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through the lips, and should he feel it, 
he’ll drop it quickly. Get your minnow 
out quietly, pickerel depend on their 
eyes for locating their food, a bugle call 
is not necessary, and when one takes 
your minnow, be in no hurry to strike. 
Remember, he has to kill it, then turn 
it around before he will swallow it. 
When you wish to change to pork rind 
for skittering, you can do that with rod 
and reel. Cast it out near the lily pads 
and let it splash a little. You have 
nothing to stun now, so work it to- 
ward you with little jerks reeling in 
your line as you do so. Have the pork 
so that a little length will stream out 
behind the hook. When the strike 
comes, it will be all in a flash, then 
strike back but not too hard. When 
using a spoon or spinner the same con- 
ditions arise, only never buy any but 
the plain polished copper or brass ones, 
or, of course, nickel, which is equally 
good. The “red on one side” sort is 
usually a snare. 
Bunnies to Bear with Bow 
and Arrow 
(Continued from page 392) 
OM was electrified; he slipped 
his start hound and helped the 
scent. Dr. Pope gave me a stick of 
Black Jack chewing gum and the en- 
gagement was on. Places for each to 
take when the beast was treed had al- 
ready been assigned, and each started 
for his post. I was to go with Tom, 
as I knew the country. 
The start hound disappeared into 
the manzanita brush, headed for the 
bottom of the canyon. Only a cater- 
pillar tank could have penetrated be- 
hind him, and it would have had to 
make occasional fifty foot hops over 
ledges and slides, so we had to go down 
by Devil’s Gut, a steep, twisting, .slid- 
ing chute of broken rock and dirt that 
had been known to send a sure footed 
mountain horse stumbling hoof over tail 
to its bottom. Tom knew to a second just 
how much speed could be made down 
this quarter mile, and my mule was 
wise enough to keep within bounds of 
safety. We were at the bottom and 
across the Van Duzen River in what 
seemed to be one minute and thirty- 
five skids. There we had a dirt trail 
for two miles to an opening called 
Buck Pasture. Out on a point we lis- 
tened and Tom said the start hound 
had jumped a bear sure enough on Lost 
Ridge. The other dogs in the pack 
were uncoupled and in a little while we 
heard them roaring and yelping up 
the canyon near the trail we had just 
come down. Back up the steep slide we 
went, Tom’s horse throwing clouds of 
rock, wood and dust. I was left far 
behind. 
advertisers mention Forest and Stream, 
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ROM above soon came wild halloos 
the signal that a bear was treed, 
When I found them Murphy said the 
bear had come down, dodging some ar- | 
row shots at it, and plunged into a 
gulch. Back down Devil’s Gut a sec- 
ond time we slipped and chopped, and 
in Buck Pasture, our only good listen- 
ing look-out, we located the dogs and 
bear by their baying. We had the 
pleasure of hearing the dogs run this 
long-winded bruin through the thick 
stubby oak on the mountain side across 
from us. They chased him four miles 
to Summit Valley Gap, and there 
seemed to have treed him, and so off 
we went again. But this bear’s move- 
ments could not be counted on. When 
we had scrambled halfway to the foot 
of Summit Valley Trail, we heard the 
dogs baying “treed” in the canyon be- 
low us. 
Tying our mounts to some. bushes, 
and hallooing for the others we pushed 
through the fir brush and found the 
dogs baying at our bear planted on a 
big limb, fully a hundred feet above 
us, his pointed black muzzle showing 
over the crotch. Tom, the veteran of a 
thousand bear hunts, said our animal 
would not come down from such good 
quarters and calmly settled to await 
Dr. Pope’s arrival. However, in a 
little while, being no doubt a Progres- 
sive and not caring for the old moun- 
tain traditions, Bruin began to think 
of a better place of refuge. 
E moved back and forth on the 
limb, swinging his muzzle from 
side to side with a powerful serpent- 
like bear motion. Lest he should now 
escape after all, Tom shouted to me to 
shoot. Gathering my strength, I drew, 
and undershot. The bear was positive 
then that a change was necessary, so 
down he came, his big claws ripping 
the bark, dodging around the trunk as 
cleverly and as nimbly as a squirrel. 
Tom was disgusted and said _ the 
hounds were so tired and their feet so 
bruised that the bear would be lost. — 
Before physical exhaustion, utter 
and stinging, and chagrin at my miss, 
my interest in bear hunting all but 
disappeared. It seemed that this was 
the attitude of the dogs as well, for 
they followed the lumbering form of 
our bear at scarcely more than a trot; 
I saw the big black animal pad over 
the river gravel and around a turn out 
of sight. Sullenly I buckled to and 
once more took up the pursuit. | 
Plugging along at a grim walk over. 
the stony canyon bed in a half mile I 
rounded a bend and heard the dogs 
baying in a gulch to my right. Life 
returned to my legs and my spirits 
were quickened by a powerful elixir. | 
In a minute I found the bear up an-. 
other fir tree, grappling it with his » 
iegs, and resting one ham on a small 

