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FOREST AND STREAM 
Aug. 24 1912 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
Maine. 
RIPOGENUS LAKE CAMPS 
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A Big Country is here opened up for Sportimen just halfway down the “West Branch" 
Canoe Trip; 40 miles by steamer from Greenville to Northeast Carry; twenty miles to Ches- 
uncook by canoe, twenty miles more to camps by motor boat or canoe. Another route by 
canoe from Norcross, Maine. Another overland by team from Lilly Bay (Moosehead Lake) 
to Caribou Lake, thence by canoe or motor boat 12 miles to camps. Home Camps com¬ 
fortable with spring beds, etc. Back Camps and Lean-tos cover a great tract of 
Wilderness, for Sportsmen desiring to go far back in the woods. Good living every¬ 
where, Grouse, Ducks and Black Bear. We guarantee to give you Trout Fishing 
that is unequalled and Moose and Deer Hunting that is unsurpassed. Choice 
of the sportiest quick water in Maine, for the stream fisherman, or the most placid of pond 
and lake fishing for those who prefer it, where brook trout rise to the fly all summer. 
RALPH BISBEE - Kokadjo, Maine 
BALL’S CAMPS 
Are the only up-to-the-minute camps at Grand Lake, 
where you can bring your family and get needed 
rest, as well as the best fishing in the country. 
Landlocked Salmon, Lake Trout and Brook Trout 
Camps have open fireplaces, piazzas, Kewanee Water 
System. Private baths and toilets. Sanitary plumb¬ 
ing and Blaugas lights. Write for Brochure “B,” 
giving rates and details. 
FRANK H. BALL - - Grand Lake Stream, Maine 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, Ashland, Me. 
Finest July, August and September fly-fishing. Machias 
and Musquacook regions of Maine. Largest trout, togue, 
and salmon. 
Montana. 
BIG GAME HUNTING AND FISHING 
IN MONTANA. 
Elk, deer, mountain sheep, goat, bear and small 
game in season. Special rates for fishing and 
camping trips. First-class outfit and dogs. Refer¬ 
ence given. J. K. STADLER, Ovando, Mont. 
Parties guided in season on hunting or fishing trips in 
the best game section of western Montana. Bear, elk, 
goat, deer, fish and smaller game plentiful. Write early 
for arrangements, as only a limited number can be ac¬ 
commodated. References on application. Address 
CHICK GRIMSLEY, 
Choteau, Mont., Teton, Co., care C. Parker. 
Minnesota. 
MUSCALLONGE GALORE 
Over 40 lakes, accommodations for 80 guests. Bass 
and Muscallonge fishing at the door. Write for 
28 page booklet. Bus meets all trains at 
PINE CONE CAMP 
Dorset, Hubbard Covinty ... Mlrvn. 
Maryland. 
BEST BASS FISHING 
On Atlantic Coast 
Kent Island Narrows - - Md. 
There are reasons, ask why. Best accommodations. 
Easy of access. :: :: :: Booklet, etc. 
FISHERMAN'S INN 
C. J. B. MITCHELL, Prop. Chester P.O., R.D., Md 
Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
LOG CABIN HOTEL 
Spruce Brook ... Newfoundland 
Salmon fishing. Caribou hunting. Canoeing. 
Motor boating. Lovely scenery. Every comfort, 
but no frills. Terms moderate. Guides, licenses 
and all, provided. 
-- NEWFOUNDLAND —“ 
Do you want good SALMON and TItOUT fish¬ 
ing?' Or to shoot the "lordly CARIBOU? Apply 
J. R. WHITAKER, 
The Bungalow, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
Nova Scotia. 
Moose Hunting 
KEDGEMAKOOGE LAKE 
NOVA SCOTIA 
Open season, Sept. 16 to Nov. 16. Big-game license, 
$30. A modern club house, with all conveniences, 
open to the public, in the very heart of the best 
moose country in America. Competent licensed 
guides, full equipment, and first-class accommoda¬ 
tions. For information, booklet, or game laws, write 
T. W. THOMPSON, New Grafton, Nova Scotia. 
If you sell something of use to Forest and 
Stream readers, you ought to tell them about 
it in our advertising columns. 
