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FOREST AND STREAM 
OCTOBER, 1917 
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN 
BASS and PIKE are fighting MAD 
FOR LOUIS RHEAD’S NEW HAND-TIED 
TERROR MINNOW, made in either SILVER, 
GOLD, or PURE WHITE, the latter good for Florida. 
CAST LIKE A FLY, REELED IN LIKE A MINNOW - Price 75c each 
LOUIS RHEAD, 217 Ocean Avenue BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
Light weight silk and linen lines are made to meet 
Tournament Bait Casting requirements. 
ASHAWAY LINE & TWINE MFC. CO. 
ASHAWAY, R. I., U. S. A. 
93 Years of Continuous Service. 
ASHAWAY LINES 
are record lines because records are being made on them. 
For Tournament Casting the Surfman’s Line has proven 
Us meri‘. 
VENOm 
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CLEAN ABLE COLLARS 
Insurance against soot, crocking and 
rain or perspira’ion wilting. The ap¬ 
pearance, fit and flexibility of your ‘’linen” 
collai—with not starch but water-proof 
stiffening. Ever white. Dult]linen finish. 
30 cents. Order a half dozen from 
your dealer or send direct. State your 
style and (half) size. Booklet cn request. 
E. I.'du Pont de Nemours & Co. 
The Arlington Works /vrfj nniFts 
725 Broadway, New York 
OU know “Dowagiac” 
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FOREST and STREAM ( Book Dept.) 
i East 40th Street, New York City 
Brook Trout 
of all ages for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity. Warranted de¬ 
livered anywhere in fine condition. Corre¬ 
spondence solicited. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
ed well. I have kept them in the best of 
condition for twenty-four hours or more 
in this manner. 
If fishing in running or tidal streams 
the best place is near old piles or bulk¬ 
heads, if such can be found, or around 
grassy points; or, again, just where the 
water goes tumbling over some shallows to 
debouch into deeper places. All these 
points may be selected as promising spots 
to be tried out. If fishing from a boat row 
quietly, just keeping the boat in motion, 
occasionally throwing cut bits of bait, 
keeping a sharp watch for a swirl in the 
water which will denote the presence of 
the fish. When located lower the anchor 
very gently and maintain as absolute quiet 
as possible in the boat. These fish have the 
habit, if quiet is maintained when a school 
is located, of continuing to bite until the 
major part of the school may be taken. 
They rarely nibble, usually taking the bait 
with a quick striking motion and immedi¬ 
ately rush away as if to avoid their fel¬ 
lows and enjoy their feast in seclusion. 
The tackle used in this sport should be 
of the lightest possible,—a fairly stout trout 
rod being admirable, with a small free 
running reel equipped with line of the 
lightest caliber. A quill float may be used; 
as unless the stream be a rapid one, a split 
shot will be all the lead necessary to take 
the bait down to near the bottom where 
ordinarily Perch feed. Secured in this 
manner the Perch is worthy the attention 
of the most conservative angler. If fishing 
in pond or lake, seek out some point where 
drain outlet or ravine washing has created 
sand or gravel points along shore, then 
cast so the bait will just reach the deep¬ 
ening water from off such points. Just 
why these points hold such an attraction 
for the fish is hard to understand, but of 
course there is “fish logic” for it. 
A strongly marked habit of this species 
is their assembling in schools of uniform 
size, it being most rare to find them differ¬ 
ently associated. It is easy to determine 
when one is taken at a given point what 
the size of the remainder will be, so if the 
first specimen taken should be of small 
size the angler would better search new 
territory where more desirable size. fish 
are likely to be found. 
As a game fish on light tackle the Perch 
is prime, not as spectacular in its plunges 
as the Black Bass nor yet as determined in 
resistance; hut it is at all times a free 
biter and puts up a superb fight, furnish¬ 
ing sport to thousands of people to whom 
access to Black Bass and Trout are denied 
by reason of distance or expense. 
He is at his best during the early Spring 
and Autumn months, being much more 
active than during the mid-summer season. 
There are many men of leisure who will 
drop away from beach fishing when it is dt 
its best, finding restfulness in the quiet 
game, beside the stream bordered by grassy 
banks or in the sylvan shade at headwaters 
of some inland lake, and all such are pro¬ 
fuse in their praise of the delights to be 
had in pursuit of the pastime which may be 
very properly termed the “contemplative 
man’s recreation.” 
