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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1921 
“AUTOBED” 
The Autobed makes a comfortable bed for two 
people and can be used in any 5 or 7 passenger 
car, except those with winter top. Can be put up 
in 5 minutes. The great convenience of the 
“Autobed" is that you can camp anywhere 
your car may be, simply put on your side curtains 
and you can sleep in comfort and save hotel ex- 
pense. The “ Autobed’’ is only 4 ft. long and 5 
inches in diameter when rolled up. It weighs less 
than 25 lbs. Frame is made of selected hard- 
wood with all metal parts galvanized. Bed is of 
heavy duck. Tension is from end to end and can 
be regulated by giving the end rail a !4 or V 2 
turn. Occupants will not roll to center as is the 
case when bed is supported from the sides. Length 
74 inches. Width over all, 48 inches. Width of 
bed. 40 inches. Complete instructions for setting 
up “Autobed” in car are furnished. 
For sale by dealers. If your dealer cannot 
supply you we will ship you “Autobed” complete 
for $18.00. Waterproof Carrying Case, $4.80 
extra. 
TENTOBED COMPANY 
3300 Jackson Boulevard, 
Write for Booklet No. 11 Chicago, 111. 
HADE EASYK 
WILBUR SHOTGUN PEEP SIGHT, 
deadly addition to the modern shotgun. Makes good 
shots of poor ones. Fast enough for map 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 
IIS West 39th St., P. 0. Box 185, Times Square, New York 
Cheapest Vay to Go 
Vto work, to school, or for fun and 
r tc work, to school, or for fun and 
recreation is on a Ranger Bicycle. 
Choice ot 44 Styles, colors and sizes. 
Save 810 to §25 on Direct From-the- 
Factory shipment. 30 Days Free 
Trial, shipped on approval. We pay 
the express both ways if not accepted. 
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Saved time and carfare easily meets 
the small monthly payments. 
T I IT 0 S equipment— half usual retail prices. 
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WILD RICE BRINGS 
THE DUCKS 
PLANT NOW and provide 
a natural feeding ground 
to attract them next fall. 
Terrell's seeds grow. Write 
today for planting informa- 
tion and prices. 
CLYDE B. TERRELL. 
Dept. H2I0, Oshkosh, Wis. 
SALMON AND TROUT FISHING 
Twenty-two ponds in the midst of the greatest fish- 
ing country’ in Maine. Good early salmon and trout 
fishing in West Branch of Penobscot River and 
Sourdnahunk Stream. Canoes on all ponds, and 
guides furnished when requested. Vegetables from 
our own garden. Fresh milk and eggs. Best ref- 
erences. Write for free booklet and map of fishing 
terrtow 
KIDNEY POND CAMPS n&props. 
Nor ross. Main" Tel. in Camps 
scene of commotion. “Its a shark, not a 
trout! What’ll I do? Will the line hold 
him? Look out! Call the dogs,” and 
many other wild expletives of this na- 
ture, told me the big moment had come. 
The big fish of the trip was making his- 
tory, and a terrific struggle it was. But 
the Judge became calm as I became ex- 
cited and fought his prize like the vet- 
eran that he was. Slower and more fee- 
ble were the runs, until finally his rod 
bent to a semi-circle and I rushed into 
the stream eager to assist in the land- 
ing. I sprawled over the big fish’s 
convulsive anatomy after the Judge had 
guided him to shallow water. My fin- 
gers found his gills, and I held him up. 
Now for the explanation of the 
squeak. Not only was the catch a 
beautiful twenty-inch steelhead trout, 
but it also included an animal as well. 
A little brown bat had grabbed t.ie arti- 
ficial fly in mid air and was neatly 
hooked through the lip, while in turn 
the big trout was treated in the same 
manner when he struck the disabled 
bat on the water. 
Thus did we talk away the hours of 
the last night in our temple of freedom. 
The big fire had ceased to be active but 
glowed a comforting warmth and color. 
Don and Music were stretched out in 
restful attitudes tunefully dreaming of 
what — we could only guess. The wind 
whispered softly through the needles of 
the redwoods — a song to the deathless 
glory of spring. 
