378 
FOREST AND STREAM 
August, 1921 
BHflingion ftotel 
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 
COLD SPRING CAMPS — FOREST AND 
AVERILL LAKES 
SUMMER FISHING 
ONLY MAINE CAMPS IN VERMONT 
Twentieth Season 
Vacation Resort For All 
Come to the Green Mountains 
Trout, Salmon, Lakers, Aureolas, Bass, Pickerel 
“Catch Them with a Fly ” 
BOATING , BATHING , TRAMPING 
Five lakes. Mile® of streams in unbroken foreet Mala 
camp, twelve cabins. Open fires. A table we are proud 
of. Boats on all lakes. Good old guides. No mos- 
quitoes nor black flies. Accessible to New York and 
Boston by motor or rail. Reliable references near you. 
75 miles from White Mountains. 20 miles from Cole- 
brook, N. H. Garage, May 1st -Oct. 15. 
“No hay feverl No asthma!*' 
H. A. QUIMBY, Mgr. Avorill. Vt. 
Trout ! Salmon ! Salmon! Trout! 
At Deerfoot Camps on Lake Onawa. Maine. 
You camp alongside one of the most beauti- 
ful lakes in America and within six mllas 
there are filled with trout and salaos 
14 MORE LAKES 
Write to Mr. Bodflsh for a booklet on 
Deerfoot Camps. Onawa. Maine. 
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. Sates 
for hotel or outdoor camping, $21 weekly 
and up. 
HARRY H. HALL, Bear Mountain Camps, 
R. F. D. No. 2, Patten, Maine 
lOng Lake, N. Y., Adirondacks 
Why go to Maine or Canada when I can give 
you good hunting and fishing 300 mile* from 
N. Y. City? Lake, Rainbow and Brook Trout, 
Bass, Pickerel and Muskalonge, May 1st to 
Aug. Slst. Deer, Oct 1st to Nov. 15. Guides 
on application. $23.00 per week and up. All in- 
quiries cheerfully answered. 
FRANK PLUMLEY’S CAMP 
Northern New Hampshire 
Trout and Salmon 
Fishing May 1 to Sept. 30. Log camps away 
from the crowd; “good eats”, dean bods: good 
road; best of fishing. Hunting Oct. 1 to Dec. 15. 
Deer and bear. Bring the wife along. Near the 
Canadian Border. Write for information and 
rates. 
ARTHUR L. VARNEY, Registered Guide, 
Pittsburg, N. H. 
The Favorite Hotel of 
Block Island, Rhode Island 
Best Tuna Fishing on Atlantic Coast 
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the hint that before long the heavens 
would open their reservoirs for our 
benefit. 
I busily ditched around the tent, 
and had it all arranged, when, going 
out into the open I obtained a better 
view of the oncoming storm. That 
settled it. I shouted to Frank that 
the tent was a poor place in which 
to be, inasmuch as we were camped 
under an oak that had been repeatedly 
struck by lightning, and that we would 
do far better if we went down to the 
lake-shore there to crawl under our 
boat. One can never trust a Minne- 
sota storm. It is treacherous and 
sometimes devastating. 
We crawled under the boat, which 
we turned up on the shore, and there 
we sat holding it up with our backs. 
I was seated exactly at the water’s 
edge and from my belt up I was com- 
paratively dry. 
The storm broke with a roar and a 
crash and the rain beat down in tor- 
rents. Then came the wind whipping 
the waves shoreward with a slap and 
a swash; but though we were a trifle 
uncomfortable in our cramped posi- 
tion, it had a wildness about it that 
was thrilling. The storm passed sooner 
than we had expected, however, at 
which we crawled out and hurried to 
the tent. This was dry within and we 
passed a comfortable night. 
To one side of us was Priest’s Bay 
and by a channel connection one can 
enter Halsted’s Bay. It is in this end 
of the lake that one can justly say the 
best fishing is found on this lake. Any 
man understanding the ins and outs 
of the fishing game should be able to 
make limit catches, if that is desired, 
especially in the autumn of the year. 
