2 “AU. ERY 
A AOR Sir ta “o> Lenser: oo a ere 
ANNOUNCING 
A Service Unique to 
Fishermen and the 
Amateur Rod Maker 
For twenty years I have specialized 
in personal rod construction. |] am 
now in a position to offer this same 
service to Sportsmen throughout the 
country. 
To those who wish to make their 
own rods. 
To those who wish their rods re- 
paired and put in serviceable condi- 
tion for the coming fishing seasons. 
Now is the time to have your rods re- 
paired. 
Unmounted Hand Made 
Split Bamboo 
For Fly Rods—3 Piece Extra Tip 
0 
Hexagonal Lengths—8, 8%, 9, 
10% ft. Per Set 
Lengths — 9, 10, 
Octagon 
er 
Material to complete rod. 
For Dry Fly Salmon Rods— 
3-Piece Extra Tip 
Wier te 
PER OGL. hie 
Hexagonal Lengths—10%, 
Set 
Material to complete rod. Per Set.... 
For Wet Fly Salmon Rods— 
3-Piece Extra Tip 
Hexagonal Lengths—12, 13, 14, 15 ft. 
er Set 
Material to complete rod. Per Set.... 
For Bait Rods —3-Piece Extra Tip 
Hexagonal Lengths —5%, 6%, 7, 8, 
9 ft... Per Set . 10.00 
Material to complete rod. Per Set.... 7.50 
For Bait Rods—2-Piece Extra Tip 
Hexagonal Lengths—6% ft. Per Set.. 10.00 
Material to complete rod. Per Set.... 8.00 
For Lake Trout or Musky Trolling Rods 
Hexagonal Lengths—6% ft. Per Set.. 10.00 
Material to complete rod. Per Set.... 9.00 
All materials for completing rods include 
Agate First Guide and Two Agate Tops. 
CHARLES J. MOHR 
9148 120th Street 
Richmond Hill, LalieN: 7 Y. 

In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Streamn. 



The camp fire must always be pro- 
tected from spreading. Sand, gravel, 
rock, clay and other soil without any- 
thing inflammable should always be 
chosen. Some of the worst forest 
fires start from creeping subterranean 
smoulderings in the humus, and it is 
better never to build a fire on this 
kind of ground, wet or dry. It is best 
to find a place where there is dirt with- 
out roots or dead wood of any kind. 
There are few regions where such 
openings cannot be found, whether in 
the Rocky or Sierra Mountains, or in 
green timber pine or spruce knoll terri- 
tory—and the fool who leaves a fire 
burning when he rolls on may find him- 
self imprisoned for criminal careless- 
ness for starting a forest or prairie 
fire in any of Uncle Sam’s forest re- 
serves, state forest, or farm country. 
I’ve seen men close their fists on a flam- 
ing matchstick, and then scrape that 
dead stick with their feet on the road 
dust—because they knew of fires a 
pipe’s ashes or a thrown match-stick 
flame had started in the Dakotas or 
other prairies. 
Tourists in a strange country need 
to be ever alert. In California we met 
a member of a motion-picture outfit 
that camped one night on a mountain- 
side, near a good spring. The night 
was gloriously beautiful, star-lit, with 
a few streaks of cloud, dry and com- 
forting. Suddenly, as it seemed, and 
without warning, torrents of rain 
slammed down out of clouds not one 
had noticed gathering. The party 
huddled in their tents. Soon a flood 
wave rushed down that mountain-side, 
compelling them to scramble for their 
lives. In the morning the sun shone 
brightly again. But a $5,000 automo- 
bile and much of the outfit had been 
carried down in a muck wave of flood, 
quicksand, gravel and other débris—the 
automobile wasn’t worth salvaging. 
Storms always are questionable. 
When it begins to rain, it is worth 
while to take note of everything— 
whether water will fill the tent floor or 
whether a cloudburst ten or twenty 
miles away will sweep over one’s camp 
site (many a tourist was caught on the 
way to Florida last fell, and in Louisi- 
ana and Texas during the winter by 
storms that covered the bottoms and 
level prairies). If the situation is at 
all precarious, it may save the outfit 
to move it a little way—but it is best 
to select a good place, consciously, 
noticing each of the things that rain 
and wind may do—and always have the 
camp set against every emergency. 
Letting things go till morning and 
taking chances never pays — except, 
perhaps, in dividends of experience and 
adventure. A dead limb over one’s car 
at night may fall and inflict injury, or 
at least destroy a car top and tent. A 
mountain slope, wet by a shower, may 
It will identify you. 
sweep down as an avalanche of mud 
or stone. It is better, in case of a 
choice of evils, to choose the lesser 
danger with the greater discomfort, 
as, for example, pitching a camp in a 
cold, windy place, rather than in a 
shelter where a flood may come. 
Generally speaking, I think the tour- 
ist does best who makes up his mind 
never to take a chance with any dan- 
ger, night or day, and who, above all 
things, makes sure that he is camped 
in a place protected from wind, rain, 
or other local jeopardy. Every year 
tourists are caught in the Colorado 
country by cloudbursts. Much damage 
is done to the outfits, and usually, be- 
cause the camps were not made in the 
right place, or the chance was taken of 
stopping at places where there was no 
choice. 
It should not be forgotten that in the 
high altitudes, a blizzard may strike a 
Continental Divide camp even in early 
or late summer. The risk is, to my 
mind, worth the joy of a night ten 
thousand feet or so above the sea. 
That is something else, again, which 
the tourist will determine for himself. 
My own method is, when I know there 
is trouble ahead, as a big area of 
washed-out bridges and roads, to take 
the long way around. 
But the tourist goes forth, not for 
ease and comfort, but for experience 
and adventure. If he pampers him- 
self, if he turns back from some glo- 
rious land, because “something might 
happen,” he will lose the zest of rolling 
into far-away places. He may unex- 
pectedly, in the dark midnight, find 
himself confronting disaster. If it is 
through no fault of his own, he need 
not worry, but should rather make the 
most of it. Because touring does pre- 
sent difficulties it is a splendid sport. 
The only thing is not to lose one’s out- 
fit, but to save it by taking care of it— 
avoiding the disasters by simple out- 
door sense. , 
It should not be forgotten that 
troubles, disheartenments, and difficul- 
ties, at the moment utterly miserable, 
may in the light of future memory 
prove to have been the one big and 
prime incident of the whole trip. At 
least, this is my memory’s remark on 
the things I hated most at the time of 
the crisis. 
THE INITIATION OF 
RAYMOND 
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tarpon fleet is almost bound to do 
business. A young chap from Houston, 
the partner of my friend, Mr. W. H. 
Mounsell, was the fortunate man in 
our crowd. 
His good luck generally ended with 
the strike, however, for on his best 
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