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as the picture and the following story 
of their capture will show. 
Mr. Gainer, a veteran angler says, 
“About 8 A. M. I took my oars, casting 
rod, tackle and bait and went down to 
the boat only 80 rods from my house. 
A slight wind, hazy sky and the signs 
of the Zodiac about right, I felt pretty 
sure of success. I first tied on a No. 4 
skinner spoon and soon had two pickerel 
in the boat about four or five pounds 
each and getting over the muskie 
grounds—they have beds of their own 
now—I took the hooks off the spoon 
and put it ahead of a 15 hook Green 
Dowagiac—as you’ve got to show a 
muskie something worth while. Well, 
I made one cast and Mr. Big Fellow had 
it. He broke water three times. The 
first break he cleared fully 16 feet free 
of the water, the longest break I ever 
saw, and the fight was on. There was 
good lively work for ten minutes and I 
had him alongside the boat, where I 
got the “Strangler Lewis” hold in his 
eyes; give me the thumb ana finger 
hold, I never use the gaff or net. Once 
aboard the boat I hit ’em over the head 
with a ten inch pair of plyers carried 
in the tackle box and they lay still. This 
is the humane way. I was only out 
about an hour on this trip. 
After dinner I took my friends along 
and we were out a couple of hours and 
two took more big muskies on the same 
bait. In the evening we took the women 
out and hooked a pickerel which put up 
a stiff fight before I could get my eye 
hold on him. He threw pails of water 
all over the women and had them 
screaming with fright. This fish was 
caught on the same bait and weighed 
13%, lbs. My only regret is that I did 
not fish longer that day, but it was 
quite a day after all. 
I take my own pictures. 
M. W. Matteson, Arcadia, Mich. 
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DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
[ WAS very much interested in Mr. 
Stemmler’s article on archery in the 
August issue of your magazine. And 
his reference to the Thompson brothers 
calls to mind the series of articles, 
written by the elder, and published in 
Scribner’s Monthly. 
It must now be nearing fifty years 
since those articles appeared, and yet, 
such an impression did they have upon 
my youthful mind, that I remember, 
word for word, much of their contents, 
though I have never seen one of the 
articles from that day to this. The in- 
itial article began: “So long as the moon 
returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, 
so long will the fascination of archery 
keep hold of the hearts of men.” 
And in an insert was a verse of an 
Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
It will identify you. 
old English hunting song: “Cheerily 
blow the bugle horn in the cool Sep- 
tember morn; wax the cord and bend 
the bow, loose the hounds and let them 
go.” What a queer thing, and how 
wonderful in its workings is this head- 
piece of ours! 
Certainly Mr. Thompson was right. 
And it must be that in the case of very 
many of us, we must have had grand- 
sires who drew long bows at the battle 
of Hastings, for there is in us an in-. 
herent love for the bow which nothing 
can quite dispel. I have a friend of 
many, many years standing—a little 
double Parker—bought with the first 
$100 I ever earned, but the bang of the 
gun has never sounded as sweet in my 
ears as the twang of the bow. 
A couple of winters ago some prowl- 
ing dog dragged an old beef head around 
to my place, and do you know I sawed 
off the horns and laid them away, be- 
cause they were just ideal for bow- 
tips? For Mr. Stemmler was right in 
saying half the fun is in manufacturing 
your own weapons. 
This is the age of machinery; and the 
wonderful guns of the present day, in 
combination with the automobile, may 
result in fuller game-bags for a time, 
but in the end it will result in the prac- 
tical extinction of game. But could we 
go back to the “stone age” for our 
sporting weapons, game would become 
nearly as plentiful as in the days of the 
early settlers. 
And T’ll warrant that no man who 
ever shot a moose, elk or grizzly with 
a 30-40, ever derived one-half the thrill 
that Maurice Thompson did the time he 
brought down that wild turkey on the 
Indian River. HARVEY LOSEE, 
Red Hook, N. Y. 
(Many readers of FOREST AND 
STREAM will recall the charming articles 
by Will and Maurice Thompson appear- 
ing in this journal in years past. These 
brothers spent much time in the Flor- 
idan swamps studying wild life and 
hunting with the bow. At the present 
time a small group of western archers, 
headed by Dr. Saxton Pope and Arthur 
Young have done much to stimulate a 
revival of this robust sport.—Editors.) 
Banditry Put Down by Straight 
Shooting 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
ON July 7th a lone bank bandit at- 
tempted to hold up this institution 
but was unsuccessful because one man 
got loose whom he had tied up in a back 
room and raised an alarm, thereby 
scaring the bandit’s partners away. 
The hold-up tried to make his escape 
but was wounded and captured by a 
posse from town. Put us down in favor 
of keeping the public armed to protect 
itself. C. H. DAHL, 
Hooper, Nebraska. 
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