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FOREST AND STREAM 
Sept. 6, 1913. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Nova Scotia. 
KEDGEMAKOOGE LAKE 
In tbe Wilderness 
A vast virgin forest, 90 miles long. Club House 
easily accessible by automobile. 
A net-work of beautiful streams. Splendid canoe¬ 
ing. Trout abundant, large and gamy. 
Non-members cordially welcomed at the Club House, 
112.00 a week. Cabins for famdies. Special provision 
for ladies. 
Modern conveniences: Electric lights, telephone, 
daily mail. Experienced guides and full equipment 
for long or short trips. For interesting illustrated 
booklet write J. W. THOMPSON, Mgr., Kedgema- 
kooge Rod and Gun Club, New Grafton, Nova Scotia. 
Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
A land teeming with SALMON, TROUT and 
CARIBOU, besides other game. I provide outfits 
and guides. For narticulars apply to 
J. R. WHITAKER, “The Bungalow,” 
Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
New Brunswick. 
BIG GAME IN NORTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK 
Sportsmen, send for our free illustrated booklet, 
which fully describes our six hunting camp* foe 
moose, caribou, bear and deer in northern New 
Brunswick. Imhoff Brothers’ Hunting Camps, 
Imhoff, Gloucester County, N. B., Canada. 
New York. 
A A 17 O COSSAYUNA, N. Y. 
^ ^ John Liddle, Prop. 
The Best Black Bass Fishing in New York State, on 
COSSAYUNA LAKE, 
with trout streams practically virgin. A charming 
spot to take your family for the summer. Con¬ 
venient and inexpensive for week ends. June 24, 
7141b. Oswego bass was caught here. June 5, 4'41b. 
brown trout was taken from one of our streams. 
Map and booklet sent on application. Editor of 
Forest and Stream has fished here—ask him. 
Virginia. 
MODERN HOTEL 
.Cottages, rent or sale on fishing grounds. Guides 
and power boat, 1 man, $3; 2 men, $4 day. Channel 
Bass, Kings, Trout, Hogfish galore. Send for book¬ 
let. A. H. G. MEARS, Wachapreague," Eastern 
Shore, Virginia. 
Property for Sale. 
Southern Shooting Preserve 
140.0(MI ACRES. Splendid opportunity for few gentle¬ 
men to obtain charter membership in a select club offer¬ 
ing best of quail (1& to 20 coveys a day), duck and 
turkey shooting in tlm South. Just the place for next 
winter's trip. 40-room^club house. Dogs trained and 
furnished. Membership fee extremely moderate. For 
full particulars address 
A. J. HACKETT, Secretary Dixie Club, Red Bay. Ala. 
Pitfalls. 
BY SWITCH REEL. 
For the benefit of the tyro, who would 
essay that fascinating branch of piscatorial 
sport known as surf-fishing, these loving lines 
are limned in order that he may avoid the pit- 
falls which otherwise would beset him. After 
five years’ diligent work in the seething breakers 
under the best tutelage afforded along the New 
Jersey coast with occasional interlopers from 
Long Island, I consider myself an authority on 
pitfalls, as I have yet to beach my first striper. 
It is true that others have persevered for fifteen 
or eighteen years before reaping their rewards, 
while still others have been reaped themselves, 
but the former deny all pitfalls and the latter 
are silent. Thus it is to be seen that impatience 
is to be avoided. The poor mortal who can fish 
if he “gets a bite once in a while” had best emu¬ 
late the boys around the monkey’s cage in Von 
Amburg’s old song and “keep away.” One never 
gets a bite in surf-fishing. It’s either a strike 
or something hits one’s bait. It may be a woe 
begone bathing suit, or a piece of driftwood, but 
never a bite. 
