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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1921 
RUSSELL'S 
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The built-for-hard-knocks 
boot that sportsmen 
swear by — soft, easy-fit- 
ting and as near water- 
proof as a leather boot 
can be. 
Made to meas- 
> from best 
q ualit y 
chrom e - 
tanned 
leathers. 
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doesn’t carry 
RUSSELL’S, 
wiite us for 
a catalog. 
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MOCCASIN 
CO. 
612 Wisconsin St. 
ure 
PAT. 
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MADE 
WILBUR SHOTGUN PEEP SIGHT, 
deadly addition to the modern shotgun. Makes good 
shots of poor ones. Fast enough for snap shooting, 
ducks, or at traps. Automatically shows how to 
lead correctly — No More Guess Work. Made of 
blued steel, clamps rigidly on breech of gun barrels. 
12. 16, 20. 2s gauges. Double guns only. Postpaid, 
$2.50 including booklet “Wing Shooting Made 
Easy.” Booklet alone sent on receipt of ten cents. 
Teaches the art of wing shooting. 
WILBUR GUN SIGHT 
116 West 39th St.. P 0 Box 185, Times Square, New York 
GENUINE 
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- POINT ” 
BLANKETS WsE ^ amuTV 
Mads in England of Australian Wool 
KHAKI— GREY— WHITE— BLUE— SCARLET 
Will Shed Water Color Guaranteed Fast 
Finest Made for Outing Purposes 
Toint Size Weight 
3 60"x72" dble. 8 lbs. 5 oz. 
3 J4 63"x81" dble. 10 lbs. 
4 72"x90" dble. 12 lbs. 
ASK YOUR DEALER 
For yachting, motoring, camping, canoe- 
ing — wherever protection is essential. 
The D. PIKE CO. 
116 John St. R-5 New York 
TT 4.1. Paste Needed 
Use them to mount all kodak 
pictures, post cards.clippings in albums 
Blade in Square, Round. Ova I, Fancy and Heart 
of black, gray, sepia, and red gummed paper, 
them on corners of pictures, then wet and stick. 
JJ AS Y- ARTISTIC. No mus9. no fuss. At photo 
supply, drug and stat’y stores. Accept no substitutes; 
I thpr-o is nothin*' *>r 10e brings full pke. and samples 
from Engel Mfg. Co., Dept. 02-A. 471 1 No. Clark St., CHICAGO 
enodgh to float the line. The bite is gen- 
tle and he must be pulled on the first nib- 
ble. A stick between 2 and 3 feet long, 
with a knob on one end on which to wind 
the line, is convenient for small fishing. 
Reels, of course, freeze up and axe use- 
less. Whereas, the above device enables 
one not only to handle 30 to 50 feet of 
line easily but to pick the line up quickly 
when there is a bite. A stick is much 
easier to grasp with the mittened hand 
than a light line, somewhat frozen per- 
haps to the ice. 
For sunfish the fisherman must like- 
wise have light tackle. He grabs the bait 
and swallows as he runs. Consequently 
a large sinker and cork may stop his 
swallowing and cause him to disgorge. 
Unless he is unusually hungry the sunfish 
in winter time must have a worm merely 
looped on the hook once or twice. I use 
the smallest hook obtainable on the mar- 
ket for the purpose and attach it to the 
line with shoemaker’s thread. It will be 
noted that the sunfish, even the large fel- 
lows, have small mouths, and this is the 
reason for the small hook. 
Don’t use an axe for ar. ice pick. Witn 
that otherwise useful implement you will 
be likely to get two or three baths of cold 
water and have a miserable time in get- 
ting through ice of any thickness. The 
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only thing to use is an implement which 
can be jabbed straight down. Dealers in 
large centers have such in stock or a 
blacksmith can easily make one. Mine 
consists of an old rasp with a chisel edge 
welded to a % inch iron pipe, measur- 
ing about five feet long. A joint in the 
middle may be advisable for the instru- 
ment is then easier to carry on a sling 
over the shoulder. 
