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FOREST AND STREAM 
Quality Inspirationist of 
Dowagiac 
Tells “Baby Crab” Wiggler 
Secrets 
W HEN the House of Heddon orig¬ 
inated and brought out the pioneer 
wiggling bait just ten years ago, 
we started something. 
And now we have finished it—in our 
1917 “Baby Crab.” We thought it perfect 
before, but now we have ultra perfection. 
This bait, travel¬ 
ing backward like 
a crab, is fish-sure, 
9 n a g 1 e s s, 98 °7e 
weedless — and 
casts like a bullet. 
Here’s the basic 
principle that we 
realized and util¬ 
ized — that the 
hooks approach the 
weeds from a for¬ 
ward parallel di¬ 
rection, whereas the 
strike comes from 
the opposite angle—sidewise or rearward. 
Hence the possibility of guarding from the 
front and not the rear— 
weedless but not fishless. 
It works. Baby Crab 
rides at a tipped-down 
angle, the body and pat¬ 
ented 
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obstructions, yet leaving 
the double barbs pre¬ 
sented to the fish with 
deadly exposure. 
Wiggle? Baby Crab has the most pro¬ 
nounced wiggling movement you ever saw 
in a bait—minus the excessive water resist¬ 
ance that tires you so with others. And 
no freak body-curvatures to spoil the aim. 
So your Baby Crab is in the water 
more—you plant it fearlessly in just the 
haunts where the game fish are—and you’re 
practically certain of every strike. 
Think what this perfection means to you. 
Ninety cents we get for it—prepaid, in 
imitation crab or any standard color. Or 
if a dollar is easier to send, we return 
change or include extra hooks—as you 
please. Or for $3.00 you get four Babies— 
pick your colors—value $3.60. 
Better get our circular and Free Art 
Book of all the Heddon things for anglers. 
Address James Heddon’s Sons, Box 
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Fishing Tackle 
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of the contention that the highest efficiency 
is the result of specialization. The price 
you pay will be refunded if the goods you 
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105-107 Fulton St. New York City 
A COMMON ERROR IN THE USE 
OF THE POCKET COMPASS. 
VERYBODY knows that a compass and 
map are valuable for helping the lost 
camper to get his bearings. But how 
many amateur outers are able to use the 
compass with accuracy for such purposes? 
Some sort of map of his outing area 
should be carried by every sportsman. 
And the first thing he should do if he 
feels himself getting lost is to orient him¬ 
self on the map by observing the topog¬ 
raphy, drainage and other natural features 
shown on it. Having approximately de¬ 
termined his position on the map, he should 
draw a line from this point to the nearest 
familiar locality, and observe what angle 
this line makes with the north line on the 
map. 
Let us say that it runs 6o degrees east 
of north. Then by walking N 6o degrees E 
he would arrive eventually at the familiar 
locality. But here is just where many peo¬ 
ple make a mistake. 
If the compass needle pointed true north 
(towards the geographic north pole) it 
would be an easy' matter to detefmine the 
direction of N 6o degrees E. But unfor¬ 
tunately it does not point true north (with 
negligible exceptions). It points to the 
magnetic north pole, which lies to the west 
of north for eastern States and to the east 
of north for the western States. The dec¬ 
lination may be from o to 26 degrees, de¬ 
pending on the locality. 
T O determine the exact declination in 
a given locality, you can procure a map 
showing magnetic declinations for the 
United States from the Government Print¬ 
ing Office, Washington, D. C., for a few 
cents. Having once looked up the number 
of degrees declination for your locality, it 
is easy to remember and apply it. 
In northern Maine the needle points 20 
I degrees west of true north, and since good 
maps are usually plotted true north, it be¬ 
hooves the lost camper to apply the cor¬ 
rection. For example, let us say you wish 
to go in the direction N 60 degrees E (true 
reading) and the magnetic declination is 
20 degrees west. Then your compass 
needle points 20 degrees west of north in 
your region, and so you must add the 20 
degree correction to your N 60 degrees E 
and get N 80 degrees E. If you walk N 
80 degrees E, you will be walking along 
the line which on your map reads N 60 
degrees E (true reading). 
The accompanying sketch will help you 
figure it out. 
And remember that 20 degrees makes all 
the difference in the world on a long hike. 
For example, in a distance of as little as 
five miles, the error would bring you nearly 
two miles from your intended destination 
in Maine. 
HAVE YOU COMPILED A WOODS 
MANUAL OF YOUR OWN? 
H OW many of you campers take a 
small notebook with you on your 
trips to the woods? Not an empty 
book for jotting down useful facts as they 
come up in wilderness rambles, but a note¬ 
book that’s already packed brimful of valu¬ 
able data on pretty nearly everything of 
especial valu^ to an outdoorsman. Such 
a booklet lies before me now. It is 3 
inches wide, 4% inches long, 5-16 of an 
inch thick and holds 72 pages—and is en¬ 
cased in a tidy red leather cover. 
Opening it up, we have before us some 
small, snappy, vitally important paragraphs 
and suggestions that spell extreme comfort 
in the woods. First on the list is “Getting 
lost and what to do”; then “Various kinds 
of woods used in cooking and night fires”; 
“How to build a log cabin”—in 1,017 words 
exact; “First-aid hints”; “How to make 
camp for the night”—in 55 minutes; “Some 
stick-to-the-ribs easily-prepared meals for 
the hungry woodsman”; “Back-packing 
food list—one man for two weeks”; and 
“How I lost myself for seven days near 
the Wild River in northern New Hamp¬ 
shire.” 
Once the writer went on a lone camping 
trip with the express purpose of losing 
himself—yearning for adventure was the 
reason. I went there to “inspect” that 
neck of the woods and to get a line on its 
resources for canoeing, fishing, hunting 
and camping. And inspect it I did. Shades 
of Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark! I 
never saw a more rugged country, with 
ideal conditions for the skilled canoeman, 
the Walton-ite and the Deerslayer! 
The region is essentially a forest coun¬ 
try and consists mainly of vast areas of 
real primeval forests, as well as second- 
growth timber and burnt-down lands. The 
