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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1921 
New Deluxe Wag Tail Chub 
A Nature Lure which apparently swims 
with its tail. The last word in the making 
of artificial baits. Nothing like it on the 
market. 
Looks like a live Minnow, swims like one 
and is a real fish getter. Scale finish body 
254 in. long, weight oz., Nickel Plated 
Tail (Patent pending). Convertible, an excellent surface, near surface or deep bait. Guaran- 
teed satisfactory in every respect or money refunded. Price $1.10. 
CATCHES MORE FISH — "Tan. IS, 1921. Please send me two Wag Tail baits, 
Natural Perch Finish. Mr. J. F. Hill caught S beautiful large mouth bass last Saturday 
using this bait. He tried other baits but could not even get a strike. D. W. Breazleah, 
Natchitoches, La.” 
Send for information regarding the famous PIKIE MINNOW and other Nature Lures. 
The Creek Chub Bait Co., 131 Randolph St.,Garrett, Ind. 
“Live” Nature Baits 
P ERCY WADHAM’S Na- 
ture baits are so close an 
imitation of the fish they rep- 
resent that they have every 
appearance of the live fish, 
and this similarity is enhanced 
by the naturalness which their 
light weight gives to their 
movement through the water. 
Nearlv indestructible. Col- 
ors withstand the roughest 
treatment — will not rub off 
or show scratches. Supplied 
in the most popular size — 3- 
incli — and in these species : 
Gudgeon, Dace. Smelt, Trout. 
Many anglers have found in 
Wadham’s Nature bait's the 
most successful lures they 
have ever used. They retail 
at $2.00 each. 
Ask for Abbey & Imbrie quality 
tackle at the best stores — 
where you see The Sign of the 
Leaping Dolphin, the Abbey & 
Imbrie trademark. 
Abbey & Imbrie 
Division of Baker, Murray & Imbrie, Inc. 
There’s a lot more sport in a 
day’s fishing when you don’t 
have to sweat at the oars. 
You get more fish, too, with 
a husky little Evinrude to 
speed you from marsh to 
rocky bar and from deep 
hole to shallows. 
You can breeze along at S 
miles an hour or slow down 
to ideal trolling speed. An 
Evinrude is quickly attached 
to the stern of any rowboat. 
Easily installed in canoes, 
too. 
Ask your sporting goods 
or hardware dealer. Or 
send for catalog. 
Evinrude Motor Co. 
399 Evinrude Bldg., Milwaukee 
Distributors: 
69 Cortlandt St.. New York. N. Y. 
214 State St.. Boston. Mass. 
440 Market St.. San Francisco 
Cal. 
211 Morrison St., Portland, Ore. 
EVINRUDE 
DETACHABLE MOTOR FOR WATERCRAFT 
10 Warren St., New York City 
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church, also to his son Arthur, who, by 
the way, was as deaf as an adder. At 
length, as the train came rushing 
around a bend, the locomotive gave vent 
to an unearthly and ear-piercing shriek 
that caused most of us to put our hands 
to our ears. Then, Fred, turning to the 
rector, said quietly: 
“Arthur says that was the first robin 
he has heard this spring!” 
THE RENAISSANCE 
OF THE BEAVER 
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pond has been raised to such an extent 
that much of a golden beach which 
skirts the northern end of the pond has 
been submerged and an abandoned road 
which parallels the pond on the south 
and west nas been flooded for several 
rods. 
A mile and a half away on Shallow 
Lake there is still another beaver com- 
munity. Its members have dammed 
Sucker Brook, the inlet of the lake, 
which is a stream considerably wider, 
thoug’h not so deep, as Brown’s Tract 
Inlet. Sucker Brook flows into Shallow 
Lake from Queer Lake and a trail 
which borders its unnavigable upper 
reaches makes it a woods thoroughfare. 
Any seeking Queer Lake by that l’oute, 
however, must drag their boat across 
the beaver dam. 
It is asserted that the erection of the 
beaver dam has hurt the fishing on 
L-c>er Brook which once abounded in 
trout. The best fishing is said to have 
been when the stream first reached its 
normal depth of eighteen inches or two 
feet in the spring. The beaver dam 
has created a permanent depth of three 
feet or more for a considerable dis- 
tance upstream and the fishing is not 
what it used to be. 
To be sure, that is true of most Adi- 
rondack streams, whether inhabited by 
beaver or not. It may be that even 
though the beaver have changed condi- 
tions on Sucker Brook they are not at 
fault in the matter of the fishing. It 
may be true even that the beaver dam 
there has created a kind of trout sanc- 
tuary and that future generations of 
anglers will rise up and call the oeaver 
blessed. But to the present generation 
it is most exasperating to cast by the 
hour with only meagre results upon en- 
ticing black water that has yielded its 
trout by the hundreds. It does not add 
to the angler’s peace of mind either to 
hear the flipping splash of trout which 
are feeding in inaccessible safety 
among the flooded bushes which once 
bordered the bank of the stream. 
Safe in that tangle from the fishei’- 
man’s lures, the trout grow fat on the 
grubs and insects which fall from the 
partly submerged alders. Much the 
same situation prevails on Moss Lake, 
so far as the brook trout fishing is con- 
cerned. although the changed conditions 
nrobably have not affected the fishing 
for lake trout. On Moss Lake the 
scenery, as well as the fishing, has suf- 
fered, and for this the beaver certainly 
may be held to account. 
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