The American Fly Fisher In Memoriam

the trout of the Reaverkill and the Bsopus. It was an the Esopus he met klewitt and it was there in the Catskill Mountains he came to know his beloved Midg rod. From then on the Gingich way of fishing was with the lightest of bamboo. the finest of leadcrs and the smallest of flies. He became a 20120 man - limiting hirnscIf to a 20 foot leader and a fly no larger than size 20. Ire was considered one of the greatcst

Eng. IIe read Walton once a year and thcrc was no one mure knowlerlgeabIe concerning the ancicnt angling classics. His many artides and books en tl~es~tl>ject attcst to his lcarning and scholarship. Undoubtedly, this sensitivity to Iiterature caericcl over to ksqrtirt.. In

Arnold ah thored 9 books including those on fishing. For ovw two decades he willingly pave to the causes of conservation serving as a Dircctor and Trust- ARB O CD GINCRIClil ee of such organbations as the Theudort: Gordon Club December 5, 1903 - July 9, 6916 of New York and the national Federation of Fly Fish- amen. At the annual mcctings of thcse societies, and President of The Museum of American FZy Fishing our own Museum meetings, no onc scrvetl more ably 1974 - '1976 and with such charming gracc as a Master of Cerc- monies. Arnold Ginpich was the weU tempered No words can convey the sense of loss due to the angler. Perhaps his coining of the phrase was prophct- passing of a good companion. Arnold Gingrich served ic for in the ending of his book of the same title, be us wcll, with devotion and selfsacrifice, first as a wm te: Truwee charting the course of a beginning Museum, "Actually though being well read is part of the then as our third Prcsiden t. llis inspirational lcadcr- process, an anglcr is tcrnpmed chiefly by practise ship gave rhc Museum a hcsrt beat which was strong, and expcriencc, by learning and attempting: to reach steady and vibrant, sounding loud and clcac whcrcver the successively higher goals of his sport, and thus ac- fly fisher's gathered. quiring through any amount of*disappointment and In time all great men have their biographers and frustration, the satisfaction of knowing that he is do- Arnold Cingich will have his. They will begin with ing thc simplest thing in the hardcst way possible. his birth in Michigan, his early love of reading and Tlren, be hc never so churlish, short in his patience, music, his graduation as a Phi Beta Kappa from UM hateful to his kids, mean to his mother, no matter at Ann Arbor, and then the editorship of Apparel what - as an angler at Ieast and at last he is well temp- rlrts. Most certainly the biographers who write of his ered. business carcer will ernphaqizc the founcting of Es- "50 saying I will arise and go now. giving you the I quire magzinc and his part in its development. Over fair warning of that long lust little book, 'l%e Arre ojj' ,the years, he turned what was a magazine far gentle- Anglr?~~,'Well, if you hae not apace, I will be at thc men interested in the sartoria1 arts into a literary pub- River hefore you.' May we be we11 met there, and fish lication whose stable of authors included such greats together long and well, until at last we can intone in as Heminpay, Falkner, Steinbeck, H. L. Mcnken, unison with Andrew Lang: Dorothy Parkcr, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee WiIliarns and the many others who were the leading writcrs of "Girdling the grey domain of Death their day. The spectra1 fishes come and go; The biographers who will emphasize his love of The ghosts of mout flit to and fro, fishing will relate the seemingly stFangc circumstance Persephone, fulfiIl my wish, of a boyhood without fishing. The fair rewards start- and grant that In the shades below My phast may land the ghosts of fish!" ed out of Chicap in 1925 with plug and spoon fish- ing for bass. Then camc tEic fly rod and the catastro- And may the deep pools and riffles be flecked phic years as a suffering beginner. Ile notes he was al- with sunshine.

Cl~arlesRitz, Arnofd? old friend met him nt rbe River on July 1 I tb. He was 84. An Arnold Gingricb Memorial fs now in the plaa- ning stages. Gifts of rne~~torabiliaand donations ate invited. The American Fly Fisher Published by The Museum of hmerimn FIy Fishing for the pleasurc of the mernbcrship.

I SW;ZliMF:l< 19fh Vol, 3., No. 3

ADVlSOKY HOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS I ~ltrnolclG inprich New York, N. Y. RESEARCH Dean Sapc - Part I11 - Thc Years at Canrp Irarmony Dr. Alvii~Grove by David R. Ledlie F. 2 Snntc Collcg~,Pa. ARTICLE Ihirrl Iiall Trnuting on Jcssup's River Ilydr Park, Vt. by Charles Wilkins Wehber - 1852 P- 4

11s. r):ivid R. hcrilic WOMEN'S STUDIES Middlebury. Vt. My Love Affair with Fishing by Nan Emory p. 13 JO~II +r.Orrcllc Sllcrwo{)d, Oregon CLUBS Chicago and thc West - The Blackhawk Club of Leigh I I. IJcrkirls Lakc Koshkonong ,?lar~cItcstcr,Vt. by Emerson Hough p. 14

I Stvr c Kayrilr~itd CAMPING AND TRAVEL Sc:httlc, \\'asliingrt>n Camping the Teton Basin by W. F. Raillie-Grohmao - I882 p. 16 Xlrs. Aniw Secur :\rlirigtctn, Vt. h HTICLE I The Anglcr's Tournament - IS89 p. 20 II~I~I:I~LIZal~itcr Ih~rsct,Vt. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 23 I

MUSEUM AFFASRS p. 24 Austin S. Hogan Can~brirlp,Mass. SPECIAL ISSUE - FALL 1976 PREVIEW lnsidc Rack Covcr Kesewtrch Rc Liaison

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C1< 1I)ATS : .Z~~ISCLIII~yhutos t,y Dar id R. Lvdlic. Drar\'ings by Austin S. Hogan, Curator. Printing Iry 'Chru\ipwr~,Inc., hklrtchcstcr Center, Vcrnlont Dean Sage Part 111-TheYears At Camp Harmony (1879- 1902)

by David B. Ledlie - SarA P. Sage playing a salmon. The guides r (from left to right) 1 are Alex Marchand and Jacques Vicaire.

According to a letter written by Dean Sagc to David Deug- cooking, howcvcr, is nprn to criticism. a< an English noble- Iasl , (dated July 29, IS78) Sapc again visited the Kistigouche in man whom I met on rhc rivcr a yrar or two apt) evidently 1878. thought, as he took with him in addition to a valct and ctrrrb "I have, according to the custom of men, been taking a closet (a handy inlplc~ncntft)r thr. wt~ods)a French cook. pleasure trip. lcaving my wife at home to enjoy the company The latter's hat1 rhc first of his genius sn much subjr~edafter of the children. My expedition was to thc Ristigouchc Hiver 2 or 3 days of black flicr, midges, and rnr~squitues, which in Her Majesty's late Province of New Rrunswick where 1 happened to he very had just rhcn, that I heard lie had to re- passed a fortnight in the best salmon fishing I ever had." sign his office in favor of an Indian, and his Lordship st~ffer- and in the same letter: ed so much from thc sarnc callsr that hc made his valer do "The Ri~tigouchcis one of the most beautiFu1 rivcrs 3 cvcr the fishing and dcsucndctl rhc rivcs after a $hart stay mud^ saw and secms to my prejudiced eye to surpass the river Aine disgusted with thc sport and thc cuunrry." in thc wild grandeur of its surrounding sccncry. We ascend it This i~ the first rccord wc have of vagc's rcturn tu the Risti- in birch canoes, each poled by two Indians much Fonder of gouchc since thc "first trip" in 1875. Wc arc confident, however whiskey than of scalping but who gcncrally, with proper that Dean Sage did not r~~issthc opportunity to rcturn fur the treatment, do very well, and are ardent sportsmen. Their fishing of 1876 and 1877. Sagc ~ncntionsill Chapter I1 of Tl>r K irf~golrchrarzd Its Sn1111onI,rsbin~ that prior ro thc construct- Between 1877 until his death in 1902 Dean Sagc rarricd ion uf Camp klarmuny, his cntotrrape "canipcd out" whcn visit- on an extensive and lively currespondence with David Douglas ing the Ristigouche and that apparently this was thc modus op- of Edinburgh, Scotland. Douglas, a buuk pubIisher of somc rc- crandi for several scasons. As Harnaony was crected in the putc, was to publish 7'6~Kistrgouuhe tt~rd11s S(?lrnon I:isbrtt.q in Spring of 1879, the "scvcral scasons" allt~rlcdto would incIudc 1888. The Sage-Douglas letters werc presented to Sage's widow thc summers of '36, '77, and '78. Thc date of I-larrnony's con- in 1909 by Douglas. Thc fate of the ori~inalletters is unknown struction Es firmly estab[ishcd by a lctter from Sage KO E)ougEas to us; however, transcripts of the originals were made by tl~c and is included below. family at some point and these were pcncrously made available "There arc two of us rlp here in a pcrrnancnt camp we had to us by Mrs. David McAlpin. built this spring on a hcautiful and clcvatcd point at the junction of the Ristigouche and Upsalquitch Rivers. Our Camp Harmony was named after Julia Harmony Twichell, house consists of one large room with a fireplace and two the wife of "Uncle Joe" Twichell. TwicheU, the eminent Congre- smaller ones which we use as bedrooms, divided by partitions gational clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut who accompanied of birch bark. Our Indians have a bark shanty outside in Mark Twain on the trip described in A Tramp Abroad, was a front of which one of them does our cooking in a rather close friend of Sage's and according to members of the Sage primative style, but now it is so easy to get almost any kind family frequently fished at Harmony prior to 1895. We have not bf food put up in cans that we fare quite-well. The river is so been able to firmly establish this latter point; however, we offer large that we fish from canoes, each manned by two Indians. evidence which indirectly implicates ~wichellasa fisher of salm- We have been here ten days and the fishing thus far has not on. been good owing to high water and very cold weather. Now, In addition to his salmon fishing on the Ristigouche, Sage however, it has suddenly turned hot and I write by the dim angled for salmon in Galway, Ireland (1877). The trip is describ- light of one candle and half stifled by the smoke of a ed in a lengthy letter to Twichell, entitled, Salmon Fishing in "smudge" which we have burning in a tin pan in the middle Galway, Ireland, and is dated April 4, 1877. A major portion of the room to get a temporary relief from the flies and mos- (nearly two-thirds) of the communique deals with the intimate quitoes which attack us in swarms. Our largest fish is 36 lbs. details of Sage's angling experiences on the Galway River - de- but we have killed several above 25 lbs. and none below 19 tails of which would only have been of interest to a fellow salm- lbs. The Duke of Argyle, his son, the governor general with on angler. We suggest that a close friend of Sage's who was an his wife and several others went up the river last week for a angler to boot would have, at the very least, received an invita- fortnight's fishing. We hear they are having fine sport as the tion to partake of the sport fishing on the Ristigouche. fish take better where they are, 35 miles above here, in high We include below an excerpt from the letter in which Sage water than lower down. Besides having more fishing they also described to Twichell the method of prawning for salmon. have more flies and I doubt if the ladies will feel like staying "1 hastened to find Nicholas Brown, the fisheries guardian out the proposed two weeks. The day after they passed here who was expecting me and had secured me a rod on the Gal- a very rummy looking man came up in a canoe and stopped way River. I found him on the bank near his cottage, and not at our camp. He turned out to be a newspaper reporter from only him but five or six of the English officers, most of Tayl- the Toronto Globe going up to join the vice-regal party, and or's regiment, who were engaged in fishing the only pool of by invitation. I suspect he was too drunk to accompany them the three on the river now in order, and which is rather more the day before. The authentic account of their adventures is than half as large as the Upsalquitch pool we camped on. to appear in his paper. I am so glad I can have this to bring Nicholas professed himself glad to see me and the Britons up when anyone alludes to the hankering of our great men greeted me with civil frowns. They were fishing the pool with for newspaper notoriety. shrimp bait - which is done by using a boiled shrimp, or two, "I wish I could send you a salmon of 30 Ibs. I killed yes- on a hook attached to a heavily leaded line, then casting up- terday, a short thick fish, bright as burnished silver, with a stream and letting the shrimp roll along the bottom the head almost disproportionately small and a broad powerful length of the cast, and then recovering. There is a most de- tail which came near bringing my tackle to grief before I got lightful uncertainty about it, as you may for two hours or the fish out of the heavy rapid where he took me after 45 longer let your shrimp pass unheeded before the nose of a minutes work about it." (Sage-Douglas letters, Camp Harm- fish; and at the end of that time he will take - consequently a ony, June 22,1879).

The waterborne floating home owned by Col. Oliver H. Payne. The vessel had a sitting room, bedroom, galley, and servants' room. In the background is the "new" Camp Harmony shortly after its completion in 1896. Page 3 On the porch of the original Camp Harmony. From left to right: C. F. Law- rence, J. M. Hamilton, H. M. Hanna, Dean Sage, and Marshall (an Indian). Note the bear cub.

