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FOREST AND STREAM 
August, 1920 
Luring the 
mighty Muskie 
To challenge the ever-changing fighting tactics — the superior 
strength — the frantic rushes of that mighty "king of the waters,” 
the Muskie, is the supreme test of all fresh water game-fishing. 
It’ is the test which requires — next to the desire for real thrilling 
sport — sturdy, well chosen, dependable tackle. 
SOUTH BEND 
QUALITY TACKLE 
Includes Muskie lures dependable in strength, 
in kind, and in sizes. 
The Muskie Buck-fail Casting Spoon is most successful for casting in and 
among weeds. The weedless fly portion is our fuzzy body buck-tail. Spoon 
is of proper size mounted on extra long shank which eliminates the. use of 
a separate leader. 
The Muskie Buck-fail Trolling Spoon, a well proportioned sturdy lure. Spoon 
is inches with large treble hook buck-tail attached. 
The Musk-Oreno — a wobbling type bait possessing diving, darting, minnow- 
like course when reeled. Not in motion it floats. Has a 5 inch removable 
piano wire leader. 12 colors. 
The Troll- Oreno, a special shaped long body with super-strong hooks and 
trimmings. Fot trolling purposes, especially with motor boat. 11 colors. 
Send (or our book ‘The Days of Real Sport”— which shows other Muskie. tackle and our com- 
plete line oi Quality Tackle. A postal brings it to you FREE. 
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the famous South Bond Lovol- Winding Anti-Bock-Lath Root. 
SOUTH BEND BAIT CO. 
10294 
South Bend. Ind . 
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thriving village of some importance. It 
was the home of several wealthy cattle- 
men whose influence was everywhere ap- 
parent. It was somewhat surprising to 
find so much conventional style in a place 
so remote and isolated. On Sunday we 
attended service in the new church edi- 
fice, and it was hard to realize that we 
were in the wilds of Florida while gazing 
upward at the lofty Gothic ceiling, with 
its chamfered and oiled rafters, and at 
the font and lecturn, and the new cabinet 
organ, and at the fair organist in a Gains- 
borough hat and bangs. 
We sailed down river again to Punta 
Rassa, and over to Sanibel Island for 
some real fishing, for which it is re- 
nowned. The angler can here fairly re- 
vel in piscatorial abandon and cover him- 
self with piscine glory and fish scales. If 
ichthyic variety is the spice of the an- 
gler’s life, Sanibel and its sister keys are 
the Spice Islands. Sharks, rays and 
devil-fish, tarpon and jewfish, redfish, 
snappers and groupers, Spanish mackerel 
and kingfish mackerel, sea-trout, bonito 
and cavalli, lady-fish and sergeant-fish, 
sheepshead and drum, a host of smaller 
fry as spots, grunts and porgies, and the 
ever present and ubiquitous catfish, can 
be jerked and yanked and snaked, and 
pulled and hauled, until the unfortunate 
angler will lament that he was ever born 
— under the last but not least of the 
signs of the Zodiac. 
F ROM Punta Rassa we sailed direct to 
Key West, where we bid Good-bye to 
the Jeanette and her crew, and took 
passage on the fine little steamship Oli- 
vette for Havana. At that time Cuba 
was under the Spanish regime. As it 
was during the Lenten season the city 
was rather dull, but we took especial de- 
light in visiting the fish market daily, 
inasmuch as the display was particularly 
good during Lent. It has been my inva- 
riable custom, in any city, at home or 
abroad, to visit the fish market. And 
of all the fish markets of my little world, 
I think that of Havana the best, the most 
conveniently arranged, and the most 
cleanly and sanitary. The floors were 
iron gratings, which with the stalls were 
hoisted and thoroughly drenched and del- 
uged with water from fire hose after each 
market day. The waste water ran di- 
rectly into the harbor. 
But the harbor itself was another 
story, and not a pleasant one. Being a 
cul-de-sac with a very narrow entrance, 
it was a cess-pool into which the surface 
drainage and sewage were deposited with 
no chance of the water being replenished 
or renewed, for it merely rose and fell 
with the tides. By cutting through a 
ridge at the far end of the harbor the 
tides would have had free ingress and 
egress. This was probably done during 
the occupation by the Federal troops at 
the time of the Spanish war as a sanitary 
measure to preserve and improve the 
health of the city, especially as a pre- 
cautionary measure against yellow fever. 
We found Matanzas a more interesting 
and a more beautiful city than Havana. 
Hiring a volante, one of the old and 
characteristic Cuban vehicles, with two 
very high wheels and the springs and 
shafts formed of one piece of timber, the 
postilion riding the mule; we drove out 
