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“OSPREY” DARDEVLE 
“Best Bait I Ever Saw” 
Says W. J. Smith, Marshfield, Wise. 
ENCLOSED are two prints taken while camping 
£-■ on Lake Namaltagen last Summer. The one of 
the fish was taken one morning about 9 o'clock on my 
return from the lake. As the picture shows, I had my 
share! 
"Each day I came in with a bunch like this and my 
camp mates had one grand time figuring out how in 
blazes I madetmy catches, when they fished practically 
the same grounds and gut a meager lot. 
"For three days I kept the secret. On the fourth we 
were short of boats and had to double up. Then my 
secret was out! To make matters worse, after I landed 
my seventh pike, I tried an extra long cast—and I 
guess my bait is going yet! Downhearted, I returned 
to cam]) with my seven pike, to find that even then I 
had more than any two of the other fellows at 
that. . . . 
"That bait was the red and white Dardevle. Pass¬ 
ing the station where a train was due I saw a group of 
anglers going home, and an idea struck me. Can¬ 
vassing the bunch I found one who had a Dardevle, 
but it turned out to be a black and white. I asked 
him if he would sell it, as. while I had never tried a 
black and white, I felt it would probably live up to old 
'Red-and-White’s’ reputation. . . . 
"Lo and behold, the pike were just as crazy for the 
black and white as they were for the red and white, 
ami I can assure you the rest of my time was spent 
with pleasure. . . . 
"Since then I always carry several Dardevle, and I 
must say IT IS THE REST BAIT I EVER SAW.” 
. . . —W. J. Smith, Marshfield, Wise. 
Dardevle Will Get Them 
For You Too 
Y all odds Dardevle is the best 
• L> known lure in this country. 
Thousands of sportsmen swear by 
it. Easiest bait to cast you ever 
saw. Cuts the air like a knife, be¬ 
cause it offers practically no wind 
resistance. Handles beautifully in 
tlte water—you can make it float or 
dive deep, just as you wish. 
The fish just can't seem to keep 
away from it. If you have never 
used one before, by all means get 
Dardevle this season and you will 
never again want to be without it. 
If your dealer cannot supply you 
—write us direct and we will see 
that you are supplied. 
Dardevle, 1-oz. weight, 85 cents 
Dardavlet, 3/5 and 2/5-oz., 85 cents 
Dardevles *Imp., %-oz., 65 cents 
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Slides through the guides as smooth 
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LOU J. EPPINGER 
310 Congress Street, East 
Dept. O. Detroit, Mich. 
the eyes of the devotee of Isaak Walton. 
Mountain streams and pools within the 
dark scenery of glens interest him; 
there is no spot more seductive than 
where a quarrelsome brook scolds its 
way over stones slippery with moss; if 
valley or canyons intervene—they are 
but a few more obstacles to impart the 
joy of triumph to him; and should inter¬ 
lacing trees shroud that same quarrel¬ 
some brook beneath their feligree, he 
only casts a calculating eye and shrewdly 
figures if their height permits his rod 
to whip the eddies. His pleasures are 
simple things: sunlight through a tree, 
or spring leaves swirling from pools 
made great with spring rains; to him, 
the sound of water falling over rust- 
brown logs or splashing down the face 
of age-old rocks is celestial music. If 
he may be so fortunate as to discover 
a trout lazily weaving his way beneath 
the ripples he has seen his vision. 
Many a long winter afternoon has 
been devoted to the careful preparation 
and selection of the lures which will 
wreck the greatest destruction when 
spring arrives. The little, gaudy flies are 
strung and restrung; leaders inspected, 
and rods given a fresh coat of shellac. 
Depend upon it, your real fisherman has 
marked the opening day of the season 
upon his calendar, and that day finds him 
warmly wrapped on his favorite trout 
stream. 