Frank Ellis with a brace of salmon. Salmon at Harmony.

From left to right: Dr. A. L. Mason, W. H. Sage, F. H. Ellis, W. 8. Dicker- man, unknown, H. M. Hanna, J. M. Hamilton, Dean Sage at Camp Harmony. Indian workmen who constructed the new Camp Harmony in 7896. The camp was designed by Stanford White. person may fish from the same stand all day, and as there 4216% Ibs., an average of 24 Ibs. apiece. This score might have been nine rods, the full number allowed, daily since I have been materially increased had it not been for the annoy- came the fishermen who are shrimping, are not further than ance caused by the drive of timber coming down which near- 25 or 30 feet apart. When one strikes a fish the others must ly filled the river for a week and made it impossible to fish all clear out to give him a chance to play him, but if any fish- but a very little each day. This was just at the time the heav- erman leaves his place with a fish or for any other reason, iest run of fish was going up and it was during this week that anybody else has a right to go and take it. No shrimp fishing a party of 4 who were above the logs took 54 fish in three is allowed before 9 a.m., now and as the season advances the days, nearly all of them out of one pool, 'Ned Bank,' where time is still more restricted to make way for the fly fishing. not more than two could fish at once. Captain Sweny. a About 300 feet below the top of the pool; which is formed friend who went with us, took his boy aged 16 and I my by a dam, is a bridge across the river and when a fish goes Henry, a year younger. They were to confine themselves to through it the line is cut; and the fish hand played from a the trout but begged so hard that we let them try for salmon platform put up for the purpose just below. You have to pay in the poorest places. They managed to kill one or two and 151- per day for the privilege of fishing besides getting a gov- then on the invitation of a gentleman who has 2 fair pools 6 ernment license good for a year, which costs 201- and you miles up the river they went there for 2 days. They returned have 113d of the fish you kill. They give you for this 113 now with 13 salmon. Henry's seven averaged 28% Ibs. including 21- per Ib., so if a m'an is lucky; he pays a considerable part of one of 35 Ibs. and one of 37 Ibs. It was too good a time for his expenses. This river though hardly W mile in length under boys of 15 and 16. Of course, they had men with them, but this management, and the netting at the mouth, and at the hooked and brought all their fish to gaff without assistance. weir yields an annual income to its owner of about,£,3000. They were both good trout fishers before." What would the Connecticut return; if the state would but The guides at Harmony were Mic Mac Indians (our Algon- assume its control in respect of the fisheries, instead of let- quians) about which Sage made the following comment: ting such a source of wealth and amusement be entirely lost. "Although lazy and generally worthless at any rcgular lab- I saw one salmon of 16 Ibs. killed that afternoon; and bought our, they are indefatigable in avocations containing an ele- of Nicholas a fine rod for £,2-5, a reel for 181- and line and ment of sport." (The Kistigo~lcbcund Its Sali?zon I:ishi77g, flies in proportion (I paid kbbey in N. Y. $75 for a rod and Chapter 11) $27.50 for a reel, neither of them as good as my last pur- The head guide at Harmony was Alex Marchand (see photo) chase), and engaged for my attendant Mike Brown, a bright who apparently had an excellent sense of humor and was given young Irishman of 19 - already prominent as a leader in the to waxing eloquent especially with tales of the tall sort. In fact, temperance cause here." Sage carried a note-book for the purpose of recording Alex's The ownership of Harmony was shared with Sage's good stories. Other guides at Harmony included Alex's son, Peter friend, Charles F. Lawrence of 149 Hicks St., Brooklyn, New Metallic, Jacques Vicaire, and Alexis Vicaire. York. According to the Brooklyn Directory of 1875, Lawrence While an attempt was made to preserve a rustic atmosphere was a banker with an office at the corner of Nassau and Fulton at Harmony, the accoutrements at this typical Ristigouche fish- Streets in New York City. In addition to the camp, Sage and ing camp provided a more than adequate existance for its gucsts. Lawrence owned nearly 5 miles (6 pools) of prime salmon The Log Hook of Camp Alba??.y published as part of Rcrollc~.t- water. Sage describes the quality of fishing at Harmony in a let- ions - Abraham 1,ansing (1909) provides us with glimpses of the ter to David Douglas dated July 23, 1883. life style of the American sportsman in the wilds of Canada. "It is naw a week since 1 returned from my holiday of the (Lansing, an Albany lawyer, and his friend Dudley Olcott own- year, and a delightful one it has been. I am daily suffering at ed Camp Albany which was located approximately 10 miles up- the thought of 'Camp Harmony' standing vacant on her stream from Harmony; the camp was built, we believe, in 1883). breezy point, the rippling pool in front whispering its music "Camp Harmony was very trim and orderly, fine as silk, day after day with no appreciative listner, and the mighty an example to the whole river. Swept and garnished well, said salmon disporting themselves in the crystal depths watching it was for Sunday and for us. From the beam which reaches in vain for the illusive fly which has tempted so many of from behind the eaves from side to side, swing ycllow bags of their comrades to a glorious and honored demise. Directly in ham and bacon; lengthwise at the sides ncar thc main parti- front of the camp ledge of rock projects into the stream tion spread the table, long, ample, hospitable, with its bench- and at the point of the ledge for three years past a very large es and neat new rubber cloth. Out from the side rooms and salmon (we thing the same one) has made his home. Others about the spruce-bough beds peered new crisp tarleton and have been there, and big ones, and have been caught, but this mosquito bars; on the walls the old familiar pictures which veteran, although be will rise occasionally, does so merely to His Grace the Duke of Reaufort placed there and others more amuse himself and show how big he is. Once this summer recently. No display of kitchen ware or crockery; a kitchen when Mr. Lawrence had the pool and was fishing over our outside (and a stove, alas, a stove) and a scrvant to look after friend in the perfunctory way we have come to do, he rose, it - an accomplished citybred and city trained servant - - - -. and I presume misjudging his distance, took the fly. We can't (The Log Rook of Canzp Albu~m.y, July 6, 1884). think it was on purpose. Lawrence was so agitated that some- and how the handle of his reel became caught in a buttonhole be- "It looks as if Dean Sage might be left alone to combat fore the fish had taken five yards of line and he escaped with the warfare on discomfort and to sigh for Arcadian simplic- part of the casting line. We feared it might kill him and felt ity. Well, Dean sighs and scolds, too, they say, but beneath quite sad over it but at evening one of the Indians came in to the spacious porch of Harmony thc wcll-filled larder bursts tell us that 'His-kong-a-blamo' as they had named him (big its plethoric sides, and salmon fishing is almost an incident to salmon) was ium~ingagain in his old place, and going out we the genial hospitality which reigns there the season long, and soon had the pleasure of seeing him apparently as well as ever. is elaborate enough for dukes and lords." (7'11(~I.og Hook of We rose him a number of times again before we left but al- Canzp Albany, June 11, 1885) ways short and were on the whole glad to leave him in poss- ession of his rocky seat when we broke camp. Women were not allowed in camp until the first of July and "From some unaccountable reason and contrary to the their company was not always appreciated general expectation the run of fish in the Bay of Chaleure has "in June and July I passed a month on the Ristigouche, dur- been this year almost unprecedented as to numbers and size. ing a fortnight of which I had my wife and Susan, our eldest In the nearly 5 miles of river belonging to Mr. Lawrence and daughter, with me. The latter, through the misguided kind- me we killed during our stay of 3 weeks 175 salmon weighing ness of her mother, appeared at Camp Harmony with her

Page 6 banjo, not, of late, an uncommon accompanylnent [sic] of down." The minute Sage stepped into the wash room, the door young women, on which shc played with Inore fluency and was locked and he was forced to spend the night there. persistence than skill for a few days until it was suppressed." In 1895 the Camp Harmony Angling Club w;~sformed. Ac- (Sage-Douglas letters, September 28, 1884) cording to Abraham Lansing: It was customary for the ladies at Harmony to repair to the "Mr Sage still remains at Canip Har~no~iy.You know that powder room en mass on completion of the noon day's repast. Mr. Whitney (W. C.) and Col. Paync have purchased the While the reason for the sudden disappearance of the fairer sex waters and premises fornicrly belonging to Captain Swcney was quite obvious to the gentlemen of the camp, Victorian eti- [Sweney was a friend of Sagc's from Albany and had dicd quette dictated that this was a subject which was never to be the previous year. His camp was directly across thc Upsal- touched upon and for a lady to be seen entering, leaving, or quitch from Harmony.] from Mrs. Swcney this last winter; even in the vicinity of the camp's comfort station was unheard they have formed what they call the Camp Harmony Angling of. Club, combining with Sage and Lawrence, thc owners of Dean Sage, a master practitioner of the practical joke, on sev- Camp Harmony, the fishing of the two properties." ('l'l~i~1.o~ eral occasions (we are told) took advantage of this daily femin- Book of Camp Alba~i~~,June 23, 1895.2) ine ritual. According to our source, he would wait for a very hot A new camp was erected in 1896 by the angling Club above day and after the powder room was filled to capacity; he would the original camp. The second or "new" Ca~npliarmony was de- camp on the porch steps cleaning his gun - a process which signed by Stanford White, noted arch~tectand crcator ot the could be drawn out for as long as necessary. As the porch steps Night Hawk salmon fly. Both Sage and White were nicmbers of were directly in line with the door of the powder room, the the Players Club of New York. It is probably that this is where ladies attired in the many layered costumes of the day were Sage first made White's acquaintance. forced to remain in the hot, none too roomy comfort station Listed in the Camp Harmony log books were guests who suc- until Dean decided his gun was thoroughly clean. cessfully battled wl~?zo salav between the ycars 1895 and With the completion of the Intercolonial Railway to Mata- 19023. Among them were F. W. Ayer, thc foi~nderof one of pedia it was possible for Sage and his friends to reach Matapedia America's first advertising agencies and later president of thc directly by train, rather than the more circuitous steamer, train, Merchants National Bank of Philadelphia; Watson B. Dickerman, steamer, wagon route that was previously employed (see "first New York Stockbroker and President of the Ncw York Stock trip"). The Sage party would (typically) board a 1:00 p.m. train Exchange (1890-1891); Eugene Hale, U. S. Senator fro111Maine from Albany which arrived in Montreal at approximately 11:OO (1881-1911); Herman Mclville Hanna, brother of Mark Hanna; p.m. Rooms were taken for the night at the Windsor Hotel and a H. 0. Havemeyer, owner of the American Suaar Kcfining Com- train for Matapedia was taken at 10:OO p.m. the following day. pany; Charles McBurney, a world rcnowncd surgetjn; Col. 0. 11. The trip from Montreal to Matapedia took nearly twe-nty-one Payne, once treasurer of the Standard Oil Company and o\vncr hours. The round trip fare for the entire trip cost about $30 of the Aphrodite - the fastest, largest, and most Ii~~~~rioi~sIyap- (1884). pointed steam yacht in the country; and the inimitable poet. Salmon angling on the Ristigouche was not permitted on preacher, author, university professor, and angler - Hcnry Van Sundays; there were, however, no restrictions placed on trout Dyke. Van Dyke fished at Harmony during thc last week of fishing. If a salmon was taken while angling for trout on a Sun- June 1898. He landed fivq salmon; the largest of' \vhich \vas a day, it was to be released. As the story goes - Fierce Dean was 24% pounder that succumbed to a Fiery Brown. casting his flies for trout on a Sunday afternoon a few hours Shortly before noon on the 23rd of June 1902, Ale\: Mar- prior to the party's departure for Albany on the Sunday evening chand anchored the birch bark canoe in the current and motion- train. A salmon was landed but Sage for some reason neglected to release it. Apparently Sage apprised the party of his illegal * Lansing neglected to include W. H. Sage as one of thc ori- fish and they at once seized upon the opportunity to get even ginal incorporators according to Sage's grand ncphe\\, I)cwitt with the inveterate practical joker. On boarding the evening Sage. train his friends told him that a game warden had just come a- board in search of a man with an illegal sallnon. They convinced 3 The log books of the Camp Harmony Angling Club were Siige that he should hide in the wash room until "things died graciously made available to us by Dewitt Sage.

