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(Continued from page 43) 
to keep them in mind and keep your 
eyes and ears open. 
Pine boughs make a fine soft bed. 
Westerners call them “mountain feath- 
ers.” Don’t injure the small pines in 
cutting them. Take them from the 
lower boughs of large trees. 
Sleep on the ground; it is healthful. 
Leave tables, chairs, cots and stoves 
at home; you don’t need them at all. 
Get close to nature and you will enjoy 
th 
Be a good sport and leave the camp 
grounds in as good shape as you found 
them. There are others to follow. 
Winter and Spring Trapping 
(Continued from page 49) 
travel. These may be described as 
canals on the bottoms of the rivers, 
creeks, ponds, or marshes. When 
these are not frozen over, good sets 
may be had along them. Naturally, 
no bait of any kind should be em- 
ployed. 
Use coarse salt to keep the slides 
open. Many times it is possible to do 
this quite successfully during most of 
the winter. Put the salt in burlap or 
something similar and arrange under 
the traps. By visiting the spots fre- 
quently, thin ice can be broken; and 
in this way one increases his chances 
of success. 
The chief difficulty in most winter 
and Spring trapping while there is 
ice, is to hold the muskrat after it 
has once been caught. Remember, 
the leg bones are very tender, and 
snap easily when the jaws close on 
them. A few jerks and twists leave 
the animal free. Stake in deep water 
whenever possible, but if this cannot 
be done, use the Two Trigger. This 
kills instantly and does not damage 
the fur. It might also be said that 
the game which escapes by amputa- 
tion often crawls away to die, never 
to be found by the pelt-hunter, and 
of no value to him. With furs so 
high, this waste should be eliminated 
as far as possible. 
A word more: ship your. skins 
from now on as fast as they are ready 
for the market. Even with the great 
demand for pelts, the quality of fur 
is constantly getting poorer. Changes 
in price are bound to be lower. There- 
fore, take no chances, for if, you do, 
you are almost sure to lose money. 
Advances in Tournament 
Casting 
(Continued from page 42) 
is one that begins with an unimagin- 
able smoothness, then as the speed in- 
creases: and the leverage is applied it 
It will identify you. 
all ends with a mighty and final effort, 
so often called by the casters ‘the wal- 
lop”. After the wallop the lead is on 
its way and can only be controlled by 
the thumb on the spool of the reel. 
Careful thumbing is necessary to 
prevent the backlash. This backlash 
is the most disastrous phase of tourna- 
ment casting, and one that may ruin 
even the perfect cast that has once 
started on its way. More attention is 
necessary to the thumbing of the reel 
than to any other element of a cast. 
Careful consideration to the amount of 
pressure exerted upon the spool because 
it is often that the strongest, and what. 
would be the longest casts are pre- 
vented from travelling their maximum 
distance because the spool was too 
tightly thumbed. To anyone who is 
just beginning to enter earnestly into 
the casting game, it might be worth his 
while to find out just how lightly he 
can thumb the reel and still prevent the 
dreaded backlash. Proper thumbing is 
more the steady application of a dim- 
inishing pressure (which may some- 
times be released altogether) rather 
than a few instances of strong pressure. 
The purpose of thumbing is to prevent 
the spool containing the line from re- 
volving at a greater speed than is 
necessary to feed the amount of line 
that the lead can carry and at the rate 
it is able to utilize it. If the line which 
the spool releases is not consumed by 
the lead in its flight at the instant that 
it leaves the spool, it becomes bunched 
up loosely about the spool and finally 
one strand interfers with another un- 
til there is a tangled mass that stops 
the advancement of the lead. 
Another outstanding illustration of 
the growing interest in the casting 
sport is the fact that the casting sea- 
sons have been lengthened. By this I 
mean that whereas only the summer 
months used to see the time of the 
tournaments, now that period has been 
increased until the tournaments are be- 
ing held from May to October with an 
occasional one held even later. It is 
not an uncommon sight to see men 
practising casting during the coldest of 
our winter months. The reason that 
the casting period had to be lengthened 
was due to the fact that the number of 
clubs wishing to hold their own tourna- 
ments has increased to such large num- 
ber that there is not time for them all 
to hold their tournaments without con- 
flicting with each other. 
What has been said only tends to 
prove that the sport of casting is ap- 
proaching a point where it may be 
classed a real sport and one which is 
well worth the while of any surf ang- 
ler to enter. It is a clean sport, fur- 
nishes plenty of outdoor exercise and 
you will find as your competitors a 
very high type of sportsman. 
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