and Palisade, Nev.; Albany, Cor-
vallis, Oregon City, and Salem, Ore.; Clear Creek, Milford, Ogden, Rich-
mond, Smithfield, and Thistle, Utah.; Carbonado, Cascades, Lake View,
Olympia, and Waitsburg, Wash.; Carter, Fort Washakie, Hilliard, Pied-

-^mont, and Twin Creek, Wyo.

^ For salmon fishing and sea fish, the following points are excellent :
Monterey and Windsor, Cal.; Astoria, Bonneville, Columbia, and Oregon
City, Ore.; Alderton, Cascades, Olympia, and Seattle, Wash. In the
fresh waters, inland, game fish are abundant from the Rocky mountains to
the Pacific coast.

References: Harry Babcock, 306 California St., San Francisco, Cal.;
Hon. L. B. France, Denver, Colo.; Chas. Nathurst, Sappington, Mont.;
Hon. S. H. Greene, 204 Stark St., Portland, Ore.; W. J. Dermody,
Ogden, Utah; E. E. Ellis, 903 ^^^c Ave., Tacoma, Wash.

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MONTHLY FISHING GUIDE.

" Mark well the various seasons of the year,
When the successive fishing months appear;
In each revolving moon some fish there be
That mav be taken in river or in sea."

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JANUARY.

For the majority of anglers January represents the ** winter of discon-
tent," so far as fishing is concerned. Florida, the perennial paradise of the
angling brotherhood, yields good sport at this period of the year, when the
bluefish, Spanish mackerel, sheepshead, groupers, and other varieties of sea-
fish bite well at the favorite resorts, named elsewhere. On the Gulf coast
of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the fishing is also good
during January.

FEBRUARY.

The month of February is considered — by the fishing fraternity —
much more welcome than its predecessor. It is three days shorter than
January, iand one month nearer to the general season of piscatorial pleas-
ures. Winter fishing through the ice can of course be indulged in by
Northern rodsters, but that is a rather "chill and cheerless pastime " to
most men. Aside from this amusement there is none w^ith rod and line in
the North, and the good fishing of the Gulf coast has one disheartening
feature for multitudes of anglers — it is too far away.

MARCH.

To the lover of angling, as also to the soldier, the word " March ! "
signifies something. To the former it means a step nearer, on the calen-
dar, toward the longed-for fishing season. The tarpon fisher greets it as
the time of the preliminary skirmish with his favorite finny adversary, and
the sea-fishing of Florida is good. On the whole, there is something
breezy about March, and " It's an ill wind that profits nobody."

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APRIL.

April showers do something more than " bring forth
May flowers." They bring forth those early croakers,
the frogs, telling in hoarse yet happy voices to the world
in general and anglers in particular the glad tidings that
the Spring rise is in the brooks and the trout are rising
too. In most of the states trouting begins in this variable,
vernal month, and it is held in high esteem accordingly.

MAY.

May is the month pre-eminently intended for and

dedicated to the disciples of Izaak Walton. It seems to be

universally accepted by the fraternity as the brightest, best

and balmiest of the twelve changeful cycles of the year.

Local or special restrictions excepted, brook trout may be

legally taken in most of the states and territories. May is

stinguished, also as being probably the best for tarpon fishing in

southern waters. It is the time when a majority of anglers feel a

keen desire to " fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."

JUNE.

June may be termed the month of the salmon, although it is almost
equally famous as the month of the black bass, which are in season and
rise readily to the artificial fly in most sections at this period. The tarpon
fishing is also in its prime, and mascalonge fishing of the finest kind may
be had in the St. Lawrence River, about the Thousand Islands, and in the
Northern states, particularly Wisconsin and Michigan. June is a favorite
month for bluefishing along the Eastern coast.

JULY.

Patriotic anglers will find almost universal freedom to go a-fishing
for any and all kinds of fish, and in all sections of the Union — except upon
preserves, leased or purchased. Salmon, brook trout, mascalonge, black
bass, pike, pickerel, etc., are all in season, ready to be taken by hook — but
not by crook, except in the form of a gaff.

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AUGUST.