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THOMAS J. CONROY, Agent, 
28 John Street, 
Cor. Nassau St., 
New York. 
With Silver Plated 
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UNIVERSAL LAMP, 
For Sportsmen’s use. Combines Head 
JacklFront and Top), Boat Jack, Fishing, 
Gamp, Belt and Dash Lamp, Hand Lan¬ 
tern, etc. 
EXCELSIOR LAMP, 
For Night Driving, Hunting, Fishing, etc. 
Is adjustable to any kind of dash or vehi¬ 
cle. Send stamp for Illustrated Catalogue 
and address all orders Lamp Department. 
returning my rod, told me to “go to it.” I did, 
and for seven blissful days had as good sport as 
one may decently want. 
Now, please note that the man who gave me, 
in 1896, this first “look in” at angling with float¬ 
ing flies, was something like the thirteenth son. 
of a thirteenth son who had wandered from the 
crowded fireside in Missouri to become on the 
coast an indifferent trapper in the winter, if 
hunting interfered, and a bum prospector in the 
summer, when fishing always interfered. He 
knew nothing of Halford, or of the Itchen, or of 
whirling or evening or duns dyspeptic or pale 
or of “sedges” or “quills,” “May flies,” or in fact 
of practically anything that his own powers of 
observation had not taught him. 
He had simply had the experience that all 
of us in our tyro days have had of losing flies at 
a first hurried cast by having them snapped up as 
they floated on too dry snells. Until recently I 
did not realize how few have profited as he had 
by such experiences. I only know what a con¬ 
summate ass I felt myself to be to have pre¬ 
viously had such incidents teach me no more than 
to soak my snells, while to him it had been im¬ 
mediately apparent that the trout wanted the fly, 
at least dry. 
Now when Mr. Gill tells me, as he does, that 
at least fifty of his personal friends, all good 
anglers, but strictly wet-fly men, knew nothing 
of the dry-fly until the appearance of his articles, 
and that since the publication of his most enter¬ 
taining little book such men as Dimock and 
Pinchot have thanked him for shedding a new 
light in their direction, I, too, exclaim, ''Bully!' 
and thank Mr. Gill for the assurance that I was 
not such an egregious ass as I thought myself. 
So far as Mr. La Branche’s writings are 
concerned, I suspend sentence, for the act is in¬ 
complete. I never accused Mr. Camp of writing 
with his left hand. I was discussing angling. I 
know not how he produces his mazy English, 
but the bilious one has sufficiently characterized 
its ultimate effect on the average reader’s mind. 
So let it go at “wonderful.” I have Mr. Gill’s 
autograph word for it that he does not object to, 
what I confess to have been, the somewhat un- 
Homeric epithet “corpulent”; but I think it is 
time we stopped printing it weekly. Let us say 
sturdy, for the bilious one need give himself no 
concern over the ability of this dainty little fel¬ 
low of 245 pounds to take care of any epithet I 
hurl at him, good and proper! I am not more 
than average cowardly myself. But when I am 
wrong, I’m wrong, and I’ll save you the proof. 
I admit it. 
As to Mr. Gill’s book, I withdraw “hysterical 
babbling”—in fact, I never intended to apply it 
—for it has been made plain to me that it had a 
plain mission and is fulfilling it. It may further 
interest you to know that I have told Mr. Gill 
that the only genuine objection I have to offer to 
what he and Mr. La Branche are writing is that 
“I read every word of it and am by no 
means satisfied that I have any right to so em¬ 
ploy my time.” It is also but justice to Mr. Gill 
to add that one recognizes in every page he 
writes an undercurrent of yearning for the ap¬ 
pearance of an American entomologist. And 
now we near the home stretch. 
It is the entomology that we primarily need. 
Personally I know nothing or next to nothing of 
angling in any other form than the fly-casting; 
and, as I have said and written before, of fly- 
