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This is the Campfire that all lovers of the out-of-doors are invited to ‘‘set in at,” and pass 
along the good things that come their way. As you look around has it ever occurred to you 
that the men worth while were always ready to help their brothers? This is particularly 
characteristic of sportsmen. 
FOREST AND STREAM each month will award a prise of any five-dollar article 
advertised in its columns to sportsmen telling the best story or contributing the most useful 
advice on fishing, hunting or camping subjects. 
To the second best will be given a copy of Nessmuk’s great book, Woodcraft. 
SOLVING THE LANDING NET PROBLEM. 
VER had it catch in the brush, stretch its 
rubber band to the limit, then let go and, 
zip! soak you one in the back? or dangle, 
whether at the front or side, where you are 
continually getting tangled up in it, or your 
flies would become caught with a devilish per¬ 
sistency? Sure! Then you vowed that hence¬ 
forth you would proceed netless and beach ’em, 
only to encounter immediately thereafter that 
biggest trout of all, in a deep dark pool, with 
beaching possibilities “forty miles away”-—and 
you lost him. Righto ! 
Any reader of Forest and Stream who, like 
the writer, has lost three landing-nets in four 
seasons’ trouting will be interested to learn that 
a most serviceable article is easily to be achieved 
at practically the cost of the netting itself and a 
little time and easy labor, the chief requisite for 
the frame being a bit of discarded common 
telegraph wire. In bending the wire to shape 
an iron vise r of assistance, likewise pliers and 
hammering the wire against some hard flat sur¬ 
face, as a piece of iron. 
For a short-handled frame, the whole 17 inches 
long, make the handle part about five inches 
long and have the bow about eight inches at 
the extreme width. Make it somewhat triangular 
in shape with an almost straight front side. 
This is a good shape at any time but particu¬ 
larly advantageous for scooping up minnows. 
To this end also have the net fine meshed; and 
make the frame double across the front so that 
one wire will serve as a guard to protect the 
attaching cord against contact with bottom 
stones. 
This net is light, effective and slips easily into 
the fishing coat left pocket through the opening 
at front edge of coat. There it is securely 
carried, entirely out of the way, yet easily ac¬ 
cessible when wanted. If dropped it will sink 
to the bottom and there is some chance of re¬ 
claiming it in running water. Or for added 
security a cord about three feet long may be 
tied to the handle and fastened at the other 
end to a coat buttonhole. 
Two pieces of wire bent in the forms shown 
in Fig. 1 are bound together with strong cord 
as illustrated in the photo, the wire ends at 
the winding points being bevelled with a file. 
If a longer handled net is desired, bend your 
two pieces of wire as shown in Fig. 2, bind 
together, and fashion a handle from an old 
broomstick, so that the whole is 34 inches long. 
The wire is riveted to the handle, a copper 
An Inexpensive Home-Made Landing Net. 
washer being next the wood on either side and 
also outside the wire under the rivet head. 
Make the openings for the rivet holes by bend¬ 
ing the wire around a nail and then jamming 
it up tight in an iron vise, the jaws grippng 
close up to the nail. Have the part of the 
handle that comes between the wires of a tri¬ 
angular shape so that it will wedge and hold 
firm when the handle is extended with net in 
use. A buttoned-holed piece of leather is at- 