During this month — and in man\^ localities even during July — the
waters of inland lakes, particularly through the pine land and \vooded sec-
tions of country, are "in bloom," as it is technically called, the surface
being covered with aquatic seeds and vegetation. In such localities, dur-
ing this period, the bass, pickerel and mascalonge fishing is poor. More-
over, the angler receives so many bites, even when the fish are not to be
found, that August is not a popular month in the calendar, except for sea
fishing in the East.

SEPTEMBER.

Blithe September is a better month for sea-fishing than for angling in
fresh waters — the season for brook-trout fishing having closed, in most
states, with the end of August. For striped bass fishing off the New Jer-
sey and Connecticut coast, September is a favorable period, and the blue-
fish, sheepshead, weakfish, etc., also bite well at this time.

OCTOBER.

The month of October is more favorable for the gun than for the rod
in the Northern states, though persistent anglers making their annual fare-
w^ell casts, either in the ocean surf or the lakes and streams, occasionally
make fair catches. The banging of the breech-loader, however, takes the
place of the humming of the reel to a great extent.

NOVEMBER.

With the beginning of November the better varieties of game fish in
the sea having departed southward for their winter sojourn, and the mas-
calonge, pike, pickerel and perch, — the only fresh water varieties avail-
able— feed principally in deep water, "on their own hook," instead of
taking other hooks, no matter how temptingly offered.

DECEMBER.

For all practical purposes December is a " closed time " for fishing in
the Northern, Eastern and Wiestern states. The inland waters are usually
closed by ice, and even when open the well-stocked lake or stream
would, at this period, prove to be a veritable " slough of despond " for
scientific angling. An}- wise Horace of the present time would vary the
familiar advice given by the late sage of the 1 ribune^ and say to the
December angling enthusiast : " Go South, young man, go South ! "

GAME AND SHOOTING.

' While thousands are doomed every

moment to yield * ^y^

To business or studies severe,
The sportsman enjoys the pure air
of the field,
And roams without sorrow or fear;
He sighs not for honor, for splendor, or wealth,

Better blessings than either attend him.
Behold, on his brow sit contentment and health.
And the dictates of conscience befriend him."

The sportsmen of America have for many generations past enjoyed a
greater variety of field sports than could be found in any other civilized
country. So numerous, in fact, w^ere the varieties of game, and so appar-
ently inexhaustible the supply, that few restrictions vv^ere placed upon the
shooters, and in consequence of this the country has been for fifty years
past overrun by not only the native lovers of field sports, and market gun-
ners, but sportsmen of foreign lands have swelled the throngs to exter-
minate several of the valued species of game — birds and animals.

During the first half of the present century the native American, even
though his worldly possessions consisted of merely a simple shooting out-
fit, could obtain, comparatively without cost, better sport than European
princes could boast of in their own country. The United States in reality
seemed to furnish a sort of Happy Hunting Ground for the sportsmen of
our own land and the wealthy shooters of European countries. AH this,

however, has sadly changed during the past twenty-five years. The
bison or buffalo, which formerly roamed over the broad plains beyond the
Mississippi in countless numbers, now exists (on the public domains) only
within the limits of Yellowstone Park, where a small band of two or three
hundred has been preserved, though a few wanton hide hunters have, dur-
ing the past winter, attempted to destroy the last remnant of this distinctive
species of American game.

The destruction of the buffalo is but an indication of the coming fate
of the moose, the elk, and other valuable species of game, unless strict
protective laws are enacted and enforced. Unfortunately, the propagation
of game can not be successfully undertaken on a large scale for the public
benefit, as is done with the better varieties of American game fish.
Twenty years ago the annual flight of the migratory pigeons darkened the
air in spring-time, but at present the species seems to be practically annihi-
lated. This result has been reached by indiscriminate slaughter, princi-
pally for the markets and for trap-shooting tournaments.

It will be seen that while American sportsmen have been blessed with
privileges and opportunities in the line of field sports equalled by no other
nation, the time is not far distant when none but wealthy sportsmen, or
clubs owning large game preserves, can hope to find good sport in any of
the states, except perhaps those bordering on the Pacific Coast. The,

destruction of American field sports for the common masses would be felt
as a national calamity, as the proper indulgence of the passion for out-door
recreation has done much to foster and maintain the spirit of independence,
the manly vigor and remarkable courage, which is recognized as a charac-
teristic of native-born Americans. With the gradual passing away of a
love for or opportunity to indulge in field sports, there springs into exist-
ance the passion for more debasing pastimes, as indicated particularly in
many of the large cities and their vicinity, where gambling, pugilism, and
other so-called sports too often take the place of honorable out-door recrea-
tion, to a certain degree.

