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In the Marble 
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find a sight for 
every need. 
Marble’s 
Flexible 
Rear Sight 
Does not lock up 
but is held up by 
a double - acting 
spring. Sight yields when struck and auto- 
matically flies back into position. Can’t be 
injured by shocks or blows. Always ready 
for eccurate shooting. Suits all American 
rifles. Furnished with two discs with differ- 
ent apertures. Be careful to state make, 
model and caliber, and whether or not rifle 
has pistol grip stock.\$4.00. 
Sheard Sights 
Guaranteed to show up 
well in the darkest timber, 
under any circumstances 
and will not “‘blur”’. Will 
show same color on differ- 
ent colored objects. Made 
for nearly all sporting and 
military rifles, carbines, 
target pistols and revolv- 
ers. When ordering, send old front sight as 
sample. With medium bead, each, $1.50. 








Marble’s Standard Sights 
The lustrous convex surface of the Pope’s 
Island Gold Bead instantly reflects the 
faintestray oflight. Adds precious moments 
in the early dawn or evening twilight — the 
most favorable time for getting shots at big 
game. Made for all American rifles. Ivory 
or gold bead, 1-16, 3-32 and 1 in. $1.00 each. 
Adjustable Leaf Sight 
The leaf is held firmly in position by the 
spring of thelong flat part, when either up 
or down, and can be instantly putin either 
position. $1.25 each. 








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Trout Pickerel rising to natural insects 
Fly Fishing for the Gamey 
Little Trout Pickerel 
By LOUIS RHEAD 
AGAZINE articles are mostly 
M accounts of wonderful catches 
both in number and size, yet 
we need not always crave to get the 
big fish—we can oftimes, I hope, suffer 
a gentle relaxation in a quiet mood 
to angle with fairylike tackle for game 
fish that size for size are equal to the 
best. 
In the small rivers and lakes of 
Long Island the trout pickerel are 
quite numerous, where they leap con- 
stantly above the surface for food 
and take with avidity any small dark- 
colored fly to make quite as strong a 
resistance, doubling up among the 
weeds exactly similar to that of the 
brook trout with whom it abides in 
amiable accord. Like the Banded 
Pickerel and Little Pickerel of the 
West, it seldoms exceeds 12 inches in 
length and will not average more than 
one-half pound in weight, but in a 
weedy lake or swift cold little brook 
even that furnishes no little pleasure 
on a 3-ounce rod and superfine leader 
with flies tied on No. 16 hooks. This 
is especially so when you have numer- 
ous rises and fail in hooking the fish 
which happens more often in _ hot 
weather. Brother angler, just try this 
fine miniature fishing. You will like 
it very much. . 
URING the first month of the 
season I have for some years 
refrained from useless trials of the 
larger mountain streams where trout 
refuse the fly in the flooded waters, 
but I do take periodic trips after brook 
trout in Long Island private and pub- 
lic waters where fishing is possible 
whatever conditions prevail, and in so 
doing have taken quite a fancy to this 
little pickerel for many reasons. But 
mostly because it prefers cold, clear 
water, clean food, and, unlike the other 
members of its family, will associate 
with trout without injury to the latter. 
I have not found in the stomachs of 
the larger fish any evidence of min- 
nows or other fish food. though many 
fingerling trout exist within easy 
reach of the pickerel, their diet seems 
to be entirely confined to insects and 

Hooked on the fly 
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