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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 6, 1912. 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
OCEAN HOUSE 
New Smyrna :: Florida 
“No such shooting any= 
where else In Florida.” 
Quail, Turkey, Duck, Deer and Bear. You don’t 
have to “rough it” to get good bags here. We 
offer genuine Southern cuisine; clean, comfortable 
beds; first-class guides, well broken dogs and good 
livery service. WHITE HELP THROUGH¬ 
OUT. The fishing right now is all that the most 
expert angler could desire. 
OUR RATES ARE MODERATE AND OUR 
SERVICE UNSURPASSED. 
Situated on north hank of Indian River. 
125 Mlles^ from Jacksonville 
88 Miles from St, Augustine 
If you don’t hunt or fish, come along and 
recreate. It’s famous as a health resort. 
For particulars address 
SAMS (SI SAMS 
NEW SMYRNA - - - FLORIDA 
The Rockingham 
A. G. CORPENING, Prop. 
Leave New York today and you can be on 
the field shooting tomorrow, in the very 
heart of the 
Quail Country 
The man who can’t get a full bag each 
day doesn’t shoot very well. 'We are said 
by dog men to have as good 
Dogs 
as are to be had anywhere in the country. 
We offer comfortable beds, excellent food, 
in fact our 
Hotel 
is modern in every respect—clean, fresh 
and homelike. 
If you bring your own dogs they will be 
well taken care of. 
Our class is high—our rates are low. 
Send for booklet and full information. 
ROCKINGHAM 
NORTH CAROLINA 
Quisisana Spa and Hotel 
LYNN HAHN, Manager 
Green Cove Springs Florida 
An Ideal resting place for the weary. 
Good Hunting and Fishing for the 
sportsmen. 
Golf, Tennis, Bathing for the Youths, 
Rates Moderate. Cuisine Excellent. 
deavor to bury itself in the weeds around the 
little pool of open water. By putting on a little 
extra strain the fisherman will be able to check 
these tactics, and while the tench "plays” deep 
and stubbornly there is no dash or spirited 
plunging about it. He is a cautious biter, and 
it is just as well not to “strike” until the float 
is moving off fairly well. In fact, we usually 
wait until the red tip is about disappearing under 
the surface; then he is certain to be well-hooked. 
We have known tench to play with the bait for 
full five minutes ere taking. 
To watch the float jigging during this process 
is nerve-trying to say the least. 
For tench fishing a fairly long rod is essential 
—twenty feet is not too long—as it enables one 
to reach well over the weeds at the margin; the 
reel_ line should be light but strong, with a 
medium cast of undrawn gut, preferably stained 
a light green or brown. A No. 7 hook is the 
best size to use, and a small bullet to cock the 
red-tipped float completes the tench-fisher's 
armament. A small lob worm is a good bait, 
but for our own use we like a well-scoured 
branding or medium-sized red worm. Wasp 
grubs are equally effective at times, as are 
gentles; but the worm takes some beating. 
Ground bait with a few garden worms, chopped 
up finely (the drawback to this is that it savors 
of cruelty and is an unpleasant task at best), and 
fish close to the ground. While the tench some¬ 
times attains the weight of seven or eight 
pounds, these large fish are rare indeed. Fish 
of two or three pounds are, however, fairly 
common. They are rather handsome fish, being 
very shapely, of a golden-bronze color, with 
large, dark fins. The eye is golden, ornamented 
by a bright red circle, and at either side of his 
leathery jaws hangs a little barb. 
A few brace of tench reclining upon the grass 
is a pleasing spectacle to an angler’s eye. 
On an early summer morning, when the rosy 
light of dawn is shedding a soft subdued hue 
over the gray woods and darkening waters, it is 
extremely pleasant to listen to the kissing sound 
so characteristic of the feeding tench; watch¬ 
ing patiently the gaily-tipped float (personally 
we like a red-tipped float, it is such a delight¬ 
ful contrast to the sober greens of the trees 
and weeds) until it moves slowly but surely. 
Then comes the thrill of contrast; of bending 
rod, such pulling fish; of alternating hopes and 
fears, until a bonnie fish is brought to bank. 