Col. 0. H. Payne (left) and Frank Ellis on the bow of Pa yne's house boat. ed to Dean Sage's right. A large salmon had just shown his silv- ed. During the night a casket was brought froni Matapcdia, ery sides. Sage caught a glimpse of the noble fish as it returned between six and seven miles below; and the nest morning Mr. to its lie, and immediately cast. The salmon missed the fly on Sage's body laid upon two canoes fastened together was the first attempt but, on the second was firmly hooked and borne down the stream over the flowing waters bctwccn the soon brought to gaff. It was the third fish of the morning (they leafy banks long so familiar to him and celebrated by his pen, averaged 2 1 Ibs.) and on its way honie. An impressive scene to contemplate is that "in joyous high spirits over the success he had met with, of the first stage of the sad journey, and not without beauty." [he returned to Harmony] and ate lunch cheerily among his (Joseph Twichell, "Hartford, Courant.") companions. The next installment will deal with the angling library of "An hour or so later, the rest of thc party, all but Mr. Dean Sage as well as the details of production, publication, and Sage and onc other who lingered behind with him, dispersed sale of America's most sumptuous angling tome, 7'l.w Risfi- to their afternoon fishing. gauche tznd Its Salnzon Fishing. "It was not till 4 o'clock or thereabout that Mr. Sage spoke of feeling a pain, yet made little of it, judging that the cause was indigestion. Presently, however, the pain contin- uing, he went to his room and lay down, and in a few min- Flies which took salmon at Camp Harnlony bctweeri 1895 utes, while his cornradc apprehending no more than himself and 1902. The most popular fly was thc Jock Scott. any occasion for alarm, was trying by sirnplc remedies to Admiral (:ock Robin Ncpisiquoit relieve his discomfort, suddenly; without a struggle,- - without a word, he expired. Black Dose 1)onkcy N iggcr "That such is the issuc of an incurable malady, sclorocis Klack Fairy Dun Wing Po~>Iia~ii of the arteries, fixed upon him, which though it had restrict- Black Palnier Dusty Miller Ranger cd, had at no time interrupted his active habits, was not Blue Doctor Ficry Brown Silvcr Doctor unlikcly to be thc end with him when it came, he had a good Krittania <;ray Silvcr Grey T and 1, whilc known. But thcrc had becn nothing to warn him of its Brown Fairy Grey Fly No. 8 ncar approach. The sensations with which, as recalled froni Butcher Jock Scott T~PPY Wilniont their sport, the gentlemen of his party - all old friends, one of Canary Lady of Merton Wilkinson them his brother - reassenibledin the camp and faced the Causopsical Mic Mac Whitc Miller appalling reality there confronting them, can be only imagin- Coach nian Mitchell

Camp Harmony -- the original camp. l'agc. 8 Trouting on Jessup's River

by Charles Wilkins Webber 1852

We could not remain quiet long at a time, for my restless as the evening heavens may send! friend had not yet had a fair trial of the "flies" at trout. After "The Bridge" at Jessup's River, is well known to sportsmen, all, laugh at Piscator's violent passion for it as I may, the sport and to this point we made our first fly-fishing expedition. The which lasts longest, is the most abundant, the most admired, eyes of Piscator glistened at the thought, and early was he and most practiced by the frequenters of the Lake country, is busied with almost hasty fingers through an hour of ardent pre- that of taking the speckled or brook trout with the rod! paration amongst his varied and complicated tackle. Now was The larger lakes afford good trolling grounds, when resorted his time for triumph! In all the ruder sports in which we had to in the right season; but the trolling season, which begins in heretofore been engaged, I, assisted by mere chance, had been March, is too early for the majority of anglers, who cannot leave successful - but now the infallible certainty of skill and science their spring business for mere sport. But when summer comes, were to be demonstrated in himself, and the orthodoxy of flies business is over; then the rejoicing anglers, like children broke vindicated to my unsophistic sense. loose from school, scatter abroad over the mountainous places The preparations are simple, and were early completed. The of the land, literally gasping with panting bosoms for fresh air. tidy housewife soon had ready the huge loaves of fresh nice To such it makes little difference, when they reach here, to bread - the can of yellow butter, and other minor appliances of find that the fishing-grounds for trout are not close at hand, but a feast in the woods - the main condiments and dishes of which that they must go yet farther from five to thirty miles, among we were expected to supply from our own sharpened appetites the rough wild hills, to fresher streams, amidst valleys deeper and skill. Then the cooking apparatus, which was primitive en- than these. It seems strange, to be sure, and very provoking to ough to suit the taste of an ascetic, as it consisted in a single fry- them, if they go without a proper knowledge of the season - to ing pan. Then the blankets, with the gun, ammunition, rods, etc. find that these wide clear sheets, with all their inlets and outlets These were all disposed in the wagon of our host, which are but so much dead water to them - affording no sport after stood ready at the door. It was a rough affair, with stiff wooden the tenth of June, worth notice. But they are soon over this, for springs, like all those of the country, and suited to the mount- the mountain breezes are very inspiriting; and with expanding ainous roads they are intended to traverse, rather than for civ- chests they look towards the blue ridges with emulation, and ilized ideas of comf~rt.We, however, bounded into the low- brace themselves up to meet the rude exigencies of a "tramp" backed seat; and if it had been cushioned to suit royalty, we and "shanteeing out" for a few days, amidst storm or sunshine, could not have been more secure than we were of luxurious

Page 9 comfort - a fanciful illusion which it took but little time, how- and to this day they have remained remarkably scarce. ever, to dissipate in an astound, as we found ourselves rumbling, This story seemed very strange to me, but one day I shot a pitching, and jolting over a road even worse than that which young red squirrel, the first I had killed since I came - for lack brought us first to the lake. It seemed to me that nothing but of opportunity - and I found it covered by'this same warty dis- the surprising docility of the pretty span of glossy black ponies ease, which had been described as causing their extermination so which drew us, could have saved us, strong wagon and all, from long ago. The pustules were quite small upon it, and not so a sudden return to our original atoms. I soon got tired of this, thickly placed as in the time of the plague, when they were as and sprang out with my gun, determined to foot it ahead, in the large as a pea of good size, and there was not the space of a pin's hope of seeing a partridge or red squirrel. head anywhere between them! This accounts for their not hav- The wagon, with its thundering rumble, was soon left behind, ing increased more rapidly - since the fact shows that the disease and for several miles I tramped on alone through the oppressive continues to linger with them, preventing, as I suppose, their ar- stillness of those old spruce and hemlock forests, which line the riving at maturity, in the majority of cases. road upon the hill-side and down steep shaded valleys. It was But I have gone a good way aside from my theme to narrate then I observed the extraordinary stillness, which I found char- these curious facts, and must get back to the 'Bridge' again, at acterized the woods there, in whatever direction I had penetrat- which we arrived about the middle of the afternoon. There we ed. found an old field just across the bridge. It was called Wilcox's I wondcred for some time what was the cause, and what it Clearing, and like all such places I had seen in this fine grazing was I missed so much, until I discovered the almost total ab- region, was still well sodded down in Timothy, blue grass, and sence of the different varieties of squirrel. Then I understood at clover. Our luggage having been deposited in the shantee, which once. consisted nearly of boards torn from the old house, which were These creatures are the great enliveners of forest scenery, and leaned against the sides of two forks, placed a few feet apart, we we unconsciously as much expect to hear them rattling over the set off at once for the Falls, a short distance above. This was dry leaves - their rustling leap from bough to bough - the patter- merely an initial trial, to obtain enough for dinner, and find the ing nuts they are unhusking overhead - their saucy chattering prognostics of the next day's sport in feeling the manner of the and defiant bark - or to see their graceful forms leap across the fish. path - dart up and around the standing trunks or along the dead At the Falls the river is only about fifteen feet wide, though logs, as we do, to see the trees themselves, or hear the winds its average width is from twenty-five to thirty. The water tum- murmur through their leaves. Every where, except in the tropics bles over a ledge of about ten feet, at the bottom of which is a they are ever-present and more essential to the complete char- fine hole, while on the surface sheets of foam are whirled round acteristics of forest scenery, than even the birds themselves. This and round upon the tormented eddies - for the stream has con- is particularly the case at the north, where the varieties of the siderable volume and power. birds are neither so abundantly musical or large as in the Middle We stepped cautiously along the ledge, Piscator ahead, and States. I never saw woods before through which you might walk holding his precious flies ready for a cast, which was most artist- all day, from day to day, for weeks, and most probably not see ically made, not without a glance of triumphing pity at poor me or hear the sound of a single squirrel. who was preparing to do the same with the humble angle-worm. I had spent much time in the woods, and had not been able The 'flies' fall - I see the glance of a half a dozen golden sides to reconcile myself to this strange want, which impressed me, darting at them - but, by this time, my own cast is made, and I even before I heard the cause, with something like a funeral de- am fully occupied with the struggles of a fine trout. solation - with the shadow of a feeling like that which we would What a thrilling sensation it is! - the bite of the first trout! - have in walking through the echoing streets of a plague - depop- renewed each season, too, in all the strength of novelty, when ulated city. I was greatly surprised when I found how analogous you, perhaps, for the fiftieth time after the weary interval oth- the case really was. On inquiring among the old hunters, I heard erwise employed, feel again the electric shock of its pull, com- from them the reason. municated through your arm to all your frame - the heart In the first place, the chickaree, or common red squirrel, is bounds as gladly, and the eyes gleam in as wild an ecstacy of de- the only one, except the little chip squirrel, they have there at light, for the moment, as on your boyhood's first capture. But all as a resident variety - for although the gray squirrel has oc- the 'black flies' swarmed by this time with such a wounding, casionally made its appearance for a little while, the black mart- maddening buzz into my eyes, nostrils and mouth, behind my in, which is very abundant, is said to enter its hole and destroy ears, and "p my sleeves,-that no mortal enthusiasm could stand it, before it has time to breed much, while the hole of the chick- it any longer. aree is too small for it to gain admittance. Well, about twenty "Here, George, in heaven's name take my rod! My veil! - years ago, the country was literally over-run one summer by a where is it? I have forgotten it!" plague of red squirrels, curiously enough, too, accompanied by "No, here it is - I thought of it!" and he drew it from his bos- great numbers of the little deer mouse or jumping mouse. The om. How 1 blessed the fellow! It was on and adjusted in an in- two united, destroyed nearly the whole of the standing crops of stant - and then I had time to draw a long breath and look a- grain, and swarmed over the outhouses and even the dwelling- round me. house themselves, and along the fences by the roadside, and in- "Hey! seven trout. What, did I catch all those in this little deed through the woods everywhere. while?" I exclaimed, in a surprise not very complimentary to The people were alarmed by the apprehension of great loss, Piscator's 'flies.' and even a partial famine, when suddenly the curse was swept "I caught one of 'em!" growled he - while he perseveringly away in a most singular manner. The squirrels all at once began whipped the foam with his flies. I turned towards him, and to act strangely; they were observed to drag themselves slowly through my green veil his forlorn, despairing face looked jaun- along the ground across the roads, so that the people could diced. I was moved to pity. crush them with their heels. Those on the fences would mope "Try the worms, good Piscator - here they are. This is not the and stagger along the rails, or falling off, would be seen in doz- right time of day for them to take the flies in this river, I judge!" ens hanging by one claw, until they dropped dead to the He was soothed, and eagerly improving the door of escape ground. They could be killed by hundreds, with a small stick, thus opened to him, took off the flies and used worms with im- and the very air became impure with the stench of their dead mediate and brilliant success, which brought back the placid bodies. On examination, it was found they were literally cover- smile to his face, and he would not and then as calmly brush a- ed over their whole bodies with warty and vermillion-colored way the distracting swarm of flies from his face, as if they had pustules, which looked very foul and angry. The mice were visit- been mere innocent motes. He had only taken the one with his ed in the same way, and nearly all, if not 1711, died off; since, for flies at the first instant of his cast - and afterward, not a single several years after, not a creature of either kind was to be seen, trout would rise to them. But later that evening came a tempor- ary triumph for Piscator. The hole at the Falls was soon ex- we had it. You can get them so in the winter, when it is cold hausted, and we moved on down to gleam the fipples. It was enough to freeze them instantly on coming from the water, but nearly sundown, and here the pertinacious Piscator determined not otherwise. to try the flies again. He cast with three, and instantly struck The feast being over, then to recline back upon the fresh two half-pound trout, which, after a spirited play, he safely couch of soft spruce boughs, and with a cigar in the mouth, landed. Never did I see so proud a look of exulting triumph as watch the gathering 'night-shades' brooding lower and more low that which glowed upon his as he bade me "look there!" when upon the thick wild forest in front - far into the depths of which he landed them. the leaping flames of our crackling fie go, darting now and then "Very fine, Piscator! a capital feat! but I fear it was an ac- with a revealing tongue of quick light - and listening to the owl cident! You will not get any more that way!" make hoarse answer to the wolf afar off - to think of wild pass- "We shall see, sir!" said he proudly, and commenced whip- ages in a life of adventure years ago amidst surroundings such as ping the water again, but to no avail, while I continued throw- this; with the additional spice of peril from savage and treacher- ing them out with great rapidity. ous foes, and then, as the hushed life subsides into a stiller I carefully abstained from watching him, for I had no desire mood, see the faces of loved ones come to you through the to spoil his evening sport by taunting him, to contbue his ex- darkness, with a smile from out your distant home, and while it periment. I soon observed him throwing out the fish with great sinks sweetly on your heart, subside into happy and dream-peo- spirit again. I merely shouted to him across the stream - "The pled slumber! "This! this is bliss!" the bliss of the shantee to the I angle-worm, once more, Piscator?" wearied sportsman! a bliss unattainable to the sluggish and jaded

