June 29, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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canoeing route through Fall, Pipestone, Bass¬ 
wood, Crooked and Iron lakes, into Lac La 
Croix, and then west to International Falls, or 
to a trading post called Harding, on the border, 
from where a twenty-six mile portage—with 
team and wagon—will land you within twenty 
miles of Tower by steamboat. Or, if you care 
to reverse the trip and begin your vacation with 
some hard portages, leave Tower, paddle across 
big Lake Vermillion and go down the Vermil¬ 
lion River to the border. The river is about 
fifty-five miles long, but there are nine portages, 
and two are a mile each. 
The routes through this country are innum¬ 
erable and of infinite variety and length. Ex¬ 
cept when near Fort Francis, Tower or Ely, you 
will always be in the virgin forest, in a coun¬ 
try inhabited only by Indians, in a region to 
which the lumberman has not penetrated. 
The lakes, except Rainy Lake and a few near 
the towns, have not been fished, and in June 
or in the fall the pike fishing is exceptional at 
the rapids and falls in the rivers. In the 
spring and fall lake trout take a spoon, al¬ 
though you will have to search for the few small 
land-locked lakes in which these big fellows 
spend the summer in the cool waters eighty or 
one hundred feet below the surface. 
If you are a big-game ‘‘looker,” there is no 
country which offers such possibilties. To the 
north of the Canadian border are caribou, and 
throughout the entire district described are 
moose so plentiful that your canoe will nose 
them out of the streams. This is not an ex¬ 
aggeration. I have stopped my canoe to shout 
at a cow to move out of the channel, and one 
of the forest rangers on the border far east of 
Ely complained last summer that he could not 
get good drinking water in the streams because 
the moose kept them so muddy. In any river 
you will see grasses floating, dropped from the 
jaws of' feeding moose, and you should not 
boast if you see twenty moose in a day. I once 
saw forty-one, a total of eighty-four in four 
days, and I was not looking for them—they 
happened in the course of the day’s work. Take 
a camera if you wish to have a real moose hunt, 
one that will give trophies as productive of 
after-season pleasure as a big head. 
Once a trip has been made through this dis¬ 
trict, it is sure to be only the forerunner of 
many. The thought of the lakes and rivers will 
be with you until the next year. There is a 
wonderful lure in a map of such a country, a 
lure in the names. Cannot you feel it in these? 
For instance: Kabatogama, Nameukan, Que- 
tico, Seigenagaw, Kawawiagamog, Kanipimin- 
anikok. Lac La Croix, Lake Louise, Deux 
Riviere, Sturgeon Lake, Otterback Lake, Loon 
River, Crooked Lake, Sunday Lake, Saturday 
Lake, Jackfish Lake, Snowbank Lake, This 
Man’s Lake, That Man’s Lake, The Other 
Man’s Lake, Manitou River, Brule Narrows, 
Bear Pass, La Seine River, Tamarac Creek, 
Vermillion River, Little ^^ermillion Lake, and 
any number of others. Do they not make you 
think of things? 
Maps? Guides? The country is too new to 
have regular guides, but at Ely, International 
Falls, Tower. Fort Francis and other towns 
men may be found who wdll take you on a trip. 
But the maps are good, and why not be an ex¬ 
plorer? In Duluth, from any land attorney, 
you may get county maps that are perfect so 
far as your needs are concerned. From the 
Ontario government you may get the topo¬ 
graphical sheets—those of the English and 
Rainy River districts are the ones you want. 
You may rent a canoe at any of the starting 
places and buy most of your outfit at Duluth or 
Port Arthur. “Traveling light” applies especi¬ 
ally to this country. There are portages galore, 
and some of them stretch into two miles of mud 
and steep, rocky hill. Others are short, but of 
irritating frequency. ■ 
Dress warmly, in wool, for it is a country 
where snow falls sometimes in June and heavy 
frosts come in August. There may be much 
rain in June and July, and in those months the 
flies, all the varieties, will be bad.. In August 
they will be gone, but the moose will not be 
seen so often in the lakes. September may be 
a month of snow and storms, but October, with 
its clear, bright days, the ice forming at night 
on the edges of the streams, with a possible 
light snow and the necessity of a roaring fire 
at night in front of your lean-to—October is 
one of the best months of the year. 
