September, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
403 
THE MOOSE CALL 
T O make a horn of birch bark about 
4% inches diameter at the base 
and 1% inches at the mouth, simi- 
lar to a megaphone, proceed as follows: 
First make a wooden form or cone, as 
shown in plan, 22% inches long, 1% 
inches at top and 4% inches at base. 
Around this wrap good clear birch 
bark thoroughly soaked in warm water 
until very pliable. Have the thickness 
about % inch. Secure it to the form 
by twine wrapped about it and tightly 
knotted. When dry, remove from wood 
form and sew it up with regular shoe 
thread and awl, waxing the thread and 
making the ends secure. Square off 
the large and small ends and the horn 
is ready. 
Much skill can be used in cut of 
bark and thickness, as it is as resonant 
as a violin when dry. Once the proper 
ring has been attained you will feel 
great pride in your craftsmanship 
To use the horn, proceed as follows: 
Breathe through it several times to 
dampen the inside; this makes the flow 
of sound smoother. Then inflate lungs 
full, several times; then take a good 
long breath and apply horn to lips, with 
the horn mouth pointing toward ground. 
In making a call, a movement is de- 
scribed, as shown in the course drawing, 
similar to a figure eight. The highest 
point coincides with the middle of the 
crescendo, and the movement finishes 
with the horn mouth pointed toward 
the ground. 
The call should cover a period of 
25 to 30 seconds. The caller bends 
his neck to conform to the course he 
describes, hence emitting the quavering 
inflection necessary, but which is hard 
to obtain by other methods. Wait three 
or four seconds and then call again, 
this time a little higher in scale; the 
greater volume being at the beginning 
and the pitch rising with the tone in- 
tensity — then wavering and dying away 
as before. 
Throw a sort of longing and pathos 
into the voice until success is assured. 
Do not call too many times; after the 
first three calls wait about half an hour. 
After a third series of calls, and no re- 
sult is obtained it may be considered 
useless to try the location any longer. 
A good plan is to practice by having a 
man go off a ways and when the calls 
are made he can detect the defects and 
make suggestions. 
P. P. Avery, N. J. 
CARRIER FOR ARTIFICIAL BAITS 
A T sundry times during my pisca- 
catorial past my ardor has led or 
misled me into designing and exe- 
cuting various contraptions of wierd 
conformation, hectic coloring and ec- 
centric gait devised to deceive, confuse 
or enrage the wily black bass and his 
voracious colleague, the pickerel. I de- 
rive especial delight out of casting my 
own home-brewed plugs. In fact, I 
must confess to having perpetrated a 
rather disgraceful series of submarine 
atrocities. 
But the rub always comes: What 
shall be done with the array of plugs, 
spinners, wigglers and wobblers. For 
the most part they are poor mixers. 
It has always puzzled me as to just 
how to dispose of them conveniently for 
storing, showing to fellow enthusiasts, 
transporting or having them readily 
available for fishing. My favorite 
method of casting is to wade or to walk 
along shore if possible, using a boat 
no more than necessary, thus getting 
change of scene and much beneficial 
exercise. But how carry the contrap- 
tions? They are always getting tan- 
gled up in something. Individual boxes 
are not very satisfactory. One cannot 
carry very many in his pockets, and if 
he does the bait he wants is always in 
the last box. Putting them all together 
in a box or bag is impracticable as they 
will get hopelessly tangled up in next 
to no time. So what shall we do with 
them? 
Last season I became desperate just 
before going upon a trip and resolved to 
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settle the matter for good and all, and 
consequently hit upon what seemed to 
me to be a very happy solution of the 
problem. 
I purchased for about a dollar at a 
department store one of those flat rect- 
angular bags which resemble a diminu- 
tive suit case, having a handle attached 
with rings, to which I snapped on a 
shoulder carrying strap. The inside 
length was 11 inches and the width T 
inches. The inside dimension from 
cover to bottom was 4)4 inches; about 
the length of an average casting bait. 
The next step was to cut some heavy 
cardboard into strips, each strip being 
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