A careful historian once asserted, giving ample proof for the state-
ment, that modern nations excelled in arts, sciences, and agriculture, as
well as in oiher vocations of peace and war, in proportion as the young
men exhibited a tendency to indulge in the sports of shooting, fishing and
other manly amusements of the field. Upon the sportsmen of America,
therefore, devolves the duty of maintaining for future generations the sup-
ply of game birds and animals, which have, in the past, been so recklessly
destroyed without thought of future consequence. Public sentiment has
been aroused against the wanton slaughter of game, and it is believed that
the efforts of local clubs and state organizations formed to enforce the
game and fish laws will have the effect of preventing the extermination of
valuable species, particularly in view of the fact that a strong National
Game, Bird, and Fish Protective Association has bjeen organized, during
the past year, to co-operate with local associations in this direcdon.. -^

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" In the far-away northernmost wilds of Maine,

Where the murmuring pines all the year complain,
In the unknown Aroostook's lonesome world,

Or where the waters of Moosehead are curl'd,
The stalwart wood-cutter spreads his camp,

In his cabin of logs trims his winter lamp :
And many a savory banquet doth cheer.

The fireside joys of his wintry- year.
With haunch of moose and the dappled deer."

THE MOOSE.

The moose is the largest, as well as the most highly prized species of
the deer family to be found within the limits of the United States.
Formerly this species w^as very abundant throughout the region of coun-
try extending from the wilds of northern Maine westward through the
wilderness bordering on the Great Lakes and far beyond, but great havoc
has been wrought, especially during the past twenty-five years, in the sup-
ply of this variety of game. Comparatively few are killed annuallv in the
United States, and these mostly within the limits of northern Maine and
the states of the far Northwest ; where the pernicious activity of pro-
fessional hiniters and self-styled sportsmen, who kill the large beasts during
the prevalence of deep snows, will, if not checked, bring the moose into
the list of extinct species of American game before the close of another
decade.

In appearance the moose is large and awkward ; its huge head and
broad nose, combined with ' its short, thick neck, giving it a rather
grotesque look. The moose travels over the ground with remarkable
speed, not after the style of the common deer, with long graceful bounds,
but in a swinging trot, crashing through the thickets and over fallen logs,
with a noise that may be heard quite a distance. This style of locomotion

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is adopted onl}'^ when the animal is suddenly startled. If the presence of
man is detected by the wary animal while the hunter is yet some distance
away, the moose moves off with the greatest caution, often selecting a
course which the follower can pursue only with the greatest difficulty.
The endurance of the animal is such that only the hardiest of hunters can
hope to overtake him in a stern chase, when he has once been alarmed.
The broad, palmate antlers of the moose are a distinguishing feature, and
happy is the hunter who can boast the possession of a head as a trophy
taken from an animal killed by himself.

Still-hunting or stalking the moose in his native wilds is a branch of
sport successfully followed by none except the skilled woodsman and
hardy hunter. The fatigue and countless obstacles to be met with are such
that comparatively few amateur sportsmen attempt it. More frequently
the animal is driven to water by the guides and woodsmen, or attracted to
such localities by calling. The call is made by imitating the plaintive low
of the cow moose, or if required, the bellow of the bull moose. A trumpet
of birch bark is used, and if the call is properly made and carefully
repeated at intervals, it will seldom fail to bring the moose within range of
the hunter's rifle.

In northern Maine and in the Canadian Provinces, the moose is often
hunted during early winter by pursuing him on snowshoes. Fire hunting,
which consists in using a jack-lamp or torchlight, is often effectively fol-
lowed in midsummer, along the lakes and rivers. This method of shining
is not considered very sportsmanlike by those who possess the requisite
skill and endurance to adopt the style of still hunting. In Professor
Meyer's entertaining work, entitled " Sport with Gun and Rod," will be
found two instructive articles on moose hunting — one by the Earl of Dun-
raven, the other by Mr. Charles C. Ward, a practical sportsman and fine
descriptive writer.

