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BAIT CASTING FOR BASS 



THERE are more bait casters for bass today, 

 ten to one, than there were twenty years 

 ago, and they catch more bass. They do this 

 because the bass is a very wary fish not because 

 he is not. If he sees you, he is gone, but he cannot 

 see you if you are thirty, forty, or fifty yards away 

 and if you place before him something which looks 

 like a challenge to fight or an invitation to eat. That 

 is the purpose of the modern art of bait casting. 



This branch of sport, like many others, follows 

 the modern tendency in its development that is to 

 say, it is efficient, practical, and destructive. The 

 purpose of sport today apparently is to get the last 

 bird from the cover, the last fish from the water, 

 with the greatest possible certainty and celerity. 

 Perhaps it may not be held good form to mention 

 this tendency. Perhaps it may be wiser to take 

 things as they are and not seek to alter them. 



Certainly bait casting has been altered more, 

 whether commendably or not, in the last generation, 



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