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FOREST AND STREAiM 
July, 1919 
FISHING FORJSPRING WATER 
H ow often have you been out in a 
boat in the hot sun, far from shore 
and had a consuming thirst, which the 
warm surface water could not quench? 
The fishing was particularly good, 
maybe, and you did not want to row 
ashore and go in search of a spring. Y'ou 
longed for a drink of cold water. You 
might easily have obtained it if you had 
the simple device here depicted. Almost 
all lakes are fed by deep springs which 
keep the bottom water clear and cold so 
it is simply a matter of having some de- 
vice which will enable you to bring some 
of it up to you. 
The next time you have occasion to 
go out on a lake take along an empty 
beer bottle (there will be plenty of them 
around after July first) and harness it 
in rope as shown in cut. Attach a rock 
to the bottom end of the rope and whittle 
a plug for a cork. Adjust the plug on 
the cord with a loop so that it can be 
used to stop up the mouth of the bottle 
and you have the outfit necessary to fish 
for spring water. Plug up the bottle 
and lower away. When the rock on the 
end touches the bottom give the cord 
a quick jerk. The plug will come out 
and the bottle will quickly fill with clear. 
The bottle ready to be lowered 
cold water. Pull it up and you have 
once more outwitted Mother Nature, who 
hides her most precious stores deep in 
the seclusion of her innermost recesses. 
J. P. H. New Jersey. 
MARKET FOR SPRUCE GUM 
C OULD you, or any of your readers 
give me any information concerning 
a market for spruce gum? 
I plan to go gumming this year, and 
would like to know where to dispose of 
the gum I collect. Spruce gum forms the 
basis for many compounds made by 
chemical companies. 
I am a regular reader of Forest and 
Stream, and I will take this opportunity 
to tell you how much I have enjoyed it 
during the past year. 
In my opinion it is the best all around 
outdoor magazine published. 
L. M., Toledo, Ohio. 
E are depending upon the 
friends and admirers of our 
old correspondent Nessmuk to make 
this department worthy of his 
name. No man knew the woods 
better than Nessmuk or wrote of 
them with quainter charm. Many 
of his practical ideas on camping 
and “ going light ” have been 
adopted by the United States Army ; 
his canoe has been preserved in the 
Smithsonian Institution; and we 
hope that all good woodsmen will 
contribute to this department their 
Hints and Kinks and trail-tested 
contrivances . — [Editors.] 
HOW TO CATCH WORMS 
I HAVE just read David Harold Col- 
1 card’s excellent article, “Angling for 
Speckled Trout” in the May edition of 
Forest and Stream. In one paragraph 
he tells of the great difficulty of getting 
“night walkers” for bait. I had the 
same difficulty myself three or four years 
ago and I guess most fishermen still 
have it. We have since discovered a 
very easy and sure way of getting long, 
fat, and healthy worms. 
Take a glass of water and dissolve in 
it about two teaspoonsful of yellow 
powdered mustard. Next select a place 
on someone’s front lawn or a grassy plot 
under a tree. Part the blades of grass 
and you will find small mounds of dirt 
similar to an ant-hill. Push aside the 
dirt and you will find a hole. Into this 
hole pour two or three spoonsful of the 
mustard water and four times out of 
five a large nightwalker will come out. 
This method beats breaking your back 
with a spade. The worms should im- 
mediately be washed off in cold water. 
Marshall Seufert, New Jersey. 
SAND WORM BAIT % 
S ANDWORMS are found in black ' 
sand, especially under some great 
rock beside the sea or sound at ebb tide. 
They grow to 14 inches in length, are of 
a red color and fringed on either side 
with branchiae. They have a beak which 
can pinch quite forcibly. Put them in a 
box with a small quantity of sand, not 
too much or they %vill suffocate. Lay ; 
a little seaweed over them and they will i 
keep for days. For striped bass coil a 
whole one on the hook in such a way that 
it will wriggle naturally. For other fish 
they may be broken in two and only 
half used at a time. They make a very 
successful salt-water bait in the vicinity 
of New York. A dead sand worm is use- 
less for bait. 
S., New Y^ork. 
A PORKiRIND BAIT 
T here are many ways of adjusting 
pork rind on a spoon as a lure for 
bass. Each fisherman has his own in- 
dividual little touch in making it l.ok 
attractive to the sporty fish. Here is one 
method that has accomplished wonders 
for me. Using a number four Skinner 
spoon, attach the rind as follows: Cut 
a piece of pork rind to a shape like a 
piece of pie, a quarter of an inch thick, 
an inch and a half wide at the base and 
about two and a half inches long. 
Shave the under side until it shelves 
off to a point. Slit the base into three 
equal parts and fasten a piece over each 
hook in the triple gang. Pull the rind 
straight out and give it a twist, which 
will make it spin when going through 
the water. Very often this bait will at- 
tract a wise old bass when all other lures 
fail to arjuse his curiosity. 
R. R., Maryland. 