North Shore Casting Club. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Hub. 
Chicago, Ill., June 10. —Editor Forest and The fifth medal contest of the season was 
Stream: The third event of the season, cast on held at Stow Lake on June 8 and 9, wind varia- 
June 8, shows splendid work by all of the par- ble, weather cloudy, with results as follows: 
ticipants. 
The club average for the accuracy bait is 
98.4 per cent., which is a great showing. Our 
captain deserves especial praise for the very 
competent handling of the sportsmen, starting 
them on time, keeping the different games fol¬ 
lowing without the slightest waiting. 
Without doubt the meet was the best we 
have ever held. The increased interest in the 
distance events shows the great ability of the 
members in any and all of the divisions of the 
sport. There being so many entrants, the time 
was too short to run off all of the games, there¬ 
fore the salmon fly, from June 8, distance heavy 
tackle fly, from May 4, and distance quarter- 
ounce bait from May 18 will be cast off June 18. 
(Score will appear in next issue of Forest and 
Stee.vm.) Target practice for the games to be 
played June 22, as well as the fly games, will be 
open for all. Who says that the N. S. C. C. is 
not going some? 
The scores for June 8 follow: 
SATURDAY, JUNE 8 . 
Event No. 1, distance, feet: 
C. G. Young 
L. G. Burpee 
A. Webster. 
85 F 
84 *F. A. Webster. 
Event No. 2, accuracy, per cent.: 
88 
85 
99.20 
C. G. Young 
E. A. Mocker. 95.8 
Geo. C. Edwards... 99.4 
L. G. 
*C. G. 
*E. A. 
*Geo. C. Edwards.. 
Young. 99.16 
Mocker. 9^8 
98.12 
96.20 
98.56 
F. A. Webster. 
98.24 
*F. A. 
Webster. 
Event No. 3, delicacy. 
per cent.: 
Accuracy. 
Delicacy. 
C. U. Young". 
. 98.28 
99.40 
E. A. Mocker. 
. 97.12 
99.40 
Geo. C. Edwards_ 
. 98.8 
99 
L. G. Burpee. 
. 97.16 
99.20 
F. A. Webster. 
. 98.54 
98.50 
*C. G. Young. 
. 97.40 
97.30 
*E. A. Mocker. 
. 97.52 
98.10 
*Geo. C. Edwards. 
. 98.56 
99.30 
*L. G. Burpee . 
. 97.28 
98..30 
*F. A. Webster . 
. 99 
99.50 
Event No. 4, hire 
casting, lA-ounce: 
C. G. Young. 
98.1 
*C. G. 
Younj?. 
E. A. Mocker. 
98 
*E. A. 
Mocker. 
Geo. C. Edwards... 
89.5 
*Geo. 
C. iidwards..., 
L. G. Burpee. 
84.2 
*L. G. 
Burpee. 
F. A. Webster. 
98 
*F. A. 
Webster. 
Net. 
99.4 
98.26 
98.34 
98.18 
98.51 
97.35 
98.1 
99.13 
97.59 
99.25 
93.5 
85.7 
Event No. 5, lure casting, average feet; 
L. G. Burpee . 50 F. A. Webster. 134.4 
*E e-entry. 
The judges were: L. G. Burpee, G. C. Ed- 
■ wards and E. A. Mocker. 
Vvoz. Longest 
W. Liddell ... 
t/4-oz. 
98.3 
H.T.D.F. 
Acc’v Fly. 
98 3-15 
Dist. 
128 
Cast 
180 
D. Ellsworth... 
96.1 
148 
165 
E. Lambert ... 
98.7 
98 9-15 
1. E. .Ydams.. 
97.9 
Dr. H. Hall... 
