FISH AND FISHING. 



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TYPES FOR ICE FISHING. 



Hartford, Ct. 

 Editor Recreation: I send you draw- 

 ings of what I call a good type for fishing 

 through the ice. I have used over ioo of 



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these, for 5 years, and never found any 

 trouble with them. If this is not plain 

 enough let any reader of Recreation send 



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TYPES FOR ICE FISHING. 



me his address and I will send him a 

 model to work by. They are easily made 

 and very compact. 



One piece of any wood, hard or soft, 16, 

 18 or 20 inches long by %. inch thick, i l / 2 

 wide. Two pieces of hard brass wire, for 

 staples to hold the spring still. One piece 

 of flat spring steel %. or Y% wide by 1-32 

 thick, 16, 18 or 20 inches according to 

 length of wood. This should be heated and 

 bent over so as to hold brass ring and flag. 

 One piece of soft brass wire stapled to 

 wood, about 10 inches from bottom, to 

 hold the line and spring steel piece with 

 flag. The ring slides over the bent end of 

 the brass piece. Geo. E. Lucas. 



FISH NOTES. 



A mistake I have seen a dozen times, in 

 sportsmen's papers, is in giving the size of 

 trolling spoons by merely saying: " I use 

 a No. 2 or a No. 4 spoon." 



Unfortunately, different manufacturers 

 do not all number the same way. 



I have just made an improvement on the 

 ordinary form, which eliminates several 

 points that have been annoying in the or- 

 dinary trolling spoons. I refer to fouling. 

 caused by the triple hooks swinging 

 around and catching into the line, when 

 casting. In fact, the hooks do not stay 

 where they belong; they have too much 

 motion. I have more than once lost a fish 

 by his shaking open the spring that holds 

 the swivel or the one that holds the back 

 hooks. I have got around these troubles 

 by 2 simple devices. The hooks are held 

 straight back and can be changed easily, if 

 necessary, but the fish cannot do the shift- 

 ing. I think anglers will appreciate these 

 advantages. I expect "to get a patent 

 shortly. Wm. T. Morrison. 



I am a regular reader of your valuable 

 magazine, and would not be without it for 

 5 times its price. 



About the first of September, I spent a 

 week on the Big Fork river, one of the 

 best trout streams in this part of Montana. 

 It is about 30 miles Southeast of Kalispell, 

 and flows Northeast into Flat Head lake. 

 We had the best of luck, catching all we 

 wanted to eat. The game hog is here as 

 well as elsewhere. There was another partv 

 on the river, and they caught 300 to 600 

 trout a day to the man. 



We caught 4 trout that measured 26 

 inches long. 



Small game is quite plentiful here this 

 fall, and I think there will be a good many 

 deer this winter. 



J. W., Kalispell, Mont. 



Five Ishpeming sportsmen (!!), Messrs. 

 Claus Adolph, John Sodergren, John An- 