Certainly there are worse sports than tench 
fishing. 
One last word. On no account be tempted to 
have tench for your fish course at dinner. 
W^orthy Izaak Walton would have us believe 
that “he eats pleasantly.” Perhaps we are too 
exacting in our tastes. We have tried tench 
once and once only; we can only describe it as 
being like a boiled door-mat. Therefore give 
your fish away or reserve it for the cat. And 
when you catch a record tench (or smaller one 
for that niatter) don’t fondle it closely, or you 
will require a new suit of clothes. Apart from 
these little drawbacks, a summer day spent in 
angling for the “physician of fishes” will not be 
ill-spent, even if the creel is light at eventide. 
For there are other summer days and you can 
go again. 
GAME PROTECTION WITHOUT GAME 
LAWS. 
In view of the terrible destruction of wild life, 
which has taken place in this country during its 
comparatively brief history as a nation, and the 
strenuous efforts now being made to protect 
what is left by legislation, it is curious to con¬ 
sider that in a crowded country like Great 
Britain the native deer have been preserved 
down to the present day and, though killed in 
large numbers annually, are probably as numer¬ 
ous as they have been at any time, within the 
range they still occupy, since the Britons issued 
their memorable invitation to the Angles and 
Saxons to come over and do up the Piets and 
the Scots. At all events there are as many deer 
as the range, which comprises some two hun¬ 
dred square miles of the Highlands of Scot- ‘ 
land, can comfortably accommodate. This of 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
NORTH CAROLINA 
Center of winter out-of-door life of Middle 
South. Free from climatic extremes. 
Four excellent Hotels—52 cottages—Holly Inn, now open. 
Carolina, Berkshire and Harvard, open early in January. 
3 Golf Courses, tennis, shooting preserve, 
trap shooting, livery or saddle 
horses, model dairy. 
Through Pullman Service from New York to Pinelmrst via 
Seaboard Air Line. Only one night out from New York, Bos¬ 
ton. Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. 
Send for illus¬ 
trated Booklet I 
givingfull in- j 
formation to * 
Pinehurst 
General Office, Pine¬ 
hurst or to Leonard Tufts. 
Owner, Boston, Mass. 
Sporting Estate on Currituck Sound 
FOR SALE! 
Thousands of Swan, Geese and Duck. The place where 
Mr. A. Radclyffe Dugmore took his famous photos last 
year. The estate consists of a farm, 200 acres. House, 8 
rooms, facing the Sound; bath-room, hot and cold water. 
Ducking grounds consist of one Island of 1500 acres, an¬ 
other of 10 acres, and a large tract of marsh land on the 
mainland of about 150 acres. This is all fine duck and 
snipe ground and easily guarded. The farm is well stocked 
with Quail, and the shooting on some thousands of acres of 
the adjoining farms can be rented cheaply. This is an 
unusual chance for a gentleman of means or for a small 
club. The farm alone ought to pay 3% of purchase 
money. Price $15,000. Part of money could remain on 
place as mortgage. 40 minutes by boat to station, Norfolk 
& Southern R.R., about 30 miles from the city of Norfolk, 
\'a. 4 miles from post-office, telegraph office, schools and 
churches. 
J. UPPLEBY, Currituck, North Carolina 
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LOG CABINS & COTTAGES; 
How to Build and Furnish Them. 
A seasonable book when all minds are bent on the 
problem of getting close to nature. Mr. Wicks in this 
delightful book offers timely advice to every one who 
wants to build a simple summer home at one with its 
surroundings of wood or stream or shore. 
This is a thoroughly practical work, treating of the 
how, the where, and the with what of camp building 
and furnishing. It is helpful, too, in regard to fur¬ 
nishing, and withal a most beautiful work. 
Cloth profusely illustrated, $1.50 postpaid. 
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UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sports¬ 
man’s exchange, where, as one of the fraternity ex¬ 
pressed it, the hunters and fishermen of the widely 
scattered neighborhood used to meet of evenings and 
dull outdoor days “to swap lies.” 
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