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' Far from the cultivated realm

Where human labor fells the wood.
Cleaves the rich glebe and tills the soil,

Incessant toiling for its food,
The great elk of the wilderness,

Boon nature's noblest, fleetest child,
Since the creation hath possess'd

And rang'd, untamable, the waste,
Cropt the sweet grasses of the wild,

In savage freedom roam'd and rac'd."

THE ELK.

The American Elk, frequently called the Wapiti, is more handsome
and graceful than the moose, though it does not equal the latter in size.
In form the elk closely resembles the common deer, and in color it is of a
yellowish brown ; of a dark tinge in winter, and lighter in summer. The
antlers or horns are more upright than in the common deer, and are very
symmetrical. The range of the elk, which formerly extended over the
greater portion of the United States, is now restricted principally to the
far West. Beyond the Rocky Mountains, not many years ago, the elk
could be found in bands sometimes several himdred in number, but at the
present time it is rare to see a herd of more than fifty, even in favored
localities in Wyoming and Montana. The great National Yellowstone
Park has proved to be a haven of refuge for this variety of game, and it is
believed by careful observers that quite a large percentage of tffe elk now
roaming in the United States have their habitat in that natu/al /game pre-
serve. Mr. Hofer, an experienced guide and woodsmar
stone country, states that the elk migrate annually to quit
moving to the south and southwest to the warmer place^
and returning to the park when the heavy snows are mell
Still hunting is the method commonl}' employed in ic.
though occasionally the animal is killed in open count
horseback. The bands of elk in the moinitainous coun!
highest hills, and on the plains they are to be found usually
near the streams, in or near the thickets of willows. '^'^''-

Elk hunting is exciting sport, and if careful restrictive laws
are enforced to prevent the extermination of the species it may be
enjoyed within a limited area of country for many years to come.

^^he Yellow-

large extent,

fate in autumn,

in the spring.

iwing the elk,

hunters on

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THE VIRGINIA DEER.

"And there at their head, at brief advance,
I see a stately stag in career,
A stag that bounds, that struggles for life,
The proud, the hunted, the frantic deer.

The best known and most widely distributed
species of tlie deer family in America is the com-
mon red deer, or Virginia deer, which is to be
found at the present time in nearly every state
of the Union. Although the common deer is
nature shy and timid, it does not wholly
^' ^ /^^^^//ilPi^rsake the haunts of civilization, as proved b}'
'4jie fact that deer hunting is still a popular pastime
in Pennsylvania, 'dVvA New York state, in the wilderness and mountainous
country not far from the large towns and agricultural districts.

Of the characteristics and methods of hunting this highly prized
variety of game much has been written, but no better practical treatise
exists than the admirable book entitled " The Still Hunter," by Mr. T. S.
Van Dyke. Nearly half a century ago a most attractive little volume,
"The Deer Stalkers," by Frank Forester, was published for the enter-
tainment of American sportsmen and the work is still eagerly read, but in
view of the fact that it is a sporting romance, with instruction as an
incidental feature, it cannot in this latter respect bear comparison with the
former volume.

Still hunting or deer stalking is by far the most prevalent and popu-
lar method of pursuit. In several states the use of hounds or any other
kind of dogs is prohibited in deer hunting, as many believe that hounding
practically drives the deer out of the section where the custom is common.
In the Eastern states the favorite localities for deer hunting are in the

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Adirondack region of northern 'f-^'^^-

New York, and the wilderness
portion of Maine. Farther west
deer are found in abundance, espe-
cially in the states bordering upon
the British possessions.

In certain f>ortions of the
South, notably in Georgia, the
time-honored sport of deer hunting /-

with horse and hounds is followed . /

to a considerable extent, but in most portions
of the United States the character of the

country is such that this sport cannot be successfully pursued. Under
favorable conditions there can be no more exciting sport than this, and
it is one which may be participated in by both sexes. In fact, some of
the most enthusiastic followers of the chase in Georgia and Mississippi are
ladies. This pastime has been thrillingly described by the late "Ellen
Alice," and by another charming writer, " Beryl," a lady belonging to one
of the first families of Georgia.

