Goin' Fishin'; Weather and Feed Facts the Fresh-Water Game Fish the Natural and Artificial Baits and Their Use  (English, Paperback, Cook Carroll Blaine)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HEAD CAMP TALKS A FEW SHORT-ARM JOLTS FROM THE CAMP-FIRE PAGE OF THE NATIONAL SPORTSMAN MAGAZINE As editor of the National Sportsman Magazine, it has been my keen pleasure to write to over a hundrew thousand sportsmen readers each month, and around the Head Camp Fire we have had some great times together. The fellow who follows the call of the out-o'-doors, is a live-wire, a clean-cut chap, who is full of red blood, quick on the trigger of his brain and an American clear through. Love of the outdoors, love of his country and flag dominate his thoughts and actions. Thus his every-day life along the paths of civilization reflects the clean spirit of nature and her goodness. It is indeed a pleasure to me to belong to this big clan of Americans who mean so much to our country. During the past year some few of my Head Camp Talks in the National Sportsman have been commented upon and quoted throughout the country and the following selection may interest the sportsmen who believe in playing the game fair and keeping fishing on the up-kick so that it may be better in the years that follow, and who wish to lead their friends along the woods and water trails of the out-o'-doors so that they may taste of the pleasures which Mother Nature holds out to the pilgrim. Out-o'-Doors, Man's Greatest Preacher Way back in the dim and dusty past, when this great country of ours was in the making, our forefathers slipped into the statutes a lot of laws that were certainly corkers. They took so much of the joy out of life that these self-same laws have been termed Blue Laws by the people of to-day, living under conditions so entirely different from those of our sober-faced forebears, who, at moments when they were not hustling like the very dickens to keep the scalp on top of their ...