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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1919 
THE COST OF FISHING 
BY USING A LITTLE INGENUITY. THE EXPENSE OF A SEEM- 
INGLY COSTLY TRIP CAN BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED 
By WILLIAM BARBER HAYNES 
of Yesterday 
Today and 
Tomorrow 
I N these days of recon- 
struction, reflection must 
reveal the benefits which 
the great war, despite its 
darkness, gave us. One of 
these benefits was the per- 
fected B.S. A. rifle for sport- 
ing use and target practice. 
The “yesterday” of the 
B.S.A. is a wonderful rec- 
ord of successful achieve- 
ment — a record still ringing 
with the military triumph 
of which the B. S. A. was 
so large a part. 
The “today" is largely re- 
sponsible for the perma- 
nence of “yesterday’s” 
achievement — an assurance 
of a stable peace. 
The “tomorrow” is rich 
with promise of pleasures 
in store from the return of 
B.S.A. rifles and guns to 
the field of sport. 
May the “Yesterday," “To- 
day" and “Tomorrow” of 
the B. S. A. blend into a 
satisfaction in gun and rifle 
equipment that will be a 
new and pleasing experi- 
ence for you. 
Write for further informa- 
tion, and B.S.A. rifle book- 
lets. Sent free on request. 
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HE real reason per- 
haps so few hunting 
and fishing stories 
mention the cost of 
the trips they de- 
scribo is from a 
sense of reticence on 
the part of the writ- 
er who fears that if 
the price is low some 
readers will consider 
him cheap and if the 
price is high other 
readers will think he is bragging. 
And yet how important the items of 
cost become when a trip is contem- 
plated. Usually the cost is estimated be- 
fore the final decision is made to go. 
This article is written with a view to 
show the sportsman in moderate cir- 
cumstances that trips they consider pro- 
hibitive may be made for very small 
sums of money if the sportsman has a 
bit of sporting blood in his veins and 
will take a chance without a guide. 
It is not my purpose to decry the use 
of guides nor the spending of money in 
whatsoever fashion the owner may see 
fit to dispense it. 
All I wish to do is to show that with- 
out guides and without much money 
some of these trips may be taken. 
Before the raise in price of railroad 
fare, guides and hotel rates, we used to 
figure the rock-bottom price of a trip to 
the Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada, 
for muskellunge as follows: 
Trip to Bobcaygeon on the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railroad from Akron, 
Ohio $16.00 
Pullman sleeper and meals en 
route round trip 9.00 
Guide and canoe for ten days.... 25.00 
Meals for guide 10.00 
Hotel for ten days 20.00 
Incidentals and license 10.00 
$90.00 
These trips always resulted in our 
catching many more fish than we could 
possibly use. 
The hotels didn’t seem to be eager to 
use them and when they did so next day 
the fish had lost their freshness. 
One year partner and I took a pup 
tent, a pair of blankets and a frying pan 
and went over this same trip without a 
guide. We started in at Bobcaygeon. 
Down through Pigeon Lake we wan- 
dered, over into Buckhorn Lake, up into 
Sandy and into Chemong and Little Mud 
Lake; catching our fish, frying them 
and eating them, fresh from the water, 
finding our way around by map and 
compass. 
The total cost was $26.75 complete 
from start to finish. We caught more 
fish than we could use and returned fine 
I muskellunge and bass to the water. 
I This trip, made at the present price 
schedule, costs under $45. 
■ You can’t get lost, as you continually 
meet people who are camping on the lakes. 
They all talk English and will direct 
you wherever you want to go. 
Meanwhile the price of the old $90 
trip with guides has mounted to $150. 
Truly the day of the individual is here 
and the man who can guide himself is 
on velvet. 
And is it so difficult? Let’s see: any- 
body can row a boat and as no portage 
is to be made on the Kawartha trip, I 
prefer a rowboat to a canoe, as it is 
easier to handle. Two people is the cor- 
rect number to go. They fit into a pup 
tent perfectly. 
When you increase this number to 
three or four you complicate matters 
more as with each a new disposition and 
point of view is added and must be 
suited according to their various ideas. 
Talk this over with your partner, 
then go to the railroad station and ask 
the agent the fare to Bobcaygeon On- 
tario, the gateway of the Kawarthas. 
Make this your first trip because it is 
a wonderful place for muskellunge and 
bass, it is reasonable in railfare from 
the middle east, and, best of all, it is all 
on one level and you run no risk from 
meeting rapids. 
When you go into new country find 
out about the presence of rapids. Don’t 
pick strange waters for your trip that 
have rapids in them, unless you plan your 
trip up stream and learn about them on 
the way up instead of on the way down. 
Just imagine plowing into a big falls 
that you were unaware of. Just once 
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