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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1921 
KNICKERBOCKER FISHING TACKLE KIT 
Carries a 
Complete Tackle Outfit 
BROWN COWHIDE LEATHER 
ALUMINUM TRAYS 
A PLACE FOR EVERY THING 
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE 
Ask your dealer or address: 
KNICKERBOCKER CASE CO., Mfrs., 226 N. Clinton St., CHICAGO 
JAMISON’S 
FLY ROD WIGGLER 
LOOKS LIKE A FISH 
ACTS LIKE A FISH 
It catches more fish and bigger fish than 
any other fly rod lure known. Ask anyone 
who has used it. Exquisitely finished in 
beautiful designs that are exact imitations 
of real living minnows. Can hardly be told 
from one. Made in Silver Shiner, Golden 
Shiner, Red Side Minnow, Yellow Perch, 
Red Head with White Body, All White, All 
Yellow and All Red. 
Large Bass size, 2 z /j in. longlrjc-. 
Small Bass size, 114 in- longl DOt '* 
Trout size, in. long ( each 
Four in vest pocket compartment boat, 
$2.60 
Send stamp for catalog of Baits, Flies, 
Lines, Leaders, Etc. 
W. J. JAMISON CO. 
Dept. S 736 So. California Avenue, 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
nti 
Baclfclash 
(Patented; 
Requires no thumbing or spool- 
ing. DRYS THE LINE ON 
THE REEL. Instantly adjusted 
to any bait and force of cast. 
Throws bait into or with wind 
accurately and WITHOUT 
BACK-LASHING. Simply con- 
structed — no gears to get out of 
order. Weighs but six ounces. 
Mechanically perfect. Direct 
drive “brass on steel” bearing. 
Takes up 15 inches. Beautifully 
built — smoothly finished in nickel, 
staunch, easily adjusted, free 
running. And the SPRING 
THUMBS THE REEL. It can- 
not back-lash. Instant take-apart. 
Ask your dealer — or sent prepaid 
from manufacturers on receipt 
of $4-50. Address Dept. 21 
BensonVaile Co. 
My New 
Blue 
Devil 
Darning 
Needle! 
It's a Dry Fly — Trout and Bass Jump at It. 
You have known the Joe Welsh Leader for years 
— now make the acquaintance of the "Blue 
Devil." 
Joe Welsh Leader in 6 breaking strains — a 
3-ft length by mail, 25c.; 6-ft. length, 50c.: 
9-ft for 75o. 
A "Blue Devil" and 3-ft Leader. 75c. 
JOE WELSH 
( ; Pasadena, California 
Distributor for 
U. S. and CANADA 
KOKOMO, INDIANA 
TROUT FLIES 
FROM THE EMERALD ISLE 
Tied on best tested hooks; eyed or taper 
shank and looped gut (4^2 inches). Any 
size from No. 8 to 12. 
All the standard American patterns or 
any special pattern supplied. 
Guaranteed Irish make and tied here on 
the premises. 
PRICE, 60 CENTS PER DOZEN 
Special terms to the trade. Immediate 
attention given to all orders. A trial 
solicited. 
L. KEEGAN 
( Specialist in Fly Tying ) 
3 INNS QUAY, DUBLIN, IRELAND 
isherman, though he would probably 
1 sclaim it. I met one by chance on the 
stream, and asked if he were using fly 
or bait. “Neither”, was the reply; 
“Grasshoppers.” This was surely a case 
of “neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red 
herring”. He informed me that one day 
during the week previous he had taken 
seventeen fish, — too many for the 
stream, place, and time of the season. 
He volunteered the information that 
during the summer he had taken over 
five hundred fish in that stream alone. 
I thought I heard the bristles rattle, as 
he spoke. Think of it! Only six miles 
from the city, he had three times the 
number of trout he needed to take in 
order to have suitable sport. How long 
can any stream stand such a drain? 
Only the constant restocking of the 
water could keep the creek on the map. 
There is a commendable effort under 
way by the members of the Kenwood 
Rod and Gun Club. They have a gen- 
tlemen’s agreement to return all fish 
under eight inches, and to be moderate 
in the size of their keep. 
Unfortunately, anglers, not members 
of the club, also fish the stream; these 
apparently take all they can, and keep 
all they take. The efforts of the club 
members to be gentlemen anglers is as 
commendable as the attitude of the oth- 
ers is to be reprehended. I confess this 
is one of the things in connection with 
sport which gets me “riled”. It is like 
the person who goes to the Sunday 
School picnic and gets as many helpings 
as possible of ice cream and cake, re- 
gardless of how many others are com- 
nelled to go without. If this keeps up, 
how long will it be before every man’s 
sport is spoiled? Blessed is the fisher- 
man who knows when to stop! 
EARLY FISHING 
FOR BROOK TROUT 
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far if not hooked. A speckled trout 
will swallow a worm in early spring, 
lie down and go to sleep; not so the 
rainbow. The instant he touches the 
worm he is away, and if hooked, things 
are doing from the instant of impaling 
until exhausted or flung upon the bank. 
In a brushy, small creek a 10-inch 
rainbow will give the experienced angler 
all he wants before successfully landed. 
I like to stand near when a red-spot 
worm-fisher hooks his first rainbow in 
one of our Middle West tangled mea- 
dow brooklets; the look of surprise and 
consternation which quickly dispels the 
snug complacency is joy to the experi- 
enced angler. With grasshoppers in mid- 
summer I have gone back to an open- 
ing in a brushy stream again and again, 
feeding ’hoppers liberally, before secur- 
ing the fish. As the pitcher that is 
taken to the well too often gets broken, 
so the rainbow that monkeys with a 
worm or ’hopper too long will get hooked 
at last, if the angler is “on to his job.” 
While we play with the little streams 
early in the spring and once in a while 
during the summer, it is always dis- 
tinctly play; the fishin^ lacks the seri- 
ln Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
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