Fire hunting is a method which can not be endorsed, as it is success-
fully put in practice only during midsummer, when deer are driyen to the
lakes and riyers by the flies and winged pests, and the game at this season
is not in proper condition. There is something unsportsmanlike in float-
ing within a few yards of a dazed creature, and killing it bj- a shot as it
stands half submerged in the water. The same objections hold good as
applied to driving deer with hounds down to the lakes or streams in mid-
summer for the purpose of killing. A spirit of sportsmanship requires
that some skill be displayed on the part of the hunter, and a fair oppor-
tunity for life given the hunted.

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THE ANTELOPE.

"I'll chase the antelope over the plain,
And the tiger's cub I'll bind with a chain,
And the wild gazelle with its silvery feet,
I'll give to thee for a playmate sweet."

On the plains of the West a very popular and exciting

ft is that of antelope hunting, either with the swift

greyhounds and speedy horses, or by still hunting.

The latter is a difficult method, as the antelope is a

remarkably shy animal, except when its curiosity is

aroused. It can sometimes be lured within range by

the hunter lying in wait, concealed by a rock or some

other object and waving a handkerchief. If the hunter

is carefully concealed, and the taint of his presence is not

borne to the delicate nostrils of the game, the antelope

will approach nearer and nearer until within easy range,

their curiosity overcoming their judgment.

When the hunter desires to approach the game by stalking, or still

hunting, the greatest of caution is required, as he must approach his quarry

unobserved, and in doing so it is often necessary to creep or

crawl through the prairie grass for quite a distance.

Several other varieties of the deer family — the black tail
<Ieer, mule deer, etc. — furnish good sport to the hunters of
the West, but the style of hunting does not differ materially
from that employed in following the species already men-
tioned, therefore it is unnecessary to give a description of
each. Judge Caton's practical work, " The Antelope and
Deer of America," gives valuable instruction as to the haunts,
habits and habitat of these game animals.

THE GRIZZLY BEAR.

' Mid scenes magnificently grand
In forest ground and mountain land,
Savage and solitary lord
Of dark ravine and pastures broad.
The grizzly bear, beyond the dome
Of Rocky Mountains, holds its home."

The spice of danger attending the sport of grizzly bear hunting gives
it a peculiar charm to many who are fond of the wild sports of the AVest.
It is a pastime requiring coolness and skill, and should not be attempted by
any amateur who knows nothing of the habits and character of the animal.
The haunts of this savage beast are in the rocky canyons and dense
thickets among the mountains, where the hunter is liable to come upon it
suddenly and unexpectedly. If he is not the possessor of rare courage^
coolness and presence of mind, he may discover when too late that bear
hunting has no attractions for him; in fact that he " has not lost an}^ bear,'*
and he did not wish to find any.

The principal danger is to amateurs or novices of this description.
Experienced hunters are always prepared, and are seldom killed or seri-
ously injured. The appearance of a grizzly bear, when angry, is suffi-
ciently frightful to alarm and unnerve any excitable person. In size he is
a monster, specimens having been killed weighing nearly looo pounds,
and the open countenance of bruin with his murderous teeth could not be
considered reassuring. The grizzly bear is most abundant west of the
Rocky Mountains in the extreme northwestern states and territories, from
Montana to Oregon, where he is usually at home to all comers who may
desire to seek him persistently. The common black bear, less dangerous
and more widely distributed, is sought by hunters in many sections of the
country — being usually trailed and treed by dogs.

The mountain lion crouching sat,

Where prowl'd the lynx and fierce wild-cat ;
O'er crags sprang mountain goats and sheep,

While hare and rabbits startled, leap.

OTHER FOUR-FOOTED GAME.

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Along the mountain ranges near the Pacific
coast the CaHfornia lion, or mountain lion, an
Animal of great strength and activity, is quite
fiequently found by adventurous hunters, and
the common w^ild-cat and lynx are found in many
if not most of the large forest areas of the
United States. These animals are seldom
hunted as a specialty, or as affording a distinct
branch of^''fieI(J '6p6rts, but their pursuit is exciting, and their killing
is hailed w^ith delight by frontiersmen, whose flocks and herds suffer from
their depredations. The same is true of the wolf.

