June, 1918 
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beds. I have heard them myself describe 
square tailed trout that must have gone 
over fifteen pounds, and perhaps five 
pounds more, and have no reason to disbe¬ 
lieve these stories. 
T HAT the largest trout is yet to be 
caught, is a cheerful but almost cer¬ 
tain prophecy. So, gentle angler, 
take courage. Somewhere, most likely in a 
Canadian lake, he is swimming and waiting 
the call to the trout Valhalla. 
May it be your good luck to encounter 
him in sportsman-like battle. It may come 
in the spring, when the wild plum blos¬ 
soms have woven a fringe and tracery of 
almost celestial beauty around the shores, 
and in the new green woods the white 
throat and the thrush are making melodious 
the wild places. 
Or, mayhap, this chiefest event of your 
life will take place in the fall season, when 
Nature has stolen all the brightest colors 
of her most beautiful sunset and painted 
the maple and the birch with them, until 
the foliage renders dull by comparison the 
weak effort ot the human brush. 
At any rate, whether the distinction is or 
is not to be yours, here are wishes for 
your good luck and fortune in the fishing 
months, now coming nearer day by day. 
THE TWO-PIECE 
FRANK DAY ROD 
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deftness in dropping the lure have every¬ 
thing to do with success. And—here is an 
important point—it isn’t as much fun to 
get a fish on a short rod. 
You charge temperamentality; and I 
answer that it isn’t temperamentality, but 
common sense. You get more control over 
your lure; you can drop a fly and spinner 
with most the amount of splash you wish ' 
by elevating your rod you may retrieve 
slowly and let your bait run deep, at the 
same time keeping the line dry except for 
the few feet nearest the lure; by elevating 
the tip of the rod and retrieving rapidly, 
you can fetch your lure along the surface; 
by combining elevation and speed of re¬ 
trieving you can get any combination you 
want as to depth of lure and rapidity of 
movement. If there is one thing I detest 
it is the young rainstorm every caster cre¬ 
ates with his casts of wet line. 
A ND here is another point: If you 
cast with a short rod, you must turn 
and twist to place your lure. With 
the Frank Day rod, using both hands, I, 
who am by no means an expert, can place 
my lure at any point within reasonable 
distance that I can see by turning my head: 
and I have a delicately swan-like neck and 
can see a large part of the 360 degrees of 
a circle. I can do this because I can use 
the rod with both hands, casting from 
either the right or left side, over-hand or 
under-hand. I can wade up a small stream, 
casting to each bank and fishing all the 
water between, and do this without chang¬ 
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In addition to all of this, you have an 
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