"Yes! " with a laugh. wgourmand of the citv! As the sun went down, the black gnats began to make them- I We were on foot with the sun next morning, and after an- selves felt in their smarting and infinitesimal myriads, and we other feast, which we appreciated with unpalled appetites, we forthwith beat a hasty retieat to the shantee. ~hesecreatures, set off for some deep spring holes nearly a mile-above the Falls. which are the most diabolical pests that ever haunted the air The morning set cloudy, and rain fell piteously for several and water-side, are, I think, identical with the sand fly in Texas hours. During this time we had reached the neighborhood of the - where it is the terror of all low, sandy, bottom lands, and val- holes, after an abominably rough scramble along the mountain leys below the sea range. It follows the black fly, which is about side; and here George set to work to construct a raft of the de- half the size and a good deal the shape of the common house cayed spruce which stood around. This completed, it was fly. About an hour aftPr its appearance in the afternoon, and its launched with great labor into the stream; and as the day was coming is considered the universal signal for retreat from the beginning to clear off, Piscator so far conquered his horror of fishing grounds, as no heroism, not even that of Piscator, could getting wet, as to agree to start. We pulled noiselessly up to the long withstand their assaults. spring hole, and found it very deep, and quite large for the gen- We had taken about ten pounds of trout; and the first pro- eral size of the stream. cedure, after reaching the camp, was to build a 'smudge,' or The instant my hook was in the water, a fietrout was hung, smoke-fire, to drive away these abominable gnats, which and even Piscator, who still perservered with the flies, was suc- fortunately, take flight with the fist whiff of smoke - and the cessful the first cast, as usual. But as no further notice was taken next was to prepare the fish for dinner, though not till all had of the flies by the trout, and I continued to pull oyt the noble been carefully dressed by the guide and placed in the cold current fellows as fast as I could throw my hook in, he changed very of the little spring stream near that they might keep sound. quickly again to the worm. The sport was now magnificent, and Now came the rousing fire, and soon some splendid trout all the time, one line or the other was singing through the deep were piled upon dishes of fresh pealed elm bark before us. They water to the struggles of a trout, and often both at the same were very skillfully cooked, and 0, ye deluded Epicureans! let time. We found the raft very convenient, for having no landing me tell ye! ye know not, on your rich and massive plate, the net, while they were playing vigorously, we would take them on true flavor of this rare morsel for the Gods to smack their lips a spring upward through the water, and by a quick movement, at, that I took up in my fingers from the bark dish - no, the ripe, adding to their impetus, would land them on the raft. We took I high color of the flesh - the sweet, melting, luscious, glorious several of that most splendidly beautiful of all trout, the "red- 1 titillation of the palate by which I was exalted there in that rude bellied" - for their bellies are as if of burnished gold, heated to 1 shantee, to the highest heaven of the sense, you cannot know! a red heat, while the spots upon their sides fairly glitter, while The exquisite aroma has passed away before it reached you, fad- their fins are black, bordered with white. ing with the splendid colors of the skin, and ye cannot catch it! The moment they were hooked, we could see their sides Not all your wealth can transport it in the season, delicious as flash up from the depths of the hole like the gleam of an angry

Page 11 blaze, and they shot like fiery meteors through the air as they Fortunately, our host had been prudent enough to bring leaped from it. We moved on slowly down the stream with our blankets with him, and wrapping our shivering bodies in these, raft, after they ceased to bite here, and took from one to two we hurried off on our return. It was no use going to our shantee and four pounds from every hole we passed, until I became for comfort - the fire was out, and the rain had set in for a week weary of the sport, and even Piscator confessed himself for once to come, and it was a poor affair at best. Though it was a break- to have had enough of trout fishing. The time had come for our neck road, I urged him with chattering teeth, to drive faster; but return home, and now the interminable rain set in again more the immovable Piscator quietly suggested that I should "take it violently than ever, and our guide, who had fifty pounds of easy!" I stared at the man, for I was excessively nervous and irri- trout upon his shoulder, shrank from clambering back over the table, politely wishing him in a warmer place with his philoso- mountain with such a burden, and we landed on the opposite phy. He only laughed, and as that made me still more angry, I side of the river, to return by a new and longer though more was soon nearly warmed up again. level route. Strange as the remedy may seem to those who are not famili- Of all the dismal and exhausting walks ever taken, this seem- ar with the miracles of bathing, I took forthwith a bath of very ed to me the most so. A violent west wind had set in, dashing on cold water on reaching home. This warmed me instantly and its cold current the.colder rain into our faces. We were chilled thoroughly, and then the flesh brush and dry clothes completed and wet in an instant after starting. Much of the way led the magical process of immediate transfer from the arctic to the through a deep tangle of elder and raspberry bushes, which were tropics, which my sensations underwent, without the aid of fire as high as our heads, and bent with the burden of icy rain drops. or sun. So this gave us a double bath. We managed - or, our guide did I never felt more delightfully than I did when I sat down to a for us! - to get lost in the bargain; had five miles to tramp fine dinner that evening in the old Tavern, and very much of through the thick pine woods, plunging through swamps, and this pleasurable feeling of entire comfort I attributed to the stumbling into deep holes, over roots, dead trees, and rocks. prompt use of the cold bath. I have mentioned Piscator's hydro- There was one comfort before us, at least, the prospect that we phobia, so far as the external application of cold water was con- should find our host waiting for us at the bridge with the wagon. cerned, and the fact, that when we met at table, he appeared, in On we staggered bravely - splash! splash! drip! drip. Above spite of his philosophy, far from refreshed or cheerful, I could us, under, and on every side, the gelid rain! As is an incessant not help attributing it to his neglect of this precaution. Poor Pis- shower bath, far more exhausting than a protracted plunge - so cator, with all his puisance in 'flies,' his appetite for that deli- was this wading through wet bushes beneath the pitiless pelting cious trout dinner failed him. rain. I am sure that it abstracted a greater amount of vital heat and strength from us than wading the same length of time in from Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters cold water would have done. At least, I never remember to have by C. W. Webber been more utterly exhausted than when we reached the bridge, Philadelphia 1852 and found, to ou; great joy, the wagon in waiting.

Upon receipt, all contributions of tackle are carefully weighed, measured and recorded in the Museum Workshop by the Registrar, David Ledlie, (left) and the Curator. Appraisals of donated items are avail- able on request as the Internal Revenue Department does not place a time limit on deductions. The de- duction does not have to be made during the year of donation.

Page 12 WOMEN'S STUDIES

My Love Affair with Fishing by Nan Emory

It was one of those perfect Sep- My husband is a fishing nut and tember days. The air was crystal truly thinks fish; sometimes, I think clear, the sky was bright blue, and I only fish. Thus, right from the start felt at ease with the world. Here we of our married life, I began to go were at Wasson Bar Camps for the fishing. First, Martin made me a rod last week of the season's salmon from Orvis components, then some fishing. We have been coming up flies, and finally the rudiments of here for the past five years so it was fly casting. And before I knew it, I like old home week for us. Of found myself wading in the West course, there were Ted and Betty Branch of the Croton, and I loved it Crosby to greet us, and Sarah to even though my fly was in the trees cook those wonderful meals when more than on the water. My first we came in from the river, famish- trout was caught there and was sort ed. And then there was Sterling of a mistake as I had let the fly stay Ward, our guide, who has been with motionless at the bottom of a small us every time we have fished at pool while enjoying the beautiful Wasson Bar and for whom we feel such downstream reeling in whenever I could. scenery. But I was hooked from then on a great deal of affection and whose corn- The fish never did show itself, but I un- and I just love my fishing. pany we enjoy so much. There were al- derstand the very big ones rarely jump From this point on, I really took a SO other sports who came to Crosby's out of the water like &lse and small great interest in fishing with the fly. The camp at the same time we did every salmon do. Sterl was as calm as could be solitude of the lovely surroundings of year, so they were old friends for us to and that was reassuring. this type of fishing together with the see. And for me a very special thing was We did have some challenging and serious interest one must take to try that here I had all the time in the world hazardous experiences such as wading a- and put the correct fly over the fish all to just "go fishing" . . . no chores at cross the rapids at Victory Channel add up, I think, to one of the grandest home, no family to be concerned about, where the water comes through like a sports on earth. for that week spent on the Miramichi. chute, and the rocks are very slippery. I'm writing this story in hopes that Well, as I was saying, the weather was One time there was an elderly man fish- the wives of fishing enthusiasts will read just a beautiful, scintillating September ing on the other side of the river, and this and take note. Throughout our mar- day. I was fishing with my nine foot we worried that my line would get ried life, my husband and I have had Winston using a Vye Terror fly (a fly in- tangled with his. Another time the fish some wonderful times in sharing our vented by Whit Vye of Massachusetts, was heading towards some wire mesh fishing experiences together. We have who swears by it, uses nothing else for that had been deposited in the river gone to different fishing camps and have salmon fishing and catches his share of from the previous Spring thaw, and we had the fun of trying different rivers fish). were fearful that the line would be cut and enjoying different scenery. It's al- I was at the bend of the pool at Tayl- if the fish went towards that area. Sterl ways a thrill to get out on a river and or Shore, a beautiful stretch of fast ran into the river and headed the fish experience the beauties of nature with flowing water where we all have killed off from going in that direction. Well, its tranquility and restfulness. Also, we salmon at various times. I cast out and we did land that fish one and a half have met such wonderful people who let the fly swing around. Then suddenly miles from where she was hooked and share the same interests, many of whom there was a very big boil where my fly one hour later. It was a beauty, twenty- have become our dearest friends. had been, and I could feel the line tight- two pounds, four ounces! It was a prize My husband is the truly knowledg- en up, and I waited. Sterl calmly said catch for that year as I placed third in able one of this duet, but I have a lot of "You've hooked a good one," and I the Field & Stream Atlantic Salmon fun being the accompaniment. I have trembled. It really was a thrill I would contest. learned one does not have to be the not have wanted to miss for anything. We brought the fish back to camp, longest caster in fly fishing to catch fish. The fish wentaown to deeper water and weighed it and stuffed it into our little The fish can be anywhere. But once you just sulked and remained there for a few ice box having to bend it almost double get interested in casting, you want to minutes. The excitement and suspense to close the door. And that evening improve and perfect your technique. were unbearable. Then suddenly the fish when the other fishermen came back That's all part of the fun of fly fishing. took off downstream, the singing of the from the river, we had such fun opening Everyone is always very helpful and reel was music to my ears, and my rod the little fridge and watching their eyes friendly, and that makes for very con- bent like a bow. Sodii I was way down pop. That fish today is on our wall a- genial surroundings. in my backing and wondering when the bove a fireplace and is there to remind And one must not discount the value fish would stop running and getting very me of a most cherished memory of, a of being on a river for the benefit of concerned. I started to walk, then ran very happy experience. (continued on page 15) Page 13 CLUBS