.97.8 
98 5-15 
i20 
iso 
T A Forsyth.. 
98.9 
83 
99 6-15 
C Eroanbrock. 
97.1 
95 12-15 
Dr. O. Waters 
97.5 
M. Tonk . 
76.6 
E. T. Callev... 
86 
99 1-15 
G iJint’rleitner 
98.2 
65 
95 10-15 
iss 
i43 
Anderson . 
97.0 
Dr. Dorchester 99.3 
SO 
98 10-15 
i53 
i59 
Re-entries 
D. Ellsworth.. 
97.8 
G. tlint’rleitner 
C. O. Dorchester, M.D., Sec’y-Treas. 
Tuna Fishing in Nova Scotia. 
Liverpool, N. S., June 2. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Some of your readers may be inter¬ 
ested in the tuna fishing in our harbor here at 
Liverpool. 
We have great numbers of tuna in the sum¬ 
mer months, ranging in weight from 300 to 800 
pounds. One gets trout and salmon fishing also 
at Liverpool, with good moose hunting within 
half a day’s travel from the town. 
L. D. Mitchell, 
SUNDAY, JUNE g. 
Event No. 1, 
distance. 
feet: 
H. B. Sperry.. 
.103 
*H. 
B. 
Sperry. 
... 104 
E. A. Mocker.. 
. 89 
*A. 
•Sperry. 
... 99 
A. Sperry...... 
. 97 
Event No. 2, 
accuracy, 
per cent.: 
F. H. Reed.... 
. 98.52 
*F. 
H. 
Reed. 
. 98.20 
Dr. W. E. Brooks.. 9<S.4 
*Dr. 
W. E. Brooks. 
. 98 
H. B. Sperry.. 
.98.56 
»H. 
B. 
Sperry. 
. 99.8 
C. G. Young... 
. 97.40 
*C. 
G. 
Youn?. 
. 99.8 
E. A. Mocker.. 
. 98.48 
*E. 
A. 
Mocker. 
. 98.32 
A. Sperry . 
.96.40 
*A. 
Sperry . 
. 97.12 
Event No. 3, 
delicacy. 
per cent.: 
-Accuracy. 
Delicacy. 
Net. 
F. H. Reed.... 
. 98.36 
100 
99.18 
Dr. W. E. Brooks.. 
. 98.52 
99.40 
99.16 
H. B. Bperry.., 
98.12 
99 
98.36 
C. G. Young... 
. 98.8 
98.10 
98.9 
E. A. Mocker.. 
... . 
98.32 
99.40 
99.6 
A. Sperry . 
98.12 
99 
98.36 
*F. H. Reed_ 
98.16 
98.50 
98.33 
*Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
98.4 
99.20 
98.42 
*H. B. Sperry... 
98.16 
97 
97.38 
*C. G. Young_ 
98.28 
98.30 
98.29 
*E. A. Mocker.. 
98.56 
99.40 
99.18 
*A. Sperry . 
97.48 
98.10 
97.59 
Event No. 4, 
lure casting, per 
cent.: 
Dr. W. E. Brooks... 85.2 
*Dr. 
w. 
. E. Brooks.. 
.. 94.8 
H. B. Sperrv.. 
. 97.5 
*H. 
B. 
Sperry. 
.. 97.3 
C. G. Young... 
.96.2 
*C. 
G. 
Young. 
.. 98.4 
E, A Mocker.. 
.97.5 
*E. 
A. 
Mocker. 
. 98.9 
A. Sperry . 
.96.4 
*A. 
Sperry . 
,. 98.5 
Event No. 5, lure casting, average feet: 
r>r. W. E. Brooks... 88 *nr. W. E. Brooks... 98 
H. B. Sperry.107 *H. B. Sperry.144.4 
C. G. Young. 88.6 *A. Sperry .119 
A. Sperry .128 
*T-‘e-entrv. 
The Judges were: E. A. Mocker, H. B. 
President Nova Scotia Guides’ Association. Sperry and W. E. Brooks. 
