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FORKS T AND S T REAM 
A GATHERING OF ENTHUSIASTIC 
FISHERMEN. 
I F all fishermen’s organizations displayed the 
enthusiasm shown by the Oberlin, Ohio, Rod 
and Gun Club, the cause of the angler would 
meet with better success in this country. On 
Wednesday evening, March 29, that sterling or¬ 
ganization held its annual banquet, attended by 
more than two hundred members and guests. 
The affair was successful not only as a get-to¬ 
gether occasion, but as a banquet as well. Secre¬ 
tary Maddock, in charge of the arrangements, 
■sprung more than one novel stunt, among the lat¬ 
ter being the presentation to all present of a 
basket containing something like forty kinds of 
food and anglers’ relishes, presented to the club 
by the manufacturers. Forest and Stream takes 
pleasure in the fact that this journal was selected 
as the most fitting reading matter that an angler 
should have, to top off the contents of his food 
basket. 
Col. Myron Fierrick related the early events of 
his life as a boy nine miles from Oberlin. He 
related his experiences as a member of the Cor¬ 
pus Christi (Tex.) Tarpon Fishing Club, as well 
as the Tuna Club of Santa Catalina Island. 
On the program primarily to tell his friends 
something of the work accomplished by the 
American legation in Paris, few expected to 
learn that the colonel was a lover of the rod and 
gun. 
However, it was learned that he was not only a 
fisherman, and a big one, but also had attended 
many of the shoots in France, which included not 
only the French officials but the various ambas¬ 
sadors of many other countries as well. 
The'-e facts made Colonel Herrick “set solid” 
on the hearts of every brother sportsman, and 
when he had concluded his talk the “gang raised 
the roof” in approval. 
Other speakers were Gen. J. C. Speaks, Rev. 
Arthur C. Dill, C. E. Dutton, of Detroit; L. E. 
Burgner and several other members of the va¬ 
rious committees 
Favors, comprising a complete angling outfit, 
RAINBOW TROUT 
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rod and bait excepted, were placed at each table, 
and the program was .printed on a little folder 
that contained two envelopes containing snelled 
hooks. 
An extensive exhibit of lures, spinners, flies, 
etc., from all the leading manufacturers in the 
country attracted much attention from those 
present. 
A SURE CATCH 
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and Muskallonge 
The Edgren Spinning Minnow is better than 
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Because being Minnow-shaped makes a na¬ 
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THOMAS 
The Thomas hand made split bamboo fishing 
rod has been perfected to meet both the all 
around and the various special requirements 
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and balanced. In the Thomas rod the acme 
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“SELECTING THE YOUNGSTER." 
Knoxville, Tenn., March 22, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have read with a great deal of interest a re¬ 
cent article on bird dogs “Selecting the Young¬ 
ster,” by “Sure Shot” and certainly will have to 
disagree with him on many points that he makes. 
I have been identified with dogs all my life and 
have among others owned two National Cham¬ 
pion dogs—and I never saw one too good for 
me to shoot over. I have noticed that many 
people who have never attended Field Trials, 
are of the opinion that when you put a field trial 
dog down, that is the last to be seen of him. It 
is true that a great many dogs do this very 
thing but he is not what we would call a Field 
Trial Dog. In all of my experience I have never 
lost a dog either in a trial or when out shooting 
and I never have owned a dog that I did not use 
fcr both purposes. Now, regarding “the early 
training.” When I was a boy and owned pups 
by old Ponto out of Mol, we thought he was 
coming on fine if we got him to hunt and make 
an occasional point the first season. On the 
contrary it is not an unusual thing to take a 
well bred pup out now and have him go right 
out and hunt, and point like an old dog. There 
is just as much depending on the good breeding 
of a dog as there is in any other animal. For 
an example, were you to breed Dan Patch to 
Lou Dillon you would not expect to get a draft 
horse and it is just so right on down the line. 
The best theory of all in my opinion is to breed 
a good one to a good one and you can naturally 
expect a good one, and when you breed a poor 
one to a poor one it is a cinch that you will not 
get a Dan Patch. The best all round dog I ever 
saw was a champion and the average shooting 
dog would not find a cover in a day’s hunt when 
working with him on singles; in fact, at every 
angle of the game he would smother the average 
shooting dog. What we want in Southern quail 
country is a dog that will go wide, fast, and hunt 
his country out intelligently, by going from one 
birdy spot to another, and all you have to do 
is to put him down in a field and he will work 
every nook and corner of it out. If there are 
any birds in there he will find them, with the 
average shooting dog that will only go off a 
couple of hundred yards and then come back if 
you don’t go after him and tramp all over the 
field with him; a Field Trial dog that is a real 
one will adopt himself to the country he is hunt¬ 
ing in. If you are in a big wide open country, 
he will go to the very limits, but he will turn 
back at the right time. If the country is close 
he will hunt close and will never be lost from 
you. If lost at all you can go in the direction 
you last saw him and fixed him on point, which 
beats pointing them under your feet as you could 
kick them up yourself. In breeding dogs the 
blood lines should be given the same careful 
consideration given horses, cows, hogs or any 
other animals. * T. T. Pace. 
