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Time to Think of 
Fishing Tackle 
You will be going over your outfit one ot 
these fine days, getting ready for the great game. 
If our Tackle Catalogue is beside you, you 
can readily pick out the items required to com¬ 
plete your outfit. 
Any goods you order of us will be promptly 
delivered at your door. 
It is a safe buy, for we return your money 
without question if the goods are not satis¬ 
factory. 
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H. H. MICHAELSON 
916 Broadway :: Brooklyn :: New York City 
Fishing Tackle Parlance 
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facturer? _ We have specialized in High Grade 
Tackle since 1867. No diverting of energies 
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SUMMER HOME AT LITTLE COST 
The Province of Quebec, through its Depart¬ 
ment of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries, uses 
some space in this issue to inform American 
readers how easy it is for them to obtain loca¬ 
tion for summer homes, among the delightful 
surroundings of wood and water in that prov¬ 
ince, without cost, and also speaks of the record 
moose heads which have been taken by American 
and local hunters in the great game lands of 
Quebec. When Adirondack and other like 
property is beginning to have a value running 
into thousands of dollars per acre of lake-front, 
it will surprise not a few people to know that 
equally good locations are awaiting them in 
Quebec at little or no cost. In these days of 
railway penetration into the wilderness, almost 
any man, no matter how moderate his circum¬ 
stances, can acquire a summer home, and if he 
be at all skillful, he can build himself a per¬ 
manent camp without straining either his back 
or his purse. Write the Department of Coloniza¬ 
tion, Quebec, Canada, for further particulars. 
DEVASTATING THE FISHERIES OF SOUTH¬ 
ERN CALIFORNIA 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Southern California Fish Dealers’ Asso¬ 
ciation is demanding the throwing open of the 
Santa Catalina Fish Reservation to the market 
fishermen, which, according to Dr. David Starr 
Jordon and other experts means the ruin of the 
fisheries. 
This is what I saw at Santa Catalina, when I 
went to the Island, two years ago: 
A beautiful island, with high green hills, many 
colored cliffs and canyons, and clean pebbly 
peaches, surrounded by the deep, pure, sapphire 
waters of the Pacific; a natural breeding place 
for the little fishes and the big fishes of the 
prolific sea. 
A lovely crescent harbor, named Avalon, 
nestled among the hills, with a fair vale opening 
behind it, and trails zig-zagging up the slopes 
in every direction, among the oaks and laurels 
and wild lilacs; a natural play-ground for the 
people of Southern California and Arizona and 
New Mexico, who want salt breezes and a 
simple life, and a little healthful sport on sea 
and shore. 
A few hotels and a multitude of camps and 
bungalows and cottages and tenting-grounds 
arranged for the accommodation of the thou¬ 
sands of families who will flock hither in the 
summertime to have a great deal of fun for a 
very little money. 
A tribe of boatmen, with launches and row¬ 
boats, well equipped with fishing tackle of the 
true sporting kind, light rods and slender lines, 
which teach the angler to match his skill against 
the strength of the fish and cultivate the spirit 
of sport in the men, women and children who 
visit this favored isle. 
This is what I saw when I arrived at Catalina 
April 14th, too early in the season for the best 
fishing, but at a good time to look over the lay¬ 
out and study the value of the island as a 
natural spawning ground of fish, and a natural 
outing-resort of folks. 
This is what I saw two days later when a 
touch of early summer had made the opal sea 
smooth and still around the south end of the 
island and the air was warm and soft and filled 
with fragrance from the blossoming hills. 
There were fifteen or twenty little launches 
The Biggest 
Moose Heads 
come from the Province of Quebec. 
Several were secured in September 
and October, 1914, with antlers hav¬ 
ing a spread of five to six feet. 
Mrs. H. G. Campbell, Jr., of New York 
has a record of a black bear and a 
large bull moose at Lake Kiskisink. 
The big bull moose of Mayor Carter 
Harrison of Chicago was killed in 
Northern Quebec. 
Caribou and Deer 
are abundant in parts of Quebec 
Province. 
The Best Trout Fishing 
in the world is in the Province of Que¬ 
bec, and so are the best Guides both for 
fishing and hunting. Read Henry van 
Dyke’s description of some of them in 
“Little Rivers.” 
Mining Rights 
are obtainable on most liberal condi¬ 
tions. Write for details. 
Would You Like To Own 
A Summer Camp 
for your family, by a forest-clad stream 
or mountain-surrounded lake? 
You can build one of your own, by leas¬ 
ing a fishing and hunting territory from 
the Government of the Province, whether 
a resident of it or not, or by joining one 
of the many fish and game clubs. 
Write for an illustrated booklet on “The 
Fish and Game Clubs of Quebec,” which 
tells you all about them, and address all 
enquiries concerning fishing and hunting 
rights, fish and game laws, guides, etc., to 
Hon. HONORE MERCIER 
Minister of Colonization, 
Mines and Fisheries, 
QUEBEC, QUE. 
floating along by Pebbly Beach and Seal Rock. 
In each launch there was an honest boatman 
earning a good day’s living, and two or three 
people from the mainland—not millionaires, but 
just plain human people—out for a day’s sport. 
The water was full of little fishes, schools of 
sardines, and anchovies, and smelts, and tiny 
mackerel, millions of them, milling around and 
running up close to the shore. After them 
came the big fishes; silvery sea-bass; gold¬ 
en yellow-tail; gleaming, lance-like barracuda; 
the noble tribes of the deep. Each one of these 
fish was food for a family of folk; and the 
catching of one with light tackle was a sport 
calculated to develop the qualities of fair-play, 
patience and skill. 
Into the midst of this goodly scene about the 
