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FOREST AND STREAM 
JOE WELSH 
LEADERS 
The genuine Telerana Nova is 
the cheapest and best by actual 
test. Thousands of the best 
anglers in the world are using 
them. Why not, you? Univer- 
sally praised, strong, knotless, 
durable: one trial will con- 
vince the most skeptical. For 
trial. 1 will mail you a 3-ft. in any Bass or Trout size 
for 25c; 6-ft., 50c: or 9-ft., 75c. One Leader will last 
you two seasons and then be good. Prices for Salmon 
sizes on application. 
Again, here is what the average angler has been looking 
for: Limerick Hooks, T. D. Eye No. 2, 4, 6. 8, 10 and 12, 
tied on Joe Welsh's Snells, making the hook the weakest 
part of your tackle. All sizes $1.00 per dozen. Save your 
fish by using this new snelled hook. They do not get 
brittle with age. 
Tile Blue Devil darning needle floats. Bass and Trout 
sizes with three foot leader attached, 75c. 
The “Welsherana” transparent minnows in five colors 
are the latest and best in Plugdom. Trout and Bass 
sizes $1.00 each, can be used on a 
fly rod or bait-casting rod. 
A sample order of the above will 
prove to you that Joe Welsh’s goods 
is in a class by itself. 
Most dealers handle my goods. If 
yours don't write me. 
JOE WELSH 
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. 
Distributors for U. S. and Canada. 
W A NTED QUICK 
Have you a kodak picture, photo or film of 
your favorite dog, scene or friend. We'll send 
you an 8x14" oil-painted enlargement, with frame, 
*2.95. Original returned. 
TANGLEY CO., 163 Main St., Muscatine, Iowa. 
SLIM ELI 
SPINNERS 
The gleam of the narrow Slim Eli 
blade, spinning close to its rust-proof 
shank, looks like a shiner minnow in 
the water. It is an irresistible attrac- 
tion for bass, pike, pickerel and 
muskallonge. For varying con- 
ditions of weather and water, 
Hildebrandt Slim Eli spinners 
are made in nickel, brass and 
copper finishes. Ten sizes — 
single and tandem. Be sure to 
have a good assortment of Slim 
Eli spinners in your kit. 
FREE TO FISHERMEN 
Write for your copy of Hilde- 
brandt’s Hints on flies and spin- 
ners. It is a reliable gpiide to 
spinner fishing. Besidesitshows 
the complete line of Hildebrandt lures for fly 
fishing, casting and trolling. A post card will 
bring your copy. 
THE JOHN J. HILDEBRANDT CO. 
460 HIGH ST., LOGANSPORT, INDIANA 
HILDEBM 
Ho! Fishermen!! 
Here’s AReel Bargain 
T hink of a genuine, hand-made Talbot reel — not an 
imitation Talbot or a "near” Talbot, but an honest-to- 
goodness Talbot at the price of an ordinary reel ! That’s 
our proposition. Three world records were broken at 
the Int’l Casting Contest last Fall — all with Talbots. 
For 35 years the Talbot has been the choice of 
fishermen who know “what’s what” in reels. Get a 
World Famous 
REEL 
— the highest achievement In reel construction. 
Made like a fine watch by master craftsmen. 
Quality Is never sacrificed to quantity. We are 
now able to offer a few more Talbots at a special 
dlrect-from-maker-to-fishermen price of $20. They 
will match any reel you ever saw selling lor $35 
to $50. 
A broad, strong, unlimited guarantee of service 
and satisfaction Is behind every Talbot reel. Send 
check for $20 and we will send you a Talbot. If 
after careful examination you do not think It Is the 
finest reel you ever saw lor $20 — yes lor $40 — send 
It back and your money will be promptly returned. 
You take no chances. It's up to the Talbot reel or 
to us to make good. Don’t delay — ^there’s only a 
limited number of Talbots available. Address 
Trout and Salmon Flies 
Tied to your order AS you want them, WHEN 
you want them. All my flies are tied to best 
quality Pennell-eyed hooks. 
Home-made flies — not factory-made. 
Fly tying material. 
Lists on request. 
W. E. SCRIPTURE, JR., ROME, N. Y. 
Eels, Rabbits, Skunk, Weasel, 
flntf ll FlSha Mink, Mnskrats etc..' in largo 
^^***^** * RORlJ numbers, with oui new, fold- 
ing, galvanized Steel Wire Traps. They catch them 
like a fiyHrap catches flies. Made in all sizes. Strong^nd 
durable. Write for Descriotive Price List, and our Free 
May, 1922 • 
of the very finest fish yet produced by 
nature, is less than two per cent, efficient 
in reproduction. A healthy bass nest 
may be good for from three to ten thou- 
sand fry. Out of this large number less 
than two hundred, if ten thousand eggs 
were on the nest, will reach maturity. 
With intensive fishing the number is de- 
creased still more. Suppose with study 
that this loss can be reduced to ninety 
per cent, or even to ninety-five ! What 
if it could be reduced still more ? Think 
of the possibilities right here. 
A man would scarcely consider plant- 
ing a garden without carefully selecting 
the soil, enriching it with fertilizers per- 
haps, selecting the seed suitable for such 
ground and certainly cultivating it after 
the crop commenced to grow. Yet it is 
to be suspected that this same man would 
plant fish without even knowing the aver- 
age summer temperature of the water 
in which they were placed. The good 
intention would be there, but the knowl- 
edge necessary to obtain best results 
would not. The fish culture of the future 
must concern itself actively with diag- 
nosis and adjustment of environments. 
In one lake which has come under my 
observation for a number of years, in- 
troduction of a new variety of forage 
fish has increased the average length of 
the principal game fish over three inches. 
This is simply applying to the fishes, 
which cannot do for themselves, the prin- 
ciples mankind has been using for cen- 
turies. History shows that civilization, 
progress, success — all those great things 
which the race strives for — are based, 
after all, upon a dependable food supply 
which allows time for accomplishment. 
In America the white man with horse 
and cow supplanted the Indian, whose 
only domesticated animal for both food 
and burden was a poor sort of dog. De- 
velop the latent possibilities of food sup- 
ply in our inland waters and our mag- 
nificent game fish, and those still finp 
forms which evolution may bring, will 
be safe. 
RESOURCEFUL TACTICS 
IN FISHING 
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wet-fly. It should be retrieved slowly, 
in a series of stops and starts, and by 
manipulation of the rod tip in a zigzag 
course. In such work, the secret of suc- 
cess is to have the spinner strike the 
water spinning and to start the retrieve 
instantly. I have seen trout dart a dis- 
tance of ten feet while the spinner was 
in the air and strike it immediately it 
hit the water ; such an event must not 
catch the angler with a slack line. There 
is a slight and easily-learned knack in 
this. As with the fly, the spinner must ] 
be cast at a point in the air a foot or so ||| 
above where it is intended to have it , 
strike the water in order that it may not ' 
create a splash; just as it is about to 
strike, the line should be checked and 
the rod tip slightly raised so that the 
spinner has already started to move 
towards you as it hits the water. So 
used, the spinner is especially deadly in 
those holes which usually harbor a heavy 
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