TROUT FISHING IN 
UINTA BASIN 
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got the boots out of the panniers and 
jointed up the rods. 
Davy and Walt and I went upstream. 
Fly fishing may be said to consist of 
two distinct principles: Casting at con- 
siderable distance to simulate the fall 
of an insect upon the water; and drift- 
ing the fly into the shady places where 
the trout alertly awaits the coming of 
his natural prey. If the stream is 
somewhat obstructed by rocks and logs 
and overhung with brush the latter 
method is by far the more deadly. I 
may say for the benefit of sojourners 
in this region that we found the gray 
and brown hackles and coachman to be 
the most kindly received, especially the 
brown hackle. 
After a couple of hundred yards of 
broad open water, from which we took 
three or four trout apiece, we encoun- 
tered a series of old beaver dams that 
diverted the water in a half dozen 
meandering rivulets away from the 
main channel. The boys climbed the 
bank and went on to the big water 
above. I crossed on some down timber 
the industrious beavers had cut a few 
years before and began drifting my 
fly across the eddies among the logs. 
In the first little whirlpool, which was 
perhaps three feet across, the wide- 
open red mouth of a half-pound cut- 
throat trout flashed from under a sub- 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
merged log to take the fly. The little 
brown hackle was leaving the water as 
he struck it. I kept the tip of the 
rod sufficiently elevated to hold him at 
the surface and after considerable 
splashing landed him in the basket. 
For this sort of fishing a single fly 
is best. For all other forms of water 
I like a dropper with a touch of white to 
serve as a guide to the location of the 
more effective leading fly, which is 
usually an inconspicuous bit of gray or 
brown. I never knew before that a 
trout starts for his prey with mouth 
wide open. What a startling and ter- 
rorizing thing it must be to a real live 
moth floating helplessly in the water, to 
see a yawning red cavern coming with 
a savage rush to engulf him. Some of 
the larger trout looked so vicious, charg- 
ing headlong from beneath the sodden 
logs, that I was almost scared myself. 
Two hours passed as a minute while 
I angled along the side streams, taking 
toll from every hiding place, and then 
I saw Davy coming, wading down 
among the boulders at the edge of the 
big water, industriously casting before 
him. As I looked there was a flash of 
silver and Davy struck. It was ap- 
parently a big fish and well hooked. 
The big fellow took Davy down and 
across the current — and then it hap- 
pened! My friend slipped with both 
feet at once and landed in a sitting 
position with the cold waves lapping at 
his armpits. He lifted the rod high, 
but the prize was gone. Above the roar 
of the waters I heard the murmur of 
his remarks as he continued to sit there, 
but my ears were spared the actual 
words. He arose and joined me and we 
walked down the sunny bank to camp. 
Our baskets were almost full. 
T HAT was a great week we spent 
among the streams and lakes of 
the Uinta Range, a week of splen- 
did fishing in a country where man has 
gone so seldom that there was never a 
sign of a beaten trail along the banks. 
And remember, those were native-born 
cut-throat trout we were catching, not 
fish that had seen the light of day in the 
sluices of a hatchery — and the year was 
1920. 
Motor travelers of the Pike’s Peak 
Ocean to Ocean Highway pass through 
the Basin on their way from Denver to 
Salt Lake City and but for their mad 
hurry might turn off to the north ten 
or fifteen miles on some of the roads 
between Vernal and Roosevelt and at 
almost any stock ranch obtain saddle 
horses at nominal expense for a delight- 
ful trip in the Ashley and Uinta Na- 
tional Forests. The Uinta Range is one 
of the few upon the earth’s surface ex- 
tending from east to west. Down the 
southern slope of these mountains flow 
half a dozen large streams, all well sup- 
plied with fighting trout. 
When the time came to think of start- 
ing for home we town dwellers had be- 
come a little more familiar with our 
saddles, and the trails seemed much 
better than when we had gone up. We 
rode back down to the ranch at sun- 
down one evening, and the next morn- 
ing Davy and I climbed into the car 
and took the homeward road. We 
identify yen. 
