312 
FOREST AND STREAM 
July, 1921 
THE 1920 OFFICIAL 
Season’s Average 
WINNERS 
F. M. TROEH 
No other shooter 
in all trapdom 
has won as many 
honors with a 
shotgun as has 
this well-known 
and popular 
marks man. 
Besides winning 
the International 
Championship on 
Pigeons, the 
English Cham- 
pionship and the 
Washington State 
Championship on 
Targets in 1920, 
he won the sea- 
son’s High Gen- 
eral Average 
Honors. His score 
for the season was 
8660x8880 
. 9752 % 
A WORLD’S 
RECORD 
GUY WARD 
This popular Pro- 
fessional led all 
shooters in his 
class in the season 
of 1920. Shooting 
at a large number 
of Tournaments 
in widely separ- 
ated parts of the 
country; taking 
them as they 
came, “rain or 
shine,” he made 
the fine average of 
. 9726 % 
on a total of 6425 
targets. Consid- 
ering the amount 
of shooting done 
and the average 
compiled, this, 
also, is 
A WORLD’S 
RECORD 
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CANOE vs. ROWBOAT 
FOR A MAN FISHING ALONE THE CANOE HAS SOME 
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGES OVER A ROWBOAT 
By A. B. GILBERT 
HE fisherman who 
was planning a trip 
into Upper Canada, 
would probably imag- 
ine himself a dozen 
times ia day seated in 
the prow of a birch 
bark canoe and 
bringing the big fel- 
low gradually closer 
to the net held out 
by the redskinned 
guide. 
It is a beautiful picture, made the 
more attractive by the light, graceful 
canoe. The canoe appears to be an 
essential part of Northern Waters. But 
curiously enough 999 out of a thousand 
good fishermen, when they are about 
to fare forth on water just as beauti- 
ful near home, are entirely content to 
hire a row boat. When they buy a 
craft for fishing purposes, it is the 
same ungainly, noisy rowboat. 
There are people, of course, who 
ought to keep out of canoes — people 
with no sense of balance and lacking 
in natural quickness for the mechanics 
of motion and adaptation, but I believe 
most of the fishermen who find excite- 
ment in light tackle and in applying 
the other more subtle arts of the sport, 
would certainly experience an added 
thrill in using the canoe for fishing. 
It brings to us a great part of the 
traditional ecstacy of the North Woods 
where the canoe is necessary because 
there is nothing else, as we ply the 
lakes and streams nearer. One glides 
up to the lily pads where the big fel- 
lows lurk) as noiselessly as if he were 
a part of the water itself. The wild 
life appears hardly aware that he has 
come. 
And there is practically nothing 
which a fisherman would do in a row 
boat that he cannot do in a canoe prop- 
erly handled. The finer points of the 
art he can do better. I speak from ex- 
perience and a brotherly desire to pass 
a hint on outdoor pleasure along. 
When my wife, who follows things 
out of doors nearly as much as I do, is 
with me, she generally sits on the bow 
seat facing toward the stern and casts 
without any fear of the alleged insta- 
bility of the canoe. I occupy the stern 
seat and get in my casting between ef- 
forts at the paddle and landing her 
fish. Sometimes the baby boy or the 
family dog occupies the space between 
us. We find no difficulty in playing the 
big bass or pickerel and bringing them 
over the side. 
For the man fishing alone the canoe 
has some mechanical advantages over 
the row boat. In entirely calm water, 
the drawing in of the lure will pull the 
craft considerably in the direction one 
wants it to go. In rough water a small 
anchor let down to the weeds will hold 
it while the ground is being covered by 
the bait or the flies. 
This anchor can be raised or low- 
ered without leaving the canoe seat; 
whereas with the boat the anchor is 
generally in the forward end. Where 
the wind is only moderate, the canoe 
fisherman can get about the right 
drifiting speed by letting the anchor 
down two to three feet. 
Again the canoe greatly increases 
one’s range in many places. A port- 
age around a bit of swift water or 
from 100 feet to a mile over land fre- 
quently opens up new scenery and fish- 
ing denied the boat-bound sportsman. 
In going up a swift stream one passes 
close to the shore to avoid current; a 
brisk paddle takes him across the rapid 
water at the proper time and he again 
takes advantage of nature on the other 
side. He travels miles without fatigue. 
He seems to be skipping along the water 
because the thing which makes it pos- 
sible does not intrude on his conscious- 
ness. 
We naturally associate the canoe 
with the stream in the wilderness, but 
this does not mean that it is fit only 
for streams and unavoidable uncivilized 
lakes. Perhaps we think of it in con- 
nection with the streams because in 
wilderness traveling there are natural- 
ly more miles by stream than by lake. 
But our Northern Indian never found 
any reason for making a special craft 
like our row boats for his big lakes. 
He uses the canoe for both and has 
tricks of mastering big waves that com- 
pare with his skill in descending rap- 
ids. 
We never have any waves on our 
smaller Minnesota lakes in which a 
canoe handled with ordinary element- 
ary sense would not ride, and I sus- 
pect, although I have no opportunities 
for comparison, that able canoeists 
would have just as good a chance on a 
big lake in a big storm as a man in a 
row boat. 
Of course there are differences in 
canoes, great differences in design that 
make for 'buoyancy or the opposite. 
Perhaps a good Indian would not ven- 
ture in some of the crafts which take 
the name of canoe in vain, and unfort- 
unately I am not a specialist on the 
subject so that I cannot describe de- 
sirable qualities in proper technical 
terms. It is much easier to appreciate 
than to describe. When I bought the 
canoe I use for all purposes, five years 
ago, I sought the advice of a crank on 
the subject and was well served. 
The delightful creature was smashed 
squarely in two in a river rapids three 
years ago. The lady of the family went 
out of the bow end head first, and I 
passed out of the stern suddenly as the 
bottom of the canoe came up in my face. 
We brought the two parts home, not 
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