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American Big Game Hunting. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Illus- 
trated. Cloth, 345 pages. Price, $2.50. — 
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The Fox Gun has fewer parts in its mechanism than any & 
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This gives aless complicated action, greater simplicity, added strength 
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INDIANA GAME AND FISH. 
Continued from page 617, 
son of years, owing to the large increase j1 
quail, which have seldom been seen in suct} 
great numbers. ' 
“Pheasants are fat and juicy, and their drum-} 
ming is heard at almost every step. Every} 
clearing is a rendezvous for these birds. The| 
common or gray partridge is the species found! 
most frequently, but the golden and silver} 
pheasants, introduced in China, are becoming| 
steadily more plentiful. 
“The red, black and gray squirrel will be founc| 
in abundance, and as this year has been a good) 
one for nuts and grain, these animals will be| 
sleek and fat. As a result, hunters will have al 
perfect paradise and many will be the full bag} 
to gladden the weary hunter’s heart. 
“Although the fishing season is almost over. 
there are still being landed some excellent} 
strings. The past season has been an excep- 
tionally good one for the ‘Izaak Waltons.’ } 
Several of the State House officials have been 
on a fishing trip near Worthington on the Eel 
River, near its junction with the White, and they 
have reported some splendid catches of bass 
and catfish. 
“It is said that despite the heavy fishing off 
the summer that bass, catfish, carp and white- 
fish are still to be found in goodly numbers, 
; and any one who can brave the cool of morning} 


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and evening is sure to be amply rewarded by a 
fine string. 
“Last Thursday a well-known State House 
official landed, after an exciting battle lasting | 
for nearly three-quarters of an hour, a magnifi- 
cent specimen of bass weighing five pounds} 
and three ounces. Several other members of 
the party also succeeded in pulling in fine speci- 
mens, two or three weighing over two pounds.” 
In the same connection I copy from the In-| 
dianapolis News an interview of a similar char- ; 
acter and of about the same date: 

““T have sold 25 per cent. more fishing tackle 
this year than in any year since I started in the 
business,’ said an old dealer in that line. ‘I 
have sold more rods, more lines, more artificial 
bait, more minnow buckets—in fact, more of 
everything except long seines. Years ago, be-| 
fore the law prohibiting seining, or when the 
law was violated with impunity, I used to sell | 
lots of seines. Now that trade is practically |, 
broken up, at least as far as I am concerned. | 
Of course, I handle minnow seines of the regu- | 

lation length of twelve feet, and I have sold} 
more of them this year than ever before.’ | 
““How do you account for the increase of hi 
trade?’ was asked. 
WIN 
“ “Well, it must be that more people are fish- 
ing than ever before, and I guess that means the 
fishing in Indiana lakes and streams has im- 
proved in recent years. Of course, many of | 
my customers go fishing in other States— | 
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc., and some | 
to Florida and other Southern States—but I 
think most of the tackle I have sold this year 
has been for use in Indiana. From the way 
people talk who come in here, and from oc- 
casional expressions in mail orders, I judge the 
fishing in Indiana waters is better this year than 
for several years past.’ 
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““Ts there much artificial bait used?’ 
““More than you would suppose. In the first 
place, fly-fishing is far more popular than 
formerly, and there is a great demand for flies 
in the fishing season. 
“‘Another reason why so much artificial bait 
is sold in the difficulty of getting live bait. In 
the spring and fall there is nothing so good as 
live minnows, but they are often difficult to ob- 
tain. In midsummer, say July and August, craw- 
fish are better than minnows, but they, too, are 
pretty hard to get, especially soft or peelers, so 
many fishermen try to make good by buying 
artificial bait. 
“IT have known a great many bass to be 
caught with artificial minnows and_ spoons, 
though, of course. live bait is preferable when 
you can get it. In all lakes of Northern Indiana 
a live frog is a popular bait, and a person who 
knows how to use them, making the frog skip 
along the surface of the water, will sometimes 
catch four or five bass on one frog. 










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