Chicago and the West The Blackhawk Club of Lake Koshkonong

by Emerson Hough

In 1836 the unfortunate chieftain, Blackhawk, led north stream. So delightful a trip does it offer to the canoeist and ang- through Wisconsin the inglorious pursuers who figured on one ler that I cannot help commending it for a run, beginning at Ft. side in that most inglorious "war." He passed far above Lake Atkinson, passing through Lake Koskonong, and ending at the Koshkonong and was captured, we are told, near where Portage Mississippi near Rock Island. This stream was used as one of the now stands. But Blackhawk formerly lived on beautiful Lake water trails between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi in thc Koshkonong, and even today there remain traces of his resi- old Indian and fur trade days. Let summer tourists not forget it. dence there. The island formed by Rock Ri+er, at the head of It is a beautiful stream and it has fish in it, in spite of the fool- the lake, is known as Blackhawk Island. Over on the big bluff, a ish Wisconsin law which holds back the construction of the Wis- mile from there, the wandering hunter can still see the odd consin fishways until after the Illinois fishways have been put knobby little hills, thrown up by the squaws who labored in in. This is a sisterly sort of law, or more properly, and old wo- Blackhawk's cornfield, and he can easily find old settlers who man sort of a law. There has been no run of fish up Rock River can remember seeing the cornstalks still standing in these hills. for years, by reason of the Illinois and Wisconsin dams, among All over that great and beautiful bluff, which looks out over as which are the Indian Ford, Janesville, Monterey, Beloit, Rock- fair an inland picture as any in a thousand miles of travel, young ton and Rockford dams. There are eight in all. Catfish are no trees have now grown up thick and longer taken in that stream near Kosh- ---- ,- strong. Yet the settlers can remember _ _ _ ,--- konong. Its supply of bass and pickerel when all that slope was cleared, save for comes froin prolific Koshkonong, and a few great oaks, and when all its sur- the rapacious pot-fishermen are draining face was covered with the curious at that source as hard as they can. Last mounds of the forgotten Moundbuilders winter fifty. tons, mostly game fish, and the later groves of the Indians. were taken through the ice by market- These mounds exist today, and today fishers. Lake Koskonong is four miles you can see upon the highest point of by eight at most, and averages not 8 ft. the great bluff the old signal mound, in depth. Yet the wise men who live up- which in days before History flashed its on its shores, men born with the joint bale-fires in the great signal system run- butcher-miser instinct, tell us placidly ning north and south across the country. today that this does not affect the fish -- - -- . . - --- .-- - -- Today, were the timber cleared from all --=-. ------supply, and that winter fishing will not .-- -. -- - -- the eminences, white men could do as --.-.. - diminish it. Such rot is not good non- former possessors of this country did Blackha wk Club House sense. Look at the story of great Winne- and send a message, fire answering to Lake Koshkonong bago. Eighty barrels of fish shipped per fire, and pillar of smoke speaking to day at Oshkosh alone. They won't do other pillar, from the shore of Lake Superior far down the Illin- that now, even with miles of illegal twine. Today the Winnebago ois River and perhaps nearly to the Ohio. Blackhawk may have robbers are beginning to squeal. Later on, the Koshkonong rob- used this chain of signals, and doubtless did use part of it. The bers will also snivel and cry out that the poor man has no show. "Blackhawk Trail" still runs over these hills, faint, but legible as The Koshkonong poor man needs some one to think for him, when Gen. Atkinson wound up it to 'found Fort Atkinson, and to anticipate his future whine. Today he is eating his own which exists today, a sleepy and contented village, unused to cake and everybody elses too. war's alarms. You get off here when you take the C. & N.W., We counted eight shanties and one big cabin boat as we drove for the Blackhawk Club of Lake Koskonong. For it is matter of on down to the club house. In each of these were two or three fact and matter of course that there is a shotting club on Kosh- down-trodden market-fishers and hunters waiting for the lake to konong, and that its name is the Blackhawk Club. freeze. These folks are called "rats" by the sportsmen of the The writer was sent up to this club on the investigating trip, lake. They made a living formerly by legal or illegal "floating" through the courtesy of Mr. John L. Stockton of this city, one of canvasbacks, legal or illegal netting of fish, and a side line of of the members, to whose pains and foresight much of the pleas- rat trapping. Mr. Wentworth has broken up their "floating" and ure of the visit was due. This was on Nov. 23, and the shooting netting, and today they must restrict themselves to weeping for season was officially declared closed and the club house aban- the old days, to fishing through the ice, which is idiotically legal doned for the winter. Nevertheless a telegram or two mitigated and to plain rat catching. Poor, poor unfortunates, born too tir- matters, and I was met at 10 p.m. by Mr. W. Y. Wentworth, the ed to do an honest day's work! Earth has not more pitiable a superintendent of the club, who on the following morning gave creature. For their comfort it may be said, however, that the me a seat in his buggy for the frosty ride of six or eight miles numerous rat houses about Koshkonong this fall bespeak a crop down to the club house. that would delight the soul of a fur trader. We trust there will Our road for the greater part of the distance lay along the be no further violation of "rat" etiquette in the premature tear- Rock River, which is here a very amiable pleasant stream and, ing down the houses and spearing the muskrats, of which an thanks to the long efforts of Mr. Wentworth, who is game ward- over-anxious "rat" was lately guilty, much to the horror of his en of the southern district of Wisconsin, also a very good fishing associates. There should be honor among these honorable men.

Page 14 We found the big and comfortable club house standing just Steps are now being taken to get possession of additional shore upon the bank of the river, whose edge was now some thirty territory, up to and including the point further up the shore line yards from the front stoop. The river is now lower than it has behind the club house. It is desirable also that the club should been for twenty years. In one springtime the water rose four join upon the other side with what is known as the Peck pre- feet deep over the club house floor; so that the members lived serve. This latter amounts in all to something like 500 acres, and upstairs and went to bed out of their boats. runs out well on the flat that lies opposite the club house across Mr. Wentworth's son was within, he had a fire started. We the little island. If this was accomplished, there would be a con- passed through the house, finding it to have eleven good sleep- tinuous preserved strip clear about the best part of the lake, and ing apartmeits, while the down floor held the usualgun room, controlled by sportsmen whose interests are practically identi- sitting room, dining room, etc., and a large and very well furn- cal. In the matter of executive protective measures it can not be ished kitchen. In the latter department Mrs. Wentworth, the said that the Blackhawk men have been very active or earnest. stewardess, is ruler. She allows no liquors on the table and no They once hired a patrol for the river mouth point for a while, games of chance on Sunday, and otherwise generally rules the but for work of this sort Koshkonong Place contributed $50, boys with a rod of iron; but from her domicile beside the club much more in proportion. The men on the bluff have always range, she sends forth such culinary compensation that they been very active and efficient in protective work, both in and bear their subjugation meekly. out of the Legislature, and they are the best of neighbors for the Through the house there passes a stream of living water from Blackhawks. the great artesian well, 330 ft. deep, which the club had sunk to There are forty-three boats now owned by the club, among assure a good water supply. This well also throws a stream into which are several different styles, although the above are the in- the great fountain-tank in the front yard. In the pool thus form- teresting ones. There was a light cockle shell of a varnished can- ed, holding several hundred barrels of nearly ice cold water, the oe, capable of being carried under the arm, belonging, I believe, members keep their fish alive as in a live-box. There were to a son of Mr. Geo. W. Peck, the Milwaukee SLII?man, who is a twenty or thirty fish in this pool that had been there for several member of the club. Mr. Peck will be remembered as the author weeks. This is the best fish box on record, and I shall later testi- of the Bad Boy papers. There was also a long, double-ended fy to the excellency of its product. boat, flat-bottomed, heavy and sharp, practically the same as There is a good barn on the place, and there are two boat the logging batteau of the North, and a-model copied in lighter houses, one holding the big sail boat belonging to some of the and shorter form in the Tolleston marsh boat. Then there were members, the other being devoted to the hunting boats. Under just plain boats, snub-nosed or otherwise. I have spoken in a pre- tarpaulin outside was the sailboat belonging to the sons of some vious number of the Nee-pee-nauk boat, smooth skin, made of of the members. The wreck of a steam launch held a flower bed, strips nailed one on top of the other. Here on the Rock River I and all about and on the water front were either remnants of sai Duane Starin using a wide and open fishing boat, made of boats, or boats in actual use. There were some live-boxes in the built up strips just in that way. That was the boat we used when water near the boat landing, and Mr. Wentworth, Jr. had some we went out after the wild celery seed. rods set from the end of one of the boats. As we sat by the Blackhawk Club is fifteen years of age. Its membership was stove and talked we could watch the rods through the window, at first limited to 25. It is now limited to 50. The membership and in this way we caught a perch and three pickerel, one of fee is $100 and the annual dues are $10. Mr. Wentworth has which weighed four pounds. The river at this point is not very been superintendent of the club for eleven years, and has seen it wide, but low as the water was, we found it 10 or 12 ft. in grow to its present proportions. When he went into his place depth. there were but seven boats owned in the club. As above stated, The club house is up the river a little way from the main lake there are now 43. The club house of today is also a material im- but the shore of the latter sweeps around behird the house, and provement over the old form it had. a few steps through the woods bring one to it. The club owns 50 FOREST AND STREAM, January 16, 1890 acres on the island, and controls the river and lake front clear a- round on both sides the point, making about 387 acres in all.

My Love Affair with Fishing (continued from page 13) er fishing the same place twice in tcn to catch. One of the highlights of this one's health. My nerves always seem to days. We hobnobbed with the old guard trip was the time when Martin and I be "put in place," so to speak, after one of English nobility enjoying trifles for were fishing not far from another at a of our fishing trips. Whatever problems dessert and coffee in the small drawing pool with a large overhanging branch of there have been seem to be put into room, while our friends Lord Basing and a tree opposite. Now I'm sure you fish- their correct perspective, and I come Captain Matthews wrote postcards to ermen and fisherwomen can guess what home with a new lease on life. every person in Gillingham, Dorset al- comes next. I caught my fly in the over- Also, I might add, that at every camp most every evening. hanging branch, and being that I could I've been to the accommodations have Then in Newfoundland on the Grand wade out to it, decided to do so. Know- been good; some more rustic than Codray, our living quarters were not so ing that would spoil the fishing there for others, but always pleasant and com- elegant . . . primitive but comfortable. the time being, I still didn't want to lose fortable, and the food delicious, whole- The fishing here was very exciting with the fly. When I arrived at the branch, I some, and tasty, especially after having awe inspiring scenery. We crossed water- discovered a bonanza . . . flies in abund- spent hours in the great outdoors. What falls in heavy rain a most frightening ex- ance which other fishermen had lost could be better! perience and sometimes we travelled there. I called Martin over, and for a Our experiences have been very vari- miles on foot through the woods before half-hour we had a picnic collecting flies ed according to where we have gone. We coming to the stream. . . . that was almost as good as connect- fished for salmon at Balnagowan where I remember the Brodhead at Henry- ing with a nice trout. we had the most elite type of fishing ville where we fished for trout. om- These are memories I cherish, and I and accommodations. We fished differ- fortable accommodations here, and a hope to continue in the future to go to ent beats on the Oykyl and Carron, nev- lovely stream where the fish were hard more places for these happy cxpcrienccs. CAMPING AND TRAVEL

