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B and F. If you are not successful in casting, and 

 consider you might have more luck in trolling, 

 you row along the deep-water chart line, using a 

 large-size minnow as lure. Neither the frog nor 

 crawfish is suitable for trolling, but with a light 

 sinker you can troll with excellent results by using 

 the hellgrammites, minnows, and large-size grass- 

 hoppers; and also the large-size cricket is almost 

 certain to get bass. 



By nature, bass are pugnacious, impetuous, 

 Rooseveltian fighters, jealous of any moving ob- 

 ject that resembles food within their vision, fol- 

 lowing after the lure for a considerable distance, 

 to take or not to take. The inactive response of 

 bass to our lures is not due to overfeeding, but 

 rather to peculiar traits, in their habits. 



Muskellunge, pike, and pickerel, also wall-eye, 

 usually take a position and lie still at a distance 

 of two feet (more or less) from the bottom, to 

 run up and down, as the case may be, when, upon 

 observing their prey, they dart like lightning 

 after it, to return to the same spot to gorge it. 

 Sometimes, to be sure, we observe members of 

 the Lucius family lying still, basking in the sun 

 near the surface, close to or under some hea^y 

 aquatic vegetation. At such periods they are not 



