16 THE AXGLER AND HUNTSMAN 



Lastly, when you get a rise, don't jerk the poor fish's 

 head off; a simple turn of the wrist is sufficient, if you are 

 expert at the game. You must learn to pull gently and 

 at the same time firmly and quickly. This is acknowledg- 

 ed to be difficult and no suggestions that I can think of 

 will teach you how to do it; it's an art that has to be ac- 

 quired by actual practice. 



Fishing Through The Ice: 



Perhaps no wintertime sport affords any more plea- 

 sure to the angling brotherhood than the sport of ice-fish- 

 ing. 



An ice chisel and an axe, will serve the purpose of mak- 

 ing a hole in the ice through which to fish. 



Winter fishing has the advantage over fishing at oth- 

 er- seasons in that it does not take so extensive or costly 

 an outfit. Any simple rig-up will do. 



On such trips it is well to take along a coffee-pot, or 

 receptacle in which soup may be boiled, for there is noth- 

 ing that makes an outer feel better and enjoy himself more 

 on a cold winter day than a hot cup of coffee or a bowl of 

 hot soup. The frying pan should also find a place in your 

 outfit, for you will want to try some of the fish you will 

 catch, and there is a sense of enjoyment in partaking of 

 your catch "right on the spot" that is not found elsewhere. 



This is a time of year when nature has clothed the 

 landscape all about you with the snowy- whiteness of the 

 beautiful snow, and if you loved to wander through these 

 favorite haunts in the glad summertime when everything 

 was green and growing, you will no less be enthralled now 

 in mid- winter with the scene of beauty as it unfolds before 

 you. Strange indeed, but true it is that tho' most all liv- 

 ing things are asleep (some, alas! dead) at this season, there 

 is presented to view a scene equally if not more beautiful 

 than that presented in spring and summer and fall when 