The Minnetonka Lake contains some 
mighty big bass and four and six pound- 
ers are not uncommon. (At this writ- 
ing in the autumn of 1920 a record 
size wall-eyed pike has been caught 
off of our summer camping spot at 
Hardscrabble Point weighing eight 
pounds.) A summer-caught large- 
mouth bass is by no means as ener- 
getic as one caught in September and 
October, but for all that they are 
worthy the name of bass. 
I had occasion to use on this trip a 
mouse-like bait made by Jamison which, 
having some turned up metal at the 
head, a collar, caused the bait when 
reeled in the water to wobble and wig- 
gle through the water. I doubt if I 
have ever seen or used a wooden bait 
so life-like. I had two of them that 
had lain in the midst of a staggering 
collection of fishing paraphernalia for 
years. The one I now gave its try- 
out was worthy of the name. We 
caught some excellent bass on it and 
could probably have made some limits 
but we had solemnly agreed that no 
more bass or any other fish should be 
taken into camp than we had practical 
use for. 
Came a chilly day; the sky overcast 
with clouds. But in the afternoon the 
sun broke through and the waters were 
bathed in the warm light. Entering 
Halsted’s Bay we found the water com- 
paratively calm and the bass were 
feeding all along the edges. 
Connecting on the struggling mouse 
I cast so close up to shore that at 
times it lay on the weeds. It was then 
reeled outward, giving an appearance 
of some creature leaving the shore. I 
caught a very good sized large-mouth 
bass, as shown in the photograph, the 
husky fellow seizing it hardly a foot 
from the shore line. 
A FTER an enjoyable stay at Hard- 
scrabble Point we packed up and 
rowed on. Our next stop was 
Crane Island, the heron rookery. The 
great birds were then in the midst of 
their nesting, caring for their young. 
The calls, croaks and squabbling of the 
young coming from apparently an in- 
numerable host could be heard far out 
upon the lake. 
Crane Island is probably fifty or sixty 
acres in extent; probably more than 
that. It is in a wild state, over-run 
with brush and growths of all kinds, 
not to mention great hedges of poison 
ivy. As one nears the rookery the 
mad-house clamor grows more distinct. 
The whole island seems to shake with 
the united cries and gluttonous calls. 
One is content to proceed on his in- 
vestigations step by step for the op- 
portunity of being in a wild, utterly 
unspoiled heronry in the present day 
is a sensation indeed, for it can be 
said that heron nesting grounds of the 
sort are nearly as scarce as hen’s teeth. 
Hornaday states that: “Thirty years 
ago the greatest and most numerous 
heronries in the United States were in 
Florida, on the headwaters of the St. 
Johns, on the edge of the Everglades, 
the Big Cypress Swamp and' the small 
rivers and creeks that run down to 
the sea. Today it is difficult to find 
in the country a heronry worthy of the 
name, or one that belongs to a large 
assemblage of birds.” Crane Island is 
one of the few; hence its importance. 
The application of the name “Crane” 
to this island is probably misleading, 
at least in the present day. In the 
first place our Whooping Crane ( Grus 
americana) is practically extinct and 
few if any Sandhill Cranes ( Grus 
mexicana) have ever been found here. 
Probably at one time, long ago, some 
cranes nested on this remarkable is- 
land, so giving it the name it bears, 
but I sincerely doubt it. It is the 
Great Blue Heron ( Ardea herodias) 
that has been misnamed by the peo- 
ple as the “crane,” and these are found 
in great numbers on the Minnetonkas, 
all of them having Crane Island for 
their home, although they fare ten 
miles or more for food. 
It truly is a handsome bird, because 
of the plumes on its back, breast and 
head; its flashing, all-seeing eyes and 
the silence with which it goes about 
its fishing and the patience it shows 
in its quest. Standing as it does some- 
what over three feet in height it is an 
imposing figure indeed, seen every- 
where along the Minnetonka shores. 
The trees on Crane Island during 
nesting season are one mass of nests; 
one tree alo»e seeming to have a hun- 
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