Camping The Teton Basin by W. F. Baillie-Grohman 1882

The following morning we crossed the Snake at one of the though the question frequently asked of me, "How much them upper rapids,' where two of us, and several of the horses, gpt ar' hides and headgear be worth over in the old parts," proved sound duckings, and the dogs and one colt were swept down- to me that it would be useless to try to dispel the deeply rooted stream, amid considerable commotion, for quite a quarter of a suspicion that my much-treasured bear skins, wapiti, and big- mile. An hour's ride across the level brought us to the banks of horn heads were intended for vulgar sale and mart; they are one of the two larger lakes I have spoken of, and where, as the nevertheless "something that shows," something that in another sequel will show, I had some unique fishing. world and among another people may possibly be worth a cer- Let me say a few words on the topic of old Walton's gentle tain, if limited, number of dollars. art in the Rockies. Much worse does the fisherman fare who visits the semi-civil- The light in which the Express-wielding Englishman, in quest ized home of those intensely practical roving forerunners of of sport in the Far West, appears to the frontiersman, the rough- civilization. The fisherman, poor fellow, has nothing more tang- and-ready resident of those equally rough-and-ready regions, is ible to take back to his home than pleasant recollections and an sufficiently quizzical to establish in their eyes our national claim astonishingly big score, both about balancing each other for ut- to something more than oddity. Still more incomprehensible to ter valuelessness in the frontiersman's eyes, both betraying, in the Western "boy" is, however, the Englishman who visits those his opinion, about the same degree of lunacy in a mild shape. districts for fishing, or, to use names by which that art is known No sane man, argues the free but dollar-hunting citizen of Uncle to him, for lining, poling, bug-hooking, and a series of other Sam's empire, rich enough to pay for the men, horses, and equally unflattering designations. Most English shooting parties stores of the outfit, could possibly act so strangely; leave his visiting the United States for spwt take back with them trophies of the chase, more or less numerous according to the means of transportation employed by them while out in the wilds. These 1 Deep rivers are best crossed where there are shallows or rapids heads, horns, and skins are at least something tangible; and if they are not deeper than will allow footing to the horses. "tony" house, discard the luxuries of civilization - "turning his suppose at the nature than pleased by the meagre extent of my back on whiskey," is his own expressive phrase for similar con- did so in the most business-like (i. e. prompt) manner duct - put up with all the discomforts and hardships of camp never deigning to lose a further word upon such a customer. life, which to him have, of course, long lost all charms; and all I was glad of it at the time, for had he asked me any one of this - after travelling five or six thousand miles, and spending the ninety-nine questions regarding details - which I believe are enough money to start a silver-mine - for what? To stand all day necessary to define the exact nature of the fly you want - he in water knee-deep and "line" fish! would have been, no doubt, shocked beyond measure by the ex- So thinks the Western man while he gladly pockets the tent of my ignorance. Subsequent events, however, made me re- guide's fee, or the hire for the horses and mules that have gret my carelessness in the selection of the tackle; for my very carried you and -your belongings to the scene of your big bags. first day's fishing demonstrated to me in the most convincing His quizzical gaze rests upon your elaborate fishing tackle; the manner that in my unskillful hands the line was far too light, five-guinea rod, or spy-glass pole, as 1 have heard it called, is to the flies useless, and the hooks themselves hardly strong enough him as wonderful an instrument as your parchment book of flies to hold a half pound trout. At a rough calculation that day's the pride of your art, is of mysterious use and purpose. Landing fishing cost me nine shillings and elevenpence worth of tackle; net, reel, and all the numerous etceteras usually to be found for at the termination I found myself minus most of my hooks, hovering about the person of Walton's disciples, are not less puz- the greater part of my line, and the two top pieces (the spare zling to him; and when finally he sees you issue forth from your one being one) of my rod snapped in two; and of the countless tent; arrayed in all the brand-new finery of your West-end out- fish that had risen to my bait, none landed but the very small- fitter, his mouth puckers up more than usually as he squirts est. Fort Washakie, the last human habitation we had passed, from it a stream of tobacco juice. He will not say much, for the was 180 or 200 miles east of us; and where to get a fresh supply Western man is apt to keep his impressions to himself; but he of line and hook nearer than that post, I knew not. will think all the more. His fishing has been done in a different Game just then was very scarce; the Bighorn were still high style. A change of diet becoming desirable, his ponderously uo on the mountains, and Wapiti had not yet come into the heavy Sharp's rifle or the keen axe - its shape and make a chef Basin, so that we had been out of meat for one or two days; and d'oeuvre of practicalness - is laid or flung aside, while the next the long faces of my men when, on my return from my fist patch of willows furnishes him with a rod, not as long or as day's fishing, I informed them that I had sacrificed nearly all my straight as yours, but strong enough to handle a five pound hooks and part of my rod, put a hungry aspect on the matter, trout, or a lazier salmon of twice that weight. His line will not our "grub outfit" being then of the very lightest description. My break - of that we can be assured, for it is a very cable among pocket tool-box - a very essential commodity, as I found out, lines, being fine-cut buckstring (cut from 1nd;an-tanned buck- without which nobody ought to travel in those regions - had un- hides); while the hook, fastened to one end by a knot nearly as fortunately been cached with some extra stores and the tent a big as a pea, is of home manufacture, old horseshoe nails, well week or so before, and hence we could not metamorphose hammered, being favourites for the purpose. horseshoe nails, of which we had some few with us, into fish For bait, the Western fisherman is never at a loss; if a "bug" hooks. But the instinct of practical self-help, so strongly devel- - all insects go by that name, grasshoppers and crickets being oped by Western travel, came to the rescue,. and by the end of a favorites - cannot be found, a piece of raw meat, the iris of the couple of hours' work, aided by the bright light of a huge camp- last deer he killed, or a minnow will do. If the time of%daybe fire. we had comoleted three verv deadlv instruments. One was propitious, the sky clear, and no ripple on the water (these con- a landing net mde of the top oia pine tree bent into a ditions I have found to be of the greatest moment), the native hoop, with an old flour sack laced to it with buckstring, half-a- angler will land in half an hour as many trout as he can conven- dozen holes being cut in the canvas to let out the water. This iently carry. If bugs are scarce, he will cut thin long slices from was a triumph in itself; but what will the reader who is probably the first fish he catches, the glittering scales being, after insect an expert fisherman of long experience, say when he hears of bait, the most deadly for the finny tribe. Often have I watched the other two? I had just six hooks left, and the broken top such fishing on lake, river, and creek. The gigantic hook, duly pieces of my rod (I must plead ignorance of the technical name "spiked" with an equally huge green or black "hopper" - both of the component parts of a rod) furnished the necessary thin so large that I once wagered (and won) I could pick off the bait thread wire to make two hooks out of the six, by fastening with my rifle at a distance of thirty steps - splashes down into three together, their points diverging grapnel fashion. The torn the circling eddy, and often before it has time to reach the bot- pieces of line were carefully twisted into a stout hawser, the tom a two-pounder will be testing the strength of the buckskin strength of which we tested by fastening it to the collar of a line, which, if the "pole" does not give way, would hold a fish Newfoundland pup., and lifting him clear from the ground. ten times his weight. The next day was a warm balmy September morning - not a I am no fisherman;2 in fact, all the trout I have ever caught cloud was to be seen in the sky of Alpine blueness. I returned up to that period could be easily stowed away in the pockets of to the same spot on the banks of the lake - the scene of the my shooting-coat; so before I write any further, and betray my wholesale robbery of hooks on the preceding day, and on my ignorance on some vital point, as I assuredly should, I am de- way thither filled a small tin canister with "bugs" in the shape sirous of impressing this fact upon the reader. of remarkably lively crickets, of large size and jet black colour, When leaving Europe I found that a light fishing-rod that had that could be found in thousands on the open barrens. In an been knocking about my gun-room, unused for years, could be hour, I had landed about forty pounds of trout, mostly fish crammed into one of my rifle cases; and passing down Oxford about two pounds in weight. All the larger fish - and I must have Street on the day preceding'my departure, I favoured the owner had at least three times the number on or near my hook - broke of one of thg many fishing-tackle-making emporiums ,in that away; while the very large ones - of which 1 saw quite a number, thoroughfare with a general order to put up ten shillings' worth and some of which must have scaled six pounds or seven pounds of line and trout fly hooks. This personage, more astonished I - snapped up the bait en passant in the most dexterous manner. My favourite spot for the sport was, as I have said, at the out- 2 With very few exceptions, good trout fishing can only be had let of one of the lakes (Jennie's Lake it is called on the latest on the Pacific slopes of the main chain of the Rocky Mount- Government Survey map), and the time an hour or so before ains; though I have.frequently heard of English fishing parties sunset, when, after a long day on the rocks and in the dense tim- visiting the different parks in Colorado, where, as I am told ber, I would have returned to my old horse and got on my way by one who knows, comparatively poor sport rewards the back to camp. Highly fantastical, not to say demented, must I traveller. Twenty-four hours' railGay journey further West have appeared to an Old World angler, as, wading old Boreas would enable them to get some of the finest trout fishing into the water where creek and lake joined till it reached to that can be had. within a foot,or so of the saddle, he would stand perfectly mo- Page 17 bG A RAFT tionless till I had filled the two capacious Stalker's bags slung the proper name of the fish I caught in the Teton Basin) fried in one on each side of him with the speckled beauties3 Sitting bear fat, with a bit of beaver's tail simmering alongside the pink well back in the saddle, with both legs dangling down on the mess? If he has not, I venture to say he knows not what makes a same side, my rifle slung over my back - the landing net when right royal dish. not in use hung on one of my steed's ears, the only handy place Three times a day did six big frying pans full appear on our for it - I plied my grapnel with never-failing success. Fish after primitive greensward dinner table, and never did fish taste nicer, fish, with hardly a quarter of a minute between, would gobble and never did four men and two dogs eat more of them. Hardly up the bait, generally still alive, and if the fish was not of large credible as it sounds, thirty pounds a day was hardly sufficient dimensions, would be jerked out of the water, and safely en- to feed our six hungry mouths; and when, towards the end of scounced in the folds of the flour sack. my short stay in the Basin, great economy in flour became im- As I have said, I usually began fishing "an hour by sun" - the perative, forty pounds vanished in a similar wonderfully speedy trapper expression for an hour before sunset - and, with only manner. one exception, I succeeded in filling the two bags with twenty- Two ludicrous little incidents happened to me in the Teton five pounds or so of fish (while proper tackle would have ac- Basin; and though I took, to use Western parlance, a back-seat complished it in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes) before in both, I shall narrate them. The fist one occurred in this way; the long shadows of the tall pine trees growing down to within I had filled an old tin to the brim with hopper-bugs, and was two or three feet of the water's edge would fall across the crossing the outflow of the lake, seated, or rather crouching, on smooth, glassy surface of the tranquii mountain tarn. The sun Boreas's back, with legs tucked under me so as not to get them once off the water, the fish would vanish as if by word of com- wet; when right in the centre of the stream, with the water up mand, and I do not remember to have caught a single fish in to the saddle, my steed took it into his head to come to a dead that lake after sundown. Resuming my usual seat in the saddle - halt. My impressive "Git up!" was in vain, and considering my a signal well understood by trusty Boreas, and with a yelp of de- ill-balanced position, and that my hands were filled with the light from the young Newfoundland, who, intensely interested "pole," landing-net, rifle, and bug-tin, while the reins were hang- in the whole proceedings, would sit, all attention, on the bank ing knotted over his neck, it was not the easiest thing to enforce fifteen or twenty yards off, restrained only by my word from these words by more active measures. Just below me was a large keeping up constant communication between me and the shore deep pool, and as Boreas had a wonderful faculty of doing the - I would turn my horse's head campward. Once, and only once, most unexpected things when left to his own free-will, I dread- did serious disaster threaten me - it was when a more than com- ed a dousing in the limpid depth at my side. Tucking my rifle monly vigorous two-pounder snapped the three-fold gut. But under my left arm, clutching the rest of my outfit in the same luck stood by me, and the second throw with my spare grapnel hand, and the landing-net in my teeth, I began to belabour his landed the very criminal, the hook still in his jaws. plump back with the thing most handy, i. e. the bug-tin. One Has the reader ever eaten salmon trout (for I believe this is whack, two whacks, and with a click out flew the bottom of the canister, and for the second it rained black bugs. Nearly all, of 3 Speaking of receptacles to place fish in, one can often, if not course, fell into the rapid-flowing stream, and the next instant provided with sufficiently large bags, be placed in a dilemma were whirling for a brief second over the surface of the limpid concerning means of transportation. An experience in Port's pool. That moment, reader, I saw more fish than I had ever seen life gives a useful hint. He once was fishing in the Columbia; before or ever will see again. and when it was time to return to camp, he found that the The other little mishap was quite as ludicrous. I must men- empty flour sacks, wherein to carry his fish, had been lost tion that these bugs are lively animals. They jump, dodge about, from his saddle, and nothing whatever at hand to take their and creep out of your way with astonishing rapidity, and the place. But Port is a Western man; so, divesting himself of his only manner I could stalk them successfully was to throw my nether garments, he tied up the legs at the bottom and filled limp felt hat at them with sufficient force to stun without the whole with his fish, fastening the top in a similar manner; squashing them. Even this requires some quickness and undivid- and seating the fish-filled unmentionables on his horse, in ed attention. Well, one of two days preceding the above incident front of him, _he brought his take safely into camp. 1 was out on my usual preliminary bug game, my whole attent- ion being fixed upon my occupation, I reached a clump of dense I will not weary the reader's patience with what has been told so service-berry bushes. I had just delivered a successful throw, and often, namely, that grizzlies want no fooling. was about to stoop to gether in the prize, when out of the bush- A very cursory examination of Jackson's Hole ripened in us es, as if growing from the earth, there rose - a grizzly. Rearing the determination of wintering in the Basin, notwithstanding up on his hind legs, as they invariably do on being surprised, he that we were quite alive to the fact that once a passage over the stood, his head and half-opened jaws a foot and a half or two Main Divide was made impassable by the deep snows of winter.4 feet over my six foot of humanity, and hardly more than a yard (we had twice to cross the great backbone at altitudes over ten between gigantic him and pigmy me. The reader will believe me and nearly eleven thousand feet), escape from the basin was im- when I say he looked the biggest grizzly I ever saw, or want to possible for eight months, till the following July or August, for see, so close. It would be difficult to say who was the more as- the two meat rivers we had to cross are. on account of the melt- tonished of the two, but I know very well who was the most ing snow,- quite impassable during the spring. frightened. My heart seemed all of a sudden to be in two places; It was very fortunate that ultimately we were prevented ex- for had I not felt a big lump of it in my throat, I could have ecuting this plan. I subsequently heard, too, from a trapper - the sworn it was leaking out at a big rent in the toes of my mocca- only human being who, so far as I could learn, had ever winter- sins. ed it - that owning to the sheltered position, enclosed on all Now grizzly shooting is a fine healthy sport - I know none I sides by high mountains, and the altitude of the Basin itself am fonder of; but there ought to be neighbouring trees to facil- (nearly 7000 feet), the snow remains lying, and is not blown off itate centralization to the rear, and above all I must be handling as on the equally elevated plains, by the high winds. He told me my old "trail stopped" - and that moment I was here on a tree- - and I have every reason to believe him, for we found sufficient less, barren, en face with one I "was not looking for," or "had evidences that snow lies there very deep - that for three months not lost:" and yonder, 100 yards off, lay that famous old rifle the roof of his log cabin was flush with the white pall, and that - Boreas in the distance putting some spare ground between him he fed his three pack animals with elk meat, and bark of the cot- and that noxious intruder. Fortunately the Old Uncle of the tonwood trees boiled to a pulp.5 Rockies had more than probably never had anything to do with human beings, for I saw very plainly that he was more puzzled as to my identity than I was regarding his. His small, pig eyes were not very ferocious-looking, and first one, then the other, 4 There is a considerably lower pass, if you approach from the ear would move; expressing, as 1 interpreted it, more impatience north. As we were not at all acquainted with these densely than ill-feeling. I do not exactly remember who fist moved, but timbered districts, it would have been most unwise for us to I do recollect that on looking back over my shoulder I saw the risk getting lost, with the snowstorms of winter threatening old gentleman actually running away from me! On regaining us. Very different are they to those of autumn. possession of my rifle, which on this quite exceptional occasion I had allowed to get beyond my reach, as it interfered with my "buggings," I felt considerably braver, and spent the rest of the 5 Dutch George - the name of this old pelt-hunter - was, as he day in a vain endeavour to resume our acquaintanceship on always is, quite alone; and when finally the snow on the more satisfactory terms. But the old gentleman evidently mountains melted, the creeks and rivers were so high that he thought he had frightened me sufficiently, and so kept out of was imprisoned in his mountain-girt basin till the end of July. He had left the last settlement in the preceding September, my way: This is not the only bear story I could tell, but as none have and had not seen a single human being, not even an Indian, the slightest claim either to originality or sensational adventure, for more than ten months.

