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Like a Live 
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•DASS can’t resist it—because ^ ' ofthe B,ack Basa 
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in the wonderful Heddon Porcelain Enamel, guaranteed not to 
crack, peel or flake. Just the right weight and balance for cast* 
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reeled in. Hooks held in the patented “Dowagiac” sockets, so 
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It’s a winner. Also in other Heddon colorings at same price ^ ** * 
IT’S A YEAR OF WIGGLERS 
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many advantages—non-cracking enamel, variable line fastening, “Do¬ 
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A WORD FROM MR. MYERS ON THE GREAT 
TUNNY AND THE TACKLE FOR 
CAPTURING HIM. 
New York, June 19, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I regret that some criticism has been made 
concerning my article on tackle for “'Great 
Tunny,’ which you were kind enough to publish 
in your Vacation Number, June, 1915. 
The writer was attempting to give the results 
of his personal experience with tackle which he 
had purchased, and correspondence with fishing 
tackle manufacturers, in endeavoring to give 
news of the best tackle for this new and novel 
sport. 
Therefore, in justice to dealers whose wares I 
have not been so fortunate as to possess, I wish 
you would permit me to convey to them my regret 
for the lack of experience which would have en¬ 
abled me through Forest and Stream to give them 
due credit. 
I am more than anxious indeed to have the 
wares of American make used and handled as I 
believe they should be by American fishermen 
wherever they may angle. 
What I was describing in the article which you 
kindly published was, where the Great Tunnies 
had been taken on rod and reel and their weight, 
so that the writer omitted to mention the fact 
that a tunny claimed to have weighed beween 800 
and 1,000. pounds was taken off Long Branch, 
New Jersey—that Great Tunnies had been taken 
off Block Island weighing between 500 and 800 
pounds, and one had been captured in Hermitage 
Bay, Newfoundland, weighing upward of 1,000 
pounds, as all of these fish, as I am informed, 
were killed either by harpoon or captured in nets 
or traps. 
Forest and Stream is the journal of sportsmen- 
anglers who I believe are not interested in the 
killing or catching of Great Tunny by harpoon 
or in trap. 
The Editor of the Anglers News and Sea 
Fishers’ Journal, of London, England, who by 
courtesy of Forest and Stream printed the article 
in question, says: 
The Atlantic Tunny may grow to the weight of 
2,000 pounds or more. Tackle has to be devised 
for the capture of Tunny of say from 700 to 1,000 
pounds in which weight it is perhaps impossible 
for any human being to hold to successfully fight 
a sea monster with rod and line. . . . 
It is interesting to note that the English editor 
believes that Great Tunnies will be found off the 
west coast of Ireland, but his fear is, that if 
there located they will prove too big to tackle. 
May I take the opportunity through your col¬ 
umns to say to the Atlantic Tuna Club and Amer¬ 
ican manufacturers of tackle adapted for Great 
Tunny fishing that the writer did not intend 
either to trespass upon or belittle their efforts to 
encourage this great sport, and that I have taken 
advantage of the advertisement of the Ashaway 
Line & Twine Mfg. Co., in the Vacation Number 
of Forest and Stream to ask them to make me 
a line of 600 yards of 18 or 21-thread to try and 
land one of these great fish (monsters of the sea) 
on light tackle, and that Mr. Edward Vom Hofe 
promises me to try a suggestion on the “Star 
Special” 9-0 Reel, which I own. 
Trusting I have not trespassed upon your space, 
I am, Very truly yours, 
E. J. Myers. 
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