His steady wrist casts the fly and im¬ 
parts that seductive, tricky skip which 
hypnotizes the big fellows. All expec¬ 
tancy, he smokes stolidly, yet nerved for 
instant action. If perhaps this partic¬ 
ular fly is not suitable or does not tempt 
elusive finny desires, he is quick to rem¬ 
edy this by changing the delicate bit of 
floss. If this brings results, you may be 
sure they will be quick and noticeable. 
A sudden silver flash in'the dark be¬ 
neath a sunken tree-stump, coincident 
with the quick shriek of line from his 
whirring reel, and the battle is on ! With 
nerves atingle, his whole body aids his 
brain in cheating the finny adversary out 
of his abundant strength and eventually 
giving him the coup de grace with the 
landing net. Many ardent fishermen 
claim there is nothing to equal the thrill 
of this moment. 
Of course, when the excitement of the 
struggle has subsided, and the prize has 
been duly measured, if he has made the 
fishermen extend himself to the limit, 
he is all the more a treasure. Nothing 
adds to the joy of conquest like its diffi¬ 
culty. But should that fish through in¬ 
adversity or cunning succeed in craftily 
bringing the line which has ended his 
freedom under a stone or projecting 
ledge and so escape, he is if anything 
even more prized. The genuine fisher¬ 
man enjoys a sad delight in his prob¬ 
able size and his redoubtable treachery; 
that fish assumes his place beside others 
who have in their turn a sure claim to 
fame; and the fisherman analyses his 
failure to land his prize for many a long 
winter evening to come. He always won¬ 
ders if after all he might not have been 
able to retain his fish had he used this 
sized leader or that hook ! And where 
reasoning ends the fisherman’s imagina¬ 
tion in matters of this kind begins. 
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When one comes to trace the art of 
fishing, the historical data surrounding 
it is profuse and interesting. Even the 
Old Testament through the prophet 
speaks of “fishers, and those who cast 
angle into brooks,” while the New Testa¬ 
ment is replete with stories of fishing. 
When we come into modern times, the 
earliest writer of fish stories we can re¬ 
call to mind was curiously enough a wo¬ 
man. Dame Juliana Berners, who, in 
1496, gave minute directions in her book 
as to how to achieve success in this 
sport. Nowadays it would take you 
hours and hours to peruse the shelves of 
our libraries that are devoted to books 
on fishing. 
Ask even the average intelligent man 
who is not a devotee of the art who is 
admittedly the greatest authority on fish¬ 
ing and he will tell you undoubtedly 
“Isaak Walton.” Known to everyone for 
the fame of literary efforts, this gentle¬ 
man undertook in 1655 to convey all the 
knowledge surrounding the sport of fish¬ 
ing in his book, “The Compleat Angler.” 
Whatever your own personal opinion 
may be, his book is generally regarded 
as a criterion of piscatorial technique as 
evidenced by its enormous printings 
running through fifty or sixty editions. 
Some of it today provokes laughter for 
its ancient method. But its greatest 
value that will remain undimmed 
throughout all time is its disclosure of 
the author’s sweetness of spirit. Isaak 
Walton was a fisherman, but he was 
more; while at his favorite pursuit, he 
saw the poetry and intrigue of his sur¬ 
roundings and said so in his book. As a 
result, his words are immortal. 
A word about brook trout is always 
interesting, for like all monarchs, he has 
considerable fascination for the rest of 
us. Not only is he monarch in reputa¬ 
tion, but in habits, beauty and temper¬ 
ament. 
His earliest discovery in North Amer¬ 
ica is not exactly fixed although there is 
no question that the aborigines and first 
settlers knew and enjoyed his delicate 
flesh; we find no word of him previous 
to 1649, nor was he indexed or studied 
by scientists until 1814. Yet if these 
pioneers who depended upon the trout 
to supply their larders knew nothing 
about his origin they were quite familiar 
with his temperament and habits. 
Significantly enough, the success of the 
artificial culture of all the various spe¬ 
cies of fish is founded upon the results 
obtained with trout. 
Carlyle F. Straub, New York. 
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