October, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
541 
KEEPING WARM WITH ONE 
BLANKET 
A PROSPECTOR in Central Idaho 
once showed me how to sleep com- 
fortably in a single blanket. Find two 
logs, about a foot and a half in diameter. 
Place them firmly, side by side, fifteen 
inches apart, and lay fir boughs between 
them, at right angles to the logs. 
Then cover the bed with one side of 
the blanket, and throw the other side 
over you, thus rolling up in the blanket. 
The logs furnish protection on two sides, 
and the top alone is left to be taken care 
of by the blanket. 
James H. Hull, California. 
HOW TO CARRY CONDENSED MILK 
O NE of the most annoying problems 
the camper has to contend with is 
the manner in which the condensed milk 
can may be safely carried after it has 
once been opened. The usual method of 
putting little sticks in the holes which 
have been punched in the can to let the 
milk out is very unsatisfactory, as they 
are always coming out and when the 
camping kit is unpacked at the end of 
the trail, most of the things have a fine 
coating of milk on them. A simple way 
to overcome this trouble is shown in the 
accompanying cuts. Use a round nail to 
punch the holes in the can so they will 
be smooth and uniform and then whittle 
pegs of wood to fit into them snugly. 
From a worn-out inner tube of an auto- 
mobile tire cut a strip about two inches 
wide. You will find that this piece of 
rubber will fit tightly over the can and 
will hold the pegs firmly in place, thus 
insuring a compact, safe and proficient 
way of keeping the milk where it be- 
longs. Pope. 
BAIT ON ARTIFICIAL LURES 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
B eing a constant reader of your val- 
uable paper I should very much like 
to ask you if it is proper for a fisherman 
to put bait on an artificial lure, mean- 
ing, for instance, fishing with a spoon, 
trawling or even bait casting with art- 
ificial bait? I often read the articles in 
your magazine and sometimes it says 
to bait with pork rind or minnows and 
several other kinds of live bait. That 
being so why not use live bait and leave 
off the other? I might say that every 
fisherman cannot meet what I term, the 
double expense of the two baits. 
John Briggs, Montreal, Can. 
It is quite unusual to use any addi- 
tional baits ivhen casting with any of 
the standard lures now in use. The ma- 
jority of all lures being designed to act 
in their own sphere, viz., “phantom min- 
nows” and the various plugs, as well as 
frogs, etc., are depended on to take fish 
by reason of their natural appearance 
and similarity to the living object. This 
condition, however, is changed in trolling 
tvith the bloodworm for striped bass and 
some other fish by using a small metal 
spinner just ahead of the worm. This 
is more to attract the fish to the idea that 
something is moving rather than that 
they should strike the spinner, as the 
worm is not bright in color and the wa- 
ter is ordinarily murky where such fish- 
ing is done. It would be considered ra- 
ther incongruous to use any bait attached 
to artificial lures such as “phantom min- 
nows” or plugs. — [Editors.] 
THE HANDY TROWEL 
H ave any of you readers ever con- 
sidered what a handy little tool the 
garden trowel is? 
Perhaps on your last trip into the big 
sticks you felt as though you needed a 
small, light-weight, compact tool which 
would do for digging a ti’ench around the 
tent to drain off the rain, or to dig those 
big, fat worms to get Mr. Bass, or per- 
haps to dig a hole for burying camp, 
refuse, etc., etc. It takes up very little 
room and only weighs about 6 ounces. 
Fred Blake. 
FLY FISHING FOR POLLACK 
D r. THOMAS TRAVIS of the Forest 
AND Stream staff of writers has re- 
cently tried the experiment of fly 
fishing for pollack while on a visit to St. 
Andrews, New Brunswick. 
He reports having demonstrated the 
fact that this kind of fish can be taken 
on a fly rod, a method which affords ex- 
citing sport. The fish run in schools 
and weigh anywhere from five to twenty- 
five pounds, averaging about fifteen. 
They are now schooling off Deer and 
Campobello Islands, both in Passama- 
quoddy Bay, within easy reach of St. 
Andrews. Dr. Travis suggests the use 
of flies imitating the shrimp in form and 
color, i. e., a gray body with a point of 
red in the head, including a pattern rep- 
resenting an unusually large shrimp. He 
further recommends trying a small 
spinner and a wobbler colored to resem- 
ble a small lobster. 
RUBBING FOR WORMS 
T HAVE not tried Mr. Seufert’s method 
1 for securing earth worms but down 
here in Dixie where the soil is sandy and 
often extremely dry a not unusual meth- 
od and one generally followed with suc- 
cess is styled “Rubbing for Worms.” 
It is necessary to have previous 
knowledge of a locality the angle-worm 
frequents, as they are not universally 
distributed hereabouts. Then drive a 
rather thin piece of wood, three or more 
inches wide, well into the ground, allow- 
ing a foot or more to project — a stout 
shingle or roofing board serves well for 
the purpose. Then with a piece of 
heavier board, % in. to 1 in. thick, 
brought down to a rather thin edge on 
one side, proceed to “fiddle” or rub the 
thin edge of the board across the top of 
the piece driven into the ground. The 
bow piece should be three or four feet 
long to permit of a good draw. When 
all goes well the other fellow with the 
bait-box will have a lively time gather- 
ing up the worms. This may sound fishy 
but there are strange things in the phil- 
osophy of cracker fishermen as well as 
in that of the ancient wisemen. 
Osceola. 