With the pick on a sling and with a 
large bag hung at the waist from the 
shoulder for lines, tackle box and lunch, 
I have nothing to carry with the hands 
but the minnow pail. Walking is less 
encumbered and the hands more easily 
kept warm. The minnow pail, by the way, 
should have a perforated cover, for the 
fisherman is likely to fall down and spill 
his open pail of bait. 
A NOTHER thing which I would rec- 
ommend from experience is a pair 
of long, heavy wristlets with thumb 
holes, coming down to the third joint of 
the fingers. They keep the hands warm 
while the fingers are used for taking off 
fish and baiting up. With the hands 
warm the fingers do not get cold so 
quickly and soon recover in the pocket or 
mitten. 
Except for some unusual circumstance 
do not make a fire. There is merit in 
the exercise needed to collect the wood but 
none at all in the fire. Artificial heat 
makes one more susceptible to the cold. 
A good run around or the chopping of a 
new hole will start the body burning more 
oxygen, and this is the best kind of heat. 
OLD ALBERT OF 
CHEMUNG 
(continued from page 7) 
W E did not break camp the next 
morning as we could make the 
two lakes — Bass and Silver — that 
day by running the canoe through the 
rapids and stream that connect them 
with Stop Log and return that night to 
the camp. The distance to the lakes is 
about a quarter of a mile. 
Bass Lake is a small, shallow body of 
water compared with the rest of the 
chain. It is weedy, the home of the big- 
mouth bass. The large-mouth in these 
waters are almost the sporting equal of 
the small-mouth, as they are far larger 
(seldom under three pounds) and quite 
'as active. As the shores of this lake are 
lower than the others, there are a lot 
of windfalls and stumps about the 
shores, also lily pads in great quantity. | 
Here I successfully tried casting with a 
plug. Throwing well out past the stump 
or lily pad, then reeling in so as to pass 
the objective, rarely did I miss a strike.' 
After a shore lunch of the three “B’s” 
— bacon, beans and bass — we carried 
over to Silver Lake. These lakes — Sil- 
ver and Bass — must have been one at 
some earlier time as there is only a short 
narrows between them. 
Silver Lake is one of the most betiuti- 
ful in this group. It is perfectly round. 
On the southeastern side of the circle 
and from the narrows, which divide the 
lake in the middle, to the point directly 
opposite, there is a mass of pine tc the top 
of the 200-foot rise, sloping away from 
the shore for half a mile gradually to 
the summit. The other side is a com- 
plete semi-circle of sheer granite equally 
as high, but palisade-like in its abrupt- 
ness. Only a solitary pine here and there 
grows out of a crevice in the rocky side, 
stunted, gnarled and twisted trying to 
get a root-hold. 
Here I have seen the most wonderful , 
sunsets. The sun leveling its last rays 
on the great red granite wall, the lake 
a perfect mirror in its stillness, reflect- 
ing the purple, mauve and yellow, — a riot 
of soft glowing color. Then the extreme 
of the other shore, shrouded in a gloom 
only accentuated by the opposite coloring, 
the deep green of the pines, with here 
and there a great silver birch standing 
out white against the dark background 
and the old tote roads running from the 
water’s edge, overhung and dark wir.h 
mystery. A Parrish only could paint the 
extreme coloring. 
I was so engrossed in the wonder of it 
that we were late getting back to camp; 
dark had fallen before we reached it. 
After the work was finished and the fire 
piled high, I waited for Old Albert, who 
had gone to the shore to turn the canoe, 
to join me. As I waited there came out 
of the darkness across the lake a long, 
strident wail ending in a sharp cry, as 
if a soul were in torment — it was a Cana- 
dian lynx coming to the shore to drink 
and fish. The unusual sight of a fire 
and the invasion of his sanctuary had 
aroused his ire. ' 
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