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FOREST AND STREAM 
October, 1919 
A complete cooking outfit no 
bigger than your kodak! 
You can slip it into your side coat pocket 
until “hungry-time.” Then — out she comes 
— and in five seconds you are ready to 
cook whatever good fortune, aided by rod 
or gun brings to pot. 
This Kook-Kit 
consists of broiler rack with 
legs; a pair of frying pans with 
• letachable handles (pans fit to- 
gether and form an airtight 
roasting or baking vessel); a 
kettle for boiling and stewing 
and two drinking cups with de- 
tachable handles. All of these 
utensils fold and nest together 
so that they fit inside of the 
kettle an<l still leave room 
enough inside to carry knives, 
forks, spoons, salt, pepper, cof- 
fee, tea and sugar. Made in the very 
best manner of high-grade material and 
weighs less than two pounds. Retail 
price $3.00. 
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PRICE OF FOREST AND STREAM 
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TION FOR ONE .FULL YEAR AND 
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FOREST AND STREAM, 9 East 40th St., New York City 
each 
^ OR AS A GIFT 
Both Camp Ax and Hunting Knife are made of 
the finest tempered steel for Forest and Stream. 
The Hunting Knife is patterned after the cele- 
brated “Nessmuk” design. The Camp Ax is of a 
design most popular with experienced woodsmen. The fifteen 
inch handle makes a most convenient size for wearing on 
the belt. 
Four Dollars secures Forest and Stream for two years with 
either Hunting Knife or Camp Ax with leather belt sheath 
free of additional expense. 
NOTE: Canadian Orders Require SO Cents Additional 
SPECIAL — $5.00 Secures a Two Years Subscription to 
FOREST & STREAM. With Large Double-Bitted {7% x 3^ 
inch) Blade. 28 inch Handle Woodsmans’ Axe-Leather 
Blade Guard. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 9 East 40th St., New York, N. Y. 
THE KING OF THE 
LILY PADS 
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First split ring, in eye of hook; first 
swivel, in ring; second split ring, in 
other eye of swivel; spoon, hung on split 
ring; second swivel, rear eye on second 
split ring. Cut pork minnow an inch 
wide and three inches long; split tail 
up 1% inches; make eyelet hole in head- 
end with hunting knife, and hang min- 
now in shank of Bing fly hook. The bait 
is now done. You have, in succession, a 
white pork minnow, a red fly, and a 
shiny flashing spoon, hung in front of 
it and free to revolve between the two 
swivels. It casts well and accurately, 
and, when retrieved through the water, 
the wavering currents from the spoon 
cause the minnow to wiggle in a very 
lifelike manner. The bass strikes at the 
red feather, folding up the minnow and 
hooking himself on the big hook. If you 
expect pike, hang a treble hook in the 
shank of the red fly hook, and put one 
of its prongs through the minnow, just 
above the split of the tail. This bait is 
one of my favorites. The only time it 
scored a distinct failure was in a rocky 
Maine lake where the bass were exceed- 
ingly partial to red underwater minnows 
— why, nobody knows or can even guess! 
Another good bait, when the bass run 
so small as to be scared off by your well- 
meant attempts to bean them with a 
wooden minnow, is a small Number 1 
spoon, with treble hook and red-and-gray 
feathers. This is skittered with a fly 
rod, using the switch cast. The canoe 
is manoeuvered along, about thirty feet 
off shore, and you cast across it, skit- 
tering back from the shore to the canoe 
in lazy jerks of the rod tip, which serve 
to keep the spoon revolving. When the 
lure gets back quite near the canoe, it 
is snapped out of water, and it then sails 
overhead off-shore to the limit of the 
back cast, when you snap it forward 
again and land it in your chosen spot. 
About twenty feet of line is all that 
can be handled with this cast, but it is 
very effective, for your lure is in the 
water, and luring for all it is worth, 
most of the time, instead of half of the 
time, as is the case with plugs cast with 
the bait-casting rod. A short, gut leader 
two feet long is also very effective with 
this spoon. It provides an invisible con- 
nection between the spoon and the line, 
thus imitating successfully a minnow in 
distress, flashing his belly up, without 
any discernible human guile back of it, 
so the bass strikes, and is undone. Using 
this rig on Lower Saranac, in late Au- 
gust, my wife beat me six to one of an 
evening’s fishing, and repeated the drub- 
bing for six successive evenings. I was 
using the bait casting outfit and a div- 
ing minnow. Her fish were all small, 
bass from 1 to 1% pounds, and pickerel 
up to 214 pounds; but, when I did get a 
strike, it was either a big bass or a four- 
pound pike — so both of us were satisfied ! 
I N rushing, rocky rivers, like the upper 
Delaware and the Hoosatonic, I have 
had good success vdth helgrammites, 
floated out into the eddies with free-run- 