The second pitfall into which the novice 
tumbles is in hooking his fish. Once during my 
early experience I asked a veteran how he 
hooked ’em. The look of ineffable disdain 
which overspread his salt bespattered features 
would have been superb had it not been pointed 
my way, and he almost choked as he rumbled 
back at me the words “ I don’t hook 'em.” Of 
course I crawled out of sight in the sand until 
he had departed hence, thinking of course that 
he let them hook themselves, when suddenly 
about two years later, the word flashed from 
mouth to mouth that Captain Fennimore had 
“had one hung.” You see, gentle reader, you 
“hang ’em” ; you don’t “hook ’em.” 
I verily believe that to attempt to “hook” a 
fish in the surf would be to invite one's rod to 
break down. Close attention to like details will 
eventually qualify the tyro to peel crabs in dis¬ 
tinguished company. 
A few words now about the tools of the 
craft. First, avoid all rods made of metal, solid 
wood or bamboo, either split or whole. But if 
you must fish, then select the most expensive 
without regard to price. The best surf rods are 
made at Asbury Park, N. J., and other places. 
Surf rods are properly made with one piece tips 
The reason for this is that in case one’s tip 
breaks, it costs more to replace it than if it were 
a common three-piece rod such as fly-fishers use. 
The reel should be the ordinary surf reel. 
Any thread and needle store such as Casey’s or 
Funnymaker’s carries them, and it is, therefore, 
not necessary to patronize the fishing tackle 
dealer or even the dealer who specializes in surf 
tackle. It is in selecting the reel that the pro¬ 
spective angler has the time of his life. The 
days spent in discussing the merits of this or that 
automobile or motor boat are as summer Sun¬ 
days compared to the tempestuous hours which 
veterans can consume in arguing the reel ques¬ 
tion on our Northern coasts. Down along the 
Carolinas it is different. There the line is coiled 
in a bucket slung around the angler’s neck, hut 
then they get fish along the Carolinas, so they 
are not accountable. The principal function of 
the reel is to foul and snarl the line. This is 
to enable the angler to consume time which 
otherwise would be wasted in waiting for a 
strike. By means of a cunning mechanism con¬ 
cealed somewhere in its vitals, the gears can be 
disengaged, and the handle can be spun around 
with comparative ease. This provides the khaki- 
clad angler in hip boots much amusement as he 
rides up and down the coast on the trolley cars 
and also mystifies the uninitiated passengers. It 
would be entirely wrong to advise the purchase 
of the non-throw-off reel. 
In casting, it is found that the spoon can 
be made to revolve much faster than the same 
amount of power would cause the spool on the 
ordinary reel to revolve, and therefore back 
lashes are happily more frequent, but it must be 
admitted that the added weight of the handle 
in the ordinary reel makes the back lash accom¬ 
plished thereon more interesting than on the 
throw-off reel. Frequently the line breaks and 
permits hook, leader and swivel to go far out 
to sea, a feat which is the aim of all good surf 
anglers, for then they are privileged to recover 
what line is left to attach thereto another rig 
which materially helps the tackle manufacturer 
in his business. 
In lines, much latitude is permissible. The 
present writer prefers the Pennsylvania, as he 
has a pass on that road. It is not transferrable, 
however, although a popular man may oft-times 
get a few hooks or sinkers from his easy friends. 
I would strongly advise the transfer method of 
obtaining hooks. It affords splendid opportuni¬ 
ties of dodging the responsibility for their break¬ 
down. When an unfeeling spectator claims that 
you horsed your fish, you can say with just in¬ 
dignation, “I certainly did not. The hook would 
stand horsing, anyhow. Fred so and so snelled 
Property For Sale. 
An Exceptional Buy 
EXTERIOR VIEW OF HOTEL. 
Sixty-three room Hotel in Asbury Park, with established 
trade. Has been open summer and winter for fifteen 
years, without change of ownership or management. Now 
open. In perfect repair. Completely furnished and 
equipped. Location second to none at Asbury Park, di¬ 
rectly opposite Sunset Lake, where one may have the 
quiet of the country, and yet be but three blocks from 
the gayety of the Boardwalk. Will sell as it stands complete 
—furniture, fixtures, linen, silver, etc., and make liberal 
mortgage arrangements. For further particulars, Lddress 
“B,” care of Forest and Stream. 
