djusted to the head, used as a jack
in floating, carried in the hand, or fastened up inside the shanty.
Once fairly tried, it will never be ignored or forgotten. Not that it
will show a deer's head seventeen rods distant with sufficient
clearness for a shot--or your sights with distinctness enough to make
it. (See Murray's Adirondacks, page 174.)

A headlight that will show a deer plainly at six rods, while lighting
the sights of a rifle with clearness, is an exceptionally good light.
More deer are killed in floating under than over four rods. There are
various styles of headlights, jack-lamps, etc. in use. They are bright,
easily adjusted and will show rifle sights, or a deer, up to 100
feet--which is enough. They are also convenient in camp and better than
a lantern on a dim forest path.

Before leaving the subject of bait-fishing, I have a point or two I
wish to make. I have attempted to explain the frog-bait and the manner
of using it, and I shall probably never have occasion to change my
belief that it is, all the whole, the most killing lure for the entire
tribes of bass and pickerel. There is however, another, which, if
properly handled, is almost as good. It is as follows:

Take a bass, pickerel, or yellow perch, of one pound or less; scrape
the scales clean on the under side from the caudal fin to a point just
forward of the vent.

Next, with a sharp knife, cut up toward the backbone, commencing just
behind the vent with a slant toward the tail. Run the knife smoothly
along just under the backbone and out through the caudal fin, taking
about one-third of the latter and making a clean, white bait, with the
anal and part of the caudal by way of fins. It looks very like a white
minnow in the water; but is better, in that it is more showy and
infinitely tougher. A minnow soon drags to pieces. To use it, two
strong hooks are tied on a wire snell at right angles, the upper one an
inch above the lower, and the upper hook is passed through the bait,
leaving it to draw without turning or spinning. The casting and
handling is the same as with the frog-bait and is very killing for
bass, pickerel and mascalonge, It is a good lure for salmon trout also;
but, for him it was found better to fasten the bait with the lower hook
in a way to give it a spinning motion; and this necessitates the use of
a swivel, which I do not like; because, "a rope is as strong as its
weakest part"; and I have more than once found that weakest