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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1921 
MARTIN 
AUTOMATIC 
FISHING REEL 
Solves that Back-Lash and Other Angling Problems 
or out rushes, 
75 to 226 feet 
PERFECT IN CONSTRUCTION 
Works like a window shade in the hands of an expert or 
amateur. 
No Cranking — No Slack Line— Controls ir 
plunges or leaps. Made in four sizes, 
line capacity. 
LEFT HAND REELS MADE TO ORDER 
Send for Catalogue 
MARTIN AUTOMATIC FISHING REEL1C0 
Mohawk New York 
RELIABLE IN ACTION 
This Is Our 
101st Year 
Good Fishing 
Begins With 
loucJila/ 
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A NGLING modesty and angling lan- 
guage have given it the name 
Luck. But every experienced 
fisherman knows how much of it is pure 
luck and how much good tackle. He 
knows his luck is more or less fixed by 
what he buys at the tackle counter to fish 
with. 
The luck of anglers who fish with 
Abbey & Imbrie tackle began a century 
ago and continues. It is a paraphernalia 
from which our great grandfathers se- 
lected their luck and in which later gen- 
erations have found theirs. It is century- 
proven quality in a variety that supplies, 
with staple or novelty, every need of the 
fisherman anywhere, for salt or fresh 
water, for sea, lake or stream, and for any 
species of fish that anglers seek. 
Your luck awaits you at the best 
tackle stores, at the counter that 
shows The Sign of the Leaping 
Dolphin, the Abbey & Imbrie trade- 
mark. Catalog on receipt of 4 cents 
to cover postage. 
Abbey & Imbrie 
Division' of Ba\er, Murray & Imbrie, Inc. 
97 Chambers 
vm&amim. 
New York 
“Osprey” 
‘Dardevlet’ 
“It took me six years to find out about this 
bait." — Lou J. Eppinger. 
“Yes. sir; that’s the gospel truth. 
“Six years ago a fellow came Into my sport- 
ing goods store asking for a split ring and a 
treble hook. 
“I thought nothing about it, but pretty soon 
in come some more fellows for more split rings 
and treble hooks. 
“Season after season they kept coming, more 
and more of 'em each year, until my curiosity 
was aroused and I'd ask 'em what in thunder 
they were doin' with 'em. No answer, but a 
knowin' look and a wise wink. 
“Well, sir, I knew they had somethin' awful 
good or they wouldn't be keepin* so mum, so 
I got to nosin' around and finally discovered 
that one of my old customers had been mak- 
ing these 'mystery spoons' and selling them to 
his friends, until finally 'most everybody in 
Detroit was usin' them. 
“Last summer I verified a report that 36 
pike had been caught on this spoon at Echo 
Lake, Mich., in one morning! 
“So I am selling the whole bait now — and 
I can it the OSPREY DARDEVLE casting 
and trolling spoon. If your dealer hasn't 
gotten them yet. I'll send It anywhere in the 
United States or Canada, postpaid, for 85 
cents. Made in 26 different finishes, all 
proven successful; the one shown above Is one 
of the killers. Made of solid brass; weight, 
1 ounce; length, 3Yz inches; width, 1 inch. 
“It wiggles and wobbles and whirls. 
Casts farther than other baits, and with less 
effort. Rides high or low. controlled with 
your rod and reel." 
Send Today for Your Osprey 
Silk*Casting Line 
“OSPREY" lines are waterproofed so they 
won't rot. are braided so they shoot thru the 
guides like greased lightning, and are guar- 
anteed to stand anything excepting rough or 
cracked guides. "Osprey" lines have stood 
the test for ten years. 
Present Prices Are; 
15-lb test. $2.00; 20-lb. test, $2.75 
23-lb. test. $3.00; 26-lb. test. 3.25 
30-lb. test, 3.75; 12-lb test, spec’l, 50 yds., 
$1.65. (Postpaid.) 
j LOU J. EPPINGER 
319 E. Congress St. Dept. O Detroit, Mich. 
H,eddon 
Bait Casting Reels 
> Jim Heddon 2-Piece Rods 
Baby Crab and Other Minnows 
“AsK the Fish I.’’ 
“ Jas. Heddon’s Sons. 
Dowagiac, Mich. 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
98 °/o 
VVeedless 
and flies. I like a rod light, as light as 
is compatible with service; by and large, 
a 3% ounce 8'-6" or 9'-6" should meet 
every requirement, providing the stream 
is sufficiently open to handle so light 
a wand. Where there is much brush 
to entangle the backcast, or the fish 
are known to run unduly large, I would 
say a 5' rod. Perhaps, unless a fisher- 
man has had considerable practice in 
handling a light rod, he should not in- 
vest at the start in a rod under 5', for 
let me tell you here that a 5' rod is 
light when the angler is firmly con- 
nected up with a 3-pound rainbow. The 
fight that a rainbow will put up in 
rapid water is something undreamed of 
by the brook trout fisherman of quiet 
pools. Believe me, the well conditioned 
rainbow in fast water is one of the 
“fightenist” individuals wearing pink 
gills. 
As to flies, that much discussed sub- 
ject concerning which there is such 
a wide disagreement, I can only 
say I have my favorites. In early 
spring there is no necessity ordinarily 
for overly small flies, whatever may 
be true when the streams shrink and 
the fish become shy and agnostic 
along in the middle of the sum- 
mer. A medium sized fly is more than 
apt to prove a taking one in the spring. 
Still I have known the large fly to fail 
even at the first rise. Once I found 
that the tiniest gray-brown fly, a nonde- 
script tied by myself, took fish in 
plenty on the first day of May; but 
then, the season was unusually forward 
and the fish feeding on some small “bug” 
not much larger than a mosquito. That 
was great fishing, the season being 
ushered in with fly-fishing comparable 
to the very best June conditions'. 
Probably one of the best spring flies, 
all the year fly for that matter, is the 
Royal Coachman; with me it comes 
nearer being the generally universal 
fly than any with which I am acquaint- 
ed. Of course not many fly-fishermen 
will agree with me, which will only 
prove that we are all fishermen. I have 
found the darker flies proving attrac- 
tive early in the season, the browns, 
blacks and grays. The Black Prince is 
a prime favorite with me, ranking these 
days above my well beloved Black Gnat. 
Last year I found Par. Belle attractive 
early, but not worth much later, which 
was also true of the Silver Doctor, a 
fly too pretty to be truly attractive day 
in and day out. Fact is, there is no 
such thing as a general purpose fly, 
whatever fans may say to the contrary. 
To me these first days of the open 
season are great, just great! Perhaps 
I should say these first days of fly-fish- 
ing, for not always are flies “high” 
when the season first opens, of which 
I have already written. Once the fish 
take it into their heads that flies are 
the thing, then the true fly-fisher has 
approached as near to a piscatorial 
heaven as is alloted us poor mortals 
here below. To wander up and down a 
stream, fishing against the current 
wherever possible, with the flood when 
the strong current forbids the up-stream 
action, flicking a fly here and there, is 
the sport of sports. Fly-fishing forever. 
identify you. 
