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FOREST AND STREAM 
July, 1921 
A LL the old charm 
- of these two 
famous hotels now 
combined and added 
to. Hospitable. Home 
like. Finest cuisine 
Every modern com- 
fort and service. 
LEEDS AND LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 
(halfonte-Haddon ^all 
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J 
ON THE BEACH AND THE BOARDWALK - AMERICAN PLAN 
ALWAYS OPEN 
The Challenge 
of a Forest King 
That’s a bit of everyday life in open 
season deep in the Maine woods. 
Nature provides a wonderful play- 
ground — fishing, camping, hunting, 
canoeing. A night’s ride from 
Boston. 
send 10 cents jot * In the Maine Woods.’' 
a book for those who >xke rca. sport. 
Vacation Bureau. Bangor & Aroostook 
JL R Depi. J . 
Burlington fiotel 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
380 ROOMS 
$2.50 to $4.00 European 
$5.00 to $7.00 American 
Out of business district, only five 
minutes walk to White House, 
Theatres and Stores. 
HOMELIKE CLEAN SAFE 
EUSTIS, Lake Co., Florida 
First and Third National prizes for big mouth black 
bas3 just awarded to people fishing in the Lakes of 
Eustis. One of the most beautiful spots in Florida. 
Very prominent sportsmen come here. They are always 
sure of real sporty fishing and hunting. To fishermen, 
I recommend Nigger Town Creek section as best in 
United States; to hunters, the Blackwater Oak Scrub 
Is a "sure enough” devilish spot You need your best 
gun out there. If the longing for a good fish or hunt 
is in your bones, write me. I’ll tell you about it, and 
send you a book. 
C. W. WILLIAMS, EUSTIS, FLA. 
Block Island, Rhode Island 
Best Tuna Fishing on Atlantic Coast 
In Writing to 
BR-R-R0WN TROUT!! 
“On return last week from my hotel, the Graham, at 
Prattsville, N. Y., I brought back two German Brown 
Trout, each over two pounds. This was good bait and 
a party of six were booked on It for the coming week — 
«ix weeks ahead of our regular opening. Yes, we sleep 
In tents or in the hotel proper. 
“I can tell you more about this if you will ask 
me to." 
CHAS. 1. MOREY. 
46 Bank Street Newark, N. J. 
BEAR MOUNTAIN CAMPS 
Trout and salmon fishing; bear, moose, part- 
ridge hunting in season. Canoes, boats and 
guides furnished. Special accommodations 
for guests who wish to camp outdoors. Rates 
for hotel or outdoor camping, $21 weekly 
and up. 
HAR RY H. HALL, Bear Mountain Camps, 
R. F. D. No. 2, Fatten, Maine 
Northern New Hampshire 
Trout and Salmon 
Fishing May 1 to Sept. 30. Log camps away 
from the crowd; “good eats’’, dean beds; good 
road; best of fishing. Hunting Oct. 1 to Dec. 16. 
Deer and bear. Bring the wife along. Near the 
Canadian Border. Write for information and 
rates. 
ARTHUR L. VARNEY, Registered Guide, 
Pittsburg, N. H. 
Trout! Salmon! Salmon! Trout! 
At Deerfoot Camps on Lake Onawa, Main*. 
You camp alongside one of the most beauti- 
ful lakes in America and within six miles 
there are filled with trout and salmon 
1 4TM ORE LAKES 
Write to Mr. Bodfish for a booklet or 
Deerfoot Camps, Onawa, Maine. 
Staples Ranch, Story, Wye. 
Tie Garden Spot of the Big Horns 
The values of recreation are four — physical 
mental, social and moral. Get your recrea- 
tion at our ranch — located between North and 
South Piney Rivers in the midst of historical 
battle country. Ranch house has all modern 
conveniences. A postal card will bring a book- 
let from Herbert G. Staples, Story, Wyoming. 
Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It anil 
the pleasure of the angler. 
Before attempting- to disengage the 
hook, the vertebrae should be severed by 
a hatchet — if one is procurable — or a 
heavy fish knife will serve the purpose 
if intelligently handled. This at once 
paralyzes it and renders it harmless 
unless sheer carelessness on the part 
of the operator is manifested. 
T HE gurnards and sculpins, once so 
plentiful along the coast, appear 
to be diminishing in numbers as 
the years go by. 
Twenty years ago the large gurnards 
or sea robins, as they are usually 
termed, were at times extremely annoy- 
ing. However, they are not altogether 
an unmixed evil, as they are really fine 
eating when properly prepared. 
Sculpins are but little regarded as a 
pest of late years, but as we are as- 
sured that — “the sea shall give up its 
dead” — we may have them back with 
us again. In which event — but why 
anticipate ? 
When reflected upon, it seems a pecu- 
liar thing that not a single specimen of 
what can be properly termed “dross of 
the sea” is of pleasant aspect. All are 
what we would naturally term deform- 
ities or monstrosities. Not one is either 
brilliantly marked or built along con- 
ventional lines. Each carries its dis- 
tinctive mark of demerit and it would 
seem that each vies with the other as to 
which shall be paramount in imperfec- 
tion. Still each species fills its wonted 
niche and performs its assigned func- 
tions in nature. 
We are perforce compelled to accept 
as a fact the assertion that nothing has 
been made in vain, but on observation it 
would appear that Dame Nature came 
perilously near making a mistake when 
she created the “sally growler” or toad- 
fish. Here is a specimen fit for noth- 
ing; not even to look at. It is to be 
met with wherever muddy bottoms are 
found in bays and rivers, and will swal- 
low any kind of bait, and will, if pos- 
sible, swallow the hook to a point sev- 
eral inches beyond its tail. 
A grotesque caricature of a catfish 
and covered with wart-like excressences 
mounted on a slimy skin, it needs no 
further description, as most anglers 
have met with it. Those who have not, 
need not have regrets over the matter. 
If we accept literally the theory that 
the fittest only survive” then we are 
forced to the conclusion that the real 
mission of this subject requires imme- 
diate scientific research. 
The dogfish, or as it is now quite gen- 
erally being termed “greyfish”, is a 
member of the shark family and ex- 
tremely clean in its habits. It has for 
ages been regarded as entirely worth- 
less and a general nuisance to market 
fishermen as well as to those who fish 
for sport. It is, however, very clean to 
handle, is easily unhooked, and by some 
latter day enthusiast is deemed a really 
good fish for the table. 
It is a notable fact that when these 
fish are about in considerable numbers 
all other fish are correspondingly 
scarce, as they are extremely pugna- 
cious in character and very destructive 
identify yen. 
