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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1921 
GAME FIELDS BEYOND 
THE WITCHERY OF DISTANCE OFTEN LURES THE SPORTS- 
MAN AWAY FROM BETTER GROUNDS NEARER HOME 
By F. E. BRIMMER 
J Had lo 
Stop Him 
Eight hundred pounds 
of wounded grizzly 
charging down the 
trail. X couldn’t get 
out of his way. I 
had to stop him. I 
got a quick bead with 
my Lyman Sights and 
dropped him with a 
bullet through h i s 
brain. 
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HE old saying that 
“Distance lends en- 
chantment to the 
views” applies with 
aptitude to hunting, 
fishing, and the other 
outdoor sports. 
Somehow we all 
have the notion that 
somewhere a long 
ways away from 
where we live 
there is a hunt- 
the efforts of the long trip. They start- 
ed out at daybreak like good sportsmen 
will and they sped on and on to the dis- 
tant waters for big and plentiful trout 
in the springtime when they are sup- 
posed to be hungry as wolves. If I was 
not telling of literal facts I might go 
into detail but it will be sufficient to say 
that these two veteran sportsmen 
whipped for several days the best trout 
streams they had set their hearts on 
reaching. It so happened that a dry and 
cold spring had taken away the appe- 
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SOLVENT 
er’s paradise and if we could only get tite 0 f the fishes and they reported not a 
there once in a while the sport would s j n g] e strike of the big ones they were 
be beyond anything we have enjoyed. a ft er 
Or there is the glowing stoiy of an ideal However, on the return home these 
trout stream where Nature leigns su fi s b ermen stopped at a little stream 
preme and the pink-bodied eau les as twentv miles from home, m stream that. 
in endless numbers. 
twenty miles from home, a stream that 
, ., they could have easily reached any 
Maybe ^ some^ time ^ the^ oppor^um y a ft ernoon or m0 rning in forty minutes, 
and they caught some mighty fine brown 
trout right at their own front doors. 
Had those same fish yielded up the ghost 
in a far distant land we would have 
comes and we do get there. Then it is 
that we remember those ignorant immi- 
grants who come oft to America with 
the idea that our streets are paved with 
gold. For when the long trip has been heard aU kinds of taleg about the __ 
made and the hunting ground reache der f u j pools away off there. Since the 
after bitter effort and much spending o fishermen were disappointed with this 
gasoline it somehow never looks so goo i on g t r jp and ^ tk eir trout near home 
as it did away back there where we came tkey now are advocates 0 f fishing at 
from. And the stream that we heard home. 
one lone member at the club describe 
as running through the Garden of Eden 
somehow looks ordinary enough when 
we arrive, and the fish are just like 
those at home. 
This is not exactly a hunt at home 
article that I am trying to get out of my 
system, but I do want every last sports- 
When you think dt over you must 
agree that this is about as it should be. 
You go into foreign territory and you 
are in ignorance as to the best places 
and the right streams to try. So you 
stumble about and maybe the luck is 
with you and likely it isn’t. If you are 
man to consider well when he looks merely after the hike and the scenery 
across the continent or to another ^fi en you fi ave no kick. But if you want 
planet for a new hunting or fishing 
thrill. You can go to the end of the 
earth and back and then never find any 
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a minimum of results at least, then you 
may be disappointed. The streams 
, , . , . , nearby you learn to know from A to 
better sport than you have right at doub i e Z and then you get to know cer- 
home in many cases. Somehow the tain grand _ daddys that live in cert ain 
places nearby don t seem nearly^ at- places and eventually you come to learn 
that fishing near home is in the long- 
run the best sport after all. 
But this is not the whole truth of the 
matter. You get more interested in 
-, T , , , j. x i . , ... looking after the game and helping en- 
Not that I do not' believe in long trips , 
T ^ t _„_n_ :j. force the laws m your section. You be- 
gin to figure and to white your congress- 
tractive as those far away. And there 
is the delusion! Distance lends en- 
chantment to the hunting ground and 
the fishing waters. So consider well be- 
fore you leap. 
for I take many myself, but usually it 
is about fifty-fifty for sport and for mai- bo g e £ better protection and more 
scenery. When you go for the great 0U fc 0 f the license money that you pay 
outdoors that ever spins past you, then into your state treasury. You commu- 
distance does lend an enchantment every nicate with your Conservation Commis- 
step of the way. Are you sure you know sion and get their slant on your own 
your own section of the woods, your own home conditions. Maybe you form a 
pools in those nearby streams? After sportsmans club and then you get 
you do then you are in a better position busy with game propagation and protec- 
to judge the long trips. tion. Every last one of us knows about 
Recently a couple of friends of mine game law violations thiat have gone on 
concocted a distant spring trouting trip, for years. How about getting the men 
For weeks the/ made plans and I expect together and stopping lit? The game 
caught “big ones” in their slumbers, about your section will afford you more 
Maybe this was recompense enough, sport than all the rest of the game in the 
Certainly it was about all they got from world. Give it your best assistance. 
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