CAMP AMONG THE WAH-SATCH MOUNTAINS.

Page 19 The Angler's Tournament

The seventh annual anglers' tournament of the National Rod and Reel Association was held at Harlem Mere in the Central Park, New York, on Thursday and Friday last. On both days the sun was toiling away a long way to the south of southeast be- fore the first fly raised bubbles upon the surface of the wind- rippled Mere. Perhaps city life is not conducive to early rising, or the fisher- men had to tramr, in manv a wearv mile from the remote wood- sy rivulets and sequestered lakes where the trout love to hide; but be that as it may, the only meeting which took place on the grounds at 9 o'clock was between your reporter and the secre- tary of the Association, who until then had the field to himself and his henchman, who was assisting him in laying out the line of floats. The position of the platform on the east shore of the Mere admitted of the line being laid out nearly due north and south, but with very little variation from that course, and if the wind had been blowing anywhere north or south of west, the line might have been so laid out as to insure a favorable wind or ex- tending the casting lines, but the wind was due west, and was blowing pretty strong too; still it came in puffs succeeded by momentary lulls, leaving each contestant to hope that if he did his best, fortune might favor him with a propitous wind eddy at the right moment. About half past nine the contestants and officers of the Asso- ciation began to put in an appearance, and after the fist cordial greetings had been exchanged, each in turn proceeded to anathe- matize the wind, but it was all done very genially and philosoph- ically, as becomes the br~therhoodof the angle. This word genial is very properly applicable to fishermen. One found evi- dences of it on all hands as one after the other reached the ground and saw the gladness of his own heart reflected in the beaming countenances of his friends. In the younger men the Fred Ma ther geniality of expression was sufficiently characteristic, although its more pronounced phases were evanescent; but with the older third, silver medals; fourth and fifth, bronze medals; sixth, sub- fellows the genial look had become stereotyped; with use it had scription to Forest and Stream or other journal. become second nature; the countenances were but the reflection SINGLE-HANDED FLY-CASTING - Class A (Amateur), -- of the souls within, perfected by long culture of the angler's Judges: C. H. Mauri, Rev. H. L. Ziegenfuss; referee, Capt. Wm. many virtues. Why, there were two or three old boys at the Dunning. Open to amateurs, under Rule 2. Rods not to ex- tournament whom we delicately forbear to name, whose faces ceed 11 ft. 6 in. in length. Scale of points - Distance actually beamed with geniality. Perhaps if we could penetrate the secret cast, and accuracy, 40 points. (If a contestant cast 60 ft. and is of this sublime content with themselves and with things as they awarded 15 for accuracy, his score will be 75 :) are, we should find that not a little of it is due to the simple Length Weight Distance faith with which the chronicles of their wonderful fish stories --of Rod of Rod Cast has been received by all but a few constitutionally incredulous Accu- people. Nature has her compensations, and every man who Ft. In. Ozs. Feet. racy T* reaches 60 years bears on his countenance the stamp of the P. C. Hewitt 10 05 8-314 7 3 27 100 emotions he has most indulged. Jas. L. Breese 10 10 10-114 71 2 0 94 There was a goodly but not a numerous gathering - the kind G. Poey 11 00 8-114 7 1 19 90 and courteous president of the Association, Henry P. Wells, with W. E. Rlackford 11 01 10-112 71 10 8 1 a score or more of vice-presidents and members of committees, R. B. Lawrence* 11 OQ 10 54 10 54 all decorated with ribbons of the Association, and Mr. Poey be- ing the most noticeable. As the wind could not possibly be more *Lawrence withdrew before his time .was up. unfavorable than it was for the direction in which the measured The wind was blowing strong and tolerably steady, but not line was extended from the platform south, the only course without occasional variation of a few points. At one moment it open to the committee was to extend the line to the north. This would veer a little to the south, and afford an opportunity to was done, and although it made matters no better, it left the of- the contestant to extend his casting line, the next moment it ficers of the Association in the enjoyment of the satsifaction would veer to the northward, and catching the half extended that they had done all that mortal could do, in and about the line, would cause it to fall in a great circle with the tail fly with- premises. in perhaps thirty feet of the caster. The difficulty of recovering By 10 o'clock most of the competitors were on the ground, the line after such a cast, and extending it backward to secure but it was 10:30 before the entrees were closed for the first proper vantage for the next cast is familiar to the initiated. It

Page 20 was a mishap that fell not once, but frequently to each contest- SINGLE-HANDED FLY-CASTING - Open to all --Judges: E. ant in turn, in this and subsequent contests, and in their several G. Blackford, Hon. H. P. McCown; rcfcrce, Hon. Daniel O'Reil- modes of meeting the difficulty, they afforded fair tests of the ly. Rods not to exceed 11-112 feet. measure of their experience. The least experienced, recognizing Length of Weight of Distance that time was short, made strenuous but vain efforts to recover Rod Rod Cast their line, wasting both time and effort without effect, while the more experienced either recovered their lines by a dexterous -Ft. -In. Ounces Feet twist, or failing, drew in the slack, and crept upward again de R. C. Leonard 10 11 9-314 97-112 120~0.But on the whole, the casting was very good. The style of P. C. Hewitt 11 00 10-314 96 most of the contestants was high for amateurs. P. C. Hewitt es- T. B. Mills 11 00 10-314 90 pecially handled his rod with skill and address. Jas. L. Breese 10 11 10-112 90 The casting for accuracy was little better than a farce, the R. B. Lawrence 11 00 10 8 9 wind occasionally catching a dropping tail fly and whirling it W. E. Blackford 11 00 10-112 85 from 5 to 10 feet aside, even to the extent of baffling the eyes Ed. Eggert 11 00 10-1 I4 7 9 of the judges, who, losing sight of the fly, would excitedly ask G. Poey 11 00 8-1I4 79 each other, "Where's that?" But in spite of all this, and the ele- A. Mitchell 10 11 9-314 7 6 ment of chance in casting due to variations of the wind, the re- R. F. Mayhew 11 08 11-314 68 sults reached afforded a pretty fair test of their best work under Casting off tie: J. L. Breesc 96, T. B. Mills 100. Eggert and favorable conditions. Poey agreed to decide theirs in black bass fly class. S.ALMON FLY-CASTING -- Judges, John A. Roosevelt, A. This event brought out ten competitors, six of whom made a N. Cheney; C. R. Miller, referee. Open to all. See Rule 14. No very creditable exhibition of their skill. Of these Rreese and limit as to rods. Distance only to count. Mills tied at 90 feet., and in throwing off Brcesc reached 96 feet Length of Weight of Distance and Mills 100 feet. A better test of skill would have been af- Rod Rod Cast forded by limiting the leaders to 9 ft. With the light breeze on Ft. In. the quarter it was only rarely and by chance that the 18 ft. lead- - Ounces Feet ers could be extended. R. C. Leonard 18 00 37 112-112 Early in this contest Judge Blackford's heart was warmcd and P. C. Hewitt 18 00 3 7 105 his eye kindled by the very creditable performance of his son, J. L. Breese 18 00 37 101 who showed himself a worthy chip off thc old block, standing Archibald Mitchell 18 00 37 97 fourth in the order of casting. He laid down his rod with a very T. B. Mills 18 00 37 94 respectable lead, but there wcrc strong casters to follow, and Ed. Eggert 15 09 32 86 one by one the judge saw thc five mcdals disappear, but the In this event, Leonard took the lead, distinguishing himself more practically valuable prize of a year's subscription to I:orcv.st by the address, with which he husbanded the strength of his and Streanz was saved from the general wreck of his hopes. sinewy arm for the critical point of the cast, instead of distribut- ing it over the whole action. Eggert was outclassed. The other contestants all got in some very good work, in spite of baffling winds, but the average of the casts was very low. Hardly one of them came within 10 feet of his maximum half a dozen times in the course of this allotted ten minutes. SINGLE-HANDED FLY-CASTING - Expert -- Judges, Fred Mather, Dr. Geo. Trowbridge. Referee, Dr. S. M. Nash. Open to all. Distance only to count. Rods not to exceed 11-112 feet in length. Length of Weight of Distance Rod Rod Cast -Ft. -In. Ounces Feet P. C. Hewitt 11 03 10-314 8 3 R. C. Leonard 11 05 10-314 82-112 T. B. Mills 11 00 10-114 75-112 Archibald Mitchell 11 00 10-114 67 Ed. Eggert 11 06 10-114 66 G. Poey 11 00 8-114 64-1I2 The wind was very strong and puffy during this contest, so that the performance offered no fair criterion of the relative merits of the contestants. This ended the programme for the first day. The second day was all that the contestants could wish for as regards the weather. It was almost a dead calm at 9 o'clock, and throughout the day it never exceeded a light breath. The direct- ion was still nearly from due west as on the preceding day. There was some delay in getting to work as on the previous day, a delay in this ease partly due to time lost in the effort to draw out amateurs for the opining event. The jousts of the first day's event had disqualified most of the performers for further ap- pearance as amateurs, and there being but one entry, the worthy president, anxious to provide for the greatest enjoyment of the greatest number, took counsel with his officers and substituted an open-for-all contest, as in the following programme: Charles Hallock SINGLE-HANDED FLY-CASTING - Light Rod Contest -- Judges: R. F. Mayhew, W. J. Cassard; C. H. Mauri, referee. Open to all. Rods not exceeding 5 oz. in weight nor 11-112 feet in length. All rods with solid reel seats allowed 112 oz. Distance only to count: Length of Weight of Distance Rod Rod Cast Ft. In. Ounces Feet K. C. Leonard 9 09 5 90 T. B. Mills 10 00 5 86 J. S. Breese 10 00 5 86 P. C. Hewitt 10 00 5 85-112 R. B. Lawrence 10 00 5 8 5 Casting off tie: Mills 82-112 feet, Breese 80 feet. FLY-CASTING FOR BLACK BASS -- Judges: L. Dinwiddie Smith, A. P. Van Gleson, D. D., Dr. James A. Henshall; Wm. C. Harris, referee. Open to amateurs under Rule 2. Single-handed rod, not to exceed 11-112 feet in length. Only one fly required, to be furnished by the committee, and to be tied on a No. 2 sproat hook; distance only to count: Length of Weight of Distance Rod Rod Cast Ft. In. Ounces Feet Wallace E. Blackford Jas. L. Breese 11 00 10-314 90 the members of the Association; before the first day was well P. C. Hewitt 11 00 10-314 87 advanced a crowd of men and boys had assembled sufficient at R. B. Lawrence 11 00 10 8 3 any rate to block the water front, and in the afternoon a num- A. Mitchell 10 11 9-314 81 ber of nurse maids with their charges endeavored to thread their Ed. Eggert 11 06 10-114 80 way through the throng. G. Poey 11 00 8-114 77-112 The crowd appeared very deeply interested in the proceed- Dr. S. M. Nash 11 02 10-112 7 7 ings, although by no means well informed as to the objects of This ended the seventh tournament of the Association, which the meeting. One thing appeared evident to them, that the men as a social gathering was eminently successful. The officers were who severally went on the platform and commenced whipping untiring in their efforts to make the meeting a success, and the the waters, were very much in earnest about the work in hand, contestants were cordially appreciative of these efforts, and ani- whatever it was, and gradually it was whispered, and spread mated by a spirit of generous rivalry toward each other, such as from mouth to mouth, that they were trying to hook the meas- is rarely exhibited other than by the angling fraternity when en- uring floats with the highest numbers on them. gaged in contests of skill. Perhaps the general public was not much benefitted by the The public evinced no unusual interest in the meet. Hundreds meeting -- who knows? but for the contestants, at least, it was a perhaps had seen the announcement and let memory fondly period of unalloyed enjoyment. To the president and secretary, conjure up the features of some bygone outing, including a and other officers of the Association, although the proceedings mental photograph of the reader in appropriate fishing costume may have been wearisome, they were followed by a comforting with basket at back and rod in hand. but the business of life sense of duty done, and of the achievement of the desired ends claimed them and they went on their several ways to the haunts without friction or shadow. of Mammon. But the Mere was not wholly deserted of all save Forest and Stream, May 30, 1889

