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FOREST AND STREAM 
50 Salmon on One 
Joe Welsh Leader! 0,; 
“I caught 50 salmon on one No. 2 
Joe Welsh leader last summer,” said a 
wealthy Michigan sportsman, who owns the fishing 
rights on a river in eastern Canada. “I used to 
pay $5 apiece by the dozen for old style gut leaders 
that were tested with a strain of nine pounds. I 
myself tested a Joe Welsh leader up to 24 pounds. 
That was enough for me. I bought two, and one 
of them landed 50 big fish. Besides being so strong, 
the Joe Welsh leaders are surprisingly low in price. 
Every sportsman should know about them.” 
The Joe Welsh Leader 
(Telarana Nova) 
is manufactured by William Robertson, of Glasgow, 
Scotland. It has justly been termed the greatest 
revolution in fishing tackle since Walton. F. D. 
Owen, of Roseburg, Ore., writing of this leader in 
February Forest and Stream, told how he had used 
one all summer until he lost it on a big fish that 
broke his line. 
The old style leader consists of strands of Span¬ 
ish silk worm gut knotted together. The worm, 
when ready to spin its cocoon, is given a bath of 
acetic acid. This dissolves the body, leaving a 
glutinous mass of silk which the operator places in 
his teeth and pulls out to a strand of 5 to 16 inches 
with thumb and forefinger. These strands, tied to¬ 
gether, make the leader. Naturally, they are of 
widely varying quality. To avoid knots, a splice is 
sometimes used, being polished so it cannot be de¬ 
tected. No wonder the leader has always been the 
danger spot in your tackle—the weak link in the 
chain. 
Don’t Lose the Big Ones 
Get the Joe Welsh Leader, which comes in 3, 6 or 
9-foot length without knots, and is strong, tough and 
durable. Stretch it while dry, and it’s ready to cast 
without soaking in water. It doesn’t get brittle and 
split like ordinary gut. Has no glint or sheen. In¬ 
visible in water. Catches all kinds of fish in fresh 
or salt water when other leaders scare them away. 
This leader is not to be confounded with Japanese 
“fiddle strings.” Imitations are shoddy and flimsy 
in comparison. 
The Joe Welsh Leader comes in five sizes. 
Any length up to 9 feet. Breaking strengths, 
4 to 30 pounds. No. 5, for dry flies; No. 4 
and 5, for trout; No. 3 and 4 for bass, pick¬ 
erel, pike, etc.; No. 2 and 1 for salmon, 
channel bass, yellow tail, barracuda; No. 1 for 
tarpon. If your dealer cannot supply you, 
send this ad and 25 cents for 3-foot leader, 
stating for what kind of fish. Sample 6-ft., 
50 cents; 9-ft., 75 cents with ad. 
I/ r \I 7 XI/FI QH Sole Agent U. S. and Canada 
JVJH. VV E.L.OO PASADENA, CALIF. 
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instead of against your lower hand. Some beginners 
are slow to learn this and waste a deal of their strength 
in consequence. Remember also to face slightly (about 
a quarter) towards the side you are paddling on. Also 
if the side you are paddling on heels over a little, 
it usually improves the speed. 
In fighting against wind remember that a canoe will 
tack against the wind almost like a sail boat. Feel 
for the right angle of the wind on the bow that will 
give least resistance. There is great art in this; it 
varies, of course, with different kinds of wind; the 
Indians in Maine are adepts at it; and even a pale 
face will find himself improving by experience. Keep 
studying, studying all the time. There is vast op¬ 
portunity for it; and you can carry it on in your 
own way without interference from another occupant 
of the canoe. It is this study, this occupation of the 
mind, that makes single hand canoeing such absorbing 
and therefore, excellent exercise. 
One thought about the tide that troubles the begin¬ 
ner is that if it is against him at the start, it will 
remain always against him. But before he has gone 
200 yards, especially if he learns to slip along close to 
the shore, he may find a reverse current or eddy caused 
by a projecting piece of land, or a wharf that will turn 
the current in his favor. Learn where to look for 
them. There are plenty of them in every stream. 
Almost every bend makes one or two. They will make 
contrast and fun for you no end. As you study them 
you will gradually find yourself becoming a pilot, a 
channel expert and a hydraulic engineer. 
When you find yourself with a whirling current or 
tide against you, do not paddle frantically; that 
merely piles up the resistance and exhausts you. Paddle 
quietly and steadily. Settle your mind down to slow¬ 
ness, as if nothing particular was happening. Look 
round and enjoy the scene; do not hurry; that gives 
the best progress. It is the method of the old fisher¬ 
men and sailors in rowing against either current or 
wind. There is a point beyond which it is useless to 
try to force a craft. A canoe you will find slips quietly 
along against adverse conditions better than you might 
suppose. Your mental attitude toward adverse con¬ 
ditions is everything. 
But I have digressed a little from my point, which 
was, combatting the notion about the necessity of two 
persons or a heavyweight in addition to one person, 
for the sake of balance. If there was no such thing 
as wind, it would be literally true that a single per¬ 
son by moving his seat forward can balance any canoe 
perfectly, for paddling. But when the single hander 
goes against wind it is often a help to have a slight 
weight in the extreme bow to keep the wind from 
knocking it about too much. I usually fill any sort 
of bag with 8 or 10 pounds of sand and find that 
ample in my 13 footer. Put it as far up in the bow as 
it will go. On the other hand, I have often paddled 
one of my 12 footers in heavy winds with nothing in 
the bow. The shape and length of the craft have much 
to do with it. This is one of the mysteries for you 
to study out by experiments. Your own strength and 
skill and way of paddling also have much to do with 
it. I have seen a high expert paddle a long canoe 
single handed in a wind, without a pound of ballast 
and with an ease that was surprising. 
Wind, is, of course, a worse obstacle to a canoeist 
than tide or current. But learn not to mind it; treat 
it as a pleasure, something to be overcome for sport. 
As a matter of fact, it makes the sport; you would 
tire of everlasting calm. But the contrasts between 
wind and calm are exhilarating or soothing, as the 
case may be. One rewards you for what you endured 
in the other. And then there are winds and winds. 
Some of therq are as peaceful and quieting and lead 
you to dreamy contemplation of nature as much as any 
calm. 
It is an excellent plan to sew a piece of thick-soft 
leather round the shaft of your paddle just above the 
blade where it touches the side of the canoe. Do not 
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