82 
Forest and Stream 
ITHACA WINS 
FOUR GENERATIONS 
of Champlins have used 
Ithaca Guns. 
This is Master 
Carroll Champlin 
4 years old, whose 
Father, Grand¬ 
father, and Great 
Grandfather used 
and loved their 
Ithacas. Why ex-1 
periment; when 
Ithacas have been 
the best for 40yrs? 
Catalogue Free 
Double guns for 
game $37.50 up. 
Single barrel trap 
guns $75 up. , 
ITHACA 
GUN CO. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Box 25 
fi 
And get the best possible 
prices. We are one of the 
oldest Fur Houses with a re¬ 
putation for being honest. 
Send us your next shipment. 
by our 
Expert 
Tanners 
T»v*iii 
ity 
Into beautiful fur coats or robes.. We 
have one of the finest tanneries in the 
country and do more tanning than any 
other House in the U. S. We give ab¬ 
solute satisfaction. Send for our free 
illustrated catalog today. 
Albert Lea Hide & Fur Co. 
Dept. FS-2 ALBERT LEA, MINN. 
UTTTy notBpend Spring Summer aud Fallgathcr- 
VV -LI X Jng butterflies, insects ? I buy hundreds of 
kinds for collection. Some worth $1 to $7 each. Simp'e 
outdoor work with my instructions. pictures, price list. 
Clet posted now. Send lUo (NOT STX .V1PS) f"r my 
illustrated Prospectus. Mr. Sinclair, 
Dealer in Insects, Dept. 9. Ocean Park, Calif. 
^«2 FEMALE* 
tw 
WILDFOWL GUNS 
Our 12-BORE MAGNUMS shooting 3-in. 
Shells (iy 2 ozs. shot) have an effective 
Killing Range of 80 to 100 yards. 
Send for particulars to 
G. E. LEWIS & SONS 
32 & 33, Lower Loveday Street, 
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. 
Established 1850 
the Alamo again. The ’coon, however, 
that came down from the tree, came 
down to Captain Martin Scott, Ver- ' 
monter. 
It seems that the hunting party treed 
a ’coon which took refuge on the high¬ 
est limb. Five of the party had tried 
and failed to disconnect the raccoon from 
the tree and the ’coon was enjoying the 
fun. Finally the last member of the 
party came up. He was Captain Martin 
Scott. As he looked into the tree, he 
spied the saucy raccoon, now bold, and 
hearing the story of the others, he was 
offered the next shot. As he took a bead 
on the animal, the ’coon looked slyly 
around the limb and inquired: 
“Who are you?’’ 
“I am Scott.” 
“What Scott?” 
“I am Captain Scott.” 
“Are you Captain Martin Scott?” 
“The same.” 
“Well,” said the ’coon, unlimbering 
himself, “you need not shoot; I’ll come 
down.” 
SOME BASS AND TROUT 
LURES 
(Continued from page 69) 
ends with varnish. Good combinations 
are white hackle over black raffia, 
brown raffia with .black hackle at either 
end and brown raffia in the middle. 
When the varnish is dry, trim off the 
tips of the hackles so that they are short 
and bristling like the hairs of the living 
insect. 
G RASSHOPPERS are a very killing 
form of bait, so deadly, in fact, that 
one hesitates to use them where fish are 
comparatively few and fishermen are in 
an inverse ratio. Yet under certain con¬ 
ditions the use of the artificial is per¬ 
missible and sportsmanslike. 
This fly also requires the use of a 
long-shanked hook of fine wire, and 
about No. 10 in size. A slightly flat¬ 
tened strip of cork or balsa wood should 
be perforated lengthwise with a knitting 
needle, hairpin or hatpin (somehow the 
world still has some use for women, af¬ 
ter all), and the hook forced, eyed end 
on. The cork or balsa wood should be 
trimmed with a sharp blade until it is 
somewhat flattened on the sides so that 
the height of the body will be slightly 
greater than the width. The latter half 
should round down bluntly to the shank 
and present a more rounded appearance 
than the forward part, which merely 
requires to have the four edges trimmed 
off slightly. Make the cork or balsa 
body somewhat smaller than you expect 
the finished appearance of the insect to 
be, yet do not work down enough to de¬ 
stroy flotancy. If you are in doubt, put 
the fly, as thus far made, into a dish 
of water and if it floats, go ahead; if 
it sinks, make a somewhat larger body 
before proceeding. 
Assuming that the body floats, take 
a strip of green raffia (green hoppers 
are common and taking), lash it to the 
hook at the lower, or barb, end of the 
body, and wind smoothly up nearly to 
the eye of the hook, fasten, and finish 
off with green silk thread, shaping the 
front end bluntly to imitate the head of 
the natural. 
For the long, bent legs, take a small 
wire hairpin having a length of about 
three inches. Force this through the 
body about half-way down from the 
head. With a narrow strip of bright 
green raffia, begin about a sixteenth of 
an inch from one end of the wire and 
wind on smoothly and tightly till close 
up to the body, then back half way to 
the end of the wire, then back to the 
body, thus making the upper half of the 
hopper’s leg more muscular than the 
lower. Pass the raffia once or twice 
around the body, and wind down the 
wire on the other side to make that leg. 
Remember that the upper half of this 
leg is to be wound first, down to the 
middle of this side of the wire, back 
to the body and then down to within 
one-sixteenth of an inch of the tip. 
Bend both legs at an angle, to simulate 
the legs of the natural hopper, and with 
forceps twist the bare, short end of each 
leg backward, to form the foot. The 
shorter front legs, two pairs, are made 
by passing a short length of fine gut 
through the body at about equal dis¬ 
tances between the long legs and the 
head. Bend these down for a few min¬ 
utes till they set, then trim them off to a 
length of about a third of an inch. 
The wings are two small hackle 
feathers, dyed green, with the forward 
quarter-inch bare of the featherlets, to 
form the antennae. These are laid 
lengthwise upon the back and fastened 
with a few turns of green silk to match 
the raffia. The forward ends of the 
feathers should project about a third 
of an inch in front of the head. Give 
the whole insect, except wings, a good 
coat of varnish, and let dry. This lure 
will float and keep up well, although 
the leader and a considerable length of 
line sink. 
T HE dragon-fly is coming into use, 
especially as a lure for bass. This 
artificial requires a long-shanked hook 
as a foundation. If the lower end of 
the hook is slightly bent up, the appear¬ 
ance of the fly is more natural. A No. 
8 or a No. 10 hook is about the right 
size for a dragon-fly of ordinary dimen¬ 
sions. Perforate lengthwise a strip of 
cork or balsa wood about three six¬ 
teenths of an inch square. Force this 
on over the eyed end of the hook. 
Leave the front half of the cork about 
the same size, rounding off the edges 
nicely, and trim the rear end down care¬ 
fully to about half that size, rounding 
and tapering it to resemble the long 
body of the insect you are copying. I 
make up two styles—one with a dark 
blue body and transparent wings, the 
other with a black body and white wings 
marked to resemble those of the natural. 
Wind on, as a body, a strip of raffia of 
the color to match the type you are 
making, getting it on smoothly and cov¬ 
ering up the cork or balsa wood nicely. 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
