368 
FOREST AND STREAM 
July, 1919 
KAMPKOOK 
ON EVERY PICNIC ERIP 
Whether you want to make a cup of coffee or cook a big warm meal, 
you’ll find the KampKook the ideal stove. Handy, compact and 
easy to carry. Puts an end to all fuel trouble. Set up and going in 
two minutes. Has two powerful burners; bums common gasoline. 
Heat regulated to any temperature desired. Simple, substantial, 
safe. Not affected by wind. 
A Necessity for Tourists and 
All Who Hunt, Fish or 
Go Camping 
Also supplied with collapsible Kampoven for 
broiling and baking. folded 
Sold by sporting goods and hardware dealers. * *'*l'nch 
Write for descriptive folder in colors. I Weighs only 
AMERICAN GAS MACHINE CO. JB ^ pounds 
807 Clark St. Albert Lea, Minn. 
THE 
Genuine 
Hildebrandt Spinners and Flies 
Made Only By 
THE JOHN J. HILDEBRANDT CO. 
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA PORTLAND, OREGON 
SEE THEM AT YOUR DEALERS 
Let Your Trap Gun Purchase Be a PARKER 
Be One of the Thousands of Satisfied PARKER Gun Users 
PARKER Guns are made by gun experts. The purchaser of a PARKER 
Gun receives in good, substantial gus value, the benefits of e.xperience in gun 
manufacturing of over 50 years. 
Once you have used the PARKER, you will never be satisfied with anything 
but the BEST. 
Eventually you will shoot the PARKER. Why Not Now? 
PARKER BROS. MERIDEN, CONN., U S. A. 
Master Gun Makers 
New York Salesrooms, 25 Murray St. 
ANGLING FOR THE 
GAMEY BASS 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 330 ) 
this kind, you will be able to guide the 
fish toward some more open spot where 
it will have a chance to sample what 
you have in the way of delicacies. Any 
way you fix it there will be cases that, 
no matter how wise in their ways you 
might be, you will receive a setback. 
That is the very thing which goes far 
toward making the black bass one of the 
most aristocratic fish of the inland wa- 
ters. He possesses the tact of devising 
on the moment some new trick that places 
his adversary in the light of ridicule 
and humiliation. 
H ooking your fish, in my ow’n per- 
sonal estimation, is more than 
three-fourths of the game. But 
even considering it so, unless care and 
coolness figures a large part in the hand- 
ling of a well-hooked fish, the prelimi- 
nary work has all been for naught. 
There is one thing certain; unless one 
has his lesson well learned old daddy 
bass will show the careless, excitable 
angler some tricks that in a mighty 
short time will leave nothing but the 
rod. A broken end and, prominent or 
shaded (that depends on who’s along) 
exclamation points, unloosening them- 
selves around there. 
Keep the slack well up on your fish 
at all times; this does not necessarily 
mean to anchor the fish with main 
strength to the shore and have him, if 
he should happen to be a giant, smash 
things into smithereens, but by that I 
suggest keeping up all the loose parts; 
let him feel that he has somebody' at the 
cork end of the outfit. Then if he in- 
sists on taking the thing into extra 
rounds, watch him closely and w'hen you 
feel that there is more strain on the 
rod than should be expected of a fragile 
tool, as it should be, feed him line, but 
in doing this always keep in mind the 
fact that doubtless he has a better un- 
derstanding of what might be located 
there below the surface than you. There- 
by guard against any contiguity with a 
submerged villain and a snag or boulder. 
Guide your fish by raising or lowering 
the tip and by keeping the rod swing- 
ing in sympathy with his course. It will 
be found no very difficult feat to swing 
the rascal clear of the obstructions near- 
est you; never fear about getting ahead 
of him if he possesses the speed of the 
average black beauty. 
A landing net is a good addition to the 
angler’s possessions; although, personal- 
ly, I very rarely use one, unless I expect 
to hear from a “muskie” or wall eye. 
They are inconvenient and make knock- 
ing about through the brushy tangles, 
that are met with so often along the bass 
streams, a sight more difficult as a gen- 
eral thing. Even from a boat I rarely 
ever use one for bass, although I am not 
averse to them, generally speaking. 
I mostly play my' fish until he conde- 
scends to strike his colors for a complete 
surrender. Then I gradually work him 
in by slowly elevating the tip of the rod 
and releasing just enough line even’y 
from beneath my thumb to sw'ing him in. 
