
Last fall the Pikie Minnow caught these 32 
26, 22 and 16 pound Striped Bass in the Great 
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Price $1.00 Weight %4 oz. 
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. . . 
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Not only catches More Fish, but Bigger Fish—the largest 
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Large Striped Bass, they all fall for the Pikie Minnow. 
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the old Blue Fish would tear them to pieces in no time, 
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Pho o by U. S. Forest Service 
Cass Lake in the beautiful “Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota’ region 
Minnesota Lakes 
By H. C. HOTALING 
ECENT agitation, backed by a 
bill in Congress, to double the 
size of the Superior National 
Forest in Northeastern Minnesota has 
attained wide proportions. 
Interest in the proposed move has 
been evidenced in upward of a dozen 
states to the amazement of Congress- 
men and the Forest Service. Since a 
national forest is primarily a timber 
reserve, many persons have asked the 
reason for this interest. 
The principal reason is that people 
from all parts of the United States 
have visited the Forest, and that they 
visited it to find health and recreation 
in it. Its popularity in this respect is 
based on the fact that it is probably the 
only exclusive canoe country in this 
region in the United States. Asa vast 
area through which travel is possible 
‘only by water, it has attained a dis- 
tinct niche in the hall of outdoor play- 
grounds. 
There is little doubt but that this 
region with the Quetico Provincial 
Forest Preserve, its Canadian counter- 
part, which adjoins it, is the most dis- 
tinctive canoe country in America. 
The region, through the center of 
which runs the international boundary, 
is probably more thoroughly accessible 
than is any other part of outdoor Min- 
nesota—Land of water. Still, this vast 
area of nearly 5,000,000 acres, except- 
ing a few outer edges and a corner here 
and there, is traversible only by canoe. 
The administration of the United States 
Forest Service and Ontario provincial 
service are based on the use of the 
canoe. All equipment, executive plans, 
and.all details of forestry, fire preven- 
tion and fire-fighting, are built on the 
advantages and limitations of the canoe 
as the official vehicle. 
Here the canoe plays the part in the 
north woods that for so many years 
was played by the cow-pony of the 
western plains. If the old cowboys 
were bow-legged from their ensaddled 
positions, then so do the rangers and 
guides of this international wilderness 
have bowed arms. 
O the vacationing canoeist, the re- 
gion holds special interest. The 
terrain is mostly solid rock; the forests 
are virgin pine and spruce; the waters 
are clear and cold and full of fish— 
mostly pike, pickerel, lake trout and 
bass. Here the moose is making one 
of his last stands on this earth; deer 
and bear are plentiful. Rivers are very 
few. The lakes, in themselves, very 
irregular and generally very long, are 
usually connected by narrow water 
lanes, flanked by pine forests. These 
lakes are literally full of islands— 
usually large rocks, crested with a 
growth of peaked spruce or almost 
tropical pine trees. 
There is a constant circulation 
throughout the region, like water 
through an automobile radiator, and 
many of the lakes are actually con- 
nected by waterfalls. In the head- 
waters of the small rivers, travel has 
been greatly facilitated in recent years 
by the beaver, who have made “ter- 
races” of ponds formed by their dams. 
A different phase of this region is 
found along the north shore of Lake 
Superior. There is a divide not far 
from the lake, and while the water 
from the north side wanders leisurely 
through the lakes and_ eventually 
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