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have had great success with this fish by 
pursuing the following method. Secure 
five or six full size menhaden and enclose 
them in some coarse material, then mash 
or cut them so the blood and oil ooze 
freely from the mass; when the proper 
spot is reached by your boat hang the bag 
or sack over the side of the boat swaying 
in the waters. From time to time, press 
the sack of pulp so that the exuding oil 
will pass out on the water. This creates 
what old timers term a “slick,” the oil 
breaking out in little globules soon 
spreads out and if fish are in the waters 
soon a splash is heard as the fish breaks 
through the film of oil looking for the 
cause of it. Ordinarily when one fish is 
in evidence his movements soon attract 
others and they in turn draw still more all 
searching for the source of the oil they 
love so well. While they will take readily 
small pieces of menhaden when on the 
hook, still by all odds the most killing 
bait is the “spearing” or what is familiarly 
called “white bait.” This is a small semi¬ 
transparent fish, very slender, and is per¬ 
sistently pursued by the snapper through¬ 
out the entire season. To use, pass the 
hook through the mouth and out at the 
gill opening, then down the length of body, 
then through about half inch from the 
tail, as the attack is invariably made from 
that direction. Considering the swiftness 
and vigor of the strike the fish is almost 
sure of hooking, and the attention must 
be riveted on the sport, as the strike by 
the fisherman must be given instantly the 
fish hits the bait so as to firmly set the 
hook. The sport is of high order; and 
once enjoyed will be returned to at every 
favorable opportunity. I have taken with 
me men who stand high in trout fishing 
ethics, to whotn it seemed like some fancily 
woven tale to be told that we have a fish 
in our waters ready to take the bait when¬ 
ever offered which on the platter are as 
delicious as their own worshipped Fonta- 
nalis and whose fighting capacity ounce 
for ounce is just as great, and all to be 
taken from waters where there are no un¬ 
derlying roots to ensnare the hook, nor 
overhanging branches to put “wrinkle- 
hawks” in lines and incidentally profanity 
where it hath no place by right. After 
every first experience of such a man I' 
have yet to see the first one who did not 
enthuse and vote the sport prime. I do 
not intend nor should I be understood as 
detracting in any manner from the charac¬ 
ter of the trout—he deserves all that has 
been said of him and I love each spot on 
his glorious body—'but I have written 
rather that others may know by pursuing 
something of the course suggested herein 
that delights as great as are given the ‘ 
trout fisherman await those who perhaps 
are denied by force of circumstance the 
privilege of taking the lord of the brook 
and yet are contiguous to salt water 
streams. To such anglers, sport royal with 
the delectable and gamy snapper is wait¬ 
ing at their very doors. 
THE UBIQUITOUS TOBACCO PIPE 
AFTER THE MID-DAY LUNCHEON WHEN FISHING OR AFIELD ONE CAN REST 
AND ENJOY HIS PIPE AND THAT IS THE PROPER PLACE FOR THE LUXURY 
W HEN a school boy in Baltimore— 
and that is longer ago than I care 
to remember—my geography, taught 
me that Baltimore was the greatest flour, 
coffee and tobacco market in the world. 
Back of our school-house was a large 
vacant lot on which tobacco stems from 
the cigar and tobacco factories were regu¬ 
larly and periodically dumped. When the 
piles became dry enough they were set afire 
by the boys, and thousands of dollars went 
up in smoke—there were no Hoovers then. 
Going home after one of these sacrificial 
bonfires, with my clothing reeking with the 
fumes of the divine weed, I was taught to 
repeat: 
“Tobacco is an Indian weed; 
It was the Devil who sowed the seed; 
It scents your breath and spoils your 
clothes, 
And makes a chimney of your nose.” 
During ray adolescent days I heard Col¬ 
lins, the famous Irish comedian, who was 
possessed of a fine tenor voice, sing: 
“There is naught in the wide world a pleas¬ 
ure so sweet, 
As to sit at the window and cock up your 
feet; 
Pull out your Havana whose flavor just 
suits, 
And look at the world ’twixt the toes of 
your boots.” 
And they wore boots in those days, long 
ones too, and an imported Havana could 
be purchased for a “fip” (six and a quar¬ 
ter cents). We boys, however, were con¬ 
tent with “Cinnamons” at three for a cent, 
or “half Spanish,” two for a cent. On 
special occasions, as Fourth of July or 
Christmas, we indulged in a three-cent 
“Regalia,” or “Seed and Cuba” as it was 
also known, that is, a wrapper of Con¬ 
necticut seed tobacco and fillers of Havana. 
By DR. J. A. HENSHALL 
It was a glorious smoke, and we could 
agree with Byron: 
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west 
Dr. James Alexander Henshall 
Dean of American Anglers 
Cheers the tar’s labor or the Turkman’s 
rest.” 
Or again speaking Byronically: 
“Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, 
Tipp’d with amber, mellow, rich and ripe.” 
N OW the foregoing Nicotian tirade is 
but a prelude to what I intend to say. 
The cigar and pipe have their proper 
times and places; and the proper time and 
place is when one has nothing else to do, 
and one has the leisure to thoroughly en¬ 
joy either, for one c?m not enjoy a smoke 
while doing something else. Tobacco, es¬ 
pecially in a pipe, is quieting and restful, 
and a real solace after any undue exertion 
or exercise. 
After a good dinner, “over the walnuts 
and wine,” is a proper time and place for 
the cigar. After the mid-day luncheon 
when fishing or afield, one can rest against 
the bole of an umbrageous tree and thor¬ 
oughly enjoy his pipe, and that is by all! 
means a proper time and place for the 
luxury. 
But unfortunately there are some who 
take a different view of the matter. Judg¬ 
ing from the illustrations we see in the 
sportsmen’s magazines, it would seem as 
if the most important article of the an¬ 
gler’s equipment is the tobacco pipe. There 
is many a good picture utterly spoiled by 
the introduction of the pipe where it is 
entirely out of place. It really seems, 
sometimes, as if the one thing that an an¬ 
gler deems the most important when pos¬ 
ing before the camera is to have a big pipe 
dangling by its prehensile stem from his 
lips. I have known this done even by an 
angler who did not smoke at all, but who 
from the force of example thought it the 
proper thing to do. 
For instance, we see an angler photo¬ 
graphed with a rod in one hand and a fishi 
or two in the other, and a big pipe in his 
mouth, whereby the effect of an otherwise- 
pleasing picture is entirely spoiled. 
Then again two anglers are shown stand:- 
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