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FOREST AND STREAM 
JUNE, 1917 
Hooking 
Big Ones 
Fishermen—do you 
realize that within 10 
hours from New York 
they’re having the finest 
game fishing in America? 
In the 
MAINE LAKES 
they’re taking 6 and 8 pound 
salmon, trout and bass lots of 
them—and bigger ones. 
THE ONLY PRACTICAL WAY 
TO CARRY THE CONDIMENTS 
Metal corrodes wood and rubber break; 
ordinary cloth or paper are not in the camp¬ 
er’s vocabulary of possibilities. But salt 
must be carried along—some fastidious 
companion is sure to demand it on the but¬ 
tered sunfish or in the gumbo sooner or 
proofing you can put on easily with a paint 
brush. 
Five by seven inches make convenient 
dimensions for a container to take along on 
short cruises. You will need about 8 by 12 
inches of space in one intended to last a 
long overland. 
Now’s the time. A few days 
of it will renew your youth.. 
Come down and catch some fish. 
Through train service from Wash¬ 
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, 
New York and Boston 
later. 
Paraffined cloth offers a practical solu¬ 
tion—if you have “somebody” to sew the 
seams up so they won’t ravel on the inside. 
Get a piece of white twill, say, and show 
171 Broadway, Room 105, New York 
New York, New Haven & Hart¬ 
ford R. R. 
k Boston & Maine R. R. mm? 
P. Maine Central R. R. /iIUl 
Good guides, comfortable hotels 
and fishing camps. Easy and inex¬ 
pensive to go. For full information 
as to how and where, send for free 
booklets,“Fishand Game in Maine” 
Ik and “Maine Guides.” Address 
VACATION BUREAU 
Bull 5 Eye. 
THOMAS 
The Thomas hand made split bamboo 
fishing rod has been perfected to meet 
both the all around and the various special 
requirements of the modern angling sport. 
Made of the finest bamboo, light, resilient, 
perfectly jointed and balanced. In the 
Thomas rod the acme of perfection has 
been obtained. Send for our interesting 
booklet. 
THOMAS ROD COMPANY. 
117 Exchange St., Bangor, Me. 
SPEND YOUR VACATION 
on Eagle Lake, in Maine s coolest region-— 
northern Aroostook. Trout, togue and land¬ 
locked salmon abound; fly fishing all summer. 
Motor boating and canoeing. Titus Home 
Camps afford all conveniences; warm and snug 
for winter vacationing. Rates, $2.50 day, $lo 
to $25 wk„ special rates for children. Write 
Capt. George W. Cooper, Eagle Lake, Maine. 
her how to make it into a bag nearly square 
and without any openings at all. Then par¬ 
tition it the long way, so that one pocket 
turns out twice as big as the other. Letter 
S-A-L-T indelibly and unmistakeably on 
both sides of the large pocket and P-E-P* 
P-E-R on the smaller one—with both in one 
bag they are not so apt to get separated at 
the portages. 
To get the condiments in—and out—rip 
the top outside corners just far enough to 
insert a bull’s-eye with a half-inch opening 
and plug in each. These must be bound 
around closely with strong thread. You 
can get the bull’s-eyes at a hardware store 
very cheaply. Melted paraffine for water- 
A STOVE YOU CAN SET UPON 
BOAT DECK OR TENT FLOOR 
T HE first one of the kind to come 
under the writer’s notice was on the 
Frazer river in British Columbia. W^e 
were salmon fishing, for a cannery, at the 
mouth of the river, and most of the real 
work was done outside on the flats, or in 
the gulf. I was pretty green as to stoves 
that could be used on a boat deck, espe¬ 
cially if they had to be home made, but my 
boat-puller claimed he knew how to make 
a dandy. 
As we left the cannery on a Sunday 
night, and were out all week with the ex¬ 
ception of a trip up-river to deliver fish 
or obtain provisions occasionally, it is easy 
to see we needed hot grub—once in a 
while, at any rate. The boats used there 
are all Columbia river round-bottom cen¬ 
tre-board fishing craft, of shallow draught. 
There are usually no stoves or other con¬ 
veniences on board, so the promise of one 
meant luxuries in the grub line unknown 
to the average salmon fisherman. But just 
how this inventor was to manufacture a 
stove that would hold a coffee pot or stew 
kettle atop, with the boat rolling in the 
FIVE GALLON KEROSENE CAN, 
SAND IN BOTTOM TO PREVENT THE 
BURNING OF WOODWORK IF USED 
ON DECK OF BOAT 