The Rocky Mountain goat^ and sheep — each species being now in
process of extermination — are objects of interest to keen still hunters who
possess the agility and endurance of Alpine crag climbers. Of the com-
mon hare, or rabbit, the late Col. F. G. Skinner has given entertaining
testimony, through the sportsmen's journals, as to the capital sport which
may be had by pursuing the "cotton tails" with well- trained beagles ; and
of the large jack-rabbit of the West it may be said to his credit that he
has been the "prime mover" — in fact, always takes the lead in carrying
on the sport of coursing upon American soil, and therefore " may his tribe
increase."

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" They come from frosty solitudes, where broods the Arctic night,
Where deserts grim, spread vast and dim, in the auroral light.
The Esquimaux, with bended bow, fast paddling his canoe,

Their flocks ^ath chas'd o'er icy waste of waters heavenly blue.

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WATER-FOWL.

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Most majestic of all American species of water-fowl is
the great trumpeter swan, of pure white plumage, graceful
in form and movement, large in size — attaining about twenty-
five,, pounds weight — but so small in numbers that it will no doubt
he J'ecorded, ere long, as an extinct variety of game in the United
' States.

]More numerous by far, yet still a rare visitant in most sections of the
countr^tA- except the lake and river regions and the ocean coast — is the
Can^/isL goose, or common wild goose, considered a prize by all lovers of
wild fowl shooting. The wild goose shooter, particular^ in the West,
usually ensconces himself snuglv under concealment of a blind, and decoys
(either live, domesticated- wild geese, or artificial figures) can be used to
advantage in most sections. The brant, practically, may be regarded as a
*' small edition " of the wild goose.

The several species of ducks sought by wild-fowl shooters, rank in
about the following order. First, the highly-
prized canvas-back, a deligacy by reason of the
wild celery upon which it feeds in the Chesapeake
Bav, of the south, and Lake Koshkonong, of the
north ; then the red-head, closely resembling the
canvas-back in size, appearance and habits ; next „-^ ^p x

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the mallard, the best known and most eagerly followed of inland wild
ducks ; and finally, the beautiful crested wood-duck, the widgeon, the pin-
tail or spring-tail, the gadwall or gray duck, the green-winged and blue-
winged teal, the buffel-head, the scaup duck, etc. Amateur sportsmen
wishing to learn how, and when and where to enjoy sport in this line
should consult Mr. W. B. Leffingwell's book entitled " Wild Fowl Shoot-
ing," a standard work on the subject.

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WILD TURKEY.

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'This wandering, shy, secluded bird,

This roamer of the forest-ground,
Thro' all the Western wilderness,

In dense, embowering haunt is found/

As a distinct American game bird of high
quaHty, — closely related, through its ancestry,
to the fine fowls "that the commissaries found"
when the boys in blue were marching through
Georgia — -the wild turkey is deserving of disting-
uished consideration. The wild turkey is con-
siderably larger than the domestic bird, and the
adult male in his native haunts is one of the
proudest and handsomest specimens of winged
game to be found in the United States.

In the early part of the present century,
when Daniel Boone ^vas the pioneer hunter of
the West, the habitat of the wild turkey extended
northward into Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the
Northwestern states, but it is now found mainly
in the South and Southwest. An expert caller,
imitating the yelp of the wild turkey, can usually
attract the wary birds within easy rifle range.
Dogs are sometimes used in hunting wild turkey's,
and the sport when pursued in any proper style
is very enjoyable. Col. James Gordon ("Pious
Jeems"), of Mississippi, an accomplished sports-
man, and writer, is the author of several instruc-
tive essays on this subject.

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PRAIRIE CHICKENS.

"When August and September days
Flush the broad prairies with their blaze,
The young broods, now matur'd, expand
Their wings and flutter o'er the land."

One hundred years ago the pinnated grouse, or prairie ^«|
chicken, as it is generally termed, was comparatively abund-
ant in the East, particularly on the brushy plains of Long
Island, where it was known as the heath hen. Now, the ^»*
prairie chicken is essentially a Western game biixl, io\xr\(\'xv^.^/jt^
numbers only in the region beyond the Mississippi, the '
speciies having been exterminated in the East.

