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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1920 
Suppose Tonight — 
you could find yourself in the midst of a mountain 
paradise, with a campfire blazing bright, and 
across from you in its glow the one woman — the 
woman you had rescued from bandits, and were 
keeping safe in your mountain fastness... 
Zane Grey, master story teller, will take you there 
tonight, on the wings of a magic spell; and 
romance, adventure, the glory of life in God’s 
outdoors are yours in the pages of 
The Big Novel of 1920 
ZANE GREY’S 
The Man of the Forest 
And by the way — Do you know Zane Grey’s novels? 
If not, here’s the chance to start a fine literary 
acquaintance. His books chronicle the epic of 
the Great West in a way that gives him a per- 
manent place in our literature. He is American 
to the core, and writes American, with a rare 
literary charm and beauty. 
Ask your bookseller for 
THE MAN OF THE FOREST 
HARPER & BROTHERS, Est. 1817' 
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'$4 
Speckled Trout and Salmoiv 
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Brunswick — easy to reach via the 
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General Tourist Agent, Canadian 
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for information and literature. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
A Country of Fish and Game 
A Paradise for the Camper and Angler 
-ru ~ Ideal Canoe Trips 
rhe country traversed by the Retd Newfoundland Company’s system is exceedineiv rich in all 
k a n n H dS T°r f n 1 r 1 t, and U r e > A -l! al 0 K nR the r0U , te of the R a ilwa/ are ^treTms famous for ^hefr Salmon 
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F. E. PITTMAN, General Passenger Agent, 
Reid Newfoundland Company, St. John’s, New Foundland 
the overhead method, than a longer rod ; 
and for that purpose it is an admirable 
tool. But unfortunately this rod, and 
some a,s short as four feet began to be 
used by some misguided fishermen for 
black bass boat fishing, and with it came, 
naturally and logically, the wooden min- 
now armed with numerous gangs of 
cheap hooks. It should be borne in mind 
that a rod intended for angling, should 
be long enough and supple enough to play 
a fish to a finish in open water; and for 
this purpose the chief function of such a 
rod is for playing the fish and not for 
casting the bait. Many artistic anglers 
have continued to use the old Henshall 
rod, and the tendency is now, on the part 
of some of those who took up the very 
short rod, to forsake the error of their 
ways and return to the longer, and more 
sportsmanlike rod. 
Emerson Hough, the well-known au- 
thor, angler and .sportsman, says in a re- 
cent magazine: “Do you perchance know 
that the tendency to extreme shortness in 
bait-casting rods seems to have been ar- 
rested? . . . This seems to me to be a 
tendency in the direction of better sports- 
manship. Seven feet is short enough, and 
too short, for a casting rod. I want to 
allow the bass a little chance for his 
white alley, or else I don’t want to get 
him at all. Even the old eight-foot cast- 
ing rod, which was standard for so long- 
in America, was a sportsmanlike tool be- 
fore the invention of the wooden minnow, 
with its abominable gangs.” 
Before leaving the subject of rods I 
wish to say, and to say it out loud, that 
the chief function and most important 
office of a fishing rod is not to “cast” a 
fly or bait, but to “play” a game-fish in 
open water to a finish. And to meet this 
requirement it must have sufficient length 
to insure good balance, considerable flexi- 
bility and decided resiliency to hook and 
play and subdue a game-fish in an artis- 
tic and sportsmanlike manner. These 
essential qualities, when combined with 
the least possible weight commensurate 
with the size and gameness of the fish 
concerned, will furnish a tool that can be 
depended upon, in any circumstance and 
in any emergency, to bring the quarry to 
net without fear of any breakage or c 'her 
disaster. 
The act of casting the fly or ba' ,, in 
actual fishing, can be done with any 
ordinary rod made for the purpose, and 
is to present the lure to the fish in a na- 
tural and attractive manner, but it is, so 
to speak, an act of expectancy and un- 
certainty, and is only preliminary to the 
real service required of a rod, which is to 
enable the angler to hook the fish dex- 
trously, and then to enjoy a contest in 
which his skill is pitted against the wiles, 
strategy and finesse of his quarry, and 
finally to bring it to the landing-net and 
creel; and this, as aforesaid, can best be 
done with a rod of sufficient length, flexi- 
bility and resiliency. 
Such a tool embodies all that is re- 
quired in actual angling: First to pre- 
sent the lure, next to hook the fish, and 
lastly to engage him in fair combat, and 
to subjugate him; “First the blade, then 
the ear, and after that the full corn in 
the ear.” 
