The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-04
D0INGS AT THE EAST SHORE
NOTES OF THE FAST WANING ExoUR-
 SION SEASON.

NOAES UT IAG FASF WANING E1CUh-
 SION SEASON.
 Immense Travel to the Point-The Pequot Club House-The Big Change at saIton- stall Lake-Quiet Reigns on the Lake = Excursions and Picnios Thing of the Past-The Voraoious Bass-Great Scar city of Little Fry.
 The excursion season at Lake Sal tonstall has been one of the dullest ever known at the lake consequent of course. upon the ownership of the real estate contiguous to the lake and the water company's edict prohibiting the use of the lake for picnics and excur- sions, in order to maintain the purity ofthe water for the public benefit. Quiet has accordingly reigned at the lake this season, broken only by an occasional fishing party's exclamations of joy and exultation as they hauled in a big black bass or had other piscatorial triumphs; or broken by the merry voices of small private parties who passed along in the little steamer, Captain Baldwin commanding, that has made divers and sundry trips this season up the lake and back, this being the only kind of excursions allowed. Then, too, the ab- sence of Captain Tucker and his sup plies of bait for fishermen are mourn ed. Captain Tucker has gone to other fields sof endeavor down on the Town send farm and piscatorial artists have to find their own bait now if they would essay to catch the wary bass, the agile pickerel, the blundering and horny bullheads or the little fishes.
 Down at Lighthouse Point, on the other hand, the season has been the biggest ever known there, tens of thou sand of people having visited the point this year, and the throngs on Sundays have been enormous. Various special attractions have contributed to the popular interest at the point and the Norrin brothers are to dive from the tall tower again beginning on Sunday next and continuing every day next week, diving three times on Sunday and Monday at 1030 a. m. and 4:30 and S:30 p. nl., and twice on other days once in the afternoon and once in the evening.
 Captain Thompson of the old light house, his many friends will be glad to hear, is still in good health for one of his advanced years and many old friends here called upon him this sea- son and talked old times over. The ! captains home has been full of guests as usual
 The Pequot house is now to under go the finishing touches. The room holders will vacate Saturday night and the plastering and finishing of the un- finished rooms will begin next week.
 Hundreds of people indulged in bath ing yesterday at the Cove and at Light house Point, owing to the return of warm weather. Yesterdays hot wave gave a great impetus to the excursion spirit.
 There is good bass fishing at Salton- stall Lake. Captain Baldwin says that it is nowadays very common thing to catch three or four pound bass. He says the bass are fast multiplying in the lake, and that these voracious fish are fast thinning out the little fishes, so
 
 The bass will therefore be obliged to be less fastidious as to their diet, and they will take the bait that the fisher men offer more readily in proportion as the little fish become less numerous. Captain Baldwin says that the sWarms and shoals of little fry that used to be seen at almost any time in the shallow waters of the lake are now seen no more, the bass having gobbled most of them up. Occasionally a few little fell lows are to be seen scudding around, but they look lonesome.
 A BASS STORY.
 The Waterbury Americans Contrib utor" says:
 The diver. who was called to Quassa- paug to recover from. a deptE forty or fifty feet the propeller of one of the lake steamers, has been telling some stories that set all the Quassapaug fis'fing cranks wild. He ayers that at the bot tom of the lake where the found the missing propeller he also found innu- merable bass of phenomenal size and so entirely devoid of fear that they shot in and out between his legs while he was at work, even to such an extent as to be quite a bother to him in the task he had in hand He further states that the fish apparently live there at the bottom of the lake in deep water, where, by the way, no Quassapaug fisherman ever believed a fish was to be found, for he noticed that they fed upon the fresh water clans which they pulled from beneath the stones on the lake bottom This, of course, leads to the inference that the deep spots are the haunts of this willy fish and that clans would be good bait with which to lure them forth. The diver did not tell just how the bass succeeded in opening the clans, whether it was by means of pocket knife or by crack ing the bivalves upon the rocks, but the omission of little detail like that does not count with the local Waltons and the city markets have done a good business selling clans for bait during the last few days.
 The Contributor is most interested to