North and South Dakota cover probably the best region for prairie
chicken shooting, and if the birds are properly protected during the close
season, and non-export laws rigidly enfoixed, the land of the 'Dakotas*^
will furnish excellent recreation in this line for future generations. With
well-trained setters or pointers, ranging fast and free over the broad
prairie lands, where every movement of the dogs and the whirring flight
of the birds can be carefully noted by the sportsman, pinnated grouse
shooting stands well toward the front in the list of American field sports.

RUFFED GROUSE.

" Where greenwood shadows shift and swim,
As in cathedral arches dim.
There the shy partridge loves to brood,
Deep in the shelter of the wood."

This woodland hermit — the pheasant of the East, and part-
ridge of the West — is a sort of country cousin of the pinnated
^roj^l^, flp«pyj(fog^hipken. In its haunts and habits the ruffed
-gro^'sfe is alinost the opposite of his prairie relative. He seeks
the secluded thickets and dense woods, and will seldom lie to the
point of a dog, though a barking cur or " partridge dog " will fre-
quently tree him, and enable the gunner to shoot him from
,-a limb — a proceeding not properly to be classed as sport.
The ruffed grouse is swift of flight, and, when
much pursued, is difficult to approach. The sportsman
who can kill a large percentage of his birds on the wing,
in thick cover such as the ruffed grouse frcciuents, may
certainly take rank as a crack shot, whether in the wild-
woods of W^isconsin or among the mountains of Maine.

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THE QUAIL.

" Sweet now at morn and eve the quail
Repeats its plaintive, whistling note,
And softly fall the answering cries
That over wood and corn-field float."

The common quail, diversely known in
various sections as Bob White, Virginia part-
ridge, and colin, is probably the most widely
distributed of upland game birds in the countr\-.
Unlike most other species the quail dwells closed ^
to the farmer's home, and the whistle of " Bob
White" is often heard around the bam and
the stacks of grain, when the bevies are
unmolested.

Manv keen sportsmen regard the quail
as the best representative game bird of Amer-
ica, and the various field trials — held annually
to decide the merits of setters and pointers, in
competition — are almost invariably conducted
in localities where Bob White is the only
game pursued to test the staunchness, nose,
pace, style, and other working qualities of
the dogs. The pltimed quails of the Pacific
coast — ^the valley quail and the moimtain
quail — are the most beautiful members of
the happy family.

THE WOODCOCK.

Where scarce the sun-spears, quivering bright,
Mav pierce the foliage with their light.
Ah I there so shadowy sleeps the wood
Where hermit woodcock seek their food."

.V species of long bill that is honored on sight is the
woodcock, boring in the moist meadows and dark forest
grounds for his daily food, but never becoming a bore
to the lover of field sports. In midsummer the first, the
best, in fact the onlv game bird that may be legally killed
is the woodcock. His flight from among the ferns or
thickets is swift, almost ixoiseless, and J. Cypress, Jr., was
correct in asserting that " to stop a woodcock in a thick
brake, where you can see him only with the eye of
faith, * ♦ requires an eye, and a hand, and a
heart, which science cannot manufacture."

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The Warwick woodlands, of Orange county, N. Y., were famous for
woodcock shooting in years gone by, but the birds are now scarce in most
of the Eastern states, though a fair number may be bagged in a few locaH-
ties, and several Southern and Western resorts, particularly the Mississippi
bottoms, still afford good sport in summer and autumn.

THE SNIPE.

But rather seek the plashy swale,
Low in the moist and boggy vale,
Or pass, thro' bushy swamps that hide
With briery hedge the brooklet side."

From Maine to Mexico, and from Connecticut to California, the snipe
is a semi-annual visitor, along the marsh-lands bordering on the lakes and
rivers. Spring snipe-shooting is legal in many states, but this and summer
woodcock shooting should be prohibited — not alone for the preservation of
the two species, but to prevent the killing of other game birds, often mere
fledglings, met with by the gunners in their rambles.

The snipe, rising -with a startled and startling " skaap," and taking a
low, zigzag course across the marsh, is a difficult mark for the tyro, but the
experienced shooter who is cool and deliberate will readily kill a large
proportion of his birds in this line of sport. Snipe-shooting, in autumn,
over good dogs, is well worthy of the sportsman's time and attention.

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