February, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
49 
OUTDOOR 
BOOKS 
For 
Indoor Days 
The books listed herewith illustrate a 
series of attractive books, each of which 
carries a special appeal to the sports- 
man. 
Lack of space prevents additional list- 
ing. Our Book Department, however, is 
in a position to supply any outdoor 
book published. 
Prices include postage to any ad- 
dress in the United States or Can- 
ada, unless otherwise mentioned. 
FOREST & STREAM, Book Dept. 
9 East Fortieth Street, New York City 
BOOKS ON FISH AND FISHING 
ANGLERS’ WORKSHOP. By Perry D. Frazer 
A practical manual for all those who want to 
make their own rod and fittings. It contains 
a review of fishing rod history, a discussion of 
materials, a list of the tools needed, description 
of the method to be followed in making al 
kinds of rods, including fly-casting, bait fishing 
salmon, etc., with full instructions for winding 
varnishing, etc. Illustrated. $2.00. 
BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. By James A. 
Henshall. This edition of "the Book of the 
Black Bass includes also the Supplement, More 
About the Black Bass, and is complete in one 
volume. It covers the entire scientific and life 
history of this species, and contains a practical 
treatise on angling and fly-fishing with a full 
account of tools, implements, and tackle. $3.00. 
CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS. By 0. W. 
Smith, fishing editor of Outdoor Life, and 
author of “Trout Lore.” The author has en- 
deavored to embody not only the accumulated 
wisdom of forty years of angling, but also to 
draw upon the experience of well-known ang- 
ling experts. He has sought to impart just the 
information which his correspondents have been 
seeking. Elaborately illustrated. Colored cover 
jacket. Large 12mo. Silk cloth. $3.00 
THE CALL OF THE SURF. By Van Campen 
Heilner and Frank Stick. If you are a surj 
angler, here is the book you have long been 
waiting for. There are chapters dealing with 
Beach Camping — Tackle and Equipment Off 
shore Fishing for Tuna and Bluefish— Shark 
fishing— Channel Bass and Striped Bass Fish- 
ln ff Surf Fishing on the Pacific Coast — and 
many others. The authors are too well known 
in the sporting world to need any introduction. 
It is illustrated with remarkable photographs 
and paintings by Mr. Stick, the well known 
$3*00 and coIlaboratlng auth or- Single copies 
FISH CULTURE, By Wm. E. Meehan. This 
splendid work of fish culture covers in a most 
comprehensive manner the hatching and breed- 
I ing of bass, cat-fish, carp, trout, perch, pickerel 
muscallonge, etc. It includes special chapters 
on frog culture, care of gold fish and aquar- 
mm=. The author was formerly Fish Com- 
missioner of Pennsylvania, and it is conceded 
by experts that in this book Mr. Meehan has 
produced a most valuable document. $2.00. 
FISHING TACKLE AND KITS. By Dixie Car- 
rol How, when and where to fish, and the 
right kind of tackle for all angles of fishing 
tor the fresh-water game fish. Habits and pe- 
THE FIRST OUTDOOR JOURNAL* PUBLISHED IN AMERICA 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
PUBLISHED' CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1873 
Vol. XCI. CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1921 No. 2 
PAGE PAGE 
Hunting Deer in Dixieland 53 Tales the River Told to Matt 67 
By Archibald Rutledge By Leonard Hulit 
Concerning Beaver and Nutria 57 Do Fish Distinguish Fly Colors? 69 
' By Agnes Laut By M. Luckiesh 
The Proposed Yellowstone Dam.. 58 Editorial Comment 70 
By George Shiras III 
The Migrations of Marine Fishes 72 
Memories of Old Trapping Days.. 60 By John T. Nichols 
By Ray W. Wood _ __ 
Pish Movements in an Indiana 
Dr. Henshall In Pompeii 62 ^ AKE 72 
An Autobiography — Twenty-second 
Paper Nessmuk s ^ Camp Fire 74 
Letters, Questions and Answers.. 76 
Old Albert of Chemung Lake.... 64 
By Charles Meakins Preparing Good Meals in Camp.... 80 
By Forest Harlow 
The First Big Trout That Got -r. 
Away 66 ^ 0GS 94 
By F. G. Nelson The Idyl of the Split Bamboo.... 96 
The Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Nine East Fortieth Street. New York City 
Published Monthly. Subscription Rates: United States t? on - 
years for $5.00; Canada., $3.00 a year; Foreign Countries, 0 $4.00^ ’ * W ° 
year. Single Copies, 25 cents. Entered in New York 
Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter 
January a, iqi 5 , under Act of March ?, 1879 
culiarities of the basses, muskellonge, trout, 
pike, pickerel, and wall-eyed pike. Fishing facts 
that will make the tyro an expert angler and 
the expert more finished in the art. Things 
worth knowing about tackle, kits and equip- 
ment secured from actual tests and investiga- 
tions. Many illustrations from photographs. 
Colored cover jacket. Large 12mo. $3.00. 
GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES (2 vols.). 
By David Starr Jordan. Recognized the 
world over as a most comprehensive and 
authoritative treatment of the subject. This 
great work, published in two cloth bound vol- 
umes of more than 600 pages each, contains 
hundreds of illustrations and is invaluable to 
anyone interested in fish or fishing. It de- 
scribes the different species of fish in a man- 
ner that enables you to identify them. It tells 
of their life and habits: how, when and where 
different species are caught. . . . \ How fish 
breathe, smell, taste and talk. It treats on 
migratory fish, colors of fish, food value of fish, 
the mythology of fishes; mermaid, monkfish, 
bishop-fish, sea-serpents, etc. Its description of 
popular fishes includes trout, flounder, catfish. 
perch, bass, swordfish, eel, galing, blackfish, 
sand-darter, mullet, mackerel, herring, king- 
fish, halibut and other species; pond-skippers, 
cave-fish, file-fish, trigger-fish, headlight-fish, 
trunk-fish and other species of freak fish too 
numerous to mention are fully described. 
Packed ready for shipment these two volumes 
weigh ten pounds. Price, delivered to any ad- 
dress in the United States, $12.00. Canadian 
orders subject to extra shipping charge and 
custom fee. 
THE GAME FISHES OF THE WORLD. By 
Charles Frederick Holder, LL.D. This vol- 
ume is designed to provide a well illustrated 
condensed account of the principal game fishes 
of the world. Large 8vo. Elaborately illus- 
trated. Handsomely bound. $5.00. 
GOIN’ FISHIN’. By Dixie Carroll. Author of 
“Fishing Tackle and Kits,” “Lake and Stream 
Game Fishing”; editor of The National Sports- 
man, Chicago Evening News, etc. Introduc- 
tion by Major-General Leonard Wood. A new 
book for the every now-and-then fisherman as 
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