FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1918 
'76 
I Catch 
Big Fish! 
So can YOU. Professionals, Amateurs, 
women and children everywhere are 
making record catches of all kinds of game fish, trolling or cast- 
RusH 
Tango Minnow 
Registered Trade Mark 
—the liveliest bait that floats. It wiggles, dives and swims like a minnow 
in action A sure killer for Bass, Pickerel, Pike and Muscallonge. 
Get our latest models— “Regular,” “Junior” or “Weedless Midget,” in 
nine different color combinations. No long tedious waits when casting 
or trolling with the Tango. There’s a thrill, a splash, and the game is 
yours. The Tango gets the big ones if they’re there. ^ ^ 7 B f. 
At your dealer’s, or direct, postpaid, insured stamps or Money Ordei 
Four assorted colors and models for Bass, Pickerel, Wall-eye d Pike or Muscallonge 
$3.00. Accept no substitute. There is only one Tango. 
I own the patents: 
Dealers: My Selling Plan is very generous Send 
for it today. Ask your jobber for beautifully litho¬ 
graphed Counter Display, Free. 
J . K . R U S H , 963 Rush Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Round Mountain Lake Camps 
Fly fishing for trout assured every day in either of 
3 ponds, or 15 miles of mountain trout streams. 
Individual camps with open fire places, central 
dining camp. Send for free booklet and map 
showing how to reach camp with automobile in 
North Maine Woods. 
DION O. BLACKWELL 
Round Mountain Maine 
POWDER POINT SCHOOL 
FOR BOYS 
Prepares boys for college or business. > A plan 9^ 
military training, yet the boy’s individuality is 
maintained. Extensive grounds, modern buildings. 
Gymnasium and athletic fields. Upper and Lower 
Schools. Address Ralph K. Bearce, A.M , Head- 
master, 100 King Caesar Road, Duxbury, Mass. 
or SpringTrolling, 
We guarantee the 
Best in Maine 
Landlocked Salmon up to 24 lbs., or largest in the state. 
(Ask the state or federal hatcheries). Trout and Togue 3 
to 10 lbs. Salmon Pool or lake Ashing. Safety Spon¬ 
sor canoes. Fine camp accommodations for ladies or gen¬ 
tlemen. Only six miles from It. R. station by motor boat. 
Write for booklet. 
CAPT. COOPER. Eagle Lake, Maine. 
FLY FISHING 
The Time; 
The Place; 
-The Bait! 
_the three things needed 
to put the right edge on your 
Ashing trips. The time and , 
Diace you know, and the bait well, if y 
never ‘tried the Hildebrandt Baits you have 
S To t ma!«e P r 1 w^ t the fllh'or the fishing condi¬ 
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the big ones to your string 302 Kinds of nne, 
easy-working, hand-made baits in the HUrte 
brandt line; get acquainted with_ em, they 
make the right brand of fisherman s luds. 
Send today for Hildebrandt catalog of bate 
and tackle, illustrated in colors. f 2 c stamp 
brings it. It tells you bow to really get fish 
when you go Ashing. 
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The Ha-Ha Head Pro¬ 
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GAUZE. DeAes MOSQUI¬ 
TOS and ALL insects. 
Fits ANY hat, weighs 
THREE ounces, goes in 
VEST pocket. 
Patented in U. S. A. and Canada 
A well-made serviceable article for the WISE man. 
If your dealer does not handle them, $2.00 will bring 
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THE JOHN J. HILDEBRANDT CO., 
1056 High St., Logansport, Ind. 
Please send me your 1918 Tackle Catalog. 
J fly fish for. 
1 bait cast 
Name. 
Address. 
HILDEBRANDT 
BAITS 
Hook ana Land’em. 
Rubber ~-Rind 
Outvviggles any bait, ever made. Also slowly 
revolves, Aashing silver and crawAsh-brown. 
A marvelous lure in the water. Used for 
bait or the lightest Aycasting. Needs no 
salt-brine; no care; never whips or dries out. 
Mr. Bass want flash and action. Here it is. 
Brother! This camouflage strings the Ash, 
even on the brightest day and -the clearest 
water. $1.00 per pkg. of 1 doz.. enough for 
a season's Ashing. Manfd. by J. A. WAVRIN, 
3(58 S. Grand Ave. St. Louis, Mo. 
OBSERVATIONS 
ON FISH 
By JEAN DE MACKLOT 
SMALL mouth bass in¬ 
dulges in greater or 
less acrobatic leaping, 
depending a great deal 
on the depth and phys¬ 
ical condition of the 
water in which he is 
fighting the angler. One 
is sure to remark this, 
if he fishes different 
waters. Contrary to the 
experience of some per¬ 
sons I have seen some 
red eyes of great size quite as active as 
any two or three pounder I have ever tied 
up with. It is, however, characteristic o) 
the mountain small mouth to break frorr 
water some wherever they are found 
There the streams are swift, cold, and ex¬ 
cessively clear. In fact the temperatun 
of the rivers averages well with those oi 
northern countries, and they are much 
colder than most, bordering the Canadiar 
line. There is much, too, in how a mat 
fights a small mouth. The man that know: 
how can make the irate bronze gentlemat 
cut prodigious capers. 
In shallow, fast water, free from ob 
stacks of rocks and submerged logs am 
brush small mouth bass are prone to man; 
aerial flights when hooked. But take then 
in long reaches of deep water, and thei 
fighting manoeuvers are sure to undergo ; 
change. They invariably dive in a gyrat 
ing way, fully impressed that there is som 
welcome rock or log ever awaiting aroum 
which the line can be wound. But the in 
stant you put the fish through strength o 
tackle, to fighting high near the surface 
the more they will attempt to leap. 
Now there was the largest small mout 
that I ever took on a fly rod—five hour 
after the battle he lacked just an ounc; 
of weighing seven pounds. The water i 
which he swallowed my Jungle Cock o 
No. 4 hook was anywhere from twelve t 
thirty feet in depth, very fast, full of suck 
ing swirls, and cut rapidly along stee’ 
gravel banks. The fight was from a boat 
and as the river was clear the obstruction 
in the bottom were easily discernible c 
any depth. I fought that big fellow o 1 
the surface. I roughed him every bit tin 
the line and rod would stand. My boa 
man counted twenty flights from water th; 1 
this fellow made in the half of an hou 
not enumerating the last flounces prior 1 
final defeat. 
It is rather a unique experience to tack’ 
other than a game fish with a fly rod. TI 
fight is often more interesting than exci 
ing. Once I inveigled a market fisherms 1 
to trust an eight pound yellow cat to ir 
fly rod. I hooked him well in his toug 
leathery, cuticle-like upper lip, and droppf 
him over the boat into a placid reach c 
water. I was prepared for a whirlwir 
fight. But that yellow belly simply sound* 
once, and went to sleep. The only tin! 
the fish made the slightest resemblance < 
a fight was when Mr. Boatman prodde 
him into wakefulness with the blade of 1 
long-handled paddle. The flexible tip i 
no ways disturbed his slumber, for he pe ; 
sisted an hour in this drowsy state befo: 
