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FOREST AND S T REAM 
SEPTEMBER, 1917 
BASS FISHERMEN gel more FISH, better SPORT at less cost if they use the NEW 
Improved LOUIS RHEAD HAND-MADE LURES 
NEW LITTLE JUMPER FROG, price.75c each 
NEW CRAWLER HELGRAMITE, price.75c each 
NEW SMALL CRAWFISH, price.75c each 
NEW SMALL GRASSHOPPER, 50c; large.75c each 
WAGA-WAGA, carved wood propeller, price.$1.00 each 
WAGA-PUP, half size of above, price.1.00 each 
NEW SILVER “TERROR,” Minnow, price.75c each 
Try the 
Following 
Baits 
With this set of rules you need no live bait. Sent by mail on receipt 
of price. 
LOUIS RHEAD 217 Ocean Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. 
tobertson's Original/ 
Telarana Nova" 
/ 
No Knots - No Splices) 
^Strong. Durable. 
Invisible. 
Reg. in U. S. Gt. Britain 
and Can. 
Trout, Bass 
Salmon . 
Can’t See nor 
Break the 
Joe Welsh 
Leader 
It has no Knots 
nor Splices 
The Joe Welsh one-piece leader 
comes in five sizes, from a silk-gut 
thread of 4 pounds capacity, to the 
No. 1 size, guaranteed to stand a 
strain of 30 pounds. An eastern 
sportsman soaked a No. 2 size leader 
(15-lb. test) 48 hours, and applied a 
strain of 18 pounds without breaking 
it. Others write fish struck lures on 
this leader when refusing the same 
lures on ordinary leaders. It casts 
no reflected light. Its strength and 
invisibility were praised last season 
from Alaska to Florida. Thousands 
sold and not one complaint. Leader 
is unaffected by climate or salt water. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, 
send this ad with 25 cents for 3-foot 
sample. Six feet, 50 cents; 9 feet, 
75 cents. The genuine is always en¬ 
closed in registered packet. 
L a AJUAlek Sole Agent U. S. and Canada 
Joe welsn, pasadena, cal. 
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO., 
Distributing Agents for New York 
AMEffW 
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CHALLENGE 
CLEANABLE COLLARS 
Freshened in a jiffy.—with a bit of soap 
and a damp cloth. Cleanable instantly. 
Challenge Collars laugh at collar smudging, 
dirt and perspiration. Of course, an exact 
linen’’ collar appearance, 
25c each — at your dealers or direct. 
Try them. State style and (half) size. Illus¬ 
trative booklet on request, 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 
The Arlington Works 
735 Broadway, New York 
m ore 
game 
fish are hooked on 
Dowagiac” Minnows 
than on any three other 
makes of lure. In fact the 
standard recipe for good 
fishing is “A ‘Dowagiac’ 
Rod, a ‘Dowagiac’ Reel 
and a pinch of 
‘Dowagiac’ Min¬ 
nows; usefreely 
on any lake or fijffW Send 
stream. v^yjrfor Catalog 
The new Heddon book is a dandy. Writk fot 
copy—free. Remember the Baby Crab. 
James Heddon’s Sons 
Dowagiac, Mich. 
ASHAWAY LINES 
are record lines because records are being made on them. 
For Tournament Casting the Surfman’s Line has proven 
its merit. 
Light weight silk and linen lines are made to meet 
Tournament Bait Casting requirements. 
ASHAWAY LINE & TWINE MFG. 00. 
ASHAWAY, R. I.. U. S. A. 
93 Years of Continuous Service. 
Rrnolc Trnnf- of a11 a & es for stocking 
DrooK 1 rout brooks and lakes Br00 £ 
trout eggs in any quantity. Warranted de¬ 
livered anywhere in fine condition. Corre¬ 
spondence solicited. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
live perch for bait that were so stuffed they 
showed the tails of as many as three par¬ 
tially swallowed fish in their throats and 
in one case I happen to have specially no¬ 
ticed, a bass weighing about iA lbs. had 
swallowed another bass over half its own 
length and the tail protruded from its 
mouth, yet it took a perch 2j4 inches long 
and was unable to swallow it into the 
throat, so both perch and bass tails showed 
and I pulled both out, the perch serving 
for a second bait, and the bass proved to 
have been partially digested about its head. 
I have the head of a bass that weighed 8 
lbs. that was picked up by boatmen with 
another bass in its mouth head foremost 
up to the gills—the smaller weighing 3 
lbs. Both were alive and the large was a 
male while the smaller was a female. Both 
were frozen and exhibited here and after¬ 
ward eaten by me. Bass range to almost 
any depth if food is to be found, and here 
they prefer easily caught food, as evidenced 
by their taking slow minnows more readily 
than quick ones—but they do seem to object 
to a wounded or scarred-up minnow. This 
seems to be true even of scarred-up plugs. 
In artificial lakes, newly submerged 
ground contains a world of food and green 
trees breed myriad shell fish, and I have 
caught bass by dozens at depths of 50 to 
100 feet on live bait. 
Now the fish must see the lure to be at¬ 
tracted—regardless of the motive—hence 
it follows that a small lure can not be 
seen at so great a depth as a larger one— 
neither can it be seen so far in non-clear 
water, nor so distinctly. 
Consequently the large lure—if still ca¬ 
pable of attracting—will get more rises in 
deep waters—more rises in murky water 
and bigger fish because (1st) the bigger 
fish lie deeper as a rule (2d), the smaller 
fish fear its size and pass it up to “gran¬ 
dad.”. Again, big fish are older and more 
wary and frequently move away as the 
fisherman approaches, going far enough so 
they no longer see him, his shadow or 
his boat. A long cast will not reach him 
but if the lure is larger he can see its 
splash and then the lure itself, and he’s 
back over the dead line before either you 
or he knows it. 
Flies rarely take a large bass here, 
three and four pounds being about the 
limit of the average big ones and six 
pounds being the largest I’ve ever seen 
caught here on a fly. I use a 9 ft. 5 oz. 
rod and have lots of fun—though 2 >A is 
the best I’ve ever done with a fly—but 
on February 23rd last, I got six bass that 
aggregated 37 lbs., varying from 5 A to 7 
lbs. all on a diving “jack” and threw back 
50 that weighed under 5 lbs., having arbi¬ 
trarily set that weight for the low limit for 
the day. All the bass fishing near here 
is in submefged trees, so we are obliged 
to use heavier tackle and retrieve more 
quickly than in open water and many a 
“whopper” gets away taking with him quite 
frequently the tail triple of hooks or even 
the entire lure. My largest catch here has 
been an 8 A pounder but I landed one 
in Florida some years ago that tipped the 
scale at 15 lbs. 
We’ve protected our fish here so there’ll 
be plenty for anybody that wants to come 
down and wet a line. October will be good, 
also February and March. Noa Spears. 
