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September, 1918 
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Please mention “Forest and Stream’’ 
put one hand over the slide-hole, the fin¬ 
gers slightly spread, so light will come 
through. When a frog comes through, 
close on him and shut the slide. 
The box should have in it, before a frog 
is caught, some soft water weeds, taking 
care that none with saw edges are used. 
These, well dampened, will give the frogs 
comfort. If the frogs are kept some time, 
the box should be placed at night with one 
end of it in the water, the other out, so 
the frogs can get fresh water to enable 
them to cast their skins.. Frogs some¬ 
times die when it comes time for them to 
cast their skins if their skins are dried so 
shedding is impossible. In such an event 
the old skin acts as a hard wrapping about 
the new skin underneath and the frog per¬ 
ishes, as a man would if overlaid with 
gold leaf. Frogs that have been forgotten 
by a careless fisherman for two or three 
hot days and nights and left in a camp on 
a shelf or in a boat, exposed to the sun, 
will be found dead, their skins dry as 
parchment. Others, left in like manner, 
will he well and strong. Those that die in 
such cases are those that needed to cast 
their skins and could not, owing to their 
being dried out. 
In hunting bait frogs it should be re¬ 
membered that quick, erratic motions, 
plunges here and there, yelling, slapping 
wildly with the net, will avail little or 
nothing. Slow, careful .work will tell. I 
often have picked up a dozen frogs in an 
area of 25 feet square and a hundred out 
of one small dried up pond bed, while an¬ 
other man, equipped as I was, failed to 
get over a half dozen frogs in a whole 
afternoon and worked so hard at it that 
he was fit for nothing but bed after his 
wild exercise (?) of the hunt. 
N OW, a closing word about the frog 
on the hook:—Why put -the hook 
into the frog at all? Tie a bit of 
strong thread about the frog’s “waist,” 
and then tie the hook to that thread, pass¬ 
ing the thread around the hook above the 
barb. Hooks with large barbs will tie on 
safely so. Then the frog is not hurt and 
remains strong and vigorous on the hook 
until taken off or taken by a fish. Or if 
you can get some very small and tough 
rubber bands they may serve as a “corset” 
for your frog and they are so cheap that 
the cost of one is nothing compared with 
the satisfaction of saving your bait from 
unnecessary pain and loss. A little expe¬ 
rience will show one how to tie frogs on 
as stated. A cork may be used when one 
uses frogs as bait, and its use will take 
the weight of all of the line off the frog, 
except that from the cork to the hook. 
Often in catching frogs in the margins 
one will turn over a big stone or a log, 
in searching for frogs or from mere curi¬ 
osity, and find under it a crab (crayfish) 
or a helgramite. Never put one of them 
in your frog box. A single crab or hel¬ 
gramite in with frogs will nip and either 
kill or maim every one of half a hundred 
bait in a single day. 
Some of the things I have said may 
seem “finicky” to some, but every hint 
given herein is based on experience, and 
experience has taught me that the well 
cared for, well presented, well handled bait 
gets the fish, while bait carelessly kept, half 
killed in the catching, mishandled, catches 
fish seldom, if ever. 