Two notable early reels in the Museum's Collection. Above a punch pressed Follet, derived from the wire Billinghurst Reel, a first patent. (1859) Letters to the Editors

Davenport, Iowa July 26th, 1875 Editor Forest and Stream: Editor Forest and Stream: I take a special interest in anything relating to the use of arti- In reply to your inquiry regarding the winter habitat of the ficial flies, or the making of them, having used them for half il tarpon, I can only say that I cannot furnish information of a re- century, and for the last forty-five years made thousands of liable character. It is a warm-water fish, and when the in-shore them. The article under the above caption in a recent number water becomes chilled it is probable that it seeks off-shore water of the Forest and Stream, by Thaddeus Norris, was quite to my or the edge of the Gulf Stream, to return when the water in the taste, and especially so as the writer evidently understood what streams and lagoons is heated by the sun of lengthening days. he was writing about. Mr. Norris thinks that Mr. Pennell "runs Much has yet to be learned regarding the winter home of the the thing into the ground" by reducing his variety of trout flies tarpon and its spawning grounds. At an early day I expect to to the number of three. I am strongly inclined to agree with Mr. make a marooning trip around the peninsula to Bay of Biscayne Pennell, if he will allow me to vary the size of each of these and shall endeavor to collect information regarding the home of three flies so as to suit wind and water. I should not rear to the tarpon during December, January and February. compare baskets with those who want a different fly for every By the bye, my friend, Senator Quay, should be credited month. Some old practical trout fishers in Scotland would dare with the capture of the first tarpon with rod and reel in Charl- to curtail the varieties from three to only one, viz., a lark wing otte Harbor. On his return to Jacksonville he exhibited the head and hare's ear body, (for a small fly), with which I have heard of the fish and was so elated by the capture that he presented them say they could kill through all the season; and I have no me with the rod, reel and line used on the occasion; and I have doubt of it. Experience and observation have demonstrated to treasured them as a momento of the first capture of a silver king me that on certain streams to be successful you must use a small by the use of a rod and reel. spare fly of sober color, while on other streams you will kill Grouper fishing is exciting sport and seldom engaged in by better with a larger and fuller made fly of gayer tints; for in- visitors to Florida. At almost any point along the Gulf Coast, stance, on the River Clyde, in Scotland, above the falls, the where the water is from two to six fathoms in depth with a above fist described fly is essential to success, whereas on the rocky bottom, this excellent fish can be captured in great num- West coast, in those streams that come from the highlands and bers. Off the Anclote Keys and on the easterly side of Egmont run right into the sea, you will be more successful with a fly two Key, this exciting sport can be enjoyed. or three times the size of the former; or on any of the small A notable fishing resort has, to a great extent, been overlook- lakes which abound in that country, the most of which contain ed. I refer to Lake North, south of Jupiter Inlet, on the eastern trout, a good sized fly is not objectionable, regulated always by coast of Florida. During the winter months bluefish from 2 to 7 the roughness or smoothness of the surface of the water. The Ibs. are found in the lake in countless numbers. They will eager- little experience I have had in fly fishing in the West for trout ly appropriate a squid or other movable bait. Fly-fishing can be has been in small brooks in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and near enjoyed in the capture of cavalli and sea trout. If the sea is to the Mississippi River, and that experience has lead to the con- calm (which is usually the casc) fishermen can pass out of the clusion that the trout in those localities are not so nice about inlet of Lake North, and capture sea fish on the reefs off, but either the size or color of the fly offered to them as those I was near the shore. accustomed to fish for in my early days elsewhere. Anglers visiting Florida should carry with them a 10 to 12 In reference to flies for bass fishing, I doubt not there are dif- ferences of opinion among anglers as to what is the best colors oz. fly-rod, 12 ft. long, with a supply of large flies. If they in- to use. I presume all who fish for bass with the fly will admit tend engaging in the capture of ravallia the hooks should be that a large fly is what is wanted. I will state, however, that the snooded on fine steel wire, or else flies and fish will be lost, and first good take of bass I had with fly was with small flies; they language unworthy of a fisherman indulged in. As a rule the were some I had used for sea trout in Scotland, and they were hooks upon which flies are mounted are too light for Florida not more than one-third the size of those 1 now use. As to color, fishing. The best flies that I have found are the small spoon-fly 1 am not very particular; I would, however, prefer always having bails made by Hall & Co., of Grand Rapids, Mich. The feather more or less bright red in them. I have been successful with a portion is large and gaudy, the spoons small, and the hooks of bright yellow body and light gray drake wing and red hackle. large size and of extra quality. The smallest baits, No. 1/2, 1, Anything that you will make a good show will not fail if the 1-112 and 2 are best adapted to fly-fishing in Florida. In using bass are at all disposed to bite. For the information of the less the artificial fly in salt-water fishing in Florida it should be al- experienced anglers who read Forest and stream I would state lowed to sink a short distance beneath the surface before an ef- that the bass is not the only (though the principal) fish we take fort is made to bring it home. I would advise intending fly-fish- in this locality with the fly. During last Summer, from this time ermen to use a heavy fly-rod, a large reel and at least from 50 to of the year till cool weather set in, I caught four varieties of 100 yds. of line. I prefer a 12 oz. split-bamboo rod 12 ft. long, bass -- black, Oswego, white or striped, and rock bass -- the last the finest Cutthunk line and an Abbey & Imbrie quadruple one not plenty, the three former very common; also pickerel, multiplying reel. Such an outfit is necessary to capture cavalli wall-eyed pike, and sun fish, and, for a variety, can't help hook- and ravallia ranging from 10 to 20 Ibs., and channel bass weigh- ing a gar sometimes. To all who desire to enjoy angling to per- ing from 5 to 30 Ibs. ./I/, I-, A1 Fresco fection, strive to acquire the art of fly fishing for any fish that will take a fly. It has a great advantage over bait fishing, especi- Forest and Strearn, Jan. 16, 1890 ally fishing on the bottom, where you are liable to get fast to stones, roots, and other matter, which is very annoying. Then you can always have your lure at hand - a few flies in an envel- ope in your pocket, (unless you wish to carry a regular tackle book). You are saved the labor and trouble of carrying a bucket of water with ydur minnows, and sometimes when you want to go fishing minnows are not convenient to be had; and a further recommendation to many is that it is a great deal more genteel. Wm. Gray

Page 23 MUSEUM AFFAIRS To date, the Bicentennial Year has brought to the Museum several fine collections, and single contributions far to numerous to mention. In our next issue we will describe in detail the Theodore Gordon angling library acquired in June and donated by William Naden of New York. This is one of the most desire- able collections known to the literary world of fly fishing for the reason that the bulk of Gordon's library was destroyed by fire and these are the only volumes remaining. They will be placed on permanent display. Jack Cunningham, of the New England Aquarium, has turned over to us the Henry P. King collection of salmon rods, reels and flies, all leather cased, originally the gift of Mrs. Mary Parker King. This is an exceptionally fine selection dating to the early 1920's and of good historic value. The late Mr. King was a noted salmon fisher and sportsman. Mr. Cunningham's efforts in be- half of the Museum &e appreciated. The Museum Catalogue (II), planned for publication this year is being held in abeyance due to the high cost of publishing, (it is estimated at $1200.00). The circumstances are regrettable as our Catalogue establishes a public record of Museum holdings and reflects the generosity of contributors. The Annual Meeting has tentatively been planned for Octo- ber at Manchester. Increased interests in the details of Museum operation suggests this year's get-together will result in extend- ed activity and participation by the Trustees and the member- ship. Magazine policy will be discussed in relation to fund rais- Alex Marchand, head guide at Harmony. ing for special purposes and increasing the membership. Trout Unlimited, Manchester, Vermont Chapter has been al- located a showcase directed to promoting their efforts toward EXHIBITS preserving the Battenkill, one of the finest trout streams in the The Museum exhibits are located in the Orvis Showrooms at country. Some 25,000 visitors to the Museum will get the mess- Manchester, Vt. Three rooms displaying many hundreds of rari- age. Ways and means by which this type of service, assisting ties are open to the public every day, all year. Rods, reels, flies, national and regional associations toward their goals, should be books and other related items can be viewed without charge. continually explored by the membership. Emphasis is placed on The rooms are air conditioned, well lighted and comfortable. the historic aspects as they relate to the Battenkill display and Regrettably all the items owned by the Museum cannot be ex- such should be the prevailing guide line. hibited at one time because of lack of space but displays are Details relating to the Annual Meeting will be forwarded. changed frequently so that over a period of two years, members, Please plan to attend as the signs indicate a pleasant and enjoy- donors, and the general public have the opportunity to view all able fly fisher's holiday. More next issue. contributions.

MAGAZINE MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION The American Fly Fisher, free to members, is published THE AMERICAN FLY FISHER is but one of the many quarterly. Back numbers are available at $2.00 each with the ex- benefits received by participating in the Museuni affairs. Also in- ception of Vol 1, No. 1 and Vol. 1, No. 2. cluded with your membership are the information publications, free research services, a direct line of communication to experts FOR SALE in history, literature and technology, free appraisals for donors Ogden Pleissner's Lye Brook Pool, one of the artist's most of materials and an opportunity to individually promote a new colorful and lovable water colors . . . reproduced on the finest movement in the field of fly fishing that is completely unique. papers..Limited Edition $400.00, unframed. Of this $380.00 is Your dollar supporr becomes far more than finanical help. It is tax deductible. the keeping of an unspoken promise to future generations. A A Check List of American Sporting Periodicals by Austin brochure will be forwarded on request. Hogan. A prime reference source over ten years in the writing, A tie tac is presented with each membership of $25.00 or $5.00. more. Where the Pools are Bright and Deep by Dana S. Lamb. A Associate $ 10.00 limited offering. Autographed. $8.95. Sustaining $ 25.00 Send check to the Patron $100.00 and over Treasurer, Museum of American Fly Fishing Life $2 50.00 Manchester, Vermont 05254 All membership dues, contributions and donations are tax deductible. Please forward checks to THE TREASURER, The Museum of American Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont 05254 with your NAME, ADDRESS and ZIP CODE; type of membership desired and a statement of the amount enclosed. Upon receipt, a magazine and membership card will be mailed immediately.

Page 22 Special Issue Fall 1976

THEODORE GORDON'S LIBRARY 4 discussion and review of the books referred to by Go1.don along with a list of his books recently acquired by the Museum.

WOMEN'S STUDIES Carrie Stevens . . . New Patterns for Pleasure in a Modern ;e by Susie Isaksen.

A NEW HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICAN FLY PATTERNS AND THEIR ORIGINATORS 4 plates of flies . . . in full color by Austin S. Hogan.

Members may reserve extra copies of the Special Fall Issue @ $2.50 each. Send checks to the Treas- urer stating name and address of gift recipient. TO AN OLD FRIEND

The end draws near again, and very near, The first few fluttered beech leaves fall and gleam- Light skirmishers that dog the dying year- But still 1 see you down below the weir, A shadow in the stream.

Here have you lurked since spring-in sportive guise, Rallied the meadows to young April's rout, Here fist I marked the marvel of your size, Here wooed you with each fleeting season's flies- 0 alderman of trout!

Here, when the madcap cuckoo makes his mock And the rathe wild-rose blushed in earliest June, The day the mayfly hatched above the lock- You nearly had it, didn't you, old cock, Save that you stopped too soon?

Here have I watched as the dawn spread high Hoping in vain the prejudice o; pique - That makes you-obviously-reject the fly 'Would send you hurtling through the startled fry To gab a proffered bleak!

Here likewise have my steps at eve been drawn And, as the moon made way behind the wood, (The same old moon that watched the hunting Faun) I've found the lobworm garnered from the lawn Did just as little good!

And now the end is near; we part a space You to your mud and I to mine-in town; May Easter find us at the trysting place There where the dancing bubbles spin and race To meet the first March Brown! PATRICK CHALMERS Green Days and Blue Days

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