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PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
At the three-day registered shoot, held at Hutchinson, 
Kans., March 27, 28 and 29, William Yeach, of Falls 
City, Neb., shooting Ballistite, won high amateur average 
for the three days with a score of 419 out of 450. 
At the two-day registered shoot held at Wamego, Kans., 
April 24, and 25, Mr. Harvey Dixon, of Oronogo, Mo., 
shooting Du Pont powder, won high amateur average, 
making the score of 269 out of 300. William Yeach, of 
Falls City, Neb., and George Nicolai, of Kansas City, 
Mo., tied for second high average, 267 out of 300, both 
gentlemen using Du Pont brands of smokeless shotgun 
powder. J. W. Barre, of Louisiana, Mo., shooting Du 
Pont brands, won third high amateur average with a 
score of 266 out of 300. 
At the second annual Interstate five-man team cham¬ 
pionship shoot on the Chicago Gun Club grounds, May 7, 
Chicago Gun Club team No. 2, composed of George Roll, 
L. Fetherston, Joe Barto, A. F. MacLachlan and C. E. 
Shaw, won first place, every member of the team shoot¬ 
ing New Schultze powder, the team score being 471 out 
of 500. 
Mr. R. L. Bennett. Little Rock, Ark., is doing very 
consistent shooting with his Stevens repeating shotgun. 
His average for this season has been 95 per cent. At 
C'amden, Ark., on May 3, Mr. Bennett broke 97 out of 
100 targets, and on May 4, scored 136 out of 150, which 
was high score for the day. 
THE BIT O’ RED. 
There is no doubt that of the primary colors 
red has the greatest attraction for animal life, 
says Edgar S. Shrubsole, in the Shooting 
Times. The commanding crimson associated 
with a sunrise or sunset appeals more to the 
onlooker that do the deep purple shadows 
wherein are really contained the subtle details 
of the scene. We do not notice the green 
undergrowth when admiring a field of poppies; 
we have eyes only for the blazing bloom. The 
red glow of a fire forms a striking contrast to 
the blue smoke curling upward. Red is the 
color adopted as a danger signal, simply because 
it is the most likely to command attention. 
When we receive the “final notice” applying for 
payment of the rates it is printed in red; and 
so are the “Last weeks’ ” announcements of a 
play or a pantomine. Mephistopheles would 
be nothing on the stage if he were not clad in 
red. “A red rag to a bull” is an axiom. Even 
the man with a red nose stands out prominently 
from his fellows. And so on ad infinitum. 
Little wonder, then, that red has such a marvel¬ 
ous attraction for fish; but have you ever con¬ 
sidered how very great that attraction is? 
Most of us are acquainted with the deadly 
qualities, as a grayling fly, of a lure called the 
red tag; but how many of us give that same 
lure a fair trial when trout fishing? Yet when 
on a stream containing both trout and grayling 
the red tag kills its share of the former fish. 
As a matter of fact, it is a useful trout lure 
wheresoever the wet fly is used, and it is well 
worthy a trial at any time on any water. On 
those waters where it is a recognized favorite 
there is no doubt that it is “the bit o’ red.” i. e. 
the tag proper itself, that does the trick. Should 
you have any doubt as to the truthfulness of 
this statement, remove the tag from the fly and 
fish the lure as an ordinary Palmer; the result 
will be very convincing. And if the red does 
the trick where the fly is a proved killer, why 
not elsewhere? 
But there are reds and reds. For instance, 
we cannot compare the “red on white” of the 
“final notice” concerning the rates with, say, 
the rich, red breast of the robin in winter as 
associated with the beautiful brown of the body 
of the bird at that time of year; such compari¬ 
son, to quote Mrs. Gamp, were “odorous.” 
Yet, in order to be most attractive red must 
be more or less scarlet according to the sur¬ 
roundings. Nature provides heaps of examples 
of that fact. 
The tag should invariably be of a rich red 
hue, but in order to be most deadly it should 
be more or less scarlet according to the color 
of the water and the brightness or dulness of 
the weather. The importance of this can be 
tested by fishing a peaty, or brown, water with 
two flies on the cast, both of which shall be 
dressed the same with the exception that one 
shall have a dull red tag and the other a bright 
scarlet tag. By far the greater number of fish 
will fall to the latter. On the other hand, a 1 
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