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Fishing Facts of the Utmost Interest for all Lovers of the Out-O’-Doors Goin’ Fishin’ By DIXIE CARROLL Author of Fishing Tackle and Kits, Lake and Stream Game Fishing; Editor of The National Sportsman, Chicago Evening News, Etc. Introduction by Major-General Leonard Wood
A new book for the every now-and-then fisherman as well as the expert angler. Full of fishing facts gathered from lake and stream fishing in all parts of the country. Weather conditions and how they affect fishing. Feed and food dope and how it relates to when the fish are biting. Handling the rod, playing the fish, the backlash and how to eliminate it. Busting the rules of the game. Natural baits and artificials, how to use them and when. Home life of the game fish, the kind of waters and underwater formations they loaf about and why. The camp commissary and what to take along. Sportsmanship in fishing. Everything written from personal study in a style of one fellow to another to help him derive more enjoyment from nature along stream and lake water trails. Where to go a-fishing, data about places where the author has fished.
Many illustrations from photographs. Colored cover jacket. Large 12mo. Silk cloth; also ¾ Green Turkey Morocco.
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY Publishers—Cincinnati, U. S. A.
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No Angler Should be Without This Book Streamcraft An Angling Manual By DR. GEORGE PARKER HOLDEN
Here is a volume dedicated to Henry van Dyke, which will be of great interest to those of the angling fraternity. It deals with the selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, lures and their use, including some stream entomology, the angler flies and how to tie them, including a description of the most successful trout and bass flies. The style is always sprightly and lucid, even in the most technical parts. No other volume on American angling is so authoritative and comprehensive.
Stewart Edward White:
I am much pleased with it, and I am certain every old angler will get much pleasure from it and all new anglers will get instruction.
Dr. James A. Henshall:
I read the book with great interest and satisfaction. It is a useful and instructive manual for the expert as well as for the new hand at trout-fishing. I trust it will meet the universal approval that its merits deserve.
Handsomely and elaborately illustrated. Eight full-page colored illustrations and numerous black and whites. The book in size handy for the pocket. Silk cloth; also ¾ Turkey Morocco.
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY Publishers—Cincinnati, U. S. A.
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America’s Greatest Authority Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America By JAMES A. HENSHALL, M.D. Author of the Book of the Black Bass, Etc.
The most comprehensive book on American Game-Fishes published. It describes in detail ninety species and varieties of the game-fishes inhabiting fresh water lakes and streams east of the Rocky Mountains, and the marine and brackish waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
In addition to a brief, technical description of the fishes for the purpose of identification, the popular description and account of their habits, habitats, and everything relating to their environment is full and complete; the whole comprising a valuable compendium and text-book for the angler with bait or artificial fly.
The style of descriptions of the various fishes is new, lucid, and entertaining. The suggestions and directions for angling, and of the tools and tackle recommended are in Dr. Henshall’s best style, and can be confidently recommended and relied on as they are in strict conformity with his own practice and experience, which cover a period of more than fifty years.
Many illustrations; frontispiece and cover jacket in full color. 12mo. Silk cloth; also ¾ Turkey Morocco.
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY Publishers—Cincinnati, U. S. A.
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Valuable for Old Timer and Tyro Alike Casting Tackle and Methods By O. W. SMITH Fishing Editor of Outdoor Life, and Author of Trout Lore
The author has endeavored to embody not only the accumulated wisdom of forty years of angling, but also to draw upon the experience of well-known angling experts. He has sought to impart just the information which his correspondents have been seeking. Not only is the volume a book upon tackle, but, as its name implies, it deals extensively with angling methods. The last half has to do with actual fishing. It will prove invaluable to the old hand as well as the new.
For a dozen years or more Smith has been an “Angling Editor,” first with Outer’s Book and at present with Outdoor Life. During these years he has been lord high adviser to the angling fraternity of America.
Elaborately illustrated. Colored cover jacket. Large 12mo. Silk cloth; also ¾ Green Turkey Morocco.
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY Publishers—Cincinnati, U. S. A.