QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 229 



ANSWER. A Nighthawk luminous compass is a 

 good instrument and it has the added advantage of 

 being readable at night, which is some useful if you 

 are toting a pack and gun. By all means get the 

 wrist compass; it's always where you can see it. 



QUESTION. What is the best way to tell good 

 from bad gut for leaders? Hal G. 



ANSWER. Good quality gut is round, hard and 

 smooth; poorer gut is flat in places and frays easily. 

 Look out for flat places; often this can only be dis- 

 covered by rolling between the fingers. A flat spot 

 means a weak leader. For hardness of the leader, 

 test it by biting on it. 



QUESTION. When is the best time for trolling 

 and where? 



ANSWER. Best trolling time, morning, evening 

 and after dark. Troll close to edge of rushes, lily 

 pads and weeds, or over sunken weed formation, over 

 and along sand bars and off the shelving bottoms be- 

 tween shallow and deep water, or where light and 

 dark waters seem to meet. 



QUESTION. What kind of a gun would you sug- 

 gest to take on a canoe trip? J. T. D. 



ANSWER. Either a light-caliber repeater or a 

 Marbles Game-getter. I carry a Game-getter on 



