With Gun &> Rod in Canada 



work; and second, to tell, by pictures and text, how 

 such equipment should be used. 



The equipment I would select for stream fishing 

 would be about as follows: A sixteen- or seventeen-foot 

 guides' model canvas-covered canoe with open gunwale, 

 low stern and bow, flat on the bottom, and carrying her 

 width well fore and aft. The canoe should have no 

 outside keel, as the latter is apt to catch on rocks and tip 

 you over. The seats should be underslung, beneath 

 the inside of the rails the forward seat hanging perhaps 

 three inches beneath the gunwale. Although the posi- 

 tion of seats is not a prime requisite in one-man canoe 

 fishing, owing to the fact that you do all your work from 

 a standing or kneeling position in the bottom of the canoe, 

 it is just as easy to have a canoe properly rigged for all 

 purposes of hunting and fishing, as it is to select one 

 that is just a little wrong. The canoe should have a 

 centre thwart, so that you can pick it up and carry it 

 on your shoulders if necessary, and the two other thwarts 

 just fore and aft of the seats, so that your paddles will 

 overreach the space between either of them and the 

 centre thwart sufficiently to enable you to use them as 

 shoulder rests when carrying the canoe over a long 

 portage. 



Attach a small galvanized-iron pulley-block by a piece 

 of strong copper wire to the ring in the bow of the canoe. 

 Either purchase or have a blacksmith make for you an 

 anchor, grappling-iron, or kellick, with five prongs made 

 out of half-inch steel, with a twelve-inch shank and 

 a ring in both ends. Use about forty feet of hemp 

 clothes-line or window-sash cord for an anchor rope. 

 Tie one end through the loose ring in the shank of the 

 anchor, using two wraps through the ring and two half- 

 hitches. Then pass the other end through the pulley, 

 carry it aft and over and around the after thwart, and 



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